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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24,

1925

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This Year's Exhibition.

The National Association of Radio Mumifacturers and Traders hold their Fourth Annual Exhibi- tion at the Albert Hall, London, Exhibition increaser yearly in in September. The fact that this

size and importance is not to be wondered at, rather is it to bo fully expected as the natural growth of a young but thriving industry, as to which, even the experts engaged in it are unable to foretell to what magnitude it may attain.

Germany has long boon threat ened with the American film' In- vasion and long feared it in spite of the fact that only an exact number of metros of foreign film may be imported, corresponding to the number manufactured, by Germans themselves, says the Berlin correspondent of a Home paper. The block booking system'

As ovidence the fact that Sona-. was looked forward to, with most tor Marconi, speaking' at the. apprehensjón, but the Ufa, Ger-opening of the Exhibition; ad- many's great producing company mitted that oven ho was quite bowildered at the progress radio which also controls 130 picture, had already made. The experi theatres, has entered into an mental equipment which Senator agreement with fuur of the loading Marconi used at Bologna in the oarliest days of wiroloss is shown American manufacturing coat the Albert Hall, and when this panice-Famous Players, Warner is compared with the latest supor- Bror.. Motro-Goldwyn, and First sot, the bewilderment at the pro- National. This rules out agents gress attained is by no means and middlemeh ontirely and confined to the Senator himself. ensures the Germans the entire American output at a fixed sum, with the option of showing all or

Lord Howard do Walden has

as many films of the series entered into a contract for the they think will suit German sale of a large block of his estate taste. American films can thus to the Audley Trust, Limited, of either be kept out, if the German21, Moorgate; London, EC., the trade finds it expedient to do so, owners of several City properties. or can be let in with the possibi-The portion of the estate sold lity that profits acerning from comprises about 40 acres, extend- them over the original suming northwards from Oxford- agreed upon go into, German street to Muston-road, und erst- pockets. This arrangement rice wards from Oxford-cireus „ undi out the American agent in Ger Regent-street to Wells-street, many and curtainly keeps the and includes such well-known cinemas themselves in German business thoroughfares as Grent hands. It has apparently seemed Portland-street, Great Titchfield- worth while to lay out a big sum

street, Margaret-street, Mortimer- Lo-day in preparation for what street, East Castle-street und may happen to-morrow,

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Though good American film are very much wanted in Ger- many, which was shut off from outside influences for so many years and suffered in consequence, it is certainly true that, not having boon subjected to Ameri- can influence at the outset, the German shop-girl, and boy prefer their own favourites and their own managers. A good German film, does better business in Berlin than a good American film. But American filrus of the highest class are welcomed by the-critics RS likely to improve the technique, and film directors and Gorman producers are aware that for export they still have much to learn from then.

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Guests Invited to Investi gate.

"Will you," runs an advertise- ment in the Times "bocome a guest in à country house where two ghosts are said to exist, and get into communication with them?" This is a novel sug- gestion Investigating a supposed Eaunting. The course usually adopted is to send to the Society. for Psychical Research, who are always very pleased, it was stated recently, provided there is a prima facie case, to send down a special investigator.

Whether the investigator is able to get into communication" is another mattor. Ghosts are not always obliging enough to return at stated hours. You can- not show them to your guests or investigators as you can show family portraits. Often it has happened when the Society's in- vestigator has gone to a haunted house that the haunting have ceused. Sometimes and this in itsoif is always interesting, it was nointed out he has been able to traca thom to natural causes. There are other casos where the phenomena are less easily ox- plained.

One of the most commonly re- ported features in cases of haunt- od houses is the frequent occur- rence of alarming and unaccount- able noisos. In many casos it is the noisos that attract most at- tention, while the seeing of an apparition sooms a merely sub- sidiary phenomenon.

The conclusion is recorded in the Society's Proceedinge" that; the sounds described are some- times such that It is difficult to conceive of any ordinary ex- planation of them which would. not havo boon discovered by the persons living in the house and nstantly looking out for some such explanation. There are also, it is stated, a few cases where it is reported that the Bounds indicate some intelligence, as, for example, when raps on the wall reply to "apokon or mental questions.

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