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What Will This Man Say About Our Fair City?
Mr. Bagram
floral season.
always come to orchids." Angle of Feminine
Ex-M. P.
of the
WITH the article that follows where in the history of Hong. $1.000 a week, and Booth Tar- Mr. Bagram's dream now is this introduction, I should kong is a human story to match kington has prepared an outline to grow really good orchids. its dramatic physical setting. of a screen play he is willing "Everybody gets to that stage attach the photograph of a man When it may finally appear on to sell at £10,000. It costs eventually," he confessed. "You who is living in literary stage or screen the oid resident £1,000 to look at his outlino; try to grow everything rare and seclusion in Hongkong. I should will probably feel outraged at and it has already been peeped beautiful but in the end, you further add to it a name which liberties taken with local condi- at and paid for. would instantly identify him to tions, but, to turn a profit, local residents among whom he especially for the films, a story Flowers To You— has been moving for several must have general appeal. months; or ♫1 Noni de plume A theatrical producer once
light from the better-read sec. many details about the life of the local Horticultural Society's form, this time in connection which would draw surprised de- drew from me in conversation I anticipation of this year's A LADY ex-Member of Pariia- bumper display, of flowers at ment takes the public plat-. foreigners in Japan. In a few Exhibition on Tuesday, I.visited with an event of singular im- tion of our public.
week he sent for my comment These things I should be only the full manuscript of a three
the hard-working honorary portance to Hongkong. Miss too glad to do but the author act play. I don't remember de- secretary, Mr. J. T. Bagram Picton-Turbervill, one concerned is at the moment tails but the climax came when yesterday, to catch up with the Commission which came to the Far East to report on Mui Tani wrapped up in a new work on a European girl was put up for
Mr. Bagram, A.M.I.C.E., conditions, presents the feminine Hongkong which he wishes to auction on the bar of the Kobe
Club. I made plenty of com- A.R.S.M., D.L.C., F.R.H.S., is angle on this much-discussed continue in that atmosphere of ments, and no more was heard a Share and General Broker subject and the full report, pre- watchful obscurity which
1 of that play. But the producer - strange mask for a hor- sented to Parliament this week, Stubbs "Road productive of the best talent. has now become a director for ticulturist-but a few moments will be awaited with great in-
Possibly he may wish to con- a Hollywood company and I of with him almost made me terest out here. tinue in the same meteorological ten see his name subscribed to throw down my conditions when Hongkong has had an opportunity in a few
Though none of my attempts months' time of reading what at full length plays have reach- ed the stage, I have often had it really is like ..
them played over the radio net The only clues 1 can give to works, I have ghost-written
Miss Picton-Turbervill. would
his identify
ac not herself observe the silence: are that he was for famous authors, and have Strangely enough, his once a shipping agent in the squeezed myself into parts in quaintance with horticulture is her second favourite recreation Far East and now gives his dramas both over the air and comparatively short. First in is talking, and she is indeed a time entirely to writing. Here on Broadway. I was in the show Hongkong in 1913, he went brilliant conversationalist.
She speaks quickly, fires a Sylvia Sidney Home to "join up," returned is what he says
famous. She was required to after the Armistice, joined the fusilade of questions at her com- Society about 1928 and has panions and has scarcely heard since annexed u great many the answer before she asks honours in the annual com- another.
Hongkong Eelegraph.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937,
EMPIRE WAR ON
TUBERCULOSIS Among the many gatherings Some years ago I was sent to the New York which are to be held in London America, to
office of a large steamship com- during the Coronation period is
pany, after having served with the them in the East and South an Empire conference on care and after-care of those America. In New York I lived suffering from tuberculosis. It with a war-time captain of the
overseas
is felt that the many visitors Highland Light Infantry who from
will include had returned to his craft of and theatrical costume and scene numerous medical men
design. women from various parts of the
We lived in the Bohemian Empire interested in the in-
quarter of Greenwich Village, erensing toll of death from the where artists and writers are dread scourge and in the devis-supposed to saw their own hair ing of measures for red..cing the with a nail file and fry eggs high rate of mortality" -there- over the gas jet. It was a grand.
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fine work.
thal made
"Mr. ̈ ̄JusticeTM ̄ ̄ ̄J. ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄J. ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄Hayden,” acting Puisne Judge, who ta leaving the Colony very shortly on promotion to à Judgeship in
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pen for a "Walking across country with spade. On shares and exchange a silent companion" is the Mr. Bagram is reticent but on favourite recreation of Miss hours of sunshine, garden eleva Edith Picton-Turbervill, accord- tion, daffodil forcing and the ing to the entry in "Who's mysteries of orchids he talks Who." fluently.
petitions. He has this year re- That is why she learnt so tired from the annual com- much about Hongkong and petitions and is merely ex- mui tsai. hibiting his garden products.
-
She has no prepared speech "It was the strike of 1925 and just rambles on in a delight- that first brought me into touch ful style, interrupting her argu- with gardening," he told me. “I ment with occasional anecdotes, was looking after my uncle's place at Marble Hall and seeds
kept arriving for him from all once Bat for a Shropshire
over the world. There was no gardener to plant them so I had
She was talking about the House of Commons, where sho
division, and referring to Parli- amentary oratory to-day she
to do a lot myself and became remarked:
"Mr. Lloyd George is always
very interested. When I went into my flat in May Road I started some pots on top of the worth listening to, and so in Mr. coal house. Then my gardener Baldwin, but he is more
academic. thought there was more sun-
shine to be got from the hillside.
