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KING'S LIBERTY

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 17, 1949.

"MASTER

NIU-NIU"

•

Storring CHING YIH SHENG YANG

WEI YUH PING

A STORY OF MOTHERHOOD PINCHED TO THE

HEARTS OF EVERY HUMAN BEING

A CHINESE PIcture in manDARIN DIALOGUE.

TO-DAY at 9.30 P.M. ONLY

AT KING'S THEATRE

THE

ACTION, ROMANCE, THRILLS AS DEPICTED

IN THE CREATEST OF PORTUGUESE

FILMS

CAMOENS"

Antonio VILAR as

Camoons

Seo NATERCIA Camoons' dream love Leonor, what unrequited love does, Soo BEATRIZ da Silva in hoto

ORIENTAL

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Take Any Eastern Trom Car or Happy Valley Dus

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.157.20 & 9.20 P.M. RETURNING ENGAGEMENT BY PUBLIC REQUEST!

Technicolor MIRACLE

OF ENTERTAINMENT I

COLUMBIA PICTURES prezenti

ATHOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

KEYES - SILVERS - TEABEKS

CORNEL WILDE

"WHY SHOULD I HELP? A FELLOW'S GOT TO THINK OF HIMSELF"

'FOR THE SERVICES

NEWS FROM HOME

THEY'RE ALL BACK:

IT

in 35 years since the int Battery Warwickshire Royal Horse Artillery frat went over- This has been commem- morated by a re-unton dinner of members of the Battery

peas.

Warwick.

ARCHERS BEAT COLFERS:

A Preliminary "fact-finding"

test has been held as prelude to a serious match be- tween local golters and archers over the Bexhill Golf Course. The test was won by the draw ot a bow. in the coming

maich between teams of nine, the bowmen will lose a stroke if an arrow

World Copyright, ↑ Dy errangement with Evening Standard.

Yes, Mr. Schulberg, I like the films of

your era

M

PARIS.

Y sympathics are with Mr B. P. Schulberg, Holly- wood pioneer, ex-boss (at £200,000 a year) of Paramount Studios-the man who, at 57, now can't get a job in Alms.

♫

Just how big a dept we owe these "old sweats" in the movie ganne was arummed home to me once more as, in

tiny Paris cinema, I saw again an old, old film. And solemnly I now declare it to be one of the best of its kind ever made.

"Gunga 1938.

Title: lands in a bunker, tree

A target 10 in, by 4|Vintage: or hedge. in. on the green will represent.

hole, and

fall arrow must A within one bow's length to count a BOOTY,

from

by R. M. Ma¤COLL

B. P. SCHULBERG

now.

80

SITTING ON THE FENCE

by... NATHANIEL GUBBINS

THE best news of recent weeks is the official decision. to extend the Christmas holidays one day.

Another day at Christmas,

Another day of rest; Another day of Jollity

To cheer the parting guest; Another day of laughter

At funny uncle's gags, Another day to shout-hoorny

And share your Christing

La

Ariother day for turkey,

Hla bones so white and bare; Another 'day carve him uUD

Till all that's left Ia hole; Another day for Christmas

cako

And funny paper caps, Another day for charity

And more good will

perhaps.

AP

Add water

PART from big business and bubble gum, New York la known chiefly to the outside world as a place where women are kept as peta.

Gadgets do all their household work. Up till now nothing but n tin-opener and an electric stove were required to produce a meal,

ER

A report from New York says that even the tin-opener is out

Dehydrated

vegetables and

Black Watch from marching headlong into an ambush.

Comedy? A pleasant scene of date. where McLaglen

clo- puta phant medicine into the punch- bowl at the sergeants' dance, soups are bought in envelopes, meaning to eliminate Rrival,

sauces in cubes, chipped beef in the insufferable Higginbotham.

All the hostes And

Hittle packels. then, of course, should drop in to watch the needs are a few cups of water proceedings and ask for a drink and a hot oven.

but the colonell

who

"This," says the report, "gives for some minor act of insubor- her more time to entertain her

And when Grant is guoled

dination, the answer is simple

ed

quests with thoughtful conver-

*

It certainly does. Like this:--- "Oh. darling, what do you think of the world situation?”

[After Sir Henry Newbolt]

Drake he's in his swivel chair

a thousand miles atoay (Capten art the typin there

below?)

Stung atween the memos and

the filing cabinaya

An dreamin orl the time" of

Plymouth Hoe; Yarder

tooth the Island, we're a-goin on the racke And you're a-fillin forma in

down below.

The shore lights are flashin an

the night tide dashin, But you cannot see en plainly da you saw em long ago.

Drake he was a Devon man -

and ruled the Devon scas. (Capten art the tritin there

below?)

A-pushin of a pen along and

takin of your case nstead of steerin straight for

Plymouth Hoc.

Throw them papers overboard,

chuck em in the wes, Stuff em in the locker doin

below.

If the tax men walt in Devon, then we'll send 'em all to heaven

And drown em in the Channel as we drowned em long ago.

