WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1931.
THE LOG
Of The "TRADER HORN" Expedition.
by W. S. Van Dyke
21mplice to the “China Mail"
11
THE CHINA MAIL.
nese area will necessitate the per- ROUND THE CINEMAS
mission of the Chlef Medical Officeri
if we are to stay longer than twenty-
four hours, With those minor de- PRIZE FIGHTS AND FOOTBALL talle excepted, the erocodile
sequence is practically on its way to
the laboratory.
GAMES.
Travelling up the White Nile from YOUNG MAN OF MANHATTAN, Lake Albert to Rhine Camp we pass-
ed large herds of elephant, also of the preserve. They are there, there is no doubt of that, but when we beg in operations with cameras,
as to just what will qusition
Fast-moving and modern as a young Man of Manhattan" Schneider Cup aeroplane raves,
comus
If you will be kind enough to was fortunate that we decided to are lights, and geaerators it is the main feature on a splendid pro-1
Based on the Saturday Evening Post serial and best-selling novel by: Katharine Brush, one of America's and moet successful
youngest
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COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions.
To-day Tea Dance at
Hong:
At
Butisha, Ugamta, May 11. of our tricks along the way.
to the Central Theatre to-day na Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances
Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels. open your atlus to a map-of-Atel-do-sup for half way to Macinde we
Entertainments, ca, you will find Lake Albert just were stalled by a large truck transpire. It is legal to shoot ramme.
To-day King's Theatre; to the left of your wife's indes which had run out of gas in the them and they don't speak English.
"Anybody's Woman." Ginger. She is pointing to Lake middle of the narrow road. The The only thing I can think of is
To-day- Queen's Theatre; Victorin, which is quite another lindu driver refused to push monkey-nuts. Perhaps it is best
"Whoopee." matter; we left there four or five out of the way to make room for to do all the worrying when the
Central Theatre; writers about young people, the ple-To-day -- In the words of the days ago, And then when you -roused in fact, to do anything time comes.
ture picks up in impetas on the "Young Man of Manhattan." save lorated Lake Alberi you may
It was then that trainer whose elephants broke loose
screen what it couldn't have attain-Elver of Romance."
Today Majestic finu a dot on the southeast shore we got out of our car, put our and lodged in a munitions shed,
all right,
ed by the lower medium Jan Bed Batiaba. And if you have shoulders to the truck and push- "Everything'e
Home Mails. of the way ourselves, where they are."
printed word. an exceptional atlas it is possible ed it out
To-morrow-Inward from Europe The principal characters, Clau- í thod you will notice that there is The Hindus were quite upset and At Rhino cump we failed to find
Brat our drivers told us that such pro-any Rhino, but you a boat at the Batiala pier.
[dette Colbert as Ann Vaughn, Nor-via Suez Ranpura).
Saturday-Outward for Europe as Toby McLean,! custom in Buffalo at Buffalo, New York either. cedure was not the
via Siberia (Empress of Japan),
in any event, let it be known that
at all about it.
I know
don't
find
Foster man
of the
New
Records
Columbia
GRAND OPERAS
IN COMPLETE FORM.
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.
V 13 Records
$78.00
RIGOLETTO,
Theatre;
15 Records ......
$75.00
LA TRAVIATA.
15 Records
$75.00
IL TROVATORE,
14 Records
$70.00
1
16 Records
$80.00
PAGLIACCI.
12 Records
$39.60
MANON.
18 Records
$117.00
#am approximately half way be- | Africa, but had it not been for our? We did locate Rhino the next day. Churies Ruggles us Shorty Rossa.30 am.; for Europe via Marseilles!
tween the town and the boat. In Another hour I will be on the boat, headed for Murchison Falls at the sther end of the lake
I was partly the Imperial Hotel 24 Kampala and partly the fact all anxious to get that we are
lastend on the actual business of of a cur expolition--the making moving picture that made us de cide to get on up country in such
baste.
