THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928.
ROSS INSTITUTE.
APPEAL FOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERS.
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE,
Mra, Southorn states:
CINEMA NOTES.
"13 WASHINGTON SQUARE" AT QUEEN'S.
A MYSTERY THRILLER.
HARMONY CLUB.
PLEASING OPENING
FUNCTION.
MISIC AND LIFE.
THE CHINA MAIL,
Shadows Before
13 w
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE "MAIL"
To-day-Queen's Theatre; "23 Washington Square."
Potters."
QUEEN'S THEATRE
Additional Attraction Nightly at 9.20 COMMENCING
Adapted from the famous novel An enjoyable function was held
To-day-Star Theatre; "God Gave and stage play of the same name, in the Harmony Club, China Me Twenty Cents."
13 Washington Square" has been | Building, last evening to mark
To-day-World Theatre; "The SUNDAY, AUG. 19th transferred to the screen and will the opening of the Club quarters. be the main feature of the pro- by Dr. S. W. T80, LL.D., O.B.E.
August 17-Promenade Queen's Theatre The Harmony Club is a reorgan-
isation of the Chinese Philhar- at Volunteer Parado Ground 9.15 monic Society which was formed p.m. last year.
"I have just consented to be the representative for Hong Kong on the Ladies Committee of the Rosa Institute and Hospital for Tropicalgramme at the
sense and I shall be very glad to receive the names of any ladies in the Colony who would care to be and to forward
from to-day to Saturday, "13 Washingtou Square" is a first class mystery story liberally sprinkled with thrills and laughs. The more
Concert
RETURN ENGAGEMENT
OF
FAMOUS JUVENILE DANCERS
MISS
cone deseriptions to the Latties serious part of the picture is en-nished with green and ivory cane Tomasita Birdwell at Queen's Thea- CHERIE VALENTINE
Committed"
RESEARCH WORK.
An appeal enclosed states:--: The Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which is situated in beautiful surroundings at Putney Heath, near London, was founded two years ago as a lasting tribute to the work and genius of ‘a great man. Si Ronald
tre, 9.20 p.m.
Theatre;
AND
M'SS
August 19-Return engagement The Club room, tastefully fur-Miss Cherie. Valentine and Bigs of the famous juvenile dancora,'
acted with great finesse by Jean furniture and green wall hang- Hersholt, the famous character ac-ings, was crowded from 7.30 p.m. tor. The laughs are in the capable by members and their friends, hands of Zasu Pitts, who will be who drank heartily to the success | remembereti for the extremely of the Club after a pleasant little funy facial expressions she wears discourse by Dr. Tso on the atti- when in a fright. Alice Joyee of tude of Chinese towards music dell St., miscellaneous goods and
August 18-At Sales Room, Dud: TOMASITA BIRDWELL "Beau Geste" fame, has an Impor- and the great importance of cul-electrical fittings, 10.30 a.m." tant part to play, and George tivating harmony - in other
Land Sales. than Lewis looks after the love interest senses
screen,
13
August 21 - World Charlie Chaplin in "The Circus."
Lammert's Auction.
Sport.
music. Ая મ August 20—At P. W. D. Oflices, Ross with the able help of Helen Foster memento of the occasion a mode Crown lands at Shamshuipo, and identified the Anopheles Mosquito who is a charming new comer to piano ash-tray, silver mounted Mong Kok Tsui, & p.m. as the carrier of the malaria the
Washington and suitably Inscribed, was pre-
Meeting. parasite, and by this discovery has Square" is spoken of as being one sented to Dr. Tso, and the gather-
To-day-Marine Engineers" Guild buon the means of bringing health of the most interesting pictures ing then repaired to the more and security to miliona in fever- the season, and is of a type spacious rooms in the same build-meeting at 67 Des Voeux Rd., 6 p.m. infested regions all over the world.that should appeal to every type of ing of the Chinese Compradores' Association, kindly lent for the There is no need to tell those who cinema-goer.
evening, where dinner for over live in the East, of the dangers to
60 members and their guests was life and physical well-being that Directed by Fred Newmayer, the served. Later, the following malaria brings in it strain, and it man responsible for many of concert programme was submit-9 pm. is particularly vital to the British Harold Lloyd's earlier successes, ted, followed by a dance which Empire, stretching as it does over "The Potters," - a new comedy was kept up long after midnight. yast tropical areas, that the im- portance of this branch of medical science should be realised.
COMEDY AT WORLD.
enmes to the World Theatre to- day, to remain the chief attrac-)
Concert Programme. Pianoforte Solo-Mr. Harry
Violin Solo-Miss Necsa Long. Song-Mr. Li Choir Chl, Saxophone Solo-Miss Minn Long.
on there until Saturday. Opon-1. The Institute has well equipped ing in a typical American home, Ore. laboratories, where facilities are the story concerns the doings of 2. given to medical men and others "Pa" Potter, a pompously ineffer 8. from the tropics,, to carry on work tual man, but a good father and 4. for the treatment and prevention of husband. As time goes by "Pa" tropical disease. In addition to is discovered to be only a hard 5. Violin Duet.-Messrs. S. B.
