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TELEGRAPH, HONGKONG
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31,
1938.
Drowning, Says-'Damn!'
G. B. S.,
Last
Thoughts Were
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 în "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) earried along the shore; and I con- sidered whether the people there'
But could help us if we sang out. 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 wasį drowned, and of how 1 had not al-' tered my will, and how she would never be able to understand my fir- rangements with my translators.
"Then I saw you were having a hard time when the big waves came, and thought of what a plly it wils that you should be lost in the strength of your youth with the world before you, and that I didn't matter, as I had shot my bolt and done my work.
"Then I asked myself how many more strokes I could swim before the effort became too great, and I had rather drown than try any more. "Then my foot struck a stone, and instead of saying Thank God?
uld 'Damn,'
"Then came a really awful mo- ment. When I got on my legs you and vanished, It was my clear duty to dive after you and rescue you.
I
ile was one of the bravest and most reckless ploneers of flying, and he mude the first fight to Ireland ex- actly 28 ears ago to-day.
of His Wife and His
Miss Laura Lee Yuen-wa and bridal attendants photographed after her wed-
ding to Mr. Dang Kion-chee which was held at the Registrar's Office last week.
WOMAN
IN HER
Girl Dead
In Train
Threw Up Her Job
GOES SHOPPING
OWN SEAPLANE
MRS.
TRS. ALEXANDER DE SEVERSKY, United States visitor in London recently, goes shopping by seaplane at home.
When she wants a new hat she unhitches her 100-m.ph. amphibian (land-and-sea-plane) from its noor- Ing at the bottom of her garden on Long Island Sound, les afty miles to New York, lands an East River, and ties up five minutes taxi-ride
from the shops,
She said. "It takes an hour to 31ss Elleen Marlon Goodwin, 26- New York and buck if 1 fly, and year-old kennel maid found dead in four if I go by car. a first-class carriage of the Brighton
train recently with three small poison "At times I've made a quick trip' bottles at her side, was believed by by plane to get something nice for her parents and firends to have "not dinner. a eare in the world."
Story Of
£1,000 Theft
By Woman
clerk
Will
Millionairess
Plans-
UTOPIA ON ROOF OF WORLD
N
Hundreds of miles from civilisa- tion, high in the Himalayan moun- tains on the border of Tibel, Mrs. Clarence Gasque, a Woolworth mil lionairess, is looking for a spot to found A real-life Shangri-La, utopia where there is eternal life and beauty.
Mrs. Gasque with golden hair is a widow and, " how greying, 'grandmother. She left England in January with slx friends, inembers of the Muzdluznun association-an (occult religious body.
For seven inonths she has been travelling in the mountains, looking for her dream spot whilch she hopes for the of rest will be a haven thousands of Mazdaznans throughout the world.
So far she has been unsuccessful. Mr. Hastings Palmer, of Saver- nake-road, 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. Casque and her party as far as India.
"Then I had to return home and Mrs. Gasque continued the search.
received "According to a letter
since I returned to England, it ap- pears that Mrs. Gasque has not been successful."
YOGISM
The valley for which Mrs. Gasque und her party were searching is said 70 Himalayus about to be in the miles north of, an Isolated hill station called Almora, It is called Rhanik-
2.ct,
Me. Palmer says that the climate is like eternal spring with an abun- wild, and dance of fruit growing
good soll.
Mrs.
"Mother Gusque is the Superior" Gloria of the Mazdaznans. This movement was founded 30 years ago by Doctor Oloman Zar-Adusht Hanish. It teaches a form of yogisın.
Mr. Gasque was accompanied by two Swiss friends and a Spanish film actress, Senorita Carlotta Hopf, un aristocratic refugee.
A smartly dressed woman
Mr. Clarence Gasque died in 1920 promised to tell the police everything leaving unsettled property in Eng after it had been alleged at Old and worth nearly £210,000; to his Street, London, recently, that she had daughter Maysle he felt the income from 30 per cent. of his Woolworth stolen more than £1,080 from her shares. For some years he was Arm and that a man was behind her secretary and a director of F. W. Woolworth, and came to this country. Mubel Hart (32), of Glengarry English director.
charged Road, East Dulwich,
downfall.
