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THRILLING STORY OF THE SEA.

FIFTEEN DAYS IN AN OPEN BOAT. DESPERATE SEARCH FOR RESCUE SHIP.

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"TUMBLEWEEDS."

ANOTHER FINE HART FILM.

A fine fla, featuring the famous "Bill" Hart, in ous of his characteristic rôles, will be presented at the Queen's To Cambridge classical men the name Theatre next Sunday for three days. "Damnation aft, salvation amidehips

ot Henry Jackson is almost a synonym William 8. Hart has always been and starvation forward" is how Mr. for the perfect lecturer. For nearly signally successful in the stories he has Alfred Laird, scoond officer of the steamer sixty years he discoursed on Greek had for the screen, but it is doubtful if Canadian Importer described with grim philosophy with a simplicity and direct a more happy selection was ever made humour a dramatic incident during a noys appreciated by struggles for a thao "Tumbleweeds," his first produc marine adventure that rivals the salt-Tripos in which the subject-ean it not tion for United Artists Corporation re tanged tales of Marryatt.

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Mr. Laird, a native of Aberdeen, is now staying in Calcutta and gavo a Staterman representative a thrilling account of how he spent 15 days and 18 nights adrift in the Pacific Ocean in an open boat.

The Canadian Importer, while at sea sprang a mysterious leak in mid-ocean and the crew during the night had the

earned a recognized, if still subordinate, Centring about the great rush for land place. His soft voice and easy delivery claims in the Cherokes Land Strip bộ, helped to conceal the pains with which tween Kansas and Oklahoma in 1880, the ho had come to his own conclusions andį story by Hal G. Evarts has been made had prepared his lectures. When he was into a thrilling screen drams by C. satisfied on his point he would defead it Gardner Sallivan. against all challengers; but a student

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In the role of Don Carver, h wind- bitten tumbleweed "--a` roving cowboy with the same capacity and knowledge and range boss of the Box K Range, as himself he would courteously and Bill Hart is cast in a part that is ideal! seriously weigh any objection to bia do for his particular type of character. trine, whether from freshman or

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not his manner of controversy, The vigour and freshness of his lecturing remained.even when, in his last years, the physical effort was apparent and the bending figure in the loosely fitting grey tweeds showed obvious signs of an hour's discourse.

stantly into the darkness hoping for assistance and wondering whether it would come in time. Eventually the life boat was launched while the starboard

Lovable, fearless, quick to fight in deck of the great ship was awash, and

defance of the distressed or in vindica. volunteers were called to man it and go in search of help under the command of

tion of his idea of honour; strong in his Mr. Laird. A course was shaped for San

love and imbued with the true American Francisco nearly 1,000 miles away. With

spirit--the spirit of twest-he moves, powerful and commanding figure, fair weather conditions it was estimated that the destination would be reached in

through a drama that is epic in quality 14 days. As the gallant little crew set

Such was the Henry Jackson known to and strong in suspense and human in- 10, Des Vœux Road. Tel. C. 4704 out on their adventurous and perilous

cruise they watched the parent ship roll- most undergraduates outside Trinity.. ing helplessly with a heavy list which They might have her, too, of the Jack-¡terest. brought a fuller realisation of the desper-sonian stoking parties and have handed sto gamble ou which they were about to embark. Day nitor day dragged by hut no ship was eighted, Nor did the life boat return to the Importer.

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HUMOUR IN. TRAGEDY,

STRIKING VERSATILITY.,

There is plenty of comedy, but over all down the bons mota which had passed broods that spirit of bigness, the dust into the currency of the University; for Jackson, like his Master, Dr. Butler, kad of the wagon wheels that presages the become a genius!

of the place, and incoming of the homeseekers; the thrill Jacksonian apophthegms were to be

of vast throngs of moving people, treated accordingly. But the description As a matter of fact Mr. Laird, who still left far more than half untold. How auimals and vehicles, is epoch-marking, alone was responsible for keeping up the spirits of his companions, encountered many Trinity men could tell, even for It is a spirit that will grip every stanch- terrible weather and was driven off his themselves, the complete story? It course. But little water and few biscuits needed such a memoir as that ao admir.hearted man or woman, for it is filled remained and the situation appeared aably edited now by Jackson's successor with the great basic thought the struc hopeless one. Already the little boat had in the Vice-Mastership, Dr. St. John tural idea-the home.

