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There's trouble ahead for the census "man when he begins count ing heads in Hollywood.
From a box office standpoint, names of film celebrities means everything.
But to the census enumerator they mean nothing, because in 99 cases out of a hundred they have been merely assumed for screen purposes.
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For instance, who would ever think Dolores Del Rio was born in Mexico as Lolita Dolores Asunsalo
de Martinez And that the popular Richard Dix was Mrs. Briramer's
little boy Ernest
Hardly anyone in Hollywood ever heard of Asa Yoclzen, but just let someone mention Al Jolson. They're one and the same.
Lape Vales, dark-haired senorita, once upon a time was Miss Quada lupe Villalobos The name of her tall, goodlooking fiancé, Gary Cooper, is really Frank.
**Shining'' Stär.
Nick Stuart and Sue Carol are husband and wife, but when they eloped to Ventura, California, last July, Nick used his Rumanian cognomen, Nicule Pratza, and Sue signed the license as Evenyn Lederer Kiefer.
When Rasmus Karl Thekelson, Gottlied was given a job in pictures the directors had a terrible time un til they decided Karl Dane was
much easier to say.
John Gilbert, the dashing Romeo, is John Pringle. His wife, Ina Claire, was born as Iaa Fagen. Gilda Gray, the girl who made the "shimmy famous on stage and screen, used to be called Marianna Michelsen. Elsie Janis was a Bier-: bauer, and Fannie Brice one of the Baroch children.
Reel-and Real Names, Other film players and their real
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AN EPOCHMAKING DISCOVERY.
INVISIBLE GERMS OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Professor Albert Calmette, a director of the Pasteur Institute and a bacteriologist of world-wide fame, has made a communication to the French Academy of Medicine. of very unusual interest and in portange.
Twenty years ago, Dr. Fontes, of Rio de Janeiro, reported that he bad discovered in cales of tuber culosis a germ or virus sq minute that it passed through a porcelain filter, and through the walls of the blood-vessels of the placenta. For many years his discovery was doubt ed, but it was fully confirmed by Dr. Vaudremer in 1893, and since that date Professor Calmette, M. J. Valtis, and others have been in vestigating the nature of the filter able virus, with results summarised by Professor Calzette in his com munication.
Professor Calmette and his col- leagues have demonstrated the very
WHAT BRITAIN. SAVES BY NAVAL CONFERENCE.
£67,000,000.
£4,000 FOR 9/ BOOK.
AMERICAN DUEL IN LONDON SALEROOM.
"The immediate financial saving After a protracted duel between resulting from the Conference is two American booksellers, a copy the avoidance of expenditure for of the first edition of Fauny the replacement of battleships un-Burney's "Evelina" was sold for der the Washington Treaty.
the record price of £4,000 recently at Sotheby's rooms in Bond-street.
"But for this agreement, before the end of 1030 Great Britain
would, under the Washington Treaty, have "completed five new 35,000-ton ships and would have had a further five appropriated for and under construction.
Last year a copy of this rare little work, published in Fleet-street at nine shillings in 1778, realised £1,160 at the Kern sale in New York, so that a high price was ex- pected when the three little volumes, mensuring only, 74' by dj`inches, were banded round yesterday.
"This might have necessitated an expenditure in the region of £30,000,000 up to the end of 1038. There was an opening offer of Further, the financial saving in-£300, which was quickly capped by volved in reducing at once at 13 capital ships is estimated at about £4,000,000,"
agraphs from a White Paper issued These are the outstanding par on April 18 by Mr. Arthur Hender- son, the Foreign Secretary, in- nouncing the results of the Naval
Conference.
Three Nation Economy,
|
one of £1,000 from Mr. Gabriel Wells, the New York bookseller.
Sothebys, entered the fray, bidding After a pause, Mr Rham, of
on behalf of Dr. A. Rosenbach, the Philadelphian bookseller. A ding- dong contest then ensued, AIr. Wells only retiring at Mr. Rham's bid of £4,000.
