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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936.
KINGS BRITONS LIVE LONGER NOW ALHAMBRA
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ThreeLIVE Ghosts
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CHANCE OF REACHING OLD AGE GROWS
LA
GREAT and increasing improvement has taken place in the vitality of the people of England and Wales.
In all but the most advancet. ages, expectation of life has in- creased to a remarkable extent in the last twenty-five years.
In the very young, both boys and girls, in adolescents, in young mar- ried women, and in people of forty, the increase is especially marked.
A now National Life Table for England and Wales published to- day in a report by the Government actuary. Sir Alfred W. Watson. shows that every man and woman! who is less than sixty years of age, has longer expectation of life than would have been the case in 1911. At the ages of seventy. elghty, and ninety there is less expectation than
there
But was.
this is thought to be due to the survival of many of the wenker members of the community who under the conditions prevailing in the past. would have died young.
Out of every 1,000 boys born the number who died before attaining the age of one year was in 1911 About 120. In 1921 it was about 90. But in 1931 it wna only 72.
Out of 1,000 girls born the num- bers of deaths in the first year of age were 98 in 1911; 69 in 1921, and 54 in 1931.
At all ages from twenty to sixty, the 1931 mortality rates are much less than those for 1911.
YOUR CHANCES—
Here Is Expectation of Life Table which tells men and women
SCANDINAVIA GIVES LEAD
WOMAN
SCIENTIST CULTIVATES LIFE IN BOTTLES
IN
Cambridge, Apr. 4.
a modest laboratory, rather like a pleasant country mansion, three miles from Cambridge, a dozen scientists, under the direc tion of a woman, have for seven years been growing and cultivating life in glass bottles.
Beneath microscopes, four of which are focused by women,
living tissues are growing and developing exactly as they would in the complete parts of living Eng-
for-animal bodies.
een
All first-class mall between land and Scandinavia is now warded by air. The pilot is above putting the mall in an Imperial] Airways plane.
ILLINOIS HAS A
GIANT
18 YEARS OLD: 81⁄2 FEET HIGH
They include rats' teeth, an eye without a brain, the breast- bone of a bird, and bone tissue,
Domestic Setting Directing it all is Dr. Honor Fell, a pleasant-looking woman with a youthful, almost boyish face, black hair, heavy dark eye- brown and eyeinshes, a fresh com- plexion, and no trace of make-up.
She looks more than thirty. She smokes a little, àmiles a little, talks less, and walks the three miles' to and from her lodgings between Cambridge
NATHAN RO Hout
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GRAND `PROGRAMME !
TWO IN THE DARK
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Walter Abel Margot Grahame
Wallace Ford - Gall Patrick Alah Halo. Leslie Fenton Eric Blore. Erik Rhodes Erin O'Brien-Moore
A gripping mystery. romancel The story of a man whose past became a total blank to him.
Directed by Ben Stolall. Asso, Producer, Zion Myers
AND THE LATEST TWO REEL FEATURE OF
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and the Strangeways Research THE GREATEST YOUNGSTERS IN THE WORLD! laboratory.
Alton, Illinois, Apr. 4. Inside, the laboratory is like u Robert Wadlow, youthful giant, private house. A grandfather marked up a year's gain in height clock stands in the hall. Tha of 2-1/2 inches and observed small research rooms look out in- shyly that "it's about time to a pleasant garden.
The living eye was grown from stopped growing."
the reting of an unborn animal. It
From a foundation of size 30
shoes, Robert soars upward 8 feet, w in a glass bottle, produced in- 4 inches, le celebrated his 18th it grew from a piece of matter
ternal construction of a retina.
of each age how long they may ex-birthday on February 22, and little larger than a pin's head. pect to live :—
physicians believe he may continue Now it is perfect, Incking only the Men (1930-31-32)
to grow until he is 22 or 23.
nerve connections which would Robert smiles easily and talks intake Pts vision to a brain.
Years
Women (1930-
Ape to. live Age
31-32)
Years
to live
0.. 58.71. 0 .. 62.88
10 55.79.. 10 .. 58.87
20 46.81 20. 49.88 30.. 38.21..
30 41.22 40.. 20.52.. 40 32.56 60.. 21.60, 60 24.18
GO
.. 14.43.. GO.
16.50
70...
8.62 70
10.02
80
4.74.80
6.46
90
2.63., 00
2.98
Widows have less expectation of life than either single or married women. Ali women, however, have increased expectation of life since
1921.
Mortality figures among both sexes are higher in the north, and tend to become less-as-the-locality approaches the south.
death In Greater London the rates are more favourable than for the whole of England and Wales up to the age of forty-five, but less favourable from that age onwards. Women in Greater Lon- don have longer expectation of life than anywhere else in the country at all ages.
The King To Buy New 'Planes?
