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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936.
MARY ASTOR: "HYPNOTIC TORTURE'
COLOSSUS
John Barrymore
The foundations are being con-
structed in Rome of n Mussolni statue that will reach 282 feet into
the sky, One foot hins been finished and is seen in the picture.
HOLLYWOOD
-
BAN ON
ROYALTY
ELATIVES of European Royalty will shortly be barred from visiting Hollywood because of excessive hospll- ality.
The last visitor was Princess Katherine, youngest sister of King 'George of Greece. She fa how staying in a London hotel, but to avoid being recognised she has changed her mode of dress.
"The Princess nerived In Hollywood as Miss K. Constan- tin-but the news leaked out." A friend sald, "She WAS In- mediately mobbed.
"So-called friends were
spread
out
to exploit her. She was photo- graphed with
stark, and rumoura
that Alic wanted to he a film star. She was overwhelmed with screen offers.
"It soon became apparent that
the most even
modest member of a Royal house could not maintain ' reasonable dignity the rumour-hounds of among
Hollywood.
"So she came away,"
Named By Husband
Los Angeles, Aug. 25.
POWERFUL forces behind the scenes failed to bring about peace in the drama which began in earnest this afternoon in which Mary Astor, film star, and her hus- band, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, are fighting for the custody of their four-year-old daughter Marilyn.
Judge
into hysterical state,
"He used to form hypnotic con- trol over me at a time when I was III. and in a state of semi-hysteria, too it to talk."
Allorney Anderson was
his
Fans and professionals might do it again. He had got me rubbed shoulders in an at- tempt to enter the court- room, but although Knight had moved times to larger courtrooms, "House full" notices put up..
threq
feet again with an objection. The struck out.
reference 10 hypnotic control was
were from her home about April 1 last
"Miss Astor raid she moved away
And sympatheile sighs, the benu- iful Misgy Astor, neat but
tired). fentered the courtroom, und took her Ipince in the witness stand.
In a broken volce she opened the! attnek on her husband by saying-
"He sold that unless i allowed him to get a divorce and the custody of Jour child, and do as he pleased, he
would blacken my name und the l name of my prominent friends.
"ite sald he would plaster them on the front pages of the newspapers and ruin my career as an actress."
told him that if he ruined my eareer I would not be able to sup: port our child, and that he could not, or would not, do it. We went on for days and nights.
year,
her baby with her,
stand his tormenting me with these continuous threats," ishe said.
Were these threats the reason you gave Dr. Thurpe the guardian- of the child?" asked The Jawyer.
"Yes" said Mins Astor deter- minedly.
She was shown a ropy of the trust agreement, which stipulated that she should not take the child from the
State without his permission,
BEDSIDE SCENE
"Why did you sinn it?" Miss Astor was asked.
"Deenuse } was fold by Dr. Thorpe," she answered.
Shie
them recounted an alleged conversation
with Dr. Thorpe, his con-attorney, and Miss Ethel Pepin,
"It occurred in the library, where I had made up a bed while I was ill at the end of March 1975," said Miss Astor.
REPEATED THREATS "He repealed the threats stantly until-well, unt! the
divores,"
During a short recess Miss Astor was told that a subpoena had been issurd against the screen lover, John Harrymore, to give evidence In the case,
"It would be just as consistent for them lo-get a subpoena for President Roosevelt or Governor Landon," she said contemptuous-
"John Barrymore has nothing to do with the case." The battle continued.
"He struck me once," sobbed Miss Astor. "I did not know but what he
Stratosphere Air Liners
New York. Aug. 25.
STRATOSPHERE flying for passenger aeroplanes is the intest
development of aviation. Trans-continental and Western Air- ways announce plans for a new fleet of super-liners, which they hope will fly at altitudes up to 30,000 ft.
An official said to-day: "We are going to take up the scientifle study of high altitude flying where Wiley Post the famous 'one-eyed nirman who new alone around the world] left off. Modern airliners can ascend to higher altitudes thus
thuse at
which they are generally used, but very little is known of the reactions of the crew and passengers,
We have withdrawn an aeroplane from our passenger service, and it is
Court Sits In Camera
CUSTODY OF AN INFANT PRINCE
The application listed as "Monnico
v Monaco, injunction," concerning the
san of Prince Pierre Monaco, was before Mr. Justice Buckmill, sitting
now being equipped with various in-custody of Prince Rainier, 12-year-old struments for making teats at high altitudes. The future development of our planes will rest fargely on these tests."
If the experiments are successful the company will probably introduce a high-altitude freight service before pasqeaners are invited to Speed through the stratosphere.
