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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 28th, 1930.
ROYAL VISIT TO CHELSEA.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
REOPENING OF YPRES CATHEDRAL.
Their Majesties the King and Queen are seen Inspecting one of the attractive gar- dens at the Chelsea Flower Show. The Duke of Gloucester is to the left of, and behind, the Queen. with Lord Daresbury. (Times copyright).
FOR THE TALKIES. Follies Girls in the Blues.
Helen Kaiser, Kay English and Anna Karina..they stepped
from the footlights to the Kleig lights.
Even
What happens to the Ziegfeld alumnae, says the writer. Follies giris-reputed to be, the though they now are just as much most beautiful group in America? a part of the celluloid industry as It would require at least two our most, established stars, they columns of concentrated writing haven't tired of reminiscing, to answer that question with any Those old days in the Follies still degree of completeness. In the stand out to them much as a col- old days, they used to grab off lege alumna remembers her co-ed. millionaire husbands. Some, be-days.
came obscure stenographers. Probably the best known of the Others just naturally dropped out group was Pearl Eaton, who not of sight. But to-day a good many so long ago stepped right from: of them are to be found in Holly-the Ziegfeld chorus into Marilyn wood striving to make the grade Miller's shoes when Miss Miller In audible films,
developed mumpa and couldn't go While wandering around the on. Peart never went back to the RKO lot the other day a writer met chorus after that. Instead, she four girls, all of whom used to assisted the dance director and receive the plaudits of Ziegfeld when he faded out of the picture, audiences. All now are. under she originated and staged the contract to RKO. And there are various dance routines herself a good many others encamped at Now she is dance director for the various other studios.
"That was a great night..."
Those Old Days.
entire RKO studio.
Pearl is a blonde. So is Anna
"But of course he wasn't my Karina, another of the group who style.
was chatting about "the days when They were members of Those were the bits of conversa-the same class under the master tion that drifted our way as we showman. A tug-of-war between approached the four Follies their two teams was an outstand
ing feature of the midnight show on the New Amsterdam Roof for an entire season. And Anna still boasts that her team won most of the time-"even if we did have to use a lot of strategy such as putting gum on the soles of our shoes," she concluded.
are
Dramatic Role Preferred. The third blonde in the group was Helen Kaiser. If these three representative of Ziegfeld choruses, then that man certainly must be a gentleman. Helen has had any number of offers from her former boss to return to New York but she turns a deaf ear to all of them. She has become an actress now and prefers dramatic
The Catheral of St. Martin at Ypres, which was destroyed in the war, was reopened for services recently, the work of rebuilding being now almost completed. The ceremonies began, with Masses at the temporary church of Elverdinghe, and after the blessing and distribution of pal as a processión was formed to the reconstructed Cathedral. A view of the scene outside the Cathedral when the clergy
made a ceremonial re-entry, carrying palms. (Times copyright),
IF HE WERE ONLY YOUNGER,
Victor McLaglen Would
be a Fighter.
A great many prize fighters have barboured ambitions to become actors. But it's seldom we hear of an actor with any great desire to don fighting toga.
There is one such man in Holly wood, however Victor McLaglen, If Vic were a few years younger a great many film fans would be looking for a new favourite actor because his first act would be to "hock" his make-up box and buy a set of boxing gloves with the proceeds.
A Great Opportunity. "There never was a time when in the fight game like he could a good heavyweight could clean up
right now," McLaglen declares. "The public is clamouring for another Jack Dempsey and if such a man should come along he could make a small fortune. If I were a little younger, I would take a crack at it myself for the next couple of years. By that time I believe I would have enough on which to retire for the rest of my
roles such 18 she has been life." portraying in pictures to the dance routine of the Ziegfeld shows.
Then there was Kay English, a. brunette who has danced in just about every dance picture RKO has turned out. Kay is one of about four girls, each of whom is proclaimed by her respective studio to be the most beautiful show girl in Hollywood. Per- sonally, we wouldn't turn our eyes away from any of the four."
Corinne Griffith, the noted cinema star, in the latest style swimming costume.
THE ERA
OF WOMAN.
LADY WHO MANAGES AEROPLANE, COMPANY.
Not so many years ago, out in Missouri, a little girl got properly spanked and put to bed without her supper for stealing an aeroplane ride in the first plane she over saw, one that made a forced land- ing in her father's corn field.
