CENTRAL THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.16 & 9.20 p.m.
A THRILL PICTURE SUCH AS YOU GET ONCE IN A LIFETIME.
THIS PICTURE GIVES A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF
MANAQUA AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE LAST WEEK.
Columbia Pictures
presents
A THRILLING DRAMA FLOVE CADVENTURE!
JACK HOLT LILA LEE
RALPH GRAVES and an All-Star supporting cast
A BEAUTIFUL
love lake un- folded againal a series of unbe- Bevable air fonts by seasoned dare. devil pilotal A picture of breath- laking callbra! The class of the screen
dramas.
air
MADE WITH THE COOPERA. TION OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS.
FRANK CAPRA
production
ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, LAUGHTER, TEARS, SUSPENSE, AND A COLOURFUL AUTHENTIC
BACKGROUND.
COMING SOON
A 1931 PARAMOUNT SUPER-PRODUCTION
At last! The talking screen bas found a second GRETA GARBO in MARLENE DIETRICH The new German screen beauty who is the rage of
two continents in
He buried himself
alire in the Foreign
Legion to forget wom- en like her!
She Gives Love & Start. ling
cance?
Signifi
GARY COOPER MARLENE DIETRICH ADOLPHE MENIOU a garumamit Picture
MOROCCO
Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre (Tel. 25720);
REMARKABLE PROPERTIES
OF COBALT-STEEL ・・
MACNETS.
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Another remarkable magnetic alloy is that known as cobalt-steel, which consists of a mixture of iron with cobalt, the latter being a silver-white meln harder than The out. either nickel or iron. standing property of cobalt steel is the power of retaining an intense magnetie flux indefinitely.
Magnets of Colossal Strength. So strong is this field that when
a bar magnet about fire inchen long and a thick as 'one's little Auger is dropped down on to a second har of similar size, the first har rebounds and remains sitspend. ed, apparently in empty space. The forro of repulsion between the two is obviously stronger than the gravitational pull on the suspended metal bar.
This intense magnetic flex is per anently fixed in the alloy. It does not "evaporate" either under mechanical vibration or with change of temperature. For this reason it is now being fitted to moving coil speakers,
In the ordinary way it is neces sary to supply from 20 to 30 watts of energy, either from a special battery or from the mains, so long as the speaker is in operation. With a cobalt-steel magnet all this in saved.
The permanent magnet is made in several sections, which are not bolted together, but are held 'fixed, ly in position by their own mutual attraction. In fact it requires a straight pull of over a ton to re- "keeper " once it has
move a
been placed over the palen of the magnet,
TRAMWAY INTERFERENCE.
Practically all, tramway systems Interfere with our-by-wireless re- eivere to a bertain extent. Some.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1931.
HONCKONC'S FINEST CINEMA
Imagine GARY COOPER
as the he-miun hero of a mighty outdoor
With drama! lovely leading women Johnson, Betty Compson.
THE
two
Kay
SPOILERS
by REX BEACH Filmed on a spectacular scale in all its giant strength and splendour. With a dynamic fight climax you'll never forget.
a Paramount Picture
Edwin CAREWE production.
VERDUN.
have always used an outdoor aerial, ITALIAN VETERANS AT will be agreeably surprised to find what really can be done with_n good indoor aerial and it has many advantages, Lesides that of
JOIN WITH FRENCH IN HONOUR TO WAR DEAD.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.10 7.15 & 9.30,
PRICES
Loge Seats Dress Circlo Back Stalls
...$2.20
...$1.70
Front Stalls
...$1.10 ..50
Including Tax.
Booking at the THEATRE Only.
PHONES:
25313, 25330..
Patrons are requested to call for Reserved Seats, 15 minutes before the show-No Reser vation can be guaranteed after that hour.
Verdun, March 30.-There, took
NEXT ATTRACTION Commencing 10th April. * FOLLOW THRU ?
CHARLES ROGERS
WITH
NANCY CARROLL
ATTACK ON ROTARY
· CLUBS.
** MUTUAL ADMIRATION
SOCIETIES."
A suggestion that the Rotary
mors selective than the outdoor aerial and the risks of lightning. troubles are reduced. The use of place to-day at Verdun an import-movement is composed of a series a frame aerial will spinetimea elit Franco-Italian ceremony which
times the owners of these receivers do not realise that the trouble is due to the traunway system and merely complain that their revci vers seem to pick up a lot of at- mospherics." This type of inter-reducing interference. It will be fence can be experienced in various forms; for instanco, it may be due only to the use of automatic points, This will produce a loud click in nearby loudspeakers whenever the points nto operated. Or it may be due to fauty insulation of the power-system-or-faulty motor. equipment in the car, or a trolley.
