THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1936.
FORTUNE BUILT ON PACK OF CARDS
Bridge King, Once £2-a-Week Man, Earns £100,000
£100,000 a Year
NEW YEAR HONOUR AWARD ERASED CANCELLATION of the
award of a New Year Honour was notified in the London Gazette recently.
"The King has directed that the appointment of Frank Jago Munford to be a Mem- ber of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Em- pire, dated January 1, 1918, shall be cancelled and
nulled, and his name erased 'from the register, in conse- quence of his having been convicted by the civil power."
Women Insist On Rights At Coronation So
are
many women claiming their rights to
Blind Builder
ling since 8, Leo Anderson, 33, of Terkeley, Call, who makes his liv- ing an 'nastur and automobila mechaale, has started work on his lite's ambition-building a power cabin cruiser. Doctora sny hell never see the results of his crafts- marship, but friends Insist it'll be a reni Jub when completed.
RED HOT BRICKS AS MEDICINE
perform services of honour RAYS FOR RHEUMATISM at the Coronation next year! Red hot bricks can be used that the problem for the as a form of treatment, accord- Dr. Matthew B. Ray, Lords Commissioners now is ing to not so much "Have women senior honorary physician to the British Red Cross Clinic.
HE HAS 100 SECRETARIES
ELY
By CLIFFORD LEWIS
'LY CULBERTSON, the man who made 20 million people bridge-crazy, is to- day carning £100,000 a year.
Yet three years after the war he was living on £2 a week, sometimes wondering where he would find his next meal.
Ely Culbertson, who is staying in a luxury suite at a London hotel, told me the astonishing story of his climb from obscurity.
"My father, a Russian mer. chant, had a fortune of a million pounds," he said,
"He lost it all in the Revolution. I was plunged Into poverty.lived on £2 week when I was lucky more often less than that.
"In 1921. penniless. I walked into the Knickerbocker Club, New York, where a friend was going to buy me a meal. There it was suggested 1 should teach America the selence of European Bridge playing.
"My wife thought I had the mak- ings of a great bridge tutor, I took her
worked for suggestion. We years devising a scheme.
A Millionaire
successfully. Finally,
រ
"I tried to put it acroas-un-
1 hired publisher myself and gave my system to the world.
"In ten years I was a millionaire." To-day Ely Culbertson has 100- secretaries,
s gross income is more than £100,000 a year;
He makes £24,000 from broad- casts;
£12.000 from articles syndi- cated in 170 American news- papers:
Iectures I
year.
36 6,800 from
the right?" to join in the for rheumatism. He makes his
A million of his books have sold ceremonial, but "Have they recommendation in an article the strength?"
published in the British Medi-two years, bringing him an in-
come of £40,000 a year. The Lords Commissioners,cal Journal.
Thousands pour in from elgarette! The technique, one expert recalled card ups and endorsements. appointed by the King in his
is that It costs him £6,000 a year to press representative last proclamation to examine to
used by prehistoric man 500,000 answer his correspondence, the rights and privileges of years ago for cooking his food, those whose familles have per- Dr. Ray's formula simple: Make formed services of honour at two bricks Coronations, are faced with an increasing number of claims.
The war eliminated a great many" male heirs of Britain's goc families. In the past when the rights rested on a woman she was required to name a male deputy. This was the Custom at the last two Coronations.
Since then women have enne into their own,
ceived
claims.
If women are allowed to exereise their rights, then the King may have some attending him at the Corona
red hot In a fire and place them at the bottom of an old bucket. Over this support the limb to be treated, covering it the while with blankets.
INFRA-RED RAYS
"can
"A knee, elbow, wrist, ankle, foot, or hand," he says,
thus be exposed to infra-red rays, which are just as effective as those
derived frun a more expensive electrical SEALED CLAIMS Scores of sented envelopes re-apparatus."
This in-only-one-form-of many by the commissioners from family solicitors contain women's apparently strange treatments that have lately been recommended for gold is Colloidal rheumatism. TheLMAUS favoured by some authorities: ozone baths by others. Bee stings have been tried with success In certain and good results have been cases,
with ultra-short radio claimed
High frequency electric currents have been used to supply Internal heat to the afflicted joint, and whiskey (less now than formerly) to supply heat to the whole body. Lemons have been favoured by some authorities because of their potassium content, and condemned by others
tion.
Can a woman be trusted to carry a heavy Sword of State erect for nearly two hours?
That is one problem to be settled.
SCOTLAND'S NEW
MONSTER
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.
July 21.
The crew of the drifter Coral Bunk
returning here to-day gave graphic details of a weird monster which
waves,
on the score of their neldity. Many
Recipe For Success
"The number of hours you work is immaterial. I work hard-10 hours a day-because I like it.
It was n long,
hard fight.
mates, but
the
Wild West may succumb
to the iLollywood influence. Here's the
Intest manifestation.
Geraldine Mulqueeney, cachewing
in favour
chaps model
of
beach outfit was elected queen of the Livermore,
Cal, Rodeo.
Yacht's World Trip To
Give Screen Realism
Southwick (near Brighton), July 15. Athene, a small, elegant yacht of 75 tons, dropped anchor off Southwick to-day and waited for the tide so that she could enter harbour and all but complete a voyage which may revolutionise the film industry.
