THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY,
OCTOBER 31, 1938.
G. B. S., Drowning, Says-'Damn!'
Last Thoughts Were of His Wife and His Will
"TOOK CONCEIT
OUT OF ME
THE last thoughts of George
Bernard Shaw, the things that flashed through his head when he was drowning, are told in "Robert Loraine," the life story of the great actor and airman by his wife Winifred, which was published recently.
Robert Loraine and G.B.S. went swim- ming together in a rough sea off the coast of Wales 30 years ago. They were carried away by a strong current and were saved only by struggling to an old sandbank.
"That was a near thing," said Shaw calmly, when he had recovered his breath.
HIS "AWFUL MOMENT"
Robert Loraine asked him whether visions of his past life had come before him Shaw shook his as he was drowning.
head.
"No," he said. "A man does not think of fairy tales within two minutes of certain death.
"I thought of nothing but pressing. practical things. First I wanted to tell you not to try to swim to shore, as it was no use and the effort would exhaust you.
"The thing to do was to let the sea take you where it liked and keep afloat as long as possible. But the noise of the waves was too loud and you were too far away.
Then I saw that we were being } earrled along the shore; and I con- sidered whether the people there could help us if sang out. But there were no fishermen there; only trippers who would have upset a boat If they had tried to launch it.
"Then I thought of Charlotte (Mrs. Shaw) getting the news that I was drowned, and of how I had not-al- tered my wifl, and how she would never be able to understand my ar- rangements with my translators.
"Then I saw you were having a hard time when the big waves came, and thought of what a pity it was that you should be lost in the strength of your youth with the world before you, and that I didn't matter, an I had shot my boli and done my work.
"Then asked myself how many more strokes I could swim before the effort became too great, and I bad rather drown than try any more. "Then my foot struck a stone, and instead of paying "Thank God! said 'Damn.'
ment.
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"Then came a really awful mo- When I got on my legs you had vanished. It was my clear duty to dive after you and rescue you.
"I could not go home without you and say left you to drown. And then came the frightful humiliation of realising that I was utterly incapable of awin- had ming another stroke. I reached my limit.
"And then I found that you were standing close behind me. But, by Cad, it took the concell out of me."
RECKLESS AIRMAN
was a real life
Miss Laura Lee Yuen-wa and bridal attendants photographed after her wed-
ding to Mr. Dang Kien-chee which was held at the Registrar's Office last week.
WOMAN
GOES
SHOPPING
IN HER OWN SEAPLANE
Girl Dead
In Train
Threw Up
Her Job
MRS.
ALEXANDER DE
SEVERSKY, United Story Of
States visitor in London recently, goes shopping by scaplane at home.
£1,000 Theft
By Woman
A smartly dressed woman
·
clerk
Millionairess
Plans-
UTOPIA ON ROOF OF WORLD
Hundreds of miles from civilisa- Glut, high in the Ibantayan mount- tains on the border of Tibet, Mrs. Clarence Gnque, a Woolworth mit- lionairess, is looking for a spot to found! real-life Shangel-La, utopia where there is eternal Bfe and beauty.
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Mrs. Gasque with golden mir and a now greying, is a widow grandmother. She left England in January with six friends, members of the Mazdaznan association-un occult religious body.
For seven months she has been travelling in the mountains, looking for her dream spot which she hopes will be a hoven of rest for the thousands of Mazdazungs throughout the world.
So far she s been unsuccessful. Mr. Hastinga Palmer, of Saver- nake-rom, Hampstead, London, N.W., who formerly lived in Tibet, said:
"It was my idea that Mrs. Gasque should search for such a dream place. I drew up an Itinerary and accom panied Mrs. Gasque and her party as far as India.
Then had to return home and Mrs. Gasque continued the search.
"According to a letter received since I returned to England, it ap- pears that Mrs. Gasque has not been successful,"
YOGISM
The valley for which Mrs. Gasque and her party were searching is said to be in the Himalayas about 70 miles north of an isolated hill station called Almora, It is called Rhonik- hel.
Mr. Palmer says that the climate ls like eternal spring with an abun- dince of fruit growing wild, and good soll.
"Mother Mrs.
the Gusque is Superior" Gloria of the Mazdaznans. This movement was founded 50 years ago by Doctor Otoman Zar-Adusht Hanish. It teaches a form of yogism. Mr. Gasque was accompanied by two Swiss friends and a Spanish film actress, Senorita Carlotta Hopf, an aristocratic refugee.
