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SNAKE BITES Mysterious Power Of Russian Woman
STUDY OF CASE BEING TAKEN UP
Moscow.
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PLAYING FOR AVERAGE
By Ely Culbertson
FAMOUS ACTRESS A BANKRUPT
Gertrude Lawrence Spent £10,000 A Year
FRADIOT
TO-DAYS PROGRAMME:
The following programme with he broadcast to-day from the Ea
STORY OF PAWNED-JEWELLERY Kong Broadcasting Station 2.3.3
Jon a wavelength of 355
($45 KC's).
Although it may sound absurd on the face of it, quite frequent- ly a player's course of action can Gertrude Lawrence, the stage and be influenced by the saility and screen star, appeared in the Lon- "She cures snake bites by kiss the type of game played by another don Bankruptcy Court recently be
"This si- fore" Mr. Registrar Warmington. with romanceing them"--such was the rumour
town in player at another table.
{tuation occurs in team-of-four mat-}. Her name was given as Gertrude in a Paris gown shop, which is in-going abort, a small
ches. Often the Declarer is con- Alice Dagmar Howley, and he herited by an All-American foot- Armenia near Erivan
at first discounted the fronted with two different lines of was described as of Cumberland- ball player, Randolph Scott. He
The story deals
Doctors
promptly falls la love with the rumour as being superstition, but play and really has no way to de- place, Regent's Park
hear of more and beautiful head designer, who they began to
Parlour to sell by Public Auction chic of feminine finery.
ON
Wednesday the 5th, June, 1935 commencing at 10.30 am.
at Pedder Building, 1st, floor. The Goods and Chattels of the Beauty Parlour
Permanment
machines, wave
Jeanette MacDonald, the glam-
ciding which one to adopt.
An
experienced
Her statement of affairs shows,
A Relay from Daventry, Recorded Music. 12.30-215
ÉTARIO.
12:30 pm-Becseded Maxie.⠀⠀
part
I pm-Local Time & Weather:
115 pmHong Kong Hotel Orche
2.15 pm-Close Down...!! 4545 pm-Chinese Programme."
tournament liabilities £25,066, of which £2466-12 midnight European
come out ahead at the finish order.
The
turns out to be an exiled Russian more victims of poisonous snakes princess. She, of course, ix Miss who had been cured by this "mira-
player will realize, if the hand are expected to rank and assets
545-7 pm A Relay from Daven, Dunne, who in the course of the culous" method.
Investigation showed the rumour is not particularly unusual that $1879, of which 5500 represent film sings many song hits.
Trooping of the Colour Celebra Formed a Company Astaire, as the dance band leader to be true. By applying some of this same hand will be played at jewellery.
tion in London of the birthday of His Examined by the Official Recei- Majesty the King. Trooping of the pal of the football hero, and Miss her saliva to the bite of a venom-the identical contract by a player woman cured the of the opposing team when the
the board is played the second time. ver. Miss Lawrence said that she Colour
Harse Rogers, as the toast of Faris nightous snake the
Parade. inclading * club patrons, do their part to make victim
If the player is not able to get had always been engaged: as an She had been bitten by deadly!
by Major J. B. S. Bourne MayT the gown shop the sensation of all rattlesnakes and other poisonous any other indication as to which actress, appearing in this country (late of Coldstream Goards). Brisy- gay Paree:
ed from the Borse Guards Parade reptiles so much that she had de of two possible plays to choose, and America.
In September, 1932, she was in Whitehall, London " The outstanding feature of the reloped immunity in herself and be will, if he knows the game of
his opponent who will sit in the financial difficulties and formed & Sullivan's Light Operas
-7-7:30 pmSelections from GIB Tunctions from the red a a's most
HE undersigned have received picture is a fashion show, in which was able to pass it on.
The question of finding a method identical seat at the other table, Gertrude Lawrence. Ltd, with Vocal Gems The Mikado prietor of the Appolon Beauty) beautiful girl display the most of making everyone. immune to imagine which play this which company she entered into an Selection Tolanthe
through study of her case is now other party will adept and then agreement to pay a portion of her Vocal Gems-The Pirates of Benrance
jadopt the same one, This is bas-earnings to enable it to discharge Selection Raddigore Supporting the four stars are being taken up.
(arr. Winterbottoza ed on the theory that matches are, her debts, both past and future. Helen Westly, Victor Varconi.
7.30-7.50 p.m.--Light Orchestra Ma won not by playing to create un- She pay moneys to the company I want your heart (Haydn Wood) Claire Dodd and Louis Alberni
PRIEST WHO KNEW natural swings but by playing for until last December and certain of Masquerade (Loeb)
or to achieve her debts were liquidated.
sshopper's Dance jan average result -NAUGHTY MARIETTA”-
-'54 LANGUAGES
par on each hand.
In February, 1933, she helped to QUEEN'S THEATRE
If you do this throughout a form a company to carry on busin- Phantom Bridge (Myddleton).
