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Mr. Hu Han-min's Return

suffered from extremely weak (75- JAYNET FAIR

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HOLLYWOOD

EXAGGERATED REPORTS OF PARTIES

MOST STARS RUN LEGITIMATE

BUSINESS AS EXTRAS

(By Mildred Harris Chaplin)

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All communications intended for sight, which disabled – him from publication should be addressed to even writing his own name, except On several occasions in the last the Editor, and be accompanied by with his eyes closed. Having en ten years it has seemed that Bar- a charter the Writer's Name and Address barked on his history of the Anglo-net Fair, held under not necessarily for insertion, but French struggle for the possession granted by Henry II, was doomteck of the American continent, he had The encroachment of housing cs a guarantee of good faith.

a frame built in which parallel estates, the passing of by-laws wires were stretched across his against noise, and lack of interest writing paper. On this with eyes in the horse sale, have made show- fclosed, he wrote a long series of men and copers wag their heads

farmer schoolmistress, college 40 historical volumes under in-lugabtiousty and say, "the Fair's "UTY of laughter, City of I frequently met that clever credible handicaps. Being unable/deadTM

But last year, forced by the. Do you remember that song? student, Thelma Todd, our lives to read, he had the vast historical;

She, for instance, ran a busi- Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 18, 1936. material read to him by a school-builders to a new site, it included It might have been written were vastly different.

girl Most of his basic material sheep and cattle again as well as about Hollywood, that beauti-

ful, busy, heartless film metro-ness, and very well she did it. was in French, which was read to horse05.

This is probably a vain attempt polis where a few have found Her roadhouse. "Thelma Todd's him, although the schoolgirl did not understand a word of what she to restore its old importance as afame, many have found disillu Sidewalk Cafe," on the beach- and some have front between Malibu beach and sionment

Santa Monica-a busy resort In spite of his cattle fair. The days when Robert was reading. affiction, Parkman was also 3 Grimston could get a horse there gone to inexplicable deaths.

Hollywood, where tears, and for famous picture folk and smiles are manufactured for the week-end visitors was always Though Mr. Hu Han-min will botanist of rote and his Book of for a shilling a leg and ride him jout cabbing the next morning are

world, has had another personal crowded, and she attended always be as welcome to Hong Roses is a classic. .....

fono

tragedy, and we who know the greater part of the business Kong as he has been in the past, the friends of China will

On Both Sides Of

Hollywood realise that in such direction of it herself. THE "SISTER SAVAGE”* that

a city such things must happen. She was not the only promis congratulate themselves

The Fence®

Glamorous Thelma Todd,jent film player who was wise when he reaches our port to

Most people are aware of the morrow he will be allowed toi return to the mainland In During a previous incarceration stern masculinity of the Savage Vamping Venus," as she was enough to seek, in business, spite of his exile or semi-exile in a western prison, Earl FClub but there was, in fact, a called in one of her first big diversion and insurance against Many of the most famous other who has risen to head- he has managed to retain his Lathrop and a prison mate invent-isolitary "Sister Savage. She was films, is dead. Like many an-a rainy day." influence with a considerable ed the forgery proof machine, Dame Hadge Kendal.

Her brother, the dramatist, Tom lines in Hollywood life she died names in pictures are behind section of the people. He has which was so successful that the

the studios, been the emblem. if not the in-patent was purchased and Lathrop Robertson, was one of the foun-under a cloud of suppositions as flourishing business concerns in spiration, of the Cantonese at-iparoled through the efforts of the ders of the club, which had pre to the manner of her death. California, and when they are wild rumours af over-gay par-why, they are busy with their titude to the national problems, manufacturers. For years he was mises in Leicester-square in what As in many another case the not working at as opposed to the policies spon-employed in an eastern corporation was later the Empire.

their sports same building was ties attached to the tragedy shops. their cafeterias, their sored by Generalissimo Chiang office, and upon quitting his job In the Kai-shek, and when the leader took with him the knowledge of Evans's Restaurant and on one have proved untrue. It seemed road-houses, ar

Petrol Filling Stations of the opposition in a republic officials' signatures and some blank occasion Dame Madge Kencal clear that she died from a mis- clubs.

Charles Bickford, who was is disposed of by a kind of checks, which he forged and de- went to dine in the restaurant but adventure that might claim any But he was caught, wandered into the Savage Club of us a victim the impercep "open arrest" or banishment, posited

Christie,” runs petrol filling instead of by reason and public tried, and convicted in only a few by mistake. She was hailed with table fumes from a car exhaust with Greta Garbo in "Anna

Mostly Exaggerations

stations 23 a side business. opinion, there is something days, and now serves a mandatory delight by the members and elect-

For Hollywood is not

Charles Farrell, for so long the Wrong- That is of course life sentence in Sing Sing as aed on the spot.