Here is a romance-drama that is
and Ginger Rogera វង្វេ Paft Yankee impertinence and lack of however, near Arua, and again ex-
Randolph, are seen against a thrill respect, 1 don't doubt that we should perfenced great entisfaction. If I be somewhere along the road now, van find the game I'm not worried, ing pattern of prize fights, football chatting pleasantly with the Hindus but even a director can't work with games, six-day bicycles races, hotel and waiting for the arrival of out tools. All I have ever asked is reom sprees, night clubs and other passerby who happened to be carry that I be given enough actors to trendezvous of the boys and girls ing ton extra gallons of petrol. my parts, proper place for them to who furnish America with its daily
Just before dinner we arrived at agt in and a technical crew that newspaper fure. Macinde, which appeared in the understands its business. In this darkness to be little more than a picture I have the human actors, packed with real Amertean zingo. native village and an hetel. To opram sure. I have the location-thet carries a whoopes-wallop in one mutual surprise and pleasure the best in the world-and I have what hand. and a human, throbbing love- The morning after our arrival hotel was excellent. Although it believe to be the beet crew in the theme in the other. Sure, there's a at Kampala we were up very early, is run by a native the rooms are business. The rest of my actors-lot of carousing and drinking-but While two of the boys remained clean and well-furnished, the baths the animals-are here in abundance then there's a lot of hard work and behind to negotiate the hire of appear to be sanitary and the food as I have just ascertained, and if suitable lorries for our safari, is thoroughly first class. I shall can't make them act as they are jumped into a taxi and drove over not soon forget that dinner and bed, supposed to I'm in the wrong pro to Entebbe to see the Governor of
Largest Crocodiles. Hession: In Hollywood-the-only Uganda. The trip is much like Yesterday at four thirty in the impossibility is the impassible and the one from Jinja to Kampala-nörning we were up and dressed, it's up to me to mould Africa to the the roads are smooth, the foliage preparatory to making the last jump pattern of Hollywood for a few is dense and there is just enough to Butiaba, where we
wore to em- months. chaage of topography to relieve the monotony of the ride.
A Residential Centre,
1
The town f Entebbe itself stands high above Lake Victoria
15 a blat. It is peopled by a great many Europeans who hold the Governmen: positions and is. ongequently, a residential centre of unusual beauty. The Governor,
"Why is there no picture in that frame?"
"That is the pusthumous work of the great artist, Rodriguez."--
Buen Humor, Madrid.
|
bark for Murchison Falls, Palm
Bench to the largest
The Pygmies.
crocodiles ini But that begins to sound like a Africa. Although the trip is only landatory article on the cinema-
erlous-minded love-making too..
If you like a warming, tingling love story, seasoned with red-hot American pep, get a load of this "Young Man of Manhattan."
"FEET FIRST." -
Methods may come and methods may go, but the Lloydian fup goes on, seemingly, for ever.
Cumorin, 10.30 am. Meeting.
China
Friday
Underwriters, Hong Kong Bank Building, noon.
Sports. See Sports Diary on Page 9.
NOVEL RUSE.
JEWELLER'S ASSISTANT PUT
IN BATHROOM.
An audacious robbery was carri-
ed out by a Chinese yesterday. The firm of Wing Sing, Queen'a Road Central, were victimised of $670 worth of jewellery.
It appears that a man telephoned, asking to have a aclection of jewel) lery sent up to a room in the Em- press Hotel. An assistant was sent with the jewellery and on opening the door was confronted by the man with a revolver. The man seized the parcel of jewellery; the youth was put into the bathroom; and the robber made off with ease..
In other words, no matter what 45 miles, we planned to allow our-let's get back to Africa. We had to the requirements of film production selves enough time to negotiate the drive for five days through the charter of a boat and the proper Belgian Congo before we came upon of the Harold Lloyd Corp. keep |might be, Harold Lloyd and his staff handling of our ears and baggage. the Pygmies. Quite suddenly on right on axhilarating
A WEEK'S DISEASES. the screen- Until such details had been ar-Sunday, May 19, we landed in the
going public with new thrills, new ranged
left the trucks in midst of them at Bene. They were Macinde to await word by telegraph very considerate, told us that they laughs in each succeeding pro- TOLL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND
from us.
We
At about
7 we
would do what we wanted them to
duction.
TYPHOID.
The official return of disenses
In the old silont days, Lloyd's pictures were made from a sketchy story outline, with gags being filled and deaths during the week end- in with each succeeding day's worked May 16 is as follows:- on the set ur location.
reuched the and bid us a fond farewell the next top of the escarpment over day, not understanding in the least looking Lake Albert. It why we had come or what we u stene which unfolde SO sud meant by "motion pictures." Any- denly and so beautifully that all of way-there are the pygmies, and na were without words for the Bene is marked on my map with a moment, Dawn Wad breaking large red circle and а scrawl
of the which says "pygmie" to all who can picture in which he became arti-Tuberculosis
This was Harold's first Cerebro-spinal fever.
across the blue mountains
| Belgian Congo, on the opposite side read my writing.
were to take.
fur use in the picture.
natives
Then came the second era of pro- Enteric fever cedure as exemplified in "Welcome Diphtheria Danger."
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Cases. Deaths.
2
2
1
0
1
58
Summary to May 16.
Danger" was
The method
worry
are
"Welcome on
The returns from January 1 hybrid procedure. to May 16 give the following The silent version was made fart. figures:- Then this version was "shot" over again with dialogue added for the Typhoid
Asiatic Building.
FOR THE REAL SMOKE.
NO IMITATIONS.
Cases. Deaths.