In the train

❝TELL, what are they saying

in Fleet-street?” "About what?" "Black Monday, of What's going to happen?"

"No idea."

"Get along with you.

course.

You Flent-street boys know all about it. Fewer cigarettes, I suppose?”

"I don't know,"

"They

ration.

cut the basic petrol

if you ask me.”

"I didn't ask you."

"And whom something on the purchase tax. I wouldn't be star- prised if there wasn't compulsory saving."

"Wouldn't you?"

"Just like Russla." "Yes."

"Then they'll pinch your Post Ofee savings."

"I haven't any."

"They did it lost time they

were in power, didn't they?"

HT

don't remember.”

"That'll make the "My dear, what do YOU

working think?"

man sit up. His own Govern-

What's the country,

"Oh well, what with these ment, too. Chinese going Communist and coming to, that's what I want jo the British always complaining know. about something, I just don't

"Do know what to think."

"No, that's what I always say, You just don't know what to think."

you?"

Tax, tax, tex. And they talk about patriotiem."

"Do they?"

---get Flossto the elephant One heave from Flossie and the sation on the affairs of the day." gael crumbles to dust...

Pathos?

All stops are pull- out when Colonel Love Folloquises over

Din's corpsc. Din." The sergeanta three were They even bring Kipling in on played by none other than our the ach, a amali, imicker- old friends I

Victor McLaglen, bockered figure, am something

of an the

wearing П former British

heavy golfing cap.

Ho raises his cap amateur authority about weight boxer, Cary Grant, reverently at the sight of the films. I started going at Bristol's kin to Hollywood, Din remains. the age of four, and I have and Douglas Fairbanks jun

Better man ... | MUCKY-LANE:

The three were at the top devoured celluloid at the of their form. And all were JUST let me see that stuff

J two or three ban- ten years JUDDERSFIELD Council were rate of

younger than they you were writing again, Mr I faced with the matter ofiqueta a week ever since.

(Who isn't?) So Journalist," mys Love hoarse- pathway

broczy, repairing the

nonchalant,

17. Kipling

honde over his Catterson to Hall Bower on the I've seen them all, good completely incredible,

copy. Love Intones a couple outskirts of the town when and awful. I .aw the great

of verses of the "you're a bet- Whenever they left or cn- ter

"Then there's this Tito always someone suggested it was time films of the carly Italian tered the

man than I am" material. causing trouble. Is he a Japanese British cantonments "Not bad at in India, several companies of simply, handing it back.

be says or something, dear?” "Quo Vadis?" and whelming reply was that the school.

"Tito sounds like a Japanese the Black Watch, apparently pathway had for ages been "Cabiria.**

They make Din a posthumous name." in full dress uniform,

turned known na Mucky-Lano and was

farm ove corporal. And then, fadaye, the hex defeated them who was steal the only real 1

We're remember bursting out to present likely to continue to be 50 with

those Scotties," murmurs Cary laughter over the known for many more genera-antice of a French comedian

ing over the battlefeld, wear- and then they cause trouble." to Doug,

ing full-dress uniform, salut- But up North, the Thugs are ing snappily, and then pointing place there's trouble some place "If there isn't trouble in some called Max Linder when running wild, Worshipping down at

corporal's else. You just don't know what Chaplin WES

The evil goddess Kali, still an un-

the stripes» • Thugs are led by their weird

to think." known youngster in Lon emperor, played by Edouardo wards into the night, lost in niner, dear?"

The children emerged after- Another cocktail before din- of 7.000 pelple watched the don's East End variety.

] Cuccianeill

happy daze. "Gee, those Bri- Isle of Thanet ploughing match recall with

"Thanks, dear. As I say, you Ush worn terrific guys," said just didn't know what to think.” my son.

to change the name. The over-

tiona

LAND GIRL'S WIN:

FARROW

... A record crowd

affection Bul and 30-year-old Land Girl Hart, Fatty Arbuckle, and Doris Scoft win four prizes and Mr and Mrs John Bunny. beat 12 ploughmen in OTLO tractor class.

Commencing To-morrow; "Mr. Peabody & The Mermaid" | BIG MONEY BOYS:

SHOWING MAJESTIC

TO-DAY

SPECIAL TIMES:

SHOWING TO-DAY

at

AT 2.15, 4.45., 7.15 & 9.40 P.M.

THE DEATHLESS DRAMA

OF THOSE FEARLESS FEW ...WHO DREW THE MAP OF AMERICA ACROSS THE WILDERNESS ... IN LINES OF THEIR OWN BLOOD

GARY

GOOPER GODDARD'

(cil B. DeMdles.

UNCONQUERED

Calor by TECHNICOLOR,

HOWANO DA SILVA - BORIS KARLOFF - CECIL KELLAWAY - WARD BOND

HELD OVER

TO-DAY

Cathay

are äfter

back

crop

A snake pit

So bond a respectful ear, built-in snake-pit

THE Thug Emperor has

all

his

If someone hasn't already

you

"Last resort of the blackguard, isn't it?)||

"Who it said

Hotime nf Commons was Chuy Fawkes?"

