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ILONA MASSEY

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Screen Play by Gerald Geraghty and Gerald Brandon an Drigland Story blame Zward Grant Associate Producer and Director JOSEPH KANE A REPUBLIC PRODUCTION

Myrna LOY

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in "THE RED

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Robert MITCHUM

PONY"

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1949.

CHAPMAN PINCHER COLEMN

flica over to Stockholm

to talk to the men who for ten years have been piecing together the astonishing story of the change that's gradually. overtaking - Britain's climato...

Better weather for

Britain seems

pretty certain

· RITAIN'S climate is level of the seas by more than an

up.

Bstendily hotting

The odds are that within ten years it will be like the climate of Northern France.

Londoners may look for- ward to the open-air cafe

weather of Paris. The biting winter winds of. Liverpool may be re placed by Cherbourg's milder breczen, Scot- tish Lowland folk may ex- pect Surrey. type weather.

UDES

Inch,"

Professor Ahlmann denied the rumour-widely spread during this year's hot summer-that the Gulf Stream has altered is course, "But there is no doubt

that it is bringing a greater balk

Britain," he said. of warmer water towards

"This warming up of the northward moving currents

the changing

of

distribution

shoals of Asb. Cod hove moved

mor

than 700 miles The West up Greenland coast in recent years.

Herring. baddock, and

hallbut are also moving pole- wards B o rute which may These forecasta scom ken- seriously affect commercial Osh- Sea birds are also stendily sational, but they are based int

moving further north." on thoroughly reliable evi- denco disclosed to me during 搞 week's discussions in

Sweden with world authori. ties on climate change.

Three indisputable facts of international importanco emerged from these discus- sions:-

THE ARCTIC ICE and the

mountain gipciers shrinking rapidly.

NORTHERN SEAS orc gel- ting so much warmer that cod and other fish previously kept south by cold are moving steadily

beyond the Arctic Circle.

U

THE TIMBER-LINE the limit beyond tphich cold prevents the growth of treeb tr

north and moving further higher up the mountains,

Mr.

Witness No. 1

Ahlinann has been battling for years to get the enormous signi- Bcance of these facts appreciat-

Moira Shearer in Wonderland

NEW YORK.

by EVELYN WEBBER

TT started as soon as they Ianded. At a pre-first- night cocktail party in the famous Diamond Horse- shoo sherry bar, the girls from the Sadler's Wells avenuo

pent-houses,

Ballet wore their British girls have been superb.

Our

..

queals for autographe pour in for Molra.

People have written from all over tho country saying that they want to see her in person, "to make sure that her hair is really as red as it looks in the colour film, and her eyes just us Do you know? export clothes (each was There have been vialta to They are. Her eyes are lite

given two outfits).

her hair is a Photo Long Island country homes, bluebells, and graphers promptly asked and invitations to practise cot blonde red.

Shu is 5ft. Gina, slender, and them to pose for the maga- at ballet schools. The girls gentle in manner. zines.

_who_have not been photo- With all New York at her

the graphed for magazines have feet

23-year-old

Moira And while critics rushed danced for television or Shearer, who started dancing to pen superlatives after talked on the radio.

when she was ten, is slit, she mys,

"Just another ballerina." their opening, the ballet rode

"I'm always striving for per-

me, "and I..

the

permanent

THAT polar los cape cover more than 6,000,000 square miles and are 6,000 feet thick?

"THAT IBIrinis 100~ _meitad, son,layal, would ha. raised by about 150 feet- enough to food the greater part of England?

THAT the average win- ter temperature at 8pitz- bergen, which is only 800 miles from the North Pole, has risen 16 degrees Fahrenbait since 19201

THAT the season when pack-ice How long the north coast of Iceland has become two months shor. tor 7

THAT Britain's average winter temperatura has lean by 3 degrees Fahren- holt during the last 100 yours? And if the general temperature of the world rose by this amount all the polar les would melt avery summer!

to a party at the mayor's Yes, and the 20 ballet rection," she told mansion, escorted by aboys are having a wonderful would like to act, but I did not motor-bike police squad and time too. One woman like myself in Red Shoes, 'I screaming sirens.

admirer has given each of didn't net well enough. Now them and the stage hands will not make another film and dressers $14 (£5) shirt until I get ono I lika“ money. "Enough," she says,

Wonderful

ION the

lawn under bright moon they talked and ate and drank and danced till dawn.

"to buy themselves threa shirts each."

Hostess

THE publicity put out by the Every night before the perballet company

here does formance the flowers and the notes start arriving at the stage not mention "Red Shoes," nor

Moira's part

in it. Just the floor. They are still coming "We'll never forget it," when the final curtain falls.

same, she is busy now helping the film

the Moira sighs red-haired

men publicise Few lugn up for dinner now picture Shearer, star of the ballet

Bryant Hotel For them she has made s Alim, "The Red Shoes," at Droadway's "I've only seen parties like where the company are staying, concrete footprint on the pave of them have

in already ment Broadway's famous Most that on the pictures."

made their own friends, and go Shubert-alley. to private dinner partien away Dressed in a black'suit, with Since then new party from Broadway because, say a white orchid, she entertained new people to meet the ballet girls, "it is like living 100 newomen at a special lun- In a fairground with all those choon (B paid by Mr Bank). "I'm here to work," she said. lights and noise."

