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Personalities of Old Hongkong
MAY YOHE
Belle Of The Gay 'Nineties
BY T. PAUL GREGORY
During a world tour with har husband, Lord Hope, May Yoha mot Major Putnam Bradley Strong, the "handsomsat man in the US Army", 'and they were involved in a romanto.
FIT PRACTICALLY ALL CARS-haps familiar to many of the her, felt that they could not afford and Lord Hope and May were quiet- lost
to offer her much inducement in ly wedded at Hampstead vestry in May Yohe. She was one of the "A new name requires Ume to in- English society circles were as- hers to share. She seemed so com-
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most glamorous actresses of her troduce to the publle."
generation, and may be, more- Her Big Chance
decided
you and appreciative listeners than Opel" to be presented at the Lyric
army officer, Theatre, if she would consent to re- the young American upon the stage?"
Putnam Bradley Strong, She, moreover, gave May letters turn with him. May at first de Major of Introduction to various New York murred, but ultimately consented, "handsomest man in the US. Army." A famous belle of the gay theatrical producers of the day, and and accompanied by her mother went The young wife was fascinated by 'nineties whose name is per- these while they offered to engage to England. A romance developed the dashing soldier, and completely her heart to him. Forgotten was her duty to the man that she that was married, and the wealth tounded at the marriage of one of pletely dazzled by the personality their nobility to an American actress, and physical attractions of the young and it was some time before they officer that little else mattered. Her over, considered a Hongkong
consented to accept her in society, husband had bestowed upon her n of trinkets Fate, however,
in her but ultimately the great wealth and magnificent assortment personality; for during various times in
her colourful and favour: for shortly afterwards, Johns influence of the llope family prevail valued conservatively at some £100,- Is reported, the Russell, actor-manager of a popular ed and May was accordingly admit- 000 including,
pald £18,000. Events, more Colony her temporary home, Philadelphia with his company. Here "Four Hundred." She now became had and so accordingly has passed he intended to stay for a season pre- the darling of the exclusive set, and over, came to such a pass that May
senting the then popular skit en- was celebrated for the magni- determined to leave Stubbs Rd, into local history.
titled Laughing
Gag." Scarcely fleence of
of her jewels; for her hus- fee with her countryman to Amerien. house in the city the Piggest band shipwered upon her his wonder- Lord Hope learning of her plans d May Yohe (whose real name was had the play opened in the big
his upon the fut collection of precious stones, one cided to follow them, and Mary Augusta Yolie) was born at leading lady. Miss Jeannie Yeamans of which was the celebrated Hope arrival at New York employed de- Bethlehem, Pa., on April 4, 1869.
o fell i!, and Russell in desperate diamond, a brilliant of 44 carats, teetives to take up the search. Then She was the daughter of Captain
Lain plight, felt that he must close up the which ranks amongst the Afteen followed a merry chase across the William Yohe, an American army company. The little girl in Bethle- famous gens of the world. Tradition continent, with the Infatuated couple REMEDIOS: At the French Hospi-officer of Dutch descent and Elizabeth hem heard of the situation, and bold- arms that this precious stone is the but just a station or two in advance
woman of. tal, un 8th. September, 1938, Jose (Batchelder) Yohe, a Victor Vieira dos Remedios, aged | 62, The cortege will leave the hospitol at 5.15 p.m. and pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to day. No flowers by request.
Hongkong Hotel tumultuous career, she made the musical comedy of the time went to ted to the social register of Mayfair's fabl
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930.
LIBERTY!
mixed English and American Indian parentage. Like many American girls of her generation, May was. conveni-bred; but her father being possessed of some fortune, decided that his daughter should receive her further education abroad, and he ac- cordingly sent her to Dresden, and later to Paris, where she remained until her eighteenth year. She was
the shy young debutante, the de- light of her doting father and mother. and gave no indication of the gay mad-cap she was to turn out to be less thun two years later. And strange as it may seem, the meta- orphosis of the modest and retiring into the care-free conviviality On the surface, the Czecho-of a musical comedy singer occurred Slovakian concessions to the as the result of an invitation to sing a solo in a church. Her rendering Sudeten-Germans appear gener- of the sacred hymn was so pleasing ous almost to a point of com- and effective that the congregation plete capitulation. If future was astonished, and could scarcely negotiations for a peaceful set- that of an untrained girl who had believe that her beautiful voice was
the criais tlement of
are never taken a music lesson in her wrecked they can founder only life. on the rock of Naziism, for to all except one of Herr Konrad Henlein's Eight Points the demand for full liberty to pro- fess German political philosophy Czecho-Slovakia has acceded. Compare these Sudeten demands and the corresponding Czecho Slovakian proposals:
SUDETEN DEMANDS
1. Recognition
within the Ger-
of the principle:
Man ПІСЛЯ Ger-
man officials.
