ROMECKY
ADVERTISE
IN THE
1933 DOLLAR DIRECTORY Thousands Buy And Use This Handy Little Directory.
Advertise in the next issue and obtain results.
Hong Kong Dollar Directory Co. l'hone 20022 And Our Advertising Manager will be Pleased to Call
HONCKONC'S FINEST CNEHA "
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30.
Holds you
spellbound
every clock-tick
SIX HOURS
TO LIVE
Wamer
BAXTER
John Boles Miriam Jordan
A FOX PICTURE.
ADDED ATTRACTIONI SPECIAL NEWSREEL SHOWING -THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF CANTON'S NEW STEEL BRIDGE.
THE OPENING OF THE EX. HIBITION.
TO-MORROW
BROKEN! SMASHED! Everything sacred évérything dear...now forbidden!
FORGOTTEN COMMANDMENTS
SARI
GENE VIO
MAROUSASTY CHURCH AVING PICHEL
A Grown Actom
There's a new Command in the World. Smashing at the Life. the Morais, the Very LOVE of Millions. Does it threaten YOU?
TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY SUB
EORIENTALE
THEATRE
LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY.
THE FUNNIEST PICTURE
YOU HAVE SEEN
IN MONTHS.
BERT
2 DAYS ONLY TO-MORROW and THURSDAY.
FAIR
WHEELER WARNING
WOOLSEY
PEACH Ở RENO
||WITH THE LOVABLE LUNATICS
DOROTHY LEE
ZELMA O'NEAL
AND JOGEN CAWTUDEN
China Mail.
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1933.
PERPETUAL BUMP ON BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR AMERICA'S
EARTH'S SURFACE.
Caused By Attraction Of The Moon.
SCIENTISTS DISCOVERY,
Atlantic City.
OPENS
(Continued from Page f.)
General Impressions were that the Fair this year, which is certain- by the biggest in the series, was also the brightest and the most variegat- ed.
H.R.H. the Duchess of York visited the White City section of the Fair, and made many purchases during her long Inspection.-Bri- tish Wireless Service.
PRESIDENTS
SHORTLIVED
Six Widows Are Still Living.
...
are
They are the widows of Prest- dents Harrison, Cleveland, Roose- velt, Taft, Wilson and Coolidge,
of them all, Mrs. Wilson and
"
U.S. NOW WITHOUT AN EX-PRESIDENT The earth has a perpetual bump that keeps travelling around under
Washington, District of Columbia. the moon, and stretches the Atlan
The saying that America. "kills tic occan out 3 feet wider at some times than others, according to a tenth of second-important in her presidents" seems borne out speaker at a meeting of the Ameri- such measurements was claimed to by the fact that although the death can Association for the Advance show that the positions of these of Mr. Calvin Coolidge removed two observatories on the earth's the last ex-President, six recent ment of Science.
The travelling bump is caused by surface must change with respect widows of former Presidents the moon's attraction, which stret- the stars, for otherwise the "star still alive. ches the earth out as though it time" at both observatories should were made of rubber instead of be the same. renk, and may upset soms measure-
The only way that the two points ments of the stars made in the past could change their positions would before astronomere knew the bump be by the stretching of the earth's Mrs. "Teddy" Roosevelt bave re- exists, said the speaker.
crust toward the moon, responding mained-perhaps most in the public The earth's bump was said to to the same "pull" that causos eye.
Only one former First Lady, the travel all the way around the globe jocean tides. As the moon travels every 24 hours, like a bump on around the earth it thus pulls out, widow of President Cleveland, re- rubber balloon produced by run-a continuous bump on the earth's married. She lives, with her hus- ning your finger around the inside. surface, which "snaps back" when band, a Professor of Archaeology at Princeton University, in Prince. The effect of the bump, it was the moon has passed.
