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FRANCES

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Band

Five Smash Songs,

fo Set You, Singing?

"I've Got My Fingers Crusad

"The Kissing We#"

"I'm in Love"

"Couldn't Sleep & link Last Night”

and a Cane Krupa Medley'

RALPH EDWARDS PHILLIP TERRY

HIS

GENE KRUPA ANG BAND

Produced by MICHEL KRAIKE. Directed by JOHN H. ÁVER»Scheon Play by Laurance Kimala

Commencing Friday

"UNFAITHFULLY

Rex Harrison Rudy Vallec

YOURS"

Linda Darnell

Barbara Lawrance

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, 'WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1949.

QUEENS ALHAMBRA

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FAIR FRESHENED

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

-LANA TURHER FIRST TIME IN TECHNICOLORI

TO-DAY

ONLY

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

TECHNICOLOR

LAMA TORREN GENE KELET JOKE ALLTSON → YAN DEFLEN ANGELA LANSBERT

WELCOME

CRIPPS

to long as he Skops being a

Tagy spendthritt

WELCOME

BEVIN

he gives up

on condition

Communism

PREPARATIONS IN U.S.Ą.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR: (to the less responsible:

elements)s HULLO - EXPECTING

TWO OTHER FELLOWS OF THE SAME NAMES, EH 1*

World Copyright. By arrangement with Evening Standard.

Sitting on

N increase in ment

supplies and

de-

crease in fish supplies

is forecast by the food ex-

perts.

Fence.... by

King Fishmonger NATHANIEL GUBBINS

MONARCH

slab,

of the marble

wil

Lord of whiting, lord of dab. Your bounty, Stre, we shalt not

bluf, and royal

For most of us are sick of fish, And when King Butcher wears

Suon,

my

friend, Soon pour happy reign- must

No more your subjects in the

queue

Will bows and, scrape and fawn

on you?

No more the favourites of the

Coury

wil eet the trout they didn't

totalit;

No more the salmon middle ents

the crown

tremble, King. Our thumbs

are down,

through the

dead, Long live

Our

cru shall welkin ring- "The King is

the King."

my rackets, whether it's million. aires' ashraus on Fifth Avenco or a ritzy doll like my honey cat with the swellest chassis In the Engish-speaking world.

我

* *

Naturally, I clon't want to bawl out a guy like Simon, who A few seems to have stopped shell splinters, and is entitled to the big hand from one and all;

Will go to htph-born greedy quis, Paws across the sea and especially from me, for not

Or caterers nud other xwells Who run the clubs and smart

Intels,

While humble subjects crave a

boon

Of Iceland cod cacti afternoon,

Monarch of the marble slab, Lori of lobster, lord of crab, Like ali monarchs of the past. Your little hour must end at last; That hour

suprente

when you reigned

"

Following is a letter from Manhattan Mouser. New York underworld cat, to Lot- tie, bis British sugar puss. after reading her shameless appeal for the friendship of Simon, herb cat of 11.M.S. Amethyst, awarded the Animals V.C. for catching rats under fire.

HIYA Lottle,

Vou

Sny, what's the big idea of

writing that

letter 10

O'er herring, halibut, and bream, Simon? I just seen It in the Dispensing such with royal paper air mailed out here, and 1

don't like what I see.

grace. "For you the haddock, you the

pialce,

For you who love our royal role "The turbot and the Dover sole, "For you who will not bend the

knee

**These odds and enda for

kedgerce."

Before New Year comes 'round

again

AT 2.30, 5.15, The exiled Butcher King may

KINGS 120 & 9.30

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YEAR!"

EL PASO

Asal Petr KEY-

ICECH PATKE. GAN BUSSEL)

i

STEMS HATEN • CX WESE "GRAY" RATES

DICK EDZAN & PRE-IENAS PERDUOTIES

Oracledby LEWIS R. FOSTER

THE "COFFIN CORNER OF

TEXAS

P.M.

reign,

A jolly king whose ancient cry

Was "Lovely, lovely, day, duy,

bur."

Whose happy subjects, brave and (

jrce, Ne'er formed

in queues, nor bowed the knee,

touched a hat

*

A merry king whose kingdom

wide

Listen, Sugar Puss. When I hook my claws into a dame she atays hooked. I don't allow no other guy to come musclin in on

only do I admire tough guys, but 1 am half-British myself, my father being over here ind because he go back forgot to preferred the food and the cutie cats on Broadway,

the

wor

When called for England with the GIs during the we wne under fire pretty often from submarines and aircraft

art I don't know what all, and me catching rats all the time if

bo there happened to #round.

