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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936.

AMERICAN FILM STARS'

£50,000 A Year For Janet Gaynor:

JANET GAYNOR

Worth £50,000 a year.

ALPHABET OF 514 LETTERS

AND IT'S BRITISH!

There are now 514 letters in the British alphabet.

Not that A, B and C have found 488 companions. The alphabet that has grown so great. ly is the alphabet of abbrevia. tions, ranging, not from A to Z, but from A, 1, "first class," to Y.W.C.A., Young Women's Chris- tian Association."

The only letters of the or- dinary A, B, C, which do not appear in the alphabet of ab- breviations as first letters of some meaningful combination are X and Z. And these demi-

thousand abbreviations are all "in common use" in Britain.

All of them are tabulated in the 1030 edition of Whitaker's Almanac, published here, which aims at sup- plying correct Information on ainost everything, from a ready reference calendar for 200 years, to the com- position of the Houses of Parliament and the progress of natural science and invention in 1035,

To

Cricket And Railways

do this Whitaker's employs 1.014 pages. and has 119 headings of a general type In its table of contents.

Resides showing just how much ordinary folk have made from go little of the aphabel, referring short- ly-lo -suituation in-game of cricket which one nan, known as a bowler, no projects a ball that it hits another man's leg-guards instead of continuing its fight to hit the wie- kets, as 1. b. w." or to

one who

has taken a special degree at a university us a "B. A," the almanac has interesting facts to report about the world's railways.

·Germany's Fast' Trains

appears that the first 10 places In the records for the fastest regu- Jar railway trains in the world are all hold by Germany. Diesel stream- lined trains of the German State Rallways run on 10 routes at average speeds ranging from 82.3 miles un hour for 115 miles to 70 miles an hour for 140 miles.

There are 35 crack trains in the world regularly running at average speeds of over 64 miles an hour, the statistics show.

The recorda for the longest regu- Jar nonstop runs at speed are held largely by Britain, British PX-

thunder Beross preasca

the little Island to hold the first six places.

The longest regular route is from King's Cross Station, London, to Edinburgh, a nonstop run of 382.7 miles, journeyed at дл average speed of 52.4 miles an hour.

The world's record authenticated nonstop run, it is stated, was made In 1835, when an oll-electric train ran 2.037 miles, from Montreal to Vancouver, in 67 hours.

the

The Royal Scot, travelling all the year round regularly on the Car- Isle-London track, is

oldest scheduled train in the world. It hos been leaving Euston Station at 10 am. since 1848.

WRITERS

HUGE

CHEQUES

£7,000 For Claudette Colbert

New York, May 1. THE extraordinary

salaries

paid to film stars to-day have been revented in a Treasury rc. port to Congress disclosing pay- ments by the bly studios during 1934.

The figures show that in some cases lesser known stars were being pald greatly in excess of famous "hox office" attractions.

Janet Gaynor tops the list with

a salary of £50,512 for the year- compared with £4.631 to the famous child, Shirley Temple, and £7,000 to the glamorous Claudette Colbert,

WALLACE BEERY

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

AMAZING SALARIES 11TH

4,000 For Shirley Temple

BIRDS AND BEASTS FALL VICTIMS TO GAS AND SHELLS IN AFRICA

Supporte his adopted child on £20,000 a year,

Liverpool, May 1. Nature is suffering from the effect of the Italo- Ethiopian war-as it does from all wars.

Other countries besides the belligerents suffer. Authorities here say there are likely to be fewer swallows, cuckoos, warblers and others migrants in Central and Eastern Europe this summer.

This is because the bulk of the bison in its Inst two strongholds, the bird migrants, wintering in Caucasus, where some of the worst South Africa, migrate to Europe anian forests where much of the later bombarding took place, and, Lithu- via the great lakes, and the Nile Russian fighting took Valley, many passing through the same s and to be happening, to

wild Ethiopia before

life in they reach on and elephant are reported to ho Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Europe, either by way of Pales suffering most from the war. tine and Istanbul or Italy, and it In the war zone poison gax drifts is pointed out that the use of far, destroying plant as well as ini- bombs, poison, gas and heavy armies succeed in reaching Lake mol life. If the Italian northern guns causes heavy casualties Tana, the headquarters of the Blue

Nile, among birds.

and there is much fighting POISON GAS DRIFTS FAR

there, it is thought the effect on The World War, it is recalled, alous, for Lake Tana is the main call- Europe's summer birds will be nort- most annihiinted the rare European in art resting station for birds migrating north to Europe from South Afrlen, opecially in March. MANY VARIETIES RECORDED

Sandpipers, Cuckoos wwallows, willow-warblera, storks, wood-war- blers, tree-pipits, black tern, wheat- cars, redetaria, gargancy duck, marsh harriera, hoopoes, nedge-warblers, blackeaps, white wagtails, marsh- warblers and quail are among tho many European visitors naturalsts have recorded in abundance around

King of Siam

is the

School's Bright Boy

Lausanne, May 1.

