1955-03-19 — Page 6

THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1955.

THE WHIRLWIND CALLED HOOLEY

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Papworth Hall cainte had a cir- cunference of sixteen miles, and Hooley was expansive £250,000 he have about

ราง spent on altera tions to it,

ho was a At home great family man devoted to

RNEST TERAH 1le was a gentleman farmer; HOOLEY descend- Squire of Risley Hall, in Notting ed on the financla!

hamshire; in Cambridgeshire bis and social world of London in the 1890's with the speed and effectiveness

Within f whirlwind. couple of years he had pro- the wife he had married in his moted £20 million worth of early twenties, who was a little companies from his head- bewildered by her sudden trans- quarters on the first floor of lation to immense wealth.

St. Pancras's Midland Grand Je told visitors how he had Ant for Sir Thomas Kingscote, Hotel.

keeper of the Queen's collar, to Hooley was a darkly hand- advise him about filling the

"Give me figure with well. Papworth bing. trimmed black Vandyke heque for £10.000 for wines

Bome

£2,000 for elgara," Sifr beard and moustache. He Thomas had said. "I want! had a most persuasive man- may mwe (11 let you know," ner, and he always talked in millions.

He took the whole first floor of the Midland Grand at a cost of £200 a week. and there often gavo as many as six simultaneous Junchwon parties. lie solved the problem of being in six pinces at obee by outing hors d'ocupres with one party, soup with an- other, sh with a third.

In the countryside he became

n notable figure, visiting the head cattle markets in a phaeton pulled by a big black innre, with fis agunt beside him and a foot- 4 15

in the back seat. The farmers

light preognised his grey aheck suita and

scarlet waistcoats, and the price of everything went up as soon as tre arrived Everybody knew He moved on with the plea that Me Hooley had plenty of that argent financial buadress money.

needed hi Rienilon-and with any luck he got back to the first parly in time for cuffee.

WDre

the Houley companies good? people asked. Dunlops,

the Humber

Cycle Company.

Schweppes, Bovril, and the rest?

You had only to look at the 210s of the

convinced

directors to be

Un the final page of each prospectus were such names us Ear de to Wurr, East of Albe- marle, Earl of Winchlisca, Duke of Somersel; and a tile on a prospectus was more unusual in those days.

Prices went up

[RERE were other that guarantees

Hooley wag poctablu.

it

member

fa-

He was

✩ Ernest Hooley did only the huge things. When ha talked, he talked in mililons. When be bought, he bought

in millions. When he sold, his gala was millions. And

when be crashed, he fall, quite coolly, into the biggest scandal of the day.

THE GREAT GAMBLERS

The Story of Six People Who Played With Firm (No. 4)

by JULIAN

SYMONS

On

the front page of the Dunkp prospectus were tho names Earl de la Wurr, Duke of Somerset and Earl of Albemarle, Hud they been paid anything for becoming directors?

10

Hooley coyly refused answer. Then he said with ap- purent reluctance. "I

paid Lord de lu Warr £50,000, of which he was to have £25,000, and split the rest."

"How

Wus the £25,000 divided?"

remaining

The Duke

Somerset roclved nothing. Lord Albe- inarlo received £12,500. He should have bad bad wit I Junction Ernest Terah Hooley half anted to."

don't think he know what Wie led his polition of bankruptcy. He showed debis of mure thaa

A

few

They believed him £1,000,000,

Thu

norths ALDAKET this

ww

There Before long

Mko

more

laughter. the proceedings

tursand Hooley

pure comedy bankruptcy Hooley told how he had paid examnisation Was une of the

£400 to

an agent for the pur- greatest scundals of the nineties

of "quieting papers geneT - He had puld #1,000 to a ally. Mor:1xpl quite calmly said ne

financial paper so that, he could that the prime cause of his bank- w

write his own urticle on his ruptcy was the enormous amount companies-"and & very good of money bu had paid out lo article ko," he said approvingly. various members of the nobility He had given £3,000 Lo The to serve on his boards, and to

former City editor of the Pall Journalists for services rendered In the Press.