67
14
Smallpox
12
8
2
57
20
8
3
4
2
975
NO NEED TO BUY A NEW DRESS.
There is
"Feet First," his current comedy- Scarlet fever thriller coming to the King's Thea- Diphtheria
tre to-morrow, marks a new era Cerebro-spinal fever.
of the lake. Two thousand feet The matter of a witch doctor to below streiched the plain which ran play an important "bit" in the pic from the bills upon which we were ture gave me considerable located but to the water and which until I reached the uncivilized connected to us by a white ribbon parts of Africa-particularly the road, winding in and out down the Congo where the side of the mountain.
mikes. On a tiny thoroughly unspoiled by the white urm of land were the buildings of man. There I was able to find in Rutisba, the pier and the ship we numerable witch doctors suitable
As we reached the level of the one in almost any tribe of any size. of picture-making for Lloyd. "Tect Puerperal fever law-lands, the view lost itself to us. They correspond to the American We, were hemmed in by trees which Indian medicine man and are by all dialogue and gage had been re- were non-Chinese, as were two Thirteen of the typhoid cases looked like so many sage bushes necessity superior in intelligence hearsed before the cameras Sir William Gowera, occupies
and scarlet fever cases, one small-pox from above, a few minutes before, the average native. I shall depend large rumbling mansion which
The rand stretched straight ahead upon the best location and the tribal Covers the choicest promontory
to the Butiaba pier and warehouse.j dress to decide the particular witch process, within the town limits. I wne toid Another fifteen minutes and we had doctor to use. In this one instance by his secretary that he was in- arrived at Butiaba and were shak- I was pleasantly surprised to find disposed, suffering from fever,ing hands with Commander Buck- a wealth of excellent material. and so the opportunity of explor-ler who is everything from District
was disappointed as well in being those parts.
An Adequate "Renchero,”
when I
and
origina!, detailed script in which First" was worked out from an Tuberculosis
microphones started the recording case, and 16 diphtheria cases.
"THE DESERT SONG."
It la singularly fitting that "The
HOTEL GUESTS
AT HONG KONG HOTEL. May 19, 1931. ing his estate was lost to me. I Commissioner to Life Guard in In the single objective of locating Desert Song," the screen's first
Messra. A. Attorper, W. 0. the adequate "Renchero" I was dia- operetta, should be produced by
Warner Brothers, unable to meet His Excellency.
A Modest Ambition.
appointed. It is a curious
whose latrodas-] Arnold, C. H. Ashworth, Miss tion and development of the Vita- K. D. Acult, Miss E. J. L. Acult. He is spoken of throughout this Butlaha, Uganda, May, 21, 1929. noteworthy fact that the African
Messrs. N. Bartlett, M. G. Brash, part of Africa as one of the most I have decided to include the native as a type is neither tall nor phone is solely responsible for the
advent of the speaking photoplay. unusual men in His Majesty's ser- activities of the past ten days in one heavily muscled.
Mrs. C. Bridgeford. In the South
Presenting the first "sound film" vice, having spent more than entry of my diary, During that Scas.
Messrs. C. G. A. Carter, W. E. there Was thirty years in the continent as an time we have covered about four-filming "White shadows of the South when they released the John Barry- Christian, Mrs. M. W. Campbell, elephant hunter, district commis- teen hundred miles of country, but Seas" and "The Pagan" I could more production, "Don Juan," with Miss E. M. Campbell.
В synchronised orchestral score, xioner and chief executive of the since it is all to be covered more have found dozens of admirable
Warner Brothers next included ac-i Uganda Protectorate.
thoroughly by our combined party Rencheros. The Polynesian is big- Arriving back at Kampala I later, and since we were in toc ger framed and more athletic than tual talking in Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer." Then followed many found that the four lorries had much of a hurry to make careful the central African native. From other productions making a con- been engaged for our small ex-note of anything but the most gen- the time I arrived in Mombasa I pedition and that they would be eral details, I feel that it la best to have been constantly
Messrs. Hanke, C. R. Hebb, Mr. on the alert, stantly added use of the Vitaphone, loaded and ready to depart the confine myself for the time being casting an appraising eye at each big and finally several which were "all- and Mrs. C. L. Hogan, Miss V. following day. For the remainder in favour of more accurate expoal-native I passed.
talking."
'Hogan, Mrs. A. S. Hathaway.. of the afternoon I walked about tion later.
As a climax to their endeavours Mr. J. E. Joseph, Mrs. L. Kampala, finding it to be an al- It was our purpose on the small native is either too slender or too they have produced the glorious Jorgensen.
musical play, "The Desert Song," Mr. V. Keen. which comes to World Theatre to-
In almost every
case I have found that the tall
was in.
morrow.
The all-star cast appearing in the
Includes John Boles,
Mrs. G. M. Duncan. Miss H. R. Ely. Mr. K. C. Fairchild.
