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Dance Music.. To Make Christmas Merry,

In France they call it "Joyeux Noel." In Germany it's "Frohliche Weinachten." But say it in any tongue, you need music to make Christmas really marry. What better way to insure happiness this Christmas than to select for yourself or for your friends from this list of current Victor records. Every num ber is thoroughly danceable, abundantly tuneful, chock-full of melo- dy and rhythm. Every record is a pleasure to hear--and a joy to receive. Come and hear them on our Radio-Electrola. We'll be glad to wrap your gift purchase in tasteful Christines-y packages. 'You Want Lovin' (But I Want Love)—Fox Trot ""

Lonely Troubadour-Fox Trot With Focal Refrain

"HUDY VALLÉZ AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES

No. 22136, 10-inch

I'm a Dreamer, Aren't Wo AIIT-Fox Trot You've Got Me Pickin' Petals Off of Daisies—

For Trot (from William Fox picture, “Sunny Side Up") With Vocal Refrain

No. 146, 10-inch

Mistakes-Waltz With Vocal Refrain

THE HIGH HATTERS

Rock Me to Sleep in Your Arms (Rock-a-bye Lady in Lull-a-bye Land) Waltz With Vocal Refrain

BLUE STEELE AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 22142, 10-inch

You've Made Me Happy To-Day!-Fox Trot From Now On-Fox Trot (from the Musical Comedy,

"The Street Singer"). With Vocal Refrain

BEN POLLACK AND HIS PARK CENTRAL, ORCHESTRA

No. 22158, 10-Inch

I Came to You-Fox Trot (from Warner Bros.

picture, "Skin Deep") HENRY BUSSE AND HIS ORCHESTRA You're Responsible-Fox Trot (from RADIO »

picture. Tanned Legs") With Vocal Chorus

JOHNNY JOHNSON AND HIS STATLED PENNSYLVANIANS

No. 22145, 10-inch-

Love Me--Waltz . (from the French Success, "Dėja")

NÅT SHILKKET AND THE VICTOR ÖRCHESTRA

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18 Been a Long Time Between Time-Fox Trot

With Vocal Refrain ECO REISHAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA

No. 22132, 18-inch Dance Away the Night-Waltz (from William For

picture, "Married in Hollywood") With Vocal Refrain

LEO REISHAN AND HIS OBCÍLESTHA Miss Wanderful-Fox Trot (from First National

picture, "Paris")

TED WEEMS AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 22157, 10-inch Like a Breath of Spring-Time-Waltz (from Warner Bros. picture, "Hearts in Exile") With Vocal Refrain Since I Found You-Fox Trot (from First National

picture, "Fast Life") With Vocal Refrain

HENRY BUSSE AND HIS ÜBCHESTRA.. No. 22140, 10-inch

Aline Blue Gown-Walts (from the Musical Comedy, Irene") ~~~. Beautiful Lady---Waltz (from the Musical Comedy,

"The Pink Lady") No. 22117, 10-lach THE TROUBADOÜKS When You're Counting the Stars Alone Fox Trot Needin' You Like I Do-Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

LEO BEISMAN AND HIS OuĚRESTRÄ No. 2481, 10-inch

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If You're in Love You'll Waltz-Waltz Vocal Refrain ROGER WOLFE KAHN AND HIS ORCHESTRA Following the Sun Around-Fox Trot (from RADIO

picture "Rio Rita") Jacques Renard AND HIS ORCHESTRA

·Ño. 22182, 10-inch

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929.

THE FATAL OVER-BRINGING THE DEAD

DOSE.

DYING BOY POISONED

FOR PITY.

NOVELIST'S GRIM SECRET.

A remarkable manuscript of deep human interest-the disclosure of a dramatic incident in the life of a famous novelist came into the pos session of the Daily Express 10- cently.

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TO LIFE.

WEIRD DEMONSTRATIONS

BY SIR J. BOSE,

Calcutta, Dec. 0-Sir Jagadis Bose amazed a party of English public schoolboys who visited the

Bose Institute.

With the assistance of Lard Hyde, Sir Jagadis Bose showed that man is less susceptible to elec- tric shocks than are plants.

