1948-03-04 — Page 2

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at 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

TO-DAY

ONLY

QUEEN'S

WILLIAM POWELL'S FIRST DRAMATIC

ROEK IN YEARS, IS SENSATIONAL!

"Lovaly. Hady at her modi exciting! Was she married to a man branded -with the mark of murdo??

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POWELL-LAMARR

CROSSROADS

WHERE WOMEN WIT TO SEAL YOUR FATE

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CLAIRE TREVOR

BASIL HATSBOKE MARGARES WECKERLY

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

OPENING TO-MORROW

HONG KONG

VAN

KOWLOON

JUNE

JOHNSON ALLYSON

the screen's moet lovable

In a new and different

rojel

High adventure, high

romance by the

authors of Muliny on

the Dounty"!

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HIGH BARBAREE

(Where every lover's dream'comes true}}

Thomas MITCHELL • Marilyn MAXWELL

HENRY HULL. CLAUDE JARMAN, Jr.

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LAST 4 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. ALASTAIR SIM JACK WARNER VALERIE WHITE AND THE BLOOD AND THUNDER BOYS IN AND

"HUE

CRY"

ALSO LATEST NEWS: GANDHI ASSASSINATED

TO-MORROW

SEE! HEAR! The HOTTEST Show in Town!

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

AND HIS BAND

WOODY HERMAN

-AND HIS ORCHESTRA

BILLIE HOLIDAY

SINGIN THE BLUES

The Digipal

NEW ORLEANS Wagline Baxt

BRAND NEW SONG ITS

JULES LEVEY presents

ARTURO DE CORDOVA DOROTHY PATRICK

NEW ORLEANS

Released

Bru UNITED ARTISTS

ALHAMBRANATHEATRE

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30. 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

LATEST PATHE NEWS The Funeral of

MAHATMA GANDHI

SHOWING WITH

Robert

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BOAT NEWTON

TO DUBLIN

AH

ASSOCIATED BRITISH PICTURE BAYMOND LOVELL - GUY. MIDDLETON and introducing MURIEL PAVLOW HERBERT LOW - JOHN BEDDOCK-MARTIN MILLEN

TO-MORROW!

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IT'S ROMANCE AT ITS RIOTOUS BEST MARRIAGE AT ITS RACIEST ....

Barbara STANWYCK

4 Robert CUMMINGS In

"THE BRIDE WORE -BOOTS

with Diana LYNN

TO-MORROW *

Gary COOPER

Ingrid BERGMAN in'

* Patric KNOWLES

WARNERS' BIGGEST!

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"SARATOGA TRUNK”

A WONDERFUL STORY PICTURE OF THE YEAR

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1948.

Churchill's visit Tao Shinwall at the War Office will be followed by other calls on

Government leaders to persuade them To give up politics.

MES WINSTON

I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND, DEAR, MY

·MENTIONING THE ATROCIQUS VULGARITY

OF YOUR LOATHSOME HEADGEAR" MIS CLEME

TO WHICH I MIGHT REPLY, DEAR. WOT ABART YER OWN ?"

N?

THE NEWEST LOOK

DES

Copyright in Alt Countricas

BY

THE WAY

by Beachcomber

ALAS! The day after the breaking of the plank, the Persians received a permit to "mend or otherwise restore a plank, provided that it is not to be used for erecting a cowshed, goose-house, hen-house, duck-house, plg-pen, turkey-hut, garage, tool-shed, potting-shed, bicycle-shed, tricycle-shed, motor-bicycle-shed, greenhouse, conservatory, Inrder, kitchen, conl- *hed, coke-shed, wood-shed, turf-shed, outhouse, bus-shelter, sun-room, garden-room, boiler-house, belfry, attic, barn, gurret, box-room, sheepfold, bechive, dovecote, dog-kennel, cat-kennel, aviary, ape-house, or rocking-horse." But the plank is now beyond mending, as glue is forbidden by the food-police. It is all needed to stick the heads on the new synthetic fish. A dispute

Ta hastily convened meeting held in the Borotian Hall delcguten of nine branches of the See-naw Union decided to send a deputation to the Minister of Bubbleblowing to protest against the employment in England of Persian Seesawists, who are not members of the Union. The Society for Cultural Relations with Persin at once protested. They claim that see-saw, BA played by the Filthistan Trio, is the ancient Arvanian dunce called zeczawa, described by Strabo, and shown in the Turanian tapestries at-

Mahallat. Mr Colin Velvette goes as far as to see in this ceremonial dance the origin of the ballet.

