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THAT SOLD A MILLION COPIES

JOHN WAYNE GAIL RUSSELL

WAKE of the RED WITCH

GIS YOUNG • ADELE MARA - LUTHER ADLER

LOUREO FRANZ GRANT WEATHERS » HENRY DANIELL

PAUL FIX JEFF COREY

Bayan Play by Harry Brewn and Kenneth Cemet Based on Garland Boork's Tomous Best-Selling Havel Bruched by TowerdLudwig » Associate Prodware-Edmund Gralagpar

REPUBLIC PICTURE

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MORGAN

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DEFORE

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Production of VICTOR HUGO'S

LES MISERABLES

Start FREDRIC MARCH-CHARLES LAUGHTON

-a-20m CENTURY-FOX Enrose Tiomphe) –

TO-MORROW

'W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S

“QUARTET””

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COMMENCING FRIDAY

JEANNE CRAIN

LINDA DARNELL

ANN SOTHERN

in

"A LETTER TO THREE WIVES"

SHOWING

TODAY

At 2.30, 5.20

MAJESTIC 7.20 & 9.30

FAIR-CONDITIONED

ACTION! ADVENTURE! THRILLS!

Philip N. Krasno presents

THE CISCO KID

thVALIANT HOMBRE

alarding

Duncan Renaldo

as C300

Leo Carrillo

as Pancho

Directed by Wallace Fux •ftalessed two Uniffad Artists ',

P.M.

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1949.

"Staff-considering that we have just saved the country from financial ruin,

do you think Clem, would mind if we stayed in an hotel tonight?”.

London Express Servico

WHAT'S ALL THIS

CRAZE FOR SPEED ?

16

men plan the new night life

REVOLUTION

is go-

ing on after dark in,

London's West End. It

has been

the

caused by Government decision to be sold

allow drinka to until 2.30 a.m. That decision has killed the bottle party.

by MARK QUIN

Colony;, and party.

This month

the move

Man with no plana Iz comedian AL BURNETT,, aged

37.

He started the Nuthouse, sinco clord, now rung the Stork. H says. "London's Night Life has had it. The the Astor boitio naw order means closing mid- night Saturday and nil day Sunday, while the 5s, meat limit Act the and the Catering Wages But the men who run the Nightingale's old premises and combine to kill new business." night resorts of the West run it there until the Govern Sixteen men are together End are getting ready to ment order kills it. Meantime spending

over £150,000 to compete for the after-dark carpenters are busy making a change the face of London night.

way between the Colony and life.

money.

are not very

they plan to Astor to

the new Astor premises. This

Who ure these men? There will allow two bands to switch Where is the money coming many of them playing between the two pre- from? Mostly it comes out of the less than 20, They have made misca. Later, the whole wall

profits they have made in the large sums since 1945, and they may be knocked down and re- post-war pleasure boom. But look, forward to making more. laurent and club will become some of it comes from their

Heading the list is the West the largest End's wine order boss, tough, place in Mayfair.

late-night eating men and women telende.

Eustace Hoey, is rich. Ho

impassive, implacable EUSTACE

HOEY. Hocy started his Soho

wino order business in 1938. gives generously to charity,

War came and he put uniform as a RAF AC2. ́ Job of running his wine stores fell to

Next on the list are brothers KARRY and BERTIE

FRIENDS

How will they get it back? On the surface, the OWNRTE divide into four groups, but sweet merchants in Bayswater terests are much more closely "It's a good business and wo

ex-wife Kay, who sky-rocketed MEADOWS. In 1938 they were beneath the surface their in-

sales in three years,

In 1943 Hocy got his release still have it" cays Harry. tied.

on medical Krounds, returned to Soho and found himself a ricil man. Fined *£60 for selling Hquor on unlicensed premises, he fought a test con

Now

EXPENSIVE

he

owns

an

Bob Barnett may have sold Stocco the Embassy, but he still holds Church's Meadows and Louis Scolt have interest. Harry und the heat lease of the La but Harry told me, "we're close bottle party, Dions wine stores no apparent interests together, through the courts and won. After the war he

Rue Club. Brother Berlic shares friends and you never know." teamed up

the Chesterteld Club with RICO

| with HARRY MORRIS, ex

greengrocer. ("I've still gol my shop in Putney.")

MOVING

Interests in Club,

་

the

told

name

PAJOU. Dajou started and left One other

Bagatelle and Soclete res Included-38-year-old

must be tauranın In turn.

SIEGIE. SESSLER, from Poland, Is the "I like night clubs," Harry best-dressed man

me under chuded night life. In November 1948 In Mayfair's "I shall he opened La

Rug. with Louis this month Scott, later slayed on lunch and dinner Scott

when sold out to Harry about three. Meadown.

