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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936.

Doctor Tries To Prove

DR.

Blind Cure"

Roosevelt

STAVROS CONSTANTINE DAMOGLOU, Greek Inauguration saved many from incurable diseases, faced London County Next Month

doctor who claims he has made the blind see and has

Council's Public Control Committee recently for the

second time in five years to fight for his masseur's licence. CHANGED TO JANUARY

After two hours, during| which witnesses told various stories of Dr. Damoglou's treatment, the case was ad- journed.

of

he

Arthur Sidney Francis, 24- year-old window cleaner, Henry St, Battersea, said was discharged from Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Rd., EC. in 1932 us a hopeless case.

He had since been 2%1⁄2 years under Dr. Damoglou's treatment.

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That is enough," sald the chair- man, after he had read a sentence.

The court was adjourned for five minutes. When it reassembled kir. Samuct announced, that if Francis was willing he would have him

mined at Moorfields Hospital,

- The examination is to take place within a fortnight,

20 FROM MARCH 4

Washington, Nov. 30. The next president of the United States, for the first time in history, will be in- Mr. H. J. C. Davies, chief officer of augurated in mid winter-Janu- the LC.C. Publle Control department, ary 20, instead of March 4, as a stated that the doctor had issued at pamphlet headed: "I Make Sight-result of the Norris Lame Duck

although he had amendment. iesa Eyes See," promised the committee in 1931 to withdraw two other pamphlets.

its

Washington, despite southerly location, finds winter Two South Wales women gave often grim. As a result a snow- on the storm beating down evidence.

The first woman said her seven-capitol may be the inauguration year-old daughter had lost one eye greeting for the next president.

the other. Dr.

Four years ago Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated pre- sident from. the centre tier of the capitol steps on March 4. The day was hazy, chilly and windy.

Francis was handed a book by and was blind in the chairman of the commaltice, Damoglou, she added, sald one eye Mr. A. E. Samuel, and asked to could be treated and possibly an- There Was moment's other eye would grow in the place read

read of the one that was lost. silence, then he began to quickly and clearly,

The girl was brought to London, treatment and electrical Alven dicted on grated carrots, black Next year, as a result of an amend- ment to the constitution, the new plums, and dandelions. There was no Improvement after president must take his oath of office almost eight weeks before any pre- decessor-in Use month of January a month's treatment.

Another South Wales woman said often a blustering, snowy month even

doctor after her as far south as the languid Potomac.

Norris sponsored the constitutional eyes had been falling for 14 years.

amendment the belief that the

in She said he accepted £20 a month "ame duck" Congress in these mo- Umes was but a relic of the for his treatment. This included dern

with its slow transportation dieting on oranges for the first week, past, grapes for the second, and then ortl-arrangements.

stream- Now dandelion

with airplane and chokes for breakfast.

fresh water lined train, he figured the will of the leaves, rice boiled in

people in November election, should beetroot, and spaghetti.

react on legislation with the begin-

These Women

Must Not Cry she went to the

ONG artificial eyelashes are coming back. into fashion. This is the view of Parisien eyelash traders who declare that London is already witness-. ing a "revival."

"Women who have long eye- lashes must not cry." says Rochet-Bleth, an authority the Bxing of eyelashes.

M.

on

CRITIC OF

'PHONE

ENGLISH

TE

E ubiquitous "Hello" should be abolished as preface to telephonic communications, in the opinion Mr. C. E. Martin of Sydney.

of

In an addreas recently to the Local Government Clerks' Association, Mr. Martin said that everybody seemned to use the word to start a telephone talk, and often it was repeated many times.

Appealing for a wider and better use of English, Mr. Martin said that a study of six telephone converso- tlons gave him the following result; One ran: "Hello" pause "I dunno"-pause--"Walterablt."

That was just one example, he said, of how some people tomahawk -ed-their-English..........................

To establish closer relations with the public, local government bodies should brighten up their..erature,

he considered.

Some tourist pamphlets were very dull. In England, for instance, one tourist book had, an urticle

Dr. Damnogion, short, grey-haired,ning of the new year after the elec addressed the committee,.

He called three women and wor men to witness that he had cured

them from blindness or partiat blind nesa when doctors had said that nothing more could be done,

Artificial Fever Cures

Ancient Disease

Chilengo, Nov. 20. Artificial Fever, induced by elec tricity, has been used successfully in treating St. Vitus Dance,

Medical American

Journal discloses,

the Association

The 25 cases reported on by Drs. Clarence A. Neyman, Maurice L. Blatt and S. L. Osborn, are the first to demonstrate the beneficial effects of artificial fever in this childhood disease, although the curative effect of high fever has long been known, the Journal said.

Greatest advantage of the new treatment is that it does not produce the strain upon the patient's heart as is the case of fever induced by

"Was

only.

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external heat or typhold vaccine.

