1949-11-10 — Page 4

QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

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“AIR FRESHED

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2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.

TAKE ME, darling, to see that happy.

fun-loving, Technicolor musical!

SAGAR) eseting,sprzarsex, TECHNICOLOR Dyr arfinal! ! FRANK ESTHER GENE SINATRA WILLIAMS" KELLY

TAKE ME Out To The Ball Game

BETTY FARRE

ADDED!

New Technicolor Cartoon

SHOWING

"LITTLE "TINKER"

Af 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1949.

WILSON

SAMPLES

SAMPLES

A STREETCAR NAMED DETERMINATION

Worje Doyright. By arrangement with Evening Signgara,

TODAY KING'S FOOD NO ONE

BAGING WITH THE VIOLENT

AIR-CONDITIONED.

TEATUMBUA VICTOREN LIENKIA,

GLENN FORD WILLIAM HOLDEN

PASSIONS The Man from

Colorado

OF A WILD FRONTIERI

NEXT

HUA DREW

Ray Collins - Edgar Buchanan

Jerome Courtland • James Modicam

TECHNICOLOR

P.M.

But & imkon and dan stena - Chested by ROSET LIYE · Podvind by JULES SCHERMES

BUD ABBOTT & LOU COSTELLO

CHANCE

MEET FRANKENSTEIN

A Universal-International Picture

WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE

ROXY

Perfectly Air-Conditioned

CAUSEWAY BAY Tal, 28626. "TOWN BOOKING OFFICE, 9 QUEEN 18A, Comme

Krept Kynsaya

For herself alone

she must answer for what she was and did!.

FINAL

SHOWING TO-DAY

BUY IS PILING

ATCHISON (Kansas).

HAVE

'I HAVE SEEN TONS OF EGGS, just stepped

(£17,867,143)

CAN UP!

No. 1 GLAMOUR HOTEL GETS A NEW BOSS

His father once ran pull-up for carmen

NEW YORK.

ONRAD HILTON, a bluff, friendly man who learned how to be an innkeeper in his father's five-room_pull-up for carmen, has bought control of New York's 47-storey Waldorf- Astoria. It is the world's largest and most. glamorised hotel-there is, for instance, a single red rose in a silver vase on every breakfast tray.

Hilton already has 12 Its 31 fta travel 250,000 miles hotels.

in a year. There are 12,000 water taps in the hotel, including those for feed water. There are

The Waldorf Astoria (built in 1981. for £7,000,- 2,700 telephone lines.

cellar

alone.

Bro

34

000) and the land on which Hilton now owns the world's it stands are owned by two largest carpet (12,600,000 knots),

which

His railways whose lines pass which covers the lobby.

(five storeys up). under the building.

contains 40 different brands af Seven years ago Hilton was Scotch

There walking along Park-avenue and bartenders and cooks. said to himself: "It would sure There in a ballroom where be a great thing to have that 2,000 people may dine, dance, Every expert he has got is

hotel."

listen to a political speech, working on it. They laughed Now he has bought control watch a performance from a few months ago when it was of the corporation which runs fully-equipped stage.

that the United the hotel under States should sell its surpluses £542,000-a-year lease pounds sterling [** for from the railways. frages anil tire, That is now erkunly considered,

out of 60,000,000 del MILK, AND DRIED FRUITS sted

BULGING THE KANSAS CAVES' for

lars

worth of food that no one

can eat. It Is buried in the ground, Some of it has been there for 16 months.

Britain cannot have it be-

by

CAUSE she hasn't got the frigerated

money

right coloured green-backed dollars.

We in America have it-because us who have gol money have

138

VINCENT EVANS

stored. You walk been

Hind stacking up on the fanns

Iraz

Until now sales for non-cum-

vertible currencies have been banned, But on June 30 last the scetion of the Surplus War

Act Property

governing such sules went out of force. Some of his legal experts now tell Mr Brannon he can sell for ster Jing. Some say he cannot.

He's

cautious

OF

The lease runs until 1035 and 14 renew- able then until 1077.

£1 million

He did it by buy- ing up nearly 250,000 shares or 60 percent. uf the outstanding common stock in the corporation, at around

£4 a

The share. whole place is valued today at £17,000,000.

this

MEIGHT OF

[ST. PROL'S

WALDORF-ASTORJA -and superimposed St. Paul.

ot

Chief sellers in the

£1,000,000 deal were

mililonaire Duncan Harris

estate

..an

agent. and John Weeks, A Wall-street

broker.

"There Wes

no

special purpose in my buying the Wal-

dorf-Astoria,” Hilton

Mr

"oxcept

that I

had

back in 1042,"

The hotel in its

million meals a year

air.

