THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, APRIL 13,
1937.
Gaoler Made "Love Cell"
For Bridal Pair
ESCAPE
RUSE
MOVES COURT
Paris, April 1.
THE story of a sentimental gaoler, of the prison cell THE
which he made comfortable for a wealthy prisoner to receive his pretty young bride (at £5 a. visit), and of the bride who contrived her husband's escape, disturbed to-day the judicial solemnity of the Seine Assizes.
New Kitchens, 20 Cooks, For Palace
London, Mar. 31.
In the duck stood blonde Christiane Pellssler, charged with helping her ex-banker husband to escupe from the cells of the Palais de Justice. Be- vide her slood goole Lionel Vallet, whose heart was softened and pocket enriched by the pleas of a newly-wed couple compelled to snatch, their honeymoon hours in gaol interviews,
Mme. Pelissier's cousin, Marcel Gulchard, was charged with making a skeleton key for an illegal purpose.
Felissier himself, bridegroom and Buckingham Palace is to have escapee. Is in a Belgian goot sen- new kitchens and if M. Legros,tenced for using a false passport. Queen Elizabeth's Parisian chef, copies to full scale the hotel kit chen he has set his heart upon, the palace will need 20 cooks and 10 dishwashers when running at capacity.
The story moved the court. The rather pathetic, pale young bride ap peared almost to be a badly-treated woman. Then prosdeuting counsel Mme. Cazenavetic told of the ruse by which she had freed her husband.
PRISONER GONE
the care of anoler Vallet.
One of the first things Queen Pelissier, owaiting trial for bank Elizabeth did when she took over trauds in the Sonte Prison, was from her new home, which looks more time to time taken to the Palais de like a inidwestern high-school Justice to help accountants in their than a palace, was to inspect the investigations. Then he was under kitchens, She decided they would never be adequate to the demands of coronation entertaining and the dozens of banquets planned. Legros was sent to inspect famous London kitchens.
Ile discovered his Ideal in the Jermyn Street basement of Luigi's hotel grill and plans to install an exbet
ot duplicate
Buckingham Palace.
nover believed that such amiable, affectionale people could trick me," exclaimed Vallet. Per. suaded by the couple, he prepared a special, well-furnished cell for them, where he would lock them in together and leave them for whole afternoons. The cell became known as Hic "love ecll.". It was never
used for ordinary prisoners,
After three months Christiane cull- ed one day, bringing secretly £200 Luigi's kitchen, built to his order and a faise key to the "love cell." She cost £4,000. A large ceritral room
brought openly, holds six large ovens and a seven sind, wine, sweets. Vallet sighed as foot hot plate in chromium, shaped like a counter with shelves of vary-he locked them in na usuel.
ing degrees of heat. Around the central kitchen are marble tabies and above then, galvanized iron shelves. No wood is used in the kitchen.
All the pots and pans are of shin- ing copper, varying in size from a few inches across to n diameter of two feet.
reast chicken,
door open, Mme. Pelissier alone. She A few hours later he found the cell pleaded with him not, to raise the alarm.
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"My husband will be back at Ave o'clock, he promised," she said.
Guoler Vallet waited until half-past five before raising the alarm, Pelis-
For stocks and soups there is a potsler was then well on his way to three feet high, with a spigot through | Belgiura. which the contents may be drawn bit. Even pools are provided-one hot, simmering pool and an icy ane
In which trout are képt. When the
chef wants one be fishes it out with
a little net. Larger fish are kept in
In special.white-filed iced.container..........
Prehistoric
The pastry-cook has a litle kitchen Era Finds
off the big one, its walls lined with porcelain ovens and refrigerators.
The main kitchen has three cold rooms attached, with varying degrees of constant cold. The first is for green vegetables, the second for fruits
.and meats.
In Russia
.of
Moscow, Apr. 3.
