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Boy Film Star's Parents Want Him Back Again
FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW IN HOLLYWOOD "AGAINST OUR WISHES" FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW, the eleven-year-
old London boy who is earning £250 a week as a Hollywood film star, went to America eighteen months ago.
Now his aunt, Miss Millicent Bartholomew, who went with him, has obtained from the American
fuil legal courts guardianship of the boy.
But Freddie's parents in London want him back.
Freddie's father, who is a civil servant and an ex-soldier, and lives in Barnes, says:
Micawber and David His mother wants him,
"His mother and I are deter- mined to get the boy back," he declared. "We are naturally proud of his success, but when he went to America neither 1 nor his mother had any idea that he was going to stay there playing in films.
"Quins" As Hollywood Film Stars
£22,000 FOR WORK IN THREE PICTURES
MARY
New York, Oct. 10.
PICKFORD" and Harold Lloyd, are rival bidders for the Dionne quin-
Ontario tuplets of
AS the world's youngest film stars.
Harold
Lloyd, who originally of- fered £5,000 for the ap- pearance of the five babies in his now comedy, "The Milky finds
Way, Miss Pickford pro- posing better:
terms.
The new Pickford- Lasky organi-1 sation offers £5,000 merely for the quin- tuplets' first appearance.
If this proves successful A secand film would
bring
them £7,000
A third
and £10,000,
YVONNE
As she herself hails
from Ontario, Miss Pickford is hopeful of winning the race. She is stressing her nationality in the negotiations with the State guardians of the Dionne babies.
"As a child of three and a half.
I took him to my parents' home in Warminster for a holiday visit. When returned to London, I left
my
Freddie in Warminster with parents and sister, but I paid for his maintenance and education.
"In Warminster he first dis- played his talent as a child actor, and my sister wished to develop this amazing gift.
"There was some talk of film work, and finally I signed an agreement which gave my sis ter authority to continue his training for film work. Under that agreement I was to main- tain the child and pay for his education.
"During the early summer of last year there was further talk of film work, and tentative arj rangements
mude were
for
Freddie to play in a pleture in America. But those arrangements fell through. Then it was sig rested that my sister should take in J holiday the boy with her visit to Now York,
"I agreed to this.
"I received a telegram from Southampton in July 1938 saying that Freddie and my sister were salling that day.
Holiday Trip
"I thought the visit was merely a holiday trip and that the child would be back in sixty days, le is not back yet, and there seeins! Bila chance of his returning.
"He only stayed in New York for twenty-four hours, and was then taken straight to Hollywood.
"Soon after he was signed up for 'David
film. A
Freddie's capital and estate were
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935.
FACING THE INVADER
INTO THE BLUE
Troops of the Abyssinian regular army entrenched at Adown. Other war photos are awaiting the advance of the Invaders,
on page 11.
Pensioner's Bootlegging
School In Liverpool
CUSTOMS RAID 100 OF HIS CLIENTS AND GAOL HIM
Liverpool, Oct. 15.
ROCKET
FLYING
MACHINES
THROUGH SPACE AT 1,000 M.P.H.
Roswell, Oct. 28. Attempts to pierce the stratosphere with rocket "flying machines" cap-i able of 1,000 miles an hour or more have just been promised the per- manent support of mil- lions of dollars by Harry
PRICES 'LESS THAN COST
CLOSING SALE
*INCLUDING NEW STOCKS
OF
WOOLLEN SWEATERS BABY SETS, TOYS
PLAIN AND FANCY MATERIALS
CHRISTMAS GIFTS NOVELTIES
AT ALMOST “GIVE-AWAY” PRICES.
F. Guggenheim, former FANCY
Ambassador to
Cuba,
for the Guggenheim Foundation.
Guggenheim announced for Dr. Robert H. Goddard of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., that the physicist already has succeeded in shooting self-pro- pelled rockets to unmeasured heights at a speed of more than 700 miles an hour.
Dr. Goddard has solved the | problem of stabilisation of rockets, using a gyroscope principle, and hopes with the almost unlimited funds placed at his disposal by the Guggenheim Foundation to build rockets considerably larger and more powerful than the 12- Tent eylinders with which he hus worked.
Lindberi Looks On
Guggenheim spent an entire day in Dr. Goddard's lonely, desert laboratory with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, his technical adviser jop aviation subjects,-before an- nouncing that the foundation he administers will cantiaue un An enlarged scale, the support it has given the experiments for
Yenes,
five
Lindbergh interested the late Dr. God-
Dantet Guggenheim in
trustee arrangement under A CORRESPONDENCE course in bootlegging was the bright idea of a bald-headed old-age pensioner whose activities, stopped by Customs dard's work in 1930, after the officers, earned him three months' imprisonment here to-day.
to be administered was drawn up.
