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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 1928.

STARS AND THEIR CARS,

A Glance Round Hollywood,

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Engine; 6 cylinder.

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IT'S

A CADILLAC, CLARA BOW

OUTSHINES IT SO WHY

SHOW THE CAR?

THE BEERYS-WALLACE AND THE MRS-

DASH AROUND HOLLYWOOD

KIN THEIR LINCOLN.

EMIL JANNINGS DISMISSES KIS CHAUFFEUR

TO SHOW HE CAN DRIVE HIS OWN MERCEDES –

AND, HOW!

Representative of the motoring movie stars in Hollywood are th ese-Clara Bow, Wallace Berry

and Emil Jannings.

Hollywood, March 26.-Movie by clinging tenaciously to the studio" may be found three almost! extras and aspirants wear out a riekety old-model flivver in which identical green Lincoln roadsters good many pairs of shoes.

he first struck Hollywood boule---betonging to George Bancroft, But with the first contract, even vard.

the star, and to the directors, |for a 'short term and low-rate Clara Bow-she of the flaming Clarence Badger and Josef von

minor part in a stock company, an hair and percolating flapper tem-Sternberg.

nitial payment goes down for a verament is one of the most Esther Ralston, the blonde star, moderate-priced automobile. The skillful and most chance-taking of has driven her Lincoln almost somest possible, realizing the Hollywood drivers. She gets her 15,000 miles within less than a value of the old "front," the Cadillac into more smashes than year. W. C. Fields, a comedian, elimber takes the wheel of one of almost any of the others, and by likewise drives a Lincoln. Fields the sportier little buggies-and her magnetic temperament soothes has the record unique for a widely- the novice has arrived.

more injured feelings.

travelled star of never having After stardom is attained, well,

Erich von Stroheim, the distine crossed the continent by train- anything goes for a star... All de-five cnbodiment of Prussian always by motor. pends upon taste. Some of them thoroughness, actor, author and Charles Rogers, the youngster express themselves in half a dozen director, whose "The Wedding who leaped from "Wings" to the important-looking limousines,

March" is one of the much awaited name part in Anne Nicholls' few take to airplanes. Some of aims of the year, drives not at all. "Abie's Irish Rose," drives them rejoice in raddling around He marches like one of Stonewall cream-coloured Chrysler shabbier than ever. And some Jackson's "font cavalry.", others, buing perfectly natural rides like a centaur. He drives-top. Nancy Carroll, the Rosemary Hewith a specially built collapsible about it, still prefer to walk.

his compantes-with a determina-of the same film, has a blue. Nash Emil Jannings during his year tion that nothing short of perfec- rondsler, and several months in America hastion is good enough. been concentrating on the home- But he remains at the mercy of zrown-in-Germany Mercedes. He had three of them, which he drove with temperamental firy.

The other day ho "went flivver."

B

coupe

Pola Negri alternates between! the light cream and black Rolls Royee and her new Pierce Arrow. Bebe Daniels has both a Rolls Royce and a Stutz, and drives her.

his chauffeur. He says he hasn't time to master the details of auto niechanics. So he doesn't touch the wheel.'

self. "Harold Lloyd, whose nickname, Chester Conklin matches ha He got one of the first new-modelSpeedy," has been taken for the homeapun symbolism of thick Ford rondsters turned out by the title of his new picture coming out glasses and walrus moustache with ncarest California assembling planta cute little ear which fits this spring, tries to live up to his an ancient Buick which gives him his tremendous bulk somewhat like reputation by driving & Packard. plenty of fun oiling, greasing and a glove and now he drives in it Adolphe Menjou also is a Packard repairing. proudly back and forth every day between his home and the Para- mount studio.

Look Out for Claral· Charles Farrell, the swiftly-risen Fox star, delights his old friends

SPEEDOMETERS.

True and False.

Moda ng Bay

enthusiast.

Henry Ford Exalted, The Lincoln, more than any other car, has come to mean star- dom around the picture lots. Every day outside the Paramount

Both Wallace Beery, the come- dian and character står, and Victor Fleming, the director, are former racing drivers. Beery and his comedy team-mate, Raymond the Lincoln Hatton, belong to brigade,

Optimist's Downfall. There is something of the fisherman in every motorist, and

I had recently was no legs than 12 miles an hour fast all through its range above 30 miles an hour.

it is a cruel act to undeceive one, An "Aid" to Acceleration.

as I have found. Recently I Though I do not deny for one passed a friend when my speedo- A little moment the fine top gear accelera-meter was showing 58.

are

[By the Hon. Maynard Greville.]tion figures of many cars from further on we stopped to converse. the other side of the Atlantic, this He expressed surprise at my speed, Most people really like being acceleration can undoubtedly be and said he was doing 66 when I I asked him what) deceived, provided the deception is aided by the useful little instru-passed him, not too obvious. If there is just ment which records the speed, his car would do, and he said it I guaranteed agleam of alleged science or English cars are not by any means would reach 75. mechantes in the deception their free from this vice, if vice it can that he could not do a mile against be called, and there are many the stop-watch at over 65. We not tried, and after about five attempts belief is. unshakable, and to the whose speedometers,

downwind he did a mile at little motorist the speedometer is an always strictly truthful.

under 61 m.p.h. He retired instrament that can never He. There is another side to the thoroughly miserable, and

question, however. Is it not really thought he had gone to commit I am not suggesting for a a good thing for a man to think suleide.

I did not see him for maoment that there is a plot he is doing 60 miles an hour when another fortnight, but when I lid, Jamongat motor speedometers, to

deceive the public, but it is only he is actually doing 50? I know he was his old cheerful self once natural that such an important of several cases in which indignant more. He told me how well his instrument should err on the owners have brought back cara car was going, and how he had optimistle side. In the course of and complained bitterly that they done 75 m.ph on it that morning. would not attain the makers' I gave it up. After all, it is many years' motoring I have only stated maximum. They have been probably far better for the safety come АСТОВЕ one speedometer which was definitely slow, and that sent away happy and rejoicing of the publfe that he should only was on a car of French manufac: after the service depot had spent be doing 60 when he thinks he is ture of my own. I am also quite few moments in secret with the doing 75. He might want to get a willing to own that I never want speedometers.

to have another one as pessimistic,

It is also one of the most thank-

genuine 75.

"

for I finally stuck a notice beneath less tasks in the world to put a car CARBURETOR ADJUSTMENT. it stating 10 miles an hour slow" owner right as to his speed.

it was actually under-register-know the feeling myself, It is so

Ing by five miles an hour and gratifying to see the needle creep- then I felt much happier.

my

In changing from one brand of ing round to the sixties and gasoline to another, car owners. seventies even if one knows that still make the mistake of asaurning that carburetor adjustment redd For these instruments I have a it is all nonsense.

not be changed. The reault is fairly elaborate testing ground,;

At one period in its existence that the new gasoline often never and though in the course of many

speedometer allowed .its trial runs I have found quito a number to be accurate, or as near emotions to get the better of it gets a chance to prove ita real accurate as one can expect, I have had to force myself to take it virtues. It may have greater start- never found one to be slow, and back to the makers to have it and operating volatility, and have found a few which were over-rectified, and, after all, I only had potentially greater economy than if the carburetor is not properly American cars are particularly beside it to know how much it was adjusted, its advantages never will] registering by a colossal figure. to glance at the revolution counter any fuel the motorist had used, but

assert themselves.

prone to this sort of thing; one lying.

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