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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931.

Of The

THE LOG "TRADER HORN" Expedition.

by W. S. Van Dyke Eunice by the "China Mail"

in

was

who had in

Masindi, Uganda, May 22. For the first time in Africa, the entire Trader Horn" company is

When together.

we arrived Mombasa ne aumerama prevented

to US

Africa Nairobi. In Nairobi we were with- had cameraman who out another

to make 2131 stayed in Mominsa Educational Picture of the Ivory By the time he had

THE CHINA

MAIL.

NEW

ROUND THE CINEMAS][

HAROLD LLOYD'S LATEST THRILLS.

"FEET FIRST,"

When

better thrills are made, Harold Lloyd makes them in be issued through the Uganda De-Feet First his latest talkie, partment of Public Works before it which opens to-day at the King's could be driven over the roads at all, The usual limit & tons and most

Theatre.

For Harold was thinking of of the bridges along the way are "Safety Las" when he made

limits inFeet First." constructed with such

ever

SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functions. To-day---Tea

Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hoteln. Entertainments, To-day King's Theatre; "Feet First."

Today Cueca'sTM Theatret "Whoopee."

Today Central Theatre; Young Man of Manhattan."

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BANK HOLIDAYS

Accordance with Government Ordinance.

the EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on

MONDAY, the 25th May (Whit Monday).

Hong Kong, 20th May, 1931.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

"The

Por the Sale by Public Auction

DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

on

mind, When the permission was "Safety Las!" was the greatest granted, the worry about getting thriller that the spectacled genius

To-day MILFABE l'heatre across the bridge commenced. The of mirth-and-guape made.All Quiet on the Western Front." two buys who took it over the long it he was seen climbing about.

To-day-World Theatre; 166-mile pull for Kampata to falling, and ratching himself just Desert Song." Anetion:

} vote of thanks in time on the roof-edges and reached Nairobi I had left on my Masindi deserve

So from my entire company. They

ernices, of sky-scrapers. exploration party up country.

drove all there is much festivity to-night in left yesterday at noon, the little hostelry hew where I re-night through swampa and jungles, ceived such excellent treatment on past, every kind of wild game, and arrived here at seven o'clock this the occasion of my previous visit.

morning.

I on a little tabbergasted at the size of the combined expeditius. Outleide my window I can see the

lorries

seventeen muotor

carry- Across the road in a ing our kit.

are hundred boys clearing pitching their beds and mosquito They are al nets for the night.

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pa of our safari, engaged as per- sonal servants, cooks, porters, and waiters. The two bunters who ac- companied me-Major Dickinson und R. C. Bowring have been jain- ed Dy three

Sydney niore, A. Waller, who will have charge of the entire safari, J. C. Barnes and H. B. Stanton. Upon the heads of these "old timers" will rest the respon- sibility of bringing us through the heart of the big game country un-

cathed.

80 Tons of Kit

ever

And in addition to the increased personnel we are carrying, I am informed, more equipment than has

before

in been attempted Kenya and Uganda. We are ut~ tempting to take over 20 tons of kit into localities where a load of one ton is considered large. The fact that it has come all the way from Nairobi without mishup

of miraculous, say nothing short the other Europeans in the hotel.

to learn I was greatly amused that I had been given up for lost by members of my Nairobl certain party during the ten days that I

is

you know enough "Da football to act as referee?"

"Yes, and what's more, i know enough about it not to."-

in it

Europe

Home Malla.

from To-day-Inward vin Suez (Ranpura),

Saturday-Outward for Europe

via Siberia (Empress of Japan), 8.30 a.m.; for Europe via Marscilies

Comorin), 10.30 a.m.

Meeting,

at

Columbia

Records

GRAND OPERAS

IN COMPLETE FORM.

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.

13 Records

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$78.00

RIGOLETTO.

15 Records

$75.00

LA TRAVIATA.

15 Records

$75.00

at

IL TROVATORE,

14 Records

$70.00

FAUST.

16 Records

$80.00

PAGLIACCI.

12 Records .... $39.60

MANON.

18 Records

$117.00

to be held TUESDAY, the 26th

1931, day of May, 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov- rnor, of one Lot of Crown Land Fuk Wing Street, Sham- shulpo, In the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of

"Feet Firs" has thrills just like that, only more so.

