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MODERN WONDER - HOUSE
The Evolution of the Museum -
SOMETHING NEW IN EDUCATION
[By Professor J. Árthur Thomson] ·
Sadly often still the mention of a muscum suggests a dreary catacomb, or else a repository for the freakish and out-of-date. People say in their flippancy that this or that old-fashioned thing or even persen, should be put in a museum! But this is to ignore the fact that museums have changed with the times, and are even now in process of rapid evolution, as is convincingly shown by the recent THE MEMBERS of the Compra-Report to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust by Sir Henry Miers Idere Association will hold an and his committee. Let us outline the evolution of museums,
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All friends are córdially invit
In India, the museum is sometimes tions, but a local museum should
called "the wonder-house," and its begin at home. There may be an firat function was no doubt as a index collection, to show how the safe repository for all sorts of smaller fauna and flors, scenery treasures, This function must and acil, stand in relation to the! persist, for treasures have to wide, wide world, but the main col- be safely housed. The ex-lection in a provincial museum treme of this safe custody (la. should be devoted, to illustrating scon when the museum is not ac- the life of the region; and the cessible. There is not much use, biological triad-Organisms, Func- RACE in a cave of Aladdin if it cannot tioninge, and Environments MEETING W!!! be held be found or entered.
should be continued into the socio- logical triad-Folk. ' Work, and (weather permitting) at Happy VALLEY on MONDAY, 14th Oc-
Place. tober, 1929, commencing at 2.15 p.m.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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The Collector's Ideal Gradually, however, collections
Such a museum was long ago grew and. their arrangement was Improved. It became habit established in Perth, and reached a
excellence. among naturalists, geologist, anti-high
It is a model quarians, and others to take what which unfortunately has been but they had found to the museum, so rarely copied. that it might be compared with specimens in the collections, and thus identified as old or established as new. Thus, it became a museum. Members are advised that they ideal to be a microcosm, to have must show their Badges to obtain series of all aorta; and this func large and systematically arranged admission to the Members' Enclotion, as an afd to the student, can Each member has the right to never cease, though it is becoming introduce 2 non-members
to the more and more the custom to separate the stored material, to Members' Enclosure, tickets for which students and access, from an hour from London. In healthy whom can be obtained from
the selected samples which are dis- ceighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $5 played for the pleasura and edifica and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders each up to Saturday 12th October.tion of the public. received in the House of the Principal 1920. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:.
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But the reasonable ambition of admission for the larger museums to have more and more extensive collections often led to a reiteration of speci- mens which made for the weariness of visitors. It 'was an advance on the degenerate forms of the Wonder-House, which became at times
Each member can obtain upon application to the Secretary Badges for admission of 2 Ladies free of charge.
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tittle better than free rooms. for curios, but the long shelves filled with carnivore akulls and the two hundred varieties of the Common Buzzard have not a little to answer for in fostering the deeply-rooted pre- judice that museums are
dreary and fatiguing,
Illustrating Evolution But with Darwin arose a fresh Impetus-the museums
became Jevolutionary. They began to tell the story of how the world has come to be as it is. Thus there grow the eloquent Oxford museum of man's early inventions and arts, or the Peabody museum at Yale where the visitor can almost watch the horse evolving. The microcosm with its systematic arrangement be- gan to more, as the advance from age to age was vividly displayed. In some folk-museums on the Con- tinent there is a room for each century, and the human figures in the rooms are wearing the appro- priate dress and using the appro- priate furnishing and utensils. And along with the display of racial |erðlution among animals there ap- peared the mast fascinating pre- |parations showing the individual life-history, now of a dragon-fy and again of a frog.
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In some museums, especially in the Natural History section, a Bug: gestion of real life is obtained by the Introduction of Small aquarium or vivarium, an oberva- tory boshive or a Lubbock, formicarium; and it is always in- Įteresting to notice how the visitors
congregate at these points.
At the doorway of the American Museum of Natural History in New York one sees in the morning a little fleet of motor vans that take cation of a new development that specimens to the schools—an indi-
would, make the old curatore gasp. Conversely, in many towns there are arrangements for taking school children in small groups and under good guidance through the museum treasure-house. The children are coming to the museum, and the museum is going, to the children. We wish to make this quite clear, that the older fanctions must per- sist-the museum is for safe cus- tody: it is a systematic microcosm to help investigations; it is an ob ject-lesson in evolution-Inorganic and organic, human and social; it) is a disclosure of the dramatic in Nature-in Animate Nature especi- ally; it must illustrate the re- sources and interests of the region of which it is the centre. But be yond all these functions, it is going to be a new ganglion in education, and that is good news.-John O' London's Weekly,
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THE PEEP SHOW"
A WARWICK RÉVUE ON THURSDAY NEXT
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OTHER ATTRACTIONS
It is indeed good news to hear that Edgar Warwick, whose name has, for many years, stood for all
that is best in theatrical enter- tainment in the East, has decided to visit Hong Kong with his new
SOME TIME AGO, WE ANNOUNCED THE IMPENDING
CLOSING OF OUR SHANGHAI RÉTÄIL STORE.
.NOW
WE HAVE RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS FROM OUR GENERAL MANAGERS, THAT OWING TO THEIR OLD AGE, THEY INTEND TO RETIRE
FROM RETAIL BUSINESS THEY HAVE GIVEN US INSTRUCTIONS TO SELL OUR RETAIL STOCK WITHIN THREE MONTHS IF POSSIBLE, AS DID OUR SHANGHAI BRANCH,
CONSEQUENTLY
OUR ENTIRE RETAIL STOCK IS OFFERED TO YOU AS** BELOW
(1) Enormous reductions will be allowed. (2) Goods already reduced and marked net
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necessary after New Year by our Wholesale Department.
