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London After Midnight

COMING SHORTLY

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By

CECILIA

HANSEN

THE MOST POPULAR ARTIST EVER TO TOUR" THE ORIENT."

POPULAR PROGRAMME AT THE PIANO :

THE VALE OF

WHISKY.

WHERE SMUGGLERS HAD THEIR STILLS.

CHINESE ROOFS ON

KILN-TOPS.

ELGIN, Morayshire..

I went into the Vale of Whisky as a European may visit the shrine

of Sira.

Not for me that golden goddess, those solt yellow incantations. But

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, 1928.

DOLORES DEL RIO IN LONDON.

FILM STAR'S '600 PERFUMES.

VIVID AND FASCINATING" PERSONALITY.

Lesday, August 25th. Radiant as some tropical bird, with bar vivid colouring and raven hair, Miss Dolores del Rio, the 6lm star who arrived in London carly yesterday from the United States, came straight from a brief sleep to have an informal chat with a Daily Mail reporter.

I was well disposed to admire the "The voyage was rough," she goddess's temple, or to leave these said, "and I could not sleep. Yet Eastern metaphors, to go up the when I arrived in London, worn glen and see where good Scotsmed ing my mind insisted on remain out, I found that instead of sleep made whisky an' a' "an' a"..

ing awake and thinking of a hun I am ter Somehow I had always imagined dred different things.

ribly tired." that whisky was compounded at She added that before she took up film work she never rose, before. Flaces where sidings were connoon, but now for three years she venient on the outskirts of towns has risen daily as 6 a.m. of some size. Indeed I confessid this to the wise..and kindly guide,] who, sa to speak, showed me over whisky.

"You know, we're very ignorant about quite a lot of things down in England," I said to him.

"Aye!" he said, "aye!" which

Gleaming Rings.

THREE GIRES AND A

FORTUNE TELLER.

"PING SHAN HIGHWAY ROB

BERY CASE · CONTINUED.

$15 A MONTH SUFFICIENT

FOR A GIRL. ·

- BETTING IN SILENCE.

STREET TOUTS' TRICKS."

DODGING POLICE IN LONDON ALLETS.

Street betting has increased to such an extent in London since the The case in which a man and two bets tax came into force that the others who are not in custody are majority of alleyways and small alleged to have robbed an old courts are now used by bookmakers woman, who has been described as and the armies of touta. a fortune teller, of $85 on August The ramifications of these book

27th on the Castle Peak Road was makers cover acres of streets. Each continued before Mr. W. Schofield tout has a corner or doorway where at the Kowloon Magistracy yester-he can receive the betting slips, while others have beats where they day afternoon..

watch for approaching" policemen or, detectives."-

Three young Chinese girls are

to the robbery. also charged with being accessories

Mr. H Somerset Fitzroy again prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, while Mr. C. A. S. Russ and Mr. Leo d'Almada appeared on behalf of the man and the third girl respectively.

Mr. Les d'Almada cross-examined

the complainant who said that the second girl who was a distant rela tion of hers had asked for a loan of $20 from her adopted son, but

In the centre of the organisation is the bookmaker, secure from de tection, in an obscure alley..

The network of alleys in the city and other parts of London is so complex that the bookmaker is able

to ply his trade on elaborate scale.

да

A Daily Mail reporter walked several parts round the alleys of London and examined the systems at work It is not easy to discover them. The backers walk

She sat in a printed black and white jumper edged with emerald, over a brief binck skirt, with her slim legs tucked up under her, on a sofa in a Bower-decked room Two severe but beautiful emerald rings gleamed as she moved ber hands in expressive gestures.

She lived until the age of five on it was refused as he knew that up the alleys reading newspapers was not quite the exculpatory an. her parents' ranch, then went with she earned 818 a month and that for appearing to be unaware of swer I expected, but a needed re- minder that I was in the latitudes of truth. In any case, I know better now. Whisky, the veritable, the pure, as the French say, is a product of the wilds still, of the still wilds

Enough of bad puns.

their surroundings, but as they was sufficient for her.

The driver of car. No. 376 said paas a man standing in a doorway or traning against a wall, they slip

her father to Mexico City and spent eight years in a convent, fol lowed by a visit to Europe and presentation at the Spanish Court. the life of an ordinary society that on the day in question he was girl of her country bored her.