"I earc nothing for money don't consider I have yet started to
This yawl-rigged craft, flying the American flag, has the make it," he continued.
"Anyone can be rich. There is world in celluloid stowed away in a wonderful laboratory which only one
never-falling recipe for has been built and equipped near her comfortable saloon. success-don't think about making i money. Sirive for technical
She has come from Los Angeles by believe of many Hollywood acta, supremacy in your particular field. way of the Pacific, Hongkong, the "We have travelled nearly 19,000 Money will then follow,
Mediterranean. China Seas, the Indian Ocean, and the miles," Mr. Garnett said to-day, "and I have exposed 60,000 feet of Her owner is Mr. Tay Garnett, who film which will be used as back.. directed "China Seas,"
for pictures. with Clark when we produce a pleture of Gable, Jean Harlow and Wallace Berry
India it will be the real India wo show. I
been have
to Hawail, Indo- the China,
China, Japan, India,
Red Sea-every- Malay Peninsula. where we could go. He wants pictures to have real "This expedition has been highly backgrounds. He began this trip expensive, but if I succeed--I have because he was tired of the make-succeeded-It means that the man who produces his film backgrounds at home is done for
"People who slave all day in routine jobs arc doomed—they're like uit $1076Cs trudging in cireirs.
"I have a wonderful wife and two
ne children-but until a year ago was very unhappy. I was always because I used up all my nervous energy in my work."
HE WANTS REALISM
He is out to put realism on the screen."
HYPNOTIST CHIEF OF MURDER GANG
Stockholm, July 21.
countrymun still believe to-day in CAPTURED for the killing of a bank porter who had
the efficacy of the potato,
West
here.
been robbed of £1,000, a gang of five men-led by
An American doctor hos claimed
a homeopathist, aged 28, who hypnotised his patients they assert was seen among the fish- to be able to cure Penisnging has confessed to a series of hitherto unsolved murders
form of rheumatism by ing shoals.
The monster was described as the ankles, and there are "like a seal followed by two of its Country practitioners who prescribe As for bails, the experts of young," about 40ft. long, with a head cider. and neck camel-like and carried the Red Cross Clinic tell us that the out of water, two or three humps waters of London are as good as on its back, and of uniform girly-provided that the treatments from the neck.
Jare correctly given.
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN-
The total Expenditure in 1936 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $25,000, against which the Income to date is $18,000 only,
In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of
$7,000
before the close of the financial year on 31st
· October.
Hon. Treasurers:
af have already sent home prints of the film I have taken, and in the picture Trade Winds, for instance, show half the world-America, China, Mr. A. MCKELLAR, C.A... Japan, Straits Settlements, Penang, Cevlon, India and the Androth Islands. World Cruiso is another picture
that will include the world in reality. Mr.
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FEELINGS ON EVE
OF DEATH
NURSE'S REMARKABLE
+
LAST LETTER
Huge crowds, angered by the TOOK AN OVERDOSE terror reign ille gang had up-
OF DRUG held for six years, cried: "Kin
the murdering them when HER feelings on the eve
the murderers, were taken to
prison in police motor-care,
The gang's confessions include:
of death were described by a nurse, stated to be a Their First Murder-In 1930 they drug addict, in a farewell shot the chauffeur, of a hired letter which was quoted at a
motor-cur because he heard their
plans for robbing a big dairy. An Westminster inquest.
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he did not die from his wounds "It is quite safe so far," she they, drowned hiru in a river, wretr. "Very bad night... Feel- Killed Household Dressed
ing terrible...Still can't eat with- policemen they Induced the man out being alck...Tried some co- in charge of a mine to let them calne to keep going to-y." into his house, where they shot It was revealed that the woman, film and his housekeeper, and stole Miss Diary Morgan, 94, employed roughly £950 in miners' wages
at a nursing-home in Park-lane, W., before setting the house on fire.
had died from the effects of, an over- Gassed Woman-They killed a rich dose of drug
and
"in Government nursing nged pensant woman-a Sho was patient of their leader in her service in West Africa, being invalid- lonely cottage by lending a tubo ed home last year.
from their motor-car exhaust to
She had suffered from malaria,
the woman's bedroom. Here again depression, insomnia, and pneumonis. Medical ovidence showed that Nurso they set the house on fire.
Morgen had been taking morphla.
NOT ABLE TO SLEEP
300 Gigolos Start
"Sit-out" Strike Morgan had suffered dreadfully from
Nico, July 20.
Three hundred professional men
dancing partners in Riviera night clubs, cabarots; and casinos
In his summing-up the coronar, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, remarked that Nuree And felt she was unable to continue her work. 10.
and in ond She left many
sleepless
•lelletate over you
to a doctor, wrote:
read this I shall be dead.
She referred to the terrible auffers
stopped dancing to-day and began ing she was undergoing owing to the
a "wallflower"" strike.
deprivation of morphia and not being They demand shorter Hours, per able to sleep.
On the back of an envelope she had mission to elt at their clients described hor symptoms. "tables and a minimum Wage of The coroner recorded an open vers
11s, a night.
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