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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 25, 1939..
BILL POWELL SIGNS NEW CONTRACT EAGER TO RETURN Hollywood's Choice For Stardom➡
TO PICTURES
LOS ANGELES.
WILLIAM POWELL, now really the "Thin
Man" after nearly 18 months of illness, recently made a vow.
કષ્ટ
He said he would try to forget the great tragedy in
his life-the death of lovely Jean Harlow, whom all Holly- wood expected him to marry.
He will do it by burying himself in work, and will make three pictures this year.
Powell has been suffering from
since the death of Jean Harlow.
nervons exhaustion ever
When she died suddenly at the age of 26 she called with her dying breath for "Bill" ber dearest friend.
William Powell collapsed. The highest-paid screen star in the world fried to forget by making a cruise in his friend Ronald Colman's yacht.
He toured Europe, but always the image of the gh he loved was be- form him.
His Mother Happy Again
He dressed in deep black, ordered a
£5,000 maiulum for Jean
In a bedroom embowered in larkspur and gladioli, gifts from admirees
all aver the world, he told friends:
"P'M GOING TO SNAP OUT OF IT. SHE WOULDN'T LIKE ME TO GET LIKE THIS."
Bored Lion On
Wall of Death
ile showed them a contract from
the M.-G.-M, company,
That's the tonle I need."
NANCY KELLY
ELLEN DREW
Gas Mask Drill For King In Raid Test
King's Lynn (Norfolk).
MARIE WILSON
THESE three young actresses have been picked by Holly- wood to be groomed into the stars
of to-morrow.
One, Marie Wilson, chosen by Warner Brothers, has just scored a success as Jones Corney's heroine in "Boy Meets Girl." shortly due in London.
The second, Nancy Kelly,
a former child star, is the newest find of Darryl Zanuck, hend of 20th Cen- tury Fox. She Is Tyrone Power's
The third, Ellen Drew, was, until
18 months ago, an assistant in a sweet shop. She has been seen in Ronald Colman's "If I Were King" and Bing Crosby's "Sing. You Sinners." Her future seems very bright,
THREE R.A.F. 'planes recently "bombed" Sandring-leading lady in "Jesse James." Just let me get out of this bed,"ham House, where the Royal Family were in residence, ins said, "and I'll get back to work to make the estate's first A.R.P. rehearsal-as realistic as
His white-haired mother, sitting possible, DID the lion on the "wall of death" by the bedside, smiled through her
at the World's Fair, Islington, at him. suffer from "mental terror" tlue to the performance, or was he merely
bored?
Although there
"I've never been so happy in my fife," she said, "you've come through marvellously. You're going to keep i The "mental terror" theory was right at the top." submitted by a solicitor at North London paller court recently, when Mr. Ferald Egbert, lion tamer, pleading him, there ed not guilty to a summons alleging "fans" that the performance was panted by cruelty.
arm-
After evidence by veterinary ex- perts, one of whom took the place of the lion on the "wall of death" him- self to test the experience, the magis trate said there was not sufficient evidence of cruelty, and he dismissed the summons.
"LOST INTEREST”
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The King and Queen, the Princesses, Queen Mary the Princess Royal and Earl Harewood took part in the Hollywood expects big things, one is drill.
Of other "youngsters" from whom
Deltish-23-year-old Richard Greene, who has already been lending man in Alms starring Sonja Henie and Shlr-
The Princesses, although excited about the part theyley Temple, Chance of played in the air raid tests, were concerned for the safety crowd of of their pets. outside the hospital every day, waiting to hear how their hero is progressing.
One daily visitor who does see him is hits former wife, Carole Lombard. They are still close brings wil her friends. She bouquets of gladioli.
Powell Is now 47, long past the use when the usual follywood heroes: go into decline. His row to-day was to keep himself at the top.
Not to make money.
Operated To Stop
The Royal Family were fitted with gas masks, and Baby Starving took their A.R.P. drills very seriously.
Princess
"Carvint
When the Princessen were belug fitted for their masks, Margaret
askeri. Rose George have one. too. Ite has lo breathe Just the same as us,” George in her favourite pruny.
