HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
JUNE 14th, 1930.
ARTIST PRINCE.
Claims Succession to Throne.
- Paris, April 26. Painting pictures is hard enough, but struggling for the throne of Monaco would probably be worse, in the opinion of Prince Albert von Urach, Count of Warttemberg. whose followers claim he is the natural successor to Prince Louis. II, present ruler of the pretty principality on the Mediterranean- which includes Monte Carlo.
Prince Albert is now living here in a one-room studio in the art. |ists' quarter, trying to make his name sketching and painting por- traits and keeping his mind as free as possible of revolutionary ideas about a dynasty.
Once a possible heir to the throne of Wurttemberg, Prince Albert's friends now claim he hos
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
STARS IN FAMOUS PASSION PLAY.
Sir Thomas Lipton, challenger for the America's Cup, is pictured above holding the -carved wooden shield and engle taken from the salon of the schooner America after she won the cup in 1851. Below, left to right, are some of the backers of defending yachts, and members of the America's Cup committee: Commodore Vincent Astor, John S. Lawrence, Vice-Commedure Winthrop W. Aldrich, and General Cornelius Vanderbilt. A map of the new course off Newport, R. 1. is shown upper right. The starting point is fixed, but the straight and triangular courses indicated the finst 15 miles to windward or leaward and return; the second a triangle of 10 miles to the side-are laid each day according to direc- tion of the wind.
single match for it.
Yachting is the sport of vikings,, equipment, extra masts and spare, signed all of the American defend- a right to the throne of Monaco and of money kings as well. There crews of emergency workmen anders since the Vigilant, in 1893. through his grandmother, Prin- 3 Harold S. Vanderbilt and Vice-cess Floresine Grimaldi, of the is no way of determining the tre- frequent drydocking require mendous sum spent in defence and great outlay of money. And the Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich ruling family of Monaco. conquest of the America's Cup revenue, aside from whatever pri- head the syndicate which is back Albert's grandmother was sis- since it was won from England 79 vale bets may be made, is precise-ing the yacht Enterprise, first of ter of Charles III of Grimaldi, the new craft to be launched. former reigning prince of Monaco, years ago, but about $5,000,000 ly nothing. will he spent this year---in one The prize is the trusteeship of a. Other groups are led by John S. The male line became extinct over weird-looking antique pitcher Lawrence and Frank C. Paine, a century ago, which permits Al- Five times has Sir Thomas Lip- which would bring little more Junius S. Morgan, Jr., and George bert, to claim succession as well as
Paul Hammond ton challenged the American than a chuckle from
and the present sovereign, Louis, II. any pawn-Nichols, yachtsmen, and four times has he broker. It even has a hole in the George Pynchon. The America's
next bottom, which perhaps is not in-Cup committee this year includes side-and so on, alternating until lost. Of Newport, R. I.
J. P. Morgan, Commodore Vincent the match is decided. September, the Shamrock V will appropriate for a dry country.
But the old mug, as Sir Thomas Astor, Cornelius and H. S. Van The new course, according to an renew his battle begun more than
for the derbilt.
official of the New York Yacht 30 years
ago for the coveted Lipton calls it, stands
Skippers Chosen.
Club. was selected because of the trophy. bills for each previ-highest honour, in the world's
H. S. Vanderbilt, Nichols, Law-likelihood of better wind and less- ous attempt left him only a little most costly sport, and come fair change out of $1,000,000, and weather or foul be intends to trence and Hanimond are to be the er ocean traffic. Sightseeing traft expense has been spared in eam- this year. As a matter of fact, amateur skippers, respectively, of always have crowded the waters structing the newest Shamrock.experts who have seen the Sham- the yachts Enterprise, Weetamoe, off Sandy Hook, and not a few Sir Thomas is 80 now, and they in light to moderate breezes auch which one will command the de- with racing yachts.
rack V believe she will sail best Yankee and Whirlwind, though times have seriously interfered say that this challenge. win or
Worned Pleasure Craft. lose, will be his last.
as are encountered off Newport in funding yacht is, of course, a mat September.
ter to be decided this summer in Back in '87, for instance, dur- He has played a lone hand
Of Modern Design.
the trial races, Capable racing ing the race between the Volan- against the American defenders:
She was launched the other day crews are difficult to find these teer and Thistle, steamers were paying out of his own pocket huge sums which are duplicated on this at Gosport, a band played "Dear days, but they already have been crowding so close to the American side only by syndicates of several Little Shamrock" and harbour selected by the professional sailboat that she was actually being wealthy men, among them Mor- Whistles screamed best wishes. ing masters assigned to the yachts. retarded. Old General. Charles gans, Vanderbilt and Rockefel- She is the first big British yacht Captain Gustave Olsen, of the Paine, father of the designer and the prosent Yankee, lers. Four of these groups now to embody the newer idea of de Yankee, made a special trip to his backer of
large, sign "Keepi are constructing four yachts, each pending more upon the shape than native Oslo recently to hire some painted
Astern"-on some canvas
and a sleek marvel of workmanship and the area of sails, although she will foremast hands.
