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THE HÒNGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
"My Four Years of Hell
Are
Over"-Mme. Stavisky
PLANS NEW LIFE AS
HAPPY BRIDE
ARLETTE STAVISKY, TRAGIC WIDOW OF
FINANCIER WHOSE £7,000,000 SWINDLES ROCKED THE WORLD, IS TO MARRY AGAIN.
PARIS, OCT. 3.
Romance will help her to forget four years of hell-four years in which she was dragged from palace to prison and to poverty.
To-day Mme. Stavisky evaded all attempts to interview. her. She slipped out of Paris for a secret destination. But before she left she confided to a friend;
"My four years of hell are over now. I am going to be- gin life anew."
This week she made the first effort in wipe out the memory of those four years.
Arlette Stuvisky applied in the In January last year, more thom Paris law courts for permission to] two years after her liúsband's death, | change her name.
Arlette Stavisky was. Icund
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nut And with the disappearance of guilty of complicity in his frauds. that name-Stavisky, Arlette, her! The first part of the ordeal was nine-year-old son Claude, and seven-over. She hind survived two years your-old daughter, Micheline, begin] of hatred, of scandal, of suspicion.
new life.."
BEAUTIFUL MANNEQUIN
*
BACK TO HER CHILDREN
Now Mme. Stavisky, penniless, had Thirty-four-year-old Arlette wis to earn her living. Ten days after beauty her acquilital in Paris she arrived on mannequia before her altracted Alexandre Stavisky. He Broadway. She took up a £10-- married her and with his wealth she week job as a show girl. She sangi
danced blossomed into the society queen of and
French amorg "udies."
Paris.
Then came the crash. Stavisky to Camille le Francols, the nurse who disappeared. Investors bad been swindled out of £7,000,000.
There whe A man-hunt throughout France.
Police traced him.
He was shot as they buttered down the door. The verdict was suicide, There were ugly rumours that Stavisky lind been silenced,
The beauty whose salon was the centre of Paris win faken to the Women's prison. She sat on a wooden bench, glitching coarse sheets.
Her complexion faded, her became hogiord and drawn. five months she did not see
children.
CRIED #1 LOVED HIM”
She sent home half of her wages
had devoted herself to the entidren,
two
Sir Hubert Wilkins, greeted by Lady Wilkins as he returned tà North Beach Alport, N.Y., from, a search for the missing Russlan polar fiers lust in the Aretic. He said he believed they still lived.
Jean Harlow
Harlow -Her
Selfin
Real
Letters to First Fan
AT
CHICAGO, Oct. 3.
OCTOBER 29, 1937.
ERADIO BROADCAST
Series of Weekly Talks By Amateur Experts
A STUDIO RECITAL Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Wayelengths of 333 metres (B45 .c's) 31.49 metres (9.52 m.e's).
H.K.T.
12-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Servies from St. John's Cathedral
12.30 Chopin.
Polonaise In A Flat Major Op, 53 ....Paderewsk! (Piano); Chant Po- Jonals In G Fint Major Op. 74, No. 5; Mazurka No. 17 In B klut Miner Op. 24, No. 4....Moriz Nosenthal (Piano).
12.40 chestra.
New Light Symphony Or
Light Cavalry-Overture (Suppe); A Life On The Ocean (Nautical Selection-Binding).
1 Time and Weather. 1.03 Variety.
Orchestral-Fairies In The Moon -Intermezzo Entr'acte (Ewing); An Hour With You (Eisele)....Joseph Muscant and the Troxy Broadcasting Orchestra: Banjo and Guitar Duel Medley Of Stephen Foster Songs; Wedding Colmes (Reser)....The Brothers Bertini; Orchestral-Sweet- heart Czardas (Murle); L'ultimo Parola-Tango (Ferraris).....Don Rico and His Gypsy Girls Orchestra; Two Pianos-Fax-Trot Medley.... Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye; Novelty Sleepy Heud (from 'Spy 13')....The Mills Brothers.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Local Weather Forecast and As- nouncements.
