THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931.
THE LOG
Of The “TRADER HORN” Expedition.
by W. S. Van Dyke
Exclusive to the “Chian Mail"
Murchison Falls, Uganda,
June 17.
One
appear. Like the suicide said as he fell past the twelfth storey of the of | baulding, "So far, so good."
un your
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROUND THE CINEMAS
SIMULTANEOUS FILM FOR THREE CINEMAS,
*TRADER HORN."
NEW
SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.
The first American travelling ex- pedition ever granted permission to penetrate the Murchison Falls re-
Secial Functions. gion of the Uganda Protectorate of
To-day-Tou Dance Africa was the motion picture unit which filmed "Trader Horn," Metro-Kong Hotel; Dinner Goldwyn-Mayer's talkie version of Hong Kong and Peninsula Entertainments, the noted adventure book showing
simultaneously to-diny
To-day King's at the
"The Big Trail."
necessary
This afternoon, being leisure, I have myself to a careful To spend a minute seated in the study of the home life of the shade of a tree here is to breed aQueen's, Star and World Theatres.
We have succeed- i multitude of bites African insert.
neck
Sir William Gowers, governing) et in completing all our filming at and hands. A small variety of an director of the Uganda Protectorate, this location with the exception of and spends ita life dropping from granted the unusual request of the crocodile pool which is still in the branches of any and all African Director W. S. Van Dyke. who the process of construction and will trees and falling onto the exposed found the trip
to the not be ready for another four or five portions of those seated below. His success of the production because of days. In the meantime we have finst impulse is to chew the offend-the, abundance of crocodiles, hippos nothing to do but keep fresh buit infing human to bits-an operation and elephant herila in this ares, the pool anal pray for elear weather which he performs with thorough-j
n the day when the erorodiles are nes and alacrity. all assembled and everything is ready for the cameras.
"THE RIG TRAIL,"
To-day Queen's "Trader Horn."
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE FIFTIETH
T
ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, at Hong
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Dances at
Ltd.. Pedder Street, Hong Kong, Hotels.
on WEDNESDAY, the 17th June, Theatre; 1931, at Noon for the purpose of
receiving the Report of the Dire tors, passing the Accounts, and Theatre;
Electing Directors and Auditors, Theatre;
Theatre.
To-day Central "Dangerous Nan McGrew."
To-dag - Majestie "Al Quiet on the Western Front."
To-day-World Theatre; "Trader
Horn."
Horn."
To-day-Star Theatre; "Trader
D
Home Mail. To-morrow-Inward from Europe via Siberia (Haruna Maru); Out- ward for Europe via Suez (Haruna, Maru) G p.m.
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Meetings.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th June to Ist July, 1931, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 27th May, 1931.
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ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
There is not a scene in Raoul Walsh's Fox Film, "The Big Trail," ting 10.30 a.m.
Por the Sale by Public Auction that is not founded on fact. The
To-morrow-Peak Church Annual to be held little lees than two hours It ukes to
(Continued int next Columu.)
To-morrow - Union Society, 11 a.m.; China
11.15 .m
on MONDAY, the
at
3 p.m.,
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years, with the option of renewal June 17 Indo-China Steam at a. Crown Rent to be fixed by the Navigation. Co., Ltd., Messrs. Surveyor of His Majesty the King, Jardines, noon.
Sports.