"I spend throo hours sday practising ballet because. I du not want stiff muscles. Some- times there is a rehearsal 100, "Most of us don't do much shopping because we are send- ing part of our salary home.

The likeliest cause is some change in the activity of the sun," he told me." Perhaps more and ultra-violet Ught is being pro- every night.

rturl.

This might affect the upper atmosphere and so make

"Sometimes we have had the climate warmer. If we muc-night-time excursions to the ceed in finding the cause we may top of the Empire State city

Bouquets

case

of Moirn With her trun- "We go to

be able to make some estimate building to дев the who believed the world's climate of how long the warming process glittering a thousand feet T Shearer.

ed. Now orthodox meteorologists

admii was stable

that Alti- mann's arguments can no longer be denied,

will go on."

The Swedish

makea KA dance Only in New York

the celebrities."

below," says one ballerina, quit smile, she says: experts stress "We've had wonderful food, the Stork Club Instead to see that they cannot be certain that which

warming-up process will continue much longer. But they better. point out that the last time the can you live like this." glaciers retreated-carly in the 18th century-It was 100 years before they returned.

The possibility

the thal warm- loving crops like maize may be grown in Britain on a big scale, as barley is now being grown in leeland following the warm-up. is being discussed by agricultur-

alists.

A Freak

THE views of those elderly folk who, in spite of official deni- als, have persistently pointedl that winters were much colder when they were young are completely vindicated.

ادان

Hard winters are delinitely much less frequent than they were," says Ahlmann. **The 1940-7 winter was freak out- side the general climate trend. It happened to be the coldest re- corded in Britain, but it was easily the warmest ever known in Greenland."

-(London Express Service)

From receptions at New York's sombre public library gatherings nt Park-

to

SITTING

A fish tried to commit suicide by hurling itself out of a Berkshire river into the lap of a little girl.

A news item reports that herring shoals which left British waters during the herring 8ca8071 in August are still reluctant to come back,

7 Brst witness to the truth of these statements la a famous Arctic explorer and the acknow-

As witness No. 2 I call breezy ledged top authority on glaciers ... 00 - year

old PROFESSOR DR. HO EKLUND, of the Swe-

tock dish Forest HANG AHLMANN, of Stock-

Research Institute. holm University. He was stand- By means of an ingenious elec ing on the skin of a polar bear, teleal machine he has collected overlooked by the long-tusked information about the growth of head of a walrus, when I arrived pine trees which strongly sup-ngh

at his research Institute.

As evidence of his claim that

poria Ahlmann's evidenze.

*

ON

FENCE

by NATHANIEL CUBBINS

The bouquets piled in Moira's that she dressing-room confirm herself is a celebrity.

teyn has

Prima ballerina Margot Fon- been a tremendous success, but the letters and re-

THE

And there is no time.”

Before they leave New York for Washington they will be given a party by the British

Bir Francia Consul-General, Evans. In

the Washington British Ambassador is already planning one of his own to wel- come them at the Embassy.

"No, none of the girls has got engaged here ret," said Mis Grace Hill, ballet secretary. who was busy typing in one of the theatre dressing rooms wouldn't be surprited if some- thing like that happened soon. They are all having such a wonderful time. "But," she added wistfully, "from

my

If you can believe anything point of view it is just a lot of

at all about the other side of work." the Iron Curtain, a

commissar

of culture in provincial Russia has Informed Russian posts that in future their poems must have meaning for all, not a few.

Each poem should give some facts about Russia'a struggle.

Battle of Britain except in their oren imagination. In fact, they I offer the fool a stanza from

"Barrack Kipling's Ballads."

never took part all."

in the war at

A Right wing herring said; must be clear to any

"They're lazy and full of scif but the most practical pity. They talk endlessly about minded moron that the know, never took place."

their war effort which, so far as which attempted the

reverse of

been reading the

drowning itself Army of today

no

According to a report at least 100 men in every new Army You have only to read draft can read and write Cripps on devaluation, or better than a child of Ave. Cripps on the increased cost

I saw this machine in action. had something queer is happening to From a silver of wood, bored out papers. Europe's climate, Ahlmann of a living ping, it determines pointed the well-chewed stem of the tree's age by counting the his corn-cob pipe to the still leaf- umber of annual growth rings. Then by measuring the width of leden trees outside his window.

the rings if "Those leaves would normally records what have fallen more than a month the rate of ngo," he said. "But this year's growth phenomenal autumn Is nothing been during to what has been happening every year of further north.

the tree's life

year on

"My assistant scientists live for five months every the Stor glacier high in the Lap- Jand mountains. Their measure- ments prove that its ice has been melting much faster in summer

Says Eklund

in

general the milder the year th 4 thicker i

when

Room

"Soilder, soldier come from

the spare,

"I'll up and tend to my true

love,"

***E's lying on the dead with a bullet through 'is 'cad, "So you'd best go look for s

new love."

