Rush To
Issue
MAGIC-
MAKER MALIN'
New Stamps
Three Dominions"
Rivalry
GREAT BRITAIN'S
DESIGN
A race to issue the first King Edward VIII, stamps is likely to develop between Canada, Australia and South Africa.
I understand (writes a London representative) that although official sources are reticent on the subject, these Dominions have prepared designs for the stamps and they wil probably be issued before the end of this year.
new
There is also a possibly that the new Great Britain stamps, may be! lasued this year-considerably earlier than was expreted.
The work of the Committee set up to select the design has been inter rupted by the holidays, but they wil probably make their decision early next month. The design will ren King: ftss be submitted to the approval.
South Africa achieved the distic-i tion of Issuing the first stamp bearing) the head of the late Ring on Novem-i ber 4, 1916, only six months after he had succeeded to the Throne, and seven months before the Coronation. This was a 24d, stamp, but it is not rare, and is valued at about two ahlilingo.
AIR MAIL STAMP
South Africa, also, has already pre- pared the design tur the d. stamp to be used on the new Empire Air Mail Service, and there will be issued as soon as the service is inaugurated, "It is hoped," nceurding to the Gener
time. next! al Post Omec, "some year,"
The introduction of stamps of the new reign gives an added interest to those haued in the 25 years while King George was on the Throne.
The highest values are naturally associated with the two greatest events of the period-the Great War and the development of aviation. A few other stamps with some minute peculiarity are of unknown rarity and have no catalogue price.
the
The highest-priced stamps of Just reign are:
"Hawker". Newfoundland The sthing), issued for correspondence carried by Hawker and Grieve on the first attempted Atlantic flight in May. 1013. (They came down in the sen near Ireland and were picked up.) Only 05 of these stampa were used, 18 were destroyed, 11 were present-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
CARD WIZARD
TELLS OF HIS LIFE
MAX MALINI, MAGICIAN DE LUXE, IN HONGKONG
THIS is the story of a wizard with
million-dollar pair of hands. Hongkong knows him well:
10
16, 1936.
RADIO BROADCAST
New Z.B.W. Dance Band From the Studio
THE - MOANA BEACH BOYS
From Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles);
1-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7 p.m. A Concert,
I'ianoforte Solos-Etude in A Minor
winter Wind) (Chopin, Op. 25);
Etude No. 1 in F Minor Elude No. in D flat major (Chopin), .Irene
from "Sadko") Hopak-Melodie Alexandre
Solo
Scharrer Songs-Chinnson Hindous
Rinskorsky)...
Russe Koubilzky)
(Tenor);
Violin
first visited here 23 years ago, has fro- of India. quently made this Colony-"with the most hospitable people in the world" -his home. His name is Max Malini,|(Albu Muring). The Air Pilat
Last night, in between pulling playing cards out
of the air, and extracting coins from my pocket (marvellous!) Max told me the story of his life. Thirty years before Be made his first visit to Hongkong, Max Malini was born in an olure and unpronounceable little village in Austria.
His parents were poor and humble Jews. All their lives, it seemed, they had been scraping and saving, for they, like millions of other Europeans of poverty-stricken post-Franco-Prussian war
the
Strange tales were period, had but one ambition. being brought back from across the Atlantic of a New World, where men were equal and there was ́na oppression.
So, in 1889, a small ill-clothid, under-nourished young boy stood one day with his parents and gazed with wide-eyed wonder upon the city of New York,
'ROBOT' HEART TO BEAT
FOR A WEEK
SCIENTISTS
WHILE WATCH
# Copenhagen, Sept. 3.
COLONEL CHARLES LINDBERGH and Dr. Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize winner, demonstrated the "rabot heart," of which they are the joint designers, to 200 scientists in Copenhagen to-day.
Lindbergh entered the conference hall with Mrs. Lindbergh, eluting an inquisitive crowd, and they modestly took seals at the back of the hall.
