1931-06-25 — Page 14

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Shivers and Shakes of Laughs and Thrilla!

One moment he was stand- ing at hor side-Came a padded footfall--a weird eeric cry, and before her very eyes he vanished into nothingness

with

HELEN

TWELVETREES, LILYAN TASHMAN, Raymond Hackett, Jean Hersholt, Neil Hamilton] and Montagu Love.

Directed by RUPERT JULIAN

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1831,

AMERICA'S RYDER WAWSAW AND CUP TEAM.

POSEIDON RELIEF LONDON TO

FUND.

SHANGHAI CLOSES AT BACK IN A DAY. REMARKABLE EFFORT

$77,000.

H.K. NOT YET $40,000.

Now contributions to the Navy

League Poseidon Fund up to noon: to-day amounted to $792, this]

Captain Neville Stack's Feat.

bringing the grand total to $38,- 4-MINUTE STOP.

941.89,

Of to-day's donations, $557 wax received by the

Telegraph and!

London, June 24, Captain Neville Stack, the

BY AN UNKNOWN.

GIVEN HIS PLACE.

Columbus, Ohio, June 24. In the broiling heat of to-day, the British Ryder Cup team, practising for the great event at the Scioto Course, were practic- ally unrecognisable.

S. C. M. Post, including $205 from well-known speed pilot, accom Wearing silk chokers (which the staff of the Texas Co., Ltd.,panied by Mr. Chaplin, created have replaced collars and ties) $167 from the staff of the Hong-a new record to-day, by flying broad-brimmed sun hats and bag- kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. over two thousand miles from gy flannel trousers, it seems that and $100 from Mr. J. H. Taggart London to Warsaw and back in this is to be the new uniform of The Daily Press received $150,

the team during their stay in including $100 from Messrs. Ta day!

America. and Hodgson, whilst $85 was sent Captain Stack, who recently flew direct to Mr. Arthur, the Fund to Constantinople In a straight

flight, used an all-British mall plane for the purpose of the War

Treasurer.

Our Shanghai corespondent cables that the Fund there has closed at $77,000.

We appeal to our readers to do their utmost in order to bring the Hongkong total to at least $50,000 as we understand that the Fund

will shortly be closing.

GIRLS ARRESTED WITH OPIUM.

DRUG STRAPPED AROUND THEIR BODIES.

aaw venture.

Their two-round tryout to-day was as much & test of enduranco of the heat as it was of golf. He left London' nt 4.20 a.m. this Meanwhile, as they averaged morning, reached Warsaw within around fours, their form must be eight hours, landing at 12.30 p.m., regarded as very satisfactory. turned his plane round and took off on the return flight four minutes The American team has now

It later, reaching London

will consist at 9.54 been completed.

of Walter Hagen, Leo Diegel, Joc The complete trip of 2,000 miles Farrell, Gene Sarazen, W. Horton occupied him alightly under seven-Smith:, Al Espinosa, Whiffy Cox. teen and a half hours, or slightly un-Billy Burke, Craig Wood and Dens- der an average of 120 miles an more Shute. bour.

p.m.

Captain Stack has been carrying out a series of such flights recent ly to demonstrate the possibility of speeding up British air-mall ser- vices.--Reuter.

The four last-namod were select- ed as the result of a qualifying test in which Billy Burke, with

289 strokes for 72 holes, beat the record of 2933 which was sufficient to enable Bobby Jones to win the 1926 American Open Champion-

Apprehended by revenue officers in Connaught Road West yester $6,000, or imprisonment for a year. day, two young girls were found The smaller girl, who had 60 ship.

to have 112 taels of opium con-taels strapped to her body and Cox took 294 and Wood 290. cealed about their bodies. They legs, gave her age as 18, but the Shute qualled after tieing with appeared before Mr. Schofield, at Magistrate expressed doubt and Walsh Cafel at 302. They played the Central Magistracy this morn-accordingly remanded her until off over eighteen holes and Shute ing, when the bigger of the two, to-morrow to enable enquiries to returned a par score of 72.- who gave her age as 16, was fined be made.

Reuter's American Service.

