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EXPERT ADVICE ON SOIL

PREPARATION

BY PROF. C. H. NISSLEY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

stopplug mygolf by recollecting that even public characters mightį prefer to discuss sweetbreads and vegetables in solitude.

But it was tiresome to sit so nçar a celebrity without taking); advantage of it. I gage my orderi to the waiter and the yielded to) The temptation of expanding to my- self the possibilities of opening a conversation. For instance-. But something in my thought must | -have-caught-her attention. She looked at me and smiled, which was, of course, all that I required, I leaned my elbows upon the small; tablu.

"What," I said, "did the Queens "say to you when you were pre- sented to her at the theatre the other night? I am a journalist of aorta, and I would love to know.”

It was bold, but Miss Wynyard, did not appear in the lenst taken aback. She reached over and. collecting a roll from a basket. that lay between us, commenced

THE home gardener will get lots block also shown, to facilitate evento Urenk it into little bits on the

of real fun out of starting, his distribution of molature through plate at her side. own vegetable plants. The require capillary nction, to give the need- menta are few, the cost is trivial. lings stronger support, and to make "I have a motto," she said, Here are shown the materials the essential plant nutrients Im-""Thou shalt not be embarrassing - with which the gardener must mediately available to the Reed-by reason of bad manners, It start. At right is a pile of goodings. The flat at left has not been amounts to an eleventh command- garden soil. This is sifted through firmed,

the three-quarters-inch mesh screen shown in the left background.

The coarser garden sail is placed After this sifting has removed in the bottom of the flat and firmed stones, roots and other undesirable with the firming board. matter, a sifting through the one- quarter-inch mesh screen will re-

After the Bat has been filled with

'mentalmost. And I see that you wise be dishonest. Not every- have a molto, Thou shalt in no body would have confessed to be-1 ing a journalist. If I remembered | you but I don't. I went to the what the Queen said, I would tell

sult in the fine soll shown in the the finely sifted soil. It should be little room at the back of the royal centre of the plcture-an excellent watered with a very flue spray box after the second act, and Alej medium in which to grow Reed-prior to seed sowing. When the talked to me very kindly for some Jings.

surface soil is dry enough to pre-ume. But I don't think 1 remem- elude its sticking to the marker, ber any special thing that she said. THE soil in the flat at right below the rowa are marked out, the seed It is not easy to remember things |

has been firmed by the firming sown, and covered with moist soil. ilke that."

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BELOW are lettuce seedlings in ntimes their diameter.

simple, home-made flat, show- Don't plant the seed in thickly. ing correct planting of seeds. The for this will result in a spindly rows should be about two inches growth. Watering too much also apart and one-quarter inch deep for is dangerous, for it may help to most plants. A safe rule to follow bring on "dumping off," a disease is to plant seeds to a depth four which quickly kills the seedlings.

· Next Thursday: Transplanting seedlings,

MISS WYNYARD FOR LUNCHEON

FAMOUS ACTRESS TELLS OF STRIVING YEARS

By Phyllis M. Lovell

In the Christian Science Monitor.

"Dtrend. "would make

JANA," said my Scottish I paid much attention to him, 3 His enthusiasm. I supposed, had success of anything she attempted, resulted more from the influentes and that's a fact." We were, i of a pleasant afternoon than from remember, wrestling our way real inside knowledge. It was not through the late afternoon crowds until I happened lo-come myself of Shaftesbury Avenue, having face to face, with the young spent the last two or three hours actress a few weeks later that I in the stalls of Wyndham's began to give my friend some of Theatre watching Diana Wynyard the credit always overdue to those play in "Sweet Aloce," and I, who live north of the Tweed. grontly hoping for a belated tea, My meeting with Miss Wynyard felt a little argumentative

came about purely by chance. I "Why," I remember asking; be had been busy that morning on twoon, dodging the hurrying peo-some work in the West End 'and, ple, "why do you suppose that turning at lunch time into a small because Miss Wynyard can pro-restaurant in Soho, had made my duce good acting she should be way through the somewhat crowd- equally successful at producing aed and overheated room to a table ✅ good novel, or a good dinner, or a in a far corner where I espied a

good anything else, for that mat- sont that was vacant, fer? I don't seo it.""

But my friend was adamant. YIELDED TO TEMPTÁTION Half on and half off the pavement,

On the opposite side of the table;

A

he explained to me that, first and as I drew in my chair, a young foremost, Diana Wynyard was a woman was bending over a menu, Scot-which accounted, of course, running a finger down the list of for a good deal But, besides be- Italian names while a waiter hung ing a Scot, she was clear-headed-ovor her with pencil poised. Sho Vory

Moreover, she was one of ordered sweetbrenda and vege those remarkable and strangely tables"lots of vegetables"-and uncommon individuals who are un-something in her voice arrested touched by professional Jealousy my attention. It took me back to unmoved by that tiresome an afternoon spent at Wyndham's profession, ia Theatre several wooks, before. I own as "avidity Diana, he looked across at her narrowly, ro ald-be persisted in calling her calling the fair hair, the charm Plant was not hvid," and this ingly rounded face, the small cose, met, taken in conjunction with her and the mouth with corher that ther attributes, insured success. turned upward. I nearly onldy

the time, I do not think t that MesWynyard, I bellever

Which, in the

"No," I said realizing that Miss Wynyard was practicing her ele venth commandment on behalf! both of the Queen and myself. "No, I understand.

