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THE HONGKONG” TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 2, 1936.

MARY ASTOR ACCUSES EX-HUSBAND

NEW CHARGES

IN FIGHT FOR

CHILD

New York, Aug. 20.

MARY ASTOR'S legal battle in Los

Angeles for the custody of her four- year-old daughter, Marilyn, continued to- day to cast a lurid light on Hollywood.

The film star is opposed by her former husband, Dr. Franklin Thorpe, a fashion- able gynaecologist in the studio colony, who was awarded the custody of the child when he and Miss Astor were divorced last year.

At a special session of the Court, held at night to permit Miss Astor to work on a new film during the day, many Hollywood celebrities heard counsel produce intimate details of the private lives.

AT DOCTOR'S HOME

Nurse Nollie Richardson, questioned by Miss Astor's attorney, was asked if she ever saw Miss Norma Taylor at Dr. Thorpe's home.

She sold Miss Taylor had stayed

the night there "many times,“ sleep- ing in the same bedroom with

Dr.

Thorpe. The nurse said he had OUR

served their breakfast there

Asked whether other wunen hadi

stayed in similar circumstances,

Nurse Richardson mentioned

the

names of Miss Betty Grath, and also! Mrs. Llun Miles-who, according to Miss Astor's allegations, was Dr. 66 Thorpe's wife when he married thei Alm star.

STABBED WITH, FÓRK Constable Walker testified that he had been called to Dr. Thorpe's house," where he found the doctor restraining, Miss Taylor, who "appeared to drunk."

Dr. Thorpe showed the policeman two piners where he said, she, had "tabbed him with a caring fork." "She was wearing white pyjamas," sald Constable Walker, "and her toe- Halls were painted red."

Dr. Thorpe's retort to this evidence was to produce Miss Astor's diury, from which a passage was read.

Under date three months before their divorce she referred to. a mysterious "George.“

"I love George, and the least 1 can

Mary Astor, screen siar, at right, shown in a Los Angeles courtroom, where she is engaged in a bitterly contested fight to win the custody of her daughter from her former husband, Dr. Pranklyn Thorpe. With the star is Ruth Chatterton. her constant companion during the irinl

BOUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE

AT AN ALARMING RATE

"Terrifying" List of Research Subjects

NOW BEING TAUGHT AT

UNIVERSITIES

Cambridge, Aug. 12.

OUGHT universities to attempt to teach every subject? Ought they to admit the candidate who only seeks a

And how much research is worth while? pass degree?

These were among the questions asked by Mr. G. H. A.

do is to save him, from messy Wilson, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and

it

scandal. Maybe I'm being foolishly gallant, but maybe also i can do one nice thing in my life."

COUNTESS

SUED FOR

WINE BILL

CORINNE, Viscountess Gort, whose income was given as £3,000 a year free of tax, was at Westminster County Court inst month stated to have left Eng- Iand owing a considerable sum! of money,

She was

sued jointly with Lord Victor Paget by Mr. Giovanni Chierico, truding the New Continental Stores, Old Compton-street; W., for £67 for, champagne, wines, and cocktails supplied.

Mr. Henry Stewart-Moore, for Lord Victor, anid his cilent denied that the! goods were supplied to his order, but were bought by Corinne Viscountess Gort for her parties.

Lord Victor never authorised her to order in his unme, or pledge hisi credit.

Mr. Stewart-Moore said he was in- structed that Corinne Viscountess Gort, the former wife of Viscount Gort, V.C., was now a Mrs. Blatt, but) where she was he did not know.

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Master of Clare College, when he addressed the Empire Universities Congress at Cambridge.

One of the major problems that (reat danger of duplication involving confronted the universities, said Mr. waste of both time and money.". Wilson, was the growing number of.

Mr. Wilson advocated a wider co-

subjects. Until the middle of the 1 operation between the universities, Inst century there were only both at home and in the Dominions, ninthematical and classical triposes in making provision for subjects of at Cambridge; now there were four-mited interest, bearing two basic

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principles in mind that knowledge was worth pursuing for its own sake and that man was a social animal.

UNIVERSITIES' DUTY

PROFESSORIAL CHAIRS Similarly up to 1850 there were twenty professoriul chairs, now there were seventy. Notwithstanding all

"The universities are national and the developments of modern physies imperiat institutions," said the Vice- and astronomy there remained only Chancellor, "and It is their duty to twenty-four hours in a day, although train against a background of pure bounds of scholarship a body of men and wo- howledge were being extended at men who shall be fitted to take a tead, or at any rate à creditable part, an impressive and alarming rate.

in the conduct of social, commercial, aland political administration.".