HUSBAND COMES HOME-Mary Astor, screen actress, welcomes her new husband, Manuel del Campo, to her home at Toluca Lake, near Hollywood. Mr. del Campo, member of an aristocratic Mexican family, left Mim Astor immediately after their wedding in Yuma, Ariz., to attend the funeral of his father, who die suddenly. Now the newlyweds are reunited.
HOW I KEEP FIT,
BY
MUSSOLINI
Rome, April 1.
RADIO BROADCAST
Pianoforte Recital By Harry Ore
VIOLIN AND SOPRANO'
From Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 355 metres (045 k.c's.), 31.49 metres (0.52 m.c's.).
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m. European Programme. 7 p.m. Duke Ellington and IIis Orchestra.
Trot-
Fox Trot-Cotton; Fox Three little words: Fox Trot--Ring dem bells; Fox Trot-Jazz convul- stons; Fox Trol-Moon, over Dixie; Fox Trot-Jolly Wog: Birmingham Breakdown; Slow Fox Trot-Black and
Tan fantasy; Fox Trot-Black Beauty.
7.30 p.m. Closing local Stock Quo- tallons and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 From the Studio. Eileen Fitzgerald (Violin) and Lillan Qulan (Soprano).
1. Songs-1 did not know....... Geehl; Lovers in the lune....Liza. Lehmann; 2. Violin Solos-Selected: 3. Songs Chinese Flower...Bowers; I wonder if love is a dream.... Forster; 4. Violin Solo-Selected.
8 p.m. Lotal: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m. Primo Senia's Accor- deon Band.
Six lts of the day (series 4); H-Billy Medley; Six Hils of the day (Series 6); The Duck Song; Twenty Miles to Nowhere; Riding the Range in the sky.
8.30 p.m. Songs by Les Allen and Gracle Fields.
Les Allen-Don't kiss me good- night; Gracie Fleids-A fenther in her Tyrolean hat, Las Allen-Radio requests; Gracie Fields-ling down the curtain: My lucky day; Les Allen At the close of a long long day; A melody from t
the sky; Gracie Fields Melody at dawn.
8.55 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.15 pm. From the Studio, Pianoforte Recital by Harry. Ore with Hilda Arnold (Violoncello). and 1. Hilda Arnold-Elegy Gavotie...Harry Ore; 2. Harry Ore Children's Pieces... Tschal- -Four kowsky: (n) Morning Prayer; (b) Neapolitan Song: (c) Song of the Lark;
(d) x Church; 3. Harry Ore Jeux d'eau....Ravel.
с Sharp 0.35 p.m. Prelude In Minor...Sergei Rachmaninoff), Op.
3 No. 2: Played by the Victor-Concert directed by Rosario
Bourdon..
9.49 p.m.
Ghostra,
From the Studio. 'A
SIGNOR MUSSOLINI, fifty-four years old, bursting with health and vitality despite the intense strain
Government for more than fourteen years, to-day ex- to which he has been subjected as head of the Italian plained to an interviewer how he keeps so fit. He Hageman; 2. Remembrance....Fre- has not had a day's illness since 1925.
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$63,000 FOR H.K. supervised and
CORONATION CELEBRATIONS
The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council (o-morrow! meeting, will be asked to vote a sum of $03,000 for the local Cranston celebrations.
A memorandum explaining the vote states: "It is estimated that the local celebrations to be held on the occasion of the Coronation of Their Majesties and the third and coldest for poultry The Archaeological expedition King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, with due regard both to the dignity of the Moscow Historical Lie Occasion and to the need for cur- Museum and the Academy of talling expenditure, will involve ex- History of Material Culture has penses not exceeding $03,008." delivered to Moscow from Siberia a great quantity of valuable his- torical material.
The plate-racks of the kitchen. warmed or chilled as desired, hold 1,000 plates, 500 vegetable dishes, 500 serving plutes and 400 glasses ready for instant use,
CO-ED'S ROUGE INTERESTS MEN
Denver
The excavations have been
SAFETY MEASURE
He said: "Out of my organism 1 have made
engine cuostuntly controlled which runs with absolute regularity."
