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GREAT CANADIAN CANAL. OPENS LAKES TO OCEAN SHIPS.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 6th, 1931.
AL
FILM FAME.
How Pat O'Brien Come into His Own.
Few persons in Hollywood had heard much about Pat O'Brien until he was signed to play the role of Hildy Johnson in the screen version of The Front Page." an outstanding newspaper story.
"What a break for a young ne tor," was the word that passed from mouth to mouth.
The stories started to leak' outl about the difficulties Howard Hughes experienced in securing this actor for his picture. Mem- bers of the film colony started to prick up their cars.
"Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to find out a little more about this O'Brien fellow," they thought. What they found out was that just before going to Hollywood Pat had attained the position of one of the leading luminaries #Brandway's great white way, And the only way Hughes could get him was to buy his contruct fram Gilbert Miller, New York stage producer.
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In Broadway. Hits Last season O'Brien appeared In the leading rule, that rarketeering bookmaker, bi “The Up and Up." Immediately after- ward he scored another hit as a Russian Communist leader in "Overture." He was rehearsing for "To-morrow and To-morrow." now one of Broadway's successes. when Hughes sought him fer "The Front Page."
To Stay in Films. "You bet Fin going to stay in pictures," Pat declares, "During
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Five huge incks of Canada's Now Welland Ship Canal, now virtually completed at a At the lower right is the map nf the cost of $155,000,090, are shown in these pictures. jerval waterway, which will permit enn going verse is to reach the upper Great Lakes,
0143 Lake Ontario. the top is a general view of Back No. 1, looking south from the entrance
The lower Lower felt a an aproplane på ture if the flight of four lurks at Weiland. Out. three are twin locks, ap that chipet max plass each other on their way up and down between
Lakes Erie al Dufaro which have a difference of elevation of #26 font.
Than the Panama Canal! Canada's answer ta rriten who adhibe
With the pening all the tem contend that inland canals and Twente five miles ng between saleway. Prowott, Dal, on the
beastmoded its termini at Port Colborne nad waterways have by more rapid means of trans. Poft Waller, Dal, it has seves St. Lawrence River, becomes the with a life of 47, 1-2 ford mi treat Lakes navigation, portation is the opening of a new locks, rach link between Lake Eric and Lake feet, and saralels the swiftly de Where the Hominion Government tama kaliny 5,4 bushef Onlarin which is calculated to scending Sigara River between the s
Praín elevator. Other huge ele affect great Dart r North Jabra
At Thorold there are four locks, vabars are being constructed at American commerce,
three at them twin lurks in Bight Port Colborne and at Kingston. For the Canal for the first time will permitilar to thor at (atun in Ve The grain of Western Canada, tral America. Like steps of a which heretatore has been brought ocean-going“ vezzels to ply Great Lakes,
Welland Ship
The giant stairway they rise the above to Buffalo for transfer into the and will give largest lake boats arevsge to the other, with the fourth, a single 14-foot draught boats used on the the last three years I was on the Neil, Now virtually complete, and bek, at the top. Hach half of the. the Prince of Wales and Prof the other, so that ships not al ble to sen direet to Kingston or but never had money enough to requiring only the gand offices of win locks operates independently, id Welland Canal, now
sident Hover to launch it officially
in the interests of internatiotiki frate, it is to be opened son,
A Tremendous Task. Completion of the task that was started in 1913, and which cost
are able to sail up and down the Prescoti mountain, but my pasa each other Montreal.
in the Panama Canal.
stage was in love with Eloise! will: Taylor and wanted to marry her
for transfer there be sure I would be able to sup
port her. Yes, I was getting along
in two stendy alreants. The twiat The new canal is the fourth such very well. But 1 had been headed! forks have a greater lift than these, pasange to be built. The first one, for the top two or three times les espurned in 1829, bad 40 wooden,fore but something always hap
back to Second Largest Lock, locks, with a depth of only wightened to send me right
The four-a-day vaudeville again. The guard luck at Humberstune feet. In 18.11 the canal WIN "A suon as I got out here and $17,000,000, places the Now do the second largest in the world bought by the Legislature of Upper) real, the terms of my contract Welland Canal among the major 180 feet in length between the Canada, and enlarged for nine-font with Hughes, I sent for her. enguteuring feats of that world, inner galea. Ships of 25-foot navigation,. The 10 wender locks actly two works after the day 1-
the entire were reduced to 27. made of ent hir town we were married, Aad
stone.
AN long as they keep passing
In some technical respects it is draught an traverse claimed to be even more zemach- canal in eight hours,
mer gemeni pane magada aprengigen je eseme
THE HIGHEST
EYE MEN.
OF
Ex-
In 1870 a government conumia. money out in actors the way they sion recommended another ronted in this town we are going to
with
a 12-fool navigable depth, pake mr home here-that is, if: This taler was increased to 14 fret, can continue to get work,"
Personally, we don't think Pat hut it. too, son proved inade- quate. The new canal, however, has much to worry about as fur as getting work genes. He gave a with a minimum number of locks good performance, in "The Front and the shortest practicable route, Page" and has just left for Newe is a visualization of the dream of Yurk to play opposite Naney Car pioneers who sought a navigable, roll in "Personal Maid." which is route from the Atlantic to the being made in the Paramount'
per lakes,
Long Island'studio:
ALFONSO—THE
ROYAL SPORTSMAN.
DONE with governmental trials and tribulations, King Al-
fonso XII, deposed monarch of Spain, now may have. more time to indulge in the sports of which he always has been fond. Long known as the foremost royal sportsman in Europe, he is shown at play in these unusunt photos. At the left he is seen on the royal tennis courts in Madrid; above in the role of huntsman.
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ANCIENT AND MODERN WORLD
IN NEW MUSEUM.
Scores of exports are literally manufacturing a museum in Chiengo. They are reconstructing all kinds of specimens and models for the Museum of Science and Industry, the gift of Julius Rosenwald, a millionaire merchant. A model of the salling ship "Pamir" now plying between Germany and South America is shown at -left. It cost $9,000. Top, contre, is one of the first street cars used in Chicago, A model of a pile driver of the Noman era being examined by Joseph Gibbons is shown in circle. Upper right is a simple scientific exhibit showing conversion of rotary movement to vertical. Tho Kellogg telepone switchboard of 1898, lower right, gave the operator plenty of opportunity to read."