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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23,

1936.

BETTE DAVIS

Were You There?

LOSES HALF Krakatoa

A YEAR'S

SALARY

(From A Correspondcrit)

Rottingdean (Sussex), Nov. 4.

Witness

Sought by B.B.C.

By A Radio Correspondent

Were you aboard a ship in the Straits of

FILM actress Bette Davis returned to Sunda on the fateful day in August, 1883, when the great volcanic eruptions on the Island of London to-day to discuss with Sir Krakatoa, midway between Sumatra and Java, William Jowitt and her legal advisers took place? whether.

(a) to continue the fight against the three years' injunction granted against her by Mr. Justice Branson In the King's Bench Division

scones

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starring

WILLIAM POWELL

MYRNA LOY

LUISE RAINER

Frouk MORGAN • Ponente BRICE

· Virginia BRUCE

· Reginald OWEN « ́Kay

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TO-MORROW AND WEDNESDAY ~

LITTLE MISS NOBODY

A FOX PICTURE WITH JANE WITHERS.

CANTON AGENTS:

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Tel: 13501.

(b) to accept defeat and return to Warner' Bros. in Hollywood.

Her fight has already cost her nearly half a year's salary.

I talked with Miss Davia in a country hotel

at Rottingdens, where she had spent the week- end "to get away from it all."

She was still wearing the blue serge beach pyjaman and fur cont in which she had been walking about on the sea front during the day. She had heard the judge's verdiet by telephone from her solicitors.

"Such a 100 per cent defeat," said! Miss Davis, has been a pretty severe blow. I have not had time to think what to do next, but talk- ing about it helps me.

"MISERABLE END"

"The most we all expected was an Injunction until the end of the year,

or for a year from last March, when

I disagreed with Warner Brothers.

"It is certainly a miserable end to

a holiday.

am

ענון

giad think

The company have the whip hand. I took a gamble for personal treedom, and I that I did it. Some people that all that actors want is money, but some people act for a different reason.

At least, I have shown that, "Actors starve for the theatre. I have, myself, before now. All I care for is acting on the stage or screen, and it seems I can't do either unless Warner bros. think

"I admit

that this is not too pleasant for me financially, I have not been paid any salary since 72 week March and that £600 slavery' which Sir Patrick Hostings mentioned does not begin until 1042. MAY HAVE TO GO BACK "Luckily I have never lived ex- to travagantly; it does not appeal me. I just live comfortably, that is all. Maybe I shall have to go back to Hollywood now and do what they

·wunt.*

Miss Davis's dance-band leader husband, Harmon O. Nelson jun, is at present in America. He has not yet heard the verdict.

spite

If you were, the B.B.C.. would like to hear from you and offer you an opportunity of broad- casting in the series of talks known as "I Was There." Every effort has been made at Broad- casting House to trace someone who actually wit- nessed the disaster or was present In the straits when it occurred, but so far without success.

"It is probable that some newspaper reader can help us," an official of the B.B.C. said to me. "We have the names of all the British ship on the spot at the time of Trade, and sought help from Lloyd's, Doard

List Registrar of Shipping and Seamen, the Conway and the Company of Master Mariners' List.”

SHIPS THAT WERE THERE

Here is a list of ships and people supplied to a 1.1.C. oficial detailed to trace as possible speaker, to- gether with his comments:

Married

82 Wives!

QUEENS

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TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

LIKE A SCHOOL GIRL... She whispered her love

only to her own heart.

LIKE A WOMAN She fought for the happiness only Could bring

A dramatic revelation' of ecstatic first lovel

HERBERT

RUTH

MARSHALL CHATTERTON

GIRLS DORMITORY

Seksooner Charles Bal (Captain Watson), wrecked in 1880, Owners: J. S. Wright ind Company. Carmichael Street, Belfast (for Charles Bal Shipping Company). Thomas Hingsland, bom Christ-

1 cannot church, 1858, third mate, even trace his early history.

