THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1936.
FIVE SET OUT TO WALK AROUND THE WORLD
Readers Send £25,000,000 -In Ideas
You are a millionaire
The fascination of think ing for just a few minutes, and then discovering that there is an idea in your head worth one million pounds, has gripped readers.
one
THREE DIED ON THE WAY
Durban, July 21. IN 1925 a woman set out with five men to walk round the world. She has since returned to England.
The last of her companions, who is still walking, has now decidal to turn his steps towards London from Durban.
The original party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wise and Messrs. J. Baxter, A. E. Darling, H. Bertred and T. Wilson.
Mr. Darling (ho used to live at Twickenham) the only one stil! walking.
bis One of
companions died of exposure, one was mauled by a tiger, another was shot by Mexican bandits and a fourth was killed by a leopard.
Recently an American mil. lionaire gave ten idens that he considered would bring million pounds ench to whoever "Our tickets to New York ten years could put them into practice. apo curl us nearly all our store of Then industry suggested anesh," Mr. Darling sad tu an inter- other half-dozen idens worth a million.
Besides me now in a pile of letters, worth altogether a little more than
£25,000,000--in ideas,
mens,
Housewives, business glueers, shopkeepers, amateur biyen- fors young and old have sent in ideas,
TAKE YOUR SHARE
Well, now for the share-out. Here some of that £25,000,000, 1 wil} not keep it all for myself.
(1) Ex-typist, now hou-wife, soya; "Electtle dishwashing machines that Since throwing we van al afford. overhoud the typewriter, I have felt the need for nothing so much as some mechanical means of dis posing of the one hausebrok! task that nauseates me."
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(2) A method of consuming and using moke. Damage sloney by smole in Britain buildings alone totals £100,000 11 year, Пови
some towns of 50 per cent. sunshine,
(3) A materini for screening off the force of gravity. A million would Just be the first instalment of your reward.
Era
view, "ho we walked to Panama.”
"Getting
On the roud they net bandits and during a fight Baxter was hit on the chin by a
" said Darling, "he stood up and shot at the mna. He was hit and died à few hours later," The five then shipped to Australia,
MAULED BY LEOPARD
"But finding things dull there,"
Film Stars Ask For More
MAE WEST
Profit
£80,000
YOUR
sad Darling, we left Adelaide for VOTE
Canton. We landed in the thick of some excitement The Bighting. After
We made our way to Calcutta. Then WANTED
we decided to walk to. Rangoon,
"Un the return journey to Calcutin Wilson died of exposure, A few days inter, as we were walking along the road, a tiger spring un Bertred, He shat at it, but the tiger killed him in its death theen."
Eventually the throw Survivers
ched Cricutin tenrhed
Some American tourists paid their passages to the Cape. They started walking to Cairo, but on the way Wise was mauledby n leopard an Portuguese East Africa. Wise died later in hospital,
Mr. Dorling put Mrs. Wise aboard a ship for England.
Some time afterwards Darling married. With his wife and a young South African, who asked if he might join his party, he is on his way to prevent | London,—--Central News.
(4) A means of warming invite areas
of agricultural land night frosts. These cost agricul- ture last year two million munds" | worth of potatoes, two-fifths of the small fruit crop and three-quarters of the orchard fruit crop. The Institute of Patentees contri- Wutes £2,000,000, to the bog with these:
(5) A method of radio distribution of electricity to light, bent, and give power. No wiring your house Just tune in
on
SHARKS
London, July 25.
A shoal of sharks followed the Fleetwood steam trawler Chiltern for two days in the North Atlantile fishing grounds.
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WHAT type of broadcast item from ZBW do you prefer? The Telegraph" wishes to discover the answer to that question.
The Hongkong Broadcasting authorities also want to know.
Dis-
Messrs. Philco Radio tributors are also interested to such an extent that they have offered a generous reward for your opinion.
MAE WEST'S
£60,000 OF PROFITS
THE "BORROWING" OF PLAYERS
THE salaries of fim stars and directors, whose callings have never been noticeably underpaid, have been rising during the last
year,
This is one of the most important results of the change of policy which has now become general in favour of to lending er "farming out" players other companies. In order to "bor- row" a player the independent pro- ducers has to pay saniewhat more than the "star would get from his normal employers, As the number of independent producers has been in creasing
has become competition kerner, and both stars and directors)
RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music From Hongkong Hotel
Z.E.K. PROGRAMME
From Z. 11. W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (0-15, kiloeycles):
5-7 p.m. Dance Muste from the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden.
7 p.m. Alfredo Campoli and his Orchestra.
