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AMERICAN CULTURE,

LECTURE BY UNIVERSITY OF OREGON STUDENTS.

SOME" WORLD-WIDE 'IDEAS WHICH ARE WRONG"

The three debaters from the Uni- vorsity of Oregon, who are, on" a

ROMANCE OF THE goodwill tour of the countries in the

OPERA

AN-ALL-TALKING, SINGING. DANCING CHINESE PICTURE.

SOUND ON

Pacific Basin, gave an interesting and instructive lecture as the Hong Kong University last night, when a very large gathering was provent to hear thenr speak on "American! Culture."

Professor R. Forster presided.

The first spenter was Mr. David C. Wilson, who, started by saying that Amorica was the most admired and at the same time the most

FIRST SOUND-ON FILM criticised nation of the world. She

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And An All Star Cast

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CHARLES (Buddy)

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PILE-DRIVING.

TESTING OF PILES,

ADVOCATED,

was admired by a nations for her mechanical achievements Land, for the manner in which she made the most, economical use of her time,, men and money. Among the American things, which" the world criticised wns Americän ́art. Some would say that there was no art in America while others assert- ed that American art was at best a very poor imitation. There are still some others who said that all artistic tendencies have been smoothered by miterialism and in 'dustrialisın and wonlth and that the nation consisted to-day of a race of money-grabbers...

Boston Museum.

Mr Wilson pointed out that Amerien, unlike other nationis, ħadi practically no time or place for art prior to 1800. For a hundred years.; before that time, the nation' hac. been engaged in the exploitation of that great stretch of wilderness that lay between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. But since that time when the people had more leisure and more time at their dis posal, American art had been great..

in the forefront. The people, from the highest to the lowest, took a direct interest in art. He in stanced the case of the Boston Museum, which was one of the finest museums in the world, and shid that it had been built in the first place by public subscriptions, the biggest donation being one of £5,000 and the smallest a humble contribution of 1/00,

Art in Movies.

In dealing with the University life in America, Mr. Wilson said that American universities, while differing from the universities of other countries,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1931.

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WILL ROGERS

In

A Connecticut

Yankee

RARE

Throna tottar and villains tramble when Sir Rogers unsheathes his sword in a big way and fares forth to adventure.

Maurama. ŐSalliv mom

Frank Albertson

Drised by David Brutlar

ALSO

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when

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The Entire Proceeds are to be given to THE YANGTSZE FLOOD RELIEF FUND

Booking at the Theatre.

Empire State Building.

Mr. R. A Plaff. speaking of. the mechanical advancement in the United States, drew a comparison between the building of the pyra- maids and the Empire State Build-

The Programme will be as follows:- 2.30 pm. “Charlie Chan Carries On" 5.10 pm Dishonored"

7.15 p.m. Vagabond King" 9:30 p.m. "Don't Bet On Woman

These popular pictures have been kindly lent for the occasion by...

Messrs. PARAMOUNT FILMS OF CHINA, Inc. Messrs. THE FOX FILM CORPORATION. (Prices as Usual). Telephone 26818.

FLYING VISITORS.

DEPARTURE OF MR. AND

MRS, DAY.

The American aviators, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Day, who arrived by air at the Kai Tak Aerodrome on Monday took off yesterday at 3,45 ani, for Amoy.

The couple were given a send-off yesterday by Mr. A. J. R. Moss, Superintendent of the Aerodrome. Squadron Longer

Wood,

Mesars Hawes, J. Smith and. L. Jack From Amoy the couple will proceed to Shanghai.

g of 80 stories in the United States. The former took 100,000 men twenty years. The latter with the aid of the Intest mechanical devices took 45,000 men six weeks. During their stay in Hong Kong, Everything in the home, and the oth Mr. and Mrs. Day have been office was done by the machine.sightseeing and have been very Machinery bad revolutionised not much impressed by the beauty of only the whole of the American life, the Colony. but also had changed conditions throughout the world. News was were none the flashed round the world of all im less officient. American univer-portant eventstand day by day in sities offered studies in many sub-ternational co-operation was becom jects that were not taught in othering a greater icceanity, and he universities. The democracy of edu- hoped that the nations of the cation, led to the growth of Amari Pacific basin would soon fall in can, art. For instance, the success with this necessary state of things. of American motion pictures was an Forfessor Forster, in a short example of the excellence of Ameri- speech, thanked the visitors for ean art in that direction, and the their addresses, amphony oreliéstras of New York were the best in the world; the wonderful thing about these orches tras were that they were support. ed not only by the richest people but also by people of more modo- rate means, who took a great in- terest in music. In America, edu eation and culture was not confined

THE INDICTMENT OF EX-KING ALFONSO.

MOROCCAN DOSSIER..

CHURCH AND STATE IN

· SPAIN.

SEPARATION BY

AGREEMENT.

The separation of Church and Stato must come in Spain, but it will be done by, agreement, and we shall thus avoid civil war, declare ed Don Alejandre Lerroux, the Foreign Minister, in a speech at who packed the local, bull-ring."

SECRETS OF THE WIG.

HOW THEY ARE MADE.