1.40 fawallan Music.
Drifting and Dreaming (Gillespie); Chiquita, Waltz (Wayne)........Ferera
In
and Paniuhl (awallan Guitar Duel); Rock Me
A Cradle Of Kalun (Wending); Maybe It's The Moon (Whiting)....Frank Ferera's Kawai- ian Trlo; Kohala March; Ilonolulu March....Frank Ferera and John K. Paaluh (Hawaiian Guitars).
2 Dance Records. Fox-Trots The Fleet's In Port Again: There's A New World (from For "Sound'), .17% Debroy Somers Band: Tangos-Mi Musa Campera (film Boliche'); Mudreelto De Pompeya (Martinez-Laino).... Orquesta Tipleti Francisco Canaro; Fox-Trot-The Merry-Go-Round
T THIS MOMENT WHEN FANS OF JEAN HARLOWO-Kay She became Arlelle Simon, show A ARE FORMING A MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, VIVID girls but the world still knew her as GLIMPSES OF JEAN'S INTIMATE LIFE ARE REVEALED Madame Slavisky, widow, of
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS PUBLISHED HERE FOR THE swindler,
FIRST TIME.
But Arlette Slavisky could not stay away from her children.. After six months she returned to Frater to see them. She now, plans to give then a new home, She has fallen in love again.
First she will formally rid herseli face of the name of tragedy, Stavisky. For And then she will takė aznew one- her her husband's.
Then the French Minister Justice allowed her out' on parole- for one hour. She was taken to „a) Paris hospital, Claude and Micheline came to see her.
Then she went back sobbing her heart aut.
to prison,
At last Ariette Slavisky was brought to trial. She went into the box, faltered out her story. At the mention of ker husband's name she broke down. "I loved him," she cried. was my duty to stand by him as a wife
mother she collapsed in the box.
#hel
." and
Famous Prison
To Close
SIR SAMUEL HOARE will announce officially early in the new Parliamentary session that Dartmoor prizon is to bel closed down,
şi
For Arlette, after four years hell, life begins ogola.
'Worth the Struggle,'
She Says
of
These letters show the real Jean Harlow, the girl behind the Broke Down....The B, B. C. Date fim star.
HER "DEAR OLD SAFETY VALV E"
They were written, at regular intervals throughout her hee- tic career, to Stanley J. Brown, an Englishman living in Chicago.
Stanley Brown was Jean's first fan.
He wrote to her before she climbed to alardom... and for the rest of her life she kept up a constant correspondence with him.
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Jean called him her "Dear Old Safety Valve." Warmth, sincerity, affection, are the keynotes of these extra- ordinary letters.
Orchestra.
2.15 Close Down.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7 Stuck Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market.
7.05 London Relay-'Ladies' Night or 'Hero's to the Malden,"
Re-enacting the yearly entertain- ment which relieves the monastie dignity of the London clubs. Songs, music and echoes of the gallantry and wit of long ago. Presented by William MacLurg.
7.50 Songs by Derek Oldham (Tenor).
O'Mistress Mine; Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind; Come Away, Death (Quitler); Nocturne ('Song of Love"
Curran).
been and will be one of the greatest 8 Time, Weather and Announce- treasurer of my life.-Fondly, Jean" ments
And when Mr. Brown had trouble
Studio Plano Recital by and worries, Jean Look a tum at Nura Kanis.
In the early days Jean wrote to him as "Dear Mr. Brown,” and wrote of her life on and off the set;
"Yesterday afternoon I went to the beach the FIRST se this year, and I live just twelve minutes away. You see my days are hectic.
I'm not really, REALLY bai. I I know I'm ultra-conservative in THIS IS THE STORYprivate life-have to be in order to THIS
OF THREE GEN- [offset the influence of my parts." ERATIONS. Mrs. George Howe, 70-year-old writing: widow of n
driver, Derby engine lives in n te redbrick house t Dairy House-road, Derby.