Mayor Melodies (arn Piercy), Wedding Dance Waltz (Lincke); with the Classics (arr. Crook).
7.10 p.m. A Recital by Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).
1. There'll be no South; 2. I see tree (Hodges); 3. Sons of the Sea 4. Walchinon, (Coleridge-Taylor); what of the Night (Sarjeant).
7.25 p.m. The London Plano Accordeon Band.
Maid of
Six Hit Medley No. 1; Brazil: Six Hit Medley No. 2. 7.43 pm. Vocal Gems.
The Bells of New York (Morten);
Time, Weather and on-
are asking, and receiving, salaries The Geisha (Jones). considerably in advance of their normal rate of remuneration.
8 p.m. nouncements.
8.05 p.m. A Relay from the Ro Shing Theatre (Chinese). 11 p.m. Close Dawn.
8.05 p.m. European Prograni- me from ZEK. on a Frequency of 640 kilocycles.
8.05
Layton
A few years ago the lending of | stars
* frowned upon on the grounds that it was unbusinesslike to spend money building an actor into a big personality, only to let another company reap the advantage.
p.m. Turner To-day all that has changed (largely jowing to the big Twentieth Century. (Tenor). Charlie Kunz (Piano). Fox concern's policy of "borrowing" 1. Songs Solitude; Sophisticated players for all its films); and actors Lady: 2. Plano Solos-Medicy No. are demanding clauses in their con-11; 3. Songs-I feel like a fenther in
When the breeze: acts limiting the number of films they are to make in a year, so that Smiles: they may have time left over to work No. 10. for other companies.
8.30 Music.
This is of vast importanco to com panies in Britain, because aften those other companies are British.
HUGE FIGURES
sty Mamaiy Pinno Hola-Medley
p.m. Light Orchestral
Simple Aven (Thome): Queen Mary's Song (arr. Haydn Wood): Like to the 'Damask Rose (arr. Haydn Wood); Two Symphonie Rhapsodies (Eric Coates): 1. Pitch my lonely caravan; 2. Bird Songs at eventide
a
from
heard you singlag; Cavalcade of Martial Songs (ary, Nicholls); Her first Dance; The Music comes.
Relay p.m. A Daventry.
Bulletin News
and Announce- ments.
9.20 p.m.Cricket: Surrey v Notts, at the Oval: a commentary by C. 3.
9.35 p.m.
Dance Music. 10 p.m.
Big Ben from Daventry,
Let un look at some of the salaries film stars are demanding. The follow ing figures are for a given period, usually about six weeks work; after this the player is paid additionally The reader of the "Telegraph" pro rata. Mae West tops the lis whose opinion pm different broad-with £60,000 and a percentage of the profits. She is receiving this from cast items is nearest that of the
Paramount for "Personal Appear majority of opinions will receive
ance." Marlene Dietrich wants £40, from this Company handsome
0100 a picture and Claudette Colbert six-valve medium-wave Philco
125,000 Junet Gaynor got £20,000 Superhet Console.
for Small Town Girl." Sylvia Fry. Sidney and Miriam Hopkins, who are making films over here, were asking £15,000 in America, while the British Close Down. stars Merle Oberon and Madeleine Carroll rated themselves at £16,000 | DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES and 47,000 respectively.
The following wave-lengths and frequencies are observed by Daventry.
Frequency Wavelength
49.59 metres 31.50 metres 9.595 k.. 11.30 metre
The receiver, which is sold in 1936 Hongkong for $200, is model, and is housed in a beauti- Cabinet ful walnut hand-rubbed 3 feet in height.
It will be on display in one of
wavelength, Then George Cools, a deckhand. the windows of Messrs. Sennet take your current from the air. [aged 45 fell overboard and was ¦ Frere's showrooms in Pedder (6) A method of turning spereti | Inst.
Street during the whole of next directly into printed type "Tell it "When We saw the sharkя week. That makes £6,000,000 for you. following us, we felt that some- All fax free. Five minutes of thing was going to happen" said thought and you can probably double a member of the crew on reaching
Fleetwood.
.
to your typewriter
FILL IN THIS COUPON TO RECORD YOUR VOTE
Vote 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 in your order of preference. Each No. 1 vote will receive 10 points, cach No. Z vote nine points, each No. 3 vote eight points and so on. Your ballot MUST be marked with the figures 1 to 10.
You need not necessarily choose the items given below, which have been arranged alphabetically. Other suggested items are given, but you are at liberty to insert any further item you would like to record.
