THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1988.
A PRINCESS OF Mobile Police Hunt HENRY HALL AGAIN
KENSINGTON
When Basil Hood took his libretto. for 'A Princess of Kensington' to Edward German, who wrote the
...
Riviera Gangsters
CANNES, (By Mail) The "executed" män, 30-year-old music-listeners will hear some of One hundred and fifty mobile Anore Marguin, was ambushed guards were engaged recently in when returning from the beach the songs in a forthcoming pro- one of the biggest man-hunts ever here by two men who drove up in gramme from Daventry-German organised on the Riviera for two a dark car. said 'I doubt if anyone will under-Montmartre gangsters, who "ex- stand what this is all about. I during the week-end.
ecuted" a 30-year-old Parisian here
don't!'
After killing their victim, who is believed to have been a member of a rival gang, the men escaped in
a car.
the road police shot at the car and At a level-crossing further along
set it on fire, but the two got away. Police believed they had gone into hiding and are being shielded by hue-and-cry has died down. accomplices in the district till the
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Henry Hall and his Orchestra come into the Daventry transmis- sions again on August 27, when their programme will be broadcast
from the BBC's North Region.
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of
Hall, who will be appearing in Blackpool during the week beginning. The murderers, one armed with August 21, is now on a tour of a sub-machine gun and the other Great Britain, and thousands with side of the Carnot Bridge, and open the man whose voice they knew so a revolver, stood on either people are seeing for the first time ed. fire. As the Parisian approach- ed he was struck by 11 shots. well when he was Director of the
Jumping into their
BBC Dance Orchestra. car, the mur
During his
guished. derers drove off with light extin-years with the BBC, Hall helped to make the reputations of many artists now famous in their own
CAR ON FIRE
“That's just it,” replied Hood, they will come again to find out." This fantastic mixture of mortals and fairies was first produced in 1903, and its plot was inevitably compared with those of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. A further link with Gilbert and Sullivan was furnished by the presence in the original cast of Henry A. Lytton, the famous Savoyard-one of the middle-height, both aged about 20,1 The driver ignored the signal few occasions on which he tem- and speaking with a Provincial and his companion covered the po- porarily deserted the d'Oyly Carte accent. company.
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The men are described as of
Now that the feud, which started Among the many good songs that the two gangs nas flard up again in Paris three years ago, between German wrote for the piece is the it is geared there may be further rousing ballad, "Four Jolly Sailor-shootings in the near further.
Since the murder the police have Transmission 1, August 27, 5.20 made a series of raids on night a.m. G.M.T.
clubs in Cannes and Nice..
men.'
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Later the car reached a level- right-Phyllis Robbins, Les Allen, crossing at St. Laurent du Var, Kitty Masters, Donovan, Len Ber- where police signalled them to pull mon, and George Elrick, up.
examples.
lice with a revolver.
As the car swept by the police opened fire, and one bullet struck
fire. the petrol tank, setting the car on
Bre
Transmission 3, August 27, 4.25 p m. G.M.T.
The occupants, however, manag-responsible for the deaths of two theory that the killers were also
ed to reach the outskirts of Nice young motorists, M. Bailer and M. disappearing. before leaping out of the car and Carmi who were run down while [changing a tyre on the road near Police have now abandoned the Cagnes.
"WIFE" TOASTS HER GHOST "HUSBAND"
Capt. Thesiger was sent to France 'al-and was killed..
· was
Paris (By Mail). Married by proxy to a ready dead, a "bride," who never a wife, celebrates the wed- ding ceremony each year with a feast at which she toasts a dummy figure of the man, she loved.
For twenty-one years she has attended these celebrations alone in her luxurious mansion on the heights overlooking Rouen and the Seine:
Her only attendant is her "hus- band's" former batsman, who has been in her service since he left the Army.
WED BY PROXY · His twin brother brought news ofthis death to Miss Harding.
At her entreaty he agreed to go to France with her and there marry her in the name of his brother, then pass out of her life.
The ceremony was performed and, in French law, the marriage to the dead became legal...
Soon afterwards the “bride” had a wax image of her "husband". and, on each anniversary, this image is placed opposite her at table for the feast.
Central figure in this romance of lost, but unfortgotten, love is Miss The dummy is served with food Cynthia Harding, a Briton who was and wine which are removed as on the Canadian Records staff in Feach course ends. London during the war.
She met and became betrothed to Capt. Edouard Thesiger, attached to the staff of a French-Canadian Brigade one of the first to reach Europe,
Then, after the feast the “bride" solemnly toasts the man she loved.
When the celebration is over the dummy is carried by the ex-batman to the room that should have been the bridal chamber, and there the But before they could be married “bride" spends the night in prayer.
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