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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY; · APRIL

4,

1936.

Douglas Fairbanks To

DIVORCE PAPER WAS SENT BY

HOLLYWOOD COUPLE EN ROUTE TO H.K.

FOR HONEYMOON

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND THE RED SEA, DOUG, FAIRBANKS AND HIS NEW WIFE, THE FORMER LADY ASHLEY, ARE TRAVELLING TOWARDS HONGKONG) ON THEIR HONEYMOON,

THEY ARE DUE HERE NEXT MONTH, WILL MEETİ CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND PAULETTE GODDARD HERE.

Chaplin and Fairbanks are both going to stay in Hongkong, the former for four or five days, the latter for longer, since he is going to do most of the shooting for "Marco Polo", his new United Artists picture, in this Colony.

Doug, and Lady Ashley were married in Paris on March 7, not without some pother.

They were to have married on the Friday, March 6. But someone suddenly discovered that Doug. had forgot- ten to take out his licence.

Maltre Suzanne Blum, daughterį

of M. Leon Blum, the Socialist)

lender who was assaulted just after STEEL

wards by French Royalists, cleared

the way for the Parisian marriage.

Maitre Suzette, incidentally, 1s MELTED BY

France's most clever woman law-i yer and whon it comes to sur- mounting red tape, she knows her onions.

Thanks ไป Ber enterprises energy.

ད་ French Attorney General issued the sperial Brence on- abling Doug, and Laity Ashley to get marrial on acheshile, without waiting for the regulation Three weeks and the publication of the tang.

why

HARNESSING SUN'S RAYS

Invention Produces 4,000 Degree Heat, Says Californian

On the Friday, Doug, was reshing! frantically and Parks. He went tài the American Consulate, to the British

Los Angeles, Mar. 26. Consulate and to a number of town, halls, but nowhere could he indway H. E. McCoy, bald Los Angeles

breaking the rigid French edjinventor, gingerly held a steel) tape. He plended in vain that he plate in front of a beam of his wanted to leave at once for Hongconcentrated sunlight" kang to make a film of "Maren Pubi," which he has been waiting to make chuckled ns the muy promptly for six years, and take Lily Ashley jmelted a hole through the plate. the molten metal dripping down impressed, Thonjlike melted butter,

with him.

Nobody

Varvane,

Fors which

Lady Ashley and Douglas Fairbanks us first-nighters in London,

and H

Home one told him of Maltre Blum. He waved triumphantly at Ile went to her offer in the Queħuge revolving battery of 60 mir

and Inid bla ense before.

WILS focussing the her. Without hesitation she said! "But why didn't you ask for a sperial bright California

noon-day sun ficence?

into a bear some 4,000 degrees Pabrenheit in temperature.

"I never thought of that," he said, relieved.

Oir again in a taxicab to the office of the Attorney-General at the Palace of Justice. Bidt here an unexpected, disappointment was met,

"We'll run all our factories with 'sun power" through outfita like this some day," he declared. "Give me the capital to build one eight times as big as this one, aml I'll. make the si

generate enough

"Have you hath deumentary proof Plectricity to light a city of 80,000

of your divorce?" nket the Aftorney- General's clerk.

population.”

McCoy's invention consists of three panels, each holding 20 curv

have," said Douglas, "but Ladyl slabs of silvered window glass.

Ashley hús not I am afraid,

A messenger was sent by ni tu. They tip up or down and run on a

GIRLS, YOUR FIGURES ARE "TURRIBLE"!

Marry AIR

RADIO

\ BROADCAST!

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Racc

THE WAIKIKI 'TRIO

From Z.B.W on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):

47 p.m. Chinese Programme, 6.30-7 p.m.

try.

Chinese Banco Music. 7-8.30 p.m. A Relay From Daven-

7 p.m. "Monologue in Melody." Norman Hackforth in syncopaled prunbforte music.

7.38 p.ra.

Oxford v. Cambridge.

A running cominentary on the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, from the launch "Magician" following the

crows.

p.m. Time Signal, Weather Re port and Announcement...

8.30 p.m. Military Hand Music. Swan Lake Ballot (Tachaikovsky): | Patrol Comiquo (Lake); A. Hunting Sceno (Bucalossi); La Source Ballet (arr. Winterbottom); Poet and Pen- sant--Overture (Suppe).

9-9.15 p.m. Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) In "Song of the

Sen."

4.

1. The Border Ballad (Cowen); 2. Glory of the Sea (Sanderson); 0. Tho Old Superb (Stanford); Homeward Bound (Stanford).

9.15 p.m. From the Studio, Selections by "The Waikiki Tris."

