THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1938.
Famous Film Star Spends Her Honeymoon In Haunted Hollywood Home
MIRIAM HOPKINS BUYS
ONCE OWNED BY JOHN GILBERT
HOLLYWOOD.
LOVERS WILL LIVE AGAIN IN THE FAMOUS "LOVE NEST" OF JOHN GIL- * 416!! BERT.
For nearly two years the great home built by John Gilbert, Hollywood's prince of lovers, has been deserted, a ghostly memorial to the dead star..
Now Miriam Hopkins and her director- husband, Anton Litvak, have bought it for their honeymoon.
They married in Septemdir. Thit since then both the studios that only have been so hard at work in how can they match a honeymoon.
And they have chosen a palace of romance which to spend their liest holiday together.
Ja
Miriam Hopkins and Anton Litval will bring life
to that drail house. But some people say that the ghosts of Juhn Gilbert's loves have never fett i
They believe it is haunted
Lovers, walking an the moonlit Beverly Hills, avand i
the house and grounds.
A LOVE SONG
:
Once a girl who was walking with the house heard her fance near sounds and rushed to the sheriff.
She told him that there were sounds of musle coming from the Sonicone was sing- dark house. ing a love song, accompanied by a gultar...
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dust, withered
Her dance corroborated the story. But when the sheriff went to the house he found nothing but faded carpets red rose in a vase,
That was all that remained of the Gilbert, the real John glory of
the lover, once the greatest star of screen.
his dark, Jack, with Handsome glistening eyes, was king of the B
getting Ws 1929. He world in
week. He had succeeded 12,000 a Valentino as the great screen lover. HIS ONLY FAILURE
But he was not only a screen lover, Passion ruled his life.
he
It was Gilbert who helped to nuke Greta Garbo the star she is to-day And he fell madly in love with her.
He had lover many Id been married and divorced twice, but Corbu was the greatest love of his life.
women,
He made love to her while they played opposite each other in The Fiesta and the Devil." He made love to her off Use set.
But Garbo, the exclusive, did no respond.
It was Gilbert's only failure as an irresistible lover, and he never forgot
it.
An art that luns been handed down the through centuries, Swedish women in Dalaine moulding Christ. nas candles,
third
11 1020 he married for the Itune
His wife was Ina Claire. Be actress. She divorced him in 1932.
In the same math as that divorce he married Virginia Bruce, but that marriage lasted less than two years. CAREER WRECKED
And meanwhile Jack Gilbert had lost his position as the great screen lover, the Star of Hollywood.
He haut a high-pitched voive, and the talkies had wrecked his career.
Then Garbo, whom he had made a star, gave him a new chance.
She insisted that Gilbert should play as her lending man in "Queen Christina."
the He recaptured some of charis in that thn, but it was the great success on which he pinned his hopes.
When Jolin Gubert died, January, 1936, he was a rich fallure.
old not
had
And the "love nest in which he had lived was his silent memorial.
Now Miriam Hopkins and her husband have brought life aux lave and laughter into it again.
Dr. Gronin
Explains
LOVE NEST 'My Shipmate— The King'
Warrant Engineer Herbert Rich, shipmate of the King, sunk into his chair on the terrace at the Star and Garter Home, Richmond, and gazed over the river.
He was smiling. The blue eyes, set in ruddy, wind- beaten cheeks, were gleaming with pleasure. Herbert Rich was happy-
Because he had met his shipmate again.
When he presented a bouquet of flowers to the Queen at a concert for war-wounded soldiers and sailors, the King recognised him, remembered that they had been together in H.M.S. Collingwood, shook him by the hand.
And Warrant Engineer Rich, 64 years old, paralysed after being torpedoed, forgot his white hair, forgot his suffering, straightened up.
Back in the Star and Garter Home, the burly sallor talked in his soft voice of the days when
he had sailed with the King.
"I was at engluver on II.M.S. he told the Collingwood then," Sunday Chronicle.
a midshipman.
"The King was
A WONDERFUL MOMENT
"Each midshipman had to undergo a six weeks' engineering curse aind pass an examination before they could become second lieutenants.
"His Majesty was sent down below and it was my job to show him round and explain the various pieces machinery to him.
W.
M.
Hughes
Is Australia's Foreign Chief
Canberra.
Mr. W. M. Hughes, war-time Prime Minister of Australia became Fereign Minister in the reconstruct- aled Cabinet, announced recently by Mr. J. A. Lyons following bis recent victory in the Federal elections.
Hughes,
in born 27 seventy-three years ago, was Minis- Lyons in the last ter of ilealth Cabinet.
"The King was a modri puall. "I found him keen to learn every- thing he could. He wanted to know all that could be known about the engine room.
to
As Foreign Minister
Wales
he succeeds
"But suddenly His Majesty became ill with appendicitis and had abandon the course temporarily,
"Still, he remembered me all right. Sir George Pearce, who was defeat-
That was fed in Western Australia-Renter. at once Knew Hea wonderful moment.
