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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, Saturday, FEBRUARY 27, 1937.

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These Names Make News

What Will This Man Say About Our Fair City?

Mr. Bagram's dream, now is

ITH the article that follows where in the history of Hong- $1,000 a week, and Booth Tar- WITH

this introduction, I should kong is a human story to match kington has prepared an outline to grow really good orchids. attach the photograph of a man its dramatic physical setting. of a screen play he is willing "Everybody gets to that stage When it may finally appear on to sell at £10,000. It costs eventually," he confessed. "You who is Ilving in literary stage or screen the old resident £1,000 to look at his outline; try to grow everything rare and seclusion in Hongkong. I should will probably feel outraged at and it has already been peeped beautiful but in the end, you further add to it a name which liberties taken with local condi-,at and paid for.

always come to orchids." would instantly identify him to tions, but, to

turn a profit,

Angle of Feminine

Ex-M. P.

the

bumper display of flowers at ment takes the public plat-

local residents among whom he especially for the films, a story Flowers To You- has been moving for several must have general appeal.

Mr. Bagram months;, or a 101 de plume A theatrical producer once which would draw surprised de- drew from me in conversation I anticipation of this year's A LADY ex-Member of Parlia- FULL-CIRCLE light from the better-read see many details about the life of the local Horticultural Society's form, this time in connection foreigners in ‘Japan. In a few tion of our public.

weeks he sent for my comment Exhibition on Tuesday, I visited with an event of singular im- These things I should be only the full manuscript of a three

hard-working honorary portance to Hongkong, Miss one of the too glad to do but the author act play. I don't remember de secretary, Mr. J. T. Bagram Picton-Turbervill, concerned is at the moment tails but the climax came when yesterday, to catch up with the Commission which came to the Far East to report on Mui Tsai wrapped up in a new work on a European girl was put up for floral season.

Mr. Bagram, A.M.I.C.E, conditions, presents the feminine Hongkong which he wishes to auction on the bar of the Kobe

Club.

I made plenty of com A.R.S.M., D.IC., F.R.H.S., is angle on this much-discussed continue in that atmosphere of ments, and no more was heard a Share and General Broker subject and the full report, pre- watchful obscurity which is of that play. But the producer a strange mask for a hor- sented to Parliament this week. Tel. 27778-9 Stubbs Road productive of the best talent. has now become a director for ticulturist-but a few moments will be awaited with great in-

him almost made me terest out here. Possibly he may wish to con- a Hollywood company and I of with

pen for a "Walking across country with tinue in the same meteorological ten see his name subscribed to throw down my

the spade. On shares and exchange a silent companion" is conditions when Hongkong has fine work.

Mr. Bagram is reticent but on favourite recreation of Miss had an opportunity in a few Though none of my attempts hours of sunshine, garden eleva- Edith Picton-Turbervill, accord- months' time of reading what at full length plays have reach- tion, daffodil forcing and the ing to the entry in "Who's

ed the stage, I have often had mysteries of orchids he talks Who." them played over the radio not-

fluently.

Miss Picton-Turbervili would The only clues I can give to works. I hlave ghost-written

his Strangely enough, his identify are that he was for famous authors, nad have

ac not herself observe the silence; once a shipping agent in the squeezed myself into parts in quaintance with horticulture is her second favourite recreation Far East and now gives his dramas both over the air and comparatively short. First in is talking, and she is indeed a time entirely to writing.

Here on Broadway. I was in the show Hongkong in 1913, he went brilliant conversationalist.

She speaks quickly, flres a that made Sylvia Sidney Home to "join up," returned is what he says

famous, She was required to after the Armistice, joined the fusilade of questions at her com- Society about 1928 and has panions and has scarcely heard since annexed a great many the answer before she asks honours in the annual com- another.

