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-SWEDISH ROYAL ROMANCE.

OLD FRENCH CONNEXION RECALLED. ·

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, APRIL 4th, 1931.

SOME GOSSIP FROM HOLLYWOOD,

Personal Items About the Stars.

Have you heard that

Myrna Loy has green eyes.

and titian hair...

is sculptoring.

and her hobby|

Lila Lee's real name is Gussie

Appel.

Dorothy Lee Эн

recovering from 15 appendlellin

operation

Emil Jannings may try the stage in Amerlen

Fin D'Orsay Wha born in Asnieres. France, April 16, 1907, and her real name is Yvonne D'Orsay,

Fay Wray takes a morning workout walking a straight chalk line. This to develop a grace- ful gait for even- ng gowns with trains and

long skirts Louise Brooks' fr4t

Talki

two years in

romantic comedy faree of big trusi- called "11

lit

Pays to

Adver-

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

NEW BIG METAL DIRIGIBLE. SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN GRAF ZEPPELIN.

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with the excayaion ul Miss Karin Nis They're members of the Swedish royal fam-1. swandt, upper left, pictured with her lance, Prince Lennart, who ay marrying her will lose his Lower L is one of the probabaȚes title and chance of sucression to the Swedish froze future rulers, Prince Gustavus Adolphus, ellest son of the Crown Pritre, and grondson of the present King and Quren, shową next. At upper right is the beautiful Princess Ingrid, only

anhter of the Crown Prine.

In Sweden, the royal reluctance of Pay at that time lived an ordi- made him a Marshal of the Empire, bimf of King Gustav V to sanction themary, hard-working lawyer used Bornadoites distinguisheit

His family had in the great battle of Austerlitz betrothal of his grandaun, Prince Hori Bernadotte

ng-time

Lennart, to a componer, breausejlen In that section of France for and Napoleon made his of "dynastic reasure" way seem centuries, and Henri had several rival Prince at Pante-Corvo, natural enough. But down in sons, one of whom, Jean-Finjatistes) southern France, on mang a little Jules, had been trained to follow

form and in dozens ot jer villages, it is eating some sur-1 prise.

in his father's Footstepe,

From Prince to King. These ensued war after war in But Jean-Baptiste tead

engaged. ather which Napoleon was view.

The martial life apprated Suddenly in 1810 came a marvel- of Beenuse the lowly French vis te him wel he listed at the age lous change in the fortunes

The death of Prince ingers are blood kin of King Gus of 17 in the French royal marines. Bernadotte.

Anrustenburg left the throne of which. iny, staunch stickler for the main Then came the revolution

and

without an en Swesten

heir. The tenance of royal lineage. And ped verything they know that Gustav's family common progie a chune, at the jote Swedish estate inmed Marshal The sent that word to be grabbed by royalty Bernadotte as Prince Royal of has been "royal" fur

1704 Jean-Sweden and, later in the same period of 121 years. Of course all and nobility. By royal families had to start being apliste was a Colonel. The next year, King Charles XII of Sweden royal same time or another, but he was a General of Brigade formally adopted him under the

and soon thereafter a General of name of Priner Karl Johan. Division.

BAN

most of those in Europe extend |

The one-time Frenchman threw back a thousand years or mure.

Rival of Napolean.

himself" into the work of his new Prince Lennart has shown. de

and In the days

he was a country with intense vigor wiret spite the royal dilutions his bimai you others, he 111 in love with son became King in all but name. has had, that the old French stock the pretty daughter of a Fruch-In 1813 he turned on his old corn- is still strong in him, and that beman fiving in one of the southern Mander and threw Sweden

Sapolenu.

into

is as independent as his kinsmen Franc Downs, Napoleost Hop the European coalition against on the borders of the Pyrenees, parte, also then an impecunions!

I was his Swedish For he has slefied his grandfather you officer, was an admirer of the contingent which largely decided by announcing his engagement to Miss Karin Nisavaurit, beautiful daughter of a Stockholm broket,

Seventh Her to Throne. This probably, will cost Lennart his princely rank, and all rights

me girl. She chose Bernadette, the battle of Leipzig against Bon- Then came Napoleon's mighty aparte, Napoleon died in exile on and her schoolgirl friends re St. Helena, His Empress was proached her for what she had discrowned Queen, But in 1818. missed bring

Empress of the one-time Bernadotte ended the lovely Madlane, the throne of Sweden as King ran, Bat

she didn't Charles XIV, and with him |Bernadett, thengh the Swedish Upon know it then, was to have the last Queen went the girl who might But Lennart doesn't mind, singh incidentally, just as young have wed Napoleon, his chances of becoming King Thermalette and young Napolem Her husband reigned until his were very slim anyway, Gustav present each other's paths in make death in 1844. Although by wat has two sons, Crown Prince fitting love, so their professional lives he added Norway to the Swedish tav Adolf and Prince Wilhelms, were later to be inter-twined again grown, ite never want popular with Leanart's father. The Crown and again. As Nagon rose to bis subjects and never mastered Prince himself has four sons, 20 sapreme power in France, Pernas the Swedish tongue, He was sue- There are six liyes livtween Lan-jchutte, hos, fudvated steadily. Sa ceeded by his son, OsCRE

much so that when Napoleon was, who was a fall frenchann

mart and the throne.

First,

by

So Lennart knows that he will absent in Egypt. Bernadotte was blood. He, too, married a French Jose nothing very tangible by step made Minister of War and rear woman, and she also was a com- ping down to the commisner rhúss¦ganized the army

moner Josephine Beauharnais, from which his house sprang back] When Nagoleon breume Ein one of the daughters of that

who became in the end of the eighteenth ren-peror, despite the fact that he did Create beauty

In the little Pyrenean town hot lik. Bernadoite, he nevertheless prvat Napoleon'a Empresa.

tury.

the

ise'

#1

Marion

Marsh.

whose resemblance

to Dolores Costello won her an imper

Tani

hart

with

John Barrymore Miss Marsh,

in his next Alm. "Svengali," is to be soon in a lesser role in the current "Fifty Milion Frenchmen."

