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SHY MEN NEED ENCOURAGING IN LOVE

DOCTOR EXPLAINS ART OF COURTSHIP

"Shy men in matters of love need encouragement, and women should not be thought unmaidenly for giving them this encouragement- within limits, of course."

This, in effect, was the advice given by Dr. T. Drummond Shields; when discussing the art of court- ship at the summer school of the British Social Hygiene Council at Friends' House. Londori

"There is no doubt," he said, "that there have been cases where a shy man, who was very much attracted to a girl, would have been greatly helped by a little more frankness and honesty the part of the girl.

"But very often. owing to her Conventional ideas, woman, if she is attracted to a man, makes a point of being particularly dis- agreeable to him for fear that he should think she is running after him:"

NEED OF CHIVALRY Chivalry, said Dr. Drummond Shielda, häd sufered with the new fleedom between the

of the men

sexes

riage.. simply as a goal and that when they are married they will live happily ever after."

CAR INSTEAD OF BABY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937.

TO-DAY AT THE

CINEMA

Hong Kong

KING'S:~~~

"The 13th Chair"

QUEEN'S!—

"Escadrille"

ORIENTAL:-

"20,000 years In Sing Sing.”

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Kowloon

ALHAMBRA;---

"Outcasts of Poker Flat.”

MAJESTIC:

"Ruit" Raft"

KING'S:-

Coming

"Women of Glamour" QUEEN'S:—

"Stowaway"

ORIENTAL:-

"Under Cover of Night" ALHAMBRA

"When Love Is Young" MAJESTIC:—

"St. Loule Kid"

THE OUTCASTS OF

POKER FLAT ·

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with Preston Foster and Jean Muir in the leading roles, a tense- ly realistic screen drams" of the turbulent day's of Forty-Nine in the California mining camps, ***The Outcasts of Poker Flat proves thrilling entertainment with its opening to-day at the Alhambra Theatre.

The two screen favourites are

Florence Rice and Theodore von Eltz in "Under Cover of Night"

a mystery comedy romance showing at the Oriental Theatre

on Wednesday and Thursday with Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice,

Dorothy Peterson and Henry Kolker.

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STAR DUST DIARY OF LOCAL

William Powell and Myrna Loy will have brothers and sisters in their next

effort, co-starring "Double Wedding." Florerice Rice, John Beal and Richard Thorpe are members of the cast.

Dick Powell is leading man op- posite Ginger Rogers in "Hollywood Hotel." the Warnes opus. The Alm bears the title of a regular American radio hour.

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Robert Young who will be seen

EVENTS

TUESDAY, JULY 20

Anniversaries

and Holidays.--- Sir Richard Wallace died, 1890. Jean Ingelow died. 1897.

Auctions.Crown Lands, at Dis- trict Office, Tai Po, 11:30 am Cinemas. (See Page 5). Lectures-Hockey. Training School.

Malls.--(See Page 16), Meetings-St. Andrew's Church

at

Palice.

brilliantly cast in the respective shortly at the Alhambra in Council, 8 p.m.; St. John's Cathe

rotes of a gambler of the old school and a teacher who falls in love with him. Their unconven-

Met Him In Paris" with Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas, has been given the lead in "Witness to

tional romance is complicated by a Murder" after which Young will the Jealousy of Foster's feminine appear with Joan Crawford in associate, by the rivalry of a re- "The Girl From Trieste." Franchot former clergyman, and the devo-Tone, husband of Joan, will also be tion of the camp to a precocious in the film. little orphan girl whose welfare is an important factor in the destiny of the heru. '.'

THIRTEENTH CHAIR

The Dionne Quintuplets latest fim has heen titled "Mother Knows Best." Jean Hersholt is again is the cast.

Luise Rainer, Academy award winner, will start work very soon with Spencer (Fury) Tracy as her leading man in "Big City."

A

Apart from its fascinating mystery the new screen drama at the King's Theatre to-day, titled "The Thirteenth Chair," is one of the best examples of the new Hollywood technique yet to reach M.G.M. have bought the film the screen. The picture was fil-rights of John Galsworthy's "For- ed largely in shadows, which adds sythe Saga." 10 Ita element of mystery and its photographic splendour.

The story is an adaptation of

the remembered stage success by Bayard Veiller and with the greater resources of Metro-Gold-

wyn-Mayer studios, it becomes even more interesting...

