Charles Laughton's Leading Lady At 18
MAYBE you don't know
the beautiful girl whose pleture is on the right.
But you will soon. She is 18 year old Maureen O'Hara, who is to be Charles Laughton's leading lady in the British flm "Jamaica Inn." which starts at Elstree to-morrow.
Maureen, whose home is in Dublin, is virtually an "unknown.” She has never been on the professional slage or in a film in her life,
has And
only recently
passed her finals at the Guildhall School of Music and Drams.
BURGLARS HAD
'L' PLATES
"L":
THREE burglars walling to rob a house la The Avenue, Twicken- ham, Middlesex, recently used plates on their car to avoid suspleion, For more than an hour the burglar at the wheel drove slowly in the triangle formed by St. George's-road,} St. Peter's-road and The Avenue, up-| pearing to take instructions from the man of his side.
They did this until Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shelswell had left their house. Half an hour later Mr. Shelswell passed the car on his return to the house,
And then he found that rings had! been stolen from one of his rooms,
Twelve-year-old Peter Richiugs, of St. Peter's-road, said:
"I was just coming home when a man ran pest me to the bottom uť the lane. 1 van after him and was just in time to see him jump into a car with 'L' plates on H."
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 25, 1939.
Talking Typewriter Staggers Scientists
CROONS,
Earl Seeks To
A
Divorce Wife SHOUTS,
DIVORCE petition by the sirty- | one-year-old Earl of Lincoln against his beautiful American wife was in the defended list down for hearing during the Law Courts terin. Lady Lincoln, before her marriage to the car in 1831, was Mrs. Jean
Banks Gimbernat, adopted daughter
of Mr. David Banies, of Park-nvenue, New York. Her maiden name was Eugenia Van Voorhees,
She divorced her first husband in Reno, Nevada, a month before her A marriage to the Enci of Lincoln.
the time of their morrluge-by speel eence six months after their Orsi meeting-she Was twenty-five and the earl was twenty-three.
lie
Lort Lincoln, heir to the Duke of Newcastle, captained the Eten cricket eleven. White at Cambridge Appeared in
in a Mayfair night club as drummer in a band started by him- self and college friends.
Last November he was appointed to command No. 618 Bomber Squad- ron of the Auxiliary Air Force.
Wrapped In Red Tape
Santa Rosa, Cal. The county still owns a sterf bridge: over the Russian river. In prepara": tion for building a new one, the bourd of supervisors made the neces sary legal arrangements for the sale
GRUNTS,
New York.
THE first "talking type-
writer" in the world, pouring out perfect human speech at a touch of its keys, with only a trace of "electrical
Was accent" shown to scientists at the Franklin Institute, Philadel phia, recently.
Words sharp and clear, angry or happy, according to the needs of the operator, came eloquently from the who had come sceptically to see this machine, staggering the scientists
latest invention of the Bell Telephone Laboratories of New York.
LOWED, BLeated, gruNTED
In a brief, thrilling demonstration the machine spoke will the deep voice (of a grown man, the piping treble of a woman. It altered not merely dis- jointed words, but coherent sentences.
Then, as if that were not enotigh, it sang, crooned, shouted, screamed, lower like fL cow, bleated like a sheep, grunted like p. and pected like a wood- pecicer.
In appearance the talking machine is like on overgrown typewriter or Capable of 23
of the bridge at auction. But on the undersized, organ.
Produce of Australia
the land
of
Fresh from unshine
date of the auction there was no sounds, the machine only erred a little bidder. The next day, however, the supervisora had a bidder but no legaler the difficult consonant L, having the same trouble on a baby has-pro- authorisation for an auction. So
nouncing it with a blurred sound. they just decided to keen the bridge.
THE SHANGHAILANDER
An animal that comes swooping down occasionally from the north on pretext of cricket, bowls, golf or rugper, but actually to wallow in the delights of H. B. BEER.
SIR A. FLEMING'S THEORY
Sir Ambrose Fleming, who is Imember of the Franklin Institute anl the inventor of the thermionic valve. which revolutionised wireless tele- |graphy and made wireless telephony
¦ possible, describert the “talking type-
writer" as "another very interesting electrical development."
It was
The first he had heard of such an instrument, and he assumed that the "hunan" lanes were pro-
duced by mixing the harmonies.
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Mother Objects To
Radio Crooner
Mo
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Joan became engaged rerent- fo "Chips" Chippendale. well-known radio singer, of Liverpool. She had kept it secret until recently,
Joan said she fell in love with “Chips" when she was 15.
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