The BBC Runs Into

Money Trouble

ERSISTENT demands for

Phigher wages by

dance

hand leaders, theatrical musicians and authors are roughening the path the British. Broadcasting Company has fol- lowed sinoothly for 25 years.

for

BY GERRY HILL (United Press Staff Correspondent)

Close behind

voice brendcasting rame television, and the BBC's rapid

feld enused many progress in that to believe thint Britain lends the world in the art of televising.

Alexandra Palace. Victorian1 amusement centre on London's out- skirts, was opened as the home of BBC television in 1930 and, since the Brst day of its operations Britishers with television sets-there are now

Interlude:

"Oh, Ma! He is really útst12-

rutshed!

He must be an aristocrat

"Ifish, child! Can't you see he is

wearing

A little round totekerwork hat?"

"Oh, Ma, he despises convention."

"Then YOU should despise him

for that,

Do 2016 think your Papa

d-courting

cantar

in a little round wickerwork

hat?"

in Britain, the public now has the cholce of three programmes the Home, the Light and the Third Pro- grammes. The Third is the high- 10,000 of them have had "some-In possing brow" programme, entering to the thing to look at." Today, the BBC more serious listener. In addition, television programme are on the air the BBC divides itself into two and a half hours a day. "rexional" transmitters, providing the listening needs of specialised publics in varying parts of the country.

HERE has been no such fun with

the "experts" as Van Meegeren provided since the two Australians | succeeded

some in getting

sheer review highbrow

ment. culture and education. Trade unions have complain- and it is often ridiculed for ed bitterly that dance bands are, talking to its listeners in the underpaid for broadcasts. After manner of a patient governess, wages.have been deducted, they The BBC was formed in 1922, figure an insufficient sum re- but it was not until early mains to cover production coste. 1927, when the government Lending British bands receive issued a Royal Charter, that the present BBC really got under £60 sterling

each per-

Quickdy the network way, formance. Fees start from one spread its microphones across guinea for each minute on the the world. air, but graduate according to the fame and experience of the Its then chief-or Director- musicians hired. The musi- General, in accordance with the

The BBC permits each ninjor poli- clans charge that the BBC is the Royal Charter-was six-foot- ten party to broadcast a set number poorest paying major radio seven Sir John Reith (later Lord of partisan speeches each year. Over that categoric maximum, even network in the world.

Reith). At first he heard his winston Churchill has been known and religious talks jostie each othered to dash of a Vermeer or two in programmes broadcast only in to have trouble getting air time. in the 24-hour-a-day entertainment,

Gots One-third

BUT the BBC has its financial

problems, too.

·

the English language, to all of Britain's far-flung colonies.

B

it was not untit January 1938, when German and Itallan anti- Unlike the commercial net usastrous effect on the Arabs, that

Dritish propaganda was having works-in-the-United States, the the government-asked-the-BBC-to service- BBC derives its revenue from start its first foreign news Beenres issued to radio owners. In Arabic. After the

nows came

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In the early years of the BBC, views, music, religious talks and en- tertainment. At home, the talent listeners paid 10 shillings to was Arabic. Amba broadcast lense each set. Today, the their own country as did Chinese and cost has doubled. The General Japanese later on. Post Office, which controls the BBC, issues, about 11,000,000 heences annually.

Deadlier Than Steel

JOW the BBC is probably one of

biggest international com

the

But two-thirds of these munities in London." Arabs and money thus gained are kept by Chinese, Americans and Spaniards the Postmaster-General. The. rub shoulders in the BBC's 20 build- remaining third is used by the ings in and around London. BBC to meet salaries, produc-

Arab broadcasts proved succeRS- Latin- tion costs and all expenses in- fui and were followed by curred by the monster broad-. American broadcasts in Spanish and

Portuguese, casting network.

The BRC onfesses to take an in- partial outlook on politica and to en- In race controversy on the air. practice, however, its critics contend. the trend is timidity rather than con- troversy..

