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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER 4

1935.

HOWARD RADIO

Hongkong Romance to End in

Court London Divorce

MRS. C. W. A. SCOTT TO

COMMENCE ACTION FAMOUS AIR RACE WINNER MET

WIFE IN HONGKONG IN 1928

A FAMOUS Airman's romANCE THAT STARTED IN HONGKONG IN 1927 WILL SHORTLY END IN THE DIVORCE COURT IN LONDON,

MRS. SCOTT, WIFE OF MR, C. W. A. SCOTT, THE AIRMAN WHO WAS JOINT-WINNER WITH CAPTAIN CAMPBELL BLACK OF THE ENGLAND-TO-MELBOURNE AIR RACE, IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR, HAS FILED A PETITION FOR DIVORCE. Mr. and Mrs. Scott were married in Melbourne eight years ago. There is one child, Rosemary, aged five.

Mrs. Scott is an Australian. She is now living on Mersea Island.

PRIOR to joining Cump

bell Black in the Centen Much

ary air race, C.W.A. Scott

was an aviator with the Discussed Film

famous Queensland

and

Northern Territory Aerial For Local

Service-known the world-

over as QANTAS in Aus-Release tralia, regularly flying on their

routes in

Queensland,

North "MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S

DREAM" BOOKED

MRS. G. W. A. SCOTT.

NEW FLYING BOATS' TWO DECKS

SKY PROMENADE ON VOYAGES TO DOMINIONS

HE fleet of large flying-boats. now

ordered by Imperial Air-

During one of his fur-HONGKONG will see the much discussed Max Reinhardt loughs he paid a visit to

"A Midsummer Hongkong. Another Aus-production tralian, Miss Kathleen Night's Dream," according to O'Neill was also on a visit to Mr. J. Noronha, Manager of the Queen's Theatre, who has just the Colony, and the young completed arrangements for the ways will offer a stand- couple met in the lounge of presentation of the Warner Bros. ard of passenger com-

film masterniece with Mr. Harold the Hongkong Hotel.

Warner Bros. Far fort surpassing any- During the rest of their Dunn, stay here they saw a great Lastern representative who came thing yet attempted .n deal of each other, and travell- down specially to finalise carlier air craft. ed back to Queensland on the arrangements. same liner.

Enroute to their Homeland they became engaged and the wedding took place shortly; afterwards.

When Rosemary, their daugh- ter, was born, the proud father signalised the event by making a record from Brisbane to Mel-j bourne, being the first aviator to make the 1,040 mile trip from dawn to dusk.

Shortly afterwards, a wealthy asked pastoralist Australian

Short Brothers, of Roches-

"Our present plan is to hold the premiere early in the New Year," declared Mr. Noronha, "and to pre- ter, have begun building 29 sent it twice daily for a limited of these ships, which will number of days only.

"This is the first time in a operate the Empire air ser- number of years any screen vices to Africa, Egypt, India

been 'road production has

and Australia and will be shown' and Alongkong is one

of the few cities that will have used for the experimental the privilege of secing this flights across the Atlantic.

production so soon.. The gen- eral release date is many months in the fture."

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Scott if he would proceed to is the first pleture ever to be made England to fly a British-made by Prof. Reinhardt, the genius who plane to Australia. Arriving in staged the mighty theatrical spee- England in February, 1931, tacle "The Miracle," and it was only Scott conceived the idea-of-try-after many months of persuasion ing to beat the record on the that Warner Bros. were able to pre- vall upon him to film the "Dream," flight to Australia. Leaving

which he produced so successfully Lympne at dawn on April 1, he covered the distance to Port in Hollywood and San Francisco.

Once committed to the task. Darwin in nine days, four hours, Reinhardt proceeded to surround beating unlucky Kingsford- himself with specialists who are the Smith's previous record by 19 recognized leaders of their profes- hours. The cost of this flight slon. worked out at barely a penny a mile.

In the Centenary Air Race, together with Campbell Black, he covered the same distance in less than three days..

A HOUSE DIVIDED

To stage the ballet he brought Bronislawa Nijinska, whom he con- siders the outstanding Maitre de Ballet in Europe.

For the first time, a Dying boat hull will be divided into two decks-upper and lower. With a fully-loaded weight of 17% tons, this new type of monoplane flying boat is de- signed to carry a load of from 3% to 5 tons, according to dis- tance to be flown without stops.

Four engines mounted in the thickness of the wings will give a top speed of nearly 200 m.p.h., cruising at 150 m.p.h.