'She la dent and lonely, and. she reads the newspaper eagerly for every scrap of iifformation about the war in China,
the British
later (1833) Jean A year
"Stanley, Dear:
was
"You suggest you're too p That is too silly for words. I love you in alf your moods; I mean letter moods."
PERFECT DARLINGI
And after
Because her son, Roberi Itowe, la in Charge d'Ağatres
Stanley Brown had Nanking, representing his country wired his appreciation of the film, Japanese "Redheaded Woman," the answered:
In his Embassy while Falders are -bombing Chinese buil- dings all around.
And Peter Howe, Robert Howe's sons and grandson of the widow in Derby, has started a new life as a new boy at Elón. It is a story of sacrifice, courage, hurd work, and natural ability.
Опе autunn
evening in
1000
At present it is only about Engine-driver George Howe moved with his family into a new home In one-third full,
The Government some time agoj Dairy House-road,
came to the conclusion that no good HER SON'S DREANS purpose could be served by keeping i it in existence.
The 300 prisoners there will be transferred to Parkhurst
and oiler prisons to complete their sentences,
There are plenty of empty cells in these other jails. Altogether there are nearly 5,000 vacancies in the prisona in various parts of the country.
Samuel
"Stan-
"You perfect darling! I never had anything that touched me quite
ay much as your telegram.. Me"
"Then tragedy came into Harlow's life.
Jean
"
Her husband, Paul Bern, com- mited suicide. Blankey Brown sent her a message di sympathy. Jean replied:
"Dear Old Stanley Valve......... "Stan, dear, If a girl ever relied on a friendship, I do and have relied The boys talked of the future. upon yours,. l'One would be an engirie-driver like
father. Another freman The "Even though I had not heard third boy, 12-year-old · Robert, sald even one word from you regarding he would travel.
the tragic happenings of the last Mother and futher encouraged | month I would STILL have known Robert and mode saedfees.
you were
Best true friends .'
gll
They found the money to keep him at Derby School, where he had won a scholarship, and later at Cambridge University.
the
love to the grandest friend å ever had.-M. A GLASS OF BEER
Later Jean sent a letter in happier. veint
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iny
NEW LABOUR CAMPS
Then he entered the Diplomatic The decision to close Dartmoor Service and travelled all over will be one of the resulta of the world.
"I'm white again, Lost surprise vlalt which Sir
"Whon Bob talked of going to. I'm not going to be any good Hoare, the Home Secretary, paid to abroad, his mother said, "we thought for the rest of the day, and I appre the prison a few weeks ago.
they were just Idle dreams,..
clate It, because I started out not "We had a struggle," she went on. wanting to be good for anything but a nice glass of beer (oh, all right, then, four or five). "Bul we've been repaid. Bob's
He found that it was structurally
out of keeping with the ideas of honours have been worth every bit prison reform which he wishes to of scraping and saving. introduce.
One of the things that sur- prised him was that the prison buildings, when vacated, wilt not be demolished. They will be kept up in the event of emergency--such as for prison-
crs of war. !-
"Now he sees tlist I never want for anything. 2.
"Dad died seven years ago. But I'm grateful in lived - long- onosih to see Bob alhead.
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He was so proud that his son, a working man's son, should rise to such heights.
Ainong Sir Samuel's "other plans "It costs a lot of money to keep for prison reform is one to establish'a boy at Cambidge, but we man Jabour camps,‹ ̈something .on the aged. Bob knew what we were do German loo..
Ing and worked hard.".
"Mother senda regards, and so do 1. Fondly. Just Me,”
or
Even after a hard day's work .AL tho studio,
between sirenuous **personal appearance" tours, Jears found time to write Stanley Personal Jetters to
Brown.
Christmas she wired:
8.03
Intermezzo No. 5,
being the "Dear Old Stafety Valve." 1. 32. Variations in C Minor
Throughout the six years of cor- (Beethoven); 2. respondence Jean revealed herself to Op. 4 (Schumann). her
8.25 Light Orchestral. original fan us a generous,
Manhattan Serenade (Alter); When warm-hearted, impulsive girl-who|
Day Is Done (De Sylva-Katscher) was in love with life."
