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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL

مم

FIRST NIGHT" Sees

1936

THE PICTURES JUMP OFF THE SCREEN

A film which combines colour, sound and stereoscopic vision has arrived in Hongkong. It is a trick film which runs for about ten minutes, but is a shape of things to come in moving pictures.

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Before I saw it, I was comfortably conservative about the cinoma. After all, one can completely lose oneself in a good film. The fact that the images on the screen are in two dimensions and not three does not bother the ordinary man.

I was inclined to think that one can touch them by stretching (demolition of a building, the the three-dimensional cinemaout a hand.

stopping and starling of a train.

would be 'no great advance, that i A girl is seen swinging. When "Audioscopiks" is in the same it would aid nothing to the love- liness of the face of a Dietrich, nor increase the relisin of the

screen drania.

stereoscopy will be an essential part of the cinema.

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There is a motor-rar ride with swerves and collisions and it is The catch about "Audioscopika"

realistic so

that one's foot is that one has to use a pair of

hữ

the swing cones

forward she state of development. But the seems to leave the screen and her man with the gun and the girl feet endanger one's head. A man on the swing will be as important offers you a drink. He holds out in the progress of "living ple- "Now, ̈having Born ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄Metro- the glass and one would swear (tures" as the boat, the train and Goldwyn-Mayer's "Audioscopiks that it was six inches away. Then the falling building. And W which is released for public enter- he turns the godawater siphon on shall not have to wait another 40 tainment at the King's Theatre as you and a stream shoots out years before the principles of from yesterday, I have changed my (straight at your face. mind, I can see the perfected stereoscopic film becoming another forward step in the cinema.

"Andioscopika" has tones of instinctively presses the carpet. spectacles, one lens red and the colour, but they are not importout. Another man brings out a rille, other green, to Ace the third Its dramatic quality is its power raises it, so that it sticks out from dimension. Drop the spectacles, of making Images leap right off the screen, the muzzle, seemingly, and the picture on the screen Ja the screen and into the audi-being within a foot of your head, just a blur of the two colours. forium. It gives an entertain-This is Aensation that the ment which is no longer bounded

moving picture of To-day is by the size or the plane of the

incapable of giving. sheet on to which the picture is projected.

Within "Touch"

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will not make a feature film by the process until invention has overcome the need of the spectacles. But in the meantime the company has given the King's Theatre 20,000 | were spectacles so that when "Audios These copiks" is shown today and on con-Friday and Saturday the audience will be able to enjoy it. And it is like the most amusing and sensationt the "short" I have seen.

Last month several of the original films shown by Lumiere in London forty years ago

in London. It does more than give the pic-screened ture the roundness of the stage pioneer efforts were entirely production; it projects the actors (cerned with showing events into the alience so that one feels the launching of a boat.

Russia's Huge DOG. HERO OF WAR

Submarine Fleet

BIGGEST IN WORLD

The German Admiralty states} that Russia has secretly built the mightiest submarine armada in the world.

According to official figures which have emanated from Berlin, 96 Soviet submarines are already in commission, while many more are under construction.

IS DEAD

SOLDIER'S FUNERAL FOR

Renounced

"RAGS"

A. Million-

Left £37,000

Washington, Apr. 9. "Rags," real dog of wars mascot of the First Division of the US. Ixpeditionary Force, is to have a soldier's funeral.

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7 Acting a dog outside in. 8 Any old thing will answer this.

10 The walk that finishes like a sni-

lor's.

11 But through the hoop-covered

with-gauze.

12 It's an easy job-lo make the

remedy follow a straight line.

14 Wat we all did between 1934

and 1936.

16 The hend enfeebling port. 18 Where it's whiter outside. 20 Suggests

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told you a cold sweet to finish. with.

6 Below there.

A Frenchman takes a hammer to this.

13 Underdone.

16 Why the girl's in, ses me!

17 The feeling is that it was for-

warded before I intended.

19 Man's name or chapel'e,

31 Though imperishable l'an deadly. 2 Give up, and lot yourself go,

25 then give a hundred in a string 27 Hns once..