Others cited in the Fox Com- KING ANANDA 1. OF SIAM, studious ten-year-old monarch, is Lake Tana during the migration sen-

pany's figures included Low, Ayres, £20,699; Warner Baxter, £36,800; | Charles Farrell, £11,000; Richard sanne school last week, King Arlen, £4,499; Jolin Bolea, C10,750: Ananda learned that he had Steppin. Fetchit, £5,500; and passed his examinations with James Gleason, £10,600.

honours, and had been promoted ja class,

one of the happiest boys in the world to-day, When term ended at his Lau-

Victor McLaglen get £6,000: Spencer Tracy, £16,544; Helen Twelvetrees. £9,262; and Itaoul Walsh, £18,669.

WRITERS' BIG fees

Edward Twiss, the only English boy in King Ananda's elnas, was frat to congratulate him. King! Auanda was first in his class in arithmetic,

M.

WELL-DISCIPLINED

Etienne Reymand, head-1

Other Fox employees named in- claded the president. Mr. Kent, who drew £33,292; George White, master, said: "King Ananda Is the producer, £24,847: Edwin his successes,"

well-discipilned, and modest about Burke, writer, £18,300; Henry King, director, £31,238;

Sam The young king has less money Hellman, writer, £0.405; Sonya mates. His family intend that he to spend than many of his class-1 Levion, writer, £11.700; Ernest shall know the meaning of economy, Wurtzel, director, £20,800; and Pascal, writer, £11,039; Sol Robert Kane, producer, £18,200.

Columbia Pictures Corporation reported paying Lee Tracy £7,917, Nancy Carroll £9,917,Grace Moore £7,000, Theresa Helbarn £6,633, Jack Holt £9,682, and Ann Sothern £6,332.

Mr.

The general manager, Briskin, drew £27,950; the pre- sident, Mr. Harry Cohn, £36,400; director Donald-Cock,£31,200; director John Ford, £10,000; writer Robert Riskin, £20,000; mikl writer Victor Schwertzinger, £12,600.

WATSON'S

The Twentieth Century Co. paid George Arliss £25,000, Fredric March £31,492,

Wallace Beery £20,000, Ronald Coleman £21,600, and Maurice Chevalier £30,000,

The boy king only once dis- obeyed rules. That was when he hid in the headmaster's study to escape an American photo- grapher.

IF YOU RETIRED-

KING ANANDA Bright boy.

How Much Would You Need:

To Live In Comfort?

-Scientists Say £317 P.A.

вом.

More concern, however, is felt by African nature lovers over the status of Ethiopia's own pecallar species luring any profugged warfare over a. wide front. The inglade Buch in- teresting birds na the Ethiopian ground-seraper (like a song, thruah), redcapped lark, glasseye, (something like the English wren), striped grass- warbler, quall, bulbul, paradise fly- catcher and other forms.

RESIDENT OF HIGH PLATEAU

One of the most interesting in the Ethiopian flapper-lark, names for the curious rattle of its wings when hovering in the air for two or three minutes at a time; it in a resident. bird on the high plateau.

On

The great lummerkop or hammer. head stork and the egret are rare bies with strongholds in Ethiopia and whose need for protection from extinction was emphasized by the to cent International Conference Africa Wildlife, In London, which passed special rules for their protec- tion. But

nations who have no regard

treaties have no regard for bird-protection laws; so birls are made rarer,

forring

As was only too vividly shown in the World War, heavy artillery fight- ing also causes untold damage and de struction to forests of wonderful trees. These are some of the side- lights of war's toll of destruction for which there is no room in the ordinary war cables.

TREES CUT FOR FUEL

The trees of Ethiopin are suffering in other ways by simple necessity on the part of the native armies. In many barron districts where fighting is taking place, natural fuel for fires is non-existent and so troops carry the wake of the army, ready for saplings from the nearest forests in

The minimum salary on which a British family of average size can live in moderate comfort is £317 a year, when fuel is needed.

