THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1958.
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LOVE STORY
ANGEROUS - Exile,"
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is good. She hasn't yet obtained Now th this fim, Belluda Lee that exciting presente we us50. clate with films of this kind. On the other hand she does look And as if she belongs to it, isn't wishing herself somewhere else, or in some other time.
Also in the fim uro Loula Jourdon and Keith Michell.
This film, which comes from in Eastman colour, and achieves the Rank Onanisation is made
effects, some beautiful colour
especially with its cloud and twilight effects.
ter
"Dangerous Exile" was dir- ected by Brian Desmond Hurst, and I recommend the Alm
inclined all those romantically people who faid yesterday, with its forsooth" and swords, and so much swashbuckling heroes,
i mare exciting than today.
66 OPANISH
Affair,"
which opens at the King's and Princess Loday, is a love story set against a of torrid background
amenco music, and filmed on location in Spain.
This colourful and exciting Paramount in Alire mude by
NEW FILMS
ANTHONY FULLER
Belinda Lee as she appears in "Dangerona Exile," which opens today at Queen's and Alhambra.
Starred in this romantic episode is Richard Klley, who is popular on stage exceedingly arct TV. in the States. fe
role of the undertaken
architect who American
hax
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96-YEAR-OLD FLEA EXPERT
STILL AT WORK
By SIDNEY TAILOR
London, Jan. 9.
From the Files
25
years -AGO.
TT is understood that a bro-
Peking dialect has been engaget to teach Chinese literature and la expected to arrive shortly.
DR KARL JORDAN, described by fellow scientists as the by the University of Hongkong.
world's greatest expert on fleas, is still hard at work although he celebrated his 96th birthday in December.
ASTONISHED
A million
different and is larger, it is
species) claimed, than anything in the United States or the Soviet Union.
His conclusions were always original and not even hinted at
On five mornings of every from the famous banking house, nearly weck, he goes to the muscum at because hy was studying insects Tring, near London, established instead of high finance, a sub 64 years ago by the second Lord Jeet which baffled him even in Rothschild and himself and since its more elementary facets. Laken over by the British There, his one ser- Museum. vlosable eye is often pressed to n microscope.
For Dr Jordan helped to lay the foundation of entomological disease--tracing the work on connection between the flet, the the bubonic plague and Fat, man, Just as Ross had linked | that ollier blood-sucker, the mosquito, with malaria.
Awkward in speech and man- ner and never a lover of social life, he regularly angered his father, One biographer has re- called that he was constantly in difculties, whether it was with cassowary or a chorus giri, a Anal income tax demand or a hungry Iguana.
To Cambridge University, he took a large stock of kiwis, and to astonish vent
But probably his greatest con- tribution to selenee has been to reduce the unknown world of the Bea to a system of precise, scholarly identification clussi-Piccadilly by bowling along In fication which has taken him carriage drawn by four lovely
zebras.
over 50 years.
DI
STIMULATED
he
Wow
Among his activities, he amassed the world's then greatest collection of 2,500,000
The St George's Society held annual bail at the Peninsula Hotel yesterday with over 100 Guests of guests attending. honour were H.E. the Governor and Lady Pell.
☆
*
on
by cariler workers. He decided WITH dramatie zuddenness, what were the main or higher polles raiding parties groups of fle or beetle, and descended simultaneously what must be regarded as sub-massage shops in Queen's Road species.
Last night arresting most of the As for as is laown his de- occupations. Police action follow- cisions have never been disputed complaints that these shops ed, Certainly his cutergories were being used for other than of species sub-species have advertised purposes... never been upset. 10s plan of
* the diversified flea is sợ COM- plete that whenever fresh con- tributions are received from ve mote corners of the globe, they always at into a waiting slot.
PAINSTAKING
New York: Ex-President Cal- found in his home at Northamp vin Collidge is dead. He
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ton, Massachusetts, by his wife, If death believed to have been due to heart disease.
*
Ronald
TUIE, fight Rev. Dr
Owen Hall, new Anglican
The study of insects demands fleas, beetles, butterilles and first of all painstaking identi- Bishop of Hongkong, was given moths and brought young Beation. This involves study of a warm welcome by the Victoria In all parts of the world, says
im still
unknown the minutesi detail, such as the Diocesan Missionary Association Eugene Munroe, of the Jordan,
in Germany, over to number of spines and spineless at the Helena May Institute yes- 'Entomology Division in Ottawn, teacher
Nearly 200 are scientists whose work has Fagland in 1883 to classify the along the side of a particular terday afternoon.
including Within a year, genus of dea-which may be as H.E. the Governor
people were present
and Lady stimulated first 300,000. heen Immeasurably by Dr Jurdan, personally or by 60,000 different species had been much as 62.
identifled and arranged, although Jordan had no proper desk in the two cottages which com- prised the museum and the best light
kler.