The difficulty of getting permia. sion to travel through this section The only retreat from the variety of Africs lica in the fact that the of bites which make up a day in Murchison Falls region ja notorious It is a sat but true fact that one Africa is to retire into the masquito as a breeding place for the most who travels in Africa must become net. To date no effective method virulent form of African sleeping
quainted with the inserts abiding or combating this defensive has been sickness. querein regardless of one's per- evolved by the insectà of the camp. sonal views on the subject. They 1 am anticipating nightly the refuse to be ignored. 1. for information of an alliance with some stance, had been sent to Africa to camp bed-bugs who can be imparted make picture,
2
not 10 study to carry forward the good work of entomology. And yet I had been the mosquitoes, flies and wasp. in the entry ban a few hours when I have failed to conclude in this, I was deving ways and means my life work un entomology, any re-see and hear this truly epochal re-meeting, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 1st day of June, 1931, whereby I could impede the pro- ference to a thousand other insects enactment of the march of the 5.30 p.m. press of the African mesquito in his who have left their marks upon me search for provender. Ever since whose identity I have failed to re- I have become increasingly inter-cognize, or whode names 1 didn't boulder between
Welsurance Co., The eyes. ested in the daily movements of the quite catch. There is a variety, of ordered the boys to bring various many-legged friends who white ant, for instance, and a small animals along and started for camp. sport so playfully about one's face spider, and a yellow jacket. I shall Arriving at our landing, a crowd and neck and drop en coyly into have them to the gentlemen who had gathered, anxious to hear the one's morning tot And in my come here expressly to see them and story of the hunt, the results of find an insect remain, as we say in Hollywood, in which they had been able to see in that does not bite. There may be my own department.
the beat as we came toward shore. sme in Africa, but they have re- Tonnarrow, God willing, I shall had no sooner jumped out of the fused any association with me. depart down river to try my boat and started for my tent when
A Wasp Nest.
luck at hunting big game.
By felt myself swept off my feet and pioneers obviously cannot reveal the to the type- the When I sat down
kindness of Pete
Pear-hoisted on the shoulders of three months of research involved in the writer this afternoon. for example, sun. the Kame ranger who of our personal "boys"—my
interests of historical accuracy. I was puzzled to Sal that the lower was with
until yesterday, among them.
The road to Oregon, for example, of keys would not function,
Carried to the Centre.
which was also the central route to Turning the machine over, I saw to
Without comment they carried me California, was not a single trail. my great borrer, that a wasp had wrve. No telling what we'll find. to the centre of camp where were There was a time, however, when constructed his nest inside the key There is an abundance of elephant, gathered all the other natives in our pioneers in pioneer waggona might there buffalo, and hippa in the vicinity party, each carrying a small branch, almost have followed the road across began a great buzzing and fluttering and will depend upon Major and swinging to the rhythm of the plains by the mounds in the mud ball and an enormous | Dickinson, one of the white hunters, chant which Was being led by Weipt least two inches long-to direct me to it. flow aut directly into my face. had done ne the honour of de-
studies 1 have yet to
row
rack.
Even
Mrs. Diggs:
* Post,
He
"So Mrs. Climber has become a vegetarian."
Mr. Digge: "Poor Climber- butcher stopped his credit, too, suppose?"-Bulletin, Sydney.
signing to build in my typewriter
and I had been so uriappreciative as
that house!!
vital parts of my machine with a
For the rest of the day the вате
ther work at the typewriter.
The Tsetse Fly.
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I have been granted permission to
kill occasional game in the pre-
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Renchero, dressed in a grass suit. The crowd had formed into ranks of five or six each, led by a sort of drum corps which kept perfect time to the singing by beating old coffee
See Sports Diary on Page 9.
of new made graves.
The old опев, levelled by storms of wind and rain. Flame of Popularity.
could not have served them. There Murchison Falls, Uganda.
was weariness of men and animals. June 19.
Waggone broke down. Flour and Te-day I am busking in the dying
bacon, cooking stoves, were left emirs of a flame of popularity us and pieces of wood together-along the road. Great herds of buffalo which occasioned my return yester-The dance Itself is actually nothing charged down
upon the waggon day from a hunting expedition. Ibet a combination of a shimmy, a trains. There were cloud bursta. killed a buffalo.
