1950-03-29 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1950.

TO-DAY

ONLY

Queen's

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

CANON CITY

INTRODUCING SCOTT BRADY

and WARDEN ROY BEST

An Eagle Lion Hollywood Production-

-OPENS. TO-MORROW

GABLE

a

M-G-'s villa romantic dramal

CLARK GABLE ALEXIS SMITH

Any Number Can Play®

WENDELL COREY AUDREY TOITER'

• METODOLPHTIS-MAYER PICTURE

ORIENTAL

**ERFONAIR CONDITIONED SEAN Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.30-7.30 & 9.30 P.M. THUNDERING FROM SEAS AND SKIES! ADVENTURES. AS BIG AS THE OCEANS THAT FLOAT OUR FIGHTING COST OVER FLEET! FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING! MILLION DOLLARS TO PRODUCE! ITS A BIG ONE!

WARNER BROS:

WILL SWEEP

> NEW YORK

OFF ITS

HEART!

GARY COOPER

JANE WYATT WAYNE MORRIS WALTER BRENNAN

Written and Directed by

DELMER DAVES

ROXY

Produced by

JERRY WALD

COMMENCING TO.DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 G 9.30 P.M.

A LOVE SO GREAT IT DEFIED

ANGRY

IN FULL

COLOR

with

ALL NATIVE

CAST

Story=Traduce) by Löwned ). Puskay-Dwetted by

Yal Compen Inner-Selantal toe Dallas Arkata

At 2.30, 5.20.

7.20 & 9.30

p.m.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Allied Artists

Brasents

MAJESTIC

BY POPULAR · DEMAND

"Tho politicians wouldn't have said all those nico things about stool workors this wook if they had known you used languago like that."

Sitting on Fence....

JIROUGHOUT

munth

No nudist stunth.

Ne'er cast a clout Till May be out.

this

Keep wooilies on Till June is gone. Protect your rumps Till August camps. Wrap up each member Until September...

It's now October And summer's ober.

Heart-to-heart chats

Fo

Bone reason I cannot hope to explain, a young woman, igating herselt

"Worried," has written the fol- |lowing appeal to me :—

"I am very nxiou in get married ant wonder if

you could help me?

"I am only 4 ft. 10 ins, and a bit on the dumpy side. My har is wiry and my face always romes out in red patches when

o excited. I am also double jointed, and the dentists saya my teeth bre loose. My boy says it would be all right if I [didn't giggle and laugh 10

much."

by

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

TELEPHONE GIRL: Good

" then found that I had for. eavens, you can't say it your gotten to wash the porridge off, Foll

and I owe my present happi- INSTRUCTOR: Don't be him- ness to the fact that I keep it pudent.

4. day and night and that my TELEPHONEGIUL Well Lucband who is 108 camot hout with it.

ree an inch

front of his iny 10"-{Advt.),

INSTRUCTOR: Ave you ad ... I mean flere you Had Hutch Hond....Atch End.....no.... Hatch Hend Hale Ho....Ho Hate....ho 'el... .......

TELEPHONE GIRL: What? INSTRUCTOR: I meant "Ho

'atles.'

Thoughts of

a

wife

PENNY for your thoughts." you said,

As we sat in the dark; Hom manu, many times have pou

Made that insane remark?

at me you're asked me once

again.

I'll let you hare the works;

truth will Maybe the

Wipe

I'm

1

Well, "Worried," yours 1s rather difficult case. Does your bey mean that your teeth аге less likely to drop out if you keep your mouth shut, or what?

Curiously enough. some men prefer double-jointed women, But I should draw his attention

mery

Your smugness and your

amirks.

thinking of Our foolish lega. Your bald, receding dome, Your flat feet splaying up

path, As you come bounding home,

the

Your rolfish face when gulping]

food.

Your rumbling, full-fed

snore.

as much as possible to What Your morning hawk and rough appears to be your outstanding charm. Soap your thumbs back

when

and wasp Behind the bathroom door..

Alvert, for what? Advert. for

course,

porridge, of

Sentimental journey

North-country woman in spake court: "My husband

kindly to me that at first thought he was going to

lie." (60(PEAK oop, hd, what dil'si

tha sag?

Tha called me loov' again?"

London Express Servico

the

"Eh, ass, Ah

Cher loov,"

did, Ah

C. V. R. Thompson

on tour

It's easy to get rich

D

down Texas way

ALLAS, Texas.-There of their "Royal Texas Air Force," In Dallas, my first stop in Tex- are four reasons why ar, I have found out that Texas I am going to spend is big all right.

several days in Texns. First,

It is so big that it takes Tow to become a millionaire several days to get more 11 was also easy to find out. All

HOW than a fleeting glance at it, you have to do in to play a good game of polar for the right

At any mite, that is how Haralson Lafayette Hunt did it.