Meadows Morris owns the Gloucester lights in Churchill's, Wine stores. He and Ilocy have close Churchill's

the Ward Room and make it a the Nightingale bottle club, membership party, the Studio Club; the guineas a year. This means tear- Landsdowne Restaurant, now Ing drapes off the walls and com- "Where did 1 learn the club being converted at a cost wear plying with all the LCC regula- business?

says Sespler. "Why. £15,000 and renamed

Blous

when I first came "It will cost £10,000, but I London I had a great friend to live in don't mind, I shall keep ten to from whom I learnt how net to fifteen thousand of my present run a club."

The answer's under

W

your bonnet

by BASIL CARDEW THO benefits most from a car race?

wooden type, Thay were The DRIVERS scrapped for metal, wire, and who revel in the exhilara disc wheels.

tion of a 100-miles-an-hour And within a few years dash? The SPECTATORS— wooden wheels had disappeared who crane over the rails to from the world's ronds. watch tiny bullets roaring In a pre-war Grand Prix the by in competition?

the

Italian ace Nuvolari and German Brauchitsch, driving escaped Both have their thrills and Auto-Union cars, both

when their plenty of them. But aşk your with their lives motor dealer or garago-man petrol tanks caught are. who benefits most, and he will say: "You do the answer's un- der your

bonnet, under your chassis, and in your wheels."

In a hard motor race, a car lives five years In as many

Alted

front

modern car;

or

PITS

tho

SHOCK ̈ ́ADSORDERS and known on the pioneer cars were

20,500 members.

I shall also

Sessler's mother

and faller

ncar Krakow,

keep the night club atmosphere and the shaded. lights.. I shall owned a farth Install sliding roofs for lunch trade in hot weather."

More Meadows money-about £16,000 is being .spent con- vering the Chesterfield Club into the new 21. This is duc to open soon as the most ex- clusive, and expensive lunch club in Mayfair.

NO MOVES

1s

Owner 'whose activities aru almost unaltered is oft, JOUN MILLS, who owns a cigarette factory in Brussels, the Milroy bottle party, Les Ambassadeure Club and the Bon Viveur Club, which he has just purchased jointly for £25,000. Milla away in Cannes, but host Erwin Schleyen at the Milroy says, "We're making no moves until the licence position is clear." Other reports алу Mills will move the Milroy to the promises of Les Ambassadeurs and com- bine them.

Mills has an associate named

"Ah, that was the best meat we've had since 1939 -pity we've got to sum- mons

we'ra you. enforcement officera!”

London Keroan Sorcion,

food

| FRANK-MORRIS,- proprietor of "Now-my-ambition-is to have-#-

a poultry business.

country club."

Other personalities in the fine- PONTE, brother-in-law,

first tried on racing cars. Motor aro CAPTAIN

Milis's

They were using "saddle" and mechanical brakes on the type tanks, gravity-fed,

REDESIGNING of steering,

He has done a big job with racing has changed the, make-up in front on the dashboard. The petrol, bursting from the tank, which is now geared high

up of tyres from the fabric base John

La Rue-most popular Mayfair splashed over the

iltles and drivers' low to suit the vehicle. knees.

cover, with a malleage of 477, to now spending £20,000 on his haunt for Royalty, IMPROVEMENT In spring the cord cover which carried Garter Club; ABE AROHNSON, stars alike. Early this year he From this near disaster came ing. In the old days they re- John Cobb over the Bonneville who has Californian interests; went to America and took 5,000 more than 400 cigar merchant BOB BARNETT, visiting cards. Now La Rue is hours--and gives away as many a change in every car blueprint: sembled the springs of a cart or Salt Flats at pram. Now there are many miles an hour.

and HARRY SADO, owner of a visling American's Brst port secrets. The door that rattics within a few years all

types of independent springing and

40 pubs and also who run the of call. on each wheel.

—(London' Express Service)

"400" closed after two or three years' use; petrol tanks disappeared,

for redecoration in their place came the the badly placed petrol pipe at the back of the car.

that do- that snaps; tre leak

A third example: in the velops in the water pump; the bonnet that won't shut tight; the Italian Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles) race this year the win- springs that give way, or the

ning Bealey car had all-British fan belf that works loose,. components. Previously some foreign-made spare parts had been used on this type of sports

All these stresses and weak- nesses that develop in the normal motorist's span with his car are pricipitated in the brief, intense moments of racing.

So when cars .streak round

car.

tank

Donald Icaley drove last Miglin and year in the Milic decided that the foreign com ponents were the weakness. So

the circuit at 100 miles an hour, they were scrapped. And this making a lot of noise, stripping year a British car won.

rubber off their tyres and rt-

viving their engines till they nearly blow up, they are work- ing for the man with a horse-power saloon.

