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CENTRAL

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2.80 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 p.m.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY NOVEMBER

THE SILVER SCREEN.

QUEEN'S THEATRE

HARMONY HEAVEN "

Stuart Hall, star of the British International all-talking musical production, Harmony Heaven," showing on Thursday at the Queen's. was born on the Island of Cyprus, when his father was chief of the Police, He was educated at the Imperial Sorvica College, Windsor, and immediately on loay- ing#achool went to Amerien whero he went directly to Hollywood and started in pictures under the super vision of his friend Roginald Dom ny, with whom he played for sover-

al

A Powerful Drama! years in umber of pictures

Thrills at the

including California Straight. Ahead and I'll show you the ・Town.!!!"

Stunt then went into musical comedy in the U.S.A. and played

Bottom of the Sea in No No Naanetto""Lady be

Love Interest Unsurpassed!

THE GREATEST SEA.

PICTURE EVER MADE.

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COLUMBIA.

Starring JACK HOLT DOROTHY REVIER RALPH GRAVES Directed by FRANK CAPRA

Submarine

The greatest and spectaular

most

of all Sea Pictures.

Good" and "The Desert Song." among others. He has how return- ed to England and this is his first

talkis

KING'S. THEATRE.

"THE CONQUERING HORDE."

Richard Arlen, that rising young star of the Westoras, turns in an- other one of his admirable charac-.) ter portrayals at the King's Thea "tre where he will be soon, the re mainder of the week in The Con- quoring Horde."

This picture gives Arlen full op. portunities to show his mettle na a man of iron as well as to show his föttle as i champion" of fair ladies,

He is seen this time as a Yankes veteran of tho Civil war, the year after peace was made between the North and the South,, As a gov-| crament ngent of the Secret Ser-

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Is he really the boro aho thinks ho inf.

starring Blebard Arlen Fay Wray

"THE

CONQUERING

HORDE

a

Garamount Picture

CENTRAL THEATRE.

SUBMARINE."

vice he is sent to his boyhood Texas The United States Navy at to "

get the goods" on a group of Carpet-baggers" who are choat- ing the people of Toxas ont of their

land.

Here he meets Fay Wray, owner of the biggest herd of cattle in the rogion. As children they wore Friends but there is now a strain between them due to Fay's bitter noss over his association with the

nemy during the war,

doors classic. The supporting cost, hended by Claude Gillingwater, in- eludos. Ian MacLaron, Charles Stevens, George Mendoza, Arthur Stone and others..

maneuvers is graphically portrayed upon the screen at Central Theatre where Columbia's "Submarine" is being shown. The early sequences were filmed aboard the U.5.6, Tern, one of the best mine sweopera in the service. They show Jack Holt and Ralph Craves as petty officers

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT

Commencing To-morrow

NELLIE FARREN'S. WHOOPER GIRLS

The finest of its kind ever seen it the Far East..

SNAPPY DANCES LATEST SONGS BEAUTIFUL GIRLS GORGEOUS COSTUMES

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performances only.

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TO-MORROW

THE SEAS BENEATH

With George O'BRIEN Marion LESSING

PUBLIC STEAM SERVICES.

DIFFICULTIES OF LONG DISTANCE SUPPLY

REMARKABLE SUCCESS OF AN EXPERIMENT

PILA

Tho idea of utilising steam for services other than those under the control of the owners of the steam gonerating plant is not of recent date, for in New York in particu Jar a service of this kind has ex- isted for very many your Bub latterly the poheme has been deve

loped on the Continent, and in the United States for large-scale opera tion, and from several power plants in the former extegory, and many in the latter, a steam supply is broadcast, so to speak, and even distant fransmission has been un dertaken with successful results,

