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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

OCTOBER 22, 1936.

Match: AUTUMN

My Life With Irving-the Perfect Love

Famous Star Tells of Her Struggle to Save Her Husband

of

SHE NURSED

HIM DAY

AND NIGHT

By PETER BURNUP

BEHIND the tragic death of Irving Thalberg, 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 į from the risks to which his delicate constitution exposed him.

Irving It was a case of selfless devotion on both sides, made Norma the loveliest and most loved star of the it was a case of selfless devation un both sides, Irving made Norma the loveliest and most loved star of the screen. Norma was the most devoted wife and helpmate Hollywood has ever knows,

They were devoted to one another,

perfect love match.

Living with them as a member of the happy little family circle un holiday in Scotland l intimate limpses of the bonds that bound these two lovers together,

Especially I remember a day of mellow sunshine when I talked alone with Norma Shearer.

Suddenly shadows came into her clear cyn when she talked of levhuts health, for even then she knew of the danger which threatened him.

I KNOW Irving is doomed to early death," she said softly. "Ife is burning himself out with fils own Drea,"

She paused, and when she, spoke again there was a catch in her votee. "You see," she whispered, "I could int work without Irving,"

Idyll Ended

It was a

Irving Thalberg Laid to Rest

Here is part of the final rites held at Los Angeles for Irving Thulberg, who died after a few days' ness. The flower-cover- e casket is being carried from Temple Band Brith, following Jewish rites.

WHEN SCIENCE IS

DESTROY

Aerial Warfare

Is Cultural Barbarism

Favoided by conserving social net spiritual values with sciente teaching and research, With this unity of intention it will be possible. to hope for an expect scientif guidance of human growth not only towards individual fitness, but also towards a higher human perfection,

"Science has created a completely new environment for modern fe but no systematic effort hus been runde to adapt the social structure to it."

-Sir Richard Gregory | The "Wicked" Chemist

DROFESSOR J. C, PHILIP, in a

Association speakers con- dreaded BRITISH Awe of relentle re-chemistry section paper, replied

And now the thing she has happened. A great love story has ended-a romonee loveller thais any Idyll Hollywood has devised for the screen.

Both of them-Thalliert, the pas- zionale young Jew, and Noma, Stu

determined hard-workin little Scots-Canadlon-had known poverty and struggle.

Norma was not visibly pretty at first. But she had he inner loveliner which Thalberg brought out and made radiant on the screen,

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

I am one of the few people who from story have heard this love

Norma Shearer's own lips.

"Irving," she told me, "is the only man---have- over-loved. It was #rst bij Irving who gave me my job. it was Irving who taught me everything I know about aeting and the screen.

"One night we were eating at the Coconut Grove: Suddenly he said to

I "When shall you and

me

married?'

**You do not want to get married."

I said laughingly.

Just

"He did not answer. He smiled with that dear impish Took in his eyes. A day or two later I message from its sceretary. hatt

Would I call at his office?

"1 went along, and there, spread out on his table was a load of the most fantastically beautiful diamonds

I had ever seen.

were

They

Buperb. They took my breath away. They

Irving's idea represented

of what an engagement ring should bc..

"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.

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

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

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

Kept Him Alive

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

lives.

But the tragedy which shadowed her married life made it an endurlag success. In secret Borrow they found a great love and a great partnership. Thalberg made Norma into a stor.

made. bim live. Now partnership, is broken for ever.

Sho

the

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 anybody 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 Inertin of institutions, the crusts of tradition and the queer incalculability of mass mind."

USED TO

"In its purest form engineering is the greatest Instrument of civilisa- thony.

elam. the

по

them He told

that relentists "have

gifts particular

for understanding

Institutionai the processes of social life and the psychology of niultiple and mass decisions."

eine

scientific If

change gradually that the necessary changes could be effected by moving

new

* Left undisturbed by the politi-entrants to Industry into the new jobs, the or by building new machines, without searcmnfiger and patriot, the engineer would demolish making the old workers unemployed, for the old machines useless, nobody the Tower of Babel and render war' would suffer. Tampressible.

But this had long since reused to be the case.

"For the promotion of peace andj understanding engineering outclasses. every religion; and for battle, mur-i der and sudden death it has no equal."

search and Invention for "inhuman to those people who say that the chemist is an agent of destruction, cnda,"

possible the worst terrors of any future war,

and that it is his netivity that makes "Old

Sir Richard Gregory. in the education section, spoke of the "in- sane misuse of selence in the exten- ston of aerial warfare to the destruc- tion of cities and the killing and maiming of women and children by poison pas, Incendiary bombs, and high explosives.

He said that unless science re- pudiated such methods of cultural barbarism

employ-

School Tie" May be Dangerous

-Sir Daniel Hall

NOBODY TO BLAME.. The length of working life and the durability of materials mark

the natural phase, or periodicity of t smoothly changing society. But the impetus for change or the irritant has no such intervals,"

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

.......... The blame could not be placed an The truth is that the

the economists, the politicians, the ment for other than benelleil ends

capitalist system, or anything else. of the substances discovered by the chemist is due, not to his especial IR DANIEL HALL. lu an address The problem would be much the saine wickedness, but to the weakness and ↑ to the education section, of the under any system of government. backwardness of the human spirit," recent British Association Congress, Indeed, the coming decline in popu he said.

would inevitably make it spoke of the dangers of the "oldlation school tie."

"There are. Indeed, welcome signs that selenting workers are inercus- extent to whatever ingly impatient at the It must lose right it now possesses to be a spiri- which their Jennwledge is made to "these are ful Influence and must acknow- serve inhuman ends." ledge with despair that man's ethical evolution, had reached its rulminat- Pruce--or Murder ing point.

Suchanand cannot be contem- planet', * he added. "It will

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Sir Josiah hinted that the solution, "Party, country, religion," he said, in some cases, might be to limit the the kind of emollonal speed with which improvements aro issues which constitute the false made.

Already, he said. the "uneconomic the politicians: money wherewith

They are all forms of rapidity" of innovation was, costing buy power.

us about 3 per cent. of our national the castest of self-delusions-that income. of belonging to a chosen race.

birth control for people. "Perhaps demands ultimately birth control for their impediments," was Jits striking conclusion,

"Step by step the habit of illusion

is built up the old school ile, the

club, the regiment, the social class, |

"What shall it proft a civilisation

the nation. In themselves these: if it gain the whole world of Inno-

loyalties are excellent; their danger-vation and its victims ous side is that they breed hatreda

of the law.'

souls?"

But.

מם

Jose their

'lesser breeds without the WITH 23 m.p.h. WAS 'FRIGHTFUL' the whole, the solution Jay in trying to find ways of speeding up Man's adjustability,

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

We are slowly improving in this illusion and to teach people from respect. A hundred years ago. * their earliest formative years that speed of 23 m.p.h.. on the railway recorded 45 "frightful-im- men and women, however diverse as was Individuals, are, collectively and possible to divest yourself of the statistically, very much Bike."

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