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FILM MAGNATE AND GIRL.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN HOLLYWOOD.

Hollywood's long list of shoot- 3 tragedies received an addition rly one morning last month, en Mr. Hamilton B. Mannon, a

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

WOMAN'S FEAT WITH MOTOR-CAR.

MRS. VICTOR BRUCE DRIVES TO ARCTIC AND BACK.

MOSQUITO SWARMS.

with cheer after cheer as she drove into the courtyard in the little motor-cat in which she has travelled almost to the shores of the Arctic Ocean.

"AN ELEPHANT OF KENT.

SKELETON OF PREHISTORIC MONSTER.

Those who want to know what life was really like, in the warm period which preceded the last re

lural History Museum,

A group of enthusiastic mote, ice age will soon be able to studio proprietor, was found motorists stood outside the Hotel make the acquaintance of an enor- ad in a motor car with a bullet Cecil, London, on August 9, toons fossil elephant at the N- rough his heart on one of the greet the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce incipal boulevards, a dying 1, also shot, lay beside him. The tragedy was discovered by realdent, who was awakened by steady grinding of n motor 's self-starting apparatus, a 12 ing out to investigate found ad man with his foot on the tton of the self-starter:

The dying girl had a revolver her hand, and there were two nt cartridge on the floor of the

tor car.

A police ambulance hurried the 1 to hospital, but she died on way, and has since been identi-

as Miss Betty Montague ema actress, of whom nothing ther is known at present. An impassioned love letter sign "Min" was found on the dead

Once upon a time, between 50,- 000 and 100,000 years ago, au ele- phant lived happily in that part of England which is now Upno", Mrs. Bruce was accompanied on on the Medway, near Rochester, the trip by her husband and it died, and its bones have since friend. Since the left London,rested in the earth. exactly four weeks ago, they have

driven through Belgium, Holland. Germany, Denmark, Lapland, and Finland. They have covered in alla distance of 6,000 miles stages averaging more miles daily.

than 200

trenell digging in 1911, destroyed Royal Engineers from Chatham, part of the skeleton, but in 1915 the bones were collected by Mr. 3. Turner, under the supervision of the late Dr. C. W. Andrews. Ex- perts put them together and re- constructed the elephant; anda press representative was recenti shown the nearly completed result.

"I kept at the wheel throughout the whole journey," Mrs. Bruce told" n

representative of the Morning Post in an interview. "I

The work has been extremel have always wanted to achieve something out of the ordinary in cult, for the ossified fragmen's The police theory (says the the car, and now I have succeed-of the monster were fragile and roots and worm- ly Express) is that Miss Mon-ed. for we have penetrated three riddled with

ue first shot her companion, and miles further north than any other holes. It was impossible to save

the skull. n' turned the revolver on her-motor-car.

Life of Adventure.

"We want 270 miles north of. the Arctic Circle, und within 40 miles of the Ocean. The last 100

The bones have had to be hardened, cleaned, restored, and mounted, and this work has continued steadily since the end of the war.

Here and there the remains have

Ir. Mannon was 30. years old, miles of the outward journey were took both usiness and plea-over rough stones, and we were ein an adventurous spirit. only prevented from reaching the few years ago he and a friend const by a wide belt of swamp-been restored with plaster, any d to cross the business quarterland. I was surprised to find that restoration being, of course, base i New York in an airplane the further north we went from on the corresponding bones on the

flew into some telegraph Stockholm the hotter it became.cther side.

ca and crashed into the road-In the Arctic the temperature was

, being carried muconscious ta90 degrees in the shade." vital.

4

welve years ago Mr. Mannen.

on the high roade to great

ith. He had "earnered" near-

Race From Forest Fire.

ll the independent film studio) Mrs. Bruce said. that when her party crossed the Arctic Circle the

ce in New York.

ny newcomer who wished to air was simply black with

mos-

The height of the Upnor elé

phant, from the ground to the top

of the back-bone is 12ft 7in.. ength of upper arm bone ft. tin. and of the thigh hone 5ft. The width of the pelvis, 6ft., appears to exceed any other known.

e a film had to go to the youth-quitoes. "They were much more A live elephant from the Zoa Mr. Mannah for the areon-numerous than in Africa," she would look like a baby beside this ation, but the industry migrat-said, "although they were not pol-skeleton, which is one of the most

to Californin, and Mr. Mannon sonous. But they bit continuous-night-mareish

left with expensive leasesy, and my face and arms became Museum. his hands. "

e moved out to Hollywood, nu

building up another fortunate

ness rapidly.

terribly swollen. We looked for

objects in the

When alive, the animal mus,

wolves, and only found mos-1 have weighed nearly seven tons-

quitoes.

wice as much as the average

r. T. Hayes Hunter, a leading We spent two never-to-be-for-elephant of to-day,

erican film producer now in gotten nights in the forest in Fin-i

don. know him quite well. He land. We managed to reach a

ikeable happy-go-luck settlement, and i was given the

w," said Mr. Hunter, with option of sleeping with six other storm and the, lightning set fire

In 1 have been friendly for women in two beds. The alternate the forest. It meant a race for tive was a log hut, and I preferred dear life over fearful roads. The that. But, oh I should think fire spread rapidly and we could there were all the creepy-crawly almost feel the flames scorching creatures ever created, and we the enamel of our car, but we es

the ear, in caped." soon went back to which we huddled together for two nights. We were pràctically without sleep for a week."

it yours. I think he was mar- but of that side of his, life aid nothing, and this shoot- affair is a great shock... ther tragedies of Hollywood ecent years include those in h the names of Mr. W. D. for, Mr. T. H. Ince, Miss inia Rappe, Mr. J. M. Fish- Mr. Courtland Dines, and Tom Merrick were concerned

The motor-can in which the journey was made, and all its accessories, are British. The en-

Another adventure was a forest gine worked perfectly through it fire. "In Sweden,' Mre. Bruce the tour, and the tyres were only said, we encountered a terrible twice punctured.

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