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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1929.
ADVENTURES OF RASHLEIGH.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Life Among the Aborigines. With several of his companions Ralph succeeded in escaping by sea from this terrible confitement and the last stage of his adventures begins with desperate encounters against his fellow fugitives and armed natives. The author, whose
thirst for blood must have been as insatiable as that of any Eliza | bethan' dramatist, ends up this glut of maseacres with the onset of a sweeping, thundering flood of water which awept away Rashleigh and his
surviving sole
companion Roberts, and threw Rashleigh"into unconsciouan ESS from which he
awoke upon an arid beach where he lay surrounded by a horde of aborigines.
The story of Ralph's ile among these people would have delighted Defoe und Herman Melville. A the details of tribal ritual and savage customs are described with the scrupulous exactness that is a characteristic of the whole boar Ralph's principal protector, the cirandjie, was not & person of prepossessing appearance. "His polished skuli was bald except for a narrow circle of eparte white hairs around the top, and his beard was fuxuriant and long; one of his eyes was gone and the soc. ket showed raw and bloody, and the other seemed to be, filmed over, and the whole surface of his face
was scarred.
A WOMAN GATE CRASHER.
PRESENTED TO PRINCE OF WALES.
COLOUR FILMS.
THE NEXT STEP IN CINEMA, TOGRAPHY.
When Mr.
Jesse Lasity, the American film magnate, was in
"GAOL FOR A YOUNG MOTHER.
May Gardner, aged twenty-one, an unmarried factory worker, who was accused at the North London Police Court of abandoning her two months old child, Iria May, where by her life was endangered, was sen-
MANSION HOUSE INCIDENT.London some months age he pretenced to three months hard labour.
An uninvited woman who appear ed at the reception held by the Prince of Wales before the dinner to Sir Abe and Lady Bailey at the Mansion House was asked to leave before the dinner began.
After being presented to the Prince, she sauntered into the din- ing-hall with the guests and occupi- ed the scat reserved for Mr. J. E, Thomas, Lord Privy Seal When the organisers realised that the wo- man was uninvited, she was dis- crectly asked to withdraw. It was then found that the notes of Mr. Thomas's speech, previously placed on the table by him, had also gone. The woman had hurriedly left the Mansion House before Mr. Thomas
discovered his lose.
Mr. Thomas Discomfited: When the woman frst presented herself she gave the name of an Englishwoman of title. It wIE AS- certained that the real holder of the title is completely ignorant of the identity of the masquerader.
A guest at the banquet said to a "The wo- Daily Mail reporter:
man came to the Mansion House when the crush of guests was at its height. She was announced by the name she gave, and was then pre- sented to the Prince and Sir Abe
Bailey. Many of us thought she was the wife of one of the chief quests. She was fairly short, and, I should say, about 30. The inci- deat at the table passed off so quick- ly and quietly that few of the guests could have been aware of the cause of her withdrawal. It seems to have been one of the most dar-
"His body was incredibly emaciat ed, and was also covered with ter. rible soarë, and, even among a tribe renowned for uncleanliness, he was the filthiest specimen of them all.”
In spite of the chief's appearance Ralph was secure during his life. time because le happened to re semble a favourite son, but on the ahie's death, Ralph was compelleding examples of gate crashing to leave the district with his two djins (wives) and found a › Cave bear the coast where he remained stil disguised as a native until he saved the lives of two shipwrecked women and a boy and managed to take them back to Sydney, where he revealed his true identity to Mrs. Marby, one of those he had
saved.
At last his sufferings were at an end and he received a "pardon " to the Home Government. His friends rejoiced at this happy out- come but the two djins were ex- tremely disconcerted when their protector uppested in his true colours as a white man, white gentleman now: no more black, fellow, they would say, and go about their work. That is the end of this extraordinary saga of troubles and adventures.
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There is only a brief note at the end to tell us that Ralph Rashleigh died at a comparatively early age, in 1844, at the hands of the abori gines, and so his stormy life, came to an end in tragedy with a volley al native spears.
NEW HOUSEHOLD
OFFICIALS.
RECEIVED BY THE KING.
The King received the new offici- als of his Household, appointed by the Labour Government, at Buck- ingham Palace last month and pre sented to them their wands of office. He chatted animatedly with Mr. J. H. Hayes, the Vice Chamberlain, and Mr. Ben Smith, the new Trea surer of the Household.
Mr. Smith afterwards eaid he bought the King looked better than when he saw him two years ago. He was certainly fuller in the face," added Mr. Smith.
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After handing over the emblems. of office the King shook hands with each of the officials and chatted to them for a few minutes. He told Mr. Smith that be believed the great sympathy shown, to him by the public had helped him consi- derably in his fight to health.
Mr. Hayes was the first to arrive at Buckingham Palace, and he was followed by the Earl of Cavan, Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, and Lord Loch, Captain of the Yeo- men of the Guard. They walked from the courtyard of the Palace to the Privy. Purse door. A car brought Mr. Ben Smith and Mr.. Thomas Henderson, Comptroller of the Household. They were received. by the Groom-in-Waiting "(Major Richard Molyneux), who presented them to the King in his Majesty's private audience chamber next to
known for a long time."
