1950-03-22 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1950.

QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. A Truly Great Young Love Story of Our Timo!

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JAMES STEWART JUNE ALLYSON

M-G-M

GREAT

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FRANK MORGAN

A TRUE LOVE SYDAY TO

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Final Showing To-day: 2.30-5.30—7.30 & 9,30 P.M. With All The Most Terrific Thrills Ever Filmedl

THE TEN MOST TERRIFIC

THRILLS EVER PICTURED!

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Juhn Ford and Merion C. Cooper Krcadal

"Mr. Joseph Young of Africa"

The Strange Story of a Girl and a Gorilla

TERRY MOORE BEN: JOHNSON

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Commencing To-morrow: "CROSS ROAD"

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The pagan queen who bathed in famel

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SHOWING TO-MORROW

MERIAN C COOPER

PROSECTION

"Chicken Every Sunday" A 20th Century Fox Comedy

Sunday (26th March) Morning Show at 12 Noon

"Terrytoon Technicolor Cartoons, Etc."

A Variety Programme from 20th Century Fox Bring The Children! Bring Your Friends!

4

SHOWS

-TO-DAY

Cathay

Fuers

"Now I suppose on top of averything else they'll expect me to keep an eye on you."

Sitting

OT long-ago I foresaw distant future in

a

which all members of Parliament, including the Cabinet, would be dogs,

on

Fence...

by

The interest dogs are al- ready taking in politics was apparent in South Norfolk. where a doggie belonging to the wife of Christopher This will make the blager Mayhew, the Socialist can- women of the future look much didate, bil une of his worse. A few ice age will grow. staunchest supporters.

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Interviewed, the dog salt) ---- "Among other things, I must have swallowed a lot of propa- ganda, because I always thought Conservatives wore caps and mutters, or ought to.

"This fellow was 20 well- dressed I thought he was n Con- servative. So I bit him, I can only offer my apologies."

hair on their barrel cheats,

Their mastive jaws will be- come purple with frost bite, and their terrible appetites will be satisfied only with raw ment and whale blubber.

+

As we niso belleve that steam heating is unhealthy, we shall get colder and colder as the wea-

Love's Old Sweet ther gets worse and worse.

Song

When the sheer misery of existence becomes intolerable Rus- and one is feeling rather

alen, it is heartening 10 read about P nion who has been brating his wife every, evening for 18 yeLTD.

TUST & clout at twilight,

Jus

When the lights are low, In the flickering shadows

A softly thudding blow; Though the day be weary.

And the evening drear,

I shall get at twilight

Just the same thick car, Just the sa-a-ame thi-l-Lick

c-c-c-or.

Flat-irons for

beauty

**The ageing, wrinkled faces of elderly women are now being fruned out with a flat-iron," A beauty article,

M°

¡OTHER, make the Iron, Jiat.

Auntie's face has tagged

a lot.

Clearly, it's our painful duty To restore our auntie's beauty. Hurry, Alice, hurry, Mabet, Strap her on the kitchen table, Do not heed her frantic shout. Wrinkles must be troned out,

Careful, Gertrude, don't be

Tough

when Stop

enough,

auntic's ha

Steady Mary, sicody Jone,

Must you burn her nose again?

Mabel, are

It is bad enough to foreseò a future full of purple-faced wo- men ten feet high.

PAUSE a moment, tiny tot,

tread Brjore hallouted spot,

But if we 'nre also going to have......... Icebergs all round the coast, pol- or bears in the back garden, and giant women roaming the frozen wastes munching blubber sond- wiches, then roll on the next war, come what may.

Isn't

nature

wonderful?

T cannot now be very long

Bon

Do not

nanny.

this

shout to blushing

"I want to see a titled pranny.”

Or ask in whispers, thun-

derous,

"Does she cat and drink like

113?

Is she very, very old? `

Are her false teeth made of

gold?

Does she take them out at

night7

London Express Service

the

Are her whiskers OTEV

white?

Dr

Does she got her ringlets wet When bathing in her coronet?" Remember every grandmoni-

mah

Ta probably a dowagah, Or possibly a marchioness, Or just a blowsy baroness,

Child, póur curiosity

About our aristocracy,

By Peter Lovegrove

THE STILL

TORCH

Though natural and under-1

stude

Is very, very, very rude.

A dowager or marchioness Is often human... more or

less.

-(London Express Service)

BURNS

HERE is n small our difficulties. And hardly a without some -plaque ON the

un- week

statesman of either country distinguished facade stressing the unity of views and of Norfolk House, a block our common purpose, or some of offices which props up prominent figure taking a back- onc corner of London's hand swipe at the others' short- shabbily genteel St James's comings to bring certain war- Square, only nhundred me differences back to mind yards or no from busy But what of the lower levels,

the or

ordinary uniformed men Piccadilly.

and women who struck up the It records the fact that in timple, cenuine friendships?

of Most have lost General

touch. that bullding The U.S. Army Dwight 1. Inevitably, as they merged back Elsentower, the Supreme Allied into their own family circles and But Commander, formed the first formed new relationships.

sides of the At-

with a rush.

