THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.. WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 16,
1936.
There Should Be A Pun
In This Photograph
About Wanting To Get Into "Gripps"
Here is Vera Love and her
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Widows Lead the Way
MORE CHANCES
MARRIAGE
OF Oliver Hardy
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.).
Other striking facts are:
Fewer men under the age of 23 married in 1934 than for many years past,
The number of divorces,287 was higher than in any previous year, and the number of divorced persons who remarried-5,545 was also à record,
about the
killed workers It was average; while for the wives of un- skilled workers It was 3.80.
The standardised rate of combined mortality from angina pectoris and The birth rate of 14.8 per 1,000 degenerative diseases of the heart and population is lower than that of any arteries has risen continually during other countries except Austria and the last 18 years, Sweden.
The average age of the population has increased from 20.9 years in the case of men in 1921 to 32.4 years in 1934 and for women from 31% to 34.2 years.
SUMMER BABIES LUCKIER Summer born pobles have a greater chance of survival than those born in winter.
"There is," says the report, "a con- siderable disadvantage in survival atį 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 hins, by the end of two. years from birth, been twice exposed lo complete round of the seasons, out of each 1,000 children born in. four winters in average of 89 died within two years, whereas out of each 1,000 born in summer only 75
died."
During the first year of life the mortality rate of winter-born babies is 14 per cent. in excess of summer born, and in the second year it is 42 per cent.
It is thought to be caused by the attaining to ages of 50-65 of a popula- ton of men, not only interior in aver- age physique owing to elimination of the Attest during 1914-18, but one which was subjected during hose years to abnormal stress.
WALT DISNEY TAKING TWO .
To Pay Wife
£200 A Month
Los Angeles, Dec. 8.
OLIVER HARDY, "fat one"
of him comedians Laurel and Hardy, was to-day ordered to pay his wife £200 a month alimony pending hearing of her sult against him for £50 month maintenance.
way
Hardy pleaded that his wife worth £20,000 in her own name: admitted he locked her out of their home last June.
When Mrs. Hardy fled her sujt she sald her husband was too fond of quor, gambling. and other women, and treated her in real Ute as badly as he treated Laurel on the screen.
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, flagship of the Home Flect ut Portland..
: Simple, Childlike
The Nelson's chaplain, the Rev. D. Blunt, said he bail come to the Navy from school, and when he joined had asked that inquiries should be made to see if his mother was alive.
"I learned," said the chaplain. "that his mother and brother were in mental homes, and that his sister was at a training home for mental defectives. But I did not tell him, because I would have had a bad effect, I thought, on such a simple, childilke person.
"Then he heard from his sister, and he told me he wanted to go to This mother. The boy was very thrilled to learn that he had a mother, but when he returned I noticed a dreadful disillusionment in fhm. It must have been a terrible
shock to find that his mother was In a, mental hospital
"Laughed Al Me"
"From that day I noticed a deter- Joration in his character. He did Inot care what became of hind”
Western, his voice broken with yoos, told the naval offers sitting on the court: "People have always. laughed at me because of my small- ness, and at times I found myself but enring what I did. I never gol any letters like other boys, and I seem to have no one to think of."
He was found guilty with another boy of a serious offence on board the ship. Both were ordered 12 strokes of the birch.
.
"Take Wife To Cinema
Orders Court
97
humorously practical sentence on a man whose wife complained A Brooklyn, New York, magistrate, Mr. Sabbatino, imposed a that she was treated badly, and that her husband never took 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 not this wife
•
Nor to film in the cinema hall,
YEARS TO MAKE reconcilen by see the magistrats All day long he was peddling neck-
HIS BIGGEST
PICTURE
ties,
ogain on Dec. 3.
This little domestic affair in Brook- And at night he would sit in his lyn has inspired a London reporter
chair, to tell the story 15 follows, with
And stick his long nose in his paper Just as if Mrs. R. wasn't there..
Sald: "You're bored with your wife,
apologies Stanley Holloway, broad-
to
Mouse and the Silly Symphonies, has cerning
Mr. Walt Disney, creator of Mickey caster of Marriot Edgar's famous The magistrae, named Sabbatino,
Lancashire dialect monologue con- now been engaged for a year on the The
"old Sam:" Rubensteins, biggest pieture of his career and it will take another year to complete.
Brooklyn,
It is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," his first feature film.
I suppose?"
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Lived a life that was newt but a
sham,
evening,
And I can't afford dances and
shows,"
So the wife took her troubles to court-"Well, spend a bit less on tobacco,"
house, And complained of her husband,
named Sam.
Mr. George Kamen, Mr. Disney's European representative, who has MOTHERS' DEATH-RATE just returned to London from Holly-
wood, says: The rate of mortality for mothers "Mr. Disney has promised that She pleaded a case of maltreatment, during 1830-32 was for all married Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 'Cos he never would treat her at women 4.13 per 1,000 live births. For will be finished by September or Oc- Not to smokes, not to drinks, nor
all; those classes comprising wives of tober, 1937.
men in professions and allied occupa- heard most of the music in Mr. tions the rate was 4.44; for the wives Disney's office. A loud speaker was
new, dresses,
of those defined as skilled and saint-connected to the sound stage of the SHIP COMES IN
Cancer Diagnosed In Error
Man Who Would Have Had Right To Die
studio.
COSTING £200,000*
"A new camera which has been built into the studio produces excets in the way of lighting and depth that) have never before been possible.
Each dwarf has his own particular and pecullar form. The aim will run for 75 to 90 minutes.
AS PRISONER'S
GIFT TO JUDGE
Herkimer, N.Y., Dec. 1. came in via Attica prison.
County Judge Frank H. Shall's shir
An inmate, appreciating assignment to prison work fitting his labours, "When 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 £150,000, but Mr. Disney assured me on John Shackleton, aged 65, an iron that it would be impossible to finish The design is that of a sailing vessel moulder of Hodder-street, Black-the picture at less than £200,000,
The ship was presented to the jurist,
of three masts, with portholes for
next for the lookout,
In counsel the magistrate spoke, "And give Mrs. R. a nice evening." Sald Sam, very proud: "I don't
smoke."
Sabbatino considered his judgment -That the woman no longer should
grieve,
That the man should provide some
enjoyment-
And said, laughing the while in his
alceve;
"Sam, Sam, you must go to the
Alckers
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
усага.
burn, who died suddenly on Tues- "The picture should be the biggest cannon, common in pre-Revolutionary "And If still there is no reconelle- day.
"Mrs, Shackleton said that her hus-revolution in Alm technique since days. Atop the mainmast is a crow's
talkles began. band had been in poor health since
"There will be close on 200,000 The sails are made of lining torn leaving the Army 10 years ago. In drawings. None of the characters is from old shoes The portholes are 1921, when in hospital, it was de-human-they are all cartoon
made of shoe eyelets. Thread is used cided that he had a cancer which "It is possible that Mr. Disney will for the rope and rigging-United could not be operated upon.
come to London for the opening." Press,
Dr. Bailey, who conducted a post- mortem examination, attributed death to double, septic pucuments, and said that there was no cancer and never had been.
He said that there had been a lot of discussion in the Press recently on the subject of euthanasia and the. auggested 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 the right to dio..
The Coroner (Mr. T. R, Thompson) sald that it was absolutely ridiculous: to talk of the right to die...
A verdict of death from notural causes was returned.
HAVE YOU
ment, I suppose you must come back to
mc. Sentence: Hold hands all evening at
movics: Case adjourned till December the
Three."
GUY RAMSEY.
TRIED AN ICED
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