1932-02-11 — Page 11

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1932.

MEDIUM THRILLS SCIENTISTS

FLASHES OF

LIGHT.

Groans, Screams and Wrecked Furniture.

THE

BINA

MAIL.

SHARE MARKET.

Steady with Buyers Predominating

RATES SLIGHTLY UP.

London is experiencing something, Some of these seemed to me to syn-) new in the way of mediums. The medium in Signor Pasquale Erto, an Italian chemist who has a con- siderable reputation as a medium in Italy.

In one chronise with the lights, a convul- A steady undertone prevails, and sive gasp frequently being signal buyers stili predominate. for a flash which seemed to come or two instances, rates were slight-

ly marked up. from the medium's mouth.

The phenomena for which he is blue, described 03 famous are orange, and yellow pencils of light, from pinpoints to rays exceeding six metres in length emanating from various parts of the body.

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Professor Emanuele Sorge, well-known surgeon at the Univer- sity of Naples, has sent him to Britain in order that the National Laboratory of Psychical Research might investigate these occurrences. The seance given in London is here described by Dr, C, E. M. Jond, who is a lecturer at the London Univer- eity, and a writer on philosophical subjects.

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Meanwhile the medium prowling about the room, clutching. the hands of the members of the circle or grasping their heads, and at intervals producing a terrife voice, as of a man speaking through! a microphone.

Finally the medium collapsed on the floor, the lights in the room were turned on,

and Erto was found

lying in the middle of a basin of overturned sugar somebody said knowingly that you can make flashes with lumps of sugar in the dark), overturned tables and broken furni- ture.

across.

In addition to these things a standard electric lamp fell without visible agency on to my head and shouldera in the dark, giving me the fright of my life.

The Lamp That Fell. The seat of the chair on which hel put Erto to the had been sitting, a fairly solid re- One night we test. He sat down in a chair involving office chair, was split right full view of those present, and pro- ceeded to go

into a trance to the music of the Merry Widow waltz on the gramophone.

Why gramophone music, should sleep I do not send mediums to know, but it is always insisted on, and the unfortunate sitters are made to chatter as fast as they can. Signor Erto going into a trance is one of the most distressing sights it has been my lot to witness, or rather, to hear.

He is the noisiest of mediums. He writhes in his chair, beats him self on the breast, stamps on the floor, groana, shouts,

You may say that there is nothing very startling about these pheno-

nol Tiny electric torches mena.

could be concealed in the doubt mouth and worked with the tongue.j And any confidence conjurer could do as much in the dark

I agree that he coukl; indeed, two eminent conjurers who were present-Mr. Harry Price, who is

a screams, director of the laboratory, and Mr.

man undergoing the greatest phy-have sical torment.

Sales. Union Insurance, $400. Hotels (Old), $14.20/14.25, Humphreys (Old), $17.50. Hong Kong Electrics, $76.

Buyers.

Douglases, $25. H.K. & K. Wharves, $154. Providente (Old), $5. Hotels (Old), $14.10. Lands, $77.

Humphreys (Old), $17. Humphreya (New), $17.10. Chinese Estates, 395, Hong Kong Trams. $21.40. Hong Kong Electrics, $75, Telephones, $28.

Cements (Comb.), $17,60. Hong Kong Ropes, $16. Dairy Farma, $281⁄2. Amusements, $18. Constructions (New), $1.70.

Sellers.

Benguets, $11%. Ching Lights (Old). $222. China Lights (New), $22.25.

RADIO.

TO-DAY'S-PROGRAMME.

ROUND HONG KONG S

CINEMA THEATRES

OFFICIAL SOURCES.

"THE SQUAW MAN."

"The most difficult job an actor has in talking pictures, and the most important, is the handling of scenes in which the dialogue con- sists of a single word."

ing and acrobatics. One of the difficult atunts acquired under Joe Cook's tutelage was a complete aerial trapeze routine which she performs for the camera.

"Rain or Shine," a circus pic- ture, features many novelties never shown on the screen before. A tremendously successful stage play, it has been brought to the acreen with many additions, which the unlimited medium of the screen makes possible.

