1935-04-02 — Page 9

ILL TREATMENT OF ACROBAT

Child Goaded Incessantly With Stick

HOLLYWOOD ROAD INCIDENT

Charged with causing unneces< sary suffering to an 8-year-old Chinese male-child, Wan Fun, by prodding him with a bamboo stick to force him to perform acrobatics on the Chinese recrea- tion ground in Hollywood Road on Sunday, Ko Wai-yin, aged 27, was sentenced to one month's hard, labour by Mr. Q. A. „A.] Macfadyen at the Central Police] Court this morning,

...In his evidence, Detective} Inspector K. W. Andrews stated! that ut 11 am. on Sunday, he

passing the

was

recreation

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 2 1935

When an extremely difficult operation proved a success. Five- year-old Herbie Miller, of Hartford, Conn., victim of an accident, in now able to manipulate artificial hands with his stumps of arms. He is shown recovering In the Hartford hospital.

ground in Hollywood Road, and VICKI BAUM IN COLONY

saw a booth, in which was A

fenced" portion about 10 feet in

length, 8 feet wide and 4 feet "GRAND HOTEL”

high. In the fenced area he saw the child, who was more or less

a freak, performing somersaults.

At the completion of each somer- Hault defendant prodded, the child with a bamboo stick, compelling him to carry on, incessantly..

There performing somersaults.

who were about 30 spectators each paid one cent for admission.{

"Cumshaw".Taken From Him

AUTHORESS IS

INTERVIEWED

PLEASURE TRIP WITH BROTHER

VISIT TO KO SHINĠ THEATRE

"I have written better books, but there must be something in Whenever a well-dressed per- "Grand Hotel" that made it a what that something son was admitted, the child was success: forced to do a few extra per-was I never knew, and it had a formances, and begged for "cum-success I never thought," said shaw," which, when given to Miss Vicki Baum, the famous him, was taken away by defen-German authoress of "Grand plant. The child was also made Hotel" to me last night when to bow down knocking his head interviewed at the Hong Kong. Hotel after her arrival hore, by on the concrete ground.

Yesterday the master of the the s.s. President Lincoln carlier

in the day.

VICKI BAUM

on his last hours. Then the other

BAUM IN CHINESE

-day's Short Story

RISK

TARTIME

By Margery Sharp

''

barred. of "It's din to Of

W course," said, the Doctor. I've risked killing people almost

For the talk, ranging lightly every week any houss-surgeon over: tuna fishing, spiritualism, does: but that's barred on the war and the best way to make mar-principle. Otherwise, I should pro- |malade," had finally settled upon bably say—walking along the ridge- the subject of risk; and a risk, pole of the gymnasium for a bet of as the Doctor now laid down, two apples. What's yours?"? cannot by definition be an inte- "Mine," rald Bamber, promptly, gral part of the day's routine was proposing to a girl at Maita to "Wartime barred, then, sald see whether I was in love with her Bamber, what's the biggest risk or not. I couldn't make up my mind, you've ever taken ?" And his light and it seemed a good way of finding Inquisitive eyes, glanced swiftly out."

round the table. They had been "And did you?" asked the Police- playing bridge, but now, sat with man. pushed-back chairs, and replenished ser glasses; the Doctor, and Henry Cot; | terill, who had just won the rubber, Bomber and the Policeman, who had

TOMORROW'S STORY

To morrow's Story" will be "White Man's Ways," by D Wilson MacArthur.

Both Bamber and the. Doctor had been at land, though not in the same ship: the Policeman worked at: a desk in Scotland Yard, and was popularly supposed to control the Mansion House traffic. As for "I did. Fortunately, she refused young. Cotterill, he wrote books on me. But I had all the sensations medieval art, making an odd fourth, first."

Indeed, to such a trio; but as he "What uneventful lives! mur never mixed art and conversation, mured the Doctor. "Yet they seem- their acquaintance continued to ed quite interesting at the time. flourish.

What about you, Cutterill? What's the biggest risk you've ever taken? Being hit by a cricket-ball?”

"Me?” aald the Policeman, thoughtfully, "Oh, nothing much. I lead such a quiet life. Well- "Oh, a bit stiffer than that," said bankruptcy, I suppose.".

