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“Grand Hotel” With Amazing h. Cast, Superb

Picture Ontshines Anything liver Shown on Screen Before

“Grand Hotel," as screened yes- terday at the Prince Edward The- utre, is a distinct triumph of the tnlkics.

The completed product, viewed as a whole, is bigger than its amaz- ing cast, story, directorial effort and iaroduction, It is quite the most artistic and worihy offering the screen has known since the advent of talkics, if not inclusive of the silent (lays.

If for only the cast, boasting such

stars as Greta Garbo, John Barry-

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I Thrilling Mystery Is Revealed In “White Zombie”

which for sheer mystery outdoes all its predecessors is “White Zombie,"

at the Capitol Theatre yesterday.

be in a class by itself. For it deals with a subject which heretofore has been little short of superstition, and s not. very well known one at that. Its story deals with occult practices in remote sections of Haiti where Zombies", or dead bodies, are dug from their graves and, by a pro- cess of sorcery, re-animatcd and put to work in the fields and mills as slaves.

Story In stqrerinr Whether or not you believe whut.

it as an outstanding picture.

But, in addition to the magni- ficent characterizations, it has the superb mounting of imposing lets, splendid photography.

The film version cannot be call- ed a more copy of the stage play. It is vastly more than that, in fact, it is a combination of the original

Vmoro, Joan Crawford, Wallace- ‘Becry, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis ‘Stone and Jean Hersholt, the pic- pluy would have much to commend

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novel and the bes- that the theatre piece contained. It moves swiftly and permits an unlimited scope of action, yet it. netri" goes outside the hotel in which the entire story is unfolded.

No‘ one can afford to miss this greet film. It will stand, in this reviewer's opinion, alone for many seasons.

you see in this picture, you will be enthralled by its presentation. Par- ticularly when you learn that there is s. wealth of evidence to bear out its authenticity, The entire picture is done with such artistry and with such conviction and sincerity that one cannot but believe its sub- stance.

Bela. Lugosi. creator of "Dracula" carries the main burden of “White ' Zombi,’ and no more sinister ehar- i scter portrayed can be imagined. Lugosi is for and awuy the lead- i ing exponent of this type of role, and he surpasses himself here. He is ably assisted by a cast including Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthom, Johnny Horron, Ralph IPrazcr and Brandon Hurst.

away s. doren other prospective buyers who, starting the bidding at five, ten and even thirteen cents, were reluctant to spend over 45

cents. The occasion marked the annual sale by suction of automobiles

seized by the Montreal Police De- partment for varied reasons, and it was held in the police garage at the comers of Jeanne d'Arc and Rouen streets. Some 50o possible buyers and hangers-on turned up for the occasion, and proceedings got un- cler way rapidly as J. E. Bernard, bailiff of the Superior Court, of- ficial of Recorder's Court, and auc- tioneer, ‘and Gustave Beauchamp, bailiff attached to Recorder's Court and recorder for the proceedings,

lfiireugefs Stock Operations Told

NEW YORK, Doc. 12—A section bf the lab, Ivar Krcugcri; elaborate stock market operations which preceded his death, one of the most extensive ever dircetd. by e. group of "insiders" was delineated yester- day in further micstioniug of An- clcrs Jofdahl Krucgerfis personal re- presentative, before Federal Refo- rcn Henry K. Davis, Jacob K. Ja- vit, i-ouiml for cvulitors handled tin ext-m m.

Only the m: ‘_v rim}; market, ac Itlillil’; with v.- Mr‘. Jordahl had some connection were touched up-

sfrrrlzijv, The mncv accounts tr-cl d rvctiy bf.‘ Krcuzcr thzvurzh tho flltlllt‘ of nomitncs

were not lrouglu, into the exami- nation. The witness explained why he had handled huge sums of hinney for the late Iswedish finan- cier, and recited one instance when a stcnogruphcr was sent down to a Wall Street bank alone 1o cosh a. cheque for $220,000, hllnzilll! cur- roncy back to the Fifth Avenue oi‘- fice of Jordahl mid Company.

