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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 4, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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Door 1939, Walt Diety
ANDY HARDY GETS
SPRING FEVERY
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by BEATRICE FABER
SYNOPSIA: It is Springtime u Carvel, but Judge Hardy's pleasant reveries are in- terrupted by a visit of two, men, Willta and Hansen, who fell him that he is about to make a fortune, Certain acreage, owned by the Judge has been found to contain eight per cent aluminum. Though excited by *
cent.
news, he cautiously sends off a sample of bi the menstimme, the soil for analysis. though, Spring has dealt Andy Hardy a heavy blow. His giri, Polly, is entertaining a dosh- ing Naval Ensign and when Andy calls on her she greets him with indifference.
THE following Sunday Judge Hardy had started to make good on his promise to his young daughter. If Mariun was really that keen on gel- ting a job some practice in shorthand might not be amiss. The door opened and Andy stepped into the room.
His step was slow, his heart heavy. What a night he had spent.
Last evening, hiding behind a hedge of bridal wreath hud seen Polly leaving the house with the Ensign. She had been wearing a fiuify pink dress and cape and he had been in full dress uniform,
Andy could still see her. looking more beautiful-than any girl in the world-and be- longing
another. Ho to sighed with misery and hand- ed his father a letter. "For you Dad. Special Delivery,"
The Judge's eyes widened as he ripped open the envelope. It was from the Physics Department of the University of Watoma,
"Dear Jim," it read. "Received the sample you sent me and here is the
The soil analysis
you wanted. contains eight percent aluminium The Judge let out bauxite.
a roar, "Hooray!"
"My goodness Dad," Marian said disapprovingly, Really, old people oughtn't to let themselves go like that.
doin' the Rhumba
be
the
~ next," Andy sald Innguidly.
The Judge clapped him on shoulder. "No, but you'll be doing some aritlitactic for me. Step Into my den and exercise that mind of yours for a change."
When Andy was at his father's deak in the next room the Judge started, "If a product sells for twenty cents a pound in the open market and it is contained in soli weighing approximately a ton to a cubic yard
wc
Got It," Andy said tersely. "And there is eight percent in the soli
and 160 acres of soil-" He was pacing the floor. "Let's sec the earth's crust in approximately a hundred miles. But suppose only dig ten. Well, Andy, how much would that come to? Well? Well? Figure it in dollars."
Feverishly, Andy calculated. Then. If we just dig down a foot- or five feet it would still
mcar millions.
Why, it's incredible." Andy nodded without hearing or caring what it was all about. "Polly, Polly Polly," he was scrawling on the paper. "Sure Dad, that's swell,
guess,"
about it, he guessed he could tell something in a letter tʊo.
"Dear Miss Benedict," he wrote. "Who wants to bother you again? If you mean me, I got better things to do." Furiously, he scribbled on.
Mr. Davis was speaking to the class. "I'm sorry to say that your dramatics teacher is ill and won'1 be with us for the rest of the term so Miss Rose Meredith will take charge of the dramatics class start- ing to-morrow. In the meantime, Introduce her. 1 would like to Miss Meredith comes to us from she the State University where majored in dramaties. I hope you students will give her a good im- pression of our school."
"Thank you Mr. Davis," a beau- tiful...velvety..voice said..
* ☆.
ANDY'S
stopped pencil abruptly. He looked up and his head began to spin. Why, there stood the most ravish- ing creature he had ever seen. "Good luck," Mr. Davis said pleasantly and closed the door behind him.
the
Rose Meredith spoke to students, "I want you all to know," she said in rich, contralto tones. that I'm glad to be here with you that I want us to be happy together and accomplish fine things."
to
Andy stared at her, stirred the depths of his being by the strange beauty of her lovely sensi- tive mouth, her dark and tragic eyes set deeply into a pale, oval face.
She continued to talk and her voice was music in his ́ cars. Once she smiled in his direction, fint, passing smile and a tremer went
over
students themselves.
"Instead of presenting a pub- ished play this season," she "was
"I think I would be a saying,
fos- cinating experiment to have ป
project carried out by the whole
In other The Judge suddenly eyed him. words, we'll write the play, paint "Say, maybe your mother
the wan
scenery, make the costumes, 20 right. You need some sulphur and
that when it's presented to on moinsges
It will be a real accom- "Pop" Andy "sometimes I think families ny awake nights, tryin' to think ways to make a guy miɛeruble,”
sald miserably,ence,..
up
bo
NEXT morning, he walked dispiritedly into the Speaking Dramatics class.
Gec, this wns going to plain torture. He'd have to look st Polly's face for a whole forty- five minutes-and know all the time that he was running around with that old 'Ensign Charile.
