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Marseilies, Havre, London, Ham- burg, R’dam., Antwerp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay & Karachi.
14.500 11th Jan
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EDWARD E HORTON
wborn in Brooklyn, New York and monicahud at Delrabia Tink verzity ++"Ha daga career baças at teedy in the chorus of a comic pare compen, doing the Enbart and Sulivan pinces in Station Sand - Pa was on the stage for twelve years in dues schwei companies. His real timetrical work bur çan, he says, when he appeared in “Diever Say No" at the kérjaslic in Los Angeles share he was ratainaci For Evo years, an lauch- Zacy makan. He was in vinné Bien arsi war a pioneer înșthe talking, his first audible. pic-- tara kutog "Mim information”........ He is pre- mimemin “22tle Big Shot,”
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ON
› Bromo-hond, Mai-ayed fire-pear-old star el "Ufo Big Shot" was here
· 11,000 miles from the lika sápidaimia Capotain, Seidh Africa Aròn, abu maan singing, dancing and imitating wverybody' la siglë
mal Haary Jacobson, à Landas pareducer, saw her perform and naivins Must she do send to England for training ---- She was-an lukustamom. Al “me tha sadə « «« made many recordings.....and appeared. `le two pichoes, “Barnecie Bit" and "Davis Band". Irvingther, hood of Warner Bros. Britisk studios. Draught Charto the United Station 20 Min Hors, burtuscher at the Cabučio reports. Shać Dar tot Techs third and fourth grade că DanDan's that sie in precocious Nough... Kde Pium zoya, "Ch'a nahinciae'a precious.” Sybiz de
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ROBERT ARMSTRONG
sisa hors- în Saginaw, Michigan Yar mend to Seattle, Washington akan sarly age ........ Studied lair at the Univers aby-gf Washington ....... de lis nonfer your he seats and appeared in a silmad walevike predicar caught his act and gave him a job on his civett
bookings book hiru to New York umro an uncia, for Late Feni Armstrong, geva his minor pariin samazal of his phyt...........die served overseas during the World War
Chlače u Browthway hit in “da zat
- ami was appearing in 18 in Los Angele
Pie is fundered in “a
"Little Big Shot," a Warner Bros' production which will be showing at the Alhambra Theatre 'to»MOITOW.
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Hamburg, R'dam & Hull. 4th Apr Marseilles, & London. 16,000 18th Apr. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 14.500
2nd May Marseilles & London. 17,000 16th May Bombay, Marseilles & London." 15,000 30th May. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17000 13th Jane Rombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 27th June Bombay, Marseilles & London.............
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- (Continued from Page 11) blood, it seemed, we were to make
fortune out of sandalwood in three year
I wanted neither engme, new blood nor fortune, yet in the end I gave
Way.
gazing on my familiar and beloved better the proper place for each; At surroundings and ask myself how the end he tossed the dishcloth in a long I could suffer them to be sneer sodden mass upon the table and turn ed at any despised. Trust smali ed to go.
eraft for discovering one man 34- ""The_dishajoth, if you remember.".. father. Before three days and three said. Is spread on the washbow
tights had passed, we stood before to dry." each other, he and I, stripped to our He tried and looked at me, and in souls. So it was that, rather late in the
his eyes I saw a sudden, unsccustom season, we let go moorings, he and I
His every movement was an aggraed time leap to life.
*IPT do it good to have a change, and set sail for the South. For the vation to me, especially when he play- frest time in my life I had a crew. Myed with the bespangled sextant and he said. inviolable domain was invaded. What toy chronometer he had brought, and with the thought of this, and the un-↑ when each day, on plotting out
+ posi
I do not think so,” mid 1.
Naturally, he returned by
some, impertinent face of PRAGUE PREPARES
ed a red mist to swim before
"You will be made to," I said. “Ah!” was all he answered at the moment, sad resumed the study of his fech K. be had-remained so 20 might have been well. I examót teli. I: only know that at that maesent one word stood for hir between life and death, and he chose to atter i
“How?”~
..E
--1-tied to show him, that was a
I swear that was my sale. intention. But he was obstinate, that boy.