She married at 16, but dreamed stopped by three men and three all the while of the stage. No one girls. They hired his car and told would listen to her aspirations, and she was teased because she him to drive into the town. When insisted on having dancing and the witness went back to his singing lessons.

garage after having done this, ho met a fellow driver who had also returned from the New Territories and this man informed him of the robbery,

A Sparkling Rivulet, From Elgin it is a convenient afternoon's journey, in one of these horseless carriages, to the famed

Films she never thought of until Vale of Whisky, to the glen where Mr. Bert Lytell, the Sim actor, the Livet flows, for the Livet is an took Mr. Edwin Carewe to tea nt actual river, or rivulet, and her house. Then for the first time parkling one at that. This is the the suggestion was made that she country of distilleries, and you pass might take up motion picture a number before you come to the work. She eventually accepted the parent one in the high hills.

suggestion in a spirit of adventare

and a lofty chimney, there would be Composed of a series of sheds little to distinguish them from many a factory were it not for the carious roofs, of the recognised Chinese pattern, which cover their kiln-tops. In these, where the malt is dried over burning peat, there must be a broad outlet to the open air and at the same time all entrance for rain must be absolutely excluded,

of the thing. and went to Hollywood for the fun

Hates Talking Pictures.

Miss del Rio made no secret of her opinion of the new talking pic surea; she hates them. What the likes best, she admitted, is per fame.

Everywhere she goes the buys new kinds, each new variety charm So the caves of the roof are spreading her more than the old ones,

after the Chinese fashion, and lock

until she has collected nearly 800

As a result of their conversation they drove to the Po Hing Then tre, Yaumati, and there the first defendant and the third girl wore pointed out to him. He went up to the man and spoke to him, and the girl began to sunk away and suddenly both made off. They were chased and arrested."

pieces of paper into hand.

Not a word passes, and the tout drops the piece of paper hurriedly into his pocket and looks away from the man who gave it to him.

Paying Out

Sometimes a backer would utter the one word, winnings, and he would be directed by the tout to another man standing close by. The backer would walk up to him, give a number or a name always a nickname and receive a small white paper packet containing his winnings for the previous day.

As a race was due to start the touts would leave their positions and make their way to another alley where the bookmaker himself was waiting to receive all the bets. This ceremony of passing over the bets was accomplished with amaz

After the other driver had cor roborated this evidence the case was adjourned until next Tuesdaying speed and in almost complete Whenever a policeman appeared anywhere near the bookmaker's stronghold the word was passed

afternoon.

silence...

strangely exotic in the Scottish different kinds, to which she will landscape..

add while she is in Europe That landscape, on the way to

Exercise she does not care for, Glenlivet, is a lovely and charac.except ping-pong. But she keeps teristic as you could wish. You up her dancing for the sake of come to the broad Spey, whence cultivating grace and suppleness, many a salmon has been won, first "I would not play the part of passing the celebrated Glangrant a society girl in a film for any. distillery, all alone near Red Craig's thing in the world," she said. "I OFFICIOUSNESS AT A FIRE. along by touts, and for a brief Pool, over against a scar on the like to play only poor girls, to rock-face, in such a romantic corner wear rags. That is perhaps be aa seems essential for the making cause my especial delight ia a of the liquor.

really dramatic rols, strong emotional characterisation that of a Russian peasant girl, or a gipsy."

So far her favourite film is Resurrection,' in which she thinks she did her best work.

Melodious Accent.

An Arch Of Whisky.

A

noticeable and

COTTAGERS' FURNITURE 'RUINED BY "HELPERS."

spell the system, ceased to function. Birmingham is another town where the street bookmaker is s active as ever,

In several other towns, however, a decrease of street betting is re- At Northampton, for People living in Water-lane, ported.

instance, several bookmakers have Kingston, whose cottages were en- given up business and entered dangered during the fire, at the abandoned horse racing for dog Others have other occupations. timber mills of Messrs. Gridley, racing, but owing to lackness in Miskia & Company, are very angry. the shoe trade betting is far from In every cottage but one all the At Bristol also police-court pro ceedings for street betting, which once were almost a daily occur rance, are now rare,

So on to Rothes, where stands the Bridge of Smiles. At least there are no sighs about it, though few may know it for what it is. It is a narrow green-painted pipe, sup- BORIS ZAKHAROFF. ported by standards which also

carry the electric light, spanning Though Miss del Rio speaks PRICES: $4, $3 & $2.

the entrance to the town. Through English with "BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S. it, when the distilleries nearby are melodious accent, it is remarkable in full production, the spirit passes how large is her vocabulary, her to storage rats, so that everyone natural choice of the right, though bedroom windows were smashed DIRECTION A. STROK.

who enters or leaves Rothes passes by no means always, the expected when furniture was thrown through under an arch of whisky. Leakage words. Purely literary expressions them into the streets, and yesterday has never been observed, or if of she mixes readily with American the householders served has never been mentioned. slang. Her voice, like her whole

By lovely Craigellachie is a person, vibrates with energy. fishing-stretch so distinguished that most salmon die there splendidly upon coroneted hooks. Farther on, in the reaches of Carron, five or six distilleries lie hidden hermitages in woods. It is the heart of the whisky vale. At Glen-

ALPS

MILK

are now mounting into

J5

Miss del Rio conveys the impres | sion that she lives only for her work more forcibly than any other of the lovely women who have visited us from Hollywood.