Cotterill modestly."Being guillo *Bambar looked at him with frank tined. It happened In Paris- disappointment,

. “That's nothing,” he said. “Why”, I'm bankrupt at this very minute. I mean, I should be if I were in trade jor anything. What about you, Doe-

tors"

RUSSIA'S RICHEST

MEN

"Naturally," interjected Bamber, “but, tell us what you were trying] to do. Restore the Bourbons?"

"No. There was a girl- "Of course!!!

·t.

"Not of course at all," said Cot- terill, crossly. She had a face like je bun and I was no more in love than the Doctor is now. And stop interrupting. No, it was simply that I'd been knocking about

America for a year and a half, and

booth, Tai Kwok, came to the Miss Baum, who is accompani- four main characters began to In-Fortune From A Play

she she reminded me of home. I station to claim the child. Heed by her brother on this plen-trude upon my mind." produced a contract agreement sure trip through the East, is

The richest men in Russia to-day called her the Vicar's Daughter, showing that the child had been outstanding among the few per-

Referring to her name Miss Baum are not the bankers, industrialists, I was dead nuts on getting back hired in Canton to him as an ap-sonalities in the world of letters said: "Vicki is short for Victoria or great surgeons. These are all to England, you see, but I was also prentice to learn boxing and acre- who have visited the Colony this and Baum, as you know, is the relatively low-paid officials. The rich pretty well broke; and as the French batic arts. The agreement also year. Of, medium height and German word for tree. In Shang men are the playwrights, and the Exhibition was just being talked showed that Tai Kwok pald a build she possesses a pair of large Chinese word for forest, because, Vassilevitch Skhvarkin, author of struck me that I might possibly turn hat, the Chinese' called me Lin, the richest of them all is M. Vassily phout for Burlington House, it sum of $250 to the child's blue eyes, blonde hair and a clear

complexion. She is a little over they said, I am not a tree, as I have "Another Man's Child."

an honest penny by writing a popu Tai Kwok, who was charged $0 years of age and of a charm two children," Miss Raum and ber husband, Mr. Richard Lert, (who is with the same offence pleaded ing disposition.

now an orchestral leader in Ameri that he was not 'present at the

ca), as well as other members of her time when the show was on, and was subsequently discharged.

mother. !

RAILWAY RECORDS SHATTERED

London Newcastle. At 68 Miles An Hour

TOP SPEED REACHED OF

..100.6 M.P.H.

HER NOVELS"

Since

nine books to her credit. then she has written three ad-

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HUGE HEROIN PILL HAUL·

"It had two distinct clienteles, one

composed chiefly of English clergy-

This rollicking but decidedly lar handbook: so instead of coming mediocre farce ran for 15 months in straight home I elde-stepped to more-than-1,000. theatras-and-clubs Paris to take a look at the Louvre. Up to 1932, when success come family, have already sent in their big Moscow theatres have played it for a few days, I put up at what throughout the Soviet Union. Four And, as usual, when I'm only, there to her through. "The Grand naturalisation papers to the Ameri- continuously. The work bears no we will call the Grand Hotel Hamide. Hotel," Miss Baum already had can Government.

trace of Marxism, Leninism, or it's a second-rate little hole, but 1 The distinguished visitor sald Stalinism, and was passed for pro liked to look at the people. They sentation after a Adlemn official were amazing. You know how ditional novels. "Life Goes On" that she could not form an opinion (1983), "Falling Star" (1934),| of China. Everything seemed to committee had decreed that "Bol- some hotels seem able to live a dou- Land "Men Never Know" (last confused at the present time.

her,, she said. so picturesque and sheviks must learn to laugh."

Be life and get away with it? Well, month). She writes all her "Later on, on my way back from

After another two or three years the Humide was one of those, stories first in German.

of such success M. Skhvarkin will Speaking English fluently like Java, I may be able to, but I think be a millionaire in Soviet zoubles.

men, the other as cheerful a set of native-born American, Miss the Chinese girls are lovely, es- Baum only took up the study of pecially their hands. Hong Kong,

rogues and vagabonda as you could find even in Paris. It used to English three years ago when even for the few hours that we

amuse me, just to sit in the entrance she, together with her family, have spent here, seems to us the

On the application of Revenue lounge and watch them go in and left Germany for her adopted most beautiful; part in the Far

East.

The scenery upon The Officer A. W. Grimmitt, 114.000 out-first an elderly couple from a country, the United States.

heroin pills, found in room No. 318, Yorkshire parsonage, come over on "I could write in English, but it Peak is simply marvellous."

