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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930.
PRIMA DONNA OF OPERA COMIQUE.
MILLE. DARTHYS IN HONG KONG.
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN AMAZING MOTOR
TOUR,
The stars of the Opera and Opers Comique. of Paris are as seldom seen away from their natural set ting as those of the sky; but just as a star flashes one night across the heavens so has the "bright peculiar etar of the Opera Com. que, e Odette Darthys, the prima donna, come flashing half across the world in her husband's
Ciki.
M. Roger Lacor, a French flying officer, achieved fame in 1927-1998, when he broke the world's long-dis- tance record for a motor-car trip, in a run of 22,000 miles round the Sarhara Desert.
That was a journey of extraordi- nary porile and hardships. The
tour on which 31, Lacor and wife- Mile, Darthya-are now engaged ́is more interesting and entails less bardship, though, in distance it exceeds the other by 8,000 miles They left Paris on July last year and expect to be Home again in come six months. Most of the journey from Paris to Haiphong was made by car. But from “Hai- phong to Huog Kong was said by Jille. Darthys to have been the worst part of the journey. It was made in a small vessel and even a precious cargo is not politely treat ed by our China gens at this season- of the year.
Interesting Itluery.
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£500,000,000 LOST
***IN THE CITY:"
1929'S RECORD OF RUIN.
The London Stock Exchange and the investing public will be heart. ily glad to see the back of 1929. . No year within the memory of the oldest member has been so fraught with disaster.
It can safely be asserted that the depreciation last year in stock and. share values must aggregate con siderably more than £500,000,000.
The first serious blow to the mar ket and to the confidence of the investing public was caused by the Duophone disclosures.
Despite the publication of a series of optimistic progress reports, lend- ing shareholders to believe that the company was in a highly flourishing condition, a circular issued March intarined them that the directora Labguirswerd. then con centrated on the raising of the capital requisite to enable the com pany to proceed with its business." The next disturbing event was the disappearance and subsequent ar rest of Mr. C. A. Brandreth, the erstwhile managing director of the Ner-Sag. and Ner-Sag (Overseas) companies.
Blue Bird Scandal. Then followed the scandal of the five Blue Bird oil companies, whose chairman, Mr. Francis Lorang, is of Luxembourg. now residing in his native country
The capital of these companies, aggregating more than 2,000,000, has been irretrievably lost.
Following the debacle of these undertakings came the Hatry crisia.
On top of this came the terrifio slump in, American stock and share values, the effect of which was felt on every bourse on the Continent, bat infinitely more severely on the London Stock Exchange.
Meanwhile the City and investors throughout the country-real. in- vestors, not speculators in rubbishy spmpanies-were confronted with After a great send off in Paris, what appeared to be an unaccount- where the car was scaled and able infl'in the stocks and shares of stamped by the President of the the Royal Mail and its subsidiary Automobile Club, the prima donna undertakings (the White Star Line," and her husband drove to Marthe Elder Dampster Company, and seilles. From there they went to the Union Castle Company), which Genoa And BCross to Venice. had depreciated during the year to Triest, Belgrade, Constantinople, approximately 50 per cent, of their Baghdad, and Basra were interest value; and a similat fall in the ing stopping places en route. Then securities of the Inveresk Paper India After a stay of a few days Company, the £4,150,000 combine, in Karachi, they went vid Bombay the presiding genius of which (until the last few days) was Mr. Williani Harrison, :
down the coast to Colombo, across to Singapore and from there to Haiphong viê Saigon,
An Artiste in Baghdad. Alle. Darthys told me that after her beloved France, Karachi was the place ehe liked best. She spoke in glowing terms of the kindness
community there.
"Red Triangle." "
At the same time the shares of the Red Triangle" group of cement and finance companies were daily dwindling in value to the accompaniment of rumours of pend
and appreciation of the English ing disaster, followed eventualy by the news of the failure of their chaindan, Mr. Henry 3. Horne, and by the reports of some of his com- panies ehowing astounding losses as compared with the large profils
And Bagdad, Madame ?" "C'est atroce !!!
I suggested that Bagdad was city of romance.
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The prima denna shrugged her shoulders. "Romantic, yes per- haps, but dirty, the children are all sick; there is nothing to see or to do."
The French are truly a practical antion!
Though Hong Kong has given them so wet a welcome, the visitors are enthusiastic about the Colony,
earned in the previous year, the British Cement Products Company alone reporting a loss of more than £2,000,000,
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into port he was reminded of Venice, Madame adding But Venice is dirty, shabby and of a bad odour, Hong Kong is propre and bien gentille?"
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To Star in a Talkie.. Mile Darthy, who has been the prima donna of the Paris Opera Comique for the past four years, did not start her career as a singer. but as an actress in light comedy. that of the committee of Prefer She herself had no idea of opera enco shareholders of the Inveresk and it was her friends for whom Company to the effect that, appar she used to sing privately, who eatly contra to the articles of asso pressed her to become a profes-ciation of the company, ita credit sional singer. The change brought and that of certain of its subsidiary almost immediate fame, and her companies had been pledged for a career at the Opera Comique has sum in excess of two and a half been a brilliant one. All along the million pounds.
Most fortunately, as it happens, preaert tour Mlle Darthys has been giving concerts and the book of it is possible to conclude this tale of woe on a less doleful note, as press cuttings which she showed me prove that her concerts have been something in the nature of a Christ regarded as a rare treat by the mas box came to hand in the an people to whom she has sung. She pouncement of the fact (regarding which there has hitherto been con is only making a short stay in siderable uncertainty) that the in- Hong Kong but it is hoped that she terest duo next month on all the will give at least one concert before Preference issues of the Union- setting out oa her, travels again..
Castle Mail Steamship Company will be duly paid."
The next port of call is in America, and Mlle Darthys has
That the sequence of troubles har been engaged to star in a talking not produced a greater crop of picture in which the heroine is failures and disaster is a wonderful singer. She does not yet know tribute to the inherent financial what the film is to be. Everywhere strength of the country; and in that in America the prima donna and fact investors must find such con- her husband will have official re-solation as they can. ceptions and will sing in each town they visit.
While we ware waiting for M. Jacor, who was garaging' his be loved car; Mille, Darthys shewed her wonderful collection of clothes. Perhaps the most remark- able thing about them is the num ber which she has managed to carry in a car, I wondered if the husband was able to find room for more than a tooth brush 1,."
We hope that we shall be able to announce to-morrow that Mlle. Dartbys is giving a concert here, It is rare indeed for Hong Kong, to be visited by a singer of her quality, and it would be a thousand prities if we let her depart without singing to us.
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