Programme.

1. My Hawaiian lates; 2.Alokoki;

13. Mahina Malamalana; 4. Melcana

Hula; 6. Na Lei O Hawaii.

9.30 p.m.

Daventry News Bulletin. 9.45 p.m. Lucienne Bayer (Soprano) in a recital of French Songs.

1. Dans Lo Funce (Visions in BOREHAM WOOD, HERTS, APR. I.

Smoke) (Box); 2. Purlez-Moi ERE'S NEWS FOR FAT WOM

D'Amour PARDON MEAN (Lenoir); 3. Viens Danser, Quan (Speak to me of Love) LADIES WHO ARE NOT SO SVELTE AS THEY MIGHT BE. Memo (Delettro); 4. Si Polit

Phyllis Rawlings, the Woman) (Claret); with the Magic Hands, has just Chante (Scotto). arrived in England after spend- ing the last twelve years giving American and Canadian women Bgures like film stars,

FOWL LUCK

man

Auckland, N.Z., Apr. 1. An elderly

named Simmonds, while trying to wring the neck of a fowl, broke his arm!

ROBES FOR CORONATION

Mine. Rawlings describes herself ax weight control specialist. Shef practically guarantees to Lake off

10 p.m.

Sans Toi-Tango

Big Ben:

10-11 p.m. From the Studio, his Franconians.

Dance Music by Eddie Avanzi and

11 p.m.-12 midnight.

Hotel Dance Orchestra,

Dongkong

12 midnight. Close Down, NOTE: There will be a relay from

or put on as much weight as you the Lee Theatre (Chinese) on require-and in 12 years she has ZEK. on a frequency of 8-10 kilo only had one failure.

eyeles from 8-11 D-m.

EFFECT SPOILED

She is perfectly frank about the

figures of English women. She TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME thinks they are "turrible"-for ali though she Was born in the

WILL COST Edgware-rd., London, 12 years in

£160,000

the States have left her with that i sort of accent.

9.10-10 a.m. Military Parade Ser- vice from St. John's Cathedral,

10 a.m.

Close Down. 11a.m. Morning Service from St. John's Catredral.

12.15

"English girls dress beautifully," | she said, "but the whole effect is Op. 18 No. 2" "But in G Major, (Beethoven) played by London. He returned t 'clock circular track, following the sun's DEERS and peeresses will spend spoiled by their bad figures. the Flonzaley Quartet. that evening with a certified copy path from wast to west. The sun'sj £160,000 on their Coronation

in America and Canada you caWeber) played by the Garde

12.10

p.m.

"Clarinet Concerto No. -of-Lady Ashley's divorce decree. It rays are kept aimed constantly on robes, which they

was rushed to Maitre Bum's offer a restrick oven 15 feet away.

Le now sve hundreds of girls and women and then to the Attorney-General,

with the same trim, svete Agure-Republicaine Band of France. All the sunlight striking 60 ordering.

moulded almost to a pattern.

12.58 D.

p.m. Stuart Robertson "That is because, they realised (Bass-Baritone).

robes have to be made.

the importance of weight control. Bright is the Ring of Words { (Baughan" Williams); 2 The Road- If English women would only do the sume they would en Fever (Yel

side Fire (Vaughan Williams); 3. be the smartest in the world..

"The trouble is that those who Report.

P.m

1

The special licence was issued with square feet of mirror is concen- The loth-crimson velvet af n out more delay, and Maitre Blum at rated on the small target, raising deep ecclesiastical hue-takes six once telephonet to Maitre Gaston Drucker, mayor of the fashionable the temperature to approximately months to manufacture in the your Eighth Arrondissement, asking him half the terrific heat of the surface north of England. Nearly 1,500 if he could perform the ceremony. of the sun itself.

McCoy says he

Robes cost £85 each; coronets has melted,

Time Signal and Weather She explained that Mr. Fairbanks claimed domicile at the beadquarters; among other metals, tungsten car-n more £18.

do try to reduce over here go thei 1.03 p.m. Vocat Gems from of United Artists, of which he is a bite, indicating the furnace de- ! Those coronets have set a pretty wrong way about it. Swent baths Grand Opera. director, in the Rae Astorg, in the velops well over 4,000 degrees problem

for young pecresses and dieting are practically useless. Eighth Arrondissement.

Carmen (Bizet); Die Fledermaus They are made to fix in colled-up "The whole secret is in manipula.(J. Strauss); Cavalleria Rusticana Maitre Drucker agreed, and ̧ær- He is confident the apparatus hair. ranged for the wedding to take place will be adopted by industry to re-will not keep them in place.