VOTE FOR TEN ITEMS ONLY
Classical Programmes ,Dance Music
.Daventry Relays (Dance) ....Daventry Relays (Sporting) .Daventry Relays (General) .Grand Opera .Hongkong Hotel Relays .Light Opera ..Military Bands ..Orchestral Music ....Pianoforte Recitals
..Rotary Club Rolays ..Studio Talks
„Variety Programmes
NAME (block letters!
ADDRESS
Answers to the following ques- tions are not included in the competition (answer "YES" or "NO":
Would you like to have early morning programmes from ZBW?
Would you like relays from short wave stations other than Daventry? Are
you
Z BW'S
grammes?
satisfied with
present pro-
Ocher aurxenteel liemi for which you might like to vote are 3.1.C. Danes Orchestra: Baritone Recitales Church Bervices; Con- tralto Revitale: Chorn?, Mude: Folk Banan: Gillbert de Galliyan; Jai Piano Recital: Light Cicertar Maleni Comedy; National Male: Organ Real? Organ Helara ((Daventry)y Press Bulletīrum (Reuter); Press Bulletina (Daventry); Studio Recliata: Kradia Concerts: Studio Variety Item giadie Twik Sporting Commentarien (Local) s Sopranos: Symphony Orchretras; Block & | Bhare. Announcementai Tenozu; Violin Rə- |eltalo) Vars) Gemas Weather Staporta,
RULES
1-Entrants are required to vote for 10 items, waing the numbers "1" to "10".Ontr One coupon may be submitted by each entrant, Z~The entrant who forecaste in their correct order the final ten item chosen by votem will win the prize In the event of no entrant correctly forecasting the final vole, the price will go to the entrant who forecast is nearest to the correal vole.
In the rent of a tie, the prize will go to the entrant who, in the opinion of the two judges, maken the most constructlys waestion regarding 20W programmes. The Iwo judges will bo air. Rahuen, Manager Is Hangkons, for Menara Phileo Radio Dis tributor and the Editor of the Hong
kong "Telegraph". All entrants must agree to abide by their decision, which shall be final.
be
The competition will lose at 4 p.m. en Tuesday, Aurat 11 and results will puliated on the following Saturday.
-The form printed in the "Telegraph" mut be used in sulmiting votes. However, A separate sheet of paper (with entrant' Same and dress clearly written upon it) must be used in submlting suggestions for the Improvement of ZW_promm.co.
Bombers of the Staff of Use South China Morning Post or longkoop Telepro ant their relatives will not be allowed to compote.
Entries should be forwarded to the Hongkong "Telegraph," Wyndham Street, Hongkong. Envelopos should be plainly marked. "Radio Vote."
All you have to do is to fill in the coupon published on this page, denoting in order of preference which ten items you prefer ZBW to broadcast.
Men have a similar scale, Ronald' Colman, Fredric March, and Bing Crosby standing at the top with 130,000-Crosby getting a percentage in addition.
Directors are limited to £25,000 a picture, this being the figure asked by Howard Hawks and Tawis Mile stone, Mark Sandrich, director of the Fred Astaire films, receives only I hardly likely that there £5,000. While American independent
producers are not frightened-by-these- will be a tie. But in that event two sums, for British producers they are judges, the Editor of the prohibitive unless their films are to Hongkong Telegraph and Mr. M.be shown in America na woll. N. Rakusen, Manager of Phileo Distributors, will award the prize to the tied entry which, in
their opinion, makes the most con- THE KING'S
structive suggestion
ZBW programMES..
regarding
More than ordinary interest at- GREAT-UNCLE
taches to this competition, in view
of the fact that the final result may influence ZBW's future pro- gamme poller.
TAKES
In an interview, the Chairman THE OATH
of the Hongkong Broadcasting Committee, Mr. ΙΓ. R. But- ters,
that stated
official
result.
cognisance would be taken of the POLICEMEN sprang to the salute as a spruce, white- Hitherto, the Hongkong Broad-moustached figure stepped into casting Committee has relied upon the House of Lords.
occasional letters to the Pro- In 1918 the Duke of Con- gramme Secretary for suggestions naught, old soldier himself, in attempting to enter for the incurred some criticism for with- wishes of listeners.
ex-
the
running
This is a comprehensive attempt drawing his nid from an
servicemen's association.
He objected that it was Parliamentary candidates.
"Royalty lakes no part in poll- ties." he said.
to obtain the views of majority of listeners, all of whom will have the opportunity of in- dienting their wishes.
The competition will close on Read the Tuesday, August 11. rules before submitting your
entry..
It is not imperative that en- trants should submit suggestions, an these will be considered, only In the case of a lie.