A member of Mr. Thomas's house- hold said: "Mr. Thomas was na- turally a little discomfited when he found that his notes had disap- peared. He still is in a doubt as to whether they were taken deli berately or accidentally in the atress of the moment He saw, the humour of the position, however,: and when he returned home he re- lated the incident with great glee."
Charged at Bow Street,
Later the woman was brought up at Bow Street police court She proved to be Helly Cozzonis.. 39, a Turkish-born woman, described as a journalist, of Belgrave Road,
... and she was charged with having, as an alien, failed to re- gister her change of address from Lancaster-gate, W. Several officers. of the Special Branch of Scotland Yard were in wart,
Detective Dorey; of the Special Branch, said that he saw Cozzonis at Cannon-row station on Tuesday and told her she would be charged. She handed him & letter from the Home Office, which she said she thought exempted her from notify ing her change of address.
Detective Dorey added that the woman was married to a Spaniard who was now dead. She landed in England on December 23, and was registered as a journalist represent- ing a newspaper in Paris,
Cozzonis said that early in March she notified the Home Office, that she was not then leaving for France a she had originally arranged. She gave full particulars about her intended movements for the next six months. The Home Office Plac- ed no limitation upon her stay in England, and that made her think that her movements here were free. She added:
There is another fact which may be something of a secret. I have been told that I am married to an Englishman with a Croix de Guerre. I told this to the Home Office, and I felt more and more confident that I need not do anything else. But I had no proof of being married to an Englishman.
Mr. Graham Campbell, the magi- strate, ordered a rémand for a doc tor's report.".
WOMAN FAINTS IN
COURT.
HUSBAND 'COMMITTED. FOR TRIAL William Large, aged 67, a fiah- monger, "of Ford's Park-road, Can- oing Town, was committed for tri- his workroom. The ceremony wasal at West Ham Police-court on n short and simple, and within a few
charge of wounding his wife and
minutes the first of the new officials had been alleged at
to be presented to the King left the
Palace. This was. the Earl of hearings that during a quarrel Large struck his wife on the head with an iron bar, and when the
Cavan, who was shortly followed by Lord Loch, beth of them carrying
the historic sticks of office associat stepson intervened he was also
ed with their appointments. The emblems were encased in waterproof cases secured with large padlocks. The other members received their wands of office-lender six-foot sticks of ash jointed in the mid- dle,which they carried bare in their hands.
struck. Large then ran out of the house and was not heard of ngain till he fell into the water from an excursion steamer off Southend and was rescued,
Mrs. Large fainted while a doc tor was giving evidence" and was carried out.
The child was found in a shop doorway. The police reported that Gardner had been living in lodg ing houses for the past year. She bad been to prison for stealing the key from a police telephone box, and there were other convictions against her for insulting behaviour.
dicted that the next step of the cinema would be in the direction of colour production, a field neglected for some years. The aim of the first sound films being a more realis tic convention it is perhaps logical for producers to attempt concur rently a realistic visuri presenta- tion. Lacking, however, stertos- copy the colour 'film does not yer attempts at colour had been discard. Fpear to attain even the occasional ed in favour of black and white. standard of truth achieved by ! The Viking," is completely pho- mechanically reproduced sounds.tographed in colour, and purports Two early examples of the new to depict the history of the Viking movement toward colour by a coin-discovery of America by Lief the cidence, appeared publicly at Lon- Lucky. The convention of colour don cinemas in the same week, and used in this particular picture is though neither is a film of great diamatic value their results are interesting as a token of American | colour technique. In Redskin," the colour scenes portraying ex- teriors are often quite pleasing when the landscapes are distant, and when the Red Indian costumes, which carefully emphasise reds and orange, are shown in closer per spectives. The coloured portions of the film are, however, here probably less than a twentieth of the whole, and it looks as if the less successful (Continued on next Column.)
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at least quite easy for the eye to follow without strain, except when the camera switches rapidly across
a serne. The tints of the costumes and decorations have, however, been chosen with little imagination, and the sea-green which haunts the sky is occasionally darkened to a very repulsive shadow on the faces of the characters.
While the use of colour is by no means condemned by the two films, its application and even its repro- duction are evidently still ex- perimental.
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· MISS POLA"NEGRI'S LAMENT.
HUSBAND STAYS OUT AT:
NIGHT.
Miss Pola Negri, the film star, has filed her official divorce peti- tion from her husband, Prince Afdivani. She charges her husband with abandoning his domicile, and staying out at night.
Prince divani declared: will tell the court that Pola has naked for a divorce, and that I am satisfied to let her have it."
Pola Negri, whose face is fami- liar to so many millions of cinema- goers, was first married to Count Domaki, a Polish compatriot La ter the proclaimed bar love, for Rudolph Valentina, the film star, and after his premature death she married Prince Paul Serge Mdi- vani, a Russian migt at her chateau in Normandy in May 1997. She is now making her first Eng- lish film at Elstres and her studio is closely protected from intruders.. A Sunday Dispatch representative. who interviewed Miss Negri, found a French cabaret scene in progress, with scores of dancing girls being
shot.
Miss Negri's temperament had al- most as formidable a reputation in Hollywood as her acting. In Eng-. land, after half the staff had been. prepared for every exigency of the artistic mind, they have been left- gasping at the patience, hard work, and general angelic conduct of one of the screen's most exotic stars.
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