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necessity

MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931.

"

Expedition.

THE LOG

Of The TRADER HORN

by W. S. Van Dyke Lertwice to the "Chine Mail"

LI I teramu would like to go qble.

I went.

envinced that and prove it pos-

An advanza guard of a busi-

THE CHINA

ROUND THE CINEMAS

CLIVE BROOK AND RUTH CHATTERTON.

"ANYBODY'S WOMAN."

The embattled lovers who stormed their way through "The Laughing Lady" and "Charming Sinners" are seen again in an- other dramatle thunderbolt-"Any-

and

In "Anybody's Woman." Brook to handle the financial is seen as a respectable and pros- details and several laboratory menerous young lawyer who loses his had preceded 14 alt a month. had when his giddy wife divorces They were detailed to arrange for him. and "ents loose," going on a aur entry at Morabasa, au to take prolonged orgy of drinking the first steps toward establishing playing around." One morning a laboratory "up country" where he wakes up in a room in a cheap on film could be developed and theatrical hotel in, the Bright chicked over as it was taken. Lights district of New York to A few days before our departure find that he has been married to for New York the entire kit for the Ruth Chatterton, a tawdry woman expedition, weighing almost 100 of a social circle not listed in the tas, was erated and sent forward. blue books.

MAIL.

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL..

Social Functions.

Darce

To-day-Ten

at

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

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A POPULAR CONCERT PROGRAMME

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ON COLUMBIA RECORDS.

Hong

THE SIXTH EXTRA RACE

MEETING will be held (wea ther, permitting) at Happy Valley on SATURDAY, 23rd and MON- DAY, 26th May, 1931, commencing at 2.30 p.m. on both days.

The first bell will be rung at

Overture

Zampa

..Recctd $582

Sir Dan Godfrey's Orchestra.

Vocal Gems

The Mikado

...Record 9581

Humorous

2 p.m.

Sulo.

Selection

Descriptive

MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they Theatre; and their Ladies must wear their

badges prominently displayed. Theatre; No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclos- Theatre; ure. Badges admitting nonTM members to the Members' Encion- Theatre; ure and Club Rooma at $5 Der day for Gentlemen and "Mei | $3

per day for Ladies. (both Including tax), are obtainable through the Secretary upon intro- duction by a member, such member

Entertainmenta.

To-day King's "Anybody's Woman,"

Ta - dày - (28 "Hell's Ange."*

Today Central "Bean Bandit.“

To-day - Majestle "King of Jazz."

To-day-Word Theatro: Yan Chi," (part 1).

Home Mails.

all chita, &c.

Sherin President Pierce).

To-day--inward from Europe via to be responsible for payment of

Meeting. To-morrow Canton Insurance Office Ltd., Jardine's Board Room,

On board an, Usarano. Apr. 18.

body's Woman," which had its Kong Hotel, Pluner Dances at When I was told in itallywood a

first screening in the King's Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels. couple of months ago that 1 had

Dance Theatre yesterday.

Tomorrow - Tea In ense you |

At been selected to lead a Metro-

and King'a haven't guessed their names, Ruth Bepulse Bay Hotel Goldwyn-Mayer movie expedition Harry Carey in Party,

Chatterton and Clive Brook

Restaurant. are into Africa to make a film version We entrained from Hollywood the struggling pair of lovers. of "Trader Horn" it occurred to me Margh eighteenth. There were The reason why they have been that such an enterprise was a mat- fifteen of us in all; Harry Carey, selected again for the tenmed ter of general interest. The mak, who had been selected to play the roles in a dramatic production ing of any great picture id aro part of the "Trader." Edwina Booth that they seem to he

the ideal mance in itself, but one which is by to be "Nina T," the White Goddess, couple for the type of play they ten much involved in Duncan Renaldo, cast as "Little are east in. Each a splendid pur- technical details to be altogether, Peru,” three camera-men, two electrayer of characters, they neve" intelligible to the layman. But tricians,

two technical experts, a fail to impress public and critics here, in the instance of TRADERript clerk, a carpenter, a white alike with their very capable play. HORN, a new modes operaadi hunter, a laboratory man and my-ing, would be employed. It would be, self.

of reincarnating! now man simply, a matter auch of the details of the Trader's life as we had chosen for our story. Wo would go to the shores he de scribed, risk with the fevers, the animal, the hastile native tribes, In each detail we would endeavour to live again the life of the old man who "traded" ap and down half the rivers of Africa. And the fact That a camere would hadire us as we' went seemed to g ta detract no thing from the realism of the eit tion, and to add little to its com- plexity

Thai, na 1 stay, was two months ago, That was before I say, as I da now the vast preparation such an expedition Poquires, In point of time we were to make almost the longest journey possible under modern travelling conditions."

