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HOLLAND'S SERIOUS PRINCESS.
TAKES INTEREST IN PARIS EXPOSITION.
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, AUGUST 15th, 1931.
G. B. S. LEARNING. MUSIC.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
Maddening Moments
Shown with
Serious Princess Juliana of Holland at left) takes her job seriously... her mother, Quern\ Wilhemnat right), as they looked at Paris Colorinl Exposition
Others Wet to plage thug to work and study.
!!
NEA
G. B. S.... In the role of piano student under Walter Rummel. and semi-in-[ber Aftieth birthday soon and has Natives from the four dureresort, semi-utleially
While berating the French and early in the morning, French of the earth-white, black, yellow cognito. Her Majesty formally been 32 years on the throne, ap
the Inaugurated and brown gathered at the inter-
comprehensive peared in splendid health and had
of the theatre, condemning French art critles were trying to find him to He had said national Colonial Exposition in Dutch pavilion at the Exposition, a kindly word for each Parks, have had the privilege of and was entertained at a formal dusky natives of Dutch colonies and wise-cracking about not being get some more of his ideas about. walching
royal princes af luncheon by President Doumer at who stood at attention as she ap- properly understood, George Ber- the French stage.
Annantite attendants ard Shaw took a few hours off that the French theatre was dead, western vivilization at work. The Elysee Palace, but otherwise pronched.
She is Juliana, heir to the there were no other State func-in Eastern dress and conien hats during his recent visit to Paris and that French art was dead. huge decorative um-1 get a lesson for the goud lle didn't like the way his playa This lesson was on were being neted in France, and throne of Holland, and the natives tions in her honour, at the Queen's carrying
brellas could not keep their eyes of his soul.
he said that M. and Mme, George have been as much of
actors. of a study to her as she has hero to them. As
"Do not forget that much of the of the Royal party they were ac- the piano.
The dramatist, at 75. revealed a Pitseff, Franco-Russian comes from companying. the future queen of a people who fortune of Holland
side of his character not generally had "no conception of what my Princess Works at Jub. have long been natute colonizers, her commerce and her possessions
Although Halland is very de-known when he sought out Walter play in about"-referring to "The This caused Pitseff she had been taking advantage of over the spas," explained a high the Exposition to examine with official of the Dutch Legation, mneratie in government. Queen Rummel, well known pianist and Apple Cart."
few tips on the art of to retort that Shaw didn't know a loved and asked for her professional mind the work "The Queen has always wished Wilhelmina is greatly bring
done by other countries in that her daughter had a thorough Juliann promises to be equally as playing the pinne. Rummel re-thing about French audiences, "Shaw doesn't know the man in understanding of colonial pre-popular when the trees the throne, gards Shaw as an old friend, and and he milled: Their colonies..
It was her first visit to Paris, blems and for that reason she took She has been trained to be queen, is authority for the statement that
demoerstie the venerable dramatist can caress the street in France. When one of but Juliana shunned the lighter advantage of the French Expost but brought up in a
During her early years in the ivories in quite a commendable his characters doesn't act like an e princess to pro. side of the life of the city and re-tion to enble
leaves Englishman-that is, sit in
on end the classroom she had the associa-nanner. His technique
he chair for passibly hours fit by its lessons," alued on the Jab, At 22, Jilland is one of the few So Juliana has been driving to tion in her studies and comrade-something to be desired, but
almost
believe the man is his character. every day ship in play of other girls of her plays chictly for his own pleasure and talk but slowly-Shaw doesn't unmarried princesses
and comfort.
Shaw had complained that the rank in Europe, and the only one, and.
known as a musical critic,) but continued to
interested In Pitoef company walked about too who is almost sure to come to a known as colonial specialists, viselal education. throne in her own right. She isiting the various sections re-enjoy the society of her girl Shaw was chiefly
When she was 18 she tone effects, as Rummel explained much, spoke too quickly for his a big girt strong and capable, presenting other countries and friends. known as a charming companion, getting Best hand information on went to the University of Leyden it, and they did their talking with-phrases to sink in, and was too of the Queenjin reach of the piano. Shaw also "Latin" for the thinking involved. get studios and serious-minded. colonial life and praidems of de-and, apon orders
velopment. Visit is Quiet.
Later she plans to Mother, was treated as an ordi- wanted to discuss interpretation, Then, having stirred up things in his usual way, the great drama-
Princess Juliana
with visit various Dutch colonies, par-nary student with no special for-Jehiefly of Bach and Chopia.
malities. She tunk her degree! During this session, which stari-tist slipped off and took a humble her mother, Queen Wilhelmina,jticularly Java and Sumatra.
led when Shaw turned up bright!piano lesson. The Queen, who will celebrate with high scholarship. and her father, Henri, Priner Con-
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way.
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MARINE
WHO WAS ISLAND KING. FINDS AMERICAN LIFE VERY DULL.
Others Dreaded Job,
th
But it was not as a king that
When King Wirkus I was in his glory... seated under the palms with the native Queen
Timemeune...
while a
servant fans them-that was the fol For Faustin E. Wirkus, the the privilege. And the time has Haitian king business is in a slump passed when he could allence, with just now, but some day he plans la single word, nl noise which Wirkus was detailed to the post. to voyage again to the romantic might disturb his slumbers. little land of L Gonave and while at least, his reassume, for
Like
like strawberries
without cream
Eustace Fitzjames was a good huaband and a kind father, and his patient weeding of the front lawn was at once the pride and anvy of the neighbourhood. Yet hero you see him like a volcano in eruption. Hin wife looks down. His son looks down. The maid creeps from the room. No wonder! They have just offered him cheese without his "Ovaltine" Rusks. Looking down is the very least they can do. Just think what he's missing...
that that Bayour that scrunchy crispness
Can you' general melt-in-the-mouth deliciousness blame him? Could you put up with cheese without Lhem? Isn't it enough to make any man smash the plates, throw the cheese to the goldfish, and dine at the Club to-morrow? Of course it is, and you'd do just the
same....
