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HARNESSING POWER OF VOLCANOES.
Energy Utilised for Industrial Purposes.
SCIENTISTS' SUCCESS.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.
RUSSIAN DRAMA.
ANDREYEV PIECE AT THE LITTLE.
"BETRAYAL."
London, Jan. 8.
EXECUTION MOB
SCENES.
Woman Tells How She Killed Her Son.
Vienna, Jan. 13.
If you want to see how extreme ly Bussian a Russian dramatist can "I killed my sou Sandor. Volcanoes have never been of be when he really puts his mind "After he had drunk the poison it much use to mankind. Awake they to it, go to the Little Theatre and catae into my mind what a wonder- are violent and incorrigible and do see "Betrayal." And f you find ful voice he had. I remember when nothing but harm. Asleep and Leonid Andreyev's play (as I find be used to dominate the singing in idle, they are endured, and menit) rather too earnestly Eussian for church with his rich tenor. have been glad to let them lie, your personal taste, you may be "As I waited for the poison to Yet to engineers it has long seem certain of compensation in the ex-work I thought how nice it would ed a gross waste that the trementremely powerful acting of Mr. be to hear him sing just once before dous energy of these giants should David Horne. not be harnessed and put to work. Mr. Horne appears as one
he died. I asked him for my Dr. favourite, love song.
Of late, the men of science hava Kerjentzeff, f brain specialist, "He sang it for me lying there. given special study to the problem who, in the arrogance of intellect, wonderfully, beautifully. with all of taming the monsters and have curries out an experiment upon the power and feeling of his young even begun to succeed at the seem himself. He plans to murder a heart. Suddenly he broke off, grip- ingly superhuman task.
man whom he hates, and then, by ped both his hands to his side Already means have been found pretending madness and a wubae-uttered one despairing cry 'Mother," whereby steam from subterranean quent recovery, to escape punish and lay still. sources can be utilised for indus-meht, for the crime.
"He sighed once or twice and it trial purposes. In Italy electricity The murder is committed. The was over. I laid him on the bed, derived from volcanic heat is sont doctor is certibed and put into an folded his hands over his breast, over wires to Florence, Leghorn, asylum. But here the brain that and put on my mourning dress and Piombino and other cities and has carried him into his experi- went out."
towns for light and power. Borment betrays him, for he suddenly
A Concessioni.
Making Her Wil ings for volcanic steam are now loses confidence in his own sanity. This confession was made by being made on the slopes of Eina, Is he. after all, pretending to be Maria Kardos, the fifty-three-year- and also on the island of Culeano, mad, or is he mad indeed? That old prisoner from the village of which is one of the Lipari group is the question with which the play Nagyrev. Hungary, who was exceut- north of Sicily.
concerns itself, and to which ited publicly, for her crime at Szolnok provides no dednite answer. Per-this morning. The Lipari Islanda are Aub-sonally I felt. after three acts of The prison was besieged by a. sidiary peaks of Stromboli whose it, that I did not much care what mob, and scenes recalling the crater was supposed by the an the answer might be.
storming of a fortress took place at elents to be the main entrance to
But I had no suck detached feel-dawn. Ladders were erected Pluto's frey realm. Vulcano was ing about Mr. Horne's acting. His against the prison wall and dozens the headquarters of the blacksmith picture of a man who, mad or sane. of men and women scrambled over god.
is hovering on the border-line be-the top. Windows and roofs of
In Bolivia the Government has tween the two, spares neither him-surrounding houses were black with granted a concession for the uso self nor his audience. It is violent onlookers,
of steam from Mount Tatio, in the land baldly realistic, but it is never Maria spent the last night mak- Sud Lipor District, meor the crude or uncontrolled. The only ing her will, leaving the tiny farm, -- Chilean frontier. The Volcano is essential that it lacks, for want of the fruit of her crime, to a distast to be made to drive tarbine many years ago a controversy gines, which are expected to elec- being a really big achievement, is
en- which it falls definitely short of remtive. raged for some months on
At aix o'clock she was wakened the trify all the Bolivian railroads. pathos, Mr. Horne moves us subject of film censorship, owing
to and given a glass of brandy. A Important as the development of horror, but cannot command
our visitor was announced. It was to some quite unsuitable reels has proved in Northern Italy, there
the usefulness of voleanle steam tears,
young Stephan Todor, the lover for His company from the Cam-whom she had killed having been officially approved. are also great opportunities in the bridge Festival Theatre give him and son. When the interview was -
her husband The Plice authorities countered Yellowstone Park region of the sound support. Miss Flora Robson over she was led away to death.
scaffold by the warders.
