G.B.S. OUT
OF FAVOUR: GALSWORTHY
IS IN
FILMS'
HELP
TO GOOD
BOOKS
FILMS and the B.B.C. are helping to
popularise good literature; there is a diminishing interest in the works of Bernard Shaw; Dickens is a perennial favourite, but Thackeray is rarely read. The popularity of Scott and Rudyard Kipling is waning, but George Moore and Hardy retain their place of honour.
These disclosures are made by Mr. Frederick Sinclair, Borough Librarian of St. Pancras, in his annual report, which discusses the tastes of thousands of book- borrowers and the fading reputations of literary giants.
out. Among the moderns. Galsworthy holds an standing poliion (in 81, l'ancras), thoughi his plays are out in aneh demand an his novels.
Francis Brett Young. Henry Charles Morgan, Williamson, G. E. Chesterton and Somerset Maugliam are not ofter to be found waiting on the shelves.
Circulation is increasing, particu larly among issues of educational books, dealing with all branches of knowledge.
USEFUL ARTS POPULAR Poetry, drama, csaays and belles- lettres are most popular in the litera- ture section; next come books geography and travel, then those on the useful arts, and social science.
On
Mr. Sinclair declares that ០៥ many occasions film adaptations of famous plays and novels have pro- voked a demand for coples of the original works and a general in- terest in the authors concerned. The films thus mentioned include "David Copperfield," "Mutiny, on the Bounty," "Shape of Things to Come," Miserables," "Lorna Doone," "Les "Mystery of Edwin Drood," "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Little Minister."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1986.
The Real Tragedy of My Life - By Mary Astor
"Finis" has been written to the bitter court row between Mary Astor, film star, and her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, it's playtime again for Mary and her daughter, Marylyn, shown at Miss Astor's home. Under terms of the settlement, the child is to stay with her mother nine months of the year, spending the balance of the time with her tother.
WORLD'S MEANEST WOMAN
£10,000,000 Tax Claims
MY PARENTS DROVE
ME TO FAME'
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1. Glamorous Mary Astor, whose court fight with hor ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for the custody of their child was watched by the whole world, has disclosed to me the roal tragedy of her life.
It is the age-old story of conflict between parents and a successful daughter.
As she unfolded this astonishing story with deliberate restraint I knew that her present court ordeal is merely a continuation of the unhappiness which scems fated to follow this lovely woman. Simply and directly she told me how:-
Her parents planned for her a career of
fame.
She only received personally £4 a week while she was earning £300 a week.
While a film star she was only allowed out two nights a month.
At 17 she fell in love with a man aged 35. Here is the story as she told it to me in her own words:-
On Hetty Green's Fortune
The B.B.C. has influenced literary Works and musten taste, he adds.
Dre recommended by broadcasters demanded from the brary as well as copies of operatie, vocal pianoforte musle.
ON
MERCY SLAYER
FOR LIFE IN NEW
TRIAL YORK
Newburgh, N.Y., Sept 16.
and
Mrs. Dorothy Sherwood to-day, begins her second trial for life
for the murder of her starving baby last fall.. Her first trial resulted in conviction and the death sentence. The Court of Appeals re- versed the death sentence because the jury had recommended clemency in the face of statutes which make death mandatory for first degree murder.
Mrs. Sherwood spent five months in the shadow of Sing Sing Prison's electric chair before the Court of Appeals acted.
MARRIED A MAN
FOR MONEY
AND REFUSED HIM, HELP, WHEN HE WAS POOR
My life has been so extraordinary that it seems fantastic even to me.
I was literally brought up to earn a fortune for my parents. There was to be no galety, no love for a man for me. I was to have fame as my
recompense.
There was nothing in mo that drovė ne on to become an actress. I was driven.
At fourteen I became a leading lady, studying at home between ple- tures.
I longed to go out and have fun. "We'll all go together, my parents would say, "Why should you ever want to be alone with other people?' Love Affair Quashed
By this time I was carning a big salary, yet I had no money of my.
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At seventeen I fell in love. He was a friend of the family's, a man of 35, who declared he couldn't go on seeing me in face of my parents' opposition.
still evening, while I was
stand it any eighteen, I couldn't longer. I was only allowed out two nights a month with my mother. climbed out
✡ ok second storey window and went down to a little My parents were frantic. They in-hotel in Hollywood for the night.
promised anything if I'd return.
HETTY GREEN, who loved money so much that she lived to become the richest woman the world has ever known, must be turning over in her grave.
More than £10,000,000 is being claimed by three States and the United States Government as back-taxes and heritance taxes on her vast estate.
