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ALLNO ARTETS

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JOHNNY MACK BROWN DON CASTLE

Bonald CURTLE Joka MILLAN

Holiday Extra Show At 12.00 Noon

Friday, 7th:

Esther Williams In

Saturday, 8th: Johnny Weissmuller

Sunday, 9th:

Frank Sinatra in

Monday 10th:

Jano Powell in

"On An Island With You”

"Tarzan and His Mate"

"The Kissing Bandit"

LEE

4 SHOWS AT 2.30,

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"Luxury Liner"

Liberly

5 SHOWS AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

SHOWING TO-DAY

PEAK FILM PRESENTS

ADVENTURES OF

THE BOY WITH

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1950.

"Which of you did that?"

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London Express Bervice

Sitting on the

FAINT blush of em- barrassment mantled

my

cheeks when

read that "The nudist con- ference, which will consist

of meetings and speeches

I

Fence....by

by prominent members of NATHANIEL GUBBINS

various professions, will be conducted in a state of completa nudity.”

This does not mean that I am a prude. I hope I am as broad-minded as any- body,

But, to one who not only bolts the bathroom door but blocks up the keyhole with sonp, the sudden vision of a nude conference is some- thing of a shock.

Untem he is utterly brazen, I imagine the chairman will feel rather uncomfortable ns he rises from the partial protection of the conference table, fur- bling nervously for the familiar

THREE HAR armhole of his waistcoat and

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LILTING

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HIT TUNESI

DIALOGUE IN MANDARIN

KING S

LOVE with her!

LAUGH with her!

THRILL with her!

UNIVERSAL YAŽETKAtigual pretenta

SONJA HENIE

Countess of

of

Monte Cristo

AT 2.30, 5.15,

7,20 & 9.30 P.M.

scratching himself painfully in the attempt,

As he coughs nervously every convulsion of the tia- phragm will be watched with interest by

fascinated

audience.

Speech, speech

MAKE up that his speech Eo. elhing

will

this-

Ladies and gentlemen.

like

Mr

We are gathered here today (mind

your cigarette, Rawson, or you will burn Mrs Itamsbotham)....I say we are gathered here today...(if you

from the

are suffering

lich, madan, you would oblige me by leaving the room)......1 re-. peat, we are gathered here to- day to discuss matters of vital

importance affecting the move-

We

ment.

Cand right, sir, will wait until a steward finds you a handkerchief) say".

affecting } movement which i radually breaking

natel

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Sei

down inherited prejuice and spreading throughout the world (don't hold that lighted too near the gentleman's chest, waiter. You may film on Ore)

Like plonters we are persecuted and

must expect to be the object of ridicule and cheap gibes, but with our courage

both hands...... (Mrs) Blooming- dale, this is not the time to play "This Little Piry Went Τα KIRBY-SAN JUAN - HART TREACHER Market and 1 should be ex-

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tremely grateful if you would have the courtesy to keep your feet under the table.)

Monotony

An Australian schoolgirl wrote on her examination paper, “A Christian in a man who marries only one wife. This catted monotony."

EVERY alght for forty years

Mra Smith burst into tears Just because soon after dark Smith would make the same

remark,

Saying always that the food Was, as ever, not much good.

Every moming as he shaved Mr Smith he stormed and

raved,

Not because of woes or ills. But Mrs Smith would talk of

bills

At the time when he and the Drank their murning cup of

tra.

Precisely as the clock struck

Seven

Smith returned to home and

heaven,

And Mrs Smith would always

may,

"How has business been to-

day?"

And Mr Smith who knew his

line.

Would always answer, "It

was fine."

As the long, blank hours sped Tul the the to go to bed, Mrs Smith would sit fund

knit

And Mr Smith would sil

and sit.

Mr Smith he had no news And Mrs Smith she had no

views;

Though each would take a

sporting chance

In any given circumstance That each would know what

each would say

On Bay topic of the day.

Years and years and years

rolled by And Me Smilth asked "Why,

why, why

Should one endure for years

to come

A life so dreary and hum-

drum?"

So when he thought he'd had

cholf

He very quietly bumped her

of.

The Judge, his blaett cap on

his head,

Asked Smith, "Why did you

shoot her dead?"

And Smith replied, "I wasn't

cross,

But he was so monotonosa."

Firebug Queen

"Rich

Beriha Warahovsky, Queen of the Firebugs, con. fessed to the police that she specialised in aman to support her six chikren and nino grand- children.

cardpo from Chicapo..

*

CLAP hands, children, all is

well. Listen, there's the fire bell,

Smoke clouds hover, flames

leap higher, Momma's lit another fire.

NANCY

Rest In Pieces

BUSHMAAKT..

This means chocolate cake for

fca;

A ball for pon, a doll for me. If mam could' act the town

alight Life, to us, would be, SO

bright.

Ev'ry conflagration phone Would help to buy a Shetland

110,

Ev'ry fire, near and far. Would help towards a motor-

CAT,

We'd have cream buns

every

C. V. R. Thompson

on tour

You can live like this -with Marshall aid

HOUSTON, TEXAS.

HE price of building land has gone up in some part

yes, an inch of frontage. Well, at the rate I am going I should soon own an inch of Houston.

No hotel could charge as much as mine without giv-

ing its guests a share in the frechold.

I have

one of

the-cheaper rooms-more than £5 a day.

If I were staying a month, I could have a roof-top apart- ment, library, solarium and all, for £700 a month. As It is all I get is a bedroom.