Wis
At their home
DE
Itumpstead with stealing £8 23. 4d, from her Heath, Mr. and Mrs. Gusque enter employers, Lugton and Co., at Old tained lavishly. Street, Shoreditch.
"Lots of business men garage am Passionately fond of the cats and phibians at East River moorings, and
Six months after Mr. Gasque died dogs she groomed, fed and nursed at have chauffeur-pilots waiting to fly
M.P. for: the animals boarding home run by them home at night. But I think I'm
Mr. A. E. Robinson, prosecuting.ls daughter Maysle married Mr. J.
Roland Robinson. now
have a three- Mrs. C. F. Leiper, her employer, at the only woman shopper-by-seaplane.
I've been flying British machines said the police were asking for a Peak Hill, Sydenham, S.E., she had
I would like to land an am- remand as they would like Hart's Blackpool. They a congenial job.
phibian on the Thames it's safe assistance to cleat up her "tremen-year-old son, Richard. Short and stocky, with close-crop-
though but officials won't let me." dous mess" in the office. A lot of ped hair, she was well known
Mrs. de Seversky, slim und smart, books were missing and the firm did Sydenham, where she was of this done 1,000 hours solo, and has not know where it stood. be seen in riding-breeches, and open- necked blause, exercising her dogs, held a dying licence for eight years.
MOTHER MYSTIFIED
here.
Her husband is Major Alexander
"I HAVE PLUNGED"
Asked For Cab-Car Came
"I could not go home without you and may left you to drown. And theo came the frightful humiliation of realising that I was utterly incapable of swim- another stroke. Lind ming reached my Himil. "And then I found that you were standing close behind me. But, by Gad, it took the conceit out of me." RECKLESS AIRMAN
"The police think, and so do we," But for some unstated reason the Seversky, who builds high-speed was a real life threw up her job at a minute's notice pursuit planes for the American Air added Mr. Robinson, "that there is a Robert Loraine
the Three packed a week-end case und, Ignoring d'Artagnan, who Jeft Musketeers of the stage to become a the breakfast that had been laid for Force. He has just broken the crossman at the back of this, so we are her, walked out of the house with the country record by tying 3,000 miles anxious that she should have ball and remark "I'll send. for the rest of my from Farmingdale, Long laland, to make a promise to assist the police She has already and musketeer in real life.
the Arm. Los Angeles in 10hrs, 10mins.
admitted a sum of £400 odd, but it things later."
goes intu over a thousand pounds."
Mr. R. J. Haslewood, chairmus of snid Detective-Sergeant Scarlett that when he saw Hart at her home the Owner Drivers' Branch of the she said, "I have plunged and Motor Cab Trade, went to a large
block of flats in Victoria. plunged."
After having a meal there he asked Ordering, seven days' remand on a commissionaire to call a "Comfy" ball, the magistrate, Mr. Herbert Cab, advertised in the building. A Metcalfe, sald: "In the meantime you private car arrived, and he was dri
where be have got to give every assistance you ven to Cannon-row, can to the police in your own inter- ported to the police.
At Bow-street Police Court recent- You will tell them all you can."
ly Mutual Finance Ltd., Regent- "Yes, everything." she whispered.
street, V. 1, and William Henry King, of Elton-avenue, Greenford, were summoned as owners of an un- Heensed hockney carriage which unlawfully plied for hire at Dolphin- square, S.W.
Reginald Talbot, the driver, of Chiswick, W.,
summoned for plying for hire.
Prosecuting, Mr. Denis Murphy said that the fare indicated on the car was is..dd-less than the taxi rate.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert William Goodwin, of Archibald Road. Tufnell Park, N., had returned from their holidays at Felixstowe only a
The story of Robert Loraine, actor who held London in thrall, soldler who had the "guts of a lion," air- man who chafed when there were few hours before being called on to "no fresh skies to conquer," who could be unmitigatedly brutal and equally warm-hented
epic.
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mun
identify their daughter's body.
It is believed that Miss Goodwin aspent the week-end with a girl friend
who lives at Brighton.
liis life began with adventure. He ron away from school to become o 16s. a week actor in a saliers' dive
in Liverpool. At 23 he was starring
d'Artagnan at the
as
Theatre, London.
