"THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1938.
Makes a Hit in Vivacious Lady
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Frances Mercer, daughter of Sid Mercer, nationally known sports writer, is definitely in the movies as a result of her attractive work to "Vivacious Lady" in principal support to Ginger Rogers and James Stewart. As Ginger's rival in love, Frances does à bilarious piece of work, the highlight of which is her catch-as-catch-can slap-fest, with Ginger. Although she loses the decision in this bout, she gets a big hand for her acting.
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Kenneth Leigh smiled when he was called the man' with the midas touch. Fifteen years ago," he ex- claimed, "you would have named me the man with the lazarus touch. I was penniless and down and out, starving in Sydney then, with my trousers held together with a safety pin, ...?
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GOT THE TOUCH
That and sewn on again.
made them real pairs. Now for a market, thought I.
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"Then I remembered the Irish. Thousands of Irishmen go around barefooted till their early teens. A GAY AND SPARKLING ROMANCE IN THE MOOD OFTO-DAY!
This gives them a strangely broad foot. not catered for in the ordinary market.
I glanced incredulously at
"So I shipped half my stock of cheerful, stocky figure in the neat boots to Dublin. They sold like hot grey suit.
It's
No wonder I was puzzled. rare to hear a man with a manor. and fourteen acres talk of hunger, rarer still when that man also pos- sesses property worth £300,000, and an income of over £25,000 a year.
But Mr. Leigh merely shrugged at my surprise.
"Yes, I starved" he went on, "and the only difference between the hungry man I was, and the rich mån I am was an original idea.
"The idea came years after 1 had worked my way back to Eng land, and was selling toys from a stall in Petticoat-lane.
"By chance I heard the War Office wanted to dispose of 250,000 pairs of Army boots, and I went along to have a look at the goods for sale.
cakes.
"My luck still held. For after the Thames floods I was able to buy another 40,000 pairs of Army boots, damaged by water.
"I-made-a-fortune-out-of-- that
deal:"
"DEAD" HERO WALKS
Peter Ferguson, the 21-years-old Col- undergraduate of Pembroke lege, Oxford, who was reported kill- ed with the International Brigade in Spain, is alive and back in Eng- land. .
Day
death When the report of his reached England his portrait was pinned to a banner and carried at "The other dealers scoffed openly the head of an Oxford May when they saw the motley display demonstration. on view.. Boots, boots, boots, all of them sized from 10 to 16. All of them fitting only the left foot..
PLAYED HIS HUNCH
Th
who tried to out-gaess love!
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Mr. Beaufort-Palmer, of Rosary- gardens, Old Brompton-road, South Kensington, said last night: "We got news earlier in the week that Peter was alive. We were over- "But in the midst of the laughterjoyed, and it was a special relief I was thinking. The man who could to his mother. We had believed use that junk would make his for-him dead, and I actually received tune.
his death certificate from Spain. "And I felt I could do with a It appears that after he was fortune. I played my hunch. Iwounded in the retreat from Bel- planked down my entire savings as chite he was separated from the a deposit, found myself owning half
a million useless boots.
"Useless, did I say? Not quite. For in my mind was the germ that was to become a brainwave.
usual means of communication.
"He e then fell sick with typhoid, which added to the confusion to his case.
"Soon after we received news "I get to work, had some of the that, be, was alive he walked into boots shortened, had the soles of the house. Now he has gone away half the boots torn off, turned over, to recuperate."
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