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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL

1936,

WENDY BARRIE TELLS OF 'BROKEN HEART'

Hongkong Film Star's Story Of Romance With Heir To Millions

"I'M STILL LETTING

LOVE ALONE"

'DONT'S' FOR JILTED FTER your heart is broken-what?

GIRLS

The question was asked by Mary E. Parks, a Holly- wood news reporter of "Modern Screen", a film magazine, and answered recently by Wendy Barrie, Hongkong's film

star.

Wendy Barrie's father was the late Mr. F. C. Jenkin, KC., who died under tragic circumstances last month, just before one of her recent Paramount films was screen- ed here.

IT WILL BE RECALLED THAT, SHORTLY BEFORE WENDY WENT TO HOLLYWOOD, SENSATIONAL NEWSPAPER REPORTS WERE BROADCAST TO THE EFFECT THAT SHE HAD BECOME ENGAGED TO AN HEIR TO.THE HUTTON MILLIONS, AND THAT THE ENGAGEMENT HAD SUDDENLY BEEN BROKEN OFF.

THE INTERVIEW WITH WENDY IS DESCRIBED. BY MARY PARKS AS FOLLOWS:

We sat in the garden of Wendy's found out! And so I made several. Westwood Hills home. And pungent pictures, over there in England. And ohrysanthemums and vivid China then I fell in love! Oh, a dreadful,

lies flowered about the fest of the dizzy, crashing head-on fall. China-born young Wendy, Burrie s she repeated my sad question, with a laugh though the Inugh, like the question, had a knife.

'Know Bill For Ages'

"I known Bill for ages. I'd gone After your heart is broken," she to his cousin's wedding in Paris, said, "violence! Do something vio- We'd all played around together, in Ient, Just at first. Do something London, in Paris and the Lido and ifferent. To cut the card, you know. Biarritz. It had all been terribly Run away from wherever you are. glamorous and exciting and colourful If you live in a small town, go to a and sweet. He was a spoiled child. big city.. If you live in a big city, with a heart of gold, and I was 3. go to some rural village. Anywhere spoiled child who had given my heart anywheroso long as it is away! away and didn't have one anymore- "Or do something: violent! Turn and most of my senses, too, I guess. into someone you never were before. I was terribly happy and really quite. Do something radical and desperate. terribly in love and very terribly and Do anything but one thing. Don't triumphantly sure that we would soon be married and have a home and a plty yourself.

baby of our own.

in We'd be married.

And another don't' to gisa who have had their hearts broken-dan't "And then he asked me to come to try to lick heartbreak by plunging America. His mother was there. into another love affair. It isn't a In New York. He would go ahead, panacea. It's an irritant. It's the be sak. I should follow in a week's worst thing you can do. It's like time. He would meet me at the pier trying to contract diphtherin order to forget that you have measles... It douan't work, 's stupid.

"And.don't sit around dramatizing yourself. Yours isn't the only bruken heart in the world-it's just one of many.

Heartbreak an Illness

Broko Her Contract

"I broke my contract in order to go to America to be married. That didn't matter. Nothing mat tered to me save that he had gone ahrad to prepare for me, that he would be there waiting for me when my ship came into port.

"Soriously," said Wendy, with the honey-coloured hair and the topaz

"I had laughed Wendy, not too eyes, "seriously, heartbreak is not a gentle malaise of the Imagination. Faily, "the most incredible trousseau. Heartbreak is an illness, just as the You see, everyone in Europe knew break of any bone or the breakdown about us, knew that we were to be of any organ in the body is illness. married. And everyone, of course, It belongs to the surgeons. Heart-know him and his millions. And all break is an actual physical disease. of the leading jewellers, furriera, I know that no one has ever described designers in London and Paris simply It thus literally before. No one has plended with me to help myself-and over thought of it clinically-always was young and very greedy. To- romantically. That's because of the morrow I would he married with poots. They've dramatised it. But youth and love and gold and--a baby. I know whereof I speak.

"He Was Not There" "I lost wanty pounds when my heart was broken. And I any this And so I sailed. The ship drew exactly as I would say that I'd lost into harbour. We dockod. I stood, wenty pounds when I had typhold with my friends, all laughing and Rover, I syed hob with My skin and over, confidently, for that the beloved was anemic. My glands exelted, at the ship's ruil, looking hair were Hfelcas. My circulation face. He was not there. No one was was off. My blood count was down. there. No one, for mo. He had not I just didn't function; that's all. come to meet me. No one had come

"BILL" DONOHUE AND WENDY BARRIE

Photograph taken on Riviera shortly after announcement of engagement of young couple. Donohue is cousin of Barbara Hutton, visited Hongkong with her (when she was on honeymoon with late Prince Alezin Mdivani) in 1934,

GANGSTER RANKS ARE THINNING

ASSASSINATION OF CAPONE GUNMEN

Chicago, Mar. 24. The assassination of "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, notorious executioner of the Al Capone

· gang during the bloody prohibi- tion era, has reduced nearly to zero the ranks of former Chicago alcohol chieftains.

One by one they have dropped out, only a few renching their graves by natural deaths. The ruthless gang war for control of millions of dollars annually start ed with the slaying of Dion O'Banion in 1924.

