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What Will This Man Say About Our Fair City?
Mr. Bagram's dream now ja. WITH the article that follows where in the history of Hong- £1,000 a week, and Booth Tar-
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 old resident £1,000 to look at his outline; 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 berties taken with local condi- at and paid for.
always come to orchids." would instantly identify him to tions, but, to turn a profit,
Angle of Feminino local residents among whom he especially for the films, a story Flowers To You
Ex-M. P. has been moving for several must have general appeal.
Mr. Bagram months; or a Rom de plume A.. theatrical producer once which would draw surprised de- drew from me in conversation I anticipation of this year's A LADY ex-Member of Parlia- bumper display of flowers at ment takes the public plat- light from the better-rend ace- many details about the life of the local Horticultural Society's form, this time in connection
foreigners in Japan. In a few tion of our public.
weeks he sent for my comment Exhibition on Tuesday. I visited with an event of singular im- the hard-working honorary portance to Hongkong. Miss These things I should be only the full manuscript of a three too glad to do but the author act play. I don't remember de secretary, Mr. J. T. Bagram Picton-Turbervill, one of the concerned is at the moment tails but the climax came when yesterday, to catch up with the Commission which came to the
floral season.
Far East to report on Muï Tani wrapped up in a new work on a European girl was put up for
Mr. auction on the bar of the Kobe
Bagram, A.M.1.C.E, conditions, presents the feminine Hongkong which he wishes to Club,
I made plenty of com- A.R.S.M.. D.LC., 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 is of that play. But the producer a strange mask for a hor sented to Parliament this week, Tel. 27778-9 Stubbs Road productive of the best talent. has now become a director for tirulturist-but a few moments will be awaited with great in-
almost made me terest out here. Possibly he may wish to con- a Hollywood company and I of with him
pen for a "Walking across country with the tinue in the same meteorological ten see his name subscribed to throw down my
spade. On shares and exchange silent, companion" is conditions when longkong has fine work.
Mr. Bagram is reticent but on favourite recreation of Miss had an opportunity in a few Though none of my attempts hours of sunshine, garden eleva Edith Picton-Turbervill, accord- months time of reading what at full length plays have reach- tion, daffodil forcing and the ing to the entry in "Who's
ed the stage, I have often had Hongkong Telegraph, it really is like
them played over the radio net mysteries of orchids he talks Who.".
fluently.
Miss Picton-Turbervill would The only clues I can give, to works. I have ghost-written
ac- not herself abserve the silence: his identify 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 First in is talking, and she is indeed a Far East and now gives his dramas both over the air and comparatively short.
returned time entirely to writing. Here on Broadway. I was in the show Hongkong in 1913, he went brilliant conversationalist.
Home to "join up."
She speaks quickly, fires a that made Sylvia Sidney 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 a great many the answer before she asks. honours in the annual com- another.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937.
EMPIRE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS
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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 an Empire conference on the them in the East and South care and after-care of those America. In New York. I lived suffering from tuberculosis. It with a war-time captain of the is felt that the many visitors Highland Light Infantry who include had returned to his craft of theatrical costume and scene design.
overseas
from
will numerous medical men and women from various parts of the
We lived in the Bohemian Empire interested in the in-
quarter of Greenwich Village, creasing 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 reducing the with a nail file and fry egga high rate of mortality there-over the gas jet. It was a grand
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. from, especially amongst native part of town to live in, not only
York Building
Chater Road-
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to the
messy
Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden, acting Pulsne Judge, who is leaving the Colony very shortly on promotion to a Judgeship in Kenya. (Photo: Kobza).
about
petitioris. He has this year re- That is why she learnt se tired from the annual com- much
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 She was talking about the. place at Marble Hall and seeds House of Commons, where she kept arriving for him from all
once gat
វា for Shropshire -over the world.
There was no
many
our
remarked:
academic.
