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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1930.

SNAPSHOTS OF A LITTLE GIRL. BEING HELPFUL

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

IS OUT DOING ERRANDS- WITH MOTHER. BEGS TO BE ALLOWED TO CAR RY ONE OF THE

BUNDLES TO HELP

RETRIEVES IT. PROTESTS STRONGLY WHEN MOTHER WANTS TO CARRY IT NOW! PROMISES TO BE CARE-

FUL OF IT

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HIRE-PURCHASE SYSTEM.

MOTHER CONSENTS. CARRIES IT WITH FEEL ING OF GREAT IMPOR- "TANCE, FIRST IN ONE HAND, THEN N THE OTHER

WOMAN WHO SOLD GRAMO- PHONE FOUND NOT GUILTY.

STARTS, ON CAUS TO MOTHER PRESENT LY TO WAIT PLEASE, THE STRING BROKE

·STORS TO EXAMINE PIECE OF COLORED GLASS, STARTS

AGAIN

ON

MOTHER COMES BACK AND REPAIRS DAMAGE. WARNS HER TO HOLD IT IN TWO HANDS AND NOT CARRY IT BY THE STRING

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

The Lord Chief Justice of Nor thern Ireland made some, observa- tions on the hire purchase, system, during the hearing of a case at the Bolfass Commission when Mrs. Margaret Auld was charged with the conversion of a gramophone and accordion, the property of a local firm.

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Witnesses deposed that the cused obtained the articles on the hire purchase system and failed to keep up the payments. She first got into difficulty when her hus band lost his employment and pawned the articles.

The Lord Chief Justice said he thought the case more suited for civil than criminal proceedings.-

Counsel for the Crown said the law was that if the woman pawned the articles with the intention of not redeeming them she committed an offence.

The Lord Chief Justice said the

woman was of good character and had ten children. She was never in trouble before, and unless the jrry thought that she intended to defraud the firm owning the arti. cles he would not advise the jury to find her guilty. The firm could sue her for the price of the articles Pin the Recorder's Court:

We all," added his lordship, "sympathise with the poor wo man." Without leaving the box the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the woman was discharged.

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The suggestion that stroking is not necessarily a contributory cause of cancer, is contained in, a report" on cancer of the lip, tongue and skin, issued by the Ministry of Health last month.

The report has special reference to the results of treatment by Dr. Janet E. Lane Claypon, and Sir George Newman, chiet medical officer of the Ministry, ia a pre.. factory note, states:-

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MR ELMER RICE'S CONFUSION.

WHY HE WRITES PLAYS.-

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"I don't like the theatre, and Dramatic

would never go near so I didn't

have to," said Mr. Elmer Rice, the Sensation !

American dramatist, whose Add-

ing Machine is still remembered by London playgoers. Mr. Rice is in England to superintend the re- hearsals, of his play,Street. Scene."

I think the theatre rather stupid," he continued, " don't you? Not inevitably stupid, of course, but

Why-holding these views-did you abandon law for the theatre Was it that irresistible urge' that novelists write about?"

Well, he laughed, "I won't" Bay irresistible. I've never tried to resist it, though no doubt. I could if I tried. I write plays because it is the only thing I can do with any degree of proficiency. I gave up any idea of carrying on with law years ago-couln't stand it!"

Mr. Rice's play, which deals with life in a New York tenement, the entire action taking place in a street outside a tenement house, was a remarkable sucess in New York, running for two years-601 performances to be exact-longer than Journey's End.' Woven out

of the joys and sorrows, the brutalities, humours, meannesses, and generosities of "mean street, it has been called a poem of big. city life."

**Trouble With the Accents." Of the cast of fity, six are, American artists who have been brought over to take the parts they created in New York. Of the other parts, scme will be taken, by American actors already in Loudon,

FROM A STEEL CHAMBER. and the rest, of English artista.

I am anticipating some trouble! with the accents," Mr. Rice von- |-37" fessed, "but hope to get them all right ultimately. And there are no. 'star' or featured players...

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He had some illuminating things. to say about the modern theatre. in America. In America the standard of playwriting has gone up very appreciably since the war. The general level of plays in America is much higher, and we have many more interesting play- wrights than we had fifteen years ago. I haven't been to a theatre America we find that it is some- since I came to London, but in thing different unexpected, and un- usual that takes on. The theatre is

pieces, but there is an enormous very alive in America. I do not

are producing master- JOE SCHENCK activity in the theatre, and a great deal of vitality:"

mean We

"Talkies" and the Theatre.

