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the germ and outer coats of ROUND THE CINEMAS cereale, la pulses, yeast and in

"All

FRONT."

BLOOD AND MUD.

Quiet on

the

Western

When Movietone' oficials were seeking an actress who possessed beauty, charm, dramatic ability, and the ability to sing and dance they discovered that Miss Seeger- Tulalled all the requirements, and Immediately signed her to a con- tract.

Other members of the cast of

eggs. To a lesser extent this vita: "ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN min is present in meat, milk andį vegetables. Absence is followed by general effects and berl-beri. Fresh vegetables and fresh fruits, are the main items of food that contains Vitamin C, absence of Front is like every other War The New Fox Movietone Follles of 8lm, except that the horror of 1930" are El Brendel, Marjoria which results in scurvy. This trench warfare has

been brought White, Frank Richardson, Noet Francis, and William Collier, Jun., vitamin is easily destroyed by to a pitch of realism that is almost | Benjamin Stoloff directed and No doubt a consider William K. Welle wrote the story ordinary cooking especially with terrifying.

able emotional effect on the soda and by storage. Cod-liver audience is produced by the cease-

and dialogue. oil, fish oils and animal fats are less firing, the thunder of guns, the mainly responsible for Vitamin D. atacato rattle of machine guns, and of shells. It is a Defective bone and tooth forme- the screams

wonderful achievement of "sound, tion follow absence of this vita-and in this bewildering setting per-

haps something like the true at The majority of foods are bet]mosphere of the 1914-18 Inferno is ter if cooked slowly. Frying is revealed to non-combatants for the first time. The stark terror of a the worst form of cooking, and is bombardment, which set rational

min.

FRENCH CABINET.

FIVE EX-PREMIERS WITH PORTFOLIOS.

Paris, Saturday. The new Cabinet has ven a frequent cause of indigestion men quivering with fear and sent formed, including five extre Particles of fat are driven into strong men into fatal hysterics, is miers. M. Steeg is Premie and the meat, fish or vegetables, and here reproduced by acting which is Minister for the Colonia; M. undeniably good, but which depends Brland, Minister for foreign are difficult to dissolve. in the targely upon unshaven, chins, mud Affairs; M. Painleve, Minster for stomach. Certain chemical and-blood stains, and all the stage Air; M. Barthou, Minister for (changes also take place in fried properties of noise and colour and War; M. Leygues, Miniser of the fat which make it particularly in movement, to produce its effect. Interior; and M. Chautamps, Nevertheless, one is impressed. Minister for Public Instruction- digestible. Green vegetables

The chief interest of the film, of Reuter. should never have soda added to

course, is the fact that the drama is [M. Theodore Steeg, the new the water in which they are cook-enacted in the German lines and Premier, is a Radtal Socialist, ed, as it destroys Vitamin A. Too one is able to see-through the eyes son of the former Deputy, M. German, Erich Maria Re-Jules Steeg, and was born in much attention cannot be paid to of a

marque, who wrote the novel how Libourne, Gironde, in December, the cooking of food.

"Jerry" behaved during those de- 1868.]

Earlier News. In relation to the problem of moralising weeks, months, and even He was cost of imported foodstuffs the years of trench warfare.

Paris, Saturday. average resident here might profit neither the coward nor the beast

M. Theodore Steeg, the Radical in health and in pocket by paying that the Wartime newspapers and Socialist has accepted the invita- more attention than heretofore to clergymen led us to believe; more tion of President Doumergue, to frequently than not, he had never form a Cabinet, being the third to the foods that really matter.

Bet eyes on a Frenchman

a undertake the task since the Briton before enlisting; he had go resignation of the Tardieu Minis- personal grudge against the men he try. Sweet

Yet, In was bidden to slaughter.