The "heart," which beats sixty times a minute, be a climber of glass tubes, in which animal tissues can.
it is claimed, be kept alive, apart from the body, by "feeding" then with a continuous stream of blood substitutes,
Carrel Dr.
was scheduled An operate on an anical for an organ to be placed in the chamber, where will watch results. the scientists The machine will work throughout
the week.
Quins Receive
141,342 Visitors
Sixty-seven buses and 30,216 cars tool: 141.342 sightseers to the home of the Dionne Quis last month.
tion copies, and 76 were sold in aid POOR LOVER
of the Marine Disasters Fund.
HAWKER'S FLIGHT
This did not rank as a successful Atlantle-Might, -bui-the-stamps-me valued at £350 unused and £200 lised.
The De Pinedo Air Mail Stamp, 1927 (recalling the great Italing alr- mon who was killed three years ago),
10 cent Newfoundland, overprinted,
is valued at £500.
Certain stamps, issued by a then enemy country and overprinted after British occupation or capture, fetch The Samoa German
high under, Just after
sinmp,
island's
the
in August, 1014,
Es of which only
is
"G.R.J. One Shulings to exist, about 100 are known valued at £80. The
stamp samy surcharged, correctly,
"One Shilling only 35 existing, reaches £200.
Togoland, first occupied by the British and then handed over France, produced stamp, in the first period, valued at £175.
SMALLER VALUES
KILLS RICH GIRL IN HOLLYWOOD
New York Sept. 10.
WEST, MURIEL LUCILLE
nineteen-year-old Holly- wood society beauty, was found strangled to death in her apart ment this morning.
Detectives trying to revive Miss West were interrupted by a young man who explained he Winston Gardiner, a radio operator aboard the U.S. warship Maryland.
WAS
to "I killed her! I killed her?" he
cried. "I love her 80 much equldn't live without her."
Besides these high values, the £12 Falkland Islands centenary stamp, the £6 Cyprus 50th anniversary, and the Fiji Islands Postage Due stamp worth £29, become insignificant; but there
13 political interest in stamps of the Irish Free State its
in earliest days. Several printers undertook the overprinting of British stamps, and as the result of slight variations and valstakes in their settings, some of these stumps are valued at from £7 to £33,
Among the "aceldental" rarities of King George's reign a high place is! taken by the. Jonialca one-shilling stamp of 1920, in which the "frame" is Inverted. Its value is given
£300.
as
Already there are indications that Jubilee stamps may reach very high
To police, Gardiner elaborated his story.
"I knew our romance was over," he said. "I could feel from leliers and radiograms 1 received aboard ship that her love was growing cold."
"We had planned to be married when 1 had left the Navy and estab- Bished myself,
LONDON
PRIEST
JAILED
A Special Correspondent.
Cologne, Sept. 7.
O'DONOVAN, FATHER B.
fifty-five years old, of St. Helen's Roman Catholic Church, Stockwell, London, S.W.. T former chaplain at Brixton Pri- son, was to-day sentenced to two
months' imprisonment by Cologne Court for immoral, of- fences.
Father
O'Donovan who,
I
despite
hin seven weeks in a remand 'prison, was in the best of spirits during to- "day's"-trial;"pleaded guilty.
Bad Health Plea
Dr. W. Oppenliott, his lawyer, gave as an excuse Father O'Dono- van's bad health. He produced n lutter from the' priest's bishop show- ing his good character.
The public prosecutor, however, demanded 24
of sentence
three months.
The judge sentenced Father O'Donovan to two months. He said that the seven weeks in prison would be taken into account.
MISS BADEN-POWELL'S
A
LINER ROMANCE--` AND A COINCIDENCE
FTER a four months' courtship
starting on a liner, Miss Belly St. Clair Baden-Powell, the nineteen-- year-old daughter of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, is to be married on. "When 1 arrived with the Fleet September 24 at the parish church' yesterday morning Muriel told me
near her home at Bentley, Surrey. The day after the marriage the point-blank that she was through.
She went to trave
will I couldn't
be on the high seas ogain-
for her new home on bound
Lic control myself
I seized her,-
banks of the Zambesi river in jerked a towel round her throat."
