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Nearly Killed
"Slimming Nearly
Famous West End Danger's Ordeal
RECENTLY Miss Tilly Losch, the famous dancer, arrived back in London after a six months' absence that puzzled all except a few of her intimate friends.
This is the secret behind the star's Christmas when I caught a cold. disappearance. Slimming newly That was the start of my ness. cost her her life, and Tilly has been undergoing treatment In ♫ Swiss "The ductors inmediately sent me sanatorium.
to Switzerland to prevent serious) complication."
Now she is completely restored to health, With the mystery of her disappearance
The dancer who started her bril- solved comes the Hant career at the age of six in the good news that she will soon be seen Vienna Opera Ballet shuddered az in a new production on a West-End he recalled her early days in the]
FIG.
Tilly talked about her six months' ordeni and Die time when she be! Heved she would never donce again.
"My case should be a warning to all those who have taken up slim- ming fada," she said,
"When I was in Hollywood for the films, The Garden of Allah' and 'The
ganatorium.
"Being sent there seemed to bej a death sentence. It was a terrific shock to learn that I was seriously
, for I had never been II in my life before,
"A friend who visited me left me
Although I had box of paints,
Good Earth, I thought it essential painted in my life before, I to keep my weight down. Not thint tried my hand with the brush. I was huge, but because I had the mistaken Idea that the slimmer wor the better dancer I would be.
"So I ate nothing but raw veget- abiles.
"The absence of square meals, thef doctors told me afterwards, had un-) dermined my whole constitution and lowered my resistance,
"My madela were myself and Purses and doctors in the sanatorium. and I also painted portraits of friends)
from metaory.
"When I come to London, 1 am) going to arrange an exhibition of my paintings. I think they are KOOL.
"I shall also make inat plans for.
BEING SENT THERE WAS LIKE my first straight stage vode. I wil
DEATH SENTENCE
be in n play called 'She Couldn't Say
"I was on holiday in Wales last|No!"
Water-Spout Hits Beach
Sr. D. F. Landale delivering it is speech after the recent launch- Ing of the Glenorchy of Taikoo Dockyard.--Mee Cheung,
Perfect Cockney'
Is Not Worrying
HIS "CHOKER*
August 21, 1939.
Me"
DANCE BAND PLAYS
AT CHURCH
A CHURCH service at which the voluntary was played by a slance band was recently held at Ramsgate,
Alderman A. ED. Kempc. Mayor of Ramsgae and Enter- tainments Committee chairman, read the lesson, nd Billy Merrin and his Commanders, played the voluntary. Miss Tessa Watson, concert party soprano, kang a Nulo,
Has Zoo In Work-Shop EVERYBODY in Southwold.
Suffolk, calls Mr. Fred H "St. Francis."
This white-bearded cabinet maker stands all day in his work-shop ankle deep in shav- Ings and surrounded by a menagerie.
As he chisels, planes and hammers he carries on a conversation with Jackdaws, munkeys, rabbits, guinen: pigs, gulis, ravens, ducks, budgeri Rars, bantams, doves, owis and Lab- books.
"They understand Mr. I said.
every word,"
Jory, the tortoise, chased him at a word; Jack, the rabbit, rang a bell; Salty, the baboon, laughed immode- rately.
If it wasn't "Never more" that the raven quoth, it sounded very much like it.
Perhaps the secret of it all lies in the fact that at some time or other Mr. Hii has saved his friends' lives.
People bring him injured animals and birds from far and near.
And when they are well, they will never leave him.
HARRY HAYNES has done
almost everything. He has: About 5ft. Bin, tall, broad across THOUSAND of Blackpool holiday-; Stalf-holders were trapped amid sold crumpets on winter even-the shoulders, and wearing the in- mokers saw a gigantic water-spout flying planks and their own warts.ings, run a winkle stall some in a voice that would make Syd Peer's Son, Countess,
evitable Cockney "choker," he tells, summers, and, most days, does Walker jealous, of living is whole In another storm at Birmingham an energetic eight hours as a life within a few hundred yards of base about 100 feet in lightning struck the home of Aller-docker.
sweep towards them from a point two bat no one was injured. miles out to sea rerently.
It was more than 500 feet high, with
diameter.
Λ Randerstorm, with torrential rain, was raging at the time.
The water-spout, as high as the famous Tower, twirled and twisted, like a snake.