King Baggot, in his direction, never own course owing to contrary winds, and Piete man. The memoir is' simply or lost sight of this and Bill Hart as Don covered 1,050 miles, doubling back on its Parry, to draw anything like the com

enged-first, a life, told of his arm could Mr. Laird hold the from Jackson's correspondence and dairy of the time, a symbol of nation build Couro, for 10any weary days steering had then a selection from his correspondence to illustrate his many interests and. į

Nevor has Bill Hart done harder rid- worn all the skin from his hands. Some of his companions gave themselves up lastly, examples of his addresses. A for lost, and hungry, dispirited and scholar Jackson remained to the end, and ing, quicker shooting, more strenuous weary, abandoned the struggle for exist when he comments on public affairs-his fighting. His role calls for action and ence. The position was perilous, but Mr. War correspondence with Sir George more action. The cowboy, the real Laird's grit and humour never left him, Trevelyan should be specially mention American cowboy of reality and to- are thoan of the mance, has never been better exempli- While sitting in the stern sheets, pro-ed-the comments fanely donouncing the weather, another scholar, lovable, courteous, sincere, yet fed upon the screen than. in "Tumble- man sat amidships rending his Bible, and somehow deterhed from the world at weeds," which, na stated, comes to the a third member of the crow in the bows large. But his scholarship, is so wide Queen's Theatre next Sunday for three

and diverse. that many aspects of it must days. was crying out in hunger.

have gone unnoticed even by his friends were it not for this collected correspond- ence.

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This spectacle Mr. Laird described grimly recently by saying "Wo had

Mr. Arthur Ollivant, wanting. damnation aft, salvation amidships and

guidance in bis reading; Professor D'Arcy, THE WORLD'S BIGGEST MOTOR starvation forward.".

Tossed about like a cork in the heavy Thompson, consulting Jackson on pruppa. sons the horrors of that remarkable triped emendations in Aristotle's Historia wore added to by an outbreak of dysen-Animalium" a Girton girl making for CAPABLE OF HOUSING TWENTY.

stranger beginning tory, and in his own words, "It looked as a testimonial; a if we were going down to Davy Jones at Greek philosophy in middle age-all receive the name interest and courtesy, nny minute."

although 3 am, has sounded from the Chapel clock before the reply is finished.

Owing to labour troubles," he con- tinued, my crew was scratch one and many would not even pull an oar or steer. Is what I have written to the point

If not let me know." Who could for In fact most of them were soa-sick an hour after we left the Importer. At one bear to take toll of such a correspon time we took advantage of the calmer dent? seas to indulge in swimming exercise, and one of the crew only just managed to scramble back on board in time before monster shark could make a meal of him: The shark followed us for several days and this put a stop to our bathing. RESCUE 188ED.

atitions.

At the time wo were reduced to ono biscuit and one sip of water per day, and starvation stared us in the face if the voyage lasted much longer.

REMARKABLE CONTEMPORARIES.

