1934-08-27 — Page 7

WHEN APE AND MAN PARTED

SCIENTIST'S ESTIMATE OF 10,000,000 YEARS

COMING GREAT CLASH OF

CULTURES

If blood is thicker than water, the monkeys of the old world have a special claim on human indulgence. A young -English scientist, Dr. S. Zuckerman, has proved that, the blood serum of old world monkeys is more like that of human beings than it is like any monkeys in the now world,

This was one of the more sure t prising discoveries announced be-

fore the International Congress of established with a little leas cor- Anthropological and Ethnographi.tainty, is a people who, although cal Sciences at University College dark, are brondhonded. They are

similar

the to types found In north-west of Wales, Cornwall,

1.ondon.

It moans, according to the ex- and Brittany, and may have been perts, that the human and apothe, people who introduced the stocks must have parted compony | Celtic language into Britain about

very long time ago-not less Dr. 600 B.C.

#

Zuckerman suggested to a repra-

sentative of the Morning Post. These people are now mostly than 10,000,000 yours ago.

found in the extreme south of the island. In the extreme north Pro- fessor Fleure found his third race, elene descendants of the tall, blonde, long-hended Norse In- vaders of about the 8th, 9th and 10th Centuries.

The reason is that this wide divergence between the monkeya of the new and old worlds implies a very long period of indenendent evolution,

On the other hand, the common Altogether some 1,200 islanders characteristics of man-und the old have been pressed into service, world monkeys must, it is believed, They лги alt men. Professor have been independently nequired, Fleure has no use for women la This is a possibility which hins also such a survey. He states that. been omphasised at the Congress they stop developing 'nt too early in regard to other aspects of an age. human evolution: It is more and more being realised that nature can produce apparently similar results in different ways.

Dr. Zuckerman formerly worked at the London Zoo. He has spenti the past two years at Yale Univer sity, and is now to work at Oxford,

WHERE FACTS ARE FOUND.

His comparison, completed only within the past week, depends on

Professor Arnold Toynbee (Løn- den) deplored "the devastating effects of the reckless world adop- tion of the West European prlo- ciple of nationality.

"The Near Eastern peoples," he said. "have been led to scrap their jown indigenous political institu- tions and to substitute our own

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1934.

Mr. and Mra, Roy Glynn Allman, leaving the Community Church In Shanghai, after their marringe. The bride was formariy Mro. Ruth Tucker Phipps, of Richmond, Virginia, and has been in Shang- hat for the past four months. The groom is the brother of Judge N. F. Allman and has been practising law in Shanghai for the past

your.

GRAVE THREAT ΤΟ CINEMAS

Western nationalism in its place. | "OVER-BUILDING".

When

"It is this that explains the a discovery, made more than 30 havoc that has followed. years ago by Professor Nuttall, at you apply the West European con- Cambridge, that there are differcept of nationality to a region in

between the types "protein" found in the blood serum life (the clear part of the blood) of different animals,

encer

MANY CENTRES

IN

TRADE ANXIOUS

FOR CONTROL

which the different communities are geographically intermingled 12030 economically Independent. and teach ench one of them.that it has a right to possess a sovereign Cinema bxhibitors in Great Professor Nuttull's technique independent State on the pattern Britain, seeking the causes of has now been adapted for numeri-of France or England, you. are their atendily dwindling box-office cal comparisons, and has also been really inciting them to sort then receipts, are at last being brought applied in medico legal tests inelves out by a process of interne face to face with the realisation which it has been vital to prove cine warfare in which all minor-that their existence. is being that a particular blood stain is ofties will be evicted or massacred. threatened by the problem of over- human origla.

"In our world, in our time," Pro.building.

In more and more towns, the Other scientists have beep using fessor Toynbee concluded, "we are the better known blood groups, in the early days of a world-wide which depend on the coagulation collision of cultures which will al of the blood cells of one individual most certainly have consequences by the serum of another, to track far beyond the utmost range of our down the racial migrations of long

imagination." ago. The more familiar use of these groups is as a preliminary to blood transfusion-operations.

Professor Ruggies Gates (Lon don), for example, reported that the proportion of different blood groups found in the inhabitants of some of the islands off the extreme north-east of Asia confirmed the theory that the American Indians had once migrated across a narrow land connection from Asin.

Bushmen, Maoris, Hottentots and Lapps were among the other "peripheral" peoples whose blood, classified In this way, was reported ;

on,

CAUSE OF CONFUSION,

But apart from merely local

Finally, a word about babies from Scotland.

Dr. Douglas Guthrie and Dr. George Seth (Edinburgh) pointed out in a joint paper that the ery of a new-born child exactly car- responds with the fundamental note of international concert pitch.

It was not obvious whether the compliment was to the child or the musicians, but the lecturers thought that there was a good deal of magic about a child's first use of speech.

CORRESPONDENCE

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WATER LEVELS.

FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

The River Conservancy Commission for Kwongtung Province notifies that the height of water in English foot in the West, North and East Rivers is as follows:

Aug. 25 Aug. 20 West River at Shishing 15.8 North River at Tsing-

yuen

| North River at Saushui 10.2

East River at Sheklung 13.1.