A counterpoise, consisting of a pole making poor contact, etc. In each of these cases, the result will wire erected directly under the
mundo" interference than the other type.
minate the trouble altogether and, was evidence of the improved re because of this, most portable relations between the two countries ceivers are less subject to man and which will have great effect on -the-large nuurter of Italians living in the east of France.
Signor Mombelli, Consul-General be a loud cracking in the loud. aerial wire about 15 ft. from the for italy at Nancy, presided over speaker. Sometimes the crackling ground, user instead of an earth,
only occurs when a car passes the will often obriate a lot of unwanted ja reunion of a departamental sectiòn house, to other cases it will occurnoises. This wire must be well of ex-soldiers held at Verdun. throughout the whole of the time arranged and receive as much at binny Italian personalities took the cars are in operation, whether Lention, as the aerial, itself as re-part as well as Italian and French a car is passing the building or gards to insulation, etc. not. There are, of course, various the disadvantages of this systema, delegations from other regions, with mothods by which this interference however, is that it is liable to in their flags.
Produce" hand-capacity effects"capt may be reduced and, in some cases,
mpletely eliminated.
cially in short-wave receivers.
Bome Remedies.
One of
If the earth connection is wondo
to some pipe which runs directly
At noon 150 Italian ex-soldiers, accompanied by civil and military officials, proceeded to the Victory Monument, and then made a pil
THE SILVER SCREEN.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
REMOTE CONTROL.'
Have you any old chairs, pic Lures, books, beds,, tables or what- uote in your attic? If you have. ook out for Eddie Nugent, the radio engineer of Remote Con- Hainan' Intest trol," William talkin, showing on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.
Nugent has turned antique deal. et. having recently opened a shop in Hollywood where he spends his off-screen time hunting for rare antique to fill orders. It seems that conical Eddie's serious side is. a wide knowledge of antiques, and having from time to time been enll- ed upon to locate pieces for col- lectors, he decided to turn the ex- perience into profils,
Eddie is one aus of the funstors who support Haines in his newest talkie which was based on the New York stage hit revolving about a series of bank robberies directly treced to a mystérious broadensting Grogramme. Others in the east are Charles King, Mary Doran, John Miljan, Polly Moran, J. C. Nugent, Wilbur Mack, James Donlan, Ed ward Brophy, Warner P. Richmond and Russell Hopton,
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro- duction was filmed under the direc Lion, of Edward Sedgwick.
CENTRAL THEATRE.
* FLIGHT."
Columbia's all-talking roadshow attraction, Flight," is showing at the Central Theatre. The chat in- eludes Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves, Harold Goodwin, Jimmy Da.La Cruze and Alan Roscou."
of
Against the varied and pictures- que backgrounds of a marine flying Ense, the rough wilderness Nicaragua and a Central American dance hall, awe-inspiring flying feats lend colour, thrills and dar ing to a poignant love story and the great friendship of two pals in the Marine Corps.
The film made with the co-opera- tion of the United States Marino Corps is technically perfect. The most spectacular air. feats ever pho- tographed kept the nudience in breathless supenk The Capen- Holt-Graves combination that made "Submarine," the outstanding sen picture of many reasons, niakes good in a new field. Lila Lec plays the leading feminine role with skill and enthusiasm. Good film fare For all.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON.
365 METRES.
of mutual admiration societies and back-stroking individuals anxious by devious methods to appease slim-11 to 11.30 5.m.-Stook quotations: bering consciences, which was made 11.30 a.m.-Chiness programme. by one of its leading officials, Mr. 12.30 p.m.-European programme.
1 p.m.-Weather report and local William A. Nixon, Chairman of the tima. Manchester Rotary Club and pro-1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news. sident of the No. 5 District, caused 2 p.m. Close down.
6 to 8 p.m.-European programme consternation and protests at the of Victor and H.M.V. records supplied by Messra. Moutrie & annual conference at Blackpool on
Co.
February 21.
"We want a Mussolini to alter some features of Rotary," said Mr.
Nixon in bis presidential address, which, owing to his indisposition following an attack of influenza, was
read by the secretary of the con- ference.
Vocational Bervice, instead of being an ideal, he continued,, wAS to many clubs merely a figure of speech. Too much emphasis had been put on the community service
set out to obtain publicity from that" service, and many members were welcomed only from the eheque-book standpoint.
