TASMANIAN CINEMA
STAR
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
HAUPTMANN WINS POINT BUT
Merlo Oberon, English screen star, returns on the Berengarla after a vacation of several weeks In England. She will playing the cinema version of the "Children's Hour" upon her return to Holly. WOOD
CLARK GABLE IN DIVORCE
LONG WAY TO GO.
SUPREME COURT ONLY START OF BATTLE
FINAL VICTORY MAY STILL MEAN LIFE IN PRISON
WASHINGTON, DEC. 10,
COUNSEL FOR BRUNO RICHARD HAUPTMANN, WHO IS UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, JR., HAS WON FIRST BLOOD IN THE COURT FROM WHICH THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO APPEAL.
The United States Supreme Colrt has granted the appeal on behalf of Hamptmann by Egbert Rosenrans, the young New Jersey attorney who sat across the table from Hauptmann during the six weeks of the trial, that an appeal.be allowed.
This was a preliminary to ask-the defence fund is problematical, ing the Supreme Court to review but if they haven't, there still in the case. The Supreme Court recourse left to them. They can may refuse to hear it, if its Jus-certify to the Supreme Court that ticca are convinced that no con- their client is a pauper, unable to meet any further expenses. In stitutional issue is involved.
that arent, the Federat government" In the next six weeks there will will have to pay the $200. After an involved and technical, the record was printed, Rosecrans reries of legal moves which will de-had untli November 14 to file a peti- termine for all time, so far as the tion with the Supreme Court. law is concerned, whether Haupt-Lawyers call that petition a Write ninin kidnapped and murdered of Certiorari. Actually, It is n the Lindbergh baby, and whether plea to the Supreme Court to con- he did it alone.
sider the case. Then the court
come
No one can reckon with certainty either grants the Write or refuses
with which the speed
the to do so. If it refuses, the case. Supreme Court justices work, but is closed without Hauptmann's
ON
it is probable that the lean-jawed name ever being mentioned in the German who sits in the death Supreme Court.
HAPPINESS LOST house at Trenton State Prison will If the Write is granted, a date
FOR SAKE OF HIS "FANS"
know the answer before the New will be set for the lawyers to argue the case with suitable time allotted Year..
Resecrans notice announced the to the prosecution-headed by At- Intention of trying to reverse the torney General David T. Wilentz decision of the New Jersey Appeals of New Jersey-for the presenta- Court. That court decided Haupt- tion of argument, manu received a fair trial during Rovely does the Supreme Cour U. S. SHOCKED and February in the stuffy, white sauc
the six weeks he spent last January accept a case unless a constitutional Is involved. Hauptmann's pillared building known as hunter atlerneys contend the 14th Amend don County Court House, It ment
which seenis to be under further decided that Hauptmann (argument reads: was guilty az charged in the In- "Nor shall any state deprive dictment, which means the Appeals any person of life. liberty ur without due process of court believed that Hauptmann property .committed the crime alone on the law, nor deny to any person within blustery March night In 1932. The its jurisdiction the equal protec
Hauptmann [tion of the laws," alone of the Kidnapping.
Should the Supreme Court order The legal procedure will be a new trial and should Hauptmann follows:
be acquitted, his troubles would nut The record of the appeal will be be over. Indictments charging printed here so that copies can be extortion and Illegal hoarding of of the ninegold still stand ainst him in provided for each Supreme Court Justices. That willBronx County, New York, and he Whether Haupt- would go on tria) charged with cost about $200. mann's lawyers have $200 left in those offences.-United Preas
New York, Dec. 1. Clark Gable, best-loved idol of women film fans since Valentino, has worked so hard to please his public that he has sacrificed his own domestic happiness. . This Was
the explanation given to-day by his friends of the breach which has occurred between the handsome film star and his second wife, Rhea, who has been married twice before.
The Gables have been living apart for some months and at present they have 3,000 miles of the American Continent between them, the actor living in a New York hotel and his wife remain- ing in Hollywood.
Mrs.. Gable said that she in- tends to file a sult for divorce.as. soon as the legal formalitics per- mit.
CULTURED WIFE
The shipwreck of the Gables' married happiness has caused a greater shock to the film public than any similar breach since Mary Plekford's, separation from Douglas Fairbanks.
The couple, were married in June, 1931, and it is since that date that Clark Gable's rise to the peak of popularity has taken place.