Examples

ten-

TOW for 50 years, develop

Nment of motoring for the

public has followed the pro- gress made in motor racing.

Take these typical examples of the way the family car has been improved as the result of Grand Prix rac-

ADDED: Color Cartoon "BONE BANDIT" Incidents in

COMMENCING FRIDAY

•

John WAYNE Gail RUSSELL

"WAKE OF THE RED WITCH"

SHOWING

TO-DAY.

Cathay

Ing:-

Developments

racing rules of motor THE

been have repeatedly amended to ensure that useful rather than spectacular results could be achieved.

Limitations in weight and en- gine size have produced the blueprints of the private cars of today-light, healthy in miles to the gallon, and economical.

Experience in races has been the direct cause of the develop- ment of streamlining in cars. It has also produced

In four Grand Prix races on the Continent in the early 1920s, 20 cars crashed or had to re fre with broken wheels, Tho bicycle-lype brakes of the first wheels wero of the "artillery" cars to the effortless hydraulic

NANCY

At 2.30, 5.30,

7.30 & 9.30

p.m.

LOVING HER LEAVES A SCAR. BIG AS A MAN'S HEART!

ANN SHERIDAN in THE NEW WARNER SENSATION “

“NORA · PRENTISS”

With Koht Smith Bruce Bennett Robert Alda

One Day Soon--Randolph SCOTT. In "ALBILENE TOWN" One Day Soon-John Wayne in “TYCOON” in Technicolor

LET'S COOK

DIS FISH DAT 1 CAUGHT

-Free-Reeler--

ADVANCES in the design of

OKAY-- WE'LL COOK IT. ON. THE OUTDOOR

GRILL

I DIDN'T-

KNOW YOU

HAD AN OUTDOOR

GRILL

TV Clapham Junction' is going up in the Alps

From MARK JOHNS, Milan

ATV "Clapham Junction now being built 11,000 ft. up int

and conversion to a day club at

Cost

STOCCO, former

01

La Rue and the Empress.Club

Their success is

of *£14,000; FAUSTI are the first of the New Look

director of night spots. Ciro's, who reputedly

unchallenged. £40,000 in an Irish Sweep. Stocco has now bought the

Won

W the custom warrant com..

numbers now.

Embassy, with Harry Sado, for petition between a final line-up of 16 dinner clubs and late £15,000 and is spending 220,-

restaurants? night

Experts DOD on it.

reckon that the 10,000 or so Then there are the REUBEN customers who did the rounds ́BROTHERS, Sid and Stan. They in 1038 are sadly depleted 1a.

own Ciro's Club, and Ciro'k Aviation, textile companies and underwear shops as well. They are spending over £10,000 on the redecoration ot Ciro's, which they reopen next month,

whose

not plans arc Man announced is car hire owner the MAX BETTY,

who owns the owned by Orchid Room.

the Alps will bring television to much of Europe in about two years. This will be a TV relay station similar to those Inking London and Birmingham,

The station on the Jungfrau Th's project was disclosed re- will

others at cently at the International Tele- connect with

vlston Convention by Dr W. Berne and Lugano, bridging

Gerber, chief engineer of miles of the Alps.

Swiss Post Omec.

Zurich

Beurael

SWITZERLAND

alausanne“

Ston

Domodossola

marks the TV spot.

the Gerry Marco.

of

OPTIMISTIC

Restaurateur

runs the

who

Ronay, fashionable Society, Dr Gero. in Jermyn

managed by Street, is optimistic about his

Eection

of the

NO PLANS

"Wo shall

To build and maintain

keep our ho says,. Jungfrau slat'on n network tunnels will be bored in solid

"because we aim at a specialised trade. Under the new law wo rock and through a glacier,

on even terms will begin Newcomer to These tunnels

the London shall compele where the world's highest rail-night life scene is West End pro with dinner clubs, lunch clubs. way ends. They will go another,perty buyer

SCOTT, hotels, and what have you, I half-mile up inside the moun-who set up La Rue and sold it think everything will be very

to Harry Meadows early this good for us." The entire TV equipment will year in a £100,000 dent.

Other restaurants are not so

talu.

LOUIS

Ilis

be inside the tunnels, protected main Interest is the Empress optimistic. They see themselver from the snow and ice, Parn- Club, which he bought lest sandwiched between the big bolle actials will be visible in November. Nine weeks ago ho hotels and the heavy spending

· 100ft,-square gaps which will opened the club's new Persian clubs with expensive new form "windows" in the moun- Room. tain side.

-(London Express Service)

By Ernie Bushmiliar

which under Leslle cabarots and other attractions.. Romain's direction, IN ΠΟΥ rivalling La Rue, in popularity,

SOAP THAT SPELLS

BEAUTY

---{London Express Service)

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