SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1933,
BRITAIN'S WITTY
PRIMATE.
Dr. Lang D courses On Journalism.
HIS SECRET-REAM.
London.
LUXURY IN US. AIRCRAFT
Increased Comfort In Faster Planes.
THE CHINA
MAN WHO AMUSED TO-Day's Short Story.
THE WORLD."
Last of The "Three Men
In A Boat."
NOW LIVING IN LONDON.
*London.
..
WAS HE A LIAR?
By Michael Arlen.
"
BIG COMPETITIVE BATTLE.
I shall was as great as though he had won' New York.
the Derby. America air lines are being
"George" who has quite by ac. WELL, you tell me. give you the facts.
Two weeks later the Rt. Hon. The Archbishop Canterbury
William Henry Boisregis was (Dr. Lang) was at is best as an equipped with new planes on an cident-made more people laugh after-dinner speaker when he pdo unprecedented scale in a hot that almost any other man in the a famous actor, a great actor, a William Henry Bolsregis committed posed the toast of "Journalism" at competitiv battle to provide world, lives quietly now in a flat popular actor. But he did not suicide in peculiar gircumstances.
ant his face.. He was a piti-diculties, he was powerful, he was He had no enemies, he was not in the Newspaper Press Fund dinner. speed and yet more speed in the in St. John's Wood, London.
He is the last of the famous cian transportation of passengers, His was universally alaimed as the
Willie Boisregis was wealthy, loved. No explanations were forth- speech of the evening
mail and express, reports the Three Men in a Boat," whose ad-
ventures have been so beloved of gifted and handsome. About all, he coming of the tragedy except that He began with anfession. "New Yor Evening Post." "I owe it to you, he said, "to
The reult is that regular our fathers, our grandfathers and was possessed of the arts of popa- he must have been but of his mind reason er reasons un- larity to an eminent degree. Even for some confess that I have aften Indulged transport speeds are being step ourselves. in a dream in which saw myself.ped up in the space of one year Those three jolly sailors on that his wife, who had been married to known.
him for twenty-five years, can not Colour was lent to this theory by Jerome
the fact that when the statesman's to my infinite satisfion, once be from an aerage of 100 miles an merriest of voyages were fore I died, and be there was hour to an average of more than K. Jerome (who wrote the book), deny nim his charm.
It should be understood the Mrs. body was found at the foot of the Carl Hentschel (who appears 160. any time for repler retaliation.
Boisregis disapproved of han hus-railway embarkment, where he had addressing the ass bled, editors
The ne hips mostly metal, Harris") and George Wingrave band on moral groands. Sy was thrown himself from a passing train and reporters of theress, and tell-f
all streamned to high degree (the original of "George"),
alone in this. Her friend con- he was wearing a well-trimmed and ing them exactly at I thought are not designed to achieve speed
Now Jerome and Hentschel are sidered that she shoulde the firmly fixed false beard.
This was unusual and gave risë to about them!
at any cot, however, as much "Is it possible th my dream is
Air travel times thought, one of the men in above reproach. It was of Bois-sational character, and people In The Archbishop a, when the OR speed and almost as much on of the three although not, as sorne-for Willie's Imperial moral was much comment of a somewhat b6|-||
regis it was first said: "He would general were inclined to think that laughter and applause bad died) has ceased to be a novelty for the boat-has just died too.
George of the irrepressible antics rather not think at all than not in spite of the bag of golf clubs found. Desr his body, Winie the more daring travellers; pa Alas, no. Mere courtesy pre-trons have more and more look is over 70 now, with snow-white think Imperially."
Mrs. Bolsregis, however con- Bolsregis had chosen to commit led for convenience and ease ra-hair, rosy checks, shrewed cyes and
moral suicide in an un-English way. vents. I am your guest.
as intense an interest as ever in tinued to disapprove on
These suspicions, however, were "I will, however, ebeisance to the Power of the Press, ther than thrills.
One new plane is an all-metal, London life and the things that grounds. She was old-fashioned,
and people said she would look her changed to sentimental. approval when it became known that Mrs. "It is the most direct, all-prevad- ing and effective power in national low-wing monoplane, powered are going on in the world.
with two 550-horsepower super- Mr. Wingrave chuckles as much best dressed in leather.
It is true that Willie Boisregis Boisregis had explained to the police life. I would make an appeal to it!
charged. The silvery ship slides is anyone when he recalls those
was susceptible to the charms of that her husband would often dona to temper that power with mercy through the air at 165 miles an deft jokes about George!
"Happy is the man who, when he spoaks in public, is always reported hour and with throttles wide "George and Harris and Mont-pretty women, which is a weakness false beard on Saturdays with
But, as people said, what of it?: verbatim. There are very few left, open it makes 182 miles an hour morency (the dog) are not poetic in a country that prefers horses. view to improving his golf. except royalties and Sir James-12,605 pounds of plane, pas- ideals but things of flesh and blood-was he a great Englishman? Was
George, who sengers and cargo travelling at especially
weighs he a good fellow? three miles a minute!
meant to be fulfilled his evening?" (emphasis is placed, on safety, as/dead, and A.C. Goodinge--a friend long-sighted view about such riles,
down
Barrie.
