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SATURDAY, JULY, 1923.
ARE 0.8. SHIPS REALLY DRY ↑
Experiences of a Journalist Passenger.
A POKER GAME WITH NEAR-BEER REFRESHMENTS ABOARD THE S., S. PRESIDENT VAN BUREN; BELOW IS THE DRY BHIP, AND AT LEFT IS A PASSENGER ENJOYING THE FAVOURITE PASTIME OF THE VOYAGE, GAZING AT WATER,
Are American ships really dry?
"Sorry," he said, "but the ro's
We will let Mr Robert Dorman, anot a chance-even unofficially." well-known American journalist, answer the query. Here is hie story-
This cheerful cable called me back from Europe:"Com home on American ship and find out if it's dry.
Official caution. I thought. So Iguinshoed around and tackled,
"It's as much as a man's job is I sailed from London on the worth to be caught bao legain." 6. President Van Buren of the he said, not to mention the United States Line. I had to, penalty of the law." wait a week for accommodations ¦ Room stewards, dining room en this dry ship.
stewards, the genial "George "of the smoke room of other days, and awards of various races and occupations all said the same.
There was drinking aboord all right. All private stock, though, Passengers discovered this with
I'm neither a probibitionist nor a souse. But I recalled aedly that on the trip to Europe on a British liner I could buy a hipball for 30
a bottle. Pre-war them
into
Otherwise those who didn't.i bave it found a favourite paatime
LISTENING-~IN.
Miss Ellen Terry Enj ya Radio.
PARADISE OF FLOWERS:
A Little-known Region
Described
I had the privilege of demon- strating the six-valva portable set: One of the most romantic re built specially for PopulurWireless gions of the world, a paradise of by the Marconi Co. to Miss Ellen flowers was de oribed to the Terry on the evening of Harrode Royal Geographical Society re- All-Star Concert, says a writer in loendly by Mr F. Kingdom Ward that journal. Miss Terry and This is the obscure, mountain- | her daughter-Miss Edith Craig-
and & distinguished audience of ous region lying between the Ir well-known artistes and musicalawaddy and the Yanglas river, China. After exploring passes and orities were present on this the glaciers, et a height of 18,000 feet, first occasion on which England's and counting nine glaciers about greatest actress had listened-in which notbing" is known, be She was full of enthusiasm for crossed 8i La and dropped down the novel experience and took the into a deep ice-worn trench called keenest interest throughout the the Valley of Hail, " concert, Almost immediately I got
in touch with 2LO, announcing à The journey, which lasted five performance of the band of H.M. weeks, was over a series of rivers Irish Guarda. Miss Ellen Terry and gorges, the crossing of which selzed a pair of phones with was not without peril. One place feverish interest, I then gave the called the Marble Gorge" was remaining pairs of phones to the very difficult, It was choked company present, and contented with semi-tropical forest, ferne myself with watching the and orchide, sod owing to a flood enraptured expression of Miss the Salween river had risen 40 Ellen Terry at the rousing music feet, which I knew was coming through.
"It is wonderful!", exclaimed Miss Terry, jumping to her feet, regardless of the limits of the length of 'phoue cord,..
"WHO IS IT NOW?" "Where does it come from?" she
PERILOUS LEDGE JOURNEY.
"Just above the gorge the powerful glacier torrent from the Gomba La comes booming in over a chaos of boulders.as big as cot tages. We now left the river and started up the cliff, climbing high above the torrcat.
"The ledge along which we
in leaning over the rail and admir-asked. I told her it came from ing the watery expanse of the At Marconi House in the Strand. trod gingerly passed through a Iantic Ocean, something I rarely She could hardly believe it, as deep slot in the high granito saw happen on the British ship I she said it was so distinct-in fact, cliffs, and a false step meant grossed on.
just a little too loud: At her violent death. It was easy "It reminds me of home," said request, I promptly reduced the enough for me, but for the porters:
volume. a cynical young man.
with their loads it was another "That's much nicer," • she Drinking confined to remarked. "What a blessing this matter. Heace the method of cabins, Sly drinking was neces will be for those poor people who carrying them by means of the sary not only from motives of cannot get out and about to hear the hands free to clutch."
strap round the forehead, leaving economy, but because the ship's good music and plays." Several officers frowned on open libations. times Miss Terry alluded to the Two Kintzu came along. They They said. It might give the im
WAS
pression that liquor was obtain- great boon of wireless for the sick, were almost naked dwarfs, and and it, is characteristic of her they offered to guide the party. able aboard. You couldn't bring sympathy towards the suffering through the dense growth of grass, it into the dining room or the hat she considered them first in bamboo bracken and alder treea smake room.
her appreciation of the advant which clothed the mountain-side, agen of wireless..