"But generally speaking I've
never
un-
gardener to plant them so I had division, and referring to Parli to do a lot myself and became amentary oratory to-day she very interested. When I went
"Mr. Lloyd George is always into my flat in May Road 1 started some pots on top of the worth listening to, and so is Mr. but he is more coal house. Then my gardener Baldwin, thought there was more sun- shine to be got from the hillside. races. The conference is being because it was handy
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 planned by the Overseas League docks, but because I met sub- stantial playwrights and pro-
houses for keeping plants shel House of Commons.". and the Papworth Village Settle-
As an ex-M.P., her feminine ducers, and a fair number of
tered." ment which makes a special actors and actresses, who were
Conversation after this be- opinion of one of the most Mr. famous women M.P.'s is interest- AwwdofABLY study of treatment of sufferers far
from .removed
came a little difficult as and of after-care of those who Bohemianism
scream violently at the final Bagram plunged into the nice ing
"Lady Astor," Miss Picton- manage to survive. Those in Their absorption in 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 charge of the arrangements be-trade was contagious. lieve that it may be possible to not actively in a play they and was well into Times Square seeds as against those of Car- amusing, because you
by the time the scream cümeters and Bath of Wisbech (best know what she is going to say was easily heard for bulbs), and went on to next, and when she has sat down begin an Empire-wide campaign sought to improve their know out, but it
From above the roar
of the Great talk of the perennial delphinium she doesn't seem to know herself
what she has said." with against the ravages of the dis- lodge and technique.
shares for White Way.
which them I learned that art
A little sarcastic, that, and due case. The subject is one ofurt's sake is less artistic than It is dangerous to give up humans, an objection to
nrt undertaken for profit. This other work to undertake writ climate, and the tuberous pegonia perhaps to the fact that Miss which has a most unenviable is an apparent paradox, but art ing, but the lure of gold has supplied by Blackmore and Picton-Turbervill and the noble reputation for the
enormous requires full-time devotion and encouraged many prospectors Langdon. The best pansies, it lady sat on opposite sides of the But anyone who has heard number of deaths occurring from only those who succeed in mak- into the field who would be bet appeared, came from Engleman gangway.
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 cyclamen, but it was Lady, Astor getting up
The author of "An- on cyneria of which Mr. Bagram expectedly in the House of Com- tory diseases. Well over forty do so to the exclusion of other wonder.
has received has a magnificent selection, that mons during a dull debate must per cent, of deaths in this Colony tasks. However, writing can bo thony Adverse"
a side line and more than £80,000 from the he really enthused. Considering agree with the description.
Miss Picton-Turbervill also re- undertaken as are due to this group of diseases. 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 in mist, the mixed metaphors which she has · Brothers paid £19,000 for the is. frequently sixty deaths a week therefrom,
his home-made heard from pompous orators in friendships thus lm rights. Eugene O'Neill beauty 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.
One M.P. spoke about a "red herring being dragged across culosis, in one form or another, sketches, scenes, and gag lines ment calling for forty weeks at able.
the path, but the Government kills of some three thousand to various musical comedies, an
won't get away with it, as before. people a year. The causes for avocation which proved very
night it will be brought home to this high incidence are well useful when the steamship com-
roost." known-they have been correct-pany suddenly want completely
out of business. ly described in official reports as overcrowding, the expectorating' habit, and the poverty of the masses. It is also conceded that there is great need for more hos- pital and infirmary accommoda- conditions under which so many tion for tubercular patients, of the people live, but this will
The worst of being a golfer especially for those of the poorer be useless unless at the same
Another contemporary reports at Deep Water Bay these days classes. But only half-hearted time some scheme is devised for
accom-that in the Japanese Diet, "Seiyu is that you run the risk of being attempts are being made to deal providing alternative
the necessity of protection of fairway. with the scourge. Poverty is,modation within the means of Kalite has drawn attention to arrested for digging up
Admittedly, without question, the main those concerned.
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 is called for. lated to Mr. Lab Ourite." standard of life of the masses In this connection, it would ba must be a very slow process.
Ainformative to know whether the vigorous slum clearance plan, on Commission on overcrowding is the lines of that being under- { still sitting, and, if so, when its Force, following his triumphal eggs as the prize in a local mahfan is not. So Miss Picton-
aven at Home,
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Since then I have been hoping
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We understand there is no truth in the rumour that a cer- tain police officer is anxious to start a Mounted Section of the
with two white horses.
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Then there was the man was only 186781 numbers winning the Derby sweep. He didn't buy a ticket.
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 An M.P. protested shortest. that new legislation did not go far enough it is but a flea- bite in the ocean," he said,
When Miss Picton-Turbervill was in Parliament she caused a mild sensation one day by taking a fan into the House to keep cool jon a summer day.
Sne fanned herself, and Sir N, Gratton-Doyle drow the atton- 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
weren't all pongs.
Pop Parker.