、FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1929.
BRITAIN'S AIRSHIPS
R.101 Condemned By Naval Critic
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NOT OF REAL USE
Only Hope Is Longer Vessel, To Take From the Sea
FUTURE OF THE AIR
The new airships 1.100 and R.101 are severely criticised by Commander Sir Dennis Burney in "The World, the Air, and the Future." The position is all the more extraordinary because Sir Dennis Burney, more than any other individual, was responsible for the British Goyerminent re-embarking on the construction of airships. It is unlikely that any official reply will be given to the criticisms. The view is taken that the trial flights alone will give any definite and decisive information upon the performance of the airship.
UNNECESSARY WEIGHT
an authorita-
type of airship and mooring must can never be commercially satis-
factory.
A New Type
THE CHINA
MADAME RIVIERE'S
SAMOANS
ARRIVING IN COLONY ON MONDAY
A POPULAR TROUPE
MAIL,
RADIO
TO-DAY'S L PROGRAMME
Next Monday morning Madame Claude Riviere arrives with her broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong The following programme will be troupe of Samoans, who will appear Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 350 the same evening in the Theatre metres:- just as popular as they did when & Victor Records supplied by Royal, They will no doubt prove 5.00 p.m.Programme of H.M.V. here last March, for, according to Courtesy of Messrs. Moutrie & all accounts they have lost none of Co. their delightful spontaneity, and have added many new numbers that make their programmes longer and more attractive than ever.
"Chimes of Normandy Overture"
"The Jesters Overture" (Ganno),
(Planquetta).
Continental Symphony
Orchestra, "You'll Never Miss Your Mother Till
She's Gone", will the Circle be Unbroken!"
This little group of dancers con- sista of four full-blooded native Samoan boys and three girls. She chose Samoans, because Samoa wasi (Ada R. Habersbon-Chas. H. almost the only Polynesian island .Gabriel)...Bud Billings Caraon
Robison. where she found the original dane- ing and music of the natives, as it "La Boheme Fantasia-Part 1 & 2" existed before the arrival of Capt.
. (Puccini),
Victor Symphony Orchestra. Cook, the art of the other islands "Star of the East (Lahr), having become greatly changed "The Garden of Allah" (Marshall),
Peter Dawson, Bass-Baritone. 6.30 p.m.-Children's Programme. 6.00-7.00 p.m.-Chinese Pro-
through the modern influence of missionaries and tourists.
7.48 p.m.-Weather Report,
A Polynesian Theatre In Honolulu Mme. Riviere found-gramme. rapidly became a successful atrac-
He then suggests a remarkable new kind of airship, which he be. Polynesian theatre, which 9.26 p.m.--Danco Music played lever would overcome all these
It is to be many timesion and popular feature of that at the St. Andrew's Ball will be relayed from the Peninsula Hotel. pleasure-loving
11.30 p.m.-Close Down.
difficulties.
Although city.
their dances are in the main the old Samoan dances, they also give the real Hawaiian Gourd and Bamboo Dances, which they learned from SHADOWS BEFORE. native Hawalian teachers under
It is learnt from tive source that a great deal of the weight which It 101 will carry on her test flights may prove unneces Bary. The duplication of all con- trols and the Servo rudder system are two examples of purt of the vessel where lightening may be 'possible after tests have shown it bigger than the R 100 and R 101, there is an ample safety margin. and it is to operate exclusively The general impression at Card-from water bases. Two long scoops ington is that that criticisms are which fill with water as the vessel premature. It is felt that the alights hold it down, and a special work of the engineers and manu- mooring raft enables it to be Mme. Riviere's careful supervision. COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED secured. In this extraordinary Their own Siva-siva is strangely vessel he sees the future long-fascinating, with flowing rhythmic distance air transport vehicle. movements of feet and legs and To develop the long-distance airgraceful swaying of the upper body, have yielded trustworthy informa-ship, the medium-distance dying executed in altting position. This Kong Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
boat and the short-distance aero- is one of their most formal dances plane on a scale which could be and is performed to the accompani-Kong Hotel, 8.80 p.m. of real value to the Empire, Sir|ment of a chanting song.
To-day- St. Dennis Burney suggests an air The Taualune is the favourite Peninsula Hotel, 9.30 p.m.
factureni should first of all be given an opportunity to prove its worth and that adverse criticism bald be suspended until the tests
tion about the merits of the R 101. The R 101 has been built with the primary object of showing that air hips are safe. The heavy Dil engines, which weigh a geat deal transport subsidy of £10,000,000 to more than petrol engines of cor- be saved from the estimates for responding power, have been In the fighting services.
