THE HONGKONG.
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 24,
1936.
Film Clerk Says
But He's Been Too Busy To
He Is An Earl
Worry About It
PRESENT EARL
IS PUZZLED
STUDIES HIS FAMILY TREE
By GWYN LEWIS
THE twenty-year-old Earl of Devon will sit in his library at Powderham Castle, Exeter, this week-end, poring over ancient documents testing his right to the title. He succeeded to it only last year.
He will study the genealogical] history of his family, one of the oldest in England, as the result of a clerk's claim to be the right- ful holder of the title.
This is the pequel to the publica- lion recently of a picture of Lady Evelyn Frances Courtenay after her wedding the prvious day. She is the curl's sister,
The British Museum is exhibiting One collection of elephant tusKY which belonged to the late King George, who reerived them KIN presents when visiting the colonienetaire he wrote when he way Duke of York.
6 Men Of Millions Unite Against
Women
New York, Nov. 15. IX New York millionaires
SIX New
with the necessary qualifications of a million dollars euch and woman trouble, to-day joined the Millionaires Alimony De- fence League.
The league aims at rid- ding America of one of its greatest rackets.
are
These men are all targets for
They alimony-seekers. pledged to spend some of their millions to bring about changes in the alimony laws and to pre-
them vent
from being "irresistible temptation to, un- scrupulous women."
THOUGHT WAR HAD.
- BEGUN
-MAN WHO DID NOT READ NEWSPAPERS
Paris, Nov. 1.
When the mock air-raid alarm sounded lust Friday night, Joseph Raise, aged 85, Hving alone, turned on the gas taps in his house, think- ing the war had begun.
Rescued in the nick of time, he re- covered consciousness
yesterday. His action in gassing himself was, he paradoxically explained to-day, due to his dread of gas bombs.
"I never read the newspapers." he said. "I thought when the
syrens streamed and the lights went out that it was another war, and I have ton bad recollections of the last one to want to see another."-Rauter.
'
The clerk is Mr. Austin Denis) arry Courtenay. After seeing the
*" claim to be the Earl of Devon by dtree; desernt, f.have never known this elolm to be disputed, although In aware of the fact that Powder. harn Castle and other entstes are in the hunts of another branch of the family,"
I found the claimant in his office 09
in a land of munke-believe, where decams are dally made to come true
Entertainment for the
į audiences.
of
cinema
Mr. Courtenay is clerk-in-charge of the wardrobe al fin studios at Den- ham. Hucks,
Is a
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of
softly spoken, quiet- forty-three, bannered married, with seven children, and Being in a neat but modest home near the studios.
Be murmured us he saat sorting: "Just let me All in this reintallion for a dozen pairs of silk stockings for Marigne Dietrich, and i will talk to HOR"
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He said, "I worked for four years In the drawing office of a consulting: civil engineer until the outbreak of war, when I went to France.
"I was demobilised at the end of the war, but my employer had died, and I went to the City, I worked in a stockbroker's office until closed down after the Hairy crash.
"I went straight from the City to a butcher's shop, where t served be- hind the counter, did the books, and ran errands for eighteen months.
fatm "Since then I have bera labourer. it temporary postman, a milk
gardener, roundsmai,
and I have worked heaven knows what.
.
in an East End factory, and have dong_navvying.
"If ever I become rich I shall do methlan about it, because it was my Inther's wish that I shoukl. In fact, it is a family tradition that the earldom should be claimed.
"Papers lust by my father-would have gone far towards proving our claim I have always been brought up to regard myself as the rightful Parl."
"UNASSAILABLE”
A few hours later I w Lieutenant the Earl of Devon, of the Coldstream Guards, at Windsor Barracks.
He said, "My name is Charles Christopher Courtenay, but I have no knowledge of Austin Denis Harry Courtenay.
"I am certain my right to the title is unassailable, but if you will give ing particulars of the claimant's family I will go carefully through our genealogical papers this week-end, and see if there is the slightest doubt to my right."
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Atan old home in the little town of Neidegburg In East Prussia Fried- Firl Sadowski is celebrating his 111th anniversary. In spite of his years Sadowski is still able to fake) his daily walk.
HE SEES BACKWARDS
Wheeling, November 10, Harold Elliott of Moundsville, sees everything backwards. His second grade teacher discovered his peculiarity as he wrote from the right side of a page.
She took him to Dr. G. L. Gallagher, Moundsville oculist, 'who said he believed the youth's condition was caused by improper co- ardination between the eyes and the brain-United Press.
HANDBOOKS INSTEAD
OF ACTION
MAINTAINING its policy of keeping the public informed on air defence matters, the National League of Airmen has in- vestigated Government measures for protecting civilians against air attack.
According to the League's told by the Home Office that it has president, Captain Norman Muc-all the assistance it requires for the millan, in a statement to the time being.
A WAITING LIST London press, "the Government The only anti-gas school is at Fal- is merely toying with the fringefeld, Glos... 138 miles from London, of the problem.'
and five miles from a railway station, Here the Home Office is training in- structors at the rate of only 20 week.
The course occupies a fortnight. There is a waiting list of between 3,000 and 4,000 applicants.
Capt. Macmillan pointed out that while France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, Sweden, and Portugal have already carried out regular full-sente air-raid drills, under realistic condi- tions,
for the entire population of large cities (with fines and inprion- ment for non-partleipants), and are providing public shelters and than-stations regularly broadcast lectures inschulders and on air-defence drill. cially assisting shop-trepers to provide their own, few our Home Offee prepares a handbooks which
public may
other buy or ignore,
"The people of
London, the
Recently the N.L.A. reminded the 13.1.C.