La Siesta (Barcarolle) (Norton) match and never make any misesa as florists, and acted as a direc~ „Aisha « (Lindsay) Only Once Visited A takes you are almost certain to tor until the date of the receiving Falling in love again (Hollanders Farewell I Kiss your hand (Fall) Foreign Country
150-3 pm Hermann Lohr-VOCK with your margin of victory de Miss Lawrence attributed her Gems sung by the Columbia Light laughing and singing actor, Maurice Chevalier, bat with Nel- An Englishman who knew 54 pending upon the amount of errors failure to having lived beyond her Opera Company.
means, heavy domestic expenses, 8 pm-Local Time & Weather R On view from Tuesday the 4th-son Eddy, an eminent. American languages, but had been out of his the opponents make.
On to-day's hand, which took ill-health; and a demand for in-port baritone. in M-G-M's "Naughty country only once in the 77 years
́803845 pm— A BBC. Recorded on her. earnings in
Programme. Marietta," which is being screened of his lifetime, died in London replace in the quarter-final round of come-tax the knockout team-of-four event America-
"Songs from the ShowsTM at he Queen's Theatre to-day. cently. He was Father William
£6,900 In Gifts
A-Programme of Tunes from Enk The picture tells a graphic story Kent. a Roman Catholic priest at Asbury Park, the South player
lish Musical Comedy, arranged Her deficiency account showed produced in the London Studies of of the settlement of New Orleans who for nearly 54 years had been reached a Grand Slam contract by the French in the days of Louis attached to the Church of St. Mary and was faced with the age-old that in February 1932 she had a British Broadcasting Corporation- IV: and the love of a disguised of the Angels, Westmoreland-road, Problem of what to do about the surpins in assets of $16,657 and had
missing Queen of trumps. He French princess, seeking escape Bayswater, W.
since earned £19,088, of which, Cast HE Undersigned have received from a marriage of State. Among
had absolutely no way of making however, £8,645 went in profes- TH
Father Kent was a Londoner by
isional expenses, instructions to sell by Public the dramatic highlights are the birth, and spent all his life in up his mind, but realized that the
publicity and member of the other team who gifts to professional people. Paris, the flight from
battle London The only foreign country
-Bel-would subsequently hold the same
The BBC Revne” Choras, and- with
She had received gifts totalling of he pirates, the captime
ever: visited
one who practically £6,900, and £1,238 as her share of Orchestra conducted by Leslie. Wood- the casquette girls, the New Or-gium and yet there must
with pine tramps Noel leans marriage market, the sen-few
Coward's play ..men "to-day who could never finessed
"Private Fate Accordingly he played Lives"; also £642 from royalties Kongreb Waltzer (Strauss)
8.45-9. pm—Concert Waltzes. sational confession of the princess equal his record of 54 languages for the drop and, as it happen on gramophone records and 5582 My Darling Waltz (The Gipsy Bartz and the disillusionment of her, of Many of them he spoke fuently.
ed: succeeded in capturing the from the sale of clothing. ficer lover.
Father Kent devoted his life to
missing Queen. this church, and tanght theology to Miss MacDonald's melodious
the students at the college which voice will be heard once again in used to be attached to it and was On view from Wednesday the such song hits as "Ah,-Sweet My-absorbed by St. Edmond's College, NORTH:- 5th. June 1935.
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The story concerns itself with Larry Sturgis, the young son of a wealthy family in New York, who
is sent to prison for murder on theft is pronounced "?" he said. "So
Larry starts on the hunt for the real murderer, whom he knows by is perfectly right."
Jan unusual clue of four numbers,
which the murderer plays at rou-|: lette.
ford and Irene Ware.
The bidding followed more
The chief items on the other side:
of the account were:
Loss on sale of jewellery £13,000; Household and personal expenses $26.744;
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Expended on dependent relatives| £3,389; and
Income-tax and surtax £14,66% Miss Lawrence agreed that the commencing surplus of £16,657 was only arrived at by including £16,- 250 as the value of her jewellery and by ignoring any liability for income-tax on ber American earn- ings.
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The Official Receiver-At that time the liability existed?
"I was not aware of it" Miss Lawrence replied
Pawned Jewellery
In May 1932-she pawned the jewel- lery for $2,000, and afterward raia- ed a further $1,000 on the pawn
John Watt.
Anona Winn. Olive Groves. Reginald Purdell George Baker
9-9,39 pm-Variety.......... Piano Solos
Just by your example Bidin' around in the Rain.
Rade da ComTA.
Songs
If all the world were made Your dog's come home ágain
Grace Fielde
Organ Spio-
Wedding of the Painted Doll Medley of old Songs
Leslie James
Vocal
Butch Medley
Band
Leslie Hutchinson.
Happy, I'm Happy 9.30–10-pm—Band Music. Sons of the Bezva. (Bidgood) Entry of the Gladiators—March
(Focik)
The Mill in the Black Forest.
