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The darling of Hollywood and the idol of the women's clubs try to find romance away from the spotlight!
Margaret Sullavan
The Moon's Our Home
Henry Fondo - Charles Butterworth
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"Where's George?
NEXT CHANGE
FREDRIC MARCH-MERLE OBERON-HERBERT MARSHALL
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1936
KING GEORGE
MEMORIAL
Fountain In A Garden At Windsor
DESIGN BY WELL-KNOWN ARCHITECT
Windsor Windsor's memorial to King George is to be an ora mental fountain with an architec tural background embodying a medallion portrait.
It is to be erected on a site inį the centre of the town at the corner of Thames-street and
¡Datchet-road, immediately below! the slopes of Windsor Castle. The fountain will be floodlit at night.
com-
The cost will be £9,000., A famous architect has been
missioned to submit a design for the scheme, which has the ap- proval of the King and Queen ¡Mary.
King Approves Site
His Majesty thế King has been stacionaly pleased to approve the retention by Sir Shanson Chow, above, of the title "Honourable" within Hong Kong on his retire- ment from the Executive Coun- eil, in recognition of his service in that Council and in the Legis lative Council.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
Insanity Plea In Matricide Trial
“MOTHER NAGGED
THEM BOTH'
Dr. Charles. Preston Ball, whose 20-year-old son is accus- ed of murdering his mother, gave evidence for the defence last month at the Dublin Cen- tral Criminal Court.
The son, Edward Preston Ball, an actor, is alleged to have made a statement that he found his mother dead with her throat cut, and that he dis-
US. BASEBALL posed of the body in the sea in
RESULTS
Pirates Swamped By Giants
CARDINALS BEAT PHILLIES
The King recently visited the site and expressed his entire satis- faction with it. It was originally presented, to King George as a
New York, To-day. The following were the results Jubilee gift by an anomous of yesterday's major League base donor. The King handed it over ball matches:
to the Dean and Canons of Sti George's Chapel to develop as an open space.
A portion of the ground has been laid out as a playground for)
St. George's Choir School. The re Brooklyn mainder will be developed as an ornamental garden in which the Boston
memorial will stand.
The Mayor of Windsor, Lient- Col. A. E. Churcher, is appealing for subscriptions to a Memorial Fund.
HUMAN REMAINS FOUND?
Burned Bones In Exmoor Field
MYSTERY UNSOLVED
Chicago
order to hide the fact that she comraîtted suicide. The body has not been recovered.
Counsel for the defence sub- mitted that Ball was insane. and suggested that his mental state was inherited from his mother.
The father described his wife as "terribly neurotic." It was impossible to live with her, and they separated.
TO-DAY ONLY AT THE
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NATHAN RD. KOU
NO BLOOD ON HIS INNOCENT HANDS
NO GUILT IN HIS ANGUISHED HEART: Yet the savage fury of a nation's hate condemned him to a living death!
The
The man a nation martyred
gives the screen its
greatest drama!
PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND
His wife would meet patients at the door and tell them not E. to come in and see him.
She
1would get friends to ring up and send him on wild goose chases 2 into the country.
"Afraid Of The Future"
The doctor read the following letter from his wife, who, he said, wrote to him in affec- itionate terms up to the time of
her death:
“I am afraid of everything mostly of the future. I feel $ 12 there 11
National Learne
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Cincinnati
7 10
Goodman hit a homer.
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3 10
7
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7
Wally Berger hit a homer. Pittsburgh
5
5
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Paul Waner hit a homer. New York
Jackson hit two homers.
St. Louis
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American League-
Yew York
9 11
Chicago
6 9.
Boston
zu-
7 13 Cooke and Werber hit homers. Detroit
8 10
Burns hit a homer.
Philadelphia Cleveland
4 9 3 6
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Minehead.-The Somerset thorities were last month investi-
•LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY⚫ gating the mystery of the charred
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LAUREL HARDY
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THE
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ARTOKIO MORENO - INCHELINE WELLS
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YOU'LL LIKE THIS PICTURE, BECAUSE ITS TRUE! Four college graduates start out to set the world on fire And find the darn thing made of asbestos! A Jazz Mad Picture!
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When You're Picking a Husband?
GENTLEMEN ARE BORN
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bones found ten days before near Kinsford Gate, a lonely and re- mote part of Exmoor.
The bones, which were discover-
ed by a North Molton. farmer, Mr.
Joe Collins hit two-homers. Philadelphia
Averell hit a homer. The game between Washington
Albert Wyatt, in an outlying field, and St. Louis, was postponed were each an inch or two in length owing to rain-Beuter. and were in a small heap-
On the instructions of the
Is ลก approaching tragedy. I hope it is not the boy. Please go and see Smil- ing Through" at the cinema.”
One night early in 1932 his son attempted to commit sui- cide by taking 14 grains of. aspirin. "I had to
use
2 stomach-pump to. save him,"E Ziadded the doctor.
Cross-examined, Dr. Ball said
1 that when the police told him his wife was missing he came Oto the conclusion that it was another of her tricks to per- secure him
Lacked Moral. Sense Dr. Daniel F. Rambeau, of Harley-street, London, said he examined Edward Ball in 1932. He found him lacking in moral sense, showing no affection for his parents, and talking of sui- cide in a light way.