.
make my
"If I make an Indiscretion in speech it is the one thing which is
increased comfort.
about twelve stone.
It can be said that William Henry
The insulated cabin carries ten "George goes to sleep at a bank Boisregis was, whenever his party certain to be reported. In the early passengers, who recline in ad-from 10 to 4 each day, except
days of the war I referred to some
"The result was that on my de-
justable, upholstered easy
MONDAY'S STORY.
Monday's story will be "Blazey's Funeral," by R. H. Mottram
on held office, which was always im-
crisis in the history of England, the of the better qualities of the chairs. Dome lights, individual Saturdays when they wake him up mediately after or before a major
reading lamps, individual venti- and put him outside at two.
"George has a 'loud' blazer. Har-most popular Minister in the coun- Kaiser's character. Immediately
He had found that while playing] most of the reporters fied from the lators and a new type heating room, rushed to the Post Office, and system add to the comfort of the ris said that as an object to hang try. This popularity reached ita
to frighten the birds away he meeting at the Albert Hall at which golf as Boisregis the Cabinet Minis- telegraphed that Indiscretion to the cabin. The crew consists of a over a flower bed in early spring pinnacle recently when, at a great
pilot, co-pilot, and stewardess.
con- Boisregis dealt summarily with War ter he was apt to be nervous and world,
Fully loaded, the ship can thould respect it; but that
a Mar-liberty of telling the United States beard he had found he could im- voted head for weeks and months maintain flight on one engine and sidered as an article of dress for Debts and Reparations, he took the self-conscious. But by donning a at least eight a demonstration for newe-jany human being except
of America to go to hell Later, prove his game by there poured a deluge of abuse."
"One citizen expressed in a letter Paper men it actually climbed gate nigger it made him ill.
"George fancies he' is ill; but the English Ambassador at Wash-strokes.
Mrs. Boisregis explained that for certain hopes about the future of with one motor cut out and nine
there is never anything really ington categorically denied this,
saying that Mr. Boisrefis had used some months before the tragedy her was persons in the cabin. the Kaiser after death. It
The new ships have been de-matter with him, you know."
the Etonian word "blazes" and not husband had enjoyed nothing more aigned John Smith, 26 years church;
signed with a special eye to the And on that adventurous river the idiomatic. "hell" It is under-than a round on some out-of-the- warden and communicant.'..
By holiday 44 years or so ago, not stood that the American Secretary way course where his disguise per "While I may think I am speaking comfort of the passengers.
I speak like a buffoon.'
lat
the
as Mr. Garvin writes, like a prophet. ingenious devices the the sound one of the three young men dream of State privately retorted that Mr.mitted him to make a reasonable I am reported to all the world as if of the motors and propellers is ed that their little mishaps and Boisregis was a wisecracker heel score in the company of stranger. muffled for the passengers to the amusements would send peals of and that England could go and boil Some months after the tragedy. Mra. Boisregis made a peculiar re- "When I was in America I was point where audiometer tests laughter echoing far into the fu- itself anyway.
same amount of ture, down the river of time.--Reu- But publicly the incident closed mark to a friend. She said she had asked by a reporter whether the register the
agreeably, and England and been married for twenty-five years reason the two Archbishops were noise as that of a Pullman carter.
America, cousins once again, were to a man without a face. She.ex- not too keenly in favour of prohibi- travelling at full speed.
free to be as rude as they liked, or plained that in the intimacy of the
all three got together and told Japan ber husband's face was expression- where she got off, but she didn't. less, blank, unalive. But he was That is called Disarmament, or, if no sooner with people than he be- want to be really tiresome, came alive--he became Willie Peace in Our Time.
Bolsregis.
tion was because they each bad whisky teddy every night....
The leather seats padded with eiderown and hair, are arranged
"To-night," he concluded, "I am two abreast on one side of the SHIP SOLD TO PAY dared to be, to France, whereupon home, when he was alone with the
thinking of the Press at lia best and aisle and a single seat on the truest, and I know that the honour other. The seats are adjustable, of the Press can be trusted.
THE CREW.
Arrears.
Belgrade.
permitting the passenger to re- Wages Three Years In you "I admire the respect which the cline and several of them can be Press pays to religion, and express reversed to permit of a bridge the hope that in these anxious times game. The ventilation and heat- the Church and the Press will looking systems are claborate and upon each other as allies."-Reuter, can be adjusted by the individual
As for the esthetic been sold by auction at Sushak national politics, and his popularity curious thing was, she explained, passenger. effect, the chairs are done in two in order to pay the wages of the were three years tone beige and Russian tan, top crew, which
The name of the panels and side walls in lighter in arrears, belge, with all seams tan-piped, ship is the Naprijed, due to sail and the curtains are peach from Kotor. Although valued at £1,200, the sale realised a Reuter,
sum which is not expected to meet all the charges on the
But, whether he had been Etonian He had no private, but only a or idiomatic, masses of English public, face. He was an actor who
A. steamer of 2,400 tons has people felt that Willie Bolsregis had came alive only when someone (not voiced a pressing need in inter-his wife) was watching him. The
DOG FALLS THROUGH CAR HOOD.