Her membership was confirmed modern version of

partner of Miss Janet Gaynor, rather a naive judgment in the 4th offender

in 1926 at a Ladies' Night The Rome. circumstances of Chinese poli-

which The scandals that have sulli-has shops at Palm Springs and a only recorded- occasion on tical life, and we do not know gathered together round

Iclab Miss Bebe Daniels's by what secret strings of sub-table. It will naturally be ask-she availed, herself of the privied its name in the past have also runs a rackets and tennis

was when, mostly been exaggerations.

gown shops at Beverly Hills, not surface organisation it is that ed. "What do you propose to leges of membership

the his influence has continued ur io?" The next question will,shortly afterwards, she had tea in Yet, in the minds of many afer from Hollywood, are

girl and boy

most popular fashion houses in diminished in spite of such aibe: "How do you propose to do the office at the club, and later film-struck

throughout the world. Holly California soon. be ob-saw over some of the rooms. long withdrawal from the front it?" It will very

wood is still pictured as a centre There is a long list of "big of feverish gaiety, unbridled names" at the back of many licence, lavish wealth, immea-places where wayside travellers surable leisure for doubtful

may eat a "hot dog," take an pleasure.

afternoon-swim, or-dance-in-the But it is really very different evening to an exclusive band. Once, I know, when film stars You may have heard of began

enormous Henry's on Hollywood Boule- salaries, Hollywood went mad vard? Until recently that was I have heard of wild spending, run by Henry Bergman, who gambling, and whoopee. has been associated for 20 years Why, the very word "whoopee" with my former husband.. once meant "Hollywood." But Charlie Chaplin, and in whose I have never seen it.

pictures he usually appears as A Schoolmatress

Charlie's enemy. And Herb. Certainly, among the group Sanborn, second husband in which I moved, and in which [Continued on Page 11).

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

of the stage, but it is still the vious that any plan will depend fact that only by discussion on the power to maintain order, and compromise can republican without which no commands

The Editor Replies institutions be anything more will be obeyed. Whether the

Dear AR-It's hard to say where patriot approves or not it is the l the common pins go

to in the than a facade.

a year, you see, they're. There are .many signs that fact that the quiet man who course of

way and headed now works in his fields will always pointed one the Generalissime has adopted a more liberal attitude choose that form of government other. to those with whom his differ which will ensure him against ences are secondary The only being robbed and ill-treated primary qualification for a pro- The task of creating and main there esas turned over minent part in the national taining internal order will take affairs ought to be willingness any Chinese body of Ministers Natural History. to serve Chinese peace and quite a long time, and before it

Events have made is finished they will have jetti- you want to see the latest thing prosperity.

their suspicions and in motor cars, ask the wife to pick it more obvious than ever that soned the attempt to centralise Gov- learned to work together. By you up at the station. erament under what political that time some other task will hilosophers would call have emerged to monopolise “unitarian" system was prema-their attention It is not for ture. The appearance of unity any outsider to suggest methods under the Empire was to a in detail, but it is quite in order large extent deceptive. The to point out that only by work- throne was recognised as a coming together with other men do mon centre, and from time to we learn how to work together time complimentary gifts and for the best advantage. There professions of devotion were must first come the act of faith Forthcoming. But the Provin ito make a beginning

cial Governors were not very One of the first things to be amenable to interference in done is to ensure that revenue Bocal affairs, and the Court was received is conscientionsly ap- content to accept their reports plied to its proper object or at and leave well alone so long as least to some other public ob there was no open defiance. Inject. We have recently receiv- fact if we go back through the ed the report of the application generations there were long of Boxer Fund votes to the periods when the defiance was building and reconditioning of lopen; and many Provinces were railways. A public railway run Huot only independent but ac for the interests of those who tually at war with each other use it at moderate rates will be After a time there would be a doing very well if it pays cur change of ruler by death or re, rent expenses promptly, writes volution, and the loyalty would off a fair allowance for depre be resumed. It is only the ciation of permanent way and length of the record that has rolling stock, and sets aside 2 covered up with the dust of for-regular-annual percentage for getfulness how frequent were reduction of capital It wi these lapses from unity, and have no money for any ex- how long some of them lasted traneous purpose whatever. Yet Time has been on the side of we read as an ordinary item of the central administration, es- news that "Yin Yu-keng is to pecially when there was a draw a lakh of dollars a month, emergency to be met, such as a to leave the railway in his ter Tartar invasion or extreme ritory alone, and he will, under misgovernment.

at sinniar a condition, receive

It is very likely that some monthly payment from the such period of re-union is at Changin salt revenues.” In due hand, to set at mught the pre-course there will be accidents on phecies of the despondent. In that railway due to failure to the new regime the charge will do necessary repairs, and there come by Nanking "calling to its will be an application either to counsels those whom otherwise the State or to private capital- it might be trying to crush by ists for more capital to recon- force of arms. One of the first dition it None of the great things to be done is to discard ideals of the young men who catchwords. A catchword re- are trying to remake Ch tends to be an embodiment of be achieved mutil these thought It is really a sub- enemies are extirpated stitute for thought. Take for as far as foreign instance the question of opposi conc

tion to the claims of Japan, and ties

let us suppose that half a dozen

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