To-day that little girl grown up, Morille de L. Carveth, has just opened a hangar aviation show room on Broadway, thus inau- gurating Aeroplane Row alongside the famous Automobile that noted thoroughfare.
Row on
All of which may prove the in- efficacy of a thorough trouncing Or. of course, it may prove that; the aeroplane fever, 'caught early, is insidiously persistent and apt to break out later and land, one on the Great White Way!
enough in Kansas City, after that Morilla stayed peacefully memorable spanking, until she was 18. Then, curfously, it was her violin that made her run away from home, not an urge to fly. Starting ostensibly to visit her grandmother in Council Bluffs, Mo., that summer, she got off the train two stations before har des tination, exchanged her ticket for she supposed, the concert stage.
a through one to Chicago, and,
Joins Workaday World. Food turned out to be a more important consideration than music, so Morilla scanned the Sun-. day newspapers, started early Monday morning answering adver- tisements for office workers and by noon had a job at $20 a week book-keeping.
With an indefatigable energy, born of real ambition "and a vibrantly healthy constitution, Morilla elimbed the ladder of success two or three steps at a time. Within a year she had be come office manager in a wholesale supply company owned by a friend of her father's whom she always. called "Uncle Bill." even after she married him. After their mar- riage she became buyer for this. firm and in addition took up au- diting so that within another year she got a certified public accoun tant's licence.
Resuming work after her baby girl was a year old, Mrs. Carveth began preparing audits on bank- ruptcy cases for an eminent Chicago law firm. Finally, at their suggestion, she took over the commercial agency they owned, running it first for them and then buying it for her own firm.
Air-minded and commercial-minded is Morilla de L. Car veth, above, who has made a business success of her enthu-
·siasm for aviation. Below she is shown in her newly opened aeroplane show room on Broadway, New York
McLaglen is a boxing enthusiast if there ever was one. He was a pretty good fighter himself some years ago and he never has lost his liking for this sport. It is next to impossible to talk with him for any length of time without having
throw myself heart and soul into had gone Into aviation. When she boxing dragged into the conversa
work there and forget everything had learned to fly and learned all tion: some place. And he never
personal, if I wanted a foothold. there is to know about planes in misses any of the weekly fights
As a matter of fact, so able is general and his kind in particular, held in the two stadiums. In She loved the Windy City, was this Titian haired, dynamic little she gold him the idea of hiring fact, he is so interested in the tremendously proud of her hus person with her thoroughly train her as salesmanager. In the eight game that he recently became the band, her home and her lovely ed mind and her quick enthus- months she has had that position, elent partner in a local fight club little daughter, and life was in- slasms, that she had a dozen good in addition to closing several just for the satisfaction of still deed full and thrillingly happy for positions offered her, once she deals of other salesmen, Miss being associated with boxing, d her as she built up her agency to
was located in New York Start Caryeth has personally sold eight However, as yet nobody has dis bigger and better business and ing all over again at 28, she went planes, and that in the face of e
satisfactory way of makame known as a high-powered into the wholesale business and by Block market crash!
"fricney expertight everydaing bayser jobain had, the enviable Now she has just been made
covered
ing a clock run backwarde, se
there doesn't seem to be much changed. Her husband died sud- danger of Vie deserting the silver denly and then her little girl, by screen at the present moment, "
this time eight years old, was ill When Vic isn't acting he is the only one day and passed away. perfect English gentleman-yes, I knew. I must pick up and he was born just outside of Lon- leave everything and everybody I don. His manner is that of a knew if I were to keep my sanity," successful business man, not an Miss Carveth told me, speaking of actor. And he speaks rather the black despair of this period. softly with a faint smile nearly "I headed for the busiest, the always on his lips. There is none noisiest, the hardest and most of the gruff shouting for which heartless place in the world, New he is known on the screen. York I knew I would have to
summer
show room, the other offices of the
"It is not the pilot, but the
general manager of the company, executive who is going to make in full charge of the Broadway money in aylation, I do not want company and the Hangar at Rouse- the publicity that attends stunt velf Field. She has 12 salesmen flying. I will never use a trarie under her, has full charge of all port licence. I will learn to fly of the office business of the con my own plane, get a private pilot's cern and even writes their ads. licence, and find a niche for Here is a 10 to 14 hour day right myself to build for an air-minded now. But she starts in the Ave future
figure income class, which is soms Wins New Success compensation! Bigger than this, A man she had met at a however, she figures the interest Chicago convention, C. T. Storicahe has in her work