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THE ·HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY

1937.

SPAREMOMENT PAGE

Fourth daily group in series of

Exercises

The muscles of your arms and diaphragm get put into action by these three exercises. They develop your chest and they are helpful for difficult breathing.

They will also make your arms and shoulders shapely. They are particu- larly good for women with a narrow chest, stooped back, or hollow shoulders,

HOLLYWOOD

-It's Crazy!

By

Jimmy Durante

HOLLYWOOD. It's colossal!

When I got there they made me park my car six blocks away from the studio. Every six months they let me park n block In three years I got Inside the Metro studios. Then

hearer.

they asked my name.

It?

I was mortified. Who was behind

Greta Garbo!

She was scared of me. My reputa tion as a lady-tiller had gone before me. She was petrifled.

Am I

forbida.

a

lady-killer?

Modesty

I had to live up to my fame. Did I k 'em? Joan Crawford and Jean Harlow couldn't work when I was around.

Clark Gable 'threatened to grow a beard.

Bob Montgomery tried to drown mc. Din Powell...avas gore but subtle.

"Jimmy" he says, "why don't you go to Europe?"

I fell

And That's why I'm here what do I see? Bill in every other A with Jean Harlow. That couldn't have happened if I had been there. Jean and Jimmy made the greatest team Hollywood ever saw. No Are- inen's benefit was complete without

us.

Jean and I are both Fire Chiefs of Los Angeles and me in my helmet Is that a picture?

Bill Powell may star in all the Alms he likes. I am his senior Fire Chief.

Hollywood. It's crazy!

For 20 years in cabaret in New ork I had a reasonable working day. I'd begin work about midnight..and I'd always finish so I could be in bed by seven in the morning. Hollywood turned my night into day; They ex- pected me to get up at seven in the morning and go to bed at midnight.

And the noise.

In New York I could sleep from seven in the morning to seven st night right in the middle of Broad- way. But Hollywood..

Hollywood, It's the soul

hospi-

tality!

When I was playing opposile Lupe

Velez she would hand me a lot of

abuse and my feelings would be hurt.

That used to happen about ten in

Breathe

in-

Breathe

out

Breathe in

Breathe out

Stand upright, 10 feet, together. Lift dumbbells (weighing between alba and zibs) to the height of your shoul ders, keeping your elbows to the back. Then auretch your arma forward...back and so on,

Lie down flat on the ground with your legs stretched out and your feet together. Taka a dumb-bell in each hand and stretch your arms first out, then up.

Lie down with your face to the ground, 12 supporting your body on your hands and your toes. Bend your arms, vill your chest just touches the ground. Thers straighten them again. Your, hands should be placed shoulder distance apati,

Thus exercise is a uring one, and should not be done more than four or five times at ance,

M

Breathe in

Puzzle

"Let's not start discussing what we'd do if we had a mik lion. It always ends in a big disagreement."

these

out

CAN you find, embedded in our language or

customs, survivats of the following:-

1. The men employed in digging the first canals were called navigators.

2. In the Middle Ages cloth was usually made at home by the daughters of the house.

3. Seven hundred years ago the export of wool was England's stople trade,

4. In olden days when two horsemen mei there was always a risk of one of the two being a highwayman.

6. Sir Robert Peet reorganised the pollée force about hundred years ago,

8. In alden days accounts were often kept by, cutting notches in a stick,

YOUR EYES

Breathe out.

The new treatment for squiniing

·ANY people do not

does not need an operation, and in know that Great 60 per cent. of coses is entirely Britain holds the successful.

the morning. Off I would go to Singe first position in ophthalmic What makes

9 in search of my Old Flame Garbo surgery to-day.

and consolation.

on my car.

Regularly by one minute past ten In the making of lenses and you could see me being thrown out in curative measures, Switzer. Hospitality! They made me nght a land, Germany, and America Kangaroo, Remember "Hell Below** That kangaroo was real. He was are well ahead, but when sur heavy-weight champ and not the kind gery becomes necessary, you

a squint?

Optic Nerve

-Mis

Cones

Betina

Diagram of cue showing, retina, iris, cornes, with optic nerve leading to brain.

DON'T BELIEVE

IT

-SAYS THE DOCTOR

MANY of the "facts" which are

part of our everyday general knowledge are all wrong, according to Dr. August A. Thomen, Lecturer in Medicine at New York University and Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

G

Appalled by the general belief in various pseudo-medical theories on the part of otherwise Intelligent

collected people, Dr. Thomen hundred and eighty-five of the most common errors he encountered in bis experience and proceeded to demolish them.

The ideas exploded by the doctor are so widely accepted that renders will be amazed to find them dis- credited. Some of them have become almost apochryphal; everyone

follows them without question.

Begin to question them now! "Many oddities of conviction con- cerning health and hygiene, nilments, dict and bodily structure are derived from superstition and folk-lore," says the doctor.

"Mere denial is not enough. One must establish the 'why' of the correction."

To-day, for a start, he tackles the prevalent beliefs:

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that lies down but the kind that hits will be safest in your own of attractive pictures are below the belt.j

That a person can ret appen- diellis by swallowing seeds of oranges, grapes, and so on. Appendicitis is an inflammation of the mermiform ("shaped like worm,") appendix, a tubular struc ture closed at one end and attached to the rounded beginning portion of the large intestine. It is situated in the lower right quarter of the abdo- men, is thinner than a pencil and Squinting occurs when the brain

varies from one to five inches in refuses to focus the two eyes almul-

length.

Fifty per cent. of cases occur in aneously. The modern treatment is in stage and elm stars, "contact" not exercise the eye muscles, but lenses are used.

young

people under twenty. The to re-educate the brain into using the.

