WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931.
to preserve
song.
THE CROSSING
"Are We Going to Have It Smooth ?"
FROM ERIN TO ENGLAND. By Margaret Southern,
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Kuve up
My
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THE CHINA
MAIL.
MUSICAL TREAT. Renowned Violinist, Coming Here.
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JASCHA HEIFITZ..
Hong Kong music lovers are to
be regaled with a rare musical treat
FROM
HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE
PIANOS
to
the
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Liner-de-Luxe
France is next year to make an ambitious bid for supremacy in the South Atlantic shipping traffic by putting into service the new liner Atlantique, which carries on board
a miniature Rue de Rivoli.
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oil and thermal spring regions, where large quantities of gas ce- cape into the air, in the hope that helium may be found in the same жду
discovered in America.
it was
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The United States now hold a virtual monopoly of helium, though the gas has been found in Ceylon in small quantities. It is hoped that the results of Indian research will be even more fruitful.
Many airship disasters might have been saved if all dirigibles had been filled with helium; which
is a non-inflammable gas.
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early next month. Jascha Helfitz, world-renowned virtuoso of the Television For All . violin, will give an evening concert! The new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel has been at the King's Theatre, on December in New York, which 4 at 9.30 only. Mr. and Mrs. built at a cost of £8,000,000, will be Heifitz will arrive in Hong Kong on at once the largest, highest, and
Some of its features are: At that time it was still not was at sen, the magnate lifted the 3rd, on route to Manila and the most luxurious hotel in the New
Straits Settlements, and will stop-World.
Two thousand two hundred guest The Atlantique, built at St. unusual to drive to the docks eye-brows at his companion.
"When I was at home I was over for one day in the Colony.
This is the third world tour that rooms, including 300 residential Nazaire, has a tonnage of 40,000 on a side-car, with your luggage,
was 17"
and a speed of twenty-four knots. in a better place behind a hack that went like a
vious tour was in 1923. At that A ballroom four storeya high, ac-She is one of the four biggest ships thoroughbred. Perhaps, like so muttered the waiter, eyeing him. Mr. Heifitz is making. His pre-suites. many hacks over there, he was Between the magnate's conversa.
I was tion and the berthless one's ex-time Mr. Hoifitz was a bachelor, but commodating 4,000 dancers and con- built since the war,
world's "Wish
largest A striking feature of her design thoroughbred,
and since then he has married Florence taining
Is that the main deck has been made Vider, the Paramount film star. orchestral organ. goin' too," muttered a porter, ample, I longed for bed
The repertoire of Heintz will Provision for television in every to resemble a town. It has a "High smiling through the wanderlust sought it.
The curtains of the lower
Stroot" 450 feet long, with shops on of n people born to be exiles.
I climbed consist of the selected works of room.
Bach, such famous composers as
A private rail siding beneath the either side. These shops repre On board. round the ticket oflice, berth were drawn.
the commercial cheerfulness reigned in a multi into the upper and
activities of Paris. There is others, and should leave in their own rail coaches. Vitali and ple 60-watt effulgence; even the thoughts of sleep, for it had a Schubert, Debusay-Hoffman, Ravel, hotel, where guests can arrive ex sent most of
Twin towers of luxury residential motor-car show-room, and tailors.. most reluctant kept it up as they porthole. One didn't sleep while
the Colony. Mr. Helfitz auftes, rising forty-seven storeys jewellers, costumiers, milliners, and buttonholed the stewards. "Are Pavlova, danced, or during the prove of especial interest to music-
dressmakers also have establish- will be accompanied on the piano (625ft) above street level. we going to have it smooth? "Trojan Women," or at a win-lovers in
Commendatore Gelardi, generalments on this floating shopping I'm no sailor," they coaxed, dow moving on the sen
who is street... beaming tentatively.
manager of Claridge's, A stew neighbour hadn't wanted it,by Mr. Isadore Achron,
neither was she, I gathered.
