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CHARLIE

Chaplin

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY

11, 1986.

Countess Barbara Is Worth ALHAMBRA

£9,000,000

£400,000 In Gifts To

Her Two Husbands

New York, May 1.

COUNTESS HAUGWITZ-REVENTLOW, Barbara Hut-

ton, is worth more than £9,000,000. An income-tax dispute between her attorneys and the Government dis- closed this in Washington-to-day.

The Queen Mary Earns Her MODERN First £25

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Southampton, May 1. The Queen Mary started to make money for her owners for the very first little time to-day. Just a money, of course; about £25 net in shilling pieces.

And in rather an odd way. But then the relations between the Queen Mary and her owners are rather odd any way.

The Queen Mary is and it isn't! n Cunard White Star liner-not yet. She is still in the jealous her Clydebank of possession builders, the firm of John Brown. No visitors of any kind are allowed -unless the John Brown vigliants approve of them.

So it was a blt galling to the Cunard White Star folk when the mammoth arrived at Southampton to seo shillings and half-crowns rolling up in hundreds, into the pockets of the dock owners-the Southern Ball- could why when all the time they have scooped the pool by selling tickets actually to board the liner.

Idttic pleasure ateamers with a couple of hundred shillings on board have been sailing boldly into the Ocean Docks, pufing smokily around the vessel, and then steaming back to get another consignment of holi- day visitors.

It was too much for the Cunard.

Somebody had a brain wave, and llow they threw open to public

It was stated that she owned £6,400,000 tax exempt securities, £1,800,000 partially exempt securities, and £600,000 in coven ant bonds, which partially exempt from tax.

are

records showed, it was stated, that she gave her first husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani, £200,000, and her present husband the count, £200,000.

The Cleans Cleans

Mr. and Mrs.

NEW YORK, May 1. TIDIEST MAN IN NEW YORK. by vole of the Outdoor Cleanliness Association. is Eng- Hishman William Lockhart.

NEW TIDIEST WOMAN IN YORK, by vole of Mr. William.

15

jlliam Mies. Lockhart, Lockhart.

Will, born in Londen, has Man- been superintendent at a hattan boarding-house for sixty- one years.

He has been awarded the ar- sociation's certiăcate of honour cleaner for keeping his house than any other for the past year.

The King Decides

BARBARA HUTTON

Her Romance

Ended: She

Made A Vow MISS CLARA JENKINS was

1 beautiful brunette of Cacrion, Mon., .when she fell madly in love-but she was a cripple, and had to use crutches.

Her parents; who kept a little sweet shop in Cross-atrect, opposed her romance..

She made a vow:----

"I will never put a hat again."

on

Sho meant she would never again leave that little sweet shop. She kept that vow for more than forty years. Last month she died,

nged seventy-two.

Against Courts In July

GARDEN PARTIES

FOR DEBUTANTES

INSTEAD

THE KING has decided to hold two afternoon receptions in the gardens of Buckingham Palace on July 21 and Decan July 22, to take the place of the royal Courts.

liner Berening a time) the the opposite kuien le lying on Dockn.

From the Berengaria's decks you.

could get a simply splendid grand-INVENTOR stand view-high up, you know, not

030 of these neck-twisting views that you get from water level-of the Queen Mary.

OF PETROL

His decision ends speculation among London, debutantes, and bapo wives who are waiting to They know now that they will

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HARVEY STEPHENS

JEAN HERSHOLT Directed by CHESTER M. FRANKLIN

Produced by HARRY RAP?

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wear afternoon gowns, and as in "THE GIRL FROM 10th AVENUE”

RETIRES:

London, May 4, the period of full Court mourn- Mr. Chirles H. Leonard of Chaling ends on July 20—that they That is as near the Queen Mary as the Inbout a hundred yards). Cunard White Star ean get their pay-font St. diles, who invented petrol,

has retire, after 54 years with his may wear colours, ing guests.

On Friday the great liner goes to Arm, Mesrs. Carless, CapellTM and

Leonard, he original makers, sea for her trials.

MISSING FOR 35 YEARS

Famous Crook Bdieved To

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It was

Have Been Taced

that

that

persona.

Búdapest, May 2.

