1931-05-19 — Page 7

TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931.

THE LOG

Of The "TRADER HORN" Expedition.

by W. S. Van Dyke

clusive to the "China Mai!"*

Nairobi, Kenya. May 4.

Test that has

men

technical and

with country

men

mic to look over!

THE CHINA MAIL.

KING AND QUEEN. ROUND THE CINEMAS

PRIVATE VISIT TO ROYAL ACADEMY.

THE CAREER OF WALLACE SMITH.

7221

FIRST COURT TO-DAY.

Rugby, Yesterday.

"BEAU BANDIT."

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

TR. E. J. COLLINS ig, no long-

Mer connected with this com

VACUUM OIL COMPANY,

C. C. STARK, Acting General Manager. Hong Kong. May 19, 1931.

Few writers have the colourful! The King and Queen paid a pri-background of Wallace Smith, au-pany. vate vialt to the Royal Academy | thor of the original and screen. exhibition yesterday.

version of "Benu Bandit," now at Their Majesties will hold the the Central Theatre. have been es For two days we tablished

He was a star reporter in the here. setting our Leations: That will save the delay first Court of the season to-mor-

outfit a safari row night. The second Court will town of his birth, Chicago, before laboratory and preparing a salariut waiting here to

The was twenty. He was once the into the blue." All of the equip- and then proceeding in a body to be held on Wednesday night.

In spite of the uncertainties of youngest correspondent at Wash followed us from look around. By the time the Hollywood is either with us in actors arrive and the couipment is the trade outlook throughout the ington, D.C.

He was with General Pershing awaiting the next set up ready to use. I will have world, the London season is now slow freight. With the huulgence everything ready to shoot" in full swing, and is no less bril-on the famous punitive expedition Thein Mexien in 1916. Soldier of for- The details of the safari liant than its predecessors. the Kenya and Uganda Railroad sight. ve should be ready to start up coun- will meet me as I am leaving to the list of functions, both indoor and tune, rancher, rodeo rider and business outdoor, is unusually long, with many other titles might be added try on the last leg ut ur journey able direction

who has been here long distinguished visitors from abroad to the one of writer. By that time the la-manager, xt week.

However, Wallace Smith is best oratory will be developed and enough to know the beat people to and from the Dominions, as well

us from the provinces, for the known for his magazine writing. printed ur fist as we can get it engage,

events of the next two months.drawing and screen adaptations.

His drawing talent was recognis ed when he illustrated Ben Hecht's "Fantazius Melare."

Mombasa or

back here.

you are

we

of

my

British Wireless Service.

The

MR. SNOWDEN,

INVENTION.

NO TO RESIGN.

Rugby, Yesterday, Chancellor of the Excho-

As contributer to Cosmopolitan, Red Book and Liberty magazines, 38 "Are You Decent?" "Tiger's Mate," "Oregon Sketches" and "Yellow. stone Trail" Screen stories to | his credit are "The Gaucho," "The Beve," "Arabian Knights." "Bull. dog Drummond," Radio Pictures' "The Delightful Rogue" and "Beau Bandit."

"HELL'S ANGELS."

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functions.

Dance

at

To-day-Tea

Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels and Hotel Cecil.

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Entertainments.

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

Today Queen's "Hell's Angels."

Today Central

Theatre;

Theatre;

Theatre;

BLACIO NOTES

To-day — Majestic

Theatro;

"Benu Bandit."

"River of Romance."

Thursday-World Theatre; "The

Unless circumstances prevent- The trip from Mombasa wan and a heavy rain will prevent any see absorbing per mile than all the thing here-I will shove off with my have travelled., advance guard day after to-morrow, her 12.000 The heroic little woodburning train We will make Kampala our first that fights its way over the 300, stop. That is a small settlement riles 1'111 From sea-level at on the West side of Lake Victoria, KUMOUR DESCRIBED AS PURE be created such stories Mombasa to the 5,00-foot altitude about three days journey from here!