abgǝrd a bargo

thy

When I was a hand (unpaid) on the Hudson River we was boarded one night by hundreds of water rats, and me and the captain had to fight them off, him with his gun and me with my four claws,

a

MY SIDE OF LIFE. The CHAPMAN PINCHER Column

The

Boffins Look After The

T

BLAIRGOWRIE,

Fish

While thousands of seven-Inchr

(PERTHSHIRE,) fish were forced through a tur "WE scientist lifted an bine working at full spred iron trap-door set In Scotland's top salmon expert, the path by the mill. W. L CALDERWOOD, watched stream here and revealed an from a boat anchored in the underwater chamber hullt tail-race. He saw one lead fish. into the banking. I climbed The rest had somehow 'mado 2 down the ladder and pressed Buccessful split-second passage my face against the plate-

between the blades.

glass observation window... Fish Shocks

Through the peat-stained

water I saw that the stream E scientists are taking no chances. They are inven- had been widened and cary- crete-lined to make Jeeping under-water "acarecrown" basin. In the shadow where a to frighten the fish trickle fell from the lip of t

turbines.

from the

second concreto basin, bullt One of these devices-which I directly upstreamn ot n 3-feet saw in action in a Dundee la- higher level, a fat salmon wou boratory-sends electric shocks lazily moving Its great through the water. When scion-

triangular tail.

This sh, like the hun. dreds of other scientists have watched through the window, hod forced its way North Sea by up from the

way of the River Toy. When the

TO LET

FOR A

Powe ŠTANON

next heavy rainfall makes the stream flow faster the salmon will leap into the basin above spawning-beds beyond. to join the others on the gravelly

tist NORMAN· LETHLEAN turned it on to a shoal of fish in a large tank, all but two immo- diately panicked,

These two happened to be jying across the path of the cur rent so the shock passing only through the width of their bodies was too small to upset them. The other fish lying lengthways to the flow got the full shock.

Lethlenn and hoped because a fish can minimise the discomfort of an electric current by simply turning across its path he would be able to direct the

that

salmon traffle by such "shock tactics." But he found that sal- Seventeen miles to the north, mon have not the sense to swim west, near the Pass of Killie in the least painful direction. cranide, the 250-feet-long "Ash- Eels have. But calmon panic. ladder, for which this struc-

Lethlean has tried scaring the lure nt Blairgowrie

21 Wad

small-scale model, is nearly fish with underwater bangs. He

flxed a metal plate to ono end of n tank and hit with a hammer.

Take it from me, honey cat, that was # hell of rough house. The cnptain was full of finished. Bourbon and not much of

the up-running In contrast to anglers' claims shot when he wasn't. So I was under Are all right. At close salmon over a huge dam belag that the slightest vibration dis-

raised across the River Tum- furbs n range.

mel,

你

11 will get

Fish Food

salmon the fish in the tank did not move,

Now he is trying to find out whether sounds pitched beyond the limit of human hearing will And did I get a medal from THE samo careful-and K-

THE

"We may get on their nerves, Churles Dickin or Will Shakes-

pensive thought for the

water that pear or Millon or any other of fish is being taken throughout even try playing the bagpipes them British scribes? No, cir. Scotland's gigantic hydro- frighten anything away," said All I got was a kick in the electric workings which at Cornishman Lethlean.

I am glad he is to get the pants from the captain for lick-cost of £100 million will feed Dickin medal, which I believe ing over his supper before he is the cat's VC, in Britain. I could get at it, wish we had a cat's Heart over here.

*

Purple

Believe me, I should have won it if it was only for fighting the chef at Stork's Club for Walter Winchell's steak.

Get an earful of this, Sugar Puss. Simon ain't the only cat who has caught rats under fire.

under

Fish Screens

should

TF all these tricks fail the only way to save the fish will be to

a Highland grid.

Many of the 100 new lochs. You can take it from mes which the dams will crente will Sugar Puss, that when this guy be regularly treated with forti- Simon is at I shall come right licers to increase the food sup- it steel meshes in front of the nver and give him a bust in the ply for young fish. Where turbine tunnels. shoot if he don't lay off mythese locha flood the salmon's

A meshwork screen is being sweetie pio.

natural spawning beds hat ntted over the Tuminel river cheries are to be built so that turbines because, "scarecrown' tiem hips swing, ripe Ash

can be netted. and are not yet rendy, It is 4,000 spawned artificially.

square feet in area.

Keep

honey.

Manhaltan Mouser.

(London Express Service)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

Why take no inuch trouble over a few fish? Best answer to this question was given me by barrel-chested ANGUS JAMES.

kooper

Pointing to where -red cock-salmon had heaved itself from-the-river, he said:----

"The role right to fish from that pool to the burn two miles downstream has just been poll for £15,000. And it is a sound investment. This year it has yielded more than 600 salmon

New York. the freedom of trade between one blames Britain. All she gets which fetched nearly £1,800" is 5s. a bottle.

