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SEEKS NEW TRADE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

·20,

1935.

WHOA

H. K. Yacht Takes Four Years To Reach THERE

Mr. V. C. Bowden, newly-appointed Australian Trade Commissioner to China, arrived in Shanghat this ) month on boned 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-

nouncement 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 Neagle in a musical film. The setting of the film will be Naples and London.

The first year's programme is budgeted to cost £700,000. The first picture will be "Street Stager." starring Anna Neagle and Authur Tracy (known to radio and gramo- "The Street phono listenors Singer." He is appearing at the Empire-Theatre, -Edinburgh, this.

week.

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The picture will have a modern story and Anna Neuglo will appear as a modern chorus girl, in distinct contrast to her roles in "Nell Gwyn" and Peg Woffington in "Peg of Old Drury,"

Start In Three Wocks "Street Singer" will be set in London, in the vicinity of the Lon- Anna don Hippodrome, where Neagle was first "discovered" by Herbert Wikox. 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 diree- tion of Herbert Wilcox.

The second production of the new company will be "The Blue Lagoon," to be made in Honolulu and the South Sens, and produced In the new three-colour techni- colour process. A new note will be struck in this production with a complete musical score na a drama- tic accompaniment to the story. Tropical sterms in colour and the burning of a ship will be some of the pictorial highlights of the Alm.

Negotiations are proceeding for Joel M'Cren or Richard Cromwell to play the leading male role opposite a young British girl,

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

Walls And Lynn Together A point of unusual intorcat is that Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn' will make two pletures for Herbert Wilcox. This revives the associn- tion which, with the production of "Rookery Nook," struck the first great blow in the British film re- noissance. Walls and Lyna were introduced to tho screon by Herbert: Wilcox, and the eight pictures made under his banner Included auch successes as "Thark," "Plun- dor," and "A Night Like This."

Their new subjects will bo speci ally written, and will be developed along entirely novel lines.

Bing Crosby Too

Mr. Wilcox is negotiating with: Bing Crosby, who under

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,

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"This is accing 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 letter describes the battles against head winds, four years ngo, down the Chinn sen, and up into Siamese waters, on both sides of the Stralis,

Meden wanted no records. Off Blum her nose dipped into tur bulent waters that threatened to engulf her.

Then, turning north towards the Equator, her white sails re- flected upon sens of azure blue- Island-dotted sea that sparkled and scintillated in the sun that in- Ceasantly beats down upon. the Dutch East Indies.

Some of Hongkong's maskee spirit was in the bones of, gallant little Meden...

In the Dutch East Indies, time ceased to exist. were little out of the islands,

£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. Norani left estate of the pross value of £19,483, with 'net. personalty £1,583.

Captali Charles Hazard Hassel), of Drewsdettd-rund: Streatham, S.W., Director of

Mussolini.

Music in the Irish Guards 1901-20, and later Director to Metropoli-

the

tan Police Con- tral Band, who

died in June,

loft property of the value of There £10,754;

with net personalty way £7.218. He gives my enlisting before

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

some never

Rouvenir of the regiment into which I first enlisted," suggesting it should be kept in the sergeants' mess.

When, reluctantly, the couple Medea, and crow-headed north again almost a year had passed.

Mr. Charles George Wilkinson, Before crossing to Colombo five cruises were made up and down of Beverley-road, Colchester, the Straits of Malncen, where tiny, Essex, for many years headmaster Medea ventured among many of Newcastle Preparatory School, lesser known islands on the east who died In April, laft estate of side of the Gulf of Bengal.

the gross value of £13,750. Ho Then across to the southwest left £1,850 to E. B. Prescott, "to coast of India:

mark my recognition of his loyal "...a fascinating place full and faithful service to me and to of walled cities, barbarie ritea, | Newcastle Preparatory School bright colour, despotic rajahs, over a long period of years." elephants, cocoanuta and mission stations," writes Mr. Moore-Ben- nett.

"Hore Wine is Cheap".

"Then to Cochin, where we spent a few weeks. Afterwards Gon. Goa held us, Meden and 1, for ten months. Here wine is cheap, life In easy and taxes are non-exiy- tent.

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

two of us, to Aden, last November

Twenty days in that delightful auminer 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

that

consequences, into asinorum of the amateur, the Red Sea.

"Well was that sea cursed by the ancients. In all, it took us

COWBOY Winding Up!

The object, gentle render, is to stay on the back of the horse, but this rider in a Los Angelos rodeo apparently didn't study the lesson..

He parted company with his mount, 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 seadrome with Customs facilities, restaurant and observation ter-

тасев.

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 Afrien, and Cape scheme, the first part of which

may be in operation a year from now, is to collaborate with ship- ping, so the bulk of the direc

Town. ·

By Seaplane And Liner

tors will be woll-known ship-will be Freetown, whence another

owners.

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New York-Via Azores Tho

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new company which, gather, 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.

. The Wast African port of call

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.

The scheme will enable people crossing from northern European дя Norway. It will use nothing but seaplanes, countries — auch 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 of 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

will link service

Southamptou with Gibraltar, 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 sex instead of by air.

Travellers will be landed within a short distance of the transatlantic linera.

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.

Their

romance

began

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

from

"Seventeen times

Port Said northwards did we sight both sides of the Sen, first the African Coast, next the Astan."

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

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

It was during this -election 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 "At Port Towfik, the French does not blot his copybook with were unbelievably fund, and rethe Central Office." roped Medea, cleaned, painted and scrubbed her free of charge.

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

to reach here, but we novor hur- "True, It has taken us four years

riod, Meden and 1.

his Paramount contract is persWe send greetings to all friends

mitted to do one free film-per year, to come to London to make a film of an American in London and in Paris.

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

Mrs. Bailey married Mr. John Milner Bailey, eldest son of Sir Abe Bailey, at St. Margaret's, She was granted a divorce-de-j Westminster, in December 1982. crea last February.

in Hongkong, including the crew Mrs. Balloy la aged twenty--DIANA CHURCHILL == * brother of the. Maskeo, and only hope they five; Mr. Sandya is twenty-thinks her flance is "a pofitient centi- have enjoyed iffo as we have.

Boven.

fede with a foot on every fence."

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IN 35 DAYS

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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.Renter.

BACK TO THE

CHARLESTON

NEW-OLD BALLROOM

FROLIC THIS YEAR

Six hundred dance teachers have decided at a meeting In London' that the Charleston will bo danced again in British ball- rooms this winter. ·

Tons than ten years ago the Charleston was a universal zuge, but in the ballroom it bocame such a frolic that it threatened to kill dancing as an amusement altogether.

It will now be revived, but in a modified and modernised form.

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

"The_now Charleston has tho particular virtue that it can bo danced to any tune, while it also calls for no special knowledge of dareing."

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