Nairobi gave us every thrill wo by train, auto and foot. Froni have been expecting from Africa. there we can strike out further It takes eighteen hours to make the west in search of fifty crocodiles, a journey, but it might be eighteen savage native tribe, and various hours at a three ring circus. On one, other props, useful to the successful When the ride you have a game preserve, alive, African movie director. with zebra, antelope, wildbeasts, moment propitious arrives, perhaps quer, Mr. Philip Snowden, is re- giraffe and ostrich. On the other a week later, I will and word back norted to be rather better. .-

passing native villages, to Nairobi when to

meet me and though confined to his room at his, dence jungle country and mile of where. Until then, I trust my official residence in Downing Street, One of the most thrilling up-land plains. Just when you get cohorts will make the best of their he continues to take an active in-crashes seen

on a particu- last taste of civilization for a good terest in the affairs of his depart-Edward Hughes' $4,000,000 a

in "Hell's Angels," your glasses focused

Home Mails. arly attractive trich someone on many months.

ment, and Treasury offeinks are classic now at the Queen's Theatre, the other side of the compartment

Kumapala, Uganda, May 8. constantly in consultation with him. is one not called for in the script.

To-morrow--Outward for Europa It is only four days since 1 dis- A report that he is contemplat- shouts that if you hurry you can

The company was on location at viu Siberia (Diomed), 10 a.m. get a flesh of a native warrior with carded my carefully pressed busi- ing resignation from his office, and Oakland airport. Fifty planez. Thursday-Inward from Europe

ness suit and well-shined shoes in is Ilkely to become a Peer and to be were "dog fighting." staging the via Suez Ranpura).. At Nairobi we changed from the Nairobi, but nlready am becomi- appointed Colonial Minister. is big realistic air-battle which is a white ducks ww: were wearing and ing big Game Conscious, and it will denied. Mrs. Snowden declares spectacular climax of the picture.. climbed back into woollens. Ex-be a matter of only a few weeks the report is a pure invention. Suddenly two of the planes col- cept for a very hot sun at noon-time, until I can take my place in that A rumour that the Colonial ide, 6,000 feet in mid-air, you might be in the temperate zone. ¦ greatest of all hunting grounds, the Secretary, Lord Passfield, Interids

One plane, flown by Stewart But the minute we started out of the bar of the New Stanley Hotel, to resign, is also denied; and Mr. Murphy, lost ភាព aileron and station we realized we were not. Nairobi. More vicious beasts Lees Smith, the Minister of Educa- Murphy was forced to resort to Our breaths started to come in meet their fate within those four tion. has also denied a report that his parachute. He made a safo gasps.

wainscoted walls each evening he is likely to be made a peer-landing, but the wrecked plane at sun down than elsewhere in all British Wireless Service.

hurtled to the ground a mass of splinters.

a shield, and a spear.

"It's the Allitude."

I was on the verge of throwing Africa. Even now I am wearing, away my

last park of American ¦ a three days beard, the light tan acquired on the Red Sea has deepen- ed into almost a Big Game Tan and my BEW beate are covered re- spectably with a conting of salive] dust. I have all the equipment bat a distant look in the eye and some assorted Hard Lines around the mouth, but I am trusting to the next few weeks to take them on.

Governess: "It is awful-1 have to scold you all day long."

Pilly: "Don't worry--I'm not n hit ensitive,"—

Pessing Shaw, London,

cigarettes when a Briton who had!

come

on with us on the train stopped nic. "It's HOL

the

estimate

IRON AND STEEL.

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT

Area

CONFERENCE.

TARIFF REJECTED.

The other pilot, Ira Reed, elect-

Desert Song."

Meeting.

Friday

China Underwriters, Hong Kong Bank Building, noon.

Sports.

See Sports Diary on Page 9.

NO ARRESTS.

ed to "ride plane," and by skilful CHINESE ASSASSINS STILL AT nianoeuvring, landed it safely with but slight damage.

WIN

LARGE.

London, Yesterday.

Fortunately the entire accident recorded by the "Hell's Angels" cameras,

A regretful negative reply was so that a real accidental smash-up will be seen of Commons to a question whether given by Mr. Dalton in the House aineng those so carefully planned the murderers of lady missionaries Rugby, Yesterday. and executed, lending added ex-

and the bandits who captured the conferences of the iron citement to the breath-taking spec-late Father Tierney had yet been steel trades, representing tacle.

apprehended by the Chinese Gov-

He asked for notice of a ques- tion as to when the British Gov-

It was May 6 that our little ad-| vance party waved farewell

to the and stay-behinds in Nairobi and boarded 60,000 workpeople, on Saturday, the branch line train for Jinja. It approved, with a few dissentients, YOUNG MAN OF MANHATTAN is hard to

the looks n series of resolutions which are which followed

out

to be presented to the Government the station. but if facin! expression in

as the Unions proposals for the I have grounds for a clander suit dustry.

at all cloquent future of the iron and steel in against Harry Carey. It was a They are the Unions' alternative parent that he was chafing-at-the to the policy of a tariff on im- bit in Nairobi and

didn't think ported steel, which the employers much of the idea of being left at advocate. the post.

