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RKO RADIO'S MILLION DOLLAR SPECTACLE !
The Play that Swept the World
is the Triumph
of the Screen!
Richard Walton
Tully's matchlows
stage success.......
a thousand was
more thrilling.. nowl
KING VIDORY
BIRD OF PARADISE
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PICTURE
RKO-RADIO PICTURE
DOLORES DEL RIO and JOEL MCCREA John Halliday, Creighton Chanoy, Richard"Skoots"Gallagher, Bert Roach. David O. Selznick, Executive Producer NEXT CHANGE
IT. HELD THE NATION
*
BREATHLESS
WITH LAUGHTER AND TEARS
CARL LAEMMLE presents
STRICTLY
DISHONORABLES
with
PAUL LUKAS
as the opera singar
SIDNEY. FOX
as the sweet young thing
LEWIS STONE
as the kindly judge GEORGE MEIKER
as the boy from Drange
WILLIAM RICCIARD,
the
BIDNEY TOLER
as the irish cop
Directed by
JOHN STAHL
A
UNIVERSAL
NEWCASTLE CIVIC AFFAIRS
|
Produced by
Carl Lasmal Jr. from the Brock Pambar- ton stage hit by Preston Sturgos
PICTUR, E....
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1933.
with alleged irregularities in civic matters to receive during the next two months any evidence of maladministration of city affairs which any citizen may confidential- ly produce. Any information so CHARGES INVITED recolved he is to place before the Ministry of Health, if thought The Lord Mayor of Newcastle dosirable, with
2 viaw to has been authorised, in connexion Pometal inquiry.
MALADMINSTRATION
WOMAN'S LOST
FORTUNE
Interest In £800,000
tributing company called F, Lionel Rapson, Limited. The original Berjeant Sullivan stated that directors of the company were' Sir Misa Schints had been R very wealthy woman. She had a life Lionel Halsey, Colonel Halsey and man named Keston. Mida £300,000 SUNK IN ONE Interest in sums of £190,000 and a
£150,000. &
further interest in Schintz lost about £800,000 over £56,000, and, in addition, had loose the affairs of the company, which nesota of £400,000 or £460,000. "woman The affairs of a
of His Lordship And she is now was now in liquidation.
Serjeant Sullivan added that, aimple tastea," who, it was said, a bankrupt? at one time had loose assots of "Yes," replied counsel, but she with the assistance of Mr. Wyatt, £400,000 or £450,000. In addition has had very little of her money,"
Mr. Rapson persuaded Miss to a life interest in £390,000, and Serjeant Sullivan added that this who afterwards became bankrupt,
COMPANY
of
Schintz to lend large sums
the company
money to prevent
going into liquidation, and all the money was lost eventually.
Mr. Juatico Luxmoore-Who
came before Mr. Justice Luxmoore once wealthy woman was now be In the Chancery Division recently. Ing supported by the kindness of
The action was brought by the her relatives. trustee in bankruptcy of Miss Serjeant Sullivan added that Susan Dorn Cecelia Schintz, for- Mrs. Colville-Hyde had been added was advising this lady when she merly of Thickthorn, near Kenil-as a defendant at her own request, lent the money? worth, against Mr. Joseph Wyatt, Mr. Wyatt was managing clerk to
"Rapson and Wyatt," roplled of Lincoln's Inn-flelda, W.C., and a Arm of solicitors, and conducted counsel, who alleged that at all Mra. Mary Jane Colville-Hyde, of his firm's business with Miasmaterial times Wyatt was in part- Buckingham-gate, S.W.
Schintz, who was a woman of nership with man named Pank addicted as unlicensed moneylenders. Mrs. The plaintiff claims a declara-extreme simplicity and
Colville-Hyde had added herself as tion that certain mortgages grant- to charity, to which she gavo
a defendant, alleging that certain between great deal, ed by Miss Schintz February, 1026, and March, 1929, In 1016, while living at Thick of the moneys lent by Wyatt and were null and vold on the grounds thorn, she met a Mr. Frederick 'ask wore lent substantially out that Mr. Wyatt was an unlicensed Lionel Rapson, who came into her of trust funds under which she moneylender; that they were pro- employment through an advertise was a beneficiary. cured by undue influence on his ment for someone to look after part; and that there was no con- her motor-cara. Mr. Rapson sferation given to Miss Schintz, į quickly got himself Into
Mr. Wyatt, in his defence, said There is also a claim for de-Schiniz'a good graces, and she Serjeant Sullivan, denied that he conducted all his firm's business livery up of the mortgages for financed enterprises of his.
with Miss Schintz or that Rapson cancellation; an Injunction to "Eventually," added Serjeant obtained an ascendancy over her, restrain Mr. Wyatt from acting on | Sullivan, "Rapson found he could He, also denied that he was over the mortgages; an; injunction to get very much larger sums of in partnership with Mr. Pask, or restrain him from receiving money out of Miss Schintz, and that either of them ever carried moneys in respect of the mort he started out as £1 merchant on a moneylending business. gaged properties; an inquiry as prince. Thickthorn was to moneys received by him to Miss Schintz's use; and for damages for alleged breach of duty as Miss Schintz's legal and confidential adviser.
not on
an appropriate scale, nud so this Indy bought Ottershaw Park, for which she paid £120,000. She also spent £30,000 or £40,000 on fitting it out.
"
Mr. Wyatt's Defence
He admitted that in conjunc- tlon with Pask he advanced money to Miss Schintz on the security of Ottershaw Park mortgages on
and Thickthorn. Mr. Wyatt denl ed that he assisted Rapion to assert any ascendancy over Miss Schintz, or that he ever used any influence to induce her to give the mortgages.
Serjeant Sullivan, K.C., Mr.
Motor Tyre Company Harold Simmons, Mr. Cyril Rad- cliffo, and Mr. Herbert Hart (in-
"Then came the strange position structed by Messrs. Lazarus, Son, that Ripson, who had come as a and L. A. Hart) appear Tor the
sort of foreman in the garage, trustee; Sir William Jowitt, K.Cived in a suite of apartments at Sir William Jowitt stated that Mr. W. F. Swords, K.C., Mr. F.Ottershaw Park and eventually it was not alleged by the plaintiff W. Beney, and Mr. Neil Lawson obtained such an influence with that Mr. Wyatt individually had (instructed by Messrs. Kenneth Miss Schlatz that she acted in carried on moneylending tran Brown, Baker, Baker) are for Br.whatever mauner he advised." sactions, but only in conjunction Wyatt; and Sir Herbert Cunliffe
with Mr. Pask.
and Mr. Charles Romer (instructed Rapson invented a motor tyre, by Messrs. Speechly, Mumford and eventually the
His Lordship said that he Rapson and Craig) represent Mrs. Col- Tyre and Jack Company was thought that this had been made ville-Hyde.
formed and, subsequently, a dis- clear.
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Romance of a girl reporter "You run to the phone in the midst of a kiss..some day you'll let it ring!"
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Guardsman
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Roland YOUNG
Zaen PITTS
THE PRIZE PICTURE of the YEAR
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William
Maureen O'Sullivan
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The British Sea Drama
"CALL of the SEA"
MAJESTIC
THIS
NIGHT
IS THE
Caramelon Gletur
with
Lily Damira,.. 'Charlie' Ruggles,
Roland Young,
Cary Grant.
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
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What a MERRY mix
Over-night husband, make-believe-wife, Fix-it-up Friend! Roaring Farce.-