HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.
A BOOM IN MAP SALES.
SUCCESSFUL YEAR REPORTED.
ANNUAL MEETING.
to
DEMAND STIMULATED BY "HIKING.”
There is a boom in the salen uf MAPY.
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THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE.
SECRET WRUNG FROM - HYDROGEN ATOM. -
SIR. A. EDDINGTON ON
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1931.
TELEGRAPH,
CINEMA SCREENINGS.
NOTES SUPPLIED BY THE THEATRES.
"The Bat Whispers" is attracting
the much attention at
Queen's Theatre. With Chester Morris in the fentured role, Roland West, producer- director for United Artista, has con tributed the most startling hour and a half film entertainment of the year. Each of the superb cast of players | a under suspicion at various times us the dare-devil criminal who holds a city in terror. And not until the
RADIO BROADCAST
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To-day's radio programme, from Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 355
5.00-8.00
metres,
gramme.
ULTIMATE DOOM. Sir Arthur Eddington haa bean able from the behaviour of the
p.ni European pro hydrogen atom-the smallest of the atoms to calculate the rate last
minute in the secret of his 6.00-3.40 p.m. Programme of Co- Ing.
lumbia records, at which the universe is expand-identity disclosed. The climax is the
6.40-0.10 most surprising bit of drama Went
J.M. Children's has ever developed in his long list of successful productions.
Programme
The result is to confirm within 10 per cent. the value previously obtained by astronomers.
That value was based on observations spiral nebulae, the interpretation of the light emitted from distant of the results obtained highly controversial.
being
Sir Arthur's conclusion is that the universe is expanding at the rate of about one per coul. per 20,000,000 years, and may be ex- pected to double its radius every
Those who take part in the rapid-. fre, comedy mystery Include Una
Maudie Eburne, Charles Dow Clark, Grayee Hampton. Maude Hampton, Merkel, Gustav Von Seyfertitz,
Spencer Charters, Richard Tucker, William Bakewell, Ben Dard. S. Jennings att fogh Huntley.
romantic character of "The Divorcee" Chester Morris, star of "Alibi," and
and The Big House," Kives It The pic
While other branches of the publishing trade have been suffer- The annual meeting of the sub-the present tightness of money, the ing to a greater or less degree from acribing members of the Holenn sales of maps produced May Institute
this Ordnance Survey Department have Was held morning, when Mra. E. R..Halifax been steadily going up, and for some time past there has been a presided over the gathering.
yearly increase of between two and Reference was made the three thousand in the number of autisfactory Annncial position of
maps soll. the Institute, a final profit for the wet weather, to a certain
During the past summer, the extent year of $3,235 being shown.
deterred peori
people from buying maps; Mrs. Hallifax, in proposing the but there are signs that sales are adoption of the report
ikely to tural
increase considerably in near future. New methods of accounts, said:-Ladies. In pre-map-making are continually being sending to the shareholders the introduced; new needs are being report and accounts for the year applied us the occasion demands; ending 31st August, 1931, (which the craze for "hlking" has crented in accordance with the ala Cresh demand for small-scale praeter I shall with your per-maps; and the general public mission take as read), the Com- appears to be becoming mittee is fortunate in being able | minded."
If the universe ware a bubble, to show such a satisfactory An- During the past few years many he said, it was a bubble which had ancial position. The netion taken school teachers have made a speel-atrendy bury since it was no
Unu Merket, who played her way since
test the presentation of the lastality of explaining the principles of longer possible for fight to travel stage before. W. Griffith east her inlo popularity on the Broadway his resulted in a small map-making and map-reading profit
completely round it, instead of a loss s last their pupils: and there
for a part in “Abraham Lincoln,” is has been year on the working account of a large demand for the historical
The mathematics of Sie Arthur's the sweetheart of the production. the Main Institute-1 shail refer map of Roman Britain and of him at the recent centenary meet-Bnished young leading lady.
new work were communfented by She proves herself a most capable and to the Kowloon branch a little Seventeenth Century Jater-and
Englunding of the British Association. As which were recently published. bulidings and furniture to the full
President of the Physical Society give the secret of it away to your approved percentage and keeping
he delivered his first popular ex-friends. Let them and out for them- the buildings to good repair and
perial College position at a meeting of the Imselves what "The But Whispers." supporting Kowloon, we are able
Science and with the income from our invesi-
Technology. ments to show a final preût of $1,236 for the year, and to price by the balance sheet that we are a sound going cancern.
after
writing
Experiment Justlife.
