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"FAZIL, PRINCE OF ARABIA."
ROMANTIC LOVE STORY AT THE QUEEN'S.
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The Devout Lover" 'Toggin' Along The Highway"
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148 p.m.-Weather Report, Having seen and read the adatration Programme.
3.30 pm to 6.30 pm.-Demon vertisements of Fazil you may
7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather Re- a doubt port. some of you have falt whether you would like it. There
8 p.m
to 10.30 p.m.-Evening have been pictures which have Programme. (Victor and H.M.V. caused good many people to ask Records). what the censo was about when he passed them, and "Fazil " sounds as though it may he one of these. However, but for one scene in the harem which is not, if you look at it dispassionately, nearly as
A Gay Caballero " bad as many scenes in films of far less exotic character. there is little at which any one could take
"Senorita " offence in Faril, and a great desi "They Calley It You" which is very beautiful. There is,
Melville Cideon, Baritone. too, all the difference in the world My Wireless Set "
John Henry, Comedian. Valley of Laughter Bird of Love Devine"
between Greta Nissen and Greta -Garbo.-
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 1928.
STERILIZATION OF
ABNORMALS.
SOCIAL WORK OF THE LEAGUE
INSECTS MAN HAS TO CONTEND WITH.
OPPOSED BY GREAT FRENCH BRITISH ACTION CRITICISED.
DOCTORS.
INSUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE
TO JUSTIFY IT...
PARIS, Nov. £3rd. Sterilization of abnormala 'in order to eliminate from the race #defectives" of all kinds is again widely discussed in Francs follow ing denunciation of such operations by the most eminent paychiatric ex- pert in the country, Doctor Tou louse, director of the Henry- Rousselle Psychiatrie Hospital In Paria
QUESTION OF "LICENSED HOUSES" IN THE EAST.
MANCHESTER MUSEUM
LECTURE.
" AMERICANIZATION OF CANADA.
INCREASES DAY BY DAY.
BRITISH WRITER'S VIEW.
mendous Already the States hold just one half in stocks and shares and bonds of Canadian enterprises. This financial hold cannot but ultimately influence Canada's poli tical future.".
In his Manchester Museum lec- ture. Mr. Harry Britten, F.E.S., Dame Catherine Furse," address- gave an interesting account of the ing the annual meeting of the Lan many insects which had accor
Cheshire Association panied man, in his mugrations from the time be first clothed himmil în cashire and for the Abolition of State Regulatura and used wood for weapons tion" of Vice, at the Manchester Town Hall, described her talk as and implements or in the construc some of the gossip which was being tion of his habitation and furni- indulged in at Geneva in connecture, and formed stores of grain In general terms, these are the tion with the Assembly of the and fruits for his sustenance. doctor's conclusions:
"We have not yet established League of Nations, and said that the effect on the general state of in the social work of the League in health of a patient who has under-
particular, the British delegates gone such an operation.
We might add to the victims' should be pushed along Regard. Frank Crumit. miseries and, for all we know, ing finance, he said the British make them a greater, menace to Delegation, were acting rather like
a nursery governess, They were spoke of the silver-fah, which love article in the Sunday newspaper to all prevailing influences èmanat-- society.
The best way is to keep them keeping back the budgets consistent under supervision and,, as the tainty and were fighting almost every is neither fatal nor inevitably inch of the way hereditary, allow them to marry," I think," she said, that when except in maniacal cases, where we consider the fact that our con- the estimate for the stationery for the navy alone, we shall not per haps feel quite so anxious."
Percy Heming, Baritone. "I Learned About Women
From Her"
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The lecturer dealt with many of these insects in. the order in which they are arranged by toologists, from the lowlieat upwards to the most highly specialised, illustrating his remarks with a series of special
prepared lantern slidce, He
the fireside and show a decided pres Ference for all kinds of starchy preparations, such as paste used for binding or as a glaze for the highly polished surfaces of papers; the book lause, eo often seen on our leaves and covers of our books, and is one of the insects which produce a ticking sound known as the death watch and have been the dread in the past; the many species mach superstitious
is use-
LONDON, November 22nd. Despite the fact that the question where will the Americanization of Canada end?" is of vital im. portance to the British Empire, British writers curiously enough seem persistently to ignore it, and As citing how American customs it is ordinarily only once in many
have 'penetrated the life of Canad
pounded in the press.
national game is baseball, an months that the question is pro-ians, Goodwin points out that the American institution, instead of Even then the question is usually cricket, the British national pas treated in a vein that infers the time. Further the fashions in both answer will not be found in this men's and women's clothes are generation or the next and so many purely American, things may happen between this and Even Quebec Vielding. the third generation that.
