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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1857.
Interesting
All ParES From News Stories
OF
The World
THE
Down
Came
£1,000-A-YEAR PAGE BOY Lamp
CUSTOMERS FOR A HAIR-DO GIVE HIM
£2 A DAY IN TIPS BUT HIS FIRM IS
FINED FOR NOT PAYING HIM ENOUGH
London.
Post
Terribly Upsetting |CAPT. TELLS WHY
Incident At
London Cat Show
London,
Greenwich. Captain Willem Brasion Binclair Couldn't under .. sand the fuss. They had put the lampp-post outside his buse and be didn't like it So he pulled it down, that's all. Wouldn't anyone have done the sea307.
A BREATH of scandal touched the National Cat Show The captain a shy 80 or so,
really didn't want 10 It pays to be a page-boy at a Mayfair hairdresser's
talk about it. where top-crust customers go. One page-boy gets about £1,000 at Olympia last month. Somebody did a Terrible Thing. a year, a London court was told.
But his employers were
summoned for
paying him enough.
not
Page-boy Frederick Tebboth, of Chud- leigh Road, Brockley, is 16, but only 4ft. 6in, tall.
In his black uniform with silver buttons he spends most of his day bowing to beauti-· ful women in the per- fumed hairdressing
salon.
For this, it was said at Clerkenwell Court, he
gets:
TIIS: Mole than £2 a
day; FREE
meals,
uniform, and clothes
cleaning:
£5 58.
WAGES:
His employers, F. G.
French
(London),
Ltd., of Curzon Place, Park Lane, admitted they should have been raying him £6 11s. a week. Their lawyer said: "Tebboth him- self certainly has not complained."
Mr Robey, the magis- trate, fined the firm £2. He said of the £1,000-a-year page- boy: "He is doing very nicely."
Back in Mayfair page-
boy Tebboth agreed.
"It's the best job I
ever had," he said.
OF LONDON
They stole the tickets off the capes of winning cats. And-- oven worse--the Somebody put them on the cage of her own cu
And when the organisors complained the
Some- body did the Mont Terrible Thing of All She tipped a tin of cat food uver an omicità.
AND THEN-SECOND THOUGHTS
And then little Freddie had "He is doing very nicely,"
second thoughts.
He wrote is Felter
the
income tax inspector. "Dear sir," it said, "It's not true-1 do not make £1,000 a year-as page boy to a hairdresser, perks or no perks."
benmed
Mr Robey, Clerkenwell magistrate, "But I'm not doing very nicely," argued Freddie. "What are the income tax people going to say when they read 1 am sup- posed to be getting nearly £20 a week? All this publicity!"
For that was what the soli-Freddie drew himself up to
citor said Freddie-earned with tips when his em ployers were fined for paying him 26s, 趄 week short of the legal wage.
his full 4ft.-odd. "There's a lot of bad feeling, I can tell you."
Although a fully grown man, he is just about tall
4
in
enough his smart, many
buttoned
page's uniform to look a well- 11 year old grown straight in the eye. Patrons at the Curzon Place
West establishment of aocdety hairdresser Frederick French think he's "cute."
He helps them all off with
their conte. Then he helps them all on with their coats. Naturally, they express their appre ciation. "But not £1,000 £4. year," said Freddie
He Spends Millions
On
'Love Thy Neighbour' Ads
Washington.
One of Washington's biggest real estate agents, never signs cheques, carries no life insurance and spends his earnings on full-page newspaper ads imploring people to “love thy neighbour.”
gloomily. "Nine pounds a week, maybe, in good times."
Mr Frederick Freeman, his employer; told me: "My wife spotted Freddie in the lift of a big store just going up and down all day getting nowhere: She saw his potentialities as a page.
"He's been with us five years now at £5 58. A week, and well, 200 patrone a day certainly don't forget him on their way out."
PARENTS TIED CHILDREN IN BED
Aachen.
A man and wife who tied dibeir three children to their beds and went to the movies were sentenced to
12. and 15- month gual terms today.
The 26-year-old father re- fused to leave the movie theatre Leon Ackerman saya the hasn't touched liquor or tobacco | name in snail 19tiers of the when polics entered to look for money he makes from such and has tried to follow the bottom, with his office gddtrom,
the children crying,He thinte o & $20 million real teachings of Josus, particularly but no mention of his business after neighboun estate project in Florida is "all the law of love.
pumalts or the name of his firmi. | said he wanted to wait until the God's money."
end of tho picture-/United Ackerman said he was deeply "Every penny I earn personal Press, Ackerman has aroused nation- concerned about how people are ly goes into those nda” he said. al interest through his news, being "hypnotised to hate.!! ง He apparently places the ad paper ads which have appeared
from coast to coast, and through "It's a terrible thing. The
needed.
BELTING
"It was a woman in a white cost who caused all the trouble," Calvert, a stewond Mr George who reeds Stamosè cata, saki.
"Her cat didn't win a prize and she was so spect she took the winning tickets of mil cagta around and put ther her own.
"She showing the cut.
the
023
tickets had so many
that you couldn't s
Couldn't Eject Her
"She threw cat food over one official - and chard o woman helper all round the hall."*
The woman in white also took over the loudspeaker and mode an announcement of her own.
She proclaimed that she hnd 0 first-ald box with her and was willing to tren't any cot that fell ill.
"All the vets we have in afteriance
uw in anna," spid Mr Calvert, We bad 10 announcements that no- a cat any-
body
where per
was to take
she
white!
in
**Wo tried to eject her from the show but nobody seerned able to manage th
This was the diamond jubilee [show of the Téational Cat Club and it atfructed 4,000 entries—a rocord
thousands of Christina, sardo tendency to hate is the mo he sends out each year carrying | dangerous thing in the world.". religious messURTS."