"But generally speaking I've
Now I have an acre and a half of heard better speakers in the garden, -a-hot-house, and two Mothers' Union than in the houses for keeping plants shel- House of Commons.""
As an ex-M.P., her feminine tered."
Conversation after this be- opinion of one of the most Mr. famous women M.P.'s is interest- came a little difficult us scream violently at the final Bagram plunged into the nice. ing.
"Lady Astor," Miss Picton- their curtain. I always managed to ties of Stuart and Low's car- When sneak away from the theatre nations, the value of Sutton's Turbervill remarked, "is always they and was well into Times Square seeds as against those of Car- amusing, because you never by the time the scream came ters and Bath of Wisbech (best know what she is going to say know- out, but it was easily heard for bulbs), and went on to next, and when she has sat down From above the roar
of the Great talk of the perennial delphinium she doesn't seem to know herself for White Way.
which shares with many what she has said."
A little sarcastic, that, and due our It is dangerous to give up humans, an objection to peculiar interest to Hongkong, art undertaken for profit. This other work to undertake writ- climate, and the tuberous pegonia perhaps to the fact that Miss
A study of treatment of sufferers and of after-care of those who manage to survive. Those in Their absorption in charge of the arrangements be- trade was contagious. lieve that it may be possible to not actively in a play begin an Empire-wide campaign sought to improve their against the ravages of the dis. ledge and technique.
them
I learned that art case. The subject is one of
art's sake is less artistic than
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But anyone who has heard ter occupied with a pick and and Son, and Japan held first tuberculosis and other respira-ing a living by its practice can shovel on a pipe line. And no place for cyclaman, but it was Lady Astor getting up tory diseases. Well over forty do so to the exclusion of other wonder. The author of "An- on cyneria of which Mr. Bagram expectedly in the House of Com- per cent. of deaths in this Colony tasks. However, writing can be thony Adverse” has received has a magnificent selection, that mons during a dull debate must are due to this group of diseases, undertaken as a side line and more than £80,000 from the he really enthused. Considering agree with the description.
19s Picton-Turbervill also re- The weekly returns show about I have had some luck in that sale of books in one country that his garden is between 700
alone, and in addition Warner and 800 feet above sea level and called some fine examples of sixty deaths a week therefrom, way,
Brothers paid £19,000 for the is frequently in mist, the mixed metaphors which she has Through friendships thus film rights.
his of Eugene O'Neill beauty
home-made heard from pompous orators in so that it can be said that tuber-formed I was able to contribute turned down a studio engage paradise of flowers is remark the House of Commons. culosis, in one form or another, sketches, scenes, and gag lines ment calling for forty weeks at able. kills off some three thousand to various musical comedies, an, people a year. The causes for avocation which proved very this high incidence are well useful when the steamship com- known-they have been correct-pany suddenly want completely ly described in official reports as out of business. overcrowding, the expectorating
Since then I have been hoping of the habit, and the poverty of the to understand masses. It is also conceded that technique of the drama. Some- there is great need for more hos-
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One M.P. spoke about a "red herring being dragged
Across
the path, but the Government · won't get away with it, as before night it will be brought home to roost."
Another Member declared that a Bill was "the last straw and, mark my words, it will bear no fruit."
The best of the three is the shortest. An M.P. protested that new legislation did not go far enough"it is but a flea-
According to a contemporary, China seems to be capturing a Shanghai golfer did a hole, of Spain's orange trade in London. pital and infirmary accommoda-conditions under which so many 770 yards, in one, recently. In This will doubtless give Seville
bite in the ocean,” he said. tion for tubercular patients, of the people live, but this will view of its size, he could hardly the pip.
When Miss Picton-Turbervill was in Parliament she caused a especially for those of the poorer be useless unless at the same miss it, we suppose, ☐ ☐
The worst of being a golfer mild sensation one day by taking classes. But only half-hearted time some scheme is devised for Another contemporary reports at Deep Water Bay these days a fan into the House to keep cool
necom- that in the Japanese Diet, "Seiyu is that you run the risk of being attempts are being made to deal providing alternative with the scourge. Poverty ia,modation within the means of Kaiite has drawn attention to arrested for digging up the on a summer day.
the necessity of protection of fairway. without question, the main those concerned. Admittedly, personal rights." This gentle- source of the evil, and it is easily the problem bristles with dif-man is believed to be closely re- to be seen that the raising of the ficulties, but action in called for. lated to Mr. Inb Ourite." standard of life of the masses In this connection, it would be
We understand there is no must be a very slow process. A informative to know whether the truth in the rumour that a cer- vigorous slum clearance plan, on Commission on overcrowding is tain police officer is anxious to the lines of that being understili sitting, and, if so, when its start a Moving his triumphal Mounted Section of the taken at Home, would produce much overdue report may be march in Kowloon on Thursday fruitful results by improving the expected.
with two white horses.
who off
☐ 口 Then there was the man was only 136781 numbers winning the Derby sweep. He didn't buy a ticket.
She fanned herself, and Sir N. Gratton-Doyle drew the atten- tion of the Speaker to it. He said that men were not allowed to bring weapons into the House
and a fan, he said, is a. feminine weapon.
The Speaker, decided that a
A lady recently won a dozen sword is offensive and that a eggs as the prize in a local mah Tur
is not. So Miss jongg contest. Let's hope they Turbervill went on fanning. weren't all ponge."
Picton-
Pop Parker.