Tai Lo Sin Hotel, Des Voeux Rond an excursion to see their daughter AMERICAN WRITERS cently when a train belonging to the would not be my own style, it would

Central on March 25, were confis the gouvernante: then a pair of Talking on, the subject of new London and North-eastern Railway not be myself. My style would then

cated by Mr. W. Schofield at the shrill-voiced native cocottes, ogling become as stiff as a schoolgirl's”,

American fiction, raced from London to Newenstle atį

Miss Baum Central Magistracy this morning. thinks that Ernest Hemingway is

the old man from sheer force of average speed of 68 miles an she commented.

Miss Baum is a prodigy, for at one of the finest writers to-day financial success and fame, and has "There was always a sprinkling of

habit, from the hout, accomplished the return jour-

Continuing, she said, "I think ney in less than four hours and at the age of 18 she was a professor

a beautiful wife, the last time of English honeymooners, too-I one point austained a speed of more of music, and had played her way the greatest American writer to saw him he was still looking de-think they must have recommended than 100 miles an hour for a stretch with her harp into the hearts of day is Sinclair Lewis, though not, pressed."

German audiences since her ninth of course, because he won the No Last night I took Miss Baum to drives-balanced by an

it to each other at the parish whist- When reminded that witness her first Chinese stage play large

equally The train, hauled by an engine of chamber musician" at the Court of Lewis was criticised when her in the Orient at the Ko Shing Semites; altogether a very well- sprinkling of doubtful the Pacific type, steamed out of the Brand Duke of Hessen, It was ceived the honour she said: "Theatre. It was a disappointing proportioned mixture of sheep and King's Cross and roared along till during this period that she found is in a fighter as you will set in performance, but the noted au goste like Judgment Day you after each one of his books. He gives thoress said, "I have seen better know, only before they're sorted out. Newcastle, 268 miles distant, was romance, for very shortly reached.

wards she married Mr. Richard Lert, the most complex picture of Chinese, actors and acting in Sa

American life to-day. No one but Francisco, but I simply want to get to award a first prize in each class: As soon as I got there I always used At one point in the journey, a her orchestra conductor. speed of 88.5 miles an

written "Main the atmosphere and to see the Chin BEGAN WRITING IN FRENCH him could have hour was attained.

Her first literary effort was made Street and created "Babbit" He ese audience's reaction. No, I am well, the goats that year were all Seven valuable minutes were lost at the age of 14, when a short story well deserved the honour not collecting material for a new much of a muchness; but In the

Turning to the younger Ameri- book, I hate people who tour the sheep the Vicar's Daughter French entitled, "Discretion”,

an

Three records were smashed re-

of over 10 miles.

1

year. At the age of 20 she became bel prize,"

hands down

at Doncaster owing to the derailin ment of a goods train ahead, but was published." From the time of can women writers, Misa: Baum world in six months and think they "She had a pink ban-sha some coal wagons which were part- her marriage, for seven years up to said that she frat had the work of can write volumes on their travel?

ly blocking the line

hours,

WON

face,

that

ere hurled 1982, she was the editor of three Katherine Brush, one of America's MISS BAUM'S NEXT BOOK- nice fair hair and a down the embankment to enable the German magazines. It was during most promising women writers and Asked what her hart book will wasn't boyish but simply

this period also that the greater author of "Manhattan" and "“Red be, Miss Baum, said that she has boy's, and the curious ling was express to get past.

The express returned to London number of her books were written, Headed Woman, translated into already finished the first draft of that I'd already her that very, after- in just 92 minutes under four but she was unknown outside Ger- German and published in her ma "Cares, but it will not be finished noon, going solemnly round the

many until the London, publishing gazines.

or another year:When I finish Louvre catalogue In one hand firm of Geoffrey Bles bought the Tyas the first one to publish a book, I always think, that it will and a pencil in the other. Another record was smashed when it sustained an average speed)

English rights of her most noted in German, "Gentlemen Prefer not be good enough and throw it struck me then, even

ongst all novel, "Grand Hotel" which was Blondes by Anita. Loos, with aside for a long while and go on the Easter-excursion schoolmarms. of 100,6 miles an hour for a stretchi translated by Mr. Basil Creighton, whom I now work as scenario writ

the lounge with some other work before I pick on

of the hide she stood out like:

Windsor

of 12 miles:

During the Great War, Miss Baumer at the Metro-Goldwyn-May

nursed babies in Southern Ger studios In Hollywood,

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