THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1928.
NAVAL EPIC.
your veil.
NEW AMERICAN SERIAL.
GIRL ALONE
By ANNE AUSTIN. Author of "Saint and Sinner."
FAMOUS BRITISH FILM
...TO-DAY.
The famous British naval film, "The Battles of Coronel and Falk- land Islands,”: comes to tho Queon's Theatre fo-day as the big attraction until Saturday.
The Battle of Coronol, resulting "Please, go away!" Sally pleaded j "Cook tent fare must grow rather in the total loss of "Good Hope" breathlessly. "Why do you want monotonous," his low, drawling and "Monmouth," was fought aff to make fun of me? I have to earn voice stopped her. "I suggest re- the Chilian coast on the eve of my living somehow"
lief-supper with me after the last Sunday, November 1, 1914, Trust- "Do you?" he smiled, his brows performance tonight. I am stop-worthy information of the disaster going higher, while deep laugh ping at the governor's mansion, and did not reach the British Adr wrinkles appeared suddenly in the have the use of one of the official miralty until November 5. "In- clear olive of his lean cheeks. limousines. Credentials enough?"vincible" and "Inflexible" were Now I'm sure you should let me He raised his eyebrows whimsically immediately detached from the read the crystal for you, for it is but his detaining grasp of her arm Grand Fleet, hurriedly refitted at byloun that you have not locked was not nearly so gentle as his Devonport,
voice. into the future at all!".
her own.
did.
"No, no!" Salty cried. "I-I'm not that kind of girl! me go"
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LETTER GOLF SOLUTION..
CHAPTER XXV. "Quite delicious, really" the
the cultured, "man with
cast- ern accent drawled, leaning more nonchalantly on his cane and twink- ling bis too wise, too bold black eyes at "Princess Lalla."
"But really now, I wouldn't say you're a freak, your highness. In fact, you're quite the most delicious
and, under Vice- little morzel I've seen since I left
Admiral Sturdce, sailed secretly New York. If I were a Ziegfeld
Ho cupped his slim, beautiful
for the Falkland Islands on No- scout I assure you I'd be burbling your praises in a ruinously verbose hands about the crystal, his back
Please let voember 11.. Other ships were picked up off the Brazilian coast telegram, and the devil take the ex-bending in an arch as graceful as
"Oh, spirit of H. L. Mencken and the squadron reached the pense. Would you mind lifting the arch of a cat's buck. The pos that scrap of black lace that is ture brought his face very near to hear me?" the New Yorker prayed. Falklands on December 7-only a tantalizing me most provokingly? her, Ro. that she saw the flae grain "Do girls in the middle west really few hours in advance of Von Spee! Bay that still? I wouldn't have be Before nightfall on December 8, I am tormented with the hope that of his skin, caught a faint, indeán- your big eyes are really the purple able but enchanting odour from his lieved it! I'm not that kind of the whole German squadron (ex- pansies they appear to be through sleek dark hair, almost as dark aa girl" he repeated, laughing do- cept the "Dresden") was at the lightedly. "Of course you aren't, bottom of the sea. The value of "No?" Ho shook his head with fe had dropped his hat upon the darling No girl ever is! And the Falklands to the Germans lay humorous resignation as Sally ledge of the little table, and it too heaven forbid that I should be the in the fact that it was an import- shook her head in violent negation. fascinated and repelled her, for its sort of man-fellow, you say out ant wireless and coaling station.
The film has bean produced in "Well, well! One can't have every-dove-grey richness insolently aug- here?-that you evidently believe I thing, and really your arms and yested that is owner possessed am! Now that we understand each a manner that redounds to the fine your adorable little hands and your boundless money and almost wick: other, 1 again suggest supper, a courago of both sides in these two Tanagra figurine body should be ledly sure taste..