Harold is teen as an ambitious young apprentice shoe clerk who, In his effort to make good with in two instances they stopped to his employer gets into all kinds

humorous situations—putting- reinforce bridges that looked a bit or

To-morrow-China Underwriters, wabbley and at another time they gun-boat sized shoes on the cute Hong Kong Bank Building, noon. were held up fifteen minutes by tootsies of his employer's wife;

Sports. lioness who refused to leave the crashing a society ball in order to

Sec Sports Diary on Page 9. middle of the road,

itapresa a young lady he falls in Guests of Governor.

love with; fading himself aboard follows: "He was born at high There appear as well to be com-a trans-Pacife steamer without »

24 years leas three days. noon on a flash-bank Fourth of plications about our proposed visit ticket; hiding in a mail bag only July at a Summer resort; and every-PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. to Murchison Falle. The Governor, to be picked up and carried with thing in his life has been like that.

of Mr. the mail in reply to the overtures

was, things happened,

Toby and Ann are real people to millions of Americans through Misa Brush's book.

They actually liva:

on a ship-to-shore air There was excitement about him. George Kann, our business manager, pinne, and finally landing on a where he Harry Carey and Edwina Booth, all painter's scaffolding in mid-air things began." of whom have been guests at his wrapped up in the mail-bag. home during my absence, refuses to Then follow those hair-raising give his personal approval, main-thrilla which are 80 typically taining that since the district is Lloyd. He wriggles free from the part of the infested tsetse Ry area ag. lacks about him, and realises it la a matter for his Chief Medical with horror that a slight jolt will Officer, Doctor Carpenter, to de- catapult him hundreds of feel to cide. And Dr. Carpenter, it seema, the ground below. He almost

on the screen,

"THE DESERT SONG.”

Otto Hoffmon, who plays the part

first Vitaphone

must first make a trip to the falls, loses his grip in one screaming of Hassi in "The Desert Song," to look the situation over before he lurch after another. but finally Warner Bros. can give his unconditional sanction, makes 2 safe descent to terra

So there the matter rests. Until firma. we hear from Dr. Carpenter we

Needless to say he wins the girl will be required at Panyamur, hop--and he harves to, after such a ing that he will bring us a favour-hazardous experience. able answer in good reason.

A New Name? Panyamır, Uganda, May 24,

is Africa. This gentle reader, When

[ wrote the heading, anyamur, I departed slightly from

the facts. We are not at Panyamur, But Panyumur is three miles away and that is as close as we can come to an address. Perhaps before we

The girl le Barbara Kent, the petite charmer who was Harold's leading lady in "Welcome Danger" his first talkie, which had pleased thousands of people.

Others in the cast of this super-

special are Robert McWade, Alec Francis, and Lillianne Leighton.

YOUNG MAN OF MANHATTAN.

leave I can talk the nearest tribe of! datives into calling this location Love dominates the story of Van Dyke, Uganda, or if they are "Young Man of Manhattan," the averse to personal names it could be red-blooded, mile-a-minute, modern- Camera, or even Film, Uganda. day romance which opened at the Yesterday afternoon we dropped Central Theatre yesterday, It's anchor off the end of the rude, na- the story of two people who want to.

| operetta, now showing at the World Theatre, ivas born and educated in New York City.

No. of dais

Registry No.

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Fur Way Street,

Locality.

Boundary

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Án par une plan.) 2,532 43

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Upies Price

TUESDAY, the at of May, 1931,

His stage career covered twenty: with many stars, among them Elsie years during which he appeared

PUBLIC AUCTION. Ferguson in "The Strange Woman" and "Spring Main;" Louis Mann In ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS Por the Sale by Public Auction "The Cheat," and Selwyn's "Coming Home to Roost." His screen career to be held on

26th day includes engagements with Ince. Goldwyn, Metro and Fox. Among 8 pm, at the Offices of the

Works Public

Department, by his pictures are "Strangers of the Night," "Sin Flood," "The Glorious Order of His Excellency the Gov- Fool," "Human Wreckage," "Very ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land Truly Yours" and "The Five Dollar at Wong Nei Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 Baby."

years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Sarveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

"WHOOPEE."

"Whoopee" is the first wholly technicolour talking satisfactory tive-built jetty which is the only live their own lives after marriage picture we have seen in Hong Kong. landmark of our present camp. At and have love too. Katharine In some of the scenes the tints are this point on the northern end of Brush, popular magazine writer,as beautiful as an old Dutch off Lake Albert, the Victorian Nile joins created "Young Man of Manhattan painting and, on the whole, the film the White, Nile in a maze of Papyrus as a Saturday Evening Post serial.

is remarkably distinct. Eddie and floating vegetation. From our Then the story was published in Cantor, as the "star" man, reveals

eamp Rite, a mile from the water's novel form and ran into several edge, we can see the Victorian editions.

aro

a new comedian to the local public, which has only seen him previously | in one or two minor roles. He is indescribably funny, type of American Leslie Henson, and has a clear and attractive volce.