Thirteen people are seated in

a room where a seance 18 in pro- gress, arranged for one of them who hopes to find the murderer of his close friend. In the darkness, he himself is killed by a knife wound. No one enters or leaves the room and yet no knife is there.

RIFFRAFF

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Constance Collier and Andrea Leeds have been added to the cast of Stage Door."

MYSTERIES

OF SPACE

Discovery Of Two More Chemicals

Astronomers at Mount Wilson Jean Harlow has never display-Observatory, in California, have. been making discoveries about the "cosmic cloud"-the tenuous sea of diffuse matter which, it is now

The average gli to-day mighted her versatility as an actress to usefully learn something about better advantage than in "Riff how to cook a dinner instead of raff" which is at the Majestic how to operates, type-writer, but Theatre.

average girl knew nothing. the

about cooking.

She should also learn something about children and their upbringing.

She follows her smashing hit in "China Seas" with another spar kling role, again against the back ground of the sea, but in a vital, romantle story, which gives her the finest opportunity of her career.

believed, fils the whole of space.

"cosmic cloud contains atoms of It is already known that the

the chemical element calcium, most familiar in the form of chalk, and also of sodium and

common salt.

dral Council, 5.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous. Claims against the Estate of John Gentles Smith due, Rotary Tin, Hong Kong

Hotel.

Social-Cheero Club Whist Drive,

8.30 p.m.: Craigengower" Cricket Club Weekly Tombola. 9.20 p.m.

Sports(See Page 10). Moon.-VI Moon, 13th. Day. Sunrise.--5.49 a.m. Sunset.-7.10

p.m.

Tides. High, at 08.38 and 21.37; Low at 14.16.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21.

Holidays.

Anniversaries and Salvator Rosa borri, 1815. Robert Burns died, 1796.

Auctions. Leasehold Properties, at China Auction Rooms, 3 p.m.

Cinemas-(See Page 5); Mail(See Page 16). Meetings-Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild, 10 a.m.; House Committee, at 8. and 8: Home, 5.30 p.m

Miscellaneous-Hong Kong Anti- Heroin Society Conversazione, at Gloucester Hotel (8th floor), 5.30 p.m. Speakers: Prot. W. L. Gerrard and P. Y. Lamb,

Sports (560 Page 10). Moon VI Moon, 14th. Day. Sunrise-5.49 am. Sunset-7.09.

p.m.

Tides. High at 07.16 and 22.05% Low at 00.33 and 14.52.

THURSDAY, JULY

22,

Anniversaries and Holidays. Salamanca, 1812. NapoleonTM II died, 1832. 8t. Mary Magdalene."

Land Once, Ping Shan, 11.30 am Auctions, Crown Lands, at

**Cinema (See Fare (5), Malls(See Page 16)." Meetings.-Toc H Supper Meet

at Seamen's Institute, 7.30

the Estate of John Edward Scott, Miscellaneous.--Claims against

dug, ****

ing p.m.

Dr. Grifith emphasised the stab lising influence of children in the home. He pointed out the Im-

Now Mount Wilson has added Teamed with her for the first two more chemical elements to portance of parents having chil- dren while they were young. There time is one of Hollywood's finest the list-potassiut, used by far were, however, many urges against actors. Spencer Tracy, and the

merg in the form of potash, and | Parenthood, among them the ex- two mias no opening, to get the

titanium, which, though often Bocial-Cheero Club Contract pense of educating them. When it most out of the powerful, and

"poken of as one of the "rare" Bridge and Mah Jong Drive, 8 p.m. chemical elements, is listed as Civil Service Whist Drive, 9.20- ninth in order of abundance on p.m. the earth.

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pep-most hilarious cómedy with the ple to-day plumped for the car, most touching pathos. and houses were being built with 1.garage, but no nursery.

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MEN WITH MEDALS

Arrival Scenes In London

other. In the interval betweeks arriving in London and parading for the review many of the men who had come up from the coun- fry found their way to the Cenotaph, and along Whitehall there was a constant throng of men with medals. Less distant from Hyde Park Corner and Marble, Arch, groups of men from different! The arrival of ex-Bervice men parts of the country gathered in large contingents from the together in tea shops and public country made a succession of in-houses to talk of the days of the pressive scenes at the terminal Warr rallway stations in London It was at the railway stations Throughout the morning special | that this vast civilian amy seem, trains brought Ex-Service mened biggest in numbers, Padding- from distant parts of the country, ton in the morning and' for an leavings of creation theory is and in many cases the men form hour or so after midday seein also in accordance with presented battalions and marched in one great meeting place of ex-8 ideas of the origin of stars and column of fours to Hyde Park vice men. Several columns bad galaxies of stars.

