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PIONEER OF BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927.
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THE PURCHASED TITLE
OF HOHENZOLERN. Sir William Jury, the British Berlin: That the ex-Kaiser cinema industry's most influential and his family are by right not figure and its first and only knight, Hohenzollerns at all, but should be (the Daily Express under-referred to as "Princes of Prussia," stands) sold his controlling in- is the argument of un historical terests in the Jury-Metro-Goldwyn monograph by Wilhelm Kitsky, Company, the British repre- whose works enjoy a reputation for sentatives of the Metro-Goldwyn- unimpeachable accuracy in regard Mayer Corporation of America. to to methods of research. the Loew Company of New York for a large sam, and is to retire from active business.
The haws is not wholly unexpect cd, as the recent death of Mr. Marcus Loew, head of the last- named corporation, ended one of the most affectionate and intimate friendships that ever existed be tween two business men.
un-
In the early seventeenth century, when the original line of Hohen- zollerns was on the point of dying cut, the Elector of Brandenburg, mindful of the old line from which his ancestors had sprung, bought the title of Count of Hohenzollern from the Emperor for the sum of, four thousand thalers. The title of "Prince of Hohenzollern" would have cost him ten thousand thalers, so he refused it. The name win thus incorporated into that of the House of Brandenburg and romance has done the rest, tradition per- ferring the oldest title to those of later date..
Sir William is fifty-seven years of age, but his health during re- cent years has not been too good.
Sir William Jury has been for many yeurs the acknowledgd leader of the industry in this coun- try. He has a great vision in showmanship and an almost
The fact is of some interest to canny sense of publie taste in film- Germans, as objections have been entertainment, a genius which has raised by Republicans to a statute enabled him to build up a great permitting members of the Ger- fortune from the most modest Deman ex-Royal houses to call them- ginnings
selves "von" (of) the States they formerly ruled over. But "Wilhelm von Preussen" (Wilhelm of Prussia) is the correct name of the ex-Kaister, his son, and grandson;
He started life as assistant in a firework factory but was one of the first to see the possibilities in the first feeble flicker to the films.
THE PRINCE'S HELP.
SIX CHILDREN PLAYED IN SUITABLE SCHOOLS,
The Prince of Wales's interest in the welfare of the young family of a former hostess was revealed
and all members of their house are Princes and Princesses of Prussin 100.
"GOLF" IN VOLCANO CRATER.
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in mail week by the announcement Hole-In-One" by driving a golf
that the Queen's presentation place ball into the steaming fire-pit of
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at the Royal Orphanage, Wan-Kilauea volcano has become stead, had been awarded to Elaine popular pastime at that place. Beryl Templer, aged. 8, the Visitors to Hawaii go to, the daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Templer, of Winifred-road, Bedford,
voleano in crowds to gain mem- bership in the famous Kilauea "Hole-In-One" club.
Mrs. Templer, who is a niece of the late Lord Fisher, was hostess Halemaumau, which' is the to the Frince of Wales when he Hawaiian name for the first-pit, visited Trincomali, Ceylon, in 1923. is probably the world's largest Her husband was Assistant Sur golf hole. It measures 1,360 yards veyor of Forests, and when he across, and has a depth of 1,200 died his wife returned to England. feet. Despite its great size, many The Prince, hearing of her a visitor has dubbed a shot from straitened eircumstances, got in the rim, much to the merriment touch with her, and through his in-n Hawaiian chauffeurs and fluence all her six children have Hawaii National Park guides who been placed in suitable schools act as temporary caddies. Not two boys at the King Alfred School, long ago, a prominent government Wantage, two girls at Christ's official who tried the famous. Hospital, Hertford, and now the Hawaii National Park shot, took Είναι younger girls at the Royal three strokes from the improvised Orphanage.
tee, less than ten feet from the When the Queen's presentation at rim of the first-pit, before sending Wanstead became vacant the the ball into the crater. Prince asked that it might be Upon the successful completion given to Elaine Templer, and the of a drive the volcanic golfer is Queen readily consented. Elaine's presented with a card admitting younger sister has gone to the him to the "Iole-In-One Club of school as a paying scholar,
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