Northern Rhodesia.
now
values. Little more than a year after their issue, a set of the Crown Colon- les' Jubilee stamps, which could be bought for about £4 45., in priced at £9 10s., and the one rupee Mauritius sinmp, not included in this set, is worth £3.
Battleships
As "Queen
THE
As Fast Mary
99
two new battleships that are to be built on the Mersey and the Tyne will be as fast as the Queen
Mury and five knots faster than the remainder of the
battleships in the British Fleet.
The new ships will be superlor in armament to the battleships America, France, Japan, Ger- many, and Ilals are now balld- Ing.
They will embody all the improve- ments that have been recommended by-the special commiiice that has been considering the, bomb-versus- battleship question,
An extra six inches of deck
'armour, sufficient to withstand
any bomb dropped from an aers-, plane,
Special armoured covers to be placed over the funnels on the approach of enemy aircraft.
New eight-barrelled aircraft guns "which, fre shells a ́tuinute.
anil. 1,600
Cinemas and refreshment Troons are to be provided for the crews w
Her fance, Mr. Gervas Charles Robert Clay, aged 29, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Arden Clay, of Albury, Surrey, will return to his
Omeer District
in the posins Northern Rhodesia Administrative Service after ve months' leave,
Lady Baden-Powell told of the Ilak of coincidences between her daughter's courtship with her own." "Mr. Clay and-my-daughter met In April while we were returning. from South Africu," she said. "My husband first met me-on board a liner also..
A DISCOVERY The couple found that they both had the same birthday. My husband and discovered die same colneldence “about our own birthdays when we met first on board ship."
Com- General Chiang King-wen, mander-in-Chief of Fukien Province, having completed the conference withi Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, to which, lio was specially summoned, returned to Hongkong on Monday. Yesterday he called on the Hon. Mr. R. H. Köte- wall, with whom he had an hour's conversation, and later in the day Mr. Rotewall returned, the call at the Hotel Cedil,
He could neither read nor write, and in the years that passed before he grew into manhood, had little Gime to learn,
One day he paid a dime to see n Ambition took magielen at work. hoki of Max Malin from that day. An old pack of playing cards and a few copper coins were his acces- sortes.
ment in Europe, or appeared before
Coprice, Op. 1 No. 24 (Paganini).. Heifetz; Songs Song of the Thames. Morrison)....Peter Dawson (Buss Baritone).
7.30 p.m.. Closing Lacul Stock Quotations,
7.33 p.m. Song Memories.
should know: Noel Coward done: Song that every- Medley: 11 was a lover and his lase. 8 p.m. Time, Weather and at- nouncements.
8.03 p.m. From the Studio, "The New Z. B. W. Dance Or- chestra."
Viena
Programinic.
1. Tiger Bag: 2. Im a fool for you; 3. Lady and the Fun: 4. Alavon; 5. A Waltz was born in Twilight on the Tradt: 7. Don't mean thing: A. Speake to me of love: 9. Sweet and Slow; 10. Poor Butterfly: 11. Sweet Sue. 8.45 p.m. Three Songs by Ailiza Korjus (Soprano).
1. Funiculi-Funiculn (Denza);
Bell Song La Danza (Rossini); 3. ("Lakme") (Delibes).
9 p.. News and Announcements from London,
9.20 p.m. From the Studio, Hawaiian Selections by Moana Bench Boys."
1.
Programme.
The
Kumi Ipo; 2. I went to go back to my little grass shack; 3. School- 4. A syncopated day Sweethearts; Hula love song; 5. Kamanina; 0. To you Sweetheart, Aloha.
9.40 p.m.
The London Palla- dium Orchestra.
Japanese Carnival (Andre de Bus-- que); Morche Symphonique (Savino): A Birthday Serenade (Lincke); Les Sylphides (arr. Lotter); Old Vienna Moon (nr. Cordew); Live, Laugh and Love ("Congress Dances").