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And this is so despite the fact that we have carried, engaged to do, a part of the erst of the branch institute at Kow hon. I am sure you will agree that the experiment of opere the Branch was fully justified and that we have had full value for our money. We cannot, of course, ko on indefinitely support- in the Kowloon branch out of the Parent Institution's tunds but after personal inspection and very mitter has resolved to advise that Far
experiment be continued for one further year the respon- sibility of Head Quarters at the end of which time the matter will have to be reconsidered.
A Best Seller.
to
1,300,808,000 years,
of
Einstein's Theory.
|
electrifying performance.
ture adds another triumph to his re- markable screen career,
You'll enjoy this picture but don't
"The Hottentot,"
Such strange names na Broomstick, Lazy Days, Shasta Shilck, Buttons and others familiar to the race tracks, arouse interest as to their derivation.
According to Ray Del Rath, who directed Wärner Bros. latest all-inik- Hottentot" which is coming to the inx Vitaphone production, "The
21
horses
ment's best seller, however, has
The Ordnance Survey Depart
recently put on the market. been a new type of waterproof map maps, which is issued in the inch This and the quarter-inch editions, is printed on paper specially manu-consideration of so smalt a thing "It may seem strange that the factured and impregnated after is the hydrogen atom should lead printing, and represents as entirely to auch a result," Sir Arthur ox- map-making. new departure in the technique of pinined. What was doing was to eliminate worldly standards the of length and to replace them with Queen's Theater shortly in which over
thoroughbred scure f standard supplied by Ein-appeur, the urld names given to horses fein's theory."
are ewing tu peenitar whims of their
dowers, places, friends and sentimental owners in the majority of Sometimes th owners have pet
| keepsakes, the name of which they confer upon their racing steeds. Other times novel events that happen during the rearing of the horse sud- denly bring to mind appropriate "monikers" and the horses are given throughout their racing days.
It can be consulted snow, or hail, and is guaranteed to in rain,
English weather without tearing or withstand the most exasperating fading. If dropped in the mud It can be washed with soap and water; and even if run over by jorry it emerges seathless,
121010-
During the past season, over, walkers found a new tie for it which not even its proud inven- tors had conceived. the weather
turul" standard with a quantity Sir Arthur identified this "a-
known as the "cosmical constant.** which represents the tendency of, the universe to expand.
Einstein had invented a uni- verse which had matter in it, but would
De Sitter's not expand. universe, on the
gramme.
0.10-8.00 p.m. Columbia recorda.
pre-
of
6.00-5.49 p.m. Variaty. Orchestral-Bitter Sweet-Bliter Sweet. Orchestral-Bitter Sweet-If Love Were
All.
Above You.
Jack Payne and His B. B. C. Daneo Orchestra, 6449. Humorous Song-Virginia (Thero's Blue Ridge In my Heart). Humorous Song-Ho's Tall, Dark and
Handsome.
Sophie Tucker assisted by Ted Shapiro, 4042. Orgun Solo-Pleading. Organ Solo-Devotion.
Vocal Quintett-Hurt. Vocal Quintette-By All the Stars
The Muestros. DB432. Negro-Spiritual-Ev'ry Time I Feel
the Spirit.
Layton and Johnstone. Negro-Spiritual-Wero You There?
Turner Layton, 1939. Instrumental Trio-Anita.
lan Fillis (Hawailan Guitar), AL
Bowlly (Guitar) and Sid Bright (Piano). Banjo Solo-Progressiona
Lon Fillta. 5608. Humorous Monologue-Mr. Potter
Visits Southend.