Then he saw a note on his desk and onened It. "Dear Mr. Andrew our last Hardy" he read. "After converration. kindly do not bother me again. Miss Polly Benedic!."
The door owned and the prin- elpal addressed them. "May I have the class' eltention, please?"
Andy didn't even bother to look up. There was bliterners in his heart. So Miss Polly Benrdict was the "mudge-holding 3end, huh? She didn't ke it that he had enlled her -a child in front of Ensign Cooper, Well, if that was the way alio felt
She stopped for a brief second. conscious of Andy's worshipful
Startled, she look away.
eye.rst thing is to write the
play,
she said. "For that, ra suggest taking a well-known dramu and using it as a model. Take a similar theme; follow the pattern of the scenes, the unfolding of the story. Try to build the clinracters in the same way."
She made a graceful little gea. ture of finality. "I'll explain more fully to-morrow but please bring some play suggestions with you. You might look up the comedies of Shakespeare and Sheridan. Thank you. Class dismissed.**
There was the thunder of the class rising to its feet and a babel of voices. Silling to the left of Andy was Beezy MacMahon. He winked. "Hay!. A rwell tinh, min't she, huh?"
Andy stiffened with anger. "Ske looks like a indy to me."
Stickin' Plaster's volco piped un, "Say, do you really s'pose they'll let me in on this play? I'm just crazy about everything about the
theatre.
n'arlor.!"
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SHORT
STORIES
Gee, I'd like to be
"I can't imagine anything worse. Beezy salt calmly, "Slong, Andy."
"Okay boy
Andy was staring
fer.
at Miss Meredith and his fingers were slowly fearing to bits a piece of paper. It was Polly's let- Then he took a deep breath: and walked to the doorway where Miss Meredith was speaking to a student,
It
"Well," she was saying, "I think Camille's littic-uh-advanced for our class. Tommy, rend Cyrano de Bergerac to-night. Maybe that will give you an ideo."
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THE last pupil left and without seeing Andy ahe walk- ed to the window and stared out,
The place was silent now. It was pleasant but just a little frightening, for solliude, she had found, gave one time to think, to be unhappy. Then she swung around as Andy addressed her. "Oh, did you want anything?"
He
nodded vigorously, "Yeah, wanted
to ask you this 'theme' business you talked about. What did you mean?"
"Well," She looked past him and her voice was muted as she said, 'Romeo and Juliet' it's the theme of love that comes to a tragic end. A.
star-cross'd of pair lovers take their life-
"Get
you've got a nie volce."
Her lips quirked. "Thank you. I've studied very hard. By the
what's
"Andrew
your name?"
way:
rew Hardy." He added, with sidewise "But all my friends
call me
"'I'
"'1
a nice boy " see." He was though a bit intense about him- self, perhaps. Might be a good worker in the class, though, "Well. Andy, I hope you write a gooxt
We'll need one," play:
swell play." She write
nodded encouragingly. "A word of advice. Be sure you have
strong motivation for the plot." Through the open window, Andy could see Polly sauntering across the grass. Huh. She and her En- sign. Well, maybe she'd be finding out that Ensigns weren't the best fish in the ocean after all.
"Listen Miss Meredith," he said Alercely, my motivation is per- fect."
Andy is determined to get the world on fire and thus get his revenge on the fickle Polly, Will his new-found interest in life, Rose Meredith, really in- spire him to be a playwright? Be sure to read the next ex- citing episode.
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by Admiral CAMPBELL RADIO
Who writes of the
dramatic and impossible adventures
THE Great War with the German Empire ex- tended to the farthermost ends of the earth.
In the heart of Africa lics Lake Tanganyika. For many years German ships had sailed on this intanil sea unmolested. The Germans used it for transporting supplies to their forces in German East Africa, and the German naval ensign flew on the ships of the Ger- man Navy there, which con- sisted of the gunboat Kingan! and three or four armed vessels,
The British Navy was non- existent there, and as there were no facilities in British hands for shipbuilding, it looked as if the German Navy must remain supreme in that locality.
But nothing is impossible to those with imagination and deter- thought of mination. Someone sending ships there overland, but the idea seemed too impractical to be carried out.
But imagination won the day and it was decided to send the British Navy there-overland!
Behind closed doors at the Ad- few officers gathered miralty a
and worked out every detail.
Luckily, too, there were those ready to undertake the impossible -the old spirit of adventure wan still alive.
LIEUT-COMMANDER
A. SPICER-SIMSON was selected to command the ex- pedition, which consisted of two-motor-launches and a force of 28 white men.