28 Like the brush that it stopped her, being more proper.

22 Exist twice. 6s n smile.

sounds as though balance was wanted to walk in the sen.

ths wing.

He saw more actual fighting 26 A strange beast, truly, its tail than many a soldier, once saved his life by a parachute descent,

20 This should be cold

int.

when it's

The brewer's son who, as aand died yesterday at the home 30 Course yarns-always excepting The present strength of other] navies in submarines is as follows: young man, renounced the life of Lieut.-Colonel R. Harden-31 Several great battles have been

France..

U.S. Italy

Japan

British Empire Germany

$93356

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the one about the window, fought near this Belgian town.

lation.

of a millionaire's heir to devote tburgh, here:- himself to East. End mission and This doggy hero joined the U.S.12 Finched, due largely to ane res temperance work. Mr. Frederick Army one night when Private Jimmy Charrington, left £27,319.

Donovan, absent without leave, was observed by keen-eyed military policeman straggling along a Paris street. Tucked under the soldier's arm was a very emaciated and dirty wire-haired terrier pup, which he

Tower Hamlets Mission, To tie German information on Russian which had been the centre of his life naval matters is usually very re- for more than 60 years, he bequeaths £10,000 and the proceeds of sale of liable, and, in the present instances house property. The secretary of the bad picked up in the gutter

full evidence is offered in support of this revelation of Soviet naval

power.

mission, Mr. John Lawrener, and his assistant. Mr. Frederick Harding receive £1,000 and £500 respective- and other members of the stall share £2,000,

The official statement adds that, since 1932, Russia has been ener

Osea Island, Essex, on which standa getically building submarines, des

high-speed motor the Mission's convalescent home, is and troyers, torpedo-bonts, to the neglect of lar- to follow a trust for the upkeep of ger vessels. Now, however, the the home. shipyards are turning out cruisers

1s well.

11 destroyers!

FAR EAST 30 submarines "probably very many more" and 30 motor torpedo-boats.

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The M.P. Logic both of them in charge. The "Rags and taken on the strength. christened ກຜ He went through the Meuse-Arganne campaign, carrying messages through shell-torn and pns-hung sectors until Donovan,, were he and his master, goused and wounded together and the dog lost the sight of an eye.

One of the couple's most thrilling. occurred in an observa- experiences o tion balloon. A German aeroplane swooped down on it, and Donovan leapt out with "Rags" in his arms.

DOWN

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1 For fourteen days the castle

stood by from dusk to dawn.

2 Nothing comes between a tavern

and the money, silly

3 Bragged, if the second letter contained fifty more it would be ruined.

4 Renegade.

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More than pace, remember, I've

Kill Kidney

Trouble Quick

Th

of

from

Kidne

außerers DISPOSITION OF FORCES

As his parachute drifted to earth trouble and Bladder weakness have stopped

airman German

followed Gotting Up Nigh's, Leg Pains, Nervousness, According to the same authority,

the manoeuvring to bring his machine gun houmatien, Dizainas. Lumbago. Burning the present disposition of the

ant Loss into action. Then he noticed the dog, itching. Smarting. 'Acidliy Russian light furces is as follows:

Dorlar's new discovery calles! In the Baltic and the Black Sea and grinting, he waved his hand, Vigour by a

Cratex (Sistex), Gently Booties. tones, BALTIC-10 submarines. 71 the light forces are supported by banked sharply, and soared away. destroyers, and motor torpedo battleships and cruisere. Prae- FOOTPRINT IN WAR MUSEUM clean, at heak, raw sore kidncio. In 15 minute Cystex staris purifying your blood. *boats;

tically all the submarines enumer- A footprint in Ink of "tags" ap- BLACK SEA-"At least 20 sub-ated are brand-new," the German penrs in a copy of his biography, Brings new health, youth and vitality in marines," 27 destroyers and official statement continues. They which the 1st Division sent to the hours. Guneanteed de end your trumbles in 8

Imperial War Museum, Londen, to lo motor torpedo-boats;

are of various types and of original beside the records of other wor WHITE SEA-G submarines and Russian design "'"

heroes,

days or

money

ehemlate.

of a fox, but shrinking at one en‹.

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