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"MICHAEL STROGOFF" IS A BIG ATTRACTION.
Hongkong picture goera offered a picture of exceptional interest at the Queen's, Theatre until Saturday, the screen story Michael Strogoff from Jules. Verne's "The Secret Counter" be- ng the attraction. Packed houses saw the film yesterday and it is expected that seating accommoda- tion will be well taxed during the few days the film is showing.
Belgrade: No other Balkan Capital has made so much a terial improvement since the war as Belgrade. Athens, to be sure, has grown more rapidly in popu- lation. But the bulk of the In- crease there has been due to the The spectacular adventures of disaster of 1922 in Asia Minor, Michael, Strogoff are recorded in and the necessarily small and, the picture with power and krip cheap houses built by and for the ping Interest. The story moves hapless refugees are for the most quickly and by reason of the fact to anything but an adornment that some of the parts are shown the "violet-crowned". city of in colours, is extremely enjoyable ricles. Sofia has expanded to watch. Dramaile scenes follow leisurely in an unobtrusive, com- one another quickly, and there are fortably domestic sort of fashion. I thrills galore. and the Bucharestians are only
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i now beginning to "construct really i As courier to Czar Alexander II, ,lofty buildings in the centre Michael Strogolf, played by Ivan what still remains a predominant-Moskine, has to go on a mission yarden city of villas. Con- from Moscow to Irkutsk to the
NOVEMBER 2, 1927.
OUR DAILY TALK ON · HEALTH.
OUR
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WHO OWNS THE X-RAY
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COURT CONTESTS.
When a patient goes to a hospital or to un X-ray laboratory at the suggestion of his physician and his X-ray pictures taken he is likely to think that he is entitled to a few pictures for himself, much as if he had visited the photo. grapher.
However, the courts have made
numerous, decisions in the case of the usual photographer, having held that the negative is the pro- perty of the photographer, sub- ject to certain restrictions.
Of course, everyone knows that a person who comes to a photo- grapher expects to receive or pur chase prints of the photograph and does not expect to receive any of the intermediate products of the process of manufacture.
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stantinople, paperseded by Angora Grand Duke. He is eventually On the other hand, it has never and denuded of much of its for captured by his enemies, is tor-been established elen population. has if anything tured and blinded, but neverthe son who has himself X-rayed ex- one back. But all these towns less comes in at the end and savespects to receive merely an opinion to a greater or lesser degree had the situation.
and advice, a copy of the picture, 10 Permanent dwelling. Iready the ordinary attributes of
12 Mid-day. the orginal plate, or all of those pital rities, and at least they hant her subjected to bom
things. Of course, the X-ray plate 14 Individual. or even a print of it is useless to 18. Swing. baniments by enemy artillery
the ordinary person, since it re- 16 Unaccompanied, Belgrade issued from the war as nothing much more than a large
quires special skill for its inter- 17 Become atill.
shell-shattered village.
pretation.
Some of the scenes are magni- licunt, an example being a ball room scene in the Moscow palace. An engagement between. Russian cavalry, and Tartar barbarians is
18 Pecuntary punishment... realistically fought. Another ex-
19 Kingly. There can be few towns of the citing scene is the burning of a When an accident may be in- 22 Round projecting parts, same, size where "the roses and small town by ignited oil.
volved in a legal case, the presenta- 26 Near. raptures of vice" are more
tion of the X-ray plate in court 27 Calumniate. outstanding films may be important. Some years 30 Agonies. spicuously absent. The calaretstat has been shown in Hangkong ago the X-ray society of North 31 Rivulet. with which Vienna and Budapest Michael Stregat is one that will America, known as the Radiologi.33 Fortresa. teen, can be conted here on the appeal to the many, and all piccal Society, adopted resolutions, 35 Light moil. figures of ane hand, and it is
emman knowledge that their are patrons are advised not to that all pictures, photographs or 37 Immerse.
39 Neckwear, other records were the property proprietors are finding them any miss this exc.llent offering. thing but profitable" A most
of the man who made them, or of Cherry colour.
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18 Principal, made. has just legen, issued governing
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One of the
AMERICAN TAXES.
AS WAR EXPECTED.
the romantically minded young REDUCTION NOT AS MUCH jhne holow or widowerid,row fare | 1bidden to have lehote · servants. (under 10 years of new in his art- vate employment. Not even 11
Washington, Nov. 1.
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There also arises some difficulty 50 in determining whether the pinte
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who makes the picture or by the 5.1 Entertains. hospital in which the picture mal. A. hospital may make such rorylations a sire necessary for ath maniacs "who crowd the
A part of Mr. Mellon has recommended to officient management. Thanks of the Save have escaped the Ways and Means Committee of such efficient management re- this trissehal bevisstion, and the House of Representatives, that quires that the records of all bothers sensing refreshment at the prospective tax ruluctionses, including the X-ray ple wiverside cute must henre-forward should be limited to $225,000,000, tres, remain in the hospital.
In view of the surplus of $635,000! 1000 for the net fiscal year and a prospective surplus of $155,000,-
ibide their Zulue«qué torsos in
hemingly Start two-pleco enstume.
