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PICTORIAL – SUPPLEMENT

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

1935.

WRANGEL

ISLAND REVEALS ANOTHER

EPIC STORY.

SCENE OF NUMEROUS ARCTIC

YEARS

TRAGEDIES

KEEPER OF THE BEAVER”

OFFICIAL POST

HOW CANADA PROTECTS ITS NATIONAL ANIMAL

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AN

IN PAST FIFTEEN

SOVIET ATTEMPTING TO FIND PACIFIC TO ATLANTIC

ROUTS

Arctic Ocean

WRANGEL IE

CHELYUSHIN

DISASTER

HOME

Another ople of hardship and pri- vation on Wrangel Island is unfold ed in the necount of the life of four men and one woman marooned for five years on the new famous inland In the Arctic ocean. Historie for the secret it still holds of the fate

Bering Sea

It was when the Soviet rescue aoroplane, which car- there in 1921, the island has since last summer. been the scene of many Arctic rescue vessel. Chelyuskin attempted ried Chelyuskin crew out lashed t tragedies. Belonging to Russla, passage to Wrangel that she was wings; LOWER RIGHT, the Cana- wrecked and 101 men, women and dian flag holsted on the island by the Soviet government has been children were marooned on an ice the Allan Crawford expedition. It attempting to colonize the waste floe to be heroically rescued by was over this event that a bitter Innd for years. Scientists sent to Soviet nirmen. Layout shows, controversy was later waged be the leland five years ago for purpose UPPER LEFT, the Chelruskin lock-tween Canada, Great Britain and of experimenta relating to Russia's ed in ice; UPPER RIGHT, only Russia over sovereignty of the of Allan Crawford, young Canadian plan for an Arctic route from housing means on Wrangel island- lailand. Map shows position explorer who headed an expedition Atlantic to Pacific were rescued late 'an ice house: LOWER LEFT, Wrangel in Arctic ocean.

"VALLEY FORGE" STIRS NEW YORK

THEATRICAL CIRCLES

PHILIP MERIVALE, NOTED ENGLISH ACTOR

APPEARS AS NEW WASHINGTON

BY PAUL HARRISON

The American theatre is richer because of Maxwell Anderson. So is American history; and, for that matter, America itself.

Anderson has written, and the Theatre Guild has presented, a play called "Valley Forge." It is as much a flesh-and-blood portrait of George Washington as it is a plotted drama, but most of all it is an explanation of why men fight for liberty. The author has a notion that Americans still might warm ourselves at the flame of an old ideal. He has Washington say, at the end: "This liberty will look easy when men no longer die for it."

"Valley Forgo" is no fife-tooting

the people, the Congress and the historical pageant, or patriotic Army in that dark hour. rally, but a grim, thrilling narrative! full of desperation and human

The general proves austere and frailty and rough, vital humour, It forthright enough, and certainly lan't the cherry-tree Washington brave. But he is not so fanatical you meet at Valley Forge, nor do in his belief and courage but that you encounter the zealous unani- he admits himself beaten and con- mity with which textbooks endowsidore the negotiation of an honour-

Philip Marivale ... with a

WAT on his mind, he has no time for romance.

able peace. It is Philip Merrivale, an Englishman, who plays this role. He has portrayed many historical personages during his career, but none with more polse and warmth than he gives to Washington.

In the beginning you find the general listening to the complaints of his starved and ragged men, many of whose comrades have de- serted to provide for their families

at home during the winter. Tha

Mitai Mayfair ... an chanting item in the new revue, "Calling All Stara".

Continental Congresa, bickering romance. It seems he has a

of

on fighting-not for trade, or amnesty, or intrigue for profit, or anything else except liberty and the right of self-government,

This play provides many a strik ing parallel between those times and

Canada is unique in having an ther and a Scotch father, is Can- one of the most warlike of Indian Grey tribes. Top left Is Annh-An-Eo- officially appointed supervisor to nda's "keeper of the beaver. protect from extinction the anima! Ow! once toured Europe with the Mrs. Groy Cvl--an Ojibway In- famed scout, Buffalo Bill, Top right dlan. Lower Gray Owl is shown used in its natiouni emblem. Grey he is shown in the picturesque calling a friendly beaver to eat Owl, ton of an Apache Indian mo-headdress of his Apache ancestora, from a dieh prepared by his hands.

CARDINAL O'CONNELL LOOKS AHEAD AT 75

SPENDS Twilight of LIFE WORKING FOR CHURCH OF TO-MORROW.

William Henry Cardinal O'Cen- nell, archbishop of Boston and dean of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in America, is 75 years old--but he

is mention of A ours. There dictatorship, and exposure of the Kreed on which war feeds. While helping to glorify an Ideal, the still looks ahead, still lives for to- author unflinchingly holds up tomorrow.. scorn the blind and selfish bigotry of ill-chosen legislatora-just as he did in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Both Your Houser." His play has the same gusto and frank speaking that he once helped put into "What Price Glory." And It has the same grandeur of expression, the poetic flow, which marks our stage at its best.

