THE HONGKONG ' TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1936.
Peeress Watches Child And Monkey Grow Up Pet, At Four, Has Intelligence Of Baby Aged One
Fear, Vanity, Love,
All Shown
(By A Special Correspondent)
Shipbourne (Kent), Dec. 1.
A PEERESS who compares the growth of her own
grandchildren with that of her pet monkeys has
described her discoveries to me.
Marguerite Marchioness of Tweeldale has travelled all over the world, studying, taming, and making pets of hundreds of strange animals, especially monkeys,
Her great Tudor house neer here contains dogs, cats, apes, and even a dappled faun that runs in and out of the house and gallops up the stairs.
Chaplin's Secret Out: They're Married
Hollywood. Dec. 1, From RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
HAD ten to-day with Miss
Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin at his home al Beverly Hilla.
And I can end once and for all the long-standing uncertainty about the matrimonial status of the world's greatest comedian and his leading lady: Charlle and Paulette have been married more than a year,
So do not let anyone tell you they're only engaged.
Two reasons why Charlie has been
so mysterious!
It
He regards
lis AN Pauletto's private concern.
He wants Paulette to
anel
"He is called Hubert, after the patron saint of French hunting, and i have brought him
up by hand shice he was an hour old," said Lady i Tweeddele.
fer pets pave also included had gera, opossums, kinkajous, llon cubs, and tortoises. She tells about them In her book ***The Cubs of the Stringer" (Methuen, 12s Od.).
In my Scottish home I have more dogs than I can count," she told me. "They are all working now, white the shooting senson, is on. Down here. I have more ents than I can count.
"FASCINATING”
"But the monkeys are the most
Are
leaving for Australia this week-end.
The three rachtamen who They are left to right) Lindsay Moller. T. J. Brown and H. Aust.
A Thin
Man Orders A Meal
VICKI BAUM LOOKS FOR A NEW JOB
"Grand Hotel" Made Only £3,000
By A Special Correspondent
VICKI ("GRAND HOTEL”) BAUM, Kol of the New York "working goils" who write novela between dish-wasliings, fluttered into London this month and exploded the idea that Hollywood has made her the highest paid woman writer in the world.
E
TRICKED
CONAN DOYLE
"COLD-BLOODED" BOGUS MEDIUM IN GAOL AGAIN
"I wish it were truc," sighed the blue-eyed, dusty-blonde frau who soared out of Germany `five
years ago to write for the
movies.
WORLD AMBLE
At the moment, she was soaring again-back to Hollywood "to looki for a job," after ambling around the world for half a year and slopping off to apin a new novel in Balt
Sald versatile Vicki: "Life is all right-s bit tiresome." For thirty minutes, as we talked in the Savoy Hotel lounge, she evinced an urgent desire to cry on somebody's shoulder. Tear-drop No. 1 "I'm out of a Job; It's not so easy, i wanted to BOGUS medium and former work in London so badly, but. burglar, who was once chair- when I tried to get a Job with of Poplar Board of Alexander Korda.... they didn'! Guardians. was sent to prison for
Vienna, Dec. 1. įman interesting of all-if. Indeed, they A THIN little man, Lazi Szabo, really are animals and not some entered an inn at Kaposvar, for uttering two forged cheques.
seven months at Liverpool recently obscure, retarded race
of "negroid Western Hungary, and asked for people,
To watch one of my Hwa- hold's Woolly monkeys develop- ing at the same time as my baby granddaughter is fascinating.
"A child aged one year equals a monkey aged four in reaction, Intelligence and physleal growth. Then the monkey's intelligence remains static,
make a film career on her own--not as his wife. (So does Pauletie.) Except for his hair, which
"People who say that monkeys now almost white, giving him a have no real intelligence or emotions distinguished appearance, Charlie are wrong. suid Lady Tweeddale. looks younger than ever. No line or "I have
always found that their wrinkle on his face.
emotions go just average human's.
as deep as the hate and show off and are madly They love and jealous.
I had not seen him for five years, but I found he still prefers politics to pictures as a tople of conversation. HIS NEXT PICTURE
Production of his next picture has been delayed partly by his inability to decide whether to talk or remain faithful to his silent role, and
partly by inability to decide on a story.
One he has in mind is a fantasy which
makes the Napoleon escape from St. Helena to direct the Bonnpartist cause Incognito while double conceals the
esenpe by Impersonating the emperor on the island.
When
double les, and Napoleon's death is announced to the world, the shock is too grent for the real Napoleon-pinyed, of course, by Charlie who also dies.
the
Charlie tells me he and Paulette are determined to go to London for the Coronation, whether Paulette's picture is finished or not.
"The first time they saw the red varnish on my nails they thought it was berries, investigated and were cross. But they never made the sume mistake again. Ton't thint conunon intelligence?
"They have a language of their own, too, and cerinin sounds are used consistently to Indleste wants, pleasure, fear, protest.
"I should like to set up a sort of laboratory in which to study how to avold the mistakes so often made in the diet and general care of allen animals to this country.
"And I should like to delve deeper; into my theory that some monkeys are really branch of the human race that as, somehow, stultified."
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He is Frederick Tansley Munnings, aged 94, described as an artist.
a shopkeeper to cash
He persour and telegraph the
stolen
money to him.
Mannings,
18 a spiritualist medium, was once denounced by the late Sir A. Conan Doyle, Mr. Dennis Bradley, and others. He tricked many spiritualists, cluding at first-Conan Doyle.
want me."
Tear-drop No. 2. "I could never {make a living writing novels.
