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Charles Laughton's Leading Lady At 18
MAYBE you don't know
the beautiful girl whose ploture is on the right.
But you will soon. She is 18 year old Maureen O'Hara, who is to be Charles Laughton's lending fady in the British flim "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 stage or in n flm in her life, and has only recently passed her Anals at the Guildhall School of Music and Dramat.
BURGLARS HAD
'L' PLATES
THREE, burglary walling to rob a house in The Avenue. Twicken- kam, Middlesex, recently used "L" plates on their car to avold suspicion. For more than an hour the burglar at the wheel drove slowly in the langle formed by St. George's-rond, St. Peler's-road and The Avenue, op- pearing to take instructions from the man at his side.
They did this unul Mr. and Mrs.)
J. A. Shelawell had left their house,
Half an hour Inter Mr. Shelswell) passed house
the car on his return to the?
And then he found that rings luid) been stolen from ong at his rooms,
Twelve-year-old Peter Richings, of) St. Peter's-rond, sald
"I was just coming home when a man ran past ne to the bottom of the lane. I ran after him and wast
just in time to see him kimp into a car with 'L' plates on ¡U"
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 25, 1939.
Talking Typewriter Staggers Scientists Earl Seeks To CROONS, Divorce Wife SHOUTS,
DIVORCE petition by the thirty- "one-year-old Earl of Lincoln against his beautiful American wife was in the defended list down for hearing
the Law Courts term.
Lady Lincoln, before her marriage! to the In 1931, was Mrs, Jean Banks Gimbernat, adopted daughter of Mr. David Banks, of Park-avenue, New
York.
Her maiden name was Eugenia Van Voorhees,
She divorced her first husband in
Reno, Nevada, month before her marriage to the Earl of Lincoln." At
of their the
Uime
marriage-by special fcence six months after their first meeting-she Was twenty-five and the earl was twenty-three.
eloven.
GRUNTS,
New York,
THE first talking type-.
writer" in the world; pouring out perfect human speech at n touch of its keys, with only a trace of "electrical accent" WAS shown to scientists at the Franklin Institute, Philadel- phia, recently.
Lord Litcoin, heir to the Duke of
Words sharp and clear, angry or Newcastle, captained the Eton cricket
While
Cambridge hehappy, according to the needs of its Lappeared in a
in a Mayfair night club as machine, staggering the
operator, came eloquently from the scientists drummer in a a band started by him-who had come sceptically to see this self and college friends,
Jatest invention of the Dell Telephone faboratories of New York.
Last November he was appointed
to command No. 618 Bomber Squad- ron of the Auxiliary Air Force,
Wrapped In Red Tape
new
Santa Rosa, Cal. The county still owns a steel bridge over the Russian river.
In prepara tion for building a
one, the heard of supervisors made the neces sary legal arrangements for the sale of the bridge at auction. But on the date of the auction there was no bidder. The next day, however, the supervisors had a bidder but no legal authorisation for an auction. So they just decided to keep the bridge,
THE SHANGHAILANDER
An animal that comes mooping down occasionally from the north on pretext of cricket, bowls, golf or rugger, but actually to wallow in the delights of H, 8. DEER.
LOWED, BLEATED, GRUNTED
In a brief, thrilling demonstration | the machine spoke with the deep voice of a grown man, the plping treble of a woman. 11 uttered not merely dis- Jointed words, but colerent sentences.
Then, as if that were not enough, it sang, crooned, shuuted, screamed, lowest like bleated like a sheep, grunted like pig, and pecked like a wood- pecker.
ה
cow.
Produce of Australia
Fresh from the land
is like an overgrown typewriter or In appearance the talking machine undersized organ
Capable of 23 sounds, the machine only erred a little over the difficult consonant L, having the same trouble as a baby has-pro- nouncing it with a blurred sound.
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SIR A. FLEMING'S THEORY Sir Ambrose Fleming, who is member of the Franklin Institute and the inventor of the thermionic valve, which revolutionked wireless tele- graphy and made wireless telephony possible, described the "talking type- writer"
as "another very interesting electrical development."
I was the first he had heard of sack an instrument, and he asstimed that the "human" tones were pro- duced by mixing the harmonies.
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Mother Objects To Radio Crooner
MOTHER of lovely 16-year-
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Joan became engaged recent- ly to "Chips" Chippendale. well-known radio singer. of Liverpool. She had kept it secret until recently.
Joan sald she fell in love with "Chlps" when die was 15.
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