A Myth.
remarkable fact that the invisible "As regard cruisers, destroyers filterable virus is a stage in the and submarines," continue the | development life of the tubercle White Paper, "the United States,
bacillus. In its invisible filterable Japan and the British Common-story in this book was picked up It may be as well to state that the stage the germ does not cause wealth of Nations have overcome tuberculosis, merely various dis
the difficulties which resulted in in an English seaside town for eases of the skin and various sep- the failure of the Geneva Confer. few shillings has no foundation in ticemie conditions; but it is cap
ence in 1927.
fact. able of developing into slender bacilli, and anally into the typical bacillus tuberculosis discovered by
Koch.
For a long time doctors have re- cognised diseases. associated in some way with tuberculosis, and yet showing no tubercle bacillus, and the explanation of auch anomalous dixenses is now plain.
The clinical value of the dis covery of a pre-bacillary virus is considerable. for it will render it possible to detect tuberculous tea- dencies before any bacillus can be found, and thus will coable doctors to take measures to nit the disease Mary Astor, Lucile Langhanke. in the bad. It also proves that a Mary Brian, Louiss Dantzler. mother can infect an infant with Evelyn Brent, Betty Riggs.
tuberculosis even before it is born. Sally Blade, Betty Jane Young. Apart from clinical value, the June Collyer, Dorothea, Herm-discovery is of biological interest, for it shows that invisible entities are an earlier stage in the evolution of bacilli; and gives some sort of support to the evolutionists' who have suggested that the unicellular organisms known to-day were evolved from prior organisms more minute in size and more simple in character.
ance.
Joan Crawford (Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jur.), Lucille le Sueur.
Billie Dove. Lillian Dohny." Douglas Fairbanks, Douging til
man.
Buster Keaton, Joseph Francis. Lila Lee, Augusta Appel. Gwen Lee, Gwen Lepinsky. Brasie Love, Juanita Horton. Mae Murray, Marie Koenig. Anita Page, Anita Pomarca. Mary Pickford, Gladys Marie Smith,
Dunn.
Maria Provest, Marie Dickford.
Gilbert Roland, Louis Antonio Demasco de Alonzo.
Raquel Torres, Paula Osterman, Virginia Valli, Virginia Sweeney. Alice White, Alva White, Florence Vidor, Florence Arto. Certainly the census man has his work 'cut out for him at Hollywood!
that conference was for a combine "The final British proposal at total tonnage of cruisers, destroyers and submarines, including over-age vessels of 737,500 tons. The cons- parable total agreed upon to-day is 541,700 tons.
On a conservative basis we have been saved further expenditure in these classes of ships of some £13,000,000:
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Another notable lot that fell to the only known copy of Des Pesics the same purchaser was apparently |||
Mirrour of Mirth," 1592, which was bid up to £850, whilst Mr. Brenon, the Californian collector,. secured for £380 a copy of "Pick This price, however, is little more wick Papers" in the original pärts.
than a tenth of the sum paid for a remarkable set at the Kern sale last
year.
Important as are these financial savings a yet more important result of this first stage of the London Though defeated in the struggle Conference has been the elimina-fer Evelina," Mr. Gabriel Wells, tion of competitive building in who is an assiduous collector of cruisers and auxiliary craft be- Goldsmith's writings, consoled himi- tween the British Commonwealth of self by winning, at 2540, a copy of Nations, the United States and the first edition of "The Vicar of
pan, with all that this implies Wakefield, 1766." in the mutual improvement of their political relations.
France and Italy.
Leaves Loose, But Alice." Since a copy of the first edition hof "Alice's Adventures in Wonder- The figures of the agreement land" realised £5,000 at auction between those Powers have been any shelves have been search in the placed at a low level, and it is the hope of hoding a copy of this chil earnest hope of his Majesty's Gov-dren's classic. Even tora and erament that during the next stage
dilapidated copies have found their of the Conference agreement may way to Sotheby's,, which, to their be reached with the French and owners' surprise, have proved to be Italian Governments at levels of value.
