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Conrad NAGEL

ZASU PITTS, SLIM SUMMERVILLE, MONROE OWSLEY, From the Stage Success, "Half Gods," by Sidney Howard. Directed by Hobart Henley.

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Can A Wife Be A

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"NO!" says this smartly charming young wife

who

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a Paramount Picture

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ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1931.

THE MUSHROOM

CAVE.

Like Forest of Giant Skittles.

FANCY: UMBRELLAS.

When say that the mushrooms ere monsters, it hardly gives a rrect idea of their size. Under the moderately small ones the three could stand upright, and the large ones were as high as a good-sized cottage and reached nearly to the

roof of the cavern.

The floor was

hard and dry and perfectly flat, and the huge stalks of the mush- rooms could be seen like a forest of giant skittles going into the far distance on all sides. Above, the pink underneaths of those strange specimens showed like an unneces- sarily large assortment of giant fancy umbrellas, opened.

These,

of course, accounted for the cheese- like smell that Gorbo had, observed when he first put his head in, the little door and sniffed. (it was not exactly like cheese, of course, but cheese is near enough.)

Gorbo showed himself a man of resource in a way. He said that, after all, mushrooms were mush rooms and good breakfast food, and that they might at least have a meal, whatever else happened afterward. This cheered up Sylvia tremendously and she helped to gather heaps of dried

stalks from the floor, and Gorbo got out his flint and steel from his bundle-he rarely went anywhere without his little bundle.of tools and other matters and his bow and arrows and soon had a fire going (to those who may object that mushroom stalks do not burn I. have only to say that these did). With the aid of his useful trowel he provided an appetizing series of mushroom steaks, which they all enjoyed tremendously. →

They

MOON - RINGED EARTH.

Famous Astronomer's Prediction.

A time when the earth will be

surrounded by ring of little moons, giving moonlight all night long, was described by Sir James Jeans, the famous mathematician and astronomer.

The rings round Saturn, he said, consisted of millions and millions of tiny moons, which were believed to be broken fragments of a large moon. Sir James continued:

In the far future our own moon

must inevitably be drawn closer and closer to the earth until it meets the same fate.

millions of little moons which will After this our earth will have

surround it, and there will be full

moonlight all night long.

Yet life on the earth will be none too comfortable then. Every

now and then tiny moons will col- the earth in the form of huge on lide and their fragments fall

rocks.

CERASTES I AND 11.

Vipers Meal Almost A Tragedy.

HIS HEART BLACK.

Cerustes, the horned viper, "is an Egyptian.

His skin la sand coloured; his head is double pronged like the skull of Satan, and I guess his heart in black, too, writes a Daily Express Special Representative,

When he is there you can't see him. Is his coat made to suit the

sand, or does he seek the sand by- cause of his coat? Anyway, he lies doggo, camouflaged.

The best way to discover him is to walk barefoot over a bit of de- sert. If he's there you'll know it. His two sharp horns will tell you that.

Don't stop asking questions then.

His poisonous fangs are far worse Beat the long jump record at once.

than his horns,

Once a beautiful queen, upset over her love affairs, decided to take her life. She chose a horned viper for the job, and it lives in history or legend-us the asp of Cleo-. patra,

Sir James does not believe that there is life on Mars. When the some markings on Mars, which astronomers believed to be artifi- cial canals, are photographed they did not look in the least like the

There are two at the Zoo, handiwork of intelligent beings, and most scientists would suspend cach twelve or fourteen inches and they were har- judgment on these supposed evid- long..

white ences of life on Mars until the ing

mice for dinner. Unfortunately, they each decided camera confirmed that they' really

on the same mouse. existed,

Cernstes I., seized the tall, Cerastes II., the head.

PUBLIC SCHOOL RUNS VILLAGE

TROOP OF SCOUTS.

Oundle School, in observing its Speech Day, published a review of school activities for the past year in a commemoration handbook.".