Kill Kidney
Trouble Quick
Petals of sufferers from Kidney
troubl
the Vacation Judge in the High Court recently.
When the ease was enlied (1), counsel on both sides asked that the. matter should be taken in camera as it concerned the custody of an infant. Mr. Justice Buckni acceded to this request, and the Court was at once cleared.
Applying for the motion to be taken in private, Me. R. B. L. Vaug han Wams, K.C., said that he ap peared for the plaintiff, and the mat- ter concerned the custody of an in- fant, the grandson of the plaintif and the son of the defendant
Mr. H. Wynn Parry, K.C. (for the Bilder wealdton hava defendant) support the applica stopped letting Up Night Leg Pain Lion. It is the usual practice, and I Circles Under Eyes, Swallen Ankler, Nervousness, suffer, themtiam, i think it is eminently in the interests ginens, Lambago, Horning, Rebing. Smart of the infant and all the parties that Ing. Aciding and Lama of Vigone by a Doc the question of the custody of this tor's new covers called Cystein- tex). Gently soother, ws, cleans, and child should not be discussed in pub heals, raw sora kidneys, in 15 minutes lic. The case has already attracted n Cystex starts purifying your your lot of publicity, bow heat, youth Guaranteed to end your troubles i dym
Mr. Justice Bucknill-If both side
vitality in 41 houre.
er money back. Cat Cystex at all chemists, wish that it shall be heard in camera,
Let's eat-!
.. Where?
-KING'S
RESTAURANT
I will so hear it.
Mr. Vaughan Willams-We
all be very much obliged.
ADJOURNMENT PLEA
shall
adjourn-
"Dr. Thorpe said: "This thing is going to be the way 1 want it. I am going to get a divorce and the custody of the chlid, and arrange a distribution of property."
"I sald I would do as he pleased. There was nothing else I could do," "I was and heartslek over the way things were turning oul. "I was Helted. I left."
Miss Astor sat down and Attorney Joseph Anderson rose and began to hurl questions at Miss Astor.
"Isn't in fact," he asked, "that you had alrendy selected a place to live before you discussed divorce?
the
"It's not a fact," said Miss Astor. The judge hanged his gavel and ordered the court to be adjourned for luncheon.
Anderson shouted across the room, "I'm
not going to take the time to answer all these incriminating and phoney statements by counsel; I am going to prove conclusively before I am through
"Be careful what you say," inter- rupted Miss Astor's counsel, "You're responsible for scandalising state- ments that are not proved."
The Gutenberg Bible, produced by the Inventor of printing, is now on view at an exhibition in Berlin. It is considered to be one of the finest examples of printing in the world.
IN THE VATICAN GAOL
A BOOK
Mr. Vaughan Williams then men- |PRISONER WHO STOLE tioned the question of an ment, stating that he received an afldavit late the previous night which ho desired to answer.
"There are other circumstances which ought to be before the Court," he added, "and I ask for an adjourn ment until next Wednesday."
Mr. Wynn Parry said that he op- ⚫posed an adjournment. "An injunc;
-of course! tion," he continued, "was obtained
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Morning Coffee
Tiffins
Teas
Dinners
Open from 7 a.m.
first & Mezzanine Floor, King's Theatre Building.
from Mr. Justice Eve Jast week, and for reasons which I should like to tell your Lordship when the Court is clonrod I desire that the matter should be dealt with to-day. I do not wish to say any more before the Court is in camera,
Bir. Justice Bucknil-Having
re gard to the fact that both sides wish this case to be heard in camero, I order that the Court be cleared.
Vatican City, Aug. 20.
A flutter of excitement stirred the. venerable precincts of the Papal City this morning For the third time {since it came into existence the little
law court was opened for a trial.
A certain Ezio Morigi, an Italian citizen, was found guilty of purloin- Ing a book from the Vatican Library, and sentenced to one month's solitary confinement in the Vatican gnol. This small building has three well- lighted cells, and Morigl is the only occupant. Two Papal gendarmes, dressed in Napoleonic uniform with cocked hats, are his gaolers.
Three eminent Vatican citizens sat on the Bench. A fourth, called "The Promoter of Justice, prosecuted. The court was crowded,
One witness expressed indignation that the prisoner got into the Vatican false pretences, He never was under
The Court was crowded, both in the woll and in the public gallery, and the only people allowed to remain were the interested parties and officials.
For the plaintiff, Mr. R. E. L. Vaug han Williams, K.C., Mr. H. O. Danck- a student, and had not even the worls, Mr. Acland-Hood (Messrs."
excuse of a student's passion for some rare and fascinating volumes. He Parker, Garrett and Co.); for the de.. fendant, Mr. H.-Wynn Parry, Kostole a book of little value when some Mr. Raymond Jennings (Messrs of the intellectual foya of the world Lewis and Lewis).
