FILM-STAR ADVENTURER
Waking one morning in Sydney after a party, ■ Errol Flynn, the . film gtar, found himself the owner of a 50-year old yacht, the Sirocco, he .explains in "Beam Ends," published by Casseils. He had, he says, apparently bought ifc as a souvenir of the party. He tried to stop the ckeque,- but it had beon eashed. H'e tells Kow, with three others, h sailed for Kew Guinea. Tho" ' Sirocci
was losfc on the Papuan coast and ■ oue man was drowned. . He also describes how, afc Calrns, a Chinese merchant wanted; them :tO 'pick up a parcel to be fihrown from a . steaxaer from China-, and offered £60. • Of Brisbane, Flynn remarks" that tho heat is stifling, but even on the hottest day the citizens go about dressed in sombre black and heavy clothes. If a, stranger ventures to dress tropicallv, the inhabitants are" astonishod.'and are apt to follow him around.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 10
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