Gilio Potter. 6087. 6.49-6.10 p.m. Children's Concert from the Studio. (The Aunties and Uncles go down to the country).
1.19-6.45 p.m.
Terance Casey. 5984.
Mon Lac (G. M. Witkowski),
Robert Casadiosus (Piano) and Orch. Symphonique of Parls. 0026-9027.
7.00 p.m. notice, etc.).
(Stock quotations, mali
0.45-7.20 p.m. Moments Musicaux (Schubert Op, 94). Ethel Leginska. 4887-48DO. Moderato in C-Andante In A Flat- Moderate C Sharp Minor- Allegro Vivace in F Minor- Allegretto in A Flat 7.20-7.60 p.m. Scottish Selections. Song-Castles in the Air (Traditional).
careful consideration, your t'om- proved anusually unkind, the mas expand, bat hather hand, would inlekaumes which remain with them Song Up in the Mornin' Early
could be unfolded and held one's head, thus falling the func tion of an umbrella,
Aleanwhile,
been found to con- overtain no matter. The "cosmical
Del Huth points to Curfew, one of constant" Was the link which the cors ar no well known racing would give Einstein's world a little matter. the little motion and De Sitter's a
Ordnance Survey Department are #al content to rest after the teinmph new methods public words.
"This will have an Important of filling effect on theories of stellar evolu
tion," Sir Arthur added. "It will
Some reference is required to the qualified anditor's vertinent which appears at the end of the start was made with the new small-sun to the relatively small figure This year a highly satisfactory reduce the maximum age for the accounts. The qualfention is due scale map of England by the issue of 19,000,000,000 years. entirely to the ark of technical of the first sheet. experience in keeping the
covering Ply counts of a registered Company
mouth and the surrounding coun-
Geologists Wrong. in the form that
auditory. This an
map combodied auslitehnique.
lelated
"Geologists have generally lay- partly by the foured an age
some 500 times topography
greater, because the more time
The
41 new
requires for his audit. There development of the art however, un reason whatever to suspect irregularity or any leakagend partly by the need for cutting allowed, the more can happen in
of our funds, and a compurison of
the expenditure on the brane with
Kowloon
the wwulta здоро
Growing Popularity,
Dur
down printing expenses.
It has met with general approval. The authorities
it,
"It has also been supposed that
"That belief is no longer pos- sible, and astronomers must seek some other explanation of the fact that the olttest sinrs are also the smallest."
horses used in the thrilling steeple- chase STEDES of "The Hottentot." Curfew was born at 1 o'clock in the evening in a rural town just as the village bells rang the curfew hour.
Mapes and the problem that confronted Victor The fling of a suitable name was
William Collier, Well knowa playrights, when they finished their famous footlight comedy which they finally called "The Hottentot."
Being will up in book-l'urnin', they know that Zulus were wild-Huns But they needed a word that charac ferocious-and women untamable.
terized the horse in the play, a word tu when in electric lights would
As the final gesture of their literary foliento." offert, they named their piny The outstanding box offer hits in the It has been one of the history of the theatre in America.
In the Vitaphone sumptation of The lottentol," which Warner Bros. are bringing to the talking picture screen under Ray Del Ruth's direction, all the laughs and thrills of this cele
have been able to show will, half-inch to a mile map of Eng-became smalt by radiating away tribe of African savages or thes stood, about to embark on a new big and that the older oues have
are, it is under-all stars were in the first instauen convey the entire idea. have no doubt, at our com ince any
Finally they hit upon that reniste members who care to fromble
land, make le
their matter. Sir James For Motorists. comparissti, That
Jenns Hottentots. Here was the word ney has been well spent and that
has taken great
[1 delight in ex-wanted. They are also giving considera-pounding this view, and whenever
sounded, looked, and we have had value for it. Action, tion to the question of producing I have needed a theory, I have ased.
mennt. Just the thing. of course, has been taken to ensure map which will enter almost ex- R
mywelf. that next year the auditors will becisively for the needs of moturists,, able to give us a clean certificate, The Pen inerens in sales has due, it is believed, principally to the popularity of walking, and not to the increased number of cars in use; it is eonsequently be-
At the end of his address. Sir lieved that, if a satisfactory map Arthur gave a graphic picture of Report I will not go over the the needs of maniorists,
ens can be produced which will again. I need only say that the
a fresh look like to an observer.
what the end of our world would Helena May Institute continues its dentand for mups will be created. On a definite date in the rosnric This branch of map-making is calendar, he said, stars, planets, career with sucess, and very useful that it grows in popularity.
