1935-11-21 — Page 2

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An organ without pipes. "the mechanical Epstein".

a now type of pram wheel. These were some of the inven- tions, the cleverest of the year, which won prizes at the 11th International Exhibition of In- ventions at the Central Hall, Westminster last month.

The premier Gold Medal was won last year by a woman-Mrs. E. Richardson (London)-but no woman Agured this year among the principal prize-winners, al- though many competed.

The first prize, the Grey-Wilson Memorial Gold Medni, which is awarded for an invention "of out- standing merit," was won by Rudolf Stelzkammer, Vienna.

His invention is a radio-organ.. It is a musical key-board 'instru- ment with electric tone produc-

A untive working in the diggings of now both proof shaltera nt"Addis Ababa under the supervision of a European overseer. The Emperor has already made several proclamations with regard air raids, and has instructed his subjects either to make for the special shelters in time of emergency or to hide themselves from view in the groves of aucalyptustion, but it has neither strings nor

trees which surround the capital.

pipes. It Bounda very like an organ, and organ and piano players are said to be able to play

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IN FILMS

Freddie Bartholomew, the Eng- lish boy who won world fame as David Copperfield, is to star in

a colour ilm version of "Little Lord Fauntleroy."

This decision has been announced in Hollywood recently, says United. Press.

Production of the new film in technicolour is to start on November 15 under the aegis of a large company headed by Mr. Myron Selznick.

Noted millionaires such as Mr. C. V. Whitney, Mr. John Hay Whitney, Mr. Robert Lehman, and Mr. A. H. Giannini are also con- cerned.

Controversy still rages about Freddie's future. His parents have expressed their desire to have him In back home. They boy is America under the care of his aunt. Miss Italia Conti, who gave Freddie his early training and his introduction to the Alm world, dit- cussing said:

situation recently, Lho

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW

"There is no question of his be ing away for years from his parents. The aunt wished to have "Freddie's parents knew and the rights the parents conferred approved of his aunt's inten- pen her recognised as legal by the tion to bring him up as a film Californian courts; otherwise there star. They signed his, pass- is no security for the boy's con- port to go to New York. If he tracts. She has neither the wish is brought back his film career nor the power to exploit the boy.

"Freddle has an English gover is at an end, as it is illegal for any child under 14 to appear ness, and his life is ordered for

him wisely."! in films in this country.

40,000 Sitters: Won't Photograph Women

FORTY thousand people have been photographed by Mr.

Walter Stoneman "Britain's photographer."

In compiling the photographic record for National Portrait Gallery he has had as sitters celebrated personality in the country.

He is still true to his resolvo of

two years ago not to photograph any more women.

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Its inventor claims that it is adaptable to the largest or the smallest room, and is a complete substitute- for the organ, which it surpasses by reason of variations in tone,

The second prize, the Founder's Silver Medal, was awarded to Mr. S. T. Jeffreys, Aldenham-road, Bushey.

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Mr. Jeffrey's invention is an apparatus described as photo- sculpture. It is a machino which automatically produces an curate model' of a person or object In sculpture form from a photo- graphic record. It has been dés- cribed as a "mechanical Epstein." The Institute of Palentees' Bronze Medal, the third prize, was won by Mr. J. D. Furoy, Cabra-drive, Dublin, who has con- centrated his attention on the problem of making baby-carriages run more smoothly. His inven- tion conslets of baby-carringe wheels that move in either direc- tion like the front wheels of a car. Thus, a baby-carriage can get round corners or over, obstacles without clumsy manipulation.

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No Impure Notes Mr, Stelzhammer, who went to England for the exhibition, stated that the organ ""would All St. Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey clearly." It is claimed that it is impossible to get an Impure note.

Mr. Jeffreys stated that be started on his photo-sculpture in- vention when he was a soldier during the War.

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about tea-time.

photograph it is 20 A couple the same side of a stilo possible to produce a bust of any and distinctly unfriendly. size in any material auch as 30 Foxglove is its source. marble or stone."

31 Contradictorily enough, this kind of drink doesn't sound over cordial,

paper. From tho og erumpled 23 High church functionary,

Sir Arrol Moir received a certi- ficate for his invention dealing with the bulk-handling of bricks.

His reason, he explained, is that FAMOUS CRUISING LINER

women will not give up their false gospel that "beauty is cosmetic deep." Men, he says, are not like that. Lord Roberts said after his sitting: "Don't take my lines out. I won' them!"

Wait Till You Feel Fit

Some women have complained to

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him that "they never take a good DORIC, the fourteen-year-old photograph." And they never will,

he insists, because what they want

Cunard-White Star liner, is

is a mask in the fashionable mode of to be broken up. She has been

the moment.

His advice to the women who are sold to shipbreakers in Newport dimcult to photograph is to wait|

until they are feeling their best. (Mon.).

The camera, which "nover lles," will

capture the inspired moment and

actually record the beauty which in

The Doric has been one of the

more ordinary moments lies hidden. most popular cruising ships under

His hobby is lay preaching. He

bas just resigned from Holloway the British flag. A few weeks agu Road Congregational Church, where her passengers had a thilling ex- ho preached for 40 out of the past 52 Sundays.

perience when she was in collision

SALESMAN SAM

MIGOSH! WHAT CHANCE|| AHLHERE HE COMES, HAVE I GOT GETTIN' NOW! I'LL JEST NON-

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FER THREE DAYS!..

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TAKE A DIP!

with a French-ship off the Portu- guese coast.

Since then the Doric has been lying in a damaged condition at Tilbury docks,

The Doric is the third Cunard- White Star liner to be scrapped this year. The Mauretania is being demolished at Rosyth, and work is about to start on the Olympic at Jarrow:

A Jolt for Sam

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