, Brokrragc Accounts

i Mr. Jordahl said he had iarokcr- hgc accounts with the Stock Ex- changa firms of Stein Bros, and

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mounted an improvised platform. Seventeen‘ cars were up for sale, including ramshackle Fords, bat- tered Chevrolet: and a 1928 Buick. There was also one motorcycle. Profits as result of the sale totalled $184.35.

Rapidly, Auctioneer Bernard succeeded in getting rid of 16 of the automobiles and the lone mo- torcycle. The buyers, for the most part, dicl not have to bid very high, and the majority of the vehicles went for $2.50. An Overland tour- ing car went for $2.25; the Buick, in fairly 800d condition, went for $2; several Fords went for $1.50, while the motorcycle fetched the rare price of $3.

Boyce, sulzbacher and Granger. Richards and Co, E. F‘. Hutton and Co., and Abbott Hoppin and O0. He began opening these accounts in July or August, 1931, and later enlisted the aid of other persons who opened additional accounts.

Instruction: as to buying and soiling through these accounts were received by Jordahl from Kreuger, and relayed (,0 the men who nom- inally owned the accounts. Kreuger. the witness said, believed profits could be made from trading in Kreuger and Toll debentures, but the only result from the operations ivns a huge loss. The witness said he could not hazard a guess con- ccnaing the amount lost, this de- pending on the value of the securi- tlcs put up for collateral at. tho time they were deposited with a brokerage houre.

Krcugctls instructions to him, he said, were to trade cautiously and "to take profits" whenever feasible. Thousands of shares were handled through these accounts, giving a semblance .01 great activity in thc shares on the stock ticker.

Mr. Jnvils did not. lying up the many accounts operated by Kron- gcr in various brokerage houses through European nominees and “dummy” company names, which has been previously brought out.

MOTORCYCLE FOR. S8

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“A crime," muttered the auc- tioneer when bidding for the motor- cyclc-tvhich was in a fair con- dition-thrcatcncd to stop at 40 cents.

“Forty-three cents," somebody from the back.

"Gentlemen, that's it! show spir- it. This is a good buyl" '

"Say, mister," enjoined another voice, "can I offer you a. load of wood?"

"No," was the reply. "We want money; who'll offer more for this practically brand-new motorcycle?"

“There's one wheel missingl" cried out someone.

"Make an offer, then; with the money you save, you can buy a new whcell"

“Trois piastres," cried out a man from the back. The crowd fairly

cried out

Buys Automobile For Fifty Cents

(Montreal Gazette, Dec. B) "Going, gentlemen! Goingi Gone

snspcd at his spirit of sheer reck- lflfillvfis. but he took home the

-and gone for fifty cents!"

so on up to $140, when two drop- ped out and the dapper gentleman won the prize.

The three men were “friendly enemies," it was learned later; all were grocers in the district, and all three needed a delivery-car dirt cheep. And all were determined to see to it that their rivals did not obtain the prize.

When this last. car was sold, Auc- tioneer Bernard, a. smile on his face, and Recorder Beauchamp, a look of amazement upon his, mopped their brows, the auctioneer noting that "from the look of things, I thought I would only get; two dol- lars for that last car."

Recorder Besuchamp fairly seized the $140 from the purchasers hands, fearing that he might sud_ denly change his mind,

Caribou Many Wins $25,465

OARIBOU, M6,, Dec. 12—Denn1s C91‘, 40, local plumber and father 0f eight children awoke to mid himself $25,465.60 richer than when he had gone to bed.

For according, to n. cablegram which was received at his home, he 18 the winner of first prize in the Manchester November Handicap, having drawn Hyposiyie as his horse. Cyr was notified that his proportion of the prize money be 8,338 pounds sterling and p, pound according to latest quotations is valued at $3.20 in American cur- rency.

