1930-07-17 — Page 3

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930.

HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND "MODERN.

The Professor: "Is this a free translation, do you know?

Assistant: "No, sir, it costs eight and sixpense."

Teacher (to new scholar): "How does it happen that your name is Allen and your mother's name is Brown1"

Little Lad (after a moment's thought)+"Well,-you-800,-it's this

Host: "You know it is said that the mustard people make their way she married again and 1 money not by what da enten, but by what is left on the plates."

Fair Guest: Yes, but what puz- zles me is how they collect it./

The French otheial was the essence of courtesy. When a plain looking woman appeared for a passport, he could not hurt her feelings, despite a disâgurement, so he wrote:-

"Eyes dark, beautiful, tender, expressive (but one missin)."

"How old are you?" demanded the American Judge of a negro woman in the witness-box.

"I's seventy-three, Judge." "Are you sure?"

'Yass, juh."

.

didn't."

A storekeeper had for some time displayed in his window a card in- scribed, "Fishing Tickle."

A customer drew the proprietor's attention to the spelling.

he asked. "Has anyone told you of it be-

fore

"Hundreds," replied he dealer, "but whenever they dros in to tell ie they always spend something."

George William Curtis (1834- 1802), famous American traveler and lecturer, author of Nilà Notes of a Howadji." prided him- self on being cosmopolitan. One

"Mandy, you don't look screnty-day in London he was buying a

three."

A party of actors put up for the night in a primitive village. Next day one of them observed wearily "to a colleague, as he rose about abontide: "Where does one wash ?" "In the spring," replied the other.

"Laddie," and the first, "I said "where," not "when.'”

an

hat. The shopkeeper observed:

"Bog pard'n, sir, you're Hamerican gent, I hobserve. Been in Hingland long

"Why do you take me for an American 7"

Curtis, asked Mr. somewhat surprised.

"Yes, sir, Beg pard'n, sir. Thob- served that you said 'a hat.'. Beg pard's, sir, but in Lupoon we com monly say 'han at,'

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She had been to a bridge party i They had been invited out to the previous night, and to her hus. Į dinner, and as there was no one band it seemed that she had had to leave at home with Jack, their more than ordinary bad luck. At small son, it was necessary to take any rate, at breakfast next morn-him to dinner, too.

ing she was silent and depressed. While Jack was trying to cut the "Have a bad time last night?"meat on his plate it slipped onto asked the husband at last.

the floor, and his mother's face "Awful!" she snapped. "And it flushed. She was painfully embar- was your fault

rassed.

My fault?" he gasped, "Why, I wasn't playing.”

"No, but you introduced me to

"Jack," she wishnered tensely, you must apologize to Mrs. Smy the instantly. Sav something, for the man who you said was a fam-goodness' sake!" ous bridge expert, and-"

"Well, so he is.”~

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"I'm sorry. Mrs. Smythe," Jack' said sunnily to the hostess. "It's "Nosense; he's nothing of the funny, but tough meat'll always do kind. He's only an engineer."

that!"

CENTRAL THEATRE

Paramounts Sound Pictures R

Thursday, Friday and Saturday At 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 P.M.

Neil Hamilton, Warner Oland,

IN

Doris Hill, Florence Eldridge.

I Didn't Kill Him!

I had reasons to! I confers that I loved him and-

Paramount's ALL-TALKING THRILLER, "THE STUDIO MURDER MYSTERY

Is this lovely girl guilty of murder? Did she wreak vengeance on Hollywood's popular star? Fire supects "in the net. Who killed Richard 'Fardell ? Bee-Hear! This remarkable all talking thriller! It grips your imagination.

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PORTRAIT OF A MAN CLEANING THE CELLAR

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

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

WILLIANTS

CAN WE RADIO TO Various expedients for attracting THE SILVER SCREEN.

MARS?

NEW USE. FOR ULTRA-

SHORT WAVES.

The possibility of communicating with Mars by means of wireless signals has once more come up for acientific discussion.

It is a fascinating speculation, and one with so many sides to it that it is not surprising that it should constantly be recurring in one form or another as it has done for something like half a century. Radio research shows that wire Jess waves can be made to go twice round the earth, their second jour- hey having been verified beyond the possibility of doubt by delicate re- cording instruments. Can they not be so directed as to reach our nearest planet!

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At 2.30. 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

ADOLPH ZUKOR JESSE L LASKY

MODE

CLARA

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MIN

LADIES

OF THE

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WITH RICHARD ARLEN' A Paramount Picture

the Red Head with IT as a gunman's gal-ob, man!

