Doctor
DR.
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TELEGRAPH.' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936.
Tries To Prove
Blind Cure
Roosevelt
STAVROS CONSTANTINE DAMOGLOU, Greek Inauguration
doctor who claims he has made the blind see and has
saved many from incurable diseases, faced London County Next Month
Council's Public Control Committee recently for the
second time in five years to fight for his masseur's licence. | CHANGED TO JANUARY
After two hours, during which witnesses told various stories of Dr. Damoglou's treatment, the case was ad- journed.
Arthur Sidney Francis, 24- year-old window cleaner, of Henry St, Battersen, said he was discharged from Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Rd., EC. in 1932 as a hopeless cane.
He had since been 241⁄2 years under Dr. Damoglou's treatment.
The court was adjourned for live minutes. When it reassembled Mr. Samuel announced that it Francis was willing he would have him
examined at Moorfields Hospital. The examination is to take place within a fortnight
Mr. H. J. C. Davica, chief officer of the I.C.C. Public Control department, stated that the doctor had issued a pamphlet headed: "I Make Sight less Eyes See," although he had promised the committee in 1931 to withdraw two other pamphlets.
Two South Wales evidence.
20 FROM MARCH 4
:
Washington, Nov. 30. The next president of the the first United States, for time in history, will be in- augurated in mid. winter-Janu- ary 20, instead of March 4, as a result of the Norris Lame Duck amendment.
its
Washington. despite southerly location, finds winter women gave often grim. As a result a snow- the storm beating down on The first woman said her seven-capitol may be the inauguration
the other. Dr.
Four years ago Franklin D. Franels, was handed a book by year-old daughter had lost one eye greeting for the next president.
and was blind in committee Damoglou, she added, sald one cyc Mr. A. E. Samuel, and asked to could be treated and possibly in- Roosevelt was inaugurated pre-
moment's other eye would grow in the place
read of the one that was lost.
the chairman of the
R
тал There read. silence, then he began quickly and clearly.
"That is enough," said the chair- man, after he had read a sentence,
These Women
Must Not Cry
ONG artificial eyelashes are coming back into fashion.
This is the view
*ey clash trader
of Parisien who
declare.
that London is ready witness- Ing a "revival.”
"Women who have long cyc lashes must not cry," says M Rochet-Bieth.. an authority the fixing of eyelashes.
CRITIC OF
'PHONE
ENGLISH
TH
on
THE ubiquitous "Hello" should be abollshed us preface to telephonte communications, in the opinion at Mr. C. E. Martin of Sydney.
In an address recently to the Loral Government Clerks Association, Mr. Martin said that everybody seemed to use the word to start a telephone talk, and often it was repented many times.
Appealing for a wider and better use of English, Mr. Martin' said that a study of six telephone converan tions gave him the following result; One ran: "Hello" pause=1 dunno" pause "Waiterabit."
example, he That was just one said, of how some people tomahawk ed their English.
To.establish closer relations with should brighten up their literature, he considered.
sident from the centre tier of the capitol steps on March 4.1 The day was hazy, chilly and windy.
The girl was brought to London, treatment and electrical glyen
Next year, as a result of an amend- dicted on grated carrots, black
ment to the constitution, the new plums, and dandelions. There was no Improvement after president must take his oath of office
a month's treatment.
Potomac.
almost eight weeks before any pre- decessor in the month of January-
languid Another South Wales woman asid often a blustering, snowy month ever
after her as far south as the dorlor abe went to the
Norris sponsored the constitutional eyes had been falling for 14 years.
amendment in the belief that the She said he accepted £20 month "lame duck" Congress in these mo- but a relic of the his treatment. This Included dern times was for
with Its-slow transportation dieling oa oranges for the Brst week, post, grapes for the second, and then arti- arrangements. breakfast, dandelion chokes for
fresh water leaves, rke bolled in beetroot, and spaghetti,
Dr. Damoglou, short, grey-haired, addressed the committee.
He called three women and two men to witness that he had cured
ness
Now with airplane and stream- lined train, he figured the will of the people in November election, should react on legislation with the begin- ning of the new year, after the clec- Lion.
new
CONGRESS MEETING Thus Congress will meet them from blindness or partial blind-Congress on January 5, and a new when doctors had said that president be inaugurated on January
20 for the nothing more could be done,
loosevelt therefore finds himself the first President in history with a term cut short. His "reign" must end on the new date--and the new one start,
Artificial
Fever Cures
Ancient Disease
Chicago, Nov. 20. Artificial Fevei, induced by elec- tricity, has been used successfully
Dance, treating St. Vitus in
the Association Americon Medical Journal discloses.
advantage of the new
first
time. President
If defeated he will be the first pre- sident with term of office cut short from the usual length.
FORMER C. IN C. AT BROTHER'S FUNERAL
Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, former Commander In Chief of China Station, in the precession at the funeral of his brother, Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Kelly.