Second. necording to laken. |Hollywood and other reiluble sources, Texas is the rip- roaringest siate in America, or, for that, in the whole world.

Third, there are so many millionaires in Texas-one

Mr Hunt used to be a farm boy. One day he won a poker gaine on a bluff, and the pot was lease to sonte land belleved 16 contain oil.

From that start Mr Hunt has of the few places on this become probably the richest la income in earth where it is still not a man on earth,

sin to he rich-that Tniny Utween £500,000 and £700,000

a week-yes, a week, find out how to become one.

Fourth, I think we British should know

about Texas, because it is the one

more

His fertune, even in these high income tax days, is around £95,000,000.

place in America where THE LEGEND is that if Texas there is a British vote.

like to brag about something. besides Texan it is about the

You have heard, of money they make, course, of America's Jewish Mr Hunt kills that gend. He vate, Italian vote, German lives quietly with his wife and vote, and Irish, vote, all of six children in a house modelled after George Washington's In which have been trotted out

Virginia. by Washington as an excuse called for not doing something that Washington does not

"Ah must be going insane "Nay, tail, is

worse'u

Ali'm sure, "For if wert proper mac Tha'd smal oop hume

root our throats

that.

"Just like tha dear old dad.

There's many a daft thing thou

has done

want to do.

WELL, it is worth remember- Well this was acclured

But, unlike the other Dallas millionaires, he does not buy up Rolls-Royces from Mr S. J.

Lynch, who has the biggest stock of these £7,000 cars in America. Mr Hunt is 02, tall, heavily

war" en Britain's ride against all I can

about him. Hitler years ahead of the rest of There are no photographs of Mr America.

HURL.

in oui

"Since thou wert lad so high be given U.S. aid when that sort I SOON discovered why Texas "But never hast the called

Yoo....

"Tha must be going to die."

Limerick

While French butcher of Douai was driving over a bridge his car skidded, mnd plunged into a canal. When rescued, he told questioners that he was alors in the ear, but later burst out, "I forgot, my wife was nie.” – From the news.

"A

with

Frenchi

FORGETFUL A butcher of Doual Left his wife in n most

ward stew-al.

When he crashed in his car He forgot the was thar,

Which is

hardly the thing to do-nl.

right

London Express Service)

So

It also demanded that Britain

121 423 pro-British-and it s unpopular of talk was highly

mo- elsewhere, and sent many still pro-British despite a volunteers up to Canada that for mentary annoyance that Britain A while they talked in. Otuwa does not want to buy Texas oll,

which the commodity millionaires ten-a-penny in these parts.

TEXAS'S DOBIE "We are fighters"

ba

It is not just because Britoin Is zafely small.

Top authority on Texas is Profesor J. Frank Dolfe, known here as the best professor who ever got cm a horse."

Doble was a visiting professor Cam- in American history at bridge during the war. And Cam- bridge gave him an honorary M.A. with this citation in Latin: "What he dots not know about: Jonghorn cattle is not worth knowing."

DOBIE

OBIE TOLD Mie: "Exclusive. of Negroes and Mexicans, the population of Texas is over- whelmingly Anglo-Saxon in ori- Kin. And when the average Tex- an belleves in something he is,

DANIEL GEORGE taps the experience of according to his raising, willing

the world's great writers for a definition of .

It lies not in our power to love.

or inte, For will in us is over-ruled by

fate..

where bolh deliberate, the love

is slight;

Who ever loved, that loved not

at first sight?

-MARLOWE. COMETIMES I think that love is the darkest

such

'AT FIRST SIGHT'

DISAPPROVAL

POETS

to fight for it."

At least as far as Dallas is con- cerned, I am afraid Hollywood has been misleading us badly.

I have been unable to spot a. single six-shooter

uspicious buige.

by

от

even

4.

And the question I am asked almost everyone who dis- covers I am English is how to get tickets for the next season of the Sadler's Wells Bullet.

L

the kind of pince Dall-

That LOVE, at first sight, supposes Love at first sight, first-born, as, one of the three biggest cities. of this state of super-Americans, stimceptibility of and heir to all, passion, as, however It may Mad, this night thus. Hence-really is-culture crazy.

They turn out for the opera la. forcard squall nor storm bathing this summer do a few Your silly tales and dirty jokes, mystery of life: mere de pass la nian, very little be

sire will not explain it, nor comes the delicacy of the fe- Could keep me from that Eden this city the way we do for Lana

Turner. where she dwelt, passions or

Far

al him necasionally, and

little tricks

with your toes.

to

That pointless Úttle pin, That makes

so will the Nou seem 30pular

affections. When men "hare all the fun."

You should certainly try avoid this giggling and laugh- ing. After all, you don't reem to have much to laugh at, do

y, dear?

