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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1936.

West End Will See Next Year's Coronation Pageant

£1,000,000 ROUTE SIX MILES LONG-

1-2-3

In Mary Astor's Charm List

New York, Aug. 27. WHO is Hollywood's Num-

ber One man?

Since it was disclosed that dark-eyed Mary Astor, fighting her ex-husband. Dr. Franklyn; Thorpe, for the enstadly of thairi four-year-old child, had confitted to the lavender pages of her diaryį the "charm ratings" of the film) city's most famous lovera, thei whole town has been speculating.

BILL по rapturously attractive screen fover. no suave producer, leads the fleld in her 1st. It waILN revented to-day that the man who dors is not outstandingly ind some at all; he is a well-known Los Angeles professional man with | wildly flying hair and n merry twinkle in his eye.

Second place in her careful tabu- Intion is held by George Kaufman. brilliant playwright, who has been subported to give evidence when the trial is resumed on Monday,

Placed

Third place falls to John Barry- more, sought by process servers armed with subpectius,

Haworth, Jocelyn

22, pretty Australian film actress, narrowly escaped death in ner tollywood apartment when JE pat bobed over and extinguished the domes on her kitchen stove. A friend arrived in time to save her,

Pacific As Centre Of

Civilisation

Ülher names in the diary whose romantic roles in make-believe have enused a million wotterin hearts ful

Los Angeles, Sept. 10. Butler. Clark Gable, a close friend | of Dr. Thorpe, is mentioned only in- Opportunity for advancement in eldentally, and among other men met the world t-day ties in the Pacifle casually and commented on ightly area. Dr. Adamantins Plyzoides of by Hollywood's Mrs. Pepys Is the University of Suthern California, George Oppenheimer. whose dinner-jacketed figure up-has been telling California audiences] pears beside Mies Astor in a photo-lately. itraph received by post to-day by Judge Goodwin Krijgt,

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writer

The European

civilization is

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the new world.

Nearly Twice

As Far As Big

Parade Of 1911

London, Aug. 18. DOUTE of the Coronation procession of King Edward VIII. on Wednesday, May 12, 1937, was announced officially last night. It has been approved by the King. Two million people are, expected to line the route, which is nearly twice as long as that taken by the procession at the coronation of King George and Queen Mary.

In 1937 the procession will cover six miles. In 1911 only three-and-a-half miles were covered.

These are the streets which will have the chance of greeting the King next year:-

Outward from Buckingham Palace:-

The Mall (St. James's fark).

Admiralty Arch

Trafalgar-squnte,

Walichall.

Parliament-strect.

5. Margarela-street and

Broad Sanctuary to the

West entrance of Westminster Abbey.

Return route to the Palace:--

Broad Sanctuary. Bridge-strect.

Victoria Embankment.

Northumberland-avenue,

Southern skle SQUAFE.

Cockapur-street.

. Pall Mall

St. James's alrect. Piccadilly.

Piccadilly-clrcus. Re#cat-street, Oxford-circus. Marble Arch,

Farb

of

New Deal

For Deserted Wives In

New Zealand

Tratalgar-New Zealand's First Labour

in Hyde

Int

East Carriage-read

Hyde Park Corner, by

George's Hospital

Constitution in and

Grosvenor-place to

Buckingham Palace, King George and Queen Mary when they were crowned in West- minster Abey on June 2, 1911, did not touch Regent-street or Oxford-¦ street.

rolity

| dying ne to-day," declares Dr.

2,000,000 CROWD THEN Meanwhile, Hollywood is playing

new game of "shush." All the lyzoides, "while

A mere 200,00 came to London stors are so afraid of being con-vital, progressive and dynamic, lies for that Coronation procession. The preted with the Astor scandal in along the Paviste."

King Edward's any way that they will hardly even

Coronation procession would have 'ndinit it exists. They were

been inadequate. tax- vossed for a bet. This was the re sult:-

The future development of world opportunity lies, he believen, with [the reawakening of Japan, China ind

Russize.

