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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL

ELECTRICITY AND ROUND THE CINEMAS SILK HOSE MADE

MATTER.

Some Mysteries Yet Unsolved.

MR. BUTCHER'S ADDRESS.

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How X-Rays Arise.

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NANCY CARROLL'S LATEST PICTURE.

"LAUGHTER.".

When Nancy Carroll appeared in

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́COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Social. Mr. J. Doogias Butcher. C.E.E.. "The Devil's Holiday" at the Para I write to-day of hose, of hose Saturday-Hotel Cecil, Special en- M.E.E., A.M.1.M.E.. in the course, inuut Theatre in New York early for the woman, half-hose for the gagement, of Prof. A. Barna,

the metropolitan man, and, socks Interesting

Summer, lecture on st

for the little boy world-renowned cymbalist, at din "Electricity" given before the newspapers were as one in citing who howls down the alde street, er dance. Rotary Club at the weekly tiffin her capabilities as a remarkably writes, F. &. II."Salusbury, Daily

Entertainments. yesterday, briefly discussed the talented actress: This publie ap Express Special Representative.

To-day King's Theatre; source, production, and uses of elecpreciation of her gift for the

Such are the technical differences "Laughter." weighty type of character-portrayal between what you and 1 loosely call trical power.

Today. Queen's 'T'heatre; Mr. Butcher commenced by statted Paramount to decide upon socks and stockings.

"The Show of Shows." ing that it was more than lely "Laughter" as her next dramatie

I could wish, on reflection, that To-day Central

Theatre; that the wonderful something call-release.

"hose" were in more general use."The Broadway 'Hoofer." od sther would one day be proved Laughter comes to the Kng's it is a good word: Shakespeare used To-day Majestic tu be the foundation of electricity Theatre to-day and is an original it; Queen Elizabeth used it. An-"Vagabond, Lover." ether in a particular kind of motion story written by Douglas Doty and other pair of hose gone west with To-day World

In the play Drake," she said, on a famous occa-"The Sky Hawk." being possibly the source of electri-Harry D'Arrast. cal power.

If one could picture Nancy is seen as the ex-Follies girlsion; then ripped them off and flung To-day-S-t a x Theatre ting portions of ether sat into rapid who marries a very wealthy old them at a wench, exclaiming, "Darn "Arizona Kid." vortex mation, one visualised what man, her "Second choice," after her them!"

You remember? was called a unit of electricity. So young lover forsakes her in favour for this seemed the only reasonable of an exciting trip to Paris. Upon

Hose, half-hose, and socks... The his return to New York her "first factory, employing more than two explanation.

June 17-Lane, Crawford, Ltd. The Election.

love" becomes a pal of Nancy's thousand hands, which I have just Exchange Building. These units were known as elec-husband but slyly attempts to make visited turns them out by the hen-

June 17 Indo-China Steam Irons, which hath been likened to advances to her. The dramatic dred thousand. It produces also an Navigation Co., Ltd.,

Messrs. A knot and thrilling events that follow are knots on a piece of string.

Enarmbus variety of jumpers Jardines, noon. was composed of string in a parti- the high points of interest in this ladies' outer wear--and bathing

Home Mails. eudar configuration, and yet was hot powerful show.

costumes. "Anything 'knitted!?" it-To-day-faward from Europe via The part of the philandering nys, with its hand on its heart: Siberin (Kaga Maru); Outward like the rest of the string.. In a similar way electricity was probably over is played by Fredric Murch Pray command-me

for-Europe-vin-Siberia-President composed of ether, but other in a the capable young leading man who

Having written so much i pause, Wilson), 6 p.m. deserted the stage Tar the talkies surrounded by a fog of tobacco special form or configuration.

Friday Inward from Europe the about two years ago and who has smoke, and tapping my

Siberia fountain! via The

atom. according to

(Shinyo Maru and THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI like a miniature since achieved considerable dispen against my teeth. A problem Katori Maru); from Europe via modern iden was

HOTELS, LTD. There was a tinction as a portrayer of emotional confronts me, which is to describe Neganatam (Hakone Maru); Out- planetary aystem.

He was in "The Wild to others as unlearned as myself the ward for Europe via Siberia central positive cire called a proton roles. and around that core, circled ellipti-Party," The Studio Murder Mys-most marvellous machines I have (Hakone Maru), 3.30 pm,

Atoms tery," "Sarah and Son" and Mans ever seen. I watched one, hypnotis-

Lammerts' Auction, eally the negative electrons,

March never played ed by the lunge and flicker of the were composed of nothing but laughter."

