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WINS

JOLSON'S WIFE

£80-A-WEEK DECREE

"HE RIDICULED ME IN FRONT OF HIS FRIENDS"

New York, December 27.

RUBY KEELER to-day won a divorce from Al Jolson, famous Hollywood "mammy" singer. He will pay her £80 a week alimony under an agreement, and a lump sum of £10,000 if she remarries.

Ridicule and embarrassment, according to her evidence, broke up a marriage that Hollywood thought was among its few perfect ones, and that lasted eleven years.

Ruby told the court: "He called me stupid. Whenever I expressed an opinion he would say, "That's won- derful. Do you know about that too? You are too smart."

The judge asked: "Did he say that

in front of friends?” Ruby answered

"Oh, yes."

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MARRIED AT 19

She added: "He would sit at table

and refuse to talk.

"He made me keep up the con- versation. It was very difficult in such circumstances.

"Then he would get up and go upstairs to bed, and leave me to entertain his friends.

"He criticised the friends I brought to the house, and as a result we had violent quarrels."

Ruby went on: "He'd never agree with

me about anything. When I said anything he'd fly into a rage."

She declared that Jolson, who is twenty-three years her senior, never seemed to like to take her anywhere.

LAFCADIO HEARN VOLUMES

Tokyo, Jan, 12. Little known works by Lafcadio

·Hearn, English -author who lived and worked for many years in America and then came to Japan to be natur- alized, were brought to light to-day by the Hokuseido Publishing House, which already has published many of the Japanophile writer's works.

The newly found articles are the early journalistic works of Hearn and were written when he was in the United States and worked as a news- New Cincinnatti and paperman in Orleans for fourteen years. No less than 200 articles, in five volumes, are collected for the first time revealing a new and fascinating aspect of Lafca- dio Hearn's life and work.

The articles deal with every subject under

the sun,

from literature to science, spiritual photograph, music, surgery and other such varied sub- jects. They clearly demonstrate Hearn's remarkable versatility and great. love of writing. Curiously en- ough, the words Japan or Japanese hardly ever are to be found in his works and nobody, at first glance, would think their author was to gain

international fame as the best expon-

ent of things Japanese to the Western

reader.

The lure of the Orient nevertheless

was clearly apparent in his early writ- ings, now being printed, and those dealing with the East are numerous enough to be gathered into a single volume. Hearn reveals himself in all his articles as a scholar and thinker as well as an artist for he introduces the treasure of Hindu literature, the Ramayana, and deals at length wit China myths and worship.

soon to be

Jolson won world fame in 1928 in the early talkie "The Singing Fool." He married Ruby Keeler, then a music hall comedienne and tap dancer, when she was nineteen and he was forty- two.

FINE RUNNER

KILLED IN ACTION

on

The sporting ranks of Essex mourn the loss of the fine athlete Bergeant E. B. Hiller, who was killed in, action with the Royal Air Force. A sprinter of excep. tional - promise. Hillier · has several occasiona represented Essex, in inter-county competi- tions. At Chelmsford last year ha won the county's furlong championship in 23.1. nec. Only by Inches did A. H. Smith of Woodford prevent him taking the 100 yards also.

DARTMOOR MEN PUT CEMENT IN PIGS' FOOD

This is one of many similar acts reported from the prison.

NAZI "PEACE TERMS"

Humour Over The Air

Nazi propaganda continues to attack British administra- tion and Imperial relations, and to appeal consistently to the "oppressed Englishman," offering the hope that he will take his destiny in his own hands and demand peace, "Otherwise, the last chapter of your history is closing," it is declared.'

Some Nazi officials reiterate that they do not understand why the fact that no direct reply was sent by Germany to the Belgian- and Dutch mediation proposal should

sidered discourteous.

be con-

German radio comment, which is a mixture of seriousness and irony, has London, Dec. 20. | Maidstone, and other big prisons since outlined as follows the peace terms Convicts sent out on farm work at the war began. They are far from that would be acceptable to Germany: Dartmoor mixed cement with pigfeed | happy.

Independence for India; surrender of In the hope of getting their warders They prefer the sterner discipline of "Tutelage over Egypt;" restoration of into trouble.

a "town" prison, which, they claim, is | the liberty of the Boers, and the more severe than that of a modern holding of a plebiscite among them penal establishment.

similar to that held in the Saar; sur- Conditions of the convicts at Dart-render of the Palestine Mandate, leav- Arabs to "settle their own moor are very much better than theying the were a few years ago. There are more fate;" plebiscites in Cyprus, the Falk- land Islands, and the West Indies; concessions..

"complete freedom for Ireland," and the "restoration of Canada to France." The radio pictures Germany as "the perfect Socialist State."

A section of the prisoners-the ma- jority are well-behaved-is doing its utmost to make the lives of the war- ders intolerable.

SUCCEEDING

They appear to be succeeding. The convicts often camplain senior officials about individual war-

These are appreciated by the "old lags," but to

men: recently transferred from London jails are trying to takę advantage of them.

ders against whom they harbour a grudge.

Just over a week ago one man who had been supplied with bread said to a warder, "Serve if in a proper man- ner!"

He promphly lodged a complaint with a chief warder that his bread had been thrown at him,

Once it was usual for Dartmoor

convicts to address warders as "Sir",

or "Guv'nor."

"Now we almost have to 'Sir' the convicts before they will do anything,” a warder told the "Daily Herald" yes- terday.

TOO EASY

Many warders have been drafted to Princetown from Wormwood Scrubs,

"LIVING IN A MADHOUSE"

"We are obviously living in a madhouse," declared the author, Mr. J. B. Priestley, who went on to advocate a federation of European States, including democratic Germany, on the lines of the United States of America..

There should be a central govern- ment, he said, and one Burrency, with no Customs barriers, one army, navy, and air force, and one foreign policy, but each nation should be in chars of its own domestic affairs.

Professor Ernest Barker,

of Political Science at Car

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