Allied Force Headquarters, and on both han rited a

planned-and-launched "Opera antic

non-

tion Turch" for the liberation of political organisation which is.

to rebuild North Africa in 1912.

the bridge. trying There,

Fellowship of US- for the first time, alcers and It is the other ranks of the British and British Comrades. first mooted' American Services worked to- in the closing stages of the war,

but which only

saw the light Kether as one team in a common

three years ago. Its patrons cause.

are Marshal of the Royal Air The torch of Anglo-American Force Viscount Tedder, General milltary co-operation that was Eisenhower, and Lieut-General

Doolitus. and it at Norfolk House spread via Jimmy

ilo

n dozen headquarters to the President is British General Sir battlefelds of three Continents. Frederick Morgan.

It was not unaccompanied by friction and pinpricks. There were clashes of opinions, tem-

perament, outlook and manners:

Modest Start

Any national

of the British

there were ample opportunities Commonwealth

sin

or the United

Force at any period

for envy and bitterness in the States who served with the widely differing pay scales and Armed

even accents fre- since Septembre 1939, or in atill

Dr But serving, proved a

who daughters and

thelr tony and over 21 years of age

the great ma who have at heart the ideal of

rubbed shoulders in offices or

leave towns, or shared the same British-American friendship, are perils of the front lines, there eligible for membership. developed

a comradeship and The

started movement unity of spirit which promised modestly, and its growing pains to remain one of the few have been many, for it is never redeeming features of the ter easy to "sell" an ideal. rible waste of war.

The Bridge

wings

have organised

Both

them-

selves in local chapters in the malo cities,

On the Briush

side. for instance, there are branches in Birmingham, Bristol, London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds

for Northumberland and one and Durham. Members also nct

correspondents In Admittedly.

have that t

Rhodesia. Northern olaque in St James's Square and

Singapore, East thers dolled about the country Town and Holland.

How much of that comrade- ship has survived, or have time, distaner and apathy extinguished d the bright hopes of 1945?

we

Egypt, Africa, Cape

to remind us of the co-operation An annual dinner in beld, the in war. In Grosvenor Square,

was

one-time casis of the U.S.A. Venue alternating between the

The first a in memorial to President two countries. Roosevelt from the people of held in the Armoury of the old U.S. Seventh respected Britain. On international levels, and there has probably never been Regiment in New York; and last venr the members met in the so much unity: In the economic Long Room of the Honourable feld America has made and is Arilllery Company at Armoury

very, House.

the

continuing to make ง

under London, generous contribution to case chairmanship of Field Marshal

M.I.5 MAN

"MY

ዩሮ

dear chap. know nbsolutely nothing about him. We Before the birds burst into don't even own him, old boy. Absolutely no. Sorry And folks become hysterikland all that." The War About the blooming daffodil. Office was adamant. The crocuses will soon be out, Then up will go a mighly

The unowned: 62-year-old Sir shout

Percy Joseph Slitoe, golf- From the lower

the loving. titular head of the cur- upper ten

rently abused M. J. 5. Ilis only And clerks and tired business address is given as Room 053,

War Office.

men:

And

"The spring has come! How

too divine!

SILLITOE

-nobody's neighbour

by JAMES LEASOR

He

and

Sitoc

were

Lord Wilson.

Other Activities

Dances have been held in both countries, one in London being memorable for a surprise item: a race between Generals Morgan and Doolittle across ths ball- room floor on miniature bicycles.

A number of visits to places of interest have been made by the members and American guesta

Lt Gen Sir Erlan

who is

antithesis of each other. Hoover, from the US Air Squadrons now colourful, flamboyant, expansive: in Britain.

Horrocks, one ---

of our leading Siloc, quiet, slow-speaking, Ho hooded-eyed. They did not rui wartime Commanders, along too easily together, The entleman Usher of the Black not Rod and the King's representa- Lives in the House of Lords, alleled three groups round the Mother of Parliaments. Other arties have seen The Times being made up in

Printing House

Fuchs story will Klaus improve things.

in the last two years, Sillitoe has toured in the Dominions.

His visits abroad have the tweedy

secrecy Buchan story.

of

Th

John there, inspected one of

in Southampton People never harbour, were taken belrind the know he is coming; only that he scenes of a W. H. Wills' tobacco

factory in Bristol,

has been.

