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CINEMA NOTES.

THOSE GHOSTS!

Spooks That Were Human

E.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

OLSE.

A HEALTH TALK.

This is the more astonishing: when we remember that at a time noi so very far distant the treat- ment of this painful malady waS B subject of constant discussion Among physicisos. Great reput improvements in that treatment. ations were built up on even trivial

Although a condition known described, the prevailing opinion

"poor-man's gou:" 23

"Human Hearts" at Coronet.

Fat Little and Live Long, The machinations of a city

Ghost stories have an irre-

Sir William Wilcox's announce siren who weds the hero in order sistible fascination for the human meat that gout is a vanishing, to obtain the deeds of his father's mind. There is glamour disease corresponda with general farm under which lia great coal about everything supernormal, medical experience, writes a deposits form the basis of the due no doubt to man's insatiable doctor in a Home paper. There highly dramatic story of "Human curiosity as to the life hereafter, are younE

doctors in' sative! Hearts" which is the new atirao-says & writer in an exobange,

practice who have never seen a tion at the Coronet and is being. The mysterious happenings at shown to-day for the first time. Gorefield, near Wisbeck, do not House Peters has the star role materially differ from those that in the picture and the excellenco have occurred during the last few of his performance fully justifies years, and all of which have been his selection for the difficult part found to be due to purely natural of Tom Logan, a simple son of the causes. outdoors who goes about the world In the autumn of 1919 Cromer with a wonderful confidence in was the scene of weird occur mankind. A city woman wise inrences, where in the rectory, the the ways of the world comes ghost who prayed the rooms with into his life and plans to get oil was found to be the servant) was, and probably always will be control of the fortune she knows maid. to be in store for him. After

that the affliction followed over- abe has made him thoroughly den, in

In January 1920, at Bricken-eating and overdrinking miserable she slopes with an strange knockings were reported. Certainly the decline in port East Hertfordshire, especially overdrinking of port ex-convict and in attempting to knockings that spelt out messages drinking has synchronised with atop the pair the hero's aged father in the Morse code. But, alas for the decline in gout. is killer. Believing his wife the credulity of human nature, a guilty Tom takes the blame and girl was the "spectral" agent. from this point the story, which She had learnt the code from her is marked by suspense and brother!. dramatic interest the whole way through, moves forward to startling climax.

"Uncharted Channels."

W&S

now that the present generation It is only on rare occasions learns how well its fathers

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1953.

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Then early in 1921 ghosts came great esters and drinkers are to London, and at Hornsey threw nearly all dead. The writer. coa! about and generally dis- however, well remembers being turbed the neighbourhood. I told by a fox-hunting squire Some of the glaring economic the agents.

this case boys were found to be whom be used to number fallacies of the day are admirably

among his patients two and even Last lampooned in the delightfully Ghosts." There was one reported mon enough ending to a good year WAS prolific in three bottles of port were a com- original film Uncharted Chan in an old house at Balham, an-day. nels, which is being shown at the other at Stanley Crook, near Star Theatre, Kowloon, this week Durham, and towards the end of day at least two heavy meals In the course of the ** good An interesting feature about this the year Long Drax, near Selby, would be eaten, a breakfast entertaining comedy-drame is put out an array of ghosts. But which would feed that in it H. B. Warner, whose in no case was the

& modern roles have become famous

spectre" a family and a dinner lasting for "dress suit parts," is seen in the world.

genuine specimen of another hours." garb of a working man.

MODERN HABITS MORE HEALTHY.

But overalls and a jumper da

A PLUCKY NURSE. The present year has begua hot by any means hide the wall. Early in January Coalville enough so long as youth and the That kind of thing was well popular star's great taleat, and was kept awake at night by activity of youth remained. After bis ecgaging yersatility is dis-fearsome animal that mada un-30, however, the trouble usually played to very decided advantage-earthly noises. It bellowed like a began. The story deals with some of the rabbit, and roared like a tiger. It deadlies: form of labour unrest, was

There is not the slightest doubt, the machinations of parlour. an for striped like a tiger, according to finitely more hygienic. Luncheon, white, yellowish brown, that our modern habits are in- archists and agitators of a more various observers. Its footprints that mesi of danger, gradually dis- purposeful type. Against this were variously those of a sheep a appearing and giving place to background is filmned a love story wolf, or byena, and measured six full of thrills and with a tang of inches across.

something light in the middle of adventure.