He sold that he intended to use the money in his business and for the education of his children.

Cyr said that he had a prcmoni- tion that he was going u. win the prize.

"Only Friday night, 1 mm ma, Cyr that we were going to have "m" "Wiley coming to us!" he ejaculated happily as he discussed his winnings.

Edmonton Team

Still Winning

LONDON, Dec. 11—(Ca.nadian Press which-Edmonton superiors

Investigation by the writer in 1929 and 1930. 1L; a result of com- plaints received by the Department or the Interior. showed that con- sumption of eel-grass rootstock: by Geese and Brant on the flats of 1le Verte. Quebec. where large num- bers of. these birds regularly gath- er end feed during their spring end m! Klimt-hm. will not seriously inillrlfllm to the stands of eel-pass. ilirliile Canada Geese and Brant are believed to have shown some in- czease in numbers 0n the Atlantic seaboard of North America during the time that they have been pro- tezied by the mgratory birds con- vention between Canada 1nd the United States, in would be ridicul-

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able them to destroy nearly all the

Th“ Future may safely be "m W eel-gross over the extensive regions

in which eel-grass scarcity is now present The fact that in several places the disappearance of the eel-grass is known to have. taken pluce in late summer, when no Can- ada Geese 0r Brunt were present, also makes the theory of eel-grass destruction by thse birds unten- able.

Pints from which the eel-grass has practically disappeared are in some Buses now occupied by fairly dense growths of other salt water plants, such as sea lettuce (Ulva) and wig- con grabs ‘(RUDDlBJ and this condi- tion led to the popular explanation that these plants had driven out and replaced the eel-gram. Such plants have always existed side by side with the eel-grass without harming it materially. No way in

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struction, from New Brunswick to Virginia and North Carolina, and also on the west coast of France, but not on alholnlng coasts farther north nor on the coasts of the Pac- ific Ocean, is very surprising and difiitlcult to account for.

done.

Disease Organism

The last of the suggested 01111588 of the scarcity to be considered is destruction of the plant by a disease caused by some definite living or- ganism, such as a bacterium, a fungus, or a filtrable‘ virus. Consid- eration of all the data concerning the scarcity that are now available shows that they are in accord with such a theory of causation. The e - grass has died quite suddenly ovi- extensive areas and yet has not died everywhere at once, for the destruction apparently began g1; 16bit W0 y"?! 68o in the southern part 0f the eel-grass range and spread northward, reaching the north shore of Prince Edward Island and part of BB-vlcm New Brunswick only in the summer of 1932. It is readily con- ceivable that a rapidly progressive destruction q @1115 nature is the re- suit of discrimination through the sea-water, which connects all living eel-grass plants, of mixiute disease-

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causing organisms. such as bacteria. The discoloration and disintegration shown by the unhealthy and dying eel-grass plants are readily inter- Drfltcd u symptoms of e specific disease. The fact that eel-gram grow in; where the sea water is greatly diluted. as in estuaries. is still nor- mal and healthy may be considered to indicate that the disease-causing organism is not active in water in

Whlal they wllld 897M115!!! 111.111" 01' the lower ranges of salinity that eel ‘lestmy etibglass l5 knflwn- 11°!‘ 5°95 grass will tolerate. Here is where m"? “PP”? W be B-“Y Pea-W" WhY any slight drought caused increase 5mm Plant-i $101114! 8114591117 be‘ in salinity in recent summers of the come h‘ghly efficient eel-grass 4e‘ waters of the great buys on the stmyeia- Th" l" llndlmbwdl? 111°" coast of New Jersey may have play- wflsplmlmn 1n nlww whm the eel ed a part, roi- it may have been just tire-RS 1111-! disappelmd. Ind Pmbflb‘ enough to have brought these wat- lv they are commonly more n-bund- crs within die 5.11 nity ranges m ant in such places film the’! W"? which the presumed destructive or- Wllen the wl-srw swwflh y" Mr- ganism con be active. M. Just wrist mil there. but this nrw-lmlblv l5 degree of salinity below normal the due Slmllli’ l0 their 5W1“! and 115- eel-grass is preserved from attack ins new the opportunity to fill the has not yet been determined, but. n space that the eel-grass has vacat- ‘may be muted that wamqydm a 04- healthy relict stand of eel-gram in _ a small cove into which e brook discharges at Cole Harbor, Nova S.cot's, showed a snlint-z of 9.0 parts