|* Sir" Arthur Eddington... believes. that many more chemical tele- ments are" to be found in the | p.m. cosmic cloud than have been iden- uned:

Sports (See Pare 10). Moon.-VI Moon, 15th. Day. Sunrise.-5.50 am Sunset 7.09

Tides High at 07.55 and 22.55; Grim mystery among a group of

De Low at 01.25 and 15.25. scientista "at a university, and There are two main theories of solution of a baming crime by the the origin of the cloud. One is tiny clue of a pet dog's rubber that it represents the leavings of ball are the exciting elements in creation that the cosmic cloud Under Cover of Night" showing at was once not merely universaal, but the Oriental Theatre to-morrow all there was of matter. Then it and Thursday, detective story in is suggested, out of the eddies of which the audience plays detective primeval chaos the stars were alongside the detective on the born. Part of the cloud" "con-

and he urged that chivalry should Built as a memorial to the be encouraged in the training of Jubilee of King George V. and boys, even though there were some Queen Mary and of the coronation feminists to-day who might re- of King George VI, and Queen gard it as patronage on the part Elizabeth, Bourville's new £25,000

lide was handed over to the work people of Cadbury Brothers by Mr. Edward Cadbury, chairman of the company, recently.

The lido is surrounded by a garden club, bowling greens, ten-detective character of the screen nis courts,

as Christopher Cross, super-eslen and football cricket pitches.

tie sleuth.The story is by Bertram Milieuser, The main swimming poolis 100ft, George Bell.

directed by long and 50ft wide, and in faced with a paved deck, sun-bathing

and

screen.

Edmund Lowe creates the newest

denised" Into" solid matter,

Standards of the British Legion formed up beside the platforms an "We definitely believe in early

According to Bir Arthur's cal- and other organizations were car special trains arrived and had marriage," said the doctor later,

cultors, the cosmic cloud must ried at the heads of the columns, marched away when there were "yet there are all sorts of obstacles

be inconceivably dense than and some contingents were led by still trains due to arrive. from: put in the way of young couples,

the highest vacuum' which human bands,

Swansea and Carmarthen, Here "FULL" OF THE STARS in the police force the Army, Navy

engineers can produce. He er- Early in the morning ex-Bervice ford/Worcester, Birmingham, and Air Force, in Church organisa-

On the other hand, it also seems timates that there must be ap- men were to be Been everwhere Wolverhampton, and Bristol. Oc- tions and missionary bodies and

probable that the stars may be prazdnately one atom per thim in the neighbourhood of the re- casionally one saw a disabled among certain fine who make

losing part of their atmosphere to bleful of cloud. By comparison, a view ground They were easily Service man being wheeled across young men employees going abroad

the cosmic cloud. Sir Arthur, who thimbleful of ordinary air con recognizable, not only by the the station in a chair. It was cas, sign contracts that they will not

bas investigated the cloud in its tains atoms to the number of 50 medals they wore but also by the to see, too, that the men were from marry for five or ten years" sea-shingle beaches and grass the means of bringing health and theoretical aspects, sald that he million million million.

way they clustered in groups. Be many different walks of lifes Dr. E. F. Grimth stressed the slopes. For the children a pool happy recreation to those employ favoured the former theory, He Tet, in spite of ita extremely yond Hyde Park, on the far side there were no uniforms an need for preparation for marriage, soft long by 17ft 6in wide, with a ed at Bournvillé and their pointed out that, owing to the tenuous character, Air Arthur cal- of Kensington Gardens by be these veterans. together with the need for pre- | maximum depth of 12in, is provid» | familles.”

heavy gravitational pull of the culates that, the cosmic cloud may Palace, they sat in the warm un could be sean a clerg marital medical examinationed.

At certain periods of the day stars, it is not easy for them to represent somewhere about one-shine, and from an exchange of ing his merin's and a badge "Many young people 1 come Opening the poolz, Mr. Cadbury the lido, will be open to the gen- lose any great part of their mat- | third of all the matter in the uni- greetings baised fo an exchange indicated the across," he said, "think of mar- said: "We hope the lido may be lemal public.

ter to surrounding space. The verse,

of memories, one group with an the wopl

Here

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