And up among the fishing fleets hung it over the taffrail. engineering, design, which will carry 7500 square feet, which is
"It was a good sign," he said race against each other in July as much canvas as the two heavier they say that "Cap'n Gus Olsen and August for the honour of de- defending candidates will have. an' a crew o' Nawiggians kin beat after the race, "but not a single fending the cup.
Her sailing master, Captain Er- all hell".
hoat paid any attention to it ex- nest Heart, and a crew of 22 were Although the yachts vary in cept the Thistle." signed more than a month age, tonnage from 128 1-2 to 175, and
One Will Oppose Lipton.
Plenty of apectators are expect. Only one will he chosen to com- and after a series of special rages in overall length from 120 to 127 ed at the Newport races, however, pete with Shamrock V. and the she will leave for New York about feet, they are built to the same The largest fleet of speed craft and others, if they follow the unhappy the middle of July. She will be general rating, and this year, for motor cruisers ever assembled fate of previous unsucessful trial ketch-rigged for the crossing and the first time. there will be no will bear striking evidence of how racers, will be broken up to re- refitted in America. Sir Thomas time allowances, or handicaps, popular boating has become. for cover the bronze and lead and will not follow until shortly before which always have proven unsatis. the average eltizen. There will other valuable materials which the cup series.
factory at best.
be scores of luxurious private have been so carefully built into The big, hearty Glasgow Irisb-¦ All previous cup races have yachts, and one of them, it is them. For a cup contender is of man, who has piled up fortunes been sailed in the vicinity of Sandy rumoured, may carry the Prince of no more practical cruising value all the way from the tea planta-Hook, in. New York harbour, but Wales. than Kay Don's Silver Bullet would tions of Ceylon to the packing the course this year will be laid Excursion steamers will carry be as a Sunday afternoon pleasure houses of Chicago, has never mar off Newport, between Martha's thousands of spectators to the rled. But bachelorhood, he ex-Vineyard and Block Island. The course. Radio, sound film and The actual defender usually is plains, gives him time for his hob-match is to be decided by the best newspaper boats will dart about, accorded the honour of being laid bles-cricket, golf, motoring, or four out of seven races, the first to while squadrons of acaplanes and up until the next race, when she chida, horses, billiards and above be fifteen nautical milea to wind-government cutters patrol the is brought out for the trial heats, all, yachting. He belongs to the ward, or leeward, and return, the scene-a tribute for modernism to The powerful Reliance. for In-New York Yacht Club, and is a second on a triangle with approxi- the old-time glory of American stance, which cost $410,000 way member of no less than fourteen mately ten nautical miles
to a sails. back in 1003, was taken out of the yacht clubs of Great Britain. water immediately after her vic- Many a liberal American sporis. tories and was not broken up until man hopes that Sir Thomas may the Resolute came to take her be successful in the coming match, place in 1914.
for it is felt that international
car,
Many Wish Him Luck.
The Resolute probably will be racing would actually benefit by out of the trials this summer, but loss of the cup. So long has it there have been important changes been defended by U. S. yachtsmen in yacht design in the past decade, that challengers have been fright- and it is believed unlikely that she cned away. can offer any competition for the new types. Resolute was of ex- In previous years, from all over tremely light construction, with the country, Lipton has been, sent hull plates only three-sixteenths of bales of four-leaf clovers' and an inch in thickness. Leaks were crates of grasshoppers, for good not uncommon for craft, of this luck. But his most cherished kind, and the builders only prayed talisman was the carved, wooden that they would hold together un-American eagle and shield taken til the matches were sailed.
New Yachts Are Stronger. The new defending candidates,
from the enlon of the Yankee schooner America after she had won the cup in 1851.
Tradition has had a part in
as well as Shamrock V, are sound-building the defending yachts, for er structurally, being built under
the new rules to Lloyd's regula-those associated with them. Star- some .celebrated names are among tions of strength in plating, hullsing Burgess, commissioned to turn and ribs. But they still make no out one of them, is a son of the pretence of being other than speed Edward Burgess who designed the machines, and are clear of every victorious Puritan, Mayflower ounce of superduous fittings and. and Volunteer. Frank C. Paine, gear. A skeleton crew is required designer of the new Yankee, is a to remain aboard the racing son of General Charles J. Paine, ships, but they must be accom- who financed those same three panied by tenders to care for the yachts of the '80's, and was one of the most picturesque figure the
men.
This is one of the reasons why Leup race have produced. Another maintenance is far from the least modern designer and bullder is L. cost of racing for the America's Francis Herreshoff, son of the fa- Cup. Tugs and tenders, auxiliary mous "wizard of Bristol" who de-
These pictures show stars and the scene of the 1930 Oberammergau Passsion Play, the famous religious spectacle presented in the small village of Bavaria, Germany: Left to right, above, are: Hugo Rutz, who plays the part of Caiaphas, at work in his blacksmith shop; Joseph Mayer, who takes the role of Rabbi Archelaus,, and Hans Lang, Jr., the Johannes of this year's production. Below is a view of the new stage and auditorium at Oberammergau.
A POPULAR CINEMA STAR.
A charming study of Dorothy Mackaill, noted First National cinema star,
Although the weather for Easter in England was very disappointing for holiday-makers, there were occasional glimpses of sunshine between the showers. During
a fine spell this view was obtained looking southwards across the weald of Kent from Westerham Hill. (Times copyright),