He made a dead frog dance in response to electric stimuli.

"BIG CALIFORNIA OBSERVATORY.

TO BE BUILT NEAR PASADENA.

Southern California is to have the world's largest astronomical obeer- vatory.

It will cost more than $20,000,000 gold to build and equip this huge plant, which is to be built by the Carnegie Institute within a 200- mile radius of Pasadena, Calif., according to Maj. P. H. McLaugh-

'Although two peaks near Ban Ber-. nardino, Calif, are still under con sideration, it is believed that the observatory will be built eventually on Mt. Volcan, about 64 miles north-. east of San Diego.

Chloroforming a plant he made It is from the pen of Miss Dora Christic-Murray, daughter of the it record, on the screen, the gradulin, in charge of preliminary work. late David Christie-Murray, and ital slowing up of its pulso system. was accompanied by the statement that the writer had been inspired to place the facts on record after reading the accounts of the trial of Richard Corbett for the murder of his mother, whom he killed, he said, because she suffered from an incurable disease.

Miss Christie-Murray states that, many years ago, her father adopt cd the son of a Belgian peasant, and deliberately poisoned him when he lay in shrieking agony a few days before his inevitable end.

Peasant Genius. ...;

"When my father was a young man, travelling in the Belgian Ar dennes, he came across a cottage tucked away from civilisation, in- habited by an old couple and their son," the manuscript saya.

The parents were of typical peasant class-heavy and loutish, their backs bowed with work, nei ther expecting nor hoping for any thing beyond their lives of daily toil. But the sixteen-year-old son, a bright, fame-like spirit, was à changeling to their dull eyes.

Without any book-learning he was a genius. Untutored, he had the knowledge with which all ar- tists are born, and above all he had the great, sorrowful gift of music.

"But all his beauty of soul was imprisoned in a sickly body that found work, of even the lightest kind, impossible. The parents, irritated by his helplessnes and frightened by his alien ways, found him a burden, a useless clog on their own dull, stupid lives, and the boy in turn was bewildered by his parents' lack of understanding and sympathy,"

WILE

Incurable Discasa.

My father, naturally attracted by the boy, approached the parents with a view to adopting him, and met with open-armed thusiasm To cut a long story short, he finally took the boy away. resolved that his artistry should

find its own level..

The boy-let us call him Henri- lived for a few months in heaven, but the sickness of his early life turned to an incurable disease, and, in spite of all the loving care my

He also exhibited the powers of a remarkable new drug which was As injected into a lifeless plant. if impelled by an unseen force the withered leaf reared itacland opened out--Straits Timer.

A Visit to the Instituta. The following message (dated Calcutta November 30) describes a visit made by an Associated Press representative to the Bose In

stitute :-

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I was lucky enough to strive while there was still light, the cor- respondent-writes, and was con- ducted, before the demonstration in the lecture theatre, around a charm. ing garden where peace reigns amid the noises of Calcutta. In it are grown the plants on which Sir Jagadis Bose conducts his experi- menta.

Around it are the laboratories, workshops and the quarters of European and Indian students.

Not a plant, not a screw, comes from outside and the scientist's marvellously delicate instruments are all home-made.

Mr. McLaughlin and his assis- tants are making daily observa- tions with a three-inch telescope of

the North Star, Volcan Mountain, where the observation camp has been established, is favoured because of water supply at the summit, easy accessibility, a rolling mess, and minimum mow and wind:

Figures furnished by Mr. Me- Laughlin on the proposed observa- tory indicated that it will have a 200-inch reflector weighing 80 tons. The next largest reflector is 100 inches in diameter and weighs 40 tons, Mr. McLaughlin said. It is located on Mt. Wilson. Experi mente are now being carried on in New York and Chicago laboratories to have the bottom mirror of the giant reflector made of quartz Several years will be consumed in manufacture of the reflector, he said.

The new observatory must be lo- cated within a day's journey be cause the Pasadena laboratories of the Institute will be necessary to Later, in the lecture theatre, the carry on the work of the obserVA- revelations made by Sir Jagadistory Mr. McLaughlin explained, Bose regarding new type of "growth balance" caused a sensa. tion."