His ships were each of four and a halt tons forty feet in length and with seven feet beam. Their full speed was designed for 15 knots, and their armament one 3- pounder gun and the usual supply of
small arms.
They were specially built in Britain, and named Mimi and Tou tou. Early in 1915 they left Tilbury on their 20,000-mile journey.
On arrival at Cape Town the Mimi and Toutou were uncere-
holsted
of the out moniously steamer and placed on railway Trucks.
The fleet left Cape Town July
Tuly 10 for the ralihend
on
Elizabethville-a journey of some
2,300 miles.
At Elizabethville, the advance guard was met, and the whole party entrained for the railhead at comp was Fungurume. Here a made and the serious part of this great adventure started.
dimculties The
ahead enough to have deterred an ordi- but nary
man from going on, Simson was not u man to be over- come by dimeuities, and he had with him pleked men, each with some special knowledge.
were
The greatest requirement of all was the spirit of, adventure and the will to win through or die in the attempt. Simson was lucky in this respect, and the men were lucky in Simson.
One can imagine the discus- stons that went on, the endless sugersilons and "brain waVOR" made, the talk of the chances of goiting through, and on top of it all, the views of the people with local knowledge who said it was "Impossible."
What exactly had to be done? The Navy had to be taken to Sankiela, 150 miles distant through the thickest known-or one might almost say unknown-bush and over a mountain range 6,000 feet above sea-level.
There were certain small forest tracks to guide the party and a Toute had been mapped out by the advance-guard.
CIMSON decided to make tho Journey in three 50-mile stages with a depot between bach,
The Mimi and Toulou were mounted in specially constructed cradles and carriages with big wheels; two traction engines werd used to tow them.
·
-
THE
NAVY
WENT
OVER
THE LAND
By the middle of August the flect "set sail" on this unique over- land voyage; they were escorted by armed Askaris as they "steamed" Into the bush.
No sooner had the order to sail been given when things started to Ko wrong.
The engines gave trouble, the two ropes were not the proper length, and the track liself was not wide enough or the ground places level enough,
Was
as well this should happen at the very start, so as to necustom everyone to what was to follow. One difficulty after an- other had to be faced and over- come, breakdowns of all sorts occurred.
Snakes and scorpions had to be guarded agalist, especially at night as the latter are apt to get into one's boots it they get a chance, and their sting is as painful as a snake's,
This part of the Jungle is also well known for its wild animals, * though there was not much dan- ger from these owing to the noise the convoy made on its passage.
Time and again the job seemed hopeless, sometimes no progress was made at all, and at. others the progress in a whole day was barely a mile.
Some of the gradients were so steep that the traction engines could not tow. Storms and dust also fre- quently retarded their progress.
All the time great heat had to be endured, and furthermore the little party were always working against time, as the rainy season was not far off, and had this ar rived the situation would indeed have been hopeless.
The crew themselves, during their long tramp, were frequently short of
water, but they fortu nately escaped the ravages of the tsetse fly, which carries with It the germ of sleeping sickness.
Eventually by the end of Sep- tember the fleet had reached the highest part of the plateau, but their troubles were not at an end, as the descent was almost as diff- cult as the ascent.
Heavy weights going down hills and paths which are winding and tortuous need a lot of looking after to ensure they do not outrun their boller power, and it would never have done for His Majesty's ships to be wrecked on the side of a hill.
EVENTUALLY
the
long
trek was completed and the flect arrived at Sankisin, an- other railhead.
Here the two ships were once more put on railway trucks and
• proceeded
another in "luxury" afteen miles to Bukama, where they found themselves more in their own element, as they were soon afloat on the Lulaba.
Steaming and towing they traversed a further, four hundred miles they reached another railhead at Kabalo towards the end of October.
Once more the fleet was put on a train for the last lap of their Journey to Tanganyika, about five miles from the lake.
Simson constructed a short-line over the last few miles and also a little harbour colled Kalemle, con- sisting of a small breakwater bullt of rocks and boulders and some un- derwater rails, to enable his ships to be launched rapidly.
Simson received the anstatance of the Belgian Commandant who commanded the small battery at Alberville near by on the shores of the lake-In fact, Kalemte became an almost flrat-class fortifled har- bourl
In the mean- time the ships were kept hid- den amonst the trees and busn on the shores of the lake-ng it was thought that
the Germans might have heard of their approach.
ON Christmas Eve, after
their five months' voyage by rail, road, and sea, the fleet was launched, cleaned up, and the guns and ammunition got ready for action.
Chiristmas Day was a well-carned holiday, but on Boxing Day at 9-40 a.m. the German Navy, in the shape of His Imperial Majesty's ships Kingani, a monster of 53 tons, was sighted steaming on a course that would take her straight past the harbour.
