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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1938.
Make-Up Idea From Shanghai
Secret
Police
of
A member of the Shang- employed in Shanghai, Karloff
received hai Secret Service, Li Tsing
the photographs and discovered * ono by name, served as the the men to be exactly what he model for Boris Karloff's thought James Lee Wong should make-up for his role of look like. So, actually, the Mr. James Lee Wong in "Mr. Wong in "Mr. Wong, Detective" Wong, Detective," the first is really Li Tsing, who has since been killed in the war in of д series of mystery China. dramas which Monogram is producing with Karloff in the starring role.
So expert is Kartoff's fuçini dis-
guise that Mr. T.-K. Chang, Chinese
consul in Los Angeles, commented on the authenticity of it when he visit- ext the popular character actor on
It took Karloff almost a the Monogram lot, month to get the proper "Mr. Wong. Detective" is now in make-up. He called his prxluction at Monogram's west coast
studles. brother, who Is Sir John The supporting cast includes Pratt, then British Consul- Evelyn Brent, Grant Withers, Ma- General in Shanghai, to send xine Jennings, Lucien Prival, John him a series of photographs Bruno and Wilbur Mack. William St. Pulls, Willom Gould, Frank of Chinese
secret police Nigh is directing.
Man Buried To Neck
In Pit On Hillside
Abertillery.
AN unemployed miner, Percy Hayward (36), of Brynmawr, was buried up to his neck in a coal hole on Rhasfawr mountain recently and was a prisoner.
For hours desperate efforts were made by his companiony to extricate him.
Hayward's wife, with her young, his knees, but another fall buried him baby in her arms, stood near her up to his neck, husband during his long ordeal.
The coal hole is on a slag heap and is about 20ft, deep nad only a yard square. While Hayward was digging the sides collapsed and debris pinned hlm down.
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With the darkness, flares were but only one man, and a small one at used. Many willing helpers stood by, that could work in the hoie.
Speed for Spaghetti
Alee Holly, another unemployed i man, squeezed into the shaft and
Dolgeville, N. Y. worked for six hours filling buckets 'Four pounds of apaghetti consumed with the debris. His hands were in 15 minutes was the record estab- soon raw and bleeding, for there was lished by 20-year-old Clarence Hau- no room to use a chovel.
ger in a theatre spaghetti eating He had released Hayward down to 'contest.
Settling the Arguments
ppigh
Yoigtländer
LAST
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His Arrival
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APDI1
The 'Wise Little Boy' Too Big for Phone Booth
A wise little boy' aged about 13
Cleveland, took a lent from gangster books. He When 250-pound Henry Wolker- Although he is 28 years of age, joined the queue in Lloyds Bank, Milesdorfer, 57, suffered a heart attack Stanley Jones is looking at civilisa- dive on a bag of coppers and dis-wife, two police ambulance operators End-road, E., and suddenly made awhile in phane booth talking to his
tion for the first time in his life-and
Hog Attacks Woman
finding it like a miracle. Sincepeared through the door. Pursued found it necessary to tear down the babyhood he has seen nothing but the down the street, and on the point of door to extricate him. He recovered. prairie, some 200 miles from
being captured, he threw the bag Winnipeg, Canada. Recently hen the air and, with the sensation he reached Liverpool with his 70-years-caused, escaped. old mother, on board the Duchess of Athoil. Twenty-six years ago Mrs. all the food came from. The rallo Jones emigrated with her husband and the cinema atarlled him when Mrs. W. L. Fox was recuperating from Llangwm. Wales, Stanley want he first heard and saw then on the to-day from leg lacerations, inflicted then two years old. He never sawahip. Neither he nor his mother con by a hog. The animal attacked her, a railway train until he arrived at speak anything but Welsh, but luckily on her farm. "I used to think hog Winnipeg on this journey back. He one of their fellow travellers was awere domesticated animals," Mrs. asked the stewards to tell him where Welshman, who acted as interpreter. Fox said.
Blair, Okla.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
By J. NORMAN LYND
IF YOU HAVE
A WEAK CASE
JUST USE SNEERS.
SARCASM AND VITUPERATION
AND TELL THE
·FOOL TO COME BACK WHEN HE HAS LEARNED SQUETHING
A PERSON WITH A
LOUD VOICE ALWAYS HAS THE BEST
OF IT... LOGIC DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST A FOGHORN.
/NORMAN LYND.
THE TIME FOR A WIFE.
TO START A DISCUSSION
IS WHEN THE BRUTE, 15. WELL FED AND
FLATTERED.ITLL BE A WALKOVER.
11-20
•Ledger Fyndiendo
YOU'RE ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINION"! ---WHY, YOU POOR.
SHRIMP, YOU HAVEN'T THE BRAINS TO FORM AN OPINION!*
HEN REASON AND LOGIC FAIL. THE ONLY WAY TOMAKE SOME OF THEM ACCEPT THE TRUTH IS TO BEAT THEIR EARS OFF ----GOOD FOR POLITICAL
DISCUSSIONS!
ONE WAY TO SETILE AN
· „ARGUMENT IS TO TREAT YOUR. OPPONENT AS IF HE IS: HALF -WITTED **** THIS ANNOYS, IF IT
DOESN'T CONVINCE HIM A
IN SOME CIRCLES AN ORDINARY BRICK IS STILL USED TO ENLIGHTEN THE IGNORANT.
OR AS THEY SAY, "THAT'LL
LEARN YOU (K..
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