Princess Juliana 1.-Whom To Invite:
JAPANESE ADMIRAL LEAVES FOR HOMELAND
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1936.
Has Three Wedding Problems 2.-Who Will Be Bridesmaids: 3.-What
Presents To Accept
Rear Admiral E. Kondo, retiring Commandant of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Party in Shanghai, took his leave of the S. M. C. authorities recently. In the above picture he is shown reviewing the guard of honour provided by the Russian Regiment, 5. V, C.
Skyscraper Death
Lady Astor's
of Nephew
New York, Dec. 1.
RETURNING home early this morning from a night club, Mr. David B. Brooks (26), a nephew of Lady Astor and stepson of the Hon. Robert H. Brand, the English banker, opened the windows of his 14th-storey flat
fashionable in
Park Avenue, New York, and plunged to death on the side walk, a few doors from President Roosevelt's town house.
Police and ambulance surgeons, summoned by servants who had been awakened by Mrs. Brooks's screams, said it was their belief that Mr. Brooks had slipped and had lost his balance.
Mr. Brooks was married on July 14 to Miss Adelaide Moffett, a
Mr. Brooks was married on July 14 to Miss Adelnide Mollett, n daughter of Mr. James A. Mollett, former head of the Federal Housing Authority.
Before the
she had marringe appeared as a singer at several Now York night clubs, despite her father's opposition.
Once she ran away from school to accept a pper club engagement, which was later terminated by her; father.
When the news reached the Hun, Mr. and Mrs. Brand at their country home Eydon Hall, near Rugby Mrs. Brand, who is a sister of Lady Astor, was grief-stricken.
Mr. Brand said:
CAVE WOMAN
New York, Dec. 1. WHEN Mrs. Esther O'Rourke, found that Phineas
Crooker, a 48-years-old Chicago
cooling bachelor, was
toward their romance, she attempted to take him to the altar at the pistol-point.
The argument landed them in
court,
The judge dismissed the charge against Crooker, but sentenced O'Rourke to seven days, Mca. with the remark, “The cave man era has been reversed."
A Yacht From Her
People
BUT ONLY FOR "HOME" WATERS" CRUISES
A Special Correspondent
The Hague, Dec. 3.
PRINCESS JULIANA. her wedding day now less than
a month away, faces three difficult problems.
Whom should she invite to the wedding-or whom dare she not invite? Who shall be her bridesmaids? Which presents that are offered may shie accept?
The first trouble is that The Hague's.cathedral, St. Jame's, cannot hold | ---- more than 1,000 people. +
PRINCESS JULIANA
The balance will have to be held) The result is that a fund has been NOW IT'S THE skilfully between the claims of Dutch created to buy a present from the people and the foreign relatives of people of Holland. the Royal Family.
Then there is the ex-Kaiser's family at Doorn. Will they be there?
It was decided to buy a yacht-Women
One of Wilhelm's stepdaughters Dutch. colonichelminn, a bad sailor
is sald to be anxious to be aj bridesmaid--and that in the next problem
only certain bridesmaid is
Martine, daughter of the Count Van Krimben and flancce of Junkheer
den which thrilled the princess and awoke her dreom of visiting the
But Queen herself, was afraid of the idea and now the
yacht is to be suitable only for safe cruising in home waters,
Princess Juliana has made a great friend of her future mother-in-law,
the smart and gifted Countess von
Bride won was the host of the royal bridegroom, Prince Bernhard, when | Lippe-Blesterfeld, who drives a rac- he first came to Idlinad.
Ing car, smokes cigarettes and enjoys a cocktail.
GIFT PROBLEM The gift problem is that the dignity of the House of Orange forbids acceptance of "unofficial" gifts.
Big Air Base For Philippines
TH
Manila, Dec. 10.
Who Prefer Blondes
Under her influence, the princess
New York, Dec. 5. has now started a slimming course.