Test Shots Along Route. There were party: Clyde De cameraman, Bob

was satisfied that the Chinese Government was doing its best.

He pointed out that China was not the only place where criminals sometimes eluded the police.-Reu-

DUTCH AIR MAIL.

"The Bellamy Trial" was one of the most popular aerial novela theernment Inst made any communi- Saturday Evening Post has pub. cation on the subject, and said he Eshed in recent years. It became, j under, the capable direction of Monta Bell, a very entertaining and very popular moving picture.

"Young Man of Manhattan" pub-

ter. The Unions reject the tariff, lished as a serial in the Saturday and urge that the industry should Evening Post in the Winter of six of us in the be brought within the control of 1929-30 got the undivided interest

Vinna, my head

a public utility corporation, or- of millions of readers. It was one Cameraman, Louis McAfee, hend seeking to control the home mar-weekly magazine ever produced. Roberts, Akeley, ganised on a national basis, and of the most popular serials the said. Since then, I've heard the electrician, and two white hunters, kot by international agreements Happily enough, this serini too, pression a great deal. It's a lot like. "It's not the heat, it's the We were

R. C. Bowring and Major Dickinson, with competing countries-British has been entrusted to the capable is an extension of the normal ser-

taking with us enough Wireless Service. and enough film to make test shots supplies to lust about two

a sermon. along the route. At the end of the railroad in Jinja it was our inten- tion to go into Kampala by rented! Lorries and there make definite ar- rangements for motor transporta-j

cigarettes, it's the altitude," be

humidity."" In Kenya it will cover anything from graunds for divorce to the text of

We stopped at the New Stanley Hotel a short turn from the station. It is the customary home for Ameri-" cans at the present, although Pre-

wecks

At five in the afternoon the next

sident Roosevelt stayed at the Nortion through the Belgian Congo. folk when he came to Nairobi for big game.

Nairobi as a city is a remarkabla day we pulled into Jinja the thirteen

instance of the development which a eingle railroad can bring to eluster of huts. Were it not for

1

RAW OPIUM.

LARGE SEIZURE IN ANTWERP.

Sydney. Yesterday. The first Dutch air mull, which

direction of Monta Bell, and its vice from Batavia, has arrived and entertainment value as an all-talk- the airmen have been officially Ing romance-drama will be ap welcomed. Reuter. prained at the Central Theatre to-

morrow..

"Young Man of Manhattan" is a

Antwerp, Yesterday. Warned by Dutch detectives, the boys on our party unloaded the police seized four large cases con- luggage and piled it into five mater taining 800 kilogrammes of raw and St. Louis. lorries we were able to charter at opium disguised as "dried fruit,"

t

story about newspaper people, told filled with convulsing Lloyd gags, against a background of typical according to the critics who view- newspaper locales-football games,{ed the first rushes of the picture. prize fights, six-day biɛycle races Lloyd, as an ambitious but blun- and the familiar sports writers' dering shoe clerk, falls in love rendezvous in New York, Florida with Barbara Kent, social secre- tory to his wealthy employer's Claudette Colbert plays the part wife, and, mistaking her for a consigned from Constantinople via of the lovely, ambitious the Kenya and Uganda Railroad

Ann fashionable heiress, he turns him- Jinja huo two claims to fame; Rotterdam to Antwerp, and bellev-Vaughn. there is no doubt that this city

Norman Foster plays self inside out to each a social be ultimately intended for the part of Toby McLean, the zip-plane which will permit him to would still be nothing but a dot on first, it is the end of the Uganda ed to

Railroad at present, and second, it Parls.-Reuter,

scribe. the horizon.

