1931-09-12 — Page 14

Chan ARCADE, PENINSULA HOTEL.

Sale Agents:

THE FETTE RUG CO.

NEW CONSIGNMENT OF RUGS

“JUST RECEIVED.

CENTRAL

SEE THEATRE HEAR

COMMENCING TO-DAY.

Daily at 2.30, 5,10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.

AN ALL-TALKING, SINGING

1931 UNIVERSAL SUPER - PRODUCTION FIRST TIME SHOWN IN THIS COLONY

With Four Big Song Hits..

The Glory of Human Lovel. 20

The Damnation of Fleming Passion!

A-Man's Story -- A Won- an's Story--With a Note of Human Pity to Wring the Hardest Hearts!

RESURRECTION

John BOLES

Praented by

Lupe VELEZ

in EDWIN CAREWE'S Sen-

sational Production of Count

Leo Tolstoy's Immortal Story

By All Odds the Outstanding Dramalic

Smash of the Season!

A Universal Picture

Produced by Cari Laemmle, ir.

MUSIC SHEETS OF THE SONG HITS DISTRIBUTED TO OUR PATRONS FREE

ALSO SHOWING

SLIM SUMMERVILLE

in

"OOH LA LA.”

GEORGE

SIDNEY in

COHEN on the TELEPHONE"

Please book carly to avoid crush; Booking at the Theatre Telephone 25720.

NEXT CHANGE

ALOHA

A Lyric of Love and Loyalty

Amusing

Spectacular Exciting

BEN LYON

RAQUEL TORRES

And All Sur. Cast

ANY PRODUCTION

The

China Mail.

ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931.

He was training for the CHINESE WALLPAPER

Schneider race,

SCHNEIDER. TROPHY | 1928.

.RACE.

"(Continued from Page 1)

www.

The searchlights cast N beam which would be easily visible to the pilots six miles away and, t is thought, would be extremely helpful to them. The beam will be a plain ane.

These pylons will be situated at Wert Wittering, on the foreshore: on Ryde midle, on a destroyer: and off St. Helen's Point. on a destroyer.

Further to assist the pilots & new colour scheme for the pylons has been decided upon. For the race two years ago the pylons were designed in black and white, which proved somewhat discon- certing to the pilots, but those which are being erected will be coloured primrose, yellow. It has been found that such a beam or such a coleur does not dazzle.

High Speed Fatalities. One of the worst air racing dis- nsters of recent years was the ter rible death, on March 12, 1928, of Flight Lientenant S. M. Kinkead, whose seaplane plunged into the Sulent when he was flying at a ter rific speed and disappeared.

Flight Lleutenant Kinkead was in the supermarine Napier mono- plane S-5, and was attempting to Be set up a warld's speed record. Kad just started his speed attempt when the machine suddenly dived straight into the water.

Practice flights for this year's Schneider Trophy race have re. sulted in three tragedies, the two previous ones involving French and Italian airmen and the recent

tragedy of the youngest member of the British team.

DESIGNS.

(Continued from Page 1)

charming, a rich and characterful decoration that took Europe by storm,

The bird and lower designs had almost as old a tradition and a more varied precedent Certain flowers were especially dear to the masters of Sung. The lotus and the peony were painted over and over again and the camellin, too, was delicate-

On July 30 31 Bougault, one of France's Schneller pilots and one of the best known of her airmen, was killed while piloting 'n new seaplane which was to have been used in the race. The accident took place on a stretch of inland water near Marseilles, into which the machine dived. It was believ-ly but strongly portrayed. The ed the accident was caused by a broken propeller.

birds in which they were interested scem numberless; the kingfisher, the heron, the partridge and many of the brilliantly plumed small birds. . . .

more

Italian Disaster. The Italian disaster occurred on August 1. when Flight Caplain Monti, who took part in the 1929

But the Chinese of the Ming Schneider Trophy race, met Tris

less period, becoming stendly death, like his fellow-countrymen idealistic in their art, were interest- in previous years. in Lake Garda,

Tragedy overton the Britished in genre scenes. A whole school of genre painting grew up and in- high-speed flight during last month's training for the Schnei- numerable paintings of banqueta, der Trophy contest, as dunk was festivals, picnics, and even

usual occurrences of daily life have falling over the Solent, when a

come down to us. The earlier acaplane flown by Lieutenant G. L. Brinton, R.N., who is a Royal Air examples of these are all done with Force officer, overturned after a great realistic fidelity and many of false take-off. Lieutenant Brinton, them are most decorative in their

vivid colourings.... who was making his first flight in the machine and who was the youngest mombor of the team, was trapped in the cockpit and was drowned.

.

The seaplane was that, with which Britain won the Schneider Trophy in 1929; later the world's record of over 357 m.p.h. was es- tablished in the same machine by Squadron Leader Orlebar.

A huge wave was the first dication to the shore spectators that a crash had occurred. When the water had subsided the keels of two floats showed for a few seconds and then they sank.. Bytes. Lt. Waghorn, who set up the

the time fast motor-launches ar- rived on the scene all that could be found of the seaplane was a few splinters of wood floating on the surface.

When the machine was salved the next day it was found to be little more than a mass of twist- ed metal. Flight Lieutenant Kin- kend's mutilated body was dis- covered will in the cockpit.