Referring to the school's new Troop of Scouts, the handbook says: "A Troop of Scouts has been formed for boys who wish to have training as Scoutmasters. It con- sista of older boys in their last year, most of whom have passed Certiscate 'A' in the O.T.C.

"

Gradually the mouse disappeared, head first and tall first at the same time. The vipers drew nearer each other over the body of the mouse,

It sometimes happens that when two snakes seize the same animal, and begin swallowing from, the op- nosite enda, when the two snakes heads are close together the one. with the larger mouth will suddenly grip the opposing diner's head and swallow him as well.

It is a game of catch-as-catch- ean, and the first to get his teeth The over his rival's body wins. teeth, pointed backwards, never let" go, unless the owner wishes.

What I was anxious to see was whether these two Cerastes had sense enough to know that when their heads were together, and the mouse half inside one and half in the other, whichever viper made the fatal snatch at the other was going to have a mouthful he wouldn't like.

A Sudden Shock. They found that the smaller ones were on the whole of. a. better flavour, and it was while they were searching for some tiny specimens, scarcely as high as a table, in

"The social value of Scouting is order to cook some more, that they

important and Scouts who feel so all got a sudden shock. found that certain mushrooms had inclined have the opportunity of large semicircular pieces kitten taking part in the running of a village Troop at Aldwincle, six out of them; the mouth that did it must have been a foot wide, with miles away. At present the school tremendous teeth. A very disturb Scouts are providing Assistant ing discovery, you will say. They Scoutmasters for this Troop. The looked about them fearfully; and school Troop it is hoped, will then they heard what sounded like be of use in helping to remedy the

present shortage of Scoutmastera." heavy, shuffling footsteps, and satisfied purring, as of a giant cat.

Gorbo put the children behind his pouch without tipping them him in a hurry and fitted an arrow out. He waddled clumsily up to to his bow (the Snergs': bows are one of the biggest mushroome, Cerastes 11. on the small size, but they can send sniffed at It, purred horribly with an arrow through a two-inch board delight, bit a large section out of at close range). Then to their it, and bent his head carefully so horror appeared an animal that I to place it in his pouch. And can only describe as resembling then Sylvia let out a loud scream. a blonde four-footed walrus walk-

ing on its hind legs. It was cover-

ed with sleek, ginger-coloured hair,

Effect Marvellous.

They took, turn and turn about at gorging. First Cerastes 1., then They drew so near that they could have licked faces with their tongues. It was Cerastes, II's turn. His next heave and grapnel-like grip would include his opponent's head.

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Then he sud- the. horns of He gave 红 great hia mouth to

I watched anxiously.. But cun- I do not blame her; perhaps I ning sense came from the East, and should have screamed myself if I the maxim: "Be ye wise as and it had goggling eyes, a mouth had been there. But the effect was serpent," has considerable meaning. Cerastés II. spread his jawa that corresponded closely with the marvellous. The animal turned its estimate they had formed of it head smartly and stared at them, for the 'bite. from the big bites, and a white its forepaws held up as if in fear denly realised drooping moustaché. Strange to and astonishment. The big month Cerastes I.. say, it was a marsupial-that is to drooped, giving it a weak appear effort, opened any, it had a pouch-but na young ance; bits. of mushroom dribbled its fullest extent, and backed in ones were peeping out of the pouch from the corners. Then, with a terror-jaws apart. as in the case of kangaroos and sound like a roaring seb, the other marsupials. No, it seemed animal turned and scuttled away full of large chunks of mushroom, on all fours, scattoring sections of and the animal was walking up mushroom from its pouch as right because it was evidently the went-From The Marvellous Land only way he could carry thers in of Snergs, by E. A. Wyke-Smith..

it

Genuine

BAYER

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And, as he backed, Cerastes 1. writhed backward, too-with the mouse one half in, the other out. He had won.

A great double-tragedy had been averted in the nick of time.

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JIM TULLY

LEILA. HYAMS

POLLY MORAN

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