Weekly Supplement ii% lnpl (gazrtfc anil CfohmtiCBatlg HAMILTON, BERMUDA SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1939 Onward and Upward With the Arts Saturday Magazine Section Old St. George's in 1870 The following interesting notes on St. George's in the Seventies Fifty-Two American Moods are by Major Alexander Smith, delivered recently in the St. George's Historical Society's Boom. Major Smith possesses a large number of documents, photographs, and a fund of his own There was this about the old silent tony, music box, national, neutral, memories, all of which are of great value to the history of Ye Olde movies: they took you places, and orgies, oriental, parties, passion, pas­ Towne. there was always a piano player or torale, pulsating, purity, quietude, race, railrcad, religioso, sadness, sea- an organist down front to keep your Starting from the foot of Barrack beer. Under the property was a storm, sinister, wedding, western. mood in proper trim for the film. Hill: On the right was J. A. Frith's tribal path leading to the Harbour. Which of the above are moods, When Anita Stewart went in to an Photographic Studio. He did con­ Wm. McCallan used this right of which situations, is for the pianist early-twentieth-century love se­ siderable trade with troops passing way to get to his Water-boat. He to work out for himself. Birds, for quence, or "mushy business" as it his studio on their way to town. had a pipe laid through this pas­ was called in my circles, the pianist instance, is not a clear-cut classifi­ sage with a tap at the end from cation. Anyone who has kept one On the corner dividing. York and was ready for her. He may have been Water Streets was A. J. Richardson's which he filled his boat. This pas­ busy with a waltz in E-flat, but with knows that a bird sometimes consti­ Cigar Store; passing along the North sage was also used by St. David's the stealthy arrival of love on the tutes both a mocd and a situation. side of Water Street we come to Islanders, who tied their boats there .screen he slipped quietly into D- Yet birds are undoubtedly a service­ J. R. Duerden's with a wholesale while they did their shopping in natural and worked his way into able musical grouping for the prac­ and retail general business. Then town. This path is now closed and Dvorak's "The Old Mother," wooing tical mood-builders of the Paleo- we come to Mrs. Pruden's Fancy built over. Next we come to A. us till the tiny goose pimples dis­ Rothaf el period. Inglis' general store and Trott & turbed our flesh and we almost Of course, Mr. Rapee was aware Cake Shop. Both these places have gone and are re-placed by the school. Co's. Meat Market. Next was W. O. swooned with beauty and tender that even in the America of that day Hyland & Co's. Shipping Office. Next The West corner of One Gun Alley desire. there was a certain unavoidable was Robert McCallan's Hardware* was accupied by Thomas Foster as over-lapping of moods, a certain Store. Next to the Post Office Steps Today, the talkies handle the mood a Liquor Store. The next property emergence of new situations. In his was the Army Pay Office and Gov­ problem in a less forthright manner. is the Old State House, now in pos­ foreword he wrote, "The eleven ernment Wharf. Next to this was I saw a picture the other night in session of Lodge 200. After this we which an exalted episode was giver, a pieces included under the caption Fred Boggs' Grocery Store; next was reach the three storey building: On wholly miraculous sound accompani­ 'Parties' will be found suitable also a dry goods store kept by W. D. Fox the ground floor Mr. J. Fox kept a ment. For a long stretch there was for the portrayal of social gatherings & Bros., then came a store by Mr. Grocery Store. On the South side no sound whatever, save for the loud, in gardens." It was a nice break for Wainwright, next were Samuel Chap­ of Water Street from Barrack Hill scrootchy rasp that a modem screen a pianist, who sat so close to the man shops and wharf. We now re­ actress emits when she sighs and screen he could look up at the blurred we have Davenport's Wharf. On the turn to the other end and take the feels transported. Then, when the images without really knowing Street level Tom Pitt had his Ship North side of Water Street. Next physical aspects of her passion reached whether the party was being held Chandlery Business, and at the to the Bank was Jos. M. Hayward's heights calling for something mere indoors or out. Eastern end Bleasdale