Mr. W. Glass, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gelomb.
Miss H. Lillie. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Leonard.
most model small town. Although "high pressure" safari from which misshapen to fit the role and in the there le no sewerage and all the I have just returned to make a very few cases that I did come upon one water must be carried in from the rapid examination of certain parts with a physique to sult the part, I
Messrs. 0. Morgenstein, R. Lake and bolled, there appears to of the country which had been sug-found that its possessor be no slovenly district in the en-gested to me as being suitable for capable of the most elementary act-screen version of "The Desert Song" Menitti, G. E. Mason, W. Mefueki, tire locality. By some magic all "Trader Horn" locations. It was Ing or had placed himself under con- Fazenda, Carlotta King, Johnny J. L MacSeviggen, Miss M. L. Louice H. E. M. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. refuse is removed during the night, my modest ambition to find 500 tract at some kind of a job. streets are kept as clean as the crocodiles who could pass a Holly-
Arthur, John Miljan, Marie Wells, Meyer, Miss H H. Meyer, Mrs. In Royal Footsteps. fleer of a home and the Europear wood make-up test, a herd of ele-To-night we are back where we Jack Pratt, Edward Martindel, Otto M. E. McKee.
like the resi-phants who would listen to reason, a started from, camped on the side of Hoffman, Myrna Loy, Robert E. Guzman, Del Elliott and a magni- a European few pluin and fancy Rhinos who the escarpment overlooking the or American city, than anything could be depended upon to charge plains of Butlaba and Lake Albert, ficent singing chorus of one hundred in Africa. Across from the hotel, the camera upon request,, as well as We are occupying the game there is the nine hole Uganda Golf a tribe of pygmies, a witch doctor camp, in fact, that was home to Course, where every white person and a giant native who was intel- the Prince of Wales on the occasion above the age of fifteen foregathers ligent enough to handle the part of of his visit here last fall. To- at sundown for a round of golf. I "Rencharo," the fourth most Im-morrow
rection looks more
dential suburbs of
volees.
Teat
"MIN AND BILL”
Directing a crowd of extras in
tank faced by George Hill when he
we proceed to Masindi
Mr. B. Nickola,
spent the hours before supper alt-portant character in the picture. where our Nairobi party will meet five different languages was the H.. H. Tipping.
Many More Hippo.
"
Lieut. and Mrs. T. G. Reanny, Mr. F. L. Robbins.
Meairs AN. Spencer, H. Suchariper, F. Strahan, R. Sala- berry, Dr. J. A. Slot, Miss E. C. Searing.
Capt. W. Tornroth, Mr. and Mrs.
ting on the balcony of the hotel
us in full force with our entire directed the fishing village scenes Wilson, S. 3. Wong, H. B. Wreun..
Mesars. T... Williams. W. J. watching the players teeing off And without being too literal equipment. If they have obeyed end meditating upon the uncom- about it-we
Messrs. H. Yule, G. W. Yardley. in. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Min were successful in my telegraphic orders, they will be mon popularity of a game which each instance. At Murchison Falls ready to proceed, at once to our art and Bill," in which Marie Dressler AndWallace Beery will be seen has within recent years made its we found 500 crocodiles and many location on Lake Albert, way into the heart of "Darkest more Hippo-so many in fact, that
[To Be Continued.]
starting on Saturday at the Queen's COMMENCING TO-MORROW Africa."
A few issues, of the Chint Island was used and actual fisher they almost upset the launch which
A location at Terminal Stalled by a Truck,
was taking us up the Victorian Nile
At The MAJESTIC/ Mail of Monday and Tacaday folk employed, as extras. Toey in- The next morning. we packed to the Falls. Whether or not they containing the first two instal- cluded Japanese, Danes, Portuguese, ALL our bags, threw them in the tour will sit up and be photographed is
ments of this enthralling story, Slovaks and even Indians. The ing car which had been engaged something, we will have to worry
are available.] to come with us, and said good about when we reach the location bye to Kampala and the Imperial en masse. The vicinity of Murchi Hotel. We were bound for son Falls is a Uganda game preserve Macinde, 168 miles away toward where, shooting is prohibited ex- Lake Albert. It was about 11 cept in self defence. It will be o'clock when the last of our forcies necessary to obtain the permission pulled away, and we fell in at of the Governor of Uganda to camp the rear of the line of cars, to be in the preserve and the fact that it sure that we would not lose any is also a part of the sleeping Sick-
COMING 7.77
JUST MAGINE
Theatre.
picture, based on Lorna Moon's novel, "Dark Star,” is a vivid drama with Miss Marie Dressler in her first character role aincu (Anna Christie Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie |Rambeau," Donald Dullaway, DewDE Jennings, Russell Hopton, Frank McGIyan and Greta Gould hre In the supporting cast.
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