(4) The Retail Stock includes:--
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BETWEEN WATSON'S AND THE SAVOY HOTEL,
FAKED BANGLES
SWINDLER CAUGHT IN A PAWNSHOP
ROUND THE CINEMAS beings.
MAY MCAVOY COMES WITH **
BARRYMORE
who Enter Mephisto, seeks to conquer the soul of Faust and dominate the Earth. Faust falls under the spell of Evil and goes on a pleasure trip. Mephisto STOPPED IN TIME
"LION AND MOUSE"
show him all the wonderful things that may be his if, he will only bow "Rother unusual type of face, this "The Lion and the Mouse," is the to. the devil. The tragedy of man has" said Mr. T. S.Whyte attraction at the Queen's Theatre Gretchen falipws, and here the story Smith-at-the-Kowloon Magistracy-to-day and to-morrow. The all-deviates from Goethe's drama. "But yesterday when a Chinese named star cast is headed by two of the in the and just ds Mephilato-be- Kwan was charged with pawning a most popular actors of the screen, lleves he has conquered the soul of pair of gold bangles that were faked May McAvoy and Lionel Barry-Faust, and so the world, Chorubin and attempting, to receive $60 for more.
advances and disillusions him in them.
The forceful presence and mainera startling manner. of Barrymore makes him the most obvious of all choices to play the Lion of the financial world," "Ready Money" Ryder. And May. McAvoy, the piquant and petite, fe in delight- ful contrast as the sly and wild little "mouse" wito nibbles the ropes of greed, which bind the rich 'man's better nature.
Rejuvenation
The accused went into the pawn- shop of Wing Tal, at 558 Shanghal Street, and offered the bangles la pawn for $60. The pawnbroker took them in and after one test be lived that they were gold, Just as he was going to hand over $60 a. Chinese constable walked in and stopped him. Meanwhile ав employee, who made a fuller and more complete test of the bangles, found them to be imitation, the in- "mouse," accomplishes the remak
The means by which Shirley, the side being silver. The accused gave ing of Ryder, the rejuvenation his address as 670 Shanghai Street of her father, and and the policeman. followed him ture of Ryder's happy-go-lucky son, there When they reached the en-
is the substance of the enthralling trance the decused refused to go oh, whereupon he was arrested..
story, which is a screen revival of
given him the bangles to pawn, and
Accused stated that a friend had Charles Klein's celebrated stage
success of some years back.
Tho scenario was done By he had not been able to get the The reports from elsewhere are "friend," as such a long time had
Robert Lord and Lloyd Bacon must enthusiastic and there is no elapsed since they arrested him. Alex Francis, William Coller, Jr., directed. Others in the cast are doubt that Hong Kong theatre He had just come down from Can Emmett Corrigan and Jack Ackroyd. goers can look forward to a very ton on the day on which the The public is proclaiming "Ther cheery time while this fine com incident happened. pany, is in Tows. "The Peep
Miss Eileen Dawn
The Endless. See-Saw Now there cannot be great exten- slon along this line, else the Natural Hiatory museum would be come a combined zoo and aquarium, and the Botanical museum would turn into hot-house and a garden. But an occasfonai touch of actual life is very enlivening, and much Revue. Company, which will open can be done in the same direction its season next Thursday at-the by what are called ecological ex- Star Theatre, Kowloon, with "The hibits. That is to say, cases can Peep Show... be arranged to show how life is Hved in Nature, to disclose scenes In the drama of the animate, instances of the endless see-saw of Hanger and Love, of carmy for self and caring for others.
It,
the cap-
Inspector James stated that there. Lion and the Mouse" to be one of What delight there is in the Show will be presented on was a big business in these bangles the most brilliant dramas of the tableaux vivants now prominent in Thursday and Friday next, Octo- Canton, where jewellera stamped
year You'll miss a lot by missing the greater museums, such as the ber 10 and 11, followed by two the forged ones, and send them to Betish Museum of Natural His nights each of "High Lights,The the Colony to be sold. tory, or the American Museum Merry Go Round,” Airy Nothings" of Natural History, or the and "N'Everything." Feld Museum in Chicago! Thus Booking is proceeding space at window-panes Alled Moutele's and the Star Theatre, up with scrupulously accurate Kowloon, and seats should be magnifications of the plants and secured an early as possible animals in a teaspoonful of pond
to see
defendant to six weeks hard labour, His Worship, in sentencing the pointed out that the case was a clear one of fraud.
water is to realize the finesse of thee Baird, Talvision Develop under consideration by the Comme modern mureum, Ca
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A proposal. Is understood to be...
Home sjoner of Police Pat ving accepted the which, if adopted, new offer from
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FAUST FILMED
Emil Jannings In New German Ricture
"Faust" a German picture of a nature entirely new to the acresný wil be presented as the chief sty Infringing the regulations, guvern- traction at the Star to day and A new service in the display of Identincadontozorkow
|number plates, receiving a Warning: ted shortly
following the seat on ence instead of being proceeded against by sim. itions as 'at pre
With Emil Jannings, the famous German actor in the Niding role the picture relates in vivid manser Goethe's Immortal drama: of the, triumph of Goodföver. Eyn."-Faurt, however, the nim, lo nồë do much the solentist and charlatan 248 10--|
da the drama, of Goethe
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