1948-12-06 — Page 4

SHOWING

1. TO-DAY

KING'S

BLASTING ACTIO VIOLENT LOVE

WAYNE DAY

At 2.30, 5.00,

7.15 & 9.30 p.m.

TYCOON

Mighty story of eighty

...and a dynamis

guy who blanted his way to the heart of a mous

tain... and a beautiful

woman)

COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR

with SIR GEDRIC HARDWICKE

·JUDITH ́ANDERSON - JAMES GLEASON

ANTHONY QUINN

Produced by STEPHEN AMES • Directed by RICKARD WALLACE

Ben May by Berdan Chata and John Tw

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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20 P.M.

FROM THE BROADWAY MUSICAL SMASH!

+

CARMEN MIRANDA

MICHAEL O'SHEA

VIVIAN BLAINE

*{The Cherry Wand+)

SOMETHING

FOR THE BOYS

Phil Silvers Sheila Ryan Parry Come Glenn Langan

ALSO LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948.

UB.A THOFFMAN

World Copyright

WESTMINSTER MOTOR SHOW,

LATEST

PLANNING

OLD BRITISH CUSTOM, 1898. Mechanically-propelled vehicles Travelling at monta than five miles per hour must be preceded by somebody currying a red fing.

AN ARMY CAPTAIN PASSES: THE TIME BY WORKING ON

A

Book Of Words

ARGEST existing Nepali vocabulary th the world

has been compiled by an Army officer now serving In Singapore — 20-year-old: Captain Malcolm 7 Meerendonk, of the Army Elucatión Branch, GHQ, Far Eastern Land Forces,

The compilation has taken him 25 years, and he belleves that after another two years research he will have the first complete Nepall dictionary ready for publication.

So far ho hus found and translated nearly 35,000- words and idioms; and he thinks there may possibly bo another 5,000 words in the language, He broke the back of his gigantic task by working four hours overy evening after his werk-day duties and seven hours a day every week-end,

For the next two years he will be occupie

occupied mainly with expanding the work already done, and examining words already found, in the light of the various con- texts in which they appear.

TEANWHILE he carries on with his offelal work, MANY - fucation of Gurkha troosts servior

In the British Army. Thla 'includes the preparation of text books on all subjects, written in a standard Romanised Gurkhall which he devised himself.

William Hickey

A. WORD THEY TRIED TO SMOTHER COMES BACK WITH A BANG

BRITISH It is as- tonishing how proud the British I have become of that word since the Government decided to drop its use in relation to the Empire and Commonwealth.

There were three public demon- strations in one week recently. The first was broadcast over the radio from the Lord Mayor of London's banquet at the Guildhall.

Every reference to "the

British

"Naturally, Tommy Trinder Was one of the buyers," said the shop- were lats of walker. "But there quito ordinary folk, too-and, do you know, a lot of them walked hals on their out wearing heads," They have sold 200 so far.

the

None of them though, have so for provoked so picturesque a comment nowest Margaret Lockwood's as hat. My dear," said a friend-sho was an actress too-"have you seen Maggio's hat-it looks as though it's done a forced landing on her head."

people" or "the British effort" had NOBODY

the diners applauding spontaneously..

Next it occurred in a more subtle

Move way, at the Oxford Group ment's West End first night of its

musical

There the rovuc. audience sat politely through pro

with an paganda largely written American slant.

new

wants to rub salt on Mrs. Braddock-but why on earth did she ever go to law at all?

send

writes about Orlando the Marmalade

Cat.

She has had nine marmalade cats as pets. "None of them had nine lives, she says, "but Lhdy provided me what at least nine most valuable incomes,"

Top of all the children's best sellers is the Rupert Annual with 800,000 sales--and a shortage due to paper rationing.

0000

PEOPLE who

saw the the Lido

television broadcast of Cabaret are laughing at the B.B.C. for having the girls so "over-

Another job he has undertaken as part of his duties is the writing of "Gurkha Samachar" (Gurkha | News), a weekly newspaper for all

the Gurkha troops in South-East- Asia.

The "Samachar" at the moment is a modest, four-page paper, run off on u duplicating machine. Five hundered coples a week are produced and distributed to Hong Kong, India, and Malaya.

marising the week's news from all It comes a "newsmap" · sum- parts of the world; a feature page. mainly about Malaya; Regimental news; and a correspondence column, In which Gurkhas returning from leave in Nopal pivo, their views on conditions in the various districts.

