TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1931.
THE LOG
Of The "TRADER HORN" Expedition.
by W. S. Van Dyke Macinster to the "China Mai”
June 6,
i
Murchison Falls, Uganda, Now that we are definitely settled for the next two or three weeks perhaps it would be a god, idea to say something about the details of our camp and the routine of motion picture life in
We are camped about a quar- ter of a mile below Murchison Falls proper in a plot of partial- ly-shaded ground one hundred yards long and half as wide,
Africa.
our
THE CHINA MAIL.
MARIE DRESSLER IN NEW
tion a very important detail-ROUND THE CINEMAS the discovery of Renchero. Prob- ably the fact that, he has been under my very nose for the past | two weeks influences me to think lightly of the unusual bit of lick that brought him to my atten- tion.
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"FEET FIRST."
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ON the sun refused to shine that and 3" now at the Queen's WEDNESDAY, the 27th May, 1931 Harry Alhlez, our property man, Theatre, for the scenario of the commencing at 11 am., Starting to dress ypt discover decided to give the natives a
new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talkie Looking that the clothes which your boy thrill.
through his drama, although based on took to the washing yesterday are trunks on location he came upon Lorna Moon best-seller, "Dark the hack. They are not quite spot- gorilla suit which he had Star," was expressly adapted to in tins
15 cages of Dutch Boneless Ham less and the pressing is irregular, brought along to be used in case suit the respective talents of the but the service is nothing short we were able to locate any real two character actors and comedy in tins. of miraculous. You put on some ones. There were at least a hun-stars. George Hill of "The Big plain khaki pants and a flannel dred natives gathered around. House" fame directed. shirt. This, but for knee boots viewing the process of picture and a cork helmet, is enough out-making, and it occurred to Harry fit for any man. Immediately in that it would be a great moment front of your tent, the boy has to experiment with the suit. Con- set up the wash stand-a canvas cealed in the pron tent, he slipped "Action" for a Harold Lloyd pic- bathtub or washstand and a into the outfit and then called ture, that's exactly what he gets tin of hot water stands on the some of us over to give the alarm and plenty of it. ground beside it. You are able to and start the panic. At a given For the sagacious Harold of the wash and shave with comparative ed out of the shed, screaming at long ago that one of the chief qualiHE Undersigned have received signal a couple of our boys rush-horn-rimmed spectacles learned! comfort.
A Terrific Din.
the top of their lungs. followed ties in a film, if it is to be a success- Tinstructions to sell by Public About this time a terrific din closely by the "gorilla." In less ful film, is the quality of action, Auction arises from the general direction than it takes to say it most of Action and more ACTION. of the mess hall. It is the gong the natives had left the scene,
Comequently for breakfast. You may be completely, bound for the tall astute young
FRIDAY, the 29th May, 1931. slightly trampled by Harry Carey grass. Others had taken to the produced has been a successful film.
commencing at 10.30 a.02. as you make your way in the trees, and one or two were hide has never allowed the action-(Dressmakors & Milliners) Queen's At the premises of "Pamela" direction of the noise, but the den in the trading post store built continuity to lag for a minute. chances are you will reach then the scene. Just when we were
Road Central (St. Franels Hotel) When he made his first talkie, scene with sufficient appetite to getting a great laugh ont of the "Welcome Danger" he was confront- The Stock in Trade, be interested in the menu. The success of our act, my eyes felled, with a problem: would dialogue
Shop Furniture & Fittings, mess tent itself is almost twenty on the figure of a giant native, slow up action?
