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...Belgrade, one at Salonika, Greece. At Cairo, Flight Lieut. Tommy Rose, holder of the England-South Africa record, smashed his landing gear, withdrew. With five planes left in the race, Capt. Stanley Halse, South African War ace took the lead. Apparently sure of victory, he ran into veldt fires, lost his way, cracked up with a dislocated arm on an ant-hill in Southern Rhodesia. A similar mishap overtook another entrant at Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes...
...handsome, moody lad who had such a momentous dream was Kingsley Fairbridge, 12-year-old son of a British surveyor in Rhodesia. The year: 1897. For two days he had been camping on the veldt without food when, cresting a hill, he had a feverish vision. The veldt was transformed into fertile farms, peopled by British colonists. Some day, somehow, he resolved, he would bring those farmers to Rhodesia...
...long way to Northern Rhodesia, any way you go. South Africa bumps northward from the Cape, in a succession of plateaus separated by rivers, until it drops into the Congo basin. Beyond Cape Town, beyond the veldt of the Boers, beyond Bechuanaland and the hinterland of Cecil Rhodes's dreams, nearly 2,000 mi. by railroad from the cape, is Northern Rhodesia, a high, flat, subtropical savannah, full of elephants, roan antelope and a million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope...
...many of our recent films, is again the scene of entertainment at the Fine Arts Theatre this week. The recent trend of events in Germany cannot but increase the interest that is aroused by "Power," also called in book-form, "Jew Suss." Suss as depicted by Conrad Veldt is a pioneer of Jewish emancipation in Germany. Veidt does full justice to the part, which unless capably played, is not an entirely sympathetic one. A man who subjugates every other desire, including that of love, to his desire for power is hardly a lovable character: yet Veidt makes...
Miles & miles from the night clubs of Mayfair, King George's youngest son last week rolled across the South African veldt in a special train, gravely inspecting sheep dips and apple orchards, smiling politely to cheering crowds. In his baggage was a present for the Union of South Africa that Prince George had bought out of his own pocket: a silver trowel once used by famed Boer Warrior Stephanus Johannes Paulus ("Oom Paul") Kruger to lay the corner stone of the Provincial Government buildings in Pretoria. Prince George discovered the trowel in the silver collection of Lady Williams, whose...