This is the finding-taking the average size of a family as 3.72 gaged with her war in Africa and her Moreover because Italy is so en persons of some hundreds of scientists who for 18 months have financial crisis at home practical in- been investigating problema of food production and nutrition.

Constance Bennett drew £8,000,

A report by the Engineers' Study Clarke Gable £18,933, Charles Group on Economics and the Associa- Laughton £13,000, Adophe Menjou this latest contribution to the con- tion of Scientific Workers contains £6,400, and Loretta Young £7,390.troversy on the minimum standard of

living.

It suggests a minimum of 108. 2d, per week per person as against the 55. 104. suggested by the British Medical Association and 4s. 10d, proposed by the Ministry of Health.

President Dary! Zanuck received £20,867.

Notable people in other flelds appear in to-day's list, which is supplementary to one issued some weeks ago.

It was disclosed that Dureen Brothers

pald Duveen £15,000,

The report aims at "not a mere subsistence standard, but rather at the one that would ensure to every Lord normal member of society the means

Recreations and hobbies Subscriptions to charities

£10 ..£5 Alcohol, tobacco, sweets £28 Newspapers, &c.

£ 2

£ 3 Travel

£20 Depreciation and repairs to

furniture and equipment .£12

Stamps, phones, telegrams,

wireless licence

£317

BUDGETS COMPARED

and Hattie to attain that state of physical wel- The weekly food budget on the Carnegic drow £6,000 from the fare which must necessarily precede £317 busts in comparison with that any substantial progress in the art recommended by the British Medical

firm which bears her name.

of living, and in the development of Association is as followe—

HOW TO SPEND IT

The largest salary on the cur-cultural attainments." rent list went to Mr. Thomas J. Watson, who drew £72,886 na pre- sident of the International Busi- ness Machine Co.

Lever Brothers pald the president of their American firm, Mr. F. A. Counwat £59,010.

The Chrysler Company paid Walter P. Chrysler £39,614, and General Motors gave its presl- dent, Mr. Alfred P. Sloan £10,940.

This is how it is suggested the) £317 would be spent to the best ndvantage:-

£00

Help and cleaning material.. £10

0.5

Meat Fish

Study. Group. B.M.A.

Lb. 0

Lb.

6.5

3.76

1 1

Bread

12

20

Food.

Flour Oatmeal

17.6

0.5.

Rice, barley

+

Rent and rates

£65

Peas, beans

0,0

Clothing

£20

£21

Education

Medical expenses and insur

ance

Holidays.

nil

£14 £10

Lard Milk

Butter, margarine

2

0.5

1-

18.75

30.0

Cheese

0.75

2.0

Sugar

4

6.25

Eggs

1.5

nil

Tea, coffee

0.5

Potatoes

12

7

Vegetables

10

6

Fruit....*

nil

2.75

Fuel and light

BABY WATER

25 cts.

per Bottle

ENSURES PEACEFUL SLEEP

Miscellaneous

0.5

1.25

97.75 107.1

warily in

terest seems to have been lost at least the International to combat the waste oil tipped at sea by motor vessels, and whilch is proving so destructive to birds and Ashes.

But porhaps if Italy finds herself short of all, then her expert may in- vastigate the claim that £260,000 worth of waste oil is tipped into the high seas by ships every year. Thon Italy may quickly fit at her motor- ships with oil separators and regain the valuable sil from the water used. in cleaning out.

World Peopled By Women

SCIENCE'S NEW

"THREAT".

New York, Apr. 23.

The production of life in a test tube is the achievement claimed by Dr. Gregory Pincus, of Har- vard Biological Institute.

Dr. Pincis says he fertilised a rab bit's egg with a solution of salt and by exposing it to a temperature of 113 degrees Fahrenheit.

This type of offspring, however, must be female. So perhaps one day mere man will be eliminated in a world peopled by women,

+ייער ".

It will be noticed that in the £317-a-year budget provision is,

Reporting his experiments with rabbits to American scientists in made for a bigger ration of the more, expensive commodities-meat said he had been able to transplant Washington last night, Dr. Pincus fish, vegetables, and fruit.

rosulta

The report adds: "There is Httle body of n female rabbit and later a the artificially fertilised egg into the doubt that a large part of the popula- tle rabbit was born. tion is suffering from lack of nutritious foodstuffs,

The experiments described by Dr. particularly dairy produce, fruit, and vegetables, claimed will be of great interest to

rly Pincus, and the remarkable and as increased consumption of this medical men and zelentists universal- is beyond the means of the poorerly, but no definite opinion can classes the economic factor is ob-formed until further information is viously of the first importance."

forthcoming.

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