June 17-18--Metropole Hotel opposite Miss Carroll before this needles, for a quarter of an hour furniture, 22, Ice House Street, charges of electricity.

picture, and was only in one pro while an elderly man who has work- 10.30 am.

with her "Paramount The phenomenon known as the duction

Sports. ed it, and others like it, for thirty... Being in differentol years, told me all about it with when a stream of lot. Parade." X-rays arose

of sketches in that famous revue picthe fondness a mother devotes to electrons bombarded any form matter. X-rays differed from wire ture. they were, of course, not recounting the cleverdess of her

City and Hill District.

1930 only child.

1981 lesa waves only in the fact that they exactly together" in it."

Tyłam

23 7B 25' 8" Then I had to ask him to begin machine, every forty minutes. were exceedingly short, whilst wire- less waves 'were long. It had been

They lack goles, however, and Tytam Byewash ogain: and he did just as

the

21′ 0′′B 24' 4"B Tytam Intermediate 43' 9"B 8' 8"B their heels are represented by two retom Tuk 03′ 2′′B, 33' 8" found possible to arrange. the cle-

mother would have done. ments in order according to the "Show of 'Shows," Warner My tour began in the winding-strips, one on each side of the upper Wong Nei Chung 27′ 5′′B 17' 5"B wave lengths of the X-rays, they Bros. and Vitaphone super-revue. room where the yarn for whatever part of the foot.

So the heel strips Pokfulum emitted. Electricity was therefore is now at the Queen's Theatre, purpose and it is "yarn," be it of are joined and to them is knitted a atomic in structure-the mass or This greutest of all screen pre-lisle, wool or artificial silk-is sple by a man called a "footer."flow"; A. denotes "Above Overflow"

L. denotes "Level with Overflow."] weight of the electron was entirely sentations has scores. upon scores wound on to the spools which feed Then the sole and the upper are Storage in million and decimala an electrical effect, 'due solely to the of famous stars in the cast and the machines.

seamed along the sides; the stocking electrical charge which it carried. supporting characters numbering

is. seamed up the back; and the Shimmering Skeins. The electron therefore constituted a over half a thousand. A dozen -The artificial silk, which is made opening left at the toe is closed. Tylam ... real atom of electricity.

dancing teame are in evidence from wood pulp, comes in skeins; The result, madam, is half a pair of Tytam Byewash

Tytam Intermediate As regards production of electri-among them the celebrated Adagio and it is pretty to see a dozen ahim- hose.

Tytam Tuk city, Mr. Butcher said that it was Dancers and the Warner Bros. mering skeins, looped round wire I wish I had space in which to Wong Nei Chung. never really generated. What was song-writing staff has written drums, being transferred, at an in- analyse my awe of the seamless Pokfulam done was merely to put in motion, many delightful songs.

credible number of revolutions a machines which produce yards of by, various means, electrons, with One of the "most aproarious of minute, to the ever fattening spools cylindrical stockings and socks like Consumption of water, in the City a resulting motion cufled electric, the many glittering sequences

is below..

stripgs of sausages, to be snipped and Hill District in millions and de- current, The action was, nothing Mexican Moonshine." FL bit of I recommend any husband who apart the moment after they are cimais of gallons during the month more than the handing along of clever tomfoolery in which Monte has been trained into "holding" made. The same sort of machine of May..

1930 1931 electrons from one atom to another. Blue, Lee Moran, Kaila Pasha, wool for his wife to have this de- makes seamless bathing costumes Consumption ...... 288.108 311.62 Physicists had measured electrons, Tully Marshall, Albert Gran and vice installed In the home and jumpers-gigantic sausages.

Estimated population 442,880 410,650 and found them, to be bodica Jar Frank Fay are featured.

his wife could Then there are, for admiration, Consumption per.

head per day .... 20.4

20.8 smaller than the smallcat Among the stars may be men- be compared with an ever fattening the dye works-full of overpower

Includes 95.07 million gallons from Different tioned, John Barrymore, Richard spool: I hope no one had that im-ing vapours to of matter..

stranger-the

Mainland. atoms were now known to be com-Barthelmess, Betty Compson, Bea-pression.