Comprising yards long, furnished with
walking directly in the path a
Ile attacked the probem with his
Ready made dresses, coats, rain single table covered with oilcloth of the charging Albiez, reaching customary vigour and as
a result coats, felt and straw hats, ailk Very good service at meals is nonchalantly for his panga. At made a huge success of "Welcome stockings, underwear. dreas given by the personal boys each the time, I am rather ashamed Danger" As most folks will re-materials, slippers, powder boxes, one taking particular care to see to admit, the seriousness of the member, dialogue along with it. fancy articles, etc., etc. that his master is not hungry or occasion so far as it concerned welcome Danger" wAS
Glass show cases, happy thirsty. For breakfast you will the "gorilla" escaped me. I was teaming of the two, with a slightly robes with bevelled glass doors, The First Business, probably have oatmeal and can consumed with the realisation greater burden of responsibility on
chest. teak
of drawers, The first thing that transpires ned cream,
that I had found Renchero. For action than on dialogue. eggs and
sautages
cheval and large mirrors, carpet, upon our arrival at any location (when eggs are available from tunately, one of the hunters in-
Now comes the most recent con- curtains, shop fittings, ceiling and is the business of ridding the native villages) toast and canned terceded in time to prevent any fection from the happy ha-ha house table fans, electric lights, etc., etc. surroundings of all high grass butter and excellent coffee. calamities and the danger was of Lloyd-Feet First." It is On View from Thursday, the and brush. This is done by our After breakfast you will retire to averted.
crammed full with action. Of 28th May, 1931. fifty-odd native porters, hired to one of the steamer chairs set up
course, “Feet First" is a talking.pic- du the neral labour of our safari.in the clearing overlooking the
Terms: Cash on Delivery. I went at once to Waller, head ture, and the lines are, in their. With these men there is only one river, where you can focus your of the safari, and asked him proper places, funny, romantic,
LAMMERT BROS., tool-shovels, axes, picks are all glasses on fifty crocodiles, lying where the big native had been whimsical, uproarious, descriptive,
Auctioneers. ronsense-give them the panga on the sandy spit of beach oppo all my life, explaining the neces- tense. But the action carries the
Hong Kong, 26th May, 1931. and they will do anything from site as you finish your first cigarsity for such a character in the main burden of the production. chopping down an oak to shaving ette of the day. you. It is a large knife, heavily weighted, resembling a bread
close to the shore of the Victorin Nile. At this point the river is one hundred and fifty roughly yards wide, and except for the limited space in which we are camped, is bordered on both sides by dense jungle. The fact that eampsite is the only natural clearing of any size for some miles along the river is ac-, counted for by the presence of a rocky gorge which gives into the stream at this spot. The stony bluffs, rising on either side of us, to a distance of more than a hundred feet, offer admirable shade and protection from the sun and rain. It is quite an ideal location for a camp except for the propinquity to the river and the swarms of tsetse flies and mosquitoes that breed in the bushes along its hanks.
"Uusvifish bloke, ain't 'e?" "Yes, 'D's killing 'imself drinkin' other people's 'ealth."-- Avazir, Sydney.
knife and usually about eighteen inches long. An hour or two after you have turned these boys loose ou a campsite it looks as though a threshing machine had swept over the ground.
warm water.
Flowing White Robe.
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teak ward-
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picture. He told me that the Audiences will see Harold in all! At eleven o'clock while you are fellow was Mutia, head of our kinds of scraped, Just for an at work on the location back in own safar boys; that he had been example his boss' wife comes into the canyon, your boy will arrive with us all the time, that he had the shoe store where he is clerk, to with a pot of tea and some bis. only been on the location by be fitted for a pair of shoes. At! cuits-tea being practically a chance on his way from a bath in that moment n pretty girl stops! substitute for water in this coun- the lake, and that he unquestion- nearby. Harold, in his confusion,; try. Since all water must be boil. ably possessed sufficient intelli-gets the wrong shoes on the wrong ed to kill the bacteria, it is usual-gence to "understand" acting in foot and takes a terrible tongue- Ir considered more pleasant to the picture. At the time I saw lashing. Then in trying to make drink ten all the time than plain him he was dressed only in a loin amends, he nearly tears the soles cloth, whief accounts for the fact out of the stockings of this haughty- Lunch, served at one o'clock, that I never noticed him before and important customer. When he usually consists of fresh vege in my search for Rencheros. In learns she is the boss'e wife! table salad or vegetable stew, cold camp he wears a flowing white And then there is the breath- Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances nt meats, potatoca, biscuits, pud robe which conceals his physique taking situation when he finds him- Hong Kong and Repulse Bay Hotels ding and coffee. Again at four and detracts from his height.self dangling in mid-air from aland Hotel Cecil. your tea is taken to you. Among | Although we have no accurate painter's scaffolding. Lurching, the residents of Africa, work measure, I judge him to be at clutching at the ether, scrambling generally censes after tea on least 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighing for a foothold, missing it, almost safari. In our case, of course, no less than 185 pounds. He falling, a dozen times, to the street since we are dependent upon the has the stretched ear lobes, typi- hundreds of feet below. sun it has been our custom to continue filming until sunset.
