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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Cheshire VC: My Romance Secrets Expert's
Insured A Pumpkin
||
HE IS ROMAN CATHOLIC NATIONAL
BUT CAN MARRY
For £10,000 AGAIN (AND TELLS WHY)
London.
PUMPKIN that weat
han sel of
A rollen
tussle for £ 10,000 between a comedian who uses it in his Cinderella act and an insurance broker.
the
the
Stan Blennell, comedian, says pound pumpkin he insured for 11 weeks has gone
rotten before the run is Anished. But the insurance company says Stennett did not abide by the pumpkin policy draigned to keep the vegetable rut free.
The clauses siipulate thai:
Nobody must kit on the pumpkin,
not ★ I must
be put within smelling range of a pig or any other animal with a taste for pumpkin.
It must not on a bux.
From A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Simla.
In a dilapidated palace given to him by an Indian princess, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, V.C., told me about his new romance. "Sue and 1 will probably marry in church in India this summer," he said. His bride-to-be is 36-year-old war widow Sue Ryder, well-known for her work for Nazi concentration camp victims.
Le taken
It must not be placed
near hezi,
Cheshire, V.C.
*
It must not be thrown,
I must not be eaten until the end of the pantomime.
Artbur Harrison, Blem- Ingham lusurance broker,› nald Stennett kept the pumpkin in his room and that the radiator heat dis- Interrated the Dumpkin,
thus breaking clause four, -U.P.I.
® BY
the Directors and Statement of Acestats for the year statehood, ended 31st December, 1958,
to declare Dividends, to elect Directors 14t
to appoint Auditors,
Notice is also given that the Share Register of the Company will be closed from Monday, the **3rd Murch, 1959 to Saturday, the 4th April, 1959, both days in- clusive.
By Dader of the Hoard, LẦU CHẶN KWOI. Managing Director.
Bangkong, 27th Feb., 1950.
A New
Sue Ryder
THE
• WAY
by Beachcomber
un-
AST year Alaska's Attorney-end no hat, and his friend with
General said that he would on hair and a hal. The
with resolved problem is whether life push a peanut 120 miles his nose If Alaska were granted would be different if the bald man gave his hat to the hairy man. The bald man thinks that he needs a hat more than his friend does, but the hairy man says that a hat is wasted on a bald head. The argument
s complicated by the
Attorney-General,
to
An American friend of ming sends ime cutting which, although it makes nesol pennut- pushing history, shown that the American rules are more elastie than the Aberbananer code.
The perform his undertaking, "held his nose to a peanut on top of a sultease, while riding is the back seat of his family car from Big Delta to Tbk Junelion." The rigour of the game WHEN one
that Evans the Hearse was once
of a wig-maker with
at.
Basically speaking.
arrival
spare
The 42-year-old Group Cup- tain, one of the war's greatest bamber pilols, met her during his work for the incurably ill. Their organisations merged a year ago.
We sat in an austere room in a turret of the old palace over- looked by
The
snow-capped Himalayas. 11s only furniture was a dressing-table over which hung on ebony cruciix)
And a thla room, from which he directs his humani- tarian schemes, Group Cap- Lain Cheshire told me bow remarry, it is that he can though he is # Koman Cathelle.
His
stance
marriage to actress Con- Birney ended in 1951. She alleged desertion.
He told me: "I married in Canada in 1941, in some sort of church-I don't knosy what. It meant tie to me.
Unlawful
"In 1948 I became a Reman Catholic. Before doing so I told them
The of my marriage, Catholic Church does not recog nise that marriage because Con- stance had been married twice
before. Her last husband was allve when I married her.
"I was told that in the eyes
of the Church it was 33 1231-
lawful union and I cannot go
back to her."
The engaged couple are work ing together on spectacular new schemes. Very soon the first Decupants will move into a new institution which will house 600 people in coltages.
given
The 20-acre site way by Pandit Nehru and £140,009 has been spent on the buildings. The first patients will include lepers.
mit
Pioneers
Nehru has also agreed to ad- 12 victims of German concentration campo.
Many workers from England will soon be joining them Dehra Dun,
INSTITUTION
WITH THE SHOVEL JAW
THE scare is over.
Bob Hope's sight can be saved and that troublesome left eye is expected to twinkle as brightly as ever above the serpentine nose and shovel jaw of the best-known profile in show business. The news has been wel.
comed by millions of fans all over the United States, for, after a quarter of a century as top-line comedian, Bob Hope has become a national institu- tion.
ย
Yet he was born in England--- on May 26, 1904, at Eltham, South East London. And before making the grade of a comedian he struggled in the United States as a dance instructor, boxer, car salesman and softshoe shumer.
