1937-03-20 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH

Mid-Pacific Dot Vital Link In Air Route To H. K.

REMOTE ATOLL HAS HOTEL

OVERNIGHT STOP FOR CLIPPERS

By Harry W. Frantz

Washington, Mar. 5.

Wake Island, Uncle Sam's remote little atoll in the mid-Pacific, has blossomed out as "a non-contiguous territory," worthy of a place in statistical tabulations of the Department of Commerce.

The tiny three-islet geographical gem whose lagoon serves as a base for Pan-American Airways clippers en route to Manila and soon to Hongkong was scarcely known even to atlas-makers a few years ago. Even the seabirds preferred the less isointed Isle of Midway, with the sociability of a cable station, before the airmen settled at Wake and built a tourist hotel.

transport, that the island before many months may contribute to a trans- oceanic transport development of fiest cng importance,

To-day Wake is dignified by lations probably less significant statistical tabulation in the com- than the possibility, already rumoured merce of United States with non-anong close observers of Pacific alr contiguous territories, no leas than in every map of world air routes: Shippients from the

At present Wake is reached by United States to Wake in eleven

to-day air-cruise westward from months ending November 1930 Honolulu, with stopover intermediate were valued at $190,578 com-at Midway Island. From Wake the clippers proceed to Guam, Michway pared with $107,426 in the pre-

direct considerably north of

the vious year.

course from Honolulu to Wake.

Unfortunately for the local Cham- ber of Commerce, Wake has yet to report any shipments to the United Slates, so the Aguron evidently com- prise chledy foodstuffs and construc- tion materials for use on the island.

Wake's emergence in trade tabu-

"Vulgar" Songs For Scouts

is

that new

It is now for Pan

clippers under American Airways

cable direct one day transit from Tong-

This Tulu to Wake.

leg of the Honolulu-Milway-Wako triangle is considerably shorter than the dis- tance flown nonstop between Alameda and Honolulu. It could

COUR! If desired he flown by present equipment, although the gaslond would be great proportionale to traße, and the more-than-2,000- milo route would be extremely re- mufo.from any steamerkani or human habitation.

CUT OUT MIDWAY

The new type clippers will make those considerations less urgent and informed quarters believe it quite

Church Paper's Criticism possible that the Honolulu-Wake

Of Book For Scouts

"FITTED FOR SECOND-CLASS MUSIC HALL"

The demand that a Boy Scout song book should be immediate.. ly withdrawn on the ground that the songs are

direct route may get serlous attention in the next year. The practical effect would be hateral softening

the trans-Pacific And saving of an entire

the

passage

the

trans-Facile route is shortened by direct

be- twren Honolulu and Watce, it is be- Heved that service would also be

The Misses Dorothy and Winifred Raven, who delighted a Inge audience with their acrobatic waltz at the Hongkong! Hotel, in connection with a recent charity function. The Misses Raven were again warmly applauded at the recent dancing dis- play given by Miss Daisy O'Keefe,

D'Anis Photo,

HOLD-UP GIRL

TRAPPED: GUN

WAS NOT REAL

New York, Mar. 1.

HE Woman in Black, pretty dark-haired gun-girl who for THE

weeks has terrorised New York cafes with her swift lone -raids on-their-cash desks, was captured to-day.

Recently the story was told-and there are a lot of shamefaced cafe keepers in New York.

Mary Astor

Marries In

Four Acts

maintained between Honolulu and MARY Astor, film star diarist, Midway, an alternative schedule, MA

married Manuel del Campo, There is prospect that expanding

The Woman in Binck walked into a city cafe early one morn- ing and drank a cup of coffee.

20, 1937..

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music from The Hongkong Hotel

RECORDED ITEMS

Radio Programme. Brondenst by Z.D.W. on wavelengths of 335 metres (845 k.c.'s.), 31.49 metres (0.52 t1.c.).

11.K.T,

12.30-2.16 p.m. European Pro- gramme.

12.30 An Orchestral Concert.

1 p.m. Local; Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 Tha J. H. Squire Celeste Qelel,

1,20 Hawaiian Music,

1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Weather Forecast, Time and nouncements.

