CENTRAL THEATRE
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY A£ 2.30, 5:10, 7:15 & 9.20 p.m.
THE SINNING LADY OF THE DOCTOR'S SECRET"--- THE FIGHTING LADY IN "MADAM X" AND NOW
The laugh that torna Scandal to Praise and Love. The Talking Screen's newed and most daring story of woRDER'I wits pitted against Ira's intrigues.
You loved her in "Ma dane X~~now thrill to the brilliant seting of
Ruth Chatterton
"THE
LAUGHING LADY
A Piramount Pictur
Starting Sunday. .April 19."
You know this Nancy
"The Devil's Holiday"
NANCY CARROLL The Devil's Holiday
a wament Piture
But!
Do you
know
this one!
A new fiory,
up-to-the- minute
miss, who plays at love!
COMING SOON
EVERY GIRL IN LOVE- EVERY LOVE LORN YOUTH EVERY MAN AND WOMAN
will want to see this startling revelation of the love intrigues of the beautiful ladies of the moet, romantic court of Europe.
BOUDOIR DIPLOMAT
"with Betty Compson Ian Keith ・・ Mary Duncan Jeanette Loff.... Lionel Belmore Lawrence Grant
The Spicy Affairs of A Master Lover.
IT'S A 1931 UNIVERSAL SUPER-PRODUCTION.
Booking at Anderson's and the Theatre (Tel. 25720),
C. G. R. A.,
CHINA COMPLETES WORLD'S AIR CIRCUITS.
History has shown that there is! O more vital factor in national growth and development than that of 'adequate communication facili- irs, and by blazing new trials across the oceans and continents radio is worthily upholding ita tradition of success in the field of. international telegraphic communi. cations. The now service to "and from China provide a much needed additional outlet, and it encourages a freer exchange of commercial messages and news.
Sings the early, part of December, 1930, the R.C.A. built radio-tete- |graph "transmitters at Chen-ju have been in continuous operation hand. ling thesenge traffic-Radiograms- to all parts of the world affording the most direct and most modern means of electrical communications
to exterior countries.
The Chinese Government Radio; Administration Shanghai terminal of this international communication Bystem consist of thren essential units: (1) the central office and operating headquarters in the Sng soon House; (2) the transmitting
station at Chen-ju and (3) the re- Giving station at Liu-hong." Theno three units are interconnected by so called control lines and tons channels enabling the actual opera- tion to be performed directly and instantaneously, from the central office in Sassoon House.
other
Out-going. Messages, Outgoing messages are 'punch ed" on a machine resembling en ordinary typewriter and known as
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1931.
HONCKOND'S FINEST CINEMA
NEW ANTICS
OF SHOWDOM'S MERRIEST NUTS,
THE
MARX
BROTHERS
Animal Crackers
"A Gayamouni Glazur
with
LILIAN ROTH, LAUGHTER'S LEADING LADY
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30
PRICES Including Tax. Loge Beats
$2.20 Dress Circle
...$1.70 Back Stalls
...$1.10 Front Stalls
.50
Booking at the TIKATRE Only.
PaONES:
26313, 25330.
Patrons are requested to call for Reserved Seats, 15 minutes before the show-No Reser- vation can be guaranteed after that hour,
The central office equipment is composed of the Intest types of auto.
or wavo-length used and also neees. and frequency doubler: This unit matic message handling apparatus sitates enreful construction and ad- in turn feeds another similar unit together with associated storage justment of the component parta. which performs the same function. batterice, panel switchboards, motor-Directive antenna are used at the The output from this later unit generators and
anxiliary receiving station for the purpose is delivered to a circuit containing gear.
of eliminating interference from a 570 watt screen-grid tube which directions other than from which it also acts as an amplifier and fre is desired to receive. At the trans-quency doubler. This unit in turn mitting station antenne having feeds a balanced amplifier contist- similar characteristics are used in ing of two 750 watt screen-grid Д tape perforater. This device order to concentrate the radiated radiotrans ín a standard push-pull punches a combination of holes energy is a comparatively narrow circuit. The above sonster-oscillator corresponding to the dot and dash beam. The energy received from and associated amplifiers together signals of the Morse telegraph code given station using a beam type with the necessary routifiers, trans- on a narrow ribbon of paper tape, antenna is received with approxim-formers, filters, etcciera, comprises This perforated tape in, turn is fed ately forty times the intensity of a complete self-contained "transmit- into an automatic keying machine that received from the same sta- ter the output of which is 1,000 The final nroplify- or-watts or more. which is connected directly with tion using a non-directive or the actual radia transmitter at dinary type of antenna. A roughing stage which actually feeds the Chen-ju by means of the control anology may be made by comparing antenna system is a uint in itself kilowatt water: lines. In this manner the Chen-ju the light radiated from an open and transmitters instantaneously fune- lamp which sprende its radiation in cooled power radiotrens connected tion and puts the radiogram "on all directions and a searchlight | two in parallel on each side of a the air. Incoming messages are which concentrates its rays in a push-pull circuit. The twelve thou- taken care of in a somewhat re verse manner being intercepted by:
sions in proportion to the frequency | circuits which acts as an amplifier
very narrow beam.
