THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1936.
RADIO COMEDY IN NORTH SEA SUIT FASHIONS
Trawler Skippers' Unofficial "Talks"-G.P.O. Baffled
New Star for The Screen
London, Dec. 15..
HOLLYWOOD has discovered a
ability,
new film star of exceptional beauty and
Frances Farmer, who is of medium height) with blonde hair and hazel eyes, makes an ex- cellent impression in her first considerable part in the film version of Edna Ferber's "Come and Get It" at the London Pavilion.
"Come and Get It" is a pageant of life in the United States lumber industry from 1884 to 1907. Frances Farmer appears first as a singer in a drinking saloon and later as the singer's daughter.
As the singer she adopts a lazy insolence which is effective. As the daughter she presents
a perfect picture of a country girl who is un- spoiled but resolved to let nothing stand in the way of her ambition to become a success. VIVID DRAMA
Because of the charm of Frances Farmer and the gusto of Edward Arnold as the lumber king, "Come and Get It" suffers remarkably little from the handicap of costume and becomes a vivid human drama,
The new Katharine Hepburn film, "A Woman Rebels," now at the Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, is a less satisfactory excursion into costume.
What the woman rebels against is Victorian England. She does so while her daughter grows up and the man who wants to marry her remains uniformly loyal and sentimental,
"A Woman Rebels" is well pro- duced, but its emotions are rather remote an dits dialogue occasionally unfortunate.
Capt. Rivett-Carnac To
Command The Leander CAPT. James W.
Rivett-Carnac,
D.S.C., who has taken over com- mand of the cruiser Leander, 2nd
Cruiser Squadron, Latterly doing special duty in Spanish waters, In relief of Capt. A. F. E. Palliser. D.S.C., proceeding to China Station o Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little, Commander in Chief on that station, is the second son of Siz G. C. Rivett-Carnac.
He was a gunnery officer in the
ROOSEVELT IN S. AMERICA
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his party photographed on the bridge of the U.S.S. Indianapolis on which he travelled to South Amerien, in order to be present at the Pan-American Conference at Buenos Aires.
Short-Wave
Shocks
for Listeners
Lowestoft, Dec. 20.
Fishermen's rough voices, booming into the "mikes" of radio transmitters on board herring drifters, are giving the Post Office an official headache.
Every night this radio cross-chat flashes across the North Son from drifter to drifter to the great delight of short-wave listeners in Lowestoft and Yarmouth who are able to hear the fishermen's sometimes rather unorthodox "talks."
in.
And here is where the G.P.O, headache comes
Three years ago the Post Office allowed all drifters engaged in herring fishing to fit radio receivers and transmitters. This enabled skippera to communicate with the shore and get market prices.
FREE RADIO
All they had to do was to connect with the Humber broadcasting station and their messages would be sent through the Post Office at usual- rates.
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But it was soon discovered that with short- wave sets messages could be received from the drifters without troubling the Humber station or paying the Post Office fee.
In the first year of the experiment, the Post Office took payment for-two messages.
In the second year for one. This year receipts are nothing at all. Hence the PO, headache,
Post Office Make Three-year
Test of Inoculation
Colds: A Failure
HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS
Grand Fleet during the Great War, WERE
one of his ships having been the cruiser Cleopatrn, and it was for ser-
vice in her as a range-anding expert
that he was decorated.
During the Anglo-Italian tension, he commanded the cruiser Coventry packed with anti-aircraft guns-in the Mediterranean.
The Rivett-Carnac family, who are of undoubted Norman extraction, going back to the 12th century, have been Service people from time im- memorial.
TREATED
"No. Reduction in Sickness"
London, Dec. 20. OR three years the Chief Medical
Omeer
to the Post Office has been conducting, an e.periment in
Inoculation
Against
Another official grumble is that
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drifters, owing to some confusion PRICE.
about their instructions, have been using the wrong wavelength. They have sometimes strayed on a waves length belonging to the Dutch Trinity House service.
As a result Important, official messages have bem jammed while the slippers challed.
"WE'RE TOUCH, WE ARE.
made with large control groups In set out in a 90-ton drifter from each place of un-inoculated workers. Lowestoft the other night to hear
"NEGATIVE"
these t
amateur broadcasters at work. "The experiment showed some
of brightly-lit drifts were Scores against colds. The ex-improvement in about 10 per cent, clustered at Smith's Knoll, a favourite
the of the volunteers-less than half the spot for dropping nels. originat number who persisted. We added our lights to the collec- throughout The three years of the tion, and then the radio in the wheel-
house was switched on.
