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TRIPLETS TRIPLE
WEDDING.
GIFT FROM MORE TRIPLETS.
BOOM GAIETY.
Bauns, June 24th.
Boom, a little town near Antwerp,
SINGAPORE HAR- BOUR.
FOREIGN SHIPPING AND
PORT RULES.
NO HANDICAP ON BRITISH
VESSELS.
The Straits Times says that con- has celebrated in worthy man-siderable discussion has recently. ner this week-end an event the like taken place with reference to the of which is extremely rare. Triplet enforcement in Singapore harbour aister-Josephine, Philomene, and Maria Boeymans-who had just reached their majority, were har ried, and, no princess's wedding WAL ever surrounded with more ceremony and gaiety.
The triplets are daughters of working-class people, and have nire brothers and sisters living Six others have died.
On Saturday morning they walk- ed over, roads on which silver sand had been sprinkled to the town hall.
TWO GIRLS
WANTED."
THE ENCHANTING LITTLE
STAR."
A COMEDY OF LOVE AND BUSINESS.
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[BY OUR VILM CRITIC.)
7th Heaven" was something new to the films. The story was a romantically pretty one in the rein that has won fame for Leonard Merrick, and the unknown actress with her big eyes, piquante little face, and timid manner seemed the only possible embodiment of
What is going to happen to Janet Gaynor will she drop back into of the provisions of the Merchant obscurity or will she consolidate Shipping Ordinance against over her position among the stars I loading ships and overcrowding Those are the questions which arias their decke with cargo. It is allegin your mind after seeing her in "Two Girls Wanted." Miss ed that local foreign shipping fro
the quenting
port-the great Gaynor suddenly appeared in the majority of vessels within this charming part of Diane of "th category are, of course, Dutch-en-Heaven." No one had heard of joy an advantage in this respect her "before and every one agreed over their British competitors. with the title which her publicity Inquiries made by a Straits manager found for her of "the Times representative show that the enchanting little star." Ordinance is enforced against both British and foreign ships, although Through the gaily decorated certain minor differences in their streets they were accompanied by treatment are admitted. Neverthe their grooms and members of the less, all vessels, British and for- four families the husbands are eign, are boarded by the Marine not related.
Department's officers on arrival at A picturesque procession of and departure from Singapore, children followed them through and they are not given a clearance] “Diane." rows of cheering spectators.
from the part unless the boarding Then came Sunset" with "the Civic Gifts.
officers are satisfied that the rules enchanting little star" still figuring have been complied with. In the in big letters on the bill. But case of a British master who broke,
"Sunset" disappointed most of the д prosecution the regulations
people who had wept over "7th would presumably follow, where Heaven" and had spent their days the master of a foreign vessel in usually requested to conform with and nights playing "Diane" on the gramophone. Janet Gaynor Jast the regulations, but it is not un-
some of her glamour.
She was natural that the respective govern ments in this part of the world should confire legal action in the matter of shipping laws to their own nationals.
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The civil marriage ceremony over, the Mayor of Boom, in a happy little speech, presented the towa's congratulations and marri age gifts.
Then appeared more triplets, the unmarried daughters of a docker of Eeckeren, who had come to offer flowers to the wedded trio.
Mmes. Magnas, Van Linden, and Troch, whom Josephine, Philomene, and Maria had now become, then led their husbands away to the de- corated and overcrowded church, where the nuptial blessing was given in the course of a solemn
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genuinely terrified, riotously and CIRCE THE ENCHANTRESS
childishly happy, but never once "enchanting" or romantic,
From
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an artistic or histrionic point of It should be made clear that the view her performance was amazing- majority of local shipping prosecuy good, for better than in her tions are not for overloading the first success although the submersion of a vessel above her quality of sincerity distinguished plimsoll, marks-but for piling deck both. At 2 o'clock there was a wedding cargo higher than the legal limit breakfast, during which the couples of three feet six inches. This is were the recipients of all sorts of a minor offence, and one which is presents. Afterwards the public common on small coasters. Actual joined in the rejoicing, and, special overloading is a very serious and permission having been granted by rarely committed offence; involving the authorities, there was music a master in the risk of falling foul, sad dancing for the rest of the not only of the port authorities, day and all the night.
