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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1931.

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Long, R Philadelphia attor- Mrs. Correll was born in Han- деу,

and Mr. Long Bat up over, Pennsylvania, She now makes all night, and noxt morning | her home in Tokyo and for many at breakfast he showed his sister years was in charge of the Chris- the completed manuscript. Mr. tian Literature Society there. There is no sense or reason to any whether the word "honour" has Long died seven years ago. He had Alexander Hume Ford, of Horo- thing happening to or about this been erased from Britain's dic- never visited Japan at the time he lula, director general of the Pan- amateur performer. Just few tionary is filmed.

wrote the atory.

Pacific Union, now in Tokyo, hear- years ago La Belle Rose was a dish The chief drama of 'the film is

Madame Butterfly lived in the Ing Mrs. Correll's account of how washer. It may or may not be that the battle between the neurotic "ale" was Just a bit dizzy. For Tsar and his peace-loving German days of the side wheelers on the Madame Butterfly came into fame, wasn't a girl at all. "She" wife and the diabolical Russian Pacific. Mrs. Correll, now eighty recalled that as a magazine writer years of age, first landed at Yokohe visited some of little Cho-san's was a Scotsman, who told a story Generals and Sazonov,

hama in 1873. It had taken her relatives in Nagasaki thirty-two of having a wife and two children

29 days to cross from San Francisco years ago. The story the neigh- in the homeland.

on one of the Pacific Mail Liners, bours told Mr. Ford was that little Afterward she and her husband Cho-san's lover was not an Amer- ORIGINAL DESCRIBED BY AGED moved to Nagasaki and it was here ican, however, as portrayed in the

Rose

In those days no night club had

where a certain amount of enter

buri

a peculiarly nutty way of clowning. One night some of the other kitchen help chased "her" out of the kitchen and into the crowded cafe outside the swinging door. tossing tin plates after the fleeing figure. The crowd thought it part of the show and roared so loudly that the act was repeated.

RISE OF A NEW STAR.

Broadway!

Street of gay spots been considered. But there was an and play spots ... flesh pots and flash spots where evening be-eating place, the Village Grove Inn, gins at midnight and ends at dawn. tainment was indulged in. "Ilcao"

Things have travelled far, far indeed,

from the days when the legendary man-about-town drank champagne from the legendary

They have travelled pretty for within two years—even

within a year. A score of tinselled spola whose names headed the night life list in 1930, now gather cobwebs.

Strange as it may seem, even Tex Gulnan's, nolsiest and shrillest of the late hangouts, has had to sur render slightly to melting melodies. For the East Side, with its gipsy Inllabies and love chants, has cnp-

Finally someone

got the bright

idea of dressing the dish washer up in swell evening clothes and sending "her" out to be a target for every- thing within sight. The ex- kitchen mechanic was told to give tured the fancy of the Broadway-singer, whereupan everyone within a grand opera

shooting distance,

would open up with something. The result was a

farers.

The New Order.

"Oh.. yes, there is still vo-de-o-do, But the headliners-what they call) "the draw" spots-indicate that the raucops whoopla of yesteryear is melting before the torrid blues

tunes and the soothing harmonies of soft-voiced, soft-eyed maidens of Hungary, Rusia and way spots.

A stap-stick, a few comic novelties, a bit of Spanish and Magyar-the exotic soothing music of almost any Latin or gipsy land-and that's night life a la 1931.

The sinart place, for instance, is the Club Abbey. Here you will find the lovely ladies who drip diamonds even in hard times. Here you will find the folk of the ancial register ringside crowds of famous men and women. You will have to stay up until 3 a.m. to do it, but it's usually worth it.

imitation of An

riot.

The Star.

"Rose" grew within a couple of HeadD14 from a lowly spot to an with a pay cheque of something like attraction at the Palace Theatre, 500 dollars a week or more-work- ing like a roughhouse act. And the ince itself grew until there were two clubs instead of one.

In the time that has elapsed the net has been built into one of the

in town. wildest slap-stick affairs to be found

A few form of hurly-burly is contrived each night. Sometimes the entire orchestra interrupts the singing by

bursting into wild

rhythma; sometimes a padded club is applied; sometimes "she" s chased around the room by fellow entertainers using every form of noise-maker to drown the singing; sometimes the band

parades and sometimes things are thrown.

