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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 27, 1939.
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Marcus Lady Astor Faces 2,500 Angry Pretty as a Picture!
Show Coming
THE Marcus Show is arriving in town shortly and will present the first performance at the Queen's Theatre on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Nothing on quite the scale of the Marcus Show has hitherto been seen in Hongkong: it has many girls that Australia quickly dubbed it the "Carcase Show.
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The quality and lavishmtas of this production, its artistle presentation and its many beautiful show girls should ensure a season which should make new Hongkong records.
Clever direction will provide a non-stop varlety entertainment with artistically presented stage Spectacles Interspersed will good work by a tam of comedians,
!
Since the Marcus Slow Jeft the United States two and a half years ago, the tour around the world, hus been packed with drama, offstage and dn.
On the as. Kernia in route to India, Barbara Warner, one of the show- girls, had her appendix removed under the knife on a dining table on board. The operation was successful but peritonitis set in. Raving for her life, the boat docked at Bombay one day ahead of schedule. Another emergency operation was performed, Soon Barbara Warner was
up and dancing again.
The troupe bas had no casualties. except three marriages. Cup.d took his foll in Australia when three "f the girls fell in love. That ditin't handicap the show. Mrs. Marcus. promptly replaced them with Aus: tralian-beauties who are now making ¦ a hit.
Lovely Beth Cabot, one of the Marcus show girls, who will appear "La Vie Parce" which will open at the Queen's shortly.
Sultan's Brother Weds
Oxford
Chiropodist
OXFORD.
THE romance of Tengku Mahmud, 21-year-old The troupe has performed in Ausbrother of the Sultan, of Trengganu, with Miss Joyce tralia, New Zealand, South Africa, Blencowe, chiropodist-daughter of a local tailor, culminat- ed recently in their marriage at St. Giles's register office, Oxford.
India, Malaya, Jaya and Manila.
There are 70 persons including 40 girls in the troupe, there are 150 tons of baggage and equipment, consisting of almost 100 trunks and wardrobes and as many bundles of draperies, scenery, electrle lighting equipment and thousands of odds and ends.
The wedding was very quiet. The large crowd outside the ofee. bride's parents, two other relatives, Miss Blencowe was dressed in
white hat and two school friends of the bride-white silk frock with a
room were the unly persons present trimmed with black net, and a silver at the ceremony but there was a (Continued on Next Column.)
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"I'm Not Afraid Of Being Howled Down'
LA
ADY ASTOR faced catcalls and jeers and was almost howled down when she spoke in support of abolishing flogging to the conference in Queen's Hall recently of 2,500 women of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.
She was opposing a motion dealing with corporal punishment, and declared that the Home Secretary had won the support of every social worker in every political party.
There was a chorus of "No," and Lady Astor retorted, "WIL you allow me to speak in silence and do your cheering after- wards?"
The 2,500 women, with two dissentients, supported the motion deploring the provisions of the Criminal Justice Bill abolishing flogging and urging the retention of corporal punish- ment for offences against women and children.
Lady Astor gripped the platform rail as at least 2,000 of the · delegates present stamped, king hed, and shouted "Shame:" "Oh," and "No" to her almost inaudible remarks
Her Son's Memorial
An 87-years-old widow, Mrs. Henrietta Nicoll, af 'Charles- road. St. Leonards-on-Sea, tres- sures what must be the most unusual memorial to a son,
It is a Un of chocolate which has heen exposed in a glass case in her drawing-room at the side of the photo and medals of her dead son, Geoffrey Nicoll, for the last 35 years,
The tin was one of 40,000 given by the Boer War on Christmas Day, 1899. It bears the eligy of the Queen and a message conveying her best wishes for 1800.
Queen Victoria to her troops at
PRESENT FOR HER
SHOUT INTO "MIKE" Annoyed by the repeated calls, Lady Astor shouted into the micro- phone: "Too often in this holi bave i been howled down and in four or five yours you have regretted your action. "I am not in the least afraid of your
howls.
The chairman's order bell Unkled · vainty for a few moments, then the chairman, Mrs. Lionel Whitehead, buse and shouted into her own micro- phone: "Ludtes, I do appeal to you to
ive Lady Astor a
a fale
hearing Lady Astor attempted to read from her copy of the proposed Dill, while women shouted indignantly,
There were cries of: What about assaults on
men and children" and Lady Astor struck the reading desk in her annoyance and retorted; "The more I see of you, the more ! hear of you, it is quite obvious that you are getting a bit mixed."
women
DEFIANT HANDWAVE
The chairman's bell repeated its call for silenec, white half the audience began to clap and stamp rhythmically.
beg you to hear me," said Ludy
When Geofrey returned home after | Astor, but every woman in the hall serving in the Imperial Yeomanry he was shouting and clapping, and it | gave the tin, with, the contenis un-
was some time before she could make herself heard again. touched, to his mother..
AUSTRALIAN BUTTER
When the chairman tinkled her
Four years later he died of black-belt to indicate that Lady Astor's water fever in Southern Nigeria, and time was up, there was a burst of ap- his mother decided to keep the tin as plause Insting more than a minute. n sacred relic.
"Will you please read the report of the committee of inquiry into this Mrs. Nicoll is the widow of the Revmatter," said Lady Astor as a part- Charles Nicoll, formerly rector of Sax Depton, near Midhurst,
NERVOUS BRIDEGROOM
Mr. G..Hollis, a school friend of the bridegroom, was best mon,
ing shot, and she went back to her sent on the platform, waving her hand defiantly.
Discussion of the corporal punish-
and
fox fur cape-the gift of the bride-ment resolution was so long pro- groom. She wore spray of orchids. tracted owing to the storm it aroused that two items had to be left off the agenda-discussion on the shortage of nurses and rehousing...
Pensions for
Wives of insured Tengku Mahinud, a slight Bgure in aged 80 cr more, were urged.
Workers of 85, provided the wife was blue pin-stripe, suit, seemed ner- Mrs. Chamberlain was there vous during the ceremony and at went away blushing at the nice things times his voice could hardly be heard. Conservative women said about her
Immediately after the ceremony, husband. And the delegates the couple left by train for London. pleased about the nice things Mrs. They will arrive in Singapore in the Chamberlain sald about them. P. and O. liner Corfu on June 30.
the Two men looked in
among Numerous presents were received scores of cloquent weinen-Sir Joh from people the bride and bride-Anderson, talking on National Ser- groom have never met but who vice, and Mr. Osbert Peake, under- desired to show their approval of the secretary at the Home Oflec, fo'talk
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