1933-09-29 — Page 12

CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY-4 SHOWS DAILY

At 2.30; 5,15,7.15 & 9,30 p.m.

A CHINESE PICTURE

The Management wishes to notify all our Patrons that as from To-day the Theatre has been engaged for Ono Wook for the Showing of the Sensational Cantonese All Talking and Singing Film

"THE WHITE GOLD

DRAGON"

FEATURING

MR. & MRS. SIT KOK SIN

THE POPULAR CANTONESE STAGE STARS.

PRODUCED BY UNIQUE FILM CO.

NEXT CHANGE

YOU'RE SUMMONED...to testify to the funniest show in town!

Grand Jury of Blue-Rib-

bon Comedians Finds - You!...You!... and Youl Gulity of Snick« ers,Howls, Bull-Roarsf

LADIES OFHEJUBY

(It's a Crime to Miss It!) Edna May OLIVER ROSCO ATES

Rampaging comedians of "Cimarron”

JILL ESMOND RKO RADIO KEN MURRAY

PICTURE

A band of merry-makers guilty of every gag on the calendar..

MAJESTIC

To-day & To-morrow at 2.30, 5,20, 7.20 &′ 9.20 p.m.

LAUGHTER

HELL

IN

with PAT O'BRIEN, MERNA KENNEDY, BERTON CHURCHILL, GLORIA STUART.

COMPANIES OBJECT. take up residence in Peking, ac-

'AIR ATTACHE'S POST IN WRONG PLACE

cording to an announcement horo.: Loading aircraft manufacturing- companies strongly criticise the Government's decision to post Wing Commander Willock In Poking, where It fa, bolloved he will be Wing Commander I. P. Willock, out of touch with Chineso -avin- who was recently appointed Brition activities, and advocato tinh Air Attachoto China, and, Shanghai or Nanking as a Lend-

online next month, will quartors for the officer, fleuter

London, Sept. 28.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1933.

SAVANT LECTURES

REV. FR. O'CONNEL ON SOLAR SYSTEM

the earth and the planets were dreds of times gronter than the revolving round the sun, and then aun, and in volume many million Newton proved, that one univor- times bigger. Bome of these stars sal law of gravitation was obey had a temperature of two or three ed by them all. Nowton was the thousand degrees contigrade, and firat to form some-iden of the vast others went up to Afty trousand distances of the sters,, The, his degrees centigrade, and thong in. An Interesting lecture on the tory of the stellar exploration the very contre had a temperature. solar system was given by Rev. really began less than two can- of about twenty million degrees Fr. O'Connell, S. J., at a mosting turies ago, but the last quarter of centigrado. of the Arts Society of the Hong-century had seen much more The lecturer then described the kong University last night at progress made in this direction."

organisation of those stars, in which Sir William Hornell, Rov.] With regard to the distribution local systems of their own. Some

1. Fr. Byrne, Mr. W. B. Finnigan, of the stars, Fr. O'Connell sald wore called double stars while Professor Faid, Rev. Fr. Finn and that the first thing to be done was others were in globular clusters, to get some Iden of the vast dia- in which there would be at least several other guests were present, tances involved.. A speed of a a hundred thousand stars, and The lecturer is on his way to thousand miles an hour might which to the naked eye would look Australia where he will conduct some day be attained and if one like one single stor. Tho stara in researchwork_in_the_southern.

were to set out from the earth at tliese clusters were in fact some that speed it would take ten days fight years apart from each other hemisphere at Riverview College, to reach the moon; and from the so that there was no danger of Sydney, New South Wales.

Another object moon it would take ten years to their colliding. reach the sun. And if one were to be met with was a star Bur to continue at that speed it would rounded by a mass of flaming gas, take two million seven hundred which waa termed "diffused thousand years to reach the star nebull." Such were not incandes had chosen the more modest title nearest the sun. Astronomers cent like the stars, but were lit up. of "Exploring the Universe." found that it was impossible to by other bright stars in the neigh

convey this distance In miles, so bourhood. they calculated in 'light years'.

The title of the subject was advertised as "Expanding the Universe," but the lecturer said he

Pattern of the Stars,

The methods of measuring the distances of stars was then des- cribed by the lecturer, who said that the most strict method of

He said he would try to explain the present ideas of astronomers of the regarding the structure Universe. They saw in the sky the sun and the moon and count- Commenting on the distribution less pinpoints of light more or of the stars, Fr. O'Connell said measuring was analogous with less bright, and he was going to that they were not scattered at the method of range finding. There but astronomers had were other methods used, but the explain what was the nature of random, these objects, their distances, how found a distinct arrangement pre- most exact was a powerful sound- apparatus for plumbing they were distributed and what vailing. One of the most striking were their relations to the earth. ing things to be seen in the sky depths.

was the Milky Way', which look- Thousands of years ago, said ed, to the naked oyo like a fairly In conclusion tho lecturer des- Fr. O'Connell, people had tackled bright narrow cloud, but when cribed other objects to be found the problem without modern in- scen through a telescope was beyond the "Milky Way," and said struments and without Inherited found to be composed of a multi-that all these objects were moving knowledge and had succeeded in tude of very falat stars. The away from the earth. finding out quite a bit about the "Milky Way" was about two han Several questions were asked. heavens, and they named certain dred thousand light years away and the meeting terminated with objects planets. A few centuries from the earth. Some of the stars a hearty vote of thanks to. Fr. ago the theory was advanced that in this system were many hun-O'Connell for his address.

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AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

OH! LOOK AT EDDIE FIGHTINg Bulls!

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

Production.

EDDIE

CANTOR

Ees 700 people in the püharing fale du Sevilla dancing to one lovely song! 50 ormal bull fight in a crowded arena, with Sidney Franklin, fomaus American mateder, fighting savage bulial

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A BRILLIANT TALKING PICTURE VERSION OF J. B. PRIESTLEY'S FAMOUS NOVEL.

J.B. PRIESTLEY'S FAMOUS NOVEL.

FROM SPAIN THE GOOD

Screamingly funny?

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new pook of dramatic

COMPANIONS

starrin,

JESSIE MATTHEWS

thrills and sweeping.|| EDMUND GWENN·MARY GLYNNE breathless beauty! AW.BASKCOMB JOHN GIELGUD

Directed by VICTOR SAVILLE

with

LYDA ROBERTI The Willawy Sex Menace and The Gorgeous GOLDWYN GIRLS

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·MIXTY MOUIR

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Your westem star rides to new heights.

Lightning

Based on "Canyon Walls".

Directed by David Howard

COOL

CONTROLLED COMFOR

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AIR CONDITIONED THEATRE

To-day & To-morrow at 2.30, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.20 ›

Amerion To-day dramatized in an oleotrifying picture!

Like a thundering army, its oharactors, its drama, its torrifio

spectacular scones march for ward to, most your electrified gaze! Proparo for a great thrill !

with WALTER HUSTON

KAREN MORLEY FRANCHOT TONE ARTHUR BYRON DICKIE MOORE

GABRIEL

OVER THE

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BTAN

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Including

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ANOTHER FINE MESS

AN OLD SPANISH CUSTOM Bull Fighting in Mexico

OVER THE SEAS TO BORNEO.

Travelogue

-Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd

in

"ON THE LOOSE"

-CHARLIE CHASE-

in

"THE TABASCO KID"

TO-DAY 8 TO-MORROW

Th

COLOUR SCALES

in Gorgeous Toolnicolour

A1 2.30 5.20, 7.20 8.9.20

STAR WHITE DEVIL

IVAN MOSJOUKINE

WITH

LIL DAGOVER

BETTY AMANH

1 Publi

at land

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