The latest potential Premier Is jarn)

spite of the valour and the comradea son of the former Deputy, M. News in Brief.

ship which combine to mako Jules Steeg, and was born in De It is pointed out that it is de-

The St. John Ambulance beautiful appeal to our emotions in cember, 1868, in Libourne, Gironde. sirable to consider carefully what

He studied law and philosophy · the this film, there are certain scenes of Brigade's competition for food is necessary to maintain life,

Murray Shield will take place on sheer "mawkiness" (a very com-and was at first a teacher of philo- health, and activity; what form December 21 at 9 am.

mon product of Hollywood) which sophy at several-lycees-and-public will disgust the average British schools. Later, he settled in Paris it should take; and how the money

It la and practised to the Court of Ap available for its purchase can be H.M. sloop Sandwich left Hong member of the audience.

nor wisdom to show peal as an advocate. Journalism Kong this morning for Hoihow. neither art spent to the best advantage. She expects to complete the 240 scenes of men slobbering in the also had certain attractions for Money may be and, in fact, often miles

to-morrow true Dickensian manner; neither is him and he contributed to the

it realism.

columns of various dally papers is wasted on articles of food morning.

Apart from this blemish, how- and edited the review "L'Action which, though attractive to the

The forthcoming marriage is an-ever, the film is an admirable inter- Nationale." eye, have little food value, and nounced of John Herbert Percival pretation

stuffs (sugar,

3

OZ.

voyage

carly

of Herr Remarque's He entered politics in 1904 as

do not provide the essential fac- Southby R.N. Officer, of H.M. Naval novel, and should do more to turn Radical Socialist representative of Elisabeth Jessic people's minds against war than the Seine Department. He has tors necessary in proper diet. Dockyard, and

any number of League of Nations' been a Senator since March 1914. That is a point which; it is to be Story, of the Peninsula Hotel.

meetings. The chief actor 13 In 1911, he became Minister in feared, is too generally overlook- Charged by. Revenus Officer Louis Wolhelm, who took the role of the Monis Cabinet, served under Led by the non-Chinese community Grimmitt in the Central Magis-the convict in "Condemned," the Caillaux, and in the next Ministry, here. It has been proved that tracy this morning with the posses-film story of Devil's Island. He that of M. Poincare, he became man requires body-building sub- sion of 169 taels of non-Government gives a remarkable performance of Minister of the Interior, which prepared oplum at the Ping On humour and manliness and is a for-portfolio he held through all stance, energy or fuel substances Wharf, a Chinese woman was re-tunate balance to the girlish moods changes of the Cabinet right up to

of "the clean-limbed young hero." 1920. and vitamins, which are Nature's manded till to-morrow. ·

Governor Later, he went as There is an undercurrent of comedy tonics. The need for these sub

the auspices

of the in the film which, though it does General to Algiers, and in April, stances is fixed by Nature and

Hong Kong Instituto of Account-nothing to "explain the grim 1925, became Minister of Justice there is no escape.

The body-ants a lecture will be given to-day calamity of the Great War, le cer in the Painleve Ministry. Havas building and repair substances are in the Hotel Cecil (late Savoy tainly one of the most "sensa-and I.B.S. Hong Kong. Monday, Dec. 15, 1930 proteins or nitrogenous food Hotel) at 8.30 p.m. on the subject tional" war pictures over produced.

of "Bills of Exchange." . All inter- materials, and salts or mineral ested are invited

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OUR DAILY FOOD.

Under

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MOVIETONE FOLLIES.

Paris, later.

M. Barety, under-secretary to the Treasury, has resigned his office, following the decision of the group which is not following the cabinet-Reutor.

Ten Years Ago.

From the China, Mail” of

December 15, 1920.)

matters. Proteins are derived mainly from the cells of animals The loss of a gold wrist watch,

Few leading ladies in pictures and plants, which form our food valued at $100, between Shatin and In view of the increasing cost They bulk largely in lean meats reported in the Police by Mr. perience enjoyed by Miriam Seegar, the Kowloon Star, Ferry, has been to-day have the background of ex- of imported foodstuffs, owing to

and fish, and in eggs, milk and W. L. Miller of 6, Armend Build-featured in "The New Fox Movie- the dwindling rate of exchange, cheese, and they form also a cerings. He stated that he missed tone Follies of 1920," the musical it appears timely to consider whetain proportion of cereals, pulses,'clock last night,

the watch between 7.40 and 9 comedy rondance coming soon to the Queen's Theatre. As a matter of ther the average resident of this vegetables and fruits in their

fact it was Miss Seogar's wide and Colony cannot devote a little

natural conditions. An ordin- For being in possession 1 1/6 lb. varied experience which won her thought to the consumption of

ary diet of natural foods of tobacco on which duty had not role in this production.