There is nearly 10,000,00011 of butter enrend 2,814 steps forward.

pround Kansas City. There La Every step you take you cheems lant poultry, and fruit, pass a pile of four casks of

Out in the Kansas prairies be- UT whent ond corn are cannot food. And there are dozens

The those of of alleyways splitting away

Government hur bought it by

can supply any dell- enough from the main path. Each ***

of millions of bushela, and

from cacy

English got too much one of them is stacked 14ft. is now frantically looking round

Dover sole to bird's with food already; and those of high

fond-66,000,- for anyone who' will give the

What does he get

nest soup from China, for his money, althiest man that he is willing BRANNAN has told people

The Waldorf has who have not got the 000lb. of it.

in the United States who hold to buy For us land is be.

man who used to

its own privato money cannot afford it.

Bland, genial, white zing to drip with food

surpluses that they can go out

drum up business for

driveway underneath for fln them

its main floor. There Poor,

father's 63.-0- Mr

harassed Delbert Case

Agricultural and barter In the midst of this eco- haired

rubber

six restaurants, including or night in by meeting the mid- are over it Set-lary Brannant 11a Govern- manganere nomic madness of buried standa guardian

night trains riven him instruc- bauxite,

nt San Antonio, one with a moving roof He is also willing al- HOMEA treasure of eggs, fruit, and 20,000,000lb. of dried egg tens that when the price of any most to give away come of the

And it is the Waldorf'a boast New Mexico? of dried fans connolly falls below a

One of his dining rooms is do that any order from table or milk lies mocking a hungry 40,000,000-odil ib.

turpluses which are clutteringcorated with English panels room is sent up within seven raisins, and certain figure he must make up fruit-prunes,

up his storage space.

brought from Basildon Park minutes. others and few million b. the difference to the farmer.

18th-century Berkshire mansion. The fumover? Every So Secretary Brannan watches of dried milk and oddments the market tekers day by day.

Mr Brannon La Biso A

The dearest suite costs £32 a the hotel docs around £6,000,- It is the biggest cold stor- When prices

the cautious man. drop below

Next door today. But you can squeeze into 000 worth of business. specified levels, he sends age depot in the world.

out Mr Coso's caves are another 25 single room at £3 a day.

The place

There are 54,000 streets, 30,000 In one year uses fare up the neres of limestone caves People buyers and they Mr Case is worried.

and tablecloths 40,000 napkins, 30,000 They enough steam for heating on surplures, while he walls, hop- would hold 100 to gamble

million lb. of cooking to heat

oversize ал ordinary face towels and 7,000 which a Negro miner, Abe are beginning

house for 800 years, enough elec. blankets in constant use. Kerford, hewed into a hill- trese vast surpluses of unwant. ing that he is going to be able

United to get his money back. ed food

tricity to light a six-room house

There are few losses. **The of for

At 2.30, 5.30, world.

7.30 & 9.30

p.m.

DANA ANDREWS MAUREEN OHARA

BRITAINNIA MEWS

20 JEAN KECULESCO WILLIAM FERLBERG

THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND

4 SHOWS

TO-DAY

LIBERTY

In the hillside

THE burial ground is a 17-

limestone

of

acre

спус

Down at

which

the

Dains In

Texno

mat has

Expenses, too

side bluff. It looks down Stutes is building up. Jover the winding Missouri

River at an out-of-the-way there is another man who has

iq watching the whistle stop

on the route set up a cold storage, which, he TODAY ho

bigger than Mr ticker coming 11

from the Atchison, Topeka, 89, is even

Chicago because it Looks and Santa Fe Railroad.

though. within ጾ couple of months, Brannan is going to have to buy pork in pretty big slap It into quantities, and storage.

on

Case's cave.

You pull an electric cable Price problem

the hillside and ваз "Dollar" instead of "Open B

PACK in Kansas City I have been taken through ware- Sesame." Doors swing open houses whero food which and let out a blast of re- Government hos bought

the has

"Queen" Ruth Gets The Cold Shoulder

WH

Every time he buys in a farmi commodity he is bound to lose. Talte dried eggs. The Govern ment set the price level at 1.30 Ib. 109.) per dollars (neatly

market dropped.

The

And

food.

Mr Brannan is thinking buying them.

-(London Express Service)

year

6,000 years, and enough water to make a 6ft.-deep lake, Waldort does not have that kind

of guest." half a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide.

(London Express Service).

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

NEW YORK. NE OF New York's livest wires, 35-year-old Robert Brannan has had to buy 80.00 Whitney plans to teach Britain the fine art of Amercian salen- manship.