long, cooling drive in the governor's dramatic exploits, and it is both a quite enough-as an appetizer.} But every item of his dreas told choicest limousine the old boy profoundly moving drama and a You don't happen to spell the the same story, so she really should does himself rather well in cara, at great chapter of naval history. Hula dancer the ancient but still not have picked on the hat to hate the expense of the state-and a An additional attraction, at all hopeful lady who has just been particularly. But she did she continuation of my extremely nc-performances will be a Pathe exercising her hips for my benefit wanted to brush it off the table, to curate reading of your future." novelty gazette; "Our Britain," -do you? But I suppose that is see his flash of anger at its being "No" Sally flared, her timidity showing the Empire's fighting too much to ask of Providence. soiled with the dust from "rubca" "submerged in anger."Let me go forces in action, during which Life is-full-of-these-bitter disap feet-
this-minute! I don't like you! I Miss Alleen Woods will sing "Land pointments, these nagging, un
"Marvellous!" His voice became hate you! If you don't turn loose of Hope and Glory," the audienceTM satisfied duairca-"
mockingly hushed and mysterious, "Please!" Sally gasped, forgel-as he pretended to gaze into the my arm, I'll scream 'Hey, joining in the chorus.
rube'" ting her carefully acquired accent
"What a dire threat!" the New which had been bequeathed her, by very heart of the crystal. "I see your whole past boiling away in
Yorker laughed with genuine way of Mra. Bybee, by the erst-this magic crystal-slightly flawed, amusement. "Am I the rube? Is while "Princess Laila," now in a though it is!"
that your idea of a taunt so crush- hospital, minus her appendix, but "My past!" she shivered, forget-ing that--" still too weak to jeopardize Sally's job. "I-I'm not permitted to talking that he was faking just as gle
"It means," Sally said with cold to the audience"
"You've run away from home, fury, "that every man connected. "Child, child" the New Yorker protested, raising a beautifully from, poverty," he went on in that with the carnival will rush into this kept hand admonishingly. "Spare mocking, too beautiful voice, his tent and and simply tear you to me! I'm always being met with black eyes shifting from the crystal pieces! It's the SOS signal of eigns like that in New York-in to play their insolent, confident fire the circus and carnival, and it al- elevators, buses, whatnots-But apon her wide-eyed face. "And ways works! Now will you let since I am intrigued with the music you've run away from--a matit of me go? I swear I'll scream 'Hey, "And I had planned such a de- of your voice a very young and course," he added lightly, "you'll rube if you don't" un-Turkish voice, if I may be per-jalways be running away from a
as he slowly mitted to say, so I shall be de-man-men-cvory man that looks licious supper," the New Yorker lighted to cross your little brown at you. You're absolutely irresisti-mourned mockingly palm with silver, provided you will ble, you know, child! But ah, at released her arm, as if reluctant to guarantee that your make-up does last you will find him--the man forego the pleasure that rounded not
rub off. I'm deplorably from whom you will not run away!limness and smoothness gave his
Now, shall I read the future for highly educated fingers. finicky."
Sally cried a little in the dress Sally, overwhelmed by his gift you?"
"Please go away. Gue is com- tent, but she was too angry, 13 give for monologue, uttered in a tensing, bantering, intimate voice of beau-ing!" Sally pleaded through chii way utterly to tears. The thought tiful cadences, looked desperately inhly quivering lips that would have which stung her pride most hurt- about her for help. But she was showed ashen-pale if they had not ingly was that the New Yorker had overlaid with car-seen something bad in her eyea, temporarily deserted by both audi-heen thickly
something of the mother of whose ence and crler. Gus was at the mine. moment advertising Jan, the Hol- "Dear old Gus! 1 look forward shame she was a living witness. land giant, the chief attraction of 16 being pals with Gus, when I But I guess I showed him!" she the Palace of Wonders. His reeltal give him the password. Now, the of the vast quantities of food which future-ah, my dear, what a fu- the nine-foot-nine giant consumed ture! Broadway! Bright lights! daily never failed to hold the crowd Music! And Princess Lalla in the enthralled.
chorus first, the most adorable little But he did dart. He was a non- "You'll have to wait till Gus, pony' of them all! I shall sit in chalant, smiling, insolent figure, the crier, starts my performance."the bald-headed row and toss roses leaning on his cane, as she went next performance. she told him nervously, making no to you, child, and whisper to the through the effort to deceive the blase New eggs next me that 'I know her She pretended not to see him, but as she well Yorker by a tardy resumption of when-when she was a delicious never for a moment, her "Turkish accent. "But-oh, little fake Turkish princess, escaped knew, did his cold black eyes waver please go away! Don't tease me! from the Sultan's harem. And from their ironic but admiring con- You'll spoil the slow if you make 1, see a man-let me look closely-templation of her enchanting little Smart-Aleck remarks on everything a tall, dark man, rather hand-figure in purple antin trousers and
some" and he laughed insolently green jacket. I say and do,"
"Smart-Aleck?" The easterner into her eyes.
