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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1932.
THE
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HE STORY YOU'LL LOVE O LOVE!
Romance that koops you laughing with tears in your eyes, A tender love story in a Botting of sparkling comedy!
EDDIE DOWLING
IN
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Honeymoon Lăne
JUNE COLLYER-RAYMOND HATION
RAY DOOLEY-NOAH BEERY
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BILL BOYD
PAINTED DESERT
SPORT
BRITISH WORKERS'
workers,
SUCCESSES
·
of
and pro- A year of progress mise, is the aummary, in a phrnso, of the Second Annual Report of the National Workers' Sports As-
Executive sociation, on the which the Trades Union Congress General Council is representeil.
Increased affliations, and an in- creasing number of district con- mitees, indicate the growth of the Movement among the organised One of the most gratifying items in the report records the re- markable success of the team of 28 (including four women) sent to Vienna last year to represent the Association nt the Second Workers' Olympind.
"Though the team was one of the smallest" says the report, "It did exceptionally well to finish fourth out of the twenty-two com- peting nations. The team secur ed seven first places, eight second. and five third.
NEW PLANET.
NEARER THAN ANYTHING
BUT MOON.
SOUNDING LINE OF
£46,000,000
COMPANY'S AFFAIRS
PRESIDENT ONCE A
CITY OFFICE BOY
Chicago, Apr. 1.
An application for the appoint- ment of a receiver for the affairs dis-of the gigantic Insul Utility In- vestments, Inc. has been mado to the Circuit Court by Mrs. Helen Samuels, who owns £800 worth of
THE UNIVERSE The minute heavenly body covered by Dr. Delporte, of Upple Brussels, on March 12, has been successively promoted to the rank of a comet and planet.
former
Debenture notes.
She alleges that the company's assets, which were bought at the
only lacks
soon Im-
When 21 he sailed to America only ten to seek a fortune-and found it. Ile became secretary to Mr. Thomas Edison, and his genius for organis- ing and administration
In 1929 he became the head of pressed the famous inventor. the £12,000,000 Corparation Securi- tics Company,
his the
It in to the investigations of Dr. A. C. D. Crommelin, a
£16,000,000 are now worth president of the Royal Astronomi- Poak of the market at a cost of cal Society, that this latest promo- £5,400,000. The company
funda to pay off obligations amount. thon is due.
The number of observations of ing to £24,200,000,
Mr. Samuel Innull, the 72-year- the body is small, swing Brat to the moon and now to bad weather, gold president of the concern, was the investigation born in a humble home in a back the resulta of
Jeft atreet of Westminster. He cannot be taken as final.
They appear, however, to Indi-school at the age of 14 and wont cate that this little heavenly body to work as an office boy in the City,
two in earning five shillings a work. probably, only a mile or
out of the
Edison's Secretary diameter, may turn greatest importance to astronomy.
According to the enlculation the Tocently planet was million miles away, while at the "This was a most remarkable time of discovery it was probably achievement for the Association's still nearer. This means that it is first big venture in international still much nearer to us than any workers' sports, and we are proud other heavenly body, except of the members of the team who moon.
hard to worked no
Eros's Lost Distinction ratifying a result.
Previously this distinction ther proud of the fact that the longed to the planet Eros, which were made one of its closest approaches privileged to be represented atlast year, when it came to within such a magnificent demonstrationalxteen million miles. of the Rulidarity of the Interna- The closeness of Eron
to determine with tional Socialist movement, and to astronomers [help forward so effectively the great accuracy the distance of the achievement of Peace through earth from the sun- distance on which all ather celestial distances Football Victory.
depend, and which is, in fact, the Among other sporting successes Bounding line of the whole universe.
If the new planet realises were a football victory over the German Workers' Sports Associactation it may take the place of both Eron and enable the sun's distance tion, and a triumph over Dutch and German tennis teams, to be determined with still greater! without the loss of a single set.
workers of Great
Sport."
sure HD We are fur-
Britain
A feature of the year 'covered
by the report was the first Na
precision.
PLAY
the
be
enabled
ex-
tional Workers' Athletic Sports NOEL COWARD'S NEW
at the Crystal meeting h Palace on June 20, when there 350 entries were no fewer than for 25 events, the standard of rar ling being extremely bigh.
Unfortunately the attendance was not good, and the report ex- presses the hope that future meet-
TO BE PRODUCED IN NEW YORK
New York. Apr. 1. Mr. Noel Coward stated to-day
inge will be better supported. that he had written a play, which
en-
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IN
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JOHN GILBERT WEST OF BROADWAY
A
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer moruke
TO-MORROW
A DOUBLE ATTRACTION
Last year Mr. Insall and
Pralaior Aleko
and
London
AN
the
Princess Panther, Greatest Living Exponents of
family gave £12,000 towards extension scheme of the road, N.W. (now known Temperance Hospital, Hampstend- National Temperance Hospital).
British investiment interest in usull Utility Investments. Incor- porated, and its associated pies is not thought to be large, and such as there is is mainly in Correspondent. Preference capital, writes the City
STEEL MAGNATE'S FATE
AFTER TWO YEARS
RADIATED WATER.
com-
OF
New York. Mar. 30. Mr. Eben Byers, a well-known Fittsburgh steel manufacturer, chairman of A. M. Byors and Com- pany and formerly amateur volf ampion, died in hospital here to- day from radium poisoning.
This is the first case on record
An increased number of tries for the National Football has not yet been given a title, but
Coward trented by radium, and it has crea- Challenge Cup Competition, nowwhich will be produced on Broad-f death caused by drinking water
way in September." Mr. in its second year, is recorded. himself, Miss Lynn Fontanne, wholed wide interest in medicni vir-
£111 Increased Of the 24 entries
minde her first stage appearance at number were from the provinces,
take the chief including teams from Yorkshire, Drury Lane, and her husband. Mr.
parts. South Wales, Gloucestershire, and Alfred Lunt, will Wiltshire.
A team has heen entered for
highly Workers' The report is a
to testimony the first International Chess Tournament, which is be-couraging
clos
Four of America's most distin- uished doctors were brought into consultation, and it was stated at The hospital to lay that Mr. By ri had been poisoned gradually water en-through drinking radiated
over a period of two years.
This preparation is bottled and advertised widely as beneficial to health,
the
ing conducted, by correspondence, Jability of the organised working- countries being class to look after itself in every the competing England, Germany and Austria. phase of communal life.
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