1936-09-11 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936,

TWO SHY WOMEN OF A FAMOUS HOUSE

The Girl Who Is Her Royal Mother's Best Companion

Sees War Peril

John W. Troy, governor of the Territory of Alaska, pictured leaving the White House in Washington where he discussed Alaska const defences. He sald

fearful Alakang

that Alaska would be the "theatre of the next war."

were

New Film War Brews In Hollywood

Hollywood, Aug. 30

SIMPLE LIFE WITH

£300,000 A YEAR

THEY CYCLE, SKATE AND

WALK TOGETHER

The Hague, Sept. 9.

ANNOUNCEMENT of the betrothal of Princess Juliana

of Holland has drawn the eyes of Europe to one of the most remarkable royal families in the world.

Princess

Juliana and hcr mother, Queen Wilhelmina, are at present holidaying together at Bad Wiessenburg. in Switzer- land.

These tyn women, the lost repre- sentatives of the. historie House of Orange, are inseparable compuntons. They are among the richest women in Europe, yet their style of living is one of simplicity compared with their wealth,

Queen Wilhelmina has a private income of £135,000 a year, and her

from the Government £160,000. Princess Juliana's income Is £27,100 a year.

furume

Here is a pen picture of aspects of their life together.

Their Palace

In Just A House

Home

Their "palace" at The Hague is an old-fashioned, yellowing build- ing in the Noorheimsle, a narrow street widening into a square,

When they go out they have la pass the houses of their neig):bours- a tobacconist, a vacuum cleaner maker, a banker, and a Jeweller.

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A Boy Who Longed

To Parachute

PRAGUE, Sept. 5. 21

holiday boy On

at Preman sme an exhibition, by parachutists and longed to make such jumps.

He dreamt of it at night and woke up in a flower bet under his bedroom window. -Exchange.

Because of this and to safeguard her

**

from

Broker Accused

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of B.B.C. Dance. Orchestra

BOOK REVIEWS

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

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.

European Programme. Ан Operatle

2.11 p.m. 7 *p.m. gramme.

Pro-

of

Orchestral The Mastersingers of (Wagner); Nuremburg Overture Arla-Aida-O Patria Mia (Verdi).. ..Eva Turner (Soprano); Duet Madame Butterfly-Child from whose Sherl- eyes-Love Duet (Puccini).. dun (Soprano) and Pertile (Tenor);

Valkyrie-de Orchestra-The 60-year-old Hopkins, Toseph

the Valkyries

(Wagner); Aria broker, accused by several

Marta-Like a Dream (Flotow).... wealthy Los Angeles soclely

Enrico Caruso (Tenor); Orchestral- women of swindling them out of

and Samson

Delllah-Bacchanale $200,000 in Jewels. He was

(Saint-Saens). arrested

nationwide

7.30

D.M. Closing Local Stock Quotations.

after

search.

ม

America

much as possible Now Has

drauglits and chili winds, a wooden tunnel has been built from the palace to the roadway. + *

The Queen and the princess are ex- skaters. They skate 121 The winter on a moat behind julace, accompanied only by a male aide-de-camp.

Queen Wilhelmina disapproves of public sports on Sundays, and only stirs outside the palate on Sunday to attend church. She hardly ever goes to a theatre,

The royal ear is à 1931 Cadillac. Its

is not used every day,

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*

A

The demurratic Dutch ride mostly on bicycles and the Queen and Princess Juliana ride with them.

museal sight see the Queen and her daughter pedal- ling along a street or walking to chirch.

It is no

A new threat to talent lists of major studios, already battling for services of a dwindling supply of box office names, is seen in the rise of Grand National Pic- tures, an ambitious organization Queen just four months old.

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Wilhelmina suffers acutely from neuralgin, which is ap- parently affecting her hubs.

FastCourage Of Cady Ashley

Grand National, a producing and distributing company in- corporated in Delaware April, has just announced an $8,000,000 fifty-picture pro- gramme for the coming year.

Inevitably it will require stars, WON

and just as inevitably must join the talent.wAN..

CACNEY SIGNED

The new fimm raised Hollywood's i

eyebrows recently when it signest

Mhe

maintains a very small Court. Daring the past three years there) have been virtually functions at Court,

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social

The Tallest Man!