Clearly the most profitable pro- position for those i

generating is to supply steam which has been ini. tially used for the production of power and is available at exhaust pressure for all purposes, though its most economical application would be in connection with beat- ing and process work which would not involve latent heat losses J condensing. With the elimination. of condenser losses, the power sta tion is able to generate at less than one-half of the cost otherwise invol·l ved and is therefore well able to supply steam to external require- mesta at a price below the normal cost for individual boiler plants. transaction, and simpler means Fluctuations of power and of low- must be provided. This has been pressure atoa domands necessarily successfully attempted in Copen involve the use of condensing units fingen, commencing from the year and by-pass steam arrangements to 1926, when the first two miles of some extent and prevent the attain- underground steam-piping ranges mont of that degree of efficiency were laid. Hors the occasion was which would be possible in a por the linking up of various power fectly balanced system, but oven so stations with the hydro-power sta the margin of profit is large, and tions of Sweden, and some of the it is obviously to the interest of larger power stations on Zealand power plants to all exhaust steam and other islands, with the Orsted as far as possible to those industries station, which was built ten years which utilise its heat rather than ago; this rendered superfluous some its property of pressure. A power of the old and smaller power sta-plant which could sell all its ex- tions of the city of Copenhagen, haust steam might operate at a which are therefore now used main

...

thermal efficiency of over 60 per

cent, but exhausting to a condenser

which in some cases is transmitted its efficiency must fall below 30 per for the uses of private houses, hoscent of necessity. pitals, hotels, theatres, banks, churches, &c.; hot water is also supplied for central heating and other purposes,

130

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ly for the production of steam,

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Montevideo

201

Bombay

1/01/18

Shanghai

1/72

Hong Kong

1/2

Yokohama Silver

2/01

183/16 181

Forward

What do

She accepts his services, however, work dredging a Phillipines Copenhagen as a paid guide to lead her lives

harbour. Against a dramatic. tock on the perilous trail from background the picture illustrates Texas acrces the Red River into how depth bombs are placed, divers Abilene, Kansas, and the trip is at work attaching buoys" to the innily

completed triumphantly wreckage and a daring bit of ac- after many thrilling and perilous tion in which Holt becomes entangl adventures with Indians and the ed in a line going out with a pursuing carpet-baggers" the bomb. He is dragged overboard have been attempting to discourage Graves does an excellent bit of

and down to the wreck. Ralph! this money-making venture.

The outcome of the long trek is work in leaping over, after him. disastrous to the "carpet-baggers," Graves takes a knife in his mouth who had incurred the enmity of a

and under water severs tho cable. tribe of Camanches through trea

Later nation shows the foot lay- chery, but the finale is a happy one g smoko. screens, submarines ris for Arlen and Miss Wray-who prong and submerging, the ramming mises at last that she will be his of a submarine by a cruiser and bride.

Spot ita descent. During the drop to the Kias Wray is, as always, a charm-bottom, the interior workings of It will thrill you every moment, ing heroine in this vigorous out the boat are shown. The loss of control, the flooding of the batteries and generation of gas; the ether- Kency oxygen and the care taken to prevent it being exhausted too rapidly; the psychology of the men, who are trapped and the methods employed to keep them in good spirits form part of this sequence.

Other scenes alow divers at work, the signal system, the inability to stand the water pressure and the struggle to reach the lower depths. Some beautiful shots of the U.8.S. Saratoga are included in the ac25 George O'Brian, Fox movietone tion. One scene in particular featured player, a former naval shows Holt as a diver taking off offer himself, and the leading the deck of the ship in an airplane, man in "The Bene Bonenth," the first talkie of subinarine, warfare.

"After the war," O'Eriou snys, "the British naval experts check ed their records of submarine ring. ings with the German figures, and many interesting facts developed. Tha Gorman lost 203 of their U boats, including saved interned, in various neutral ports, and 14 that were blown up by their officers when the Flanders submarine bases were evacuated.

NEXT CHANGE

"SO THIS IS

PARADISE"

Part. 1.

Another Chinese all-talking, singing and dancing picture, Starring

BUTTERFLY WU

Chinese foremost screen

favourite.

Shaw Pei Chen

Directed by

THE SEAS BENEATH.".