16.4

1.7 9.0

12.2

A Ford sporta touring car, No. studdenly broke down in Fedder Street about noon yesterday, compiute- blocking the roadway. The near front whee uddenly came off. Mc. chanics were buickly on the scene and the car removed,

RECEIPTS AFFECTED,

number of "super" cinemas now need for them, nor any likelihood in course of construction is out or a rapidly approaching need." of all proportion to the size of Every month the the population. over-seating situation grows more! acate, and yet no steps are taken" to remedy it.

When-Boven-or- aight-large theatres compete for the patronage of a town of 50.000 people, each exhibitor suffers equally.

A typical example is provided by a big industrial town in the north of England. Although local ex- tbitors are in agreement that the district is already over-seated, a syndicate owning one theatre there has drawn up plans for the im- Unless, some form of control mediate erection of no fewer than over the number of licences issued three New · "super" cinemas, by local authorities in certain Numerous other examples of a districts is exercised in the future, similar nature can be provided. It is the firm belief of the leading members of the film industry that matograph Exhibitors' Association, A prominent official of the Cine- the lesson of America--where an which represents over 90 per cent. orgy of over-building took place in of the cinema exhibitors of Great the years preceding the

Wall Britain, told

that Street crash-will inevitably be reckless building of cinemas in repeated in this country.

unwanted districts was a suicidni policy.

It has still to be brought home to many people who dabble in the financial side of the trade that be- cause one cinema shows a weekly

that ten cinemas in the same aren will show profits of £1,000.

comparisons, it appears that the Concert Date Clash A Disclaimer profit of £100, it does not mean

To the Editor.

Hongkong Telegraph.

CHECK STILL POSSIBLE.

Mr.

•

Sum Eckman, Managing Director in England of the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, holds strong views on the question of clnoma redundancy,

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1-2.15 p.m. European Programme.

1. p.m. Local Timo and Weather Report

1.03 p.m. Recorded Music. 1.15 p.m. A Relay of the Hongkong Hotol Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Grill Room.

1.30 pm. Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, ole,

2.15 p.m. Close Down.

5-8 p.m. European Programme.

5-6 p.m. (Appróx:) A Kolay of the Band of the lit Batin: South Wales Borderers, conducted by Bandmaster C.-Eldicott, A.R.CM., from the Mill- tary Hospital, Bowen Road, by Kind permission of Lieut. Colonel H. E. Williams, D.B.A., M.C.

6-7 pan. A Halay of the Hongkong Hotel Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden,

7pm. Closing Local Stock Quo- tations, London and New York Stock and Commodity Quotations.

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7.08-7.30 p.m. Musical Contedy, Vocnl Duot The Thought

entered my Head, ("The House that Jack Buile").

Winnie Melville and Derek Oldham. Selection-The King of Jazz

Regal Cinema Orchestra. Song-If Love were all {"Bitter

'Sweet"),

Ivy St. Helier (Soprano). Piano Solos-Musle In the Air-

Medley.

Rale de Conti, 7.30-8 p.m. From the Studio.

A Recital of Chamber Music by Mrs. Nura Kanis (Pingoforte), Conrado de In Cruz (Violin) and Professor F. Gonzalez (Cello)..

Programme.

Trio No. 3 in C Major.

Song without Words, Op. 53.

1,

flayden.

(u) Allegro.

(b) Andante.

(c) Presto.

3. Gavotie,

4. Ecstasy.

5.

Romance Sans Paroles.

Mendelssohn.

Leclair.

I. Ganne.

Van Goons.. 8pm, Local Time and Weather Report.

9.30-10.30 p.m. Chinese Programme, 9.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations,

10.30 p.m.. Reuter Prexa Bulletins, Rugby Mid-iny Press News, Further, London Stock and Commodity Quota- tions, followed by New York Opening

Quotations.

10.40 p.m. Close Down.

ZEK PROGRAMME. 8.30-10 p.m. European Recorded Programma from Z.E.K. on a fre quency of 640 K.C's.

8.30-8.50 p.m. Excerpts from "The Mikado" (Gilbert and Sullivan).

1. The Sun whose Rays,

Alice Lilley (Soprano). 2. Brightly Dawns our Wedding

Day.

Alice Lilley (Soprano) Nellie Walker, Dan Jones and Appelton Moore.

3. Trio. Here's a How d'ye do.

Columbia Light Opera Company, 4. Dupt, and Chorus: The Flowers

that Bloon

Columbia Light Opera Company.

5. The Mikado' Song.

Columbia Light Opera Company. 6. Tit Willow.

Appleton Moore, 7. Duet: There Beauty in the

Ballow of the Blast. 8. Finale:

For, he's Gone and Married Yum-Yum, Columbia Light Opera Company. 8.30-9.13 p.m. Concert Waltzes. Invitation to the Waltz (Weber, Op.

65)..

"I is not the fault of the big circuita," he Baid. "They are mostly devoting themselves to im- proving their existing theatres. A The trouble is caused by the people who finance these new building achomes. In most cases they are ignorant of the state of the in- dustry and still regard it as a limitless gold mine.

