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NGKONG TELEGRAPH

THE HONGKONG – TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1936,

Princess Juliana Has Three Wedding Problems Who Will Be Bridesmaids: 3. What

Presents To Accept

1.-Whom To Invite:

JAPANESE ADMIRAL LEAVES FOR HOMELAND

2.

Rear Admiral E. Kondo, retiring Commandant of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Party in Shanghai, took his leave of the S, M. C. authorities recently. In the above picture he is shown reviewing the guard of honour provided by the Russian Regiment, S. V. C.

Skyscraper Death of

Lady Astor's

Nephew

New York, Dec. 1.

RETURNING home early this morning from a night club, Mr. David B, Brooks (26), a nephew of Lady Astor and stepson of the Hon. Robert H. Brand, the English banker, opened the windows of his -14th-storey flat in fashionable Park Avenue, New York, and plunged to death on the side walk, a few doors from President Roosevelt's town house.

Police and ambulance surgeons, summoned by servants who had been awakened by Mrs. Brooks's screams, said it was their belief that Mr. Brooks had slipped and had lost his balance.

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Mr. Brooks was married on July 14 to Miss Adelaide Moffett, a Mr. Brooks was married on July

to Miss Adelaide Moffett,

daughter of Mr. James A. Moffett, former head of the Federal Housing Authority.

Before the marriage she had appeared as a singer at several New York night clubs, despite her father's opposition,

Once she ran away from school to accept a supper club engagement, which was later terminated by her father.

When the news reached the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Brand at their country home Eydon Hall, near Rugby Mrs. Brand, who is a sister of Lady Astor, was grief-stricken.

Mr. Brand said:

"Coming so soon after me

aon's wedding in July, the tragedy

CAVE WOMAN

New York. Deo. L.' XX/HEN Mrs. Esther O'Rourke, W

20, found that Phinens Crooker, a 48-years-old Chicago bachelor, was cooling toward their romance, she attempted to lake him to the altar at the pistol-point.

The argument landed them in

court,

The Judge dismissed the charge against Crooker, but sentenced Mrs. O'Rourke to seven days, with the remark, "The cave man era has been reversed.”

A Yacht From Her People

BUT ONLY FOR "HOME"

·WATERS" CRUISES

A Special Correspondent

The Hague, Dec. 3.

PRINCESS JULIANA. her wedding day now less than

a month away, faces three difficult problems.

Whom should she invite to the wedding-or whom dare she not invite? Who shall be her bridesmaida? Which presents that are offered may she accept?

The first trouble is that The Hague's cathedral, St. Jame's, cannot hold more than 1,000 people.

The

balance will have to be held skilfully between the claims of Dutch people and the foreign relatives of the Royal Family.

Then there *s the ex-Kaiser's family at Doorn. Will they be there?

PRINCESS JULIANA

The result is that a fund has been NOW IT'S THE created to buy a present from the people of Holland.

It was decided to buy a yacht-an idea which thrilled the princess and awoke her dream of visiting the

One of Wilhelm's stepdaughters; Dutch colonchelmina, a bad salior

is said to be anxious to be a{ bridesmaid and that is the next problem.

The only certain bridesmaid is Martine, daughter of the Count Van Krimben and fiancee of Junkheer

But Queen

herself, was afraid of the idea and now the yacht is to be suitable only for safe cruising in home waters.

Princess Juliana has made a great friend of her future mother-in-law, Bridegroom, Price Best of the royal the smart and gifted Countess von Lippe-Biesterfeld, who drives a rac- he first came to Holland.

ing car, smokes cigarettes and enjoys a cocktail.

Prince Bernhard, when

GIFT PROBLEM The gift problem is that the dignity of the House of Orange forbids acceptance of "anofficial" gifts.

Big Air Base For

Women

Who

Prefer Blondes

New York, Dec. 5.

Under her influence, the princess has now started a slimming course. SCOTTISH HONEYMOON come to New York alone and Women-the ones who

may be spent in Scotland.

The latter part of the honeymoon employ young men to escort The princess visited Scotland with them to night clubs and her mother Queen Wilhelmina in theatres-prefer blonds. August last year, and spent more Tall blondes. If they have a than month оп holiday at St. Fillane, on Loch Earn, in Perthshire. bit of a Harvard accent so much the better. That is the report of the Peckham agency, an or- ganisation that is in the busi- ness of supplying young men escorts for women visiting New York.

WHEN

Philippines BOURCHIER

Manila, Dec. 10.

THE forlorn hulks of the

PROPOSED

Violet Vanbrugh has spent

Miss Vanbrugh, as vivacious

Daly's, where she is appearing

It has turned out to be quite a

business, so good that led to start a

branch in the fashionable west end 50 of London.

still

New Millinery

WE ARE IN

RECEIPT OF A

NEW SHIPMENT OF,

"CONNOR" HATS

THE VERY NEWEST

1 MODELS

FOR PRESENT WEAR

TO SUIT THE MOST

EXCLUSIVE TASTE

IN COLOURS

NAVY, BLACK, RUST,

· SAXE, MAROON,

BOTTLE GREEN

MULBERRY ETC.

