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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 23, 1939,
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MAN WITH SPLIT-MIND
LIVED 'IN
REVERSE'
War-Time Air Raids Did It
TWENTY-FIVE-YEARS-OLD Frederick Kendall, of Chaucer-road, Herne Hill, S.E., had dual personality -two minds, one of which was always undoing the work of the other.
Frederick Kendall, in fact, lived largely "in reverse." That was the result of war-time air raids when he was a child. It made him do queer things→→ |
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Ellen Terry
The Biggest Customer
BRITAIN bought £6,000,000
worth of "munitions," main- y military and civilian planes. from the United States last year. Britain was the largest purchaser. Chun apen! £1,830,000 and France
1,300,000.
The figures are given in the annunt report of the National Munitions Con- trol Board.
BAN SUCCESSFUL
It is also revealed, that the appeal by Mr. Cordell Hill, Secretary of State, to American alreratt manufac- turers not to export planes or bombs to countries whose armed forces
are pccused of
tions his civilian popra can supplies ting such Ameri-
nlmost completely
succesful
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Japan.
Mr. Hull's appeal was issued on July 1, and since that date exports of ircraft to Japan have been neg- gible, although they totalled
A FEW years ago it was fear-21.800,000 in the first six months.
ed that Tudor Cottage, Smati
would take them back to Live to Hythe, Kent--for the last 2 In Four-Leaf Clover
soineone else.
conscious in his bedroom with a
years of her life the home of
Recently Kendall was found un-Dame Ellen Terry-might bef length of gas piping from a jet run- taken to the United States. ning underneath the bed-clothes.
"MIND OF 12"
Expert stated at a Southwark in quest that Kendall's mind was equal to that of a child of 10.
The interest the National Trust now taking in its presvevation
noves this danger and will, it is hoped, ensure the retention of the while property as a memorial.
In addition to the delightful old The coroner, Mr. A. Douglas Cow-house with its mar garden and big burn, recording a verdict of Suicide Elizabethan barn-annually serving while of Unsound Mind when suffers a theatre for memorial perfoe- Ing from dementia praccor coin-
mances there are collages daling mented: "It has been said that back to the reign of Henry VII. crimes have been committed by per- sons suffering from this trouble with
TOLLGATE, TOO
out them really knowing what they With an old toll gate, the group of have done in other words, dual per-timbered dwellings in its rural set- sonality."
ting represents a little plece of old)
Mr. Eric Robinson, his brother-in-England. law, said: "As a child he lived in Aliss Edith Craig, Dane Ellen's) terror of air ralds. Perhaps it was daughter, told how he had arranged this fear that brought about his dualan Ellen Terry Museum in the house personality.
"Every night he lucked his bedroom
door.
One of his peculiarities was his habit of following his mother all over the house. He was de- voted to her, but his devotion seemned more like a dog's. He could not bear her out of his sight when he was at home,
"All through Christmas he acted
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known to have been standing in
thr reign of Queen Elizabeth and) now quite a place of pilgrimage,'
"In one room I have got together! everything I could ad in relation to the Terry family," abe aid. "In an- other the Elizabethar kitchen, with its great brick replace, are gift received frum Mrs. Siddons and Garrick.
"My mother's bedroom has been
perfectly normally, and we thought kept exactly as I WIN! when she
he had overcome this dream-like per-
sonality. Something must baye hap-
pened to his mind."
HORROR OF DOCTORS
Mr. Robinson
added that his brother-in-law had a horror of doe
lors, and would never to for freat-
ment.
died."
£4,000,000
Cinema Deal
DEON Theatres, Ltd., become
To take the other side of his per-! sonality, he was a good workman, he used
to come honte regularly, and the biggest cinema chain in there was never any question of his Britain by the purchase from losing his memory and wanderingg Odeon Cinema Holdings of a It in typical of a certain type of further 82 theatres, of which 60 mental discase that the #ufferer jare at present operated by appropriate at the moment because Odeon Theatres under manage- owing to his split mind, he is less in-¡ment agreements, terested in the affairs of the ordinary world than in his private thoughts.
entirely lacks all sense of what action
Club Has Sex Equality
Melbourne.
The announcement of this deal, made by Phlip Hill and Partners recently state that the capital amount involved exceeds £4,000,000. The finance of the project has been privately arranged by Philip Hill and Partners, and no public issue will be involved.
It is understood that Mr. Arthur Rank and Mr. Lesile Farrow
A club of 100 members nt Mel-Joining the Odeon Board.
bourne University has established
130,000,000 PLANS
are
Ellington. Com
It four-leaf clovers bring luck, Airs, Leon Parker has enough to last 100 of them
fetime. She picked more than
months.
during the summer
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, giving one of the keynote speeches at the Pan-American conference in Lima, Perit, declared an embargo on totalitarian theories, In behalf of the Western Hemisphere. His assertions were in accord with those of Jose Marla Cantito, Argentine Foreign Minister, Above, Mr. Hull at the microphones.