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QUEEN'S At 2.80, 6.10, 7,16

"My dear Miss Davies:

In "The Bachelor Father', you give the finest perform. ance of a very fine career.”

writes DAVID

BELASCO

dean of the American

stage

Having produced and directed

My dear Miss Davies:

to

"The Basheice Father for the stage, I was, at course, greatly interested in the sareen progastion of this magnificent domedy.

And I want to tell you how delighted I me with the picture particularly with your om incomparably cherming perforum o s.

In "The Bachelor Father", you give the finest performance of a very ti

Let me congratulaté end thank you.

dereer.

MARION

faithfully,

Далельны

DAVIES

brilliant, star of

THE

BACHELOR FATHER

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All-Talking Picture with Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith.

A. ROBERT Z. HEONARD poduction.

NEXT CHAN GE The picture that has caused more talk than any other.

Charlie

Chaplin's answer to

the talkie innovation!,

Next Change

A 1931 Paramount Comedy

"THE SOCIAL LION"

Starring the Greater JACK OAKIE

with

Mary Brian, Skeets Gallagher and Olive Borden.

BREATHING BY MACHINERY.

A REMARKABLE INVENTION.

to

be kept working the power breathe is sometimes gradually recovered, and nt worst a great deal of distress is saved.

of

The apparatus has also been used with success in eases - The collaboration of two asphyxiation due to gas-poisoning. brothers, an engineer and a loc-electric shock, and partial drown- tor, has produced an ingeniousing. As is well known, in these new machine which performs arti-conditions life may be restored fleist respiration for an Inde after many hours of artificial re- faite period.

spiration, and the Drinker

ro-

The patient lies in comfort inspirator is able to carry on this side an Iron tank, from which his treatment far more regularly and head projects through an air-effectively than the relays of hu- tight rubber collar. By means of man helpers usually employed. electric blowers the air pressure At the same time, it is certain- inside the tank is rhythmicallyly not intended to supersede the varied, at the rate of normal ordinary methods, such as Scha- breathing. Every time it falls fer's, which will always be ap- the patient's chest and lungs ex-propriate at the scene of the ac pand and be taken in a breath-cident, and at least until the whether he wishes to or not. patient roaches hospital. The new Here we have 題 mechanism machinery is, unfortunately, too which closely imitates normal re- cumbrous and costly for use out- spiration, and under an attendant's alde large institutions. control the

rate

ate and depth of

Nevertheless, it in to be hoped breathing can be adjusted to in that many hospitals will be able dividual requirements. There is to acquire the two models describ- no difficulty in eating, drinking, ed by Prof. Philip Drinker, of Har- or sloeping while in the apparatus, vard, in the "Lancet." and doctor or nurse can examine

The infant the patient or attend to his wants be particularly is likely to useful, for it is through portholes in the side of design which is all too common to counter the type of the tank.

asphyxia Should anything more elaborate in new-born babies. If the child

does not breathe within a minute. needed the operator simply in- duces a few extra deep broatha-or two of birth, it la placed in the by way of increasing the reserve respirator and normal breathing and the patient can be slipped (It is found) may begin as long out of his box for a few minutes as an hour later. without taking harm,

It may be noted that manufac-

· ba

In this way people have boen ture of the machines in England kept in the respirator for months has boon entrusted to a firm at a time, and this has proved im- of English submarine engineers, mansely valuable for children with and "ne profits will accrue to any infantile paralysis whose ra-payaon in any way concernod spiratory muscles have been put with the development or sale of out of action. If the lungs can the apparatus in America.”

and Published for the Proprietors by PREMICK

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musement

Follow.

ever!

ED WYNN

The Perfect Fool

"Follow

the Leader

a Paramount Pictum High time to love-Follow the Leader." With Ed Wynn clowning the romance of the gl morous lovers of Queen's High," Stanley Smith and Ginger Rogers, CHANGE

"SPLINTERS"

A BRITISH PICTURE

With HAL JONES AND REG STONE

THE FASHION PLATE OF FUN

"That derby, those, troustry; thoan" shoes,, that trick, mustache; that vos cane you 'simply, must'awe (iE shuffle along in his glorious'drin both halves of the world!

Charlie Chaplin

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