Women-the ones who SCOTTISH HONEYMOON come to New York alone and
The latter part of the honeymoon employ young men to escort
may be spent in Scotland,
The princess visited Scotland with them to night clubs and her mother Queen Wilhelmina in theatres-prefer blonds. August last year, and spent more
Tall blondes. If they have a than a month on holiday at St.
Fillans, on Loch Eam, in Perthshire. bit of a Harvard accent so much the botter. That is the report of the Peckham agency, an or- ganisation that is in the busi- ness of supplying young men escorts for women visiting New York.
WHEN BOURCHIER PROPOSED
It has turned out to be quite a business, so good that led to start a branch in the fashionable west end Violet Vanbrugh has spent
50 of London. stage-and is still
vivacious as
HE forlorn hulks of the
Spanish fleet sunk by years on the Admiral Dewey in 1898, going strong.
Miss Vanbrugh, as rusting themselves into ever sat in her old dressing-room at
Daly's, where she is appearing oblivion in the southwest "Muted Strings," the new Beethoven corner of Manila Bay, are play, and marked the milestones in
"Coming so soon after my step- Man Whose Heart to have as neighbours a fleet Was Scraped Dies of military airplanes pro- tecting a free Philippine Republic.
a son
of the second
son's wedding in July, the trapeity) is too poignant for words" Mr. Brand, Viscount Hampden, managing director of Lazard Brothers and Com- pany, merchant bankers, and a diree lor of Lloyds Banks and other com- panics,
An... authority on International
William Harley, whose heart was
decarbonised" in an operation at the Royal Clust Hospital recently. hus died there.
finance, he was deputy-chairman of necessary because he was suffering Harley was 29...... The operation was the British Mission in Washington in from a chleifled covering of the heart. 1917; financial adviser to the chair- While his heart was still beating hls man (Lord Cecil) of the Supreme chest was cut open and the heart was Economic Council at the Pence Con- scraped. Afterwards he lived, in an ference in 1010; and vice-president of Oxygen tent, the International Financial Confer ence of the League of Nations at Kettering, was with him when he His lanceo, Miss Doris Bailey of Brussels in 1920.
ΑΝ
clied.
At Last: Houdini Can't Escape
Los Angeles, Nov. 21. attempt.
"If Ji cannot
escape
N attempt to discover the hiding from the other side in ten years, I place of the fortune, mysterious-cannot believe that any one can," Ty.. missing from the estate of sher said. Magician Harry Houdini, will be made in a seance to be held to-nighi by his widow.
Mrx Houdini has held vigil each Hallowe'en for nine years, hoping to get spiritual manifestation from her husband.
To-niebl's seance will be her last
Other Famous TANGLE Beauty Alda
Houdini on his death-bed said:- "If there is anything in the belief of mediums that a man can return, I shall come back to you We shall arrange a special code which you and I alone can decipher. Beware of tricks. I shall try for ten years
no longer."
World's Most
Famous
Lipstick
In
her wonderful stage career,
She played in the opening produc-
tion at Daly's 43 years ago,
tuld
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HER ROMANCE
Arthur
Last week the Peckhom agency had 97 applications for escorts. It Alled them easity for It has on file the names of about 20 Yale, Harvard and Princeton graduates who earn
their living by attending shows and night clubs and taking ladies out to
tea dances
NO BEDROOMS
Each employee in the agency is carefully investigated and the wo- men who use the service must pro- "It was in this very theatre," she mise, on their part, not to be alone
in a hotel
with the
escorts. гост "that reporter, The Commonwealth govern- Bourchier and I fell in love was services up to 10 p.m., $5;
The price scale runs like this: For $5; up to mid- ment, ruling the islands pending in a corridor behind the stage that night, $10; to 6 a.m., $25.
nigheancial arrangements-ere reclaim 10 hectares (25 acres) School for Scandal, and he was wear-attempt to save both the woman and completo-independence,-plans-to he proposed to me, and I accepted,
"We had been rehearsing "The handled through the agency in an of the 37-mile long bay for use ing a straw hat and walked with a the escort embarrassment. The wo- as a national airdrome, Some limp.
man turns a sum of money over to
$160,000 has been authorised to "Have you hurt yourself! I the agency enough to cover the begin ling in the area but plans asked. He looked at me and said, evening's expenses and pay the fee are not yet definitely completed.