Babbed or shingled hair tion-breaking up and destroying (Mascagni); Pagliacel (Leoncavallo). at his town hall at it 'clock on place coal and oil for henting fac-

the fat tissupa.”

1.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, 1.35 p.m.

Light Orchestral Mr. Jense Indore Strauss, Ameri- $25,000 he can build an are smelt- tory boilers. He says that for ean Ambassador in Paris, was onting plant equivalent to present-day! of the witnesses.

melters costing $100,000,

March 7,

IRELAND FINDS NEW SPORT-

YOU MUST HAVE A CORK!

WILLINGTON, CO.

DURHAM, APR. 1. "HE OF A "CORK

Fahrenheit.

Visions Auto Power

The Government is inviting tenders for the purchase of the old tie police, launch and Government fire float No. 3.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF THERE IS A Tave Church WHEREVER, The number of emigrants leaving ONE HAND MEETH ANOTHER HELPFULLY, the Colony for the Straits Settlements AND THAT THE ONLY HOLY OR during the month of March, 1930, was "It sounds fantastic." he said, MOTHER CHURCH WHICH EVER WAS, 11,793. but think the motorist of the on EVER SHALL BE-Riinkin. future may drive up to a service) station and instead of buying One cusé each of Typhoid and gasoline, exchange the battery of Meningitis were reported to the real his electric automobile for one that Health authorities on Thursday. has just been churget by a solar

His Excellency the Governor has free generating plant."

con-minated Mr. V. M. Grayburn and Undertakers are already sulting the inventor on the poss-court of the University of Hongkong Mr. P. S. Cussidy as members of the bilities of using the

for device

for a further period of three years. cremation of bodies, their idea being that cremation by sunlight hus a certain poetie appeal.

His Excellency the Governor has pointed Mr. B. Burgess to be Administrative Assistant. Sanitary Department,

TELESTERRES INTRIGUING ished in smoke after two minutes the place of the Hon. Mr. R. M. Hen, appointed the frie ilimsworth to act

'THOUSANDS IN IRELAND.

Many of these clubs are being! formed following the success of one at Oakenshaw, near here.

What is a "Cork Club?" Mr. G. Tweedy, a foundation mem-| ber, gave the answer, to-day,

EXCHANGE

TO-DAY'S OPENING

"Each member of the 'Cork T.T: Club' is given a cork, and he must Demand always carry it with him.

QUOTATIONS

Selling

•

From Mozart's Treasure Store (Urbach): Suite Orientale (Popy); Spanish Dance No. 1 (Granudon) Spanish Dance No. 2 (Granados); Glow Worm Idyll (Lincke); 'Danse des Apaches (Clarke); Mario Louise (Melsel); Love's Laat Word is spoken (Bixio); Entry of the Spring Flowers (Kockerl); You shall be the King of

heart (Stolz); Berceuse (Jarne. felt); Stephanie Gavette (arr. Alten- dent); Jealousy Cade); Live, Laugh and Love (Heymann)

2.30 pm. Close Down.

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme, 7pm. "Symphony in D Minor". Į(Cemr Franck).

7.12 p.m. From the Studio.

Programme...

The Manila Obsérvatory, reporting | A Pianoforte Recital by Luba at 1.25 a.m. to-day, atatea that the Shaftain. Ifis Excellency the Governor in typhoon is in about 131 Lang; 12 Lat, As n test, he placed a two-pound the Row. Mr. A. G. W. Tickle to be a

Council has nominated and appointed recurving northeastwards..

1. (a) Nocturna (6) Mazuriri" rabbit on the "hot spot. It von-member of the Housing Commission in

(Chopin); 2. (a). Valse (b) Butterfly, His Excellency the Governor has (Grieg); 3. Andaluza (Granados). junder the concentrated sunbeam, derson

8 p.m. Timo Signal, Weather Ro Jan Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court port and Announcements,

and Deputy Registrar of Companies. 8.03 p.m. Organ Recitat by Lind |_ A bankruptcy notification slates;

say Ai Lafor FLC.0, (UFM) that a supplementary dividend of Under an order nude by the A., RAM, from St. John's $0.00 per cont, has been declared in Governor-in-Council, the future price Cathedral. the case of Kong Kwai-ting, carrying of Grade 2 opium will be $2.40 per

Programme. an business as a building contractor two-mace tube, compared with $3.10 under the sume of the Kwong Hing previously in force, and 24 cents for....Buxtehude;

1. Prelude and Fugue (No. XIV) 2. Firm.

Improvisation, tweeandareen tube, compared with 35 Bagatelle....Ronald Chamberlin; 3 Dream Children (No. 11), Numrod from the "Enigma Variations".