Excessive Harvesting

Excessive commercial harvesting. by means of close annual mowing, is undoubtedly injurious to the stands | of eel-grass. as was indicated by the investigations at 1le Verto. Qllebw. previously referred to. However, such means of harvesting eel grass are used only in very limited areas and could not. possibly cause the extensive destruction ‘of eel-grass that has recently taken place. m the Maritime Provinces and in the United States eel-grass is gathered for commercial and other uses by simply collecting loose material thrown on shore by the waves.

There is no proof that eel-grass has ever been“ destroyed on any noticeable scale by oil pollution, and it is not reasonable to suppO-Se. nor is there any evidence to show, that oil pollution in the past two years has increased so generally and greatly from Virgin's. to New Bruns- wick as to cause extensive eel-grass destruction throughout most of the eel-gross beds 1n that region. In the summer of 1932 heavy crude oil pollution from an oil-tanker that had been wrecked on Anticosti we!» observed along a. fifty-mile section of the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. but did not appear to injure eel-grass growng there.

It is a possibility that alteration of one or more of the physicochcm- ical factors involved in the relation- ship between this plant and the sur- rounding wnier..with its solutes. has occurred and has caused the observ- ed destruction. but no proof or In- dependent indication of such an oc- currence i5 known at. present. Sea water, containing, as it does a. great variety of solutes. ls a very complex silbstante, with a very large num- ber of variables, oonceming which much fundamental knowledge is still lacking, and that some slight change in its constitution might be lethal to Zostcra is certainly con- ceivable. On the other hand. if this is actually what has occasioned the death of this plant over such great

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in 1000 on September 26, 1932, while the maximum salinity reported from the sressof eel-grass destruction in the New Jersey bays is, as previous- ly stated, only 12.6 parts in 1000. The Cole Harbour specimen was taken when the tide W65 more than

half up, so that the cpl-grass in this bed wasundoubtedly subjected at

low ode to a degree oi’ salinity even lower than that observed. The fact that young plants. as at Port Joli. N. S. may grow extensively in early summer and yet show symptoms of approaching destruction in Sep- tembei-‘may indicate that the dis- easecausing organism is seasonal in its activity, and is relatively inactive in early summer and highly active in late summer and early autumn. Shore laboratory Needed ’ 0f course, the idea of o. disease- causing organism as the cause of the existing smrclty cannot be cou- sidered more than a. highly prob- able theory untl the organism can be found and the disease can be produced with it experimentally. Specimens of eel-grass in various stages of destruction, which I gath- ered at a number of places in the Maritime Provinces in September. 1932. were furnished as promptly as possbe to the Laboratory of Plant Pathology, oi‘ the Canadian Depart- ment of Agriculture, nt Ottawa, for examination. As a result of the ex- amination made it can now be said only that no organism has yet been identified as the cause of the de- struction, and that it is V"! ‘m’ likely that the causative organism is a fungus for, if it. were a fung- us. it would almost certainly have been discovered in the course of the examination. A coarse mycelium was found by Dr. E. silver Dowding, of this Laboratory, in one section of a blackened portion of the cortex of a rhizome, but 8s it could not be found in any other samples examin- ed. it was not considered to be n cause of the disease. Search for some other possible causative organ- ism, whether it be ii abctorium or an ultra-microscopic organism, must

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