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Haile Selassie Too Poor
To Heat £5,500 Home
JEWELS SOLD: STAFF TRAVEL
By Lindon Laing.
Bath, Nov. 19.
HAILE SELASSIE-one-time King of Kings, Lion of Judah, still listed in the telephone book as Emperor of Ethiopia-shivers in his cloak as he strides the corridors of his sixteen- roomed Bath villa, because, he declares, he can- not afford coal for the fires.
I saw the ex-Emperor to-night-his beard trim as ever, and the dignity of his bearing undiminished by his confession of poverty-just before he went to worship in the little conservatory which has been con- verted into a chapel.
He prays there toch mytht on jeeror considerable distress, and when morning--withnail ፡፡ itle When I pressed for details of the capital asku F 11
encham Lances! now available he referred me to an deprežil the Emperor, the answer, dalement in which the Emperor said he bought from Ethiopla only sul- eint silver for his immediate needs. and was now left with no heame,
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"He still has in tauth in Gol,
that That Is Hr. armour, adversity ran pierce.”
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Haile Selade, am talet, £4,500 for 11 vilia 112 which Iwenty-two members of his Lomaly. his bodyguard auf his servants live He spent a further £1,finn on the house before moving in
A considerable *** must have. gone on special locks Fazeel dur fastenings, for Baile Selassie is stall! guarded as he was in his glory.
Be paid £5,500 with silver; carried from Ethopia.
WANTS TO SELL
HOUSE AND CAR
A member of the Emperor'; staff told me "The Emperor is, anxious! to sell the house as soon as possible. He does not want to make any prot on it. He also wants to sell his big! German car.
"He wants to move into smaller
economy quarters; every
must now be practised. In a smaller huise sumie of the refugees would have to be bonded out. That would be cheaper."
We talked in the cheerless, chilly drawing room furnished with an- fique high-backed chairs of Imperial' red and gold-a mockery of the splendour of Addis Ababu.
:
"itofares Loop appealing to the Duperin four beel,” I was told, "It is very difficult for them to realise haw eitraum lainees have ebanted.
When the Emperor's secretary travel to London he alwny que that techn
the experime th Einberor has lately taken to travel-
. to London done,
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"Ha te is very simple; dally walks mul wriling in his study, No entrate of large-scale enter- taining-just X few individual friends, becasionally, "And, yes, there is a fire in the dining-rabu."
Bath knows how the Emperor's eir- coruslatæres have changed. The other.
day a local jeweller was offering for safe a platinum piece set with di
monds. The price was £57 155. 31, was one of the few picees of jewel- lery that the Emperor's household) carried away, COUSIN LIVES IN
CONVERTED GARAGE
The Emperor's cousin and 1 wife live in converter garage in the garden.
it
When they go shopping in the city and hire a car, they take one! of the smaller cabs that ply for hire at Bel, a mile. The larger cabs i cost-18. 4d. a mile.
One child from the household attends a local elementary school.
The drawing-room fre, I was told is only lighted on very special occa-| sions. The house has no central healing. The only burn regularly are Emperor's study and in the nursery living has not been without effect
to open res
those in the
where five children play.
$10
Knowledge that the Emperor can _longer afford his former style of
an the people in this city of so many
THIRD'
Reminiscent of MBBet's famous "Angelus" two Preath pea- sants pause at 11 o'clock un Armistice Day in memory of fallen soldiers. The pieture was taken neur Amiens and the shelled cha- teau in the background is a grim reminder of the agony of
France in the dark years.
Living History: Good-bye Dry-as-Dust
to
History lessons are going to be more than the ordin- tragedies. There is health and ary dull routine from now on for the children of North The melancholy Ethiopian to pensioned loneliness here, but London. whom i talked said: “Unfortun- doubt whether-but for the faith ately it is true that we must cut that still sends him to his chilly down even on coal."
chapel twice a day-there fa any
They are to study dates, economic movements and He-pointed-out-that-this-discussion endder-story-in-Beth-lelay-than-other-usually-dry-as-dust-matters-in-an-entirely-new-way- of ways and ineans caused the Em- [that of Haile Selassie,"
-by examining articles of hte period.
The L.C.C. General Purposes Sub- Committee recommend that Mrs.
MILLIONAIRE FAMILY'S CHRISTMAS PLAY STarjorie Quennell, famous authority
LIFE AND LOVE
·
Playboy Marries Against
Father's Will
In New York finis has been written to one more chapter in the troubled history in one of America's most spectacular millionaire families.
The story of that family began in 1903, when a thin undersized country boy left the little town of West Acton, in Massachusetts, to make his fortune in the Big City, says the Daily Express.
The boy was Jesse Livermore. ¡ contraption then hardly heard of. New York gave him a meagre living } now known to the world as the fron as an office boy. Soon it was to lung. know him with awe as the Boy Plunger of Wall Street.
The great San Francisco
earth quake of 1005 and a panic in copper combined to make him his first ill-
ilon dollars.
the
In 1915 he went bankrupt. Within a year he was a millionaire again. Now they enlied him Wizard of Wall Street. Ho has made, lost and made, fortune after fortune since then.
