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Three rocklaus Gormanı, Rauschart, Teichmann and Wolfschmidt, have undertaken an expedition to Viton, in the far Arctic, in order to make a film. Their outßt contained, amongst other things, collapsible

boats with outboard maters. Here the expedition la seen preparing for action.

If You

Live Too

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GREATER CALAMITY

THAN DEATH.

a

Shakespeare Is Set For A Long Contract

1

YEAR ngo Director Max Reinhardt took his famed Mid- stage production of "A summer Night's Dream" to the Hollywood Bowl.

Jellico Justified Jutland

-Before He Died

THE surprising revelation that the late Earl Jellicoe justified his action at Jutland in a private letter to a woman friend was made in London last shortly after his death month.

New York, Dec. 31. Envision ng the extension of rejuvenating processes during the next three centuries to the point where. science may determine Its reception there impressed whether death is for ever to re-upon Cinema Jack Warner a fact

This letter was written to main mystery, Dr. Alexis long familiar to stage impresarios:

people may doze Miss Constance A. MacMurray, Carrel, the biologist, uttered a although most warning that the artificial post-through his plays, they will pay of Chicago.

well to see William Shakespeare ponement of death might be a

"The German object," he greater calamity than death it. perform. With what the cinema

industry hailed as an unparalleled wrote, "was to engage a portion self.

display of courage, optimism, and of the Grand Fleet in order to Discussing the "mystery of aesthetic vision, Producer Warner try and equalise German and death" before the New York thereupon started work."

British naval forces. Academy of Medicine he said that

The result is the first authentic if the span of life were, suddenly effort in the history of cinema to pro- increased to 100 years civilisation duce a Shakespearean drama. could not boar the economic burden of populations composed mostly of elderly Individuals,

He said that the habits and in stitutions of present civilisation predicated an order in which death helped to rid society of the "weak, diseased and fools."

"The British object was, alt through the war, to retain command of the seas.

Manufactured at a cost of U.S.$1,-

"The Germans, in the earlier part 500,000, replete with a cast of Holly- wood favourites, two directors,a of the day, before the Battle Fleet Mendelssohn score and a Mijinakawas in action, did inflict material ballet, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" loss on our battle cruisers by sink-. is now al} set for Its Hongkong ing three of them, with the result premiere at the Queen's Theatre as a counter to Ginger Rogers and Fred that if one looked only at the loun the in material and men, 'British loasen Astaire at the Alhambra for Chinese New Year holidays. -

were heavier than German losses. FRUSTRATED-

He refused to accept anything

Long before "A Midsummer Night's yot developed us scientifle proof

"But after this action, Admiral of the Immortality of the soul, Dream" had got beyond the easting stage in Hollywood, London literary saying, "Hundreds of millions of bigwigs were holding indignation Von Scheer realised, and so report. people believe in immortality meetings to denounce Hollywood's ed privately to the Kaiser, that "n Such faith belongs to the domain "impudence" in meddling with such a victorious end of the war can only of religion and philosophy and not classic. But when the picture opened be looked for by the crushing of to that of experimental science. there in September, newspaper critics English economic life through U-

agreed that "A Midsummer Night's Boat action."

German

"Spiritualists claim that the aur-Dream" was "exquisite," "inzzling,

"magnificent," of extraordinary

"Other German naval officers vival of the soul has been demon-beauty." If you know your London strated. The mental activities im critics, you'll have guessed by stated plainly that the which we know as in aspect of the now that our Stratford-on-Avon hard Fleet enterprise was frustrated by living body never manifest them-Is all set for a long contract with the Battle of Jutland. selves after organic disintegration. Hollywood producers.

NO SCIENTIFIC PROOF "There is no scientific proof at the present time of the survival after death of the mind or of part of, the mind, but no one has the right to say that such survival is imposable."

Dr. Carrel himself has kept a chicken heart alive for 24 years at

the Rockefeller Institute..

perceiving past and fature.events." Therefore it is impossible to make a distinction between the survival] of the psychic principle and the phenomenon of clairvoyance."

There

"Our command of the sea was entirely unaffected by the Battle of Jutland, and I reported the Fleet as ready for sea on the evening of June 2 (two days after Jutland) after fuelling.

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"Hence the British Fleet attained: Its object completely, and for, that One of the forces opposing reason I look upon Jutland de n On this fascinating aspect of his death; Dr. Carrel said, is the British victory, although on account for the physiological of mist and contact being made so the "search subject, Dr. Carrel cited potential immortality of the cells. factors that determine longevity." tate in the day, and the German's Ho referred to the growth of whole He explained that the existence persistent retiremont, we organs from dead animals by a of centenarians demonstrates that unable to annihilate the High Seas ryatem which Colonel Lindbergh our body possesses greater poten-Fleet on the lines of Trafalgar." recently developed, and which tialities than we realise. maintaine the circulation of arti- are probably, beside hereditary felat blood.

qualities, certain modes of life, period, saying, "Although very certain diets, and a certain mental remote, this is one of four posai-i attitude capable of promoting bitles of postponing for long: longevity. The study of these con- periods of time the death of a ditions is still in its infancy, how-faw individuals. Some individuals He spoke of resuscitation and ever, but it has already brought could be put into storage for long perloda and brought back to to light some significant facts. rejuvenation, saying that, if

normal existence for other periods surrected, after too long a time,! He cited fascinating experiments alió permitted in this manner to man might return to life without with pure-bred mice st the live for centuries. We should re- n soul. Ho cited the case of a Rockefeller Institute, which show-member that the utopias of today woman legally dead for nine ed, for instance, that diets which are the realities of to-morrow?** minutes, who, when resurrected, increased the stature and size of paralysed and looked and fitters and decreased the In- acted like an animal.

oldence of pneumonia did not cluck, is recorded within all "Mental activities, he said, promote longevity, while dieta living beings by irreversible generally disappear before the which reduced the tatare anchausen, he sold the conqueak death of the body. These caused a high death rate during of death is unthinkable.The activities which we know as an the first month of life, oddly average durition of life has al- aspect of the living body, never enough increased the span of life, ready been incrensed markedly, manifest themselves after organic all of which prompted the sugges and It. is quite probable that the diaIntegration.

tlos that appropriate changes in maximum duration of life-also can dlet and mode of life might be more or less considerably ox-

tended. promote longevity in man.'

WIE

re-

He

LATENT LIFE

"Since time, marked by the IN LONDON

SOUL SURVIVAL

"Unforeseen discoveries inay "Spiritualists claim that the survival of the soul has been de

muddenly open new possibilities in monstrated, and that they possess mentioned conditions of the field of rajuvenation. The of this latent life in dried calls, and clted light of man against death will experimental proof phenomenon. The importance of the experiments of Alexander perhaps succeed only too well, the facts on which such specula- Lipschutz, who grafted partly for the artificial postponement of tions are based cannot be denied dried organs into guinea pigs and death of a large number of in but the interpretation of the ex-und that they revived and dividuals would be a far greater calamity tham death Itself Death perimental results seems incorrect resumed their glandular secretion.

is nofthor a calamity nor a bless Spiritualista neglect the fact of Toying with this Idea, he suging; it is a necessity and Indis- the existence of clairvoyance,

ifested such possiblilties as placing pensable condition of life...donth "Nevertheless, we know positive, human beings in a condition of is not an extraneous accident. It ly that clairvoyants aro capable of auspended animation for a long is part of ourselves."

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