Garrick
Mrs. Goodwin suld that she is my-
stified by her daughter's death.
"She had not lived at home since
COOK'S EGG IN BLACK AND WHITE
Is a cook-general, doing the she was 21. She was very indepen-¡entire work in a six-roomed dent and wanted to be away, but 1 house occupied by four persons "I last saw her three weeks ago entitled to an egg for breakfast?
know of no troubles at ult.
But d'Artagnan heard Mrs. Her and she was quite happy and normal
The question was put recently.
bert Tree reelte "The Absent Minded then. Her work with animals had by the cook-general, who works Beggar" at a charity matinee. He interested her very much
And shein a house in Surrey at wages of
strode straight out of the theatre seemed keen to make a great success 178, 6d, a week, to Miss Beatrice and joined up as a trooper in the of it. nearest recruiting office,
"She did complain that she had Bezzant, national organiser of
ests.
Welsh Centre In London
London.
It wasn't only the stirring poem been working fairly hard at times and the new Union of Domestic appealing for subscriptions and dona that drove Robert Loraine to volun- suffered from depression," added Mrs. Workers. teer for the Boer War.
Goodwin.
HIS DREAM HOME Two years before, when he was 21, he had married the beautiful actress Julie Opp. Immediately after she! left to play in New York, and he spent 13 months Atting up a house for her at Staines.
The site
Was
T
The London Welsh Association is lons to help in carrying out its Air. Haslewood guld, that in the restaurant he was given a notice "The
answer was that the egg work, particularly the establishmeni
advertisnig the "Comfy" Cabs et should have been put in the agree of a London Welsh Centre in Meck-
84. a mile. The taxi rate is id, ment," Miss Bezzent sald to the lenburgh Square, Bloomsbury. Since
Mr. Bernard Cills, for King and KILLED BY EXPRESS
News Chronicle. (Miss Bezzant has 1931 the association has had head-
was nothing to While using the wooden cross- to answer many amusing questions quarters at 11 Mecklenburgh Square, Talbot, said there
Park (Great in her fight for the rights of domes-together with the adjoining London show that the car was not being run
Welsh hall and additional. Land, as a private-hire service. over at Westbourne
All this is due to the generosity of
CHEAPER Western) Station recently, Reginald tle workers.) N. Green, aged 35, of Brent-rond,
MAIDS RATIONED Southall, wos struck and killed by
be used for a
Mr. Dummett; Supposing a block of site in trustees, to be ibe She is urging every employer or Sir Bowell Williams, who has vested It the Paddington-Plymouth express. worker who comes to her for advice London Welsh Centre. The present flats wants to run a hackney-carriage ordinary was stated that he was crossing over to settle on a simple written agree activities of the association include service cheaper live ther to catch a City train from the oppo- ment about wages, hours off, food, pubile lectures and debates, a music taxicabs, what have they got tin do? Mr. GIL: I make no point of sile platform.
holidays and living conditions.
She has received many letters club, literary and educational classes,
public or not. Cochran contract of £7,000 a year from maids declaring that they were a threatre guild, a monthly Journal whether the flats are open to the Mr. Dummett said that Mutual Fi- plus a share of the profits.
allowed only one meal a day. For "Y Ddolen" (in conjunction with the "Everything Robert did become breakfast and the evening meal they Union of London Welsh Literary nance, Lid, did not appear to be and owners of the vehicle, but he would sensationalised whether he liked it were railoned to bread and butter. Societies), dances, excursions,
various outdoor and indoor games. not like to bind himself until it had at or not," writes Winifred Loraine. In without milk or tea.
A thousand members oro canvas-Welsh people who migrato every looked into the quoted casos clied by "Robert Loraine," Collins, 10s. 6d., As a Lleut. Colonel and a D.S.O. she has shown It all
man. } inner suburbs of London. he returned to the stage and a C. B. sations, the adventures, and the main on behalf of the union in the to London will find great help counsel.
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.
ho strodo Five minutes later out, rashed from the house and never saw her again.
But he went on paying for the
his dream home upkeep of Stainer.
there.
He adjourned all the summonses.
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