1930-03-31 — Page 3

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

WALLACE

BEERY.com HATTON

RAYMOND

WE'RE

NOW

LOUISE

BROOKS

Gastroent

Gia

THE

AIRA

Two dizzy airmen in an uproarious entertain- "ment of "nose' dives and

nonsensé.

AT THE

MAJESTIC

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

GERMANY'S CHANG-

ING LANGUAGE.

NEW WORDS FROM ABROAD.

INFLUENCE OF THE

**TALKIE”

The theme song of the latest German sound-film success is ea titled "Oh Ka." These mysterious monosyllables represent the well- known Anglo-American expression

O.K! This is only one example of the rate at which the German (and, ono hears, more than one other Central European language), is becoming enriched by a whole batch of new words tending towards an international form of speech.

What sport has done for English----- the latest term to be generally adopted by Germans is " groggy

the film is doing for American. To call a film photographer anything other than a camera-man would be a selecism in Derlin to-day. Purists, who daring the war changed the customary "Adieu," learnt from France long ago, into the beautiful but, somewhat too cordial "Auf Wiedersehen," which endures to- day, and who only lately have been | trying to persuade Germans to write the word "chauffeur" as "schöf- för," and "friseur" and "frisör, are shaking their heads. But there is no doubt that the talking-picture (Continued on next Column.)

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

I have a friend who is a poet. What kind of book do you think would be appropriate to send him '4

The doctor told Mr. Meek not to stay out late at night.

You think the night air is bad for me, doctor ?"?

"A book of postage stamps." "No," said the doctor, "it isn't that. It's the excitement after get- Her mother had run over to seeting home that hurts you." how she find enjoyed Christmas and to wish her the customary New Year's greetings.

But," said the magistrate," you "My dear she cried, horrified were caught with your hand in the "Tears 7"

man's pocket, so why sak for a re- "Percy doesn't love me any lon-mand just because your solicitor is ger," she sobbed

unwell? What could be possibly say in your defence ???

Why not? What has happened ?" "I-I gave him a letter address- ed to Santa Claus asking for a new fur coat, and--and the wretch posted it!"

To tell you the truth," repli ed the pickpocket, "it is precisely that which is intriguing me, your worship."

"CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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1.Foreign representative.

7.-Horses.

13. To awaken.

14.-Trifling.

18. Thus.

16. A beautiful bird.

18-Article

19.To strike.

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21-To force out breath audibly.

22.-Spanish for river.

23-Kind of cheese.

25.-Bheep.

26. To depend.

27.-Empty. 29-Emphasia.

31. Organ of head."

32-Concealed, 33. Classified.

38-Refuses aa.-Vases. 40.-Fish eggs. 42-To relate. 43.-Dance step. 44-Percolates...

46. To regret.

47.-Pronoun.

48. To exeito suddenly.

50-Prefix: down..

51.Sen nymph.

53. A stinging insect.

$5.--Compound ether (plural).. 56.-Groszy spots.

Vertical 1.-Turned into money. 2.--Alloy of golden luster. 3-Negative. 42-To: dino 5.-Employs 6.Inclined.

.-Seedlets. 8.-Small nail. 9. Large deer,

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10. French for and. 11. Sowers.

12,--Church meetings. 17. To intimidate. 20.-Inns,

22-Having more” reeda...... 24. Protective ditches.

26. To impress.

98.-Anger.

20.-Article...

33-Having no interest.

34.-Speaks in public.

25.----Fears.

38-Distances downward. 37-Evaded.

38.-Falls as rain and snow,

41.-Poetic for over.

44. To more.

45-Lacking speed. 48To observe, 49,--Age.

62-Right (abbr.). 64-Near (abbr.).

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930.

THE FAMILY ALBUM-COOLING OFF.

MUTTERS ITE MUCH TOO HOT IN HERE, AND ASKS WILFRED "TO OPEN

·A WINDOW A CRACK

RETURNS TO EVE- - TÊN MINUTES. 'NING PAPER.