Hollywood to Mombasa. To

trem Ko

Hollywood to Mombasa, the Eat Coust key city to the African interior, is a matter of from some 12,000 miles reading West to East. By taking the other route, across the Parife, the journey After is hut a few miles longer.

•

1 went down to the freight depot But Brook manfully devides that

i

noon.

Sports.

See Sport Diary on Page 8.

Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.

Members can obtain upon ap- plication to the Secretary badges: (limited to ONE) for the free ad- mission to the Members' Enclosure of wives, lady relatives and friends. Names must be stated when applying.

On no pretext will children be

one day to due how the boys were he will go through with the inar-sert- form the pattern of "Beau-: handling it Two labourers were ringe. He returns to his preten Bandit." Radio Pictures' thrilling permitted in either Enclosure dur- straggling With an enormous hox tious home with Ruth. She is outdoor talking pieture. which ing the Meeting. labelled "M-G-M. Mombasa, Bri- madly in love with him. Now opened yesterday at the Centra!

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. tish East Africa." As they finish come Epock's friends, to pass upon Theatre.

The Price of admiarion to the od-tracking it into the car one of Ruth. Unfortunately she makes a To those patrons of the motion Fublic Enclosure is $2 per day in- them read the address. He called few mistakes in her manners, pictures who have had more than cluding tax, for all persons includ his companions attention to it and The friends decide to snub Brook, their 911 of the indoor sound staging ladies

and is payable at the in pre- Gate. they both grimed and shook their His law business, his prestige in scenes, which have been heads.

the community are threatened, dóminance since the introduction

Soldiers and Sailors in uniformi To-day 1 know what they were Ruth decides that she is to blame of talking pictures, "Beau Bandit” are admitted half price. laughing at.

¦for it all, and she leaves his home. will come 45 备 welcome relief.

Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, Sc.. Meanwhile Paul Lakas, a wealthy Practically every scene was film will not be permitted to operate merchant of the city. has beenet in nature's own setting.. The

within the precincts of the Hong trying to win Ruth from her husbeauty of the Arizona desert coun-Kong Jockey Club during the Race band. She ignores his overtures, ty gives a sweep to the film which Meeting. but does not shit his company. never could have been attained morning we were landed at Kilin- They are at dinner in an hotel in within the confines of a studio set. dini, the port of Mombasa, a few another towa one evening when "Beau Bandit" is well suited as Paris, 1 miles down the road. All day we rook is a guest at the same hos starring vehicle for Rod La have been checking over our bag-fry. He has been thinking over Rocque, for it allows him to re- gage and assisting His Majesty's the loss of Ruth, and he has realis peat the success he attained as a Customs officers in clearing the ed that her absence is more than delightfully swaggering villain in tons of equipment being unloaded!h: can bear. It is only natural,, "The Delightful Rogue," his pre- from the ship we arrived on, the then that he should go to her.vious film for Radio Pictures. La Usaramo, and from the City of He does, in one of the cleverest Rocque plays his latest role with Shanghai, a cargo steamer that bits of plot-action seen on the an ability which marks him as one left New York a week before us. screen for some time. The finale of the most accomplished players

considering bagraire facilities and alculating the total elapsed time in rach case, it was decided that by go- ing through New York, Genon and Port Said we would

Wife to drunken hubby, home about midnight); "What have you to say?

Hobby: "Nothing, dear. I'm quite content fa Jet the drop."-Smith's Weekly, Sydney.

matter

Through the Customs.

Mombasa, British East

Africa, May 1. To-night 1 am sitting in my room at the Palace Hotel. This

I hardly need to add that we are is a quite happy ane.

all dog tired and ready for a long

rest, which we won't get.

But God has been good to us.

"BEAU BANDIT.”

He spared us one of the most in- Rugged realism and the scenic spiring pictures to-day that it has splendour of the south-western de ever been my good fortune to} view.

When we came on

Fingers of Progress.

in talking pictures.

of

Tin will be obtainable in the

Restaurant in the Public Enclos

ure.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th May, 1931.

