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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1936

LONDON IN NEW

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SHOWING TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 "A FAIRYLAND OF COLOUR

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"The First Movement of the Unfinished Symphony"

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The special Paramount Fil depicting the scenes relating to the Funeral of the late

KING GEORGE V

"Fantasia

The Rose"

ON THE SCREEN.

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OPEN VERDICT: ON WOMAN

2 Kinds Of Broken Heart

£5,335 GIVEN

FOR "JUNK

Valuable Firedogs Discovered BROTHER'S QUESTION IN COURT "ACQUIRED BY LOUVRE It is the scale and size of Lon

After an open verdict had Budapest-A pair of firedoga, don that stagger most country been returned at a Battersea in after lying in a heap of rubbish” folk on their first sight of the quest last month, on Marion for years, started on a joumer capital

Gradbury, aged 49, of Endle-just two months ago, Now they But what amazes Miss Madge sham-road, Balham, who

was have reached the Louvre, in Paris, Brewer, the 25-year-old Wilt-found unconscious in bed and and their vaine has meanwhile în shire girl who can now see after died in hospital, a brother of creased from nothing-to a lifetime of blindness in the the woman stood up at the back (£5,000. little town of Calne, is some of the court and asked the coro-

In a certain castle in Hungary thing quite inexpected-its coliner, Dr. Edwin Smith: "Do you lay lot of junk" which the preclude the possibility of a owner decided must be cleared Cout An art dealer from Buda-

our.

With her mother. Miss Brew-broken heart 7′′*

unique.

over

and asked to

There was

of

it

of

china-much

er has recently been making a The Coroner: There are two pest was sent for round of London's wonders, and kinds of broken heart-one that price the "rubbish." her verdicts upon them are un- the novelists write about and an furniture. usual because her standards are actual broken heart, which broken and pictures many

means a ruptured heart. This them damaged. There were thou- Nine operations failed to was not present in this case.

sands of etchings. And the fire- make her see. The 10th suc-- When the brother said that

dogs. jceeded, but she cannot yet place he believed there was trouble at the form of things in a normal home, Dr. Smith replied: "We perspective, and when she saw cannot pursue that matter in the dealer the Houses of Parliament yes-

this court.

cause they looked so black in

MARGARET SULLAVAN terday she voted them dull, be-

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the rain.

Only By Colour

a

Analyst's Evidence

£400 For The Lot "Til pay £400 for the lot." said

"Right take it away," agreed Dr. John Ryffel, analyst of the owner of the "junk.” Guy's Hospital, said that hej So the dealer took it all away. found 30 grains of medinal in In Budapest, he looked carefully the body. Mrs. Gadbury must at the firedogs Then he wrote have taken at least 50 grains, letter to a friend in Vienna. which was a fatal dose

Price Goes Up The Vienna dealer got in touch

The lights have to be lit be fore she is really itapressed. "You see," she said after tour of the buildings that most!

The coroner said that the make provincials envy London, actual cause of death was bron-with a firm in Lucerne. The fire- "I do not know much about chial pneumonia, but the drugs dogs then passed to the Incerne shapes, and I can only tell awere a factor in the death. No dealer for £1,200, next day a Paris new church or house from an old one could say whether they had expert got them for $2,000, and he one by its colour.

been taken accidentally or in-resold them in Pari for $2,200. tentionally.

The new buyer took them to the Louvre. Then they were said to be the work of Francois Germain, the famous bronze founder of Louis XV.

**I thought London would be grey in the daytime and dark so night, and I imagined the Tube as an uncanny sort of place. It is exciting to find so much light

"What I had read about Lon- don in my Braille books gave me no idea of all the electric signs. They make the place a sort of fairyland for me. I suppose it is because, I have lived so long! in darkness."

3

PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED

Receiving Order Against Singer

It was

announced in a recent "London Gazette" that a receiving Lorder had been made against Mr. Clarence Nathaniel Johnstone, un- herder the bankruptcy Acts, on

debtor's petition.

Delight at Pantomime Light and colour were theme again when she went in the afternoon to "Jack and the

Mr. Johnstone, the coloured sin

So the firedogs have now beer acquired by the Louvre for 400,-) 000 franes (55,335).

