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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

20,

1935.

SEEKS NEW TRADE

H. K. Yacht Takes Four Years To Reach

Mr. V. C. Dowden, newly-appointed Australian Trade Commissioner to [China, arrived in Slinghai this month on board the Nankin. Mr. Bowden was accompanied by the Assistant Trade Commissioner, Mr. A. L. Nut!.

£750,000 FOR BRITISH FILMS

"BLUE LAGOON" IN TECHNICOLOUR

BING CROSBY MAY CROSS ATLANTIC FOLLOWING upon the an- neuncement of a new in- dependent company to be called Herbert Wilcox Productions (Ltd.), Mr. Wilcox has now made known the preliminary details of his programme.

Tullio Carminati, who scored such a hit with Grace Moore in "One Night of Love," has been signed by Herbert Wilcox to co-star with Anna Nengle in a musical film, The setting of the film will be Naples and London.

The first year's programme is budgeted to cost, £750,000. The first picture will be "Street Singer." starring Anna Neagle and Authur

Tracy (known to radid and gramo- phone listeners as "The Street Singer.") Ile la appearing at the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, this work.

The picture will we a modern story-and-Anna-Neugle will appear. A modern chorus girl, in distinct contrast to her roles in "Nell Gwyn" and Peg Woffington in "Peg of Old Drury."

Start In Throe. Wecks "Street Singer" will be set in London, in the vicinity of, the Lon- Anna don Hippodrome, where Neagle was first "discovered" by Herbert Wilcox. Music will be by the American composer Henry Woods, who wrote the music for """Evergreen" and whose list of popular hits includes "Dancing With My Shadow."

Production has already started at the British and Dominions Studios under the personal direc- tion of Herbert Wilcox.

The second production of the new company will be "The Blue Lagoon to be made in Honolulu and the South Sins, and produced

Mediterranean

AMAZING ADVENTURES ON LONG WORLD CRUISE

A. Moore-Bennet | "Greetings To All

Describes Trips Our Friends

To Cyprus

In H. K."

In far-away Cyprus, a former resident of Hongkong. sat in the cabin of a tiny yacht that has taken,him half- way around the world, and wrote a letter to the Telegraph,

The letter was from Arthur Moore-Bennett, one- time Chairman of the Engineers of China Ltd. and member of the Hongkong Club.

Four years ago, Mr. Moore-Bennett left Hongkong in the tiny yacht Medea.

From the time of his departure little has been heard of the intrepid adventurer until the letter received yester- day brought a vivid description of his journey..

"This is seeing life." The letter fairly breathes the words..

"Follow in Medea's wake," the writer enjoins his friends in Hongkong, "and sail away into the blue."

Incredible romance and

adventure has been Medea's Mussolini Gets

lot since she left Hongkong four years ago. It has taken all that time to reach the Mediterranean. All told, 31,- 000 miles have been logged by the gallant little craft in her strange voyage.

China Sea Battle

The fetter describes the battles ngalist heat winds, four years ago, down the China sea, anul up

te Stamense waters on both sides! of the Straits, 1

Melea wanted to records. HT Siam her mose dipped into tur Julent waters that threatened to enguli her.

Then, Larning north towards The Equator, her white sails re feeted upon seas of azure blue- island-dotted seas that sparkler and scintillaled in the sun that in- j cessantly beats down upon the Dutch East Indies.

Some of Hongkong's muskee spirit was in the bones of gallant little Medest.

£100 Bequest

LEFT IN WILL OF HASTINGS MAN

A bequest of £100 has been made to Signor Mussilini by Mr. Allessandro Novani (otherwise. Egisto Landi), of St. Helens-road, Hastings, who died in Italy on May 14. Mr. Novan loft estate of the gros value of £19,483, with net personalty C1519,

of

Captain Charles Hazard Hassell, Drewatcnd-road, Streatham, S.W.. Director of Music in the Guards 1901-29, and later Director to the Metropoll-

Mussolini.

with

• IFTAh

tan Police Cen- tral Band, who

died in June. left property of the

of value net personalty

In the Dutch East Indies, time ceased to exist. There £10,764, were little out of the way £7,218. He gives "my enlisting islands, Bome never before

shilling to the 0.C: 2nd Battalion visited by white people, to Netts and Derby Regiment, as a nose into.

souvenir of the regiment, into When, reluctantly, the couple- which Fürst unlisted," suggesting Medeu, and crew-headed north | it should be kept in the sergeants' __ngafa_almost__n_your_had_passed, ; mess.