Seven henchmen of George "Buge" Moran ware. wiped fout in the revolting St. Valentine's

day massacre seven years ago.

The O'Donnell rowdies were bludgeoned Into subservience in the first prohibition war skirmish. McGurn could have predicted his own ond. To-day there remain four of his former idols, three their struggling desperately for daily meals in a territory which once produced $60,000,000 a year for them.

Al Capone is on Alcatraz Prison Island, serving time for violation of the income tax laws.. Frank Nitti, notorious "enforcer"" of the Capone gang who once gave McGurn orders about whom to kill, to-day is trying to recoup his fallen empire. Jack Guzuk, fat book-keeper for Capone, was family. Harrid things were sald swered your question-after a broken released in January from Federal about me. I couldn't go about heart-what?"

Prison and is looking for a place chanting, I am the daughter of a "I made a drastic change first. to land here. Ralph Capone, Al's Counsel of the King, the niece of Violence. I wet about building up my underling brother, is attempting a surgeon to the King. I only body, 1 ate correctly. I played ten to corral into some sort of order know this that I could forgive na strenuously, at first, so that I everything but the lack of courtesy. would be physically tired, and able to the tremendous gambling syndl "I'I should announce to my mother sleep. I tout no chances on those cate Al once controlled. He today that I was about to marry a wide-awake night watches when the having only mediocre success, ne'er-do-well she might try to dis- Licks of a broken heart become in With the exception of Johuny suade me, but she would certainly tolerable. I didn't read much. Patton, perennial boy mayor of meet him, accord. him courtesy. advise against reading for those Burnham, vice and gambling rid- "A few of his friends came to call. suffering from the heart malady Touden suburb of Chicago, all of One of them, a woman, was very inactive. Action is the thing. I kind. She took the pains to see the worked like a dog. I began to regain MeGurn's former cronies are dend, Pneumonis cables and letters he'd sent, asking my shattered health-and I can tell Jailed or in hiding.

Another friend of the other girls that once they feel sound claimed Frank Rio. Al Capone's me to come. family persuaded me to give those let. and healthy again their heart trou-personal bodyguard and best ters and cables into his 'safe keep-ble' will trouble them nò longer. friend who served a year in jail ing

"And there I was," said Wendy, "Jilted. Broken-hearted, Figuring the sweetness of death ns against the bitterness of life.

Need For Violanco "And then the need for violence came upon me, I had to move, to get away, to shift the scene. I camo, instinctively, I think, to Hollywood. I don't know why: 1 had exactly $500 between me and-what? I had never been on the stage. I had never had made an American picture. I broken my English contract.

'I Let Love Alone!

with him in Philadelphia for carrying a pistol.

"I didn't go about with other boys. Tony Lombardo, chief of I knew that that sort of thing would Capone's alcohol-cooking ring. serve only to irritate the wound. died with n hullet in his head in Jet love alone,

"I am still working hard. I am the heart of Chicago's business paying off my debts. I am proving district. Gua Winkler, an aviator to myself, and to the world, that of sicill and believed to have been I can stand on my own two feet, one of the St. Valentine's Day earn my own money, make my own killers, WAS alain during the name, mend my own heart "I don't hate him. I don't know World's Fair. Louis Altorie came how I feel about him. I won't know back from his Colorado ranch-laat until I see him again, and one day, summer to eat bullets. Fred I shall. I've had cables from him. Burke, a hired killer, is serving. "How would I stand-or fall? asking me to meet him in Paris, a life sentence for an Impulsive didn't really cartuse I didn't care, thief shall see him agaha woon slaying of a Michigan policeman. things like that. I haven't gone, "Perhaps probably because of clever manacs; be positive that I was cured until Mops Volpe, ace bodyguard, was

ring on the part of my agents, I could prove myself immune through deported.

half a dozen other tract. I have

I

"I'm

I have one very close, dear friend, Louis Hayward. I met him in London. We're a lot in common. We spend a great deal of time to gether. Love? I don't know. I am stili letting it alone. again, of course.

"One of these days I shall love And then I shall

John Scalise, Albert Anselmi, ledged killer, were slain at a ban- quet Capone gave them in Burn- ham because they were turning traitor, and McGurn gave Capone the "tip-off".

And so, the first and most import- to meet me. But it wasn't possible found myself with a Paramount con-contact going out a little now. And and Joe Guinta, each an acknow- ant thing to do after heartbreak is I'd had cables aboard ship. had his exciting propositions to consider, top. what you should do after any shock, letters, making our plans, telling me any Illness-build up the body. Get what ship to all on, advising me that shall remain here in Hollywood until have made good. Then New York your health back. That's what I did. he had engaged a suite for me at a and the stage. He could not marry Systematically. Deliberately. Under smart hotel.

until doctor's orders.

"And he was not there. I knew, an actress. But I shall work

I am such an actress as adds lustre "Oh, there were the first few, crazy then.