FOR BOMBS
Shelter To Hold
60 People
FIRST OF ITS KIND
My weight carried him to the fours besides, I am strong, and the accumo-Believed to be the first of its lated fary of days and nights was kind, a public air raid shelter
behind me. He was like a doll
in my
hands, yet a doll that refused to in which 60 people could live in | squeak""""when" pressed.. There is a comparative comfort complete- Farmacie in the focale, and we were by cut off from the world for under it, my back against it, my ker several weeks has been built in at his chest; and asked him, lyink;
there laughing up at me; if he intend. Prague ed to do as I had ordered. He rolled It would be possible for 500 his head in a negative.
people to exist in the shelter for It was all he could do, and the presja shorter period in more cramp- sure was increased. I must have asked conditions.
ed him many times, and the answer A stock of provisions suti- was invariably the same. At the last something gave beneath my knee, and cient to last 50 or 60 people siz movement months has been laid-in, and his jaw dropped and no came from him, even from the heart the shelter has its own well
The zipple of water past the keton's
and pump sides brought me back to the
Almost Soundpenať There are also
filters and alternative-ven
I rose and stood looking down him. As I live, it seemed that there, was a smule stal upon his Lace!
Of the rest. I have no clear recolles- here ying-trying to realise what tion. At one moment I was standing systems.
Layers of rubber deaden the
I had done, the next I was flung shock of explosions, and make against the hulkhead as the ketch the shelter almost soundproet struck and rose-I can describe in When abim signals
ļas I rushed on caught
zzC
to worthy mission we were engage tion on the chart according to dead do?
apon, it was all I could do to look my reckoning. I found his. by observa-And who is the master of this no che ad deck to be as her sounded, a blue light glow, ketch in the face. Those with the lovetion, already there. I raboed it out ship? I asked him of ships "in “their bones will under. I prayed that there would come such "As for that, you are," he admitt a roller and hurled headlong it seen over the door, drawing atten- mocking, voice calledtion to the Shelter and indicat- SAILINGS stand
a fog as would obscure the sun and ed, "but a dishcloth is another mated to me that more than once I caught Thorpe stars for ever.
ing that it is open-Renter. ter Suddenly be dropped on to a after me: "Dead Beckoning?"
It was the Karrier Reef.. And it was as though my prayer locker and laughed, though there was | smiling at one or another of my own
And for me it is the Barrier Beef to Singapore. Penang Rangoon and Small inventions for the easier hanelere answered, or that night we ran a servons catch in it
Calcutta
ing of the boat, or the saving of lab into a gale that necessitated heaving gigled: "we're arguing over a dish.the end, which is not far off when caue to, the cetch had sunk, and 1 our or space below; but he said noth to. Lockily it was off the state, and cloth now!" ing beyond calling them "gadgets for forty-eight hours we rode it out,
APCAR
4th Jan
8.000 10,000 18th Jam $,000 1st Feb.
-8.000 15th Feb.
10,000 29 Peb.
• Calls Fort Swettenham.
Now is the time to visit,
lands of Sunshine and Romance, "Down Under" you will feel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Autipodes have plenty to offer you, including 25/- for your pound.
On the way down your life aboard will be as you winb, quiet or bectic for the E. & A. will humour your every whim.
And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and there is of course a Sun Deck Swimming pool, an Orchestra and a ne Laundry.
A Surgeon and Stewardess are at your disposal and last but not least we had almost forgotten-the cuisine will set you listening eagerly for the gong!
a word that was new to me.
"Not a bad little packet," he said after the first hour of his trick at the tiller.
"Hervers!" ne
"And why not," said 1, "if you don': tried again to think I have bounty in comparative comfort, until it died know how to use one? Will you being ever since, and I can get no fur- as suddenly as it had been born, and so good as to put it in its proper ther than that I have killed him for was succeeded by a driving mist
"You see," said Thorpe, “dead zec- "I am glad to bear you say so."koning is all right up to a point as said I with an irony entirely lost on check, but how do you know where one of his calibre.
"But she ought to sail nester the “wind than this," he added, staring up at the quivering to-sail "Six pont won't do. Under-canvased, that': what she is. By the way, when we get through the reel pass, what's the
"Son'-son'-east,” said L
"And where's your deviation card?" "Never had to bother with one, told him
He seemed thunderstruck.
"The course is sog'-soul-east.”
repeated, and went below.
you are now **
Can you tell me?”: said. *Not mutil the mist clears," he ad- mitted.
Well, Liven said I..
He fung away from me with m impatient movement.
These are the methods of Methuse
lah," he muttered.
place?"