BIGGER BRAINS FOR ALL. which will permit of their pro- grammes and tonnage figures be- ing incorporated in the agreement already reached between the other Powers.
SUPER-RACE OF THE
FUTURE.
Do you use your full brain po- wert If so, your are an except
tion.
"After the signature of the Treaty, the Conference will, ad- journ in order to give further time French and Italian Governments, for negotiations between the with a view to the settlement of dif ficulties which as yet prevent a complete agreement.
The rank and file of mankind, it is said, uses only a small portion of its potential brain power. This fraction has been estimated, at longed, and it is unnecessary, that "These negotiations may be pro low as one-fifth. On this calcule the delegations from distant coun- tion the world, on the £30,000 LEFT TO VILLAGE wastes four-fifths of its mightiest tries, which are not so immediately
RICH EMIGRANT WHO DID
NOT FORGET,
average,
concerned should remain in "Lon-
force its brain-power.
This view, is set forth by Dr. don while the conversations are. Frederick Tilney in a book of ex-that an adjournment has been de- proceeding; it is for this reason traordinary interest for the ordin-
cided upon." ary unscientific man-"The Master The romantic rise of a poor of Destiny Biography of the
It may be only a gesture, but Cornishman is revealed in the news Brain," which was recently pub. it is an encouraging gesture that that after making a fortune in Newlished by Heinemann's.
the breaking up of the Conference Zealand, he has left £30,000 on trust for the poor of his native village, traced from the beginning-about
The story of the human brain is is described as "an adjournment. Stithians, neas Truro.. The benefactor is Mr.
a thousand million years ago, when James the first living creatures, consist Trewin who was a sboemaker carrying of a single cell, began floating ing on a small business in Stithians,in the sea.
50 years ago.
In time, a number of cells found
NEW THREAT TO. ST. PAUL'S.
BUILDINGS, -
Such a copy was sold yesterday. With its stitching broken, all leaves loose, some of them torn and almöst all of them soiled, it yet realised £180.
Many other volumes attained three figures, amongst the most not- able being:
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Pro-
gress," 1684.......... £300 Milton's "Paradise Lost,"
1667
£300
£230
£205
Dickens's "Christmas
Carol," 1844 Austen's "Sense and Sen-
.sibility," 1811
NEW STUNT FLIGHT.
BACKWARDS AND UPSIDE
DOWN.
Martin Jensen, holder of the world's record for solo endurance flying, accomplished, a" new stunt last month by flying backward, up- side down, for about a mile.
The aviator was using the first plane turned out by his factory at Lehighton, Pa., biplane of 100 horsepower, which he said was con-
Dissatisfied with his prospects he it easier to get a living by hanging CANON ON PERIL FROM NEWstructed by a method which would decided to go abroad. He has a together, and so tame the jelly sister, Miss Eliza Trewin, who is fish, then the fish with a backbone, nearly 80 years of age and still then the fish that crawled out on resides at Stithians.
New fears have arisen for the the reptile that warmed its blood which is soon to be reopened after the mud and became a reptile, then safety of. St. Paul's Cathedral.
P and turned into a mammal, years of restoration work. ago, the tailless ape-like creature view which Canon Alexander had then, a mere million years or so. They were divulged in an inter- that used its front feet as hands recently with Major G. B. and stood up as man.
Athoe, secretary of the Association of Architects and Surveyors.
It was generally known that Mr. Trewin had been fairly prosperous since he went to New Zealand, but the fact that he has left more than $30,000 was received with surprise in the district.
The majority of the parishioners are engaged in granite quarrying and in agriculture. There are fer unemployed in the parish, and only a small number of cases of real poverty, although there are a large All through the thousand million number whose earnings are slender years, the brain was steadily grow and who would appreciate anythinging in the line of descent that end to supplement their income.