Before crossing to Colombo five | Mr. Charles George Wilkinson, cruises were made up and downl of Beverley road, Colchester, the Straits of Malaces, where tiny, Essex, for many years headmaster Medea ventured

many of Newcastle Preparatory School, among lesser known islands on the cast; who died in April, left estate of side of the Gulf of Bengal.

the gross value of £13.750. He Then across to the southwest left £1,350 to E. B. Prescott, "to coast of India:

mark my recognition of his loyal and faithful service to me and to Newenstle Preparatory School over a long period of years."

"

a fascinating place full of walled cities, barbaric rites, bright colour, despotic rajabs, elephants, coconuts and mission stations." writes Mr. Moore-Ben- nett.

"Here Wine le Cheap" "Then to Cochin, where we spent i few weeks. Afterwards Gon. Gon held us, Medea and 1, for ten months. Hore wine is cheap, life! is easy and taxes are non-exis- Lent.

"Then, since time was getting | on, we departed, ejossing, just the

In the new three-colour tech two of us, to Aden last November

colour process. A new nuts will be struck in this production with a complete musical score as a drama- tie accompaniment to the story. Tropical storms in colour and the burning of a ship will be some of the pictorial highlights of the film. Negotiations are proceeding for Joel M'Crea or Richard Cromwell to play the lending male role opposite a young British girl.

The third picture will be a modern musical story of London, starring Jack Buchanan anta Continental woman star, and will show Jnek Buchanan in a typical London setting.

Walls And Lynn Together A point of unusual' interest is that Tom Walls, and Ralph Lynn will make two plctures for Herbert Wilcox. This revives the associa- tion which, with the production of Rookery. Nook," struck the first great blow in the British, film ro- naissance. Walls and Lynn were introduced to the screen by Herbert Wilcox, and the eight pictures made under his banner Included such successes as "Thark," "Plun- der," and "A Night Like This."

Their now subjects will be spect- ally written, and will be developed along entirely novel lines.

Bing Crosby Too

Mr. Wilcox is negotiating with Bing Crosby, who under his Paramount contract is per mitted to do one free film per year, to come to London to make a film of an American in London and in Paris.

Twenty days in that delightful! summer resort, where we ate with relish the best Turkish delight

we've ever known," and once again we pushed on, in much fear of the

-consequences, into that

asinorem of the amateur, the Red

WHOA THERE

COWBOY Winding Up!

The object, gentle reader, is to slay on the back of the horas, but this rider in a Los Angeles rodeo apparently didn't study the

Iran. He parted company with hia maunt, volplaning through the air to an unhappy landing.

SHIPPING SPEED-UP

Making Southampton the World's

Greatest

Airport: Links Across Atlantic

Southampton, Sept. 1. If negotiations now in progress are successful, Southampton will become the greatest airport in the world, with links even across the Atlantic.

A new company proposes to build a giant scadrome with Customs facilities, restaurant and observation ter

races.

Seaplanes to carry 32 passengers-many with private. cabins and sleeping accommodation-will link the seadrome with New York, Pernambuco, Buenos Aires and Cape Town, as well as with northern European capitals.

The iden

underlying the west coast of Africa, and Capo scheme, the first part of which Town.

may be in operation a year from

owners.

By Seaplane And Liner now, is to collaborate with ship- ping, so the bulk of the diree-will be Freetown, whence another The West African port of call tors will be well-known ship-

branch service will be, run to Pernambuco. This will cater for the requirements of the northern part of South America, linking up with Buenos Aires and ports in the Caribbean Sea.