2.-Full equality
of stutus for Ger-
anx and Czech.
Recognition
1
of the Südeten. Germans AM legal body incor- porate.
4-5.-Determina- tion and legal re- cognition vi the
German
areas
within tho. State. Full self-guvern ment for the Ger- man arena.
Legal protec. tion for Every cllizen Hving out: rul the area of bis nationality.
7.--Remdral
sif
the Injustice. It Acted in 1918 und reparation for the damage thereby chused.
8-Full
liberly
Lo Itrofeas Ger man Votkatumu and German Wettan- schauung (political philosophy).
Naturally May was greatly elated and decided to make singing her career. For a long time she debated within herself as to what course to adopt, as singing in a church choir. wis completely unremunerative from a financial point of view while appearance on the stage was regarded as "sinful." It remained, however, for Mrs. John
Drew
stage favourite of the period, to convince the young girl of the wisdom of casting aside what religious scrup- 1.---Proportional les she might feel against the vo
cution employment of of for as she put it to May: "God of a professional songstress;"
CZECH PROPOSALS
Jicials according
2-Equality status απ the
creation of Can- tonn in which the
VC-
opera
After many vicissitudes, May Yohs met and married Captain John A.-Smuts, and here. they arn togthersome. years after the marriage.
ave her husband and
of the hounds of the law. At length
in San Francisco, they managed to give their pursuers the slip, and took ship for Honolulu.
went
to
From Honolulu they Japon and the great orgy of spending commenced. Nothing was too ex- pensive for the couple, and when Anally the sights of the Island Em- pall, they came to pire began to Shanghai and thence to Hongkong. Hongkong attracted them for a few days, when
when the States in answer May-felt-that-she-had-
better return to
to
several urgent cablegrams from her mother, who was apparently dis- tressed by her daughter's escapade. Shortly
after
her arrival, her para-
mour disappeared, annouels
he had pawned all her
that
that
and
to commit
of
ex-
himself intended to he
suicide. May was in a state treme distress; for she found that she had only 119 6d in her purse, Fortunately,
she managed to recover
some of
her possessions from various
and pawn-shops with the proceeds she went in pursuit of her erstwhile lover. She ultimately overtook him on the Spain-Portugal border, and readily granted him her forgiveness, and together the pair went on to Buenos Aires. Here they lived un- til 1902, when news came. from London that her husband had beert granted a decree nist, As soon as this became valid, they were married in the Buenos Aires registry office.
III-Luck In Hongkong
From thence forward her life was a singular series of "up and downs." In the occasional periods of prose perity, which were due to her sing- ing in various musical companies on
to the nationality endowed you with a beautiful voice, ly offered her services. Russell, pl- harbinger of Ill-luck; for it is said the stage, she and her husband were of the populace of and it would be the greatest of all though doubting her ability was that this gem was once the part of a able to do considerable travelling. the arcan affected. pities if you don't avail yourself of nevertheless kind enough to grant treasure horde in Golconds, India, In 1906, they came to the Ear East.
your great gift. Surely, He in her an
French adven oftended that you should employ it, sang Tosti's
audition. She accordingly but was stolen by a
and spent some months in Shanghal "Goodbye" and the turer who brought it to
and Hongkong. In the latter place, basis of national in giving pleasure to people
who theatrical manager elated at her where it was sold to the une they struck upon much In fuck. sutonomy by the will appreciate it, and how best can voice, offered her 560 a week to join Marie "Antoinette, Almost every Malar Strong became so impecunious
his company,
owner, it is claimed has been dogged that he had to wire to the American
sequence of misfor- Consul at Shanghai for $44 From this time onwards her suc- by a strange
in Jay self-Govern- political creed to which Herr cess was assured, and her next ven- tunes, and May, being superstitious to meet his bill at a
Henlein and his followers sub-ture as the leading lady in the cast was wont to attribute her subsequent Eventually, they returned of "The Crystal Slipper," a musical ill-fate to the baleful 3. Speelul escribe and it should be noted extravaganza which opened in of this stone which tions for Cantons that not all Sudeten-Germana Chicago and toured the West made "bears
her the leading actress of her day. Brahman priests." Upon her return to New York, she
Germans will an-
tent.