It swept past the Central Tier,
man A. E. Ager,
Snake Causes Traffic Jam
SPOKANE, Wash.
the Walworth-road,
"It's like
this,"
"I
In Crashes
severe
Recently, he lowered,
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he said, rather enviable ease, a pint of afe in for a pint of beer and I walked
was just out of hospital, and I went THE Countess of Wharncliffe and her 18-years-old daugh- he told all about himself, how he out round to sce my brother-in-ter, Lady spends his life, and why the B.B.Claw, and met a chap from the U.B.C. Stuart-Wortley - Mackenzie, re- Barbara Montagu- has decided that he is the perfect who'd been sent down to sort meceived type of Cockney for television broad-out and arrange about a broadcast.
facial injuries པ་། didn't casts.
mind, and dun't know when their ear came into colli- what I've got to do. I've seen my sion with the rear of a lorry at Harry Hayneh, aped about 46. script but not read it much. You Ightham, Kent, recently. of Brandon-street, just off the see, I've broadcast before and I'm Two stulls and some seats on the traffic jam in downtown Spokane, Walworth-road, S... was picked by not worrying. They're that nice to hut the chauffeur escaped Injury.
The car was practically wrecked, It apparently had ridden in from the the television people for the were upset. Otherwise
that you And Lings come hills on a car, Motorists and pedes-End broadcast on July 10.
East You
easily. They tell me, 'Say this, and director of Pinewood Studios and san Captain the Hon. Richard Norton, Twenty miles away, al Morecambe, trláns stopped to a whirlwind struck the Winter Gar-Patrolman Dan Webster captured it),
watch il until
I just say it. The B.B.C. calls him "a man with
"I don't have to act." clens furground. Stalls were rased, j
Fa rich Coelary voice and a ne per- And roofs stripped from Wooden with a
wire and stick and turned sonality." it over to the humane society.
reached the water's edge and burs!!
on the beach.
promenade
buldings.
A 3-foot bull snake caused a
i wrong.
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Harry has a sense of humour. "Chap came down to-day, asking me what colour my eyes were.
of Lord Grantley, and Miss Laino Lindon, the Alm star, were among those injured when Captain Norton's car crashed at a eross-rond near Yeovil, Somerset.
Lord Forbes, piloting his private plane, few Mrs. Norton and two
laughed! Only time I notice the, Hartey-street specialists to Yeovil
colour is when they're black?"
I asked him what he thought of the Cockney himself.
"They're nice boys, all of them. They've their awn troubles, but they
yesterday.
After examining Captain Norton they returned to London,
professes that he doesn't mind much.
help any man when he's down-and But there is a distinct fear in the
they're honest; which is more then neighbourhood that the leg-pulling is you can say about a lot of people." likely to end in different coloured Harry gets his leg pulled un-eyes for someone or other, sooner or mercifulty about his broadcasta. Hej later,
Peer's Grandson Waiter Elopes
TALL, fair, 21-years-old John Fane, grandson of Lord Clinton, who created a sensation in the West-End a few months ago by working as n waiter and kitchen-boy, has eloped to Paris with Miss Ann Dyer, 24-years-old ex-debutante.
British Embassy At Chungking
London.
The British Embassy at Chung- king was the subject of a question
This was revealed by Mr. Fane's brother, Mr. Charles Fang, of the Coldstream Guards.
"The first thing we heard about my brother's marriage was a wire from Paris received by my mother," Mr. Fane sald.
"The wire simply read, "We are
understand that
my Bir G. Fox asked the Prime Minis-ried ut Caxton Hall, but on which brother and Miss Dyer were mar- ter what British Embassy staff is
in the House of Coinmons recently. married. I
available at Chungking, the present day I do not know. It was a great seat of the Chinese Government; surprise to, my mother, for John is how long it takes to travel from the so young." premises where that staff is housed to the government buildings; on how many occasions His Majesty's Am- bassador to China has visited Chung- king in the last six months; how
тоник long the Chinese Government has been
established
at Chungking: and. by when he anticipates it will be possible to have a properly staffed
British Embassy at that place?
It wax in January this year that Mr. John Fane waa dis- covered working in a West-End hotel. He wanted to learn the hotel business by starting at the bottom of the ladder.
His wages were
six shillings a
Mr. Butler: The Diplomatie Mis-week; tips averaged just over sion at Chungking is at present in pound a week.
charge of Mr. Prideaux Brune, act-
has
ing Chinese Counsellor, who under him a number of clerical as- sistants.
Civilization Fatal
To Beaver
£
The headquarters of the Chinese Government have been established at Chungking since the latter part of) October, 1038. His Majesty's Am-
CHAGRIN FALLS, O. bassador pays periodical visite to A beaver, whose species virtually Chungking, and, within the last six hus been extinct for 100 years, took a months, has been there from the aing at civilized life' here--but re- 10th April to 19th May.
Detailed information as to the dis-gretted his adventure before it could
itself. The Lances involved is not available. Mr. orientate
45-pound Prideaux Brune, however, resides rodent's first encounter witir modern within easy reach of the Chinese life was an automobile's fender. The Govenment offices,
pelt is now on exhibition at the It will be alwserved that the staff Cleveland Museum of Natural His- can be expanded at will,
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