Transmitting Station.
UBCB 20
sand volta requited for the pintes of these tubes is derived from a special three phase full-wave. Teeti. for using six water-cooled heavy This type of
the receiving apparatus at Liu-hong. The transmitting station is locat. The signal output from Liu-hong ed near Chon-ju on the Shanghai- receivers is connected directly to Nanking Railway about ten miles duty rectotrons.
For the transmitter is capable of supplying the central office by means of the north-east of Shanghai.
from 20 to 40 kilowatts of radio. ordinary telegraph wires known as benefit of those readers who are tone channels and is thus instantly interested in modern radio practice frequency energy to the anterns received in the operating room and the following is a brief description systeur on wavelengths between 14 automatically recorded in moree of the transmitters supplied by the and 43 metres and is the highest code characters on a strip of paper Radio Corporation of America power shortwave transmitter so far
of the master-developed. tapo similar to that used in trans These. units are mission. This tape is then rapidly oscillator power-amplifier type. The The direct circuits operated by
a 74 transcribed by an expert operator innater-oscillator consist of to the radiogram form and the watt radiotron crystal controlled with thermostatic regulator to hold message is then ready for delivery.
the crystals at constant tempera Receiving Station.
The crystala oscillate at a
Liu-hong, the receiving station,ture.
the Chinese Government Radio Administration from the Sassoon Houss central office are in constant operation to San Francisco (North and South America), Manila, P.I.,
is located about six miles west of frequency of one-eighth of the out Hong Kong, Java, D.E.I. and Berlia Woosung or about sixteen miles put frequency. The master-oncilia-
porth of Shanghai. Such a location for feeds into a buffer amplifier the Call European countries). The Paris was primarly chosen for the receiv.object of which is to prevent re-and Tokyo circuits are expected to action of the following high power be inaugurated in the very near ing site to eliminate the various
stages upon the crystal. Following forms of electrical interference or "man-made static which is char. the buffer amplifier stage is a 75 future George Street in the Far acteristic in the immediate neigh watt radiotron and its associated Eastern Review,
bourhood of any large city. An- other consideration necessary in selecting a site for the commercial installation, either for reception or transmission, is the fairly large acreage required for the erection of the various buildings and antenna systems. The several sets of receiv ing apparatus are centralized in one building and are capable of being adjusted by the attendant for simul taneous reception of several signals from the various distant stations with whom communication is re- gularly carried on Another build ing houses the power supply appa ratue consisting of Diesel driven generators. These generators supply power for lighting and general utility purposes as well as the our- rent for operating the several re- ceiving unita,
The Antenni
The antenna used in .commerciali work are considerably more elabo rate and coinplicated than the type. with which the average radio fan! is familiar. The antena in use for reception are designed for efficient reception from ono direction only. This necessitates an antenna atrue- Lure of comparatively large dimen.
ti
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
THE HONG KONG FILM DISTRIBUTION COMPANY having through their Londer AGENT concluded Arrangements with the following Producers' of British Pictures:-
GAINSBOROUGH PICTURES (1928) LIMITED. THE GAUMONT COMPANY, LIMITED. JULIUS HAGEN AND HENRY EDWARDS, BRITISH-AND-DOMINION FILM
CORPORATION. LIMITED.
Takos pleasure in announcing the Early Rolepse in HONG KONG of
the following Recent Successes :--
ROOKERY NOOK
HOUSE OF THE ABROW
SPLINTERS
LORD RICHARD IN THE PANTRY.
PLUNDER
BED AND BREAKFAST
AVARM CORNER
ETC..-ETC.
Enquiries for Torms, etc, should be addressed to Box No. 602,
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MOVIELAND
FOR
THE WEEK
WORLDS
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY
AT 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.20.
DUAL ATTRACTIONS
With CONRAD VEIDT
LAST PERFORMANCE
AND
LAURA LA PLANTE
All
in
HOLD YOUR
Talking
MAN
STAR
THE SILVER SCREEN.