The smoke room was funereal moat of the time. Only one pokar game was organized, and it died of innocuous desuetude,
"Poker and near-bear doa" seem to mix," said W. T. Jenkins. of Cotton, Minn..
A NON-TECHNICAL" EXPLANATION.
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ROFE BRIDGE ADVENTUREL
After this number had conclud. ed and 2 L O gave out that there The party bad to cross a river. would a short interval, Miss Terry by a rope bridge. "It le composed wanted to know the other items of four separata ropes of twisted of the programme. I read to her bamboo, eso about the thickness the whole list of the attractions, of a skipping rops fo, the second. an under steward. He said he This item appeared in the pas- and my mention of the children's the rope is not loclined but mere
idn't think I could buy a single serger list booklet: "The bar stories caused her to remark only sags in the middle, so that in- drop aboard.
opens at 8 am and closes at 11the great educational value of stead of sliding across you have P..
broadcasting for the young mind, to haul yourself band over hand. "What a help it would have been. "The Nong for Kinizu) hangs Notody seemed to care much to me in my young days," she underneath the rope attached to Lemonade, near-beer and ginger osid. "The children must simply, a runner, and pushing with his ala hardly seemed to require delight in it."
feet and bauling with his hands disciplinary closing hours.
Shortly after the next number, akima rapidly across. I might Usually there were more women commenced, I thought I detected never have got across at all if I than men in the smoke room emile of recognition in Miss bad not been attached to a rupe Lots of women smokers, playing Terry a face. "Who it now?
and pulled by a braway Nung, bridge. Even ebera was a more she asked, much interested. Do like my own baggage.” popular game than poker. There her daughter replying that it was cente. In Germany I had beer
were no card sharps on board Laddie Cliff singing "Don't Scrap at 4 cents a stein, Scotch whisky
which was one mercy of probibi- the British Navy," the great Eng- at 8 cents and cognse at 7, and the niixi emotions. There weretion.
lish tragediende remarked: "Oh, GERALDINE TARKAR'S DIVORCE. best wine at 60 cents 'n quart. those persons-say six out of 10 Chief Steward Henderson only yes; I have heard him sing it
"Sailing on a dry ship!" said of the will-take-a-drink" folks grioned at the grumblings of wet before." It undoubtedly caused Supreme Court has granted Ger
New York, June 27. →→ The the barmaid at my London hotel. who hadn't been forebanded passengers.
ber much amusement, for abe
aldine Farrar a divorce from Lou "Better taka samething along.” enough to bring their wn booze.
"What the deuce do Americans laughed many times. 1 did. Ob, purely as an invosti- Thay were under the impression want anyway?" he said.
T'ellogen, on the recommendation Why gator! Scotch, government-dilut-that the captain would clan I remember a voyage when we
of Referre Mahoney who con. cd, was $3
irons if they were selling liquor and the total
ducted the hearing. The inter- Scotch was $3.75. Champagne brought such contraband aboard. sales were around $13. I suppose But when Miss Jose Colline locutory decree permite Farrar
I didn't ask Captain Moore if there was was $4.
constitutional sang Cigarette," Miss Terry was to resume her maiden name and Aboard the President Van about it. But I didn't hear the amendment against toy balloons, carried away in admiration of remarry, but denies to Tellegen Buren was a dour notice, posted irons clank all the ways across. on the bulletin board, prohibiting Those who hadn't been fore you fellows would smuggle in a this idol of musical comedy the privilege of re-marriage. "Splendid! Splendid !" she cried: Tellegen is directed to pay the pocketful." the serving of liquor on the ship. banded and daring were out of
and jumped to her feet again in costs of the action. The decrea There wasn't any liquor smug- "Can't I get a drink ?" I asked luck unless they made the right led in when we reached Naecstacy when Miss Collins reach. becomes final three months from Chief Steward Henderson, con- friends. That's one way to get York. It was all gone.....
ed her top note.
date of its issue, which is ex fidentially.
#popular. I was popular.