Many people wonder what's the gimmalek" in his religious that war in some casos better A Paris police court/lot "I don't worship anything indvertisements, he said,
n butcher accused of assaulting can't take with mo,” he said In
The answer, he said, is that than gence without freedom.
Ackerman,
who thinks they're most What Blue Uniforms]\ He placed some ads earlier Do To The Butcher last month, for instance, after. do. Arthur W. Radford sald
an interview at his busting he has learned. that spending theluiden po. Do ta a meat inspectory bit with a
real estato office,
the gospel of love is an infinitely sormer Sen
of Admirals, 30,000 franck(230) fine after the
butcher explained that his wife Washington was cheating on him-with a
Ackerman, who appears to be richer source 91, 804lsfaction in lowpewlda; gendermeten und lõhe Aaronetár
enjoying Uto fully, in a large
map with silver hair, a grCY moustache and greying, bushy eyebrows. He 30
fo
worship of bandleader
whys he ling hd, laen how much violently to the sight of men in newspaper ads at first money he fun went on the ad, blue miformmerspieg
But they come oft) of this beeyou kharin of confu
were He explained that hi the New York surrection?! occurred in 1940 | years ago vren
But
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JEANETTE MacDONALD AND NELSON EDDY TOGETHER AGAIN
Hollywood.
After 15 years, the movies' most romantic screen team-even though each married another walked into a television studio last month to sing together again.
In 1941 Jeanette MacDonald "I think it would be great fum and Nelson Eddy ended their if we did another movie.” movies as a team, and no mora Both Eidy and Minu Blac- does be bound through the Donald were single during their TERBODS forest in bla mountie uniform, eam days, but for or Care at her in ruture known to them they wed others. while she sings, "Ah, Sweet Nelson and I used to duin Mystery of Life
each other before I married Today's young movie-pers Gene," she added thoughtaily. know screen combinations like always have bocu good Piper Laurie and Tony Curtis friends, but, well, it was Flust and Elvis Presley and her side-
A romance." --- Unitoa tuñoa But MacDonald-Eddy Pros
such
"Naughty
memorable Atma, ФУФТ though Eddy a ecting we understated. Lo put it mildly, and the stories were
were
At his 200-year-old home, the
House, Crooms-b. success Manor Greenwich, bo said: “It was Marketta, "Rose Marie and lunatic of someone to put tayLine" there in the first place. But they have been very nice about it now and I don't want to make a fuss,"
But, I asked him, how did it happen? The captain straightened his red-and-blue Fusiliers tie and began.
"Well, I found the hole yester
day, you see. They had taken up two of the flagstones in tho forecourt and dug about six inches
stone plers. Of course, I got
spado and filled it in.
"Then
mugary.
Quite Exciting
This TV Cans saw a mile- Miss stone when
MacDonald and her celluloid swain reunited for their first television appont- ance on the Lux Video theatre's show spectal
Donald
never
What You
Look Like' Tax Now!
Sack. Residents of this iny
British Island have their from one of the big inst mom gollday musical
| tax probleņus, but not just quite exciting," the ed, vivacious
Miss Mac-like everybody else. declared today. "We've
There are no income trucOS, been asked to appear on tele- | no customs exclets and no death vision before but one of us al- | duties. But the 540 inhabitants ways has been busy. We final-
BTS UP in arms about taxes ly made it this time becaurs ene
anyway. of Nelson's club dates waS cancelled"
Spade Work
The MacDonald-Eddy com- bination began in 1934 and established screen hhtory until the couple's contract ended.
I rang up the council people and told them about II. They said it was for a lamp, would so I told them what happen... that it might get broken up in the erreting. "But it was there just the same
when I came home from the "I did not want to stay be office. I am an architect, you cause I would rather be remem~ for our know, and I know what hap-bered kindly by fans pens if you take these things good pictures than for those studio the piciutes lying down. So I dug it up." dreadful
later wanted me to do," she ox- Single-handed?
plainer!, "Yea. I'm used to a bit of dir- king. I just widened the hole, climbed a ladder and tled a rope on, and pulled it down, Only took a couple of hours.
Concert Artist During the last 15 years Miss! MacDonald has been a success- fut concert artist, with un oc«
Eddy turned to night club and concert work. But their fans did not
furget them,
They to disturbed about
A "goak the penny-in-the-pound rich" duty levied on residents of the 1,000-acre island who look rich enough to pay it.
Henry Head, one of
the 40 landowners on Sark, said "Sark is a tax-dodgers"_paradise."
Old Clothes
"But it is better to have no tax at all than have our worth assessed as a home dester would appraise the old grey mare," homid.
trouble arpee when the island's parliament decided to
tax on the basis of
"We don't need a light-there's castonal TV appearance, wald; spémas spp sakomend
one in the road 20 yards away and another over the front gate. And, anyway it was a complete cycsoco in front of a house like this: "The engineer fellow I caw this morning was very nice, He saw things my way and said they would not be putting the lamp back."
"MGM BBU gets letters psk ing if we will work together again," stuc smiled Battering. Taxi drivezi, wanion |
look, prosperous and the onliactors thing he lef quot
much as £40, he pays the tax. It be dormi't look proe- perous, to tacos.
*If i got my way" he said. "no longer shall we have to put in stores, -persona on the street on our oldest clothes when wre say to me, when are you and walking to deceive the Nelson going to sing again?";
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