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BoyFilm Star's Parents Want Him Back Again
FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW IN HOLLYWOOD "AGAINST OUR WISHES" FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW, the eleven-year- old London boy who is earning £250 a week as a Hollywood film star, went to America eighteen months ago.
Now his aunt, Miss Millicent Bartholomew, who went with him, has obtained from the American courts full legal guardianship of the boy.
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But Freddie's parents London want him back. Freddie's father, who is a civil servant and an ex-soldier, and lives in Barnes, says:
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His mother write him,,
"His mother and I are déter- mined to get the boy back," he declared. "We are naturally proud of his success, but when he 'went to America neither I nor his mother had any idea that he was going to stay there playing in films.
"Quins" As Hollywood Film Stars
$22,000 FOR WORK IN THREE PICTURES
New York, Oct. 10. MARY PICKFORD and Harold Lloyd are rival bidders for the Dionne' quin. tuplets of Ontario
the
world's youngest film stars.
Farold
Lloyd, whop
originally of- fered
£5,000
for the про pearance of! the five babies in
his
now comedy, "The Milky Way," finds Miss Pickford pro- posing better terms.
The new Pickford- Lasky organi-f sation offera £5,000 merely for the quin-i tuplets' first appearance.
If this proves successful
a
second film would bring them £7,000 and
a third
£10,000.
YVONNE
As she herself hails from Ontario, Miss Pickford is hopeful
"As a child of three and a half,
I took him to my parents' home in Warminster for a holiday visit. When I returned to London, I left Freille in Warminster with my parents, and sister, but I paid for his maintenance and education.
"In Warminster he first dis played his talent as a child netor, and my sister wished to develop this amazing gift.
"There was some talk of film works, and finally I signed an agreement which gave my sis ter authority to continue his training for film work. Under that agreement I was to main- tain the child and pay for his education.
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"During the early summer of last year there was further talk of film work, and tentative ar- rangements
made for Freddie to play in a picture in Antorlea. But those arrangements fell through. Then it was mug gested that my sister should take ; the boy with her on a holiday! visit to New York.
"I agreed to this.
"I received a telegram from; Southampton In July 1934 saying that Freddie and my sister were sailing that day.
Holiday Trip
"1 thought the visit was merely a holiday trip and that the child [woukl be back in sixty days. He is not back yet, and there seems little chance of his returning.
"He only stayed in New York for twenty-four hours, and was then taken straight to Hollywood.
"Soon after he was signed up for the David Copperfield' film. Á trustee arrangement under which i Freddie's capital and estate were j
to be administered was drawn up
"The trustees were my sister, Miss Italia Conti, Captain Keith Ellison, of the Royal Army Service Corps, and a Mr. G. Reeves, a tradesman living in Staines.
"We want our boy back home again, and we are determined to get him. We have never_res linquished our parental guard- ianship of the lad, and do not intend doing so.
"We have no desire to stand in the boy's light. We only want to do the best we can for him.
Mother "Stunned"
"The whole business has ¡ stunned- me," Mrs. Bartholomew
declared. "Other people seem toj have taken possession of my child,
"I love my boy, and want him back with me."
Mr. Felix Cunningham, Miss Bartholomew's counsel, said to a New York correspondent: "Miss Bartholomew has been, in fact Freddie's guardian for the past"| eight years. The court action merely serves to put the stamp of legal approval on a position that already, exista.".
A Film Correspondent writes: David Selznick
George and Cukor, producer and director of "David Copperfield,” visited Eng- land and interviewed some 700 boys for the part. Freddie Bartho- | lomew was one of them,
Miss. Bartholomew, his aunt, took him to America on holiday, and on arrival In Hollywood the "Copperfield" contract was signed.
He was paid £30 a week. He was so successful that, his salary was raised to £60 'n week, and he was given a part in the new Garbos film "Anna Karonina."
Now his salary has been raised to £250. II is under a seven years contract.
BANDITS MAKE GIRL UNDRESS. IN TAXICAB
Chicago, Oct. 20. Flora Dunne, a young French dancer who only arrived in Chica- go the previous day, yesterday had
bandits.
of winning the race. She is hor first adventure with American stressing her nationality in the negotiations with the State guardians of the Dionne babies.
Three gunmen stopped the cab In which she was riding with her escort, Nate Kraevitz, and forced Hollywood understands that the couple to strip down to their the Ontario Government thinks underclothing. They were then the sum of £20,000 not too
bound with adhesivo, tape and left much for the presence of the in the cab. A starlets in a film, although an-
Tho bandits took £40 and a other report states that the
watch from Kraevitz and a dia highest bid will be accepted.
mond ring and bracelet worth 2160 from Dunno.-United Press.