000!.

PINION:

"The

every

way for a FAMILY: Only one American Be Politician to be elected in six to extremely happy," and nist George Dixon, "is to promise a family relations report. And more austerity. He says, 'Vole out of every 20 is "quite happy." It also disclosed that one couple for me and make you wish Whitney, who has sold almost you'd never been born,' and all on which Mr Delbert Case everything from cocktall glasses the misery-loving Limeys shout,

Even on the economic

basis

RIME: Police are hunting New

York for a gang of safe crackers preying upon charl- Lies. Recent victims have been the Visiting Nurses' Associa- ilon, Girl Guidea' Council, a President Truman,

slum mission, for fore branch of the hos

and the local a good

record

National Foune- casts: "I tell you we are right

BUSINESS: Prediction

U.S. team will visit in February to tell Britons what they do wrong.

from

who

PRETORIA. Only public appearance they his crccllent cave.storage here. I to magazines, has a scheme to

mehna 2,000,000 dollars swap British and US. teams of That's our man."" WHITE women-traders' make is when they go shopping. It

(£714,286) outlay for equip salesmen. He prefers to call wives in Palapye Road They are served with strictment, and 150,000 dollars (EBS-them sales executives. and Serowe, tribal capital politeness.

First 571) a year for running ex- of Bechuanaland—are giving

penses added on to the purchase Britain London typist Ruth Khama

price. the cold shoulder.

First British team to find out on the verge of two most pros- dation for Infantile Paralysis. That sort of expense is run-what to do right will come to perous years."

the U.S. in the spring. ning up all over the country.

And what L Mr Branaan

Europeans only

་་

Now and then they go to the Palabye Road Hobel to see a

L

Ruth recently sent out invita- Alm. tions to a parly at Palapye

The show is for Europeans Nond Hotel, but because, her husband, Seretse Khama, Chief only, but Seretse is allowed there getting for his dried egg07 Hair 1.30, 7.30 & Designate of the Hamingwato because of his position in the the market price for a few

At 2.30,

0.80 p.m

TMEN

DENNIS O'KEEFE

(MARY MLADE : ALFRED RYDER

WALLY FORD - JUNE LOCKHART.

· CHARLES MIGIAW

PAPA KABREY ACHENCK- Led by ANTHONT MANN Kymen de 10442C RIGGINS Sugamind by a story by Vinnusta Källtor

AN REWARD SHALL Product Wed.

tribe, was said to be coming too, tribe, not one European--except those who have befriended herre- plied.

and the remaining bulk left on Ruth is usually introduced to his hands some of the women, but many

of the men avoid meeting ker.

Sterling sales?

CHOW BUSINESS: The Gov-.

emment British

attempt to stop In his plush, Gothic ofee, Mr ADVERTISEMENT:

the radio's £20,000 give-away- showed enterprise

up in

may the advertisement

shows

· if the columns of

succeed, Whitney told me:-

"British workers are good. But the 100-page New York news- But, by then, there may be no courts allow it. by about 1952. methods

papers, British salesmanship

An Oxford-street firm more of these "something for need tightening up. There is offered

by direct mail cu nothing" shows. plenty of room.in the American mero sweatern for three market.

Products which could guindas

The pubile is tired of them, each (average New have much larger sales here are York price, five guineas).

and is being more successful cutlery, liquor, woollens, shoes,

than the Government in per- The general feeling is that

"Bo your own importer and suading radio to drop them.. No what is Mr Brannan lo-pipes, leather goods, cars, and Sercise will not last and Tshing? If he does nothing

loys.

Savo up to 37 percent..

new sald The people's

top pro kedi, his uncle, who has left

"When it comes to selling In the firm.

ference-Hour-long plays. It told New Yorkers Ruth and Seretse are entirely the territory, will return to the nice old Mr. Case's engineering this country, the averaga British how to measure themselves, dependent on the local mis- chleftainship..!

gonius will have been thrown manufacturer is likely to think and provided an order coupon PALLOT NOT BULLET is alonary, Mrs Tom Shaw, a

Socially, Ruth is paying a down the drain and millions or in terms of metropolitan markets for them to send with their dol the way to gain storekeeper, her son, and Mr and

only and to bellëve that 10,000 lar cheques, Final word: zays Eleanor Roosevelt in p Alan Bradshaw for their heavy price for her love,

dollars worth of food will

60 dollara (£3,570) is a large bud- "Your postman will collect the plea to Communists to avoid. "outside entertaining."

--(London Express. Service) with it.

get for à solling campaign." duty,"

any kind of violence.

The party was cancelled.

Mon avoid hor

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