HOW TO GET RID OF INDIGESTION.
appears to have taken
The transition from "ape to man A period calculated by geologist sat fourteen million years.
xin man. Monkeys and other creatures stopped short took the wrong turning
But although man has grown a marvellous brain, Dr. Tilney be lieves that man's brain has scarcely outgrown its childhood, and that a world of men with super-brains is still possible.
Everyone has heard the story that Mr. Gladstone's head grew in size after he was a full-grown man.
Essential Springs.
keep the center of gravity station- ary in the wings regardless of the position of the ship.
series of loops and rolls, Jensen After putting his plane through a flipped it upside down and few in this position for about a mile with
Jing the plane he headed it into the 40-mile wind at his tail. Right- wind, turped it upside down again. and then throttled his engine down to stalling speed 30 miles an hour. Major Athee told a Press repre-ward at the rate of about 10 miles. The 40-mile wind carried him back- -sentative-that- Canon-Alexander an hour. said the fact that the leases of buildings adjacent to St. Paul's,. both on the north and south side, might shortly fall in, caused the utmost uneasiness to the Dean and Chapter.
"Amazing na it sounds," said the Canon, the Cathedral foundations are only four and a half feet deep. Beneath the Cathedral there is only six feet of earth before one comes a bed of wet cand 20 feet deep.
"Springs pass under the Cathe-
Those who suffer from indiges. tion, gastritis, acidity, flatulence, dyspepsia, heartburn, etc., will be glad to learn that instant relief can be obtained by taking half a Any one who compares Mr. Lloyd | deal and keep the sand wet, which teaspoonful of 'Bisurated' Mag. George's photograph thirty years nesin powder or two or three tablets. ago with his appearance to-day will in a little water immediately after see that his head seems to have eating or whenever pain is felt. I swelled out,
is essential if the Cathedral is to
be preserved from danger. But if deep foundations are made for new buildings the springs would be cut off from the north side, and the water drained off on the south.
"It will be a matter for an Act of Parliament if indanandank Jand
lazds are not to be allowed to sacri.
This instantly neutralises the acid | Dr. Tilney, argues that we need that causes all the trouble, stops better brains to save us from fu- the fermentation, heals and soothesture wars and the destruction they the inflamed stomach lining and promise the ages of the earth
"Our rada serba sauda restores painicas, normal digestion. he says, Get a package of 'Bisurated' Mag-are estimated, and our” racial fice at the altar of commercialism nesia of your chemist to-day; use youth justifies the belief that the the very existence of the Cathedral. e, directed, and you will soon be modern brain represents some in- The sinking of deep foundations felling your friends how you got termediate phase of ultimate de close to the Cathedral would cer rid of indigestion.
velopment,"
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,
' TRONG Koa. MAY 18, 1830, 4th Sunday, afte
Easter:-
Boly Communion at 8. Holy Communion (Peak Church) at
8 a.m. Children's Service at 10 am. Matting and Sermon at 11 a.1.
Frachar: Ber. CB, Shaan,
„Warden, St. John's Hall Holy Communion at 17.15 p.m. Evensong at 4.00 pun.
Preacher-Rev. F. Freeman, B.N.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Mass, U.S.A.).
MACDONNELL ROAD, BELOW BOWEN BOAD TEAM STATION. SUNDAY SERVICE, May 18, 1930, ■₺,
11.15 8.
Subject:-MORTɅis and ImmortalLI.
The Sunday School is held on Sunday Mornings at 10 o'clock.
Wednesday Evening Meeting at 6.30 p.m.
Reading Room at above addreas, open:— Tuesday and Friday, 10a.m. to 12 Nom; Monday and Thursday, 5.40 to 7 p.m.
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UNION CHURCH, (KENNEDY ROAD). SUNDAY, May 18, 1930-
Bervices will be held as follows:-
Morning st 11 a..
Evening at 6.00 pm.
Preacher, morning and evening:
Hey, J. Fos er, of Caston, At Noon a Meeting of the Con-
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Morning at 10.15 km.-
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