1939-03-13 — Page 2

Monday

HONGKONG

INQUIRY INTO AFFAIRS OF 350-CINEMAS GROUP

Board Of Trade Appoints Inspector

SHAREHOLDERS' demands for an inquiry have resulted in the appointment of Mr. Russell Kettle- a partner in the firm of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Co., chartered accountants-as an inspector to investigate the affairs of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, which controls about 350 cinemas.

This announcement by the Board of Trade recently follows an application made about a year ago by a body of shareholders representing more than the stipulated one-tenth of the share capital of £6,250,000.

The committee of shareholders stated in their circular that they wanted an inquiry into how the company's subscribed capital had been utilised.

information was also sought on the present state of the company's affairs and on the agreement with the Fox Film Corporation, undertaking.

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REPORT TO BOARD

Under this agreement it was stated

that some control of

Gaumont-

Fashion Raids The Tropics

DOCTOR

TRIED

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Concerned *nt the number mental patients who feared, the drug

cardiazol, Dr. J. E. O'N. Gillespie, of the Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, Surrey, tried it on himself.

Cardinzol proditees convulsions,

which a certain circumstances aliny the effects of mental disorders,

1939:

have You TRIED

Seme patients told Dr. Gillespici Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy gave a Gay Nineties party in. that the very thought of taking the Beverly Hills, Cal, and here is some of the fun as guests enact the Can- me shiver with Can dance. Left to right: Betty Grable, Princess Bahn, Martha Raye and ding again mukes horror."

Dorothy Lamour.

Dr. Gillespie, having taken his injection, experienced this:

"I felt my body and limbs coming to lie straight in the bed and my head

British was given to Fox Film Cor-ULOURS are to be quieter [iurning to i central position.

Its holding in and Bradford Trust,

poration through Metropolis

which bolus 65 per cent, of Gaumon!~\reds, the spring scale of shades my neck, where it stopped and in-j

British shares.

this spring. Exhausted, per- "Then, very rapidly, something haps, by one or two seasons of seemned to move in my arms and screaming pinks and riotous thorax and to pass up to the base of creased in intensity. Unconscious- The Companies Act provides that sinks to a delicate diminuendo ness developed quickly.

Dr. Gillespie describes his experl- it shall be the duty of all officers of pastels.

Issue of "The П recent Strong colours for brunettes and fence in and agents of the company to pro-

colours duce to the inspector the books and

take Lancet.' bright

for blondes

delicate The second place to the more documents in their custody,

in-between tones that suit the subtle magentas of last season with more colouring of the "mid-brown" - Eng-

delicate amethyst mauves and two Eshwoman.

colours known as sca sugar-sweet nink and amaranth.

inspector can examine the officers on

the auth and he has to report to Board of Trade.

Gaumont-British affairs have been in the public eye recently. At the an- beginning of this year it was nounced that negotiations were pro ceeding by which 11 was hoped Odeon Theatres would make offer for the Gaumont shares and also the voting shares of the Ostrer group.

are shown, all

Experts Failed To Answer A Mere Layman's Query

A HUNDRED medical psychology experts from all parts of the country recently failed to answer the ques tion: "What is psychological treatment?”

Mr. Henderson, a Home Office official, unable to attend, sent the question with his letter of regret:

He was being asked the question more and more by interested laymen, he said, and he would like to have a definition by experts in words the layman could understand.

At the British Colour Connell dis- play of 1930 shades, five groups of

Dr. Edelstone, of Leeds, provided | Carroll, director of the Institute for An important range showing the

Delin colour correlations represented in British merchandise new "lady-like" influence in lathes the homespun definition: "Psycholo the Scientifle Treatment of

and colourings is the scale of greys gical treatment supplies the parental quency, W.1, comforted his colleagues fairies, gloves, hats and bags.

und belges. Caribou is a very warm CARIBOU AND MANILLA

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. ja pamphict on the subject expressed The first main group shows the dark grey. Ash grey is rather cooler affection the patient has never had." by announcing that he was writing

are in tone and manilla is the new belge.

Symons, J.P.. entirely in non-scientific terms, Mles Madeleine pastels. These tropical

The psychologists were attending coral pinks, Mixtures of grey and belge, with greens, dulled

Child biennial

Guidance Inter- brownish reds all with that darker contrasting accents, will be said: "I am convinced that it is no The proposed offer was not to be auft

common sense.” there had been made until

an misted look of objects seen in una feature of spring colour schemes impenetrable reientific mystery, but the only public meeting of the fourth

Cünle Conference at the examination of accounts and a sur- aquarion, or perhaps when swim- for day outfits.

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R2012-Call Of The Delta. (Rhythm Style.) At the end of two and half hours tones there is the more usual range of of uninterrupted discussion (not all and fresh bright blues and salad greens. 'of it about the definition) Dr. Denis

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Professor A. M. Carr-Saunders, of the London School of Economics, the Home outlined the work of Ofee inquiry into the causes of carried Juvenile delinquency being oilt under his direction.

A thousand boys from London and thousand from Cardiff, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and She- Meid, guilty of Indictable offences, are being compared with 2,000 boys of the same ages from the same schools who have never been In conflict with authority.

No such comprehensive investiga- Lon "on the spot" has so far been attempted, sald Professor Carr- Saunders. There are 39 Headings of the questionnaire.

Phone Girl Chases Man In New York

IN the glare of are lamps, microphones above their heads, two of Lonton's Internations! phone girls showed how they "get their men."

Thousands of radio listeners heard them. Television viewers watched.

Around the girls in the Post Office's Faraday House were 20 other operators talking in half-a-dozen tongues to twice as many countries. Leslie Mitchell, the commentator, wanted Captain Townley of the Aqui- tanis, two days out from England. He was talking to him within a minute. It was Miss Hilda Colline who put him through,

TALK WITH CLOWN Listeners heard the conversation. They heard, too, phone talks with two of the passengers: Fred Bishop, driver of the Coronation Scot, on his way to the United States with the LMS, wonder express; and Clown Kelly, who was at Olympla.

Then Mr. Gerald Cock, director of television at Alexandra Palace, put Elleen Jones through a transatlantic Housled for. Mr. John president of the National Co., "somewhere In

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A quick play-in on Miss Jones' board. A search starts by radio and telephone. In New York another girl is working as telephone detective. She calls Mr. Royal's home. He isn't there. She calls on hotel. He Isn't there. He isn't at his club. Ho is in the studio, siz

Miss Jones got her man to the phone in one-and-a-half minuter.

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