The

Hongkong Telegraph. it really is like

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937,

EMPIRE. WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS

Among the many gatherings which are to be held in London during the Coronation period is

an Empire conference on the and after-care of those suffering from tuberculosis,

care

It

Somo years ago I was sent to to the New York America, office of a large steamship com- pany, after having served with them in the East and South America. In New York I lived with a war-time captain of the

is felt that the many visitors Highland Light Infantry who from Overseas will include had returned to his craft of theatrical costume and scene numerous medical men and

design. women from various parts of the

We lived in the Bohemian Empire interested in the in-

quarter of Greenwich Village, creasing toll of death from the where artists and writers are |dread scourge and in the devis supposed to saw their own hair ing of measures for red cing the with a nail file, and fry eggs high rate of mortality there-over, the gas jet. It was a grand

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races. The conference is being because it was handy to the planned by the Overseas League docks, but because I met sub- stantial playwrights and pro- and the Papworth Village Settle

ducers, and a fair number of ment which makes a special actors and actresses, who were study of treatment of sufferers far removed from and of after-care of those who Bohemtäisi manage to survive. Those in

messy

Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden, acting Pulane Judge, who is leaving the Colony very shortly on Dromotion to a Judgeship in Kenya. (Photo: Kobza).

petitions. He has this year re- That is why she learnt so tired from the annual com- much about Hongkong and petitions and is merely ex- mui tsai.

hibiting his garden products, She has no prepared speech "It was the strike of 1925 and just rambles on in a delight- that first brought me into touch ful style, interrupting her argu- with gardening," he told me. "I ment with occasional anecdotes. was looking after my uncle's She was talking about the place at Marble Hall and seeds House of Commons, where she kept arriving for him from all once sat for ab Shropshire

over the world. There was no division, and referring to Parli- gardener to plant them so I had

remarked:

nendemic.

"But generally speaking I've

scream violently at the final Bagram plunged into the nice- ing.,

"Lady Astor," Miss Picton-

their curtain.

never

to do a lot myself and became amentary oratory to-day she very interested. When. I went

"Mr. Lloyd George is always into my flat in May. Road I started some pots on top of the worth listening to, and so is Mr. but he is more coal house. Then my gardener Baldwin, thought there was more sun- shine to be got from the hillside. Now I have an acre and a half of heard better speakers in the Union than in the garden, a hot house, and two Mothers' houses for keeping plants shel- House of Commons,"

As an ex-M.P., her feminine tered."

Conversation after this be opinion of one of the most Me famous women M.P.'s is interest- came a little difficult tag

Their absorption in

I always managed to ties of Stuart and Low's car- contagious. When sneak away from the theatre nations, the value of Sutton's Turbervill remarked, "is always charge of the arrangements be-trade was lieve that it may be possible to not actively in a play they and was well into Times Square seeds as against those of Car- amusing, because you

by the time the scream came ters and Bath of Wisbech (best know what she is going to say to next, and when she has sat down begin un Empire-wide campaign sought to improve their know out, but it was easily heard for bulbs), and went on against the ravages of the dia- ledge and technique. From above the roar of the Great talk of the perennial delphinium she doesn't seem to know herself

which shares with many what she has said."

A little sarcastic, that, and due ease. The subject is one of them I learned that art for White Way.

art's sake is less artistic than It is dangerous to give up humans, an objection to our peculiar interest to Hongkong,

art undertaken for profit. This other work to undertake writ climate, and the tuberous pegonia perhaps to the fact that Miss which has a most unenviable is an apparent. paradox, but art ing, but the lure of gold has supplied by Blackmore and Picton-Turbervill and the noble. prospectors Langdon. The best pansies, it lady sat on opposite sides of the reputation for the enormous requires full-time devotion and encouraged many

But anyone who has heard number of deaths occurring from only those who succeed in mak- into the field who would be bet appeared, came from Engleman gangway.

