THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER
23, 1937.
Film Girl's £355 For Libel
MAGAZINE CALLED
"A DISGRACE" BY LORD HEWART
Damages of £355 were awarded in the King's Bench Division recently to Miss Barbara Mary Hood, 22-year- old film actress and photographer's model, who complain- ed that she had been libelled by the publication of her photograph on the cover of the Paris Magazine of March, 1936.
The damages were awarded against Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, Ltd., the newsagents.
Miss Hood, who lives in Wellington Road. John's Wood, N.W., claimed that the use of the photograph, with the words printed under it, together with the publication of certain matter In the magazine, Implied that she was Joose woman who illowed her photograph to appear in a filthy and degrading publication."
Lord Chief
Lord "Hewart, the
Justice, when sunming-up, displayed a copy of the magazine and said it was a disgrace to the printing press. He said to the jury: "You would not have it in your house for a minute, would you? And, supposing you had seen the face of a girl you knew peer- ing at you from the front page of this magazine on a bookstall, might you not ask: How did she come to sink
to that?"
Language
With No
Singular.
For 'Flea'
Ahora, spoken by two million Bantus, is the latest language to be. "collected" by the experts at the School of Oriental Studies, West- minster.
"MILD SURPRISE" "Take the man of the world. What {~~ME. D. Mthimphuhu, }} native do you think he would say if, know-teacher fron Natal, made direct re- Ing Miss Hood, he saw her photograph cordings of its mammar and collo on the cover of that magazine? qual expressions recently in Wouldn't he be tempted to say: school's sound laboratory. What in the world has happened to
how did she come to this?"
here. Smith and Son carried on
business for the purpose of gain and had dealt with the Paris Magazine for years. In 1935 someone express- -ed "mild surprise" that a Bem of their
the
London gave Mr. Mihimphuhu a chill, and this is the way he described
Bahaghogha, 」 L† $
it: ||
nbuhlungs nomzimba tita ughaghazeliawa amakhazi.
That is to say: "My throat is sore standing should handle such a publi- and I am shivering all over." ention.
Then there was the responsible!
"NO SINGLE FLEA
employee who did not "feel happy"! Two other languages. Wolof and
Is wonder," said
lordship,
Bamum, were
"captured" at
Month
the
Franscribing
about it, with the result that eventu- ally the order was given that it, and Paris Exhibition last month by Dr. some others of a like kidney, should ida C. Ward, acting head of the be sold only on order from #
African Departinent. customer.
She spent them phonetically from two natives broiderer from the Cameroons,
gendarine from
from Senegal and an em- The singular for flea does not exist in Wolof, she discovered.
"Why should we have a singu
inquired the gendarme. "Such 21 thing as a single flea does not exist."
"which you admire most, the suit Ilmity of it or the commercial prud-; .ence of it?"
“SURREPTITIOUS"
and!
In addition to their book periodical departments the defendant company had an in camera, sub rosa, or surreptitious department where one could get a nasty publication If one gave, a standing order for it.
What could it matter to the person who was libelled whether the libel got into the hands of casual purchasers or into the hands of those who had given an order for it?
to have
Lord Hewart sníd 惶 seemed
because a girl
been suggested that
Now there is danger that
the
school staff may be dispersed for lack of funds. An appeal is made by
Professor It, L. Turner, the director, for a minimum of £3,000 a year to maintain the Department.
ARMY OFFICER'S PERJURY
BUNNE VISOKO tary Lauer, Lam20 Scul Concurn, said he had always wanted to meet Shirley Temple. Visiting Bellywood recently, he did meet her. Here they are together. "She's a bruw, bonnie lapsie,” s nid Sir Harry, "When I listened to Shirley MacTemple-1 mean Temple-ung 'Auld Lang Syne," F'd 'a' been willin' to make a pictine w her for nething! That's how much I think of heal
NEGUS'S OUR
MONEY IS GONE'
By A Correspondent
Bath.
Haile Selassic, former Emperor of Abyssinia, is seriously worried about his financial position. "He is living in comparative poverty," said a member of his staff.
He attributes his position to having been involved in heavy litigation over the money he once possessed, and to having given away lavishly to help Abyssinian fugitives.