There then arises the question, as to whether or not a patient has the right to inspect his hospital 16
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Move quickly.
over the front: had a chance 600 for the gurient fiscal year, thi Perard, including any X-ray pig:11. Large mountain. Kinelem it was in the first fewure is low this was expertout whether he may take a copy of the
do dominate the youn Triune
Mr. Mellon insisted that the
TANGIER TANGLE.
ture that may have been taken, or record and of the pictures, pro- jmonths" after the place, while the
he is willing to pay for Sorbs were still reeling from the amount of the reduction should be vided entalities and ravines of the way determined by the surplus avall-them. Tut the Crnu's failed for graspable in 1929, which he estimated The programme Their emertonity, and it will in-at $274,000jeno. deed be strasse if it over recurs included a reduction in Corpora- may be that a large measure of tien tax from 13 to 12 per cent autonomy will be granted to the with exemplion from taxation of component provinces, but the inrome derived from American fundamental unification and een bankers acceptances held by for tralization of the whole adminisiga central banks of issue. Mr. Iration have now been taken Mellon was opposed to any change firmly in hand. With every year in the remaining wartime excise that pakses Belgrade, is more and and miscellaneous taxes.--Reuter'a more entrenched as the capital. American Serviæ.
and the confident realization of this fact is reflected in all thei building and other improvements that are being carried out.
ITALY DEFENDS HER ACT.
Rome, Nov. 1.
Six.. Tittoni, President of the Senate, in a statement to the Press. declared that the claims of France in Tangier were never recognised hy anyone. Tangier does not Gotland, the great island in the belong to the French zone or the Baltie, with its beautiful capital of Shereefian empire which is sub- Few Ancient Buildings.
Visby, the town of ruins and ject to the Franco-Italian agree- There are many old towns the frosts, and onee
the commercial ment of, 1916, modernization of which is watch-centre of Baltic trade, has now He recalled the Noles exchanged ed with a wistful regret. Little new attraction which recalls the between himself and M. Briand, such fegret need he felt in the distinction of Pisa, in Italy. Jing-wherein the French Government case of Belgrade. Such ancient stade, a garrison township, has declared that despite the war monuments as have a real his-an old church with a free-standing nothing was altered in regard to torical dr architectural interest church steeple. Some years ago the rights enjoyed by Italy by the are similarly few for go old a the ground under the steeple gave virtue of her adhesion to Convention town. There is, for example. the way, and the steeple is now lean-Franco-German ine fortress gate of the famous ing in a most unnatural way. November 4, 1911. He claimed. Priner Eurene, of Savoy, who Since then the tower has been an that this confirmed that Tangier drove the Turks from the town object of anxiety to all the was excluded from the zone of. fn 1717-a "feat of arms the parishioners, who have appealed Morocco in regard to which French bicentenary of which the Ass-repeatedly, to the State authorities rights were recognised.--Reuter. trians. with a strange lack of tact, to get it repaired. The authori- celebrated in 1917. There is the ties, however, seem to have in- so-called "Roman" well, which resrigated the matter and are
of
wax. as a matter of fact. con- confident that there is no further AMITY AND COMMERCE. structed by an Austrian general dunger.
of Swiss origin. There is the
Nebojsha Koula, in which towe
the Turks used to imprison the
Serbs and from the walls of which
NEW TREATY TO BE
4 NEGOTIATED.
Mexico City, Nov. 1. According to the newspaper once rooidy and Universal Grafico, the first im
Kara Mustanha Pasha hanged and business houses now line the himself by Imperial orders after principal streets. The new publie
is failure before Vienna...There offices are at
is the mosque of Barjak Diamin, dignified. Lofty blocks of flats portant work which Mr. Dwight the solitary survivor of all the tower above the squat old one or Morrow, the new American Ambas- masones which were built during two storeyed houses which serve
RUBBER MARKET
STRONGER.
the lone generations of the Turto remind one what all Belgrade Bador to Moscow will undertake, kisk occupation. Above all there was in the recent past. From its will be the negotiation of a new is the ancient fortress which peculiar topographical situation treaty of amity and commerce be- Statea.-Reuter's American Service.. dominates the vest sweeping con- Belgrade lends itself with dim-tween Mexico and the United duence of the Danube and the culty to a regular town-planning Save, and which is supposed to scheme, and perhaps there is still have been originally constructed too much of the Turkish.mentality in the fourth century. The very surviving for adequate attention chapter of there monuments is to have been paid to this charac- the bout exalanation why the list teristic of many modern towns. ¡éf antiquities in not rester. There appears to be-little, if any, Few fowns in Europe have seen control over the style of architec-
LATE HOME NEWS. - so many great hosts and have been ture, and the result is a macedoine the round of so much fierce de batiments wherein the French;
London, Oct. 25, fighting. Not till 1807, did the neo-Munich, Russian, and Turkish
Rubber shares are improving on Saat Turkish soldier leave the styles all justle one another with
the advance in the price of the town that had so long been the the most-careless-incongruity, bridgehead of Islam in Europe, But by far the worst feature of commodity and the decline, in and not until November 1, 1918, the town is its paving. The pay-stocks. The commodity price te- dia Belgrade at last know that ing of Belgrade is an unmistakable day was 16%d.
The Account just closed dis- security which has now been heritage of the Turkish occupa assured to as the comital of the tion. Not till a foot passenger cloace a substantial majority of strongest State in the Balkan can be sure of crossing a street advances during the period. --peninsula.
without spraining his ankle, or The New Buildings, till a motorist can be sure of re What has since been accomplish-turning home without a broken Herr Maximillan. Harden has ed is no mean monument to the spring, can Belgrade be wholly decided to resume the issue of his
the range of Gallic weekly pauer Die Zukunft. buoyant energy and confidence of beyond the people. Many large banks witticisms.
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