Alton, Ill., Aug. 30.

ROBERT WADLOW, a

shy,

18

bespectled youth now years old, has become, according to a consensus of available ro- cords-the tallest man in scienti- fically recorded history.

From a staunch buse of size shoes he now soars upward to a towering 8 eel 5 inches, a gain of one inch in six months. possesses magnificent pearls. And despite the intense heat he nearly has put on an additional 35 pounds, bringing his weight to

*

*

estimated to have

£135,080,

rost

She has an extensive knowledge of 425.

mathematics and economics.

Her paintings have attracted more than ordinary attention at many exhibitions.

HER

-"LET'S

GAME PRETEND"

OF

Sitting in a huge, specially built porch chair, the back of which upward nearly six feet, reaches Robert explained that since his 1811 birthday lie has been steadily grow- Ing. both up and out. He reached that age Feb. 22 this year. At that lime he was 8 feel 4 inches tall and weighed 390 pounds.

A BIT BASHFUL

Robert talks In a rather high pitch- ed voice. He is a bit bashful among strangers and is inclined to dislike publicity, He confides that be; doesn't like being “gawked_at"

When-the-beat-gets-the-best-of him he likes to dive into a swimming hole and Innerse

merse his lengthy frame. father, keen. grey

eyed engineer, who is normal:

obert is that

Jimmy Cagney, released from his! A BOOK of 385 pages published last month reveals a woman's serial size, explain-

Warner Beas, contract by court man dinte, and announced it would spend $500,000 on fils first picture.

Subsequently

revealed

indomitable courage in the face of great suffering.

She is Lady Apsley, wife of Lord' Apsley, M.P. for the Cen- thetral Division of Bristol.

alliance of an impressive list of semi- The book, which will become n the subject that was so elesely linked independent producers, including lelasale on its subject, "Bridleways with her own tragedy-horses. Douglas MacLean, Buris formerly of Paramount, B. F. Zeid-Through History" (Hutchinson, 165.).

in

Petrol,

man, once of Universal, and George Six years age a horse Lady Apsley Hjelima".

was riding in the hunting eld One possible source of stars was stumbled in a rabbit hole, ages brennsl revealed

announcement of ed, and crushed her underneath as it picture. It first

will, feil.

Her spine was dislocated. She present Reginald Denny, a great name of a few years ago, in "Were in this was faced, in her thirties, with the prospect of sending the rest of Legion Now." A picture already Anished to be released by G-N, is her fe in an invalid clair. "Yellow Cargo" starring

KEPT CHEERFUL

ed that swimmer

arlent

Robert is less interested in beings the tallest man in the world than he his ambition to become a lawyer. For several years he has been study-

is' in

A friend describing how the low at Shurtleff College in Alton, and expected to enter either Washing- writing of the book, tyna raadeton Volversity or a college in Texas possibile sak: "Lady Apsley and this fall. her husband ever since the accid. ent have played an heroic game | of 'Let's pretend." They deter- miued to ignore is results as far as possible.

SHE FLIES

TOO MANY GLANDS?

Robert's height is greater than any of the elants accepted its authentie in medient records, A treatise published 1012 by Dr. Harves Cushing, an authority on the subject, records measurements of other giants

8 ringing from 7 feet 5 inches to

2.2 inches. In Brewster's "giants of real life" an Irishman is

Conrad Nagel, also a former topflight star.

RUSH OF STARS The possibility is strong that a rush i scribed her to sign former ranking players re-riding a good horse sumewhere seared on the ground floor. Stairs are mentioned who is claimed to have garded as "through" in recent years, hous, Bell, shootings and among the few obstacles that Lady been a fraction more than 8 feet 4

hitting a

Apaley cannot surmount In her laches tall. Its nome was Charles Edward L. Alperson, former sales catching salmon."

wheeled chair.

She continued to 'rion, or Byrne. He lived from travel by train and motor-car and 1761 to 1883 and his skeleton has been

preserved. has even insisted upon travelling in her husband's airplane. He is (22 efficient pilot.