Plans

are going ahead in the Education Department for the publication of a properly printed and edited four-page paper. Shortage of funds and the reluctance of advertisers to use a paper with such a limited circulation holding up publication moment,

are

Fat

the

Didn't they know that in Paris "MMecrendonk, says, "18

One Arm- sells 200.. Mrs Churchill's fund equipped two She has the repulation around complete Russian hospitals. A cur- Westminster of being

dressed." one of the ront London story says the Soviets

tourtery to M. P. in the never hall the toughest, fightingest House--a snorting, rogue-whale of

acknowledgment or thanks for either, woman.

Miss Johnson's explanation: "It's Cross action is the just part of Russia's Red which sho has

been policy. Mrs Churchill and I had to in the past 12 years, go to Russia to see for ourselves if (Score: One lost, one to be retried, the equipment was being well used: wo were completely satisfied. They two settled out of court.)

Her recent libel fourth in involved

and

more

dancers

Instead

of brassieres the. cover themselves just as adequately

decoratively-with balloons?

Solr:

toy

a British Yet a newspaper which upposes never acknowledge anything. Why? stick plns in their television screens."

Then a little man with a tin hat came on, Bald: "I'm miner" and the rest of his words were amothered in the reception of

the evening.

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ONE

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A GUY NAMED JOE

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TRACY

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WILLIAMS JOHNSON

“Masä

OPENS TO-MORROW

“MAN FROM DOWN UNDER" with Charles LAUGHTON

ORIENTAL

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Another NEW Film showing for the First Time In the Colony

at Popular Priceslitveni

"THE MUMMY'S TOMB”. A Universal Picture

the outstanding demon- at the, Canada stration occurred Club's dinner at the Savoy.

her polities attacks her and there I don't know." she is bouncing demanding damages and protection. AUTHOR

Into court and

Brad-

It was a mistake, Mrs.

Graham dock. What you should have done Robertson, who wrote "Pinkle and was to get up on a public platform the Falrles," left £500,000 in his

will. and start talking back.

The trouble with the Mrs Brad- docks is that they become so easily The Canada Club, formed when smitten with the current political the population of the Dominion was disease-over-sensitiveness. They are fewer than 230,000, was entertaining too louchy about themselves. Sir Stafford Cripps, following

Transatlantic visit.

Cripps charmed·

his

everyone with

his picture of the Canadian rural The man has a beautiful

sconc.

voice,

and "held" his audience,

despite some subsequent "we two hand in hand together" platitudinous stuff.

"But It was a quiet audience NOW politicians are not the

until he referred to "the Common- wealth" without using The Word.

It was too much for one, patriot from Montreal.

"British," he bawled.

And a startled Sir Stafford had to halt his mellifluous flow until the hubbub subsided,

nna

OFF-DUTY

tu

biggest problem” · Captain make quite sure that all the words used in the textbooks and the newa paper are in general use, otherwise

Comments the newspaper Franes we would find a lot of words in "Perhaps they were afraid them which are only understood by that lecherous Britons might try to tricks

the men who come from the dis- in which they are used normally,

"In compiling the dictionary I A pleasant have to examine the, etymology of surprise: Watching Maurice Chevaller all the words 1-find--with the aid Sanscrit and Hindustani whip his Hippodrome audience into of enthusiasm after all these years dictionaries to ascertain their cor- without relying on the nostalgia rect spelling in modern Gurkhall. I game of "Remember when," so easy also, have to find out whether they' when you have songs like "Louise," are in general or local use.".

Valentina," "Love Parade" behind you,

Other big money camers among wrliers for children: Enid Blyton. whose income has, topped £50,000

Apart from being a Gurkhali in a year; Rose Fyleman ("Hob and

expert-probably the greatest ex- Nob"), Allisart Uttley "Grey An envious moment: Watching pert on the spoken language outside Rabbit") and a frail old Croydon novelist Peter Cheyney coin in the Nepal-Meerendonk is something of Indy, Caroline Barker, who does the

'money with a cigarette and match: an authority on snakes, which` ho verses and drawings for the Flower in his new whodunit, "Dark studied in Africa and India. Ho is. Felry books.

Wanton," author Cheyney has some- a Bachelor of Arts, and a Fellow- Well Inlo

super-super-tax ono light,

offer # smoke, or

of the Zoological Society,--By. u closs, too, is Kathleen Hale, who cigarette 77 times in, 102 pages. Correspondent.

the

THE

A glimpse into the Russian mind, assembled from Moscow-circulated news in the Soviet sector of Berlin.

Russian Window

BERLIN. THE film "target" is set for the dependence.

months ahead.....