But despite the nerve-wracking ordeal, she refused to plead Life Does
guilty to second degree murder on July 20. Such a plen- would- have meant a long prison sentence.-United Press.
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-SCIENTISTS' CLAIM
Los Angeles, Sept. 20. Science at last has concrete proof of the existence of lifa outside our own earth.
This was the highlight of the fourth annual meeting of the Society for Research Meteorites, held recently on the U.C.L.A. campus.
on
Dr. Charles Lipman, head of the graduate division at the
This radical concession was such Hetty, who lived in the days!
a sudden change I wasn't ready for when a million dollars almost. I went out a lot for a dizzy meant poverty in America, lived month. and died for money...
I became engaged to an assistant director-then broke it off. Father's Contract
My father drew up a contract for
She met handsome young Ed- ward Green. heard he had made a fortune in the Far East, and hur-me to sign. riedly married him.
It provided that 50 per cent. of my earnings went directly to him and She deserted him some years my mother; 50 per cent, of my half later, when he went broke, and was to be invested by him in a trust refused to rive him a penny, fund-the investments unluckily He died because she would not were dend losses--and I was to re- give him enough money to buy food. celve for myself the remaining 30
When her son Edward graduated per cent. of my share. from college he went to work in a
£1 omeo and earned railway month, He wrote asking for a small allowence.
"Not a peony more until you're worth it," answered Hetty Green.
FATAL ARGUMENT
She died In 1916 because she argued about money with a drunken cook. His reply caused her to have a stroke.
A year later I was introduced to Kenneth Hawks, Fox director.
We
n whole year were engaged
Three before I told my parents. months after, despite every argu-- ment, I did marry him.
My father continued to enforce the contract I'd signed, although talkies began to affect my career. Then I took a stage job at £30 a week and loved it,
The week before the show closed; however,
wever, Kenneth was killed in an
air crash.
My health broke. Lee Tracy sent
She left £20,000,000 to her son, who had become Colonel Edward me to Dr. Franklyn Thorpe. He Green, and whose request for a ordered me to bed for four months. I few dollars she had once refused. refused to go home. I took a small Colonel Green liked to spend apartment in town. Dr. Thorpe
University of California at Ber-money just as much as his mother came to see me regularly, and D keley, set the tongues of visiting liked to save it.
radio, on destitute girls.
scientists a-buzzing on this oft- He spent millions on aviation, on discussed question when he pre- sented a-paper entitled, Bacterin
Colonel Green died in June this
year and a half afler Kenneth's death I married him.
£200-a-Month Pact
After my illness I only had a few hundred pounds. My parents Eald they needed my salary to keep their mansion going.
in Meteorites, in which he out-year. It was announced that he had left no will, but a few weeks Inter lined his findings,
Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks, the only I wrote to father that we would daughter of Helty, came forward cancel the contract and agreed to Dr. Lipman said: "I have personal- and filed a will made by her brother give him £200 a month for a year, which during which he could dispose of the ly found. a considerable variety of before his marriage, under bacteria meteorites-and have seen ahe received Hetty Green's fortune, place.
then grow and flourish in a normal miliions has been waged.
Since then a legal battle for those
way after they have left their arrest- ed state."
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At the end of the year nothing had happened. My parents con-. tinued to resent my marriage, my Last week Mrs. Green won the baby, and my independènèe. first victory. She was appointed The Superlar Court settled the executrix and sole administrator matter. I am sending them £20 a of her husband's estate new month and I shall never see them valued at more than £10,000,000. | want.
Into the discard also went such old-fashioned terms as shooting stars, fireballs, uranoliths, and Many others which have come from all Now comes the 'serving of notices I have such wonderful plans for the languages including the Scan-by three States and the Unlied my daughter-how different her dinavian. In their place, Dr. States Government. Frederick C. Leonard of UCLA. suggested a newer and simpler ter- minology.
Dr. L. J. Spencer, keeper of minerals for the British muscum of Natural, history, contributed a paper on the mysterious tellites. They
maturing is going to be!
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New York, Sept. 10.
are queer shaped pieces of natural isn't. glass, some of beautifully delicate tints found nearly all over tho Sergeant Harry Butts, ballistic expert of the Police Department, world. Selence is not yet sure that has made a thorough investigation of the subject and pronounces the they came dying like bullets from vests worthless. Most of the 150 vests Batts tested could not resist space, but it is known that they are for different in make up and cry- a charge of buckshot at twenty-five feet, and:.32 and 38 callbro stallization from volcanic Eless revolver bullels penetrated them with case at a distance of from 25 which is much more common on earth-United Press.
to 45 feet-United Press.
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