JOOLEY told all This friends that

after Som

the Jubilee would get his baronetcy People

believed halim because seemed that be could do any→ thing

Agaust all precedvat he was

High appointed

Sherin vi Cambridgeshire und

the had bought the Dunlop Hunting- donshire, Dressed in a gorgeous company for £3 million, he told scarlet form he drove down

the Receiver, and sold 11 after a buscand

four bay homes, in u

short time for £5 million. The carriage which had cast a small

Receiver dryly asked: "Of what fortune, to awet Her Majesty's

He did your duty as prompter con- judge taking the Assize. gave a luncheon to 70

guests to sigly" commemorate the occasion,

which began with oysters, moved

of

the

on

Carlton C'lub.

been

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"A promoter buys a business Jobster and prawns in and sells R again," Hooley said.

then to swootbreads. He udded amidst laughter: bort turkey and truffles, arched "The most important thing in tongue and other delicacies....

the whole matter is the front

had

offered aspic. two safe. Tory seals in Parlia- ment, but had chosen to stand ingload for the Radioni division of Ilkeston in Derbyshire.

The luncheon cust about £200. page or the prospectus."

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leave that

"Why?"

"Eveuse he was always on about me and my companies.

Scandal grew

THEN Hooley re

from

turned

HOOLEY

bro years he promoted £20 million

worth of companies.

Meat? They Like Lollipops More

London.

INCE meat came

the ration I have been trying to make my

BERNARD off

WICKSTEED

no

What about that telegram sent by the secretary of the Humber Company

his directors: "Given away absolutely includchildren carnivorous. So far

to

inu the attempt to square the experiment has been finds it's

21

You

Just can't win with children. It's a wonder that any of them ever reach maturity without being strangled.

Hero was the house looking Glles cartoon. Thero

fun like 蟲

wand

meat everywhere. The

was here. And what do these

That was really rather

and the Humber complete failure. If they teaching the children great liberation from rationing to explain, directors were fined for con- were allowed. they would tempt of court. The peers in-still prefer to live exclusive. the joys of a joint lightly ly on sticky sweets, Ice- salted pork! I built up a terri-

volvert got off more

with some scathing comments in the Press,

As the hearings progressed it became clear that the

liberate

proper

reasons

It is useless to tell them

P

finish nghters at Waterloo? Not even

starving Little victims of food

shortugo do about it?

No, thank you

We peeled one and put it t front of him, then sut round w Woil, you enjoy his delight.

cream cornets, new potatoes, fc story. I who a regular They tell me to go and shoot

Blimp of the Breakfast Table. and fizzy lemonade.

a cow with a bow and arrow! It didn't mean

thing to It was just the samo during thom.

Were there any jet the war. With enormolla effort that if they do not

I brought home for Hooley's failure, apart from

a bunch of is extravagance, were his de their meat they will never any helicopters? What a feeble bananas in

bay the bomb into big, disregard of business grow

strong battle that must have been.

had a Liberator. 1

only methods and his refusal to keep people. They say they do

As for Trafalgar,

with its une child then and he had never You wood! accounts. There

con ships made of wo

sem a banana. was not specially want to. They

the nothing wrong with most of the

soo buttles like that

of companies ho had promoted, say they are quite happy ponds Hampstead Heath! but only with the way Hooley as they are.

had cuten ice-cream As regular Now it handled them,

visitors to the Zoo they also in those days instead of conly ment they might have been know that elephants live on clever enough to think of sub

what could be marines and aircraft carrions. buns, and bigger or stronger than an I tried thern with the can guess what happened He Romans and the Ancient Greeks. took one mouthful, chewed it elephant?

Lions and tigers eat meat but Great people fill they took to slowly and thoughtfully like an THE biggest tilbit

spaghetti and rice. It did mo old cow with a cud, and then of Dil came my children do not want to be impress the children a bit, the said: "No more, thank you. I whan Hooley testl-lions or Ligers. Nor wolves. flod that he had They would not mind being given a commission board, because hen they would spaghetti note for £20,000 to be all furry and live in Sir William Maron honey, But on the whole Intro- they would prefer to go on being and had pald him children and cat sweets, 1,000 after being elected the Carlton Club.