but of Lloyds. It is stated that if a case of deliberate overloading were to come to the notice of the
"Marianne Miller" (Janet Gay- insurance agents the vessels might nor) is, when the picture begins, be struck off the register a much living with her sister (a kind one more serious penalty than any this time) in a New York lodging which the local courts would be
So much alike are the triplets that during their courting days each had been mistaken for one of her sisters,
WONDER HORSES AT OLYMPIA.
Neither Romance Mor Tragedy. In Two Girls Wanted Janet Gaynor still has the same label, but a part in which there is neither romance, nor tragedy. It did not call for her special qualifications; Marion Nixon would have fitted it just as well, while Bébé Daniels might have transformed it into a really sparkling comedy.
likely 10 enforce. In Singapore house, and locking unsuccessfully harbour all vessels are subject to for work. In desparation she observation by "the insurance com-
RELICS OF A LOST EMPIRE. panies, and recently two represen- dresses as a boy and tries for a
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tatives of Dutch companies have post as massenger in a shop, which been stationed here for the purpose she does not get. She then meets of watching vessels sailing under the Dutch "dag.
LONDON, June 22nd. In the loose boxes at the Inter- national Home Show, at Olympis, are half-a-dozen pure white horses. Their Arab strain is obvious in neck and est. They are waited on by FIGHT AFTER SINGAPORE grooms whose cap banda display the words "Die Spanische Reit- schule"-meaning the Spanish rid- ing school.
Animals and men represent, how. ever, the two-hundred-year-old Im- perial Riding School of Vienna, which is called "Spanische" be cause the ancestors of "the horses came to Austria from Spain. The school has never been anteide Aus- tria before.
Century-old Dress,
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FUNERAL.
SHOTS FIRED 'IN
LORRY.
the hero, a young man in business, And he is instrumental in obtaining for her a post as secretary to a crusty old business rival. Having locked her employer in his safe by accident, Marianne leaves and goes with her sister into domestic ser- PACKED | vice. In her now capacity as house- maid she meets the hero again and saves him from making a business blunder.
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According to a report in the Straits Timer exciting scenes were
There is nothing in the part of "Marianne Miller! for Miss witnessed on Bukit Timah Road, Gaynor, all she has to do is to look Bingapore, when a fight occurred | pretty, shy, and incompetent, and between members of rival secret the does this so successfully that societies who were returning from you immediately suspect that her a funeral at the Chinese cemetery other two performances were the at Bukit Brown. A shot was fired
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· RUSSIA'S, WORKLESS. hundred years ago brown cutaway coats, cocked hate, and high black into a crowded lorry, sad the mem result of clever drilling instead of POOR MEN'S BIG FORTUNE:
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OF 2,414,000. through a selection from the four. and were pursued in all directions acter, but she might have been actress or if Miss Gaynor had been
LONDON, June 23rd." teen traditional exercises in their by the others.
The victim was travelling in a
Major Thomas Walsh, D -Comrade Ginsburg, în å report repertoire.
There is the pas de deux,” large lorry, on which some forty carefully trained for the part. Un-
persons were crowded together. A less she really has a tragic gilt she Boston, Massachusetts, lawyer, will read to the members of the Central
Southampton in which
the Soviet of Trade Unions in semion was done, in which the smaller lorry was overtaking it can only retain her stardom under leave horaes seem to dance gravely and with five or six passengers on favourable conditions, for in the Leviathan to tell three comparaat Moscow, stated that the number daintily to a polka "tune. There board. All were mourners return-ordinary, quickly made film of this tively poor men in the United of unemployed in Soviet Russia in
piffe," in which the horseeing from the funeral. is the
As the type she is almost a non-entity. States that they are to receive a cressed from 1,500,000 on October
Talism' Stark. “
fortune of about £400,000.