Quebec, which resisted outside in- less to worry over contingencies so
Ruences more determinedly than remote in the future.
When therefore in an important any other provinces in the Domin- ion, today is rapidly succumbing The Referee, the well-known journ alist George Goodwin recently south of the Canadian border.
Not many years ago," stressed the problem of the United
tinues Goodwin,
Quebec's States peaceful penetration Canada-not as a contingency of the people were well contented with future-but J one of the most their rigorous life on the land. be jolted British complacency into younger generations are leaving the. a current interests in the problem ancient province for New England. of Canada's future relations with There are to-day 630,000 French- Canadians in New England, and the British Empire. Goodwin facts as he sees them. brings home with emphasis the they form a funnel through which American ideas pass to those who have remained faithful to the Canadian soil.'"
of
COA-
rural
Mavis Bennett, Soprano./gregation and confinement would tribution to the League is only half | book-shelves, where it nibbles the striking political facts of to-day," They are no longer so. Quebec's
Oh, You Have No Idea ** How About Me
Gracie Fields, Comedienne. Roses of Yesterday" Just A Night For Meditation"
Jesse Crawford, Organ Sels. "Is It British I'
The story is romantic and per. haps a little improbable but it has an undercurrent of essential truth and tragedy and is very well told. Fazil Prince of Arabia, níects and marries a lovely Parisienne. When on a diplomatic mission to Venice They spend a short time together ia Paris, deeply in love and very happy, but the inevitable moment arrives when the man realises that he cannot fire the life of the West1 and that his wife cannot under- stand the conventions of the East. He leaves her to, enjoy alone the freedom which he cannot counten- ance, and goes back to the desert in an attempt to forget her. The woman finds liberty without him no longer possible and follows, promis- ing to live the life of an Arab, woman. Naturally she finds it un- bearable, and a "plan is made by her friends to reacue her. The final scene is laid in the desert at night, Fazil hurrying after his wife, is shot by her friends, but hefore be dies he answers her ap-i neal to take her back and never let her leave him again by placing: a poisoned, ritg on her finger.
The various backgrounds in Venice, Paris, the Arabian palace, and the desert, are beautifully arranged. There is no over niishness such as so often dwarfs the drama, but cach succeeding scene is pleasing artistically and of real importance to the story. The two leading actors Charles Farrell (of "Seventh Heaven" fame) and Greta Nissen play their parts exceedingly well. They do nothing to vulgarise the story over in their most intimate
love scenes, and the atmosphere of ideal love overshadowed by inevit able tragedy is very cleverly achieved.
"Fazil, unless you are of a puritanical turn of mind. is a film to see. You may feel that a veil might have been drawn over some scenes, but you vill remember others as among the most beautiful the screen has given us. You can hardly fail to be touched by a tale which is so well told by the prin- cipal actors and the cast in general.
V.C. INJURED IN A WAR
FILM.
CLAIM AGAINST A PRO- DUCER.
** JAM: TIN " BOMBS. Injuries received by à V.C. while re-enacting for film purposes the deed for which he was decorat ed with the award "For Valour" were revealed in the King's Bench Division, when Mr. Leonard Key HOT, of Maida Vale, sued Mr. G. B. Samuelson, the film producer, of Wardour-street, London, for damages for personal injuries and Alleged breach of contract.
The hearing was adjourned. Mr. Keysor received the Victoria Cross for an act of bravery in August 1915, while serving as a private with the 1st Battalion of the Australian Imperial Forces in the trenches at Gallipoli.
He was taking part in the mak ing of a film to be entitled For Valour at Mr. Samuelson's studios at Isleworth in October 1027, when, owing to the explosion of a bomb, his jaw was fractured aud his left arm and knee were damaged.
Mr. Keysor alleged that Mr. Samuelson was negligent in taking the film, and that in consequence he was in hospital for five and a half weeks, and had been per manently disfigured. Mr. Samuel son denied negligence or that there had been any breach of contract.
achieve the same ends as steriliza tion in preventing procreation."
The views of Dr. Toulouse have become known at a time when. medical authorities in France are in controversy as to the cause of Crimes of passion, of which there
has been a noticeable increase while other experts are convinced Think Of You"
that the ware of perversion, and Norman Long, Comedian, debauchery which has swept the The Stocking "
capitals of Europe, drawing boys and girls into the vortex, has been stimulated by mental abnormali ties which are becoming more and more pronounced among certain types.
John Henty and "Blossom. Gems from "Aida"
Victor Light Opera Company, "Troika En Traineaux " "Polka De W.R."