He is trying to sell Fairfield, the 16-roomed house in which he has been living on the outskirts of Bath, with the object of moving into less expensive quarters nearer the centre of the city.
He is also trying to sell his motor- Lear, which is of German make and expensive to maintain in this coun- try,
In a statement to-day he says: "We have absolutely no income, We have to live on what little expital we have, and in such clrcumstances there is bound to be anxiety.
was a film actress she could-not-be- heard to complain of the publication of her photograph on a magazine.
The jury might think, however, that the publication of Miss Hood's photo- graph on the cover of the Puris Magazine might not increase the chunce of her being included among the
for respectable cast f film.
A 33-year-old Army officer, Des-¡ returning to Ethiopla, with assistance The jury, who included two women. nond Charles Nigel Baring, of❘ from the League of Nations, ! were an hour considering their ver-Braunstone (Rutland), was sent to brought out what I considered would dict. They awarded £350 damages. the second divison for 12 months at be enough for my temporary needs. Lord Hewart entered judgment for Derby Assizes recently for perjury. "But that has gone in helping Miss Hood for £355, with costs.
Singapore Pilot Leaves. £20,000
Charged with him was Louls Owen Barnes (58), a bookmaker's clerk, uf Nottingham. He was sentenced to six months, also in the second division.
Mr. Norman Winning, prosecuting. salet the cast arose out of a speeding stanmons against Baring. He and) Barnes swore that they werů on ti train at the time.
"FOOLISH ESCAPADE" Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., for Boring, suggested that it was a foolish escapade on the part of a young man, He was a grandson of Lord Fermoy, and had perhaps suffered from luck;
(died in 1934.
"In the belief that i would soon be
my people who are now refugees, and in law cases in which I have been involved in London and Paris in an attempt to recover some of my money."
GEORGE V. CUP
Referring to offers which he alleges that Signor Mussolini has made to him to return as a namiñal Emperior, Haile Selassie declares:
Mail Salvaged
On Hoover
Ship Driven High On Island
RADIO
Give him something
BROADCAST he would choose himself from
Christmas Dinner Talk.
By Sabrina
CHILDREN'S HOUR
Radio Programmo Broadcast by ZBW on Wavelengths of 335 metres (843 k.c's.); 31.40 metres (9,52 m.e's).
H.K.T.
12.0 12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Mozart-Sonata In A Major K.331.
Played by Edwin Fischer (Piano), 12.40 Berlin State Opera Orchen-
'The Operabatl'-Overture (Ileu- berger); Torch Dance No. 1 In Flat Major (Meyerbeer).
1 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 Orchestra Mascotte and Lucienne Boyer (Soprano).
It Happened In Vienna-Waltz (Muhr); Castanets Waltz (Richartz)
Orchestra; Le Tango Des Filles (Delettre and Bayle)....Luclenge Boyer: Twinkling Lights-Waltz Melodies (Zeller-art. Hohne); The Last LetterWaltz (Reggov). Orchestra; 11's A Thrill an Over Aguln (Unger-Delettre); I Found A Bit Or Paris In The Heart Or Old New York (Unger-Delettre).... Lucienne Boyer; North Sea Waves- Waltz (Krannig); Under The Rain- bow-Waltz (Waldteufel)....Orches- tra.
1.30
Reuter and Rugby Press; Local Weather Forecast and
An-
nouncements.
1.10 Rale Da Costa (Piano). 'Say It With Music-Medley (Ray Noble); What Are Your Intentions (film Twenty Millon Sweethearts');
1.50 Latest Dance Records. Fox-Trots-Land Of Love... Eugun Wallt & His Orchestra. A Little Cooperation From You; The Sheep Were In The Meadow (from 'Going Greek")
• Harry Roy & His Orchestra. Wallz- Hum A Waltz (flm "This is my Affair'); Quickstep-Don't Say Goodbye... Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra. Fox-Trots - Big Apple; Peckin'... Nat Gonella and IIIs Georgians. No More You; Goodnight To You All... Jack Harris & Orchestra. Waltz Spatsommertag
Orchestra Mascotte.
