THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY,
There Should Be A Pun In This Photograph About Wanting To Get Into "Gripps"
Here is Vern Love and her,
ten Follles-eleven American girls who arrived in the Colony! yesterday under contract with the Hongkong and Shanghai
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KAYSER
MARRIAGE.
Widows between the age of 35 and 55 have more chance of marriage than spinsters of the same age, and a bigger proportion of widowers marry between the ages of 25 and 55 than bachelors.
These are among the facts revealed in the official commentary of the Registrar-General in his statistical review for 1934 published by the Stationery Office (3s. 6d.).
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Other striking facts, are!
Fewer men under the age of 21 married in 1934 than for many years past.
The number of divorces-4,287—¡ skilled workers it was about the was higher than in any previous year, average; while for the wives of un- and the number of divorced persons skilled workers it was 3.00. who renarried-5,545-was also a The standardised rate of combined record.
mortality from angina pectoris and degenerative discases of the heart and arteries has risen continually during the last 15 years.
The birth-rate of 14.0 per 1,000 population is lower than that of any other countries except Austria und Sweden.
The average age of the population bas increased from 20.9 years in the case of men in 1921 to 32.4 years in 1814 and for women from 31,2 to 34.2
years.
SUMMER BABIES LUCKIER -Summer-born bables have a greater chunec of survival than those born in winter.
There is," says the report, "a con- siderable disadvantage in survivli at the end of the second year for chil- dren born In the winter months com- pared with those born at other sea-.
sons.
"Despite the fact that each group of children has, by the end of two years from birth, been twice exposed to a complete round of the seasons, out of each 1,000 children born in four winters an average of 80 died within two years, whereas out of ench 1,000 born in summer only 75
died."
During the Brst year of life the mortality rate of winter-born bables is 14 per cent. in excess of summer born, and in the second year it is 42 per cent,
MOTHERS' DEATH-RATE
It is thought to be caused by the attaining to ages of 50-65 of a populn- tion of men, not only inferior in aver- age physique owing to elimination of the fittest during 1914-18, but one which was subjected during those years to abnormal stress.
WALT DISNEY TAKING TWO
To Pay Wife
£200 A Month
Los Angeles. Dec. 8. LIVER HARDY, "Tat Pho"
OLIVE
of []{x comedians Laurr! and Hardy, was to-day ordered to pay his wife £200 a month alimony pending hearing of her suit against him for £50 month, maintenance.
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Hardy pleaded that his wife was worth £20,000 in her own name; admitted he locked her out of their home last June,
When Mrs. Hardy filed her sult she said her husband was too fond of liquor, gambling, and other women, and treated her in real life as badly -as he' treated Ljurel on the screen.
DECEMBER 16. 1936.
Boy Who "Got No Letters' Is Birched
Weymouth, Dec. 5. SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD
GEORGE ALEXANDER WESTERN, who "never got letters like other boys,' wept at a court-martial in the naval depot ship Titania | to-day.
A pitiable story was told of his discovery that the mother, he had never known was in a mental hospital.
The youth has the rank of "Boy" in the battleship Nelson, fingship of the Home Fleet at Portland.
Simple, Childlike
The Nelson's chaplain, the Rev. D. Blunt, said he had come to the Navy from school, and when he joined had asked that inquiries should be made to nev if his mother, was alive.
"I learned." said the chaplain. "that his mother and brother were In mental homes, and that his sister was ál a training home for mental defectives. But I did not tell him, because it would lave had a bad effect, I thought, on such a simple, childlike person.
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"Then he card from his sister, and he told me he wanted to go to his mother. The boy was very thrilled to learn that he had A mother, but when he returned noticed a dreadful disillusionment in bim. It must have been a terrible shock to. And that his mother was in a mental hospital.
"Laughed At Me" ·
"From thai day I noticed a deter- joration in his character. He diel not eare what beenme of him."
Western, his voice broken with roos, told the naval officers sling on the court: "People have always laughed at me because of my small- ness, and at times I found myself not caring what I did. I never got any letters like other hoys, and I seem to have no one to think of."
He was found guilty with another boy of usarlous offence on hourd the ship. Both were ordered 12 strokes of the birch.
"Take Wife To Cinema
Court
Orders
22
A Brooklyn, New York, magistrale, Mr. Sabbatino, imposed a humorously practical sentence on a man whose wife complained that she was treated badly, and that her husband never look her out_to_places of amusement,
It was Mrs. Rubenstein who made the complaint, and the sentence on her husband, Samuel, was that he should take his wife to the cinema on December 2 and hold her hand throughout the performance.
If Mr. and Mrs. Rubenstein were | Nor to film in the cinema ball. not 'reconelled by this wife
YEARS TO MAKE rreh the the magistrate All day long he was peddling neck-.
HIS BIGGEST
PICTURE
again on Dec. 3,
ties,
And at night he would sit in his chair,
And stick his long nose in his paper Just as if Mrs. R. wasn't there."
This Hillle domestic affair in Brook- lyn has inspired a London reporter to tell the story as follows, with apologies to Stanley Holloway, broad- Mr. Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Lancashire dlulect monologue con-
caster of Marrlot Edgar's famous The magistrae, named Sabbatino,
now been engaged for a year on the The Mouse and the Silly Symphonies, has cerning biggest picture of his career and it will take another year to complete.
It is "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," his first feature film.
Mr. George Kamen, Mr. Disney's European representative, who has just returned to London from Holly- wood, says:
"old Som:" Rubensteins, dwelling Brooklyn,
Said: "You're bored with your wife,
I suppose?"