Tan and H. S. Yung. this, most valuable research on the working stenographer and not an
he 6. Recitation-Miss Neesa Long affluential business man 19 subject of Cancer-that most dread- ed of all diseases among civilised would have the world believe. De-7. Song-Mr. Alfred Lee.
of the rut B. Pianoforte Solo- Prof. E. nations-is going steadily forward termined to step out
Gualdi. and surprise the family, “Pa" there. But more laboratories are plunges all his savings into oil nceded; also additional wards and stack. How he sinks deeper and Li Chor Chi the energetic Chair- Messrs. Harry Hong Sling and private rooms for patients. As the deeper, only to work grows and develops, so the finally vindicate himself provides with their supporting Committee stagger out and man and Secretary of the Club need of support grows greater.
an amusing story with a surprise are to be congratulated on the Docations and subscriptions to-ellmax. W. C. Fields is the lead successful debut of their wards the maintenance and endowing player and he is supported by Club, which certainly promises to ment of the Institute will always be Mary Alden, Ivy Harris, Jack Egan be the rendezvous of the artistic most gratefully received, and the and many others.
section of the Chinese community. Ladies' Committee is anxious to enrol associates, who will can-
STRANGE DRAMÁ AT STAR.
"God Gave Me Twenty Centa,"
tribute a minimum annual subscripa new picture directed by Herbert
new
tion of 106, or one minimum pay-Brenon. factous for his work with MONEY & SHARES.
meat of 10.IN.
"Deau Gesie" and "Peter Pan," These who help in this way are
comes to the Star Theatre to-day giving their support to a work of for a run of three days. The stary vital importance, not only to the concerns the vas of three people Empire, at to the whole humana min and two women-who, at-
rare.
MR. JOHN MASEFIELD).
Mr. John Masefield writes 1-***
"When I was a bay, I had a friend from whoni 1 parted in July, In August that friend was in a small barque in a Brazilian yellow fever port. He died of yellow fever with most of his shipmates a few days after his arrival.
though wise in the ways of the world, are thrown into a vortex created by life, and are only sav
by the faith and trust of one of the women. Two crooked coins play a great part in the lives of the characters in the picture and piss through the handy of cach, first, a woman who loves and loses
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In those days, this was a common occurrence in the yellow fever ports, Mea made their wills or resignede and receives the same coins. On demand their souls before they went to This unusual picture has a strong On New York. them. Sometimes ships would lose cast which includes Lois Moran, On demand
Jack Muthall, Lyu de Putti and their entire crews there, and new crews would be sent to themsettings are extremely, beautiful, | William Calier, Jr. Some of the from England, and the e screws representing New Orleans during would also die. No man knew the Mardi Grus. how the disease came, пог how it could be cured, or prevent- ed; it was one of the mysterios and one of the terrors of life.
While I was still a boy, I passed' some summers in A land where nearly everybody was inconveni- enced by mild attacks of malaria during each summor. This, too, was one of the mysteries of life; none knew how the disense came nor how it could be prevented. "It was due," men aåld, "to bad air from the marshes" even when there were no marshes).
Then Sir Ronald Rosa discovered
the part played by the mosquito
I pace and pace, and think and
think, and take
The fevered hands and note down
all I see.
That some dim distant light may
haply break,
The painful faces ask can we
ant eure'
We answer. 'No, not yet; we seck-
the laws."
God! reveal through all this
thing obscure
The unseen, small, but million
murdering cause." ASSOCIATES.
It will be some years before the
in conveying the malaria parasite, Executive Committee can reason.
and instantly the whole vast
ably expect to create an adequate mystery of tropies! disease was made clear. Little remained but to endowment fund, and in the mean "find the carrier of the germ of me a large annual maintenance each disease. It was not too much expenditure must be met if usiful to say that Sir Ronald Ross cut work is to be continued. the Panama Canal and made a third of the world habitable.
THREE CITIES.
Not long ago, I visited three -cities, each terrible in the past for its yellow fever record. I was in them in the summer, in months when in the old days hundreds would have been dying in every ward, and other thousands shiver- Ing with agud.
as
Sir Ronald Ross had made those cities each as peaceful and healthful as Bath ar Hampstead.
This is the greatest thing-done In our time by one man.
The nation which produced that man should crown his deod with a living power to make his work not
The objects of the Institute ar- fourfold:-
(1) To carry on intensive research work in the prevention and treatment of tropical diseases. (2) To afford facilities to, and as
sist medical men and others while at home from the tropics to carry out or continue re- searches on ariy special subject they may wish to pursue.
(3) To receive in the hospital and treat suerers form tropical diseases.
(4) To create more interest in malaria. and tropical disease, control werk and assist such work in every possible manner. 'The Ladies' Committee wishes to raise the necessary amount requir«
a memory, but a Ufting up ́of life; ed for maintenance purposes by throughout the world.
means of Associates of the Instituts About ten years before; Sir who will contribute a minimum Ronald Ross made his great dis-annual subscription of half-a covery, he wrote - the following, guinen (or one minimum payment lines:→→
of $10 10s.), by which means other
“In this, 0 Nature, yield, I pray, donations will be able to go towards
to ma,
the endowment fund.NE Annual reports will be sent to (Continued at foot of next Column. Associates.
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