THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, APRIL ∙16, 1937.
Why Amy and Jim Want a Divorce
Proceedings Eventually'
JIM: The Best Solution-I Have Many AMY: "I Suppose I Shall Start
Imperfections as a Husband" Drifted Apart, but Always
Good Friends
"Although Amy and I have always been good friends and will, I am certain, always remain good friends, I sup. pose I have had many imperfections as a husband."
"The first years of our marriage were supremely happy, but] somehow we drifted apart," said Jim.
:
Asked to explain why, with aviation as their main interest, he and Amy had drifted apart, Jim replied: "Our interests have been in different fields."
"Amy's interesis to-day are mainly centred in aviation in France. Mine are concentrated here and in America," he added.
Jim admitted that he and |
Amy had been separated for
some time, but said that he had This Is What
only recently decided
that
divorce proceedings would be Boys Carry
the best solution.
JIM'S NEW PLANS
In Pockets
Io declined to discuss thei The pockets of 196 members of the question of the grounds on which the proceedings might be taken.
ly to America with. Coronation films and later I shall take part in the Atlantic air race from Parla to New York in August.
Madison Square Boys Club in New York emptied and appraised recently at the rd annual pockel-census- taking.
The pockets yielded $7.10, show-
"My own personal plans for the future are settled, I am planning tong an increase of 1.9 per cent over Jast year's pockel-census, which of the Albert B. Hines, director club, sald deristed
improved economie condition among the boys of this section of the East Side.
On the other hand, the appraisal showed
unbalanced economie situation, with about half of the entire communal wealth disclosed. In the possession of six boys. To- gether they had $3.05, while the other 189 boys, pro rata, had about 2 cents each.
"Amy will be taking pari in that race, too," Jim added, "We shall be friendly rivals and no one will be more delighted than myself if she wins.
"As I have said before, we have paried, but we shall always be good friends."
AMY AND DIVORCE
an
The bays came to the clubhouse for the evening's play activities without knowing they were to be searched in the interest of selence. They were
Ainy Johnson was in Parls recent-lined up and their pockets emptied by ly when a Press representative spoke
to her.
news of It was papera.
published
in the
"Eventually, I suppose, I shall start divorce proceedings, but so far. I have made no. plans about It."
Director Hines, who was assisted by resident worker. Leonard Farley,
The contents of euch pocket were placed on record.
ATTEMPTS TO WILL DEATH-Helen Wills Love, convicted of killing her secret husband in Los Angeles, shown at the county Jall in the coma which followed her attempt to bring death by will power, to thwart a prison sentence. Fhystelnas said it was a form of self-hypnosis,
Merle Oberon Film
May Be Abandoned
THE £150,000 Korda film "I, Claudius," may be abandon- ed, half-way through production, because Miss Merle Oberon, co-star with Mr. Charles Laughton, is likely to be more than a month recovering from the effects of the car smash in which she was involved in London last month.
" do not know why Jim made
Michael Karamicholas, 15 years such a statement about divorce,"i she said. "We have been parted old, of 306 East Thirty-first Street, quite a long time--even before the had twenty-five articles in his pockets which ranged from pictures of skiing experts to a large and rare German medal commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania. He said he had bought
An official of London Films states the medal from a playmate.
tha1 Miss Oberon was about to start All wallets found were emply of cash.
A lad whose pockets yielded the most important scenes of her
watch was * Wrist
immediately part. Discussing her visit to Paris, she classified 18 3 capitalist, plong with said: "Any stories that I have the six boys who owned half the come to France to get French back-money found. Another boy had an ing for the Lindbergh rate across ice pick in his pocket. the Atlantic summer are false.
A 6-year-old boy had a piece of A bread in his pocket; that was all. a plane clothespin in another boy's pocket because I cannot get the machine 1 indicated that he helped his mother with the washing, Another pocket "If-I-cannot-find-a-French plane contained four lumps of sugar. The I intend to go to America to find anyoung owner explained he used-them
to feed horses. American one."
זיי
to look for came
want in Britain.
DUKE'S CRUISE YACHT
FOR SALE·
ADY
LA YULE'S yacht
Nahlin, in which the Duke of Windsor's party, including Mrs. Simpson, cruised last summer, is up for sale again.
In October, soon after the yacht's return to Southampton,
She is now at Rhu, Dumbarton- aldre, and only Captain N. T. Doyle, of her the master, and a handful
were
Princes' High
"A decision will not be made yet Court Action
because Mr. Korda is awaiting the doctors' report. Apart from a cut on the back of her head, Miss Oberon is suffering from concussion. She
will not be allowed to see any friends
contract ends
Over Boy
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Charlie Is 48
To-day
Forty-eight years ago today a woman music hall artist Eving in Kennington Road, S.E., gave birth to a son. Her husband was a singer of descriptiva
Iya songs. The boy was Charlie Chaplin, whose comic enties on the screen. in "Modern Times" convulsed nearly
Overy country-except Germany, whose people are no! allowed to smile at the little figure with the quaint moustache wrestling with the intricacies of the world of machines.