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

FRIDAY, May 22, 1931, commencing at 2.30 p.m.,

at their Sales Room,

Duddell Street

A Quantity of

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE,

Comprising:-

Beautiful Doris Kenyonplays | opposite La Rocque and con- THE Undersigned have received Tinstructions to sell by Public tributes

admirable piece an work. It is her first film appear- Auction once since her role in "Interfer- clice," one of the early talkers, have deck marriage ceremony is in progress and Miss Kenyon's talents after breakfast the first sight of tom-toms are beating and a- become even more marked since that the African shore line was visible. most-naked men are keeping time time. She sings in "Beau-Ban- The sea was deep blue, glistening and chanting. Modern civilisation dit," and her voice, cultivated by in the hot raya of the tropical sun shakes hands with primeval Afri. concert stage work for the past and a fringe of cream-puff horizon ca across the macadam Main two years in New York and other clouds-always present in equa- Street of Mombasa.

eastern cities, is one of the best torial waters-brought the thin

which has been brought to pic strip of land out in strong relief.) Behind me, to the North, lig tures. The xong is titled "Just a As we drew in closer the horizon the civilisation developed through Little Kiss," and is the work of

Velvet and Gretonne Cover Ches- foliage turned from. black to generations of progress. Back Hurry Tierney, composer of the terfield Couch and Chairs, Teak reach our destination more rapidly and with better handling of our bright green, the outline of trees there you can put a tag on 90 raclodious "Rio Rita" music, with Dining Table and Chairs, Teak became visible and a ribbon of tens of cumbersonic machinery and the lyrics by Anne Caldwell. Wardrobe with Bevelled Mirror equipment. I probably will never white beach came into the pictare. Let your last ce prer it will tur: Lambert Hillyer, veteran of the Doors, Teak Dressing Tables with know whether or not we were cor-separating the lazy surf from the at ita destination. You can early film days, directed "Beau Mirrors, Teak Chests of Drawers, shore. A little closer and we take fifteen people from Hollywood Bandit." Probably no other direc Desks, Chairs, Brass Ornaments, Aside from the netual distance could see the roofe of buildings, to New York in four days, ter could have caught more com Curios, E. P. Ware, Cutlery, Water

there was this the smoke of a railroad train and Paris is another seven,

to Genoa pletely the spirit of the picture. Colour, Engravings, Filter, Car- matter of equipment. On every hand we were advised that to take the vague outline of the mountains overnight. and to Mombasa, far for Billyer is remembered as the pets. Cushions, Glass Ware, Teax

the background. in

Another down the coast of Africa, in seven- director of scores of successful and Zine Ice Chests, Electric Fans, more than a ton of kit into Africa minute and we were sailing into, teen more. But there the fingers western pictures starring William Table Lamps, Gramophones and was ancer foolishness. And yet, Kilindini Harbour.

S. Hart, Harry Carey, Tom Mix Cabinets, Records, etc. of progress are withdrawn. by our closest figuring, we were un- The Island of Mombasa nestles To the West are the hills. A and other favourite western stars into the mainland and tries its shiny silk thread stretches up of the pre-talking picture days. beat to give the impression that through them and out of sight., Hillyer should be congratulated merely the unfortunate union

which separates it is. It is the single-track railroad to for keeping his "he-men" realistic

of Nairobi, 336 miles inland. You in "Benu Bandit." They do not including: a couple of rivers. Before the can load your kit

on this train wear $500 chamois ekin outfits, construction of the Kilindini piers and set out into the interior. But but represent the true atmosphere Wardrobe, Dreaming Table, a few years back you were land- when you decide to get of your of the west with blue denims and Desks, Joss Table, Chests, Tea- ed at Mombasa Harbour. To-day, responsibility begins. Your equip-runover boots.

upment is thrown off with you and Into the stirring story

rect.

we were to travel

able to reduce the weight of our

grim necessities to less than 80 or 30 tons. Our generator-the ma-

chine which would supply us light in the jungle-weighed ten tons;

the sound apparatus five tons; to

say nothing of the camera parapher malia, the high-power lampe, are lights, laboratory equipment and the thousand-and-one smaller arti- cles which were essential to the filming of anything other than the simplest news reel subjects.

Magnitude of Assignment.

It was when I surveyed this list

the water

however, you ease gently against a concrete pier.

up

also

A Nice Selection of BLACKWOOD WARE

poys, Jardinieres, Couch, Tabres

of the and Chairs with Talce Stone,

and

One Kelvinator. One Underwood Typewriter. One Set (9) Engravings (014 Hong Kong).