Discovery of the travelling bump ton, New Jersey. claimed, is to stretch the earth's
This is only the second time surface a little, so that any two may help substantiate the theory) points, such as New York and Lon- that the rocks under the earth's since the death of George Wash- don are farther apart at one time crunt are plastic, enabling them to ington that the United States has in response to the been without a living ex-President. of day than another. The exis-stretch
It may also un-'For a few months between the tence of this "bump" was deduced moon's pull. from a difference found in time set past measurements of the posi- death of Grover Cleveland and the signals determined from the stars, tion of stars, for it means that the retirement of Theodore Roosevelt, sent out from the Greenwich Ob-point from which a star is measur-there was no former President- servatory in England and the U. S. ed is not stationary but is in a a situation comparable to the pre- Naval Observatory. This differ slightly different position at dif- sent, since Mr. Herbert Hoover ence, amounting to as much as a ferent times of the night.--Rauter, retires on March 4-Reuter.
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
AT
2.30, 5.15 7.15 & 9.30.
T'S the
with GEORGE
RKO PATHE
эпар O'BRIEN
picat,
Blood
in❜eat
outdoor
romance
that
George O'Brien
ever
clanked a
pur in.
CENTRAL
THEATRE
ADVANCE BOOKING AT ANDERSON'S.
TO - MORROW
BRITISH & DOMINIONS FILM CORPORATION PRESENTS
A WALLSIAN COMEDY WITH A FLAVOUR OF
ROMANTICISM -
大道中五十四號4
THE GREAT CHINA TREASURE.
IF You require JADE. JEWELLERY, DIAMONDS,
PEARLS, CURIOS, IVORY, GOLD or SILVER WAKE
+ come to us, as we are the biggest dealers and our
號
stocks are the best in Hong Kong,
A Trial is solicited.
A 54A, Queen's Road C.
Tel. 27684
QUEENS THEATRE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW .At 2.30, 5,10, 7:18 & 9.20.
ALAUGH
AND GET RICH
Hop Aboard for the Gayest Jay- ride of Your Lifetime ... A. Six- teen Cylinder Story Speeding à Million Laughs to the Screen.
Brilliant Cast. Depicting the Most Human Story Ever Told
EDNA MAY OLIVER 'DOROTHY LIE HÚCH HERBERT
Directed by Gregory Le Cava
An RKO Radio
Picture
SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTIONS
-NOVELTY-
"HUMANETTES ”
COMEDY
SECOND-HAND KISSES
-FROM THURSDAY- THE BEST BRITISH THRILLER TO DATE.
GIRECTED BE
WM, SEITE
SKO RADIO
PICTURE
olher program copy
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20
& 9.20 P.M.
ZAR OF ROADWAY
JOHN
LISTEN, KID-NIX ON THAT SKIRT!
I raised you to keep your mind on fust 'horses—not on fast women!
A hundred thousand guys have money on you in tomorrow's race and If you.... throw it for that jane ....... It'll be just
too
SEDDIE QUILLAN TOM WALLS
WEEPSTAKES
MARION" NIXON &IEW CODY
with JAMES GLEASON
A CHARLES R. ROGERS PRODUCTION
LEAP YEAR
HE DOMINATES EVERY SCENE
Always have GARDAN in the house!
In the tropics pain and illness are particularly liable to
appear suddenly. In headaches t matism, sciatica, lumbago, m
in fever and its
is of definite valu
When
GANDAR
vrhepe
and above all mptoms, GARDAN
are out of sorts remember.
GARDAN
IVOR NOVELLO
ELIZABETH ALLAN&AW. BASKCOMB
THE LODGER
AT THE
STAR
MARG, BELLOC LOWNDES?.. STORY WILL ENTHRALLYOU
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20. -,
THE PRIZE WINNER OF THE YEAR:
WALLACE BEERY
THE
JACKIE COOPER
"THE CHAMP"
WORLD
Hoyer Prize Winnar.
TO-DAY & TO-MORE AT 236, 5.15,
LAWRENCE TIBBETT
THE PRODIGAL”