He crowned his performance Inst year with the award of the Motion Picttire Academy's medal for his work in "It Happened One Night"
Mrs. Gable is a cultured woman and a charining hostess, who has devoted herself to ad- vancing her husband's carcer, and the couple were believed to be ideally mated.
The netor is 34 and his wife 111 years older. Friends believe that! this disparity in age, coupled with Clark Gable's preoccupation with his career, led to domestic fric- Hon.
AMBITIOUS
Mrs. Gable said he was tired) and overworked. Therefore he be
live came somewhat difficult to with and . misunderstandings arose."
Josephine Dillon, Clark Gable's first wife, who is a dramatic coach at Hollywood, made the following comment on the separation:
indictment
Recused
IN SCANDAL TRIAL
Madame Stávisky, one of the principal characters in the great Stavisky case in Paris, is above with one of her counsellors outside the Department of Justice.
Been
PERILS OF MAP MAKING
“Clark has an overwhelming ambition to which everything described to the Royal Society of Arka The perils of map-making were else must be sacrificed, and 1
in London recently by Colonel Sir believe this applies to the pre-(Arthur) Henry McMahon, Jurner sent situation."
Foreign Secretary to the Government Incidentally, Clark Gable's first of India.. wife was ten years older than he
WOR..
WOMEN ADMIRERS
On his return recently from al South American tour he was the.
He had personally demarcated 1,30 miles of boundary, working under con- ditions of grent hardship, notably on the Afghan border.
Referring to the Seistan mission to object of amazing demonstrations | South-cnat Afghanistan in 1992, Sir, by women admirers.
Henry and that the work took 2
At Santiago, Chile, more than years of great hardship. 100 women swarmed into his hotel room, amothered him in kisses and grees to below zero, men died from Temperatures ranged from 120-de- stole his entire outfit of under- hout, some were frozen to death, some wear, socks and handkerchiefs as died from thirst and some from drown- souvenirs.
ing. His experiences on this tour, ile Four thousand nine hundred camels signed as a rest çure, reduced himinni 117 horses succumbed to hardship to a state of nervous prostration. pr disease.
1985.
ATTACK
ON: NAZIS
Major Attice, the lender of the British Labour party je shown hero as he ackdressed a grent anti-Nazi demonstration in Hyde Park, London, organised by the British Non-Sectarian Anti-Noz! Council. A huge crowd of 50,000 attended the demonstration organized as a
protest against Nazi persecution.
MOVE TO LEAGUE'S LUXURY PALACE IS COSTING A FORTUNE
Geneva, Dec. 1.
JOB suitable for a super-housewife has been given to A
a man by M. Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General of the League of Nations.
And the removal in due to anish by Christmas. This is what it in- volves:
To Senor P. de Azcurate, form- decorators are not yet out of the member of the Spanish new home, or in this case, palace, Government, has been entrusted he post of "commanding officer" of the League's removal to its new £1,000,000 paláce.,
It is one of the biggest mov- ing jobs in the world.
former secretary of the Czecho A Czecho-Slovakian, Dr. Steneck, Slovak Ministry of Finance, Is to assist Senor de Azearate,
"UPHEAVAL"
They face the housewife's usual problem moving time-thef
nt
Girl Who Started World Tour With £3
A TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD American girl left Los Angeles just under a year ago with steerage ticket to Japan and fifteen dollars,
csc.
About forty vans and more than 100 men will be employed.
The principal work will last -more than a week, and will cost
a small fortune.
Many hundreds of tons of paper, mostly documents and pamphlets, have to be transplanted.
During the "upheaval," ull League meetings will coase, unless urgent questions arise.
More than 500 members of the staff of fifty nationalities are changing their quarters.
A special strong room has been constructed in the now library with wails'n yard thick, to house precious-volumes-and-documenta This part of the removal · began` Reveral weeks ago.
One of the rarest volumes will
be a certified copy of the Covenant which lay covered in dust in a tin box In the League's legal sec-
tlon."
If the cost of romoval la enorm- Ious, the healing and lighting bili in the new. palace will be even Jarger.
But they don't take ad- vantage of it. They interest themselves only in their cul- ture and ignore public life. "My next place was Korea. Now she has reached London stayed there only a foar days, then Infter some remarkable experi-I went on to Siberia.