CH

Voices of The Great

THROUGH the BBC microphone

have vibrated the voices of the gibberish into a great

war leaders-Churchill and as poetry. Van Meegeren painted Roosevelt--and of other politicians-old masters so well that he was ac- Clement Alice, Harry Truman and

national of selling Dutch Charles de Gaulle. The BBC ser- cused vices have sent their speeches across treasures to Germany. He then re- the world into countless homes.

vealed that he had himself painted Serious music and hot jive, art and the national treasures, and proceed- book

reviews, sport commentaries

court A bad day for the experts.

DEMAND FROTH ON YOUR BEER

SAYS

MR. BUNKER by CHAPMAN

PINCHER

MR. BUNKER.... "Judge bece by taste, not look,"

HEMISTS met in London the little bubbles join up. Final,

recently to debunk the be- ly the big bubbles burst. lief that Britain's beer has been

Oily substances speed up all three stages. spoiled by too much science.

In September 1838, after Munich, In the span of a quarter Neville Chamberlain's famous speech century, the BBC has grown to was broadcast in French, German be the world's largest network. and Italian. Chamberlain's speech It broadcasts 24 hours a day.in was the signal for broadcasts. In European longuage. When 44 langunges. Three Chinese World War II came, the BBC com- Chief speaker was, 50-year-old dialects Cantonese, Hokkien menced news services In the lan-brewing-research speciálist Me and Kuoyu--are included, as is guage of every country as it was in- Henry J. Bunker. This is what

he said about vaded. also Maltese,

every

BBC goes off the air nightly to "If there is resistance in France, Britain nt 11 p.m. GMT. This is due to the BBC." sald Andre is a curtailment of one hour Philip, escaping from France in the from its former midnight close. same year.

"There is one of the reasons why the publican dislikes lip- said Mr stick on his glasses," Bunker.

Proteins from the malt may...Join with tannin from the hops to make a haze which disappears when the beer. is warmed. But when oxygen gets to this haze it forms a thicker cloud made

of protein-"phlobaphenes." There is no getting rid of these.

Erewers, therefore, try to keep air out of the beer at all stages. If they removed the proteins in the firs! place, the beer would not froth.

Selentists are planning to add more chemicals, called reduciones, to keep oxygen away. They say they will not affect the taste.

YEAST: There

niore thau 1,250 kinds of yeast. Each brewer has his own pet strain. If he has to use another, the quality of his beer may alter considerably.

are

"Yeasts and touchy," said Mr Butt- ker. "They sometimes work for one brewer, but not for others."

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Scientists think that hybrid yeasts, which they are trying breed, would put more vitamins in "The British broadcosts are more

the beer, (Already in it are ancurin, Its English broadcasts do not deadly than steet," said the Germans FROTH: The amount of froth depends on how much carbon-

To keep a head on your glass riboflavin, und nicotinic acid). go round the clock, however, in 1942.

wet dloxide gas is dissolved in the of low gravity beer, put a

Some yeasts have to be avoided beer. How soon it goes down plate over it. This cuts down because they produce hydrogen- evaporation and makes froth sulphide gas: it makes the beer depends on the "body"-sugar fast three times as long-the smell of rotten eggs. proteins, and hop resins-in it, science behind the old custom of If there are too many chemicals

The customer is therefore drinking from a down, and was instituted last: The British valce was heard by

In beer it is largely the publle's hundreds winter to save fuel.

their prison

fault," said Mr comps right in demanding a good head lid on it.

Bunker, "It they ucross Europe as they tuned in on on his beer.

Judged it by taste instead of by eye, Programmes cover every

clandestine, improvised crystal sets. Approximately 230 news bulletins a walk of life. The policy of the day were sent out during the war in BBC is to provide entertain-, 48 different languages.

NANCY

LET'S RICE- ¡DOWNTOWN

AND SEE

THAT NEW

MOVIE

Sluggo Falls for a Line

NAW-THOSE BIG HITS ARE TOO CROWDED--

I HATE CROWDS

BUS

STOP

מל!

OH, I'M

SURE IT

WON'T

· BE CROWDED

OKAY..

IF YOU SAY SO

BUS

STOP

mug with

Beer froth collapses in three CLOUDINESS: Scientists call it stages. First the liquid between haze--in beer it may be temporary the bubbles drains away. Then or permanent.

72ND STREET -- THIS IS WHERE

WE GET

QFF

72ND BUT THE MOVIE IS

AT 56,T

יד

By Ernie Bushmiller

I KNOW BUT

THIS IS ABOUT

WHERE THE LINE WILL

BE

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