FACING THE INVADER
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
1935.
INTO THE BLUE
ROCKET
FLYING
Troops of the Abyssinian regular army entrenched at Adowa, awaiting the advance of the invaders. Other war photos are
on page 11.
Pensioner's Bootlegging
School In Liverpool
CUSTOMS RAID 100 OF HIS CLIENTS AND GAOL HIM
Liverpool, Oct. 15: CORRESPONDENCE course in bootlegging was the bright idea of a bald-headed old-age pensioner whose activities, stopped by Customs officers, earned him three months' imprisonment here to-day.
MACHINES
THROUGH SPACE AT 1,000 M.P.H.
Roswell, Oct. 28. Attempts to pierce the stratosphere with rocket "flying machines" cap- able of 1,000 miles an hour or more have just been promised the per- manent support of mil- lions of dollars by Harry
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F. Guggenheim, former FANCY BAZAAR
Ambassador to Cuba, for the Guggenheim Foundation.
Guggenheim announced for Dr. Robert H. Goddard of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., that the physicist already has succeeded in shooting self-pro- pelled rockets to unmeasured heights at a speed of more than 700 miles an hour.
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Dr. Goddard has selved problem of stabilisation of rockets, using a gyroscope principle, and hopen with the nimost, unlimited funds placed at his disposal by the Guggenheim Foundation fo build rockets considerably larger and more powerful than the 12- foot cylinders with which he has worked.
Lindberi Looks On Guggenheim spent an entire day in Dr. Goddard's lonely, desert
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laboratory with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, bis technical adviser on aviation subjects, before nouncing that the foundation he administers will continue on an enlarged scale the support it has given the experiments for five years.
Lindbergh interested the late Daniel Guggenheim in Dr. God- scientist had financed his work al- dard's work in 1930, after the most alone for 15 years. The elder Guggenheim organised an advisory committee of famous During the summer, said the prosecution, this advertisemen from all branches of science ment appeared in a weekly paper with a nation-wide-sale: interested in the earth's strato- "Scotch distiller gives particulars for producing pure spirit:sphere and made it possible for Genuine formula: Hartley, Greenhill-grove, Manor Park, London, Goddard_to_give_his_full__time. to. E.12."
experiment. The Roswell Inboru-
mun
A Customs officer saw it; äve¡ tities of spirit, too. So that was tory was built so the flight of the were detailed to raid the why "Mr. Hartley," seventy-three rockets at blasting speed from the house. They captured. an im-years old, with # snow-white earth would bother no one, and no mense amount of correspondence, moustache, stood in the dock to ong would interfere with the ex- and a long waiting list.
day.
periments.
The letters, showed that hun- dreds of people all over the coun-. try had replied to the advertise- ment. "Hartley" Ind written them that his fee for the formula was 6s. or 78. Gd.
He said he was deaf, could neither read nor write. His real name Was said to be Frederick Young; the Customs officers said he had been sent to gaol for three months in 1926 for running an illicit still.
No Passengers Yot
Dr. Goddard puts little cm- phasis on the layman's dream of passenger travel through space in one of his projectiles.
His primary objective is a rocket
It is of the utmost importance
Instructions were appended for making the liquor. There were also plans and specifica-
Mr. Leslie Pocock, prosecuting that will carry meteorological tions of the necessary ap-counsel, said Young had planned recording instruments to heights paratus; there was even an to distribute 10,000 pamphlets. of 50 miles or more and bring offer to supply this for 37s. 6d. There had been a greater increase them back safely to earth. with full directions.
this your than ever before in the. Customs officers went by ear to illicit spirits traffic, and stills had every address that could be found, been found for the manufacture to science to obtain data in regions Search warrants were obtained; of the most lethal form of cock-exceeding 30 miles in height where
electrical phenomena, more than a hundred houses were taila,
including i ionisation and the reflection of ralded, in the north, miðlands,
Hundreds of pounds had been radio waves, takes place, Guggen- south, west, Wales, Ireland-even
spent by the Government trying | heim said. the Orkneys and Shetlands.
to race stills resulting from 10,000 Pamphlets
Young's correspondence. All over
will be ns- the country maximum penalties tronomical photography without Stille were discovered in all had been imposed on persons to interference of the earth's atmo- sorts of surprising places; quan-' whom Young had supplied them. | sphere."United Press,
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