Amazing Escape After 40-Foot Jump.
Windhoek. Chased by the caretaker of the Government buildings, a dog dashed on to the balcony, where, cornered and with its retreat cut off, the animal took a flying leap] into space.
NO MORE
"SERENE vessel. OLD AGE."
More Paint For Faces
Than Houses.
COMPANION FOR INSOMNIA.
Wife Forced To Keep Husband Company.
Chicago.
that it was only when he wore his absurdly well-cut beard that he came alive even to her. He was a lar not out of malice but because he liked it
Willie
When
asked whether
Bouregis had ever, out of long custom, come to believe in his own? lies, she said she had never found out, but she suppossed he very pro bably had, seeing what a successful- politician he was.
A certain Mrs. Anthony Rhodes
An arrangement had been reached between the captain and
If a man has insomnia he the crew that if the total ar- rears of pay, amounting to about can't help it, but he has no right £1,000 were not paid by March to make his wife walk the floor
with him to keep him company. Gray could have told Mrs. Boisregis 31, the ship should be sold.
A judicial opinion to this something of interest. But she did The Naprijed is owned by effect was given here. The not came forward, not even at the Observing that "lovely, serene the steamship line which last court gave a divorce to Mrs, ingest. There was a dog had landed fair and square old age went out of style with year had one of its ships sold by Irene Walden who testified that this
Mr. Gray was the daughter of a on the hood of a touring car be-arrival of the jazz era, Dr. auction in Rotterdam to pay off her husband made her walk the longing to one of the Govern- Anspancher, a political scientist its crew-Beuter. ment typists parked below, hav-and economist said in a lecture ing Jumped a distance of 40 feet here: "Statistics prove
There was a crash and a yelp from below. By a miracle the
Chicago.
that
In a trice the dog, unhurt, was more dye and make-up were sold ARMED GUARDS FOR out and on its way, but the hood in the last few years than were was wrecked. Reuter.
used for house paint in the whole history of the Republic-Reu-
LOCAL AUSTRALIAN ter.
ASSOCIATION.
Inaugural Tiffin.
The first of a series of monthly tiffins by the Australian Association of Hong Kong and South China, was held at the Jacobean Room of the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday.
Dr. H. D. Matthews, President of the Association, presided over a gathering of forty Australians and their friends.
HANDYMAN ESCAPES FROM GAOL Expert Carpenter. Was Alse Locksmith
Denver, Colorado:
John Velikoff's last trick was
FILM STAR.
Bailiffs Fail To Gain Admittance.
floor with him from the time of their marriage in 1925 until 1030, when he allegedly deserted her. Reuter...
News In Brief.
reason for
vice-admiral, and she had, curiously enough, married the son of a FORT admiral. This sort of thing must have happened before, and will; na doubt, happen again, probably with the most satisfactory results. Mrs. Grey had, however, found this long-term maritime connection un- The name of The Canton and suitable, and after some years had Hong Kong Land Investment Com-begged her husband to excuse her Ipany, Ltd, has been struck off the from listening any longer to the haw records set up by his overdraft, for register.
as the daughter of a vice-admiral It was alleged in court re-
The Sincere Co, Ltd., announce she had been born in the shadow of cently that Marlene Dietrich's
that from to-day their main; stone a whopper and would now like a practice of keeping four armed will close daily at 8 pm, instead of change. guards posted about her home 18.30 p.m. as hitherte. Santa Monica is very hard on procese servers.
Los Angeles
At the time when this curious ex- perience befell Mrs. Anthony Rhodes Gray she was in partnership with the daughter of a major general, running a modest hat shop
Mr. Shiek Rumjahn: Ismail re One of the counsel in a $28,000 tired yesterday from the Kowloon This best When sentenced to damage suit against a motor Godown Company after 40 years of jail he proved himself an expert transport company, said that be-service. He was presented with quiet street off Kulghts carpenter, an artistic landscape cause of the guards there had radio set by the members of the gardener, and a metal worker been difficulty in serving the stan whose skill in manufacturing cell noted German film actress with furniture was nothing less than summons as amazing.Com,
Immediately after Saturday Mrs. Gray Leicestershire,
the a witness in the At the committee meeting held spe
to find after the Annual General Meeting Halle
Mr. G. Latham, of the Common wealth Bank of Australia and brother of the Hon. Mr. J. G. Latham, K.C., Attorney-General and
the The plaintiff in the case was 2 OF Hong Kong Chamber of in*** Minister for External Affairs in the But the other morning Federal Government of Australia, Warden found his cell empty guard at the Dietrich home last Commerce, last Wednesday, the though
Mr. C. Gordon Mackiewan kalj hat John autumn at the time when a kid- was the guest of honour and gave He learned too late
napping plot was believed to have elected Chairman of the Chamber. here a very interesting address on the was also an excellent locksm Australian Pound quotations in the He had made a Rey, let himser been directed against the actress Mr.T. H. B. Shaw
Renter out and departed.
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