Wreszynski Spent £300,000 on Jewels,
In the
Rose Room
Peninsula Hotel
Tuesday, 24th January
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Kept Them in a Safe in Park Lane FRIDAY, 27th JANUARY, 1939, at 9.00 P.M.
sex equality by a provision pro- The announcement also makes hibiting Its male members from buy- reference to the £30,000,000 deat Ing tickets for women at student between Odeon Theatres, Ltd., and A. J. Skinn, of Hongkong, who recently married Llcul, O. J. F. Lockwood A delightful photograph of Elva Rosemary, daughter of Dr. and Mra, entertainments and its women mein- the Gaumont-British Picture Cor- St. John R.N.. at St. Anne's Church, Kew Green, bers from allowing their escorts to peration, which has been in progress pay for them,
Punch To Jaw Breaks Ankle
Boston.
During a fist-fight Lewis Thornhill, 53, was punched so hard on the chin that he suffered a fractured right ankle. He declined to name his .assailant.
since October. It is stated:
"Odeon Theatres are proposing to make an offer to the Ordinary share- holders of the Gaumont-British Cor- poration and other negotiations are proceeding to acquire the holdings including 3e voting shares of the Ostrer group.
"Examination
of accounts
Egg 8.1/2 Inches Long
Berlin, N. Y.
An over-size chicken's egg. eight
Afternoon Tea Praised
Montreal.
Afternoon tea is a definite ald to survey of properties will of necessity being exhibited in gelence classes the McGill Chemistry Society here, and and a half inches by eight inches, health, Dr. I. M. Rabinowitch tokl occupy some time, and it will not be at the Berlin possible to put forward a formal addition to a double yolk, the huge cup of tea during the afternoon had
Central school. In Dr. Rabinowitch said drinking of offer until towards the end of March eng also contained I second or the beginning of April."
egg, a definite value in keeping the efi- measuring six inches in circumstance, clenty of the body high.
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YEST END jewellers were discussing recent-
ly the jewels which were once owned by Mr. Sieg- mund Wreszynski, the one- time Park-lanc financier now awaiting trial on accusation of fraud in an Amsterdam gaol.
an
Among the things they recall- ed were these:
In 1933-34 Wreszynski owned more than £300,000 worth of gems which he kept in a specially con- structed upherical safe
TO BE HELD IN THE ROSE ROOM, PENINSULA HOTEL.
Under The Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency. The Governor of Hong Kong. Sir GEOFFRY A. S. NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.
ARTISTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:-
MISS AUDREY OAKENFULL Ballot & Acrobatic Dancer
from the Arcadia Salon and Rochester Casino
concreted Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor). into the wall of his home; in 1033
he bought, for £50,000, the famous Helen Lockhart (Soprano). Porter-Rhodes diamond.
They remembered. too, that Mr. Eva Turner (Soprano). Wreszynski was
was regarded as one of
the leading connoisseurs of jewel-The Harmony Three.
lery in Europe.
Mr. Wreszynski bought in Paris, in
one go, more than £100,000 worth of Peanut Roach (Balancing Act). jewellery a few years ago.
QUEEN VICTORIA SAW IT
P. Cuntrip (Baritone).
The Porter-Rhodes diamond which Mainy (Comedian).
he bought in 1933 was discovered in
South Africa in 1800. After it reach-B.Q.M.S. Dicks (Comedian).
Mr. Porter-Rhodes took England,
cd
it in a sealed envelope through Q.M.S. & Mrs. Flinter snowstorm in the early days of 1881
to show to Queen Victoria. It is re- corded that she was "greatly fus- cinated
it," by
Wreszynski bought it in Paris and Mrs, Wreszynski wore it pa a ring. The diamond, when first discovered, weighed 150 carats in the rough. It became a polished one-Inch stone weighing 50 carats. It is now in the possession of an Indian Maharajah.
This stone was only one of the many
valuable gems Wreszynski bought for his wife. There was n black pearl, weighing 92 grains, costing him £35,000 in Paris. It was set in a ring.
perfect
Mrs. Wreszynski had a black pearl necklace for which more than £24,- 1000 was paid. There were 45 pearls in it, the largest weighing 50 grains. Each pearl was separated from the next by Ant facaded Rondelle da- mond. bought a rosy pearl necklace weigh- At the same time Mr. Wreszynski
Ing 1000 grains for £32,000.
Doreen Ma (Pianist),
Mrs. Waldon (Soprano). Mr. A. R. Colquhoun
(Piano Accordian).
Pietro Macaroni
(One Man Band).
Bud Wheeler (Comedian).
Dodger Green & Co,.
[Comedians).
C.P.O. Kettle (Caricatures). Wiggins (Male Voice
(Comedians)
Quartette).
WO.I. A. Austin, A.E.C.
David Kossick
(Character Actor).
(Accompanist),
BAND OF H.M.S. “EAGLE”
under the direction of
W. H. A. EVERY, R.M.B. By kind permission of
CAPTAIN CLEMENT MOODY, R.N.
In aid of the dependants of the Late Lance Sergeant THOMPSON, Royal Artillery.
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