The speaker was Cecil B. De Mille, pioneer producer, respon sible for the talking picture triumph, "The Squaw Man," which

A stellar cast play supporting M-G-M will open on Sunday at the roles. Among the players are Queen's Theatre.

Louise Fazenda, William Collier, "The best dialogue is always the Jr., Tom Howard, David Chasen, shortest," stated De Mille, "for the Alan Roscoe and Adolph Milar.

obvious reason very

that the Frank Capra directed. quicker you get your dramatic | It has been brought to the screen point over the greater reaction you on a lavish scale." Many of the will secure from your audience.

stage stars appear in it.

"As there can be no shorter lines than those of one word, the im- portance of them need not be stressed further.

can

"THE GANG BUSTER."

Six charming and decorative Hollywood girls kept Jack Oakie) company during the making of "Sea Legs," his recent starring pic- ture. The quota was cut to two, however, when assignments were be made to the cast of "The Gangi

Buster," his latest laugh-creator, Jean Arthur and Wynne Gibson supporting the entire feminine action..

"The Gang Buster" which is now showing at the King's Theatre, is] Oakie's first surprise attack on the racketeers. As an accident in- surance salesman, Oakie finds his business crippled by the unscrupu lous methods current in the under-

Are Dangerous. "However, it is also true that one line speeches are fraught with great danger for the actor. In a long speech mistakes of diction, emphasis or enunciation covered up or slurred over, but with one word lines you are through when that word is spoken, "'Yes' and 'No' are the two most common one word lines of drama- tle value. In The Squaw Mau' Paul Cavanagh accuses Warner Baxter of being in love with his wife. Baxter's reply 'Well!' fa& splendid example of the one-word The following programme will type of dramatic line. And we

character to break into and inter-ditions, from the bottom up. rupt a long tirade, for dramatic cidentally in doing so, he saves the purposes. Dear' and 'Darling' are life of a wealthy client and rescues of course extremely familiar. his daughter from the clutches of So?' is a single word line that has the bad men. been almost a law in melodrama In "The Gang Buster," Oakie is supported by an excellent cast, In- "Give me an actor who can do acluding, besides the two pulchritu- one-word speech correctly and dinous sweethearts, William Boyd, without faltering and I will show as the chief menace to Oakie's pur- you-an actor!"

suit of love, health and happiness, "The Squaw Man" was adapted and Francia McDonald, in the role Jean by Lucien Hubbard and Lenore Jof an opposition gangster. Coffee from the famous Edwin Arthur, who has been seen in many Milton Royle stage clasafe., Elsie charming roles during a brief mov,

Her pre-

Pro-

In-

growls, gasps and behaves like a Will Goldston-said that they would be broadcast to-day from the Hong have all heard 'and?' used by a world, and gets out to correct con-

no difficulty in reproducing Kong Broadcasting Station ZB.W these effects, but admitted that they on a wavelengh of 856 metres:

5-7 p.m.--Chinese Programme. would need apparatus.

7-10.30 p.m.-European Nothing Suspicious Found. Had the medium apparatus, or gramme of Columbia Records.

7.05-7.31 p.m.-Operatic. / had he not? Clearly it was vitally! important to examine him, and after The Barber of Seville-Overture

(Rossini), the seance had finished we stripped

Percy Pitt conducting the B.B.C. Wireless Symphony every stitch of clothing off him,

Orchestra (9100),

When The Lights Began. After this appalling din had been going on for half an hour the lights began. They were of several differ-

There

were sudden ent kinds. sharp flashes, glowing pin points of light such as might be made by

an electric torch, and most spectacu-subjected his cluthes to a minute

(Puccini),

lar of all waves of light which ranexamination, investigated his ears, La Boheme-They Call Me Mimi along the ceiling rather like streaks hair, nostrils, and mouth. Nothing of lightning or moving advertise- ment signs.

Some of the lights seemed to come from the medium, others Hashed

suspicious was found.