"Bedrooms at the Apsley town This was the woman who had tie.

pleasures in life as and country residences were furnish-meet

of G-N, says his firm has arranged

manager for Warner Bros. and head She never became an invalle in for distribution in 33 cities, with fur-spirit. She kept her Interests allve ther deals pendin. The company is refused to lose her cheerfulness. reportedly backed .by Eastern

She wrote in the Sunday Express batikers,

patently G-N will not establish four years up::~~-

lot, its allied producers | worlding in space rented from other independent studios,

30

Meanwhile, established Hollywood producers are apparently preparing for battle. Spiking a rumour that Warner Bros, would abandon an uppent of the court's decision in the Cagney case, Jack Werner suid the matter is pending in, Appellate court, and will be pressed.United Press.

Tonfold Fewer

Divorces

"Every one should be prepared

Robert's rapid growth is attributed to over activity of the pituitary gland, His parents have refused to allow an Ths airplane and a motor-cur operation. The young glant has four

brothers and sisters. smaller were specialty adapted to suit her

normal size.

الش

as far as possible for what mat "She wrote every word of the book Doctors say Robert will continue to betide staps of Fate, turns of herself in pencil. She would beca- grow until he is about 22 to 23 yeará fortune, the workings of Provid- ence-call them what you willstonally break off to speak at public old. At his present rate of growth, by keeping another interest or meetings. She is president of the which is nearly two inches a year, he hobby in reserve to fall on in days Unionist Association."

of enforced tuleness."

HEROIC 'GAME Brave words from chair.

invalid's an

Typically, when she decided to write a book as a hobby she chose

EFFECT OF NEW RUSSIAN LAW 4500-YEAR-OLD VILLAGE

Moscow, Aug. 20.

As a result of the new Divorce

an expedition

Warsaw, Aug. 20.

Law adopted in the Soviet Union

Excavators with last month, the number of divorces from Poznan University have un-

applied for has fallen tenfold. earthed a village belleved to date During the first three weeks of July from 3500 B.C. only. 215 divorces were recorded in

Women's branch

the Bristol muy reach well over nine feet.

United Press.

New Arsenal To Make

Heavy

Guns

PREPARATIONS are being made in Nottingham for the estab

lishment of a branch of Woolwich Arsenal as part of the defence programme.

Nottir ham is one of the centres chosen away from London

Moscow,

us compared with 2,214 They found it near Bisbupin, inns being less vulnerable to attack from the air. divorces during the first three weeks Polish Pomeruain and attribute it

the Marsh

A large factory used during the last war by Cammell Laird &

of June. The new law came into to what is known ng effect on June 20.

Both parties must now appear in period, when a primitive race of Co., for the making of heavy guns and later used by the same firm court

for building steel railway conches has been taken over by the War Office for the inanufacture of heavy guns.

to ask for the divorce, whereas hunters and fishers lived in the formerly It was sufflelent for but one | marshes.

of the parties to appear and declare

his or her wishes.

A fee of 50 roubles is now charged

for the first divorce, 100 for the

of about 70 feet. The huts were con-

The village was found at a depth The manager of the local employment exchange has been in- structed of ash logs. Various pieces structed to recruit 100 engineers who are to be sent to Woolwich second, and 150 for the third. The of earthenware, as well as ornaments, to be trained in the work they are to do and then return to uniform fee formerly was half

and wheat, barley and gas plants Nottingham along with a number of key men from the Arsonal. rouble-Exchange.

were unearthed. Exchange

7.33 pm. A Relay from London. The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra, direct- ed by Henry Hall.

7.50 p.m. From the Studio.

"New Books, Worth Reading" by D.E.A.

8 p.m. Lexal: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and announcements.

8.03 p.m. The London Symphony Orchestra.

Suite in G (Bach, arr. Goossens); Love of the Three Oranges (Pro- kofieff); Triumphal March ("Carne- theus") (Elgar, Op. 35).

8.30 p.m.

Film Hits

Jack Buchanan in Old

1. Brewster's Millions: 2. The Flying Trapeze.

8.47 pm. Ragamuffins,

Harry Roy's Tiger

Quick-Step-Jazz me Blues; Fox- Trot-Cheerful Blues; Memories of you; Rain; Goodbye Blues: It Don't mean thing; Happy Feet; Everybody laves my baby; I got Rhythm.

