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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, MAY 6,1936.

AMERICAN FILM STARS AMAZING SALARIES 11TH ANNIVERSARY

£50,000 A Year For Janet Gaynor: £4,000 For Shirley Temple

JANET GAYNOR

Worth £60,000 a year.

ALPHABET

OF 514

LETTERS

AND IT'S BRITISHI There are now 514 letters in the British alphabet.

Not that A, B and C have found

companions. The alphabet that has grown so great-

488

WRITERS'

HUGE

CHEQUES

£7,000 For Claudette Colbert

New York, May 1. THE extraordinary salaries

paid to film stars to-day have been revealed in a Treasury re- port to Congress disclosing pay- ments by the big studios during 1934.

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

Janet Gaynor tops the list with nanlary 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 DEÈRY

Supports his adopted child on

£20,000 a year.

BIRDS AND BEASTS FALL VICTIMS TO GAS AND SHELLS IN AFRICA

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

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

This is because the bulk of the bison in Its last two strongholds, "the bird migrants, wintering in Caucasus, where some of the worst

bombarding took place, and Lithu South Africa, migrate to Europeanlan forests where much of the later vin the great lakes, and the Nile Russian fighting took

Much placing to Valley, many passing through the same is said to be

wild life in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Ethiopia before they reach tion and elephant are reported to be Europe, either by way of Pales-stuffering most from the war. tine and Istanbul or Italy, and it In the war zone poison gas drifts is pointed out that the use of matfe. If the Italian

destroying plant as well as gal- northern bombs, poison gas and heavy armies succeed In reaching Lake guns causes heavy casualties Tann, the headquarters of the Blue Nile, and there is much fighting among birds.

there, it is thought the effect on POISON GAS DRIFTS FAR

Europe's summer birds will be sort- The World War, it is recalled, al-ous, for Lake Tana is the main coll- most annihilated the rare Europeaning and resting station for birds

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

pany's figures Included Lew Ayres, £20.699; Warner Baxter, £36.800

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

Charles Farrell, £11,000; Richard sanne school Inst week, King Arlen, £4,499; John Boles, £10,750; Ananda learned that he had

honours, and had been promoted n class.

ly is the alphabet of abbrevia-Steppin Fetchit. £5,000: and passed his examinations with tions, ranging, not from A to Z,James Gleason, £10,600. 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

1938 edition of Waltaicer's Almunge,

published here, which aims at sup- plying correct information on almost 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 1935.

Cricket And Railways'

To do this Whitaker's employs

1,014 pages. and has 119 headings of a general type in Its table of contents.

Besides showing Just how much ordinary folk have made from so

Victor McLaglen got £6,000; Spencer Tracy, £16,544;. Helen Twelvetrees, £9,262; and Raoul Wilsh, £10,609.

WRITERS' BIG FEES Other Fox employees named in-

Edward Twiss, the only English boy in King Anandi'a class, was fiest to congratulate him, King Ananda was first in his class in arithmetic.

WELL-DISCIPLINED

cluded the president, Mr. Keat,, M. Etienne Reymond, head- who drew £33.292; George White, master, said: "King. Ananda is the producer, £24,847: Edwin well-disciplined, and modest about Burke, a writer, £18,300; Henry

his successo," King, director, £31,238;

Sam The young king has less money fellman, writer, £6,405; Sonya mtes. His family intend that he (to spend than many of his class- Levien writer, £11,700; Ernest Pasent, writer, £11,039;

shall know the meaning of economy. Sal Wurtzel, director, £20,800; and Robert Kane, producer. £18,200.

Columbia Pictures Corporation reported paying Lee Tracy £7,917, Nancy Carroll £0,917,Grace Moore £7,000, Theresa Helburn £0,633, £5,332. Jack Holt £9,682, and Ann Sothern

Ford, £10,000; writer Robert Riskin, £20,000; and writer Victor £12,600.

The general manager, Mr. Briskin, drew £27,950; the pre- sident, Mr. Harry Cohn, £36,400; little of the aphabet, referring short-director Donald Cook, £31,200; ly to a suituation in game of cricket director John in which one man, known as a bowler, so projects a ball that it hits another man's leg-guards instead of continuing its flight to hit the wic kets, ns 1. b. w." or to one has taken a special degree at n. university as a "B. A," the almanac has interesting facts to report about the world's railways.

Germany's Fast Trains

who

It appears that the first 10 places in the records for the fastest regu- lor railway trains in the world are. all held by Germany, Diesel stream- lined trains

of the German State Railways run on 10 routes at average speeds ranging from 82.3 miles an 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 61 miles an hour, the statistics show.

The records for the longest regu- lar nonstop runs at speed are held

Britain. British largely by presses thunder across the little Ísland to hold the first slx places.

.

CX-

The longest regular route is from King's Cross Station, London, to Edinburgh, a nonstop run of 392.7 miles, journeyed at on average speed of 52.4 miles an hour.

The world's record authenticated nonstop run, it is stated, was made in 1025, when an ol-electric train ran 2,037 miles, from Montreal to Vancouver, in 07. hours.

The Royal Scot, travelling all the year round regularly on the Cur- lisle-London track, is the oldest scheduled train in the world. It has been leaving 'Euston Station at 10 am, since 1848.

Schwertzinger,

The boy king only once dis- obeyed rules. That was when he hid in the headmaster's study to escapo 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.

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migrating north to Europe from South Africa, especially In March.

MANY VARIETIES RECORDED

Sandpipers, cuckoos swallows,

willow-warblers, stocks, wpod-war- blers, tree-pipits, black tern, wheat- ears, redstarts, garganey duck, marah harriera, hoopoes, Kedge-warblers, blackcaps, white wagtails, marsh warblers and quall are among the many European visitors naturalists have recorded in abundance around Lake Tana during the migration sea-

son.

