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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

21,

1936.

£2,000 DAMAGES

FOR COMPOSER

Libel Action Over "Ghost

Goes West" Music MUSIC from the film "The Ghost Goes West" was dis- cussed in the King's Bench Division recently when Mr. Michael Spoliansky, composer, was awarded £2,000 damages in a libel action against the U.C.P. Publishing Company, Ltd., in respect of a charge of plagiarism.

The action was undefended and Mr. Spollansky was given judgment with costs.

Sir, Patrick Hastings, K.C., for Mr. Spoliansky, said that the jury's only, task would be to assess damages and, though they might think that what- ever amount they awarded might bet valueless to the plaintiff, because he

it, it was might not receive Important that the amount they substantial awarded should be a sum, having regard to the very seri- ous injury which had been done to him.

very

OPERATIC AND FILM

musician Me. Spoliansky WIN and was now in Britain, where he had made a considerable name for himself as a composer of operutic He had been for and other music, some time, and still was, engaged in composing music for cinematograph productions.

He had been engaged by Mr. Alex- ander Korda, and rumposed the music for "Sanders of the River" and A

PICCARD TURNS

TO ROBOT FOR

ALTITUDE DATA

Gadgets Designed To Land Unmanned Gas Bags From Stratosphere

Minneapolis, Nov. 17.

Prof. Jean Piccard of the University of Minnesota soon will send six un- balloons into manned stratosphere

the heavens.

This time the professor will equip the each of the top balloons with gears and springs of an old alarm clock. An he explained, it's prac- tical business, this use of clocks in a stratosphere experiment.

"One of the big troubles," he said, "in sending up balloons is getting

at the proper i them to come down

I have worked out a plan that looks like u patch-like affair at the top of the bog.

Lime.

"String will be stitched Into the with the ends balloon at its peak, hanging down, inside the bag. The string, in turn, will be attached to the clock mechanism and when the alarm goes off, the clock's hammer will rip out the small section, permit- ting the hydrogen to escape gradual- ly. Then the balloon starts coasting gently to earth."

Prof. Plecard, mustached, long- hahed and the veteran of a strato- sphere invasion, said that in other tests the bags continued to soar until the sun sets-something that happens in a very short time in the strato- sphere Thun-the-bag would begin diving to earth.

By landing the balloon in the day- time, he said, the chances are much that it will be seen from the

greater od its precious cargo of in- struments be

astון גו!

bashed

saved-not against the hard earth or in a tree as

experiments. Also the danger of a night pillol plane plowing into one of the bays will be eliminated.

"I shudder to think of what would happen it a plane collided with one of those hydrogen-filled bags," he

said.

Prof. Picard and students of aero- nautics at the university have pre- pared a model balloon 5 feet in dla- meter as a pattern for the larger bags, which will be 15 feet in dia- meter and will have a lifting power of about 150 pounds at sea level.

The bags will be pear-shaped with cellophane extending all the way to the tiny gondola which will contain valuable Instruments to be carried alott.

One of the principat aims of the fight will be to learn how low tem- peratures drop inside the gondola. When this is ascertained, meehuniam can be devised to withstand the cold And those lustruments in turn will be sent up to get weather Information now sought by the selentists.

number of other Alms, in particular that for a film called "The Ghost Goes West.""

He was. naked to compose the music for that film and was told that it was desired to have a theme-song running through the whole im and a Scottish" atmosphere created, because the hero was 'n Scottish lard. or the ghost one,

"THE BANKS AND DRAES" The Inuste he composed was a little altered by arrangement with his em- ployers and began with the first three or four bars out of the familiar song "The Banks and Braes of Bonnie Scotland."

In the music of the theme song, "Star Over the Hills, it was stated: "The music is by Michael Spoliansky, based on an old Scottish melody."