Passengers' Clear View Accommodation will be provided for, 24 passengers by day and 10 for night flying.

The main or lower deck is divided into five compartments Forward

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9 ICE HOUSE STREET HONG KONG

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

123

ACROSS

1 Manchester N.C.O. (anug.). 8 First appearance.

9 Eurasian mountains.

16

20

121

11 She was in "The Last Day of

12 Worked in the States. 14 Discourse subject.

16 This one holds water, if you 16 Adoring (anag).

like!

leg.... 18 No the chantant, It's only pulling

Foreign dignitary

21

22 He took tobacco to France.

24 Many smokers have done this

up.

"Water Babies."

Is a cabin seating seven persona, 27 She took a lot from Nellie in For ballerina he would have no followed by kitchen and lavatories, one but Nini Theilade, protege and a small cabin and freight compart-28 When it is, a frock will shine, successor of Pavlowa, and premiere ment. Bunks, one above the other. 20 There are locks on its banks.

tween us and France. danseuse of many of Europe's fore-ship fashion, will be set up for 30 The sort of question arising be

sleeping.

most ballets.

To adapt the music of Mendels- Passengers will be able to walk sohn, who originally wrote the score about in the large promenade cabin earth below watch sea or of the stage production, Reinhardt and insisted upon Erich Wolfgang through large windows in the side.

old, one of Vienna's most

famous composers.

Training Schama

7

2 Nawab.

DOWN..

3 Turn it either way, it will turn

half rotten.

4 A hat has; but give it up.

6 Acting like a shepherd.

EVEN SOLOMON COULD 'NOT DO BETTER Two naturalised Italians who owned a 20 ft. by 10 ft. wooden hut on the mine field at Mt. Is Bros. executives. Despite the fact of giving their pilots the nautical 10 Leaders don't like playing this

Queensland, quarrelled violently.

Then Reinhardt turned to the cast- ing and, in this, too, he was given an absolutely free hand by Warner that Warner Bros.' roster of stars its the most complete in the history They decided to separate, but of motion pictures, Reinhardt was neither would buy out the other, given carte blanche to employ any Further fisticuffs produced nega players available and it was only tive resulta. So they decided, says after repeated tests that he chose the hut. for the key roles James Cagney. Joe Austral News, to halve

E. Brown, Dick Powell, Jean Muir, The centre was measured exact-Victor Jary. Verree Teasdale, Hugh ly, and the centre sheets of Iron Herbert. Anita Louise, Frank Mc- were removed. The hut was sawn Hugh, Ross Alexander, Ian Hunter, two, and each man has now Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland taken his piece away.

and Grant Mitchell.

In theso new ships the pilot's cockpit will be called the bridge, following Imperial Airways custom titles-captain, first cleer.

commander and

-6 Smith Minor's "mensgerle lion." 7 Long walk, or long walker, 8 Dateless nice (anag).

ESPIONAGE CHARGE

124

125

instrument (two words, 0, 0). 13 17th Century prominent coma-

pirator.

∙17 Loath.

19

going up (rev.).

20 This ship held only a bit more.

-than- four quarts..

21 Fitchat, beiter unstroked.

unlike

23 Thinner than cotton, this place.

not 26 Smati tard,

chameleon.

26 These islands were friendly once.

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at

the Margate Magistrates on Novem- ber 20 on a charge of espionage various British R.A.F. Aerodromtes, has been committed to stand his trial at the Old Bailey.

The bridge will be on the upper deck, with the ship'a office and mail compartment. There will be two

GERMAN NOVELIST SENT stewards to serve meals and make

The accused sald: ""I do not feel. Pilots beds.

are to be trained in

FOR TRIAL

gulity." London, Dec. 3. At the previous hearing the 'pri- handling dying boats at Hamble.

Dr. Hermann Gartz, the German soner declared that he was only

novel formerly used on the Mediterranean.

Air Force, who was brought before Renter." crossing, has been sent there as a novelist and ex-omeer of the German collecting material for a training machine.

One of the Calcutta flying boats, Rooms of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern maaltalion. At the

The funny medo, Itzetaurant has undeniably pride of place among hơials of the Raat with its cuisine, -and-Justly claims by its association to offer the traveller auch ma

not to be found sleembers.

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SALESMAN SAM

Sam Means Business

Teething troubles

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"WELL,NUTHIN' DOIN'! I'M SUPPOSED TA KETCH HIM,

AN' YOU AIN'T GONNA STOP ME!

AWRIG

0221E, GET GOIN' —AND I'LL PICK UP. CHASE WHERE I LEFT OFF!