Barque Norham Castle (Captain O. Sampson), Owners: T. Skinner and Company, Glasgow, and later Norham Castle Shipping Company, Sweeting Street, Liverpool. James Empring- ham Hakeman, Past Master, 1893. Certificate No. 021082; born 1884. Last heard of living at Prospect House, Enst Finchley. This, believed, is the only possible one in NEXT

Robert Langley Body. Died June CHANGE

the

list.

15

24, 1936, three days after I nad nisi- ed tracing him!

MAN who married 82 wives has been arrested in Warsaw. His name is Jehuda Lepatan, aged 44. He married 22 wives in Poland and 60 in sevenicen coun- tries abroad, including three in Eng-

Ife land. was arrested by the secret police just after he married his 22nd

Στην Inter Warsaus. He jurons wife in villas, one in France and another in numerous ftaly. bought with dourles he received.

the

MALNUTRITION FALLACY

LACK OF FOOD ONLY ONE OF CAUSES

more

re-

Ship Sir Robert Sale (Capt. W. T. Woolridge). Owner: W. Paterson, E. G. Williams, East India Avenue, E.C. None of the officers could possibly be alive to-day.

John Marshall, an ordinary seaman, was born in 1804, and James Hearst, Liverpool, was born in 1863, 1`do nai I think it worth trying to trace these.

Ship Berbice

Willin (Capt. Logan). Owners: 3. Kerr and Co., West Blackbull Street, Greennock. John E McNellage, of Greenock. Born 1850.

BRIDPORT MAY HELP tronclad Ship Medea (Capi. Thom- soa). Owners: A. and H. Carmichael, Post Office Buildings, Greenock. John By a Special Correspondent

Ernest Beard, born Bridport 1860. The public were once

I cannot trace him, but I am told minded recently with regard to the Past Master, Certificate No. 014101. feeding of school children how fallacious Is the implied emphasis on that some of the oil inhabitants of food, which is only a single, if im portant, factor in nutrition.

may know about him.

Dymes Wheeler, born 1808. David Connell, born

deputation from

the FR 1804.

William Thomson,

Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, told

dus

Fire,

about 1864.

about 1852. Duncan

"It should be in all the American newspapers to-morrow," said Miss Davis, "and he will telephone me."

This is the first time that Miss. Davis has been inside any law courts, In

of the verdict she is greatly Standing Joint Committee of Charles McIntyre.

dustrial Women's Organisations that impressed with British judickal pro-

when the report of the Milk Re- ċedure.

organisation Committee was received an immediate examination would be made as to the extension of milk

mes generally.

mille-in-schooly scheme."-her said, "is now in operation in schools containing over 80 per cent. of the population. but elementary school rather less than half the children are taking advantage of t

મું am sure that the judge gave a decision he thought was falı," she said. "Well, good-bye, you may see in British films-in-ten years time.

The

injunction granted against Miss Davis may mean the abandon ment of the British film which she intended to make for Toeplitz Pro- ductions.

hired.

£30,000 SPENT

said

that

born London,

Ship Anerley (Capt. Strachun). Owners: Watts, Ward and Co..

Lorn Teignmouth, 1858. Gracechurch Street, EC. H. Coulman.

WARSHIP. HIT BY SHOT TO BE

FIRED NEXT DAY

Weymouth, Nov. 3. MOKE poured from the side of H.M.S. Royal Oak as she lay in Weymouth Day to-day.

"11 is already clear that poverty is not the prime difficulty. They had An official of the company

to get a greater appreciation of the last night, "It is a very difficult posi- value of milk among both parenta tion. As much as £30,000 has al-

and children." the film. ready been spent on

The major criticisms of the deputa-i Monty Banks, the director, and Nigel tion were that large sections of the writers, and comeramen are population were unable to afford an contract. Studios have been

that present adequate diet, and It is story written specially

A score of men with binoculars and malnutrition! methods of assessing were unsatisfac promised for an American star.

telescopes, watching along the hur- "Mr. Toeplitz may leave at once Sir Kingsley

the bour wall and seafront, reported that for Hollywood to try to find another

He

that the shot first rank star, but we cannot hold suggestions made by the deputation she had been hit

would be carefully considered. up production indefinitely."

the following Agures for the which caused the damage will not be quoted

of 1,000,000 fired until to-morrow. nutritional standard

are again The alms school children: Excellent, 14.6 per cent; normal, 74.1 per cent.; slightly And the men behind the film, which

stil! Supe sub-normal, 10.0 per cent; bad, 0.7 is

hex and his director, Wilcox and per cent.

tha The Minister emphasised "malnutrition was not solely con- corned with lack of food."