I now receiving serious attention; and beg to move that the report and is possible that an entirely new set pear, for what, on our reckoning. and atoms are doomed to disap accounts for the year ending 31st of Ordnance Survey Maps may be August, 1981. be adopted and after evolved which will be topographiebe, on the cosmic time scale, an is an indefinite time hence would the motion has been secundled they ally correct and at the same time ordinary finite date.
will give every necessary informa tion for motorists.
Our general setivities have been well maintained during the year. but as the details appear in the
will be open to discussion.
The motion, after being second- est, was unanimously adopted.
The Report.
The report stated that the pre- sent membership stood at 536, and all members resident in Kowloon had been transferred to the Kow- loon branch, Proof of the grow ing activities of the Institute was shown by the accounts, the apnaal turnover of the working reconn having increased by about $10,000 In the last two years.
serve
FILM FIGURES IN RELIEF.
NEW HOLLYWOOD CLAIM.
Ins the three-dimensionat film arrived?
The End.
Hamilton and Mackepzio). Organ Solo-Just a Wee Deocht and Margaret F. Stewart (Soprano). 5505.
Doris-Medley (Pub. Feldman and Co.).
Quentin M. Maclean, 5628. Band-The Thistle (Selection of
Scottish Melodica).
Reg. Band of H. M. Grenadier
Song The Standard on the Braes
Guards. 102. Song-Duncan Gray (Robert Burns).
D'Mar (Laing).
Elder Cunningham (Bass- Baritone). 5045. 7.50-8.00 p.m. Memories of Tschalkownicy
(arr, Sear).
The J. II. Squire Celeste Octet. 9108. 8.00 p.m. Local time and weather Chinese Concert
report.
8.03-10.30 p.m.
from the Studlo.
10.30 pm. Rugby mid-day press
news.
10.33 p.m. Close down.
All recorda in the Above European programmes are kindly supplieil by Messrs. Anderson Music Co.
the truant pair, ostensibly Mr. and Ira Janes, shall occupy their usual bestream, the Cockey arranging his comfortable quarters downstairs and back-chatting amiably with all and sundry, the occasional glimpses of the burglars durance vile, and the diverting predicainent of the
brated footlight success are repeatel.riginalty perverse wife and her silly- Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller, Edmund his now disgruntled lady, followed by The all-star cast includes Edward 195 companion. The climax is reached with the arrival of the husband and Breese, Edward Earle, Stanley Taylor, Maude Turner Gordon. Harvey Thow Otto Hoffman, Douglas Gerrard, and
the police, who promptly arrest the elerie as a dangerous crook, and de adapted the piece for Vitaphune,
elare that the whole party belong to n notorious gang. Eventually the silly ans personally rounds up the real burglars, and explanations result in general apologies.
"Bed and Breakfast,”
By special respuest the King's Theatre will re-screen the British picture "Bed and Breakfast" for »ne "We walk the stage of life for day only. Farce-comedy. Familiar the benefit of the cosmic obser- stury of Birtatious complications at ver," he concluded.
country studio. Deft, direction main "Watching! us for some few thousand million
Laina Amooth accession of comedy years he sees us gradually shrink situations based on predicament of pair forced to pose as man and wife: ing.
backed by incidental gags born of "As the scenes proceed he no-diverting characterisations of clerie tices that the actors are growing and Cockney. quicker. When the last act opens the curtain rises on midget nctors rushing through their parts at frantic speed.