LIVELY ARGUMENT WIFE PUTS IN ITS BEGINS, BECAUSE WILFRED CLAIMS HE DID OPEN IT.

HER FAULT. SHE CLOSED IT WHEN SHE CAME IN, BE- CAUSE SHE THOUGHT IT WAS OPEN BY MISTAKE, PEACE RETURNS.

made in Germany with an eye to export, is going to do more to spread English as she is spoke on the screen than even the imported gramophone danes record.

duction, deserves a word on its own This Oh Ka" film, a Ufa pro- merits as showing the trend the talking-picture is taking in Oèr- many. Just as ninety per cent. of musical plays had their birth in Vienna or Berlin, no matter how unrecognisable this became in the process of becoming first American. ised and then Anglicised, so will the film operatta be the really valuable contribution Germany is going to make to the world's talking-picture production...

LATER MUTTERS IT'S STILLTOO HOT AND GETS UP TO REGULATE WINDOW HIMSELF,

PEACE LEAVES, AS MILDRED WHO HAS BEEN ENGROSSED IN BOOK, FEELS

DRAUGHT AND SHUTS WINDOW.

AINDS WINDOWS ALL CLOSED, OPENS ONE AND ASKS WILFRED WHY CAN'T HE DO SOMETHING WHEN ASKED

WHOLE FAMILY ( TRIES TO APPEASE HIM, EACH OPENING A WINDOW AND ROOM GETS MUCH TOO COLD./

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Ian.)

TONS OF BONES FOR SALE.

LONDON'S UNKNOWN

INDUSTRY.

OPERA GIRL TRAGEDY,

FOUND DEAD IN RIVER AFTER PLAYING IN "SAN TOY."

After playing the leading part of Chd San at the rehearsal of "' San

Tor at Evesham (Worcs.) on the the way home. The following day Bayliss, aged 20, disappeared on police recovered her body from the River Avon.

WOMEN AS COMPANY SECRETARIES.

EXPERTS' ADVICE TO MEETING SCHOOLGIRLS.

CAREERS LECTURES.

Several hundred girls from the public secondary schools of London' trooped into the large hall of the Civil Service Commission last month to hear from two exports about the opening for women in the higher branches of secretarial work and how to qualify for them.

This was one of a series of lec tures on careers for girls arranged by headmistresses in co-operation with the Ministry of Labour, and the subject was newer than usual. it was indeed very now and of ex ceptional interest to a woman who can remember the days when there were few occupations beyond short- hand and typewriting for second- ary school girls to think about seriously when considering the choice of a career,

The girls did not look very dif ferent from the girls of those days. Perhaps the speakers over-estimated the difference when they took it for granted that they could follow and understand all the information that was poured into them for aù hour, information that would r tainly have to be repeated later by the teachers. As for those teachors themselves one would have liked to know whether they wished tha they could have considered as an alternative to teaching the possibil ity of becoming secretaries to pub lic companies and institutions. Did they envy the girls who were told that if they got such positions would be their duty to keep the directors informed about all the affairs of the company as well as to look after the staff

it

Be Tactful.

Some of the girls who, did not seem greatly interested in the ad-

An industry of great importance Agurishes at Marshgate-lane, E., where thousands of tons of bones night of February 15, Miss Connie vice to be tactful with the direc from London's abattoirs and but chers' shops are deposited daily. They are piled in enormous heaps at this spot, and from them valu- able products, such as glycerine, lubricants of many kinds, fertilis ers, and handles for brushes, tools, and cutlery, are obtained.

A New Tendency,

The bones are collected in special The title of this one, a typical, vans, and on arrival at Marssgate but improved, operatta, is "Liches one are sorted into separate heaps, walzer,"

There is the usual prince, according to size and shape. Only impersonated for a change by a the shin and marrow bones are used young American, creditably done for handles, and the knuckles at by the German Willy Fritzsch, who each end are cut off by huge power has cornered the role of the hand-saw. The marrow-fat is then ex some, but artless, not heartless, tracted, and from this come gly- young military man in Berlincerine and lubricants of the best studios. The long-nought-for "girl" | quality. type has been discovered in the Anglo-German Lilian Harvey, whose two languages are likely to make her the coming international star of this type of picture.