In 1935 the name Livermore mindle
His father knelt by his side and whispered, "Fight, son, I'm standing by you."
He lived--and was able to go into the witness-box, vindicate his mother
and win her acquittal.
For a time the world forgot the Livermores,
To-day that boy is eighteen; they call him Broadway's Youngest Play- boy.
Students Present
Cantata
on Everyday Things in 11istory," who reorganised the old Gelirye Museum, Shoreditch, and is now Its curator. should organise Activities in the north of London.
matikeun
The students of the Seventh Day Adventists Far Eastern Academy, ¡ Americon Notugee School Shanghai, save a colourful Christmas cantala, The Lost Carol," at the "was 110 better Helenu May Institute yesterday ymnastles. evening. The hall of the Institute was crowded.
"The old method of teaching his from tory," Mtrs. Quennell said recently ihan mental
"Children learn better from seeing The story was based on the found-time. The vital part of history is not and handling actual objects of the ing of the carol, “Silent Night," and the entire setting took place in a politics, but how people lived, worked sitting room of a little town in Aus-jund developed."
tria at Christina Eve in the year
I visit museums. At the Geffrye Mrs. Quennell has recreated right rooms. from 1,000 to 1880, with panelling. wall paper, funditure and painted life-
1818. The cantata was Interspersed lar part of class work for children to The new plan is to make it a regu- with music, reading from passages in the Bible, and living tableaux,
will. Franz Gruber, an elderly rate The action of the play centred on the theme of forgiveness and good
size Bgures of each period,
lessons in
formerly organist and choir master In the church located next to his
Here, during the past few months, home, is an invalid with a very an average of four or five classes a embittered outlook on life, because week have had visual his name and family was disgraced history. by a son, who was an outcast from the home. This role was taken by
EXTENSION PLANNED William Hilliard, who gave an excel-
Mrs. Quennell shows children a rare tent portrayal. His acting, particu- larly in the situation where he was Torricelli's, telling them it marked a seventeenth-century barometer of confronted with the problem of how new epoch-the beginning of science. he could forgive the son who had or she sets a group to drawing chair ilsgraced him, was convincing.
backs in different rooms and pulting
The part of the wife, Gertrude the dates on eveti. Gruber, a motherly old lady who had known much suffering ns a
She is looking for all kinds of
DECEMBER 20, 1937.
RADIO BROADCAST
Brahms Concerto in B Flat Artur Schnabel
HOTEL ORCHESTRA
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W, on Wavelengths of 355 metres (145 k.c.'s.) 31.40 metres (0.52 m.c.'s.)
H.K.T.
12.00-12.20 p.m. Helay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Peler Dawson (Bass-Bari- lono),
The Bullder (Foley-Cadmun); Fret-Foot (Barran-McCali); The Sea Call (Hamon).
12.40 Hawalan Muxle.
Vocal
A ekoki (Lizzie Alchiken)....No! Lane's Huwalian Orchestra. refrain by Lopez and trio. Aloha Beloved (Howard-Long-Canfield); Mauna Loa (Dale)....Kanui und Lulu: Hilo Hanakuli (Haickales). Waikiki Stone-Wall Boys; Sweet Hawaiian Dream Girl--Waltz (Given and Williams); Underneath The Blue Jawatan Skies (Wasserman)....The Howatan Marimba Players.
100 Local Time Signal and Wen- ther Report.
1.03 Barnabas von Gerzy & His Orchestra and Kitty Masters (Vocal).
Triste
Valse Song (Sadko-Rimsky-Korsakov); Gipsy Wine (Hitter); Free And Easy (Porschmans)...Orchestra: When
(Sibelius): Hindu
The Swallows Nest Again (Stevens and Falmund); Sweetheart, Let's Grow Ok Together (Bratton and Edwards).......Kitty Master; Cara Alari-Tango (Zaidēm); Monica- Tango (Kolscher); Serenade (Drigo)
Orchestra.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.
1.10 Variety.
Ochestral-Wiener Burger--Waltz (Zavier) ......Orchestra Mascotte. Damer Orchesten-Forting-Tangos Fireflower-Tango,,, Robert Renard Dance Orchestra. Piano-A Message From The Man In The Moon (hn A Day at the Itaces'); No More You (Towers-Grundland)...Gerry Moore: Piano and Vocal-Paris Is not The Same (Marvel-Strachey); Singing For You (Hackforth)....Leslie Hut-
In chinson. Orchestral-Sunshine Spring Waltz (De Curtis-Baumann); Land Of Love-Fox-Trot (Melichar Heyne).
Wolf Fund ....Eupen Orchestra. Dance Orchestra-Merry- Go Round-Fox-Prot; Saxophone Fireworks-Fox-Trot.... Eric Harden Dance Orchestra.
2.15 Close down.
His
R.05-11.00. Chinese Programme. 5.00. Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the long Kong
Hotel,
1.
Do
You; 2. Smoke J Love Dreams; 3. My little Grass Shack;
4. South American Joe.
5.15 Interval of recorded music from Z.B.W.
5.20 5.
dance
7.