These lenses are fitted right against is twenty-eight.

average age of those who die from it eyes correctly.

the eyes and behind the, lid-so that

Most people who cat grapes When treating a small child a series nothing whatsoever is apparent to swallow seeds, and nearly everyone

others.

They are difficult to it, but swallows other fruit stones or pips at shown

are comfortable and many famous Hollywood. It's jealousy. That's country.

through an Instrument, and very

English stage stars have these lenses. dicitis is not so common as these facts lime or another. Yet appen- what it is!

gradually the child's brain is taught Before Durante what did they send Britain attracts a large number of to fuse two objects togetherisirent with the diagnosis of bodily disease is that the surgeon so rarely finds a Much is being done in America would seem to indicate. The truth you? John Barrymord's profile.

result is a normal vision. This treat-from the condition of the eyes. put that

Lent is being used in manxtremely eye is regarded as the only outward when he does, it becomes a case of The seed In a diseased appendix that, picture papers.

from the Continent and

LCC centres and

and visible growth of the brain, and special comment. What drove me out of Hollywood |

successful.

And it is rarely Three interesting new treatments

an experienced eye specialist can find, possible to be certain that the seed was Greta Garbo sending for Freddie

Squinting in children does not show by a series of tests, that such con-was responsible for the inflammation. March. After all the publicity I'd got of eye trouble are those of (a) opera-

Posing for pictures tion for detached retina, (b) grafting itself before the ages of two or three ditions as diabetes, kidney disease,

high

blood pressure,

Appendicitis is really caused by and liver infection of the organ by pus-form- outside her dressing-room walling of new cornea, and (c) re-education years. Some children inherit a pre- with bouquets. Even if Metro did to cure squinting.

disposition to weakness in that part troubles are present.

ing germs. One large life insurance company of the brain; in others the weakness

But don't let this encourage you to supply the flowers my heart was in them all the same;

has been caused by accident or in America is estimating the probable swallow pips-it is truc dat diey longevity of its clients from a scien- are often harmless, but your inside is general lit-health.

tine examination of the eyes.

beller without them!

profile right out of the distinguished pati and further afield.

for El Garbo,

miching orders:

I was disconsolate.

The first operation is a fairly simple

She sent for March. That was my one, and in most patients the cure is

instantaneous and complete. When The health of the chiki is important You're a better man than I am, the retina or back Uning of the eye is in assisting these cases of re-educa

lion, and a proper diet of high vitamin content is ordered; the

Freddie March. More prominent by

far but not by half so promontory.

Did You?

1. The name was given be cause ships and barges would use the canals. It survives in our word "navvies." 2. 3pinster. 3. The Lord Chancellor still sits on

the Woolsack, first introduced in- to the House of Lords by Edward

TIF, a reminder to Jegleintors

that wool was England's chief source of wealth. 4.

4. The "rule. "of the road.” The horsomen would draw over to the left to have room to draw their swords if necessary, This explanation is not certain. 5. "Bebbles."

di

"The üccounts do not tully,” The "[ally" comes from a Norman French word meaning to cut wood,

detached, it has become over-stretch-

ed and non-clastic, and the patient vitamins in animal fats being particu becomes slowly blind, as he is un- larly useful. able to focus his sight.

A simple operation tightens the retina, ond so throws the point of focus into the correct position.

In the second new treatment-that

The most common trouble with our eyes to-day is the condition known as This is brought about migraine. simply and solely by the rush of Living.

· Our eyes were intended to focus

of grafting of cornea from another in strong daylight, when our bodles person's eye, the results, are not yet were not moving faster than about 10 Artificial light, cinema screens, and 70-miles-an-hour

so satisfactory. As blindness is some miles an hour.

A

times due to disease of the cornear travel are putting an unnatural strain aurgeons are attempting to graft naw one on to the patient. The grati- on the eyes that often leads to serious

cornco is taken from accident headaches and sickness.

ad

CARON.

This condition is alleviated by diet Some cases have been successful, toxins are set tabe into the bipod, and plus 'reat" glasscs By the diet, less but so for the grafted cornes lends by the "rest" glasses the muscles of to become opaque instead of the eyes are assisted in their effort maining transparent. If or whes this to keep taut and focus properly. dimcully: ja overcome, meny: thousands of people suffering from In special cases where this cond Blindness, will have a chance of re- tion is present, and where appear

ance is of paramount importance, 'na

covery,

some

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CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 Bird that proves a pig can do

it to a wall.

4 The tale is different when he's

upset.

Channel, not the fish,

11 Woman's name.

12 Few people are taken in by it, 13 Sound asleep,

15 The town where Anne WAS

found.

16 And feathered, perhaps. 17 Time in general.

10 The writer who always has his

bed in a certain direction.

20 This Ax with your eye about ten-time and you'll have to die of lunger.

22 One Round Imitating the action

of the tiger

25 When discharged, they never

seek another post.

27 This foreman, when losing his

head, loses his wol.

28 Acrimoniously cunning about an

Instument,

29 Dressing out of stones d

31 Any time before next month, 32. You must have fourt, this is one. 33 Occur every week.

34 More than surprise,

;*

DOWN.

1 No sovereign·thema.**

2 Advance accommodation.

3 Appropriate place for canoes to

upset.

5. You can't play it at work,

Come off second best.

Bite bed (hyphen-anagram).

8 Thanks to him we know that

England won the first Test

D Swing in a cot (anagram).

10 Even the miser's language might

bc.

13 It seems otherwise.

14 When doubtless, a gay Ind goes in for merrymaking (two words, 4. 3).

17. Squirms.

18 Serpent. 21 A famous cave.

23 No beating about the bush hero.

24 "The long-drawn alle and--

vault" (Gray's Elegy).

20 Disturbance with the back part

In the middle.

27 Looks fiercely.

30 Four letters of introduction. 31 Alter this not 1!

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