It was found that the

his

"Dr. Johnson once described university os i school where every-

Referring to qualification for ad- thing may be learned..To some ex-mission to a university, Mr. Wilson tent we inay hope that we are living used: "Are matriculation standards up to the definition. In day, too low? Are the tests of the right however, there were but two kind? Ought we to exclude a man universtiles in England, and it was because

cannot satisfy

the natural to expect each of them, to examiners in Latin or algebra, as the provide everything to be learned.

case may be, though he may have other admirable qualities And potentialities?

-A REAL DANGER

I think that Dr. Johnson, were he living to day, would modify his state- ment. No university should attempt to provide Instruction in Every branch of knowledge. There Is

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RESEARCH SUBJECTS

"To cast an eye down the list of subjects approved for research in any one year is a terrifying experience, Sanskrit plays rub shoulders with internal combustion engines and Coptic with poultry nutrition, How many of these pieces of research are worth white?

The Vice-Chancellor also spoke of the student who placed too much

DEAD MAN'S CURSE IN BOOK "Broke My Home... May It Haunt Them"

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From ALAN J. RANDS TRING, Hertfordshire, Aug. 10.

AY the people who are respon- sible for breaking up my happy home have it on their heads all the days of their life..

So ran a passage in a final letter to his

BRITAIN'S

QUADS

Readers of "The Hongkong Telegraph" will re-

collect having seen the really wonderful photo-

wife which Mr. Samuel Gershon, aged 43, graphs of these Quads in last Thursday's issue, on

a well-known Hatton-garden diamond

merchant, scribbled in a notebook before the occasion of the opening of the Sun Nursery committing suicide in his motor-car on

Aldbury Common, near here, by inhaling by Mr. George Lansbury, the 77 year-old M.P.

The Quads are fed on Cow & Gate Milk Food and

exhaust fumes.

EXTEND

MEN OVER 40 ARE DEAD

But They Won't

Lie Down

DR. JAMES A. BOWIE.

principal

tap Dander School of Economies and Com- merce, said recently:-

NOWA-

Most men die at forty, though they are not burled for thirty

years afterwards, or forty When

London * per naked Dr. Bowie for a little to information the subject he sunl

pret

on

"If you approach the average man over forty with a new idea he is adamant against It) "If a man has stopped the process of education for twenty years he is incapable of making the mental

necessary adopt a new set of ideas. "Most of us 'hate to

change our mental furniture even more than we hate to change the furniture in our houses.

to

"In America the man over forty will dash after the new Idea like a dor after a hare. In this country he is upset, dis turbed and inclined to shuffle." NOTE: Dr. Botcie's age is given in Who's Who as forty-eight.

Lonely Figure

Of Doorn

Doorn. Aug. 18.

At the inquest here to-day it

·was mado clear that worry over

a £3,000 diamond robbery at his difficulties which followed an in- surance claim, and subsequent

London offices last February,

bankruptcy proceedings against

the public will doubtless be interested in the following information showing the remarkable

his firm-Gershon Bros., of Hat- Progress made by these infants. ton-garden, E,C-led to Gershon's death.

Mr.

I understand that in the letter Mr.

Gershon addressed his wife as "Doll. AT BIRTH:

darling." and wrote:

I cannot face bankrupter after

22 years of trading, so I am tak-

ing the coward's way out, but i

CH ARSILTO

teave

Wirl like

angel, to

you is more than

a wrnich, I worship you.

I cannot po

on. My brat.

seems likely to snap, and then i shall be put away to a firing death.

He asked his daughter to take care of her mother, adding "She is the fing little woman It the whole world. Do your best to make her happy."

UNPAID CLAIM

Mr. Edward Duvid Gershon, a beo- ther and partner in the business, told the coroner. Col. Lovell Smeathman, that his brother had been worried beenuse the insurance company had not paid a claim for compensation following the burglary,

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There was a bankruptcy petition against the Arm, but it had been "held over" pending a settlement

Ernest weighed

3 lbs. 15 OZS.

Paul.

3

7.

Ann

124

Michael

2

13

AT SIX MONTHS:

They reached normal weights.

Three of them in fact, slightly over.

the claims. The firm had never be-TO-DAY at

fore been involved in such proceed-

iny.

Mr. Gershon added that his brother NINE MONTHS:

left his home in Northwick-avenue, Kenton, Middlesex, on Tuesday after- noms, and a meeting of creditors was to be held on the following day.