Moro concorn, however, la felt by African naturo lovers over the status of Ethiopia's own peculiar species during any prolonged warfare over a wide front. These include such in-

teresting birds

birds as the Ethiopian ground-scraper (like a song thrush), redenpped lark, glasseye (something like the English wren), striped grass. warbler, quail, bulbul, paradise fly- catcher and other forms.

RESIDENT OF HIGH PLATEAU

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

The great hammerkop or hammer- head stork and the egret are rar birds with strongholda in Ethiopia and whose need for protection from extinction was emphasized by the re cent International Conference on Afrien Wildlife. In London, which passed spoelal rules for their protec-. tlon. But warring nations who have no regard for treaties have no regard for bird-protection laws; o rare birds are mnde rarer.

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 Ethiopia are suffering in other ways by simple necessity on the part of the native armies. In many barron districts where fighting la taking place, natural fuel for fires is non-existent and so troops carry.

the wake of the

saplings from the nearest forests in

the army, ready for is needed.

The minimum salary on which a British family of average size can live in moderate comfort is £317 a year. when fuel is £31,492,

This is the finding-taking the average size of a family as 3.72 persons of some hundreds of scientists who for 18 months have been investigating problems of food production and nutrition.

The Twentieth Century Co. pald George Arliss £25,000,

· Fredric

March Wallace Beery £20,000, Ronald Coleman £21,600, and Maurice Chevaller £30,000.

Charles

Constance Bennett drew £8,000, Group on Economics and the Associa

A report by the Engineers' Study Clarke Gable £18,033,

tion of Scientifle Workers contains Laughton £13,000, Adophe Menjou this latest contribution to the con- 45.400, and Loretta Young £7.300.troversy on the minimum standard of

living President Daryl Zanuck received £20,867.

It suggests a minimum of 10s. 2d. per week per person as against the 68. 104d. suggested by the British Medical Association and is. 104. proposed by the Ministry of Health,

WATSON'S

Notable people in other fields appear in to-day's Ilst, which is supplementary to one fasued some weeks ago.

It Was Duveen Duveen

Recreations and hobbles

£10

Subscripilons to charities

Alcohol, tobacco, sweets... Newspapers, &c.

£ 3 £20

£ 2

Stamps, phones,, telegrams,

wireless licence

£ 3 £20

Travel

Depreciation and repairs to

furniture and equipment, £12

£317

The report aims at "not a mere subsistence standard, but rather at disclosed that the one that would

BUDGETS COMPARED ensure to every Brothers paid Lord normal member of society the means £15,000, and

The weekly food budget on the Hattio to attain that state of physical wel- Carnegie drow £8,000 from the fare which must necessarily precede 2317 basis in comparison with that Arm which bears her name.

any substantial progress in the art recommended by the British Medical of living and in the development of Association is as follows:

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

Lever Brothers pald the president of their American firm, Mr. F. A. Counwat, £59,610.

•

The Chrysler Company paid Walter P. Chrysler £39,514, and General Motors gave its prest- [dent, Mr. Alfred P. Sloan £40,340.

HOW TO SPEND IT

Meat

This is how it is suggested the Fishi £317 would be spent to the best advantage:-

Food

Group. B.M.A.

LU

3.75

L.b.

5.5

Brend Flour

12

20

17.5

Rent and rates

Help and cleaning material.. £10

£09 Outmeal

0.5

Rice, barley

£55

Peas, beans

១.ច

0.5

Clothing

£20

Butter, margarin

0.5

Fuel and light

£21

Education

Medical expenses and insur-

anco

£14

Lard Milk Cheese Sugar

0.5

IB.75

30.0

0.75

2,0

5.25

Holldays

£10.

Egge

1.5

nil

coffee

1.

0.5

Potatoes

» 17

Vegetables

10

in U

Frult

nil.

2.76

1.25

BABY WATER

25, cts.

per Bottle

ENSURES PEACEFUL SLEEP

Miscellaneous

It will be noticed

97.75 107.1

that in the

gol or benar al a and her with war in Africa financial crisis at home practical in- terest seems to have been lost at least tho international temporarily in efforts to combat the waste oil tipped at sea by motor vessels, and which is proving so destructive to birds and fishes.

But perhaps if Italy finds herself short of oil, then her expert may in- vestigate the claim that £250,000 worth of waste oil is tipped into the high seas by ships every year. Then Italy may quickly fit all her motor ships with oil separators and regaln the valuable oil from the water used in clearing out.

World Peopled By Women

SCIENCE'S NEW "THREAT"

New York, Apr. 28.

The production of life in a test

tube is the achievement claimed by Dr. Gregory Pincus, of Har- vard Biological Institute.

Dr. Pincus 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 famale. So perhaps one day mero man will be eliminated in # world peopled by women.

Reporting his experimenta with £317-a-year budget provision Ja

American scientists in made for a bigger ration of the rabbits to

Washington last night, Dr. Pincus more, expensive commodities-meat said he had been able to transplant fali, vegetables, and fruit.

the artificially fertilised egg into the The report adds:"There is little body of a female rabbit and later a doubt that a large part of the populuiittle rabbit was born. tion is suffering from lack of The experiments described by Dr. nutrilous foodstuffs, particularly Pincul; and the remarkable resulta dairy produce, frult, and vegetables, claimed will be of great interest to and as increased consumption of this] medical men and seläntists universal- is beyond the means of the poorer ly, but no definito opinion cnn bo classes the economies, factor la ob- formed until further information Is viously of the first importance." forthcoming.

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