There is another tendency in less ambitious German pictures which is worthy of notice. This is due to Russian influence. Pure amateurs are put on the screen to enhance the real-life aspect of the picture. The movement is obviously being followed elsewhere, since in the new Franco-German enterprise in Paris the part of an editor in the sensa

tional Elm "The End of the World" is being played by a real and well-known editor, who knows exactly how the chief of a news- paper office is likely to behave when such great news as the end of the world comes his way! The fact should be welcome to newspaper men who have always fared badly at the hands of dramatists.

Berlin, has not yet progressed as far as editors, but shows in "Mens chen am Sonntag," the product of a newly-founded experimental studio, the real "Sunday" of the "average young wage and salary, carner in big cities. The young principals net, in natural surround: ings, the quite natural little story of two young couples who go out for a day's picnicking in the woods round Berlin.

Rib-bones and others of a shape that cannot be utilised for handles are thrown into enormous steam. heated vata, where they are boiled continuously for many hours. When all the fat has been extracted the bones are put into powerful crush- ing machines, which reduce them to a powder that is sold to farmers as bone-manure.

Nothing Wasted. Nothing is wasted at Marshgate ane, and, es the products come from material generally regarded as valueless, the industry is pros perous.

In spite of the necessarily un- pleasant atmosphere, hundreds of men are employed in various de partments of the great bone-yards. Moreover, those who work there have the best of health, for the overpowering odour from tons of decomposed bones contains preper- ties which prevent and cure diseases of the chest and lungs.

asthma have been completely cured Many people suffering from through working continually in the greasy, steamy atmosphere, which bangs, like white billowing clouds, about the boiling sheds.

Unfortunately, the nature of the. industry has attracted rats, and, in spite of many costly attempts made to exterminate them, the place is now a rat stronghold. They have been slain in hundreds, of thou

"Fight for the Land," The new Soviet picture, "Fightsands. for the Land," M. "Eisenstein's latest produced in Berlin, reveals on the grand scale what these young Germans are attempting. It is still propaganda, but the machine

`ZUYDER ZEE TO BECOME

DRY LAND.

gun of Potemkin has made way for HOW HOLLAND WILL GAIN A

NEW PROVINCE."

-The first act in the marvelldus.

the ploughshare. The new collective farming system is the subject, agricultural machines the elemental forces. The pernicious capitalistic work of reclaiming the Zuyder Zec system of dividing up property began recently, after preparations which has left the primitive country over many years, girl heroine with but one cow, and the Dutch Minister for Dykes an arid piece of land, the refusal of and Waterways formally started the bloated pensant proprietor- two electric draining machines, -Kulak-to lend her a horse, are one at. Medemblik and the other the grounds for an enthusiastic re-st Den Oever, which will pump dry ception to the Boriet Commissioner | the so-called Wieringen Lake, cover- who organises the dispossession of ing 50,000 acres. the individual for the common good.

M. Eisenstein is offotisive in the utter disregard of religious feeling in the portrayal of the priesthood, The pathetic and humble peasants in their vaincarch for help, the noble military, formation of Ford's heavy steam-ploughs as they arrive on the scene, and the picturesque "wedding" festivities of the bull and the cow which take the place of

Misa Bayliss belonged to the Eve sham Operatic Society. Her mother died the previous week,

When Miss Bayliss did not return home her elder sister went to the police station. A search followed.

– Eat and Cost Chie, ¡ Miss Bayliss's hat and coat were found on the bank of the river at Hampton Ferry; after four hours dragging the body was recovered

A curious feature is that in going home Miss Bayliss would not have to pass Hampton Ferry; her home bein in another direction.