Four days after the birth of Charile, the wife of a Custom official at the littlo - Austrian frontier town of Braunau gave birth to n bay.
llo grew up to be a hou painter's mato, a corporal in the German Army, a political agitator, and oventually Chancellor-Pre- sident of Germany.
*
It was Adolf Hitler, who will not allow the German péópła to smile at 'the little man with the fanny moustache.
ERADIO BROADCAST
A Talk to Be Given By Sir Atholl MacGregor GRAMOPHONE RECITAL
Broadcast by Z. B. W. on wave- lengths of 365 metres (345 k.e's.), 31.49 | metres (9,52 m.e's.).
H.K.T.
12.30-2.15 p.m. European Pra-, grummo.
1
D.m
12.30 Maitary Band Selections.
Time Signal and Weather Report
1.03 Variety.
1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Weather Forecast Time and
Local:
Announcements.
1.40 Concert Waltzes. 1.55 pm. Quentin MacLean at the Cinema Orgun.
2.15
p.m. Close Down. 4-7 p.. Chinese Programmer 7-11 p.m. European Programmc. 7 p.m. London-Big Ben, 'Scot- tish Golfers-No. 1. F. G. Talt. The story of one of the greatest amateur golfers-Born in Edinburgh 1870- Killed at Koodoosberg Drift 1900. The Programme devised by S. F.. M'Kinlay and John Gough. (Elec- trical Recording),
7.32 p.m. Closing local Stock Quo- and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
tatlong
for a day or two, and will not leave A LEGAL battle between two princes for the custody of a
7.35 p.m. From the Studio. Middlesex Hospital for at least a
third prince has begun in the Recital for Two Pianos by Doreen fortnight."
Chancery Division in London. Ma and H. L, Ozorio, with Vocal
The Sovereign Prince of Monaco Refrain by Doreen Ma. asked for an injunction to restrain his former son-in-law, Prince Pierre, from removing his 13-year-old grandson and ward, Prince Rainier, out of the United Kingdom, except with his con- and for an order that Prince Pierre should forthwith return Prince Mr. Vaughan Williams, K.C., for the Rainier to him. Prince of Monaco, sald the case would
One of the company's difficulties is There
the that Mr. Laughton's of signs gambling instinct, only one dice, not at the end of the month, when he even a pair, being found. Only one goes into production on his own a piece of chalk, but many roller-count with Mr. Erich Pommer. skate keys were turned out of the G-man # pockets. One boy had badge.
Only two boys had nothing in their pockets except-holes,
Tony Carroselo, 13-year-old Int of the neighbourhood, had a scrap paper in his pocket, wh
which he refused
of
Mr. Laughton is understood to be
gent, ready to prolong his part of the con- tract, hut the official said even this would not avold heavy loss from de- layed bookings,
1. Copper Coloured Gad, (Two planos); 2. I adore you (Vocal); 3. Mood Indigo (Two planos); 4. Pen- nies from Heaven (Vocal); 5. When a Lady meets a Gentleman down South (Two Pianos);
Organ Grinder's Swing (Vocal); 7. Stormy Weather (Two planos): 8. Never should have told you (Veerd).
It is customary with big produc-turn upon consideration of Mon-ther Report and Announcements,
gasque, French and English law.
to unfold because, he said, it con- tions to insure against accident or tained the "address of my girl."
ADOPTED INTO FAMILY Blness of stars before "shooting" be-
Only
live boys carried matches. One had in
2
needle, another some sandpaper.
One lnd carried a rosary in his pocket, and a set of playing cards was found. There were many penknives and keys,
whistles and puzzles.
GERMANY'S NEW "NOBEL PRIZES" £8,000 AWARDS AND . MEDALS
Munich, Apr. 10. Full detalls of Herr Hitler's "sub-
for Art and Science was created on
Dre The newly-created awards
"Three, deserving Ger-
Woolworth's Girls Say
'We Will We Won't
Strike' Strike' |
In 1920 a marriage took place be- tween Prince Pierre
and Princess Charlotte, the daughter of the Priner of Monaco, who was in the line of succession. Prince Pierre was adopted into the family of the reigning Prinec. Two children were born, one being Prince Rainier.
Mr. Justice Luxmoore pointed out that neither the plaintiff nor defendant was a British subject, and either party could remove the bay prince.
Mr. Vaughan Williams, K.C. (for the Prince of Monaco): No, we carnet! gel hold of him.
e
Counsel added that there had been -New York, Apr. 10. - Wild scenes at two of Wool- proceedings in Monaco, and in
French Courts, and orders had been Monaco.