Malcolm Campbell & The Ice Cream

. LACK OF SLEEP

on

Southend-On-Sea, Nov. 15.

On the question of the proper Discussion over whether Sir feeding of schoolchildren, official Malcolm Campbell would cat an medical reports lay emphasis icecream

while driving other factors, particularly lack cont featured a recent court case for sleep.

Sir George Newman. careless driving.

Medical Officer to the Board, report Oswald John Eldred, 73, and cd in 1912 that "healthy and com-

But it was onno, midships."

B

Walker.

Rre

responsible,

Mr. Hubert Captain

put out into the bay early to-day to sup

supervise the taking of "angle thots" of

scones aboard a Bri-

| Wish willen Cromwell, who arrived at

Richard Southampton yesterday, and is ex- pected at Weymouth this evening, is Q due

to be kidnapped from the war- ship to-morrow. He is playing the Chief part of a young naval Heutenant who is abducted by a foreign power. Miss Huzel Terry stars with him.

Π

The Admiralty ure lending H.M.5. a companion three years older, plete nutrition is something intinite-

the story, which is was driving while eating any greater than mere feeding, mere Royal Oak and H.M.S. Curaeon for

a chlid's stomach." He the fining of Bling of icecream cone. He lost control isted eleven causes "governing de expected to take three weeks. Most cline in nutritional condition" in of the atmosphere shots of big guns the first in action have been takes aboard school-children, of which

11.M.S. Nelson at Spithead, Scapa Flow and Invergordon. ve are as follows:

(1) Food-insuflciency and an-! sultability:

(2) Bad home surroundings and (3) Lack of fresh air and sun- went

(4) Unsuitable sleeping arrange- menta; and

(5) Insufficient sleep.

of the automobile, mounting a curb and striking a tree.

Attorney defending Eldred said, "the accident might have occurred to anyone-even Sir Malcolm Cump- bell,"

Mayor

neglect; A. H. White; presiding

Eldred fined

£2, magistrate, saying "I cannot imagine Sir Malcolm enting an ice cream while driving."

Provisional

Thief Steals Van Outside Police H.Q.

Berlin, Oct. 20, Berlin's "Scoiland Yard-the police headquarters at Alexander- The present vlew is that "in-platz-have been made use of by a Divorce Forsufficient sleep" has now moved up thief who desired to ablain a motor Mrs. "Slim" Summerville into the second place as a cause of delivery van.

malnutrition; and more. generally Ho telephoned the owner of the van an Sir George Newmon pointed out, to proceed to the police headquarters, Los Angeles, Nov. 10.

that the problem requires to be con- as it was desired to examine the van

whale. for Anger-prints. Mrs. Gertrude Martha Summer-sidered and treated as a wh

0150 un- Unsuspectingly the owner, pro- villo, wife of the film actor "Silm"

granted Summerville, has been

aanimous in

close cceded to the building and left the provisional decree of divorce.

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connection between housing and van at the door while he went in to GEORGE ARLISS in “THE LAST GENTLEMAN She testified that Mr. Summerville nutrition-bati กร regards sleep-report himself.

told her in the presence of others ing accommodation, hygienic con- The van was promptly stolen, but i Printed and Published for the Proprietora by FREDERICK PERCY that he no longer loved her, and had ditions generally, and the provision a few days later it was recogulsed FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City, of Victoris. called her "harsh names."

es.”—Reuter, of adequate cooking facilities.

and the thief arrested.-Exchange. Hongkong.