Assuming that the interference is under the tranliacs, on leaving the thers in the first place, all that the house, the interference may be very grimage to the War Memorial, ideal of Rotary. Many clubs had amateur can do is to arrange his funch worse than if the earth wire where the Halian Consul-General rrosiver and aerial-earth system 40 į was connected to an earth tube or that it does not pick up the in-
Pono other metal surface buried in laid a wreath of flowers. Several terference In most cases, it is not the ground near the building. The speeches recalled the blood spilt in possible to get to the source of these of a very long earth lead is 師 common cause and which has interference and abolish it there | bad owing to the fact that it will and so the amateur has to be con- pick up the interference by inducemented a deep friendship between buy exemption from personal ser- the two countries. The ceremonies vice, and as a result there were tent with arranging his apparatus tion from the tramway wires · ́· so that it picks up the broadrast transmissions to the exelusion of the tramway interference.
Probably the most common causo
Screening.
of the day concluded with a ban- quet in which the parliamentary re foud-speaker extension leads, these presentatives of the district took
If the house is wired with long
of this interference is that the neray a picking up some of the in-part.
terferents, especially if ordinary
al is crested too near the power rubber or cotten-covered wire is wires. The remedy, of course, is
angles,
If the reduction in
•
he achieved by using either
In many cases it was possible to
too many passengers who would never pull their weight.
Some of these people used the
movement as a lunch club, others to satisfy slumbering consciences, others to gain indirect publicity, or for surface fellowship or friendship,
Many clubs had become moribund, Bome were merely anappy literary societien.
and
to erect the aerial as far away from wed. This type of interference
may nearly always be cured byparate aerial coupling coil alto- the wires as possible and at right sing land-covered cubie for the ex-gether, or hy placing a fixed con Leusions and earthing the cover. denser in series with both norint signal
And earth leads. The size of the Of course, this will introduce some
aerial condenser is not important UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. strength is not objected to the sight-extra-capacity-betweon-the of an indoor aerial will sometimes loud muaker leads, with a conse and, of course, the smaller it is, the reduce the strength of the interferent cutting off of the higher sharper the tuning will become. A ence out of all proportion to that
notes, tint it is a case of choosing good average size is0003-mid It |_____ of the signals received, so that the tetween two evils..
in, however, important that thu interference is hardly heard at all,
By keeping the aorial and earth earth condenser should be large, An indoor aerial can really boirauits entirely separated from the otherwise hand capacity and in- very little inferior to an outdoor receiver, the interference is not like stability are likely to result. It Larria), if it is erected in the colyte ba. ao..pronounced. This can should not be smaller than
root manner. Those amateurs who
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6 to 6.43 p.m.-European children's programme from the Studio, 6.45 to 7 p.m.-
Hawaiian Music, "My Bird of Paradise," Hiló
Orchestra.
"Lou'sisun Lullaby."-Hilo Orch, "Hawaiian Nights."-Hilo Orch. "Aloma."-Hilo Orch,
7 to 7.03 p.m.-Stock quotations. 7.03 to 7.25 p.m.-Professor R. K M. Simpson, M.C., M.A., will give the oth of a series of lec tares on Shakespeare. 7.3 to 9 pm
Concert Items, Pianoforte Solo La Campanek la" (Pagannini Listz)-Mischa Lovitzki. Pianoforte Solo Staccato Etude" (Rubinstein).-Mischa
-Lovitzki.
Vocal Dust- The Old Sweet and Song. Winnie Melvillo Derek Oldham).
Violin Solo-" Frasquita Seren- ado" (Franz Labar-F. Kreis- lor)-Fritz Kreisler,
Violin Solo.-Kreisler Seron- ade" (Franz Lehar),-Froitz Kreisler.
the
Song Little Lady of
Moon (Coates).Sydney Col ham (Tenor), Pianoforte Solo-Concerto in E Minor" (Medtner). Benno Moiseivitch, Pianoforte Solo Suggestion
Diabolique? (Prokofic?). Benno Moisoivitch, ontva Violin Solo Humoresone"
(Tschaikowsky-Kreialor) Fritz. Violin SoloAlbumiatt Mac guerite" (Album' Leaf (Hach maninoff-Kreisler),-Fritz Kreisi
Jer
Song The Villag- Blacksmith
(Weiss).-Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone),
8 p.m.-Weather report, local time,
otc.
8.05 to 10.30 p.m.-Chinese studio -concert.-
10.30 pmClose-down,
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