£50,000 cheque

rint for various useful duetions,

Marrioti was a Liberal turned Tory, a politician of some im- portance and a leading light in the Carlton Club. He had been Judge Advocate-General under Lord Salisbury, and a Chancel- lor of the Primrose League,

He

Under examination he admit ted receiving the money, but Press te nobility. said it was on account

of a He had paid Lord private transuction. He agreed Winchise £10,000, that Hooley had contributed he had paid Land

£10,000 Duncannon debentures, had serious trouble with Lord Templetown who had not been salislied with a sum of £500 a yeur, so that Hooley actually had to pay him money to leave the bourd of Schweppes.

sum

u large agreed

had given EL

With all the various demands un huis purso Hooley reckoned that Bovril, which he bought for £2,000,000 and sold for balt a mition more, showed him only £30,000 net profit. in the case of Schweppes, where a paper profit of £230,000 was shown, be claimed Chal he had actually lost money.

party fundo, a190 that Hooley had cheque for £50,000 under the impresalon. That he would get a baronetcy-but the cheque had

never been

presented.

During his cross-examination by Sir George Lewis, Marriott was stung into protesting that he had really done n lot of work for Hooley.

do not think you would have done it for nothing yourself, Slr George," he said.

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Better line

little brasts. to know

packets.

All they wanted do not like bananas."

whether WIS

the Are all children like this? I was in tins or long sometimes try to interest muine in their food by telling them I thought at first I had scored about the tremendous feasts i a point when I said that cowboys have con tu my travels. and Indians ate buffalo meat, and it was much the same the beef on our plates.

That

So I have abandoned natural shook the children for a moment, history without even mentioning and they actually ato a mouth that bears cat inent too. it Iful or two.

K

in

I told them about that feast Tonga on the Royal Tour when there was a whole pig for every guest. I told them about the meal in Aden when a Sul-

tan sitting next to me bandod

Ike

had brought that up they would But the victory did not last me an entire leg of mutton to only have side-tracked me by long. They soon thought of a cat

cat in my hand asking if they ate people. And, comeback to that one. They drumstick. If so, how many“ -

were quite prepared to eat beef They simply said: "Did you History seemed a better live, instead of buffalo, they said, it eat it all? Didn't you leave The roast beet of old England! I would shoot a cow with a bow any? Not a litle scrap?" Those were the days! Every and arrow

und

then roast it Serve them right if they do soldier ate a pound of meat

vegetarians! whole in the garden. Otherwise grow day and

Growl the Navy Uved on It wasn't fair.

.GROWLI

evon

Ian Mercer meets the Dancing Priest, who says:

'GOD IS

IS EVERYWHERE

H

IN

...

NIGHT CLUBS TOO'

Lewis replied grimly: “I cer- talaly should not

have done what you have done, Sir Wil-night club unless all the dancers from Andalusia, llam, and I am not a Queen's members of it were grown Counsel."

AL 120 несоли session Hooley's examination the scan- dal grow. Since his original

Shortly after the hearings statement, the financier said, he

ended Murriott emigrated to had been approached separately South Africa, and spent his last by Lord de la War, by some of the directors of the Humber Company, and by an agent Lord Albemarle.

years there.

of

A little fun

THE

All of them had offered him money to say that the amounts received by them were the re- sult of business dealings. Hooley had threatened to punch the head of one man.

said

"You did very right," the Registrar. "You might have served А prison sentence for perjury."

Hooley struck * dramatic attitude. "I would rather have dona a month in gaol than admit all this." It was noticed, however, that he seemet? enjoying himself,

Rather difficult

more or less THE

eminent people altacked were "DOW

cruptcy Twas not the and

of Hooley's story,

but it was the end

up.

of Palma's

Majorca, period of more than four Jack el Negro, which is for OLIDAYMAKERS who hours.

and away the most fashionable many night clube, have not penetratel The floor show, which began opens only in summertime, for further south than the at midnight, was as good as it in an outdoor place of enter Pyrenees would never dream any I have seen anywhere in tainment. The commissionaire, Europe since the war. There who spends the winter months of taking the family to a were two spectacularly clever between the harbour and the who airport looking for customers how

the for a small hotel, told me the strated just

beautiful flamenco other day that Jack el Negro be put over; a young will be opening at

