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THE (HONGKONG TELEGRAPH{"'LMONDAY, OCTOBER 30, · 1950,

ROXY BROADWAY

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Theatre

SHOWING TO-DAY

Plasse Note Standard Time At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. James Stewart's Creatost Picture

THE FIRST PICTURE IN EIGHTY YEARS Which Tolls How to Live in Peace With the Rost of the World!

It Took Eighty Years to Find "Real-Foolproof" Way for Peace!

Of This Motion Picture the Screen Can

Be Proud.....Today.....Tomorrow..

a Generation From Now...

James STEWART

- COLOR

Technicolor

JEFF CHANDLER-DEBRA PAGET

cey DELIVER DAVES BAUSTEN 20

Barney by SCHAEL PASTON · Based on the Ravel Bosé Brytbar" by ELLIOTT ARROLD

ROXY ADDED: Now Tochnicolor Cartoon "IF CATS COULD SING". Latest 20th Century-Fox Movietone News: 1. Historic Meeting of President Truman and MacArthur. 2. Truman's Inspection Tour of Hawaii's Hicham Field and Pearl Harbour, and then, Wake Island. 3.

4. Truman Decoratas MacArthur.

The Giant Guns

of USS Missouri Blast Red Coastal Strongholds.

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QUEEN'S

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Hatal

"ON THE TOWN"

In Technicolor

Gene Kelly

ALHAMBRA

M-G-M's Now Thriller! "BLACK HAND"

Storring:

Frank Sinatra Gene Kelly Teresa Celli

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170. QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL PHONE 25720

5 SHOWS DAILY *

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

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World Copyright By eirangement with Daily Herald.

BRITAIN

MAKES LAST STAND

ROWDING

By Roger Bunyan

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of

Grand-daddy of

concert halls facing crisis

By Anthony Slada

LONDON.

built dance-floor is

on steel!

NE of the world's trusses 12 feet above the arena. largest, strangest and holders demanded their lease- One evening two arena seni

hold rights to a view of the hall. Nothing would sallefy until a hole was cut in the floor

most versatile build ings is preparing to cele. brate ita 80th birthday and

them

25,000th event. Regarded and they could take their places, though nearly choked with dust affection by genera from the swishing feet of the tions of overseas visitors, dancers.

with

the

world-famous Royal Albert Hall-patriarch of most part the

Even the ushers are for the

grand-children.

the

concert halls-hns and great-grand-children of inaugurated 1 £250,000 the original ushere At

state | modernisation

opening, The task of programme showing the audience to their and is getting rendy to state is handed down thruugh › draw the crowds for the Britain's best families. next 919 years.

The

Corps of Honorary Stewards was formed from members of Queen Everything hos happened at Victoria's court back in 1871 the "R. A. H.” Wartime and their descendants still l reunions, banjo, performance, these lifetime jobs without re- waxwork exhibitions, tearful compense.

rellglous services with child

evangelists, receptions to the

Shah of Persia and other visiting

royalty they've all packed the

house.

Vaudeville

stau

Biggest Loser

Each steward faithfully pro- named mises to attend at the Albert Ronald Chesney recently filled Hall three or four times weekly, it with 3,000 people-one-third paying his own expenses. In top capacity-by playing a six- inch harmonica, that

a solo effort

return, of course, Ecos prae- tically overy leading musician,

of the day.

drew aver £1,000 receipts. They've even staged singer, politician and eccentric 26-mile marathon racer in the hall on coconut matting tracks.

Path, Melba, Mrs Roosevelt, The runners hared Tound and Elsenhower....they've all figur. round the arena till members of ed in the Albert Hall cavalcado, the audience collapsed from Anyone can reat the hall at rates dizziness.

Great Occasions

from £150 for an afternoon to £1,000 for such an event as the New Yoric artists-and-models

ball.

The biggest loser was o negro who wanted to speak of

It is far larger than New Yorit's a coloured utopia in the heart Carnegie Hall and is molelled on of Africa....and drew only. 30. the Colosseum at Rome, Winston people.

the local Churchill once said he could

It's all part

course, like the bad- Imake it echo for Ave minutes

colour, of ::er

hunts or the

perambula-

of

110

15.

the rails of the Queen Eliza-

Equally strange, an astonishi- quaintTmerely by blowing his nose. Ing non-profit society was beth, transatlantic

rotices offering a reward of Students once pelted two un- formed to drink up the surplus travellers generally rub

100 for information ogainst popular medical lecturers with Wine

left in the enormous their eyes at their first

anyone stealing any horse of bags flour country horned cattle "lawfully depas-cleaners

und veteran R. A. 1. cellars after successive The badly needed new vil- born tenacity of the

the Victorian international exhibi- glimpse of

wistfully recall England a lages cannot be built because quires.

