THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939.
QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
HONG KONG
KOWLOON
AT 2:30 515 7:20:930 PM AT 230 520 720 2 9:30°°R.M.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
The amazing, true story of the girl behind the killer behind the gun!
Adapted for J. EDGAR HOOVER'S*
"PERSONS IN HIDINGTM
with
LYNNE OVERMAN · PATRICIA MORISON 1. CARROL NAISH - JUDITH BARRETT
Screen Play Willem R. Usana and Horgos Metsy Directed by Louis King • A Paramount Pictora *Director of Federal Burton of lovestigation
TO. MORROW =
GINGER ROGERS
in "BACHELOR MOTHER
Book Now for TO-NIGHT'S Premiere
of “ THE MIKADO"
"
AT THE WOMEN'S CAMP--The advance party of the North East members of the Women's Auxillary Torritorial Service from: Newcastle have arrived: at. Strensall, Yorks, for the biggest camp for women ever to be held in England. Photo shows a study of a member of the advance party with a load of palliases at the Strensall camp. (Copyright Fox).
GOING CONCERN DOESN'T GO
London. A business enterprise The owners of the ferry rights for that often fails to cover one day's this ferry that Londoners overlook so working expenses by a whole month's consistently hope that this year paş- working is optimistically maintained senger trade will improve just enough here at Ferry Lane, Brentford. It is to cover working expenses. After all, indeed, the ferry, which exists to it's not much use having a going, con- transport people to and from this cern if it doesn't go. point from and to Kew Gardens on the opposite bank of the River.
Thames
WHALES
The reason for its continued exist- ... ence must have been called into ques-
tion many times-not least of all by SHUN
the gentleman most concerned, Charles Humphries, the ferryman,
RADIO
Cape Town
Charlle's is what you might term a staple occupation. In fact, that is
Disturbances in the what's wrong with it. For instead of the ups and downs that there used to ether caused by radiocasting are held be in the business the Thames can by Dr. Helmuth Husserl, Viennese na- be very awkward in rough weather-tural scientist and authority on whal- there are now hardly any at all. Anding, now living here, to account for the that goes for the backs and forths, scarcity of whales in the usually rich
fishing grounds.
days when aerial traffle is slight whales caught to treble the number of other hauls.
too.
So Charlie just sits all day in his ferryboat watching the traffic go up and down, and hoping that some will desire to go across.
Mr. Humphries, however, continues to take his profession seriously. He is something of a thinker, as he cor- tainly has time to be, and one of the things he thinks is that political crises in Europe are a poor show.
Though you might not suspect any connection between international di- plomacy and travelling across the Thames from Brentford to Kew, he records as a fact---coincidence or nöt that the recipts during the troubled month of September last year work out at 10 shillings.
On
are
Another reason given for the whale migration is the movement of "crill," a small species of crab which comes to the surface in tens of thousands wherever plankton appears. "Crill"- fields are known to attract whales even from hundreds of miles away. The only way in which the whale can sense the existence of the "crill," since sight and hearing are excluded, is der clared to be through the insulating medium of seawater which con- ducts the radiation emanating from "crill"
If this theory is correct, it is be leved that by ascertaining the wave lengths of plankton it should be pos To get this state of affairs into proradio stations which could
sible to equip whaling-boats with per perspective you need to know that the same length and thus form
send on a waterman's wages and insurance bait" for the whale; work out per day at about 28. 8d. more than that.
DANCING IN 6 HOURS
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