THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936.
MARY ASTOR ACCUSES EX-HUSBAND
NEW CHARGES
IN FIGHT. FOR
CHILD
New York, Aug. 20,
MARY ASTOR'S legal battle in Los Angeles for the custody of her four- year-old daughter, Marilyn, continued to day to cast a lurid light on Hollywood. ·
The film star is opposed by her former husband, Dr. Franklin Thorpe, a fashion- able gynaecologist in the studio colony, who was awarded the custody of the child when he and Miss Astor were divorced last year.
At a special session of the Court, held at night to permit Miss Astor to work on a new film during the day, many Hollywood celebrities heard counsel produce intimate details of the private lives,
AT DOCTOR'S HOME
- Nurse Nellie Richardson, questioned by Miss Astor's attorney, was asked if she ever saw Miss Norma Taylor at Dr. Thorpe's home.
She said Mlus Taylor had sayęd the night there many times," sleep- ing in the same bedroom with Dr. Thorpe. The nurse, gaid served their breakfast there
hnd
Asked whether other women had slayed in similar cireumstances. Nurse Richardson mentioned the nomes of Miss Betty Grath, and alan Mrs. Lilian Mlles-who, according to! Miss Astor's allegations, wis
OUR
Dr. 66
Mary Astor, screen star, at right, shown in a Los Angeles courtroom. where she is engaged ki a bitterly contested fight to win the custody of her daughter from her former husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, With the star 19 Ruth Chatterton, her constant companion, during the trial
BOUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE
AT AN ALARMING RATE
Thorpe's wife when he married the. "Terrifying" List of Research
film star
STABBED WITH FORK Constable Walker festitted that he had been called to Dr. Thorpe's house. where he found the doctor restraining) Miss Taylor, who "appeared to drunk,"
be
Dr. Thorpe showed the policeman two places where he said, she had slabbed him with a carving fork." "She was wearing white pyjamas," ald Constable Walker, "and her toe-
nails were painted red.”
Dr. Thorpe's retort to this evidence
Subjects
BEING TAUGHT AT
NOW BEING
UNIVERSITIES
Cambridge, Aug. 12.
was to produce Miss Astor's diary OUGHT universities to attempt to teach every subject?
from which a passage was read.
Under a date three months before
thelr
divorce she referred fo
mysterious "George."
EL
"I love George, had the least 1 can
do is to save him from 21
Ought they to admit the candidate who only seeks a pass degree? And how much research is worth while?
These were among the questions asked by Mr. G. H. A. messy Wilson, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and Master of Clare College, when he addressed the Empire Universities Congress at Cambridge.
scandal. Maybe I'm being foolishly pullout, but maybe also I can do one nice thing in my life.”
COUNTESS
SUED FOR
WINE BILL CORINNE Viscountess Gort,
whose income was given as £3,000 a year free of tax, was at Westminster County Court last month stated to have left Eng- land owing a considerable sum "of "money."""
with
She was sued jointly Lord Victor Pagel by Mr. Giovanni Chierico, trading as the New Continental Stores, Old Compton-street, W.. for £67 for champagne, wines, and cocktails supplied.
Mr. Henry Stewart-ifoure, for Lord Victor, said his client denied that the goods were supplied to his order, but were bought by Curinne Viscountess Gort for her parties,
Land Victor even authorised her to order in his nume, or pledge his credit.
Mr. Stewart-Moure said he was in- structed that Corinne Viscountess Gort, the former wife 1 Viscount Gort, V.C., was now a Mrs. Blatt, but where she was he did not know,
One of the major problems that real danger of duplication involving Confronted the universities, said Mr. waste of both time and money." Wilson, was the growing number of subjcels. Until the middle of the Inst century
there
only
Mr. Wilson advocated a wirler co- operation between the universities, both at home and in the Dominions, mathematical and classical triposesjin making provision for subjects of at Cambridge; now there were four-limited interest, bearing two barte
principles in mind-that knowledge į was worth pursuing for its own sake į and that man was a social animal."
fern.