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New York--Via Azores The new company which, Rather, will be known as British Airways, Ltd., with a capital of £3,000,000, is interested in the site adjacent to the King George V graving dock.

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The scheme will enable people crossing from northern European -It-will use nothing but seaplanes;| countries ----such-

Norway, The first service will be operated Sweden, Denmark and possibly between Copenhagen and Sout- | Germany-to reach the other side hampton, and both passengers and jof the Atlantic in record time. mails will be carried.

Later there will be a service to Lisbon, with a branch ser- vice from there to New York, via the Azores and Bermuda. Another service will link Southampton

Gibraltar, with Madeira, the Canary Islands, the

The air link with Southamp- ton will expedite their journey considerably, even if the cross- ing of the Atlantic is made by sea instead of by air..

Travellers will be landed within a short distance of the transatlantic liners,

Diana Churchill To Wed SKIPS 600 MILES

M.P. She Fought

“POLITICAL CENTIPEDE" HUSBAND MRS. JOHN BAILEY, formerly Miss Diana Churchill, eldest daughter of Mr. Winston Churchill, M.P., is to marry again. Her engage- ment to Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P. for Norwood, was announced in London recently.

Sex,

"Well was that sen cursed by Their the ancients. In all, It took us

5,117 miles to beat against that merciless and never-ending north west wind, which with the short steep sea, the thousands of imper- fectly charted and unlit reefs, make this section of the voyage such a nightmare.

"Seventeen times. from Port Said northwards did we sight both sides of the Sea, first the African Const, next the Asʼan,”

Eventually, however, the daring adventurers won through, most of the sails exploded, Meden's rig ging loose and the mast shivering with ench blow.

"At Port Tewfik, the French were unliellevably knd, and re- roped Medes, cleaned, painted and scrubbed her free of charge,

"So now we have arrived Rt Cyprus. Now for a long rest, to explore the glories of the Greek Islands, the coasts of Syria and Asia Minor.

"True, it has taken us four years riod, Meden and I. to reach here, but we never hur

in Hongkong, including the crew "We send greetings to all frionda of the Muskes, and only hope they have enjoyed life as we have.

romance

began during the Norwood, by- election last March,

Mrs. Bailey was working in opposition to Mr. Sandys, She supported Mr. Richard Findlay, the Independent Conservative sponsored by her brother, Mr. Randolph Churchill.

election

It was during this that Mr. Randolph Churchill described Mr. Sandys as "a. political centipede with

a foot

on every fence," who would "swallow anything so long as he does not blot his copybook with the Central Office,"

""And that," said Mr. Sandys "was the first time I met Mrs. Bailey.

Mrs. Bailey married Mr. John Milner Bailey, eldest son of Sir Abo Bailey, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, in December 1932. She was granted a divorce de- croo last February.

Mrs. Bailey is aged twenty- five; Mr. Sandys is twenty-

adven.

DIANA CHURCHILL .

brother

thinks her fiance is "a political centi-

pede with a foot on every fence,"

IN 35 DAYS

Melbourne, Sept. 1. TOM MORRIS, an Aus- tralian all-round athlete and. swimmer, who intends to skip 600 miles from Mel- bourne to Sydney in 35 days, did the first 18 miles in two and a half hours, according to schedule.

Three attendants who ac- companied him on bicycles carried provisions and changes of clothes.-Kenter.

BACK TO THE

CHARLESTON

NEW-OLD BALLROOM FROLIC THIS YEAR

Six hundred dance teachers have decided at a meeting in Lomion that the Charleston will be danced again in British ball- rooms this winter.

Lens than ten years ago the Charleston was a universal rago, but in the ballroom it became auch frolle that it threatened to k dancing as an amusement altogether. It will

now bo rovived, but in a modified and modernised form.

"We are retaining the atmos- phore of the old Charleston," Majar Cecil H. Taylor, President of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, said, "but the steps have been smoothed out so that the feet will not be lifted. from the floor.

The new Charleston has the particular virtuo that it can bo danced to any tune, while it also calls for no special knowledge of dancing."

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