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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1936.

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My Life With Irvingthe Perfect Love Match: AUTUMN DRESSES

Famous Star Tells of Her Struggle to Save Her Husband

SHE NURSED

HIM DAY.

AND NIGHT

By PETER BURNUP BEHIND the tragic death of Irving Thalborg, millionaire film pro- ducer, lies the story of a devoted wife's unavailing fight to save the life of her husband.

I learned this from the lips of Norma Shearer herself when I lived with the Thalbergs for a fortnight.

Irving Thalberg lived for his art, and Norma | Shearer, who completed his artistic entity, devoted; herself entirely to the task of guarding her husband from the risks to which bis delicate constitution; exposed him.

It was a case of selfless devotion on both sides, Irving made Normin the loveliest and most loved star! of the screen. Norm was the most devated wife and helpmate Hollywood has ever known.

They were devoted to one another. perfect love match.

Living with them as a member of

the happy little family clrcle on a holiday in Scotl had intimate glimpses of the bonds that bound taese two lovers together.

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Especially I remember a day mellow munshine when I talked alune with Norma Shearer,

Suddenly shindows came into her elear eyes when she talked of Irvint's health, for even then she knew of the danger which threatened him,

I KNOW Irving is dootned to early death," she said softly. "He is burning himself out with his own fres."

She paused, and when she spoke again there was n catch in her voice, "You' sec," she whispered, "I could! not work without Irving."

Idyll Ended

And now the thing she dreaded has happened. A great love story has ended-a romance lovelier than any idy Hollywood has devised for the screen.

Both of them-Thalberg, the pas slonate young Jew, and Norma, the determined hard-working te Scots-Canadian-had known poverty and struggle.

Norma was not visibly pretty at first, 'But she had the inner loveliness. which Thalberg brought out and made radiant on the screep.

Her beauty intensified when she Was married. And the marriage followed an unorthodox courtship.

I am one of the few people whe from have heard this, love story Normin Sheurer's own lips.

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"Irving," she told me, "is the only

loved. It man I have ever Irving who gave me my first big job. It was Irving who taught me everything I know about neting and the screen.

"One night we were enting at, the Coconut Grove, Suddenly he said to me 'When shall you and 1 get married?'

"You do not want to get married,' I said laughingly.

"IIe did not answer. He just smiled with that dear Impish look in his eyes. A day or two later. I had a message from his secretary. Would I call at his office?

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went along, and there out on his table was a load of the most fantastically beautiful diamonds I had ever seen.

"They were superb. They took my breath away. They represented Irving's Idea of what an engagement ring should be.

"We were married soon after that. married in Irving's garden. Later my baby came."

Tragic Happiness During that fortnight in Scotland I sensed at once the happiness and. brooding tragedy of the Thalbergs lives.

I found A completely happy married couple playing thdians with their healthy boisterous little son, and I found a world-famous film star whose one care was to nurse her husband, and somehow preserve the fragile life that produced, all his consuming energy.

Norma told me she had to watch overy detall of her husband's diet, and how every night she had to awaken at a certain hour 10 rive him medicine.

For

years he had never been allowed to drink the local water wherever he might be. Dozens of bottles of specially medicated water had to accompany them--and even nt Gleneagles Norma had to prepare special food for him..

Kept Him Alive

One of the richest, most famous men in the world-yet the man who was kept alive, ever in his early thirties, only by the woman who -nursed him at every moment of their 1lves.....

Bot the tragedy which shadowed her married life made it an

an enduring success. In secret Morrow they found a great love und-a great partnership,

Thalborg made Normn into a stár.

She made him live. Now the partnership is broken for ever,

It was a

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Irving Thalberg Laid to Rest

Here is part of the final rites held at Los Angeles for Irving Thalberg, who died after a few days' Illness. The flower-cover- ed cusket is being carried from Temple Raul Brith, following Jewish rites. "

Business Blames Science

"GOING AHEAD

TOO FAST"

-Sir Josiah Stamp

Blackpool, Sept. 25. SCIENCE is going ahead too fast for Man.

Scientists should lift their attention from the laboratory and devote some, of their energy to studying the problems of adjusting civilisation to their discoveries.

This was the main theme of the Presidential Address delivered by Sir Josiah Stamp to the British Association at its opening meeting here to-night...

Science, he said, had far-reaching effects upon Man. It changed his numbers, his location and his habits. If it showered its gifts too quickly, Man could not adjust himself quickly enough. and painful dislocation ensued.