Aporta

Charles make love to her. Instead, it is the

Ruggles is Shorty Ross, and Ginger most progressive city in Kenya, the is one of the chief ports of Lake

His ambitious social climb car-i Victoria. A rather tumble-down home of most civilised and highly

Rogers, a newcomer to the films, ries him to the top of an unfinish- į cultured European population. The gas engine ferry transports the few strongly advise my friends who may Puff Randolph,

ed skyscraper, projects him from Impenetrable country that separates cars and passengers from the rail. apmeday and themselves in

The screen version was written a sky-lofty window, makes him a

the station.

the

bung

It from the son has been spanned by road across the half mile stretch of vicinity of Kampala to either pro-by Robert Fresnell, staff scenarist stowaway on an ocean-going liner, i

an water forms the northern end of vide themselves with ample at the Paramount Long Island and, generally, provides him with

the railroad and the Influx of civilization has begun.

Lake Victoria. On the western side supply of 'good old canned goods or Studio,

It should be a matter of only n few years

of the lake begins the Kampala else remain overnight at the little rond, 60 miles of just as nice red hotel at Jinja. It is unfortunate until there аге street Nairobi and perhaps a

gravel as one could find anywhere, that so charming a town as Kampala in civilisation..

can offer its visitors no better ac- teria

cara

in

cafe-

or two. Right now

Telp in Native Dugouts. commodations than the Imperial there is a five storey hotel under It took three trips to get us Hotel.

construction on опе

"WHOOPEE."

.From Broadway, Hollywood, the beauty contests of two continents and even the West End of London, Samuel Goldwyn and Florenz

“FEET FIRST.”

enough dare-devil comedy situa- tion to keep young and old laugh- ing continuously during the pro- gress of the story.

"THE DESERT SONG."

thoroughly overhauled and all necessary alterations made for the reception of sound, will re-open on Thursday, when "The Desert Song," starring John Boles and Carlotta King, will be screened. Louise, Fazenda, Myrna Loy and John Miljan are in the supporting

corner and across. Our camp boys made the Most Hideous Noise. down the street two blocks another trip in native dugouts which oper-

Being somewhat fatigued by the Ziegfeld assembled 105 of the The World Theatre, which has one has just been completed. And

ato in competition to the ferry. long day of travelling and finding world's most beautiful women for been closed since April 15, dur- yet, on the outskirts of town people They are manned by black oarsmen nothing better to do, we turned in the spectacular scenes of "Whoa-ins which time the house has been still complain of the lloas ruaning ove: their gardens. And apart who develop a prepision of stroke immediately after dinner. At 11 pee," the new Eddie Cantor screen from the game, which has its attrac and conservation of energy that o'clock I was aroused by a most musical comedy, due for presenta tion, is the matter of the red dust would make our Univeralty crew hideous noles which seemed to tion at the Queen's Theatre to which covers everything for miles coaches envious. One dugout that emanate from the front porch of the morrow.

left Jinja at the same moment as hotel. Here I thought, is one beast around the city. In the very dry season you are apt to wake. in the the ferry reached the other side at that I have certainly never heard of—and hope never to hear from morning with henna hair or with least four lengths ahead.. red ink in your wash pitcher. Per for the start-an unfortunate cir-

It was dark when we assembled again.

Harold Lloyd has accomplished Putting on a bathrobe I ran what he set out to do! In "Feet cast. haps when all the roads are payed cumstance, since there is much downstairs. In the bar Ave Scots First coming to the King's

The film is a Warner Brothers" the problem will be solved, worth seeing

along the way to mea were having a party. In the Theatre on Thursday, he has sur Vitaphone Operetta, "Children" Left Behind,

naren best Andenge | Kampals. Thanks to the splendid, midat of the room stood a bottle of passed the thrills of "Safety Last," But back to the future of the reads we were able to cover the 60 whiskey. Behind it ons of the the all-time criterion for hair- “Trader Hord" M.G.M. Company miles in a little over two hours and Scots was playing a bagpipe. I was raising moving pictures. This which is more important to 'ma"at | Arrived at the Imperial Hotel at 8: informed that it was the weekly time Lloyd has done it ‘In talking thepresent than the future of It was a bit disappointing to find gathering of the Kampala Cale pictures. He has made an all- Nairobi; I have decided to leave that the dinner was much inferior, donlan Society, and was offered a dialogue film that's action from "my children" at the New Stanley to the meals on the railroad or any-drink. Sluce I had no money with start to finish with no time out Mfor-a week

or no while thing we had imagined in our most me at the time, I turned on my heel for conversation.

camera pessimistic moments. I would and went back to bed.

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