scouring room where it is always *Includes 95.03 million gallons from posed of a different number of electrice Lillie, Irene Bordoni, Georges} The room was humming with the washing day, and where all impuri- Mainland. trons, and by their different num-Carpentier, Grant Withers, Alice poise of belts taking power from the ties are pounded out of stockings May, 1980. From May 1 to 31, ber and grouping they constituted White, Patay Ruth Miller, Myrna shafts overhead, and of countless and socks not previously cleaned in a 12 hours supply (6 am-4 pm:) the different chemical clements. By Loy Winnie Lightner, Nick Lucas, spools whizzing round on a seeming the "yarn" state; and the seaming was given to all Rider Main Districts. ipal Mains closed 6 p.m.-C (Principal this grouping it could be said that and Douglas Fairbanks, Jun. They endless perspective of benches A and linking room where sewing a.m.) with the exception of the area the whole of matter was electrically extravaganza was directed by John rainbow had been captured and its machines whirr for ever and 200 North of Queen's Road between Mur- constituted.

Adolf. It is filmed in techni-colours spilled over the threads. girls never make a mistake,

ray Road and Eastern Street, where a

fing the whole month. generating and transmission sys-which require black and white for the spools, knotting broken threads, seamless stocking; for it is here May, 1931, Constadt supply tem in Hong Kong, going on to contrast. Larry Ceballos and Jack guarding the machines angelically that a false seam is sewn up the throughout the City, Hill and High discuss the development of the first Haskell did the stage and dance and with grimly angelic efficiency, back of the atocking to give it style. Level Districts during the whole carbon filament glow-lamp by Swan presentations and supervision of I followed the spools into the Then it is slipped over a flat piece month. and Edison, the tantalum filament the entire production was in the room of miraculous machines. Im-of wood, cut like a beautiful leg in

1030 `lamp, and finally the tungiten hands of Darryl Francis Zanuck.

agine twelve steel-toothed combe, of profile, and stent-pressed to per- Kowloon Reservoir lamp.

and Byewash 16′ 6′′B 11′ 0′′B which each tooth is a barbed needle, fection. The Neon Light.

arranged along the face of an ex- I have seen buttone stitched on Shek Lai Pul

Reservoir

8'11"B L After outlining the principle of

quisitely complicated maga of "outer wear," and buttonholes made, Reception Reservoir 10" 1"B. 1' 7"B the are lamp, and the mercury A noted comedy team is seen wheels, shafts, cogs, cama, and rods, one every three seconds.

Storage in millions and decimals of gallons. vapour lamp, Mr. Butcher spoke. of and heard in action in The Sky whose structure is, in shape, some-seen girl examiners, buried in plles the modern Neon light, which he Hawk," the stirring all talking thing like a fourteen-foot-long up-ch one more quickly than you said in Some respects was similar to pleture of war-time aviation now right plano, (*)

atom

A

"SHOW OF SHOWS."

that --not-

延

O'B

21'11"B 8'11"B (Note: E. denotes "Below Over-

Total

of gallons.

1930

1931

214.60

*300.74

1.99

32.98

150.34

320.16

727.68

5.36

11.84

20.85

10.58

595.84 1,138.10

The speaker then explained the colour, except for two sequences Girls moved everywhere, renewing Which brings me back to the constant supply was maintained dur

THE SKY HAWK.”

“LOTTERY BRIDE.”

I have

Kowloon.

· 1991

of stocking, passing or rejecting Kowloon Reservoir 1930 .1981

and Byewash

Shek Lai Pul

202.96 241.10

82.69 110.10 9.45 28.97

TUBERCULOSIS, ENTERIC FEVER AND PUERPERAL FEVER

ན

"Total

206,10 380.17 Consumption of water in Kowloon in milions and decimals of gallons! during the month of May.

1930 1931 Consumption 191,68. 109. Estimated population 175,300 280,150, Consumption per

24.7 18.0 head per day... Constant supply in all districts dure inig May, 1030 and 1981.

The Government Analysts reports show that the quality of the water

May 81, 1931, 24.28,-

Cases. Deaths.

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SIR ROGER KEYES.

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STRIKES HIS FLAG IN H.M.S. VICTORY.

the Moore tube lamp. The gas showing at the World Theatre. The spools are on spikes of the could say "half-hose." neor was obtained as a by-product Billy Beavan and Daphne Pollard, top. Their yarn descends to a And I have learned that there is Rene In the liquification of oxygen from whose fun making has been a fea-carrier," a bird's head of steel sometimes a mile of yarn in a Reception Reservoir the atmosphere. It was used in a tare of hundreds of Sennett which nips the yarn in its beakman'a sack. Two miles of marvel high-tension tube, the electrical comedies appear in this Fox Movie- one carrier to each comb. The my "poor. old feet”—It is the pressure, which might be up to tone sensation. John Blystone machine starts. The carriera rasp

title of a song! 15,000 volts, being obtained by the directed. John Garrick, Helen-left right left right!--across use of step-up transformers, Chandler and Gilbert Emery are the steel needles. With each rasp a A WEEK'S DISEASES.

