THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE. 20, 1936.
32 BROKEN LEAP YEAR ROMANCES
THE
"We Are Not Afraid To Admit Mistakes
Now" -Ex-fiancee
added romance which is supposed to attach to Leap Year seems to have been somewhat ineffective in 1936 -for with three more broken engagements announced recently the year's total so far is now 32.
Most of these shattered roninuces were of only three or four months' duration. A peer's daughter, a baronet, Navy, Army, and Air Force officers are among those who, after second thoughts, have decided that "the wedding will not now take place."
A chaplain and a flight lieutenant of the RA.F. figured in the broken engagements. The former is the Rev. A. G.į Kayil, eldest son of Con . . A. Kayil, of Waihi, New Zealand, who became engaged to Miss Elizabeth J. Fielden.) adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Then Fielden. of Stratford Lodge, Watford, two years ago. Flight Lieutenant G. Gilchrist became engaged two months ago to Mrs. D. Osborn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Allan Eicy, of Singapore and Malta,
Some of the liroken engagements have meant welling and engages
ment prezenta Awing
and orders for encelled.
Rent
troussenuix heing
IN LOVE SEVERAL TIMES Years ago it would not have been the thing for a couple to announce the breaking of their engagement. but to-day, as a young bride-to-be siel, "we young people are not afraid!
to lasit our mistakes in line.
"Is it not belter la break of one.
or even several engagements, than
go through an unhappy married Me?
BRITAIN TO FLY TWO ROUTES TO AMERICA
WITHIN A YEAR'
"After all, the most sensible wayBRITISH air services will
to regged an engagement is ag a triol of one person's suitability to another --and if after a while it is clear t two people do not fill it off. let them have the courage fo' ndorit it,
When you come to think it pe every young man and wanna falls in
love several Umes, and those who
span both north and south Atlantic within twelve months.
British
flying Circles ar buzzing with excitement over Parliament the disclosure in
rush into mariage' usually regret it; that five competitive groups are afterwards,"
negotiating with the Govern- iment to start the first British air mail service 169 South
Torch Dancer's America.
Dance Of Death
when
San Francisco, June 1. TRAGEDY swept into the gaily lighted Shamrock Club here
a cabaret girl's fantas tic "torch dance" suddenly be. came a scene of high festivity into a wild stampede from, a raging furnace.
Pretty Betty Blossom uras two lighted with dancing torches, when she accidentally kicked one out of her hand. It shot high into the air, bit, and
the immediately ignited
flimsy draperies huge about the nom
The fear-stricken audience rush ed for the exit and in their mad panic & cloakroom trampled to death.
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Fraser and Germany already operate weekly air services to South Amerien. Air France plân”
fo carry passengers soon.
British companies known to be interested in this route are
Imperial Airways, now opeent- fig the Empire routes, and Bri- 15sh Marine Airways, backed by the British Pacific Trust.
This company considera operat- ing trunk Empire sea air routesi with the Sikorsky type American lying bout Hambie, Southampton.
now building at
WEST AFRICA SERVICES Mrs, Amy Mollison is interested in another concern. Pan-African!. Airways, hoping to run West land and African services with water aircraft.
Atlantic Alcxags, prepared a Some fought their way to safety scheme for operating a British
the floor, and West Indies air service others collapsed on when the fire brigate arrived they.
À new coripiany of the found two men and two women burned years ago.
am tame has just been formed to death.
in London.
was
Nine other people were billy sede
ched.
Three members of the orchestra Saved their lives by taking refuge in an ice box from which they were rescued by the firement.
ARREST SEQUEL Following the fire at the Sham- rock club Betty Blossom was arrest-
several
Britain will not build Atlan- He airships on her own nc- count. We now have only & tiny professional airship "com- mittee watching lighter-than-. nir development at the airship station. Cardington.
Most of the £1,500,000 annual
od. She was inter released on misubsidy paid by the British Gov-
She is charged with violating the city law prohibiting the use of anrument to civil aviation will go #towards the North Atlantic and
opan
flame in pubile without a permit, sarmented Empire routes already The manager of the club states Lates that while Bliss Blossom was per-planned.
forming sole dance with a lighted
Audioner Lried to reize une torch to
:
These include Transpacific
torch in each hand & member of the fine from California to New Zea- Ught a cigarette. The dancer Jerked land and China.
up her arm to avoid him and the
torch set the to the draperies in the
1'00m2.
A policoman said that there was no nir in the place and only one exit and entrance al the foot of 'n sleep stairs All the windows were bearded
casu.
up.