After several Summer vacations. foods that really matter

been paid, Mak Mun, a Chineze Non generally contains plenty

woman, was fined $12 in the Kow spent in Chautauqua musical shows Chinese are too apt to think in

protein... Minerals are re-loon Magistracy to-day. It was the obtained a dramatic role in the terms of Western diets and less quired for the growth and up-stated that the tobacco was found Broadway production of

Squall" Al Woods saw her and C.B.E., and the Hon. Mr. E. E. some vegetables in ready to consider adapting them-

keep of the body... Human bones among scives, to a certain extent at least; and teeth consist chiefly cused's basket at Yaumati Railway the London company which pro-tained to dinner at the Kam Ling

of

of Station on December 14.

BC-

Charged

before Mr. Williams

"The

To-day's dollar is worth 3/- 11/16..

The Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher,

engaged her for the ingenue lead in Halifax, O.B.E., are to be enter. to Oriental-grown products which phosphate of lime, the blood con-

duced "Crime."

Hotel on Tuesday, December 28, are cheaper and equally-if not tains a considerable quantity of

In Britain she played on both the by certain members of the Chin- stage and screen, and when she re-ese community on the occasion of mare-rich in the vitamins neces-iron, and a supply of potash is this morning with the possession cently went to Hollywood she im- their departure on leave of ab- of a quantity of po piu tickets, a sary for their physique.

necessary for health. Traces of Chinese pleaded guilty.It was mediately found herself in great sence. H.E. the Governor will at-

tend the gathering., Arising out of a different pro- iodine are indispensable. These stated by the Police that the tickets blem altogether from that of the minerals are present in the com- were concealed In the mouths of effect of exchange, an Australian mon foodstuffs: in their natural several dried salt fishes. A fine of Public Health Officer has compiled condition, but are not uniformly weeks jail was imposed.

$75 with the alternative of five

a diet-suitable for a man, wife, distributed among them. Offal of and three children. The calcula

The Rev. Mother, and the Sistera wheat is relatively rich in phos-

of the St. Francis Convent, Itallon tion is based on a statement that

photus and from, and milk and Convent, Wanchai, desire to thank men and boys require the full. diet, women and children over ten een vegetables are rich in lime. the Right Rev. Blehap H: Valtorta Variation of the diet is therefore for so graciously opening their require four-fifths of the diet, essential and the foods should be Bazaar yesterday. They also wish children from six to ten three in as natural a state as possible. Dizon, and their many patrons and to thank the Rev. Fathers, Mr. H. fifths, and children from four to

Vitamins are particularly neces- friends who spent so generously at The family computation is based ficiency of any of the Vitamins

sary for children. Absence or de- the Bazaar,

six one-fifth of the diet auggested.

on a man, woman, boy over 12, a

Mme. Keas, who focataying, in

child from 6 to 10, and a child (A, B, C or D) produce general - the Hong Kong Hotel (Room 302) effects upon the lower animals and representa Maino Lucile of from four to six years. The pro- there is every reason to belleve Shanghai and Parls and has with posed diet is as follows:

Cereals (flour, bread,

oatmeal, rice, etc) 16 Pulses (peas,” beans, -^-

Tentels)

Meats :(including: bacon,

fish ege

Fates

meletusaky | ber an oxolusiva selection of the that the same demage may result latest Paris modele affording to to "<human · belugu • These, Il- the ladies of Hong Kong a time- effects are Fallare of growth ly and exceptional opportunity of additional choice for the approach

and health in the you

lessened

ince to infec

digestion: 2 VE

Ing festive season.

and ima

present in

Calado in milke

Damage to clothing and a mate.

to the extent of $120, was

"Nd by a fire whien broke

Castle Penc

Pelica

Leung: Har

demand.

Road, Hon