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Three years' work by Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Gloria Swanson would buy the battleship Nelson, which cost £7,000,0001 The combined earnings of twenty Inm- us film stars for five years would

buy a navy.

FEBRUARY 28, 1930.

DIVORCE BY HIRE PURCHASE.

HOW TO OBTAIN ONE BY POST.

MEXICAN PLAN.

Two British subjects living in France have just obtained, the famous painless Mexican divorce decree by post without setting a foot outside of the country. It is the Arst time that British subjects have taken advantage of the Mexi- can laws.

"PARROT-DISEASE" IN GERMANY.

AN INFECTED CARGO TRACED BY POLICE.

MANY CASES IN BERLIN."

Numbers of peoplo scon in the streets hastening with parrota in ages to the veterinary quarters of the Berlin Zoo, and the various bacteriological institutes of Berlin, are the outward and visible sign lary Pickford's revelation in

of the psittacosis, or parrot-disease, scare that has befallen Germany. Los Angeles lawsuit that her salary

The first successful British peti-Six deaths from this mysterious in 1910, before she took over her own company, stood at £119,390 ationer was a woman born in the disease have occurred and numerous

cases of severe illness. year, draws attention to the Monte Midlands, whose husband is Cristo pay packets of American film Englishman who served in a Cana Eighteen savoro cases in Berlin dian regiment during the war and have occurred in houses where ä stars.

is now living in Canada. The wife, parrot has been ill, or died, and who is now living on the Riviera, have led the police to infer that all applied for divorce on the grounds the present cases in houses where of mental cruelty and received her a new parrot has been bought can decree by post two months ago. A be traced to as particular con- Harold Lloyd has a pair of horn-week later she married an Ameri-signment which arrived at Ham- rimmed spectacles, a merry laugh, can in Lordon,

burg on the ship Capa Ancona and and a genius for "gags." He carns

The second British petitioner were delivered to various toological £100,000 year! He is the Holly was Scotsman, who obtained a firms.. wood Crasus.

divorce by post, on the ground of When this boat came into port A catalogue of film star salaries incompatibility of temperament, again it was met by the director contains more money than has been from his wife, who was

also a earned by the poets, scientists, sol-native of Scotland. The husband.stitute, Dr. Elkeles, whose mission

of the Hygienio-Bacteriological In

Hollywood is the El Dorado of the world. It offers almost bysteri- cal wealth.

Chaplin's £200,000....

diers, and statesmen of any country in any generation.

Here are a few yearly incomes:— «Charles Chaplia £200,000 £950,000 Colleen Moore ........... £80,000 Richard Barthelmess..." £80,000

Tom Mix

Dorothy Mackaill

Norma Shearer Dolores Costello Clive Brook ........

****** 73,000

£50,000 £80,000 £30,000

The money the film atars refuza is as fantastic as the salaries they ask. Gloria Swanson, after the showing of "Madame Sans Gene," refused £3,000 a week for three years!

Googan's Fortune,

who is in business in Paris, has | since married an American girl.

These two decrees were obtained by Mr. Eugene Filteau, a young American of French Canadian origin, who is the Paris agent of Senor Arturo del Toro, the father" of the "humane" divorce laws in the Mexican States of

Sonora and Morelos.

After sponsoring these laws, Senor del Toro opened a divorce bureau in New York, and he and bis agents all over the world are

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these grinding out divorces by the thound.

Mr. Filtonu bas.. a number of other English. divorces pending, in- cluding that of a well-known young woman of Bournemouth.

"All I need is a copy of the marriage certificate petitioner's British picture she was paid 21,500 a power of attorney, stated

Mae Murray asked for £2,000 a week to appear in British films. When Pauline Frederick made a

s week.

Jackie Coogan, now worth more than £800,000, earns £1,000 a week. In "The Kid" his first salary was £18 a week. Rin Tin Tin, the dog film star, earos £25,000 a year.

There are exceptions even in this world of fairy finance. Valentino was earning only £1,000 a week 'when he died. Reginald Denny earns.only £600 a week

A list of the attributes making for millions would be interesting. Some role; quip or "trade mark" has made millionaires of scores of

screen people.

Chaplin has genius, big boots,

and a bowler hat.

Valentino had looks and the art of screen love-making.

Collen Moore has naïveté and the gifta of a mimic.

Tom Mix can ride.

The film world is a gamble ia per sonalities. and the prize is a king's

ransom.

A state of war exists between the film stars and the American income tax authorities. There is hardly one celebrated film figure who has not been embroiled.

In 1825 Charles Chaplin paid only

£88 in income-tax! It was under- stood that business costs had swal Towed up his capital. In 1929 he wna sued for £300,000 arrears of tax.

Mr. Filicau.

Freedom by Post. "The Mexican Court will accept almost any reasonable excuse for divorce, including mental, cruelty, six months' abacate, or incom-

it now is to ascertain the name and address of every purchaser of

Cape Ancona parrot. The Argon- tine has been discovered as the source of the Berlin cases. It is hoped by tracing every parrot of the infected consignment to obtain many birds for observation, and, of course, to prevent further infection. The chief point of interest to the layman is that German scientific opinion believes that certain birds act as carriers of infection in the same way as certain human beings are carriera of typoid germs, al- disease. The germ of psittacosis, it though immune themselves from the is understood, has been recognised as belonging to the paratyphus group B.

Parrot owners in Germany are warned against letting their pets peck food from their lips or allow- ing themselves to be kissed" or bitten by them. They are informed tuberculosis germs can be carried in that this is dangerous habit, as

this way.

Although psittacosis is still more or less a mystery, it is stated that patibility of temperament. I small greyish knots or lumps are in the application on the necessary found in livers of parrots which forms, send them to Mexico, and have fallen victims to the disease. receive the decree by the next re- The disease, it is said, causes the turning post. As regards notifying

the respondent, the Mexican Court bird to refuse nourishment; its try to notify him or her by regis.wings hang down and breathing is tered letter, but if this is not pas heavy and distressed. Six cases re- sible they simply put a notice in ported from Altona, near Hamburg, show that the disease is highly in- fectious among buman beings. A The cost of the divorce natur- doctor and nurse both caught the ally depends o how fancy A. disease from one sufferer who enter- decree one wants, but is can be as

the Hermosillo newspapers.

low as a few hundred pounds. Ied the hospital in which they were. can even arrange payment on the engaged. At the same time, people instalment systera, a few pounds are warned that not all sick par rots necessarily have psittacosia, down and then £1 a week."

the Mr. Filteau declared that he pre- and that with proper care ferred not to necept petitions from majority both of birds and human British subjetes living in Great beings recover.

In Germany parrots are greatly Britain, for the English Courts generally demand that when British loved as pets by flat-dwellers who subjects obtain & divorce abroad are debarred from the joys of a they must establish a certain resi- garden or from keeping dogs and dence there. But Ee believes that cats. It is hoped that the already British couples can safely demand very high standard of German a Mexican divorce that will be efficiency in dealing with tropical disease may profit by the material. accepted by the English Courts by going to France to live for a low for study now offered. Special measures will be taken in the case of importers, and the private trans port of parrots by sailors and others coming from the tropice is likely to be hampered in future by quarantine in Hamburg and other big German porta.

Tom Mix was sued for £20,000 arrears in 1929. An income-tax | months. drive in 1929 netted Rod La Roc- que, Dorothy Mackall, and William Tainies. It was alleged that Haince had put down £49 spent on a visit to his mother as "advertising."

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La Rocque was said to have de- scribed £28 spent on liquor a "entertainment.”

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