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GLAMOROUS LOLITA CORDOBA, with huge black eyes, has gone to London from Mexico to escape from an American millionaire who is madly in love with her but whom she does not love. ・・
She has run away from him, but love' knows no boundary and he is on his way to Britain.
Two Dead Rulers On Radio
Vienna, Dec. 20.
of two Emperors
Lolita, feeling rather nervous at being pursued, and suffer- VOICES heard throughout Austria ing from a not too pleasant crossing, was in bed when a nows-to-day. paper representative saw her at the Savoy Hotel.
A Agh came from her. "I do not love him. I cannot marry hḥn.“
Her eyes lit up and her valce became soft.
"I am in love with an Englishman, and he is in love with me. I do not want to divulge his name, but he belongs to an aristocratio family. Some day we will marry.
"fle is not a millionaire, but he has a heart of gold, and alway's does the right thing.
"He sent me those lovely roses. The American would have sent me something out of the ordinary, something queer which would not have; given me anything like the pleasure the roses did." Wants To Settle Down
Lolita, who is well known, on the American stage, screen and radio, expects to make a film over here.
She has won fame as a Spanish dancer, but she says she is tired of the stage..
"I want to give it up, to settle down with my Englishman, to have children, and lead a quiet life.
"First, though, I want to make a 'hit' in London: I feel I owe that to myself. Then I will gladly marry my Englishman and give up the stage for ever."
Another Kind
Of Time
HOW LIFE MOVES
Mankind is already blessed with sidereal time, meon solar time. Summer Time, and space time-and Professor Milne, of Oxford, has lately told us that atoms and stars keep a different kind of time from the normal pendulum clock.
scientist, M. Now
French E Lecomte de Nouy, has determined to add to the fun by announcing that time"-the time which
there is yet another kind of time "biological our bodies keep.
Old gramophone records and the official Austrian radio combined in a subtle piece of propaganda for the restoration of the Hapsburgs. ·
To-day is the anniversary of the accession of the Emperor Francis Joseph to the Austro-Hungarian throne in 1840.
Two sentences in the feeble volee of an old man
it is 1015 now and old Francis Joseph, atili on the throne, is expressing approval of an army charity.
Six sentences in a firmer, younger volce 1910. the old man is dead and his nephew, the Emperor Charles is urging his troops to vic- Lory.
The old Imperial anthem floats through the ntr
1936 Charles, who abdicated after the war, died in exile in 1921, but his son, Otto, is pretender to the throne...
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UNIVERSAL PRESENTS
William
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KRUPPS TO BUILD POWELL·LOMBARD
NILE BRIDGE
Cairo, December 18.
KRUPPS, German arms and steel manufacturers,
have been awarded a contract to build the Semennud Bridge across the River Nile.
Their tender, £161,293, was the lowest of ten submitted. Dorman Long, with £171,796, made the lowest British tender.- Reuter,
Semennud is a town on the Damietta arm of the Nile delta, 80 miles north of Cairo.
Surgeons Win LIVE SHELL IN
M. de Nouy has assisted Dr. Alexis, New Operation Saves Carrell at the Rockefeller Instituto
A PICTURE THAT YOU'LL LOVE TO SEE AGAIN!e culture the growth
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Robert Woolsey Dorothy Lee Don Alvarado
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EXCERPTS from "THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS"!
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on
In his remarkable experiments
and maintenance of healthy tissues out- side the body--and is now working at the Pasteur Institute In Paris, His views on time are put forward in "Biological
by Time." published Methuen,
at 75, Gd. His
thedon,
is based on his main perimental achievement, the
of the healing of wounds to mathematical formula-depending on the size of the wound, the age of the patient, and (with cold-blooded animals) on the surrounding tem- perature.
A
re-
CX-
"correction," as might be pected, has to be introduced to sc- count for the rapid healing of long, narrow wounds in proportion to their size. Otherwise, it appears, the equations "work." The bigger the wound, the more rapidly, in pro- portion, it heals. And age acts us a of progressive brake on the rate healing.
A TEST
In one remarkable case, M. de Nouy was oven able in diagnose the a patient and the shape of nge of his wound. merely by applying his calculations to figures supplied him by post by the attending doctor.
Beyond that, M. de Nouy points
3: out that life moves more slowly for a child than it does for a man, and for a
young man than for an old one. Quartitatively, he suggests. that what ters is
matters not the dura-
tion of time as measured by a clock,
о
but the proportion of that interval to the total of
experience
already lived
D
Lhrough. "Th
Thus, for a child of ten. year's Interval is one-tenth of his previous length of life, and equiva-
·lent to a two years' interval for a man of twenty, or four years for a man of, forty.
time-scale, based on this theory conveniently coincides, as near, us may be, wit
with 1 similar time-scalo based on the healing, of wounds..
That is M. de Nouy's "Biological time." It may, or may not, attain: to permanence as a philosophical conception. It is certainly illustra- tive of the increasing emphasis which is now being placed on bio- logical research and processes.
And as an intellectual pastime the reading of his book is to be re- commended, -
Horse Brings News
Of Suicide Note Tied To Empty Saddle
Now York, Dec. 19.
Grieved by the death of a woman friend, Reserve Lieutenant William L. Carson, aged 25, killed himself under unusual circumstances,
the
He rode to a lonely spot, 'on artillery range at Fort Sill; Oklahoma, where he had been stationed for a course of training. Drawing a rough map, he put it in a despatch bug tied to the empty saddle of his horse. Then, after, starting the horse back to the stable he killed himself,
A note with the map asked a fellow
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. officer to toe that his body was
cremated and the ashon – scattered over the gravitorch, woman
friend who died ten days)?"
Man's Life
An operation, which, it is claimed,
FURNACE
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BRADY
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PATRICK DIXON Eugene PALLETTE • Alon MOWBRAYA? MISCHA AVER ▲ JOKA LIGHT • PAY PLANERSÝ KORTET VERH7 » FRANKLYN PANGSGEN
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CHARLES R. ROGERS, Exsenile Product
THURSDAY at the QUEEN'S | WEDNESDAY at the ALHAMBRA
Genc Raymond Ann Sothern in "WALKING ON AIR"
An R.K.O. Radio Picture
Cardiff, Dec, 18."
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has never before been attempted, Inquiry into an explosion which
at the Dowlais iron has saved the life of a man who was occurred
of Guest, Keen and dying in Newcastle Hospital of steel works
Baldwins, Cardiff, has led to the dis- Engina pectoris,
covery of a live shell in a cargo of scrap-iron.
The operation consisted of cutting through the wall of the man's chest, putting a vascular tissue through his diaphragm and attaching it to the heart in such a manner as to aug- ment the blood supply.
The patient, who is 50, is slowly recovering.
RADIO "LUNACY”
This cargo was shipped to the works from the Continent last week.
Six hundred night-shift men were startled about three o'clock by an explosion which partly wrecked a smelt-furnace building. No one was Injured
Examination of the contents of he
"It is the action of a lunatic to go furnace revealed an empty shell case to sleep to the tune of the radio," of foreign origin.. It had been in- said Brigadier-General A. F. Hcluded in a quantity of scrap-Iron Ferguson, chairman of the Northamp-which was being melted.
The Dowlais iron and steel works tonshire Public Assistance Committee,
at its meeting recently. It had been are among the finest and most up to stated that a new nurses' home was date in the world. They cost more not equipped for radio in the bed-than £3,000,000 to build; and em1-
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