1

Nile twisting through the marsh Claudette Colbert, the charming land directly opposite us, emptying heroine of "The Lady Lies," plays about into the Lake and then turning back the part of Ann Vaughn, who "only north again past our pier to con-rade in strange men's laps on third tinue on Its long journey to the Mondays in May. Her eyea Mediterranean. There is probably dark, her hair is brown. She has Dublin Opinion. no spot more typically African in a straight, short little nose, a model comedy lines and is merely a thread!

the continent.

chin, pointed yet soft, and dark To avoid the obvious danger of lashes." imects, snakes and crocodiles we

was stalking pygmies in the Congo.

The story runs on typical musical

upon which hang dances, songs and uny number of beautiful scenes. Some of the lovicat girls in America Norman Foster, Broadway stage must have, been sought for to enllat decided to make camp well away star, has the title role. He is the from the flat lands bordering the Toby McLean created by Miss is the chorus, and the colour photo-

It seems that Clyde De Vinna, my first camera man who accompanied me, had made definite arrangements with the Natrobl radio station to lake,

It is typical of the entire Brush, and whom she describes as graphy shows to perfection their na-

report our position auch night over shore line of Lake Albert that a the short wave set we carry with dense growth of Papyrus and Ele-

US.

In Arua, on the border of the phant grass covers it for a distance Belgian Congo, Our kit was varying from one half to two or

Customs officers examined by the

and it was decided that we would

not be allowed to take the radio into the Belgian territory.

This left us entirely dependent upon the tele- graph and it happened that for all but the last day of our trip, we were not in contact with any of the The result was that few stations, Nairobi radio station reported no response from us, all telegraphic inquiries falled to bring an answer or any word of our whereabouts, and a party of hunters, who return ed from the vicinity of Arua cir- culated stories of starved beasts and famine-crazed natives. The odd coincidence of circumstances Bulted in nothing less than a small panic among the more gullible mem- bers of our company, according to reports which are being heaped upen me to-night.

For Butlaba Again.

(Continued in next.Column)

No. of Sale.

•

ADELE JON

Locality.

el Chung,

BUNDAY Y Maartromania,

N. EE.

W

Coe tenta is

Kangal Kanis

Upset Price

12. Aboct

As per sale; plan., 2,209

GUESTS OF REPULSE BAY

HOTEL

May 21, 1931. tural hues. The male side of the Mrs. and Miss Adair, Dr. M. E. cast has not been 80 well catered Asger. for, and, except for the big-chested Mesars. N. C. Barber, S. D. half-breed who turns out in the end Begg, W. G. Bree, Mrs. M. Bird, to be a white man, the men are Lt. Vander Byl, Mr. and Mrs. A. three miles. Beyond that the land company. A gramophone has been not

particulady good-looking. Brostedt, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. rises to meet the hills, the ground unpacked and is grinding out, "I'm "Whoopee" is undoubatdly a great Brown, Miss L. Bushell. is firm under foot and brush and Funny that Way" from its perch on achievement for the talkies and if Mrs. H. M. Cavender, shade trees are prevalent.

Sub-Lt.

Mra. and Miss Dent, Mr. and Mrs. A. Drouth.

a table nearby. Clyde De Vinna is shows of this type continue to be F. B. Currie, Mrs. 3. F. Churchill. stringing an aerial for his radio produced the film industry should over two tres behind his tent. The not suffer from depression. White Man has come to Panyamur. Primary Motive.

"MIN AND BILL” · `

Messrs. D. D. Edgar, E. J. Edgar, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards.

Mr. B. C. Field, Mr. and Mrs..