2.16 Close down.
5.0-8.05 European Programme. 8.05-11.0 Chinese Programme,
5.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the long- kong Hotel.
1. I've got my heart set on you; 2. Swing is here to sway; 3, So Nare; 4. Jam Sessions,
5.15 Interval of recorded dance music from ZBW.
3.20 5, Lovely one; 0, Smarty; 7, whispers in the Dark; B, After you.
5,35 Interval of
recorded dince music from ZBW.
5.45 9. Night Over Shanghai; 10,
Can't run away from Love; 12. Lasly
Cause my Baby says It's so; 11. You who could'nt be kissed.
0,00 Studio-Children's Hour. 7.00 Choruses.
Shenandoah (Sea Shanty) (orr. Terry); Rio Grande; Billy Boy (Sca Ravens (arr. Kennedy Scott); The Shanties) (Dr. Terry); The Three
Boatmen (Harris). John Goss (Baritone) and the Cathedral Male Voice Quartet; Jolin Peel (Tradi tional)....Harold Willams and the
Male Chorus. 7.15 London Relay Sportsmen. Talking: Lord Burghley, M.P.
Closing local Stock Quota- & Hongkong Exchange Market
Variety. Orchestra
Hits....New - Dance Mayfair Orchestra (With Vocal Re- Sketch-Father frain); Humorous Christmas (J. Henry)...John Henry assisted by Gladys Horridge.
7.35
7.46 Studio Christmas Dinner' a talk by Babrina.”
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Forecast and Announcements,
Chinese Programme.-Studio
11.00 Close down.
8.05 Concert.
The President Hoover is still being buffelled by fairly heavy seas, and The monsoon, though it has abaled slightly, is still preventiut the work of salvage commencing, according to
8.05-11.0 p.m. European Pro- messages received in Hongkong yes-gramme from Z.E.K, on a Frequener the Collar finer went aground last terday from Hoisbato Island, where of 640 Kilocycles.
week.
Messages indicate that the
ship
BARNARDO'S of paternal control, his father having valuables," a close friend said to me all to the good, however, since it op-
HOMES GET
£13,700
London. newspapers give prominence to Uis will of a former Dr. Barnardo's Homes boy, Captain Jones, formerly with The Singapore Pilots' Azzociation, who left more than £200,000, including £13.700 to Barnaro's Homes "in grailtuđe for the kindly treatment received on admission forty years ago and the excellent start in elven."
All the London
"Captain Jones" was a pseudonym used by Captain T. G. Meadows, a Singapore pilot who died in 3032. After his death no will could be found nor any relatives traced.
Four years later allor was thumbing over some old booka on navigation Tent to the Sloga- pore Sailors' Institute by Capt. Meadows years before when be- tween the pages of one of them he found a document which turn- cd out to be Capt. Meadows' will.
The will, which was in favour of u number of hospitals and Dr. Barn- ardo's Homes, gave no clue to Capt. Meadows' next of kin. Among the hospitals benefitting wre the Singo- pore St. Andrew's Hospital, which received $10,000.
Baring was ordered to costs of the prosecution.
8.05 Variety.
Vocal Duel-Arlene (Seymour & Pollock): Waitin' At The Gate For
MACKINTOSH'S
Men's Wear
Specialists
The WHISKY
Spey-Royal Scotch Whisky
A bord of the foest Whisking,
| ALL OVER TEN YEARS OLD
M&A Gilley
VERING OF VASTLANE
士披来)威士忌
WHAT A SENSATION I
That's
Asked
for Again
Bole Agents:
THE CENTRAL
TRADING-CO.
Bank of Canton
Building.
You MUST sea what the privileged few saw last night
McLTOJONG K°26!!
I
Messrs. MOUTRIE
and
Katy (Kahn & Whiting). Layton TO-NIGHT 9.15 at the CHINA FLEET CLUB and Johnstone; Dance Orch. The Medley Fox-Trot... The Bally- Ballyhooligans Make Whoopee...