UNIVERSITIES' DUTY
PROFESSORIAL CHAIRS Similarly up to 1850 there were twenty professorial chairs, now there were sevenly. Notwithstanding all
"The universities are national and the developments of modern physics Imperial institutions," said the Vice- -und- astronomy-there remained only. Chancellor, ml-it-is-their-duty- to! twenty-four hours in a day, although train aminst a background of pure bounds of scholarship body of men and wo- the it was found that knowledge were being, extended at men who shall be fitted to take
lead, or at any rate creditable part; an impressive nud alarming rate.
in the conduct of social, commercial,
his
but
IL
"Dr. Johnson once described a land political administration." university as a school where every-! Referring to qualification for ad- thing may be learned. To some emission (o a university, Mr. Wilson tent we may hope that we are living asked: "Are matriculation standards up to the definition. In day too low? Are the tests of the right however,
kind? Ought we to exclude a man universities in England, and it was because he
satisfy cannot
the natural to expect each of them to examiners in Latin or algebra, as the provide everything to be learned,
case may be, though he may have other admirable qualities and potentialities?
there
were
A REAL DANGER
two
I think that Dr. Johnson, were he living to-day, would modify his state- ment. No university should attempt
10
provide Instruction in every branch of knowledge. There is
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RESEARCH, SUBJECTS
To cast an eye down the list of subjects approved for research in any one year is a terrifying experience. Sanskrit plays rub shoulders with Internal combustion engines Coptic with poultry nutrition. How many of these pleces of research ore worth while?"
and
The Vice-Chancellor also spoke of the student who placed tou much
DEAD MAN'S CURSE IN BOOK
"Broke My Home.
May It Haunt Them"
•
From ALAN J. RANDS
· TRING, Hertfordshire, Aug. 10.
AY the people who are respon-
M
sible for breaking up my happy
home have it on their heads all the days.
of their life. . . .
BRITAIN'S
QUADS
Readers of "The Hongkong Telegraph" will re-
So ran a passage in a final letter to his collect having seen the really wonderful photo- wife which Mr. Samuel Gershon, aged 43, graphs of these Quads in last Thursday's issue, on a well-known Hatton-garden
diamond
merchant, scribbled in a notebook before the occasion of the opening of the Sun Nursery committing suicide-in his motor-car on
Aldbury Common, near here, by inhaling by Mr. George Lansbury, the 77 year-old M.P...
exhaust fumes.
EXTEND
MEN OVER 40 ARE DEAD
But They Won't Lie Down
DR. JAMES A. BOWIE.
principal of Dundee School of Economies and Com merge, said recently:- Most men die at forty, though they are not buried for thirty or forly years afterwards. 13 } ri 41 London Meta- paper anked Dr. Bowie for a little more information ot
the subject he
:-
"If you approach the average man over forty with a new idea he is adamant against It, "If a man has stopped the process of education for twenty years he is incapable of making the mental effort necessary adopt a new set of Ideas. "Most of us bate to change our mental furniture even more than we hate to change the furniture in our houses.
in
"In Amerlen the man over forty will dash after the new idea like a dog after a hare. In this country he is upset, dis- turbed and inclined to shuЛlle." NOTE: Dr. Bowie's age is given in Who's
15h forty-eight.
a
Lonely Figure Of Doorn
At the inquest here to-day it was made clear that worry over
a £3,000 diamond robbery at his
London offices last February, difficulties which followed an in- surance claim, and subsequent
bankruptcy proceedings against
The Quads are fed on Cow & Gate Milk Food and
the public: will doubtless be interested in the
following information showing the remarkable
his firm-Gershon Bros., of Hat- Progress made by these infants. ton-garden, E.C.-led to Mr. Gershon's death.
I understand that in the letter Mr.
Gershon addressed his wife as "Doll. AT BIRTH:
darling" and, wrote:
I cannot face bankruptcy after
22 years of trading, so I am tak- ing the coward's way out, but i can assure you, my angel, to leave a girl like you is more than a wrench. I worship you.
I cannot po on. My brain scoms likely to snap, and then 7 shall be put away to a living death.
He asked his doughter to take eure- of her mother, adding "She is the
in finest tle woman
the whole world. Do your best to make her happy."
UNPAID CLAIM
Mr. Edward David Gershon, a bro- ther and partner in the business, told the coroner, Col. Lovell Smeathman, that his brother had been worried because the insurance company had not paid a claim for compensation following the burglary.
There was a bankruptcy petition against the firm, but it had been
"held over" pending a settlement of
3
Ernest weighed
3 lbs.
15. ozs.
Paul
7
16
Ann
3
124
+
Michael
2
13
**
AT SIX MONTHS:
They reached normal weights.
Three of them in fact, slightly over.
the claim. The firm had never be TO-DAY at
fore been involved in such proceed-
Mr. Gershon added that his brother NINE MONTHS: left his home in Northwick-avenue,
Kenton, Middlesex, on Tuesday after-
noon, and a meeting of creditors was to be held on the following day.
