1936-12-04 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER

Can Wife Live Apart' PICTURE SETS

From Dead

Man?

COURTS TO SAY

"HOUSANDS OF WO-

THOU

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

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 declded is whether the widow can claim the allowance from her husband's estate,

Appeal To High Court

Deputy

Judge Owen, at King- ston-upon-Hull County Court last July, upheld a claim by Mrs. Annie Mary Kirk, widow of Mr. Thomas Sevitt Kirk, ugainst the executor of her husband's estate that on al-i lowance of £2 a week should be continued although her husband is

dead,

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

SHEER

BEAUTY

THE REFLECTION OF PERFECTION

Kaysor Mir-O-Kleer* stockings are clearer than it ever 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.

AYSER

MIR-O-KLEER STOCKINGS

*Trade Mark S

A NOSE BY ANY OTHER NAME—

1936.

NEW PROBLEM

FOR

LEAGUE

Geneva, Nov. 24.

A PAINTING of the League Council sitting round their table indifferently watching Christ wash a poor man's feet 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. Avençl`can keep his year-old promise to accept the picture.

Sir Eric Drummond, now British Ambassador In Rome, the mte 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 League 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.

WELCOME GIFTS

New Stocks of New Goods just- arrived in time for

CHRISTMAS

A FINE RANGE OF

TIES, SCARVES,

GLOVES, BRUSH

SETS, LEATHER

JACKETS, etc., etc.

"Rattle" Horse Helps LADIES BAGS

Ice Queen in World Title Bid

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

back.

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

Then Harry Edgea, Epsom trainor of Fet, the Cosarowitch winner, gave her Ballyscanion, tho horao which would never race unless rattle was shaken in front of him.

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

Megan, thrice champion of Great Britain and runner-up to Sonja Heale

great come-back.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson took back this remarkable looking animal for the world's title, has made n

- Probosels-Monkey-from their recent expedition.

AUSTRALIA BARS NIECE OF PEER

Sydney, Nov. 20.

MRS. M. M. FREER, wife of an Indian Army officer, and a niece by marriage of the late Viscount Cave, former 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 he refused entry prisoner aboard the liner during into 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 porta, the captain will

forfelt a bond of £100.

Mrs. Freer will be returned to AFLASH”

England.

When the Maloja arrived at Fre- mantle on Tuesday and Mrs. Freer presented her passport for stamping, _she was asked to stund öside.

Later, acting under the Comnion- wealth Customs regulations. oficer gave Mrs. Freer a test in Italian. She failed, and was 10ld she should not land.

[Under the regulations, if a person)

COURTSHIP

Time Didn't Lag

For Them

Convalesence is usunity tedious for fails. a. test of any known lan-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

Surprise has been caused in the London film world by the report thali

daily conversations with young woman patient in a ward in an apposite block.

Both know something of the morse code, and when the sun was shining on his bed, the sailor produced two mirrors, and flushed them

on

the

window of the young woman's ward. The bigger mirror fashed the dash and the smaller the dot, says Austral Newz.

Conversation progressed very well,| Mr. Michael Bolton, Director of Pro- a diplomatic circles say. The two Gaumont-British have just left hospital to be married.

ductions

at the

studios at Shepherd's Bush, is nego- tialing with the corporation for a release from his contract. *

He refused to comment on the re- port. I 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.

It is confirmed, however, that im portant changes are taking place at the Gaumoni-British studios, Mr. 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. Balcon's future, but are, I am assured, partly. seasonal, and partly the result of a change of polley.

.

CONCENTRATION PLANS

In the past Gaumont-British have regularly maintained from three to four complete units, and sometimes as many as six. Three or four pic-i tures have been on the floor simul taneously, and from 10 to 20 a year have been inade.

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. whore pictures made during the last two or three years under Mr. Balcon's) supervision have already won wide recognition and success.

-of

The reduction in the number pictures," Mr. Ostrer states, "has naturally resulted in a corresponding reduction of personnel, without any Towering of the standard which won us, an International market."

King

She puts in six hours training a Buster Keaton

day at Streatham Ice Rink so that she will be fit to face-all comers.

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

Says He is Now

"It was a to put my skates on again. Now i feel nothing can stop me from win- ning the world Agure title, I am right on top of my form." "

FAME AT 12

great thrill to be able A "Poor" Man

New York, Nov. 20. USTER KEATON, the Alm comedian who has never been known to smile, is "so poor" that he has been forced to try to raise money for hotel bills and its return Veket

to California.

This is revealed in a motion which

Megon, who was born in Man chester, first attracted national at- She was chosen by the National he has filed in the Supreme Court in tention when she was 11 years old.

Great Britain at the Olympic Games claimed by Natalla Talmadge Keaton, Skating Association to represent connection with alimony arrears

on Lake Placid, New York, in 1932,

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

soon

M

How To Really Split An- Infinitive

[R. PIHLJP GUEDALLÁ, the author, split his longest In- Auitive recently

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

The colour of Its uniforms had not been chosen, but na so many people of strong opinions now wore, riding boats without horses, it was proposed to dis- lintulah the new soclely by wearing spurs without boots.

Then, taking a long breath, he said 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 Frée State, persist with our ob. Jects unul they are achieved,"

Split Infinitive: The insertion of an adverb or an adverbial plase between the particia “to” and the verb proper. centrally considered bad literary style.

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 American 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 drafted by experts.

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

A new feature--which harks back to the murder of King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia, at Marseilles in 1934—is hinged run- wing-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

his former wife,

He

persecuted," and declares that his ho la being pleads that

losses since, his divorce have made nim "poor and dependent on his while his former wife is

__am_how living in a small, slx- room bungalow with my mother, sister and brother," he says in his statement-Router.

Buster Keaton, born in 1800, began his screen career in 1917.

Since then he has appeared his many comedies, including the "Passionate Plumber," "Speak Easily," and "What, No Beer."

CLAN LINE ORDER SIX NEW SHIPS FROM ONE YARD A 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 cach, as an extension of the building programme embarked upon two years ago.

The construction of the vessels witi keep the yard employed for nearly three years.

Keels will be laid +3 soon possible.

15

The machinery will be supplied by John P. Kincaid and Co., Ltd, of Greenock,

The ships will be similar to the Clan Cameron, one of four now being built in the same 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 nearly 50 steamers, serving South Africa and India.

100 YEARS AND NO DOCTOR

Paris, Nov, 24, Two woinen 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. "All doctors can do for you is to make your life a misery," said one of them..

BABY WATER

30 cts. per Bottle

ENSURES PEACEFUL SLEEP

And Gloves-for Evening and Day Wear

VANITY CASES

& COMPACTS

IN HUNDREDS

OF NEW

STYLES

SHOP

EARLY

AT

MAYFAIR LTD.

CHINA BUILDING.

GET READY NOW.

The Christmas Social Season

will begin and the smart Men and Women will be ready for it with a freshly cleaned and pressed wardrobe. Garments that have been packed away for any length of time need the freshening treatment of "ZORIC" Drycleaning to look their best.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

KOWLOON WORKS HONG KONG WORKS

Telephone 57032 Telephone 21279

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Poking

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LIMITED, PENANG.

The most fashionable

and

leading Hotel.

Finest position with magnificent

Sea-front.

Private Cars.

Same management---Crag Hotal, Penang Hilla 2,400 ft.