PACIFIC SHIPPING BATTLE
Marie Tempest's Odyssey
What Gladstone Said in 1882 WARNING AGAINST
THE STAGE
The best personal expression of an actresa thol we have had in print since, Ellen Terry's letters to Bernard Shaw
given to the world in "Marie Tempest, Her Biography," by Heelor Belitho (Cobden Sander- son,
108.).
It is a living biography. Miss Tempest's Boswell, like Dr. Johnson's did not even meet her until she was nlready a legend. He has made up for it since by a blend of worshle dimcult and assiduity.it would be now to rival,
Mr. Bolitho first saw Miss Tempest act in. New Zealand in 1010, so that По сап
of ive no first-hand impression years of her career previous 30
na singer and actress. Ho has done. the best possible with collected tri- buten of critles. There will be more informative to future generations than to those who have seen-and may still see-the original "rogue in porcelain." As yet, however, much
ono agrees with all the superlatives, the reality is better still,
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
But when Miss Tempest Kernelt takes up the tale there is always something fresh and pungent. She is delightfully evasive over her child- hood, spent as Mary Susan Ether- inton--in a gloomy house in White-
grandmother.
hall with
as '
Miss Tempest's father the describes "an improvident, charming soldier, who was often tipsy"; her mother Bang
never welcome In Whitehall, because she had dared to steal the old lady's son."
"ATE.
At 18, after some unruly yents in a Belgian convent. Miss Tempest was taken by her grandmother to Paris, There
she learned singing from Signor Marochelli, and when she rame back to Whitehall was taken by her grandmother to see no lesa a per
Gladstone. The "Go
soared some minutes from hich notles to dissuade her, at Mrs. Gladstone's behest, from going on the
singe He frowned
be suggested the depravity of the life I wished to live. He talked of Marreadly, of Helen Forsyth, and of Kenn send - Irving. He forgot his moralising-
VAST PLANS BY U.S., n
JAPAN, CANADA
AND BRITAIN
THE great battle for the
One major hazard to the inaugura- Pacific shipping trade, in tion has resulted from the Norris con- sututional amendment. Previously a volving millions of pounds, has "lame duck" Congress has met inbegin, January-0 Congress already ganized-to give official benediction to the electoral college count.
Fayed.
JOINT SESSION
05-
have to be rushed through setting an-
American, Japanese, Canadiah, and British companies are preparing vast plans for modernising and extending their fleets to meet the Increased do
mands expected for the 1940 Olym- pic Games in Tokyo.
Vessels will be faster. Torger, and more luxurious.
Each will be of 25,000 tons with a
Nippon Уикед Kaisha, the Japanese mail tine, is receiving -Government"""support," according
to statements Francisco.
made
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Son
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for a moment and spoke of the SPECIAL: DON'T FORGET OUR TOY DISPLAY power for good of the drumst and the actor.. Then ha laskað ni me again, remembered his mission, and drew all he had entě) Iphon final argument of warning.....Mrs. Gladstone
bramed "William. you are wonderful.”
And
wald:
SPARTAN TRAINING Then came the Royal Academy of Music, where Garcia minde Mary take off her corsets. Filterington threw ink and pens at her, and dug nibs into the notes of her music. The other pupils
included Julia Neilson, 'n splendid, upstanding girl. with a lovely coronel of red-gold hair, always amiable and friendly, smiling -- and --unconscious of
and Etherington Mary Julia
beautyson were rivals for the gold
Courtice Pounds were elso
the public, local government bodies vie strain upon the patient's heart lectoral vote. This house failing to all its vessels up to first-class fellow-pupil successes in "Boc-
as is the case of fever induced by external heat or typhoid vaccine.
The new amendment provides that on January 6, one day after the new Congress convenes, House and Senate is to sit in joint session and give legal status to the electoral
vole. has risen
The Canadian Pacific, according to. However, the possibility has The 25 anses reported on by Drs. Clarence A. Neyman, Maurice L. that the House the pre-overbili ad- the Exchange Telegraph, is building Hall and S. L. Osborn, are the first mixture of political affiliations-mayfive new ships. to demonstrate the beneficial effects be unable to organize by that date. of artificial fever in this childhood | A strong "liberal-blog-conceivably speed of 25 knots.
new speaker disease, although the curative effect could delay election of a of high fever has long been known, so that the joint session would be de the Journal said.