Here are his replies to the health questionnaire submitted to him:
Do you follow a fixed diet, and, se, what is it?
Helen Lockhart (Contralto) with Programme of Modern Music by a Short Talk by E. O'Neil Shaw,
1. Do nol go, my love....Richard derick Peel; 3. Nod....C. Armstrong Gibbs 4. Wood Magic....Martin Shaw.
10 p.m. London-Big Ben. "World Affairs"-talic by H. Wickham Steod. 10.17 p.m. Variety and Dance Music.
Slow Fox Trot Sorrow....Cole- man Hawking and the Berries; Slow Fox Trot-Love Cries .Coleman Hawking and the Berrles: Humorous Plano Solo--In the Chapel In the moonlight....Peter Yorke
My rules of dict are fixed in the sense that I am abnost exclusively a-Bats in the Belfry....Fiolsam and vegetarian.
Do you make use of alcohol or tobacco?
I
elsam;
The Troffer heels:-There's-
Fox-
consider alcohol damaging to the that look in your eyes again.... health of individuals and to collec- Ambrose and His Orchestra; Sketch tive health. I never drink spirits."Cinderella A Burlesque Fan- .Eme Atherton, Berthe I sometimes drink a little wine at tomise).... official dinners, but since the world Willmott, Bobbie Comber, Leonard Henry and Company; Fox Trot-May, war 1. have never smoked.
.Am- I have the next Romance?... - A
Orchestra: Band- brose and lis From Monday on; Shen tunn ant way... Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuf fins; Fox Trot Sing something in the morning; Waltz-No more...Roy Fox and His Orchestra,
What foods do you prefer? I cal
only simple dishes such as the poasants prefer, and lots of fruit.
Do you talce tea, coffee, or any stimulating beverages
I do not drink elther tea or coffee. How much time do you devote to exercises dalin, and what are they?
I devole thirty to forty minutes a dyl sports. I
to physical exercise, and pretise
prefer
made near the Station Urbat ON K.-C. RAILWAY ming in siding in win- (Achinsk-Minusinsk Railway)
ter, and go for a ride on a horse every day. All mechanised sports ut an old cemetery known as The Government has decided, fol-are familiar to me-cycling, motor- Chan-tas, meaning "military lowing the disaster on the Kowloon cycling, motoring and flying. I also
Canton Railway on January 10, to enjoy liking. grave."
instal fire extinguishers in all the What are your habits regarding Denver, Apr. 5.
coaching stock in the British section sleeping? Original vaults--large timber huts of the line.
I sleep between seven and eight University's co-eds aren't ⚫ sure whether they should be insulted, dug into the ground with wood floors, Twenty-nine additional extinguish-
I take no siesta encouraged, discouraged or unimpress-n ceiling and a door opening into oers are required for this purpose, and hours a night between 11 pm, and ed following the verdict of 100 men corridor lald with wooden blocks and the cost of provision and installation 7 a.m. regularly. students of the School of Commerce leading upwards were discovered in will be $1,233. A vote for this amount during the day. Siestas are the con- that the two leading Tactors required this cemetery. The vault-huts
mittee of the Legislative Council to- in thele dales were "good paint jobs covered in the Chan-tas, were evidis to come before the Finance Consequence of over-eating at luncheon and the ability to take a second drink.ently exact copies of dwelling houses,morrow afternoon.
It is possible to judge from these finds A further vole of $15,000 is
The results of the poll which co-eds conducted in connection with a "charm school" course were amazing to some students.
Only one-Aft of the men admitted that they would permit the girl decide what she desired to do.
TC-
in what houses the ancient people of quired to rebuild the coach which was DIVORCED
Khakassia lived (the present Khakas-destroyed by fire in the accident. slay Autonomous Region in Siberia).