1.40 Variety and Dance Music.

2113 D.M. Close Down.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme,

7 p.m.-12 midnight. European Pro- gramme.

7 p.m. French Music.

Organ Solo-Sylvia Ballet, (Deli-

bes)..

It

" ....Marcel Palott; Songs Lied (Mendes and Chubrier); Clair de Lune (Verlaine and

J. Báthori (Mezzo & Laure)* *** Bin.

Orelics-

Sym-

tral-Les Saltimbanques-Overture (Louis Ganne)....Or

Orchestre plionique du Luicia

eila Wagram; Song -Joil Tumbour (Old French Song)...- Sarthel: Songs-La Fille aux Mate- lots (from film "Sola"); Tu ne sais pas aim

aimer (from Alm "Sola")....

Damin; 'Cello Solo-Piece en forme de Habanera (Ravel)....Maurice Marechal.

7.30 p.m. change

Hongkong Stock Ex- Summary and Exchange

Morkel Report.

7.33 De Groot and the Picca- dilly Orchestra.

Albumblatt (Wagner, orr. Mulder); When the

red dawn is shining

(Sharpe); (cell); The son

of songs (Moya); Romance (Rubin- slcin); I love you (Geleg); Only for you (Strong); On a dreamy summer night (Krome).

8 p.m. Local: Timo Sigani, Wea- ther Report and Announcements.

in

Byer

Vocal-Could I

8.03 A Variety Programme. Vocal-Through the years; Dusly Roud...Nelson Eddy (Baritone); Orchestra-Empire Builders-March, Music from the Movies-Macch.... Louis Levy and the Gaumont British Instrumental-Medley... Symphony: Tarrant Balley (Danjo); Humorous Play up and pay the dumbe

Wakefield;

Paradise in Waltz time. love? Paradise in Glyde Swarthout (Mezzo-Soprano); Piano Sola-Twenty To One" Selection.... Billy Mayerl; Accordeon Splo-Indian Love Tollefsen; Vocal-Indiana Bu (Piano) and Bubbles (Vocal); Organ Solo-Edward German Selection.... Quentin MacLean; Vo

Vocal-Women la Doris Palmer (Comedienne); love.. piano Solos Sheintures....Billy

Vocal-Pentes Anyerl; Heaven; Born to

Call....Toraft ....Buck

She left, walted outside for a while, returned, drank another cup of coffee. She walked to the cash deak, opened her bag as if to pay.

Instead she whipped out a pearl- Turner Layton: Organ Solo-Gipsy handled revolver, covered the

Song. Sigmund Krumgold; cashier and snapped: "Come on Hawallan-Drifting and dreaming.. let me have all the dough you've..Ferera and Paulahi;. Accordeon

Solo-Stars and Stripes for ever March....George Scott-Wood-

Ko!!"

The cashler, believing he had to do with a "ciller," obeyed. The Woman in Black walked towards the door.

PAUSED, CAUGHT

air tourist travel to Honolulu, will Mexican insurance salesman, at "worse than

make Midway an attractive side- Yuma, Arizona. Bui for hours vulgar" is made by the Church

line resort for deep sea fishermen Tinics.

or toursig

The book is "Songs from 'Gang Shows," published by the Boy Scouts Association.

The Church Times describes it

as a "grave error in Judgment," and

adds:

"Its sponsors expect it to be used by Boy Scout troops-that is, by boya In their early 'teens-and yet it shows a taste that seems more fitted to the second-class music-hall of the last generation.

"Here.

for example, is a quotation from the song "The Bold, Bad Girls': We're going to bring back Nellie Gwynn, if you will please allow Salome, Cleopatra, all the girls who

were a wow.

So, ladles, grab your husbands, for

we're going to show you now Naughty Indies of the past. "And the following is sung by Salome:

Soldiers came in thousands, just to

see me as a rule;

They thought my veils would blow away, but, oh, I kept so cool.

I always used real reef knots, so

I shouted, "April fool?!

Love

8.15 p.m. London-News and An=" nouncements.