GUS VAN

and

Speaking of the “talkies," Mr.They Learned

Biologists are keenly interested in the forthcoming reports by Dr. Leebe and Mr. Barton on their ex- traordinary deep-sea explorations Several years ago Dr. Beebe made many intensely interesting studies of life on the sea bottom in shallow waters by means of a steel observa tion chamber with glass windows The evidence examined in the and searchlights. This technique report points to the conclusion that has been improved so that observa simple inhalation' and `exhalation of tobacco smoke "are" not agen-

tions ave been made at a depth cies, though other conditions con- of 1,426 feet in the Atlantic Ocean. nected roughness or heat of the pipe or has been made with a steel sphere with smoking may be The almost incredible achievement holder.

Sir George adds that it is shown

about six feet in diameter and one that cancer of the skin and lip

and a half-inch thick. A quartz is curable either by pperation or window six inches "broad was let radiation, especially if promptly in the side, and powerful search

"The results secured by radio-lighta arranged to illuminate the Rice said: I think that the therapy," he says, “appear equal region around the chamber. Dr.

cheaper forms of theatre fare, melo to if not superior to those obtained

Beebe and Mr. Barton were lowered but I do not believe that any serious drama, farce, and so on, may suffer, by operation, reaching 80 per cent. more than a quarter of a mile into dramatic movement will suffer-on or more of cures (on a three years the sea in this apparatus. At that the contrary, it may help the basis) in the case of skin cancer.

depth the aphere must have sustain serious theatre by reducing the "Operations have been practiseded a pressure of a quarter of a top for perhaps half a century, but the to the square inch. It is interest

stuff." enough to cause surgeons to turn results have been disappointinging to note that death by drowning would have been impossible, for any with enthusiasm to the nower

leak would have let in water spurt methods afforded by radium." ing like an iron fod. Anyone Dr. Lane-Claypen in her report standing over the hole of a leak would have been pierced right through, as with a spear of steel.

A bag of decayed fish was carried outside the window to atract the fishes living at various depths. In ed, and I don't think that uider a number of descents to a mere 800. feet, Dr. Beche and Mr. Barton. were able to observe that many Bah previously only caught by drag-nets at low levels were swimming about at much higher levels.

treated.

says:

The habit of smoking has been widely regarded as a contributory factor in the production of cancer of the lip. One or two authors re- mark that the percentage of smokers among the patients appears not to be higher than might be expected among the general population."

Representatives of the railway. material factories of France, Ger many, Italy, Austria and Belgium assembled at Lucerne, Switzerland, have agreed on the formation of an international cartel with headquar: ters at Paris to distributs orders and to facilitate, their financing.

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How Light Disappears.

amount of competition from cheaper

no doubt over bere the same thing He thinks that in America-änd holds the average young actor has

deplorable lack of training. He and certain innate charm, and depends on appearance, personality, doesn't work hard to acquire the technique of his art.

"Young actors need to be train-

Our present system they get much. They get by on personality and charin, which are important, of course, but they should be supple- mented by good hard work and training. I find in casting in America that young actors who According to a New York Timetable lack of training, and don't come to see me display a lament- report, the observers find that red trouble to learn even the rudiments light is the first to disappear, then of their business. orange, and then yellow. At 800

But," he concluded, "I do. infra-red and ultra-violet. Green musical comedy artists.". feet lavender had disappeared. and think we produce some excellent persisted, but only violet and blue with any strength. Apparently there is an extraordinary blue colour observable at these great The descents wore mode near the New York Zoological Society's Oceanographic. Expedition's head 199 WOMEN WHO IDOLISE quarters at Nonsuch Island, Ber muda. The observers take oxygen cylinders with them and are in tele phonie communication with the sur- {fice all the time."

ISLAND OF FOUR LUCKY MEN:

THEM...

Surplus women have created a paradise for four lucky men living on a South Sea island-according to Robert Casey, the traveller, who returned to New York last month after an 11 months' ertise in a sail-

There does not seem to be any reason why the technique should not be developed for still greater depths. On the ocean bottom the ing vessel. pressure is-several tous to the Casey, landing on the island of square inch. Down there fiabes Rapa found it inhabited by 100 make their own lights, and the first women and only four men The observers of the purple flashing men were idolised because of their in the deptha will certainly enjoy scarcity value. a unique sight. Certain schools of "This quartet lived like caliphs,” geologists, regard the great ocean Casey said, '" and did not even lift bottoms as part of the primeval a finger to pat food in- their structure of the earth. According"] mouths. SAL

to them, they have never been in While they slept the women overed by earth movements since fanned them and when they come the oceans wore frst formed. So plained of sun and volcane dust when the ocean foor is first seen women carried them gently to the somet lng about 1,000,000,000 yours water's edge and bathed them in old well be revealed. The floor is the sea instead of throwing them in, pot, covered with debris because as they deserved a

nearly all materials are slowly dis- olved in the water under the very high pressures.

Coddling, he declared, has made. the men pompletely useless as mem bers of society.

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