HOW HE LOST
HIS FIANCÉE
Belgrade, June, 10.
| NON-MAGNETIC
SHIP FOR POLAR
“DRIFT” VOYAGE
Moscow, June 3. THE organisation of an ex- pedition which will drift, for a long period through the cen By selling his first wife's tral Polar basin aboard a special- tombstone to raise the neces-ly built ship, in order to study sary funds for his second wed- this region, is now being planned lock, Achim Gavrilovitch in the by the Soviet Arctic Institute. town of Valyeva lost his now fiancee,
This "drifting expedition?". will Achim, a fifty year old peasant, take approximately the route fol- after the death of his first wife lowed by the Arctic explored Nan- fell in love with another womansen, in his boat the Fram, between The Fram, car- but lacked the money for the 1893 and 1896. marriage ilcence.
ried by a steady current, travelled from Behring Straits to Franz Josef Jand.
He, therefore, agreed with the local stone mason to sell him the tombstone of his first wife for three <tollurét
Two bosts are being designed for the voyage.
The two men crept into the One of the ships will be non- churchyard at night and earted the magnetic-with brass, bronzo and heavy stone away.
non-cmagnetic steel substituted for The deal became known, and the parts normally made of ordinary flimcee was so shocked that she re- | atéal-to permit the making of fused to marry Achim. United completely accurate magnetle ob- Prces.
servations.
BRITISH MYSTERY SHIP ARRESTED AT SEA
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The Grimsby motor-trawler "Girl Pat" In the subject of the latest mystery of the s She left Grimsby' on April 2 ostensibly for a North Sea Ashing trip; put in at Duver on April. 3; arrived at Corcubion, on the north-west coast of Spain, on Apiši 12; and, after extensive repairs, Jeft that port on April 21 for an unknown destiniğtion. Yesterday she
was arrested at sea.
SHE WAS TOO ILL TO LIVE
-SAY DOCTORS
A WOMAN whose husband is accused of murdering her had only a
few months to live, as she was suffering from an incurablo clisetise;
This was stated by two doctors al Coventry, when the husband, Henry William Len, nged "fifty-eight, of Cross-road. Foleshill, Coventry, was sent for trial.
Man In Love With Rich U.S. Girl Believed To Have Been Poisoned
Paris, June 6.
THE mysterious death of a handsome young, Italian who sud- denly collapsed at a cocktail party in front of an Americau girl to whom he had just proposed marriage, is being investigated by the Paris police.
The girl is Miss Nancy Weinrich, aged 21, the daughter of a wealthy American business man, who came to Paris recently to study French.
The dead man was Luigi Mayer, who is stated to have posed to Miss Weinrich as a wealthy antiquary, but was actually, an
He is believed to have died from poisoning. antiquary's valet.
They met at a party six months ago, and subsequently visited a number of fashionable restaurants and were frequently together.
"As far as we know, Mayer invited Miss Weinrich to a cock- tail party at his flat last night, a police villeial said. "The party was drawing to a close when Mayer suddenly buried his head in his hands and seemed to be in great distress. He said he was madly in love with Miss Weinrich and wanted-to marry her.
"A few minutes later he turned Mins
denthly pale and collapsed., Pet Pigeon
“Weinrich ̈tated to revive him with restoratives, She was very dis
tressed and telephoned to a friend, Goes On ́
M. Zukolski, but Mayer was dead before he arrived.
"Honeymoon"
"Apparently Mayer pretended that he held a high position, be- cause of his love for Miss Wein-ON-SHIP rich. He seems to have had some ! private means which enabled him! to keep an expensive dat."
TWO GIANT NEW AIR LINERS
THAT
SAVED HIM
Southampton. June 1. Before the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Australia sailed from Southampton for Canada to-day, a pigeon flew on board and perched on the bridge. Pedro had returned to his ship. This is the story of Pedro.
The Empress of Australia was leaving Havana for New York re eently on the last of a series of craises between New York and the West Indies when the pigeon are crashed into the wireless stays on anda mast and fell to the bridge. The
U.S. & DUTCH PLANES TO CARRY 56 AND 48 PASSENGERS TWO huge new air liners being built in America Holland,
ship's surgeon having examined the of biri pronouneed bruises but
bones breken, the ship's earpenter was called and made a house in which the bird could rest; the chef fed him with canary seed and dainty morsels, and Pedro, as the. bird had been named, came convalescent.
"The Fokker Company, Amsterdam, has completed plans for one which will carry 56 pas- sengers and a crew of six. By night only 28 passengers will be Carried, but comfortable steep ing-berths will be provided for all of them.
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8001 be.
on one
One morning Captain A. Koth- well, the Commander, put a flag. The rooms for the passenger on the binuncle for Pedro's com will be divided over two doors.
bird perched On the lower floor are two room fort, and there the
for hours every day. He never for 12 passengers, each in addition left the Sinnacle, except to a kitchen; dressing and toilet occasion. Having got his sea lega, rooms, and on the upper floor are Pedro made a thorough inspection. four rooms, in each of which of the boat deck. He became the sents for eight passengers. baggage there are three compart and remained on board during the pet of the ship's officers und men, ments available.
Four air-cooled 1,120 hp. Hispann trip to Scuthampton, between 7,000 engines will provide the machine with and 8.000 miles, a top speed of 220 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 187 miles an hour. The range by day will be 620 miles, and, by night, 040 miles. The total weight of the aircraft fully loaded will be 22% tons.
