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and if we are to be given pictures which specialise in nothing but lega I have no doubt that after a Humlelent period we shall become "log-minded", and no used to this fare that we shall not find interest for any other sort of picture,

un-

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH.

OLD-AGE DEAFNESS

"Watch Your Food'

Advises Doctor

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

PROTECTIVE BOOM.

To Be Placed at Stern of New Cunarder.

A recommendation that John Brown & Company (Ltd.), Clyde- bank, be allowed to place a protec "The Increasing deafness of old tive boom and barrage around the age has been too long accepted na stern of the new Cunarder No. Inevitable, and few ageing people 034, while the vessel is in their know that the condition can be im-lips-out busin, was adopted nt a proved and to a great exient pre-meeting of the Clyde Navigation

Trustees in Glasgow recently. vented," states the Lancet.

When the mattor was discussed in committee, Sir Thomas Bell, of Mesara Brown, stressed the neces

ity of the boom and barrage. The structures are to be placed in the positions déaired; on condition that the Company relieven. the Trustees of all clalnis which may be made against them arising out of or in connection with placing, maintalning, and moving of the protective boom and barrage.

the

10, 1984.

Mr. Bernard Shaw chatting with an actor in his play "Androcles and the

air theatro in Regent's Park,

Lian" now being played in the open

Soriously, the time has como when the film magnates might easily take a leaf from the books of those producers who, trammelled with the Hollywood

Mr. Macleod Yearsley, F.R.C.S., tradition, are producing pictures while able to describe hopeful lines at a not very great cost; pictures of prevention and treatment, which which do not rely in any way upon will bo mentioned later, emphasises sex to "get thum.over," but which at the same time the great need for research into the exact condi- are drawing inrge and appreciation of the ears of old people who tive audiences merely because the have become deaf. picture is good, because it deals

His own experience loads him to with an interesting aspect of life, assert that there is an important and because it is well told and pusociation between chronic polson ing from the food canal and the well acted.

deafness of old age. He thinks The two Bergner pictures-that If people paid more attention The King of Nepal photographed

to what they ate and drank they during his recent visit to Rome, in mean the two which are done in would preserve their hearing much

German with English subtitles longer. might in themselves constituto a "It is certain," he writes, "that

The clock works on the same lesson for Hollywood directors. unicas old people with early presby doafness of old

principle as a "talkle" cinema pro- Jector. Two glass plates carry TIME BY PHONE

strips of sound film on concentric more care of their digestive ap- simplicity, sympathetic direction,; and superb acting by Miss Berg-paratus from the points of view of TALKIE" CLOCK INVENTED. rings. One plate carries the sound tracks for the minutes, and ner, and they, both of them, prove a more appropriate diet and less

consumption of what are called, Gleenwich time will be put on the other the tracks for the hours. that it is perfectly simple to make with doubtful veracity, the "good the "phone" as a result of an in-seconds, and the voice which By William Foss an effective picture without a huge things of life, then commencing vention by telephone engineers speaks the preliminary words. By

expenditure of money or a gigan-

the Post Omec Research using mechanically operated shut- "That Coast," otherwise Holly-tic exhibition of legs. Both these deafness will assuredly go

Station, London. They have deters, Instead of switches, much "As regards cure, Mr. Yearsloy signed a "talking clock which will better reproduction is obtained. wood, is certainly a place of sur-pictures desi definitely with an bad to worse.”

an speak the time to anyone tele Paria alrendy has'a talking clock prises, and the latest dictum that aspect of sex, yet in each case, be-

which earns thousands of pounds films are to be "cleaned-up," that cause of the treatment, they con-reports hopeful results with

morals and electrical method of treatment, de- phoning it.

Two Leeds clock- The new clock will be allocated {avery year. stitute a lesson in

clock we are to have "leg-showa" con-might be seen with advantage by scribed na Essentially a form of

"massage by sound,"

ap-its own number, and it is to be makers recently invented a trolled, and that "sex" is to be put the most Impressionable young back in ita right place on the film, mun or woman with no ill-effect parently produces definite improve-synchronised by Greenwich Obser- which announces the time over vatory. Callers will hear a cul- the telephone every two minutes.

the course of European touri

HOLLYWOOD & SEX NONSENSE

in interesting, even if we cannot quite bring ourselves to believe it in its entirety.

By this time I think we liave all Income aware that Hollywood is, in the main, a place of stunts; and whilst I for one would not like to bring myself to hellove that the idea of cleaning up films is merely A stunt. yet, with a great many other people I have heard of so many proposed changes which have never, materialized, that like the ancient sage, I am prepared to

believe it when I see it.

Hollywood is and always has been a place of extremes, and it would be amusing if the film pundits went to the other extreme and proceeded to drape the plane legs for four offending Home delicately-minded director. I fear, however, that their new mentality will not take them as far as this.

The story of these pictures is acusis. (i... the

age) pull themselves up and take

whatsoever.

SEX INCIDENTAL,

I believe that when Hollywood producers have learned that sex. treated as an incidental to a story, is usually all right, but deault with as the main basis the story is wrong, then a great step forward in the production of really good films will have been made,

Of course it is realised that the "musical comedy" type of film of which there has been such a vogue recently, demands lots of pretty girls and lots of pretty legs, and if we go to see such films we know more or less what we are in for; but the nexy gangster film which is usually a lesson in the glorifica- tion of sex and crime is a definite menace, and there have been far too many films of this description turned out by the Coast studioe. each one vying with the last in an endeavour to go one better.