leaving
the hotel as a staff nurse, ardess, crisp
LIVES ON RATS AND MICE.
manage will retain direction of Claridge's Helium in India asked "Will I call you with Ausleep behind her curtains;
I hooked the!
will I ac heard her sigh.
hold daily con- cup of ten about seven?"
was Why The Barn Owl' Should Never and
Money has just been mado avail. ferences with his Be Killed,
Londonable by the Indian Geological De- cepted with an optimism quali-door open for air it
staff by means of the trans-Atlantic partment for an investigation into fied by experience, and, noting stifling and the porthole with pleasure that the upper clumped, put out the light,
Just now we may often hear a telephone. berth was vacant, put my bug on and thanked heaven for cold)
sheets. The engines seemed to great commotion in the shrubbery it and went on deck.
Between the sheds and the be just below us, footsteps pass-or the coppice. A jabbering crowd Another Melba?
"In the hope that another Melba gangways, in the high, unconsol-ed above and up and down the of sparrows or other small birds ing rays of are lamps, knots of stairs, the sea ran past with an may be seen mobbing a barn owl and may arise," Dame Nellie Melba, the leave-takers waited for us to endless churning sound. What driving it from pillar to post with famous singer, left, £8,000 for & notes and fluttering scholarship of music, tenable at sail Their upturned, black- was the magnate thinking, even indignant
the Albert Street Conservatorium though he had a deck cabin de wings. shadowed faces, unlike faces on
luxe with a Louis Quinze bed At this season the young owls, of Music, or if that should not be railway platforms, suggested mo-
the lives and a rose satin quilt, which I being fedged, are leaving their still in existence, then at mentous, experimental purged of platitude. A more had looked at through the win-homes one after the other to look University of Melbourne.
Probate has now been granted in tragic, dowdy gathering con- dow? The sea, milky pale in for suitable roosting-places and
widened from
my hunting-grounds that are not al- London (as regards the English The Eng- fronted the steerage, labouring starlight,
A far-off ready occupied. If an owl finds estate) of her property. with round of glass to A surface snatches of Indistinguishable union with the night sky, un some dark nicho in a barn roof all lish estate is valued at £43,096, and Afamiliar as death. In long hours well, but it generally flies to the property in Victoria, Australia, Minutes went by. voice came thinly, "Give my love passing steamer was comfort-some place where it is conspicuous. at £22,118, making a
a sharp-eyed sparrow £65,214. to Anne," and someone cried "Iing, but to cease watching was very soon will; she'll be asking all about impossible.
attracts a whole At two o'clock, with a loudies it out, and with jarring notes
crowd of other Artificial Gold --
Fardous A gong roared below, i
race of waters, the small birds, which pursue the poor and shrill good-byes elamoured noise and in the dark air, while handker-bout rocking, and the thrashing owl with hue and cry until it findu steel,
waterfall,
The ing secluded sanctuary. really chiefs flapped. A few people, of the screws like a
Slowly were silent. The we were off the island. tight-faced,
barn owl may be distinguished from production gangways went. For a moment an outline that seemed enormous other owls by its colour, which is Successful experiments have been "The Ghost Train" by the Gains- nothing seemed to happen, then rose between sea and sky, with bust above, beautifully variegated made in the casting of a non-borough British Film Co., Ltd.
a black peak shadowing all the with grey and back and white, while ferrous alloy of aluminium and one saw that the black gulf be
That is copper that has the appearance of below it la snow-white. tween boat and quay was widen-shore; we were an hour in pass- ing, the faces opposition growing ing it. A lighthouse was splen-
to imitate the various carats of gold smaller. When they were invi- did as some great Rosa Mundi, why it is often called the white gold, and this alloy is being made The new metal is stain- sible the deck was soon clear for more lovely and serene than that owl,
The barn ow! dogs not build a colour. the determined tramp, round off the Irish coast.
in some and will stand up to very severe round the saloon block, that a bay
It is expected that it will tree, or inside & tests.. few romantics would keep my smacks rode, each with a colour-white eggs in a hollow
now that the Occasional-attain popularity till midnight, arm in arm or tone-ed light at the masthead, friend-wall, cliff, or
iB on established It would soon be day; al-church tower or barn. ly.. The city sunk away; wely.