Bob-christened Leslie Townes Hopwas the son of a stone- and a Welsh concert singer. He believes he inherited his fair for telling goes from his grandfather, also a stonemason,
mason
his
Buried His
Wife Up
To Neck
Rome.
is parents endrrated to the POLICE were looking for 30-year-old Gluseppe United States, taking their six Perino on charges he tried Sons with them. They settled
in Cleveland where, as a teen-to bury his wife elive be. oger. Rape look up lap dancing cause he "dreamed" she had
Changed Name
When his dancing instructor got a job in Hollywood, young Hop took over the school. He changed his name to Lester be
It sounded more masculine. Then he changed to
Couse
It sounded Bub because formal than Lester.
carm
less
Next he tried to "fast buck" as a boxerusing the name of Packy East, Bui hospital bills proved 100 costly
n lover.
The 30-year-old 'wife, Vin- cenzina, ran into the Dinaml police headquarters and said her husband had buried her up to the neck before she falsely stated she had a lover,
She said her husband dug her out when she promised to tell the name of the alleged lover back at their house,
so he became a car salesman. She escaped while walking Finally he broke into show home, she said. business, forming a double act with his friend They toured theatres and Hope his talent for comody when u theatre manager asked him to announce a forthcoming nitruc-
len.
Mrs Perino sald in fact she George Byrne. had no lover but for the past the vaudevlile few years her husband nightly
discovered dreamed she did,
He was so convinced, despite her denials, that he took her out to a deld where he had dug a trench and threw her in,
She was covered when she feigned her confession, Up to the neck
she said. Perino meanwhile has After appearing in severni disappeared.-U.P.I.
comedies, he
The audience liked his wise. cracks so much that he decided to start a salo net,
at
musical
spoke to two British girls AN educated democracy should cne from Cheshire, the other A have no difculty is under-tands, before I left.
In pathologist from the Mid- standing what is going on at
They are the pioneers with Bournemouth. Basically, It disqualified for using his fingers question of intrinsic respond Cheshire and his bride-to-be in
become may blity as interpreted by diver- what
Humanitarian centre. gent views in the best interests
remembers
to get the pea out of a ful
on the slopes of Llanhorribil of those concerned. The conlifet- it is obvious that they take the ing personal and party opinions. game more seriously in Wales with reservations, cannot be held Anyhow, It is not every day that to justify, na such, more Then an Attorney-General, sits in the back of a car with this nose held one kind of support for anyone or anything, except that who- over whatever turns up must. modify er intensify the responsi- billly acknowledged to be more than partial If not, then, as 16 "orien of couise
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES-lo e peanul on top of a suiteup
At least, I hope it Jan 1, "No further than before"
THE theme of this new play
man with a thick head of hair
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Hong Kong, March 16, 1959.
To ADVERTISERS
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A great
DIBLE TIPOEGIN FOR TODAY
Won
stardom in the role of Huckle. berry Haines in "Roberts."
After "Roberta," Bob Hope went Into "Ziegfeld Follies," won a Paramount Alm contract leamed up with and, in 1940, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour in the dollar-spinning "Road" series,
TARGET
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How many
words of
four letters or more can you make from the letters in the
the lift 7 Ip making each
the
each of the may be tacó ứnce
Britain's B.B.Signs
Eighteen - year- old Penelope Horner, known sa Britain's Brigitte Bardol, signs a seven-year £60,000 film contract for producer Sydney Box, who watches In his London office.
Penelope, daughter of 'a chartered accountant Esher, Surrey. 'discovered" by Briney in the play 'Danton's Death," which has just ended a run at the Lyric, Hammor- graith.
WIL
In it, she played in Baucy bedrooni SOCLC.--- Reuterphoto.
CROSSWORD
acros
1. Carnival specialitics, #5, # P. Cirtava.
Views On Murderers
London. Superintendent George Cornish, one of Scotland Yard's original "Big
Five," had definito viewa about the behaviour of murderers.
Cornish, who served 30 years In the police service, died tn
{ February aged 05.
4
"It is very raro Indeed for * murderer 10 allow his crime to be acon." he said on one occasion, "and it in per- haps not generally realised A how extremely difficult it in to ket the necessary evidence fa convlet.
"Nearly all experienced eri- minals have n jaunty, confident, swaggering way about them- unil they are trapped. When they know
there enough evidence against them, the vast įmajority break down."
that
Coolness
Superintendent Cornish sald the 17-year-old pantry- boy, Henry Jacoby, whom he sent to the gallows for
the murder of Lady White in a fashionablo London hotel WAR remarkable for "his coolness and bravado,"
WRS
"I had a room at my dlaposal to the hotel where Lady White murdered," he recalled after the case. "There I worked day after day and often at night gathering every
of shred evidence.