It is important to bear in mind that the medium had not been sub- jected to a thorough examination

Doris Vane (Soprano) (9652).| Die Meistersinger-Overture

(Wagner),

Bruno Walter & Symphony Orchestra (DX86).

for untold years.

and twinkled in far corners of the before the seance begun, and that Samson-Honour and Arms (Handel), Jania provided the dialogue. The fng, picture career, has here one of

room.

One or two people affirmed that they saw small flames, but I did not see these myself.

Prowling Round The Room. All the time the lights were flash- ing Signor Erto, or whatever was using Signor Erto, kept up the pandemonium of shouts, groans and Krunts to which I have referred.

the seance itself did not take place! under control conditions.

Norman Allia, Bass (DX125). 7.31-8 p.m.-Octets. Rhapsodie No. 2

(Liszt arr. Willoughby),

These will come later, when the medium may be sewn up in a bog and his hands encased in boxing-Perpetuum Mobile gloves. If the light rays still occur under these conditions we may feel Valse Caprice fairly certain that they normally produced.

are not

"COLOUR BAR" IN nothing but the heavy cockerels if

POULTRY.

he wants to.

This is one of the ways in which

it is done. When a Red Sussex). cock is mated with a Light Sussex! Telling Sex of Chicks on hen, the cock gives a gold plumage

Hatching.

"BULLETIN NO. 38."

Thousands of pounds are being saved by British poultry-farmers every year by a "best-seller" Cam- bridge professor, whose publisher is the Ministry of Agriculture.

Professor R. C. Punnett must be the favourite author of the fowl- -runs-the Edgar Wallace of the White Wyandotte fans..

The Ministry has just issued the third (revised) edition of his "Bulletin No. 38."

If there were a Poultry Book Club, Bulletin No. 38 would be ite It has sold Book of the month. like hot cakes, at 9d. a copy,

Dog-eared copies of earlier -editions you will find on the desks of all good poultry farmers.

Cross-Breeding.

It is called "The Sex-linked Method in Poultry Breeding," and it explains how to breed chickens whose sex can be determined as Boon as they are hatoked.

(9494).

locale is laid fifty-fifty between her best roles to date. English high society and Arizona. vious role of distinction

Velez, Eleanor William Powell'a Baxter, Lupe

WEB

*Street

In

of

J. H. Squire Celeste Octet Boardman, and Charles Bickford Chance," in which she played the

head the large cast, which also in- girl wife of Regis Tomey. clades Roland

Paul Young, Cavanagh, Raymond Hatton, Julia Faye, De Witt Jennings, J. Farrell Dickie Moore and McDonald, others.

(Weber arr. Crooke), (Rubinstein arr. Crooke),

J. H. Squire Celeste Octet (9287), Second Movement from "Symphonic

Pathetique" (Techaikowski arr. Robertson),

Scene de Ballet

(de Berlot arr. Sear),

"RAIN OR SHINE."

"The Gang Buster," while con- centrating on the Oakie laughs, Is built up with a series of thrill situations that keep interest in the The action on the qui vive. romance develops in a gangster| hangout, while machine guns are

Joan Peers, the dainty little lead-popping and gangsters are land-

ing. Edward Sutherland whol "Rain or Shine,"

other two

Oakie hits, made J. H. Squire Celeste Octet ing lady in

of the (9825).

Columbia's screen version atage hit now showing at the "Sap from Syracuse" and "The Central Theatre, has had what is Social Lion." directed "The Gang Buster" from an original story by called the "breaks."

the popular screen writer, Percy Heath.

8 p.m-Local Time. 8.05-8.41 p.m-Band Selections. to all its little ones, but the hen Paul Rubens Memories (Rubens), gives its cockerels gold and its Ivan Caryll Memories (Caryl),

Debroy Somers' Band (9882).' pullets silver.

Lionel Monckton Memories

RARE CAUSE OF DEATH.

She made her frat public appear- ance with a famous star, Guy The cockerels of the family,! (Monckton),

Bates Post. After one trial screen-

"TONS OF MONEY." Debroy Somers' Band (9881).appearance in New York, she land- therefore, turn out gold. But the pullet, which gets gold from Ita Cavalcade Selection (arr. Somere),

Debroy Somers' Banded on Broadway. She had a' trial

One of the most amusing of al and silver from its father

(DX805).