After reading the Jetter, Colonel Smeathman returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound. mind, ob- serving: "It is evident that he vis suffering from sone considerable trouble and that it unhinged his

mindhi Mr. Edward

Gershon

total me: "My brother has been the victim of malicious tongues, There were Innuendors, and he considered that they caused delay in the settlement with the innur- ance company.

"The firm of Gershon Brothers has been in existence since 1885, and is

the very well known in

diamend trade."

Ex-Davis Cup Player In Divorce Suit Petitioners in the London Divorce Court:-

Mrs. Doris Trever Turnbull- against Mr. Oswald Noct, Turn- bail, the ald British Davis Cup player; and

Lady Corry-against Sir Jamner Perowne, Ivo Myles Curry, B. Both suits are in the undefende

Iist.

perhaps the loneliest figure in rapidly

rellunce in what he could absorb TX-KAISER WILHELM is to-day

memoirs.

ageing

man, Was seen

A telegram received yesterday. reads as follows:-

Ernest

19 lbs.

Paul

18

6 ozs.

14

Ann

*19

17

Michael

The normal weight of a baby at nine months is 18 lbs.

This case is almost a miracle.

Medical history states that never

before in England-have Quadruplets lived for more than a few

days.

through lectures, and was ceasing to think or even to read for himself. Haarn. His wife, Princess Hermine, walking in the castle grounds, his That danger was increased when ex-is in Germany. His children and silver hair and beard ruted to the Never before-anywhere--have Quadruplets survived when three aluations were conducted by the grandchildren, formerly frequent wind. Ils activity dispelled recent sume people as had given the lectures. Visitors at the castle at Doorn, have rumours that he is seriously III. He

absented themselves this summer. spends most of his time writing his of them were boys. "On the other hand," said Mr. To-day the ex-Kaiser, now Wilson, "I am amazed when I see the liste of books which a student is Judvised to read. Their number is uften far too great. I suggest to those responsible for lectura lists and for the recommendation of books that there is reason in all things, and that they should aim at securing á Proper balance between the two."

LAW AS CINDERELLA Lord Macmillan, chairman of the

academic world. Opening a dis-

NO MORE FILMS FOR ME

-HELEN HAYES

MISS Helen Hayes, the 5ft. American blonde film and

An additional complication, was that the babies wore premature and were far less than normal birth weight.

stage star, who is on a week's visit to London withThere could be no more convincing evidence that Cow & Gate is Court of London University, describ- her husband, Mr. Charles MacArthur, the dramatist and ed in as the Cinderella of the scenario writer, revealed recently that she has resolved ́

the most wonderful food' in the world for all babies when natural cussion on post-graduate studies, he never to return to Hollywood or to make another film. said that Inw was to-day recognised.

feeding falls. more as a branch of social service, Embowered in a room adorned with bouquets of lilies, gladioli, Previously it was Thorrid

regarded as a carnations, and other flowers from her English admirers, Miss into and from which they tried to

mystery that people get caught Hayes--who was wearing a tailored royal blue costume and a

to get out. He hoped soon to see a small tiny hat and veil to mat-aid at Claridge's Hotel: committee set

which would found

up

an Institute of Law to be established in London for post-graduate study und research and for the guidance of Empire lawyers.

"No marriage can survive in Intinute details of one's private life Hullywood, so my husband and I appear garbled in the film magazines, have decided to stay in New York, and no couple can

I am sick of the Impossible parts I publicity."

have been given in films. Instead, Discussing the abortive £20,000

Ott

I intend to concentrate stage lawsuit for "allenation of affection" work. I have just turned down a which was brought against her threa £40,000 film offer.

NO PRIVACY IN HOLLYWOOD

weeks ago by Mr. MacArthur's first

wife, Mish, Carol Frink, the dramatic crille, Miss Hayes said:

"In Hollywood ono cannot, have a "I am trying to forget it. It came

There is always an element of risk even with a

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normal child at weaning time-do for your child what has been done for the Quads. Give your child every possible chance of growing into a

Lord Rutherford, Director of the Cavendish Laboratory of Experiment al Physics at Cambridge, said that research students were costly article to train. Apart from fees, each man cost the University any- word with a friend In the street, or as a complete bolt from the blue four healthy, fine man or woman, thing from £28 to £100 a year. It meet someone for a cocktail, without years after Charles and I were mar there is only one, minor Faraday eight spies armed with. camorased. That such a case was over prodused once in twenty years" be listening in and saintching photo- allowed to come on aeems to me an Indded, "the University has justined

utterly frivolous use of the machinery graphs..

Thore no privacy. The most of the law."

itsalt."

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