Seats $3, 2, 1, 50 cts. from
H.M.S. WESTCOTT, Ship's Office hooligans; Vocal Quartette-Muske-
In ald of teers Melodies (No, 1), ....The Four Musketeers; Orchestra Happy THE SAIYINGPUN CHINESE BOYS' CLUB (through TOC H) and THE NAVAL CHAPLAIN'S FUND FOR SEAMEN'S WELFARE Mayfair Orchestra.
8.30 London Relay "At The Black | A variety-revue with fifteen high-speed actlets and a high-spirited
cast of Young Gentlamen & Ladies Mr. Wilkes at home bar-parleur. Presented
"HULLO HONG KONG”
"I would not sell my people at so has been driven further ph the reef much a head, and I would tear and is now not poundling so badly, personal wealth and security to their detriment."
though the salvage is becoming more "Although he has seld most of his difficult. Actually this is probably
! lo-day, "there is one standing on a pears that the main salvage work the table in his drawing-room at Fair- pay
the feld which I do not think he will cannot be commenced before ever sell. It is beautiful liver cup which was presented to him on his Coronation by the late King George that portion of the mall still re- Thornton.
FLIER-Lady Drummond 13. widely known English aviatrix. who asserted the Britich may enlist women aviators for milli- tary duty in the event of war. She is shown na she arrived in Now York for a lecture four. Women, Aho sald, would net na dispatch bearets ör in ather fig- ing services behind the lines. Bho holds a pilot's license.
V."
Threatened Queen Victoria
Harry Wyndham Carter wrole lo Queen Victoria threatening to
er.
That was 43 years ago. Recently
it was revealed that he had died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum nt the age of 03.
A
monsoon season ends.
Yesterday's messages intleated
mahing aboard the liner was taken ashore on Tuesday and pul under shelter. All the registered and or dinary mall has already been shipped from the Hotshoto Istand to Manila and Hongkong, the Hongkong mail coming here on the President Pierce. The remaining mail comprises 4,000 baits of printed matter and parcels for Hongkong and Manlia, Two bags of printed matter and parcels, mixed with the ordinary mail, ar rived here on the President Pierce.
Memories Selection.
NMV
in his own
Pascoe
لود
Last Performance
COPIES OF
0.0 Gracie Fields. Davies): Your Dog's Come Home
If All The World Were Mine (Parr-TO-NIGHT 9.15 at the CHINA FLEET CLUB Again (Harrington); You And The Night And The Music (from Stop Press').
9.10
Jazz Plano and Turner Layton (Vocal and Plano),
Dinner For One Picase, James (M.
Turner Layton; Care).
Waltz ffomantique (Da Costa); Jazz Goblins (Da Coal) Rale Da Costa; Ifenrt Of Gold (from 'All alright at How much of the 4,000 remaining Oxford Circus); Alone (film 'A night boys were taken ashore or when they at the Opera')..... Turner Layton; will arrive here is not yet known, Sweetmeat Joe, The Candy Man but it may, arrive here on the Pre-(Croom-Johnson); fen: Grant, provided the weather Martin! Tunes,
is moderate and the Grant is able
to
borough.
A Cavalcade Of .... Patricia Rost-
9.30 London Relay-The News, 9.50° Mozart-Concerto In E Flat
Walter Pinyed by
Cleseking (Continued on Page 5.)
visit the scene of the disaster on her In March, 1894, Carter, then middle-aged bachelor, who claimed this the President Coolidge, passing Major, K.271.
way down to the Colony, Falling to be an earl, was tried at the Old about December 20, may pick up this Balley for threatening the Queen,ma. There is at present only one found Insane.
to be dealtoyer standing by, the
U.S.S.
and ordered
detained "during her Majesty's Alden.
pleasure."
Three reigns have passed since the Mr. T. B. Wilson, local ngent of the period of Queen Victoria's pleasure Dollar Line, is expected here on the ended with her death. But remained behind the iron Broadmoor.
Carter Yusho Maru on the morning of De- gates of cember 25. The Miho Maru, the other salvage ship at Holshoto Island, la remaining by the Hoover. The Yushu is returning to Hongkong to resume her work on the salvage, of the Asain Maru,
02
Grizzled and bent, he was one | the oldest prisoners in the asylum.
To-day they will hold a formal in- Iquest on the man the world forgot..
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