"The trustees were my sister,
Misa Italia Conti, Captain Keith Ellison, of the Royal Army Service Corps, and Mr. G. Reeves, a tradesman lying in Staines.
"We want our boy back home again, and we are determined to get him. We have never re- linquished our parental guard- janship of the lad, and do not! intend doing so.
"We have no desire to stand in the boy's light. We only want to do the best we can for him. Mother "Stunned"
hus
"The whole business stunned me," Mrs. Bartholomew declared. Other people seem to
of taken possession
my
have child,
"I love my boy, and want him back with me."
Mr. Felix Cunningham, Miss Bartholomew's counsel, said to New York correspondent: "Miss fact Bartholomew has been, in Freddie's guardian for the past eight years. The court action murely serves to put the stamp of legal approval on a position that already exists."
scientist had financed his work al- years. The elder Guggenheim organised an advisory committee of famous
most alone for 16
men from all branches of science
interested in the earth's strato-
During the summer, said the prosecution, this advertise ment appeared in a weekly paper with a nation-wide sale:-
Scotch distiller gives particulars for producing pure spirit:aphore and made it possible for Genuine formula: Hartley, Greenhill-grove, Manor Park, London, Goddard to give his full-time to experiment. The Roswell Inbora E.12."
men
So that wastory was built so the flight of the A Customs officer saw it; fiveftitles of spirit, ton.
were detailed to raid the why "Mr. Hartley," seventy-three rockets at blasting speed from the
snow-white earth would bother no one, and no 1 im-years old, with house. They captured an mense amount of correspondence, moustache, stood in the dock to-one would interfere with the ex-
periments. and a long waiting list.
The letters showed that hun-! dreds of people all over the coun- try had replied to the advertise- written ment. "Hartley" bad them that his fee for the formula was fis, or 78. Gd.
ар-
an
day,
was
B
He said he was deaf, could neither road nor write. His real name
said to be Frederick Young; the Customs officers said he had been sent to gaol for three months in 1926 for running an illicit still.
No Passengers Yot
Dr. Goddard puts little em- phasis on the layman's dream of passenger travel through space in one of his projectiles, His primary objective is a rocket
Instructions were appended for making the liquor. There were also plans and specifica- tions of the necessary 1
paratus; there was even offer to supply this for 37s. 6d. with full directions. Customs officers went by car to every address that could be found. Search warrants were obtained; more than a hundred houses were raided, in the north, midlands, Hundreds of pounds had been radio waves, takes place, Guggen- south, west, Wales, Ireland-even arent by the Government trying heim said. the Orkneys and Shetlands.
Mr. Leslie Pocock, prosecuting that will carry meteorological counsel, said Young had planned recording instruments to heights to distribute 10,000 pamphlets.of 50 miles or more and bring. There had been a greater increase them back safely to earth. this year than ever before in the illicit spirits traffe, and stills had been found for the manufacture to science to obtain data in regions of the most lethal form of cock-exceeding 30 miles in height where electrical phenomena, including tails.
tonisation and the reflection of
A Film Correspondent writes: David Selznick and George Cukor, producer and director of "David Copperfield," visited Eng- land and interviewed some 700 oys for the part. Freddie Bartho- lomow vas one of them.
Miss Bartholomew, his aunt, took him to Amerien on holiday. and on arrival in Hollywood the "Copperfield" contract, was signed. He was paid £30 a week. He was so successful that his salary was raised to £60 a week, and he was given a part in the new Garbo film "Anna Karenina.
Now his salary has been raised to £250. He is under a seven years' contract.
BANDITS MAKE GIRL UNDRESS IN TAXICAB
Chiengo, Oct. 20. Flora Duane, a young French dancor who only arrived in Chica- go the previous day, yesterday had her firat adventure with American bandits.
Three gunmen stopped the cah In which she was riding with her escort, Nate Kraevitz, and forced the couple to strip down to their underclothing. They were then. bound with adhesive tape and left in the cnb.
Hollywood understands that the Ontario Governinent thinks the sum of £20,000 not too much for the presence of the
The bandits took $40 and a starlets in a film, although an-
watch from Kraevitz and a din other report states "that the mond ring and bracelet worth highest bid will be accepted. £160 from Duane-United Press.
10,000 Pamphlets
Stilla were discovered
to trace sills resulting from Young's correspondence. All over'
"It is of the utmost importance"
"Another, mission will be as-
the country maximum penalties tronomical photography without. in all had been imposed on persons to interference of the earth's atmo- sorts of surprising places; quan-' whom Young had supplied them. sphere."-United Press.
Chinese Economic Mission to Japan, composed of well-known business men and financiers, before
they salled from Shanghai last week.
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