Rachmanino, Pianoforte 10 p.m.-British Official Wireless Press.
"Les Preludes "
Symphonic Poem
San Francisco Symphony
Orchestra.
"Tambourin, Chinois !! "Thais Meditation
Kreisler, Violin,
The main question in the League's work concerning traffic in women was whether the recent inquiry should be extended. There, was a wish that the experts should be sent into the Eastern and Far Eastern countries to study and report on conditions "there. The British Dele-
gation had fought against the giving as their main reason that the experts would be too tired to go of a further round. (Laughter.) The Association, she suggested, could do a great deal of good by Naturally, Europe's best alienists concentrated on finding a solution.ging that this inquiry should be of the problem.
Doctor Examinas 21,000 Cases, With the object of obtaining the most influential opinion possible on the subject, Dr. Toulouse was approached. Specializing in the care of mental cases with unusual features, he came before the publie eye when he proposed & reform of the French penal code of 1838 re lating to the mentally affected. He stated the theory that the majority of these malades" are purely Frodor Chaliapin, Bass. psychopathic subjects, who should God Save The King. be cared for and observed in pay- chiatrie centres specially created for the work. In four years he has examined 21,000 cases,
"Prince Igor
How goes It Prince ? Song of the Viking Guest "
Ine down..
STUDY OF A PEOPLE BY
ITS THEATRES.
LORD LYTTON'S EXPERIENCE.
Lord Lytton, presiding at the Imperial Institute at the inaugural meeting of the diploma course in dramatic art, organised by the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, spoke of the value of the theatre in connection with language study.
carried farther,
On the question of the abolition of licensed houses the French had at the last meeting of the Traffic in Women Committee fought against a resolution recommending their abolition.
Cause
of so
Every Aspect.
The Americanization of Canadian
ture and amongst bis stores of food- of beetles which live in his farni-
stuff; the flies which pass on dialife, he writes, has penetrated every ensa sither by injecting the germs where, coloured every aspect of the into the blood or by walking over Dominion. food and carrying infection on
their feet and bodies; the various
clothes moths which attack house. hold treasures, whether in the form of choice carpets or clothes or even the hammers of the grand piano. and others living amongst stores of 5rain and dried fruits.
Several insects were described as following their various insect hosts into the houses, which provide ex- cellent hunting grounds and an easy means of getting a livelihood,
Iso a few specialised insects which live parasitically on one or other of the many species of house. told insects.
and I had thought that recent cases and the showing up of certain things that were going on in Hyde Park would have made the French even more determined to fight any question of abolition, because there is no question in the police mind here in England and abroad that
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geo-
Goodyin thinks it will be a long time before the United States ac- tually annexes Canada, but, graphical propinquity, a common The Cinema industry is com language and a common currenty, pletely American," he writes. the unbalanced population distribu-
The theatres are Americancwned. tion of the North American con- i their performances American pro- tineant, with the Southern and ductions. The Canadian accent smaller half containing 191,000,000 grows less and less distinguishable and the Northern and larger half s
from the Yankee accent.
mere 9,000,000 are factors that no "The financial grip of the amount of national sentiment ap United States on Canada is tre-parently can counteract.
ARTIFICIAL MEN.
CHEMIST'S VISION OF SYNTHETIC BEINGS.
perhaps we shall be able by a pro, cess yet undiscovered so to incubate and to nurse, as it were, this sub- stance of protoplasm as to produce a living being like ourselves. To those who dismiss this as a dream A suggestion that perhaps in the
of the future, rather idle, perhaps, year 2423 artificial men may be and even rather wild, I would created in chemists laboratories point to the enormous strides made in synthetic organic chemistry was put forward by Mr. H. T. F. Rhodes, the general secretary of even in the last fifty years. What the British Association of Chemists, may not happen in five hundred speaking at the Association's an years f
The New Workers. nual dinner at Birmingham,
"Suppose it were possible per-
Chemical science, aid Mr.
marry before they are able to choose it is only by maintaining these and be perfectly sure that they houses, that you will maintain marry the right man."
« Film Censoring. decency in the streets.
a hope Early Marriages.
Dame Catherine added Mental maladies are only tog Dealing with the fact that in
that the censors of films would surely among the most hereditary," England last year thers were 34 receive most support from local Dr. Toulouse declared when ques-girls married at the age of 15 and authorities, and that if possible. Ehodes, had 'now entered upon thehaps in a thousand years hence for tioned on sterilization.