UNITED STAT

TEXAS

beans (under-

Oh, there are refinements. (good) French Some mechanical monster in the cooked) fried potatoes (over- basement, which the manage cooked), salad faming balred ment wants me to call the Alaska (although after using ten lower level," delivers my

matches the walter could not nir, cooled or heated no the climato light the brandy that makes it requires, through a vent, Win flame), and coffee. dows are Just something

ON

which to hang curtains.

lights-

And there ore. dim except that two of mine are not

The bill- £10, Someone worked that out at 7. 6d. a mouthful.

working which go on beside MY HOTEL, the largest buil the switches every time they are turned off, so I do not have to fumble in the dark.

QIX BUTTONS which bring radio highlight me every

SIX

the

of condition could, stand strain."-An anonymous Mansion Tuzo oficial to it reporter.

EW people realise Dist every Lord Mayor of London goca into strict fralning before he is elected, and some idea of the hard to they lead may be gathered from the following day's programme which I ob, tained by the usual underhand methods:-

7.30 a.n.: Warned with a pint of turile Boup instead of tes. The lea la to get their system used to turtle soup.

8 am un a mile in full re- galin with chains of office,

More 8,30 am: Breakfast, turtle soup, cavlare, oysters, and champagne.

am, to 12: Running, skip- ping, jumping, swimming, rld- ing, boxing, wrestling, ju-jitsu, hara-kiri, and turtle soup.

12 to 1 p.m.; Medicine ball and imassage.

Turtle

day (Insurance companies would

TH} We'd buy candy, we'd buy cocktail.

ices,

We should worry at the crista.

Hark Matilda, ain't it swell- The music of the fire bell? Clap hands, chiltren, raise

your mugs

To Momma, Queen of Fire-

buga.

1

soup

p.m. to 4 p.m.: Three lunches, including turtle soup. One at home one at the Man- slon Hause, and one for luck,

4 to 4.30 p.m.: Rest.

5 p.m.: Turtle soup lea.

6 p.m. to 10 p.m.: Six dinners,

Day in the life of including turtle soup.

a Lord Mayor

Are

"Lord Mayors

always chusen for their riamina because no man who be not he the pink

"10,30 p.m.; Turtle soup night- cap.

11 p.m.: Bed and a bowl of turtle soup.

-(London Express Service)

in America since the war. and the most luxurious, ac- cording to the advertisements, ever buill In Amerien, is called: the Shamrock.

ATU

the

Mus-

It does not take long for the from Bob Hope to the chimes of visitor to catch on to the fact Big Bed, or, if I prefer, endless that it has an Irish motif. recordings of soft music.

The staff uniforms SU, just a bedroom.

green, Green dominates To eat at my hotel almost immense lobby. The calls for Marshall nid. I took taurant, where I had dinner, two friends to dinner tonight. is the Emerald Room. There were no drinks, for in Texas you have to bring your own task or bottle. This was our menu: prawns, a small fillet

"See, officer, there's no question of this being a game of chance. I win every time!"

London Espiste Service.

Four rienk

The specially painted oils in Its 1,100 rooms all have green in them. Altogether there are 63 different shades of green in the decor. Even the exit signs are green Instead of red.

You

REGISTER ju green ink. And the water in the harp-shaped swimming pool is green-tinted.

Millionaire Glenn McCarthy built the Shararock much as We would bulld A chicken house-by paying out In cas} as he went along.

The total bils amounted to. nearly £0,000,000.

For any return on his money the Shamrock must rent 80- percent of its rooms every night for an average of £0 a room.

Mr McCarthy

will not say what the Shamrock has done.

His first-year figures give such Information us this: 650lb. of shrimpa have been served every week; the valets pressed 10,765 dinner suits,

More detailed figures would, he says, be "too much help to our competitors."

But tho rumour will not be downed that the Shamrock,

for all is green, is somewhat In the red,

DANGER old shoes and mangles

TAVERY yenr

more than million people injure themselves in home ucci- dents badly enough to need hospital treat- ment. One of the common- est causes of these acci- dents is shoes high-heeled shoes, shoes with slippery soles, and sloppy shoes in need of re- pair..

The dangers

are spoileated in

42%

harm housewives most

FIVE SPOTS-where most of the accidents occur.

(36%

(13%

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

leave scalding liquids within reach of children are to blame for most of them,

The most dangerous domestic machine in the mangle; the most dangerous implement, the chop. per.

Many of these injuries are easily avoidable, especially those caused by using chairs na make- shift ladders. Miss Castle claims.

She gives mothers four main tips for cutting down domestic mishops:

are

1. Fit freguards wherever there children and old people:

2. Arrange better lighting on darkened stairs;

Avold wearing high-heeled

or worn-out shoes for housework;

4. Do not leave hot pots and pans where children can get at them.

"A greater awareness of the risks attached to the use of a bad state of Falls, collisions, burns, and equipment in an nitalysis, carried out by Works than twice as many women as Ministry acicnilat Miss Olive men get injured in the home. But senkis are the commonest house repair would also prevent many lighting on of the accidents," she writes in Castle, of 3,000 household sccl- more boys are hurt than girls, hold injuries. Bad dents.

because they romp about more on stairs, faully shoes, allppery. the Lancet.

floors, and careless mothers who

-Lowdon Express Service. Her report shows that more furniture,

By Ernie Bushmiller

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