1936-11-06 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1936.

Sultan In London With Only One

Of His Six Wives

A photograph of St. James's Paluce, where workers are removing the flagstaff and crown. King Edward has now removed to Buckingham

Polace.

SHEER

BEAUTY

;

And Six

Of His 53 Children THE

seventy-three-year-

old Sultan of Selangor, in Malaya, was told by his Scots doctor that if he did not at once make the 7,000- mile journey to London for medical treatment there he might not live another two

years:

Dr. Barclay Barrowman Added that he could not disguise that the Sultan's ailment was serious.

of

The Sultan, who rules 500,000 subjects and bas an income | £15,000

heath year, nodded his gravely at this ultimatum.

HEALTH

lie had never in all his seventy- three years visited London or any of the great cities of the West, but Dr. Barrowmun pointed out that he knew of a Harley-street specialist who, he felt sure, could do more than any man to restore the Sultan's health.

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The Sullan was reluctant feave his palace because around him, living happlly under his pro- fretion, were his six wives and his fifty-tiree children and his grand- children.

But he decided to get on Dr. Bar- the rowman's advice. This mouth Salton arrived In London with J$ Court of twenty-three, and is now staying at Grosvenor House,

Dr. Barrowman, who came with The Sultan that him, explained te because of the oncoming English winter he must not slay in this country for more than three weeks.

It is understood that the Sulten will have little time for sightseeing dur- ing his stay in London and will be able to attend few of the banquets

and receptions planned for him. He will spend most of his time with medical men and in medical instit tion:

WIVES

The 'Sultan, in leaving his king- dom, was faced with the problem of which wife or how many wives he could take with him to see the won- ders of London,

All Bix. " Is ยาไป begged him to take them with him. The Sultan eventually decided to take his favourite wife, luche Anjong, who half his age and very beautiful, and six sons by her and olher of his wives. and his widowed daughter, Tengku Per- maisuri.

The party also includes the Sul- tan's high priest, and four women and three men servants. In the pri- vacy of his apartments at the hotel he.....will...wenc....native. costume. but in his excursions round London he will wear European clothes,

Jayful English priest demonstrat- Ing with pride one of the giant pumpkins which arrived for the annual harvest festival at his

church.

WOMEN'S LEAGUE

OF NATIONS

Peace Call by 40,000,000

Belgrade, Oct. 31. ON behalf of 40,000,000 women in 36 countries, lahbel Marchioness of Aberdeen made a strong plea for peace at the opening at Dubrovnik to-day of the Congress of the International Council of Women,

·

Lady Aberdeen likened the Counell to a women's League of Nations which, however, she declared, "would not, evade its responsibilities."

"I ask all women to launch a world-wide campaign to save humanity fvorm wor The menace comes from those nations which want to expand and which are arming to destroy their brother-nations,"

Lady Aberdeen concluded with an appeal for the respect of personal liberty, "so essential to the well-being, of mankind”.

VOICE OF THE MOTHERS

Asked if she thought the present European situation would mean wat, Lady Aberdeen said “No,” adding,

"We women have'firmly decided that it shall not be. England is against war. The young will not have it, and finally the mothers of the world are all opposed to war,":

Other speakers included Miss Perkins, U. S. Secretary for Labour. and Mme. Brunschweig. French Under-Secretary for Education.

Queen Marie of Yugo-Slavia and her mother, Queen Marle of Rumania, are taking a special interest in the Congress.

Soviet Film Version Of Mark Twain's Classic

To-morrow Queen. Marie will re- ceive leading delegates at her sum- mer chateau.

Among the distinguished British women attending the conference are:

Lady Ruth Balfour, of Balbirne, The Dowager Lady Nunburnholme (chairman of the British National Committee for the Suppression of Traffle in Women),

Dame Elizabeth Cadbury.*

Dame Marla Ogilvie-Gordon (vice- president of the international Council of Women),

the!

Mrs. Hartree (president of British National Council of Women), The Hon. Mrs. Holme-Peel and

Great care has been taken to re- WITH the broad Dnieper River

the accues from Mark serving in place of the Miasis produce

masterpiece down to the Alppi, a carefully selected cast, sets Twain's

Hundreds of and properties based on months of most minute detail. research, Mark Twain's classte of engravings, dozens of old books, and boyhood, Tom Sawyer is being made a great number of journals and into a Alm in Rusela by the Uk-newspapers have been studied by the Miss Olive Lodge (daughter of Sir

artists who are working on the pro-Oliver Lodge). rainian Alm studios.

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In the

The Yugo-Slav Government office of the director, L Frenkel, there studio

gallery of decorated the Marchioness of Aber- portralls of American types of the deen with the Order of St. Savn last century, including a very rare (first class), and Demo Elizabeth portrait of Mark Twain. The studio Cadbury, and Dame Marla Ogilvie- has been turned into a museum of Gordon, vice-president of the inter- provincial life in America during the national Council of Women, with the last century-Tass

Order of St. Sava (second class)..

When the

She children of the

Ukraine learned that the picture was was made, betsg

the beselged with applicants for a chance to play their favourite roles. The Kiev cinema studios gave film tests to more then 600 youngsters and three were selected-Kostya Kul- chitaky for the role of Tom, K. Kat- sovich for Huck, and Uspensky for Sid.

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Wayland Rudd, negro artist of the KEY MADE FROM MEMORY

Meyerhold Theatre, will play Jim, the runaway slave and Samoilov the dual role of the doctor and Lawyer Robinson.

Honoured art worker N. Krein has written music for the film, and the text contains many songs by the

poct Ushakov.

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