The above picture shows how

the metal-clad dirigible will look when completed, while below in a perspective of the main cabin.

It is fireproof. 2-It is weatherproof.

3-It is durable and permanent.

in structure.

Eliminates Fire Hazard, Preparations are being made at 2.500 pounds of express freight

According to Mr. Carl B. Dutralt, for the construction of a and.10,000 pounds of mall. 100-ton "metal-clad" alrship.

The ship will have equipment Fritsche, Vice President of the of air- Detriot Ale-craft Corporation, following appropriation by Con- for convoying a squadron gress of $230,000 toward the ship's planes over long distance, tak'n which is to build this dirigible, the bltimmte purchase for the U. B. them on for refueling and drop-metal-clad type of airship has the Arty.

ping them when desired along the following advantages: The ship is to be the first prae- way. tical dirigible of this unique type Most peculiar about the ship is of construction, following success. its metal construction as opposed Ernest Torrence attended the ful tosLs of The experimental to fabric covering, duralumin recent wedding of his son wearing metal-cind airship ZMC-2 by the frame and rubberized gas bage of

4-It is navigable in practically three weeks' growth of whiskers, U. S. Army. It is to cost $4,500,- such ships, as the Graf Zeppelin |

new all kinds of weather.. because a beard is essenting in the 000 and is expected to be rendy the Los Angeles and the

foot Akron now 5-It is economical in the use role he portrays in forthcoming for delivery to the Army in 1933, 6,500,000 emble

being built at Akron, 0.

of buoyant gas and ballast. ilm.

Preliminary specifications for

The ship is to have no gas bags, 6 is capable of high speed, The ship call for one having at

covering. Instead, its up to 100 miles an hour. has gross lift he

or weight. Including; or fabric

plating 1 11 strong

7-Its croising range is limited New dead load and pay load, of 100 metal

the expanse of tho stronger lang tons or 224.000 pounds and aluminum alloy is to be the can only

and a volume of 3.800,000 cubic feet, tainer of the helium gas that will broadest ovcan.

or slightly larger than the Graf Zeppelin.

Ernst Lubitsch Anya found that rivalry between York and Hollywood is than that between Germany France.

[

is building Gloria SwanNON

Hi her private talkie theatre Beverly Hills home .. Jack Mul-

be used to lift it. Inside, bwo

all function

the

breathing ballooneta, designed to The single metal surface of the collect and dispel air as the pres. metal-clad ship, Fritsche further Range of 2,000 Miles,

Mure of the hellum surrounding asserts, performs Fight engines, talaling 6,000 them is lowered or raised with the that are divided among the triple- temperature and layer construction of the fabric- hall likes to fish for trout, swim horsepower, will be used to pro- change in the same stream and then make pel it at a maximum speed of 100; altitude, will be the only impor- covered rigid airship like

miles an hour, and a cruising tant parts of non-metal construc- Graf Zeppelin. camp along side it.

speed of 70 to 80 miles an hour. tion.

"The metal-clad ship is a singla

says, "in. "Unfaithful" is title

In the interest of greater safety, structural unit," he of Ruth Its practical range will be 2,000

bull will be par which the surface plating carries Chatterton's next. It is about miles. It will be 550 feet long, however, the

titioned off into compartments to a considerable portion of the a girl who finds her husband's and 120 feet in diameter.

Carrying an average fuel load preval loss of sufficent lifting direct stresses. The metal pint- spotless reputation sadly in need! laundrying "Stepdaughters of of 30,000 pounds and a crew of power to affect its operation, ing, which is the outer cover, is War" ance a Broadway play, will 35, the ship will have a capacity should it be hit by gun fire from the single strength member and is

for a pay load of 50 passengers,; the ground or from the air, also the gas container."

Oscar reigned until his death in TENAN 1859 when be was succeeded by be translated to screen via Para-| March once did amateur theatricals [ox-newspaper cartoonist. his son, Charles XV. This Kingmount.

B Wisconsin U. Mickey Mouse is Mary Pickford's favourite film died without issue in 1872 and was

Joyco Compton, Loretin, Young Irene Rich starts new personal character auregeded by his brother, Oscar

. This cartoon set and Joan Marsh will be seen in appearancs-tour-

Fredric to music is done by Walter Disney; new one. -"Three Girls Lost,"

II.

WOMAN DESIGNS NOVEL CHURCH. Reflection of Modernism and Religion.

The Boston Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church of Tulsa, Okla., designed by a woman, is architec turally expressive of the spirit of Oklahoma and is said to have bor- rowed no structural ideas from other Innis,

The designer of this modern church, which has won national appreciation since its completion 1920, is Adah M. Robinson, Tuisa artist.

When the building committee be eame dissatisfied with first plans, It called in Miss Robinson, who he came tremendously interested in the project and conceived the iden of building a church that would express the meaning of religion. the spirit of Oklahoma and this modern age.

This

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These girls have successfully darling of Broadway musical passed their Hollywood entrance comedy,

Laura Lee, right, she of the "come hither" eyes, started her exams, and are well on their way! Virginia Cherrill, centre, with-

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chosen by Charlie Chaplin as his lollywood vin musical comedy. irona Delroy, left, once a ballet leading Indy because he was Im-She is barely 20 anil holds an air- dancer in Chicago, becaine "the pressed by her charm.

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Miss Robinson had never studied sketched what she thought suit. architecture and, being a Quaker, ablo,

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