"To get to Moscow I sold all my clothes, bought, some cheap, Rus- She is Gweri Van der Kik, a graduate of the University of stan garments, and dressed my
self as a peasant girl. Southern California. She told a London aiewspaper representative There I lectured on the Japan-: the story of her self-supporting ese drama and taught American
ences.
Adventure..
"Before I left California," she said, " was teaching children to act for the screen.
ONLY WHITE GIRL
"In December last I bought a steerage ticket in a. Japanese ship and left with Afteen dollars and a trunk of clothes.
"I had an upper berth in a long room in which there were about thirty bunks and a long table. My of fellow-passengers consisted Japanese men, women, and children.
dancing.
bo
Three hundred thousand cubic metres of air will heated daily, sufficient for 5,500 persons, or fifty-five cubic metres per person,
The palace contains 900 offices and other boms. There are over)
"I found the Russian women | five acres of glass with 1,050 win-
the most emancipated of any dows and 1,700 doors. country I have visited. They
hald positions of responsibility
and play an equal part in public BARBARA
life with the men. '
"They look for no patting HUTTON
and pampering from the men either. It struck me, however, that they have lost much of THE feminine charm.
"Their homes are not very clean and there seems generally to be n domestic apathy,
THE
baby expected in the spring by Countess Haugwitz Reventlow--Bar- bara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress will be born in "The Finnish women seem to be just the opposite to the Russian England. "My first job in Tokyo was teach- women. They are gentle, charm- Since she and her forty-year- ing children English, and I sang ining, and domesticated. clubs and cafes.
"I was the only white girl. The food consisted of raw fish, rice, pickles, and fish soup. We ate in
the same room.
"I found the Japanese women ruled their men by gentleness. Nagging is unknown among the women.
"From Tokyo I went 500 miles to Kobe to take a job as secretary to an Englishman. The journey there exhausted my funds, and I arrived penniless and homeless. My employer had meanwhile died.
WENT HUNGRY
life sorene.
Their
He said to me: Must be a terrific strain on the fuselage 1 maid to him; fra a gredier dirain to refuselage Johnnie Walker,. 1.
Let a man go where he will-a bottle of Johnnie Walker is sure to be found within reach. This old whisky is far too excellent to be confined to one country, or one corner of the globe. The fame of its very special qualities has travelled to all parts. You are indeed marooned if you are long separated from your favourite whisky.
By Appointment to
Johnnie
·Barn 1820
His Maleny the King |
Walker
Still going Strous
Sols Agents for China
GALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO, LTD.
CUBE
· HONGKONG.
The
Cook's
"Best Friend”
Delicious soups and gravies can be made in a few minutes with Oxo Cubes as the meat basis. Oxo saves expense and labour""""It uuds richness, and nourishment to all meat dishes and makes other foods more easily assimilated.
Oxo makes good cooking better.
OXO
homes are clean and their family old Danish husband arrived in London from Paris recently they have visited a, number of town "From Finland I went to houses looking for one in which
IN Scandinavia. There I met and to settle down for a long stay in was entertained by the wife of England. the American Minister.
They have not yet fixed on found the Scandinavian woman one.
to be the ideal woman. She This will be the fourth coun- possesses wit, charin, and in-try, apart from America, in dulges in everything of in-which the Countess will have
terest.
"In Paris I went broke, and had
residences.
The others are Italy, Aus-
to live on brend and choose for a tralia and Denmark, where her. "For three days I land nothing week. Then I walked to Geneva husband owns one of the finest
Nations conference.":
to eat and slept in a mission house, and looked in on tho League of estates in the country. Then I went to the American con sul. He helped me find a job) teaching. "I was Then I went to Tientsin.
Apart from her house-hunt-
·Miss Van der Kik intends to staying, the Countess occasionally
BRITISH
BRITISH
BEEF in BRIEF
MALT
HOPS
THERE'S NO FAULT
·C 273
ALLSOPP'S
SOLE AGENTS:
in Kobe four months. in England until Christmas lectur. eaves the West End hotel where Caldbeck Macgregor & Co., Ltc
Ing and studying English feminine sho, is, now staying and goes for culture. Sho will go to Abyssinia, drives with her husband.
"Chinese women are much India, China, Japan; and return to She celebrated her twenty- more emancipated than Japan Los Angeles during next year.
third birthday last month,
Page 15Page 16