very
#
work
with
tho
In his latest paper, Dr Jordan Peel.
within
#
at No. 519, the Peak. Maga-
ine Gap. Two fur coats, a red
far neck fur, a new blanket and
с quantity of underclothing
inkes a foreign scientist to lask From 1885 to the present day,
for counting the spinelets down;
For the accond time Dr Jordan has produced!
one side of a fea und then the space of a few months never-ending stream of paper
for Technicolour, mugnoui
assuming that it had the same burglary has occurred at the re- VistaVision and
20th century and publications on Insects,
sidence of Mr WJ. Wadding- brings out tr enchantment of attire, but the love business and ranging from African longicorns microscope was beside a window number down the other side.
on a landing,
In fact, had not. He also ton, Manager of the P&O Bank, faraway cities of romantic con- the jealousy is as old as Adam. to "o very remarkable new
Within few years, Lord points out that a flea's hend Light
Just Jovers tent such as Madrid, Barcelona,
music
will en !rtoin Argentina." appreciate the original Segovia, and Toledo,
before his 90th birthday, he Rothschild had switched him illustrated by the same scientists written by Daniele Amfilheatrof,
He as that of a female is really that completed
difficult from beetles to butterflies. as it contains a wide range of treatise on a group which had had also given him a desk and of a male.
The paper contains erudite were stolen. The total lors de the currently popular damenco
a proper light. puzzled other workers at the
comments like "the forehead of mat at $525. music.
British Museum--"The genus of should have mentioned
Polnearetle and Nearctic Flen." carller that Miss Sevilla is as
The path to fume of Dr renowned on the Continent as a
Jordan, seventh son ("one too dancer and a singer as 10 is as many") of a yeoman farmer in an actress, consequently, she is
in Germany, began when he met called
lake part upon to
a strange Englishman who was several importani musical pro-
on holiday.
This Englishman duction muinbers in the film.
directed, was the second Lord Rothschild, Donald
Siegel
Jarge, and with an Affair" ard
eccentric, "Spanish.
enormous head. He was always commend it as an enjoyable and
on the verge of being dismissed colourful piece of entertainment.
on
to
one to Spain to build an hotel. Since he can speak nu Spanish, no has to engage bilingual
Carmen Sevilla, secretary.
gel round a tough help him assignment.
Now in Spain, yale Miss Sevilla quite high, reckoning her every bit as good, if not better, than other Continentai beauties better known to us.
The film gets its movement from the act that Kiley bas to Spain to inter- Journey roue!
view three members of the board responsible for the hotel he is to build.
Unfortunately. complication set in. The plans for the hotel seem all right, but the plan to tour take Kiley's secretary on
ber Kipsy upsets
lover, Jose who follows them Guardiola, around,
You can't help noticing that the plot is a bit like "Carmen"
KISHI'S S.E. ASIA
PLAN MAY
GET US SUPPORT
By STEWART HENSLEY
Washington, Jan. 9. President Eisenhower's strong plea for intensified offorts to counter the massive Soviet economic offensive was Interpreted hero az indicating that there is a good possibility of considerablo American financial support for Japanese Prime Minister, Nobusuko Kishi's South- oast Asia development plan.
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Japanese officials here any u the pressed great interest in President's remarks on "mutual ald" and "mutual trade" and his emphasis upon the portance of continued efforis to raise the living standards of the non-Communist world.
Eisenhower, in his Sinte of the Union address to the Con- against letting gress, wared preoccupation with military matters obscure the fact that the Communists have embarked on a huge econunde offensive almed at penetrating underi developed countries,
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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
Put Boone
Carmen
ROXY & BROADWAY: "April Love." and Shirley Jones in a musical. KING'S & PRINCESS: "Spanish Affair."
Sevilla and Richard Kiley in a love story. LEE & ASTOR: "The Helen Morgan Story."
Blyth and Paul Newman in the "Roaring Twenties".
Ann
"Dangerous Exile." QUEEN'S, & ALHAMBRA:
Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee and Keith Michell, A story set in the time of the French revolu- tion.
STAR & METROPOLE: "Night Passage." James Stewart and Audio Murphy in a Western. HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Leg Girls." A sparkling show that lets in the New Year with a bang. Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg.
RITZ: "The Killing." Sterling Hayden in
murder.
1
CAPITOL: "Caroline's Fancy." Martine Carol in a
spicy French film. ORIENTAL:
"This Could Be The Night." Jean Simmons and Paul Douglas in a romantic comedy. MAJESTIC: "Brothers In Law." Richard Atten-
borough and Ian Carmichael in a British comedy.
RADIO HONGKONG
5.20 p.m.. Arjon Ted Thorus: 20.
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Citib d. Time
Sidney Torch Stringe: 62, Birthday Bienal of Jano, Armitage: 7,
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Hos and his Orchestra: 8.
