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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1936.

Can Wife 'Live Apart' PICTURE

From Dead

Man?

COURTS ΤΟ SAY

THOUSANDS OF WO-

MEN WHO ARE SEPARATED FROM THEIR HUSBANDS UNDER AGREEMENT MAY BE AFFECTED BY AN APPEAL IN THE COURT OF APPEAL IN LONDON.

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A question that may be raised is whether a woman can be said to be. "living apart" from her husband when he is dead.

A man separated from his wife agreed to pay her a weekly sum during her lifetime. Then He died, and the question to be decided is whether the widow' can claim the allowance from her husband's estate.

Appeal To High Court

Deputy Judge Owen,

at King- stou-upon-Hull County Court Inst July, upheld a claim by Mrs. Annio Mary Kirk, widow of Mr. Thomas Sevitt Kirk,, against the executar of her husband's estate that an al- Iowance of £2 a week should be continued although her husband is dead.

The executor is now appealing to the Court of Appent for a ruling on the matter, and the bearing will come before Lord Justices Slesser! and Scott and Mr. Justice Eve.

SHEER

BEAUTY

THE REFLECTION OF PERFECTION

Kayser" Mir-O-Kleer* stockings are clearer than

it over seemed possible for stockings to be. Fitted with moulded precision. As fa- mous for wear as for their flawless beauty. Sheer or service weights in radiant, gleaming new shades.

KAYSER

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Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson took back this remarkable looking animal

-a Proboscis-Monkey-trom their recent expedition..

AUSTRALIA BARS NIECE OF PEER

Sydney, Nov, 20._.

A

SETS NEW PROBLEM

LEAGUE

FOR

Geneva, Nov. 24. PAINTING of the League Council sitting round their table indifferently watching Christ wash a poor man's fect has been presented to M. Avenol, Secretary-General, by Miss Violet Oakley, painter, of Pennsylvania, 'U.S.A.

Some say that the poor man is St. Peter; others that he is an Abyssinian.

League circles are now debating whether M. Avenol can keep als year-old promise to accept the ploture.

Sir Eric Drummond, now British Ambassador in Rome, the ato Aristide Briand (France), and the late Count Apponyi", (Hungary) appear in the painting.

Some say it would have been better if Miss Oakley had not mixed up the Biblical setting with a Longue Council meeting, on the ground that it will give rise to cynical comment.

This is the second gift within a few months that the League may have to refuse. The Austrian gift of a tapestry showing the defeat of the Turkish forces near Vienna in 1642 has been returned to Vienna, following a protest from Turkey.

"Rattle" Horse Helps

Queen in

SIX

Ice

World Title Bid

IXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Megan Taylor is planning to capture the world's figure-skating title held by Sonja Henic..

י.

Eighteen months ago over-training upset the muscles of her back. She and to announce her retirement when she was within an ace of getting the title.

Then Harry Edges, Epsom trainer of Fet, the Cesarewitch winner, gave her Ballyscanton, the horse which would never race unless rattle'was shaken in front of him.

Day after day Miss Tayler rode the horse. Gradually she found strength returning to her sprained back muscles.

Megan, thrice champion of Great Britain and runner-up to Sonja Henic for the world's title, has made great come-back

D

She puts in six hours' training à Buster Keaton

day at Streatham Ice Rink to that

she will be fit to face all comers.

to

"Ballyscanlon did the trick," she sald. "I owe my marvellous re- covery to him.

Says He is Now

"It was a great thrill to be able A "Poor" Man

put my skates on again. Now I

feel nothing can stop me from win-

New York, Nov. 20. KEATON, the film comedian who has never been known-to-smile-is-so-poor that he

ning the world Agure title. I am BUSTER

right on top of my form."

FAME AT 12

first attracted national at- She was chosen by the National tention when she was 11 years old. Great Britain at the Olympic Games Skating Association represent

to

far hotel bills and his return ticket to California.

This is revealed in a motion which he has

filed in the Supreme Court In connection

tion with alimony Arrears claimed by Natalia Talmadge Keaton,

former wife. his

MRS. M. M. FREER, wife of an Indian Army officer, and

a niece by marriage of the late Viscount Cave, former chan, who was born in Man- has been forced to try to raise money Lord Chancellor of England, has been refused permission to land in Australia from the P. and O. 20,000-ton liner Maloja by the Commonwealth Customs Department.

She must. remain virtually a guage, he or she can be refused entry prisoner aboard the liner during to Australia.] its six weeks' stay in Australia, have refused to give their reasons The Commonwealth authorities and if she sets foot ashore at for the prohibition on Mrs. Freer. any of the ports, the captain will] forfeit a bond of £100.

Mrs. Freer will be returned to

England.

When the Muloja arrived of Fre-

"FLASH"

mantle on Tuesday and Mrs. Freer COURTSHIP

„presented her passport for stamping,

she was asked to sland aside.

Later, acting under the Common Time Didn't Lag

Customs

regulations. an

wealth officer gave Mrs. Freer a test in Italian. She failes), and was-told- she should not land.