Italian thul German
The Director of Talks replied that the Home Office might not desire anda. of this nature, that it propaganda
unsuitable for the might
prots
raftcrophone, and that he had not yet principal and most vulnerable eity been approached by the Home Offer
on the matter. In the world, know nothing of ate-raid drill or air-raid precau- tions, and the measures taken by the Government are lamentably short of what our etyll population has every right to expect," added Captain Aluemiltan.
NA. association executives who In- have offerest their services as structors in air-raid precautions are
Capt. Macmillan added: "Can any battleship stop or help If war to prevent an air raid on London?
Or anywhere else? No. No. ever comes, the population will cry not for battleship but for bombers."
Kipling
Baby Found In Prince's Heroine
'Cello Case
A MUMMIFIED
"NO PANACEA AGAINST SEA-SICKNESS"
SHIP SURGEON'S ADVICE TO "WATCH THE HORIZON"
be
Paris, Nov. 8.
child was found in a 'cello case longing to an exiled Russian prince when a Paris hotel pro- prietor was ordered to sell the
"I is as natural for the navies torince's possessions to pay his
he sea-sick in stormy weather as for the in- stumble or the toddler to expert golfer to foozle his drive,"
Writing in the current British Medical Journal, Dr. John Hill, sur- Keon in the liner Aquitania, states that one cannot expect to get one's "sen-léga ̄by lying in bed.
bills.
For years the Russian, known as Prince Korkoll, had lived in the hotel in a poor quarter of the city.
Ilis dearest possession seemed to be a 'cello, without which he never stirred. But none ever heard him play.
Outlived Four Sons
Then very softly to her presence
move,
A whisper, "Lady, lo, they know
and love."
Rudyard Kipling, telling of India's gratitude to the Marchioness af Dufferin and Ava for a fund she established to supply her women with medical aid, wrote the story in verse. These are two lines of it.
One day last month the heroine old. of his poem died, 93 years She had outlived her husband, Viceroy of India more than half b DEAD 20 YEARS
century ago, by 34 years, and all Often he was seen sitting on a her four sons as well--
one of the Paris parks The eldest was killed at Lady- "I will often be found that some bench in
smith in 1900 during the Boer War. measure of harmony can be restored hugging the cello case in his arms.
who succeeded to the A few weeks ago the Prince left The second, to the discordant perceptions if the sufferer can
con- the hotel for a journey, leaving his title, died in 1018. The third was be persunded to centrale afl his attention on the belongings as guarantee for his un- killed in 1917 in the great war; the horizon while walking, keeping a paid bill, and later wrote to the pro- fourth in the Meopham uir crash in
sell the con- 1936. 'blind spott for the intervening prietor asking him to
Lady Dufferin had three daughters. waves," he states, by way of helpful tents of his trunk.
Inside the trunk the proprietor Two, Lady Novar and Lady Hermione found the celio case lying under a Blackwood, were with her at the end. The third, Lady Victoria Braith- Dr. I mentions a personal ex-cossack uniform. perience.
mufvice.
And he opened the case to find in-waile, seriously 11, had not known side It not a 'cello, but the mumml- her mother was Indisposed. A storm at sea produced wide-fted body of a little boy with fair hair! spread sea-sickness, but at the first and still rosy lips who, a police doc-| suspicion of real danger many victor said, must have been dead for 20 tims lost all the despondency of sen-years. sickness in ecstasy of hymn
singing..
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VATICAN & MARRIAGE ANNULMENT
THE
"I'M NOT
COMING BACK"
FERRING-ON-SEA,
NOV. 15.
Actu Apostolicne Sedis, official gazette of the Holy See, has published a statement to clority the laws regulating petitions for the annulment of marriage. This follows Information that there have been two cases of impersonation during the preparations for a petition for anpulment.
NO INTENTION OF each case a married woman had bribed a
agirl to impersonate her. ENTERING. PUBLIC The official gazette has, therefore, LIFE AGAIN.
drawn
the attention of counsel act-
MR. J. H. THOMAS HAS
ing in annulment cases to the need To-day, at his seaside retreat,
differ-
of observing strictly the regulations he talked about the whereby the identity of witnessesent rumours now being circu- can be established without possibility Inted that he may again enter of mistake. No change has been Parliament.
made in the regulation themselves.
Nazi Girls Told To Smarten Up
Berlin, Nov. 8. German girls are being officially exhorted to smarten their appearance by discarding."free and easy" styles of dressing and wearing more formul elothes.
"Why should we dreas in sackcloth. seeing that Heaven has given us silk?" asku Hitler Youth, which crilicises the tendency of Nazi youth lo scoru fashion and over-emphasise hikers and peasant costumes.
"It will not do," the perlotical writes, "for you to imitate those who go to the opera in plus-fours and in sports-shirts, tramp across the polish- ed floor, and ridicule the conductor's falls.
Wear your uniform when you are on duty, your country costumes on the mendow, but on festive occasions dress festively. Enjoy pretty clothes and do as others do without com- punction," Reuter.
"The rumours are entirely fool- lab," he said. "This is the first time that I have heard any talk about going once again into the public limelight."
Ex-Cabinet Minister Thomas, until recently a prominent figure In poll- ties, has become the complete coun- try gentleman.
WORK IN GARDEN Every day he goes into his garden, where he tends, his flowers and of the This is one vegetables. favourite occupations of the man who ence swayed Parliament and political affairs as Minister for the Dominions and previously as Lord Privy Seal,
"But now
very happy," he said. "I play Bolf
browse about the garden, and I take long walks along the sand.
"In my house here I amu be- ginning to realise the meaning of betur an ordinary householder. "This simple life is just marvel- lous.. Can you wonder that after the lovely time which both my wife and myself enjoy here that I have no craving to go back to the whirl of politics?"
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