THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937.
Author Of "Love On The Dole" Has A Plan TO BE THE MODEL HUSBAND
At
Weds To-day, Aims
Perpetual Love Affair"
(By Constance Forbesy
London, Sept. 23.
PEARL OSGOOD, the twenty-five-year-old Ameri- can comedienne, who becomes the bride of play- wright Walter ("Love on the Dole") Greenwood at Caxton Hall this afternoon, is booked to have the World's Most Perfect Husband.
Walter Greenwood is starting off with more Grand Theories about marriage than any woman is entitled to expect. He told me about them yesterday in a state of ecstasy.
After "Love on the Dole" be-i. came
-two
a London success
years ago he became engaged to the girl who inspired It. Alice Myles, Manchester dairy
manageress.
A few months
later he paid her £700 damages to settle the breach of promise. suit she brought against him.
an article published in
tho "Love is not for everybody; on the contrary, it is for the very select few.”
Dally Express he wrote:
Yesterday he elaborated on love' ntill further.
Длять
any
"Love is the most important thing in anybody's life. When two people are certain
0.0 mortals can be, the thing to do is Into to hold your breath. Jump marriage and not take too much for granted of one another.
"Marriage ought to be a perpetuni Jove affair. The ille attentions should not be forgolten. Pay more heed to the smaller and delightful things.
IF YOU'VE ROMANCE IN YOUR HEART
"Marriage needs constant
atten- This continuous-feed' typewriter is being demonstrated at the Business "I belleve in
If romance.
you Ellelency Exhibition in London. have romance in your heart I don't. The machine has many new technicol think you can go far wrong,
gadgets and to Judge from the girl'a "From what I see among a cer- fact it must be a plentire to type Lain set of people, in Mayfair ther on it. think romaner is a thing to be
on Monday, We applied laughed af
never want to be Enginned among such people. I don't want for the marriage licence on Tuesday any more Mayfair. I never did." and we are going to be married to- Mr. Greenwood and Miss Osgood, morrow. are staying at present in an apart- ment house in Ebury-street.
2, 1938, was the first day I
We
"April not terribly interested in Pearl. had known each other a few weeks, and we had been anked to a swagger: party in New York,
"When we arrived, there were so many people I said, 'Lel's go some- where else." We set off by ourselves
"We shall not go away until the end of October. Then we are off to
the south fo France.
"To-day I am so exclled with everybody coming along with con- cratulations. In moments of super-intelligence I say to myself that I ought to be able to control myself, but I can't help . I have not done any work to-day, and 1 don't think I shall to-morrow. to our own party.
"I um "We went to a quiet little place
halfway through the first for Peari In the called the Russian Engle in the Plaza straight play Hotel. We listened the evening meantime she has a lot of work to to a man playing Chopin on on Eng- du for me, typing, proof-reading and
ish-concertino, It-was-the-kind-of general factotum.
evening you like to re-live.
HONEYMOON IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE "Pearl has been in New
seeing
"Aty mother will not be at the wedding, just one or two friends."
Mr. Greenwood Is thirty-three with all his illusions intact, And he York comes
from hard-hended Lanca-
her people. She landed in shire,
Knitting
Wools
MUST A WIFE
RISK LIFE FOR HUSBAND
WOMAN'S "NO" TO LE
LEPER
ISLE
London, Sept. 23.
How far should a wife obey her husband's wishes?
Should she follow him to the ends of the earth" even if she thinks it may endanger her life?
Separation or life on the threshold of a leper colony are the alternatives facing a wife of 29, and recently she made her final choice-separation.
of Glastonbury-avenuo, Mar-
The wife, Mrs. Rhoda Southern, Her husband. Mr. Robert South- ern, aged 29, who is super- intendent of a leper island in the Straits Settlements. He offered her a luxurious bun- galow, a car, and a motor- launch.
ton, Blackpool, in May obtain- ed a £1 n-week' maintenance order against-
During the week-end news reached England that the Penang
The Reverend" Harold Wilde, who acts as chaplain, doctor, dentist, en- gineer, Alm and radio. operator, schoolmaster and electrician on the British island Tristan of Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean, is visiting London. The picture shows him (nt right) packing the many gifts he has received for the islanders from the British Royal Family among others,
Handshakes As State Hands Back
The Abbey
London, Sept. 23.
magistrates have refused to enforce the maintenance order on the BEHIND the locked doors
ground that Mrs. Southern was unreasonable in dedining to go to Penang to see what coralitions were like.
Yesterday a reporter broke to, "TERRIBLY CRUEL" Mrs. Southern the news of the Penang decision.
"I CANNOT GO"
go
"He said the work would last for
18 years, and he would have eight months leave in three years' time."
"It is lerribly cruel. I shall nat
lite
of Westminster Abbey yesterday a series of silent handshakes ended the last chapter of the greatest Coronation period in its long history.
The Sub-Dean and members of "Would you cut yourself off from the world to go and live see him for at least two years, and the Chapter assembled in the dimly- if he contracts the decase he will nave with high officials of the among 1,000 lepers for the rest have to stay there for the rest of his
Office of Works. of your life?" she nsked
It was to hear the report of Sie and we are man and Charles to him wife.
Peers, Surveyor to the simply "I cannot there.
Fabric, on the dismantling of the "Unreasonable, the Penang magis- Abbey of its Coronation setting. "My husband has never offered to trates call me. Heartbroken, dcs- that this small group of Abbey provide
and Government ofcials те a bome outside the pairing. yes; but am I being un- Canons seillement. All along he has want-unreasonable? Is there any woman net. ed me to live in the bungalow there. In England who would sacrifice her I have asked him why we could not chances of happiness of living u live in Penang so that he could go normal life to such 2 terrible to the settlement every day, but he end?" has never agreed to that.'
·
Mr. Southern wld the
Penang "A year ago I was so happy. My court that he had often written to husband was due to come back to his wife imploring her to come to England in March. I was buying Malaya, but she had refused until clothes for him, longing to see him (le was receiving the maximum agnin.
salary, which would not be for 20 years."
Here are two opposing views on
"It was January 1935 when he inst left me and went abroad to his job THEY THINK as a Navy laboratory technician. Wa were expecting to go to Capetown shortly after his return to Plymouth. the wife's choice. I would have liked that-I would have gone anywhere is the world with him except where_he_is_now.
"Then a year ago he bought his discharge and cabled me to say that he had got his present job. I wrote, begging him not to take it on, but it was too late.
Miss Cicely familien, the writer and feministi "A life of luxury, a - motur-cur, and a mutor-boat-would be little compensation to Mrs. Southern if she lived in a constant state of terror. In my opinion, she should, however, go to Malaya at once, and, if conditions were not
Sir Charles Peers had surveyed the whole of the Abbey's interior. found that its age-old walls, a priceless stained windows, did not bear the slightest scratch. And so the tension of nearly nine
while months,
the Abbey-most sacred edifice in the Empire-has teen In the hands of carpenters, wire the engineers, and girder- erectors, was lifted. The ancient Abbey went back once more to custodians, the Dean and Chapter, Just the same as it was before the work of preparing it for the Corona-.
tion began.
its
suited to her, she could return to England."
Elinor Glyn, the famous novelist: "No peril in the world should keep a woman from the site of the mon she loves,
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