Neon was naturally organge-red in featured.

line of knitting is done, just like! colour, but practically any colour

that, "zzzz"; and the top of a could be obtained by the introduc-

stocking appears. tion of other gases combined with

Now, stockings are of two kinda. coloured tubing.

The magnificent pictorial photo There is the "frame fashion" kind Mr. Butcher then went on to dia- (graphy in "Lottery Bride," Arthur-the superior one-which is knit cuss the innumerable uses of elec- Hammerstein's dramatic operetta, ted as a flat piece, shaped down, each The official return of diseases is satisfactory. tricity in the modern scheme of coming to the Queen's Theatre, is side to fit the leg, and seamed up and deaths during the week end-Total rainfall: May 31, 1980, 18.17; things: He showed how costs of largely credited. to. Ray June, one the back afterwards; and there ised June 61s as followa

foduction had in many industries of the camera chiefs' at the Unit the seamless, which is made on a been cut by ita use. Incidentally, ed Artists studios. June is xes circular comb of needles, and Enteric fever he revealed the fact that in, Hong ponsible for the photography also which comes out-like a cylinder: Puerperal fever, Kong there were conacbted to the in "Alibi," - "New York Nights,"

The machine I have just describ- Tuberculosis mains over 1,500 meters totalling "Puttin' On The Ritz and other ed is for the "frame fashion" kind. Summary to June 6. nearly 10,000 H.P., and driving 109 United Artists features. In the It does its shaping automatically, The returns from January 1 different types of machines.

technicolour scenes June was aid two needles being cast off at a time to June 6 give the following In conclusion he quoted a pased by Karl Freund, noted German from cach end of the lot as the figures: Fage from Sir Oliver Lodge to show cameraman, whose services were stocking needs to be narrower.

Cases. Deaths. what a huge field electricity covers, asked for by Paul L. Stein, direc- This machine produces plain stock-Typhoid

79. Mr. L. G. F. Bellamy returned tor, Jeanette MacDonald and John Ings. Its brother, next door, pro- Small-por

16 thanks for the excellent address. Garrick play the lends in "Lottery duces patterns, with the aid of forty Scarlet fever

New Appointment.

Bride," singing songs created by carriers and forty tiny spools to Diphtheria Previous to the address the Rudolf Friml famous composer each set of neodles,

Cérebro-spiral fever 11 "Chairman, Sir William Hornell, an- Others "In the cast are Joseph Here is the superb miracle-the Puerperal fever..... 6 3

nounced the retirement of Mr. A. L Macaulay, Robert Chisholm Car control of the carriers, each bear-Tuberculosis

1,188 Shields as Chairman of the Prty roll Nye Joe E Brown, Zasu Pitts Ing its separate coloured thread by Fifteen, of the typhold cases active association with the Navy gramme Committee Mr. Shields Max Davidson and Harry Gribbon a trip of perforated cardboard. were non-Chinese, as were two would continue to serve on the

scarlet fever cases, one-szall-pòx | bad (General Committee. Mr. JL-Total purchases --- sing out of The cardboard strips contain the case one cerebro-apinal fever Lewis Smith, Minister of Agri- McPherson had agreed to take the Montreal's Buyers Week from design, as it were in code. They case, and 16-diphtheria cases, culture for New Brunswick, states

February 16 to 21 under the ravalve slowly, beneath steel rods,

that ninety acres of new, orchards, had been established last year, the Twenty-one fishermen have com Government assisting with a bonos the course at the Fisheries of 25 cents a tree. The poultry In- mental Farm at Halifax, dustry in 1980, he added, had in- tlay and received their creased its receipts by 25 per cent, The men came from About 85 per ca t. of the egge and parts of the Maritimes and poultry used in the province, he agdalen lelands.

Bald, are imported.

vacant position, TPR Puspices of the Mon

A report of the city clerk's office, Trade, amounted

ving Montreal's growth in size, according to analiz number of voters and realty valuer just released, in which the

the present position as fols classification of commodities boug

Property values: $1,245,784 nesded by women's and ohldren's 50.24 square miles; num dresser, at $241,866 and followed by tera)*200,320 anda total general, dry goods at $240,862gendelterne

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brain in cardboard tterns

out they come, plain and pat vario stockings bezales Authe

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