10 p.m. Elg Ben from London. From the Stadlo. A Light Classical programme by L. Palapo (Saxophone) accompanied by F. Gonzalez,
Be decided, dejectedly, that he could never be the kind of magician with the who produces elephants wave of a wand, or takes duzents of white rabbits from a top hat. Ele-
rabbits cast money. phants
Newspaper-vendors and street urchins were his
first
audiences, SUCCESS CA
CAME SLOWLY Success came slowly. It was a far cry from the days of his child- hood performances to the days when he made royal eyes pop with amaze-
four
Presidents of the
States. Education, like success, come ai- ter Max had reached manhood.
"Most of my education came from
Programme. 1.- Waltz Llewellin....Wledoft; 2. the experience I've gained on six
Serende Badine. lours around the world,” he told the.
Maria; 3. To-day
there are few corners of Humoreske. Dvorak; 4. Saxophone the world that do not know the Fantasia... Rosebrook. fumed 5-foot
high magician, whose
10.16 p.m. A Variety Programme. collection of appreciative letters in-
Song--He's an Angel....E elude the signatures
Hele Vocal-Polly Wolly Doodle; Dig of Presidents McKinley, "Teddy Roosevelt, Hard Rocky Candy Mountain...The Rocky ing and Coolidge of the Unitedsions of a Cheeky Chuppy... Mox Mountaineers Humorous Contes- States, Royalty of Europe and the Miller: Songs-In the Middle of n aristocracy of Britoin.
Klas
You're all I need. .Connie Malini has clecfulls watched Boswell; Banjo Solos-La Vivandiere; the amazed expressions of two British Monarchs before whom he Joy Dance.. Ernest Jones; Vocal~
I'm ull has appeared.
alone.. Les
Allen and his Canadian Bachelors; Orchestra-Six Orchestra: Song Blazin' the Trail. Len Bermon; Organ Solos-Gipsy Love Song; Indian Love Call....Sig- mund Krumgold.
Elsie Car-
One was the late King Edward Eight Medley....Harry Roy and his
VII; the other the lule King George
V.-
His greatest ambition was to ap pear before British Royalty. He told me last night how he fulfilled that ambition.
He went to England with the ex- press intention of playing before King Edward VII. But everywhere' Malini met with British conscr- vatism.
11 p.m. Close Down. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wavelengths and frequencies are observed by Daventry.
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CHF GB GS1 GINI CRJ CSL
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metres 14,470 kr. 13.97 meir 15.210
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5.110 k.c.
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"Discouraged, I made up my mind to return to the United States," said. "As a last resort, I thought I'd try the American Ambassador. He couldn't help me to play before the King, but he did ask me to give private party for himself. The Premier, Mr. Balfour, and other members of the House of Commons were present.
DISAPPOINTMENT
"Next day, I received a communi- cation from the Royal Agent, George Ashton, asking me to call and see him.
"Excitedly, I went around, but, to my disappointment, it was only a request to give a performance at Lord Derby's residence.
"However, I went. Then, when I arrived, I found out that the Prince of Wales (later King George V) was present.
་ཎཱ was bamboozled. I did not know what to do or any when I met Is Royal lighness. I was only a poor boy without schooling, and knew nothing about Royal ctl- quette,
"They told me the Prince of Wales was ready. Tremblingly, I walked over to him with the pack of cards. in my hand.
"MR. WALES"
**Mr. Wales,' I said, 'take a card,' "I couldn't understand the Inugh-
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2.1 p.m. Big Ben. The Opening of the
Johannesburg Exhibitlen, 2.41 p.m. Musical Interlude, 2.41 p.m. "Imperial Affair
"The
"Daylight Robbery."" 4T
Thief in the Night 3,50 pm: Masleni Interlude, 9.30 pm. The News and AnnouncVISSZAČE, Greenwich Time Signal at p.. Transmission 2
(G.S.G. G.SJ)
7 p.m.
Stitch "ieme, Hei, and
7:21 11.m. Coon Songs
7.45 p.m. "Impertal Affairs.”
