THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 17, 1938.
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QUEEN MARY
SAW THEM WED
A couple, whose wedding was watched by Queen Mary (then Princess Mary of Teck), have cele- brated their golden wedding. They are Mr. and Mrs. William Davies, of Blackpill, Swan-
sea.
The Princess was passing in her carriage when she saw a peculiar Welsh ceremony, now unfor- tunately extinct, being conducted. She inquir- ed what it was, and heard it was a "bidding” wedding (to which all the couple's friends were 'invited). Then they all walked to the church
headed by a fiddler.
The future Queen Mary watched intently.
Later
she called at the bride's home, but missed her, for Mrs. Davies was on her honeymoon.
A polar bear at Whipsnade Zoo tried hard to strike the right note with a double bass, but his efforts were somehow not in accord. He angrily finished by smashing the instrument as a grand finale. He's got the right idea here--the only snag is he's trying to place the wrong end under his chin.
£76 FOR BLEEDING BOWL
Bleeding Bowl, believed to be the earliest in Britain realised £76 at Sotheby's.
The sale was of the contents of the Old Court House, Hampton Court; where Sír Christopher Wren died.
* * * HONOUR FOR GRACIE
Gracie Fields will be made a life governor of the London Hospital after a luncheon in her honour at the hospital.
The presentation will take place three days before her Albert Hall concert in aid of the hospital funds, Queen Mary will attend the concert,
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THAT'S HER—
THE UGLY ONE
Counsel at London's Wood Green Police Court-Where is your wife? Is she in court?-Yes. She is sitting beside the nice-looking girl in the public gallery.
CHARLIE'S HEIL
Charlie Chaplin plana a daring caricature of Adolf. Hitler In his next film, to be made early next year.
The comedian, whose famous tooth-brush” moustache so much; resembles the Fuehrer's, will play the part of a comic, little Jew who, being the double of a certain dictator, is constantly being mis- taken for him. Charlie will also play the dictator's part.
The Jew will be a 'usper-hanger, as "Hitler önce was.
Chaplin's films are banned in Germany and Italy.
There was a family reunion.
WILFRED'S TOILET. Wilfred, the South African Bush Raby, at the London Zoo, undergoes his daily toilet, apparently apprecia- tive of his keeper's efforts to smarten him up.
CAT WALKS 51 MILES "HOME"
When Mr. and Mrs. T. I. Morris' moved from Bridgend, Glam., to
For the first time for twenty- Newbridge, Mon., they took their three years, Mr. and Mrs. Davies's cat and dog. Three days later the four sons, four daughters and eight dog appeared at his old home, hav- grandchildren were present to- ing trotted the fifty-one miles. The gether.
cat disappeared a week after mov- ing. She took five days to reach Brigend
looking none the
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***** LIVED 65 YEARS ON ONE LUNG
worse.
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Throughout his life George Her- berts sixty-five, inmate of Swaffield- road Institution, Wandsworth, lived YOUNG MEN WARNED! on one lung. He collapsed and died in a tramcar opposite St. Thomas's Hospital. "A rather rare case," Dr. J. Oliver, of St. Thomas's, told the Southwark coroner.
Bruin seems here to be sorely tried and puzzled as he manoeu- vres for correct playing position.
£200 FOR LOST FINGER
Settlement by a final payment of $200 and costs of a compensation claim by a woodworking machinist was approved by Judge Lilley at Shoreditch County Court.
The claim had been brought by Charles Albert Backshall, of St. Thomas's-place, Hackney, against his employers, H. Cohen and Son, of Hackney-road. Shoreditch.
Backshall had his right ring fin- ger cut off by a circular saw in April fast year. Weekly compensa- tion was paid to him until Febru- ary, when the employers contended that he was fit to resume his work.
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NEW ZEALAND BUYS BRITISH
PARROT CRIES "HELP"
Cries of "help" led firemen to search every room of a burning house in Sinclair-road, West Ken sington, London, W. Their search for trapped fire victims was în vain.
The cries of "help": had come from the house next door. And that was empty, too--save for the parrot.
Young sailors beware!-Do not get love symbols tatooed on your arms and chests. So said the Lady Mayoress of Plymouth (Mrs. Solo- who build in Wales." mon Stephens).
The list is addressed "to those
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"It would be rather awkward WHERE UNIFORM DOES NOT if a boy with 'I Love Mary' or MAKE A DIFFERENCE 'Dear Joan,' or some such inscrip- tion imprinted on his chest wish- At Tottenham's police court, ed to marry a girl called Pat," she bus driver was summoned for ignor said, and then:
ing traffic lights.
"These men in their (bus- drivers') uniforms are as much en- titled to be believed as the police in.
"This sort of thing has led to much unhappiness and trouble in many people's lives."
But why warn only young sailors? theirs,”-said counsel,
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WHERE WALES DRAWS THE LINE
Attempts to check disfiguring of Welsh countryside is to be made by
And this is the end of the. Whip- snade concert.
New Zealand announced that Government contracts worth £179,- the Council for the Preservation of 000 have been placed with British Rural Wales. They have issued a firms.
list of "common vulgarities," and A firm in Rugby receives the big- here are samples: Front doors with gest order £79,857,
"fancy" shaped lights; windows Steel plates, train lighting equip- divided into small panes at the top ment, plate glass, steel bars and and not at the bottom; over-elabora tubes, copper wire, lifting crabs, tion of chimney.tops; planting of steel billets and plywood are to be "fancy" variegated shrubs and trees supplied by firms in London out of harmony with a Welsh back ($24,000), Manchester. (£6,527), ground; use of un-Welsh names for Middlesbrough (£8,998), Scunthorpe houses (such as Balmoral: »
(48,180), Newport (Mon.) (£2,189). Chatsworth)
Magistrate E. W. Whitworth: Their uniforms don't make them all George Washingtons.
Counsel: No, your worship. But they don't make policemen George Washingtons either... though some Benches, unlike this enlightened one, seem to think they do..
And that has. wanted saying for a long time, too.
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* SOCCER "CAP" CHARGED
inside
Scottish international right, Peter Stewart McKennan of Partick Thistle, was charged a Kil- marnock with assaulting Frederick Milloy, Kilmarnock F. C. left back, after a game on October 1. Trial was fixed for December 19.
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WHIZ BANG
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TO STOP BANGING
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A live shell, marked "8-pdr., 1920,” found in an unoccupied house in Boscombe-avenue, Southend, had apparently been used by the late occupiers as a stop to prevent the ed military authorities at Colchester door banging. The police have ask- to collect it.
* DRIVEN FROM HOME- BY WASPS
Wasps have driven out of their home a Dordrecht (Holland) family. Thousands, – bussing, thro house,