Suld Junct Gaynor: "I know

"While the various political move- nothing about the case." Sald Lawrence Tibbeit: It's their affair,ments in the Far East," says Dr. not mine." Claudette Colbert's com-Plyzoides, "may not be to our Aking. ment was: "Uhuh! That's too had yet because of those movement one- Trilan Powell's "Excuse me half of

the world's population 1 George Raft had "Nothing to any."awakening to the future. With this awakening, the opportunity for business and gultural development of American Institutions will be un- limited.

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FLY IS BLIND

TO DARK HUES

Vienna, Sept. 10.

Competition from European sources wit be nuly negligible be- use the European nations are too interested in their petly 'International backyard fights' to see what they are If you want to be spared the missing in the way of truly world nuisance of flies, have sombre, wall-development."-United Press. paper and use dark covers for your ¦ ===

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by

furniture, says Rasul France, noted light yellow or a light blue, accord- Vienna physicist.

ing to this scientist, who asserts that France explains that the flies, a fly will never be found on a dark through many thousand years, have carnation or on a red rose. been accustomed to associate sweet- ness with light colours. In contrast to butterflies, which prefer red and tight colors and shining surfaces blue flowers, and to bees, which like such as mirrors and windows, and

for this

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preference.

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colours.

Flies cannot, or can hardly, per-lture and to paint ceilings in turk ceive any colours aside from white, tints-United Press.

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Budget

The main fentures, of New Zen- land's first Labour Budget; presented

I recently, "were:---.

A surplus of £13,000;

£1,710,000 more for old age, war.

pensions:

£250,000 mere for defence; £1,000,000 more to be raised from

Income-tax, and £000,000 more from the Land Tax,

No Intrease in general taxation. The estimated revenue amounts to £31,067,000, and the estimated ex- penditure, to £31,054,000.

The extra taxation is needed to mel the cost of improving the pen- slons system.

-Mr. Narlı, Minister of Finance, said that these increases were con- sidered as an urgent necessity pend- the estafalkliment of a National Health superannuation scheme.

I A WEEK OLD-AGE PENSION The old nge pension would be in- The Caronation Joint Commitice creased to El per week, and econo- and Executive Committee,

whemic

pensions for ex-Servicemen recommended the new route, knew would be increased to 25s. per week, I there was not * Jong in addition to the ordinary war pen- route this time there Would begion.

flat

chaes.

Confusion among the crowds

Another court battle over the cus tody of a film star's child loomi in Los Angeles where John Marion Fox, former husband of Joan Ben- nett, appeared in court to oppose Miss Bennett's petition to have her daughter, Adrienne Dlano, 8, Tantly named Markey. The ne tress is now married to Gene Markey.

A Reventlow

Marries

REVENTOW, cousin by marriage

Deserted wives with children King George's funeral was borne in pension.

#avould be eligible for the widow's mind. The new route

Copenhagen, Sept. 1. maximum number of

touches Permanent invalids would be eligOUNTESS LUCIE HAUGWITZ- underground ble for a pension of £1 per week, that crowds can be stations, bus and tramcar points, plus 10s. for the wife and 10s, for taken away without delay.

brought and each dependent child under the age None of the people with houses, clubs, hotels, shop offers on the route knew his luck Just night. Booking agencies did not know the uficial route.

of 15.

The Estimates show expenditure during the year on social services amounting to nearly £10,500,000.

Mr. Nash said that the Income-tax

system would be remodelled and sim; plied, with a general exemption at £210 plus £50 for a wife and £50 for each dependent child.

WELL-KEPT SECRET It has been, a closely-guarded secret, yet there have been more than 1100,000 applications for seats along The basic rate on earned incomes

what

was expected to be the route,

of individuals (1s. 8d. per £1) would Agencies filed applications. To be increased by 1-100th of a penny day they will start to deal with them, for every £1 up to income's of Certain roads and squares were £5,500, and thereafter the increase certalaties Piccadilly for instance, would be one of 1-150th of a penny. Rooms and balconies overtooking for every 1 up to a maximum of 8s. Plecadilly have been-and are be- 2d. per £1 which would be reached ing-sold at prices ranging from at a taxable income of £8,950.