Waз known as

At Trinity ho had a remarkable body of contemporaries, notably Jobb, Henry Sidgwick, and G. O. Trevelyan. His late hours were famous even when he was an undergraduate; a walk in Great Court Jackson's Walk," "be "One day we sighted a steamer but cause Jackson used to walk and laugh despite all our signals we could not at there at the dead of night with his tract her attention, and after an hour's friends." Although he captured no Uni- On the versity prizes- Iack for which he was hase she passed out of sight. following day wo ran into a storm of hur-afterwards thankful-he was Third Classio rico violence in which our staunch little in 1802, hended by Jobb and Graves, and packet, was nearly swamped, and to make began to take private papils. After n matters worse a violent rainstorm drench-term at Rugby and various doubts as to ed us to the skin. The gale lasted for his future, a Trinity Fellowship in 1884. three days and four nights. It was a ter followed by an appointment which carried rible experience, and our meagre rations with it University tenching, and hiso by. were suturated. The crew suffered in his marriage, settled him at Cambridge. describably, and the cramped quarters Hr had discovered that he could teach, i and he never forewore his discovery, "To and exposure were telling on them.

"However a few nautical jokes and him teaching was his business, and the the contemplation of the good time to bo study of the development of Greek! had if shore were reached revived their thought his professional hobby." In his drooping spirits. But we were not yet early days the lecturing of Classical out of the wood. Another calma and Lecturers was perfunctory H. Sidgwick succession of light head winds, in which prepared His lecture at break-fast, and Fave the rest of the day to Arabic. we only made leeway and lost distance, followed. In desperation, at the end of Myers, when his lecture was done, gavo the third day, I committed my only coin himself to mesmerism." At once Jackson a sixpence, to the deep, to invoke a fair threw himself into the reform of Cam- wind according to the old maritimo super bridge teaching, and with others secured the substitution for intensive privato coaching of regular individual instruction by the college lecturers an apparently minor charge which was a turning point in the whole system of Cambridge teach. ing. A Liberal throughout his life in "The fair plant came and took us to tolligent reform-the removal of the Teat within a hundred miles of our goal, and Acts, the admission of women, the aboli- we were prepared to outer the Golden tion of compulsory Greek-could always Gate on the following day when wo sight-count on Jackson's hulp. His activities ed the tug Sea Lim which offered us indeed, even after he became Regius Pro- assistance, and to go to the help of our fessor of Greek in 1000, left him little distressed comrades. We were all fatish-time for published works. His books are ed and exhausted when carried on board few: his teaching lives rather in the the relief ship, and did full justice to the works of others, and there are fow, if nay, first decent meal we had had for a fort- Cambridge philosophers and classical scholars of the last sixty years who have night.

Wo arrive at the side of the ship for not been directly indebted to Jackson. which we had gone to seek assistance More than once in this Memoir he is nine days later to find the was still afloat, found predicting that the old scholarship but in such a position that she might have would not survive the War. If his pro gene down at any moment. How she phecy has been untrue, it is no small degree because his influence was strong remained afloat is a miracle."

Mr. Laird, before this maritime adven-enough to falsify it. Sincere to the core, ture, constituting one of the most romark he hated any form of snobbery, social or ablo voyages of recent years, served in intellectual Mr. Ollivant mentions his. the Army during the War with distinction." delight to find that Jackson delighted The rest of the crow paid high tribute to in the books of that day that were up.. Mr. Laird, who, they declared, was ro-penling to the plain man." sponsible by his grit, determination, and A great Platonist, Jackson's Greek unfailing good humour, for their ultimate philosophy, perfectly summarized in his safety. On many occasions it was due own words in this Memoir, has become only to los good seamanship that the frail an accepted standard: this biography little barguo was not swamped and smash- shows that his more intimate and per- ed to pieces during the spells of stormsonal philosophy was equal to his scholar. encountered during the memorable ex-abip-the philosophy of a most lovable perience.

personality and most knightly man.

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The largest motor 'bus. ever built, very giant among motor buses, that might find room for operation on the wide pompas of South America, where it was designed, but would have difficulty negotiating the streets of Hongkong was an exhibit for the big automobile show recently hold in Buenos Aires. It was the sensation of the show..

The front wheels are nine feet ten inchos in diameter, the headlamps are four feet one inch; the height of the radiator is eight feet five inches; height of body, 20 feet; width, 27 feet 8 inches; length, 12 feet; over all height of 'bus, 37 feet; over all length, 100 feet. 1 inch.

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