[periment has been a fallure.
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A statement Issued by the Post Office to-day says that the expert-experiment. ment was made with the voluntary co-operation of members of the Post Once staff, to determine the utility of anti-catarrhal vaccine for the pre- vention or diminution of eatarrhal disability.
"Volunteers were invited fcom various typical large towns, and some hundreds of them were ino- culated in the autumn of the three years 1933-4-5. Their sickness ratea over periods ante-dating the inocula tions and during the treatment were compared. Comparisons were also
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Instead of the dulcet Oxford accent 1 half-expected from tho set, I heard the rough voice of a flaherman. "Hullo
was virtually no reduction of
hullo ... that you. sickness as compared with the con- Nelson. This is Oaktree. How are trol groups or with their previous you George, you old blighter? No, sick records,
we aren't doing so badly. Sixty "In view of the negative character crans the last shool. Gale warning? of the results, the inoculation of anti-Yes, I know, but we aren't taking any catarrhal vaccine as a large-scale notice of the blinkin' thing. Some routine measure has not been con of them have the wind up. They're sidered justifiable.
hauling in their nets and going back. What? Not on your life. We're tough, we are...
Munich Refuses To Pay Church
QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
I timed one of these broadcasts. It lasted well over an hour.
Once the radio was silent, except for a crackling roar.
"Atmospherics," they said.
I'm stili convinced it was a hoarse chorus of rage in offelal Dutch and English.
MALAY SULTAN
DEMANDS TITLE
FOR FIRST-BORN
Munich, Dec. 18. Munich's irascible archbishop, Cardinal Faulhaber, and Nazi
Singapore, Dec. 15. Chief Burgomaster Karl Fichler, Selangor has announced that he will The 73-year-old Sultan of cannot agree over the manner in make a pilgrimage to London 10 which times have changed.
our
protest in person to the Colonial According to the Burgo-omice against being forced to accept his third son as his heir and suc- master's interpretation
cessor, times having changed, the city The Sultan intends to interview the of Munich, no longer is obliged Hon. W. G. Oremby-Gore, colonial to pay the Catholic church the secretary, and other high officials. subsidies which it once pledged He also expects to meet his most in- timate English friend, Sir Frank to pay under contract.
Swettenham, the former governor, who negotiated the British treaty with the Sultan.
The the
The eums in question are small, but the principles involved are far reaching.
In Selangor began with Under a contract concluded when
of the Sultan's eldest the suburb of Schwabing was in son from the position of Crown corporated with Munich, the city Prince after he had held it for 15 undertook to pay the Catholic parish years. British advisers rejected the of St. Ursula of Schwabing 420 second son's claims to the succcasion
marks annually.
After the Nazis coming to power, and insisted on the third son being the city refused to pay. The matter made Crown Prince and heir to the was brought before the courts. The throne. Against this. the Sultan highest court having jurisdiction in protests. The eldest son was deposed the case, the Administration Court living!
because of bls "unprincely manner of rendered a judgment favourable to the church, But
The Sulton contends that the Burgomaster Fichier declared that he would not British authorities have broken their treaty obligation not to inter- pain convened the city
council fere with affairs of Malay custom which declared that the court's judge and religion, and that when he asked ment was to be regarded as vold the Colonial Office to submit the case since it was "not in keeping with the to the Judicial Committee of the National Socialist idea of the state, Privy Council the request was re- The contract, the city council added, fused,
was concluded at a time when the relations between church and state
ton on behalf of the clly
churches
were totally different from those placed in the churches, the city's prevalling to-day.
charitable institutions were in the. Outraged by the Burgomaster's habit of closely co-operating with the attitude, Cardinal Faulhaber, as church. This is no longer the case. mupremo leader of the church in Hence, there is no justification in Munich, resorted to: "sanctiona”.
maintaining this permanent collec He ordered the removal from all
in the Catholic churches in the city of the poor-boxes wherein between 1,000 According to latest reports, Flekler and 2,000 marks usually accumulated is planning a shrewd counter-move. every year-the-poor-boxes- institutions,atach 1 X as
imes bave changed" the Car dinal declared. When those poor boxes of the City of Munich were
the property of the city's banks wants to replace the boxês out
aldo the churches on city soil" "where" the cardinal cannot remove them. Seeing the new boxes outside the churches, Munichers will doubtless realize that times have changed.
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