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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY

26, 1937.

SPARE MOMENT 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 a block In three years I got inside the Metro atudios. Then they asked my name.

nearer.

. It?

1

I was mortified. Who was behind Greta Garbol

She was seared of me. My reputa-

tion as a lady-kliler had gone before me. She was petrified.

Am I

forbids.

a lady-killer?

Modesty

I had to live up to my fame. Did I kill '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 me. Bill Powell but subtle.

was bore

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

I fell. That's why I'm here. And what do 1 sect Bill in every other film with Jean Harlow. That couldn't have happened If I had been there. Jean and Jimmy made the greatest team Hollywood ever saw. No fire- men's benefit was complete without

ua.

Jean and aro both Fire Chiefs of Los Angeles and me in my helmet... is that a picture?

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

Hollywood. It's crazy!

For 20 years in cabaret in New York 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 seves in the morning and go to bed at midnight.

And the hotec.

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

Hollywood. It's the soul

Zality!

of hospi-

When I was playing opposite 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 dumb-bella (weighing between sibs and glbs) to the height of your shoul dert, keeping your elbows to the back. Then atretch your atms forward ... back and so on.

Lie down flat on the ground with your lega 11 stretched out and your feet together. Take a dumb-bell in each hand and stretch your arms first out, then up.

Lie down with your face to the ground.

2 supporting your body on your bands and your toes. Bend your arms till your chert just touches the ground. Then straighten them again. Your hands should be placed shoulder distance apart.

This exercise is a tiring one, and should .not be done more than four or five tunca al

once...

M

Breathe in

CAN

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

Puzzle these out

SAN you find, embedded in our language or customs, survivals 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 met there was always a risk of one of the two being a highwayman.

5. Sir Robert Peel reorganised 'the pollen force about à hundred years ago.

6. In olden days accounts were often kept by cutting notches in a stick.

YOUR EYES

Breathe out

The new treatment for squinting ANY people do not

does not need an operation, and In know that Great 80 per cent. of cases la entirely Britain holds the successful.

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

in search of my Old Fiame Garbo and consolation.

on my car.

surgery to-day.

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 fight a land, Germany, and America kangaroo, Remember "Hell Below'7 That kangaroo was real. He was a are well ahead, but when sur- heavy-weight champ and not the kind gery becomes necessary, you that Les down but the kind that hits will be safest in your below the belt.

Hollywood. It's jealousy. That's country.

what it tal

Before Durante what did they send you? John Barrymore's profile. I

of

a squint?

Squinting occurs when the brain. refuses to focus the two eyes sanul taneously. The modern treatment is not to exercise the eye muscles, but to re-educate the brain into using the eyes, correctly.

very

DON'T BELIEVE

IT

of

-SAYS THE DOCTOR MANY of the "facts" which are

part

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.

Appalled by the general beller in various pseudo-medical theories on the part of otherwise Intelligent people, Dr. Thomen collected hundred and eighty-Ave of the most common errors he encountered in his experience and proceeded to demolish them.

The ideas exploded by the doctor are so widely, accepted that readers will be amazed to find them dig- 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, ailments, his diet-and-bodily-structure are derived from superstition and folk-lore," says the doctor.

Comea

Optic Nerve

Berin a

Diagram of eye showing retina, iria, cornea, with optic nerve teading to brain.

Much Is

"Mere denial is not enough. One must

Correablish the 'why' of the

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

the

That a person can get appen- dicitis by swallowing seeds of orangci, grapes, and so on. Appendicitis is an Inflammation of 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 varies from one to five inches in length.

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Fifty per cent. of cases occur in in stage and im stars, "contact" tenses are used.

young people under twenty. The These leases are fitted right against is twenty-eight.

uverage age of those who die from it the eyes and behind the lid-so`that

Most people who

терез own of attractive plctures

eat When treating a small child a series others. They are difficult to fit, but swallows other fruit stones or pips at

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whatsoever is apparent to swallow accds, and nearly everyone arc shown are comfortable through

and many famous some time or another. Yet appen an Instrument, and gradually the child's brain is taught English stage stars have these lenses. dicitis is not so common as these facts Britain attracts a large number lo fuse two objects together unit with the diagnosis of bodily disease is that the surgeon so rarely finds a

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and visible growth of the brain, and special comment. And it is rarely case of What drove me out of Hollywood

Three interesting new treatments successful.

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-

Appendiclila is really caused by Posing for pictures tion for detached retinn, (b) grafting itself before the ages of two or three ditions as diabetes, kidney disease, for der dressing-room waiting of now cornea, and (e) re-education years. Some children inherit & per troubles are present.

a high blood pressure, and Hver infection of the organ by pus-form-

ing germs. ts. Even if Metro día

of the brain; in others the weakness in America is estimating the probable swallow pips it is true that they 12 Fow people `aro taken in by it

One large fe insurance company flowers my heart was in

But don't let this encourage you to all the same.

The first operation Is a fairly simple has been caused by

longevity of its clients from a scienare often harmless, but your inside is one, and in most patients the cure is general ill-health.

Ufc examination of the eyes.

better without them!

picture papers,

outside

She sent for March. That was my

marching orders.

I was disconsolate.

You're a better man than I am, Freddie March. More prominent by

far but not by half so promontory.

Did You?

1. The name was given be causo ships and barges would use the canals. It survives in our word "avvies." 2. Spinster: 3.

The Lord Chancellor still. sits on

the Woolsnek, first introduced in- to the House of Lords by Edward III. as a reminder to legisistors that wool was, England's, chief source of wealth. 4. The rule of the road." The horsemen

would draw over to the left to fave room to draw their""swords; It necessary. This explanation is not certain. 5. "Bobbles.”N” 6. "The accounts do not tally.” The- "taily" comes from- a. Norman- French word ́meaning to cut wood..

to cure squinting.

accident

OF

instantaneous and complete. When The health of the child is important the retina or back lining of the eye is in assisting these cases of re-educa

proper diet of high detached, it has become over-stretch-ion, and a

vitamin content is ordered, the ed and non-clastle, and the patient vitamins in animal fats being particu- becomes slowly blind, as he is un- larly useful. able to focus hils aight.

A simple operation tightens the relina, and 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 migraine. This is brought about simply and solely by the rush of 1ving.

Our eyes were intended to focus

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ACROSS

1 Bild 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.

18 Sound asleep.

16 The town where Anne was

found.

16 And feathered, perhups.

17 Time In general

19 The writer who always has his

bed in a certain direction.

20 This fix with your eye about tea-time and you'll have to die of hunger.

22 One. Round Imitating the action

of the tiger.

25. When discharged, they never

seek another post.

37 This foreman, when Insing his

head, loses his wol.

.28 Acrimoniously cunning about an

instrument.

20 Dressing out of stone.

!

31 Any time before next month, 92 You must have four: this ti one, 33 Occur every week,

34 More than surprise.

DOWN

1. No sovereign theme.

·2 Advance accommodation.

3 Appropriate place for canoes to

upset.

'5 'You can't play it at work,

4 Come off second, besk

7 Bite bed (hyphen-anogram).

8" Thanics to him we know that

England won the first Test.

9 Swing in a cot'(anagram).

10 Even the miser's language might

be.

13 It seems otherwise,

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

17 Squirms.

18 Serpent. *

21 A famous cave.

23 No beating about the bush here.

24 "The long-drawn, aisle and-

vault."

(Gray's Elegy),' 26 Disturbance with the back part

in the middle.

27 Looks fiercely.

30 Four letters of introduction.

31 Alter this--not 11:

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