Charleston and a black bottom. The Streams raged into flood.
we
porters,
mostly
for one further term of 75 years,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
We left camp-Major Dickinson ascari boys, members of one tribe, life not without beauty went
And yet DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS on of the Sale by Public Auction and I with our gun bearers-direct-led the parade with a well-executed
along that highway. Marrlages to be held ly after breakfast.
on MONDAY, the Throwing muaical comedy stamp. Following were made, children were born. 1st day of
the
June, few provisions in the native canoe them came
1931, and fiddles 8 p.m., which furnishes our only mode of Mkamba tribesmen, who danced bowed under the clear stars; young Public
Banjos were picked
at the Offices of the
transportation here,
Works Department, by paddled shimmy with Charleston footwork, feat danced on the soft prairie turpet Order of His Excellency the Gov downstream about a mile and a all to the same music. The rhythm,, half below camp, landing finally at maintained by the beating of tins around the camp fires; high snows ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land a bit of well-trampled beach which and sticks, is syncopated in the same glittered under the sun of noon and at Boundary Street, in the Colony Kave every evidence of being a game manner as the trap drummer in any hope was a shining cloud beyond the of Hong Kong, for a term of 76 years, commencing from 1st July, trail. After tying up the boat jazz band. I was more impressed
Because "The Rig Trail" was a 1898, with the option of renewal set forth into the jungle, keeping with the natural harmony of the
fitting dedication to the pioneers at a Crown Rent to be fixed our eyes on the animal spores under chant and the familiar character of foot and listening for the sound of the dance than with the degree of was the reason Walsh has made it by the Surveyor of His Majesty a living, breathing the King, for one further term of the honour which was being bestowed on the screen breaking timber-harbinger of
thing, with thousands of playera 24 years leas three days. mighty elephant.
living over again for months what
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. those of a century ago lived and suffered. John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill and El Brendel head the
We had gone a mile or so Inland, through country intersected with
upon me.
Celebration Customary.
I learned afterwards, when the game trails and covered with thorn dancing had become a private affair
mountains.
* DANGEROUS NAN MCGREW.”
which the
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6 Cases Beer,
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to question his right to the property, brush, low trees and elephant grass, back in the native encampment, imposing cast of "The Big Trail" Well, he would show me who owned and I was beginning to thrill with that the celebration is customary which actually numbers 99 prin- the knowledge that I was probably throughout Africa following the cipals in addition to 20,000 extras. I succeeded with some-difficulty/the first human-unquestionably the killing of one of the four most dan-The Big Trail" is by far the best in driving him out of my tent with firet white man-who had ever trod gerous animals: the elephant, the a ty swatter and destroying his that soll, when, very casually, my rhino, the lion and the buffalo. It movietone that Raoul Walsh has lever made. It is showing at the arm and is called like all native dances, a nest which was attached to the most gunbearer gripped my
King's Theatre from to-day. "Buffalo." whispered
Perhaps ngoma and is much the same as an that doesn't sound very breath-American celebration after a foot- substance which I took to be cement. taking, and it is only because it was ball victory except that the singing waep insisted upon returning to the one of the last things in the world is better here in Africa and there
"Dangerous Nan McGraw" in wenne of the disaster, taking a sor we intended to find that it gave are fewer raccoon coate.
coming to the Central Theatre We had seen ele- The best singer among the na- to-day to shoot up the town with rowful look at the site of his erst-me such a start. while residence and then steering phant tracks, and we knew that the tives carries the lead, making up a wild "boop-boopa-doops" and make a course for my right eye, veering, country was full of hippos, leopard, story of the adventure and the coos and cuddles- grow, where only at the last moment, but leaving my buck and lion but nobody, not even prowess of the hunter as he goes one con an cuddle grew before. mind shattered and unfit for fur- Pete Pearson, would agree that along, and turning to the body of You guessed it-Helen Kane's the
there was buffalo within five miles the natives periodically for
the
title role player in this picture of instructions to sell by Publie THE Undersigned have received
for more of camp.
chorus. It is as though a group of wild and woolly Klondyke clowning. college boys were carrying their It's the first picture in
Auction In the moments of boredom be-
Preparing to Charge. Dickinson, who was a few yards football captain on their shoulders, tiny-voiced queen tween visits from the wasp, my
of cuddlesome friend the tactee fly did his best to behind me, had seen the animal at singing "For He's a Jolly Good] "It" has ever been billed as the keep me occupied. He is an animal the same time as the gunbearer. He Fellow" in much better unison than
leading personality. -no insest could bite like he does walked up to me, handed me a .375 is usually the case, and accenting Shë attained the distinction very much faster, lights without rifle and pointed off to my right. their singing by a few steps from through her good work in her three arousing his victim's notice, and There within twenty yards stood an the chorus numbers in any fast earlier Faramount comedies-"No- drivea
buffalo, looking musical comedy. 2 quarter-of-an-inch-long enormous bull
thing But the Truth" with Richard Treachery of Buffaloes.. lance into one anatomy at any spot, directly at us, preparing to charge.
