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Eddie Quits Films
HOLLYWOOD, May
Eddie Cantor, banjo-eyed
comedian, had decided to quit
the movies,
He revealed to-day that he has parted company with 20th Century-Fox because the
studios refused to allow him any voice in preparation of his screen stories.
Cantor made his decision known during the hearing of n F. case in which Andreas Michael, a well-known author, Is craiming $1,000,000 for alleged plagiarism,
He claims that Cantor's Min "All Baba Goes to Town" was an "outright theft" of his original idea.-United Presa.
EDDIE CANTOR.
PORTUGUESE RESIDENT DIES IN HOSPITAL
The death occurred early this morning of MIr. Francisco Maria Kavier, prominent and much respected member of the local Portuguese community, Mr. Xavier was 6 years of age, and had been a member of the staff of Messrs Johnson, Stokes, and Master for over half a century,
He leaves a wife and a family of one san and thror daughters The son, Mr. O. M. Xavier is on the staff of the A.P.C, whlie Miss A. 31, Xavier with Thoresen and Company, and Miss M. Xavier, angther daughter is The funeral will take place this aftermoun, passing the monument at $30.
with Showns Tomes & Company,
NEWSMAN KILLED IN AIR RAID
CHUNGKING, May 9.-Mr. Li Yao-ching, manager of the Hankow branch of the Central News Agency, who was seriously wounded during the Japanese air raid on Chungking on May 4,"passed away 'yesterday morn-j ing.
The Central Publicity Council sent Mr. Feng Keb-chen, director of its new section, to express condolence to the family of deceased and will petition the National Government to grant a pension.
Formerly a Party worker, the late Mr. Li had been manager
of the Hankow branch of the Central News 'Agency for many years.
After the fall of Hankow, he went to the head uffice nt Chungking which was demolished during the May 4 raid-Central News,
More R.A.F. Recruits
LONDON, May 8-Recruits who Joined the RAF, last week 'num- bered, 1,071, compared with 320 In the corresponding week last year.- British Wircles.
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Shanghai's. Undeclared War Permanent Souvenir of the SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES
Missionary Nurses Escape Bombs
When a Baptist misionary settlement Sheri, North China, was hit by bombs during on air rabt, three two English nurses creaped. Above is Miss Mary Edith King, who comes from Chorley Wood, Herts.
The other is Mias Constance Emin; Waddington, of Leicester. All the milssionary stay escaped.
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THERE Y ARE GOLDILOCKS, BAFE AND BOUND WITH" THE BOYO NEW
PET!
SPLASH
PLOR
May 9, 1939.
By Walt Disney
ISAAC? OH, HE'S
A KINGFISHER,
FILM CHIEF IS HIGHEST PAID MAN IN U.S..
OUIS B. MAYER, head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film concern, received more money in 1937 than any other business executive in the United Staes.
His salary cheques for that year totalled £250,300, Treasury returns revoal.
Of the ten highest salaries, seven were paid to people in the Alm industry.
These, after Mr. Mayer, are:-
J. Robert Rubin, executive
of
| Loew's Corporation and Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer, £150,850;
N. M. Schenck. President of Loew's Corporation, £108,320;
William B. Ilearst, the newspaper magnate, £100,000;
Fredric March, the film star, £00,-
937;
Greta Garbo, £4,500;
Thomas J. Watson, president of the
International Machines Corporation, £03,870;
Eureno G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, £78,- 917;
David Bernstein, executive Loew's Corporation, £70,563.
of
British United Press) are:
A little down the, scale (says the
Sonja Henie, skating Alm £42,145;
star,
Shirley Temple, £22,050; Charles Chaplin, £21,200; Walt Disney ranks low with £7,- 050, but it is said that he keeps most of his earnings in his business.
108,000 More Employed
As a comparison. hera
art
tho mlaries of some other Important people:
Mr. Chamberlain U.S. President
French President Viceroy of India
£10,000
£15,000
£10,000
£18,000
And, then, of course, there's yours.
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One man's
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"You are talking out of your hat," exclaimed a ipember of Worlu (Noswax) Parish Council, rising from his seal at the coun- cil table.
kin sat down agat-on his own hal
is another man's
chair
Spain Leaves The League
BURGOS! Mày 8.--Spain has with- | drawn from the League of Nations. Recording to a report mude There to-day-Reuter.
·RADIO-
known
BW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)
Oldham;
Radio Programme Broadcast by Derek
Climbing Over z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. Rocky Mountain...Nellie Briercliffe, and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. Nellie Walker and Chorus of Girls: and B-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's, per Stop, Ladies, Rray....N. Betercliffe, second.