And then and there I did the best I shall not spend my life on either to that calling. And only until then. wooks of bitterness, of course. The natural, melodramatic reaction of a plece of acting I have ever done, ortage or screen. I'm really, not an say good-bye to my career. I shail Weiss died in the shadows of a slok person thinking I'd be better off ever will do so long as I live, I dead, considering the relative advan- laughed, I laughed, a lot. I sald actress. I want to have a home of tage of poison, guns, dizzy roofs. that, of course, I'd known it all along, "And so," said Wendy, relaxing in After that, I got down to the business known that he wouldn't be able to the gold sunlight, "I think I have an- of convalescence."

meet me, that he had been called out I know something, na you who read of town on urgent business (he, who may know something, of the tragic nover had any business, who even had

American millions

my own.

Scores of rivals fell. Hymie

afternoon, machine I shall remember heartbreak as one gun bullets cutting away a part remembers a troubling dream, stirs of the. cornerstone. Dion and sighs--and forgote,"

O'Banion shook hands with the man who led his killers the stranger's handelasp prevented him from reaching for his own gun-United Press,

have my own home, my baby. And church one

tals of young Wendy. The news polleo escorts when he went to foot- New Empire Flying Boat papers carried accounts, mostly gar-ball games, lest he be delayed in get- blod. The young hoir to many ting In), He'd cabled me the change the pretty of plans, I said. He was returning

We would be mar-1 girl who came to America to marry within the weak.

riod then. I'd just been a cut-up, not telling them sooner. I couldn't let them see my heart break, you know. That is a horrid aight.

DUMMY PLANE THAT

Born in Hongkong

Sume ́ of the details I learned that day as Wendy talked. She

Didn't 'Lose Faco' - . was saying, "You know that I was "I went off alone, protesting gally born in Hongkong? My sister and that it was quite all right, just what

I were here there. I lived there I'd expected, but just what I had

WILL NEVER PUT OUT

Rochester (Kent), Mar. 25.

An army of workmen are engaged at Short Bros. seaplane works, Rochester, constructing a giant flying-boat-only to destroy until I was eleven. All I wanted in known for days. I probably deceived it as soon as it is completed those dreamy days was to look no one, but I didn't lone face, as the This is a dummy of one of the fleet of Empire flying-boats, 29 pretty and to have-n baby. I've Chinesa say. always wanted to have a baby, "I didn't know a soul. In New York, of which are under construction for routes operated by Imperial more than I're wanted anything Only his friends whom I had known, Airways.

eine in my life. I was forever casually, abroad. I didn't know where The dummy is complete, with the cabins reveal storage room, dressing up, as a child, in scarves to go so I went to the hotel where engines, while the interior is where the chairs can be packed at and bita of face and things and the suite had been engaged for me. furnished with carpets, padded night while bunks are slung in posing in front of mirrors, And 1 I had very little money. I was ter- always poned with n doll in my rifically in debt. The furs and jewols walls, electric lights. armchairs, their places. The 24-seater flying- arma,

I had heen flattered into buying began and beds which passengers will bost by day can, within a few "When I was cloven I was sent to to weigh me down like the solid gold uso when these boats go into ser- minutes, ba converted to a 10- London to unter, the Convent of the they were to coat me-are still cost-vico next year,

barth sleeper by night. Assumption. Five years there and Ing me. I had burned my bridge, then to Onishing school in Lausanne. my contract-behind me: I

PILOTS SIDE BY SIDE When I returned to London, Mother I wouldn't go back.

There are two decks to these and I were lunching one day at the

"But

why resurrect the whole mover put out to sea, is being com- boats, and the pilots are on the Savoy Grill.

horrid body of the facta?" Wendy pleted in detail so that experts upper deck, where they control wald, "Lot the dand past bury them, may study the position of engines, the aircraft.

COMPLETED IN DETAIL This flying-boat, which

will

Believes in Fate

as I hope it will. I had a letter from fixtures, and instruments before Two pilots sit side by side for- "Have I mentioned that I believe him, quite soon. Ils mother had sent final decisions are taken regard-ward in the nose of the fuselage, În Pale?: Ol, but absolutely! I him away. Sho would not allow him

An examination of their seats lave nothing much to do with my life, to marry an actress. He couldn'ting the road machines. Fato in the supremo dictator. And marry without his mother's consent. A tour of the dummy boat itself gives a surprisingly clear view all so, that day at the Savoy, Alexander There would be no money. What disclosed immense aizo. and round, while forward of their Korda was also upching there. He could be do without money? He had solidity or four cabins, in the machine is another cockpit which lcooknit, in the extreme nose of the saw mo. He came to my table and never even thought. He wrote that There are asked me whether I had ever been he had instructed his valet to meet front one of which passengers at first looks like a gunner's cabis. ing pictures. - I, told, hìm · never.

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The valot had had the order will be allowes to smoko.

Atually it is intended for uso asked me whether I would like to bo, countermanded, of course. If he had In each cabin are six 'ormchairs on the water for mooring opera-

I said '80 much. And so I began by met me, he would have lost his job. By operating a lovor a passenger Horrid Things Word Said” can raise or lower himself at will, "His mother wouldn't see me.and can alter his chair from an None of them took the trouble to tht position to that of a couch, know, me," to” And out about | my · Hidden places in the walla above

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