ter occupied with a pick and and Son, and Japan held first tuberculosis and other respira- ing a living by its practice can shovel on a pipe line. And no place for cyclamen, but it was Lady Astor getting up tory discases. Well over forty do so to the exclusion of other wonder. The author of "An- on cyneria of which Mr. Bagram expectedly in the House of Com- has received has a magnificent selection, that mons during a dull debate must per cent, of deaths in this Colony tasks. However, writing can be thony Adverse"

Miss Picton-Turbervill also re- are due to this group of diseases. undertaken as a side line and more than £80,000 from the he really enthused. Considering agree with the description. The weekly returns show about I have had some luck in that sale of books in one country that his garden is between 700

alone, and in addition Warner and 800 feet above sea level and called some fine examples of the mixed metaphors which she has sixty deaths a week therefrom,

Brothers paid £19,000 for the is frequently in míst,

his home-made heard from pompous orators in .of thus Alm rights. Eugene O'Neill beauty

One M.P. spoke about a "red herring being dragged across the path, but the Government won't get away with it, as before- night it will be brought home to roost."

masses.

way.

Through friendships

BULLS

AND INNERS

O'D

From the Office Butts

un-

Another Member declared that a Bill was "the last straw and, mark my words, it will bear no fruit."

The best of the three is the shortest. An MP. protested that new legislation did not go far enough "it is, but a fica-

bite in the ocean," he said.

Iso that it can be said that tuber-formed I was able to contribute turned down a studio engage paradise of flowers is remark- the House of Commons.

culosis, In one form or another, sketches, scenes, and gag lines ment calling for forty weeks at able. kills off some three thousand to various musical comedies, un, people a year. The causes for avocation which proved very this high incidence are well useful when the steamship com-; known-they have been correct-pany suddenly want completely! ly described in official reports as out of business.

Since then I have been hoping overcrowding,, the expectorating

more of the habit, and the poverty of the to understand

It is also conceded that technique of the drama. Some-

According to a contemporary,{ China seems to be capturing therejis great need for more hos-

a Shanghai golfer did a hole, of Spain's orange trade in London, pital and infirmary accommoda- conditions under which so many 776 yards, in one, recently. In This will doubtless give Seville tion for tubercular patients, of the people live, but this will view of its size, he could hardly the pip.

miss it, we suppose. especially for those of the poorer be useless unless at the

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The worst of being a golfer classes. But only half-hearted time some scheme is devised for

Another contemporary reports at Deep Water Bay these days attempts are being made to deal providing alternative ace-that in the Japanese Diet, "Selyu is that you run the risk of being with the scourge. Poverty is,modation within the means of Kalite has drawn attention to arrested for digging up the

the necessity of protection of fairway. without question, the main those concerned. Admittedly,

personal rights." This gentle- source of the evil, and it is casily the problem bristles with dif- man is believed to be closely re- to be seen that the raising of the ficulties, but action is called for. lnted to Mr. Lab Ourite."

ៗ O standard of life of the masses In this connection, it would be.

We understand there is no must be a very slow process. Ainformative to know whether the truth in the rumour that a cer- vigorous slum clearance plan, on Commission on overcrowding is tain police officer is anxious to start a Mounted Section of the' the lines of that being under-still sitting, and, if so, when its force, following his triumphal Laken at Home, would produce much overdue report may be march in Kowloon on Thursday fruitful results by improving the expected.

Bame

with two white horses.

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Then there was the man was only 136781 numbers winning the Derby sweep. didn't buy a ticket.

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When Miss Picton-Turbervill was in Parliament she caused a mild sensation one day by taking a fan into the House to keep cool on a summer day.

Sine fanned herself, and Sir N. Gratton-Doyle drew the atten- tion of the Speaker to it. He said that men were not allowed to bring weapons into the House Hound a fan, he said, is a

feminine weapon.

The Speaker decided that

who

off

A

A lady recently won a dozen sword is offensive and that n eggs as the prize in a local mah fat is not. So Miss Picton- jongg contest. Let's hope they Turbervill went on fanning.

Pop Parker,.

weren't all pongs.