overtime they earned as they tions. Though sward

ting within the of ancient oaks, of the

longer actunity existing cottagers'

Every 40 days, the 000- cleaned up the mess. Com- derived from the half, supplier Yows, beech and hollies centuries-old common rights

Sturdy half-forgotten old year-old Court of Swalamote,

sccm inexhaustible, The Ver-munists not long ago tried its in the antler-lined the stretching from

graze pigs. Bea allowing them to

English words like *ponnage

levancy and derers' Hall in Lyndhurst and break up a housewives' inteting original £1 shares now stand at turbaty,

£41 and the annual meeting passage of the Solent north sleep accce and cattle on the

legally be and formed the royal box, and countryside. Searcely 80

miles and

the housewives defended ward to the hills. The New from London, their Stone

Louchaney slim the eats of the culprits can still Age

It probably the most convivial in. stoutly with umbrellas. and London. Adjourning for refresh- Forest-it

slealing. was given the aqualor shocks one's conscience. startled lawyers. Behind those sentenced to

archaic phrases Zie jealously

shopping bags.

ments, the shareholders taste name when William the

Awarded and valuable privi-

From prize fights to symphony such rarities as 1819 sherry and Conqueror set it aside as a Yet there are signs in

LASO leges.

The common rights of

concerts. in its long history the real Napoleon brandy. royal hunting domain-was that the

cannot long resist the pace of turves to be cut for peal, are

with great occasions and come- already old 850 years ago

The arrow of change far from obsolete but proved a progress. when the hated Refus Red- striking home, New parlin valuable prequisite during the APPOINTED by the King the times great oddities. Yet prob-

none of them ably A omcial Verderer Squire bizarre than the extreme oddity head was murdered by an mentary legislation, loosening fuel shortage. Scores of

Henry Compton-sits with six of the Royal Albert Hall itself. entitled Verierers, people, too, are power of the arrow in its glades. Today, the

other verderers clected vole

by of fuelwood, freely of the commoners, In practice. 03,000 commen deprive government investigators acres of much of their suclent allowing them to cut and take describe it as a miraculous protection.

pre-Norman

death for horse-

limeless New Forest turbary, for instance, allowing Pomp and Power Albert Hall has been occupied

threatens 10

survival of

Britain.

Ruled over by the officers of

New Highways

the Verderers, resplendent In

to

however, elections have been wood for fuel. With logs sell-wey

contested only 1wice in 70 ing at the equivalent of £5 a cont

19 ton, this dispensation

years, and the property.quali- good as a gift of cash in the fications of a verderer are

high that only 10 of Hamp shire's richest people aro eligible.

bank.

their uniforms of leaf-green UNDE

INDER the present regime, a At least one communer exer-

cloth with gold wido looped

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Owner

а

up and

Decisions

50

more

Leasehold Seats

Backstage Boys

think

The Albert Hall's 50 back- stage boys

nothing of staging a banquet for 700 Or

Easter concerts. equipping the

with 8,000 audience

pocket

To raise the original £214,000 lunches. They can rig a 7,000-ft, building costs, seats were sold curtain and print 80,000 ticketa. and they annually overnight to subscribers for 099 years. An orchestra seat cost £100 while organ-the world's largest-with

the spring - cienn

170-ton boxes of seats brought £500. its five keyboards and 9,000-

real estate agents sounding pipes.

Today,

Seats

cires his fuel rights alone to buttons

and

motorist who runs into a

This tends to give the court of

worth this feit hats,

£5,000 wandering animal can be faced the tune

the pomp and power of the censionally auction these lease- Though others amazing feudal realm lies in with a claim for compensation yearl

in the open market Not least, though, the Albert. Ind assembly of barons for Magus and a couple of orchestra ecals Hall is probably the world's fuct in the populous

heart of from the

their common grazing Carta. because that

to levancy derers

of the Ver- recently fetched £950, Even largest concert-hall, Fortunes southern England. Alded

by animals are held to have the rights apply only

have been over-ridden at this figure they yield rich have been spent on damping the laws dating from the

Saxon prior

right to the read. and couchancy, that is, to ant by the Crown on occasions,

echo, Two notorious the

army of Even King Canute,

lie notally generations

cricket teams mals which rise

when they attempted dividends, for the owner has village local gentlemen, yeomen

Beal for engineers who designed the hall. and cannot make

this doc to avoid the expensive liabili-right of selling the permanent down on the land,

covered nenrly

Albert Hall events, 800

overlooked the sound problems labourers' have fought a run- pitch

without trine the forest

ty for the upkeep of hundreds

Several families actually make caused by the varying number Jast of miles of drains. ning battle against all invaders committing the crime of pure borses and 3,000

Usually, presture, or enclosure.

however, affaira of the court living out of seat rights and of people in the hall. Twelve

rebuking

their Tegal tille to ore limited

is jealously thousand square feet of canvas. guarded. poacher or two

the were specially woven to act as or fining п

a sounding board, and now 1050 birds'-nester. So rare are some

rees the installation of a £45,000 of the forest birds that the eggs

Taluminium ceiling to replace the command £5 aplece, and

Inner gloss dome,, man who takes a clutch of

£15 in pocket POCKET CARTOON

and kept time at bay.