When she wants a new hat she unbitches her 100-m.p.h. amphibian (land-and-sea-plane) from its moor- ing at the bottom of her garden on Long Island Sound, nies Btty miles
Mr. Clarence Gasque died in 1929 to New York, lands on East River, and ties up five minutes taxi-ride promised to tell the police everything leaving unsettled property in Eng- after It had been alleged at Old land worth nearly £210,000; to his from the shops.
Street, London, recently, that she had daughter Maysie he felt the income She said. "It takes on hour to
he was some years shares. For Mi Elleen Marion Goodwin, 26-New York and back
if I Ay, and stolen more than £1,000 from her from 30 per cent. of his Woolworth Bin and that a man was behind her secretary and n director of F.. W. year-old kennel maid found dead in four if I go by ear.
downfall.
Woolworth, and came to this country first-class carriage of the Brighton
"At times I've made a quick trip train recently with three small polson
Mabel Hart (32), of Glengarryns English director. bottles at her side, was beileved by by plane to get something nice for
A their charged
on lampstead Road, East Dulwich, WDS her parents and firends to have "not dinner.
"Lots of business men garage am-
with stealing £8 2. 40. from her Heath, Mr. and Mrs. Gasque enter a care in the world."
phibians at East River moorings,, and
Six months after Mr. Gasque died have chauffeur-pilots waiting to fly employers, Lugion and Co., et Old fained lavishly. them home at night. But I think I'm Street, Shoreditch.
E. Robinson, prosecuting, his daughter Maysie married Mr. J. n shopper-by-seaplane. the only woman
I've been dying British machines said the pullee were asking for a Roland Robinson, now here I would like to land an hm-remand as they would like liart's Blackpool. They phibian on the Thames it's safe assistance to clear up her "tremen-year-old son, Richard.
dous mess" in the office. A lot of won't let enough-but officials In
Mrs. de Seversky, slim and smart, books were missing and the firm did has done 1,900 hours solo. and ns cut know where it stood. held a flying licence for eight years. Her husband is Major Alexander
Passionately fond of the cats and dons she groomed, fed and nursed at the animals boarding home run by Mrs. C. F. Leiper, her employer, at Peak Hill, Sydenham, S.E., she had a congenial jobs,
Short and stocky, with close-crop- ped hair, she was well known Sydenham, where she was often to be seen in riding-breeches and open necked blouse, exercising her dogs.
de Seversky, who builds high-speed
Str. A.
"I HAVE PLUNGED" "The police think, and so do we," pursuit plates for the American Air added Mr. Robinson, "that there is at who left the Three/ Packed a week-end case and, Ignoring Fores. He has just broken the crossman at the back of this, so we are
Robert Loraine d'Artagnan,
Musketeers of the stage to become a musketeer in real life.
He was one of the bravest and most reckless pioneers of flying, and he made the fest flight to Ireland ex- actly 23 years ago to-day.
But for some unstated reason she threw up her job at a minute's not the breakfast that had been laldi for her, walked out of the house with the remark "I'll send for the rest of my things lator."
MOTHER MYSTIFIED
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert | The story of Robert Loraine, actor William Goodwin, of Archibald Road, who held London in thrall, soldier "Tufnell Park, N., had returned from who had the "guts of a llon," air-] their holidays at Felixstowe only a man who chated when there were few hours before being called on to "no fresh skies to conquer," man identify their daughter's body. who could be unmitigatedly brutai It is believed that Miss Goodwin and equally warm-hearted, is #spent the week-end with a girl friend
who lives at Brighton. romantle epic.
His fe began with adventure. He run away from school to become a 10s. a week actor in a bullers' dive
Mrs. Goodwin said that she is my
stifled by her daughter's death.
"She had not lived at home since
COOK'S EGG
home
XLP.
for
have
a
three-
Asked For Cab-Car Came
country record by flying 3,000 miles anxious that she should have bail and Los Angeles in 10hrs. 10mins, from Farmingdale, Long island, to make a promise to assist the police
alrendy! the Arm. She has ard admitted a sum of £400 odd, but it ques Into over a thousand pounds."
Detective-Sergeant Scarlett
Mr. R. J. Haslewood, chairman of sald that when he saw Hart nt her home the Owner Drivers Branch of the she said, "I have plunged and Motor Cob Trade, went to a large
block of flats in Victoria. plunged."
After having a meal there he asked Ordering a seven days' remund on a commissionaire to call a "Comfy" buit, the magistrate, Mr. Herbert Cab, advertised in the building. A Metcalle, said: "In the meantime you private car arrived, and he was dri
where he re- have got to give every assistance you! ven to Cannon-row, can to the police in your own Inter- ported to the police.
You will tell them all you can.” "Yes, everything." she whispered.
