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BARITONE THAT AMAZES DOCTORS
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936.
Cost: Of Living
BRIAN STANI-
FORTH, aged four,
WIFE ASKS £160 A WEEK "TO LIVE ON": BOY: £110
How The Money Goes PROBLEM No. 1. 1= £8,360 a year (2160 a week) a “reasonable" income for a woman to demand, by way of alimony, for her- self and her twenty-year-old daughter to live on? PROBLEM No. 2. Is £4,560 a year (roughly £48 a week) a
sufficient income for a boy of eighteen?.
of Ringing low road,probe Americhe Canadian courts have decided that the solu Sheffield, has a deep ba-tion of Problem No. 2 is "Yes, £84 la sufficient, and have declined ritone voice.
The courts have still to give their solution of
He weighs four and a half stones, stands four feet in height and takes оnе in shoca..
But мін most embarrassing characteristic Is that deep baritone voice,
outside," said "When He talks Mrs. Staniforth to a press repre- sentative, "people just stand and
stare.
"It la like a miniature sergeant- major speaking,
"He invariably causes a sensa- tion, and people actually follow us just to listen to him talking,
"It is terribly embarrassing at timea."
DOCTOR AMAZED
Brian's father, Mr. W.,S, Stant- forth, who is the proprietor of a Shefeld firm of cutlery and fishing tackle suppliers, said:
"Six months ago Brian fell out of my car at Buxton and was taken to hospital there.
"He started to cry. For a few moments the doctor who was at tending him listened in amazement, and then said, 'There is something wrong with him-something wrong
with him.'
to grant an increase to £110 a week. The woman who sets Problem | No. 1 is Mrn. Blanche Lemelson Marquis, who lives in a suito at! the Waldorf-Astoria Itel, Now York.
In her suit for £8,360 a year alimony she gave this list of things as "ntteasary annual ex- penditure":
Rent, £1,920. Food, £950.pr Daughter's education, £288. Tips, £120.
Daughter's entertainment, £180. Daughter's companion, £240. Chauffeur, £480.
Extra food, summer, £300. Clothes, £1,000.
Winter trip to Florida, £900. Summer home, £700. Doctors and dentists, £400. Miscellaneous, £240.
Mrs. Marquis alleges that her husband, Leonard J. Marquis, a New York broker, left her after twenty-eight years of marriage for Elvira Trabert, a German actress now appearing in New York.
She says that she and her hus-
"It was some time before I could assure the doctor that the 'some-band and daughter have for years
Ho applied for an increase of £1,200 a year on Woodruff's present allowance of £4,560 so that he may be "brought up in a manner suitable to the position in life he will have on attaining his majority."
The court decided that Mr. Woodruff will have to continue to rub along somehow or other on his present £4,500 a year.
BOY DISCOVERS £7,000 DIAMOND
The most perfect white diamond found in Brazil in the last thirty years has been discovered at the Boa Vista Mine (anys Keuter).
It was noticed by a boy who was cleaning a separator · embedded in a lump of clay. The stone, which weighs 50 carat, is estimated to bo worth £7,000.
Disguised
thing had not been caused by the lived at the rate of: £12,480 a Professor
accident, and that Brian was al-year, and she asks for approxi ways like that."
Mr. Staniforth has decided that as soon as Brian is old enough to go to school he will have singing lessons.
mately two-thirds of that sum so that she and her daughter can continue to live as they have been accustomed.
Her application is adjourned for the court to do some thinking. Problem No. 2 is raised by Mr. Edwin T. Ward, guarding of eighteen-year-old Welland de
The child has had a deep voice over since he was able to speak. Doctors cannot explain it, but they have assured Brian's parents that it is nothing to worry about.
Brian has an elder brother whose Ontario. voice and size are normal.
Venux Woodruff, of St. Catherines,
NEW SURVEY OF
In Pupil's Examination.
Calcutta, Dec. 15.
A University professor in dis- guise took the place of one of his pupils at an examination. Wear- ing dark glasses and a false moustache, he attempted to sit at the examination for the B.A. de- grée of Calcutta University,
BRITAIN BY AIR Ripon College, Calcutta, and to-
Britain is to be surveyed from the air...