Gramo-

Noct

9.35 London-Odditties. At that moment a good-looking

phone Records, waiter came

9.40 towards her, on his way

Excerpta. trom Coward's "To-night at 8.30." In Black paused to appraise him.

Scene from "Red Peppers".... The cashler scized his chancé,

Gertrude Lawrence and Noel leaped, grabbed her by

Coward; Scene from "Family Album"

uward yelled for the police.

Gertrude Lawrence and Noel

or toredals who thee their vacations she would not admit it. Here's to begin his day's work. The Woman

theme. a-la-desert-falo

the story of Mary's third Whatever may be the effective dato wedding day, in four acts: of the trafle developments described, the United Press understands that Act 1-Manuel and Mary officials here are certainly locking stopped out of a chartered plane forward to trans-Pacific air travel faster than the present schedule at Yuma in the small hours and United Press.

A FEAST IN 1400

"BRAWNE, BAKON, BEEF AND

CHYKON" TO START Take Hares and hew hem to gobelts; Pill tarice and cast it in a pot with

Take Gees and sunye hems on peces:

water and oile.

roused from his bed Judge Kelly (known to Americans who like a new marital adventure every now and again as “Marrying" Kelly).

At 4.30 a.m. they quitted the judge's parlour with a certificate declaring "Manuel del Campo, aged 25, and Lielle Thorpe, aged 30" man and wife. Thorpe-Dr. Franklyn Thorpe is the narec of Mary's last partner. She and he had a recent legal set-to over the custody of their daughter which kept Hollywood awake

"RIDICULOUS"

at

Housewives, searching for something new for the bill of night.] fare, might have found some ideas among the material of a lecture on "Four Hundred Years Act 2-Judge Kelly told American of English Cooking" given by reporters, who then told the wide. Ming Helen Simpson, the novelist, wide world: "Mary Astor is marred

again." before the Royal Institution..

Act 3-Reporters tackled Mary as, disgulsed with dark glasses, she stepped aboard hier plane to return to Hollywood..

"Ridiculous," she retorted when asked: "Are you married?”

"It is all very poor verse and even poorer taste. We draw attention to it as a warning to the responsible leaders

of church companies.

A certain Russell, who was Marshal The sheer vulgarlly that permeates to Duke Humphrey of Gloucester this song book makes a poor accom- early in the Fifteenth Century, says paniment to the profession of carnest a "fest for a Franklin" should show idcallem usually

with these among other distics: associated Scouts.

"The songs appear to Inculente a of womanhood which may be disastrous to the adolescent.

ylow

"Potent influences in the Scout movement have often created un- necessary dificulties for churchmen

to co-operate, but we hope they will withdraw this song book, the publica- tion of which must make Church co- operation more dimcult.

The Journal says that the "attempt to provide songs fit for Scouts to bellow-or should we any croon? is a lamentable failure."

One extremely stupid and 'In- appropriate song" is about "dancing. girls and 'whoopee," and is followed" by the out-worn “jokes' about, the stage doors and corseta of the 'naughty nineties","

SCOUTS COMMITTEE TO MEET

Brawne with mustard is concord-

able,

Bakon is served with peasoni, Beef or moton is stewed servvsible, Boyled Chyken capon agreeable Convenyent for the seson.

the arm,

Els captive turned. Her finger closed on the trigger of the gun,

H

10 p.m. London-Big Ben, popped! Then it tinkled to

A Relay of the Dance Orchestra the floor, a toy. The Woman in

Black, identified from the Grill-Room of the Hong- later as 25-year-old Norma Parker, kong Hotel. whimpered: **It wasn't a real gun.

Please fet me go. I needed the

money badly,"

The woman in Black is now under

lock and key.

Hope Diamond "Ill-Luck"

12 midnight. Close Down.

TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME

A Studio Talk On Some Population Problems

H.K.T.

SACRED RECITAL

Still Follows May. Yohe (Chinese).

New York, Mar. 5. May Yohe, five-times married

10.30 am. Relay of the Morning Service from the Union Church,

11.30 am. Relay of the Morning Service from the Hop Yut Church 12.15-2.30 - p.1. European Pro- gramme.