Site "Built to Order." About a mile directly behind the dock we came upon a camp site "built to order" in the midst of a grove of shade trees. In a few At this Juncture we cease to be hours the boys had cleared the land an expedition and become, instead, a A ton of tuns, a few boat loads D. F. Fraser, Lt.-Comdr. and Mrs. of high grass, killing a mamba moving picture company,on location.of other assorted fish and several Friedberger, Lt. R. M. Freer. (snake) in the process, and we suc- Henceforth our primary motive will lobsters wore among the odoriferous. Lt. C. L. Glass, Mr. J. S. reeded in pitching enough tents to be concerned not with the beauty "propa" that helped give local colour, Groushko, Mrs. L. E. Guernsey. furnish temporary housing for our of the country we are visiting, not to "Min and Bill," Metro-Goldwyn Messrs. W. D. Harris, G. M. party. The Samuel Baker and the with the quaint habits of the na-Misyer's drama of the fisheries, Hemsworth, D. K. Hislop, Miss S.

location barge in tow are at anchor a few tives, but with the making of a mov-filmed largely on

nt Higgins. It has taken re- yards off shore in the papyrus. ing plcture,

two Terminal Island, San Pedro.

Mr. F. N. Jester. At times our Lake Albert is so shallow through-months to get here.

Russell Hopton, who plays the Mrs. P. E. Kirchhoff. out that the ships with a draught of objective has seemed so far in the heavy' in the new picture in which Mr. and Mrs: M. Majendie, Dr. over three feet are useless.

future that it was difficult for any Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery and Mrs. J. Morrison, Miss M. With us the circumstance proved of us to relize. that we were not head the cast, passed a week hauling McCulloch, Mr. G. N. Moorwood, fortunate, since we were able to employed by the Metro-Goldwyn-a tuna as large as himself about the Lt. P. C. O. Moseley, bring both the Baker and Its tow Mayer company to take a Cook's docks on his back as part of the Mesars. R. G. P. Perry, A. E Early to-morrow we are to set out within wading distance of shore. Tour through Africa. But to-day action of the plot. His role is that Pritchard, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. for Butiaba again, this time with Dur camp material was landed by such illusions are dispelled."

of mate on a fishing scow of which Palfreeman, Mr. and Mrs. T. R.

Parsons. the entire safari. I have arranged our porters in far less time than are viewed a "props," natives Beary is captain.

to bring it "extras" "and clouds as "effects." to charter the Samuel, Baker, theIt would have taken

Lt. P. Q. Roberts, Mrs. M. S. Cannery details and interesting Rose, Mr. R. R. Roxburgh, Mr. Jargest available ship on the Lake, ashore in canoes, as is the practice Decks are being cleared in prepara-| and two tenders, to carry us to when the large ship cannot be tion for the first day's work to glimpses of the work of the fisher- and Mrs. A. K. Rhoden.

men add an unusual touch to the Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schabeck, Panyamur where we can make camp brought within easy reach of land, morrow and take the first shots of the pic- To-day the construction of a more And so, from this point in my picture which was adapted from Mr. and Mrs. P. Sykes, Mr. P. tare. The trucks and more 'com- permanent camp is in progress narrative ward I shall endeavour Lorna Moon's widely-read novel, Smart, Mr. and Mrs. E. Stone,

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Tarrant, Mias bersome equipment can be taken under the supervision of Mr. to explain us best I can'the process

I shall for George Hill directed the current E. C. Tarrant, Mr. and Mrs. J. direct to Rhino Camp on subsequent Waller. The kitchen swung into of making a picture. trips of the same boat since it will service in time for breakfast, the get, if I can, that I am the director, vehicla which will be seen on Satur-Tully, Mr. H. J. Tebbutt. not be necessary to include the mess hall has been erected in the for that I possess more than the most day at the Queen's Theatre The Mr. J. A. Vorner. transportation paraphernalia in our centre of the clearing and elementary knowledge of film supporting cast includes Dorothy Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Wilson, Lt. campe along the water way, By Stanton and Barnes are super-technicalities. I shall try, in short, Jordan, Marjorie Rambesu, DeWitt, K. M. Woods... the time we reach Rhino Camp the vising the pitching of: in to tell the story through the eyes of Jennings, Donald Dillaway, Frank lorries should be ready and waiting dividual tants in two rows & novice who is witnessing the pro- McGlynn and Greta Gould.

to transport us overland Into the Congo,

Trees

about fifty yards apart. Some of duction of flm for the first time.

the boys are cutting a wide trail Our generator, the nine-ton truck direct to the landing place ne others unit, which is socnecessary; to the are transporting & more, equipment succese of any professional film and provisions from the ship to the yet do very dif, store tent. Under a large tree in the Fundertaking

Alforded us new, centre of the camp a circle of deck ecial permit had to chairs are occupied by some of the

trans

[To Be Continued] [A few fenues of the China Hall of Monday, Taceday, and Wednesday containing the first three-instalments of this, ent thralling story, are still avail able.]

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