Ho in Professor A. K. Gupta, of
day he was sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment on each of two charges-of cheat- gery of answer papers for the purpose of cheating.
As a preliminary test, aerial photographs are to be taken of about 260,000 acres, or roughly, 408 square miles, around, Birming-ing by impersonation, and of for
ham.
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The photographs will then be reduced in size and used in the revision of the old Survey Maps.
In this way will be effected the revision of some 280 Ordnance Survey Sheets...........
Air Search
For Lost Jungle City
The Government of India has | ordered an àir survey of all the dead. forgotten cities hidden in the jungles of India,
They are to be photographer and charted, so that, after cen- turies of desolation, they can be restored.
They are especially required to day by airmen, to whom India's dense, unpenetrated jungles "pre- sent dangers more erael than the desert or the ocean.
NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS.
F289, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936. Selection
F292.
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PLEASE TEACHER. Selection. Pianoforte Solos.. Patricia Rossborough..
EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT, Selection BIG BROADCAST OF 1936.Selection. His Rhythm.
F287. SERENADE. (Heykens)
Phil Green &
VOLGA SONG... (Lchar) Orgon Solos. Marcel Palotti
F285. WHENEVER I THINK.
F286.
I FEEL A SONG COMIN' ON, Vocal. Lesṭlo Hutchinson EAST OF THE SUN.
MY HEART IS HAUNTED.Vocal, Leslie Hutchinson, F283. THE CHOST OF DINAH, F. T.
TRUCKIN', F. T. Nat Gonella & His Georgians. F284. "OH PETER
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PIDGIN ENGLISH HULA, Nat Gonella & His Georgian CESHWIN FOX TROT MEDLEY. Harry Roy's Tiger
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278. LULU'S BACK IN TOWN. F. T.
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THE PICCOLINO: One Step. (both from "Top Hat")" Harry Roy & His Orch
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The aerial survey will take a|ted. month, and the rectification of the photographs will be completed in charges, another three months. Thus in
accom. as many months will be pilshed what previously took
years.
IN WRONG SEAT The professor first aroused the suspicions of those in charge of
19 Man with the name of Worry. 20 Play.
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2. Remembrance lost. 27 Good sense.
29 Birds that don't fly.
To make the survey. the pilot the examination by occupying a 28 East Anglian river. will fly his neroplane in parallel wrong sent in tile examination height and speed. Ines of flight, at a prearranged hall. This was reported to the
controller of examinations.
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Suspicions were intensified by 34 This ng si, clue is unorthodox. overlap the neighbouring one, and on completion of each day's work the professor's dark glasses, the pictures taken will be joined But it was an, electric fan up...
whirling above the professor's from similarly shaped texture undoing. Before the astonished Buildings are distinguishable head which was to prove his finni patches by the shadowe cast, and gaze of
the officials the false
no difficulty presents itself in moustacho slowly succumbed to accurately Interpreting roads, the breeze from the fan. rallways, footpaths, and hedges. Bit by bit it detached itself The second, built by the greatest from the professor's lip until one of India's rulers, Akbar the Great, side of it had completely dis in the seventeenth century, has appeared." some of the most famous buildings Before the process of disinte- In the world... -
gration could go further the pro- fessor bolted.
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But at night, when the sight. seers have departed, the wolf, the tiger and the snake hold revel there.
and caught. By this time he had He was chased down the street
Plague, pestilence, famine, the foreign invader and the na- tive religious fanatic drove mén away from. these cities. } Where the jungle has now come in there wero arable fields, vill- uges plentifully supplied with Using maps based on the his wells, and all much amenities of torical records of the Government A fow, "days" Inter "Samaresh life ne an agrarian people need. of India, airmen specially ap-Chandra Mookerjoe was arrested Two famous examples of these pointed for the task will attempt on his arrival in Calcutta from ancient cities are the marble ruins to bring back details of other dead | Puri, Bihar, where he had been of amber and Fathopur Sikri, cities.
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