Already a full dinner the pigeons in any grounds. were nearly in mid-lough, the ready footsteps were multiply-ly it lays in a pigeon-house, with- manufacture
act has been made. The price of lights of Antrim villages no ing above, and domestic sounds out harming
A threatened whatever sleep other way.
useful farther than those of Down.
bird and the metal works out at about the last waneness of light was re-travellers might have enjoyed. flected where the wash creamed Scrubbing began, interrupted in should never be killed, for it lives same price na nickel silver, and is are taken by Jack Hulbert, Cleely
The fow and cinder-breath a minute by the clatter of an almost entirely on rats, mice, and thus within the reach of all.
noxious pesta. small birds that it eats are gen- Burglar's Aid Asked
An appeal has been made to an A voice, rich and palatable as orally sparrows. That weird shriek butter, cried "Holy Mary! Oh, we sometimes hear in the night is unknown burglar by the police to A second made by the barn owl as it hunts help them in finding the gangsters who made a daring rald on a branch glory be to God!" voice, different in texture, joined its prey.
This bird la found not only in of the Reichsbank, in: "Swearin' again, you blasphe
in Europe, Africa, min' Carthlic! If my old mother, England, but
ly from an armourer's shop. in the that brought me up God-fearin' Asia, Australia, and North America.ļa revolver which was stolen recent- Wilhelmatrasse. The police now with a 'and like carst iron, knew
to re- wot I ave to listen to night in this 'ere floatin' under-warred with my allegiance at ask the burglar concerned
Ah, in-that he was not connected with the world she'd soon 'ave me aome twenty to Lit. Hum. Should I port to them, as they are convinced to the Euston Road..... Comes now be more a man?
We ask and ask; thou raid on the bank, but that he could of bein' able to unlowd every-soluble!
still give them information which might The smilest and art think on a 'andy priest." first voice said, "It's a question "Down't worry, comryde," said lead to the apprehension of the I'll be pleased to settle wid you the second, fading slowly above, gangsters, and thus become entitled is democracy's to a considerable part of the re- when I'm afther stemmin' the "your lawas torrent, and if you'd assist like gyne." The occupant of the low-ward of £400. -
audibly and a gentleman instead of slanderin' er berth tossed
you,
behind us, above the shipyards. Already, though we should be half an hour in smooth water,
small flashes in the sky announced the lighthouse There came a long, gliding interval after the last village, while the air freshened, spray broke
on the rail, and jagged lines of froth began to race towards us from the black
Then the town at the point, and soon a burst of loud, coloured light like an explosion, leaping, gyrating, making a Pic- cadilly Circus or Vanity Fair of the sky, a dreadful warning. We were now at sea, but the light ran after us.
ness.
In a little
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Ghost Train Thrills ---
Crowde of holiday-makers at Barmouth witnessed thrilling film ocenes on the famous Great Western Railway viaduct over the estuary, in the final stages of the filming of
By arrangement with the railway
of the company, a special train from Lon- "ghost train" travelling at sixty miles an hour, when the Bwing don was used for scenes
out bridge opens
and the train
skill of the railway officials the bridge was awang open in the record time of five minutes. Railway traffic was in no way interfered with.
under the hill fishing.nest, but lays two to half-a-dozen less and can be washed after use, crashes into the water. By the
It in a very
overturned bucket and a rush of other water down the stairs.
every
In the saloon, as I took one of the swivel chairs, the waiter put plate and china with an air and an obviously second-hand nap- the religion like. a dirty Prothes-whispered, "Oh, damn!"