A p. The IL.B.C. Empire Orchestra. Greenwich Time Bignal at 9 pm.
The News and Announermenta.
p.m.
9.20 p.m. "Down to the See in Ships; Nes
Harventa (8)**
1.40 p.m. Exvol.
'Transmission 3
(6.8.G., 6.8.7, OBILJ
1 p.. Big Ben. “Gypsy Maule." 19.37 p.m. The Dunlop Worke Band, 11 p.m. "DayBght Hobbery" OF "The
This in the Night 11.80 p.m. Mastral Interlude. 11.45 pm. The Nowà and Announcements,
Greenwich Time Signal at-12 4.m. 12.15 mA Recital by - John Collinson
(Australian Tenar). 12.30 ..
The H.D.C. Nance Orchestra.
ter, and felt sick and discouraged.1.had retired, in fact, until one night But I finished my performance. when I was dancing with a Hitle
"The Prince of Wales must have girl six and a half years old.. told his father, because next day I "Mr. Malinl," she asked, 'do I received a request to appear before dance well enough for you? His Majesty King Edward VII”
You
dance beautifully, I re- Malini counts his appearance be-piled, with an old crock 62 years of tore the grandfather of our present King as the greatest experience in "She looked at me. Why, Mr. his life.
Malini,' she sold gravely. 'you're just commencing to live!'
age.
"Since then I feel more at ease with Royalty," he told me, with a "So I decided to come back to quiet laugh. I've learnt to read Hongkong to commence again."
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Although a Cantonese, Dr. Loo han net previously visited South Ching and will spend a few days here be fore continuing to Nanking.
NANKING ARMY MEDICO ON DORADO
Impressed by Russia arrived Two passengers
"It was a pleasure trip."" sild Dr. Colony yesterday aboard the Im Loo yesterday, "but naturally I and investigations perial Airways Iner, the: R.M.A. made inquiries Doradu. One of them was Mr. B. regarding the latest developments in E. Wyalt, an Imperial Airways en- medicifre. gineer, who come here from Tou Dr. Loc was particularly impress- raine where he has been super-ed with the state of government- vlaing the repairing of the Del- controlled medical servicei in Russia. "They have a univeral system phinus, which was damaged while which cares for everyone In the most landing at Touraine in July. Delphinus has yet to go to Singa- catisfactory way," he said. "Every pore for the completion of her re country to-day. I attempting som
of Lomi pairs, sald Mc. Wyatt,
universal govemment medical service, and along these Mr. Wyult will return to Singn-lines 1 found many interesting do-
and write. and experience has j Max Malini started one of his taught me that all you have to do first world tours from Hongkongpore in about 10 days, ፡1 to make people be nice to you is to almost a quarter of a century ago... be nice to them.
Golden
On that occasion, hard-bitten news- "That was my mother's
papermen in this Colony presented Rule, and I've always followed. It. him with a gold watch as h token
"A pack of cards, 'a couple of of their esteem. celns and a few wine glasses have His Hongkong season on this oc- comprised
paraphernalia that caslon, however, will be a limited has brought mo a le-fima of one. Max is combining pleasure experiences rich in memories with business, and" will giva public memories that I would not irade | performances twice only, on Sep- for Ilfo kell,
tember 30 and October 1 The per- Now I'm 62 years of age. I sup-` formances will be given at the pose I should have retired long ago. Gloucester Hotel;
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The
clud
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been
In various countries, in- England, The other passenger was De.: C.
da a great deal of Loo, who is attached to
he continued, **andi Medical Corps of the National Army although great strides have at Nanking. Dr. Loo has been on a taken niready there romaine much world tour and has just completed to be done, I cannot say just how his trip by flying here from London much of what I have seen could bo by Imperial Airways. He left Nan-adapted to the needs of China, but king to cross America, then visited some form of universal clinic ser- Englund and various continental vico/As certainly necessary for the countries, Including Russia, and then masace, and will, I hope, he gradual- continued to. Hongkong.
ly brought into existence,