Never a Dull Moment

NEVER A DULL MOMENT

By Harry and Kathleen Strange

To the Stranges, human beings are unpredictable, fascinating actors who dance, cavort, study, sing or speak, playing sometimes dramatic, often humorous roles before the infinitely varied, rapidly changing scenes that form the background of life’s vast stage.

Watching, applauding, laughing, sometimes weeping, often dismayed, but always interested and frequently taking part in some drama or comedy themselves, the Stranges have never found the stage or actors dull.

Kathleen Strange, with her recognized flair for vivid description and swift, almost racy style, has in this book written the life story of one who must be to her the most important actor on her own particular stage. It is her husband’s story as he gave it to her, and the combined task must have afforded them both amusement and intense pleasure, for it is the story of a life filled with an extraordinary variety of wide experience.

His experiences as a Scout in the Boer War, gold mining in the Klondike, engineering in the Hawaiian Islands, life in Paris, London, Honolulu and in the home of Jack London, are all described vividly. In a word, from his school days in France, through active service in the first Great War, working with the Royal Air Force and later, agricultural work in Western Canada, to his final moving appeal for world peace, this is a stimulating and at times highly exciting biography which may readily claim all that the title suggests.