I got up at seven, while her kin with an easy gesture. Itant, keepin' your boots clean pushed the napkin away and a while God knows what pervair-curtains remained closed, and went on deck. Meeting the fresh one took its place, as from sity is in your tongue"
"Shall a little damask A third voice the waiter's-stewardess, I murmured, "You dropping balm: didn't call me with a cup of tea, breed division? Sorry, sorry," interrupted, the waiter's voice said over my "Gentlemen, to our representa- after all." "Isn't that tu baad?" shoulder. I swivelled round, tives leave vituperation, clash she responded with the mobile but he was across the room, of creeds, and the love and mak-sympathy of her race, and was Your bucket, forgiven. Day was young and serving a grim-chinned magriate ing of lies..
heaven.
squealed, long
On the gangway I found the
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One gangster lost on his flight
The chief characters in the film
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Courtneldge, and Ann Todd.
Chilean Fleet Revolt
A sequel to the revolt in the
under Chilean-Fleet has been the forma- tlon of a now. Government Senor Gaspamora, who has been given extraordinary powers to sup- press the revolt at Santiago.
Admiral von Schrooder flew Coquimbo and arranged terms of aubmission with the mutineers, which will end the revolt if the
Meanwhile a fresh mutiny is re Government accept them. ported from the Talcahuano naval base, and the British and the American residents of Santiago are reported to have formed a volunteer guard, fearing anti-foreign demon-
strations.
Raises Family of Fourteen
of a type that reproduces itself sir, I think. A little water more chill on the bleak estuary; gulls faithfully for the support of our or less in our great task of hap-swooped and commerce. "What I say is," piness need we go in at the tongues of mud had the pathos grumbled this one to his vis-a-deep end? Of such is the king of land's beginnings out of the We passed them, nenred via, a horse-breeder from, prob-dom of Westminster. Chuck it, ca.
Bells rang on board, ably, the Plant of York, "Ire- Alf back..upstairs, Ancient the city land's a nice place for a holiday Pistol, and leave our brother to on the water, on the wharves. At if the people weren't so hard to his devotions. The first voice,last, with a moment of stillness get to know, but then there's receding, with a sigh of recog-followed by a shudder through this infernal crossing spoils it.nition, to the jingle of the bucket, the ship, we were in. Makes you think twice, And rejoined, "It's, easy seen you
bedfellow before me, after those American liners these have the habut, of convuirsin unseen potty little boats let one down. with gentlefolk and scholars,known by her hand luggage as! Why, in one of those now liners Tom, the way St Michael and she stepped into the arms of you'd never know you were at Lucifer themselves'd stay their friends... "My dears, too atroci she shouted between sea!" Dwelling on this consum sparrin' to hear what you'd have ous!"
The second added, kisses, "I mean, if this is a mation, he looked at a fellow- to say." -passenger who was disposing "Mawv'lous gift, I will sy, duke sample why not go before the himself for the night on thewhere was you educated be-mast at once? I consider I've cashioned bench against the wall. fore a tyste for scarfarin' proved worked my passage as it is. And, on the Kettle Valley express. A night janitor at the C.P.I. station The floor deviated. for a second your undoin'?""'Oxford, Alf," after New York and back in those: from the horizontal and the the third answered, going up perfect liners, where you abso
never notice any÷j berthless passenger closed his latairs, "and if a too electric love lutely eyes. Thus reminded that he of letters and humanity hadn't thing!
Tanny, bright-eyed retriever, threw Canadian Pacific Railway express" officials lato a huddle at Vancouver recently when she proceeded to give birth to a family of 14 puppies shortly after her arrival from Nelson,
as nurse while racssengers were dispatched to all-night cafes in search of meat and other edibles for the family of 15. A great load of responsibility was lifted from express workers when Eirs, G. Scbolonski called in to clalin her pets. Fanny, however, later lost a few of her nu- merous brood when interested Vancouverites decided to try the experi- ment of raising them on the bottle.
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