By employing these new methods it is possible not only to visualize the imperceptible growth of plants, make an immediate me but also asurement of the rate of growth.

Sensitive Apparatus. The apparatus is so exceptionally sensitive that it records the re-

of "plants. to sponse

wireless stimulation, which is beyond the range of human perception.

The establishment of the laws of growth on which the advancement of scientific agriculture depends his been rendered possible by these new methods.

Other equally astonishing experi- ments with animals and plants

have established the identical life mechanisms in two kingdoms.

The leg of the frog, as well as a mimosa leaf produced similar dancing movements under nervous excitation,

Action of Polson,

A plant was next made to in-

and fecbler, and at last bed-ridden. pulse-beats under the action of All his days and nights, and final poison. The pulsations conveyed y all his minutes, were one pro- the impression of the flutterings tracted agony that not even the of a creature struggling for life. most powerful drugs could asguage,

. The resonant cardiograph record. Finally the time came when ited the characteristic effects of dif was only a question of days before ferent Indian drugs on the heart of the end and such days! Such an animal. These have been tested gons of pain, such helpless, sbrick-and vorified by leading experts of ing agony, that my father could the Faculty of Medicine at the hardly hear to stand by the bedside. Finally one day he turned to the doctor, almost frantic with his in- ability to do anything, and said; "For God's sake, man, do some thing! I cannot bear to see this going on any longer."

father gave him, he became feeblerscribe its throbbing pulsations and

The doctor looked at him strange ly for a moment, then picked up a small bottle which he handed him. "When I am gone, monsieur,” he caid, "and the pain becomes very acute, you may give Henri three drops of this medicine-just three drops, remember; more would be fatal."

"Three Drops Only.” My father said: "You mean- !" "Three drops only; more would be fatal," repeated the doctor,

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Thank you," said "my father, and the doctor left the room.

As he turned to where the boy was lying, exhausted after his last proxysm of pain, Henri opened his eyes and said faintly: "I can't bear it, sir. Help me!"

My father, gentle as a woman, went down on his knees and lifted the boy's head in his arms.

My boy," he said, "you have only a few more daya to live, and they will be full of pain and agony.

Vienna University. The heart- beats of a frog had just come to a. atop the animal being to all in- tents and purposes dead. The in- jection of a few drops of an Indian drug of high-potency caused the revival of the heart and the animal was brought back to life.

New Pharmacopoeia,

A large number of Indian plants have been discovered, the medicinal properties of which had never been suspected and whose efficacy in re- viving a failing heart appears to be exceptionally high.

Further progress necessitates the isolation of the active principles from plant extracts; as well as pro- longed Investigation for the stand- ardisation of the dose for human

enbjects. Buch results would un- doubtedly lead to the establish- relief of humanity. ment of new pharmacopeia for the

DIRIGIBLE BASE. IN

CALIFORNIA.

MR. BRITTEN TO SETTLE DISPUTE

I have something here that might Washington, Dee, 12-Repre help to relieve the pain a little,entative Fred A. Britten of Illi- and if I give it to you you will go noise, chairman of the House Nav- al Affairs Committee, said to-day

"I'll take anything from your bands," said the boy.

to sleep and never wake up again. that members of bis committee will Will you take, it ???

probably pay a visit to California in an effort to settle the controversy between the northern and southern sections of the state concerning the location of a proposed dirigible base.

So, with hands that never fal tered, my father poured out the everdose and held it to the boy's lips, and the boy drank it trust- fully, then settled down with a smile of unutterable peace, and just whispered, God bless you, sir."

And so fell asleep, and sleeping,

This base is expected to play a large pars in future Pacific aerial transport, and keen competition. has developed between diferent localities as to which shall becorde the terminus for this daticipated

The ruling about, the 200-mile radius from Pasadena is rather un- fortunate," he said, "because the most perfect visibility in the world is at Prescott and Flagstaff, Arizona. The nearer one comes to Los Angeles and San Diego, the greater is the mist before the tele- scope.".

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Approximately 82,000,000 has been set aside by the Carnegie Institute for preliminary work in finding the best site within the required radius of Pasadena, Mr. McLaughlin, said.

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