After reading the letter. Colonet Smenthman returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind, ob- serving: It is evident that he wi suffering from some considerable trouble and that it unhinged mind."
To-night Mr. Edward Gershon told me: "My brother has been the victim of malicious tongues. There were Innuendocs, and he considered that they caused delay in the settlement with the insur- ance company.
A telegram received yesterday reads as
follows:-
his
Ernest
19 lbs.
6. ozs.
Paul
1.8
14
Ann
19
Michael
17
5
"The firm of Gershon Brothers has been in existence since 1885, and is
the very well known' in
diamond trade."
Ex-Davis Cup Player In Divorce Suit
Petitioners in the London Divorce Court:
Mrs. Doris Trevor Turnik}}--. against Mr. Oswald Noch Turn- bill, the old British Davis Cup player; and
list.
Lady Corry-against Sir James Perowne Ivo, Myles Corry, Bl. Boil sults are in the undefendect
Doorn, Aug. 18.. perhaps the loneliest figure in rapidly
agring man, was scen
reliance in what he could absorb X-KAISER WILHELM is to-day through lectures, and was ceasing to think or even to read for himself. Doorn. His wife, Princess Hermine, walking. In the castle grounds, his Thot danger was increased when ex-
1s in Germany. Ills children and silver hair and beard ruffled in the Hils activity dispelled recent aminations were
formerly frequent wind, conducted by the grandchildren, sume people as had given the lectures, visitors at the ensile at Doorn, have rumours that he is seriously. He absented themselves this summer. spends most of his time writing his "On the other hand," said Mr. -To-day the ex-Kaber, HOW a memoirs. Wilson. "I am amazed when I sce the lists of books which a student is Judvised to read. Their number 39
often far too great. I suggest those responsible for lecture Bists and for the recommendation of books that there is reason in all things, and that they should alm at securing a proper balance between the two,
LAW AS CINDERELLA
Lord'
ed law as the Cinderella of
to
the
NO MORE FILMS FÖR ME
-HELEN HAYES MISS Helen Hayes, the 5ft, American blonde film and Macmillan, chairman of the stage star, who is on a week's visit to London with Court of London University, describe her husband, Mr. Charles MacArthur, the dramatist and academie world. Opening a dis scenario writer, revealed recently that she has resolved cussion on post-graduate studies, he never to return to Hollywood or to make another film. Bald that law was to-day recognised more as a branch of social service, Embowered in a room adorned with bouquets of lilies, gladioli, Previously it was regarded as carnations, and other flowers from her English admirers, Miss horrid mystery that people got caught into and from which they tried to get Hayes who was wearing a tailored royal blue costume and a out. He hoped soon to see a small tiny hat and vell to mat-said at Claridge's. Hotel: committee set up which would found an Institute of Law to be established in London for post-graduate study and research and for the guidance of Empire lawyers.
Lord Rutherford, Director of the Cavendish Laboratory of Experiment- al Physics at Cambridge, said that research students were a costly article to train Apart from fees,
thing from £25 to £100 a year..
"No marriage can survive in intimate details of one's private life Hollywood, so my husband and appear garbled in the film magazines,
no couple have decided to stay in New York. and I am sick of the impossible parts I publicity."
survive Cen
the
have been given la Alme. Instead, Discussing the abortive £20,000 I intend to concentrate on stage lawsuit for "alienation of affection" work. I have just turned down a which was brought against her three £10,000 Alm offer.
NO PRIVACY IN HOLLYWOOD
weeks ago by Dr. MacArthur's first
wife, Miss Carol. Frink, the dr
dramatic critic, Miss Hayes solai· ··~·
"In have a "I am trying to forget it. It came each man cost the University onyo Hallywood one cannotteet, or as a complete, bolt front the blue sou there is only one minor Faraday, bet someone for a cocktail, without years after Charles and were mar- camoras ried. That such (casa) "was, ever produced phoe la liventy yours, he Betaning in and natching photo- allowed to come on sgome to me an
elghtsples armed with rdded, "the University in Ustined
... utterly frivolous use of the machinery There is no privacy. The most of the law
The normal weight of a baby at nine months is 18 lbs.
This case is almost a miracle. Medical history states that never.
before-in England--have Quadruplets lived for more than a few
days...
Never before-anywhere--have Quadruplers survived when three
of them were boys.
An additional complication was that the babies were premature
and were far less than normal birth weight.
There could be no more convincing evidence that Cow & Gate Id
the most wonderful food in the world for all babies when natural
feeding fails.
child
There is always an element of risk even with a
normal child at weaning time-do for
your what has been done for the Quads,
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