Making wigs for the Law is one of the few industries which, in the hard times, are flourishing ns ever, and the wigmakers of the Temple and the other, Inns are al- ready busy fashioning wigs for the new barristers who will be calling on them in a few weeks' time.

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

PREACHING FOR THE

A few months ago just an ob scure radio voice. To-day po tential screen star, playing one of the lending roles in a Douglas Fairbanks picture and hailed as one of the year's finds in films. ⠀

That is the meleorio career to dato of June MacCloy, New York, girl, who makes, hor cinega debut In Reaching For The Moon," with

Bebe Daniels in, the chief feminine röle, which Edmund Goulding directed, for United Ar tists. It comes, to the Qaven's Theatre to-morrow.

Miss MacCloy was finging over the radiowbey George White heard her voice, arranged for an Interview and gave her a part in "Scandals,"

Film scouts struck by her por solality henity and acting abl

ty persundet her to make a Bergen test Back in Hollywood, Edmund Goulding casting the Fairbanks picture, heard of Miss Maefloy. and wired for the test, Afow daya later she was en route to Hollywood,

:

Goulding, discoverer of many stars during the past fivo Tears,

ont- hailed Miss MaeCloy as an

auding possibility among the new crn of young actresses.

The lucky "girl is young,” slim)| and blonde.".

"ON WITH THE SHOW."

Larry Ceballos, was in complete charge of stage effects and chorus work in Warner Bros. colour- singing film, "On With The Show." So Buccessful" was his work in the many lavish singing and dancing. ensembles,, "that he was signed pr handle all work of this type for 'The studio.

·

On. With the Show" is now at the Queen's Theatre,

KING'S THEATRE.

"A CONNECTICUT YANKEE"-

There are at least sixty-four kinds It is quito Easy, if a little

of girls that Will Rogers might tedious" said Mr. A. R. Witts, the are chosen for a wife. He might wiginaker of Middle Temple-lano,ve taken a cowgirl, a vaudeville to & News-Chronicle reporter. But dancer, chorus girl, a movie then, Mr. Witts has been making actress. His wife might have turn- ed out to be socially ambitions, wigs for the Bar for nearly 40

She might have dragged Will, to years.

parties; she might have bought him a dress suit and forced him to wear "You take strands of silk and some horse hair and make a loopit; she might have complained that weft about 14 yards long," he said.

his name wasn't in big enough type "That takes about 14 hours.

in the advertising, she might have Then you make a snap welt-like rearranged his routine; she might a straight fringe instead of a loop have quarrelled with his managers; she might have been terrifically fringe-about nine yards long,

jealous of his leading women. And Then you take round sticks, curl lengths of horse hair round them, she would have utterly ruined

Will Rogers... and set the curls with a hot fron.

How to Make One.

Ou a wig-maker's block you then make a sort of trellised cap of satin baby-ribbon on this sew your yards of loop weft round and round into a kind of scull-cap, and con- tinue down the back of the head with shap. weit. Withdraw the curls from their curling sticks and new them in position.

He's an old old oak, meant to. grow in its own way, and any at. tempt to train it would spoil it. His entire success lies in the fact that he is just himself.

citizen could levels, and every Madrid.-Although great reserve citizen could develop and had the is maintained about the Picasso opportunity to develop to the i fullest, their

natural faculties Inquiry Report, which has just The monied class of America did buen returned to the Pailiamen Valladolid to. 20,000 Republicans price of the wig will be 7 guinças.ple, yet she has the charm and the

not represent the intelligent clase, tary archives after eight years, the and the real brains of the nation, document is complete up to 1980. anid Mr. Wilson, were in the pro-and consists of 7,000 sheets" of

typewritten matter. fessional classes.

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"Religion cannot be a mono- poly," continued Señor Larroux (as quoted by Reuter), and we want to ensure liberty. On the other

It deals chiefly with the disaster to the arty in Morocco, the al-hand, we recognise that Catholicism leged direct interference of King is the religion of the majority of Alfonso in the offensive that led to Spaniards, and we are ready to the capture and death of Genera acknowledge the vast benefita con Silvestre, and of the fall of the ferred on humanity by some of the Spanish forts at Grand Manilla, Fathers of the Church." In con which is attributed to General clusion the Minister urged that "fresh air" was accesary for the Berenguer's refusal to send troops and ammunition, to relieve the musty old religious schools and

Al Capone and Chicago, Mr. R. T. Miller, who spoke next, dealt with some popular miscon- He Wooden piles often play an im. ceptions of American life.