Ee did not zaswer, but sat looking down at his naked feet.
a dishcloth; that if by some miracle I am reseed, much is the message f shall have for Doris. Is it comedy or tragedy? I am not so sure now. He seemed to find it amusing to the
INGENIOUS TRICK
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Buffalo The Federal Court
This is impossible," he muttered “As you will,” said L "It can't go on, I can't stand it very end, and he was right in some here received a surprise when a
"Do you imagine it is any pleasanthings. Perhaps he is right in this
I never langh Did I not each $5 bill taken in payment of a ter for me 7** 3. asked him
myself laughing aloud just now? fine was returned from a bank
am developing, somewhat marked counterfeit
“And whose fault is it?"
That is a matter of opinion," said Perhaps
spurious but a bad imitation of The note was not only
its awful counterpart.
Court attendants could not
the note, so it was turned over
I; "But in the meantime things are to late in life; to be sure, the sense, of be done as I wish Kindly put the humour he tells me I lack
have finished. It is for you to read dishcloth in its proper place." “Nevertheless,” I retmenéd,
Again he did not answer, but when and judge, HANG
The foregoing, with such editing as blood throbbing at my tamples,
he looked up it was with compress",
was Decessary to render it intellremember who had tendered new our position at this moment ed
Tips. berter than any upstart yachtsman"You are a frightful old man," he gible, is the message. I found to "Of course, she's wooden," he be- He turned and looked at me stran said. Those were his words. 1 ze pickle bottle-firmly wedged amongst
bat serely
tely, then of a sudden his mouth remember every one, and they came the mangrove spots of a creek in the to the Secret Service. Office- laxed into a smile. At that moment from him in deliberate, staccato ses-Gulf of Carpentaria. It must have Reuter.
tences. I could have struck him:
You are that, though ne been there for years.
I was" dack shooting at the dimes From then onmand he took to reel-
-There is no call for us to qua- one has dared to tell you so until this ing me on parrot-nike dissertation errel," he said gently, but how how minute. You have lived in a set of but somehow, after happening on to deviascopes, new pattern, compasses can you possibly know where we have your own making so deep and so long this quaint document besmeared with and whatnot, until the said of hidrifted to in the last forty-eight that you don't know you're in it pickle juice, my interest in the sport voice sickened me. Among his other
That is your affair, but when you flagged. I wanted to know more, and The P. & O. Branch Service of Steamers to London via Suez.
accomplishments, he had sat for al have my senses," said L. and drag others in with you, it is time to there is only one way to do that The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for Southampton and yachting master's ticket, and passed to prove them we will carry on speak. I reseed Doris bless her? Thursday Island ask Evans Conser London via Panama Canal.
though everyone knew, it appeared in this mist
just in time. Why, man, can't you quently, that evening found me how much suffer were the examinaIn this miss, I thundered. The see? There's no light down there; for the first time, on his wide ri i tiong nowadays than in the past, when wind is fair, the course is now south-you can never take a look at your-dah. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS bar the men called shipmasters had half-east, and you'll oblige me by self and laugh. You have no mere "By the way," 1 ventured present
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7,000 7,000
1st Feb. Mania, Rabazi, Brisbane, dydney Cth Mar. Melbourne & Hobart
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
TALMA
RAJPUTANA NELLORE
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CHITRAL SHIRALA CATHAY
“BURDWAN TANDA
TILAWA
RAWALPINDI
10,000 26th Dec. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
17,000 27th Dee. Shanghai, Kobe & Takohama...
5th Jan. Shanghai & Japan.
7,000
8,000 Ith Jan. Amoy, Shanghai, & Ispan, 15,000 10th Jan Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
8.000 24th. Jan. Amov. Shanghai & Japan, 15,000 24th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe, & Yokohama.
5,000 29th Jan. Shanghai & Japan.
· -)
“Yes” said L. "What happened to the old man
“Oh, he rushed on deck at the first shock, it seems, and was promptly bowled over the side by a real But there's no killing him. He just sat on the reef, thinking his keter [sunk" and "Thorpe dead, until someone
came and took him off.
Shook, bui
no right to the title, nor even know taking the tiller."
* sense of humour than a fish the uses of a ̋chronometer.
He seemed about to speak, bat | F
the same since. Which is all to the Still know him, for the matter of good, most of us think " have come to a head. We Dever gate the globe," I pointed out ed abruptly on his heel
should have been sitting here langh-that." said Evans. "Why?"