Thus dressmakers will have opportunities of displaying in- genuity which are denied them

HER FIRST SENSATIONAL STARRING PICTURE, A Warner Bros. Production.

TO-DAY &

in the design of the normal | TO-MORROW Court gowns.

Each debutante will want an Individual style, and, with nearly a thousand to be present- ed, the variations of "fashion ahould be unusually interesting,

The Lord Chamberlain's an- nouncement regarding the recep tions states

"Mourning will not be worn at these receptions."

N old story of a crook who has beem legend for thiry-five

"Ladles who have already ap plied to make presentations this years has been received during the parfew days.

iled to find him,

Inter another year will in due course receive a The Ministry of Home Affairs | track

a year has been informed that the famous and

Kecskemey remained uncaught. A Lord Chamberlain's Office, Kecskemethy is living in America letter from Cincinnati; but detailed communication from the rumour tt Kecskemethy had been under a false name, and letters from him can be produced murderedid robbed by a friend, and as evidence. The Informer, who another hour with a detective as la living in the Roumanian town murderer were given point by the

Full arrangements have, yet to of Temesvar, is known to be a re-sudden upplained wealth. of theso

be announced, but it is understood that the debutantes will pass llable, citizen,

T YEARS LATER at the end of 1901

before the King, making their Kecskemethy roused the European

Ten ye later, however, Keesko-curtsies as at a normal Court. police by the theft of five hundred

crowns methy weeen on a South African and eighty-eight thousand from the tax money belonging to the train by Hungarian, who learned city of Budapest, a considerable sum that the thief was a rich mino tr on he was seen in Brazil arteclared to be a wealthy correspondent,

Kecskemethy was twenty-one, a farmer, fresh searches failed to

leader of the trace hislereabouts. great patriot and

friend of many The nowa of Kecskemethy students, a good

Queen Mary may sit beside him. members of the Opposition who had claimed to be the proprietor of though denied his Hungarian The theft was adroitly committed, origin ses swear that years be grouped about him.

vanderod the towns of

Mon attending these receptions position in the city tax offices. Kecakemathy, and a subordinate drove earlier

wear ordinary morning clothes. will

2DAYE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW at that time, writes a Morning Post owner.

AN AMAZING THRILL PICTURE THAT'S ALIVE WITH ACTION AND EXCITEMENT I THE most distinguished drama of the season, it will hold you THE

The King, will probably sit on a glit chair under the Delhi Durbar canopy of scarlet and gold, supported by four silver posts, at the end of the main lawn.

onthralled 'from its opening sequence' until its profoundly Fastused their influence to procure him a la great in San Francisco, and Members of the Royal Family will

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Was

from absent

to the town hall with the tax money, America a foreigner. The solu but stopped on the way to deliver ation of mystory is awaited with

tho subordinato keen inte message. While

the carriage The wht against Kecskemethy Kecskemethy opened the bag and clapsed 07, so that no prosecu stracted the money, sending the tion can place. According to however, the city of unsuspecting subordinate into the private town hall with the almost empty bag Budapest domand compensation alone, on the pretext that he himself for the though the steps would

entail valgh expenses. must post a letter,

POLICE BAFFLED

The efforts of the Hungarian and NO SIE TO International police to find the thier

(SUMMER) TIME were fruitless. Kecskemethy began to assume a legendary immunity. He

London, Apr. 28. was reported to have been seen in

Mr. Ar Diplock, a bachelor, different parts of Hungary, and very

Europe.

retired business, who has just eoon in different parts of

Some weeks after the crime a letter died age, refused to alter the purporting to be from Kecskemethy clocks home, or his watch, came from Now York, offering to when sur time began.

He read his life according to restitulo the money all but eight thousand crowns Inoxchango for his further freedom from punishment. the timhich he had been ac-

his custom boyhood. on Tho detectives

Bent

DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE ENLARGED

London, May 1. Jn order that Darimoor Prison may be enlarged, 000 long term prizoners are to be transferred to Dartmoor from county jails so that they can get to work in the enlargement and re- conditioning of the Prison.

Plana for this transter of such a large number of prisoners have been prepared secretly by the authorities and are now complete. They will fourney hy train from Waterloo to Plymouth and go from there by road through Tavistock to Dartmoor.

None of them have less than nine- months' sentence in store for them.

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