. QUEEN'S THEATRE,
"STRICTLY UNCONVEN.
TIONAL,"
Humour on the screen is so often confined to the, slapstick, that, tho appearano of a mature, intelligent
and got thoroughly funny drawing- room comedy is something to write home about. Such a work is "Strictly Unconventional," which Metro Goldwyn - Mayor" adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's
MOVIELAND
FOR
THE WEEK
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
play, "The Circle," and is now pre- WHAT about LOVE?:
senting at the Queen's Theatre.
Whether the brilliance of this Batire on marriage is due to the excellent performances of its all star enet which boasts of auch wall- known sereen and themtrien names as Lewis Stone, Ernest Torrenco, Catherine, Dale Owen, Alison Skip- worth, Mary Forbes, Tyrrell Davis and Paul Cavanagh, is hard to tell since the whole thing has been so shrewdly bound together in the capable direction of David Burton. To be sure, both director and cast. had eplendid material to work with in the first place, but, "Strictly Unconventional," although it fol lows the general outlines of Maug. ham's stage hit, turns out to be an improvement over the original in that the camera has been used to illustrate situations which the limitations of the stage made im- -possible..
The plot talls of the predicamen≈ of Clive Champion-Cheyney, who was deserted thirty years provious
y by his wife, Lady Kitty, for a Lord Porteous, and now finds that history has repeated itself in the case of Elizabeth, his son's wife, who is on the verge of leaving her husband, Arnold, for the more ar dont attentions of Ted Luton, house guest. In the hope of show. ing Elizabeth what a mistake she is making, Clive arranges for the vizit of Lady Kitty and Lord Porteous, who try to dissuade the younger pair from following their example by telling thom of their unhappiness in respect to social ostracism and the loss of Lord Parteous political career.
that
Elizabeth, however. $608 despite all they have gone through, Lady Kitty and Porteous are still in love with each other and, throw ing diserotion to the winds, they repeat the mad escapade,
"WHOOPEE.”
It is no cinch to costume a pro- duation the size and lavishness of "Whoopes," the Samuel Goldwyn- Florenz Ziegfeld musical sensation. starring Eddie Cantor, which comes to the Queen's Theatre on Sunday. Many of the contumes designed by John Harkridor, in charge of cost we!! costuming Whoopee," toward a thousand dollars and had to be manufactured as carefully as a wedding dress.
The mere scalo of the production produced the necessity for getting- such items as forty-five pairs of black and white. cowboy leggings oxnetly alike, 220 Stetson hats of the same make and patterns, cost- ing fifty dollars a piece and 230 Cult revolvera, an order which caused the Colt Arms Company to wonder who was starting a revolu tion in Southern California."
CENTRAL THEATRE,
"THE LAUGHING-LADY." -
In less than a year's time Ruth Chatterton, has risen to a piner of prominence in the film world almost ne high as the pinnacle of public favour upon which Clara Bow perches.
Miss Chatterton's-fan-mail-no- cording to the publisher of a fan magazine, has joercased to such
THE STAB THEATRE IS leadership held by the flaming hair
CLOSED
FOE ALTERATIONS
AND
IMPROVEMENTS. Re-opening Shortly.
KILLGERM
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Strictly
Uncon ventional
HERE is the
talking
drama of thou sands of men and women who defy convention for love!
Somerset Maugham's. play, "The Circle," that ran two years, is now a picture the whole world's gasping at!
with
LEWIS STONE PAUL CAVANAGH CATHERINE DALE OWEN ERNEST TORRENCE
M
ADDED ATTRACTIONS
M - G - M REVUE
COMEDY CHARLIE CHASE
NEXT CHANGE
Marvellous ! Snappy L Bay!
FORBIZZIEGFELD
EDDIE
CANTOR
Whoo
Tyres pourió LON
Gin Bi Must Comedy h WEGIALE ANTHORUS 16-CLÁRS
DU TECHNICOLOR
Ziegfeld has outdone himself
gorgeous of all spectacles!
a volume in the past few months that she is almost as close to the in this, the most. ed "It Girl" from Brooklyn na anyone else in the movie world in.
Her first appearance was in sup- port of Emil Jannings in one of the last pictures. he made before his return to Germany Sins of the Fathers."
Since then, she has play
"The ed in "The Doctor's Secret," Dummy" and "Mamado X,"
Her most recent all-talking pio. turo is "The Laughing Lady." It comes to the Central Theatre for s three days run beginning to-day.
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