WON'T GIVE UP FLYING
London, Apr. 8. Despite all the fears about the safety of his royal person King Edward has, in the quietly de- finite manner, let it be known that he has no intention of abandoning flying.
a soft, husky voice. His great A minute particle was taken
height bothers him a little in get-i ting around and he has to atoop] to avoid brushing his head against electric light fixtures in the Wadlow bungalow. He weighs 390 'pounds, Although generally good-natured, Robert bristles when anyone men- tions him as a possible circus at traction, or alludes to the quantity
of food he consumes.
"How much I eat or what I eat is nobody's business but my own," he said earnestly.
"That's the way I feel about it and it makes me sore every time anybody talks about it.
"And as far as circuses are con- cerned I wouldn't join one if it was the last thing on earth I could do. There are too many people to stretch their necks at me now."
from
a budgerigar's egg. grew into tiny budgerigar's
breast hone.
"Brave New World" Parts of a heart have been kept alive, made to grow and to beat.
A scientist from another Cam- me:
bridge Inhoratory said to
These experiments are the begin ning of the making of life in the laboratory.
"They are the first steps ta the brave new world visualised by Huxley, with babies
The
DIONNE QUINTUPLETS
You Must See Them !
TAKE ANY TRAN OR KLAPOY VA LEY BUM
EORIENTALE
MASTHEATRESS
cultivated in test tubes. You 20LY TODAY • TO-MORROW.
should never ask
where their researches are lead- ing. They don't know."
But the Strangeways Laboratory did make a statement
"Tissue culture in glass vessels. .is valuable in attempts
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Robert's ambition is to be a law- yer. When he graduated from high school Inst month he im-analyse some of the complicated processess which occur in the mediately enrolled in a pre-law human and animal body in both course in Shurtleff College at Alton health and disease." and hopes to enter Washington University in St. Louis. At Shurt- Jeff he occasionally playe basket- ball, but he thinks "it's too enay." Spreading his huge hands expres- sively he remarked:
"I just stand down at the basket and when somebody throwa mo the ball 1 drop it in."
Kobert's growth is attributed to over-activity of the pituitary gland, a small gland at the base of the brain. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wadlow, who are normal in size, have refused to allow an operation. They contend It would! be too dangerous.
Film "King" Sells Out
For £1,100,000
CARL LAEMMLE, "MAKER” OF HOLLYWOOD
New York, Apr. 4. Robert has four younger brothers MR. CARL LAEMMLE, and sisters all of them of normall president of the Univer- size. They are: Helen, 15; Betty sal Film Corporation, and 11, Eugeno 13, and Harold, Jr., B. sixty-nine-year-old pioneer and spends most of his evenings at
He has no girl friend right now of the film industry, has sold home. During the summer months his interest in the concern. ho likes to sit on the lawn of his for U.S. $5,500,000. home where he sometimes puts up a stand and
He held more than 90 per cent, sells lemonade. In
When he flow to London from spare moments he likes to tinker of the stock in the corporation. Sandringham the day after his with cameras-ble principal hobby. father's death privy councillors-United Press. shook their heads. It wouldn't do for him to go about risking his neck that way, now that he is king, The new monarch was reported
a day or two later to have promised to curtail his aviation nctivities. But he kept his two private air- planca,
Now word has leaked out of Buckingham palace that the King has ordered a new airdrome to be built at Windsor, not far from the family castle, as an alternative to the landing fleld at Heston which he has used heretofore.
TWO FILM STARS QUARREL WITH HOLLYWOOD
Grace Moore Fred Astaire
'Hollywood, Apr. 3. Hollywood is having trouble with two flm stars.
THE NEW CHIEF The purchases are the Stan- dard Capital Company and combine consisting of the Woolf Charles R. Rogers, backed by a
interests, of London, Eastman Kodak Co., and Electrical Re- scarch Incorporated.
SISTERS FIGHTING TOOTH AND NAIL
FOR THE SAME MAN (
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THE POOR MAN IS ON THE SPOT
Adolph Zuker presenta
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JOSEPH
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Mr. R. H. Cochrane, vice- Grace Moore, the opera singer president of Universal Films, and actress, declared when she nr- becomes the new president. Mr. rived in Detroit on her way to Europe:
Carl Laemmle remains a mem- ber of the board.-United Press.
Meet SYBIL JASON 5-year-old Står Sensation in
"LITTLE BIG SHOT
The new airdrome would ac- commodate a much larger type plane than the King was accustomed to using when he was Prince of Wales. "The movies demand too intense With the small ships the King could activity. I shall not make nny *Mr. Cari Ltommie, "Uncle Carl" take off from Smith's Lawn which more films until Hollywood learns as he is known to his associates, is is only a short distance from his
to treat me as a human being." credited with having caused Holly- country place at Fort Belvedero. Fred Astaire, the dancing film wood to become the film capital of When he purchased a larger plane star, and the Radio-Keith-Orpheum the world. ho was forced to abandon use of concern have quarrelled over a new Univerant Film Corporation at Uni- He established the studios of the Smith's Lawn. Ile chief pilot then contract in which he was to take versal City, outside Hollywood, in picked Heston as his headquarters. part in eight films, with Ginger 1915. This started a gradual drift
The King, it is reported, will Rogers.
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