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TO-DAY ONLY AT 2:30. 5.15 7.20, & 9.30 P.M. HUMAN DRAMA

OF THE "KIND GRIPA AND TERILIS (

THAT

COLD-BLOODED MURDERESS OR LOVING MOTHER? WHICH IS SHE?

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MADELEINE CARROLI and GEORGE BRENT

The CASE against Mrs. AMES".

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TOMORROW-

A PICTURE FULL OF THRILLS AND ROMANCE

"THE PAYOFF?

with JAMES DUNN CLAIRE DODD"

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

MAJESTIC

THEATRES

McLAGLEN

ESTARE

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY]

When an Irresistible Force Meets an immovable Body! That's what happens in this high-powered romance of a couple of scrappers who won't give an inch!

Adeish Zukar presents CLAUDITTE

COLBERT

FRED

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MacMURRAY

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'The Bride Comes Rome

▲ Pero.noual Ficture with ROBERT

YOUNG

William Collier, Sr. Donald Mook Directed by Wadey Buggles

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In one of the large lecture halls

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

THE BRIDE COMES HOME

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 7. 1936.

TO- DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:

"The Afalt of Susan"

QUEEN'S:

"The Case Against Mrs

Ames"

ORIENTAL:-

"Desire"

Kowloon

ALHAMBRA:-

"Lady of Secrets"

MAJESTIC:-

STAB

"Laughing at Life"

The Bride Comes Home'

KING'S:

QUEEN'S:

Coming

"Small Town Girl".

"The Payoff"

ORIENTAL:-

"Ship Cafe" ALHAMBRA:-

STAR:

The Music Goes Round"

"Freckles"

"Miss Pacific Fleet"

"SHIP CAFE"

AT THE ORIENTAL THEATRE

Hollywood turns to Manhattan's Harlem for ideas in dance routines when it wants something unique

and ditterent.

The New York black bele's newest popular step, a dance sensation. called "Truckin'" is seën for the first time in "Paramount's roman- tic comedy drama with music,- "Ship Cafe," featuring Carl Brisson and Arline Judge which comes to the Oriental Theatre on Wednes- day and Thursday.

"Truckin" is a combination of primitive "and modern terp- slchorean movements. The armS rise and fall in time to the music while the feet go into a slow shuffle. balancing a sinous hip movement.

"Ship Cafe" te's the amusing experiences of a ship stoker. gifted with a beautiful voice, who rises to fame as a singer 3 water- front cafe where he has been hired as the club's bouncer Un-

countess' gigolo when she promises him a job in a swanky night club. A series of laughable events brings the "bouncer" to his senses.

The emotional content of every-knowingly he becomes a wealthy day life, as against the "super- super satin adventures that are garnished with all sorts of improb- able situations, will serve as the principai medium of motion plc- sure expression in the future, in

the

opinion of Ernst Lubitsch, managing director of production at the Paramount Studios in Holly- wood.

Lubitsch started the vogue for "real" stories with "Design for Liv- ing," in which elaborate settings and panoramic grandeur were sub- ordinated to the human theme.

He continues along the same trall In "The Bride Comes Home," in which Claudette Colbert and Free MacMurray appear together as two

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The supporting cast Includes WEllam Frawley, Mady Christians,

Inez Courtney and Eddie Davis, noted Broadway entertainer, Ro- bert Florey directed.

THE AFFAIR OF

SUSAN'

At last the hobby of Zasu Pitts, most famous comedienne of the screen has been discovered! Mias Pitts, who is now at the King's Theatre in Universal's "The Affair

LESTER INSTITUTE'S YEAR OF PROGRESS

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MUCH VALUABLE DATA OBTAINED: EFFECT OF THE DEPRESSION: STUDY OF

SCHISTOSOMIASIS"

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Definite progress along" all fronts China The ideal worker is the during 1936 is reported by the patriotic Chinese dizen who is Henry Lester Institute of Medical | stimulated to his endeavours by Research, which bis just issued its Anding something which he annual repart. Much valuable believes will be an advantage to data has been obtained in the his countrymen in suppressing course of the year's working in either

gra ve condition of the various departments of the nutritional disorder or alleviating, institute, while outside, contacts and if possible, preventing the and relations with other institu- harassing effects of some parasite. tions have been maintained and Personal advantage has no place strengthened in a variety of ways. tri such an altruistik concept, but The dnancial depression has not If such worker can apply the been without its effert, and it was sclentifs method to his work so found necessary to reduce in par- much the better. Pasteur was a ticular the number of scholarships field research worker of the very and fellowships available for tem-

first order and only retired to his porary appointment. It is hoped, laboratory, when it was strictly however, that if the institute is necessary, and even there he was able to maintain its regular staff, completely original in his line of the general efficiency of the work approach. Some say this is en- being done will not suffer.