had his Sail- Dry Goods Store, afterwards sold (Photo by Peter Perinchief) making Loft. Next were a few small than a mere scrootch, there burst For the most part, though, the era The Choir of St. John's Church, Pembroke to Edward Wolfe; next came a plot forth suddenly an invisible choir of was ideal for compressing moods places—most of them supplying on which stood stables and a large celestial voices, which swelled out into capsule form. China and Japan, drink to soldiers. Then we come to shed with galvanised roof, in which from heaven just long enough to get for instance, were one. They were Gosling Bros' old established Liquor were stored, hundreds of barrels of dubbed into the sound track and then bunched under National. And every Household Hints BOAT RACE WON BY EIGHT WHISKERS Business, which has since been potatoes for the Troops. Then came died away. This unexplained paean, pianist knew, with his eyes closed, burnt down. The next property Wm. McCallan's shop on the corner like many another sound or "effect" what to do about either country: Grease on Carpets can often be is Todd's Wharf. In the next build­ crossing the Custom House Square ing Toddings printed and issued the we come to the Post Office and in modem films, had a somewhat you played the "Chinese Lullaby" removed by rubbing with bicarbonate If you could see a cinema film of put his foot clean through the hull, "Colonist." In the Tailor's Shop Custom House; next to these were perverse result in my case, and I got from "East Is West" (plaintively): of soda applied with a piece of flannel. Boat Races of the past, you would be only 1/8 in. thick, when stepping now occupied by Ernest Smith, Mr. Thos. Kelly with clothing stores and hankering for "The Old Mother," "Sing song, sing song, so Hop Toy— Rub well into pile with fingertips amazed at the changes in costumes into the boat. at the Western end of these shops terribly played but openly arrived at. al-lee same like Chi-na boy." When and then sweep vigorously with a and boat designs that have taken George Rankin Sr. had his working Jewellers business. This was after­ C. W. McCallan had his Stationers (I also wanted Anita Stewart pretty you played that you discharged your small h&nd brush. place during the last hundred and Racing in December and Fancy Goods Shop. The next badly, but that's another story.) obligation to the management the * * * ten years. wards occupied by his son Mr. business place was the Boot, Shoe and audience, the mysterious East, and Hankerchiefs that have become The first race, rowed in 1829, from Samuel C. Rankin. On the corner The thing that really got me think­ All down the years there have been China Shop kept by George Boyle. Robert Hood Bowers. a bad colour should be soaked for Hambledon Lock to Henley Bridge, of Water Street and King's Square ing about these matters, however, exciting incidents and surprises. In He used to import boots from Eng­ It occurred to me, as I browsed twenty-four hours in a quart of began at eight o'clock on a June was John T. Bourne's Liquor Store. was the chanc6 discovery of an album 1842, when the course was from land in trunks fitted with lock through "Motion Picture Moods," cold water to which a teaspoonful evening. The Oxford boat was paint­ He was famous for his much adver­ of music called "Motion Picture Westminster to Putney, Oxford's and key and canvas wrapped. These that many a great composer, living of cream of tartar has been added. ed green, while the crew wore canvas tised "Blue Glass Rum." After the Moods," a collection of parlour number seven began to feel hot and trunks found a ready sale at 6/- or dead, would hke to snoop around Afterwards rinse and dry. trousers, dark blue striped jerseys, death of Mr. Borne, Tom Wainwright classics and popular airs arranged tired, so he borrowed his captain's each. The only other building on in the book to find out where he * * * black straw hats and sashes, and kept his Hardware Store here The and indexed by Erno Rapee, one-time straw hat and sucked a lemon. Water Street was the three-decker, finally landed in the emotional Aluminium—If you burn an alum­ long whiskers. Bourne family lived over the store mood-handler and emotional whip­ Oxford won easily! now the Volunteer Drill Hall. It was per-in for the Capitol Theatre. The gamut. Edvard Grieg turned out inium, saucepan when cooking, boil In the following year Oxford won after leaving Rose Hill, which they to be the movie pianist's best pal and an onion in it.