N. Walker, D. Oldham and Chorus of Girls; Oht Is There Not One Maiden Breast....D. Oldham, E. Grifin and Chorus of Girls.
6.00 Dance Mosto by Roy Fox and Hls Orchestra.
6.68 Closing Local Stock Quola-
Fox-Trot-Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes; Tango Fox-Trot-Marilou; Fox-Trots-Thint Old Feeling (film tions. Waller Wanger's Vogues) Remem- 7.00 New Light Orchestral Records, ber Me (Blm Mr. Dodd Takes the Tango (Albeniz); Tango Bolero Llossna). Barnabas Von Air'); Waltz-Seal It With a Kiss (Juan
(film That Girl from Paris'); Fox-Geezy and His Orchestra: Women of Trot-The Night Is Young, and Vienna-Waltz (Joh. StraussaUT, You're So Beautiful; Fox-Trots Hohne); Du und Du Waltz (from
Mascotte;
Shodows On The Moon (Alm 'Girl] "Die Fledermaus—Joh. Sirauskyar
of the Golden West)--Sunday In Orchestra The Park (Happy Returns'); Slow Melody" Selection....Louis Levy Fox-Trois-Two Shadows (from the and His Orchestra (with Vocal Re- Alm); I Won't Tell A Soul.
frain): In The Shadows (Finck); The 6.30 Glibert
rt and Sullivan Selec- Stealers-Woltz (Waldteute)....Vic LONDON, Moy 0.-There was a ilons.
tor Silvester's Harmony Music; Down further reduction in unemployment The Pirates of Penzance: Ah, The Mall (Belton).....Philip Green last month. The Ministry of Luboür | Leave Me Not To Pinel....Elsie and His Orchestra.
csilmates that the number of insured Griffin and Derek Oldham (Vocal 7.30 Reginald Foort at the Organ. persons
with Orchestra: No. 1 Am! In employment in Great De!....Elsie
The Last Chord (Sullivan); Cloister Britain at April 17 was approximately
Grian, Leo, Sheuleid 12,311,009-108,000-more-than-the-and-Malo Chorus: When A Field Shadows (Hope); The Whistler And
Ilia Dog (Pryor)..... month before, and, on comparable Not Engaged...Leo Sheffield and 7.40 Albert Sandler Trio. basis 270,000 more than the year be- Male Chorus: "Patience"; Love is a Rustle Of Spring (Sinding--Op. 32, fore.
Plaintive Song
Song...Winifred Lawson No. 3); Paraphrase of Strauss Waltzes (Soprano) with Orchestra; So Go to (arr. David Bor); Dusty Violin (Ver- At the same date registered un- Him....Bertha Lewis and George non and Brooke); Vietor Herbert employment tolalled 1,044,304, com-Baker; It's Clear That Medieval Art Melodies; Shy Serenade (George prising 1,343,205 wholly unemployed,....D, Oldham, M. Green, D. Fan- Scull Wood). 238,729 temporarily laid off, and 0,-court; "The Yeomen of the Guard"; 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather | 170 normally in casual employment. Leonard, My Loved One....Winktred Report and Announcements.
This total was 82,535 less than in Lawson, Derek Oldham, George
8.03 Rachmaninoff-Concerto No.
March, and 103,370 less then in April Baker and Chorus; The Pirates of 2 In C Minor, Op. 18. 1930.-British Wireless.
Penzance"; What Shall I Do?...........
Duplicate Panama Canal, United States Is Urged
WASHINGTON, May 8. ..........
The President of Nicaragua to-day, addressing the U.S. Senate during the technical recess, declared that Nicaragua was indispensible to any plan for defence of the Western Hemisphere.
He urged the United States Government to construct an Inter-ocean canal across Nicaragua.-United Press.
A Look Through
The "Telegraph"
50. YEARS AGO.
May 0, 1880. The Emperor of Brazil bar decided to lasus an edict prohibiting Brazilian girls from marrying until they reach the ripe old age of ten years,
Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano) and the Philadelphini Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
8.35 Two Songs by Theodore Cha- Hlapine (Basa).
Forewell Of
.
Boris ('Borls Godounov'-Moussorgsky); Death Of Doria 'Boris Godounoy-Mous- Borgsicy). ....with Orchestra.
8.45 Tchaikovsky-"The Steeploz Princess" Sultco
Sadler's Wells Orchestra conducted by Constant Lambert.
.
9.15 London Relay The News, D.30 London Relay-Food for Thought'.
Short talks on outters of topical interest.