Dix; "Pointed Heels" with William clothed or otherwise, before one can Without further delay d brought the Their glee over the slaying of a Powell, Fay Wray and Skeets
accounted for by the Gallagher; and It is a foolproof com- rifle into position, drew a bead on buffalo is
"Sweetle"; with bination. You can't feel him until a spot between his eye and ear and belief, general throughout Africa, Nancy Carroll and Jack Oakle, he stings and then It's too late. And blazed away. Almost as I did so, that the buffalo is the most! "Dangerous Nan McGrew" is an it's next to impossible to hit him Dickinson let go. with his rifle and treacherous of all African animals. original story by Charles Beahan the bull dropped in his tracks. We Almost alone among the wild beasts, and Garrett Fort. It has a even if you see him light.
On the wing the tsetse fly makes walked over to him at once and fired he is apt to charge at sight and once multitude of uproarious comedy a sharp humming noise, much the another shot into his head which started, he is one of the most diff
eftudtions and a nice balance of same as a noisy house fly, so that precluded any possibility of his cult to stop or to avold at all. His thrills and romance." Then there until he comes to rest there is no bang alive. The whole proceeding charge is not blind, as is the rhinos, are the "well" songs that Helen
The general contract for the erec method of determining whether or had taken so little time that I hard-and few have succeeded in dodging Kane sings along with her bimit-tion of the coagulation basin and not danger is abroad. When hely knew what was going on. The him, once he gets under way. The able buffoonery.
Alter building of the $1,000,000 doen pause for a moment, however, animal had been lying on the ground one I killed measured 42 inches be-
"Dangerous Nan McGrew" is the Altration plant which is to be erect it is an easy matter to identify him asleep, and had been aroused by the tween horns and weighed about story a singer in a travelling ed at Burlington Beach to provide Had 1,600 pounds. The largest buffalo medicine show" who doubles in Hamilton with pure filtered water by the fact that his wings overlap mole of our approach. and te flat on his back in a straight we not seen him, it is more than ever-killed measured 56" between Annie Oakley obligatos en Z: re- bas "been awarded to the W. H' line, one on top of the other. P possible that he would have charged here, I believe, so it is evident that penting rifle. Marooned at the Yates Construction
A Chance in a Thousand. us at once and our chances of plac-mine was well up among the best spiffy hunting lodge of a wealthy Hamilton, at a contract price of Company, In this particular district paring a killing shot would have been if not a record holder... mas", family'.fäthe wilds of Canada's rounding Murchison Falls, there. In small indeed Luck had been withTo-night we had buffalo pot ple Royal North-west, the "med" "show for dinner an excellent: dish--and personnel la pressed into the do- alleged to be about one chance in aug thousand that the tsetse fly that has Dickinson bent over the carcass the boys continue to cast affection-mestic circle as: talent for a grand just finished biting you is a carrier and decided, perhaps charitably, ste glances in my direction I have macked ball; It at this brilliant of Sleeping Sickness. Each of us that my shot had killed him. The decided not to worry about which of Jamboree that Helen Kane captures has been punctured at least afty bullet had entered his head just be those three bullets was mine for an escaped criminal and wine, not times in the two weeks we've been tind the right eye and had ap- to-night. I go to my bed a full only the reward of $10,000 but the here, but it will be eight months berparently pierced the brain. One edged big game hunter fore the symptoms of the disease other shot had gone through the
kill him.
[To Be Continuedi be
heart of Stuart Erwin, the bashful beau, as
of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow. loon).
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