“Then he --I mean he still lives on
"The next evening I took occasion to "By running down their latitude. In silence we shook out the reefing instead Think of its dish- he scored
and got under way. In suence cloth! You are my senior, I ought TL," I stammered like a Loal. J Wander down TL's grass-grown mam "Perhaps," said 1, wherest he burs remained until the end of his watch, not to be talking like this to you, but "Certainly. I used to buy his san street, through its herds of cavorting into a gale of leaghter, and express-when the mist was dispersed by I am; it's just been dragged out of dalwood. Eny his son-in-law's now." goats, and up the galvanised hillside
"Els son-in-law1"
{to where a neat little weather-boardi ed the devout hope that would be sen sa Thorpe at once took a me, and you can take it or leave it. never expect him to employ saco syht, and again at noon, and when Why not open up a bit do something Evans rolled over in his chair and house stood well back from the road
different?
In the garden, enjoying the cool of methods.
Chad plotted our position on the diferent inst because it is
17 | grinned at me.t "I expect you to do nothing ba: chart he was › still "poring ever admit there may be something others "What's the game?" he questioned the evening, were four people a what you are ind” said 1, exasperat- | volumes of nautical tables. | ed beyond endurance: “At theme-awards dusk ́he came to me at the | cloth in a cOTECTED Zha dish- | good-naturedly never SEW such a white-beardedtoman sexted in a canggi
"Yet they managed to circumnavi fevidently changed his mind, and turn. As you: had; this sherd; quibble | Brent Jou ever know, a Capa" up, though. He's never been quite
7,000.
6th Feb. -Shanghai & Japar.
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10.000
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know that you don't,
Fostech G MTAA and left himes : hotargets, wees for the information cloth. In the midst of his endlesskiing. I forget what and they took i mother's outstretched · fuck THE AS)
Why did "leva hing? Why did 1
fellow. He rolled back again. But, chaiz, a bronzed giant, prone and Those were some of the things he come to think of it, there might be smoking, on the grass, and a woman Are you holding this course after said to me, and I stood there listen something in him for you. The old beside him, sitting as only a wong point, and “make a note of time and dark?” he asked.”
ing to them from from my future man's ketch is the first thing I ever 422 Curiously enough, their eyes son-in-law on my own ship. It seem-heard of to jump the Barrier Reef. 1 were all turned in the same direction distance in the peray log hanging on what is as may be," said L. punder midi.? Because you are, he went on od incredible to me now but I was thought that'd make, you sit up. But where, in short, the fourth mem
"Dead reckoning be mattered coulas though I had not spoken, you'll be dark All that remained clearly be aboard when she did it. He and the solemn process of leaming to walk
dazed
with the unexpectedness of his 's the truth. Ask Thorpe he was er of the party was engaged in the temptuously
10s the Barrier Rest, inside of fivc
for me was the issue of the dish old man were being South for some alone His progress towards his discourse I repeated my commandag. * Great Barrier bow on at night, cratic as such things, munlly are.
"Sevent exclaimed the "zika- wherest he base into another of his it been done before, you know but inane. its of laughter.
never quite like that Must have bearded man, with an air of pector You And it amusing said, I in astrock it is a narrow place or some accompli
made it five, u. zakaznd the plant. Toice I scarce recogirised as my own. thing - Anysky › Tharpe - says the
Ansing be chackled. Thinketh femper is like ca two-year-old. I said seven, boomed the other, and think-e dishcloth!"
withered through rotten coral for a and b left, then 24 25 2 And one that you will put in ita ut, and plummed into deep water}":"They were Captain. Breat and his poder place, told him.
beyondcared by the more I expect) son-in-law, and somehow I wanted to ***What makes you thimic that?” he said nothing more to show for it than preserve thxt picture of them intac (zai.
the
“go, below 22. At all costs I must "b" |fair-1-did both them
I knew that he could
Leet Lé Gremafzsed; sbaut deep-sex
was one of those
| have no right knew the neRE
Such stroth to
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I, and he went below. -ran
suws d'acipline, I'll say that for him- - Height consider my İnd: my: "methods archaic, but he 1-my authority and chezzies
thing that brought
Catrowind, and in these n "Waters, it has always been "Eo lash the tiller and e
We were washing Ju
"Because·1] 287 200
And it refusé 14. Ha Lace
supper, or rather, he was wash quite grave now. He leant forw
I was drying, for the dyes as though interested – in
ascarada bilgach, and a couple of Fast, too, was partly why broken, Fine Thorpe's not the ketch's. strait of the his. I tome my quah
was beaten up pretty.comsiderably pickle-stained document sve took him ashore. Is there fragmenta and meattaped