the
all criticism by inviting three United States. The geysers and shows fine quality in the last scene. She had to be carred to the boiling springs of that country in in which the wife of the murdered private citizens to co-operate.dicate terrific temperatures to be man visits the doctor in his cell. This scheme worked admirably found not far underground. In the Mr. Evan John, Mr. Roy Malcolm, fell there was a shout from the When the support of the platform whilst it was ip force. The so-called Fire Hole district the Miss Margery Phipps-Walker, and crowd, and Stephan Tondor, the authorities were satisfied.
whole country seems to be burn Mr. Pascoe Thornton do well in lover, who had stayed until the end, The
Doubtless the Yellowstone smaller parts.W.A.D. in London dashed screaming ing. public was satisfied.
out of A similar was the scene of tremendous erup-Daily Telegraph.
courtyard into the street. scheme might not be a bad thing tive activity not very long ago, for this Colony indeed, it has The engineera sce. great pos- [sibilities in the American national great possibilities for
NEW CARDIFF BRIDGE. good park as a source
of cheap clec- As we have stated above, the trical power, the most attractive
End of 18 Months" {growth of cinemas here is such thing in the world to the manufac-
Work.
as to make much greater inroads turer. Hence, perhaps before, the
OLD VIC OPERA.
"FAUST."
London, Jan. 8.
end of the present century, new "Faust" invariably attracta A
on the time of the official censor and prosperous industrial cities large audience at the Old Vic, and The new bridge at Cardiff, which or censors. He or they cannot be will arise in that part of the coun- Miss Margery Phipps-Walker, and cunnects the city with the populous blamed for passing something of try, vitalised oy electricity derived secret of its success lies in a tale Canton suburb and which was to be from the volcanic plants of the which combines so much humanity opened just before Chrisanas, is the which the majority of a cinema Yellowstone.
with every device dramatists and third to be erected since the nya audience would disapprove. Wê The requisite experimental work anrrator have ever used to arouse of the old wooden structures, tho have all at one time or another has already been done, largely, at our feelings, or in the music which last bridge which carried all cast seen films which contained reels least, in Italy. The Italian ca- is by turns, popular, polished, bril- and west bound traffic having one that made us wonder if a censor-problems.
gineers hava solved the chief liant, or sincere. But whether the duly since 1959. The piers and One important thing poet or the musician deserves the abutments of the first prone bridge Hong Kong, Wednesday, March 4, 1931, ship existed at all! The matter they have learned is that it will greater share of credit for the erected in the latter part of the of a Film Board or Committee is not do to use the volcanic steam continued favour the opera hus en-eighteenth century are still in situ well worth considering.
[direct for driving engines, because joyed, and still enjoys, there is no and have been utilised
The new bridge, whien is 250ft.
steam from pure water. To resist been,
famous nursery of parapets, consists of four spans. The Yet curiously the corrosive artion, the apparatus talent.
enough, parapet is of Portland stone balus- that handles the volcanic steam is every ainger who appears on tera with panelled dies carrying a provided with pipes of aluminium.is stage suggests vast stores moulded coping. The abutments
FILM CENSORSHIP.
A writer in a Sydney paper
makes a plea for a stricter code
for the
it contains corrosive, chemical questioning the part played by the northern side of the new structure. salts. They employ the subter-performers. MR. M. A. BAPTISTA. ranean vapour as fuel to make The Old Vic is, and has long long and 70ft. wide letween the
of censorship of films. Pictures FUNERAL AT ROMAN CATHOLIC are extensively patronised by
CEMETERY. children, whose immature intel-
"JUMBO" PRACTITIONERS.
The Home of the Magicians.
- MANHATTANS.
doctore
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of experience; they all fit in are marked by ornamental pylons the goneral scheme so admirably. enriched by carved patiele bearing And our admiration grows when, the coat of arms of the City of ligences are impressionable and The funeral of Mr. M. A.
as was the case last night, the per- Cardiff in high relief. The prions more open to demoralising in- Baptista; an old employee of the
formance repeats features which, themselves are designed to carry fluences than those of adults. In firm of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and
in the main, are (or, should be) bronze electric light Landards, a' known to every lover of opera in pair being attached to the face of censorship everything depends on Master, whose death was reported
London.
each pylon. The new bridge forms the personal equation. What one Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, yesterday, took place at the Roman
Mies Joan Cross. (Marguerite), a logical development of the Duke censor may pass another may cut last evening.
New York, Jan. 6.
Mr. A. Cox (Faust), Mr.. F. Kelsey Street widening scheme carried out or entirely eliminate. With the
The Rev. Fr. L. Rossi conducted stocked with voodoo
The Island of Manhattan is weli (Mephistopheless, and Mr. P. Aus in 1926, and gives a carriageway specialists, tin (Valentine) were, no doubt, of 50ft. clear with tan footpaths witchcraft growth of cinemas in Hong Kong the burial service at the graveside. it may pertinently be asked whe-ceased's four sons, Messrs. R.D., to cure ills of the heart, mind or the spectator the adequacy with out on the northern side.
