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ONLY SHE KNEW AND THE MAN HE THREATENED TO HANGI

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, "MARCH 21, 1933.

PROPERTY SALES.

WONGNEICHONG LOT

FOR $7,100

GOES

OBITUARY

FAMOUS NOVELIST AND PEAYWRIGHT

London; Mar. 20. Sold by public auction by Mr. E.

Mr. E. Temple Thurston, well V. M. R. de Sousa, at the Chian Auction Rooms, yesterday, a valuable known novelist, playwright and lensehold property known as Inland artist, died to-day from pneu Lot No. 2547 together with the monia,

He had recently been assisting messuages thereon known as No. 4. Sing Ping Street, Wongnelchong in producing a film version of his realized $7,100.

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ARTS AND CRAFTS.

CHINESE EXHIBITION AT SINCERE'S

The Sincere Co., Ltd. is now dis- playing the Chinese Arts and Crafts Exhibition at their Roof Garden, Many now treasures have been added since the last display. Every descrip- tion of Chinese craftsmanship, pic tures, curios, and various kinds of art exhibition interesting and

and instructive

The property was quoted at an up- famous play the "Wandering Jew.rt have been collected to make the to the visitor. A visit to the roof set price of $5,000, and rose by bids-Reuter's Special.

Mr. Temple Thurston was born garden, reveals many treasures of the of $100, the purchaser being Mrs. Chan Wan-kes. The property was at Halesworth, Suffolk, in Sept. Orient, and in the restaurant there is sold by order of the Court.

1979, and educated at Carlisle Chinese food, especially prepared on Comprising an of about Grammar School and Queen's Col- the premises. To tourists patronising 18,000 square feet of land, a lot lege, Cork. When he was 15; his the restaurant, a souvenir of a pair of ivory coloured chopsticks is given situated at Quarry Bay was put up father put him into a Cork bre-away, for auction at the P.W.D. office yes

to learn the business. terday afternoon, and was bought by Wery Messra. Lam We-king and Lam Doo Thurston's bent, however, was to

wards literature. At 16 he wrote the war he was employed in the. at the upset price of $16,000.

the The land is situated on the Shau-two books of poems which were propaganda department of klwan Road, Quarry Bay, and is re-published and a year later was Foreign Ofice and wrote a patrio- gistered in the Land Offee as Inland engaged on a novel. Meanwhile tic play "The Cost" which was Lot No. 3615, the annual rental being he attended the Cork Literary aud produced in London in Oct. 1914. $204.

Scientific Society and also lec: Its theme, conscriptica and na- tured there. Two years of the tional service, was not taken brewery work were as much as he seriously at that stage of the con ZANGARA EXECUTED could stand and he left for Len- flict and the play was an honour-

don where he hoped to find scope able failure.

Dis- for his literary ambitions.

Among his successes were the illusion followed quickly and to

novels The Greatest Wish in the stave off starvations be became World," "The Passionate. Crime," chemical manager at a yeast fac "Enchantment." "Over the Hill," tory and then a traveller for an The World of Wonderful Reali- New York, Mar. 20.

electrical firm, both of which jobs Zangara, the Italian bricklayer. were very poorly paid. He con- ty." The Green Bough," "Millen- self-confessed assassin of tinued writing, but though his num," "The Rosicrucian" and the Wandering Jew," Anton Cermak. Mayor of Chicago, play "Red and White Earth" was playa. "The

Judas Iscariot," "The Blue was to-day sent to his death in produced in the provinces, it was!

"Emma Hamilton." the electric chair at Railford, not until the publication of his Peter" and Florida.

novel "Sally Bishop" in 1908, that He also wrote "The Flower of Mr. Cermak was standing along-he was able to break away entire- Gloster," a delightful account of side Mr. Franklin Roosevelt. Unit-ly from the drugery of commer-a voyage in a canal "barge. In ed States President, while he was clal work. A year later he Nov. 1930, Thurston gave an ex- addressing a crowd from a street achieved a very marked success hibition of his skill as a water- platform "in, Miami, on February with "The City of Beautiful Non-colour painter showing a variety 16. Zangara. who was in the sense" which ran into several of works, suggesting that he could crowd, fired five shots, one of which editions. In addition to technical express himself nearly as well hit Mr. Cermak, who lingered in skill, his work reflected sincerity, with the brush as with the pen. hospital in a serious condition penetrating observation of life He was thrice married. His who wife Katherine, until he died a fortnight" ago and the gift for reproducing a second

variety of human types. During divorced him, was also a novelist.

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