"Smaller and smaller, faster and A new claim that an electrician faster, one last microscopic blur The social committed reported in a Hollywood studio has taken of intense agitation-then
given out 20 patents covering a devico thing."
no-
No lack of purely popular action, touches of undress revelation, good climax, amusing dialogue throughout. Clever portray. al, good sellings, fair recording. Dependable booking of exclusively popular pattern.
Although this latest British faree presents little that is new; it presenta enough comedy business, musing dialogue, and clever characterisation to he assured of welcome from the definitely popular patron. Its familiar of Bl-assorted couples who exchange partners in order to teach the other opening situation Introduces to a pair
in a country
resourcefully
Walter Forde bas kept the comedy ball rolling, whether in situation or in gue, and as the dialogue is pointed and the portrayal extremely capable, the appropiate good entertainment. At no time doen patram will vote the picture pretty
one fail to follow the development an this account. Settings, too, are work- mantike and credible, while the photo- graphy is worthy of commendation.
The portrayal features Jane Baxter, a pretty new-comer, with a flair for comedy, in the role of the truant wife, Richard Cooper as her silly.ask accomplice, Frederick Volpe as the radiant bookie, and Sari Maritza na prosy clerle, Alf Goddard as the the other erring little lady.
that cloven concerts were between October and March, and which will exhibit motion pictures the Christmas pantomine for the without the use of a screen, in children had a record attendance.
"The Right To Love." such way that they will give the called Kineplastikon. The llusion illusion of solid reality, may in of depth was so remarkable that,
that she was born too late, and must Six lectures were arranged by diente that the promised cinema for example, in one case the figure
live her life among the calory-count- Ruth Chatterton bowalls tho' fact the educational committee, but rovolution in on its way. they were unfortunately, very
of a banjolst was made to sit upon badly attended. The committee
It has been claimed for years a genuine chair which had been set for the ensuing farce-comedy dietetic displeasure was the serving pair a lesson, and thus the stage in ing gentry. The reason for her folt that so many other organian past that stereoscople films had placed in position beforchant. developments
been perfected; yet for some rea- tions had lectures etc., that the son the practical application of rather ghost-like, and
The
studio of a "pre-orange juice era" breakfast figures, however, were belonging to one of the girls.
as a course in the course of recording continuance of lectures at the In-
the offert, This latter, together with the other | "Thọ Right to Love," new Paramount stitute was not necessary. Classes these discoveries has always been on the whole, was uncanny. girl's husband, set out for the studio talking picture for her, The picture were held in French, Phyalen] delayed.
The Kinopinstikon method didla a fit of romantle pique, but are pone to-day in an engagement of Culture, and dressmaking, but these falled owing to lack of sup~ Spoor-Berggron process, which is through a gauze.
be not lend itself to ordinary projec- forestalled by the other pair, who three days at the Central Theatre, the tion, and the figures
arrive before them and are mistaken
The monus Included such he-map by callers for man and wife. The the best known-the hsence of a Its inventor has pegged
callors include a portly cleric and his food
wheat-cakes fried mush, screen is not so sensational as it since at an arrangement of lenses maker and his adipose lady, to any white bread and coffee, guaranteed to away precise wife, and a Cockney book-doughnuts,, ham, OTEK, BAUNDges, sounds.
and machinery to associate hls nothing of a couple of burglars who be ninety per cent caffeine. Trained Idena with modern cinematography; are forced to remain, mute witnesses to the rigors of a morning repeat of Theatre in London, a demonstra time ago was not so good 28tions may readily be imagined, what of the matutinal meal a delightful elteus juses and, dry toast, an Scala but the demonstration he gave some of the goings on.
The subsequent comedy of complies Chatterton found
the 1890 version tion was given of an invention spectators had been led to expart, with the cleric benignly insisting that revelation.
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port.
The Kowloon branch reported that in December the rooms were altered and refurnished to supply residence for five girls. The club had run smoothly, and the activi- tids had been well maintained.
If storooscopic affects can projected as is claimed for
Ghost-like.
Many years ago, al
the
were seen
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