9 p.m. News and announcements from London.

9.20 p.m. Concert Items. Song If my mother only knew (Nutile)... Benlainino Gigli (Tenor); Violin Solo Scherzo Tarantelle (Wieniawald, Op. 16)....Temianka; Song-Lied der Mignon (Schubert).

Mela Seinemeyer (Soprano); Pinno- forte Solo-Clair de Lune (Debussy) ....John Hunt: Song-Addio bel Sogno....Beniamino Gigli (Tenor); Cygne Alto

Saxophone Solo-Le (Saint-Saen)....Marcel Mule,

9.45 p.m. The Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra,

Largo (Handel); Chanson Triste (Tschalkovsky, arr. Stewart); Plque Dame Overture (Suppe).

10 p.m...Big Ben from London.

Variety and Dance Music. Band--Holidny Hits-Medley..... London Piano Accordeon Band, Ilu morous-A Spot of Fishing....Clap- ham and Dwyer: Fox Trot-Sammy Scott Wood and his Slx Saxophone....S Swingers: Band-Minstrel Memories

Grand Massed Bands: Rumbn You've

the wrong Rumba.

Son and his Cuban Musle;

Miguel

엄마

Don

Do you remember my first love Song Gracie Fields; Orchestra-Top

...immie Dor Dancers Nightmare....in

and his Orchestra; instrumental The King Steps Out-Medley, The Keyboarders; Vocal-I'm Putting all my eggs in one basket..... .The Boswell Sisters; Fox Trot-Honolulu .Roy Stars and awalian Guitars. Smeek and his Hawaiian Serenaders; Walt Who Killed, Cock Robin?.

rom the Disney Silly Symphony. (From actual Sound Film); Fox Trat-The Never-to-be forgotten Melody.... Geraldo and his Orchestra; Vioiln Solo-Melody at Dusk..... Albert Sandler; Fox Trot-Is. In true what they say about Dixie?. ...Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra: Song-One of the Bttle Orphans of the Storm.. Gracie Fields; Xylophone Solo-Joey the Clown....Rudy Starita: Waltz- Sympathy....Cusaal Club Orchestra.

1 p.m. Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wavelengths and frequencies: are observed-by Daventry,

Frequency Wavelength

8,500 k.. 49.59 metzen 9,510 k.. 31.56 metres 9.585 k.. 'at.34 matres 11,130 ke 25.52 maires 1995 kg. 25.28 metre 15,145 ke. 19.82 metres 17.795 kr. 16.84 metres 11.470 kr. 12.97 metron

Bien

CBA

650

G9C

GSE

GRF

.. GRC

GRI

68)

21,840

GNL

15,260 k.. 10.64 metres 19.46 matrem

I k., 49.10 metres

Transmission 1

IG.M.D., 0.8.11.) 2.15 p.m.

Ben. "Curiosities of the English Theatre." 1.31 p.m. Chamber Music,

3.21 pm. A commentary on the Inter

national Speedway Champlonakipa, from Wembley,

1.1 p.m. Paul Godwin's Orchester, 2.83 p.m. The Nowa and Announcementa. Greenwich Time Signal at 4 p.19.

Transmission

(G.S.G., 0.8.11.)

2 p... Big Ben "Empire Magazine,”.

No. 4

142 p.m. The B... Dence Orchestra.

1,10 p.m.

The Spotted Llor"

8.30. Rtudents Bongs.

Grovawich Time Signal AÐ PL

p..

The News and Announcements,

50 p.m. The D.1.C. Northern Orchestza.

Transmission 3

(0.8.0, 0.8.F, 0.8.11.1

10 p.m. Bon. The Durian Kipa 55p.

choeira, 35.. A commentary an the Inter

national Hpeedway Champtanssipa, : fram Wambler, Lundun.

11.30 pm. Banco Stuule,

ths Bie Haregadaja," 11.86 m. The News and Announcements, Gizvenwish. Time Riajal 41 105M. 11:10 .me Yeunk Nike's Braw Quintet.

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