The
But two days after the slip berthed Pedro disappeared. ship's company thought they had seen the last of him, but Pedro was not) deserter. To-day there was a flutter of wings on board.. Pedro had returned and had brought with him two English The other machine is being built by pigeons. It may be his honeymoon the Sikorsky Company of America. This is a G-engined flying boat with trip. Bccommodation for 48 passengers and
DINING ROOM FOR 20
The weight, fully-- a crew of 10. The six engines, which span of 115ft, are 1,000 h.p. Pratt and Whiny loaded, will be about 65 tons. aro capable of a cruising speed of 180 miles an hour.
Range will be 4,500 miles, with a load of 11 tons. The machinib will be 194 feet in length-and will have a
The rooms for passengers and crew are arranged on two decks, and include a dining-room which occupies the entire width of the boat (15ft.)
with seating for twenty people,
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DANCE MUSIC TO-NIGHT
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A Variety Programme. Far East Motors
Piano Durts-Fox Trot Medley... Ivor Morelun and Dave Kaye, Quick Step Medley....Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye,
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Beo
(a) Honeysuckle and the (Fitz), (b) If you want to know the timo ask n Polleonuen (Rogers), (c) Sweet Genevieve (Tucker), (d) Trinity Church (Gilbert).
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9.30 pm. A Relay of the long- kong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
10 p.m. Big Ben: from Daventry. 11 p.m.
m. A Relay from Daventry. Great Britain v. U.S.A. A running
commentary on the International Polo Match, from Hurlingham,
11.50 p.m. Dance Music,
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midnight Close Down.
Note: There will be a Chinese recorded programme from Z.E.K. un frequency of 60 kilocycles from 8-10.30 p.m.
TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME Pianoforte Recital By Lyia Gurevitch
10-11 n.m A Relay of the Morning Service from St. Joseph's Church.
II .. A Relny of the Morning Service from St. Paul's Church (Chinesu).
12.15-2.30 p.m. European recorded Programie.
12.15 p.m. "Concerto No. 1 in B fint Minor" for Piano and Orchestra Soloman (Tschaikowy) played by (Pianoforte) and the Halle Orchestra,
12.50
Two Violin Solos by Yehudi Menuin,
p.nt.
of the
Beide (Rimsky-Korsakov), 4. Cam-
panella, Op. (Paganini).
Tzar Bride Song
"I
p.m. Local: Time Signal and Weather Report
1.03. p.m. Excerpts from Grand
Opera.
Song-Song of Prince Galitsky
("Prince Igor") (Borodin).
of
dere Chalinping (Bass), Orchestra- Dance of the Apprentices ("The Mastersingers
Nuremberg (Wagner), Duet And With his heart ("Madam heavy
Butterfly") (Paccini)..... Buckman (Soprano) and N. Walker (Contralo), Song- Prize Song Meistersinger-Preis- Tied) (Wagner).....Richard Crooks (Tenor),
Orchestra-You and You Waltz ("Die Fledermaus") (J. Strauss), Song-Tell me I am Beau- tiful ("Thais (Massenel)...Maryse Benujon (Soprano).
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1.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins. 1.35 p.m. Band Music. Slavonic Rhapsody farr. Winter- bottom), Le Reva Passa (lelmer), Hungarian Dance (from "Foreign Parts") (Muszkowski), The Mill in the Black Forest (Eilenberg), March of the Mountain Gnomes (Eilenberg), Under the Banner of Victory-March- (Von Dllon).
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2 p.m. Marek Weber and his Orchestra.
Life in the Vienna Prater, Drink, Brother Drink (Bendix), Drink, Czardas from "The Spirit of the Voyovode" (Grossinun), The Czarina (Ganne), Suilo Orientale (Pony). Dreams on the Occin (Gung1).
230 p.m. Close Down. 4-7 Dan. Chinese Programme. 7-10.30 p.m- European Programme. 7 p.m. "Symphony
No. 101 in D. Minge" ("The Clock") (Haydn) play-
ed by the Yor Symphony
Orchestra of
3. A
A Recital by Peter 7.30 p.m. Dawson (Bass-Baritone).
1. Recit: I Rage, I Melt, I Burn, Aria: O Ruddier than the Cherry ("Acls, and Galaten") (Handoll. 2. Honour and Arms (Handel), Word. Allow Mo! 4. A Song of Tender Men'ries' Prologue –“Pag-. lincel" (Leoncavallo). 5. Love, Could
f only tall thee (Capel),
7.50 p.m.
Viennese Waltzes. Blue Dambo (Strauss), Vienna Blood (Strauss). Viemmese Singing
Birds.
8 p.m. Local Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and Announcements
8.03 p.m. Octets.
Valso
Bluette Air de Balles. (Drigo), Narcissus (Nevin).
8.10 p.m.
From the Studta, Pianoforte Recital by Lois
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Programme.
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