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

if you want to move it further-gold west are woven three parallel Table Screens, etc. Met by Advance Guard.

ahdad, you have your hands.

tbreads of interest-intrigue shorn Two members of my advance Ninety tons of equipment, Holly- of all melodrama, touching guard were on the pier to meet wood artistes and technicians un- romance, and hilarious comedy. US, The narrow space between schooled in the ways of the tropics)

Mitchell Lewis, one of the fea- the red brick wardhouses and the to be taken almost by hand to tured players, is a talking picture of equipage that I first realized the

quay was crowded with black same spot in the heart of the Afri-actor who doesn't talk. He is cast magnitude of my assignment. For stevedores, Arablan officials in red can wastes where wild animals in the role of a deaf-mute bendit.

first time in the history of fez and white skirt, a handful of are abundant, where savage native and proves decisively that the art 21, movies I was to take a studio pic white men wearing the cork hel- tribes abound, and where one's only of pantomime has not been lost, ture in the African Jungle. It was mets and duck auits of the tropics, salvation is a quick trigger finger by any means. my duty, virtually, to transport the a local reporter directing his jet and a cool head. facilities of a Hollywood studio black camera-man from the top of 12,000 miles to a spot in the wilds a flat car and Innumerable native

the

Insidious Spell. Perhaps I'm too pessimistic to

Perhaps the tropica is

"HELUS ANGELS.”

On View from Thursday, May

1931,

LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, May 18, 1931.

Howard Hughes, 'the producer and ¦ "Hell's Angels", is the first air of "Hell'a Angela," picture in which there are no faked-

of British East Africa and there to police-perfect specimens, physical-'night. make a coherent story, employingly-clad in red fezes, blue football, working its insidious spell over me American actors for the principal jerseys, with leather pads on the the same spell that has given us director parts and trusting to the natural shoulders, khaki shorts, blue roll so much excellent drama in "Rain." spectacular air film now playing at or processed shots, and every foot hunger of the animals and natives puttees and no shoes. I couldn't "White Cargo" and "The Letter." the Queen's Theatre, is himself one of action is authentic and realistic. and a Winchester 405 to supply the suppress a thrill as I surveyed Perhaps, many years, hence, a white of the best licensed air pilots in.the thrills. And all I had to do was that crowd. At least I had reach-man will visit these shores and find west.

This accounts for the tremendous restore to life the experlentés, en-ed Africa-there was no question me a beach comber, dressed in fray-

time and money laid out in produc-; countered by an adventurous fellow | about that.

During the three years devoted ing "Hell's Angels," which Mr. jed linens, drinking myself to death. to filming of "Hell's Angela" Mr. Hughes was determined to make the who did nothing better than barter In the warehouse our personal "I was once a movie director," I Hughes personally directed all of most realistic goods with a lot of natives and pro- baggage was stacked under the will tell him.

entertainment ever coed to tell the world about it. But initial of our last name, and over-

the action in the air from his put on a screen. "You deserve the promettan, old private plane, at that time, a Waco, as he went, let me add in fairness to head there were large signs warn- man," he will answer, grasping my equipped with a Wright whirlwind play the male leads in "Hell's Ben Lyon and James Hall, who myself, he was required to pack no ing ope not to smoke. A customs hand. electrical neratora, nosound official, opened my kit, gave it al

Angela" are also expert pilots and It is quite dark now. The devices. The fact that the sun cursory examination, and I was silence of death has fallen over the Model 100, fast pursuit plane, from in which they appear on the screen. Recently Mr. Hughes purchased a actually flew in the thrilling scenes could not ponstrate the jungle was allowed to proceed to my hotel..

town. Outside my window I can the Boeing to him a sarcense from the tropical

Airplane Company, heat rather than a condition which must be rectified by use of ponder ous are lights and reflectors.

motor..

It is five o'clock pow. A bare-see the flares of cigarettes in the Seattle, for his private use. foot native boy Is removing my patio below.. A familiar voice. More than 100 planes and pilota teacups. A lizard is crawling up drifts up. the coment wall on the verandah

were used in photographing the "You can have your Africa. Give thrilling air battles in Of course, consistent with the outside. Across the street ame Hollywood, I'd give anything Angels, and 60 planes are stown la general inconsistency of the, human phonograph to playing, "You're in the world to be there to-night!" action simultaneously on the screen. mind, the more I considered the im- the Cream in my. Coffee" and down

To-morrow we leave for Nairobi, ponsibility of the expedition, the the lane next to the hotel a native bag and baggage.

(Continued in next Column.)

"Hell's

COMING???

JUST MAGINE

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Hecorsts

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.Record DX24

Columbia Light Opera Co.

MacPherson's Wedding Breakfast..Record DX138

Win Fafe

Let the Bright Seraphim

Inobel Buillie

The Damask Rose Court Sym. Orchestra,

Voyage on n Troopship firenadier Guards Band..

The Midshipmile Norman Alix.

Old Comrades Reunion

Roosters Concert Party.

Record DXB

Record DX106

... Record DX114

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