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ANNETTE KILLERMAN. Leaves Stage to Help
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, 4th. APRIL, 1925.
Maimed Children.
UPPER LEFT-BILLY CAMPBELL, WHO IS BEING RESTORED USE OF LIMBS THROUGH SWIMMING EXERCISES. RIGHT, MISS KELLERMAN IN A CHARACTERISTIC DIVING POSE. LOWER LEFT, MISS KELLERMAN WATCHING WORK OF DEVELOPING "HIDDEN BANCHO" INTO HEALTH HAVEN FOR CHILDREN.
Los Angeles, Feb. 28-Thirty- six years ago, in Sydney, Aus tralia, lived a 6-year-old girl who
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thought she would have to carry loss, who dreamed that a good her logs in braces throughout life. fairy would strengthon her wonk, With the imagination of the hope- inefficient limbs. Her mother, a
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groat pianist, spared no exponeo! to have hor ourod. Without! avail. One day it was suggosted} to her mothor, "teach hor to swim. Noither the mother nor the girl realized it, but it probably was a message from the good fairy, of whom the girl had dreamed.
The experiment was tried-and it succéoded. Soon the girl could rug and play and dance, as did hor playmates. "Some day," do-i clared the girl, "I will help others as I have boon holpod." That promiso was nover forgotten, though intervening yours brought triumphs such as faw womon know. The girl became the out- standing aquatic marvel of the time, not records which have: never been broken, was starrod in vaudeville, theatres and motion picturee, was sought aftor with salary offers of some $5000 a week. That girl was Annotto Kellerman.
Now Annotto Kellerman has quit the stage. She is going to concentrate all energios to give to crippled children a training to rebuild physically weak bodios.
"I loved theatrical work so well I kept delaying fulfillment of my early promise," says Mies Kallorman. "But now I am de- finitely through with the stage to devoto my life to holpless children."
Out in a broad valloy of the Vorguo hills, 14 miles north of Hollywood, is an old Spanish grant known as the "Hidden Rancho." Miss Kollorman purchased 122 acres of scrub and Cactus. Thero now she is build- ing pools and clubhouses, tonnis courts and dormitories. In tho pools children will be taught how to gain control of inefficiont limbs. The courso in training starts with having the children learn suspension in the water.
Then a slight agitation of the water is affected, increasing, in later days, until the legs move of their own volition. Having learn. od to suspond and move the logs in the water, actual swimming is then oncourged, giving strong- thening exercises.
"I do not want this effort to be
considered charity," says Miss Kellerman. "Of course, the little boys, and girls who come for the swimming curative courses will not bo charged a
cent.
But the school, and others to be established, will be made to pay their own way."
This will be accomplished by water shows which Miss Kol- lorman will conduct through a: women's club which she will operate in connection with the Bobooie.
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Interesting World Items.
The Welsh Rugby Union have intimated that referees under thair control must not officiate in! Sunday games abroad, and that' the by-laws, which already dobar Sunday football, will be altered. to that effect.
Sir Russel Bencraft, presiding at the annual meeting of the Hampshire County Cricket Club at Southampton said as an--old cricketor, that he regretted the attacks made on Arthur Gilligan personally and on his ability as a captain. No more popular captain than Gilligan had evor; loft England.
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At a meeting of the directors of Falkirk Football Club and of Blackburn representative Rovers Syd. Puddofcot WAS transferred to the Lanshire club. Thras acasons ago Falkirk pald £5000 for this West Ham player, who has gone to Blackburn for a Bum elose on £4000,
The Auto learns that the Irish Rugby Uuloa bave writton of the French Rugby Foderation to complain of the attitudo adopted
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sion of the Trance-Ireland match at Colombos on New Year's Day, when the speotators forcibly ex- pressad their disagreemont with' the referee. The Irish Rugby Union add that in the interesta of good. relations between the two countries such incidenta should not be repeated.
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And then, there's Commander, when asked to tell you all about "And when I leave New York
Victoria Crosa, his Distin Dec. 4, 1925, on the 'Empress of James Gillies, C. B. E, the boro hla
captain of the Empress of Beot-guished Service Order, of Great Scotland to go around the world, land. If he is a hero, ho doesn't Britain and his Navy Cross of the
I think I quit the sea after the admit it "How did you become a United States, is Staff Capt. R. N. Commander of the Order of the Stuart, who, as commander of the 30,000 miles' voyage la finished."
"Pa" Philp was speaking. Per-British Empire?" you ask him, and British "mystery ship". Pargust haps you do not know "Pa" Philp? he says "Hanged if I can remem- sank a submarine after his own If so, be in the ranking chief on-ber!" And that's all you can get decoy ship had been torpedoed. As gineer of the Canadian Pacific out of him, but King George deco-a matter of fact. Start was on Steamships, an officer of the Order rated him for something He tus deck when four submarines were of the British Empire, decorated been 35 years in the Canadian destroyed. He got the U. 8. Navy for his services during the world Pacifle service and fa ns good as Cross for saving one of Uncle War in transporting 110,000 they make them in the British Sam's destroyers after sho bad troops. while covering 174,000 Isles. He commands the flagship been torpedoed.
Then there's J. Walker Bartlett, milen of the Seven Seas, including of his ficct, and running around Gallipoll. A million friends call the world is a vacation voyage to purser of the Empress of Scotland him "Pa" but his real name is A. him, not forgetting plenty of re-who was "pipped" during the war E. Philo. O. B. E., and he has run sponsibilities, which he never over-pipped" meaning torpedoed by a submarino-and had to swim for alips by wind, coal and oil and ad- looks.
There are many heroes on this it Thrgo are the boys who will of Scotland mits that an oil-burner like the Empress of Scotland, looks good 'round the world flagship mun take the Empress to him. "No dust, no smoke, no with long strips of vari-colored around the world the boys who dirt, no trouble!" That's what ribbons won in the world war-eafeguarded thoumain of United "P" Philp anys. And you can but the outstanding hero, who States' Boldiers on their way to tako it from a veteraa liko hin. shuts up liko the proverbial clam, Franco.
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