Loss of Flying Speed. The theory held at the time was that the ill-fated airman was dazzled by the rays of the setting in sun-his attempt being made the late afternoon. Later it was suggested that he had been over come by fames. from the engine. but this was disproved. The find- Ing at the inquest was to the effect that the accident

Toll of Schneider Pilota. In addition to the above fatal-

These Chinese.papers fitted in excellently with the decorative needs of the houses of Europe in the late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. They gave them an in- dividuality and variety and in- timacy that was a relief from the rather solemn styles of the Six- teenth Centuries. Phyllis Acker mon, in "Wallpaper, Its History, Design and Use."

With our rule of the road a man record of 350 m.p.h. In the Schnei-blind in the right eye and with a der Trophy Race two years ago, Wellingtonian noae is not safe- was killed in an aeroplane crash Mr. N. Bishop Harman. at Farnborough in May this year. Fight-Lt. Wansley, a member of the 1927. British Schneider Cup team. was fatally injured in a motoring accident on the Great Dath Road in October last year.

A month ago M. Lasne, one of France's Schneider Cup pilots, had several ribs broken as the result of a crash in the Seine during practice.

Progress in Speed.

The following are the complete results of the. Schneider Trophy Rice since its inception in 1918:-

Year Wlaners

M.P.H.

1913

France

'1914

Britain.

45.75 86.80.

was due

1919

Italy

to loss of lying speed when the airman was trying to land.

1920

Italy

.107.00

1921

Iinly

1922

• Britain

1923

Americo

.111.00 .145.70 ..177.38.

1924

No challengers.

1925

America

1926,

Italy

.232.57 .246.496

1927

Britain

1929. Dritain

.281.54 .828.63

TOSHI SAN: A MEMORY.

secrate, the interior of a Japanese · house, changed the current of my thoughts with the little happenings of her day-or do much of them as our very abbreviated knowledge of each other's language would per- mit!. She cooked for me, cared for the house, washed and mended my things, and saw to it that the tradespeople respected my defense. less position by forbearing to add- to my purchases the "squeeze" they unblushingly oxarted of married women who had, Donna Sans to pay their bills!

Leave-taking In the morning was quite a ceremony: There were, per- haps, some instructions needed at the lust moment, or a parcel I must not forget to take to town and Toshi San, in attendance as I put

to on my outdoor shoes, anw it. that nothing was overlooked, nor was I considered ready to leave until her appraising eye had de-. tected the need for a little extra brushing of a coat, or for a change

Italy has suffered severe losses In the attempt to gain world speed supremacy. In January, 1930, Dal. Molin, ane of his country's most brilliant airmen, met his death in Lake Garda while testing a high- speed 'plane. As the previous. disaster, his machine aleo plunged into the water and immediately. disappeared. The previous August another distinguished Italian air-

I was loath to leave my little to shoes better suited to the wea- man, Captain Motta, also lost his life in Lake Garda while plactis Japanese house! My quaint little ther! Accompanying me down the ing for the 1929 Schneider Trophy mah, San, her eyes all but brim-little walk to the gate, we exchanged ming over, felt, too, the severing bows and good-byes, at the first turn French Set-back.

of an association that had brought in the path skirting a rice field, us months of quiet charm-she that changing to nods and waving Lieutenant Bonnet (France)

On pleasant, sunny days crashed during his training for anomaly among the Japanese, an hands. the 1929 race. He held the unmarried woman living her life she would still be there when, al- world's speed for land 'planes, and freely, I a woman of business to most out of sight, I took the turn- his death was one of the reasons whom her devoted care was a de-ing that led down the avenue red pine-a devoted figure for the withdrawal of France

Did I return of an evening care. matronly kimono. from the 1929 contest.

Lieutenant F. R. Buse (Ameri-worn; her dainty self, kneeling in

race.

ca)

light.

}

of

of

in

Whose house have you graced,

was killed when his 'plane welcome as I'alipped off the out- Toshi San, since we bade each other crashed into the Potamac, River in door shoes that may never de-a final Sayonara!

Genuine

BAYER

ASPIRIN

SAY "BAYER ASPIRIN”

and INSIST!

"BAYER'S ASPIRIN First In the World.”

Printed and published for the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Limited, by. DAVID CHRISTIAN

WILSON, Business Manager, at Se Wyndham Street, Hong Kong

FLETCHER'S

BATH EAU de COLOGNE Delightfully refreshing and invigorating

during the hot weather. MAGNUM BOTTLES

$2.50.

THE PHARMACY

Asiatic Building.

Queen's Road C.

Tel. 20345.

AMUSEMENTS:

AT THE

FINAL SHOWINGSTM TO-DAY

QUEEN'S At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.

YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE HUMOROUS DVENTURES OF

STAN LAUREL

AND

OLIVER HARDY

in

"PARDON US"

SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTIONS-

-THE LATEST-

HEARST NEWSREEL

"The DOGWAY MELODY"

MODERN MADRID | WILD FLOWERS

TO-MORROW

America's foremost author wrote her heart out telling this immortal love story- and

THE SCREEN KEEPS FAITH !

CIMARRON

EDNA FERBER'S

Roaring eple of the men who make an eta- pire and the women who preser It-spread in

tumultuous

pageant across the

screen.

RICHARD DIX

IRENE DUNNE ESTELLE TAYLOR.

WESLEY RUGGLES Production.