1st, 1997, to 2,000,000 on January keep time without advancing, and second lorry passed the bigger
This fortune was left by Mr. Ed- 1st, 1998. (It has increased since the "mezair," that sets them vehicle a man stood up and fired There have been several casės- of mincing forward, balancing three shots Two went wide, but Elm actresses who have made their ward J. Boyle, the pioneer in New then by 114,000.) their hind legr
Only 180,000 persony among the It is all delightful to see, and, struck a passenger in the big appearances as stars and have England of selling houses on the
lorry in the log. །
dropped back at once into obscurity instalment system. The xooney was if you are sentimental, it is a little
After the firing the smaller lorry Myras. Kennedy of "The Circus claimed by 64 cousins, represented total unemployed are in receipt of unemployment relief payable by the pathetic. Austria has abruak to a pulled up sezoas the road. Whe- for example. Others like Betty by 34 years
It now appears that it will go Soviets By adding the number of small republic, but the Imperis! ther its occupants wished, to start Bronson have been starred in one
to three cousins of Mr. Boyle-persons receiving relief from the crown and the initials of the old a street battle or whether the driver
trade union funds the total is ALLET Emperor Francis Joseph are still was merely alarmed by the shots two similar parts and then drop- William Boyle, a foreman in
embroidered on the horses' rugs. is not known, but at any rate the ped. Miss Bronson herself Las not fruit-preserving company; James brought up to 630,000. This leaves crowd in the big lorry immediate yet disappeared but it seems very Boyle, an employes at a rubber ly scrambled out and rushed at the likely that she will do so soon. It factory, and Thomas Boyle, the CHILD MAULED BY PONY,maller party, which broke up and The chase was continued in smal, Marie Sykes, aged three, dangh-ler parties, and an ex-policeman ter of miner, while gathering who had heard the firing and join flowers in a field at Wombwell, ed the pursuers captured one man, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, was at No Weapon was found on him. It backed by a pony, which seized the was only the presence of the ex- child by the bair and tossed her policemiss which prevented the
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1,370,000 unemployed witheitt any relief whatever. The average u employment relief, paid by the Sovieta is, according to Ginsburg, 13 roubles 70 copecks a month although she is not really vers pretty she has a certain piquante.By the law of Massachusetts, (about 7a a week), while that paid charm and freshness which is not which regulates the disposal of the by the trade unions is 9 roubles a In 1997, there were 3,000,000 regis often seen on the screen, but it legacy property cannot be in month (about 4s 6d a week). probably will unless she is allowed herited through the female line. to start again nearer the bottom Had this not been so the fortune tered unemployed in Soviet Russis of, and aunt, Mary Kite Boyle,obtain regular employment through. with "The enchanting little atar of would have gone to the descendants and very few of these were able to
married
man named the Soviet labour exchanges. crowd retenging themselves upon 7th Heaven" out of the bill, S
For the rest "Two Girls Want who
O'Dougherty. A young woman named Maude their prisoner.
The sasir is said to be due to ed" is quite an amusing film,
She settled in Ireland and died Bromley attracted the animal's
years ngo, leaving eight attention by throwing & Ball at it, the presence at the funeral of mem- Glenn Tryon, who plays the hero, and a schoolboy Hugh Seddons,bers of rival secret society ganga. bas, improved immensely since the two then picked the child up and carri- There was similar dccurrence on last picture we saw him in here, and children. Details regarding the the Bakit Timah Road some Joseph Cawthorn as "Philip Lan family history were in the, poliés ed her from the field.",
The child had & scalp wound and months ago, hut in that case kalves cock Marianne touchy old em-ion of the family, and Major | (Coûtimed at foot of next column.) injuries to the back.
in the air several tirici,
were used,
ployer is excellent.
Walah came from Boston Ireland to investigate the cousins can rightly claim the fore
Hià inquiries show that the threa
func.