A Mosquito Boot.. Arriving back in camp at about five o'clock you find your bathtub filled with warm water. assembled behind your tent and
your bath and
enl of the Mkamba natives, and the stoic demeanour of the better class of African "boya."
he was signed up to play the part. The day following his discovery
the plot of the story was explain- After ed to him in Swahili and his cos- a change of tume was fitted on him. For the clothes which includes slipping moment I am almost without any on the African swed mosquito worries.
But those are only two incidents in a picture which, for thrilling, pulse-stopping, amusing, rollicking,
see to appreciate. and breath-taking action, one must
To-day and
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Entertainments. To-day King's Theatre; "Feet First."
To-day- Queen's "Min and BIL"
To-day Central "Marriage Playground."
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To-day Majestie "All Quiet on the Western Front."
To-day-World Theatre; The Desert Song."
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"TRADER HORN," Ukulele it is claimed, boot (worn throughout Africa Since our arrival here at Mur really frat brought to Hawail by a ankles and legs from insect bites) a well-regulated course. after sundown to protect the chison Falls events have followed Harvard college boy, but there is no Within doubt where the xylophone originat- you venture forth to join the rest two days our camp was comed, according to members of of your party under the largest | pletely equipped for a stay of "Trader Horn" party."
from
a.m.
As soon as a clearing has been made the ascari, or personal boys, swoop down on the scene with all the personal kit of the safari. In half an hour each one has erect ed his master's tent, has made the bed, laid out the clothing, set up the portable wash stand and bath and reproduced, almost to the letter, the arrangement of
tree in camp, where the folding two weeks. The Samuel Baker Among the strange instruments Wednesdayƒ Salea Room, 15 every personal item as it was in
chairs are placed and the ascari made four trips during that time in the jungles, director Van Dyke cases of Dutch boneless ham, and the previous camp. In our pre-·
boys are serving drinks. When carrying provisions, additional discovered the father of all the 5 cases smoked bacon, in tins,.11. sent camp there are about thirty
porters and live stock zylophones and marimbes. single, tents some
you are carefully seated your boy native others
will appear with your favourite while our own boys were ditching | "The Matabeles," he said, "have, double, They resemble
Friday-At "Pamela's" premises, very drink. There are many in Africa our tents, building a thorn- beside their tom-toms, a much the usual camper's tent.
strange Queen's Road Central, stock-in- who maintain thai a "dun hedge fence along the water-front array of small logs, laid on thonga, trade shop furniture and fittings, except that they are green in
downer," a highball or cocktail at to keep, the crocs and hippos which they strike with wooden 10.30 a.m. colour rather than khaki and are
Suncet is casential to ene's away, and constructing a trail clubs, cach log giving a different equipped with a sun cover which
Meetings. tops the tent and reaches within taith in the tropical climate, back in the canyon to our first tone.
Friday-Union Insurance Society, It is a favourite argument and set.