In that event a new law would Greatest event for got produce
other date for verification of the would be neces→
Every effort will be made to bring and silver medals. Edward German sary in event of the organize, if a now president-is-to-take standard. New fast, steamers will After "The average period of treatment," the oath on January 20.
be added. Inauguration day often has been u
caccio, Fay o Fire," and "Erminie," the Doctors said, "was only 10
The British-owned Canadian-Aus-Marie Tempest, as she had then be days, compared to two to six months day of rough weather, straining the tralasian line, operating from Van- come, came into the full glory of fame necessary in other curative regimens, physical strength of government off-couver, is replacing two large vessels,
at 21 In the title-part of "Dorothy," only three of the 25 patients have clals, particularly of the Supreme and the Maison and Dollar lines, the
that both Sullivan It is not surprising that Court which usually attends en masse. two principal Pacific American com- suffered a recurrence."
tried to get her.to and D'Oyly Carte March is blustery and dangerous in panies, have prepared costly Fever was produced by electro-Washington. January is even more grammes.
join the Savoy company,
But
"some instinctive
fear held her back," magnetic induction, the Doctors re- 50. The national capitol for
for several Much official correspondence, added ported, and in all cases the twitch-years past has been susceptible to
was, I think," she confesses, "afraid Mr. Martin, was couched in jargon. ings and other uncontrollable move- New England wintry weather. A
of becoming an automaton." He appealed for simpler use of the ments ceased promptly-United
spell of it in January could affect the King's English.
glamour of inauguration day. The drive from the White House to the capitol by the President and his suc- cessor conceivably could be through
driving blizzard.
Some tourist pamphlets were very dull. In England, for instance, one tourist book had an article by Beverley Nicholls, and another con- tained thrilling detective story, Such publications best served their presented, if attractively purpose written and illustrated.
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Kisses Are
Rated By
"Brutality"
The tens of thousands of specia- | 66 tors could champ and be chilled as they poured about the capitol plaza for the ceremony-United Press.
Scots Economy
Washington, Nov. 15. HIEN the buat of Lord Kelvin..
Who arent Bentilsa, scientist,
was unyelled at the Smithsonian Institute here a congratulatory cable of 1500 words was sent by representative men of science in England.
Scottish scientists also sent a cable. It contained one word: "Felicitations."--Reuter.
New Animal ?
Or Freak
London is to see the skin and skull of what is believed to be a new animal.
It has been shot in Kenya. (reports a Nairobi Correspond- ent). Whilo. 16 ir saldi bỹ tho Kenys Gamo · Warilen, Captain
A. T. Ritchie, to resemble fontsize lynx with a difference," It is declared by some to be, a "Nanda bear," the mysterions creature which, according ; to natives, attacks and eats human beings, but has never been shot or captured.
Bears, however, says » Lon-
·.: alan · experi, aro unknown in Central Africa. He thinks the "new animal! may be a freak hyou.
*** Its skin and skull are to be
sent to the British. MonG LAZE.
pro-
--IN HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood, Nov. 20, Here's a new method for rat- ing film romantics—according to the "brutality" of their kisses.
Wally Westmore, makeup man who stands by to reshape kissérs after each kiss invented it. and he says Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper are the worst.
"They're enough to drive you crazy, he complained. They need a new mouth each after every kiss. Hordest kissers in the business.
Mae West, on the other hand, West- more regards as a paragon among Idissersahe meets em head-on and hardly smears at all. All I got to do is replace a divot here and there.
"Gladys Swarthout, Fred Mac- Murray, Jack Oakie and Randolph Scott are real easy kissers. Never have much trouble with then, But Jean Harlow-that dame, is brutal. She kisses with her lips parted, and can ruin a good make-up `quicker'n
Buy 'seat. Other
you
Westmore classifications: Joan Crawford-A hoad mover, Smears lipstick right to left.
"George Bafla crusher: Smears even-but plenty.
Claudette Colbert-changeable Sometimes brutal other times, light
So George Edwardes claimed her, and the voice that the Savoy lost was to thrill Raly's for four years in
"An Artist's Model," "The Geisha," "A
have
Greck Slave." and "San Toy."
The achievements
of her later phase as a queen of comedy owed most, Miss Tempest telin us, to the Dion Bouelcault, who duced "The Marriage of Kitty," and to her present husband, Mr. Graham
pro-
Browne, her watchful and inspiring comrade In management for twenty years.
MANDARIN CRITICS
over
But her experiences as far-and- away the most travelled of living actresses are the revelation of the book-the · "Odyssey's of her eight years of world-wandering from 1914- 23.
They have deepened both her art and her personality Incalculably and enrich the pages of her "Life" with a harvest of memories. Sho charmed five. Continents-ranged. from the Canadian snows to the Aus- tralian bush and gathered some- thing from each. Here are her in- pressions of Pekin, where she ap- peared in 13 different plays on 13 consecutive nights: -
I can never forget looldus down into the stalls, with the expression- Iess gazing eyes of the old Chinese mandarins, usually resting on their bands on the rail in front of them, one round face after another, staring up at inc. Those old Chinese follow- ed the plot of the play like cats Watching mice. They did not res- pand very spontaneously to the
humour.
Elsewhere Misa Tempest's travels brought her in touch with all sorts of famous folk, and those who have become famous since.
Above all the book conveys the character of Miss Tempest herself, with all its paradoxes dominant, proud, Krankly egotistical, yet in-- William Powell-leading women initely sensitive and sympathetic; well as the makeup department always learning, absorbing, respond- know they've been kissed,
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