"In this way we can explain the 383 at the age of 18. Dame Cathe steps should be taken to censor the cases of "precocious dementia with fine said it seemed a little early. posters exhibited outside cinemas
It might be all right, but the There was a very strong feeling certain young people who are most often issue of parents' tainted or thought the danger was that people among politicians that the social simply psychopathics. The ner looked upon it as a way to make work of the League was not of very That great importance. They did not vous system is predisposed to cer- the girl an honest woman. tain influences-mental and physi- reason had actually been given by seem to realise how much the bring. cal fatigue, to emotional shock, to the Home Secretary in reply to a ing of nations together to discuss these questions. was going to pre intoxications and, above all, to in deputation on the subject..
pare the way disarmament. fections.
"Do not let us be content with reports and resolutions." he con cluded, but let us see that the country does really ratily and sup. port the League in its conferences."
The Taint Is Not Fatal. "Is it absolutely necessary to prevent them all from marrying, from procreating! The transmis sion of the 'taint' is not fatal.
"I have just come back from Geneva, where I have been living | for the last three weeks in an inter
national world and an inter. Their descendants will not neces national atmosphere," hearing noth- ing but international thoughts ex.arily be tainted, but may not only be more or less normal but some pressed," he said. "Among the subjects we discussed at the League timer gifted with rare intellectual of Nations was one which was qualities.
You see, then, that the sterili-
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"MRS. BOOTH ON THE
"ARMY SPLIT.
generally regarded as most interzation of all-abnormals is not justi. esting of all-I mean the subject fied." of intellectual co-operation.
"In all work of intellectual co operation between countries the drama surely has a very important part to play. For the purpose of acquiring a foreign language 1 know of nothing better than to attend the theatre in that country and hear the language spoken. Similarly for the purpose of un- derstanding the social customs, habits, and method of life of the people of a country, I think there is again no better way than to see
· PROTEST FROM THE GEN--
ERAL'S BEDSIDE.
The following message has been sent by Mrs. Booth to Balvation Army staff officers throughout the world.
Though dated from her office in Queen Victoria-street, it was pre- its contemporary drama on thepared while she was in close atten- stage.
dance on her husband, whose side she has not left since the illness from which he is suffering became
I myself have been helped to earn languages by attending the theatre, and have been able to study the habits of the people by studying the modern drama of that country,
Mr. Ashley Dukes, speaking oa "The theatre international," said in Germany at the present time German playrights were complain- ing that there was little demand for their work, owing to the Ger man stage being 'occupied with the works of Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, and Noel Coward
Mr. Dukes said that far from harming the theatre. he thought the kinerna had done the theatre a "great deal of good by provoking. thought about it. So far as he knew there were no dramatista on the "mories" though there were. plenty of producers.
Bombed By Turks. Mr. J. D. Cassets, K.C., for Mr. Keysur, said that while he was in Callipoli a trench was bombed by the Turks Mr. Keysor picked up live bombs projected into the Mr. Leonard Keysor, who took trench and threw them back. He the oath-in-the-Jewish-fashion, was awarded the V.C. for that tad said, in describing the accident, his gallant work a few hours later that a man was throwing bombs in in encouraging the other men. to the trench, and he was picking His V.C. was stolen in England them up and flinging them back. by thieves, who subsequently re- turned it in an unstamped en- Evelope...
Mr. Samuelson had an idea to produce a film, a feature of which was that a man who had won the V.C. should act in it, and he was also going to incorporate in it the incident of the thieves who stole (Continued at foot of next column.)
Mr. Cassels: What sort of bombs were they?
Mr. Keysor: "Jam tim" bomba He was blind in one eye for the time being and had a tooth broken, besides other injuries. He was in. bed five weeks, and his doctor aut sequently said that he must go away somewhere sunny for holiday and suggested Monaco, where no went
acute:--
I confidently rely on you to stand by the principles of the Salvation Army as laid down by our reverend founder William Booth.
I greatly regret that during this his centenary year, dissen- sions should arise in the Army so dear to him and to us all.
Agitation and controversy while the general is so fll is a deep sor- row to all who love him. I know you will continue to pray for him and to manifest at all times the spirit of our Lord and Baviour.
Do not be distracted from the purpose to which you have con- secrated your life. The Army belongs to God, and. God will bring. it through, Trust Him.
Mrs. Booth and the General's family are grieved by the publicity given to the calling of the High The only purpose for Council. which the council can be called, they point out, is to depose the
General.
the family, a step that is taken "It is not," said a member of
against him, we know, but against the individual who might be named- as his successor. The only way the blow can be struck is scross the sick-bed of the General."
General. Bramwell Booth who at one time was reported to be ink- ing is now well on the rond" to
Whether these marriages turn out happily or not, I think an organisation like this might well interest itself in the matter and try and make sure that girls should not (Continued on next Column).
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