There would be no general exemp- Fourth-floor flata in Oxford-tion for companies, but this would be street have been let at £200 for compensated by a basic rate of 1s, the whole of Coronailon week, with the same graduations as for in- It is estimated that £3,000,000 will dividuals up to a maximum of 7s. Od. be spent on accommodation to see in the £1. the procession compared with the He announced an Increase of £500,000 paid for seats during the £250,000 in the Defence Vote, bulk Silver Jubilee of King George and of which was for naval and alr Queen Mary.

£150 to £500.

expenditure.

of Miss Barbora Hutton, was married to-day at the unclent Danish castle of Bra-Hetrolleborg-to-Mr. John-Bos- well, a young Scotsman.

Count Kurt Haugwitz and his wife, the former Miss Hutton, were unable to attend, but sent a costly gift from London.

Mr. John Patrick Douglas Bos- well is the elder san of Lieut. Colonel John Douglas Boswell, of Auchinleck and Garralian. He is descendant of Thomas Boswell, a favourite of James IV.

HYPHEN

WILL

COST. HIM £2,500

If Mr. William Blow Gurney

BRIDE CHANGES NAME Collis, of Altrincham, near Man-

TWICE IN 12 HOURS

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Southampton, Sept. 1.

A woman who landed at Southampton to-day had changed her name twice in ¿welve hours once by marriage; once to escape- me. When she awakened in her cabin In the Hamburg-Amerika liner Hamburg this morning, ale was Miss Irma Harrington, of New York.

Miniature Quake

Follows 1,800-Ton

Explosive Blast Chellabinsk, U.S.S.N., Sept. 9. The Soviet might boast of creating a man-made earthquake if it so desired.

At the Korkinko coal fields in the Northern Urals 1,800 tons of exploalves were, set off simul- taneously. Onlookers said it was A grand sight. About mil-

lion cubic yards of earth were hurled more than a quarter of amile high. A trenchi WAS blasted out about three-quarters of a mile long. 55 feet deep and 250 feet wide.

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The shock of the blast was recorded on seismographs in various sections. of, the Urals, It was registered in Moscow nearly six minutes after the ex- plosion.

Two years' work was saved by the tremendous blast, - mine esilmated; United.

'officinis Prussi-

An hour later she was hirs. Jeremy Rawson, wife of an oli prospector sho

mel on the Voyago,

She was married to him in the liner shortly after the vessel en- tered Cherbourg. She had to leave him there because she had no French visan,

When Mrs. Itawson landed at Southampton from the liner she had become "Miss Harringer."

I addressed her as "Mrs. Raw- son" in the Customs slied. Blo professed not to know such 趄 реслов.

I sold, "Ils# Harrington, ver- haps?" Bhd shook her head.

I had seen the name "Ifar- ringer" on a suitease. At men- tion of this name, she pointed out another young woman,

While I was talking to thin othier woman, Mra, RawwO 12 · slipped away,

But I found her in a railway carriage,

Then the admitted her 'kilenii- tr, but would not discuss her romance. NAS

Mr. Kawson goes on.io Perrin. His wito will join ilm fit six "moon the.

chester, decides to insert a hyphen between Gurney and Collis he will forfeit £2,500 left to him by his great-aunt, Mrs. Ada Beatrice Maresca, of Stour- bridge.

But Mr. Colis does not mini. Mrs, Maresen, who left £114,224, bequeathed £5,000 on trust for her nephew, Mr. Arthur James Collis, for life, then half ench to his two cons, making the stipulation that?

One of them, Mr. Willian Blow Gurney. Collls, should forfeit the bequest if he should use the name Gurney us though it were part of his surname by writing the name -with a hyphen, thus, · 'Gurney».

Collls' "

"I have never considered the mat- |ter of a hyphen seriously before, but the will a rather given me the iden," Mr. Collis told a reporter.

GIFT TO HOSPITAL

Mrs. Marescu was "a" negerous benefactress in the Stourbridgo dia-

trlet.

Last year shd Have tu the (M Hospital, Stonebriday, X-ray equip- ment of the latent type,

"A remarkabla woman of very strong principles and prejudies, she Belonged. Di mi age which he dog. Bart Was how sha, was dereylind

at the time of her death

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