TASKS FOR 200 Two hundred members of the Heim-household staff and workers on the
royal estate
allotted A.R.P. tasks.
Mr. Kingsley Cannon, solicitor, for The L.C.C., said the performance con- j sisted of the lion being taken on a tray by a mutor vehicle round the mensely rich. But to forget, rim of a cyiiulrical pit about 30 feet.
over a rim which found the busts of way and say it was bored? Yes, it drep. The revolved at speed apathetic. May I put it in another the pit rim, and was inclined at an looked bored. angle of 45 degrees.
The machine reached the vertical,
Mr. Egbert said the lion was
and this, he submitted, must have docile animal. He could sit on the lion's back and the lion would not ment mental terror to the animal.
Mr.
Hamilton Kirk, a veterinary bite.
Mr. James McCunn, a veterinary surgeon, who was at the Fair on December 19, said: "The lion seemed surgeon, said he examined the lion. very listless and apathetic, as if it and came to the conclusion that there had lost entire Interest In everything."
was no cruelty. Mr. R. E. Fearnley-Whitlingsla (for Mr. Egbert) said the average speed of the vehicle carrying the llon
was six miles on hour.
"I took the place of the lion, and may say that I did so with some trepidation," Mr, McCunn continued. "After I had gone round once, how- ever, felt quite confident. I did not have the slightest sensation of falling
IN THE LION'S PLACE You say," he went on, to Mr. Kirk, "that the lion looked listless and off."
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were
Ladies and gentlemen-in-waiting maids. footmen, pages, pantrymet porter: rooms, chauteurs, lodge keepers and gardeners became first- aid workers and formed decontamina
ion squads.
Many of them wore the oficial jyellow oilskin suits used by thousands of A..P. volunteers throughout the country.
Captain of the fire brigade, Mr. 6. Welis, of Jubilee Lodge, was in charge of the new £2,000 fire en- gine the King bought recently.
NO REFUGE ROOMS YET Seventeen palleemen and seventeen special constables from the nearby village of Dersingham were on duty at various points on the estaté.
York Lodge, at present unoccupied, was used as a decontamination cham- her and dressing station.
J. P. Plea By Teachers
TEACHERS are to ask the
Lord Chamberlain to ap point more of their number as magistrates.
Edwardian Hair Style Ousted
THE up-swept Edwardian hair fashion will barely last out the Spring.
It will be supplanted by the new style of short, clinging curls.
That is the verdict of a prominent} hairdresser, M. Francis, of Hanover square, London, and it is bucked up by other famous West End experts, Edwardian style needs too much at- Women are complaining that the
tention.
The whole idea of the new hair
style will be to produce a much more natural and less sculptured effect rather like a small child's unruly map of natural curls.
FOR four months doctors at East
Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich, tried
to save two-year-old Margaret' Eliza- beth Green from starving.
Eighteen, times they operated on her throat, burned by a stove-ciran-
preparation which she drank at the home of her aunt,
Each time they dilated her throat to enable her to take nourishment.
Just when it appeared that their | skill
Triumph, she dies. Semi-starvation
and
repeated anaesthetics had weakened her, and she contractesi bronchial pneumonia.
At the Ipswich_inquest_recently, of Main-road, Dovercourt, near Har- Margaret's aunt, Mrs. Maud Roley,
wich, told the coroner: -
"I want to thank the hospital staff.
They were wonderful, and made her very happy although she was 11,"
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UESTIONS about "delay" in operating on a child who had swallowed a farthing were put to a surgeon by the coroner, Dr. W. H. Davison, at a Birmingham inquest recently.
The inquiry, which was on John, result at ten o'clock and the opera- McCutcheon, aged two and a half tion was performed about 2.30 p.m. years, 이 Vienrage-road, Hands- The child died as the result of « worth, was adjourned for further collapse of the left lung. evidence and the report of a post- Dr. Reid told a juryman that he mortem examination.
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Dr. Davison: The following morn- They claim that they are specially ing? Why did it take such a long qualified, both by their standard of time? When was it done? I must Intelligence and by their position in have been taken immediately after I
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