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THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929.

World News In Pictures.

Mrs. Wilson Feted in Tokyo

Heads American Surgeons

Flying Phone Booths

WITH ALL THE PEP

of a Jazz Band.

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the late President, is seen as she

was greeted at a Tokyo zarden party by the Viscount Shihausawa,

"the grand all ninn" of Japan.

Musical Marvel

Ruggiero Ricci, eight-year-old violinist, who created a sensation in New York when he made his debut at the opening concert of the Manhattan Symphony. The child played the Mendelssohn concerto, one of the standard classics of the repertoire for violin and orchestra, and ho played it without compromise of any sort, alther as to its length or Ita conicat, even inserting the difficult Kreisler cadenza in its opening movement. He was completely wrapped up in his per- formance, apparently forgetting his audience.

Will Try For New Record

Bobble Trout and Eleanor Builth, of Los Ange

for an endi anca rafud

whitter, and

All the Poise

of 'a

Drum Major

Dr. C. Jeff Miller, who is Prezident elect of the American College of Sur grons, which recently concluded its an- nual meeting in Chicago. He will take office in 1930.

Very "Dry" Senator

IN

Above: The flying radio plant, constructed at a cost of $100,000, which has been brought to Hadley Airport, Hadley, N.J., for export mental work by the Bell Telephone Laboratories. The plant is fully equipped to test aeroplane radio communication. Below: One of the two laboratory benches in the plane at which scientists are constantly working for the perfection of communication between air and land stations.

$75,000 For. Thaw's “Spanking

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The Assurance

of a

Radio Announcer.

Senator Sheppard, of Texas, one of the ardent Democratic sponsors of Prohibition, offered an amendment in the Senate to make the purchaser of liquor, equally liable with the seller. His proposal Is believed to have little chance of adoption during this session of Congress.

Marcin Estardus, Broadway entertainer, was awarded $75,000

by a jury in her suit against Harry K. Thaw, alleging assault. Sho had sued for $100,000, charging him with having beaten her with a hair brush in his apartment on New Year's Day, 1927.

$50,000,000 Goes Up In Smoke

The Attention that

a. Manipulator Caught Short in the

Market

Gives the Ticker

The Perseverance and Optimism of an Ancient Pedant learning to Play Ping Pong

and the Pride with which a

Bride Ties, Her New Hubby's

Tie.

THE STAFF of the

HONG KONG

DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO.

are forging

ahead with the

NEW 1930 ISSUE

Captain E. W. Nast and J. C. Wist, of the Hollywood Fire Department; Inspecting rolls of film in the laboratory of the Consolidated Film Industries, at Hollywood, following the explosion and are which caused an estimated damage of $50,000,000 and loss of one life. The bulk of the loss lies in the destruction of the countless rolls of master negative feature films which cannot be replaced.. building itself was only valued at $400,000.

Thomas Edison Honoured

The

A Knock-out

Dollar's worth.

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