There is no doubt that film audiences are suficiently intelli- gent to realise what is good and I believe, over this matter of what is not good. They know also "Rex," that Hollywood has, and the difference between probability and impossibility, and the amazing

always has had, the wrong angle situations created in some films There is nothing the matter with shown during the last year are not sex” que sex, but a great deal de-only impossible, but merely silly, ponds upon the treatment. I do and are obviously introduced for the

-not-believe that there is any situn- the purpose of appealing to

tanser Instincts of those people who

tion, no matter how apparently like that sort of thing. delicate, that cannot be repro-

THE HAPPY MEDIUM.

ment in many instances.

which

It was also agreed to continue for further condition the question afford facilities to traders and of whether the Trustees should others to vlow the launch of the vesaol on September 26.

from al

Boys from a London school recently spent

one hour three minutes nino. tuned voice say, "It is now exactly

be second." or whatever the time may

"

holiday in the heart of the Hainault Forest, Essex, only 15

from the Metropolis. Our picture shows a little bout between meals.

EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS

603,240 IN UK.

LAST YEAR.

The total number of experiments

NIGHT AT SEA

Ordeal for Visitors to Navy Week

Clacton Queen, and for Coxswain Charles Ellis, of the lifeboat.

Many hundreds of the passen- gers had spent the night on the decks of the steamer, and were

duced on the screen by a sympa- thetic director in such a manner If, however, the present-day as to cause offence to no one. In Hollywood drive for purity, no polat of fact, certain so-called matter how extreme, results in the then "sexy" films have been definitely happy medium eventually. moral in their action because they everyone will be more than satia-

Eight hundred passengers on the glad to rush off the boat to their have taught some lesson or pointed fied. The moral attitude of cen-

women's on living animals performed during pleasure steamer Clacton Queen, homes and lodgings in Clacton as Borship adopted by the a moral likely to make the more bs of America has certainly not 1933 was 603,240, or 14,806 more who expected to return to Clacton soon as the steamer berthed.

than during the previous year from Chatham about nine o'clock autfience pause, and consider be-succeeded in preventing the show states a Government White Paper on a recent tight, were not innded intelligent young members of the

Mrs. Leca, of the Drive, Burr's fore they followed the example of have little to recommend The number of experiments with until after four o'clock next morn-Road, Clacton, who was

ing of pictures which in the film heroine before their eyes. them except a certain vulgarity, these without anesthetics 575,055. anasthetics totalled 28.185, and

ing.

panied by her husband and a SEX-GLORIFICATION. If directora and producers in the In no case has a certificate dis- For most of the seven interven-friend, sald:-"I have never had

film city concentrate on the pro-

some

ассет-

my life. that there has been too much sex-ed and well-acted, leaving the operative proceeding more severe were ill, while scores, clad, only in passengers in the saloon, but the glorification, and too much pandor-sex-angle to look after itself; the

than subcutaneous venesection. flimsy summer dresses, shivered people on the deck had a terribly ing to the animal instinct of aud-film will, like everything else upon Serious operations are always re- with cold. lences who, strange as it may be in this earth, eventually find the level

cold time, and many-of them were sick. print, will often watch something to which it is best intended, and quired to be performed under an anesthetic. The experiments per- with interest and only discover that is the average mass Intelll-formed without anesthetics were afterwards that they disapproved gence of the people who pay to mostly inoculations and feeding of it. After all, we are all human, see it,

experiments.

The matter with Hollywood is duction of good stories, well direct-pensing entirely with the use of ing hours they had been tossed such an experience in

anasthetics been allowed for an about in angry &COR. Dozens We were among the fortunate

"A view of a fruft market in Central Africa. Natives of the Zambo tribe are shown sitting in the market sell- Ing, mango fruits.

They had spent the day at Chatham seeing the Navy Week dia- play, and on the return journay tho captain was unable to sight the light on the Swinn Spitway.

"The sea was very rough, and we were all torribly anxious. It was a great relief when we saw the lifeboat come to our help.”

"SEA VERY ROUGH." Coxswain Ellis, the skipper of

OUR

We consider we have the beat show

of Tica in Hong Kong. Why not call and see them?

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A Tle for which you pay a small price is not necessarily cheap in value received. It may bear the undesirable look of cheapness when worn.

A good Tle, while it may east more, will be altogether more pleasing in service-and It will always look what it is.

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rough. After going through the GREEN PEAS, "STOLLA" 1 lb. tín The alarm was first raised by Spit wo steered a course over the MALTED VINEGAR "C. & B." reputed qt, bot.. the steamor Queen of Thanet, which left Clacton at 10.16 p.m. middle light vessel towards the When she arrived at Southend she Clacton Queen. reported having seen the Clacton Queen lying in the Whittaker Spit, seven miles south-west of Aicton. By this time the vessel had also been anen from Clacton,

SCENES ON PIER.

"She was under way and her navigation lights were up. Wo signalled to her, "This is the. Clacton Rfeboat. Do you want Any help?"

The lifeboat had A thrilling "She rolled, 'We cannot find

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