However, it should be noted that, in the event of a tie, only those tied entries which include suggestions for improving 3BW programmes will be included in the final adjudication.
WHIM OF FASHION
TURNS PEST INTO
SOURCE OF RICHES CYDNEY, July 21--Thanks to
the American demand for rabbit skins for hats, the Austr- aljan rabbit, heretofore consider ed a pest, is becoming one of the nation's
leading wealth.
Sources
of
From Sydney alone $3,750,000 worl
of pelte have been shipped. to the United States. The rab. bits aro declared to. bo worth more to Australia than wool ship-
ments to the United States.
Despite this new market for pelts, the government has been obliged to organize a campaign to keep rabbits-from-over-run- ning the country-United Preet.
Sigh
GMA
$,600 jue.
GRB
1,310 kx.
GBC
GBD
11,750 .. 25,33 metres
*SE
11.845 .c. 28.26 metres
CSP
25,140 k.. 19.42
G9G
6911
481
GRJ
GHL
11.790 kr. 14.50 actres 21.470 k.. £3.07 mitres 11.760 k..
19.14 maire 31,040 k.. 19.61 maires
4,130
49.10 metrex
Transmission 1.
GS.D., G.5.9.)
1.14 p.m. Big Ben, Horace Finch, at the
Organ of the Empress Ballroom, Blackpool.
1.46 gym. "Down to the Bea in Shipa: Bea
Jurreals-Inalsa Fishing
Bcotland."
1. pam. The D.B.C. Empire Orchesten. 2.53_p.m. _The_News and Announcements.
Greenwich Time Hignal at 3 y..
Transmission 2
(0.8.0 0.3.15)
7 p.m. Bis Den.
Beztet.
ת!
The
Lean Haras
7.30 p.m. "Remamdennew of Things Psal."
8 p.. Jack Bimpson (Xylophone) and
Harry Carter (Haiephone).
4.15 pm. An Organ Récitat, s
5 D.
Greenwich Time üleval at 1`p.m.
The News and Announcementa.
1.28 pan. Cricket-Snzory v. Notia, at, the
Grali
1.35 p.m. The D.D.C, Variety Orchestre,
Transmission 3
(G.9... G.S.F.).
is p.m. Dig Ilen. The B.B.C. Welah
Drchesick.
11 p.m. "London Pie."
11.30 p.m. Operatic Music,
11.55 pm. The News and Announcements, Greenwich Time Signal at 12. 11.26 ..
12.45 M.
The ... Dance Orchestra, the Ort:
Crike-Gurrey Notta, al
T.
Last month, standing at the table: in the Lords, the eighty-six-year-old Duke swore fealty to the new King LOCAL WEDDING
his grandnephew.
He nodded to an old friend, shook
hands with the Lord Chancellor and wallied out of the Chamber, his duty
xlone,
MISS M. LEYTON AND MR. A. C. TERRY
The first August wedding for this GIGANTIC EXPLOSION r was solemnised at St. Teresa's Church, Kowloon Tong, on Saturday afternoon, when Miss Maria del TO UNCOVER COAL
Refugio Leylon became the bride of Mr. Arturo Cuan Terry. DEPOSITS
The Rev. Father Maestrini effelated of the ceremony,
The bride, who is the second daughter of Mrs. Maria T. de Legion and Mr. Guillermo Leylon, former Chinese Consul in Alamos, Mexico, was given away in marriage by Marin
Lowe,
White Silk Gown
Moscow. July 21. At Korking, near Chelyabinsk, there was effecied to-day an ex- plesion of 1,800 tons of explosives In order to uncover coal deposits...
As a result of the explosion about The bridegroom, the youngest son one million cuble metres of earth of Mr. Juan Cuan and Mrs. Rosa T. were hurled into the air, a trench de Cuan, was formerly correspondent being formed with a length of about for the Oriental in Lima, Peru. one kilometre, a depth of 20 metres The bride wore a smart while silke. and a width at the surface of 85 wedding gown. She was attended by metres and at the bottom 20 metros, four bridesmaids and two flower In order to form such a trench in girls who wore rose coloured gowns. the ordinary way from one and a duties of best man were under- half year to two year's work would taken by Mr. Jorge Cheng Condor.
Following the ceremony, a recep- bo required.
A special seismological expedition was held at the bride's private tion of tho Academy of Sciences residence. The honeymoon is being observed the vibrations of the spent in touring the various Chinese ports. The bride, on leaving, wore earth's surface as a result of the rose coloured dress with accessories explosion,Tess,
to match.
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