R101
dance of the Samoans, and is not unlike the Huln of the Hawaiians,
The new British dirigible, the R-101, moored to its mast at the Cardington Air Station after undergoing stationary tests which proved successful.
stalled to reduce fire risks, and
wherever the needs of safety and
performance have conflicted per BULLDOG DRUMMOND
formance has been sacrificed.
The view of the staff at Carding- ton is that the airships are on experiment, and that it is impos- sible at this stage to foretell if the experiment will aucceed or fall. Question of Litt
Sir Dennis Burney states:-"As these ships are to-day, the R 101 and the R.101 22.5 ions extra lift and the. R.101 22.5 tons extra lift
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'except that it is much more dyna- ture on "Charlotte Bronte" by mic in its expression of wild Sir Henry Gollan, Cathedral Hall. abandon. Another of their dances that proved unusually thrilling last March is the War Knife Dance. In which they express primitive savagery with large, murderous, hooked knives.
Exotic Beauty of Tropics Mme. Riviera, who' has a pen- Whatever shattered faith there chant for art in its various forms, might have been in the talkies after was a member of artistic and liter- seeing the "Four Devils," it is now ary circles of Paris, when she was to make them commercial proposi-all dispelled with the showing of "Buil-sent by the French Government to tions upon the London-Egypt route dog Drummond," at the Queen's Thes-make an economic report on Tahiti. at the low cruising speed of 70 tre yesterday,
After completing her report, fas- The producers classified this superb cinated by the exotic beauty of the nu.p.h."
For a flight to Egypt, where the picture as a 100 per cent, talkie, and tropics, she stayed in the islanda nearest mooring mast is situated, they were right, in doing so. The pic of the Pacific for seven years, inal- Sir Donn's calculates that the R 101ture "talks" from the first turn of the would be unable to carry any payim handle until the last, and it ly centreing her interest in Samoa. Previous to these adventurous "talks" in such a way that the audience load at all. He goes on to make catches every word of it, unless one is years she made a trip from Paris the most damaging criticlem that stone deaf. Even the gurgling sound to New York, and after teaching a has yet appeared of the airship asof Hould pouring out of a bottle coull year in Bryn Mawr College, in a practical transport vehicle. He he heard distinctly.
Pennsylvania, founded and directed points out that, alone among Those who had seen "Bulldog Drum-In New York a magazine called "La vehicles in use to-day, it cannot mond" yesterday wi agree that it is France," which was devoted to make a landing of its own accord quite the boat talking picture seen Ro bringing the artistic and intellec
Car, Apart from its vocal merit, the,tual side of French life before the without extraneous aid.
The aeroplars or flying boat picture in itself is most entertaining American public. Among other
"Sapper" who brought Bolideg Drum- cai, as a rule, make a forced land- Imoad, Algy and the gang of Interna. Publications, in which her articles Ing without damage, A marinettonal crooks into life must have been on the art of the Polynesians have vessel can always anchor or heave quite pleased to see that the Silver appeared, is "Asia".
to. A train or a motor-car or any Screen has been quite faithful to the
Story Faithfully Enacted
kind of land vehicle can stop at screation of his facile pen, d any time. Afrships, however, can make a landing only at a prepared baso, and until this disability, is overcome I am of the opinion that they can never develop into práce tical transport vehicles."
After examining the available methods of mooring and of hand- ling sa airship Into a shed, Sir Dennis decides that tho - existing COLOURED TRIPLETS
has more time on his hand than ha knows what to do with it, and will The story was faithfully, enacted, al only be too eager to find diversion from though some stays-at-Lomes may say anything. His English Intonation is that they get more thrill out of Sep. better... Last say, then "Bulldog per's took than the film version Drummand That is a matter of opinion, but there :-*-- Stage Make-Up Absent is one outstanding point which cannot
Phyllia charming and she wears be gainsaid. They will surely miss the her look of fright and horror" quite excellent singing of the simple coun-genuinely. There does not appear to try rustics in the village Inn where be any of the stage, maka-up, in hor "Bulldog Drummand took a room for acting but the same cannot be said of the purpose of running the gang of Erms: She has, I must say, overdone part. In "Eapper's book she Ap- axoy and girlish and not. it all willing confederats, offer pl heart, which theills Aley so much that Dr. Lakington is the true maniac, And Spotted Faces he quite forgot himself and the fre- whose brain to obsessed with one iden 103 Kumar fram, portance of the work before him, temette dó harm to others with the chemi- Peking Word has been received - Then again the continuity of the cal weapons at his command. His act
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