'Atch

End

One of the GPO tests for girls was to

correctly, "Have you Hatch End 806?

accent

say

hud

it

INSTRUCTOR Now, say

after me. "Have you Hatch End 806?

had

TELEPHONE GIRL: Have you ad 'Atch End right-o-six? INSTRUCTOR: Tul, tut, ut Two mistakes. Ave another go. TELEPHONE GIRL: What? INSTRUCTOR: I mean have another go.

TELEPHONE GIRL:

on said. Believing you would hear, "How wonderful you are to me,

How wonderful, my dear,"

A bride of ninety

the mal

SON.

YOUR

they

character. RICHARD-

FIRST-SIGHTERS

TENNYSON.

WARNING

THE LOVE that is born in a moment takes longest to cure. LA BRUYERE.

PHILOSOPHERS

A YOUTH and molden mebt- in by chance, or brought by artifice, exchange

You pass Years anidat

BROTHERL and my "A prung for your thoughts," crowds, and knew naught of li:

sister no poner met but they once you meet a looked; no then all at

sooner lolted butt stranger's eyes, and never art

loved; so sooner loved you free. That is love.

they sighed; No Booner Who shall Bay whence it but <00!?

It is a bolt from the sighed but they asked one an

the reason: 110 Fooner Kods that descends from heaven other

knew the

but they renson and strikes us down into hell. We can do nothing.—QUIDA, sought the remedy; and in these together

degrees have they made a pair faces, reciprocate

home, and dream of one of stairs to marringe which they co with climb incontinent, or cise another.

Having tie to divert atten- be incontinent before marriage.

tion.

they find themselves un- -SHAKESPEARE.

when apart, and therefore thing they shall be together. happy

They marry YES, it

mighty and discover what nothing but Was this passion that now raked to the heart of Ferdinand Armine,

Adresined

"A FEW months ago I never that 21 man would look at me twice." writes A Bride of Ninety." "Anxiety, trouble, and the fact that I was no longer what you might call a young woman had ft their mark. I had almost given hope.

OLD STYLE INTENTLY did I observe her, and right well did I contem-

her beauty, plate

since she seemed to me to be more distin- guished, and to have much more of grace and sweetness than 1 nd ever before observed.

up

"Then, one day, I read of woman of 13 who had got rid Have of all her wrinkles and looked

younger stimply 50 years

by

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eivilities,

voluntary blindness had con- wear out te in

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at, pale and trembling, be with caled; they

from the altercations, and charge nature & few paces Then love, the playful archer, drew

and with cruelty.-DR JOHNSON. spectacle, who saw my silent demeanour, overwhelming and

inclined unto leant against a tree in n chaos that I wan you had Hatch Hend Hote... scaring her face with porridge. love, took the arrow with the of

emotion...Silent he INSTRUCTOR; Cor lumme...

to try this which it is his wont to surprise Indeed, for he was speechless.

NO DOURT Kraclous you're I made up my mini

that I mean ood

a large part of simple remedy at once,,and was

the big drop and bent his bow, and though lavers Once more.

And the fascination

the and and gratified

his brow getting worse.

But I heeded quivered upon drew it silently.

of love lies in the TELEPHONE GIRL: Ave you soon amazed

myself looking younger it not. The arrow of a tender the olight foam that played 'quancy Ho...

association, in ono 'ad Hatch Hend eight

every day.

the which is so pleas- upon his lips proved the difcult fantastic giance,

of such a wild Have you a Atch Hend....

of passion over ex- little person, INSTRUCTOR: No, no, no, "Men turned to look at me ining and so powerful, pierced me triumph

he variety of qualities to worship advanced. and the way they to the heart. Then was I sore pression....He

to damn-HAVE- NO. Have you had 'Atch....I the street,

bebewildered. Hate stared in trams and buses

- CHRISTINE gazed again, the lady was still and defects Hatch.... Hendl

LOCK. ELLIS. there.-DISRAELI. De FISAN. came positively embarrassing,

mean

Ho....

tre

to

By Ernio Bushmiller

from being rip-roaring, the people of Dalios are quiet, gentle people, and far better mannered than New Yorkers.

Chambers hasn't been the same since he the pools!"

tem

London Express Anreize.

Filmed in Glorious SEPIA TOHEJ

A CHAMPION

PRODUCHON

with

ROD CAMERON

CATHY DOWNS - REED HADLEY

ANNE GWYNNE • BLAKE EDWARDS

COMMENCING FRIDAY —

"Bud ABBOTT and Lou COSTELLO. MEET THE_Killer, Boris KARLOFF”

NANCY

JANIE I BROUGHT

[YOU OVER SOME

GOODIES

Just Desserts

BUT

THAT'S OKAY--

I'M TOO SICK

TO EAT

A THING

I COULD STAND A SNACK

9 BANANAS AND.

A POUND OF CANDY LATER

WHO'S THE

PATIENT HERE ?

SHE

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