She continued to play with her

rel!.

"I am sorry," she said presently, "Can I tell you anything else?"

I laughed. "Tell me something about the stage." I auggested. "How long have you been on it?"

DETERMINED ON CAREER.

determined."

TUESDAY, APRIL

1935,

Symbolic of Signor Mussolini's aspirations in Africa is this flag-raising in Eritrea, Italian colony on the Red Sea coast. Flutter ing from its lofty staff, as Italian officers stand at salute and native soldiery present arms, the groen, red, and white banner flaunts a challenge across the borders to Abyssinia, where the black troops of Haile Selassie stand against a further European advance.

of London-faring lights flashing|typewritera" to the players on tho your name from the thientres?" morning of the actual shooting of j

OFFERED A PART.

it.

TO BITTER END

Miss Wynyard shook her head." lay in bed after each awful "No, oddly enough. I never thought day," she said, looking tragically about being famous. I only want-lover my head, "wondering by what

to act--for the sheer satisfac possible manoeuvre I could escape. tion of it, I suppose. And every And I took myself each morning thing was so nice and uncompli-to the authorities to implore them cated-"

for release. But all without avail. She broke off while the waitert played in Rasputin' to the bitter settled our dishes in front of us.jend.

"And then?" I said, pushing the

"And then you played the wife "How long? Well, that is limalt over to her. cult. I think the answer might

"Well, then, we were playing at and mother in 'Cavalcade," I said, truthfully be always, because Nottingham, and Basil Dean wrote changing the subject with as much knew anything at all, I was detering me a part. Frightful thrli,| believe that from the moment to me, and afterward wired offer-jhaste as sympathy permitted.

Miss Wynyard removed her eyes mined to do the work I am doing that! And I went to London and from the ceiling and smiled. Peggy Ashcroft and 1

"Yes, "Cavalcade, were at played with Marie Lohr."

That was love- school together, and we were both

And enjoyed it?"

Dy. Everyone was inspired in the Miss Wynyard wrinkled her playing of "Cavalcade. It was Diana Wynyard began her stage vincial." she said. "and I didn't don't know why. We had our "I was terribly profeurious, it just seemed to happen, small nose. career, as a matter of fact; in know how to wear my clothes.parts, too, six weeks before we be 1926. She had been through But it was good for me-got megan to work." year's training in dramatic work, into trim. 1 was older-actually and had sat in the pits of most gand more sophisticated when "And which do you prefer, the London theatre. murvelling, so she got my next job and went onlaims or the stage?" Miss Wyn. says, at the beauty of most London tour for eight months, and it was yard hesitated and then said that actresses--especially of Margareta merey, because that touring she did not like to make compari- Bannerman--when she got her company might have done for me sons. Arst engagement, a walk-on at the altogether had I joined it a year in making a picture," she said. Globe Theatre. She is amused by earlier. We played twice nightly one is conscious of being a speek, the memories of that engagement. I remember, and the whole atmos merely a speck in a great machine She was so terribly, "unforgiv-here was so sordid that I hate to ably young.. "I dressed," she ex-think of it even now."

that keeps moving, moving. In plained, in a small ronra sur- But fame was on its way. It making a play, the whole basis is rounded by mirrors, with five eider was after the sordid experience thing and its people are alive. It different. A play is a changing women who were rather hardened of the "twice-nightly," followed by theatricals. They called me Palm a period spent with the Liverpool is delicious to work with a com- Olive because of my complexion."

But the experience of the Globe Repertory Company, that success any of people who are enjoying

things.". did not last for very long. One suddenly in a one-night show given

Diet Miss Wynyard, and met ber} member of the cast had worked at the Arts Theatre in London in other beenuse you yourself are "And are not jealous of each with a touring stock company, and, 1936. she offered the. young Diana an

not jealous?" Í suggested, seek- "Strange, wasn't it?" said Missing confirmation for my Scottish introduction to its manager.

"It was J] terrific adventure." Wynyard, leaning back in her friend.

chair and looking across at me. said Miss Wynyard, "because the Because I didn't expect it. "I didn't say that," said Miss stock company, was playing at Things happen like that, some- Wynyard. I might be jealous- saafde town in Yorkshire, and times. Suddenly everything you have pangs now and again. I am the fare to Yorkshire was 20 shil-do is exactly right-so odd." quite human. But my lings. But I got the money to- And then there came America would generally come to the res gether and went, and I sat in and Hollywood, and a first expe-cue. Besides, why be jealous? I caravan looking out over the sea,rience of the films, startling in its like people, and I like to feel that and read parts with all the drama-novelty and its tremendous dili I can move along with them with- tle effect I could muster. And culties. Miss Wynyard was en-out struggling-without being too xot the job, and worked it for a gaged to play in the film "Ran-urgent, if you know what I mean. year-six plays in a week, some-putin," and called upon to cunet. She signaled to the walter.

"And times, and utter, bllesful hap each day, piness, especially during the early been able to give no single ma-mandment."

part to which she had I like keeping my cleventh com. days of it."

mont of preparation, since the "Thou shalt not--" I began, "In view of big things that were script was always written over quoting it. She looked at me and coming?" I suggested. "West End night and harried "hot from the faughed.

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