Another perfect night is ending: 0. Doin' the Suzi-Q: Lonesome Guitar; 0. On the Beach of Ball Bull.
5.35. Interval of recorded dance inusle from Z.B.W.
5.40 9. I was saying to the Moon; 10. Molibini Mele: 11. It Don't Mean a thing; 13. Easy on the Eyes. 6.00 13. A Song In your Heart; 14. Sweetheart Medley; 15. Strauss Waltz.
6.15 Interval of recorded music from 2.B.W. 8.20 10. They
music
Can't take that They all Laugh; 18. Let's Call the Whole Thing off 10. I'm Getting Sentimental over YOU.
5.30 Children's Records.
Happiness; Missioa; In the fashion; Halfway Dawn; Hoppity: Growing Up (When We Were Very Young' A. A. Milne, Fraser-Simson); *More Very Young Songs (A. A. Milne- Fraser-Simon) Binker; The Hums Of Poolt" (A.A. Milne-Fraser-Sim- (son)........George Baker (Baritone).
6.45 D'Indy-Suite For Fiule, Vio- lin. Viola, Violoncello And Harp, Op. 91.
Played by Quintette Instrumental De Paris,
7.03 A short concert by Derek Oldham (Tenor) & Essie Ackland (Contralto).
Regimental Song ('The White Eagle' --Frim: One Day (Hans May).... Derek Oldham: The Fairy Tales of Ireland (Eric Contes); Gentle Zephyrs (Jensen).... Essle Ackland; Love, I Give You My All (Luana-Besly); Waltz Sonit ('A Waltz Dream'--Ifer- bert O. Straus)....Derek Oldham. 7.20 Stock Quotations and Hong- kong Exchange Market Report.
7.25 Variety.
Orchestral-Going Greek' Selee-
ow Mayfair Orchestra; Fine Romance; Bojangles Of Harlem (im 'Swing Time'), Fred Astaire. Dance Orchestra-
Foolin' Myself--Fox-ventar
Roy and Orchestra;
night To You All (Denby-Watson); You Needn't Have Kept It A Secret (O'Connor-Silver-de Murcia).
Downey. Cinema Organ Famous Marches Medley....llarold Ramsay; Dance Orchestra-She's My Lovely Fox-Trot; I'm Happy When You're
Happy-Fox-Trot;" (from Hide and Seek's)....Itonnis Munro and His Orchestra.
0.00 Time,
An- Weather and
(Continued on Page 5.)*
result of her husband's attitude furnishings to bring her living
nouncements. towards He, and particularly toward story" up. to 1937. She plans also A few days ago Jesse Livermore the son, was played by Margaret to throw out an extension in which
ile is a millionaire again to-day. Jun. and Jesse Livermore sen, faced Decker. She gave a sincere render-series of shops and workrooms will ench other for a father-and-son talking of the part, and was very im-how how men made the things of
the front pages of all the newspapers
in the world once more,
This time it was not finaner. Fifteen-year-old Jesse Livermore jun., the wizard's eldest son, was
Young Jesse told his father he wished to marry,
The girl he said, was Evelyn Sull yon, two years older than himself,
and a divorce, daughter of a fight shot in a flat at Santa Barbara, Call-promoter and night club owner, now
fornia.
The boy's mother,
Jesse Liver- more's former wife, once a beauty specialist, was arrested and accused of shooting her boy with Intent to murder.
SENSATIONAL PARTY
A sensational story was told of an all-night parly.
-For a time the boy's life was de- paired of. llo was kept in a queer
dend.
to do 11. lis son was adamant.
Jesse sen. pleaded with his son not Finally the boy was told: "If you do this thing, then financially you must do it alone."
pressive in the passage where she
cach period. begged her husband's forgiveness of the son,
Wood. Miss Carol Brewer accom- Kort Mueller, the choir master who
Harold Clark was well cast as)panied on the plano throughout.
Those who formed the choir were took the place of Franz, while Alwyn Alice Anderson, Carol Campbell, Lols Davis was adequate in the small role Wilcox, Dorothy Nelson, Violet Davis, of the son.
Irene James, Belsy Maloney, Ruth Prodigal Son,"
Tableaux of the parables of “The Buzzell, Holcyon McEachern, Fred Samaritan," and the Virgin with the Warren Hilliard, Galen Coffin, WiL C Good Larsen, Donald Butka, Milton Bates, Holy Babe, were presented, being lard Clark, and Willam Scharffen preceded by the reading of the pasberg.
ages from the Bible.
and
The other day Jesse Livermore, Jun., and Evelyn Sullivan were mar ried.
And Jesse Livermore jun.'s mother, must be mentioned, as it contributed given by Roselle Wiedemann, Ruth The fino singing of the mixed choir The tableaux representations were now Mrs. Longrope, give her son her blessing.
was there to much towards the success. The Morris, Dorothea Harris, Harry Moon,
choir was directed by Mrs. W. II. Winston Clark and Milton James.
COMING SOON!
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