"The average period of treatment, the Doctors said, by days, compared to two to six months only three of the 25 patients have suffered a recurrence.""

tion.

CONGRESS MEETING

Thus Congress will meet-a new Congress on January 5, and a new president be inaugurated on January for first time. President

20

the

Roosevelt therefore ands himself the history with a term first President in cut short. His "reign" must end on the new date--and the new one start." If defeated he will be the first pre- udent with a term of cffice cut short from the usual length.

tion has resulted from the Norris con-

FORMER C. IN C. AT BROTHER'S FUNERAL

Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, former Commander in Chief of China Station, In the procession at the funeral of his brother,. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Keily.

PACIFIC SHIPPING BATTLE

VAST PLANS BY U.S., JAPAN, CANADA

AND BRITAIN

One major hazard to the Inaugura-THE great battle for the Pacific shipping trade, in- atitutional amendment. Previously avolving millions of pounds, has "lame duck" Congress has met in begun.. January-a Congress already ganized to give official benediction to the electoral college count,

JOINT SESSION

or-

The new amendment provides that on January 6, one day after the new Congress convents, House and Sennte is to sit in joint session and give legal status to the electoral vote.

However, the possibility has risen

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American, Japanese, Canadian, and British companies are preparing vast plans for modernising and 'extending their feels to meet the increased de mands expected for the 1940 Olym- ple Games in Tokyo.

Vessels will be faster, larger, and more luxurious.

The Canadian Pacific, according to that the House the pre-overbili ad- the Exchange Telegraph, is building mixture of political affilations-may five new ships.

be unable to organize by that dute. Each will be of 25,000 tons with a A strong "liberal bloc" conceivably speed of 25 knots. could delay election of a new speaker so that the joint session would be de- loyed.

In-that-event-a-new-law would have to be rushed through setting an

other date. for verification

of the

Nippon Yusch Kaisha, the Japanese mail line, is receiving Government support, according _io_statements-made-In-Gan

Francisco,

Reveriey Nicholis, and another con- necessary in other curative regimens, physicuticularly of the Supreme and the Matson and Dollar Bnes, the

tained a thrilling deleétive story. Such publications best served their purpose it attractively presented, written and Illustrated."

Marie Tempest's Odyssey

What Gladstone Said in 1882 WARNING AGAINST

THE STAGE

The best personal expression of an actress that we have had in print since Ellen Terry's letters to Bernard Shaw

the is given to

world In "Marie Tempest, Her Blography." by Hector Beltho (Cobden Sander- SOR, 188.);

It is n living blography. Miss Tempest's Boswell, like Dr. Johnson's did not even meet her until she was

already a legend. He has made up for it since by a blend of worshin and assiduity it would be difficult now to rival.

Mr. Bolitho first saw Miss Tempest act in New

New Zealand in 1910, so that

he

can give no first-hand impression

as-singer

of the previous 30 the best on her career)

He has done

possible with collected tri- butes of critics. These will be more informative to future generations than to those who have seen-and may still see the original "rogue porcelain." As yet, hourover. much one agrces

the with all superlatives, the reality is better still.

in

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

But when Miss Tempest herself takes up the tale there is always something

thing fresh and pungent. She is delightfully evasive over her child- hood, spent-as Mary Susan Ether- Ington-in a hall with her grandmother,

a gloomy house in White-

Miss Tempest's father she describes as "an improvident, charming soldier, who was often tipsy"; her mother "was never welcome In Whitcholl, because she had dered to stent the old lady's son."

At 10, after some unruly years in a Belgian convent. Miss Tempest was taken by her grandmother to Paris. There

she learned singing from Signor Marochetti, and when she came back to Whitehall was taken by her grandmother to see no less u per

D

than

Mr.

Gludstone. The "G.O.M." spared some minutes from high nolitics to dissuade her, at Mrs. Gladstone's chest, from going on the stage.

He frowned as he suggested the depravity of the life I wished to Hive. He talked of Macready, of- Helen Forsyth, and of Kean and Irving. He forgot his moraliking

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power for good of the dramatlet and the actor. Then be lonked nf me again, remembered his mission. and drew all he had gaid Infan final argument of warning...Mrs. Gladstone beamed and "William, you are wonderful,"

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SPARTAN TRAINING Then came the Royal Academy of Music, where Garcia made Mary corsels, Etherington take off her

кога

her

threw ink and pens at her, and dug nibs into the notes of her music. The other pupils included Julia Neilson, "n splendid, upstanding girl. with a lovely coronel of red-gold friendly, hair, always amlable and smiling, and unconscious of beauty Mary Etherington and. Julia Neilson were rivals for the gold and silver medals. Edward German and Courtice Pounds were also fellow pupils.

