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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 13, 1939.
INQUIRY INTO AFFAIRS OF 350-CINEMAS GROUP Board Of Trade DOCTOR Appoints Inspector
SHAREHOLDERS' demands for an inquiry have resulted in the appointment of Mr. Russell Kettle — a partner in the firm of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Co., chartered accountants-as an inspector to investigate the affairs of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, --which controls about 350 cinemus.
This announcement by the Board of Trade recently follows an application made about a year ago by a body of shareholders representing more than the stipulated one-tenth of the share capital of £6,250,000.
The committee of shareholders stated in their circular that they wanted an inquiry into how the company's subscribed capital had been utilised.
Information was also sought on thej present state of the company's affairs! und on the agreement with the Fox Film Corporation, 11}] American undertaking
REPORT TO BOARD
Under this agreement it was state:l thai some control of Gaumont-{
Fashion Raids The Tropics
TRIED
"TERROR
DRUG
Concerned
the
number
of
meta tients who feared the drug cardinzol, Dr. J. E. ON. Gillespie, of the Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, Surrey, tried it on himself.
Cardinzol produces convulsions, which in certain circumstances utlay the effects of mental disorders.
Some patients told Dr. Gillespie That the very thought of taking the drug again makes me shiver with horror.
Dr. Gillespie, having taken his Injection, experienced this:
"I felt my body and limbs coming to lie straight in the bed and my hend
British was given to Fox Film Cor JOLOURS are to be quieter turning to a central position.
"Then, very rapidly, something! seemed to nove in my arms and thorax and to pass up to the base of my neck, where it stopped and in- creased in intensity. Unconscious-
this spring. Exhausted, per- poration through its holding in haps, by one or two seasons of Metropolis and Bradford Trust. which holds 65 per cent, of Gaumont-screaming pinks and riotous reds, the spring scale of shades The Companies Act provides that sinks to a delicate diminuendo ness developed quickly. I shall be the duty of all officers of pastels, and agents of the company to pro-]
Brish shares.
Dr. Gillesple describes his experi-
0 -Strong colours for brunettes and fence in recent issue of "The duce to the inspector the books and bright colours for blondes take Lancet." documents in their custody. The second place to the more delicate-R inspector can examine the officers on in-between tones that suit the subtle outh and he has
has to report for the colouring of the mid-brown" Eng-magentas of last season with more Board of Trade.
dellcate amethyst muuves and wo lishwoning.
colours known as sca Caumont-British affairs have been
At the British Colour Counell dis- sugor-sweet in the public eye recently. At the play of 1939 shades, Ave groups of pink and amaranth. beginning of this year it was an- colour correlations are shown, all Bounced that negotiations were pro- represented in British merchandise reeding by which It
was hoped fabrics, gloves, hats and hags. Odeon Theatres would
CARIBOU AND MANILLA
make
an
offer for the Gaumont shares and The Brat main group shows the
also the voting shares of the Ostrer! Kroup,
:
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy gave a Gay Nineties party in Beverly Hills, Cul., and here is some of the fun as guests enact the Can- Can dance. Left to right: Betty Grable, Princess Baba, Martha Raye and Dorothy Lamour,
Experts Failed To Answer A Mere Layman's Query
A HUNDRED medical psychology experts from all 'parts of the country recently failed to answer the ques- tion: "What is psychological treatment?"
Mr. Henderson, a Home Office official, unable to attend, sent the question with his letter of regret.
He was being asked the question more and more by interested laymen, he said, and he would like to have a definition by experts in words the layman could understand.
An Important range showing the
Dr. Edelstone, of Leeds, provided Carroll, director of the Institute for new "Indy-like" influence in clothes the homespun definition: "Psychole- the Scientific Treatment of Delin- and colourings is the scale of greysical treatment supplies the parental quency, W., comforted his colleagues and belges. Caribou is a very warm dark grey. Ash grey is rather cooler affection the patient has never had." by announcing that he was writing THE COMFORTER
a pamphlet on the subject expressed in tone and mantila is the new beige,
Miss Madeleine Symons, J.P.. entirely in non-scientific terms.
attending Mixtures of grey and beige, with
were The psychologists "I am convinced that it is no said: darker contrasting accents, will be impenetrable scientifle mystery, but the only public meeting of the fourth
Child
Inter- feature of spring colour schemes.
bicnatul
Guidance common sense."
Brush Clinic Conference at the for day outfits.
For spring und summer dresses
Medical Association House, W.C.1.
They brought stories from clinics throughout the country which show- ed the advances made recently by sending delinquent children to 10- mand centres and foster-homes in- stead
of to
new tropical pastels. These are blutch
corul pinks. treens, dulled The proposed offer was not to be soft brownish reds all with that made until there hat been an misted look of objects seen in an examination of accounts and a cur-aquarium, or perhaps when swim- vey of properties. This was expect-ming in a lagoon. ved to take place in March or April, The Edwardian influence tones there is the more usual range of of uninterrupted discussion (not all
brilliant but the latest move may cause delay,I down the
fuchsins and fresh bright blues and salad greens. of it about the definition) Dr. Denis
At the end of two and half hours
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BEER AT ITS BEST
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2,000 "GOOD," 2,000 "BAD"
Professor A. M. Carr-Saunders, ot the London School of Economles, outlined the work of the Home causes of
Omee Inquiry into the juvenile delinquency being carried out under his direction,
A thousand boys from London and a thousand from Cardiff, Hull, Leeds,
Nottingham and She
Manchester of indictable offences,
mek,
same
are being compared with 2,000 boys of the same ages from the schools who have never been condict with authority,
in
Investiga-
No such compra-so-fur-been
tion-on-the-
attempted, said
Professor Carr-
Saunders. There are 50 headings on the questionnaire.
Phone Girl Chases
Man In New York
IN the glare of aro lamps. microphones above their heads, two of London's International phone girls showed how they "get their men."
Thousands of radio listeners heard them. Television viewers watched.
Around the giris in the Post Offce's Faraday House were 28 other operators talking in half-u-dozen tongues lo twice as many countries. Leslie Mitchell, the commentator, wanted Captain Townicy of the Aqui- tanla, two daya. out from England. He was talking to him within o minute. It was Miss Hilda Collins who put him through.
TALK WITH CLOWN Listeners heard the conversation. They heard, too, phone talks with two of the passengers: Fred Bishop, driver of the Coronation Scot, on his way to the United States with the L.M.S, wonder express; and Clown Kelly, who was at Olympia.
Then Mr. Gerald Cock, director of television at Alexandra Palace, put Eileen, Jones through, a transatlantic chase. He neked for Mr. John Royal, president of the National Broadcasting Co.. "omewhere in New York
A quick play-in, ox Mits Jones' | buard,· A search starts by radio and telephone. In New York another girl is working as telephone detective. She calls - Mr. Royal's home. He fan't 'there. She calls an hotel. He ten't there, fie len't at his club. He la in the studio.
Miss Jones got her man to the phone in one-and-a-half minutes.
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