Aldwych screen appearance in New York mother, turns silver, because silver Marche Slav (Tschaikowsky),

and was then sent to Hollywood. remarkable series of dominates and drives out gold in

Regimental Band of H.M. After making one picture there, farces, "Tons of Money" which is

Grenadier Guards

Farce It is the "dominant"? poultry.

she secured a long-term contract, coming to the King's Theatre soon, (DX59) colour in poultry.

Getting the "breaks" is one makes an excellent talkie. 8.41-9.23 p.m.-A Concert. 'Cello Solo-

thing, however, but managing to may not be the highest form of the hold on afterwards is another--and drama or of the film, but when it is excruciatingly funny, entertain- Miss Peers has demonstrated that is as good as "Tons of Money," it ahe can do both.

ment. As to the plot-it is never easy to tell the story of a really successful farce, especially when one comes to the job with eldes aching and moist eyes which un- A talented deer and rider, restrained laughter induces, at any Joan Peers acquired many now aerate, it is enough to say that a complishments while playing op quick death can be a really comical posite the versatile Jon Cook in affair, especially when Ralph Lynn Three times poor Rain or Shine." Miss Peers enacts is the victim

Recently Discovered Knowledge

About Heart.

Chanson Villageoise No. 2 (Popper), Menuett (Haydn arr. Moffat),

Gasper Cassado (1613). Bong

There Reigned a Monarch in Thule

(Liszt arr. Bernhoff), Sea Wreck

An unusual condition of the heart, termed auricular fibrillation, which has only recently come to the knowledge of medical science, was Plano Solo stated at a St. Pancras inquest, to have caused the death of James Norman Searle (60), commercial Song traveller, of Hampstead...

(O'Neill & Hamilton Harty),

Muriel Bronskili (Contralto) (9587).

Ballade in A Flat (Chopin),

William Murdoch (9887) Lighterman Tom

(Barron arr. Bquire), (Eatherly & Bennett), Beautiful Day

Harry Dearth (Baritone) (DX19),

The inquiry had been twice ad-It's journed in order, that evidence might be obtained in regard to an anaesthetical preparation with which Searle, travelled for his firm.

Professor Punnett's experiments

It was stated that a fatal dose of at Cambridge have revealed cross- breedings which produce different this preparation would be very and large. It was used by dentists and "plumage-colours in.

urs in pullote and doctors as a substitute for cocaine, Sir Bernard Spilsbury said auricular fibrillation of the heart

cockerele.

This makes it possible to estab- lish sex as soon as the chick steps out of the shell-invaluable know ledge to the poultry-farmer,

For the farmer who wants only laying pullets, knows at once which are pullets and which are cockerels, Ho need not rear his cockerels through the expensive early stage How It Is Don

Oday-old

there them and

batch

Violin Solo-

Elegia (Massenet), Thais-Meditation (Massenet),

Albert Sammons. (0415). 9.23-10.08 p.m. Var Orchestral

2-ol Jazz--Solaci

Regal Cineman Orchestra

King

Vocal Duot

often occurred without obvious discs Blue Eyes, ease to account for it. There was Bite Eyes- Do I Do Wrong? a history in this case of heart at tacks. The unusual condition of

Evelyn Laye and Geoffrey baugh Gwyther (9434).

The Missouri, Wal

heart would account for death. Band The Coroner said that he was satisfied that the drug in which the man travelled had nothing to with his death. He recorded

The real secret back of this little lady's success is the fact that she knows exactly what she wants and has the determination to go and get it.

J

the role of a circus performer. Ralph has to dle, by order of his She had plenty to learn and ob-wife, Yvonne Arnand. Neverthe serve watching the star Joe Cook less, how he does it would make who is equally adept at juggling, the most austere audience go into tight rope-walking, singing, dane convulsions of laughter.

Band

The Desert Song-Select

Debroy Somers' Band 10.08-10.30 pmOrchest Crowd DiambodsÖver

acting

Siz Dan Godfre

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