The chief mourners were the de-jumbo practitioners, all pretending been familiar for some time.
and humble doing a task with which they have each 9ft. wide. The whole of the To widening of 25ft, has leen carried ther the code of censorship is too M.F., A., and F. Baptista.
body through incantation, accard- which every demand of the com- The work of rebuliding, which elastic and whether the time has There was a large and representa- ing to officials of the Bellevue poser is met, the slickness of the has cost approximately £20,000 ex- not arrived to raise its standard.tive gathering, of friends.
Yorkville health demonstration, who ensemble, the unanimity of thought clusive of the approaches, hat Censors are usually busy Govern-
announced a campaign against the and outlook are always new and occupied nearly a year and a half, evil in all its aspects. men Servants and unwittingly
jourprising, and a never-falling one-way traffic having heen moin- New York, in fact, holds almost source of delight. Mr. Corrl con- tained over the bridge in the mean. they may pass a film that contains
Ba many voodoo doctors as the ducted as usual, and the discipline time. The new structure will add - something undesirable from the
island of Haiti. They prey prin- of his orchestra was never more considerably to the southetic and point of view of juvenile audi-
cipally upon the foreign element brilliantly justified than when the architectural amenities of the city, A novel use for radio on a motor and their methods of curing disease chorus mlased & bar (in | and, with Cardiff Castle In the back- énces
even Oriental
car, enabling the driver to throw his are many and variod.
the prologue), the players follow-ground, will form an impressive op- audiences, adult or juvenile.voice several hundred yards ahead,
ing them as if they had been catchproach to the city from the western Naturally, the code of censorship has been devised by an Exide bat- The witchcraft doctors have manying un erring, choristers all their side, while the view northwards here cannot have
tery servico agent at Wednesbury, strange potions to the same
prescribe for Staffordshire, England. The basis, as,
ap- their patients. A person suffering any, in Sydney paratus comprises a microphone on from perennial chilblains, for in- London. What has to the steering wheel, a four valve stance, might be given a salve com- borne in mind is
the amplifier under the dash board, a posed of the following ingredients: The death occurred at her re: probable effect of a film, or even batteries. High tension current is three-legged calf.
loud speaker under the honnet and Hair off the right shoulder of a sidence, 224, Wanchal Road, yester- of a small part of a film, upon the supplied by an Exide battery of 220
day, afternoon, of Mrs. Alaiya Soon-port (Mon.), from designs, prapar- Oll taken from a 1918 made deram, wife of Mr. Scopin Soon-ed by Mr. C. H. Whitaker, the class of audience obtaining hero, volts, the low tension for the ampli--Ford,
deram, senior clerk in the Mercan Cardiff City Engineer and Archi- The task of censoring what has fer being obtained from the starter Copper scrappinga from a police- tis Marine Office, which ho falned tect, and his staff,
battery. Pedestrians, cyclists and man's whistle. been approved at Home, or, even policemen are hailed by a voice
88 years ago.
or
be
or
BROADCATSING, WARNINGS.
Car That Shouts.
Strange Potions.
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Crushed pebbles from Buffalo
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towards the Garth Mountain gives a delightful stretch of riverside and woodland beauty seldom encounter- ed in the heart of a large-town-
The bridge has been built by Mr. J. M. Broudfoot, contractor, New
Ten Years Ago.
UProm. thủ “Chi Thit oỂ March 4, 192LI
viable one. But-it may be ask-ty, to board the trams more rapidly, The mixtures of medicines, con-obtains as many rabbit feet as ho ed-why should approval or dis- policeman the direction It is intend in most cases composed of Ingredi- drugglet is negligible.
to the point-duty cocted by the evil-eye doctors, are can use. The actual cost to tho approval of a controversial filmed to take. Designed for publicity ents as unbelievable as these. ac- Some of the quacks actually main be left to one" individual? Why purposes, the talking car has proved cording to officials of the demon Lain "temples" in which they per should there not be a Filme 30 successful that it opens up wide stration.
form their rites for caring hraken
To-day's dollar is worth 2/8 . possibilities in police work, as it Board, composed partly of Gov- would enable the driver to ask a
hearts, Ingrown toenails, tuber- In Harlem, it is said, a drugstore culosis and other allmerts.
Owing to congestion, the old ernment officials and partly of point-policeman the direction taken specialises in the sale of rabbit feet They call attention to the prac- course at Fanling is to be closed to private citizens with no pecuniary by car being chased without slow to superatiitous negroes at a drilar tice, of two so-called "professors" Indies from noon on Saturdays and Interest in cinemas or films? In to obtain a clear crossing at Inter seems; has an account with a chain month in advertising their abilities. The new course will remain open to ing-down, and also makes it easier per foot. The negro pharmaciat, it who spend approximately $8,000 all day on Sundays from March 12. one of the Straits Settlements sections.
of butcher shops through which he United Press.
Rabbit's Feet.
them: as "unnal.