"Ob, what a grand thing to be traordinary. able to eing like that, and to be beard by so many people at
she claimed. "The infanoy, and already it has caused once!" very thought thrills one as only consternation among theatre It brings to my mind managers." I then pointed out those immortal lines of Shakee to Miss Terry the dispute between peare. If musio bo the food of theatre managers and the B.C.C. love, play on, give me excess of in the broadcasting of plays, and
the intention of the BBC, to pro I do not know whether Miss duce their own plays if necessary. Collins could have heard this charactertic quotation of the
PREFERRED THE BINGING. great actress, but she certainly
"Thope," said Miss Terry, "that did sing sa-though without the play will not be neglected by giving excess of it-when she wireless," followed with the popular song of "Of course, it must seem a
The Last Waltz."
little strange for an actrose to At length when 20. an have to rely entirely on her voice, upead the news bulletin, Miss for effects. It is just the opposite Terry felt a little tired and rested with film acting. There it is not the voice, but the acting which is wanted.".
TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO.
A Glance at Our Files.
paralysis,
the wants of the place, then we rooms, and in spiat older people. fear that we shall be in a con- There is far too little of that
music can. of intermittent frank boyishness which one sees stant stato
at Homs in the rising generation. Our boys leave school and become IN OTHER DAYS.
worn out old men immediately The Hongkong Volunteer Corps with more of a taste for whisky, will hold an open-air Promenade and bad cigars than for healthy
and improving. sports Concert on the Parade Ground at
and (June 20-July 6, 1991.)
Headquarters, in aid of the pastimes. It is an unpleasant HONGKONG GOVERNMENT. Volunteer Band Fund, to-morrow, charge to have to make, true, but it is nevertheless From the remarks made by Mr. the 3rd. instant, commencing If it were otherwise the V.R.C. May at the last meeting of the at 9. pm
report to which we refer to would Sanitary Board, one would be lod
not by such dismal reading. Let to believe that with every change
some of the 'oldatere take the youngsters in hand and lick them into shape a bit.
OUR YOUNG MEN.
A
LOGIC,
awhile.
You must forgive my ignor |ance," said Miss Terry when the
"Would you like to broadcast, Mins Terry ?" I asked.
of Governor the drafting of laws Ten years ago we bed and passing and considering of splendid lot of athletes amongst sanitary and municipal measures us, but as they have dropped out must, of nesessity, come to a of the ranks one by one it seems
The post of overseer of the standstill. According to Mr. May, that there is nobody to come for- nothing can be done for a con: ward and carry on in their places. "Star" Berry launches still-lephones were removed from 'siderable period after the arrive! What is the reason of it? Ist romains vacant. The pay, we her bead, "but T am as much of a new Governor because he has because the youngsters have not hear, is good, but apparantly mystified as to low or from very much," she answered. And "I should enjoy the novelty encourage loafing pays better, This shows where, this wonderful musid then, with a smile: "I have been to get shaken down into place as received sufficient it wore, and cannot run on in the ment from their elders, or is it that no respectable, man wants comes as I am enchanted by the asked this question so often that groove of bis predecessor un that the class of youth we get in work in Hongkong."
grost pleasure it bas given me." I feel-1-must-have a try.!! til he has grown into it. If Mr Hongkong nowadays is physi-
I then exlained to Miss Terry Miss Terry then took up the May has given the rest reason for cally u fit? We are afraid that a
in non-technical language how earphones, and listened to the ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL.. so many things being shelved good deal of the blame lies at the
the concert had been sent out rest of the programme. The 1922 accounts of the Royal by ether waves from Marconi When the concert was over I thon we think that the sooner doors of the youngsters them- the municipal affairs of the selves, and still more is to be at Naval Hospital at Greenwich. Hauer, and how the sensitive in asked Miss Terry whether ebe Colony are taken out of the tached to the training they receive show that from a total expendi-strument before her picked up considered the vocal or instru hands of the Government the here. They are allowed to grow turo of £239,999 the sum of those waves by means of the mental item the more distinct. better, Municipal Council up too saas sad that not in a £138,412 was disbursed in pen- serial. Yes by mean would draw its members from healthy way. There is a great sions to seamen, marines, and the ranks of the older residents deal too much of the blase roug widows, and in the education of of the Colony, men who knew about them for our taste, and we children, £9,402 in pensions to the Colony's needs and had think they would be vastly im- offers and contributions towards studied them for years. If we proved if they paid less attention the education of children, and have to wait while each succes to the set of their collars, talking £64 637 on the Royal Hospital sivo Governor is trained up as to of scandal in bars and billiard School,
"With the exception of the "I am afraid I should never violin, which I think the me understand it properly" she said, realistic, I liked the singing best. most smiling, "I am just like a child But it was all very good and I in these matters. What will they enjoyed the concert immensely- favent next?"
It is impossible to any shall become a confirmed listener, In fact, after to night, I believe I rejoined. Wireless is only in item