MODERN SUICIDAL’

HABIT Methylated Spirit Drinking

When William Spencer, aged Beanstalk" at Drury-lane Sheer, formerly appeared with 254, of Torquay, was fined $1 or 14 was charmed by the mechanical partner on the music-hall stage as days at Paignton recently for ingenuity that makes the bean-Layton and Johnstone. The part being drank on methylated spirit, stalk grow before one's eyes, but hership ended last November after Mr. J. J. Alexander (chairman) her chief gratification was kept lasting more than 11 years. said: "The law takes stern mea" for the brilliart scene when the In the same month Mr. John-sures with some drugs, and be- giant's castle is revealed in stone married Mrs. Albert Sandler, fore long it may be necessary to flashing lights, and for the fin- formerly the wife of Mr. Albert take steps about the circulation ale, when all the cast appear in Sandler, the violinist.

of methylated spirit for drinking. their richest costumes.

"Ordinary intoxicants.

are bad enough, but methylated spirit its suicidal. The result may be blindness, insanity, or permanent [physical disablement."

Miss Brewer still finds reflec- tions a title confusing, and the rain that made the streets mír- ror the traffic they carried made her wonder how the buses and taxis managed to miss each other.

Peculiarities

PREHISTORIC REMAINS

Professor's Find In Switzerland

BONES OF EXTINCT ANIMALS

Some of

Spencer declared that he bought half a pint of methylated spirit] because of the cold weather. "Next time you are cold take hot milk and water," advised Mr.! Alexander.

LOCAL DOLLAR

STEADY

Silver Prices Rise

Knowing less than most peo- rle of what to anticipate, she is finding peculiarities where Berne The oldest identifiable others discover the expected-prehistóric remains ever found in The sculptures that crowd the Switzerland, have been discovered! Abbey, the unparklike layout of in the Kaltbrunnental, near Berne. Hyde Park, the nearness of Human skeletons, the bones of Buckingham Palace to the road extinct animals, including the wild these were novel for her as horse, giant stag and reindeer, and they could not be for the new-lover 2,000 stone implements are

The local dollar is steady, open- comer who already knows of among the discoveries

ing on demand Landon from pictures and read the animals have been extinct for

this morning at 1/3d. Ling-

thousands of years in this region while “forward" rose s to 198..

**Spot" silver advanced % to 20 One night she went to a cine The discovery was made by The programme pleased Professor Kohler, a Swiss natural-

The London on New York cross- her, but she got most joy from ist, when exploring a cave known rate was quoted at US$4 the interval, when changing as "the heather's kitchen." combinations of lights were played upon a silken curtain: Only an artist, perhaps, could fully understand this passion attracted by a curious hale some)

The professor's attention for colour unhelped by any pat 16 inches in diameter, in the roof. tern.

He enlarged the hole and eventually able to squeeze, through it He then found himself in one of a series of caves, some of them 60 feet in length

PUT UP VERY GOOD FIGHT”

Architect Befriends

Accused Man STOKER'S BUSY LIFE

Mr. Arnold William Harwood,

Curious Hole

was

WAS

984, as compared with £-US- $4.98%, while the New York on London cross-rate was quoted ati £—US$4994, as compared with £ US$4.98%.

ASKARIS DESERT

[Continued from Page 1)

VICTORY CONCEDED.

did not at all forms topic of the Chipping through the Emestone conversation.--Trans-Ocean Ser and silt which had formed on the vice flour of the cave, M. Kohler dis- covered three different layers of Rome: The Abyssinian vie rock Each contained human re-tory at Curati is officially.confirm mains and some bore traces

ored, but it is stated that the place [fre"

was only an observation post. Reuter's Bulletin Service.

NEUTRALITY BILL EXTENDED

Washington: The Foreign. Alej fairs Committee of the House of "I have very little doubt that he Representatives unanimously ap

an architect, described at London little girl. Sessions recently how he had be

friended the man in the dock, who,

Desperation

it was stated, had five previous did this thing in a moment of des- proved a bill extending the New- convictions. The man, whose wife peration said Mr. Harwood, "trality Law until May 1, 1967. An had died while he was in custody, feel that he put up a very good almost identical measure was up- was Bernard Arthur Beagle, aged fight in very dificult circumstances Proved by the Senate committee. 34, a staker, and he pleaded guilty indeed Whatever happens now, I Beuter's Bulletin Service to breaking and entering a doc-intend to try and help again later. tor's house at Regent's Park

Mr. Harwood said he had help

ed Beagle to obtain work after his cha

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discharge from prison,

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and when Beagle got

work he had to

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