Simson waited till she was well past and then ordered his fleet to sea and made the signal to "Chase the Enemy."
He quickly overtook the Kingani and soon after 11-30 in the fore- noon the action commenced. The Germans must have had the shock of their lives when they sighted the British fleet.
range Guns...were used at a which was quickly reduced to less than 2,000 yards, and as the range decreased the rifles and quick- Aring guns were brought into use as well,
The Mimi, using lyddite shell, soon started hitting and in a short time the Kingani which at first had not been able to use her gun, as it would not fire astern, was badly hit.
The captain was killed, the gun put out of action, and some of the crew jumped overboard. The ac- tion was short and to the point.
Fires soon broke out on board and in less than a quarter of an hour the Kingani stopped and the engineer who was now in com- mand surrendered the ship, which was brought as near the harbour as possible and beached in a sink- ing condition.
Misfortune now overtook one of Simson's ships, as the Toutou sank in a heavy storm-though as he had the Fin, this was not so serious as It might have been..
Later she was repaired and added to the British Fleet as H.M.S. Fill-a great asset as she had a 12- pounder gun mounted in her.
Eventually the Mimi closed to 4.000 yards and with the Finn little farther off, the two put shot after shot into the German, hit- ting her in the engine-room and setting the ship on fire.
The Germans fought gallantly on til hele ship sank by the bows, with her colour still flying. Twenty of the crow were taken prisoners,
There now remained only two German ships on this inland sea.
One was a small fast motorboot, which was sighted one day by Simson's fleet, and the commander at once ran her aground and set fire to her; the other was tho Graf von Gotzen, a large ship of 850 tona.
Although she carried more guns than either of the other shipa.which had fought, her captain decided not to face an action and to sink ' her.
Simson's work was done, the Impossible had been achieved, the lake was clear of the enemy, and another pago of adventure and two endurance, combined with successful naval netions, had been added to our history,
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) ano 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Hal Lorenzo & Toby Gray,
From the Studio
Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 ke'a, and on Short Wave from 1-3.15 p.m. and 3-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's per stcond.
12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-
ccasion.
18.30 Tino Rossi (Tenor) and the Orchestre Mascolto,
1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03
Bobby Breen and Wilfred Thomas in Variety.
1,30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea- ther Forecast and Announcements.
Debassy. 1.15 Compositions of The Children's Corner Suite, Walter Glescking (Plano); Nuit D'Etoiles, Helene Ludolph (Soprano) Piano and Organ accomp.; Petite Suite, Symphony Orchestra conduct- ed by Plero Coppola.
2.15 Cluse down.
with
5.45 Studio Children's Hour. 0.45 Closing local Stock Quotations, 6.47 A Spanish Programme 7.17 Ravel--Sonatine For Plano. Alfred
Cortot (Piano).
7.30 London Relay The News 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcement.
8.03 Studio Concert by IIAI Lorenzo (Jaza Plano) and Toby Gray (Accordeon and Plano)--1. Two R. Jones, Hal Plano Medley F. D Lorenzo and Toby Gray; 2. Piano Solo (a) Don't worry about me, (b) Our Love, (c) And the Angels Slog Hal Lorenzo;
Mixture 3. Accordeon No. 5, Toby Gray, 4. Piano Solo Blue Orchids, (Concluding with Two Planos playing Over the Rainbow),
with Toby Gray: B. Hal Lorenzo Accordeon and Flanc-(n) Aln't she (b) Chloe, (c) I'm sorry for
Sweet roby Gray and Hal Lorenzo;
Plano Swing Medley, (a) Lime house Blues, (b) Wabash Blues, (c) Farewell Blues, Hal Lorenzo; 7. Two Pianos Secret Rag (arr. Lorenzo and Gray), Hal Lorenzo and Toby Gray.
8.30 Regimental Band of H.M Coldstream Guards,Martial Moments, Wec Macgregor Patrol, Policeman's Holiday-One-Step,
8.45 ILE.C. Recording-
edlog The Old
Contemptibles" Fart The Record of the British Expeditionary Force..... from Mons to Ypres, between August and November, 1014, by Beatrix Brice. Produced by Felix Felton and Val Gielgud.
9.15 London Relay-News Sum- mary.
London 0.30
Relay "Vivo La France."The sixth of a series on
the Life of the French Army and People.
0.45 French Songs by Albert Pre- Jean and Charles Trenet,
10.0 London Relay-"From the Frent Bench."-Talk by Lord Zet- land on Indla,
10.15 Dance Music, 11.0 Close down.
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