Sir Josiah did not blame' unybody for Man's slowness of adjustment. Indeed, he reproved scientists for thinking that Man ought to adopt himself to change as quickly as physical elements. They do not make allowance for "the inertia of institutions, the crusts of tradition and the queer incalculability of mass mind.”

WHEN SCIENCE IS USED TO

DESTROY

Aerial Warfare

Is Cultural Barbarism

Hon.

nyolded by conserving socint and "In its purest form engineering is

volues with spiritual

scientific the greatest instrument of civilisa- teaching and research, With this unity of intention it will be possible to hope for and expect selenuifle Kuidance of human growth not only Towards Individuni fitness, but also

towards a higher human perfection. "Science has created a completely new environment for modern fe but no

systematic effort has beeti made to adapt the social structure

Tea Jt."

--Sir Richard Gregory | The "Wicked" Chemist DRITISH Association speakers con- DROFESSOR J. C, PHILIP, in a Beemned the use of scientifle re-emistry section paper, repiled

search and Invention for "inhuman ends."

Richard Sir

Gregory,

the 122 education scellon, spoke of the "in- sane misuse of selence in the exten- sion of aerial warfare to the destruc- tion of cities and the killing and raniming of women and children by poison gas, incendiary bombs, and high explosives. *

He snid that unless science 're-' priated

such methods of cultural' barbartam it must lase whatever right It now possesses to be in spirl tual influence and must acknow- ledge with despair that man's ethical evolution had reached its culminut- Ing' point.

to those people. who say that the chemist un agent of destruction.

and that it is his activity that makes

the worst terrors of any future war,

posable

employ-

"The truth is that the ment for other than beneficial ends of the substances discovered by the chemist is due, not to his especial wickedness, but to the weakness and backwardness of the human spirit," he ankt.

Senfemeiger

nel

He told them that scientists "have no particolar gifts for understanding the Institutional processes of social life and the psychology of multiple and mass decisions."

Came

NO

If scientific change gradually that the necessary changes could be effected by moving

t undisturbed by the politi-entrants to industry into the new jobs, Cinn, t/

or by building new machines, without making the old workers unemployed, or the old machines useless, nobody would suffer.

the patriot, the engineer would demolish the Tower of Babel and render war impossible.

"For the promotion of peace and understanding engineering outclasses every religion; and for battle, mur- der and sudden deuth It has no equal,"

Old School Tie". May be Dangerous

-Sir Daniel Hall

IR DANIEL HALL, in an address Stone cuncation section, of the recent British Association Congress. spoke of the dangers of the "ald school tie,"

But this had long since censed to be the case.

NOBODY TO BLAME

The length of working life und the durability of materials mark the of a natural phase or periodicity smoothly changing society. But the impetus for change or the irritant has no such intervals."

Selence, in other words, had speeded up, but. Man could not speed up in reply.

clse.

The blume could not be placed on the economists, the politiclans, the capitalist system, or anything The problem would be much the same under any system of

government. Indeed, the coming decline in popu- would inevitably make it lation

worse.

Sir Josiah hinted that the solution, in some cases, might be to limit the speed with which improvements are made.

There are, Indeed, welcome signs that scientifle workers are increas-

"Party, country, religion," he said, to Ingly impatient at the extent. which their knowledge is made to "these are the kind of emotional serve inhuman ends."

issucs which constitute the false

wherewith the politicians Already, he said. the "uneconomle money Pence-or Murder

buy power. They are all forms of rapidity of innovation wis costing

income.

"Such an end cannot be contem-/ROFESSOR WILJAM CRAMP. the easiest of self-delusións-that is about 3 per cent, of our national

plated

addressing

the engineering

he added. "It will be seetion, raid:

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"Perhaps birth control for people -demands-ultimately- birth --control- for their impedimenta," was his striking conclusion.

"Step by step the habit of illusion 1s built up-the old school tie, the club, the regiment, the social class,

"What shall it profit a civilisation the

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souls?"

ous side is that they breed hatreds i

of the Resser breeds law.

without the WHEN 23 m.p.h. WAS 'FRIGHTFUL'

But, on the whiple, the solution tuy In trying to find ways of speeding up Man's

adjustability.

"The function of an education based on science is to destroy this

We are slowly improving in this illusion and to teach people from respect. A hundred years ago va their earliest formative years that speed of 23 m.p.h. on the railway trs "frightful-im- men and women, however diverse as was individuals, are, collectively and possible to divest yourself of the

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