IN BLACK AND WHITE
Is a cook-general, doing the a six-roomed she was 21. She was very indepen-entire work in Garrick dent and wanted to be away, but house occupied by four persons
know of no troubles at all.
"I inst saw her three weeks ago entitled to an egg for breakfast?
in Liverpool. At 23 he was starring
d'Artagnan nt: the
ns
Theatre, London,
But d'Artagnan heard Mrs. Her and she was quite happy and normal The question was put recently bert Tree reelle The Absent Minded then. Ifer work with animals had by the cook-general, who works Beggar at
charity matinee. He interested her very much and she in a house in Surrey at wages of strode straight out of the theatre seemed keen to make a great success 17s. 6d. a week, to Miss Beatrice and joined up as a trooper nearest recruiting office.
the of it.
It wasn't only the stirring poem that drove Robert Loraine to volun- teer for the Boer War.
HIS DREAM HOME
Two years before, when he was 21, he had married the beautiful nctress Julie Opp. Immediately after she lett to play in New York, and he spent 13 months fitting up a house for her at Staines.
When at last Julle returned to London, Robert Loraine took her to Staines for their wedding night.
took her to her room, tastefully decorated in her favourite colours,
cats,
Welsh Centre
In London
London.
"She did complain that she had Bezzant, national organiser of The London Welsh Association is been working fairly hard at times and the now Union of Domestic appealing for subscriptions and dona- suffered from depression," added Mrs. Workers..
tions to help in carrying out its Goodwin.
The answer was that the egg work, particularly the establishment should have been put in the agree-of a London Welsh Centre In Meck- ment" Miss Bezzant sald to the lenburgh Square, Bloomsbury. Since News Chronicle. (Miss Bezzant has 1931 the association has had head- Lo answer many amusing questions quarters at 11 Mecklenburgh Square,
Welsh hall All this is due to the
At Bow-street Pallce Court recent- ly Mutual Finance Ltd., Regent- street, W. 1, and William Henry King, of Eitan-avenue, Greenford, were zummoned as owners of an un- Hcensed Hackney carriage which unlawfully piled for hire at Dolphin-
quare, S.,
Reginald Talbot, the driver, of Chiswick, W.,
summoned for plying for hire.
was
Proseculing, Mr. Denis Murphy said that the fare indleated on the car was Is. Od.-less than the taxi rate.)
Mr. Ifastewood sald that in the restaurant he was given a notice advertisnig the "Comfy" Cabs nt Bd. a mile. The taxi rafe is 9d, Mr. Bernard Gillis, for King and Talbot, said there was nothing to London show that the car was not being run
Land. as a private-hire service.
CHEAPER
Park (Great in her fight for the rights of domes- together with the
ad my otl
MAIDS RATIONED
and
She is urging every employer or Sir Bewell Williams, who has vested
the
sito in trustees, to be used for "
KILLED BY EXPRESS
While using the 'wooden cross- over at Westbourne Western) Station recently, Reglanidle workers.) N. Green, aged 35, of Brent-road, Southall, was struck and killed by
Mr. Dummelt: Supposing a block of the Paddington-Plymouth: expresa. It was stated that he was crossing over worker who comes to her for advice London Welsh Centre. The present flats wants to run a hackney-carriage ordinary to catch a City train from the oppo- ment about wages, hours off, food, public lectures and debates, a music taxicabs, what have they got to do?
to settle on a simple written agree activities of the association include service cheaper than the site platform.
Mr. Gills: I make no point of holidays and living conditions.
whether the flate, are open to the She has received many letters club, literary and educational classes, Cochran contract of £7,000 a year from maids declaring that they were a threatre guild, a monthly journal, pubile or not.
Mr. Dummeti said that Mutual Fi- plus a share of the profits,
allowed only one ment a day. For "Y Ddolen" (in conjunction with the "Everything Robert did became breakfast and the evening meal they Union of London Welsh Literary nance, Ltd., did not appear to be and owners of the vehicle, but he would sensationalised whether he liked it were rationed to bread and butter. Societies), dances, excursions,
various outdoor and indoor games. not like to bind himself until he had or not," writes Winifred Loraine. In without milk or tea. "Robert Lorolne," Calling, 10s. 6d. A thousand members are canvas-Welsh people who migrate every looked into the quoted casos cited by As a Lieut-Colonel and a DS.O. she has shown it all. the sensing on behalf of the unlon in the to London will find great help counsel.
thero.
He adjourned all the summonses. he returned to the stage and a C. D. sations, the adventures, and the man. Inner suburbs of London.
Five minutes later ho strode out, rushed from the bonse and nover saw her again.
But he went on paying for the upkeep of his dream home at Staines.
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