THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22,
1988.
MUSIC-HALL SONGS READ TO JUDGE
Songs that were called "weak" and jokes that were "below standard and about which the censor would have had a lot to say," were read to Judge Woodcock, K.C.; in Marylebone County Court re- cently.
The writer, Mrs. Violet Mabel Lezard, a widow, of Chester- field House, W., sued Miss Ann Penn, the music-hall artist, for £19 11s. In respect of work done and services rendered.
The action was dismissed with costs.
Mr. Beddington, for Mrs. Lezard, said that her case was that she wrote three songs and a piece of dialogue specially for Miss Penn, who expressed her approval.
It was not until a suggestion came from Mrs. Lezard that it was time she received some money that any dissatisfaction was heard. 1
Mrs. Lezard, in evidence, said Miss Penn asked her to write
the
à song, "We are the backbone of latitude the censor allows is pretty the business, don't you see?" extensive?—Yes. another about a circus, and a third, a parody on George Form- by's "Cleaning Windows."
"HEARD WORSE"
Cross-examining, Mr. Duveen, for Miss Penn, referred to n ilne in the dialoguer and rald, "Are you sug
that an artist with Miss gesting Penn's reputation would use u ne ike that? I have heard her use i worse lines than that.
Miss Penn, giving evidence, sald she told Mrs. Lezard that if she bad anything suitable for her, she would pay for it, and Mrs. Lezard repiled that she would have a shot at it." Nothing was accepted.
Judge Drysdale Woodcock!
The
IC-
Dismissing
action, Judge Woodcock said, "I should not believe for a moment anybody in the de- fendant's position could have garded the lyrics as anything else but rather stupid. I have read this matter through und 1 fail to see a touch of real humour in it. One can forgive coarseness If there is some- thing very funny about ."
Students and teachers of the Institute of Business Administration are shown above as they gathered for a party held recently under the auspices of the Stu- dents' Association of the Institute.
Snowball Woman
'Downfall"
Bridegroom FROM THOUSANDS
TO £4 A WEEK
Marooned
For A Week
York. monses under the Betting and Lot- "There will never be a schemeteries Act, after questions about her
activities.
now
Four years ago, she said, she was worth about £50. Then she started to buy clubs and turn then over to other people.
It
was
Tells
Lions Try to See Lyons
Paris.
Five tions escaped from a men- agerie in Lyons recently. After
number 2
of running through snail streets they created a panie by suddenly appearing on one of the main boulevards.
to
Police were rushed up, but be- could be sur- fore the animals rounded four of them lay down
went on the pavement and sleep. They were soon enticed back to their cages.
The fifth was more difficult; ho No one won had to be assocd. Injured,
Fire
Hoaxers- Read This
of Her
BLONDE HOSTESS
FOUND DEAD
In the ballroom at Romano's, in the Strand, recently people asked about blonde Lynda As- taire, popular and attractive dance hostess there. They were told she had died.
Lynda was found in a room filled with gas at her flat in Dolphin-square, Westminster.
For the first time many of her through this discovered friends tragedy that her real name was Mrs. Lynda Woods. She was 31.
One
FATHER A MAJOR
the regular night
puzzled by the
fre-
quenters of the restaurant had been Absence of Lynda Astaire in her striking black-and- white striped frock.
For the last three years she had been present almost every dance night, usually bringing a party of guests with her,
After having her wedding past-like this again-it is all over! poned for a week because her bride-and finished with." groom was marooned in a light- The husband of Mrs. Florence house, his Bitella Gaughan, fair-
Iley, 39-years-old "snowball"
"It grew in a matter of a few haired daughter of an Irish farmer
months. It did not take years.” was married in the village church trader, of Middlesbrough, said
She this recently, while his wife was
questioned at length at Blackso, Co. Mayo, recently,
facing her public examination about the return received by mem Everything was ready for the wed-
out that in one case the investor of ding, when lighthouseman John Dil-at the York Bankruptcy Court. bers of her clubs, and she pointed
Manager of financial schemes £4 obtained £10 return. lon should have finished a six weeks'
Mr. Kay: That is pretty big re- spell of duty, but the lighthouse is which were described as of "pheno-
is she
short space of time. Oh, five miles elf shore, and gales kept menal dimensions."
yes, but to my mind the figures given working as an agent for a credit turn in a prisoner. Each day Sheila walked down to draper at Stockton, and car in the police court were ridiculous.
seems to me as if they were the rocky store and waved in the about £4 a week. Her husband, a see her blast furnace man, has been un- hope that John would through his telescope. And each day employed all this year, and is re-pretty well correct. It seems to me you would have to make a lot of
As dance hostess, she was in con- Bent
ent messages for her by morse ceiving £1 6s, unemployment bene- be about 273 per cent. I suppose to meet what code radio..