caused a great deal of laughter portant part in the construction when he said that the people in of docks, wharves, ctc., while they Chicago- did not know that thoir are not infrequently employed inuity was supposed to be gang in fested. The debating team did not the shipyards. Various formutue

see any picture of Al Capone in garrisons. have been devised for calculating America, and it was not until they the supporting capacity of piles, got to Australia that they saw a but wide discrepancies are often Picture of this "Bupposedly noted gangster! There were gansters in obtained when they are used in America, he admitted, but not to practice. In paper catitled the extent portrayed by sensational

newspaper writers. "Pile Driving and the Supporting Regarding prohibition, foreign coun- Capacity of Piles," contributed to tries were apt to lay up the door of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Prohibition Amendment Act all. the murders and crimes in the coun-

gin with gasoline and the com- parative scarcity of road hocidents was attributed by Mr. Miller to prohibition Prohibition was one of the prime factors which had placed the United States in such a pro

ninent position industrially at the. present time, suid

this

the author, Mr. Roland Bennett, try. Mr. Miller said that but for investigates from first principles | prohibition “God knows where the the conditions governing the ope- American industries would be to haviour of the pile during driv day." One could not very well mix ing and when driven, and thereby derivas cortain formulas. He ad vocates the testing of piles by shortening the drops of the "hammer as a means of ascertain ing their true supporting cage ity, and suggests that the practic of specifying that pilen hall be speaker, gave some of the biggest driven tea certain maximum sat misconceptions possible. Take per blow might well give way American college life. The univer to specifying that they shall hasity students of America did not. driven until a liammer of a cerknow any such life. They worked. tain weight falling a specified did just as hard as any student the tunc produces no appreciable world over. They enjoyed the permanent set. The conditions uk. der which a pile has to do its work involve no; movement; and any at tempt to test its capacity should be directed as far as possible to testing it under the same condi tions Either important points are the factor of safety to be applied to the calculated result in order 'to arrivo, ე safe working Valdés and the efficiency factor. of the blow

motion picturea just as much as anybody else because it was some thing new to them, Mr. Miller aalted, the audience not to believe for a moment that the life depicted on the screen of American stu- dents was anything like that in renl life. It was the same with Holly- wood and he told the audienos that American life was far from being like life in Hollywooddychaj

seminaries,

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WILL ROGERS

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WONDER OF WOMEN" will commence on Oct. 18.

"Finally, add the tails. And the Of course, a R.C.'s wig, with its many rows of curls, costs more...

Powdered Wigs.

"The

white horse-hair looks rather new at first, and some of the more sensitive young barristers often ask us to make the new wigs a little dirty bofore they take them.

It was Mr. Witts who used to powder Mr. Justice Darling's wig once a week, and who visited the Law Courts every day to powder that of Mr. Justice Hawkins-for he was most particular.

The wigs in these days were made of dark horse-hair, or human hair. and had to be continually pomaded and powdered with the best starch. Now there are no powdered wigs

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DOUGLA I

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“REACHING & MOON)

MEPI PASHES

›The "Dong" yeal

have asked farma Fulcbanks of Toder

with Wall-Strunt, his buitingṣaund and remaneu than

"greater triumphs 1025

Mrs. Will Rogers is just the sort of woman that every good mother. Jerome Beatty in the American hopea her son will marry, SAYS

small-town life, her tastes are sim- Magazine of recent date. She loves

culture that are brought by wide travel. She is keenly interested in BEBE DANIELS everything except sham and pre-| tence.

People often come out to our house to see me," Will says proud- ly,

and when they go away, they remember only Betty.

Now, Will Rogers has habits and' characteristics that would drive most wives screaming into the street. But they never disturb Betty

"Will reads me everything he writes," she said, and tells me the plote of his pictures and tries the lines out on me." She smiled. "I'm just an average person. If I don't understand some reference to politics, Will changes it until I do. If I don't think a sequence is funny, he throws it out,"

Rogers latest Fox production, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee, will be seen and board at the King's Theatre starting to day."

A contract for the construction of | CHARITY SHOW AT KING'S

a new Guatemalan port open to the shipping of all nations has been awarded by the Guatemalan Gov- ernment to the Compania Agricola de Guatemala, which is affiliated with the United Fruit Company,

The port will be located between the mouth of the Nahualate River and a point seven-and-a-half kilo- matres east of the Coyolate River.

THEATRE.

PROCEEDS FOR YANGTSZE FLOOD RELIEF.

The Chairman and Directors of the China Entertainment and Land Investment Company, Ltd. (King'

It is to have a pier long enough Thantre), have jeaued an announce

to permit two vessels of 22 ft. draftment to the effect that they have

to moor at the same time at low tide. The plans are to be submit Led within two years of the signing of the contract and the port must be completed within Ave years of the approval of the plans

decided to donate the whole of the receipts of Wednesday, October 14, to the Yangters Flood Relief Fund

The special programme on this day will be as follows aler

2.30 p.m. Charlie Chan Carries 44 Dishondared. 7.15 "Vagabond King,”

Don't Bet On Women",

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The contract includes the con- structions of a Custom houso, hor- 3.10. pital and other public buildings, a lighthouse and wireless station." : 0,20: The Compania Agricols is to be The films have been lent to the xempt from all port charges durtheatro for the occasion by Mestre inga period of 60 years, after Paramount Films of China, Inc.:

and Mesars The Fox Film Cor which the port becomes the pro perty of the Government

poration, rayon

with

United Artists

Picture.

STAR

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY AT 2.80, 5,20, 7.20 & 0.20.

WILLIAM FOX

„present

нот FOR PARIS

Victor McLaglen

Fill Dorsay El Brondel

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