tirely due to gentus, but genius is defined as the intimite capacity for taking pains. Although the Pasteurian example is advocated for incentive and approach, the statistical method as a useful tool in the planning and conduct of feld observations is recommended. Pasteur used this method instine- tively, but being a genius his logic and uncommon

sense were de- veloped to such a high degree that he could well dispense with any mechanical problems.

approach Lo his

In the clinical division, Dr. B. S. Piatt had been able to show that beriberi was indoubtedly a disease

biochemical presenting changes in the body fulds charac- teristic of vitamin B1 deficiency. although this did not explain the whole of the clinical picture In different types of the disease. The investigation in the division of physiological selences of factory dlets, as presented recently in a report of work done in collabora- tion with the industrial section of

The fundamental consideration the Shanghal Municipal Council,

ed to a great deal of

underlying field research in this actention The

part of China is the existence of from the lay community. Institute definitely feels, however,

a huge fertile plain, the delta that is not the function

system of the Yangtze River, with of 4

its densely.. research institute, to

the enter

populated field of social politics, and this Geographically, the situation work therefore only formed part

favourable for mosquito, breeding, of a general survey if Chinese owing to the swangy nature of dlets made

plain and the an attempt to the

intensive unravel the nutritional factor in irrigation system connected with the development of see. Work rice cultivation. The result is that on this had been continued on an

prominent diseases such as malarla and fillarisis exist, in which the mosquito plays the part of vectur.

intensive basis, and this division had shown through its analyses

of the vitamiri "content of Chinese foods that instinct and custom, when not Interfered wich by modern civilization, provided an adequate amount of these neces-

Common

sary dietetic principles. sense also shows this to be a fact, as there was no civilization which had shown the persistence of China, and this would have been Impossible if diets had always been inadequate.

TYPHOID SERUM

ILIE

STUDY OF MOSQUITOES ·· Different species of mosquitoes show a particular preference as to the type of water they will breed in, and the Institute found that the field type of insectary, such as the one established at Kaochiao, to be very practical for research work under natural conditions, enabling the study of larval breed- ing where" customary factors such as aquatic vegetation and the normal temperature and reaction of the water all existed.

trop

In the division of pathological science, a definite advance has tap water, due to the fact that it It was discovered that ordinary

been made in the analysis of the

was highly purified and cho- bacillus and in the preparation of antigenic structure of the typhoid lorinated,

unsuitable Was

for many biological experiments ton- a serum which is already proving. nected with the aruacial cultiva- Its value in the treatment of this

of mosquitoes, molluscs, prevalent and debilitating disease. crustaceans, and fish This dif Cholera work was continued, and culty

was overcome by con- Included the systematic investiga structing a shallow well in the tion of regularly collected water grounds of the Institute, but at samples from the Whangpoo River the same time it felt that and the major wreeks.

artificial conditions never abso- lutely stimulated the natural en- vironment:

During the past two years, in- vestigation in this division has been directed also along two main

An

In the field

Was

of virus diseases.

experiments were undertaken with a view to investigating the, pas- sibility of the quartz inmp as a cauterizing agent in cases of rabid dog bites.

It was found that a

lines, the immunological pheno mena in man and animals infect- human beings in a workaday world, of Susan," has been concealing her

ed with schistosomiasis, and the rather than puppets functioning ability with pots and pans and in- bionomics of the intermediate host, In a writer's fantasy. "The Bride gredients these many years. Now the "Oncomelania" snails. Comes Home" 15 at the Star comes the truth that she has more interesting possibility of destroying short exposure to ultra-violet light Theatre now.

than 200 trick gadgets in her the fecundity of these snails by had a lethal effect on the rables Miss Colbert, playing in "It Hap kitchen for making good food taste

means of single,talled cercariae is pened One Night," was a most better,

virus. It was considered, however, and would rather fool

now being explored, and should

that the directional effect of the credible, matter-of-fact sort of per- around with flour, eggs and sugar research indicate any practical

quartz light in Wounds and its son. She and MacMurray were inan cavort on the silver-screen. possibilities in this connection lack of penetration would render plain human beings in "The Gilded "I've been so busy the last few might lead to a measure of