....Paul Whileman and His Concert Orchestra,
£1,000,000 Plan Puts Canals On Map Again
8.33 StudioWeekly series of talks 'Amajeur Experts'-2: Jack
Grenham on Fishing.
8.45 Studio-Rev, C..B. R. Sergest 1st of a series of Opera: Love Ducts.'
9.30 London Relay-The News and Announcements.
9.50 Rimsky-Korsakov herazade, Op. 35,
'Schie-
Pienie
Played by Leopold Stokowsk! and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
10.30 Light Variety. Orchestral-Teddy Bears (Bratton); Mighty Lak' A Rose (Nevin)Frank Billo and Brass Quintette: Comediennes-Gert, Daisy and The Knot-Hole; The Coronation Giris....Elsie and Doris Waters; Banjo---White Rose (Oak- ley): Tony (Oakley)....Olly Oakley; Humorous Sketch-A Spot Of Fla ing: A Surrealist Alphabet (Clapham and Dwyer). Clapham and Dwyer; More than a million pounds has Orchestral-Simple Avea (Thome); (Mendelssolin).... been spent to put Britain's canals Spring back
Song
the map. Now the scheme | Marek Weber and His Orchestra, is complete.
11 Close Down.
Recently a little "tramp" steamer,
† ghugging across the North Sea to DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
Antwerp from London, completed d new trade highway for Briták.
For now 300 miles of British canals, modernised with Govern- meni backing, aro linked with those of the Continent.
The little enrgo steamer, pioneer of what is to be a large fleet, com-: pletes the link.
£25,000 WAREHOUSE
From Langley Mill, Derbyshire, down through the Midlands to one of the busiest docks in the Port of London n thousand men have worked on the reconstruction of the Grand Union Cana.
7.20 am. “Cards on the Table." A series
of talks for Canadian Istenera,
Recital 7,40 a.m.
by Jack Baliabury (Violin and Ceell Baumer (PlanofortD). .10 a.m. Slavonie Studies." 8.40 am. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 8.45 am.
Dla Bert. Variety, including George Buck (Compere), Knight am Day Helen Raymond, Harrington and Felst. and Barry Mill and Teddy Ephgreve at Two Pianos.
á.m.
10 nm. Big Ben. "This Week.* 10.15 am. Chamber Music. 11.10 nm. The News and Announcement. Greenwich Time Signal at 11.28 .21, 11.30 am. At the Black Des."
pan, Big Ben Scrapbook fer 1001. pm. Recital by Louise Gargurevitch (Australian Planist).
400 mm, The News and Announcement. Greenwich Time Signal at 4,30 p.m.
...featuring "he Bignature is Carroll
Orphan Ben- Operália Music.
A now £23,000 warehouse is being 44 il Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel built in Birmingham. At Leicester and other industrial centres on the 10.45 p.ns. canal old whorves are being cleared 75 p.15. Zadies' Night, or Tore's to the and reconditioned, electric crane and 1.50 p.m. Recital by Daail Farscity ́(Dark- conveyör equipment installed.
be
To-day pollery from Bloke, from manufactured Kooda Coventry and Birmingham, can Diesel-engined taken by barges to the Thares and shipped across the Channel to Contin- ental buyers without touching road or rail. -
Maiden.
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0.10 p.m. English Folk-song-2: The Southern Counties, Winifred Radford (Soprano)
9.30 pm. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 0.43 m. 10.15 pm, Big Blen.The BBC Empire
Orchestra.
11.15 p.m. Mendip, Wot On'?'
12
m. The News and Announcements., Throughout the whole journey of
Greenwich Timo Signal at 1235 mm. "Well, dear friend, here we are
12.30 am. Musical Interlude. many hundreds of miles the goods 1230 am. The Noble Art facing another year. May I tell you need not touch land or poss out of 120 am The Bernard Crook Quintet. that your friendship and loyalty has | British control.
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