He got his reward in 1023 when he became Chief Constable

And in England, where does In that room-which contains of Chesterfield, later of Shefeld, he Ilve? Wherever you knock, Let's walk beside the Sera "scrambler" phone for ultra- around the General Strike one someone Rays: "No, no one of

secret calls to outside men-a of Britain's loughest gang areas. that name here." pentine."

pretty girl shakes her head, "I Percy Sillitoe said it had to stop. tender know nothing about him."

With the first green,

ahoots Cometic mass production

Boots;

For every wild flower in the

Frass

Early toil

Family man

year

over

of

of H. M.

Colonel II. Carkeet-James, the

Governor Resident Tower of London, took members

our oldest Royal

palace, where they witnessed the im- pressive and colourful ceremony

the

Custic. Keys. Dover Windsor and Eton College, and Greenwich palace have all seen The £2,500,000

the Fellowship.

complex!- The Odd takes to run Sir Percy's departies of our brand of ruby were explained to American airmen International match at Twickenham. And there is to Le л Fellowship launch

** follow this year's Boat Race

close quarters. Fourteen ex-GI's were ac-

He organised flying squads, roped in policemen tougher Umn the gangstern. Defeat of the bad men was final when two were hanged for murder.

Sillitoo Bulit delight; Sheffield police band. They re- this hearsed Wagner

outside the one says when he works; with pu was cells.

whom; or where.

Tough, Atlas-shouldered Sir Percy pursed his thin lips There is some gaudy, vulgar | week D% Dr Fuchs

sentenced, rose, and melted nway.

you

dreaming?

liis jacket tightened at the

waist. Atired in appalling tasic.

Can't you hear your auntle

screaming?

Take that tron off her face. That is not its resting-place.

AT 2.30. 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

When it's

and

colder colder

A

APPEARING ON THE SCREEN FOR THE FIRST

TIME FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS STAGE PLAYI

THE

WET PAINT"

Dialogue in Mandarin

Starring Wong Yuen-so

SHOWING

TO-DAY

•

Hung Ball

Liberty

Kung Ming

SHOWING

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.30 7.30 & 9.30 P.M..

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD!

MONSIEUR

VINCENT".

The Life of St. Vincent de Paul Winner of Academy Award for Best Faraign Film, 1948. Starring: Piotra Fresnay

Ewith English Subtitles:-

SCIENTIST (they're all over the place) thinks the wen- ther in Britain will get colder and colder. Yet another thinks women will one day be 10 ft. high with barrel chests and enormous appetites. ·

NANCY

upament is put down as "the

of Central Government." No

One 401

ni

to

during

the

1948

and

more

Music-loving Sitoe moved Somewhere, somehow, though, Quite hard to do with

on and up-up north to Glasgow. he is a family man. his bulky 6ft 2in, his Guardee By 1930 the gangs were break- was an R. A. F. iller, his other bowler, his light raincoat. He ing

way in the Merchant Marine. commodated with members and started the entertained Daughter Audrey in Downing up later docs Why

In The turned

Games Nature

Sitoe became Kent's police war on a Glasgow policewoman, Olympic spring

Street to me Mr Attlee, his only chief, was knighted in 1943. and ended by marrying D Navy ambitious plans are aloot for the 1051 Festival. British Secretary Adorn and colour everything? boss.

after the war went to the War surgeon. With these exceptions,

F. K. Williams, whose office is you and me,.

Sillitoe became used to the Offee as a £3,000-a-year direc-

Once in a strangely expansive at 24 Cadogan Cardens, London, Who

dress

ourselves auro swift exit, the unexpected en-

moment, Sir Percy tald his S. W. 1.

S. W. 1. runs an emcient

depart simple credo: "If a man makes ment which includes the booking trance, 40 years ago, when he

a mistake once, you can excuse of accommodation and tickets of lived rough as a policeman under

him. But not twice."

all descriptions ns well as the South African stars.

On the Fuchs case, corne full travel service.

ciously.

On hallowed

ground

fewer

"There are no

than poven tied grandmother living in one equare mile of London,"~

tionalp-willer..

Getting the Hang of It

REMEMBER, CHILDREN

EVERYONE HAS A

DIFFERENT VIEW OF THINGS--

60 ALWAYS TRY

TO SEE THE OTHER ONE'S POINT OF VIEW

tor,

What does he direct? Mostly unti-Communist operations the Empire.

In

A club

In Washington, while discus- He toiled upwards slowly,

Ing: a Red-led revolt in Bogota, people say Sillltoe has made his house is to open at 101, Eaton

first mistake. carefully — Up

Colonial Colombin he met America's top

G-man J. Edgar Hoover. Sovice's unrewarding Indder.

the

OPOSSUM

NATURE BOOK

-London Express Service.

By Erale Bushmiller

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