AT THE

the attention of the Martians, it any such person, exist, have been suggested from time to time, wat most of them have, been found to be impracticable.

Heaviside Layer. The solution "of the problem seems, therefore, to have been left to the radio engineer.

The first difficulty in the way is that apparently impenetrable belt of the earth's atmosphere which is known as the Heaviside layer. All experiments hitherto made show that however powerful agy be the wave sent out into space, it is res flected, back to earth ngaip by this ionised layer.

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"STUDIO MURDER

RDER

MYSTERY."

An all-star cast, with every mem ber in it picked for type and suit- ability to character, acts Para- mount's newest all-talking thriller, "The Studio Murder Mystery."" This 'exciting melodrama is one of the most gripping ever shown on the screen. The Central Theatre will feature this attraction from to day.

Paramount's success with the recent 8.8. Van Dine atory, "The Canary Murder Case," started studio executives on a search for something even more hair-raising and pleasantly thrilling in the line of detective stories. This hunt culminated in "The Studio. Murder Mystery," which, in dialogue, action and interesting detail, really takes its place with the new masterpieces that the talking screen has brought to the motion picture public.

Dr. John Thomson, M.A., B.Sc., who is Lecturer in Physics to the University of Reading, discusses this problem at considerable length in the recent issue of Discovery, and points to a possible means of overcoming the obstacles presented by this Heaviside layer.

Extraordinary progress has been made of late years in the study of

The action takes place almost short waves. We know that me entirely within the guarded gates of dium and long waves are deflected

a big Hollywood motion picture or defracted to the earth, but it studio. For the first time the is found that the short wave, and sounds and sights of a talking especially the ultra-short wave, is motion picture in the making are. much less susceptible to this bend-revealed to the theatre-going publie. ing influence.

It deals with the hunt, in this inter-

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It seems also to have been de-esting environment, for a double- monstrated that ultra-long waves killer whose canny ability to cover have this same characteristic: We are confronted, therefore, with two possibilities-the experiments with waves of the order of ten metres, er less, and with wares of ten thous and metres, or more.

Call Signs, Theoretically both these ultra bands should be less liable to dif fusion and deviation than any of an intermediate character. Dr. Thomson; considering the problem

up his tracks seta Hollywood, in ́an of the crime which he committed, uproar. Six persons are suspected and the audience is left in mystify- ing suspense until the final chap-

ter.

Neil Hamilton, Warner Oland, Frederic March, Florence. Eldridge and Doris Hill compose the stellar

cast.

Ulara Bow in "Crook" Tale.

underworld have been flashed upon A great many dramas of the

the screen, but it has taken Clara. Bow, to give the public the most stirring of all..

The Paramount,

in all its bearings, decides in fav-star accomplishes this in "Ladica our of the ultra-short wave trans of the Mob, a thrilling story of mitted in the form of a beam." gangsters and their loves, some- Radio engineers, it may be assum consideration when the police ré- thing which is rarely taken into ed, are quite capable of producing ports are read. a beam of the required intensity for the penetration of the Heart side layer. That they have not done, so up to how is due to the fact that the need has not arisen.

The next question is the form which the signal should take. If there is scutient life on Mars we must not too hurriedly assume that made her so popular.

Baw, who at the Majestic Theatre, It is an entirely different Clara Kowloon, throws off the wiles of the fappor and plunges herself into a powerful portrayal of a terror- stricken wife of a gangster. It is by far the heaviest bit of seting Miss Bow "has attempted since her work in Wings," and she proves that she can handle drama as well as the lighter roles which have

The story, which was written by it has developed on line, similar Earnest Booth, is a tale of a young to our own. The character of the couple of the underworld, the hus- signal, therefore, should be of the band a crook and the wife attempt- fundamental type, and Dr. Thoming at all times to keep him

Sinamuan suggests a systematic series, at, che il mi

straight. The climax producesin.

MAJESTIU

Nathan Road, Kowloon.

Showing for the FIRST TIME in Hong Kong.

three distinct im

impulsca

or

If Mare roplies with four with two distinct impulses, then we shall have realised, at least one dream of the astronomers, and have established interplanetary signs.

call

nahtanduanesounded.

by police, Miss Bow takes the most drastic method imaginable to keep narrow path.

herman" on the strnight and

Another interesting thing in the Production is the weird photographic effects obtained by Henry Gerrard. cameraman, under the direction of Willim Wellman, youthful director...

WILLIAM FOX prezenta

SEVEN FACES

PAUL MUNI:

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