"He and I'discussed the whole
coroner for West Somerset, Mr. G. BIRTHDAY HONOURS question of suicide," added Dr.
P. Clark, they were examined by
Dr. Godfrey Carter, the consulting
pathologist to the Somerset police
authorities.
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Rambeau, "and he made me a promise that he would not at- tempt it again."
Dr. Coyne, medical officer of
It is understood that Dr. Carter) The Birthday Honours include a Mountjoy Prison, said he found came to the conclusion that the Knight-Commandership
of
the no symptoms of insanity in bones were probably those of a Order of St. Michael and St Ball, but had no doubt that it human person. As, however, he George for Mr. R. L. Craigie, was a case of "adolescent in- did not feel altogether satisfied, Counsellor in the Foreign Office stability." the coroner has ordered a further since 1928; and a Companionship investigation, and the bones were in the same Order for Captain
sent to a pathological expert in Danckwerts and Mr. Adrian Hol-
London.
ANOTHER LONDON 'BUS OVERTURNS
Passengers Escape Unhurt
man
First Secretary at His IMPROVEMENT AT
Majesty's Legation, Peking, all for services in connection with
the London Neval Conference.
PAIGNTON
G.M.G. FOR LOCAL RESIDENT An Officership in the Order of
Marsh Converted the British Empire is conferred Into Garden on Mr. H. F. C Walsh, Acting Consul-General at Batavia; and' Companionships in the same Or MP. officially
Paignton-Sir Robert Horne, opened Good-
Eight passengers escaped under are conferred on Mr. Michael rington Park, Cha Garden hart, except for bruises and Davidson, Consul to China, and and Promenades at Paignton, shock, when a London Passenger Mr. Edwin Taylor, .Colonial and laid, with a silver trowel, Transport Board 'bus overturned Treasurer, Hong Kong.
the last coping-stone on the at Woodbridge Corner, Leather-
Professor F. D. Adams Logan, promenade last month. head, Surrey, last month. after University, Montreal, is created a ing the purchase of land, has Professor of Geology at McGill The complete scheme, includ- collision with a lorry.
The driver of the lorry, Gregory Companion of Honour.
cost £74,000, and has entirely Barry, of Windsor, received con-Order of the Bath is conferred on area. Goodrington Park was a A Knight Commandership of the altered the character of the Jeussion, and was taken to Leather Vice Admiral F. F. Rose, Com desolate marsh a few years ago, head Cottage Hospital. The bus mander-in-Chief of the East Indies but has now delightful lawns, driver was thrown through the since 1934.-Renter. open windscreen window, but was
rose and flower gardens, a not injured.
Hon. Mr. Taylor cafe, and lakes for boating and Mr. Edwin, Taylor, who
for the swans and wild-fowl couple of days before in Hayes-born in 1881, joined the Colonial district has not driven away.
Was which the altered nature of the {lane, Bromley. Twelve persons Service in 1921 and has seen ser- neceived hospital treatment, but vice in many parts of the Empire, jnone was seriously injured.
Another 'bus overturned
2
The site of Cliff Garden was
including Uganda, Seychelles and This has now been turned into 2 dangerous overhanging cliff. Later a tramcar crashed into a Sierra Leone, where he was wall in Battersea Park-road, S.W., Deputy Treasurer at the time of ter of a mile promenade.
la rock walk with nearly a quar- and 16 persons were hurt
his transfer to Hong Kong in May
SEAL FOUND IN YARD
1930.
He was appointed to be Acting official member of the Legisla Colonial Treasurer in April 1931, tive Council in 1921 and a member
the year in which he received his knighthood.
A farmer at Bellarena, co and Colonial Treasurer in June of of the Executive. Council in 1926, Derry, whose house is three-quar-the same year. ters of a mile from Lough Foyle, recently found an exhausted seal in his yard.
WAGE INCREASE
Sir Shou-son: Chow His Majesty the King has been Born in Hong Kong," he started graciously pleased to approve the his career with the Chinese retention by Sir Shopson Chow of Korean Customs in 1881, after the title "Honourable" within studying at Columbia University, Hong Kong of his retirement from and he also held a consular post Increases of £14 to £28 per the Executive Council, în recogni- under Yuan Shih-kab annum, and extended" "period of tion of his service in that Council He returned to Hong Kong in leave with pay, have been award- and in the Legislative Council. 1912 and has been identified with: ed to depot clerks in the Office of Str Chouson Chow, who is now the public and business life of Works
77, was appointed to be an un- the Colony ever since.
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Your heart will cry out... your eyes sting with tears... at this thundering revelation of man's inhumanity to man!
WARNER BAXTER
GLORIA STUART
Gillingwater Arthur Byron O. P. Huggle Harry Carey
and a cast of ces theastad
a DARRYL F. ZANUCK 2011 CENTURY PRODUCTION Bened by Serseph M. Schanck
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The MILKY WAY
- ADCEPHE MOUJOU + VERREFTERSDALE + HELEN BRACK WILLSAM GARGAN-GEORGE BAKKER-DOROTHY WASON Directed by tee actarey • A Peramount Platon
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THE LADY IN RED" FLAMES INTO STARDOM
BROADWAY HOSTESS Wini Shan
Phil Regan - Genevieve Tobin Lyle Talbot - Allen Jmkin.
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