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TODAY.
(December 8.)
Helen Wills-Moody in Exhibition Tennis Matches, X.C.C. ground..
Meeting of Hong Kong Football Association Council, 3.30 p.m.
Lecture, at Union Church, Kow- Lleon, 8,43 pan, ; Rev. Johri Lake on With Pirates and Lopera on a Loper Island."
Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15
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---Queen's Theatre, Hottentot
Star Theater: "Madam Satan," World Thenre: Love Identity" (Chinese film), «
On The Eve Of Bi Discoveries.
CHEMISTRY THAT WILL CHANGE.
CIVILISATION.
SEARCH FOR CREATION OF LIFE.
Making. Lifu--that has always, helps to make our charteter but been one of the great time of controls the growth of our bones science. writes Gerald Heard. But, and of our hair and can make us a the further science travelled the giant or a'dwarf. King's Thepbre: "The Smiling further off seemed the goall. When Lieutenant."
Central Theatre: Murder,"
chemistry and physics were started "Up Formen thought that they would be there quite sun. They were al ways, they thought, just on the point of Bading the Philosopher's Stone or the Elixir of Life,
Toa Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotal.
HMS. Kent Dance at Lane, Crawford's, 8 p.m.
European Mail:-- Inward: Europa pin Siberia (Felix Roussel), Outward: Europe via Siberia '(Pres. Conlidgê) 4.30 p.nu. j.
WEDNESDAY,
(Decomber 9.)
Hockey: Radio Sports Club a Royal Army Service Corps; Club-v, H.K.S.1.A
Rugby H.K. & Shanghai Bank . Kowloon Rugby Club, Happy Valley, 4.30 p.m.
Hong Kong Art Club Exhibition, "Lane, "Crawford's.
Rotary Club First Anniversary
Dianer.
Opening of Rotary Club play. ground, Wanchai, 4 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Show Girt in Hollywood."
ANOTHER APPROACH.
Our
But the most striking advances. that chemistry has made toward the' muring of lief has been up another approach. Instead of starting with something, as blaborate as But they never did; aug gradual bodies it has been studying a very ly cheindste gave up hoping for such single form of life. It has tried triumphs and were enntent with to find out how the green leaf takes smile finds. Indeed a couple of in the sunlight and so grows. And generations ago the more chemistry | here it has been very successful. and physics we knew, the harder it First chemists made the various seemed to understand how life chemicals the leaf uses,
These could be made.
were not easy to make... for they are very delicate mixtures, And then they discovered for what pur pose the leaf made them and how it red them
make the green colouring stuff its colour. It was discovered that which was named chlorophyll after the green stuff acts as & Bort of screen through which the sunlight comes, and so the leaf can build up its tissue,
MAGIC DRUGS. But the skating of a difficulty is often the first step to solving it.
It was discovered why green "is Allor they had taken chemicals to. pieces, the chemists began to suc- such a favourite colour among all ered in patting, them together the plaats. Chemistry learn to. again. And they began to study the peculiar chemical, the body uses and to analyse them."You will never be able to make these," most people. But step by step the chemists did. First they made!
This work was epoch making, the comparatively simple chemicals and hundreds of years hence, when Star Theatre: Madam Satan."
any victories have been forgotten, Central Theatre: The Sed God" the body makes, such
For King's Theatre: The Smiling And now they can make synthetic.it may still be celebrated. Lieutenant.”
chemists begin to realise the part ally those magical drugs, thyroid that hehe plays in the making of secretion and adrenalin, the drugs life. They, too, began to try and made by the body in the ductless do this. They would imitate nature glands and which are so powerful that when they are put into our blood our very characters change,
World Theatre High Society Blues,"
Tea Dauces at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinnor Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hot
European Mail-Outward: Europe in Siberia (Sphinx) 2.30
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THURSDAY,
(December 10.) Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, annual general meeting, Jardine's bdardroom, 3.30 p.m.
Hong Kong Art Club Exhibition, Lane, Crawford's.
Queen's Theatre: " Show Girl is Hollywood."
said!
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Soon chemistry will be able to make all the secretions. of the duct- less glands and we shall be able to choose our moods and tempers (as to-day we choose, according to weather or function, our tics or overcoats.
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up the stuffs which till then only and see whether they could build
nature could make out of the sim ple chemicals in the earth.
ARTIFICIAL FOOD.
We had been so long in under- standing what living tissue is he cause we had thought of it as made of nothing but chemicals. We see now, that it is chemicals plus radia- tion.
Already we know that food which incka vitamins, and no will not support life, can be rendered But this is only a step.
as though it had vitamins in it, by chemistry in pressing beyond that. | being radiated. · Such food has been World Theatre: High Society If we can learn how our moods are fed to children and they have been Blies.
Central Theatre: "The Sea God."made, cannot we learn how our nourished And in the laboratory roxearch has gone still further. King's Theatre: The Smiling bodies are built up? One of the Science has made the Brat synthe Lieutenant."
Artificial, starch and Tea Dance as Hong Kong Hotel; ductless glands, whose secretions tie foods, Dinner Dances at Hong Kong we cannot yet make artificially, they have actually been made with
the help of radiation. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.. pituitary gland, we know not only 'Continued on Page 3.)
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