It was merely a the day." Tea. too, with its mild Joung foxhound! Another notable picture includ-

stimulation, which imposes no Towards the end of that month strain on the digestive organs. is ed in the Star's current pro- the ghost of Nurse Matilda haunt-growing in favour. gramme, and one which every-jed the wards, corridors body will want to see, is a Topical grounds of Rochford Union. Airested for the day, and eat that Budget with the first pictures of nurse with common sense and meal when work is over. Tutankhamen's Tomb.

on

A MISSING SEAMAN.

Corpse Found in River at

Shanghai

and We keep our digestive organs

pluck proved it to be a male at Even that meal, at present, tendant dressed in a sheet and tends to be frugal. More and pillow-case...

more there is growing up a dis- taste for heavy eating.

This month Fenny Compton reports ghost rays. But, as a

"All this means at least ten tocal farmer has seen a body in a Fears added to the expectation of long black cloak behind the light, life. Frugal livers I do not think these ghostly livers.

long flickerings will have a long run. Unhappily, what can be said of,

Gerefeld gout cannot be said of rheuma

Neither

will the

are

A corpse which was discovered spook. In this case we have alitism. Nor is it at all certain that by the River Police at Shanghai essentials for this kind of practi-this latter disease is understood

April 18. floating in the cal joke, and in due course no as it should be. Huangpu, was at first thought doubt it will be found out, as offending teeth and tonsils is all! The removal of) to be the body of a Chinese bave all the others.

very well: yet experience showe The pity of it all is that there that rheumatism very frequently the Chinese authorities, are people weakminded and silly persists after its supposed causes but shortly afterwards the River enough to regard these childish have been dealt with. Police were informed by the latter pranks seriously. They are not

W&3 kent to Nantao

to

There is Towing presump.

that a number of foreign papers malevolent frauds, but rather the tion that this is a special and were found in the drowned man's frauds of childish and unbalanc-desnite disease, in the course of pockets. Upon going to Nastao ed brains.

the River Police officers found that the papers belonged to a for- signer who was reported missing

WAR'S WRECKS.

from thestr. Canadian Inventor on January 13, the man having re- ceived his discharge papers from another ship. This being the Prince and Disfigured Soldier, case, the River Police immediate-

A story of a visit paid by the

ly removed the body to the Public Prince of Wales to a hospitalin Mortuary in Fearon Road. The British Consular authorities, it which are 36 men who were so ter- being believed that the man is a ribly injured in the war that they British subject, were notified must remain within its walls until of the discovery.

they die, is told in the "Children's Newspaper."

A PUZZLE A DAY.

NORMEO

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arranged so that they will form a six-letter word that may be found in the dictionary. Cut them out if you wish, and see if you osa form them into the word.

Yesterday's answer:

Alter the Prince had been round the wards he said, "I was told you bad 36 patients. I have only seen

26."

It was explaned that the other

which tooth troubles and sore throats are apt to occur. In other worde, a danger exists, of mistaking effects for causes.

LOST LOCK OF HAIR

A Barrett-Lennard Discovery.

Here is a romantic story of the discovery of a missing lock of hair cut from the head of the "marty. red King," Charles I., after his execution. It is now told in priat for the first time in connection with the forthcoming sale of the contents of Sir Thomas Barrett: Leppard's fine Tudor mansion at Purfleet, which has been in posses-

saven were so disfigured that the sign of the family since the days

visit to their ward had been pur. Henry VII.

posely omitted. He insisted on

being taken to it, and spoke to

Here Charles 11. was entertain-

eaca of the men. Then he said, ed by the Duchess of Cleveland,

"There are only six here. Where

is the seventh?'

-apcestress of the family, and here be gave her the lock of hair! cut from his father's head. All

He was told that no one could the family knew of the existence see this seventh man. Blind, deaf, of the lock, but for centuries no alebigured out of the likeness

one could find it till one day

the Prince.

of humanity he lay in a room by the late Lady Barrett-Lennard himself. "I wish to see him," said (sister of Field-Marshal Sir

The account continues:

Evelyn Wood) was examining an old cabinet in a corridor when a "One member of the staff ac-portion of a papel came away, companied the Prince into that disclosing a tiny secret drawer an little darkened room of unutterable inch wide. Prince walked firmly to the bed-clasped in a jewel consisting of s tragedy. He relates that the In it lay the lock of yellow hair, side, that he turned very white, tiny gold crown and an enamelled but stood there with bowed head bleeding heart. Here it had lain

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