WONDERS OF THE QUEEN MARY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 July 1935, Page 8

WONDERS OF THE QUEEN MARY

THREE CINEMAS AND THEATRE 000 PASSAGES ALREADY BOOKED (From Our Own Correspondent —By Air Mail.) LONDON, July 6. Though tho. Queen Mary will not make her maiden voyage to New York until next year, . 900 people have already booked their passages aboard tho giant liner. Meanwhile, fresh wonders of the vessel’s equipment are revealed this week. She will have;—The most up-to-date and splendidiy equipped cinema ever seen afloat, and two subsidiary cinemas. A church, fitted out on lines that would be elaborate even for a place of worship on land. A broadcasting studio. A theatre, with fully furnished stage and revolving sets, sufficiently large to admit the production of the most ambitious shows. Four thousand square feet sports arena and escalators, built on the most modern linos, running from deck to deck. “We have learned a lot from U.e experiences of the passengers aboard the Normandie,” said an official.. “There will be no danger, for instance, of split panellings or engine rattle in the Queen Mary when she- is travelling at great speed.” Tho special ’plane deck will be another of the remarkable features of this floating palace. it will be able to accommodate tho largest types of ’planes and will he m constant xise from the date of tho ship’s first voyage. Another feature of the liner will bo that it may be tho first vessel afloat that will be entirely free of rats. Asbestos, in plates, is being laid down in order to keep out the vermin. Experiments have been conducted which go to show that rats can be entirely eliminated by the use pi asbestos.