“After ̄ ̄ ̄önfly successes In Boc- caccio," "Fay of Fire

o' Fire," and "Erninic,” Maric Marie Tempest, as she had then be come, came into the full glory of famo at 21 In the

the title-port

of "Dorothy.' I is not sure that both Sullivan and D'Oyly

tried to get her, to pro-join the Savoy company. But "some insilnctive fear held her back.” 1 was, I think," she confesses, "afraid of becoming an automaton."

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March is blustery and dangerous in panics, have prepared costly Washington.

The January is

even more grammes. Much offlelal.correspondence, added ported, and in all cases the twitch-years past has

capitol for several been susceptible to Mr. Martin, was couched in jorgon.ings and other uncontrollable move- New He appealed for simpler use of the ments

New England promptly-United spell of

wintry weather. A censed

of it in January could affect the King's English,

glamour of inauguration day. The drive from the White House to the capitol by the President and his suc- cessor conceivably could be through a driving blizzard.

Fever was produced by electro- magnetic Induellon, the Doctors re-

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Kisses Are

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"Brutality"

The tens of thousands of specta- 661 tors could champ and be chilled as. they poured about the capitol plaza for the ceremony.-United Press.

Scots Economy

Washington, Nov. 15. WHEN the bust of Lord Kelvin.

the great, Sebilish scientist. was unvelled at the Sinithsonian Institute here a congratulatory cable of 1,500 words was sent by representative men of science in England.

Scattish scientists also sent a cable. It contained oue word: "Felicitations."—Reuter,

New

Or

Animal ?

Freak

London is to seo tho skin and skull of what is belloved to be

now animal.

It has been shot in Kenya (reporis a Nairobi- Correspond- ent). While it is said by the Kenya Game Warden, Capiatti A. T. Bichle, to resemble An "onlatio

Irax with # difference," ft. Is.

Is. declared by some to be a "Nanda bear,” the mysterious creature which, according · to natives, attacks and eats human beings, but has mover, boon) shot or captured.

Bears, however, says 'a' Lon-' don expert, are unknown

In

Central Africa." ITe thinks thə "now animal'! zusybe a freak hyena.

Its skin and skull are to be sent to the British Muse III.

-IN HOLLYWOOD

Hollywood, Nov. 20.. Here's a new method for rat- ing film romantics according to the "brutality" of their kisses.

So George Edwardes claimed her, and the volee that the Savoy lost was to thrill Raly's for four years in "An Artist's Model, ," "The Geisha," "A Greek Slave," and "San Toy."

The achievements of her later phase as a queen of comedy have owed most, Miss Tempest tells us, to the Dion Bouclcault, who pro- duced "The Marriage of Kitty," and to her present husband, Mr, Graham Browne, her watchful and inspiring comradein monogement for over twenty years.

MANDARIN CRITICS But her experiences as far-and- away the most travelled of living -actresses-are-the-revelation of the

book-the

of her eight 1914-

Wally Westmore, makeup man

years of world-wandering from e who stands by to reshape kissers 23. They have deepened both her after each kiss Invented It. and art and her personality incalculably he, says Marlene Dietrich and and enrich the pages of her "Life"

with a harvest of memorics. Gary Cooper are the worst.

Sho charmed Лve Continents--ranged "They're enough to drive you crazy, from the Canadian snows to the Aus- he complained. "They need a newtralian bush-and gathered some- mouth each after every kiss. Hardest thing from each. Here are her in- kissers in the business."

pressions of Pekin, where she ap- Mae West, on the other hand, West-peared in 13 different plays on 13 more regards as a paragon among consecutive nighis: kisser-saic meets 'em head-on and hardly smears at all, All I got to do is replace a divot here and there. Icas gazing eyes of the old Chinese

"Gladys Swarthout, Fred Mac- Murray. Jack Oakle and Randolph Scott are real easy klasers. Never have much trouble with them. But Jean Harlow-that dame Is brutal. She kisses with her lips parted, and can ruin a good make-up quicker'n you Bay "acat,"

Other Westmore classifications;

Joan Crawford-A head mover. Smears lipstick right to left.

"George Bafta crusher. Smears even-but plenty.

"Claudette Colbert-changeable. Sometimes brutal-other light.

times,

I can never forget looking down into the stalls, with the expression-

mandarins, usually resting on their hands on the ralt in front of them, ono round face after another, staring up at me. Those old Chinese follow- cd the plot of the play like cats watching mice. They did not res pond very spontaneously to the humour.

Elsewhere Miss Tempest's travels brought her in touch with all sorts of famous folk, and those who have become famous since.

Above all, the book conveys the character of Miss Tempest herself, with all its paradoxes dominant, proud, frankly egotistical, yet in lam Powell-leading, wont always learning, absorbing,

finitely sensitive Borbing, respond- as well as the makeup department know they've been kissed.

ing; a merciless disciplinarian in Her "Gail Patrick-reserved kisser art yet so completely in Pother with poor alm. lakely to get lip-laings as well as her passionis į for: suck on the guy's cheek or nose."dress, cookery and house decoration United Press.

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