Here, in a few lines, are the brutal arts, Leally presented, together with some sound nd vice.

An I don't want any letters recruits

Bloomsbury were ob- with

postmarks served Iearning to read telling me W's not poetry.

Read-

of living, or Cripps on the IX hefty possibility of higher taxes

Fable

n

N Eagle and a Bear AN

-{London Express Service)

A Gangster Takes To Spaghetti

CHARLES

Rome "LUCKY!" LUCIANO, the former American gangster, is opening

a spaghetti factory in Palermo, Sicily.

tils

he

He is embarking on enterprise to full a deep yearn ing for respectibility—so is telling the world.

"Lucky"

to was deported Italy in 1947 after serving nlue- years of a 30-year sentenco in

Sing

Sing.

and your hand reaches out Chapter I of the Army automatically for the bottle ing Book, which then began:-

At his trial it was stated ho of poison you bought as a I am д soldier. Som is

made £2,400,000 a year out of soldier. weed killer.

Sam is my pal.”

were drug peddling, white slavery, onco friends, but quar-"protection.", and other crimes. When they know more about relled Inter. The Eagle dis-

Glittering belt life in the Army, Chapter I. covered a large stone and, would make more sense if it hovering over the Bear, caldo belt glittering with his name- When he landed here wearing "Look, wise guy, I could drop in

diamonds, police officials and kill

complained: "It Italy had not. lost the

war, wo should never The Bear kept quiet, search-have allowed Luciano into the ing for an even

bigger stone, country" while the Engle, feeling safe But the ex-racketeer was from hatta gorged itself on born in Sicily 53 years ago. His

not concerned with such

growth-ring produced. So

Argue, if you like, that fish were rewritten every week. find Wo

that a wide arc than

it has formed in winter, growth-ring is put on during a matters, even if they do read The glacier has lost nearly 40

particular

by year

several about them. feet in thickness and 300 yards sample trees growing in a forest of length.

we can infer that the weather In that year was mild.

"IN

The Glaciors

years."

After the 1st week: I am a soldier. Sam is soldier. Sam stole my Blanco. then Sam is not my pai 2nd week:

this

on your head

you,"

a

Is

a

good living.

I

father, An

honest carpenter,

when.

emigrated to America fed and "Lucky" was ten years old.

But every now and they peep out of the water and aco harassed, unhappy faces of

om. a soldier, Sam over-taxed British, and soldier. Sam stole my razor.

hate Soni

3rd week:

me: "I would un soldier.

Sam is a freo

to go to London, although.. and said to the Eagle. I know they think I'm bad soldier. Sam has stolen every- "Look, I could drop this on there, and I bave promised my thing

but my rific. socked Sam.

aro

the

4th week:

When it was full drowsy the Bear found a big-

alone, climbed

a nearbylikky

fold

I have your head and kill you, wise friends I shall have a drink:

guy,"

"Our records show there has the been a more or lets progressive the sensitive

ones take tho TN Iceland melting glaciers are increase in the thickness of the coward's way out while tho

minds during recentį balance of their exposing land that has been rings laid down

disturbed. covered with ice for 600 years, So much ice has disappeared in

Forest surveys in Northern Greenland that the whole land- Sweden have revealed that land scape has changed. Excavations in the newly thawed earth there which was bare 15 years ago is

now being Invaded by birch and ISA

ISAPPEARANCE of have revealed wonderfully pre- willowa Trees are spreading herring shoals is explained that they have gone to America to tell New York reporters that we're What has caused all these finished. the man who is doing most to Communist herrling said: changes? I put this question to Interviewed, a freshly caught ONLY in Russia

or in, ox- And foxes don't eat grapes. Nazi Germany would on either. And the answer-PROFESSOR "They're Hlaing in a fabulous ignorant commissar or gauicl- "The water formed from all CARL-GUSTAF ROSSBY, the past which nobody believes but ler have the nerve to tell poets this melting fee has raised the lending Swedish meteorologist. themselves. There never was a how to write poetry,

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YEP---IT'S TRUE

I am a soldier, Sam is not n soldier. Sam is a basket.

Get the

facts

*

**

*

trees,

All right. All right. Bears don't climb don't they?

So what?

-{London Express Service)

By Ernie Bushmiller

BALD SPOTS!

with them in New York on New Year's

Eve

He has hired an agent to con vinco

the Italians he is "a good guy," sent

to prison only bo cauze "a Judge told Lies,

"Now I want to live in peace,: and make spaghetti," he says.

Michael Stern

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