Under the regulations, if a person falls in a test of any known lan-

For Them

Convalesence is usually tedious for patients in hospital. But it wasn't for a young sailor in the North Shore Hospital at Sydney, whose native

NEW GAUMONT CO. ingenuity enabled him to have long

SURPRISE

PRODUCTIONS CHIEF MAY END CONTRACT CHANGES AT STUDIOS

By CAMPBELL DIXON

dally conversations with a young woman pullent in a word in opposite block.

an

Both knew something of the morse code, and when the sun was shining on his bed, the sallor produced two mirrors, and flashed them on the

window of the young woman's ward. The bigger mirror flashed the dash and the smaller the dol, says Austral News.

Surprise has been caused in the

Conversation progressed very well, Landon Alm world by the report that Mr. Michael Balcon, Director of Pro- as diplomatie circles say. The two ductions at the Gaumont-British have just left hospital to be married.

studios at Shepherd's Bush, is nego- tiating with the corporation for a

release from his contract,

He refused to comment on the re- port. It was pointed out, on behalf of Mr. Mark Ostrer, managing direc tor of the corporation, that Mr. Balcon's contract has still about a year to run.

Mr.

It is confirmed, however, that im- portant

are taking place) al the Gaum studios. Ivor Montague, one of Mr. Balcon's associate producers, recently resigned, and over 30 other employees are under notice.

These reductions in the staff_have: no connection with Mr. Bolcon's future, but are, I am assured, partly spasonal, and parily the result of a change of policy.

CONCENTRATION PLANS

In the past Gaumont-British have regularly maintained from three to four complete units, and sometimes as many as slx. Three or four ple- tures have been on the floor simul- taneously, and from 18 to 20 a year have been made.

In future the corporation will con- centrate its resources on only 10 or 12 Alms, in the belief that in this way it will be possible to raise the general level of production and win. a larger share of the world market

Mr. Ostrer is especially anxious to make headway in the United States, where plctures made during the last two or three years under Mr. Balcon's supervision have already won wide recognition and success.

The reduction in the number of pictures. Mr. Ostrer states, "has naturally resulted in a corresponding reduction at personnel, without any lowering of the standard which won

us an International market."

on Lake Placid, New York, in 1932.

Her magnificent grace and style won for her the title of "Britain's Queen of the Ice."

soon

How To Really Split An Infinitive

MR. PHILIP GUEDALLA, the author, spilt his longest in- Onitive-recently.~

In a broadcast talk, he said, he would be happy to inaugurate a new society, the Friends of the Infinitive.

The colour of His uniforms had not been chosen, but as st many people of strong opinions now wore riding boots without horses, it was proposed to dis- tinguish dic new society by wearing spurs without boots,

Then, taking a long breath, he sald they Intended

To fearlessly and ruthlessly, In season and out of season, day by day, week by week, and year by year, in Great Britain, and, weather

permitting, in the Irish Free State, persist with our ob- jects until they are achieved."

Split infinitive: The Insertion of an adverb or an adverbial phrase between the particle. "0" and the verb proper, generally considered bad literary style.

King Carol Has

Bullet-Proof Car

Vienna, Nov. 18.. KING CAROL OF RUMANIA, now on a state visit to Prague, Czecho-Slovakian capital, has had an armoured car on the line of those used by Âmerican gangsters—placed at his dis- posal by Dr. Edward Benes, Czecho-Slovakian President. Benes had it specially made for the king's visit from plans pirafted by experts.

The coachwork is made of steel plates. The windscreen and side windows are of bullet-proof plass.

"

A new feature-which harks back to the murder of King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia, at Marseilles in 1084—is hinged run- ning-boards, which are turned up when the car is in motion so that it is impossible for any one to jump on, But the car looks just like an ordinary one,

WATSON'S

He

that he is belog pleads "persecuted," and declares that his losses since his divorce have made nim "poor and dependent on his

| salary, w

while his former wife is

"wealthy."

am now living in a small, six- room bungalow with my mother, sister and brother," he says in his statement-Reuter,

Buster Keaton, born in 1098, began his screen career, in 1917:

Since then he has appeared In many" including the "Passionate

"Speak

and Easily,"

Plumber "What, No Beer."

CLAN LINE ORDER SIX NEW SHIPS FROM ONE YARD

SHIPPING contract worth £1,000,000 has been placed on the Clyde.

The Clan Line, Ltd, of Glasgow, Have commissioned the Greenock Dockyard Company to build six- steamers of 10,000 tons each, as on extension of the building programme embarked upon two years ago.

4. The construction of the vessels will

the

yard employed for nearly three years.

Keels will be Jald as soon as possible.

The machinery will be supplied by John P. Kincald and Co, Lid, of Greenock.

The ships will be similar to the Clan Cameron, one of four now being built-in-tho-samte yard for the Clan

Line,

The order is also the largest Greenock has received for many.

years.

Clan Line Steamers are one of the biggest shipowning concerns in the country. They own

50 nearly steamers, serving South Africă und

India.

100 YEARS AND NO DOCTOR

Paris, Nov. 24. Two women at St. Etienne, aged 102 and 100, were to-day decorated with gold medals by the mayor.

They both attribute their great age and good health to the fact that they have never seen a doctor, doctors can do for you is to make your life a misery,” said one of them.

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ENSURES PEACEFUL SLEEP

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