"Jacoby canro to me prob- ably twenty times a day. } can see him now, with his spron and his sleeves rolled up asking in a fresh, utterly, composed voloe: *Anything can do for you, Mr Cornith?' Wonderful. considering what wha on his mind,
"He showed no trace of nerves until actually accused. Then he broke down and con- ftsad."
The man why in his lifetime actually experienced the thrills, 60 excitements, and adventures of the sleuth of fiction entered police service as the result of a chance chat with a detective on his father's farm in Wiltshire,
Ideal Thriller
In 1913, he had a case which he described as the "ideal de- tective thriller of fiction," the famous robbery of a pearl neck- lace worth £138,000 in transli 18. Voniale (a) by post from Paris to London, (0)
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This combination was sug- gested by producer Victor Schertzinger after he had listen- ed to Crosby and Hope slinging wisecracks at each other during a game of golf! The writers invented the perpetual
the Largo letter to the centre
quare. and there ALLEZ AND Crosby-Hope feud as o gim-. least one nine-letter word in the list. *No pluraia: no foreign The wicked.flce-when-nomick
papaqliq masters | pamordant -80.-DE.0.ȘI. OR......... IZMULČK dtcpo's great asset is his ex- "TODAY'S" TARGET: 14 words: man pursueth; but the
oellent
"I've been memory
Dood: 18 words, vary #000; 25 righteous are bold as Rons. through so
words, excellent. Bolation that many gaga
Lomorrow. -Proverbs 28:1.
alment pny question, leads auto- Shakespeare said Con-matically to a routine that t
fmnow." acience doth make cowards
Jerry Desmondo, who has of us all. A clear conscience worked with Hope in bis Bri~
is
a mighty stimulus to tish singe appearances, Lay8: daring.
"He can wisecrack for two and a half hours, without repeating himself."
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Official Visit
Dublin, March 15. Preddent Sean T. OKelly, of Eine left Dublin Airport tonight for a two-week offelal visit to the United States.Reuter,
CHINA MAIL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
FILMS
KING'S & PRINCESS: **T- The Goda" Rock Hudson, Cyd
"The
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Pines Hour."Flying
And
"It had everything, oxcept a heroine,” Superintendent Cornish said. "There were the famous crook, and his associates, the wealthy dia- mond merchant, the stolen necklace, the 'disguised buyer, detectives from Beolland Yard and the Surete, and' oven two amateur detectives.
"Thero
were
plots and
counter-plotsmeetings,
| hotels, in quiet" bars and in" Tallway station waiting-rooms.
When it was announced at Lloyds that the pearls had been" found in A match-box London street, the Lutine Bell was rung. The bell la sometimes sounded to announce good news.
Four men were sentenced at the Old Bailey for their part in the affair.
"Hard Luck"
tho
When Cornish joined pollen force, towards the end of last century, ha was put on patrol in the tought East End of London, where it was not con- dered fe to walk the streets at night. From Whitechapal, with its toughs, he was STORS ferred to Kensington and "tho swell crooks".
catch
know
51
Once described, as one of the best policemen ever to criminal, Cornish * murderers,
.black- matters, International crooka,
·gonmen and motor- bandits, med Icarried their wiles and ways.
thugs,
| PARAMOUNT: “Twilight For Musicale; 0.58. Weather Report; 7. xtra; 6.45, My Other Love; 7. Tima
Announcements der in the Exit” Alan Ládő,
Charime.
7.30, Cocktail Time: 8 The Halle Interlude: 7.10. Library. Look Bad- *TU Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, . CAPITOL:
Blg Heat" and 1ts Conductor: 4.15, 40 Prented By Enid Philips: 7.45.
Orchestra-TWO Movements Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame. Symphony No. 8 In D Minor Corinne. Calvol.
from apestor West; 8, Special Spotlight -Bitarview" with Cap. Brian Green- Jocelyn Brando.. ROXY & BROADWAY:
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18.30,
Elan of Zerro," Guy Williams, Henry Calvin. Gene Sheldon, |ASTOR: 8 pm. “Portrait of a
Beauty" A Cantopeso Opera. LEE: Czech circus film, **The
Show is On” HOOVER & RITZ:
Home Beforn Dark,” Jean Simmons, Den O'Herlihy,
Rhontá
Flamius.
The
STAR & METROPOLE:....
· Lina | Hanger, and the Lost City of Gold,” Claytop Moore, Jay silwerbooËR. ““.
| MAJESTIC:......, *Thoên. Thousand
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| Newargo): 11.10.
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NUMA FINAL, Clown Down,
Called into investigate the disappearance of jewellery worth mansion of King Manuel of For- £80,000 from the Twickenham tugal, he had everyone finder printed-and that went for the Klag 100%