Yes, I have, and then and there he of her escort. The new land is to extend into the proposed and soon after we got Sometimes it is not dancing and boy directly west from Fort San married in the lovellest pensoups fog dining for which the escorts pre Antonio Abad, where victorious I ever remember."
hired. They are retained to drive American forces stepped onto the I asked her what she thought of automobiles, assist in shopping and Philippines and raised the Arst the stage of to-day.
take children back and forth to United States flag in the islands,
The young people on the stage school. Across a long navy jetty lay the}
to-day
are not superior to the "Some of the Indies," said Peck- selors when I was a young wo-ham's mother, who is handling the barnacled ruins of Admiral Montojo's
"are man," she said. "Cocktail parties, business during his absence, fleet. The bulls were towed to their]
were not fashionable in the great very careful to specify what kind of present graveyard.after the battle of
days of the actor-managers like, young man they want. Almost all May 1, 1898.
George Alexander, Charles Wynd- of them say he must be tall. A ham and Charles Hawirey.
Igreat
majority
"Alas! we have not got the out-; be a.blond" specify that he should
Other land reclamation work is being done further up the bayfront toward downtown Manila. A few standing personalities we acres are being filled in as a site for those days." the home of the American High Commissioner to the Philippines.- United Press.
The Secret of "NATURAL' appeal.
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TOWN'S
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+ YEARS' RECORD
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SOME WANT 'em old Not all the women want young men. The demand for the elderly, distinguished type of male caused the agency to hire four older men.
has
In England the escorts will be The record of Hythe (Kent) of chosen from graduates of Oxford or having had no case of drunkenness Cambridge. Anyone registered in for seven years, was broken Inst Burke's Peerage or the Almanach de month, when Joseph Francis Doyle, Gotha probably will be eligible, too. on Army Officer's manservant, of
Once
London branch gets to run- the Limerick, Ireland, was fined 5s, for ning full steam, Peckham, who did being drunk and disorderly.
not attend either Yale, Harvard Alderman Osborne, a magistrate; or Princeton, will hurry back to said to Doyle, "You are only in this country to write a book. The Hythe a few weeks and you spell our title will be "Some nice boys don't record."
pay."-United, Prest.
IT'S HARD
TO SAY, BUT
IT CURES COLDS
A simple, safe and cheap preven-1ed that their colds had been fewer tive against the common cold in and less-savore,
APPEAL TO DOCTORS claimed to have been found by Dr.
The extension of the treatment to Sydney: Gordon: Tippett, late Medi- Industry might have a profound cal. Superintendent of Nordrach-effect on the amount of lost time. upon-Mendip Sanatorium.
through illness, he suggests.
The treatment consists solely in taking daily for 30 days two tablets of sulphogunlacolic precipitate of plasma.
This, it is stated, builds up resist- anco to infection by stimulating the growth of antibodies in the blood, which fight the cold germs.
Out of 600 people treated by this method during the winter of 1934- 1935 approximately 70 per cent. had no colds for a minimum period of four months, Dr. Tippett states in the "Medical":World.".".
He appeals to the medical profes sion to pick a group of people who are known each winter to be subject to frequent colds and use the treat- ment on half of them so that the two. groups could be compared. **
BRITISH
SOLDIER BENTENCED TO DEATH
Poona, Nov. 17. The Sessions Judge here to-day sentenced to death Private Maurice Henry Durbin, of the First Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, for the murder of a regimental.com- rade, Private Arthur Francis Percy,
Last winter 2,000 were treated, with essentially the same results. * The sentence has to be confirmed
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