BUNTY WANTED
TO BE AN ACTRESS
MISS GARLAND'S STUDY,
I'M BORAY TO HAVE TO İ-GIVE THE PART TO ACUM
1-00-T-TAY
* BUT REALLY YOU KHOut FarmiIS OCAQLANDI
YOU DONT BUT ARE SPE
INTO IT, BUNTY
BEDTIME
·HERES YOU
MORLICKS BUNTY- JUST THE STAFF FOR
OPERWORKED ACTRESZCZ
DUT # SZEM TO GET
$0 -RED
YOU'LL LOVE IT,
BUNTY
Is YOUR child like tillat If your child sukienly loses interest la subiect the has always been keen about remember that. she is growing rapidly —shooting up and every taxing her strength -- using up more energy than the two really spare.
Horlick's at bedtime of mid-morning will replace this fost energy and provide the natural elements necetiary the growin—chilidten love the taste of Horlick's, either Pizin or Chacoiste Mavoured, andit kespytliem lively and vigorous, Horlick's economical too—the milk is already in I add water only.
COME BINTY-MAKE UFJ YOU'VE MASSED YOUR QUE AGAIN, AND YOU MAKE THE PUT TO BULL.
# YOU CANT DO METIER
THAN THIS AT THE
DRESS REHEARSAL-
Brasemen M FROM GRYTING UP ANY MORE PLAYS!
HOR BUNTY GREY'S
LET ME DOWN. THE WAS ED GOOD
LAST TEAM TRO
IVE WOTHED THAT¬ SHI'S VERY QUIET :,
THIS FIRM, GROWING -TOO KASP. I EXPECT
I MUST PUT HER MAY, HÖRLICHE BRICJOD-
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in Answered Sam: "I get tired of an QUEEN'S BUILDING.
Lived a life that was nowt but q
sham,
.
evening, And I can't afford dances
shows."
and
| So the wife took her troubles to court- "Well, spend a bit less on tobacco,"
house,
In counsel the magistrate spoke,
And complained of her husband,"And give Mrs. R. a nice evening,"
named Sam.
Sald Sam, very proud: "I don't
smoke."
She pleaded a case of maltreatment,
"Mr. Disney hns promised that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 'Cos he never would treat her at will be finished by September or Oc- Not to smokes, not to drinks, nor
The rate of mortality for mothers during 1930-32 was for all married women 4.13 per 1,000 live births. For those classes comprising wives of tober, 1937.
men in professions and allied occupa- "I heard most of the music in Mr. tions the rate was 4.44; for the wives Disney's office. A loud speaker was
all:
new dresses,
of those defined as skilled and semi-connected to the sound stage of the SHIP COMES IN
Cancer Diagnosed In Error
Man Who Would Have Had Right To Die
studio,
COSTING 1,200,000 "A new camera which has been built into the studio produces effects In the way of lighting and depth that have never before been possible.
AS PRISONER'S
GIFT TO JUDGE
Herkimer, N.Y., Dec, 1. County Judge Frank H. Shail's shir
Each dwarf has his own particular came in via Attien prison. and peculiar form. The film will
An Inmate, appreciating assignment run for 75 to
to prison work fitting his labours, "When it minutes.
It was originally decided to made a model of a ship almost entire A wrong diagnosis and the pro-do the picture a budget of £50,000 ly of pieces of burned matches, glued posed "right to die" were discussed was set. When I left it was set at together.
at an inquest at Blackburn recently £160,000, but Mr. Disney assured me
day.
on John Shackleton, aged 55, an iron that it would be impossible to finish The designs is that of a sailing vessel The ship was presented to the jurist pleture at less than £200,000. moulder of Hodder-street, Black- the plet
of three masts, with portholes for burn, who died suddenly on Tues- The picture
should be the biggest cannon, common in
a pre-Revolutionary revolution In Alm technique since days. Atop the mainmast is a crow's talkies began.
nest for the lookout. There will be close, on 200,000 The sails are made of lining torn drawings. None of the characters is from old shoes. The portholes are human-they are all cartoon,
made of shoe eyelets. Thread is used "It is possible that Mr. Disney will for the rope and rigging.--Unlied come to London for the opening." Press,
Mra, Shackleton sald that her hus- band had been in poor health since leaving the Army 18 years ago. In
was de 1921, when in hospital, il cided that he had a cancer which could not be operated upon.
Dr. Bailey, who conducted a post- examination, attributed
death
to double septic pneumonia, and said that there was no and never had been.
cancer
He said that there had been a lot of discussion in the Press recently on the subject of euthanasia and the suggested right of incurables. to be painlessly put to death. If the sug- gestion had been legalised, Shack- leton, in whom cancer had been diagnosed, would have been one of those who would have had tho
right
MIR-O-KLEER to die..
STOCKINGS
The Coroner (Mr. T. I. Thompson) Bald that it was absolutely ridiculous to talk of the right to dielo forget?
A verdict of death from natural
causer was returned.
Sabbatino considered his judgment That the woman no longer should grleve,
That the man should provide some
enjoyment-
And said, laughing the while in his
sleeve;
"Sam, Sam, you must
go
to the fickers On night of December the Two, And hold your wife's hand through
the evening,
As 'tis courting folks' practice to do. "Let Charlie convulse you with
laughter,
Let Shirley dissolve you in tears, Or Gable recall your first kisses
And the thrill of your honeymoon
уста. "And if still there is no
ment,
me.
reconcile-
'I suppose you must come back to Sentence: Hold hands all evening at
movies:
1
Case adjourned till December the
Three."
GUY RAMSEY.
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