FALLACIOUS view.

"The 'Association believes that

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski.

Thousand and One Nights (J.

Strauss).

Felix Weingartner conducting the British Symphony orchestra. Konegreb-Waltzer (Strau). Helena-Waltzer (Offenbach),

2. Ballado in F Minor (Op. 52). 9.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations.

9.35-9.45 p.m. Three Songs by Danny Malone (Tenor).

1. Believe me, if all those endear-

ing Toung Charms (Moore),

2. Mother Machree Tolcott and

Bali).

3. Her Name is Mary (Ramsey). Woodland Pictures Rural Sulto

9.45-10 p.m. Band Selections,

(Percy Flatcher).

much vaunted blood group system of classification is landing the scientists in difficulties. Former- ly there were four blood groups, now there are six. And Dr. Land-

Barnabas von Geczy and hla Orchestra. sterner, of the Rockefeller In- Sir,-1 am accused by "Madam

"Largely due to this over-expan stitute, who started race classifien- Lottie Gordon

9.13-0.30 p.m. Two Chopin Ballades (LA... RA.M., tion in this way, belleves that hon.OM, LTCL, (F), President,

sion the average exhibitor. is ex-played by Alfred Cortot. periencing the worst summer in 1. Ballado in A Flat Major. (Op. can recognise more than 60 differ- Empire, Australian. and World

his history. Last year the hot

47). ent blood characteristics,

Music "Links")" of arranging a "In America theatres were liter-weather and rival attractions piano recital on Sept. 9th at the ally thrown up by the score," he brought einema receipts down to European peoples in which Peninsula Hotel for "a stranger said. These theatres "Group A" predominates need no from Shanghai," after her an- necessary, to meet the amusement could be lowered. The present were una figure which no one believed longer, it appears, be ashamed of nouncement of a charity concert demands of the cities In

which

year, not only in London but also nny apparent connection with the at the same place and date. they were built. They went up to throughout the country, has been aborigines of Australia,

trust you will afford me space to meet producers' inaistence that even worse.

pictures could not, and therefore Professor H. J. Floure, of Man-refuto this allegation.

Presumably the lady is refer- would not, be crowded out. chester, brought the use of "deter- tive" methods nearer home. Ho ring to the recital to be given at The industry thus found Itself

that date by Mr. vastly over-reached when the stock if local authorities would use their has been discovering rolics of the Hotel on

market crumbled. Many theatres discretionary powers in refusing three different races of early in-Harold Scott. vaders among the present popula-: I have had nothing whatever to were dropped through the simple to grant fresh licences when their do with the arrangements for Mr. expedient of permitting them to go district is over-geated, they would Scott's recital there, as he han into bankruptcy. The most power- Incidentally, ho reported that a boon corresponding with tho Hotel ful cireult in the Western part of/ be the means of saving the indus- try from plunging headlong into the result of wide Inquiries on the direct: in fact the only intima-America has been, and continues, the disastrous state of affairs in The island, there were "porhaps A

which America found herself. score of people who still spoke on I have received of it is con- in the hands of the receivers.

There is no analogy to be drawn Too many of these bodies, when Manx and a few more who under-tained in a letter from him dated

between the American theatre considering plans submitted to stood it." They came chiefly from Singapore, August 11th,

So far as I know, Mrs. Gordon's situation and that existing here, them for a new cinema, take the the south-west, where he found the

announcement of her concert was in that over-expansion took place view that such a building would carllest of als old races.

first made in the press on August in America during a period when create employment for local work- This is a people with dark hair 19th, and she appears to have had the possibilities appeared Ilmit- men, add to the amenities of the ratcable and eyes and long heads. He misunderstanding over the ar-less. Here the problem has only town, and increase its,

recently become acute, so that a value. believes they are associated with rangements.

Bad as the great stone monuments of| In conclusion,

"One day when it is too late I take strong cure can still be effected. prehistoric times found in the exception to the implication that over-building seems in this coun- they will realise the fallacy, of this inland, and they are probably the would conscientiously organise a try, it can and will become much argument. Not only does the new

cinema cause a drop in the re- Period. earliest race which can atlit bo concert to conflict with any fixture worse. Identified in Britain,

arranged for charitable purposes; "During the past two years cofpts of every other theatre in the and consider the lady should have cinemas have been constructed, neighbourhood, but many of thom mado suro of her facts before and are continuing to be construct-actually have to apply for a reduc- writing lettera to the press, ed in ever-increasing numbers, in tion in their original rating as

A. M. BOWES-ŠMITH. ^; communities whore there is no sessment,"

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1. An Old World Garden.

2. In the Hayilolds,

Evolution of Dixie (B. L. Lake). The Regimental Band of II. M. Grenadier Guards.

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Washington, Aug. 25.

President Roosevelt to-day snid A statue representing the King that the Governmont will not in-wearing has Coronation robes, tervone in New Orleans, because which he wore at Delhi in 1911; is "municipalities are creatures of to be erected at Now Delhi by the the State government, and the ruling princes and chiefs of

India, Lousiana Legislature has an in- as a mark of their loyalty and at herent right to govorn Now tachment, Orleans."

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