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But, underfoot. the beach at Waikiki was sadly below expecta- Hon. I would not have minded- Indeed, I would have been rather pleased-had I cut my foot on aj Brinch of cogal. Is would have as
"WHEN A MAN'S
'MAN,"
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a Motte are sharing the honours John Bowers and Marguerite de
of bathing. The French distrust i sumed the symbolism of a solemn of the loading roles in a motien
the sun.
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pleture version of Harold Ball Wright's "When a Man's a Man," a First National attraction Which will be screened at the World Theatre to-day and to-morrow..
It is the story of an indolent young clubman, who is suddenly brought to the realisation of the fuillity of his Hfe, when the girl of his heart turns him down. Through "a trick of Fate he finds himself in the mile high city of Prescott. Arizona. Home time lator, and from curiosity and a desire to get away from his on self he takes a job as cowpuncher on the Cross Triangle Ranch.
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by A. Traveller.) Each country has its own ways
Not content with not initiation, by blood-letting, Into the allowing pleasure boats on the Fellowship of the South Sen Rovers beach, they officially herd the and Greatly Adventurous Doga. should have tremured that 'senr. bathers into small areas, under the masterful supervision of an offletul
But it will knock the bottom out with a squeaky brass horn, which of Pacific romance. If I tell you he Loot with frenzy when anyone point-blank thut it was bits of -usually a wild Englishwoman-broken beer bottles that I cut my swime out of her depth. When a feek on, And coke, elinkers, cab bit of a breeze is blowing and the age stalks. and the entrails of delicious foam-capped breakers, so fowls lay about la squalid drifts. Beloved of our island ruce,
I did, by assiduous search, find one thundering up the sands a black small shell-half a brcken cockle fag te run up by the sentry-box of One day I will go half across the the "Sauvateur" as an announce world again, and lay down there, ment that bathing is forbidden, or to please that illustrious spirit, a severely frowned upon. But we sackful of shells from the beach have to hang our heads in shame off Branksome Chine, where he The Child's Garden of when they taunt as with tolerasing wrote the benighted spots in Britain Verada. Little pink shells, and where our males are officially sort "peckled twirligigs-not chekles, d eat from our females and set And I will the emptied snck into the water in separate drove with coke and broken beer bottles Of late little curly wigs have been and bury them, with a Commination Service. one tempestuous night at French, so that disaster need over-en when the great waves and the take no woman at dejeung whose Ughtnings speak to Man the Defler bathingerup has sprung a leak.
The Japanese are the most per Heavens, how cold the Baltic istinacious bathers on earth. We Hundreds of times have 1 bathed bathe merely for the fun of the in it. after a buth of glorious but thing, but they bathe for the good 'sun, and never without remember their health, which is not to say mg its ice-bound winter. Unless that they do not thoroughly enjoy you are one of these intrepid, in hemselves over it. Everyone you domitable supermen of hiend and meet is either just going to take iron who take that morning plunge some medlented bath or has just in the Serpentine all the year randomie from one. So numerous the only way to enjoy a Baltic bathe Japan's colcanoes and hot mineral i to swim in some sheltered little springs that for centuries they have
How he bears up under his dis- shallow buy towards the close of exerted as great influence upon her appointment, brings together the treatment of disense. Western girl and her lover, gives in hot sunny day. The Swedes and curative
the Firns, the Eathonians and the Pubile baths in the cities are at the reformed cattle rustler a new! North Russians do not care; it th" tomded more largely. I shoul lease on life, and leaves his new• ! bathing is good enough for a Polar think, than those anywhere else infound friends for "green fields and bear it is good enough for them. the warld There is no annoyingpastures new, make up one of thei they declare. I shall never forget wait in the really Japanese Hotels most vivid and entertaining photo- my Bras bathe in the South Sea, until you can get into the bath-plays to reach the screen in many istek. It was on that song-famud room. Everyone. of both sexes, months. Beach of Waikiki, round" the hookusek, the same large bathroom.
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Many strange adventures come to the tenderfoot in the West, and hej forms many odd friendships, one of which leads him to the tree and rope of a lynching party, and yet! saves him from this ignominiour end just in time. He meets "un-: other" girl. but cannot efface the memory, of the first one, and when he has proven to himself and his new-found friends that he is mun- albeit cheated out of his natural birthright by inherited wealth and love of luxury-he is ready to claim his right to future happiness with the loved one.
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But Fate deals him an unkind. blow. His former sweetheart ar- rives in Prescott with her husband. the hero's old rival, on their honey moon trip.
"When a Man's a Man" was pro-1
of the bay from Honolulu. How irrespective of how many bathers duced by rincipal Pictures Cor punkent the smell of the seaweet are there already. In the hotelsporation, and the complete cast in- in that water, how entrancing the catering for foreigners, however, cludes John Bewers. Marguerite de Many. fazy emerald rollers that there are separate bathrooms. No a Motte. June Marlowe, Robart, etime slouching ing they rose, rose, Japanese considers a bath an in- Frazer. George Hackathorne, For- tottered and makinally vanished modest proceeding.
Your house rest Robinson. Fred Stanton. Hearne Arthur Hort. Elizabeth Rhodes and Johnny Fox.
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around one in a smother of iridesmaid or cook will craise through Icent bubbles. Just behind me was the bathroom on their lawful occa- the little plank bungalow under the sins with as complete a lack o1 etling palms where Stevenson interest in the fact that you are used to write, surrounded by his busily tabbing yourself as they! toys and cussing the lyndwars show if they pass you while you breeze that would keep blowing his are washing your hands under the sheets of manuscript about. I had spigot in the passage. If you a job to find the place. The police-want to know what a course of man questioned about this holy really het baths are like you should ground had never heard of "RLS." visit a volcano,Bank village such as He thought meant one Stevenson Kusatsu, below Asama's grumbling. who was conducting a fruit store ever-menacing crater, where a hun- Fin Honolülu. "Oh, a writer." dred pilgrims take #lobster-
he said idly swinging his club: boiling" course, twice daily for
ain't no writers located aroun month, in water that eventually here, I guess and added that reaches a temperature of 120 de only. Honolulu's rich and respect- grees Fahr You have to stay up is an astonishing thing that in the ed business men could iford to to the chin in it for five minutes, course of conafderable wanderings locate around a high-class re- the bath master calling each slow-in China, and Manchurin I have sidential neighbourhood like this. passing half-minute. Real estate, he amiably collifided, came a good Hien higher about
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is a pity, as everyone who has beển, cooped up with them in the hot weather will readily concede.
It
never seen a Chinese man, woman, The Chinese, on the other hand, or child bathing in sea, lake, r have not the bathing habit, which | river.-" Manchester, Guardian."
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