OVALTINE
RUSKS
APPETISING DIGESTIVE -&-NOURISHING
in netting. le personally Investi. gated complaints againt his tax collectora, installed a radla in the main compound at his own ex-
and dispensed justice. pense,
When he went there, the island)
I was rule hy under the indif-
ferent
of Timemenne. elderly,
portly native queon, Years be fore, Wirkus had been instru- in amoothing over some tax difficulties in which she found her self, and now the grateful queen
A. B. 11
FAMOUS CHURCH.
Where Roman Emperors were Crowned.
By far the most conspicuous ob. feet in Frankfort, Germany, is the 300-feet tower of the Cathedral
helped the white man to gain the (Dom) with its richly ornamented cupola. The Cathedral is the his- full confidence of her people.
torie city's principal ecclesiastical edifice.
They often told me, during the first few months, that they were going to make me king." recalled Wirkus. "But just thought it was a joke.
This building, in which Roman emperors were formerly elected and, since 1662, crowned, was founded in 852 by King Louis the one day I heard the German, and was later known as drums beating all day long, send the Salvator Kirche.
over the ing their code sigol
Wirkus" "Coronation."
Then
After its reconstruction ta 1235. Island. A delegation came and the church was dedicated to SL. asked me to attend a big meeting. Bartholomew.
and I rode up, wo
wondering what it
was all about. I was met down the trail by officials of the agri- cultural guilds and four men who carried me in a chair into the Women flagbearers led the
town.
way to the drums, which gave the king's call-four 'rules' and threel tops. Everybody howed and greet ed me, and they put the king's flag around my shoulders."
In and ofcial duties] the mornings of King Wirkus. As a judge he scolded fiercely and punished lightly, real- ising that fine of $4 or $6 might represent a year's savings to a na- Live. Although polygamy is prac- ticed on La Gonave, and marriage Is simply a
mutual akreement,
were higher moral standards in civilized countries, he said, Murder and crimes of violence were virtually unknown. Thievery was common, but his own posses- sions, often left unguarded for days, never were molested.
than
In the afternoons he awam, When he was a square-faced blue-
naked as a native, on white ored boy of 17 ho had left the What Change!
Pittstown, Pa., coal fields to enlist benches, practiced golf or pole by
back Down in La Gonave, it was King in the Marine Corps, and at 21 was himself, or went by canoe or horae- on exploring trips. His col rogal titles and the life he loved Wirkus hiniself who decreed when shipped to Haiti as a sergeant lection of Haitian art, Idols and
fenats might be Only a few months out of active dances and
HO
well.
| duty with the U. S. Marine Cornaeld. But in New York, whethAfter years of duty on the main-industrial objects in conceded to
land, Wirkus became
turn
lieutenant
in the uniform of which he served he likes it or not, he must dance of the Haitian Garde, and finally be the finest in the American Mu-
came Garde
assignment to eum.
Nominally, Halti la a democracy. nearly four years 48 ruler of some until dawn, and sip cocktails more is
the tiny post on La Gonave. 12,000 natives, King Wirkus al-insidious than tropical clarine.
"And so," sighed Wirkus, "I'm He found himself in charge of As the fame of King Wirkus grew, ready ไส growing restive under the restrictions of the American social getting tired of all this. I can't a detail of 22 native troops and an and storion were told in Pont au order. And Wirkus is not accus-go back to La Gonave immediate Island full of ebony savages who Prince and even in America, there casiness regarding the status of tomed to accepting orders, socially, but I must get out in the opon practiced voodoo rites, and know may have been some official un-
again. So as soon as I can get the taste of human flesh. or otherwise, from anybody.
this white monarch of La Gonave. His Dulles Varied. In La Gonave, he rode in soli-nway I'm going on an archaeologi-
Lieutenant Wirkus learned the Suddenly he was relieved of his
The tower ad begun la 1415, glory over the mountain cal expedition to Santo Domingo trails, occasionally motioning with some friends.
difficult language, doctored adulta governmental post.
There was mourning on the but remaindo finished. The "I took that job in La Gonave and sat up nights to road "The boy to go forward and collect the small gifts that appeared as hecause of the absolute freedom it Care and Feeding of Children" so istand when the white king sailed restoration was nished in 1881. In would afford me. And in more he could give advice to mothers away, But American occupation though by magle in his path. New York, he is aworn at by than three years I saw only four Alone and unarmed, he rode horse. of Haiti is scheduled to end in the tombs of the German King
I was the boss, the back over mountain trails to vil- 1036. After that, Faustin Wirkus trafle cops, and whirled to nausen ins in the jammed, subways.
king, the lieutenant, the 'sequeste, lages white men never had visited, thinks he may go back, at least for Gunter of Sbharzburg, who died welcoming tempo of the the last knight of Sachsenhausen,
who died in 1871)- He has to sleep under a root or tax receiver, and most of the He showed native farmers how to occasional visits, to thrill again to in Frankfort W1849, and Rudolph, now, and pay what would be al-time the only white man on the irrigate their land, and even the
taught the fishermen some tricks drums, Imosta-Haltian-king's ransom for island."
inspectors.
In the interior of the church are