New York. Dr. A. J. Cronin, the novelist, fdy explained a statranent attri buted to him that he was thinking of I coming an American citizen.
id:-
"I was talking about our fear of war in Europe, and mentioned that Amerien was 1,700 miles away from!
me
Herbert Rich nodded and took off his glasses to wipe away a mist that had suddenly appeared on them.
The possible seat of trouble, while Nodder To Hang we in England were separated from! the Continent by a bare twenty-one) miles.
it
"Bearing this in mind, I said that!
weren't British I would certain-
ly like to be an Amerlean citizen, but I said it was impossible for an Eng- lishman to overcome his affection for his own country. I shall come home at Christmas."
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His Dreadful Secret
At Last
Out At
(By A Correspondent)
Nottingham.
Frederick Nodder, his "dreadful-sceret" bared, glared at the jury here as he declared firmly "I shall go out of his court with a clear conscience" when he was found guilty of the murder of little Mona Tinsley and sentenced to death.
he had 1 pish curl of hair across his brow, The ten-year-old child found romping near her school in was fond of the company of women.
Medical tests suggest that he as- Newark ten months ago and lured away to strangle had known him saulted Mona, then killed her and carried her body over the lonely affectionately as "Uncle Fred."
He had lodged with her mother fields to the River Idle, a mile and a and father: her aunt used to visit him half away. But this evidence was of such a nature, and the rest of the in the bungalow where he killed her
Nodder forty-five-year-old motor case so strong, that no attempt was engineer, separated from his wife and made in court to prove any motive san and daughter, who live in for the murder, Sheffield-stood with a grim smile in
the
Officers searching for Mona arrived Macal Nedder's home only four or five dock when Mr. Justice naghten, the black cap ready told hours too late. She had been scen him, "Justice has slowly but surely alive at noon outside his house. They got there in the evening, and Mont overtaken you........”
had gone.
The pacited Assize Court remem-
When the judge had nishing his bered then the stern words of Mr. Justice Swift who, before Mona's summing up and the jury had re- body had been found Hosting in the tired to consider their verdict, Mr. Itiver Idle on June sentenced him Walter Marshail, who found Men's to seven years penal servitude for body, and received the Daily Express enticing her away and said: "It may reward of £250, spoke to me outside be that time will reveal the dreadful the court room. He said that three Isecret you carry in
weeks before his discovery he was breast." your Nodder did not flinch. He heard rowing with his wife and son in the into the the death sentence with his thin lips River Ryton, which flows compressed. He made as if to help Idie, when his boat struck a sack.
de- It had been suggested by the his guards to raise the trap-door in the
floor
of the dock through which fence that Mona's body had been put in the River Ryton by some one who he was to be taken to the cells.
He had helped them to raise it met her after she had left Nodder.
Mr. Marshall's information when the court adjourned for lunch. Now he half-bent, then hesitated, conveyed to Mr. Maurice Healy, K.C.,
Nodder's counsel. The judge
was shuddered, straightened up again.
were sum At his brawny figure faded from called back. The jury were
Nod- sight Mona's mother turned to me.moned from their discussions, " shall never forgive him as long as der was brought up from
The judge said an unusual I live," she sobbed.
the
WAR
Nodder had been brought from cation had been made to him, that Linenin Priven to stand his trial. It he had been asked to permit further was Mr. Norman Birkel. K.C., who stions being put to Mr. Mar- bared his secret to the jury.
A NEW DIRKETT
It was a new Birkett, restrained, al; most fatherly. His questions to Nad der were in low conversational tones But he drove homme ronviction of his Chill.
ia
hall, that it was desirable every fact which had bearing on the case Should be brought before the court,
So Mr. Marshall retold the story he had told me:
of the sack. "hig enough for a hundredweight of po- tators or the body of a child, that he had seen in the stream.
Dr. Webster, the pathologist, was recalled. The Judge told the Jury "one of the the evidence concerned facts of primary importance in the
CRC."
LIGHTS FUSED
The jury retired again. Nodder was taken back to the cells. The Judge left his seat.
Nodder had said he took Mona lo his home in Hayton, near Retford a bungalow named Peacehaven, kept her there on the night of January without harming ber, next day took her to Worksop, and left her make her way to Sheffield, to the home of Mrs. Grimes, her aunt.
Quietly, Mr. Birkett naked him.
Almost at once the rooms adjoin- Whether he had not thought that tng the court were plunged in dark- In that big city ten-year-old Mona would find herself "a Hills lost. The lights had fused, Electri- cians were called. The lights went soul." That phrase slabbed every off and on half a dozen Umes while heart.
the Jury were deciding Nodder's fate. Some unrevented facts of Nodder's But they shone pitilessly bright Idrondful crime can now be told, when he came back through the trap- This bald-hended man, with the top-door into the dock and heard his fate.
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