Strikers ore demanding
8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wen-
8.03 p.m. From the Studio. · A Talk by Is Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, "The Work of the Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children."
8.20 p.m. "Follow a Star"--Vocal Gems (E), played by The Light Opera Company,
8.30 p.m. London-The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall.
8.65 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.15 p.m.
Overture "Ruins of Athens (Beethoven), played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Can- ducted by Arnold Rose.
7th of a Second Series of Gramo Phone Recitals by the Rev. C. B. R. Sargent,
9.20 p.m. From the Studio. The
10 p.m. London-Big Ben, Dance Music.
Mr. Joseph Oxley, Sheffield real stitute Nobel Frize" are published to-worth's branch stores in New made in favour of the Prince of estate dealer, was negotiating today.
This new German national award | York to-day;--- purchase the Nahlin, which cost
The order of the Monagasque court originally £270,000, but the dea! January 30 as a reply to the award As strike organisers blew whistles stated that the Prince of Monaco was fell through.
of the Nobel Peace Prize to the signal to begin "staying in"-girls the guardian, and counsel asked that
be enforced here. Ossletsky.
marched round the counters shout-that Germans Pacifist Karl
Fox Trot-Until To-morrow; ing "We won't strike,"
The Prince of Monaco, as head of were simultaneously barred "from
the
counters the reigning house, was guardian. of Fox Trot-Crying my heart out Scat receiving any foreigr prizes what- Other girls sat on
Trol-The you; Fox sirike, the members of the family, parlicu for chunting, "We'll strike,
Fox Tro--I wasn't crew of fifty are on board. The rest soever."
larly the younger members, and had Singers; strike." have joined other yachts or been
orders. lying when I said I love you: Fox £4 86. accordingly made certain found shore jobs by Lady Yule.
Crazy
Trot- with love; Fox every point.
in
moonlight; There had been many proceedings Magnolios
Fox There was frsta Slow
Trot-Did I те In past years.
Waltz The
Dance separation and, later, a divorce, which member?; made entirely different, arrangements Goes On; Fox Trot-The 'glory of love; Fox Trot-Hold. me tight, I'm The nearing was adjourned,
falling: Fox Trot-Just say 'Aloha'; Fox Trot-Miracles sometimes hap pen: Waltz-Beautiful love: Waltz- A perfect day: Quickstep-How'm I doin'?; Slow Fox Trot-Lazy Rhythm; | Waliz-Would you? Waltz-My Arst,
love song.
11 p.m. Close Down,
will receive "annual prizes of minimum wage and a forty-hour Prince. Pierre challenged the law on Trot-Midnight Blue; Fox Trat It is likely her owner will make 100,000 marks (about £8,000) each week.
Cor bttainments in the field of art
any future fours by incr.
.
Special Car For
* 6ft. 6in. King
or science. The cash accompanied by gold
awards ure
medals
of
honour, which may be worn on all pubile occasions."
The
The composition of the nominating committee is remarkable, "most deserving Germans" will be
by
named
Herr
Berlin, Apr. 10. Secret Police Chief
tho
Iron Shortage Scares Nations
HI Empire Store Planned)
The large, high motor-car which the Storm Troop Commander
Canberra, Apr. 1.
Chlet was specially built for President von Lutze, the Work Service Hindenburg to-day passed along Unter Herl the Youth Leader Herr The world shortage of iron ore hang den Linden above the Wilhelmstrasse Schirach, and the Trade Unions led the Government to review Aus- Inader Dr. Ley, in addition to the tralia's deposits in the hope of
to Herr Hitler's Palace,
who
The Japanese are buying all the
A
It had been got out for King Minister of Education and the sub-establishing whether tiere Christian
of Denmark, who is 6ft. Gin. Presidents of Dr. Goebbels culture margin on which Empire countries in height the tallest monarch In departments of the Propaganda can depend. Europa-and cannot sit upright in the Ministry. average car. King Christian,
of the three winners, how-scrap iron they can find in Indin.. arrived here this morning with Queen ever, Is unconditionally reserved to says a Central News Bombay mes Alexandrine afler a holiday on the Herr Hitler himself. He will nome rage, Riviera and left again this evening, the first three recipients of the Ger- At Singapore, work on the navai was on his way to pay a courtesy visit man national prize for Art and and air base is expected to be slow- to Herr Hitler.
Sefence on July 1.
cd up by shortage of iron and steel,
necessary.
150 Claim Big
Fortune
Sydney, Apr. 10, LONDON estate said to bo
A worth £80,000,000 14 being
claimed here by more than 150 people.
Each claims descent from John Mobbs, n London silk merchant, who died in 1791, who is believed to have left estate in the heart of London.
The 150, have formed, a Mobbs Millions Investigation Association to further their claims.
the
Coopers.
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