Jay within his reach.
RED SACRILEGE The Communist Salute
Here is a typical example of the Spanish Reds' idea of "humour.” Following scenes of disorder between Tarragona and Barcelona a church effigy was made to appear as giving the Communist salute.
Young America Learns ‘English'
SEEKING PERFECT
ACCENT
Thousands of Teachers
4
Go to be Taught
YOUNG America is going to London to learn how to
speak English at the fountain-head.
Some 40 American women have arrived for the second holiday overseas courses at the Speech Institute, Gordon Square, W.C.1.
They are the vanguard of thousands of American teachers, from elementary schools to universities, who became "English- Speech conscious" during the visit last winter to America of Miss Marjorie Gullan, founder and director of the Institute.
No Fight For Colonies
A GERMAN VIEW
"The den that Germany may go to war in order to get her colonies buck is preposterous," declared Dr. Earl von Abshagen, a German journalist resident In London, when he address- ed the Liberal Summer School at Oxford recently.
Miss Gullan, with the support of
the education authorities, travelled across the States from Atlantic to Pacific, living with the students, and teaching classes of 500 and
over,
GRANDMOTHER-STUDENTS
In her classes were many women who had enrolled as college and uni- versity students after raising a family. One wonin took her diploma on the day she became a grandmother.
What Americans chiefly want, Miss Gullan stated, is to get rid of the nasal quality in their speech. But they do not wish to learn Oxford Eng- ish, which they consider effentnate. Londoners, says Miss Gullan, have
serious correspondingly
speech
Ile declared that the procedure adopted by the Allies in 1919 with regard to colonies was bound to make, Germana suspicious, when they heard! 11 so much of the trusteeship for colour-fault--the Cockney vowel.
ed races.
Germany did not raise any new or unlimited claims in the colonini field, but what she did claim avere ber
hind rightful, possessions which she held in the past. The economic side of the problem, important though it was, had been overstressed.
What came first in the minds of the German people when they thought of the question at all was the matter of honour and justice.
"Most people do not realise," she sald, "that to speak English re- quires as much study as to write It."
In 1925, with Miss Gertrude Kerby, she founded the Speech Fellowship, whose chief inspiration is the desire to remove the handicap of bad speech in all its applications to life,"
Germany would never admit that! Both Fellowship and Institute were
the action which she was compelled to take in 1910 at the point of the bayo net and on the threat of starvation for her women and children in hand- ing over her colonies gave any right; of possession in favour of the Allies "SIMPLE SOLUTION"
built up entirely with private funds. Neither is profit-ninking.
CHORIC SPEAKING.
In 1922 Miss Gullan founded the first verse-speaking chuir in this country at Glasgow. It was brought to London at the invitation of Miss
A plain and simple solution, indeed. Maudo Rayden and in 1926 a London the only natural solution from the shoir was founded. point of view of honour and justice,
both of the Allies and Germany, It is felt by various bodies that our would be the restoration of the colo-speech has deteriorated in recent nies in question to their lawful pos- youra. Bessor-Germany.
The Bishop of Chichester, Dr. Bell, "If the Mandatory Powers," he announced in January last that can- added, "could see their way to such didates for ordination in his diocesu solution without haggling and bar must hereafter pass a volce test. gaining-of which we are thoroughly In March funds were provided by dick in post-War years--they would Baron Profumo, K.C., for classes on do more for the re-establishment of speech for Junior barristers. better and really cordial relationship
among the great nations of Europe
than could be done by any other that we should transfer to Germany single ect."
her pre-War colonies. Germany, excluded from participa- agree," he said, "that the tion in the great task of colonisation Treaty of Versailles and the accom- and Germany, declared to be a panying documents included a great second-class nation in the question of deal of hypocritical and indefensiblo colonial development, would be bound nonsense about why we took Gor to be a centre of political and social many's colonies. The plain turth is unrest.
that wo and the rest of the
AllICE If they could give Germany the op- took them bocause we had avon them portunity to tako part, Europe would in war. have one of the biggest asseta, sho
"Even though there were no other SIR ARTHUR SALTER'S VIEW 80, 1.believe that by giving back those could ever have for the future, dimculties in the way of our doing Sir Arthur Balter, speaking at the colonies, wo should not only buy avaning meeting, said that in the pre- peace, but should buy additional sentỷelraumstances he did not think' trouble.”
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure la 1930 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:
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