8.10, The Top In Popular Musie
Nick Kendall 530 out by American and Japanese Confession of Cault asb. Alfredo The Lawrence Welk show & G officials alike, aims at bolster Antorini and his Orchestrat Continental-Franch Music presented Onicial Ly the economies DI nor Britain Sigs-The Dormick Bingets; by Jeannette Firy: $30,
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11 50, Prelude From Here (Repeat of last Tues Dreamarack; Thus, it would accomplish two days DTORÚCEM): 10.4 Roger Midnight: 12 Midnight, God Save
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10.5%. Werther Report: Xi, rime forth in the President's address srl, Hedio Newsreel 11.18, Good- The bolstering of newly, Mude: i, Close Down.
Independent countries against
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SINGLENESS
With an amazing singleness of purpose which runs like a steel thread through his life, Jordan, working often for into the night, hid systematies" of produced classification, the first reasoning of "the rival key to that port world" of insects occupied by the fen.
the subspecies Stenoponta
Tripectinata Bareann is shorter
species." On such microscopte
than that of three other sub-A DRAY-HORSE was electro- cuted in on Osaka Street re-
under detalls does Identification de-cently. The driver who also felt
a sudden electric shock pend.
and so The science of identification his feet, jumped away, has disposed of the old idea that escaped. Upon police examins- elve. ute restricted in their on It was found that on fleas movements,
factory cuble to Rothschild's Polymic power genis Robert (1995), originally near by, was insufficiently In- described S from southern sulated and earthed through the Brazil, is now known to ronge
horse.
1 northern Venezuela and even 10 Guatemalo, in Central
A fight among wharf coolies Another flea well-
and other America,
ava front workers known as a parasite on certain threatened
to develop into birds in the northern regions serious offroy
on Saturday of the Old and New Worlds has night. A hurried message to the been found in the mountains of Police Station brought out the Panama and in the Philipples. emergency unit and the distur- South American rodent Beas
dance was quickly quelled. have been discovered on sea-
* Lord birds in the Antarctic,
AEROPLANES
ONE of the most
He applied himself to every He missed channel of research. nothing. He paid personal visits to mountainous areas of Europe from the Pyrenees to the Dolo
rites, to Algeria, the Eastern United States, South West Afrles and Angola. He wes interested In all animals but only for the fleas they carried. In his world-famous partner ship
Charles, with
sensational Rothschild's younger brother, he
jewel robberies during the helped to establish, in 1980, that
past few years occurred aboard the widely distributed tropical
the NYK iner, Kashina Maru Xenopsy ila flea,
Cheopis, transmits the bubonic plagie. Fleas have used seabirds as between Shanghai and Hangkong while the vessel was travelling which, in the East, is often re well as ships' rat for travel. last week. The victim was garded as an "act of God." Lord They now also use aeroplanes.
the
HS. Wood, proprietress Rothschild
of the first found
Today, Dr Jordan is hailed by Jade Tree and the value of the specimen when he was not con- scientists as one of the world's jewellery stolen approximates cerned with the plague but was
greatest biological and entomo- $20.000. studying fleas for their own logical thinkers. 11 has been suld of him; "He is 50 years phen of is time, but he hus V.G. Coates and P. Hughes, lived long enough for fame to who were recently sentenced to catch up with him.
Imprisonment for slowing away, He is honorary life president were yesterday committed to the periding of the National Commission of House of Dentention Zoological Nomenclature and of arrangements for sending them the International Congresses of away.
sлke.
THE LARGEST
Eventually, it was to become clear that the absence of plague
in some arcus of India during
a particular visitation was due Entomology. He is recognised 11-
Xenopsyllo thority
on
Mrs
To the fact that the rat fleas throughout the world there
not were
and zoology
killed and 21 injured in the Cheopls but Astie.
out in the monstrated how important it is Anthribid beetles, various other riots that broke
Sunday to study the various species of groups of insects and natural Barcelona districts on
night. There were 22 arrests in flea and classify and catalogue history in general. them.
Dr Jordan says that hunting Catalonia. The fighting was due Noted
rapid worker, the fea "requires more time and to a combination Anarchist and Jordan usually spent 16 hours patience than hunting any of the Syndicalist rising mainly
centrated on the barracks, "It may describing a new flea or beetle. European, animals.
Under the management of the happen," he adds, "that the ob- British Museum, he became one Ject of your search turns upon of the principal experts, preside you, which makes it a ticklish ing over a collection which now affair that leads to bloodshed," tolale
15,000,000 Insects (ot-China Malt Special.
This de taxonomy, the Lepidoptera, priADRID: Allogether ten were
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Filly-seven students receiveți their degrees from the hands of
the Chancellor of the Hongkong University, Sir William Peel, at of the the Congregation Day University yesterday.
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