An Indian, Yogi, Swami Yogananda is on a visit to London. He main- tains that he has discovered the secret of perpetual youth which he Intends to disclose to the English people. Swami sleeps only two hours lives on oranges h a day, and lettuce,

COSMIC RAYS AND SUNSPOTS AFFECT

lately May

A newspaper

which had come to Britain from Amerien, called the London Reporter, stated, that i a musician called Bernatsky bad l-i leged plagiarism by Mr. Spaliansky, pecusing htm of copying 32 bars

Glying evidence, Mr. Spoliansky, Russian by birth, said at the request of those producing "The Ghost Goes West," he introduced the opening bars of the well-known Scottish melody.

Bernatsky's operetta "Adlicu Mumy, A

He denied copying any of the music from "Adieu Mimi."

Miss Marina Barretto, planist, who is 10 appear as the Helena May in stitute on Tuesday, November 24, at 9.15 pan. in a recital jointly with Professor Harry Ore on two planos.

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MANKIND Explain Quintuplets, Scientist Says

New York, Nov. 20. Cosmic rays and sun spots may

the

such agents behind phenomena as the Dionne mul- tiple births and the 1929 stock market crash, Dr. Orestes H. Caldwell believes.

Dr. Caldwell in an address be- fore the anteur Astronomers Association, of which he is presi- dent, disclosed that science now believes it probable that mys- terious emanations from the sun and gigantic disturbances on the sun's surface have a direct bear- Jing on human affairs..

Striking the earth by the billions each minute, they are the messengers, scientists belleve, by which the great power plant of the sun transmits its energy.

"These particles," Dr. Caldwell said. "penetrate everything. Occa- sionally they collide with an atom of matter, and that atom is shattered. "They pass through each human body ut a rate of perhaps 100 R minute, exploding atoms whenever they strike one."

Dr. Caldwell explained that the probable effect of cosmic rays on human and animal forms was pro duced when they struck 'embryonic buds in the unborn young.

EXTRA LIMBS

"At Columbia University you'll see salamanders swimming about with, three or four extra arms on each limbs side," he said. "The extra were induced by touching the arm buds with n dellente tool.

Science lins discovered that minute Injury to the buds often results in the

owin of extra forms.

"Investigators believe that extra tocs or fingers in human beings-per- haps the Dianne quintuplets are the result of the cosmic ray bombard- ment.

The sun, source of all our energy, vari- Dr. Caldwell pointed out, is n able pulssing star, the result being that the flow. of energy changes periodically in intensity.

A spectacular manifestation of this variability is the sun spot, which ap- parently exerts a profound influence

human affairs.

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Sun spots, Dr. Caldwell said, vary in numbers from maximum to mini-

Another exhibition of the work off one of the group of young Chinese artists who are painting in the West-mum over a period of about yours. ern style has been arranged by the Hongkong Working Artists' and will be open to the public on December 2, 3 and 4 from 10 aзn. to 0 p.m. at the Hotel Cecil.

Guild

This cycle, Dr. Caldwell disclosed, closely parallels cycles of depression, prosperity, fertility in animals and weather,

STOCKS AND THE SUN "The surge of stock market prices," he said, "followed the su spot curve.

Mr. Wong Siu-ling was commis-

to do some time ago

the sioned

In 1929 the number of sin spats murni decorations in the ballroom of the Hotel Cecil which have been very attained the maximum for the period much admired both by Europeans and then fell sharply to the minimum. and Chinese, and it adds to the in-You know what happened to the mar- terest of the exhibition of his paint-ket that same year."

ings that it is being held in the ball The business curve also followed the sun spot cycle. The depressions

room.

of 1907, 1021-22, and 1920 came after A preview to which a number of maximum sun spot periods. guests have been invited, is being

"The sun spot curve indicates thint held on December 1 from 4 to 6 p.m. we'll have two or three years of pro- His Excellency the Governor and sperity following a miniinum period; Lady Caldecott have gruciously con- but look out for 1939, Dr. Caldwell sented to be present at the preview. said.-United Press.

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