And at the late afternoon per "La-dees and gen-tle-men! Right formance four o'clock—he was raised his silky blick brows, white his humorous but cruel mouth, be this way, please! I want you all there again, his fine, cruel, humor neath a small, exact black mousi-to meet Princess Lulla, from Conous mouth smiling at his own folly. ache, twitched with a rather rue-stan-ti-no-ple---"
She thought of appealing to Gus, Gus, the crier, was approaching the crier, to forbid him admission ful smile. "Child, that is the un- kindest cut of all! If I had been with long, swift strides, the crowd to the tent, but she knew Gus was reared west of Fifth Avenue or a milling behind him, like sheep fol- too good a business man to heed little farther downtown I would lowing a bell-wether.
such.n wasteful roquest, Besides,
told herself fiercely as she dabbed fresh brown powder on her tear- streaked face. "He won't dare bother me again."
"I'll finish your future in our the crier seemed to like him or
undoubtedly phrase it as a nasty next seance." The New Yorker at least to like immensely the bill crack! But we'll let it nabu."
which invariably passed" hande He walked nonchalantly up the straightened, smiled into her eyes ateps leading to her platform, and unhurriedly, bowed morisingly, lift when the showman and the glori stood before her, only the small, ed. his hat, placed it on his sleek fed "rube" met. black-velvet draped table with the head, retrieved his cane which had Then suddenly, at ten minutes crystal between them.
been leaning against the crystal- When he spoke again, in his hu- stand, and vaulted lightly to the after four, the New Yorker ceased to have any significance at all to morous drawl, with his bold black ground.
Princess
..
For tumbling into the tent of the Palace of Wonders came a horde
eyes twinkling and challenging her, Gus eyed him menacingly, aus-her, at least for the moment. Ho his words could not have been pleiously, but beamed when the was wiped out completely in the heard by anyone 10 feet away: easterner pressed a bill into his flood of terror and joy that swept "Will you permit me, your high-hands and withdrew to the out-over her brain, making her so dizzy ness, to read the crystal for you? skirts of the crowd, where he evi-that she leaned against the crystal I'm really rather a wizard at itdently intended to listen to the stand for support. a wow, as they say on Broadway, crier's introduction of though I assure you, your highness, Lalla. that I'm not a man to ancrumb to Sally got through her perform-of children, boys and girls, the girls the insidiousness of slang. You once sainehow, burningly conscious dressed exactly alike in skimpy must be rather tired of gazing, gaz-of bold black eyes regarding her ad-little white lawn dresses trimmed ing, gazing into this intriguing but miringly. When she pattered down with five-cent lace, the boys in ugly slightly flawed ball of glass and the steps and along the flattened suite of stiff "jeans.**
Her playmates from the orphan- he touched it with a long, delicate stubble of the curth foor of the
to see "Princess finger, with a humorous contempt-tent on her way to the dress tent age had come uousness that suggested an inti-to rest between shows, a slim, im- Lallo," lately Sally Ford, ward of mate bond between the professional maculate figure detached itself the state and and the amateur himself and her from the crowd that was wandering "justice."
self.
"ARGUS" IN BOMBAY, HARBOUR.
SEAPLANE OVERTURNED
BY BIG WAVE,
Bombay, Apr. 5, For the first time in the history
of Bombay harbour, an aircraft carrier sailed up to the amaze-l
reluctantly toward the exit.
the harbour, one of these returning to the carrier. As it alighted on the water it was hit by rather a big wave and overturned. It was, however, quite close to the carrier and the plane and crew were both taken aboard without difficulty.
Derbyshire Miners' Wages Board ment and delight of large crowds at Chesterfield has been informed
now fugitive from
(To Be Continued.)
ANOTHER ATLANTIC
FLIGHT.
AMERICANS TO TRY IN
JULY..
Miama Beach, Apr. 23. Phil Wood and C. A. Schiller will attempt a flight from Irelund to America in July, Wood an- nounced here to-day.
Schiller was the pilot who re- watching it. It was II.M.S. Argus, that there has been an approcently flew to Greonly Island and anaval.seaplane carrier.
Before she reached the anchor- ximate loss of 7d.. on every ton of brought Col. James Fitzmaurice, ago several seaplanes carried by coal rafsed during the period of of the Bremen's Crew, to Mon-
treal. her took the air and circled round ascertainment.
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