"I don't know."

"As for Cripps, I wouldn't trust him. Never trust a vege- tarian, would you?”

"I don't know any."

"Look at Hitler.

1

Munching

A revived this one in Britain Drake's typewriter little takes. Look at Mussolini

(no, a ought to be done, quickly.

Hokum?

in ACCORDING to the news oca

this British,

if you please, when I say real one, crammed with rear-

Yes--but entranc- that this "Gunga Din" is ing cobras, as opposed to some- ing entertainment.

dreary thing top of the

And near the

and psychiatric

who collaborated THE children of Lincolnshire UP THE

which we got for our one and writing the script for villages

You pile.

see. I have a nines these sad days). again.

And, abre-rattling, pro + most very simple rule about of course, he falls into it him- Rudyardesque romp? school lucrative three weeks geb ing movies. They must MOVE, self towards the end.

Ben Hecht the potato

But before that happens→→ I want action, and this film fore the frosts set

One in.

what action! The Thugs sack

-(London Express Service) hundred youngsters from the is about as busy as a one- and burn a town. Hundreds, Market Rasen Modern School armed paperhanger suf- are wantonly killed, including earned over 21,000 between fering from nettle-rash. the outnumbered British gar- them. Tony Perkins and Robin Richardson cach

Anyway, my carned £1. 10a. Some of the children aged earned 10s, a day plecework; wanted others from 1s.. 1d. to 2s. 6d. an

hour.

"SHAMBLES" TEST:

A

captains have so many forms to fill in that they are unable to

full A've their

attention 10 navigation unless the shipping

them with companies supply secretaries.

Sucking oranges. Look at Cripps. Chewing raw carrols. I tell you, it's going to be worse than you think."

"Is It?"

"Good morning." "Good morning."

-{London Express Service)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

rison. When this intelligence children, is conveyed two

to the colonel at 13 and 12, said they headquarters (Montagu Low!), alm where he strokes his chin thoughtful- "Gunga Din" at a small cinema Fon't English was spoken. I spotted ly. "Hmm," he observes,

quite Bils the look of that specialises in revivals, things." over in Montparnasse.

Thero is a classle rough-and-

NEW YORK of the tax-evading customers to `ing counties, with a total popula. fumble over the rooftops with

BOOTLEGGING IS BACK. the States in which they live. Fairbanks,

tion of something like 13,000,000. McLaglen,

and Not liquor

this time, but Most of these States plan to Grant paragons of ju-jitsu.

send in bills for all the lost taxes. TT was an evening of sheer boxing, and La Savate,

with cigarettes,

In the ever-widening search on

for new income, 38 of the 48 States have at heavy Is

Enles taxes on cigarettes.

But 'eight of the other ten do

lorry load of rubbish arrives Dad, what is...?”

at Wraxall Court, stately

country house near Bristol. The

men who bring it carry it care- Joy. Although, come to some hand-grenade tossing fully into one of the huge rooms think of it, perhaps our neigh the side, and then deliberately throw 15

15 bourg in the nearby seats And, all around. It means more didn't think so. candidates are soon to be select- My children, excited

of course, there Gungo Din himself. Unfor- didn't see on the and tunately, I

R

› ELIGION:—Sald Prezident But they have to get the Lists Truman, an the radio: first. The firms are refusing to "Every problem in the world turn them over. They argue It is could be solved If men would against the Constituilon, which only live by the principles of the bans tariff walls, between one ancient prophets and the Sermon

on the Mount."

State and another.

ed for Bristol University's one- absorbed, kont asking things credit list who played him. not tax them at all and a chain

ot year course for would-be youth Uke "Dad, what is the British He turna In a perfect per- operators is very busy indeed Leaders. Each candidate is told Raj" (They have been over formance as the sad tile In-selling cut-rate smoker by post in turn: "You have been lent a from "

- America only.

six dian water-boy who longed to

DENSUS They It lias become such a big busi-

are making LIDUCATION: So many young- derellet garage. How quickly can months.) Ever try giving a be a soldier like the others, ness that the 38 States estimate sure that next year's census sters org

going to "the" you make it fit for dancing and thumb-nall explanation of the and finally gets kliled while they are losing up to £7,000,000 will show that New York has universities these days that: Hor- games?"" The "shambles" test, as BR.In whispers in a crowded

standing utop the Thugs a year taxca.

outstripped London for the title vard Professor Seymour Harris It is known, ́ lá only one of cinema? Try to avoid. this Golden

Temple heroically So Washington has Just of the world's largest city. For warned recently that soon do the hurdles that candidates have exercise, if you can..

sounding the alarm on a bugiò, brought in a new law. All direct="centus' purposes, the term-Now grees, will cease to be a job-get- Just in time to prevent the post finna must now supply lists York will include 17 neighbour-: Ung asset.

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It was fabulous.

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