It has been established that the vaults were built approximately in the first century of our era.
RAIN PROBABLE
HUSBAND
At the beginning of our era, the The anticyclone has attained TO PAY
dead in Klakassin were burnt. considerable intensity and is altuated The men, as a whole, preferred to Therefore, only handfuls of ashes in the Pacifle to the east of Japan. trade dances rather than spend the covering the plaster mosks cast from Pressure is low over China generally. entire evening dancing with one giri. the dead person's face were found in Local forecast:-S.E. winds, moder- They voiced no criticism of the type the vaults. The masks are painted ole; cloudy generally with for or of dancing indulged in by the co-eds, with red and blue paints.
mist, probably some rain. but only nine wanted to dance the futi
time with their dale.
Jollity was listed as a
Numerous old gold articles with Images of animals, ivory ornaments, strong at articies of the shaman rites, elay
traction. The "clinging vine," social vessels, also other articles of house- butterfly, sophisticated, and angelic types were rated far down the scale, hold and war have been found.
The average escort was not for or against a gir) smoking,
but the Intellectual type was accorded A considerable number of ancient high status.
articles have been discovered in the neighbouring graves belonging to the 6th-7th centuries of our era. or particular interest is a small Chinese Despite the strong advocacy. of cup made of papier-machie and cover- cosmeic perfection, the men insistede with old Chinese lacquer found that all, beauty treatments intended to here. Despite the fact that the cup Increase the allure of the fairer sexternalned in the earth for many cen be conducted away from the public turies it is well preserved. eye-United Press.
Can
Enormous stone slabs-peculiar tombstones, on whleh old inscriptions the bo found-lawer above Army units Hongkong go into graves. The archaeologists have no been successful in decoding some of drill uniform on Thursday, the normal the inscripligns since the alphabet is date for getting Info-lighter summer absolutely unknown.Tass. kit
Coronation. Surprise
LADY Irls Mountbatten
will be the 18-year-old.
attend only debutanto to Coronation. It is not customary for debulantes, to attend Caronia- tlon, but beautiful Lady Iris will attend by special dispensation of the King.
She is the grand-daughter of Princes Beatrice and grand-niece of Queen Mary. It is understood that so anxious were the King and Queen that she should bo'present. that special arrangements have been made for her attendance.
72d. A WEEK
Hereford, Apr. 1. HUSBAND who owed 04 divorce costa was ordered to pay at the rate of 2s. 6d, a monili at Hereford County Court to-day, For the wife, Mra, Grace Coldwell, formerly Waters, it was stated that the £04 Included permanent allmony which had not been paid.
Albert Edward Waters, garage clerk, of Bath-street,, Hereford, the husband, told Judge R. Boope Reeve, r.c., that he had married again, hod one child, and there had been a lot of illness in the family,
had been knocked Ho and be about" by the war. "I must live, he added.
I
"I suppose so," said the judge, "but
don't
suppose your creditors ace the necessity for it,"
11 p.m. Close Down.
SEEK TO PROTECT BRITONS
Money Often Lost To Chinese Mortgagors
London, Apr, 12. - Mr. A. C. Morcing, Conservative, speaking in the House of Commons to-night, asked if the British Govern- ment would represent to the Chinese Government that In proceedings in the Chinese courts for the recovery of mortgage debts duc to British subjects the defendant mortgagors
should not be allowed to appeal to higher courts without providing full socurity for costs,
Lord Cranbourne, Under-Secretary of State for. Foreign Affairs, replied that a petition for presentation to the Chinese Government was, at present being prepared in Shanghai.
"I assume this point will be covered in the petition and no action could be usefully taken until the petition is presented," he said.
Q
The report of a case in which British subject lost $30,000 on $75,000 advanced to Chinese mortgagors has not yet been recclved, but is expected. in a few days, the House was told. Renter,
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