4. Chorale Proludo.. William Murrey Bach; 5. 1st Movement from Sonata 24, 1935, left local estate amounting Johnston, late of 8 Albion Terrace, in minor....Plut!!, 3 to $18,500. An application by Mr.Kowloon," and farmerly chief time- 8.35 p.m. A Recital by Beni- 3234 Lawrence Kadoorie, for scaling cerkeeper of the Hongkong and Wham-amino Gigli (Tenar). 471% Used

of probate of the will, pon-Dock Co., Ltd., who died at

J. still seem to hear ("I Pesca- Kowloon on November D, 1935. Pro torl di Forlo") (Bizot): 2. bate of the will has been granted to Dream (Manon") (Massenet);. 8. 1423%

Stainer's "Crucifixion will be sung Mrs. Isabella Dick Johnston, widow. All haff, thou dwelling pure and .48% by the Chinese Choral Society in St.

(Gounod); .7500 Paul's Church, Pedder l

The offices of the Supreme Court lowly. ("Faust")"

Your tiny hand an, drozon" ("La Wednesday, April 8, ut 5.30 p.m. The will be open daily from 10 am to Bohome") (Puccini) .17435 | tenor soloist will be Mr. E. OʻNall | L p.m. during the Easter vacation,

1/4 | Shaw,, ^and- baritono

Cello Soles by Pablo Mr. A. V. except on Public and General Holl. 8.30 p.m.

Casals, 1/414 Sandora, Mr. Rupert Baldwin, A.T.C.L., | days, when the offices will be entirely- 1. Moment Musical (Schubert); 2. and closed. The Easter Vacation, begins Le Cygne (The Swan) (Saint-Saons); 4 m/s. San Franaco New York 33% will necompany" on the organ

0.13% Mr. J. Anderson Miller, LA... will on April 10, and torminates on April 3. Menuet (Daburer), ;4.8896 | conduct.)

| 10, (both days 'inclusive).

T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore "When members meet they (T.T. Japan challenge each other to produce TT. Indin this symbol of membership (the 7.T. San Frisco & New York cork), and if they fall they are j fined a penny. "Members pay a penny a week TT. Bankok subscription, and when the funds TT. Saigon reach a certain amount we spend T.T. Lisbon it on a supper.

T.T. Java TAT. France T.T. Manita

The "Cork Club" has already had 4 m/s, L/C. ono supper. Meanwhile the chal-4 m/s. DIP. lenge "Where's the Cork?" is heard 6 m/s. L/C,

Buying

in houses, streets, club, and even in mf, Franco the pita while the men are at work. New York London

1/3% 1/30

cents.

.50%

The late Mr. Jacob Ezra Sulmon, barrister-at-law, of 250 Kiangse| Local estate amounting to $20,000 Elgar; 1074 Road, Shanghal, who died un October was left by Mr. 11112

.4.00

was granted,

.63

on

pm. Reuter Press Bulletins.

Tho

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COMING WEDDINGS

From the Studio. The Band of the 1st Battn: The Royal Ulster Rifles. (By kind per The following forthcoming wed mission of Lieut. Colonel It. M. Roddings are announced! Mr. Douglas wall and Officers).

Salmon Green, accountant, residing. Conductor H. Alfred Hole, ACM. at 3 Jordan Road, Kowloon, and Miss ---Bandmaster.

Lillian May Ballantyne, of the address, Mr. Francis John Neill, en

Programme.

Maria

1. Overture Raymond...Thomas; gineer, residing at European Y.M.CA, 2. Airs from the Operns of Offen-and Miss Erno Eckert, stenographer, bach.

..arr. Ansell: 3. The Grass of 41 Nathan Road; Mr. Basilo hoppers Dance.....Bucaloss!; 4. Humberto.

Xavier e Selection from The Gipsy Princos" clerk. Government Radio Office, and Kalman: Valso...."La Bar- Miss Cecilla Maria Yung, of Haven carolie. Waldtenfel 6. Fotpourri Street: Mr. Alexander Ivanovich.

Tangled Tulle Ben

Kotelbey. Blisorukoff, physical instructor, of 10 p.m. Big

King's Buliding, and Miss Eksterna Dmitrieva Sharupoff, nurse of the same address.

10-10.30 p.m. Dance Music. 10.30 p.m. Close Down,