"People think I got a fortune out of 'Grand Hotel, but when it was all over-the play, the book, the picture-everything gave me only £3,000. I had very bad con- tracts, that was the trouble.. Interlude. "But still, I don't care ifor money. I only want bables, in-houses, dancing, travelling, and gar-
dens.
At one seance Munnings was sald
The watter reeled and called the proprietor. He eyed the le man over and then said: "If you can ent1o have "Induced" Dan Leno's spirit all this I will charge you nothing."
"It's a bet," said Lazi.
Within an hour he had eaten every-
then.
to buy me a second course to this "Is there any one who wouk! like muck?" be used the crowd which had gathered round his table.
There were no offers.--Reuter.
Boy Sentenced
To 199 Years
Chicago, Dec. 1, Fifteen-year-old Ronald Mun- roe was sentenced to 190 years' fall in Chicago to-day.
He was found guilty of having hilled, last August, Mrs. Agnes Hoffels, a widow of 65.
a recom-
The Judge added mendation that he should be sent to a reformatory in order to be kept from "hardened criminals.
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"As long as I can still go to Ball, that's enough. If you have money
to sing verses from three songs and you just see a lot of misery and then la suy that he would not come back you give it away."
to this earth for all the money in Drury-Inne,"
"KITCHENER SPOKE" POKE”
Even, Lord Kitchener was "pro- Rich Americans
duced" by Munnloga, who said the general was complaining about hav- ing been sent to Russia.
"Cold-blooded and deliberate artifice" was Conan Doyle's dc- scription of the trickeries prac- tised by Munnings
Now Rare as
Tenants
The man had extraordinary adven-TWO PEERS IN RATING tures in many spheres. Here are some of them:
1800-1914-Licensee of two public
houses
nt Poplar, E.
APPEALS
1007-1816-Member of Poplar Guar-"Unlettable" Mansions
becoming chairman,
dians,
Gloucester, Dec. 1. 1917-Boutal over at Bournemouth "In recent years it has become in- for stealing blcycle.
creasingly dificult to find tenants, 1021-Practised n a spiritualistic and the supply of rich Americans has
medium at
Hastings. 1921-Bound
Over
for obtaining
run short."
So said Mr. Robert Hutton 10-day money by false pretences at Poplar. In the course of his plen, before 1021-1922-Travelling country giving the Rating Appeal Committee, on be-
seancos-us-a trumpet medium.”—– In 1923 he was sentenced at Surrey Quarter Sessions to nine months' im- prisonment for burglary,
of prominent landowners with nsions in the Cotswold arvil against the rating assessment of their properties.
The following landowners appealed against
decisions of the Cirencester Assessment Committee:
Lieutenant-Colonel H. .C. Elves,
New Zealand Warship Colesbourne Park:
Claims Pacific Islands
of
Lieutenant-Colonel M. E. G. Rhys, Wingfield, Darrington Park;
Sir Thomas S. Bazley, atherop Castle;
The Hon. Cloud Biddulph, Rod- Innrton Manor:
Major William H. Daubeny, Dockem House, Contes;
Mr.
Alfred James, Edgeworth Manor:
Lort Sherborne, Sherborne Park; Colonel Arthur Dugdale, Sezincole Manor
Auckland, N.Z., Dec. 1, Omelal publication of Great Britain's possession of certain Islands in the Phoenix Group, cast the
Gilbert and Ellice Islands,
made Was
during the annual winter cruise o! ILMS. Leith, which returned to Auckland recently after an absence of three and a half months. The renewal 'of Great Britain's claims to these islands, which she originally annexed in 1880-.) 82, was made following recent AmeriWych Hill House. can and Japanese activities in the South Pacific,
The announcement that the islands belonged to Great Britain was made on notice-boards, which were nailed i to paintrees, proclalining the fact that "This island belongs to King Edward VIII"-the first time, probably, that King Edward's name has been used in stich circumstances. Each notice was signed by the Commander of the "Leith Captain Oliver Revir.
VICTORIAN PLAYS PERMITTED Ban Removed: Sound Picture Continued
London, Dec. 3. Following His Majesty's removal of the ban on stage plays relating to Queen Victoria, studio preparations have been completed for a talking picture entitled "Victoria the Good." The premiere of this fim. which will be a "Cavalcade" of Victorian England, will take place some time next June, according to the present schedule.--Reuter,
The Hon. Maurice A. Wingfeld,
Colonel E. P. Brassey, Copse Hill, Lower Slaughter; and
Lord Dulverton, Balsford Park.
WHAT TENANTS DEMAND
Mr. Hutton, who appeared for all appellants, said that In every case the by their mansions were occupied owners-partly because of sentiment they had inherited them in some unleitable in the ordinary sense of cases), but mainly because they were
the
nowadays looked with dis- taste upon houses which required large indoor and outdoor staffe and heavy upkeep coats. They wanted plenty of bath-rooms and central heating. Appellants contended that the assessments should be lowered by at least 20 to 25 per
Mr. Hulton
tout cent. suggested to witnesses called for the Committee that the room-to-room assessment method maltice's valuers, was unsound. adopted by the Assessment Com-
At the conclusion of the first case, that of Lieutenant-Colonel Wingfield, Barrington Park, the Chairman an allowed with costs, the gross value nounced that the appeal would be being reduced from £840 to £230 per annum.
Other cases. wlil be heard on December 14.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Redwine, Lewis S., is the candidate of the Prohibition party for Oklahoma Congressman-at-large.
San Francisco. Samuel J. Horselike entered a suit in court asking compensation for injuries suffered when kicked by a mule.
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