He already has celebrated his golden jubilee anniversary of priest- hood-but he still experiences a young priest's humility in the work of his church; and has found that succeeding generations of other people, since his ordination In Rome, remain strong in their faith. It was a little more than 23 years ago that he was elevated to the cardinalate, and in the time that he Few superlatives and only a little has worn the rich, red panoply of enthusiasm are needed to complete his rank he has seen his archdiocess this theatrical report. After months become a model of ecclesiastical or- of customer anticipation, Mr, Law ganisation throughout the Catholic Brown and a great many assistants world. Yet His Eminence is not have oponed a new musical titled resting there. "The life that is "Calling All Stars." Many were busy in the highest interests of life called, it is true, but few have been is in reality the happiest life," he chosen for applause.

says. He does not expect ever to be

In what must have been a terrify-able to look upon the full results of ingly expensive production, they his life's work-because he's going have lined up the Messrs. Lou Holtz, to keep right on working. Phil Baker, Everett Marshall and Jack Whiting, and the Misses Mitzi

PRINCE OF CHURCH

the

CARDINAL O'CONNELL.

back to Rome in the important post of rector of the American College. Another six years and he was created Bishop of Portland af the astonishing age of 41.

Next, a succession of higher posts -speciul papal envoy to the Em- peror of Japan, Coadjutor Arch bishop of Boston, Archbishop in 1907. A year later, when his name: Arst was mentioned among, the can- didates for Cardinal, he 'was the youngest of all those mentioned. Ils cardinalate came in 1911, and on his return to Boston the streets were thronged with people struggi- ing for a chance to klas the ring he wore.

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OVERRIDES PRECEDENT

Precedent and tradition have not handicapped him overmuch. He has moved militantly in everything ha has done, with little patience for. the defensive attitude that the Catholic Church previously had: maintained here. As a force for morality he has hammered more.

over appointments and dickering on his mind. And so she goes out them up, I say, but they haven't have not lessened his personal in-the Choctaw language. As a mat," cloak behind which lies tho

fluence. In Boston he has accom-

HEALTH FAILED

trying years of hard study at the lustily than Boston's famous Watch American College. It's told that he and Word Society. The Cardinal enjoyed many a joke, however, and fought bolshevism and offered reli- Kion as an antidote. He has no was fond of reciting a string of Mayfair, Gertrude Nieren and He rules na a Prince of war Patricia Bowman. They have lined Church, and the succeeding years maintained was o

utter gibberish which he uolemnly patience with socialiam. He even classic poem in has attacked the Einstein theory 08 over expenditures, has neglected-to of his life again, but not before given them much to do, send the food and supplies that are delivering her crushing news, Next avaliable. And some of Washing-day two well-fed members of a

the stage and screen and in litera- The show is nothing more than plished something of a scelal, rell-ter of fact, he did become an accom. Khastly apparition of atheism".

Courec. and Syrian-bealdes, of

iure. ton's own officers are slyly working Congressional committee

visit series of sketches and songs, and gious and oven political revolution plished linguist, speaking German, lo has denounced Immorality on

from Puritan New England. Once Latin. for his displacement.

Valley Forge, and in the couras of it adds up to nothing more than a

Essentially an organiser, and the interview, Washington discovers pretty fair bill of vaudeville, he said: "The Puritan has passed;

necessarily a clear thinker, His Next, for contrast, you are allow, that the lealtorous netivities ofThere are curtain speeches of the the Catholle remains. The clty

In 1884 the student was ordainst Eminence has prospered as an in- ed to look in on the Philadelphia sems of his own officers have been which have made me Enemy where a century ago he came un-

No. 1 of all mastera and mistresses wanted he has made his own." headquarters of General Howe, condoned by the Congress itself.

He was born in Lowell, Mass., priest, but bitter disappointment dividual. By now he is a million- of ceremony. There are skits that where bywinked officers dance the He personally attends to the ejec- jare a little smutty and only a little December 8-the feast day of the was in the offing. For the sako ofire; his home in Brighton is one his falling health, brought on by of the show places of the suburb, minuet and scoff at the rebels, tion of the visitors, then turns to funny. And there are a good many Immaculate Conception. His per the chill and dampness of his living and has a private golf course. He There, too, is the lovely Mary receive the reluctant admission of songs which, except for one called enta were

poor Irish Immigrants, Philipse Morris, whom Washington his trusted officers that they believe "If it's hot, haven't been note but the boy-an eleventh son-quarters, he was ordered back to socially popular.

A special law passed by the once loved and who now discovers the fight for Independenca has been to remember.

managed to go through the public America, leaving behind the degree schools and Boston College. Hef Doctor of Divinity to which he Massachusetts legislature gives him that she is bored beyond sufferance | lost.

had aspired.

full corporate authority over the In fairness it must be said that debated, composed hymns, took part by her husband. She decides to go

-But it turned out to be a fortun-Catholic Church, of Boston-he | through the lines and join Washing-

moet audiences coem tolerably amused, in college pinys, and graduated with ton at his headquarters in Valley General Howe and discuss terms of that the show may be smoothed out honours. When he applied to ate change. Father O'Connell be being the president and board of Forgo, and unknowingly she carries peace. But the meeting place be after a few more performances, Archbishop Willums as a candidats came one of five assistant rectors directors. Few officials of any. with her a British Ho to the effect comes the scene of an unordered that the chorus is very pretty in-for the priesthood, the high cleric in a church in the Boston alums.church could wield wuch power. that the French have decided not to American foraging expedition and deed, and well costumed, and that said: "Your record entitles you to Other priests in such a lowly begin Twice there has been, talk of his aid the American colonion,

a apiriled skirmish with the enemy. the fndlyidual stars are quite satis. the best education I can offer you. ning might have walled many years possible succession to the Papacy Faced with the unflagging courage factory in their various ways. How would you like to go to before even receiving a parish of the first American-born priest even Dame Morris Anda Washington and loyalty of his men, Washington Certainly Miss Mayfair is an on- | Romo?”

tholt o. Ilowever, eleven years to be mentioned for such high unwilling to rekindle a youthful tella General Howe that they will go chanting Item.

And so to Rome he want, for aftershis, ordination he was sent succession.

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