Wearing a tailored brown suit, money from
the Many fire stations in London stant demand. She was an exquislie you Then the weather improved, and John's relief was rowed out to the small brown hat, and horn-rimmed ellents who were foolish enough to have received false alarms dur-dancer, an amusing companion, good
glasses, Mra. Iley was telling the sell their tickets, and the money ing the last few weeks.
clubs were the losers. In a typical case of snowball
Mrs. ley denied that she trading a client is asked to "in-
mentioned a sum
of £30,000 or vent £4 on a promise that, If he Induces ten friends to "Invest" a £40,000 as her income from the club
tickets she had bought. similar amount he will receive
was adjourned Her examination £16 at the end of six months.
By this time the promoter has £44 in hand. He exists on the ment of accounts. "I will do my lapse of time, but each month
very best to get 31 done." she said. his liability to the second set of "Investors grows tentfold--ikus
John
lighthouse.
Said
John
after the wedding:1
"Lighthouse-keepers have been im
prisoned for months before now, but the last seven days have been Jongest in my life.
the
Sald Sheila: "It has seemed like
a century to me."
Quakes Losing Force
OAKLAND, Cal
is loss of £12 per investor in- treases in geometrical progres-
had
was
ever
looking.
One of the dance hostesses sald:
Sixty-six-years-old Mrs. Rhoda "Lynda was as sweet a girl as you Rodman, a widow, of Crescent- would find anywhere-but she was street, Notting Hill, W., took no very temperamentul. When 1 last notice when the local association saw her here she was in the best of
spirits. for the blind sent her one of
several men friends,
"She had
to enable her to make up a state those white-painted sticks they Sometimes she would bring in a
supply to people with failing sight.
"I'm not so blind as all that," she
'Keep Active,' Marriage told her friends. "I can get along
Advice
CLEVELAND.
all right without any sticks." Elther Callfornia earthquakes are slon.
Mrs. Rodman was completely blind getting weak or else the public is Oficial Receiver, Mr. W. A. Kay,
in one cyc. The sight of the other getting used to them, With 37 shocks about her "downfall," emphasising during the past year, the most the her points by rapping her fist on the "Keep active and your married was rapidly falling, and she was al-
most stone deal. life will be happier and more com- WHO WAS TO BLAMET U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey table. could report was "nobody hurt; no Described as a club agent, of Arn-plete" is the successful marriage Recently she was knocked down Boulder City and Bould-side, Martin-In-Cleveland, she was formula of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cand killed by a fire engine in St.
£300 costs, at Skinner, who celebrated their 50th Anns-road, Notting Hill. er Dam reported 13 shocks but no-fed £500, with
on middlesbrough last June body even got excited.
wedding anniversary.
damage.
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She did not see the red-painted engine until it was too late: she did not hear the persistent clanging of the fire bell. She stepped of the pavement right in the path of the engine.
or of three
four. She was party, probably more popular with guests than any of us.
"We saw her picture in the news- papers during the last Ascot meeting --she was wearing a fashion which attracted attention.
"At the dances here she always wore very striking frocks."
ALWAYS THERE The visit to Major G. H. T. Mac-
of kintosh, Collingham-gardens, Earl's Court, S.W., said.
"Mrs. Wood was the only daughter of Major Mackintosh, who was in- formed of her death by a telephone message this morning.
"He is a widower and was CX+ tremely fond of her. She visited 1ir regularly, always alone, and they went out together sometimes to theatres and cinemas.
And the machine was racing to answer an alarm which proved to be
"Major Mackintosh, who is on false! The police are trying to trace the person whose strange idea of a Army coach, was greatly distressed Joke had caused her
by the news." death. Mrs. Rodman lived alone. She was
very independent, shopping.
of her "Mrs. Rodman hated to be remind-
ability to do
do her Own
ed of her infirmities," a friend said "We tried to persuade Every day she was to be seen grop- recently.
ing her way
way slowly alang the street, her to use the white stick which the saying "It's quite all right, thank local institution of the blind gave her,
but she refused to do so. you." if anyone offered to help.
SPURNED WHITE STICK "Lately her sight had been very One of her greatest pleasures was much worse, but it made no differ- moking. She consumed every day ence. She liked to get about by her- two packets of cigarettes, which she self, and it worried us a good deal.
"When we told her that she must bought from a shop near her home.
She was on her way to this shop be careful of the traffic she replied when the fire engine came clanging that she was quite able to look after down the street.
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