(E-Lemberg) March of the Mountain Gnomer
(FHenberg)
Tidworth Tattoo-1934
The Missed Bands of the Sot
eta Command.
10 p.m. Rester Press Bulletins tickets. In February 1934 the ∙10.05 mm 12. midnight—A E pawnbrokers sold the whole of the of the Hong Kong Hotel Dance Orche jewellery, on which she had placed tra
10.30 pm Ragby Mid-day Fre the value of £16,250, and returned
NewL her about £5. But she refused to
-12 midnight-Natignal Authe accept it. She was, however," ad-j 12 midnight Close Down vised by counsel not to go further Note: There will be a Relay from in the matter.
Chinese Theatre on ZEME ONE frequency of 640 kiegé
That was partly because any
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eve of his marriage to a beautiful it should be, and when the Cockless conventional lines. The final action would have been very expen- girl Having eluded the guards, Iney talks about the mile trine he seven-spade bid was only a slight sive and partly because it was con-way,"
ramble, as the Four-Five No-sidered unwise to have the publi
Her Yearly Income trump Convention had located the city.
She told the Registrar her necessary key cards and the only Miss Lawrence agreed that, a yearly income during the possible holding which North though she was in financial dif- covered by her deficiency while Constance Bennett la. seen could have which would not give culties in 1932 she had since ex-was £6,693, and average This new Monogram production as the Duchess of Florence, who Sonth some sort of play for the pended £26,744 on her own pet-tre, including that on depe holds spectators spellbound on the casts an amorons eye toward the hand was one which included the sonal expenses. But that, she ex-relatives, £10,044. ledges of their seats, from the fast-irresistable rogue.
Ace and two small hearts.
plained, was partly to make a home The Official Receiver-Have moving introduction to the sensa-} The two stars are supported by West made the harmless open-here because she had no intention done any gambling? tional climar, and proves definite Fay Wray, Frank Morgan, Louis ing of his fourth best club, and the of returning to America and, if “No,” replied Miss Lawrence ly that a well-produced Oppen- Calbern, Vince Barnett, Jessie Ace in Dummy won the trick The she did have to return, she thought She said there were one or t heim story is the last word in this Ralph, Paul Harvey, John Ruther-spade Jack was now led, ERST that it would be a good investment cheques to a certain firm, but th type of entertainment.
played small, and the Declarer for letting purposes.
were only in respect of 1987 went up with the King. He return "But it turned out the other horse now and again over a per- "THE AFFAIRS OF CELLINI BRIGHT EYES" STAR THEATRE ed to Dummy with a heart and now
(Continued at Foot of Nest Col) of three years. ORIENTAL THEATRE
led another spade.
A dog was given to her, but 11 Fox Film's "Bright Eyes,” At this point, with "nó adverse
was because it was thought that "The Affairs of Cellini," a zo picture with a Southern California bidding and nothing particularly
would be good publicity, and mantic comedy, depicting the Christmas setting, starring Shirley unusual about the North and ages, South decided to play for the amorous escapades of the great Temple, is being shown at the Star South distribution to either con- same resnit as would be obtained joined Wembley for two years order to go to the races. But Italian sculptor and goldsmith of Theatre to-day.
firm or deny the probability of one at the other table, as by this had done no betting on dogs. the 16th century, who in his fam James Dunn against supports of the opponents holding a single means, though he might not gain, ou men of ous autobiography modestly. ad Shirley as her pal and is the lead-ton spade, South might have toss he could not lose. He went up matted that he was the world's ling character in the film. Among ed a coin mentally to decide what with the spade Ace and dropped in
a greatest lover, is being shown at the outstanding features of the pic-to do. But his decision, as men the Queen, and then was able to the Oriental Theatre..
ture is a rollicking musical num-tioned above, was influenced by a spread the hand Constance Bennett. in the lead ber. "On The Good Ship Lolli personality at a table at the other Incidentally, South's deductions ing role, achieves distinction pop," which is sung by Shirley.end of the room.
¡were correct Seven spades that has fallen to no other out- Those supporting the cast, be- Fortunately for South, the South hid and made at the other {standing star in the dramatic film sides Shirley and James, are Jane player at the other table was one because the South player, as feld, Among the features of the Darwell, who scored a success in with whom he had pretiously pected, dropped the spade Queen.
nes. Re-Neither team guined any point picture is an original ballet stag-The White Parade, Louis Wilson, played in a great many
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fed by Adolph Bolm, in which three Judith Allen, Theodore von Eltz,membering from these games that the board, but had
internationally famed dancers head Dorothy Christy, Charles Bellon, the other South player practically Declarers elected to play the list.
Jane Withers, Brandon Hurst, never took a finesse if it was ever finesse, a huge swing would Fredric March plays Cellini Walter Johnson and George Irving, so slightly- against the percent-resulted.
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