Over an area of 150 square miles the police possess 10 or dinary jurisdiction and cp en force no by-laws. Instead, the forest is patrolled by the frock

Under national legislation two new trunk highways east to west promise the inauguration of the national woodlands as a great coated.

tourist Jodges and igisters, park, with

offering U gold-badged forest guards who campa baut malefactors before the ground to the city millions. picturesque Court of Swain-

Jack-booted

mote just as they did in Middle Ages.

the

vacation.

year.

cattle

Rich Grazing

TEADED by the wealthy Earl three can be H

Red Deer

of Radnor, two thirds of the merely by climbing a tree. 2,004 commoners admit to re- rarding the Forest as a prin- Seven cipal source of income.

five On the forest verges, fresh hundred hold less than farmsteads are to be develop atres. So rich is the grazing edi. Thousands

confessen, of that one .commoner of acres

Gypsies Refuge tub will be ploughed up and "I can keep ps-tnany caffle on

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DREVENTING these robberies

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is merely one of the tasks of have cultivated for food crops, and a smallholding in the Forest an the agisters, They also rolfing woodland areas are to en Afty acres in the Midlands." to police the forest, watch for the a result, the stage is set forest fires and round-up and electric be cleared and placed

under As power lines entered this virile fresh timber.

for the biggest battle since the ponies and cattle every year to coming of the rallway.

fail-mark them and ensure medieval region only after years

they are branded with the commoner's private brand. This lion. Deep in the forest

proposed 1341 hus Old forest folk gleefully re- operation is seldom fully com- nesses, stocky wild ponic: and aroused in pæórm of opposition. call how the line needed a leted. Nearly a century herds of red deer still elude Petitions have been organised special Act of Parliament and

ordered Furliament

ni the black market rustlers and horse against, angry public meet- was all forced to make a wide royal red deer to be removed Deeper sl. quarded Ings hell, towns placarded detour. A visitor to the New and herded to Windsor, and a by oaks 20 feet in girth, hem and the local gentry are em Forest realises the consequen- few

escaped the round-up. semi-impassable ploying expensive med in by

counsel to ces when he alights at the sta- Now scores lurk in the forest. bors and "mudslides, inter present their case to a select tions serving the little forest Omelally the red deer do not marrying and filterate trioes of committee of the House of towns of Lyndhurst and Beau- exist and a count of them has gypsies live in "benders,' frall Lords. In Britain's Island Heu and finds himself still with never been taken. Yet the wigwams of arched willow story, slow change continuous- three or four miles EO. secretive forest folk eling to twigs covered with tarpaulin, ly modifies The old feudal Forest croftero prospered

at their venison rights and And chiefly because a 1,000-year-old forms while carefully pre- one time by carrying visitors that their feudal realm forest law forbids them to lay serving them, but the New the rest of the way on don- niches a better meat ration a floor, hang a door and make Forest reformers have evident keys. Today, the taxis take than all the ingenuity of

Jy under-estimated the stub the proft,

modern Britain can command.

thieves

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Room Service

[OH,HERE COMES THAT

PEST, MRS. FOZZLE

I WISH I COULD THINK

OF AN EXCUSE NOT TO INVITE HER

IN

TELL HER THE PLACE

IS ALL

UPSET

||NO~-~I JUST

TIDIED THE

HOUSE --- THAT WOULD BE A FIB

By Erule Bushmiller

NOW IT

WOULDN'

fur-

P.O.

During a ball

"I think we've crossed the wires sometoliere- we've got Morgan Philina discussing the date of the nest General Election with Lord Woolton?"

Zondon Expresa Sersion.

At Crossroads

This is just the first Instal- ment of the £250,000 project for new entrances, air condition-

ing, redecoration and seating,

On the

credit side, London's largest building has the lowest: ground-rent in London. Every

year the pecretary solemnly signs a cheque for one shilling, made out to the commissioners of the famous 1851 exhibition, nd the lease still has 919 years. to run.

is

Today, however, the Royal Albert Hall is at the crossroads. It faces the challenging rivalry of the up-and-coming

modern 3,000-seater concert hall on the south bank of the Thames, which 1951 being bullt for the Festival of Britain. Its booking will equally diminish when other concert halls rise again on their blitz ruins. New Uses for the R. A. H. will have to be found unless it is to become the world's largest while elephant.

DONT ITCH IT.

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