9.45 London Relay-Sports News and Market Notes, * SUPPORT PLEDGED
0.50 Variety withz Vio Oliver, WASHINGTON, May 8-General) Frances Day, Ann Penn and Orchre Somoza, President of Nicaragua, who tra Mascolic. la visiting Washington, in an address
Vic
Evening. Stars--Waltz (Lunner- to the Senate to-day, pledged the arr. Hohne); Goodnight Waltz support of the Latin-American (Wood-Bibo-Conrad).....Orchestra nations in keeping "American institu Mascotte: Out In The New Mown tions" free from foreign interference. Hay (Dougherty); So Tired (Little "With a full realisation of the and Sizemore)...Ann Fenn (Come- differences of our relative capacity, 1 dienne) with Orchestra: Lovely To wish to state that we nations, though Kiss Waltz (Dicker); Dance Of The very small in' size, are ready to limit Fairies-Waltz (Rosenthal) ....Oг- our ability and share with you, the chestro Mascotte; Artificial Flowers arealest and.. most powerful, all Floodlight Nichols)....Frances
Waves-Woltz efforts and sacrifices involved in the Day (Soprano) with Orchestra; Over '(Rosas-—org; collective task of keeping
our The American institutions free from any Hohne); Amoretlentanza Waliz 25 YEARS AGO
Hohne). (Gung--arr
.Orchestra interference foreign to our continent Princesses See
Mascotte: Vie Oliver Goes Naughty May 9, 1014. ́and ideology."C
(Vie Oliver)....Vic
Vic Oliver (Come~) correspondent
Ban Later Président Somoza made a Port Of London Digge, California, statos that the battle similar decoration to the House of dian); Butting In.
Oliver)... Vic Oliver versus Gloria Day. ship. California, at Mazatlan, sends a
19.25 New Dance Mnale, General Somoza appealed to Con-| LONDON, May Queen Mary ac- wireless message to the affect that four Representatives.
were killed and eight wounded by a
Fox-Trots-You're A Sweet Little proposal to companied Princess Elizabeths and hom dropped in the streets from a greas to support the Princesa Margaret this afternoon, rebel biplano. The besteding rebels are construct a canal through Nicaragua, Headache (fim Parla Honeymoon"); Have Eyes (film Varis Horry- when the princesses were shown the haring the better of it so far."
linking the Pacifle and the Atlantis,
moon')..Geraldo and: His Orchestra; -Neuler, Port of London. The Royal party
10 YEARS AGO
Waltz The Umbrella Man. (from erulsed ten miles from Tower Pier to Woolwich,
May 0, 1029.
Theer Foolish Things'), 'Jack Hylton and pamed through
Startling developments have occurred pro-Nanklag troops who ara, struggling and His Orchestra; Slow Fox-Trol--- Georgs Fifth Dock, as well as whit-
Blue Skien Are Round The Corner (thɔng alming at the expture of Canton,
Novelty Fox-Trot One Man Wont Authority-British Wireless.
thana loading, to the slopparé of all
5 YEARS AGO
To Blow....Henry Hall and His Or- traink between Kowison and Canton,"i
Not only are the Kwangsi troops, mov- It is officially announced that for chestra: Rumba Rumba Colora; Mr. C. F. Neodham, of the long and slag from the Westier districis Majesty the Queen perform the Moon Of Monte Carlo.....Lecuona from south; but news is christening ceremony at the launching Cuban Boys Fox-Trot-Plastered In Ta Méi Pictorial: bong Telephone Co., has reported tof to hand -- this morning of operation of the new glant Conarder, naw, known Paris. The Band Waggoners;
the police the theft of two boxes of] along the Canton-Kowloon RailwaY, KD NO. 634.
It is interesting to note that this whit You Smiling: Blow Fox-Trot-Lonely Waltz Shalf Always Remember Jaffver, valued, at $380, from the where serians-fighting fa reperket to be
kad be the Arai-adip christened by Quas Berni-Modithly Publication of 28 Company storeroom at Duddell taking place. page na the present hostilities street during the night of May17-34 The dghting in this area to allopathar Mary, alnes Lio Coronation.
Blly Cotton, and His Band; 9x- anezpected, and although estallerareIt is understood that the yogial to toane Hollowallan? Phote news"
Entry was gained through ang open soi to band it is believed that the hose, be called "Dritasut window.
tilities "are" batwegn: pro-Xwangol:"and] “Queen Mary,**** ***)
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Shanghai Under Fire
A de-luxe Pictorial Review of the SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES
Through Four Provinces ing the offices of the Port of London in connection with the Kangal opare for control of Kwangtung province.
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