...

farclas, yet another distillery-compounded with the revenue and openly erected his plant, out of bills on the edge of the waste; which has grown the distillery of which in the depth of winter must be almost as isolated as a North to-day in the possession of his Cape settlement. Thence over the Brent-grandson. shoulder of the hill we descend to the tributary Avon's bed. It has a quality enshrined in local rhyme, The water of A'an' rins sao deep Twad cheat a man o' a hundred

an' clear

He uses the water of the same mountain burn and cuts bie peat from the same mountain bog as his great-grandfather. The sheep still drink, if they will, from the source which later becomes the prized liquid. The only difference is that for the last quarter of a mile from the hillside it is carried in a pipe The barley is supplied by the

were

working strenuously to restore some sem blance of order.

Within a few minutes of the out break the cottages were illed with people, who, regardless of the pro- tests of the occupiers, pulled the furniture into the street and dump- ed it into an orchard opposite, after breaking down a fence,

"We should have been better off if the fire had destroyed all the houses," said one woman.

Look

at the furniture:now-it is useless. People even tore up the linoleum and hammered down the mantel- pieces."

brisk.

At Liverpool, where the con ric- tions for street betting last year were 484, compared with 599 the year before, the decline in street betting is said to be partly due to the heavy fines now inflicted.

INDIAN LOVE 'DRAMA.

4

FOREST FIRED TO ENTRAP ELOPING GIRL.

TORONTO. started by a jealous North Ameri

A thrilling story of a forest fire

can Indian to entrap his sweet heart, who was fleeing with an- other man is told by Capt. Roy

Mr. E. F. Barker, who lives in No. 13, Water-lane, the roof of Maxwell, Director of the Provin which was damaged by fire said: cial Air Service, who has just r of the people at it last night. Un-Ontario outpost.

I would like to have caught some turned from the North-West fortunately, I was at Norbiton rail- The Indian lived in the wild way station, over a mile away, when country of Lake. Bavant north- intend to walk in to your knees and Moray and Banff. At one period &home, having run all the way, the sweetheart eloped with another

year,

of a hundred a year.

find it comes to your breast.

You

N

The Food of Life, thought of the farmers of the lower districts of

I saw the flames, and when I got west of Lake Nipigon. When his high quality of Danish barley was at times used, but this has now furniture had been thrown out any brave of the tribe he trailed them het diverted to the making of how. I would like to know who until they came to a great forest Pilsner lager, so that whisky and gave orders for this thing. The which stretches northward. He Superintendent of Police, by order fired a line of trees that the beer are in a sense rivals,

In the interests of

Good Health

it is advisable to use

only a well-known and established brand.. Buy always and

insist on

BEAR BRAND

Obtainable everywhere

At the head of the Avon baugh, or Valley, at Ballindalloch is the last police station for fifteen miles. A few miles on the bourne of our journey the famous Glenlivet dis- tillery, which, like the chief of

It is, of course, the burning peating everybody but the householders wind should fan the flames to con- which gives to the whisky much out of the road, did us a very good use the whole foreet and thus of its characteristic Bavour. For turn."

* overwhelm the lovers.

clan, is called the Glenlivet, stands this purpose the pent used has to - Mr. F. W. Creas well said: ““ The Deputy Ranger Sterrett, of the amid uplands and mountains. 2,700lt, high Ben Binnes closes such be three years old. There are re trouble was caused by hooliganism. Ontario Forestry Service, who was a vista rolling before it as would gular peat vintages: it is cut and Nobody cared about anything. My near, was able to control the fre stored till the three years have wife's engagement ring even was before it gained a hold. He then make an architect long for the elapsed, when it is greyish and dry taken out of the house, and we are pursued the incendiary, who elud. implacement us a castle site.

looking like wood. Bome silvery still searching for it.”gi

ed him, and returned to Lake Bavant, coke, of a type which hardly dis colours the haud to touch, is burn-Waterlane on the night in question to the ears of Government rangers, Only one house was occupied in His boasts of his cleverness came ed with it..

here two distillations from that of Mr. Smith, who resolutely who arrested him and an officer of often bind the road. Both for its the malt. "The whisky comes ont refused to let anybody touch his the Royal North-West Mounted

Pact With Bevenue,

It is the mountains and mours which have brought it there, where in winter time 20ft of snow will inaccessibility and for the quality of the middle of the second dis of the water and peat smugglers tillation, as you might say,"

furniture.

"were Investigations into the cause of

A. B. MOULDER & CO. had their stills there over a hundred the words of my knowledgeable years ago In the end ang af them guide MN JETRIES in the

(Continued on next Column). Daily Mail

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Police was sent by aeroplans to bring the prisoner to civilisation?

The Indian was sentenced to so days imprisonment-Central

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