UE for completion in Mos- cow this year is an impor- tant documentary film, "The

only obes to feel need for legal protection. Doctors, for instance. A doctor was called into court during a divorce case, put in the witness- box, and made to give evidence on private interview between himself and patient.

and Doctors think this unwise Then up spake Mr. Graham Spry,

unfair. They think the secrets of the Agent-General for Saskatchewan,

should be He took his cue from the interrup the consulting room ter. He played with the word "Bri- privileged. "You'll never get palients Ush" over and over again. At each to be frank, and therefore you will

D refented. The Savoy reverberated doctor might go off. to the judge and the applause doubled and never cure them, if they think a

tell with the cheering...

what he knows," lg their startled the argument It must have

get Chancellor. It was a demonstration So they are agitating to

pride

the medicos rintional

which of

put

the legally Socialists, as well as the Tories, "privileged" list.

Only persons so "privileged" now had beiter take into account.

writes Who

Ministers after- are solicitors, pubile officials, and dinner speaches? Their secretaries as the result of a recent case mostly, But Cripps writes his own probation officers. stuff and in long-hand, too.

A pity he does not garnish them with the occasional anecdote.

POSTSCRIPT: Mr. J. W. Dulanty, Eire's High Commissioner in' Brl- tain, got a laugh at our expense.

on

Priests are not protected, They can be sent to fall for contempt if they refuse to divulge what they hear in confession.

Fall of Berlin."

is made the symbol of French in-

An American comes along, esil- mates that it is worth 2,000 dollars, tons of sugar, and 2,000 tins of beef and promises 120 tons of wheat, 12 in exchange for it

The mayor of the town accopis, It will show Hitler and his star then discovers that the American has cowering in the ruins of the Reich no power to send what he has pro- Chancellery, hoping the advance of mised. the British and

American ormies As the discomated American is will deliver them from "simple made to ride wrathfully off the Soviet citizens marching forward stage, Ehrenburg has him say: triumphantly from S.alingrad to Berlin."

12

Conducted by PETER BELIN

samovare again quicker than thirsty Rusala, can empty them.

"You will get your food all right, Another fim will be "Me Thomp- but you won't eat it the way you don Flats to America." It will show want to. Real Marshall plan obser the unmasking of American im- vers will come. They won't stay for perialism in the Far East. Mir few days like I did, but for Thompson will be depleted as fleeing years., You can keep your Hon for And this is really the time to do. it for the temperatura | In. East. before the Communist armies in the moment. But they will take not Siberia has just reached a new low only your lion but your Independence

for the year-30 degrees below freezing the successive steps of the Soviet

popular lines in the Government in its policy of demo-Must act are like all Europeans, AERIAL maraudere annihilated... cratisation and demilitarisation in

He told the story of an Irishman THOSE who said the sun never sets on the rounds about Mrs Churchill's. Red on the Elbo", will show as well."

British Empire because trusts it in the dark,

nobody

Wan

"a small this", still remains.

stories going the

Croas Aid to Russia: Fund are not all correct

To the time the fund closed in 1946 Britain subscribed £8 million-and what Miss Mabel Johnson, secretary of the

the fund, des- Germany, and will lay bare the pre- dumb and decadent. Your big mis- SOVIET pilots claim victory in a cribes

of sent polley of the leading cliques in lake is that you always have war on battle on the borders where proportion of

your own territory. We Americans' Soviet Turkes on meets Persia and England and the United States."

make war and dollars at the same Afghanistan. The battle has been. But the stories that they don't

time by fighting in Greece, China, waged for years against locust-in WANTING a now hat, know what to do with the residuo FAMOUS writer flops

breeding ground at the source. of are untrue.

LTHOUGH Ilya Ehrenburg la Palestine, but never in America." It is being spent on Piccadilly are

tho-Ant-Darya river. : Hickey called ona

A Idol No. 1 of present-day Russian TEA to beat the cold medical equipment bought from

For hundreds of years the locusts: batters. He saw there a display British manufacturers and this writers, his first playa satire on dude-ranch: statsons,

can mass from this area, white, brown, and belge. They were equipment is still being shipped to French dependence on the Marshall Tall Russla there is only one city have periodically warmed west

"It is part of plan has been pronounced a near- Pula which the genuine ten-gallon article-just the Soviet Union.

produce the sanovar, an indispen put in to brighten up a window our agreement as trustees of the flop by most Soviet critles.

WC **-fund,” says Miss Johnsons

In the play alone Jion, which has sable article in the homes of the tea- display. Specimen above.."

The surprise was that people promised to keep on buying and stood in the market-place of a loving Russians,For the first time Is turning out began to buy them--at £4 per hat. keep on shipping: we are doing it."French town since the 15th century, since the war Pula

NANCY

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WHY DON'T YOU STAY FOR LUNCH, PEEWEET

AGO CALL HER

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BUT MY MOTHER'S EXPECTING ME:

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The pilots; of, ing "Agricultural Air Force" now claim to have des- troyed the last. Ives.iges of these breeding grounds.

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