"They any that as few feet of the ground on
far back as 11 a.m.; China Fire Insurance Co., one that I have no particular in-
Plans for Two Weeks, mankind goes they have used these 11.15 a.m.; British Traders' In- either side. In a single tent, the
After an exploring trip up instruments, resembling zylophones.surance Co., 11.20 a.m., at Union kind I am occupying at present, trest in. It may be significant,
of their folk Building. there is ample room for a bed, however, that most of us have stream yesterday, I have formed They figure in some a chair and a table and the large survived without them and Pete a fair idea of our plans for the tales, which would place them
nt Friday China Sugars, Jardine's duffle bags and suitcases that Pearson has spent twenty-three next two weeks as far as they con- least five hundred years back,"
Board Room, noon. make up my luggage. The beds years in the worst parts of Africa cern the picture. About one hun
without ever touching spirits. dred yards above camp a small the problem of getting Horn are constructed of green canvas,
Half a Million Bugs. stream flows into the river from and Benchero across the pleure stretched over a light wooden
After an interminable wait, a swamp 50 feet back in the a fairly simple one. frame, and are reasonably com-
while the darkness 'gathers, din jungle, An island in the contre Body Floating in Waler. fortable when covered with the
ner is announced. mattress and blankets in our bed hall a million bugs are swarming lent rendezvous for hundreds of necessary to complete the build- In the Mess of the swamp serves as an excel- During the week or ten days rolls.
Mosquito nets are hung around the lights, falling on the the largest crocs in the world who ing at crocodile pool we can be from special hooks in the top of the tent. The floor is covered plates and sticking in the butter. become tired of fighting the river busy filming other sequences of with canvas which, in the sort of The menu will consist of some currents and decide to walk up the picture in the canyon behind damp climate we are now endur thing like vegetable soup, cat- the narrow stream and lie down camp which demand nothing more Scuttle via ports on May 25: ing; is a blessing. So much for fish from the river, fried chicken in the seclusion of the jungle. 1 than typical African jungle scen- our quarters, now for a typical day in camp!
4
In the Morning.
Each morning, at six o'clock your personal boy will put out the light, which has been burn
ing in front of your tent to keep the Hippo away and arouses you
and coffee.
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Sperts.
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and potatoes, pudding or fruit had to see the place only onerery. Following that, if time reJ. B. Haley, W. Glass, Mrs. R. to realise it was an ideal location mains, we can go up river to the Wylle, Mrs. M. F. Ocker, Earl C. It will ba nine o'clock by the for one of our scenes which pic-base of the falls to make the part Moore, Lt. S. E. Martin. time you finish dinner and, re-tures Trader Horn and Renchero of the picture concerned with membering your call for the next climbing through over Horn's discovery of the body
trecs
STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
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morning you will decide to have ground swarming with croco of the Missionary lady floating in then turn in a smoke in front of your tent and diles, making good their escape the water. The vicinity of the While you have from. tribe of hostile natives. falls proper affords an admirable been at dinner, your boy has Accordingly, I have sent Morgan setting for this sequence since it lowered your mosquito net and and ten natives up to the swamp is a spot of great scenic beauty for this port on May 24, p.m., and placed your lantern outside your to build camera platforms in the and one which closely matches is due here on May 28, p.m. tent flap. As you sit quietly puff- trees and to fence in the stream the one described in the script. ing at your pipe, you can hear which forms the only escape for Tonight we are all retiring
the crocodiles.
from your bed. As soon as you by removing the mosquito net open your eyes, he produces a cup of tea which he has learned to make exactly to your order. This you drink meditatively in that brutal moment between Awaltening and putting on the
Sun Refused to Shine. first damp sock. And unless you
Murchison Falls, Uganda, have someone at home to get
De June 74 you a cup of tea cach morning at six a.m. it is advisable never to In the exigencies of trans accept it in Africa, for its very.porting our company to this new easy to form an attachment to it, location I have neglected to men
the noises of camp dying out, be
morrow morning, when once ing replaced by the sounds of the In this way we can be assured early, there is a call for 5.80 to that our arrival will not score again the clicking of a movie jungle.
away from the scene enough of camera will break in upon the the crocs to rob us of an effective stillness of another bit of abori picture, The presence of a large ginal Africa, and the cry of shade tree in the middle of the Camera!" will silence the grunt- Island and a similar one on shore ing of the Hippos. with branches interlacing makes
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