Its value doubtful In actual Lily." and, in "She Married Her years that I've not had time to do biological control of the incidence

practice, pieces of clothing of Boss," Miss Colbert portrayed the a great deal of cooking," she con- the snails. Investigations 50

other matter might be carried into' type of girl within the understand ressed, during the making of "The far tend to indicate that schisto-wounds, and these wou'd shelter ing and sympathy of ordinary Affair of Susan," in which she is somiasis destroys the reproductive the virus from exposure to the people.

co-starred with Hugh O'Cornell} power of the snails, and all that

lethal rays of light. The success of this type of ple- famous Broadway stage player. is therefore necessary is to find ture is reflected in the fan mall "Not only do I buy every new con- scmething

inoffensive to man which Miss Colbert receives. She traption I can £nd, but I also send which will likewise, attack the has thousands of letters congra- for cook books and now have more mollusc. tulating hér for portraying roles than 200. It's worse than a hobby Research in this division neces- that have met their counterparts this desire to cook-it's a vice." sarily entails a great deal of held Miss Pitts refuses to say what work, and a number of collecting she prepares best, but trips were made to Kashing and all-around Soochew for schistosomiasia ma- terial, to Shaoching and Huchow for paragonímiasis materials, and

in modern life. Many of the letters

she's an

are from persons who draw a par dishes allel between their own experiences claims that and those of the characters she has good cook. She got much train

"We are living in an age of realing from her mother and in do-

played.

PRINCESS ROYAL

to the Shiaoshan district for fas ciotopsiasis material.

A programme of studies on Shanghal files

way commenced during the year, and co-operation

with the Public Health Department enabled the Institute to have its

y traps distributed in different parts of the city by health inspec tors: these were forwarded to the laboratory twice weekly for. examination Preliminary studies are now being made on the taxonomy and blonomics of the local species of files, and their relation to the transmission of diseases under gastro-intestinal

mestic science classes in high ism," Lubitsch comments. People school in Banta Cruz, California, want to see pictures that refect

didn't even dream of when she

A GOOD FIELD WORKER the Hfe that is going on about becoming a motion picture star.

In connection with field medical them. Fantastic flights into the

Miss Pitta appears in "The Af-research in China, the Institute local conditions will be investigated improbable do not carry the papu- fair of Susan with Walter Cat- believes that the man who wishes in due course. lar appeal they did in the past.”

lett, Inez Courtney, Tom Dugan, to make a success of this should Requests from universities and Phil Tead, Irene Frankiin, William be of broad sympathetic under other institutions for interesting and specimens, especially those re- Pawley, and many other. well-standing, infinite patience known players.

above all equipped with sound lating to parasitology, were very sense of numerous in 1935, and this, it is common sense and a 'humour. Much depends on obtain felt, was brought about by the "spected the Tanks and presenteding the goodwill of the agricultural work of the Institute becoming in

long-service medais.

population and of the local increasingly known abroad. habitants where enquiries”... are had been made, by a number of being undertaken. The scientific distinguished scientists from method is not the whole story nor Europe and America, who net un- is it immediately practicable naturally desired to illustrate dissociated from other considera what they had seen under tions. The Pasteurian method is investigation in China with actual the method "par excellence" in specimens. == (N_CDN.} |

INSPECTS THE ROYAL SCOTS

in a European city there appeared,

London, June 18. close beside the speaker's stand, a The Prince Royal, Colonel-in- The Princess saw a display of single strong clothes hook in the Chief of the Royal Scots (the Ro-physical training and a musical wall with a little placard, stating, yal Regiment) yesterday visited drive by the mechanical gun trans- "Only for lecturers."

the 1st Battalion stationed at Do- port, and took tea in a large mar

A humourist wrote underneath. ver. She took lunch at the officers ques with the regimental families “May also be used for hanging his mess and afterwards witnessed a before leaving by train for Lon-

- ceremonial parade. She also in- don; : coat and 'hat"

Visita

MONTORY

AIR-CONDITIONED THEATREN

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

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CARL LAEMMLE PRESENTS

ZASU PITTS and BUGH O'CONNELL

IN

"THE AFFAIR OF SUSAN"

A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

NEXT CHANGER

JANET GAYNOR ROBERT TAYLOR in "SMALL TOWN GIRL" A Metro-Goldwyn-Mager Picture

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW The Throbbing Story of a Gallant Lady who defied the tragedy of dishonour !

The throbbing stay ofaliant

the trapdynf

"her past!

Ruth Chatterton

LADY OF SECRETS

KRUGER LIONEL ATWIN WED NOLAN-ROBERT ALLE

SEAS Preleta Pinched by MARION GEUNG.

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