THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1935.
LITTLE PINK HOUSE
THE GIRL IN THE
HOLLYWOOD STAR LIKES TO KNIT
BETTY FURNESS' MOTHER IS HER PAL
BY DAN THOMAS
Hollywood.
If you were to describe Betty Furness in a pro- fessional way, you probably would say, “She's one of the leading young actresses in Hollywood."
And you would be right. That's the reason she has been selected as one of the film colony's six best prospects for stardom.
If you were to describe Betty as a person, you pro- bably would say, "She's a swell guy."
world you
be
Again
right.ever, Mrs. Furness is as much a None of the Baun) adjectives fit pal as she is a mother. While she
this 19-year-old blond actress. frequently advises, she never or You never could refer to her as
Aweet, charming, carefree, or re guinr, because she's all those roll- ed into one,
In truth, she is a "awell guy". a_girl who always would be onej of the gang, whether that gang be made up of boys or girls.
If you were directing somebody to Betty's hume, you certainly would say, "She lives in that awe-i ful pink house on King's Road.”
You'd be right again, with vengeance.
HOME IS HORRIBLE PINK
Yes, boys and girls. that's the bitter truth. Young Miss Furnes lives in a pink stucco bungalow. And not an ordinary pink either. but a very vivid pluk.
However, don't hold that against her. She just renis the house. doesn't own it. And the inside, the only part over which she hus any control, is very attractive and homey.
Betty explains the -exterior colour thusly, "I won't
pay for having it repainted and neither will the owner. So I guess it will have to stay as it is.
But don't
make any cracks about it, beenusei
I don't like it any better than you
do."
She's that way about everything.! Frank and to the point. You al-j ways can depend upon her to speak her mind her surprisingly low voice. No matter how well you know the actress, her voice always is a surprise, because you just don't expect such low tones to come from her lips.
MOTHER IS HER PAL
Betty and her mother keep house together, her father being in New York, where he is engaged in chemical research work. How
With her tousled curly hair and her hearty manner. Betty Furness it a Hollywood favourite. But she doesn't care so much for the social whirl. She'd rather knit, it's a becoming pastime,
as the poso at the left showi
without first putting my hair upsiderable time at the beach and a on curlers," she told me. "I can't lot more time fast running around afford to walk into the studio un-
STARTS TAKING LESSONS
less I'm looking my best, which visiting friends. isn't any too good. And I never know when I might get a call. So I'm always ready for it."
some-
Polygamy in Turkey
WORRIES FOR AUTHORITIES
HABITS OF OLD DAYS
Ankara.
Polygamy and secret marriages fare still problems which are worry- ing the Turkish Republican govern-
ment.
Four years ago marriages were made éivil ceremonies and mono- gamy for all future anjons wag made the law. There is a "anper- Intendent of marriages" in each municipality, and couples who are physically "passed" for marriage come before him for their union.
But habit keeps many of the Turkish population following the old way's Nor, a clever trick | wherchy this is done has been dis- covered
Men from Anatolia go to Istan- bai and there find young women, especially pensioned war widow and orphans, and engage them on employment contracts for work in the provinces.
These contracts are duly! legalised by the publié notary and the women go off.
When they want to marry, they approach the provincial cleric, ex- hibit their contract saying that it is a civil marringe contraet and se the clerie, who, does not understand the document, proceeds to unite them in marriage according to religious rites.
If they married civilly, they would lose their pensious. So they
have invented this way of taking in the clerics, who this innocently break the law in welding them religiously when they have never been through a civil ceremony,
to
The Ankara government is about issue regulations forbidding public notaries to legalise these
mployment contracts which being abused in this way.
are
Wives
"But now I've decided to make!
As for polygamy, Turkish men Atill succeed in practising it. my spare time count for Her whole life right HOW ix
From Thrace they cross over into thing," she says. "So I'm taking Bulgaris and there marry wrapped up in her career, But Mary Elizabeth-that's her real dancing lessons, ballet and tap.under the Koranie law and bring name-Ands plenty of time for out-three limes a week. „Į'ra also tak-them back. In the same way the side activities, especially if she ing three singing lessons a week, men of South Anatolia cross into wants to try on nur hats.
Would you like to hear me sing? they are
the region of Alexandret where outside Turkish juris- She has an unquenchable pas-Tra la la la la.
diction, and there they provide sion for new hits. And the fun-
"And I'm taking tennis lessons themselves, with more wives. nier they are, the better she likes
This practice is also to be stopp- them.
twice each week. That's all I caned by a law which will attach stand of them, they're so vigorous, severe punishments to these subter-
tuges.--United Presa.
She also finds plenty, of time for knitting and sewing.. Odd pastimes for
# pretty screen actress, but she gets considerable enjoyment out of both.-
"Combined, they take a lot of time. But that just means cut-i ting down on my social activities, which I don't care much about any
ders her daughter to do anything. As a result, she is completely She's very adept at both, too, | way. within Betty's confidence. And having made numerous dresses often is included in her parties. and knitted a goodly supply of Although a fine actress-at leas,sweaters and skirts for herself, so good that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Even when she's working, her has just taken up her option for knitting goes right along with her, another, year-Beity doesn't give that impression at all when she's away from the studio.
FL?
"I've noticed a lot of
looking askance at me when I haul people
out my knitting on a net," Betty remarks. "But by the time the picture is half finished, some of them usually have asked me to
Her tousled curly hair hearty manner, so different from the sophisticated cordiality found in most actresses, give her the tench them." appearance of a roved.
Yet she is very painstaking about her ea-
reer..
"Whether I'm working or not and regardless of what time I get home at night. I never go to bed
But
"I like to go to small parties, where you just sit around, and gab and have some laughs. night clubs and those places don't appeal to me. Nothing exciting ever happens in them."
Belty hasn't any particular boy friend to occupy a lot of her time. either. She just pays the field, as she puts it.
By her own admission. young Not that she has an aversion to Miss Furness fpronounced with falling in love. In fact, she ex- the accent on the last syllable) pects to, some day. But in the used to waste most of her time
during the leisure weeks she had meantime she's going to have all between pictures. She spent con- the fun possible,
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