Of the many unsolved anysteries of the war, one of the most baf fing concerns the fate of somna, 28. German

U-boats, According to

"Of the other 182 50 were sunt. by gunfire from Allied warship. Allied mine-fields accounted for 43 of the German subs, and 18 more were smk by being rammed by Al lied ships. The Allies' own sub marines accounted officially for 17 more and the mystery ships, or "Qships," are known to have des- trored 11 U-boats. Allied aircraft sank 6 more by serial bombing, birt 28 others are still unaccounted for, and neither the German for the Al- lied records contain any clueto their fate.

The Bens Beneath, coming to

Chang Shih Chuen the King's Theatre is based on the

Recorded by

Pathe Orient Co.

activities of an American "mystery ahip working in ocnjunction with an American submarine to capture a noted. U-boat of the Canaries.

Morion Leasing, the Vienness star, makes her feature picture de- but as the German heroina of this

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PRINCE'S THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 280, 7.18 and 8.15 p.m.

Special Matinee at 5.15 on Saturdays and Sundays

and the apporting The "MARK OF ZORRO” starring the world

cast incindes Warren Hymbr, Wil lam Collier Sr who also etagged

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Walter O. Kolly and Mona Maris.

DOUGLAS FAIRBBANKS.

A Bolgian System, Whore factories and plants are conveniently placed with regard to Method of Conveyance.

the station supplying their power demands the opportunity is obvi- The steam-pipes are laid on a ously afforded of utilising exhaust concrete basis of sufficient thickness steam, and even hot water, in this (about 4in.), which is waterproofed, manner. The power station at and the supporting oradles are Langerbrugge, is Belgium, and the fitted with the usual rollers for ex-industrial plants which surround pansion movement, which is also it, to the number of thirty or so,

provided for by benda placed at are a an example. This station, overy 200 yards; the whole assembly which is described as one of the is then temporarily cased in and most advanced installations in the the spaces filled in with cellular in world, is interesting because its sulating cement, which is after latest additions include a Benson yards covered with an ouler im boiler which operates at a pressure inch

pervious plaster. To allow free

of over 3,2001h, per square

turbines,

movement the pipes are wrapped in Steam from this boiler paanos oiled paper before the cement is through super-pressure poured, and the expansion beads lie which exhaust to the main steam in wolls which are not filled in

around the pipes, though complete supply from the general boiler ly enclosed. Pipe lealts which may plant, which teams at over 7001b possibly occur are detected and,

located by ourrent passing between pressure this principal supply two cotton covered wires as they operates farther back prossure tur- become wetted, and the cellular biner which exhaust to ordinary concrete is easily broken away, condensing turbines, and a steam when required, though sufficiently strong to withstand overhead supply for external weight as in roadways and the like. thermal efficiency of This material, which is reputed to cent from the raw coal to the have an extremely low thermal con- swithboard is claimed, and it is ductivity, made by mixing d cement with foam compound apparent that na the external stean which note to form an agglomera demand increases in proportion to tion of air.colls enclosed by thin

WASHINDANO will the off-

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cement has A high insulating power requirements so value is required primarily for rescianey also improve as less steam ducing condensation in the steam- nord be passed to condensing units. pipes but also for the protection of

gan and water mains, &e,” “which may lie closely in places. Tests, taken on a, twomile section showed

Bit long-distance steam supply is

a more diffionis proposition, and

inlet steam at 170lb pressure and especially so when the cost of in. | 030dog. F. and a pressure of 115lb. etaliation must be kopt flow it. an. with a temperature of 400deg. T. economie scheme. Where tubes or at the extreme end of the action, tunnels can be utilised for The total loss from all sources tunnels

the

amounts to about 23 per cent of conveying of steam-pipes the matter the team supply figure which is comparatively simple, and radia would correspond with the preced-

ing ones when the host value in the tion losses can be reduced to the hot water is taken into "account | minimium by the use of oil also isulations, but in arranging a steam

| / Similar hosting systems have also

poon carried out procently in Ger- supply from a distant power ald

ported that public bodies and large cost of construction would serious) works in England country are non-

sidering the possibilities of long- distance steam tranmission.

affect the

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STUART HAT!

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