It is stated, that there were no signs of foul play..

tors brightened up when they were advised that if the officeboy was doing well it was worth while, to keep him, and that though other members of the staff. might be very trying at times it was just as well

to overlook some of their doings for the sake of their good work.

The girl probably did not know how. interesting it seemed to the older people, that the chairman should be a woman Member of Par-

liatuent, Mrs. Mary Hamilton, whe looked back to the end of her col- lego days when she and her friends did not know what to do next, and had no one to advise them, and who now hoped that some of her audience might go into Parlia ment.

Mrs. Hamilton said she had no. patience with the idea that work- ing girls and women were to be re-. garded as pocketmoney workers. They were adding to the sum of national wealth and taking. the opportunity of having an interest. ing useful life. But to do that they must realise how much hard training and discipline were need-

A friend of Miss, Bayliss said: exceedingly fond of her mother. "Connie was a popular girl and She tried hard to prevent her friends realising what a terrible blow the death of her mother was to her. She tried to smile when ahe was with us last night, but I think her sorrow was greatly in.. tensified when she was alone."

The opera San Toy" is best known for two songs, Rhoda and her Pagoda and English Soldier Man."

HEALTH BULLETIN OF

EASTERN PORTS.

The following is the bulletin. of health for Eastern ports for the week ending March 22:-

Plague.

Alexandria Bassein' Bombay

Rangoon

Bangkok Prom Penh

Cases. Deaths

Calcutta Rangoon Bangkok Prom Penh Saigon

120

Small-pox.

Zanzibar

Berbera

2

I

Bombay Calcutta

183

102

159

118.

Cochin

11

3

B

Karachi Madras. Moulmein Vizagapatam Saigon Macao Canton Shanghai Takao

Cerebrospinal Fever.

Shanghai

Interest. Depends on Efficiency. I used to think that the most

amusing things to be would be member of Parliament or a secret ary. Now I am both, for like many members I cannot afford. secretary, and have to do the work murself not at all expertly. I am afraid." Any work depended for its interest, she added, on the offic ciency with which it was done.

Mr. J. W. Ramsbottom, Princi- pal of the City of London College, described the training and work of company secretary. The girl who became private secretary to an in-. dividual might find the work wary pleasant; but she often had no se- curity" of tenure, and many such posts were not well paid. There were a large number of public com- panies in England with a capital of from £50,000 to £500,000, and already the secretaries of some of those companies were women.

Room at the Top//:

"If you are going into business," be said, "do not be satisfied to say there is nothing for you except shorthand and typewriting, and that nothing else will come your. way. That has been so in the past. It is not very long since WOICE were first accepted in the world of business, and even to-day in the

City of London there are some old- fashioned firmos who will not em- ploy a woman in any other capao ity than that of cleaner." **

He said that the only way to get

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fications of shorthand and type- writing, but that after a year's experience in that work they should keep their eyes open for chances of promotion and if it would give them experience they afford to take new work, that did not pay so well. He told them about the laws that & company secretary must study, and about the evening schools they could attend. Byt

Within the next seven or eight

the lake, months

containing 20,000,000 cubic yards of water, will be drained completely. and the north-western polder will be consti- completely dry. When the princi tuted, being the first and smallest pai dam, seventeen and a half miles of the four polders of 552,504 long, and made of sand and boul- acres an ares larger than that of der clay, is finished next year, the

Miss M. Barrett, a chartered. se Nottinghamshire which in all are Zuyder Zee will be enclosed com

pletely to be reclaimed--

CRIMALA cretary amplified this information. About 320,000 acres will remain She gave the girls a more detailed under water forming a lake, which account of a secretary's work, and is to bear the name of the Yasel did her best to inspire them with Lake, and to serve 85 a storage her own enthusiasm for an educ basin for the Yssel River, a branch | tion, and a career that she finds of the Rhine.

extremely interesting..

171 Miles Dam,

the ceremonies human beings used When the drainage of the polder to have, give the world's best pro-ise finished the machines will re- daced” opportunity for three im- main there, in order to keep it posing processions.

(Contidued at foot of next column),

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