12.15 Instrumental Music.. Air from Sulte in D-Transcription and London stage star of the

Quartet: nineties,

(Bach). Lener String was taken to Poland Quartet No. 1 in D Major--Finale (Oregon) gaol to-day to

ba Allegro (Dittersdorf)...Lener String treated for delusions.

Quartet; Intermezzo in B Flat Minor, Wilhelm Miss Yohe was presented with the Op. 117, No. 2 (Brahms)...? famous Hope diamond

Backhaus; Intermezzo in B Flat marriage to Lord Francis Hope (now Major, Op. 117, No. 1 (Brahms).

The Wilhelm Backhaus, (Pianoforte); Duke of Newcastle) in 1894. marriage. was dissolved in 1902,

Nigun (Improvisation) (from "Bhal Act 4-Back in Hollywood Mary

Ever since she parted with the Shem"), (Bloch)....Joseph Szigeti Girl's Dream admilted Judge Kelly was right. "diamond, says May Yohe, her life (Violin); The Herd had hoped to keep it secret for n has been one long run of bad luck,

(Labitzky)....Trio: Violin, Flute and white," she said.

Mrs, del Campo's battle with Dr. Rosted goose and pygge full profit-Thorpe worried Hollywood because

uble,

her diary was put into court. It list-

Capon Bake mete or Custard Cost-ed six romantle men stars in order of

able

charm and told so many human stories that the judge popped it away When cggis and erayme be geson for ever in

vault under the court (plentiful).

scal, Morirowes or jusselice or delectable For the second course by reson.

With bragot and mothe, thus men

may meryly

Plese well bothe gret and smalle.

* A HEADY DRINK :

from 10 to 1g

after her

NEW KIND

OF "CHRISTENING" In the following story is typical it is a fortunate person who manages to be the first customer in an Australian de- partment store.

honey, and plenty of mixed spices.

Seventy years ago Mrs. J. B. Curry, From the account of the expendi- of Adelaide was the first woman to tute of un carl in 1512. she quoted the be served in a Hundle Street store. times at which meals were served. Sho went in to buy some linen. Breakfast was from 7 to D; dinner damask, and to "christen" the store. The management presented her with At 3 o'clock people gathered for a long-sleeved frock, a red flannel The criticism of the song-book is A custard costable, Miss Simpson what is vaguely referred to as petticoat, white stockings, and a white to be considered by the committeo explained, was served cut in squares | "Drynkynges. "Supar followed ut crinoline with fancy frills.

"When of the Boy Scouts Association.

with a knife; doweeltes, of which the 4.

you are ninety," the manager said jokingly, "we will give "We shall look into the matter very Marahal also mado mention, ware carefully,"

Lord Hampton,

The cooks were allowed 100 gallons you another dress. Chief made of almonds, milk, yolk of eggs,

Well Mrs. Curry has turned ninety Commissioner for Great Britain, told saffron, salt and honey, server in a of mustard a year, and 40 gallons of a reporter. "If it is a fair criticism we crust with marrowbones on top vinegar, to feed the 187 persons of and the management has remembered Its promise...but therė, was, no, red shall no doubt take steps 18 have the Jussell grated bread mixed with the household.

flannel pelticóst er crinoline this time offending passages altered. The com-sage and salt, bound with eggs, used mittee will meet to consider the point, to thicken broth, and bragot is a "ra-

plain' black dress-Austral Newor probably on Wednesdaymarkably heady drink made of ato, in the accounts.

There is no mention of fresh fruit just what Birs. Curry chose-a

Harp,

12.45

A Recital by Miliza Korjus (Soprano).

Nocture, Op. 9, No. 3 (Chopin), arr. Shadow Song Seldier-Winkler); (from

"dinorah"), (Meyerbeer); La (The Swallow), (Dell Villanelle Acqua).

1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 Orchestral Music. Fingal's Cave Overture (Mendels sohn)....St. Louis Symphony Or chestra; La Scala di Seta-Overture) Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Silken Ladder), (Rossini); Solomon'"), (Handel) I Philharmonic Orchestra; Carnaval ...London

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