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(Continued from Page 8)
continued until the following
February. By that time the ODD
had been
dredging system thoroughly tested out and plans could be made for the main task of excavating a large channel two miles long out to sea in one
season.
SEE IT
THINGS LIKELY TO
HAPPEN
YOUNG GIRL'S EXPERIENCES
(By EDWARD SCHELLHORN)
The process was for the mud and sand to be sucked up from
Recently a girl friend of ours reported an odd experience the sea bed and forced through that befell her in Hollywood, where odd things are likely to hap- hundreds of feet of pipe to an. HONG KONG TO SHANGHAI,
island within the harbour which pen to anyone. Last summer when she had a hankering for a
actress's life, she registered at the Central Casting Bureau, 22nd Aug. was being reclaimed. From which is a clearing-house for all extras, from ex-Lady Macbeths 25th Sept- December, 1927 to March 1928, to knife-throwers. They took her photograph, put down her
24th Oct.
with the various adaptations colour, voice and height. Also her accomplishments dancing, made, the Lord Willingdon ex-Latin grammar, High School oratory and cocktail-mixing. ceeded all expectations.
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There were two critical periods. She qualified as a "dress extra" poke bannet. Frumpish in a way, The first was when the cast with a chance at the higher brac-yet rather pretty. The picture has iron inlet to the pump. which rets, 10 to 25 dollars a day. be-to do with a village carnival back was three inches thick, wore cause she had plenty of new in the 1880'1. A whole village! through. The sand was known clothes. In all, she had $1,000 with chin-whiskered to be hard and coarse, but such worth, from charming one-piece farmers, Constables and every- wear was not expected The
was bathing suits to the newest cut thing that goes with them, difficulty was overcome and further work made possible by sables, because her private income crammed into an immense, dark- Steamer
E/Canada Jan. 26 Jan. 28 is derived from a coffee firm and jened stage. She got lost in covering the mouth of the pipe
and stumbled over shrubs, ropes, E/Japan Feb. 23 Feb. 25
E/Russia Inot from acting. with cement.
The Bureau assured her that animal wagons and boxes of train-/Asia Mar. 10 Mar. 12 Mar. 14 Second Crisis
granted a reasonable amount of ed snakes. There wasn't much to E/Canada Mar. 19 Mar. 21 The second crisis was right calls and some luck-luck, es-do for three days, except to keep E/Russia Apr. 9 Apr. 4 Apr. 6 Apt. 8 Apr. 10
as out of the way with 50 or 60 other E/Japan Apr. 16 Apr. 18 at the end, when, almost in pecially, because five times
Feb. 12 Feb. 14 Feb. 16 Feb. 18
fright of the completion of the įmany extras as ever will be called jextras, none of whom knew a 5/Canada May 14 May 16.
Career In Itself
Here was
chance to
sea channel, rough weather set are on the books she would be body else. in and nearly wrecked the pon-jable to earn $400 in a good year.
The Call Comes toons carrying the pipe lines."
Then she heard nothing more All this work was thoroughly tested in June, 1928, when the until three weeks later when the something about the new drama, Ishe thought. But there wasn't monsoon arrived with some of phone rang. It was
the Burean,
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu. the roughest weather within and would she start right away at really. Just to crash in as
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a peg each) noontime, to keep in practice, and the rest of the time played cards with the elephant trainer.
extras were living memory. All that hap-where personable pened was that this channel wanted for W. C. Fields' "Poppy." running out to sea was silted up She was just packing up to go to to the extent of three or four Europe, but she cancelled her tie-by her teeth from feet. This was expected in the kets at once, and dressing up in original plans.
something ultra-Paquin, modish to Much of this work was done the second, she dashed thither. in dificult weather and under She had to redress at the Ward- the most trying conditions robe Department, in
Alcott affair, with With the exception of four or Louisa May five European engineers, the leg-o-autton sleeves bustle and dredging staff were all Indians and carried through this arduous task with great credit.
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had
Earliest Settlement
Our girl friend got photograph;} [ed three times, in a mob
scenė,
listening agape to the spieling of Fields as a patient medicine fakir. So she resigned herself to being a jspectator and not as actress, 25 Idid all the other extras, with whom They she became quite friendly.
of were all in the same box and pre- valent among them was the good jold "helping hand" spirit.
For the fun of it, she moved
A few extras
Clubbing Together
an average depth of 32% feet! Cochin was the earliest Euro-from her hotel to an apartment in
It a bungalow court been accomplished, the pean settlement in India. future of Cochin was assured. was in December, 1500, that live at the Studio Club, and some There was a great deal of other the Portuguese first anchored in with their families — but thou- work to be done, such as the this fine natural harbour. Two sands of girl extras live in banga- dredging of channels inside and years later, a treaty of com-low apartments, five or six-to- the reclaiming of an island on merce was concluded and gether. Two of the girls had the| which wharves have been built, Portuguese settlement began bed, another a couch, one the re- but that was accomplished to prosper.
Until Goa
was eling chair, and she slept on door without difficulty.
built, this was looked upon as with a pillow on the French die- The necessity for developing, the official residence of the tionary. Cochin has been felt for very Viceroy of all the Indies. ·In many years. In the first place. 1663 the Dutch took Cochin up to its development, there from the Portuguese and held was no sheltered port on the it until 1795 when it passed west coast of the Madras Presi- int the hands of the English dency All vessels shipped or unshipped their cargoes about three miles out at sea, often most difficult and hazardous during the monsoons. AS times vessels had to wait al week or more out at sea before the lighters from Cochin har- bour could cross the sandy bars and get alongside.
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One had to stay in to answer telephone calls. Whoever worked. paid for the groceries, and were assessed pro rata for the rent and biscuits for the dog. OP İzirl friend paid all the rent and bought the cigarettes. As luck would have it, four of the girls got calls at the same time. for dress parts. Sbe outfitted them jall from her own wardrobe. That was easy since, for some myster- lious reasoD all Hollywood · extra Įgirls seem to be the same size and
In addition, this port will now Ernest Hough, aged 28, a height
Hardly any of them have cars.
"boy
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Stokes Laprayed over an area of 200 square jan efficient deep-sea port estab-Craft, Bristol, said that while miles, bases are few, it takes a lished within easy access. driving along the Bath road to dog's age to trudge from
Already railway facilities wards London he heard three studio to another, and the casting have been greatly improved by slugs hit the back of the car. office demands punctuality, conversion of the line to the Afterwards he found three shot
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sidency.
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