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BROKEN ROMANCES IN HOLLYWOOD

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

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"I have been here three weeks or Bank, 30 days' sight affairs and divorce frightens meso, but so far I cannot make anyone-Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11

months Credits, 4 The people will think that no filmjout."

sight artist can lead a life of happiness This is what the new Earl of in marriage. And it is all so bad Egmont said to a reporter recently Documentary 4 months'

sight for the filme."

in the lounge of the hotel in which Lys de Putti, the Hungarian film he is staying at Ringwood, Hamp actress

working at Elstree, shire, England.

The villagers, in turn, are trying near London, thus commented, al- most tearfully, on the present to make out the ear, and are won epidemic of broken romances at dering if he is going to settle down among them at his seat, Avon Cas "All this discussion of easy mar-tle, after his 30 years on a ranch riage and casy divorce among film in Canada.

she In the meantime the lads of the stars is, indeed, alarming," went on. But it is all Hollywood's village are, trying to get used to. fault, Never, never will I appear having Viscount Forceval playing in another film there. The place deadons you. There is no opera there, no theatre, no life, ID talk like you have in London or Buda- pest or Paris.

Hollywood.

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"The people talk of nothing bui! the movies. They eat movies and dream movies." Lya thinks the divorce scandals will spell ruin for the pictures. But she insists that it is Hollywood that is to blame- Hollywood, which has no history ar tradition; Hollywood, which has grown up in a hectic nightmare of money easily won.

"They have no dicipline," sail Lya. "They dream only of their money and their luxury. They think they are a rale-unto them- selves only. They boast of their temperaments! Temperament-they know what it means. I re- member that they told me I would ¡on't

never work in the same lot' as one other actress in New York. She always talked of her temperament She did strange things like crying and swooning whenever I appeared. She could not work when I was near.....

Lots of "Bruken Hearts"

Ernest Lee Jahicke, new Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy. He has Lya smiled. But I went on work-long been identified with the sea and ing and that other one forgot to at the time of his appointment was President of the Jahncke Drydocks

I read in your newspapers Company, of New Orleans,

swoon. that she has had lots

of breken

hearts since then. But they must;

be careful. You can have too much

For me, with

them around

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Returns of the average amount of Bank Notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hong Kong, during the month ended May 1929, as certified by the the market 31, And square.

Managers of the respective Banks Yes, for the public, too, I think.

Regarding he future, the earl are as follow:

Average Specis they will kill the pictures, these said:

Amount. In Reserva women who ever want to advertise their stupid little marriages."

of these broken hearts. marriage is a serious thing.

LIFE OF LUXURY

GANGSTER'S PALM ISLAND RETREAT

I may stay hore: I shall be here for some time, at any rate. I might live at Avon Castle for a time, but it means a lot of money. It is all money going out on it all the time. A place like that is for a rich enaų

I am able to sell the place, and I may do so. There is a lot of good building property there. Yes, there are some very beauti- ful things in the castle, but many of them belong to the Dowager Lady Egmont and will go when she goes.

New York, "AP" Capone, who is known throughout the United States as "Scarface," Chicago'a "star gangster." is at present at Miami, Florida, He refuses to

I shall get a tutor for my son, return to Chiengo to appear be-

Viscount Peneval, who is 14, I fore the grand jury which is in-

guess. His mother died when he vestiguling the assassination of

was one and a half years old, and seven men in Chicago on Feb. 14

I have brought him up. He is a last. Capone. a burly, six-foot,

bright boy ani will soon learn. heavy-faced Italian, says his

The earl spends most of his time health

will not premit him to sitting alone--brooding as if, as he travel, and invites Jadge Wilkinsaid, he were trying to make son, of Chicago, to come

south things out." with an official doctor to verify his "I've got a sure throat," he con-

statement.

tinued. "and I am having trouble in the meantime Capone's social with my digestion. I do not like life in his beautiful Palm Island the bread here. I expect it is the home secures more publicity than change. I am used to hard work. does that of the rest. of the Now I have nothing to do but to fashionable colony. The gang hang around."

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ster's house is virtually a for- Oddly enough'the earl finds the tress, and he is guarded against weather cold. the attacks of rival gunmen, who have come from Chicago to "get him," by a bodyguard of eight stalwart retainers, all well armed.

Two weeks ago Capone enter tained sixty guests, at an estimat- ed cost of $1,500. The members of his bodyguard are well dressed, and soxe of them are splendid dancers. But their well-fitting dinner jackets conceal automatic pistols. There is usually heavy drinking. Sobie times Capone,

a guest or two, flies Nassau or Bahamas in his private aeroplane, and he also owns special speed motor yacht.

with

to

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Capone paid nearly £20,000 "for" hie Palm Island retreat, and within its Spanish walls and grounde he lives a life of luxury. His "staff" includes two lawyers. A protest has recently been made here. against the extraordinary news- paper publicity given to the! Chicago gangster, his palatial home, and his doings. Such notoriety, it is urged, inspires the awe, envy, and admiration of un- balanced young men, and fur nishes them with a temptation to follow in his footsteps.

TIRED OF WEF !

Wong Hong-mui (21), a "butterfly" of the restaurants at Shektengtsui, at- tempted to commit suicide yesterday. by jumping into be harbour from the Yaumati ferry "Man Hing as it was leaving the Yaumati wharf. A wharf coolied rescued her.

An unemployed Chinese stoker narned Cheung Leung attempted suicide by jumping from the Yaumati ferry "Man Shun" whilst on a trip to Hong Kong yesterday. He, too, was rescued. The body of a Chinese girl named Yuen Yin (17) was yesterday: remov

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