And who, if you please, is respon sible for drawing the crowd here? First a pretty gipsy girl. Her name is Gipsy Marukoff-at least that's the name she uses for enter tainment purposes---and she appear-microphone and going out over the ed out of Second Avenue, one even ing with an accordion under her

arm.

For Jagged Nerves.

A few evenings later she was out in the spotlight of a dance floor- and all about the noisy crowd aud- denly husband its chatter to a whis- per as she whipped her accordion into liiting peasant dance strains

of another world. Or, again, she would slump to the floor and, perch- led on a pillow, begin to pluck her guitar and sing soothing, cooing Hungarian love songs.

And round the "ringside" were scores of men who had dropped many a dollar in the market-or had been given a severe businces wallop. Perhaps this was just the sort of thing for jagged nerves.

And do not forget that all the time this is being recorded by the

radio! To the average stay-at-home there is a suggestion of riotous goings-on until the dawn comes,

GERMAN FILM ON

1914."

Russia Blamed for War Outbreak.

CHO SAN.”

MISSIONARY.

Madame Butterfly in real life was one of the prettiest creatures who ever lived. The stage doesn't flat- ter her in the least.

Mrs. Irvin H. Correll, an Amer

For the information of visitors highest points on the Island and the following list of some of the Mainland is published:--

Island.

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that she became acquainted with opera, but a Russian naval officer.— little Cho-san who lived on a hill Associated Press. where she could gaze out to sea day after day hoping for the return of | HONG KONG HEIGHTS the handsome young man who was the father of her baby. ican missionary, into whose sym-a picture, and every one liked her," "Little Cho-san was as pretty as pathetic ears many years ago the Mrs. Correll related. "And one day little Japanese teahouse girl poured we heard that she had a lover and, out all her troubles in the loss of then, much to our surprise, not long her lover, gave an account at a after that we learned of the visit luncheon of the Pan-Pacifle Club of the stork. It caused a sensation written. The name of the original making all kinds of promises that of how the story came to be of course. But the lover had gone,

was really "Butterfly"-"Cho-san" he would soon return. As we under- name that she was known to Mrs. given, from the ship, when he did in Japanese, and it was by this atood it there was a signal to be Correll and others of the mission. conte back, and we all knew that Some years afterward home on little Cho-san was waiting by her leave, Mra. Correll related the story window for the signal that waA

her brother, John Luther never given."

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A film entitled "1914" described as an attack on the "War guilt lie," which was released recently in Berlin, had the advertisement of being refused a licence by the censor in its first version, on the advice of the Ministry of Foreign Pork Chop Affairs, as damaging to Germany's At any rate, here was a pretty reputation abroad. This attracted troubadour from the Russian Arts the more attention because the Cafe where her audiences had been Ministry's advice had been fre- the folk of the East Side, the strug-quently sought and given while the gling artists and writers and the film was being prepared, alummers who drifted down - yet The film is the second attempt she has found herself one of the made by Its producer,‚ Berr most demanded entertainers in the Richard Oswald, to represent re- Bucking Pigs, to order city.

cent history on the screen, and, Snet, Beef like the first, the Dreyfus Case, will attract rather by the interest of the subject matter than by the artistic skill of its presentation.

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Eight Times a Night. She has "doubled," as they say on Broadway, in as many as four dif- ferent ploces per night. Not long ago you would find her in the Club Sadko at a certain hour; in the

The changes to suit the taste of "Vanderbilt Revue"

at a certain the German Foreign Office include, other hour; at the Russian Arts it appears, the interpolation of Bream bit later, and at the Abbey. She scene in which Sazonov, the Rus- often appeared from six to eight sian Foreign Minister, tells the times a night.

French Ambassador that he will Carp And of such is night life a la only show the Tear the Kaleer's Catfish Códfab 1931. Anything for novelty, or Inst telegram to him after re laugh

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stuff hereabouts.

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putation of St. Petersburg. night apota.

It is called the Greenwich Vil- lage Nut Club, and no one seems to have the solution of why or how it clicked. It radiates madness. The key of insanity in kept at its proper pitch during an entire evenlig,

A Dish Washer.

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