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Girl 6,000

Married Another

Famous Author's

Real-Life Play

N early love affair, in which he followed a girl 6,000 miles over two continents, only to lose her in the end, has inspired a famous author with a theme for his new play.

He in 37-year-old, six-foot tall Mr. Anthony Kimmins, who wrote the sensational play, "While Parents Sleep"

While holidaying at Le Touquet recently he put the finish-

ing touches to his new play, which will be presented in the West- End in the autumn.

YOUNG OFFICER'S ROMANCE

"It is based on an actual experience

of mine," he said.

"As a young naval officer, I met an English girl In Bombay and went absolutely crazy about her.

"I was too shy at first to tell her

how fond I was of her, and when 1

screwed up sufflelent courage to to to her hotel to propose I learned that she had left for Calcutta

This was a disappointment, but 1

followed, her. On reaching Calcutta I found in had left for Europe.

"There was nothing for ut to go after her. The chase took me to many of the capitals of Europe, but she escaped me every time:

:

"More than once I arrived at un

hotel only to be told that she tund left a few hours previously,

"I spent a small fortune trailing her, but eventually had to give up the chase as hopeless,"

GIRL HE MARRIED

Me, Kimmins has been happily married for 11 years-but not to the giri whom he followed across two continents.

Television

In Penang

TO film events of local interest

vise them is the aim of Mr. In Penang and then to tele-

Voon Kook Han, the well-known granted an experimental trans- wireless expert, who has been

General, Posts. & Telegraphs, mitting licence by the Director- Malaya.

Mr. Voon will be the first in Malaya to carry out experiments on television, facsimile and pic ture transmission.

The call

sign of his station will be VSIAE.

.Orders have already been placed for the necessary television apparatus. said Mr. Voon. Standard talking film projector machines will be adapted to work in conjunction with the scan- ning apparatus,

"It was just us well that the chase Meanwhile, a transmitter will be proved futile," he remarked as he constructed to work on continuous recalled the rumantle clretanstamees wave telegraphy and telephony on a qt his marriage shortly afterwards. wavelength of 21 or 42 metres. While stationed at Malta. Mr. Power used will be 30 watts for the Kimmins wrote an' amateur play present, called "Suffering Wildcats" for the entertainment of the fleet.

As author-producer he insisted | on six girls taking part, Instead of the usual practice of having naval. men dressed up as women

One of the six girls was Miss Betty Hodges, daughter of Admiral Bir Michael Hodgra

On telegraphy, Mr. Yoon expects to get in touch with amateurs in any part of the world under favourable conditions,

Mr. Voon Kook Han is one of the; Tromised leading wireless experts in Penang. He qualified as a licensed operator in Apill 1934 to operate VSIAH of the Penang Wireless So Their engagement followed a few riety. A member of the Technical weeks inter.

Miles

UFS

First picture of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in uniform. since he began air survey, taken at St. Louls. With him is a former friend who once saved Lindy's life, Master Sergeant James Tate.

Why Cronin Wanted To Be Alone

Storrington (Sussex).

AFTER spending four months with his wife and

family in an isolated Swiss mountain chalet, Dr.

J. J. Cronin recently returned to his Sussex home with a play in his pocket.

Sub-Committee, he took an active I wanted complete seclusion," he "To write this, my first play, pari in building and improving Station ZIJ.

said,

They have two children. Mr. Kimmins, who wrote "While Parents Sleep" during convalescence In March this year, he designel Whon I wrote 'Hatter's Castle' I from a ski-ing neeldent, writes and, nad constructed an electric Ifawalan buried myself directs George Formby's films,

steel guitar for the Elysee Cabaret. farmhouse.

STARTS TO-DAY at the

KING'S

THAT RISES TO A FEVER PITCH —and never lets you go!

Excitement

WALTER WANGER presents

in a lonely Scottish

STAGECOACH

A BIG, IMPORTANT PICTURE THUNDERS ACROSS THE SCREEN!

Directed By-

JOHN FORD Academy Award Winner...Director of "Submarina" Patrol" · "Tha Elurricans”

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ch-

sured me even

"But the Swiss chalet ldca

greater remoteness from the calls of civilisation.

"We were 7,000 feel up a moun- tain, There WOS no telephone. Nearest town was Arosa-and it was miles away. I saw practical- ly

no one at all for those four months except my wife and three Rons,"

So far Dr. Cronin is keeping the theme of his play a secret.

cannot say yet when it will be presented," he sald.

"A number of producers have. already approached me, but I have not shown it to any of then I am still trying to think out n title for it. "To turn to the theatre after be- ing a novelist is a perfectly, natural development"

His Rhymes So Neat, Just Make You Eat

Brighton.

BRIGHTON's best known charac- ter is Alco Flowers, who calls him- self a "persuader."

As he stands outside a cafe on the Brighton

front, Alec persuades

passers-by to step inside for a meal and gives them à rhyming flow of words on the excellence of the shrimps, cockles and whelks.

His face, which he contorts and distorts in a hundred and one grimaces, is an entertalument in itself.

He also has a good line of bird- whistles in his repertoire.

"Many of the folks who come to Brighton think I ought to be on the Alms as a comic," Aice said,

"I have been on this job of 'per- suader' outside this same cafe since I was 14-and I am now 48."

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