Enster

this Here in the "Golden Isle,"

rench soprano,

unknown to year. That is good news for however, you can safely me before, who sang delight- visitors who will be coming take your youngest children fully; and a team of acrobats here at the beginning of the along too for nothing

D truly magnificent ect. season, for though the estab-

till closing time lishment ia rather more remained happens in Mallorquin

(3 a.m.) and my bill, for two pensive than any of ita com- night elub that could brandies and sodas and a ham petitors — champagne coating. possibly shock the sensibill- sandwich (there is no charge about 50s, a bottle-you get full ties of even the legendary for admission), came to a Iltile value for money. Mrs Grundy. The Church in under ten shillings.

GOOD CABARET Spain, against which much has been said and written, at least seea to that.

of his social ambi- Having just done

tions. It has never

Probably he realised that, the game was up and decided to money he had spent in later lito he saw the inside of more than one prison, but lived on into

a cheerful old age. Up to the time of his death in 1947 he made a handsome living out of some of the men and

womcon

i have a little fun for all the

with

I

ex-

At my lost port of call, the Cabello Blanco, situated -pic- turesquely in ono of the

At the Troendero, where I narrow, winding, streets of the went the following night, the old city, which is definitely the cabaret was equally good, and second-class, but nonetheless re- thero was spectable, a very remarkable

prices

wero

havo

been clear why he round of Palma's leading here, as at Tito's, chose to attack his aristocratic night spots, I can say quite nothing the most rigid moralist incident occurred. It would, in-

could possibly

objected deed, have been remarkable in friends at his examination, and positively that they

any country in the world. Here, are to. All the performers were to reveal things about which he harmless, very gay, and fully

no in Catholic Spain, it was well dreseed (anything op- could easily have kept quiet.

extremely entertaining proaching nudity would land nigh incredible. without ever descending to them in a police cell);

body,

TO MASS. Including

Bome Am that vulgarity which is, or

sallors,

behaved well; the

The priest from nearby extraordinarily church, a young fellow seems to be, the criterion of s

with such places elsewhere on

Actually, on this

J fine I went the Continent.

"twinkling eyes and all opt, the

and figure, danced all the other roy- expense, treated myself to AT TITO'S:

their feet, and then, д bottlo

of ollers off

of the best champagne.

at sunrise, took most Very At Tito's, for instance, I dry

Mascaro, and t

It still

his church to celebrate Moss. who were dazzled by bla broczy sat next to a party of

When I asked him about it well under a pound. Spaniards that included 4

he said something Another popular haunt of afterwards, bishop, a judge, and one of vice is the Ibiza, where you can that I will long remember, and the Civil Governors. They spend the evening dancing to all thoroughly enjoyed' one of the city's finest bande seeing an absolutely first-class themselves, drinking in the door show, and meeting many course of the whole evening of the natives

charm.

by • WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED of learned counsel. Special sit- tings

bald, Weng at which Hooley's statements were contradictock Pressed by the Receiver, however, all the people concerned admitted, re- colving money from Hooley, but said that it was in the way of business.

· NEXT SATURDAY:

A knighthood? Twelve thousand pounds makes it easier, 'sald Mr Gregory

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIANA

YOU STOPPED ON EARTH TO REFILL YOUR BATTERIEC-- AS THOUGH IT WERE AKAS GTATION

YES, WE CONVERT YOUR WATER INTO HYDROGEN.

|"WHILE WE WERE DOING THIS SOME OF OUR CREW HAD TARGET PRACTICE=F

i

Spa really good, it is called habitues of the place round to

cost me

who enjoy

which socma to prove that the Spanish priests are not so, far behind the times as is generally belloved; ...

"There is nothing in our two bottles of champagne nothing better than to practise religion which saya a man must batween them. It worked their English, all for consider: not enjoy himself," he observed, out at a quarter of a bottle ably lear than you pay for a "and God is everywhere,

tea danco in London's West only in churches, but in night each, consumed over a End.

*~-TO SEE WHAT WE COULD. | FIND FOR SPECIMENS.”

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

SPECIMENS? WHAT DO YOU INTEND TO DO WITH US?

TAKE YOU

WITH US. “OF COURSE

clube too."

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