THE average American is persons in both countries.

The only correspondent in MURCHGOING is increasing

Fish-Ladders

form a great food-produ-

na keener ou an' econo- favour of the plan based his C rapidly in the US. A survey | CICOTLAND'S salmon fishertes, Nor cringed, nor begged, normie union, between Britain opinion on America's need for just published says 2,100,16

did not attend cing industry. For little bits of this and that- and America than the aver a strong and spirited Britain at

all times," and on the chance of Americans who age Englishman is.

Increased markets for US goods, church last year are going this al Church membership,

The men responsible for the year. the Wall-street Recently,

OLLARS are getting short 70,570,352, is the highest ever. hydro-electric scheme led by Journal, read by businessmen all

Most farsighted elder statesman TOM the US.

reported that DOL

even in Washington. The Ali falfhs report gains.

pledged to was toying with Had cities paved with silverside, Washington

Treasury as announced that the popular religions: Protestant, 60 JOHNSTON-are

Roman Catholic, 33 preserve existing industries as Whose gualit

threw that solution for the dollar prob- publle debt has risen to £83,- percent.: Lamps

well as develop new ones. 709.001,500. And there is every percent.

With fish-ladders the sclen- Ever since, the businessmen prospect that it will grow Inslead have been pouring in letters. of decrease.

Excerpts from a column of them street Journal:

golden ght

On lanib chops glowing red and

white,

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with

LUPE VELEZ

JEAN HERSHOLT.

aldes of beef hung high on looks. Os sheep's heads with their

mournful looks,

over

lem.

AT. PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S Usts will get returning salmon

published in the Wall- DUBLIC ANGER over a ban os rebelled at last year's election safe pas-

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command, the Dixiecrats over the big- -Southern Democrata who gest daros. But arranging for radio giveaway program against

their

candidate's the

of tho 1. What a deal. They acquire mes caused Government censors

campaign for equal rights for sage On smiling pans of murdered our assets and we assume their to hand out statistics

showing Negroes have been

read out young salmon pige,

there

But welcomed to the sea is liabilities, if

any the average listener's chances of of his party. aro

Their

winning a £5,000 jackpot from back was Senator Glenn Tay-more dimcult. mouths adorried with abilities not already assumed.

To be

who

The Ds Vice-Pro- rati

swirl paraley sprigs.

2. I have the greatest admira a lucky telephone call. A merry king, of merru_jestion for the English people.

sure of getting a call he would lo

sident candidiato with Henry of the water meat was always of the

As Allies in war they were have to live for 1,150 years, But Wallace, darling of the Com- forced into

the public's attitude is even so, munists.

the tunnels best,

ot the base But who made jokes (it must be courageous, resourceful. As a it's nice to know

they have many traits called. people faced) Not always in the best of taste. some of us might emulate,

Whose

But when it comes to an eco- nomic union we would certainly be getting the short end of the at least, so long as the stick, British retain their present So- clalistic State,

we might be

1

ONE WAY

STREET

Wux a bad British picture is of the dam will suck small fish worse than a bad American through the glant turbines. COTCH whisky, most popular one, according to critic Archer To save them from the mash- import from Britain, is sUp Winsten--it is simply awful, ing action of the fast-revolving ping. For the first time since while the bad American one is blades the scientists must deviso Monarch of

means of directing the seaward the marble lab,

the war importers reported ro- merely awfully simple.

moving trafic down the fish- Lord of lobster, lord of crab,

cently that U.S. sales are down With plentiful supplies of meat

318,000 gallons on last year. FENERAL MARK CLARK, Indders.

Surprisingly in most of the We shall not cower at your feet, 3. This would ensure

the They have 220,000 cases surplus who won fame at the Anzio O King, your niggardly largesse maximum

both in their warehouses. The trouble landing in Italy, is to succeed big dams young salmon. would Will every day mean less and economies, and the maximum is the old one-too costly at General Jacob Dovers as Chief of probably survive being swished

through the machines. lers,

governmental Interference with 25 to 27. 6d. a bottle. But no U.S. Army Field Forcez

Expense

to

The cost of fitting such screens in all tho projects would be enormous. But it may have to be faced. The Hydro-Electric Doard chiefs believe that the outlay would be worth while to savo the fisheries

What I saw on my trip con- vinced me that however Indus- trialised the Highlands may be- come and the possibilities are now tremendous the Scots are too hard-hended to let their rivers degenerate into fishlesz. sewers na is still happening in. - England.

-London Express Service).

POCHET CARTOON

oy OSBERT LANCASTER

"Goodness gracious abONDO how many times have I told you that is we mish to do our bit to help the sterlino bioe the can no longer expect t have our tourist grade'and ent

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