in all central ad-
by the national
will
deal
Influence the St
order
local
hotel.
gain to again
The
it is alleged States, and misfortune coin
We
to dog her footsteps.
ke the
a curse of long-forgotten Major for whose nake
became the toasted favourite of Visit To Hongkong Broadway, and amongst those who favours was the English
had
wealth and happiness as
as Lady
left her from time to time. At
Ser a
particular
of
desertion,
ᄆ
her
long period
ministrations are Nazi Germans-is one which will be ran which, if allowed free hand, concerned. They will ultimately brook no opposi
In the meantime, Lord Hope and Oregon City, Oregon, in 1910. She elination from other and more de-millionaire, Lord Francis Hope, sub- his bride commenced a tour of the still matters BITeeting!
possessed their own nation-mocratic philosphies. No one sequently the Duke of Newcastle. world, passing through Hongkong on and this during the years that follow- could imagine that the system appears to have immediately their way back to Europe. On the ed enabled her to
York to hood. She appeared in vaudeville, 4--The creation of government to which Herr fallen in love with May, and offered ocean voyage from New
In Henlein subscribes would, in the her the leading part in "The Magic Southampton, May was fated to meet and paid occasional violis to
country of its birth, allow any
illy.
Contour of which the Ver- will enjoy #elf-government.
minorities the freedom of pofiti-
cal expression demanded by the GRIN AND BEAR IT
will
Sudeten leader. In the wake of Volkstum and Weltanschauung
the national right creep totalitarianism and in-
of every citizen 10 tolerance, 48 Austria, which by permitted them, has found to
he protected
special Inwa,
which have been most affected by
Jons
of 700
her sorrow. The political 6. Asistance philosophy of Germany, when towards the indus- trial
the frontiera life of the practiced within German districts of the Reich, is the affair of Germany, and of Germany the economic cri-alone. But when any attempt sis, including is made to force the womb of Billion crowns. totalitarianism and Intolerance beyond those frontiers into lands to which such political creeds аге anathema the timo comes for democracy to cry "Halt!", as totalitarian The particular political philo-States, quite justifiably, would sophy employed in Germany is quickly suppress any political entirely alien to the Czecho-movement opposed to their form Slovakian, as it must be to all of philosophy. There can be democratic peoples. If, at this no refusal by the Sudetens to stage where Prague has con-accept the latest Czech pro- ceded every other demand made posals, for refusal will bring by the Sudeten-Germans, nego-Europe nearer to war than it tiations end in fallure, the has been since 1918. For the blame must be laid elsewhere sake of civilisation, it is to be than In the Czech capital, That earnestly hoped that the history Czecho - Slovakia -- should be of 1914, when a great Power forced to accede to the one de- refused to accept the capitula-| mand to which she cannot so tory answers to its demanda accodo without abandoning her from a weak Power-both, as a inalienable right to government result, have disappeared from of the type provided by her the maps of Europe will not be constitution is unthinkable. The repeated in 1988.
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By Lichty
"Men are so changeable. A month ago I was crazy about Bl
now I can't see him at allp"
she divorced him at
glorious voice.
earn her livell
London,
the scene of her greatest triumphs of over twenty years before. Even in 1013, she was still quite comely, and made a great hit by her rendering of the famous song "Honey, Ma Honey" in the revue "Come over Here."
Upon her return to the States in 1914, she married for the third time, her husband being Captain John A. Smute, acousin of General Jarz Smuts of Boer War fame. This
marriage while it brought her no riches, at least brought her, happi- ness and her declining years while mostly spent in poverty were ac- cording to her own story "the hup- pleat and most completely satisfac- tory ones of my whole life."
Her last appearance in Hongkong was said to be in 1917, where, she was reported to have sung at the Victoria Theatre. This, was appar~ ently her swan-song to the public;
ris
for there is little account of any further appearances on the stage. Indeed, penury seemed from thence- forth to be her lot, and she worked
charwoman, housekeeper and Janitress. She was now a broken- down old woman, and It seemed scarcely credible that she way önce the darling of the stage of that orn of the Gibson girl and the chum- pagne imbibing croquettes of our fathers. Early in the present year, the once great singer and former Lady Hope, started work on the re llef rolls in Boston as a Works Pro- gress Administration. clerk at U.S.$10.50 per week this one-time Fate, however, decided to spare
of the Stage" any further llation of de lätibh in her old
one; for the suddenly died it her home in Boston, Mase, on the 2911) of last month aged 62 years.)
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