A WIDER RANGE OF

STYLES THAN EVER

TO SELECT FROM

$2150

EACH

Last week the Peckham agency Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

had 97 applications for corts. It filled them easily for it ля

For file

She played in opening produc-

is too poignant for words" Mr. Brand, a son Viscount Hampden, is, managing director of Lazard Brothers and-Com- William Harley, whose heart was Republic.

of the second Was. Scraped Dies of military airplanes pro- tion at Daly's 13 years ago.

tecting a free Philippine

pony, merchant bankers, and n direc- "decarbonised" in on opération at the tor of Lloyds Banks and other com-Royal Chest Hospital recently, has panies.

died there,

ปี

HER ROMANCE

ten dances.

earn

Spanish fleet sunk by years on the stage and is Admiral Dewey in 1898, going strong. rusting themselves into ever sat in her old dressing-room at the names of about 20 Yale, Harvard oblivion in the southwest Muted Strings," the new Beethoven their living by attending shows and

In and Princeton graduntes who Man Whose Heart to have as neighbours a fleetstuge cuning

corner of Manila Bay, are play, and marked the milestones in night clubs and taking ladies out to

NO BEDROOMS" Each employee in the agency la carefully investigated and the wo- men who use the service must pro- "It was in this very theatresher mac. on their part not to be alone told

in a hotel room with the escorts. The Commonwealth govern-Bourchier and I fell in love. It was

reporter, that Arthur. The price scale runs like this: For ment, ruling the islands pending in a corrido: bebind the stage that services up to 10 p.m., $5; up to mid-

to 8-pm-$25,- reclaim 10 hectares (25 acres) School for Scandal,' and he was wear-attempt to save both the woman and complete independence, plans the proposed to me suid I accepted night $10; to

The financial arrangements of the 37-mile long bay for use ing a straw hat and walked with

The handled through the agency in an

the escort embarrassment. The wo- as a national airdrome. Some imp. $150,000 has been authorised to

man turns a sum of money over to Have you-hurt--yourself?" 1

the agency enough to cover the begin filling in the area but plans asked. He looked at me and said, evening's expenses and pay the fee are not yet definitely completed.

Yes,

I have, and then and there he of her escort. The new land is to extend into the proposed and

soon after We got Sometimes it is not dancing and bay directly west from Fort San married in the loveliest pensoup for dining for which the escorts Antonio Abad,. where victorious I ever remember."

hired. They are retained to drive American forces stepped onto the asked her what she thought of automobiles, assist in shopping and Philippines and raised the. Erst the stage of

take children back and forth to of to-day. United States flag in the islands.

to-day our people on the stage school.

finance, he was deputy-chairman of necessary because he was suffering An authority on International Harley was 28 The operation was the British Mission in Washington in from a calcified covering of the heart 1917; financial adviser to the chair-White his heart was still beating his man (Lord Ctcll) of the Supreme chest was cut open and the heart was Economic Counell at the Peace Con- scraped. Afterwards he lived in an ference in 1918; and vice-president of oxygen tent. the International Financial Confer- ence of the League of Nations at Kettering, was with him when he His lancee. Miss Doris Bailey of Brussels in 1020.

died.

At Last: Houdini Can't Escape

cannot

Los Angeles, Nov. 21. attempt. "If he

escapo

place of the fortune, mysterious-cannot belleve that any one can, ly missing from the estate of she said. Magician Harry Houdini, will be Iloudiol on his death-bed said:- made in a seance to be held to-night "If there is anything in the belief by his widow,

of mediums that a man can return, Mr. Houdini has held vigil each I shall come back to you. We shall Hallowe'en for nine years, hoping to arrange a special code which you got spiritual manifestation from her and I alone can decipher. Beware kusband.

of tricks. I shall try for ten years To-night's seance will be her last —no longer."

AN attempt to discover the hiding from the other side is ten years,

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SOME WANT 'EM OLD Not all the women want young men. The demand for the elderly, distinguished type of male has caused the agency, to hire four older

men.

In England the escorts will be The record of Hythe (Kent) of chosen from graduates of Oxford or having had no case of drunkenness Cambridge, Anyone registered in for seven years, was broken last Burke's Peerage or the Almanach de month, when Joseph Francis Doyle, Gotha probably will be eligible, too, an Army Officer's manservant, of ox

Once the London branch gets to run- Limerick, Ireland, was fined 5. for ning full steam, Peckham, who did being drunk and disorderly.

not attend either Yale, Harvard Alderman Osborne, a magistrate, or Princeton, will hurry back to sald to Doyle, - "You are only in this country to write a book. The Hythe a few weeks and you spoll our |title will be "Some nice boys don't record."

pay."--United Press.

IT'S HARD TO SAY, BUT

IT CURES COLDS

A simple, safe and cheap preven-ed that thelf colds had been fewer tive against the common cold is and less severe. claimed to have been found by Dr The extension of the treatment to

APPEAL, TO DOCTORS........... Sydney Gordon Tippett, late Medi industry might have a profound cal Superintendent of Nordrach=| effect: on the amount of lost. Ume upon-Meadip Sanatorium... 20throsch llness, ha suggesta,pen alkaloi

The treatment consists solely in He appeals to, the medicat taking dally for 30 days two tablets alon to plek, a group of people who of sulphogusiacolle precipitate of are known each winter to be subject to frequent colds and use the treate plasma.

ment on half of them so that the two. groups could be compared.in

This, it is stated, builds up resist ance to infection by silmulating tho growth of antibodies in the blood, which fight the cold germa

Out of 600 people treated by this mathod during the winter of 1994- 1935 approximately 70 per cent, had no colds for a minimum period of four months, Dr. Tippett: states "In the Medical World.”

Last winter 2,000 were treated, with, essentially the same results.

BRITISH SOLDIER SENTENCED SAGE TO W DEATHI. DEVE

``Poonn, Nov. 1 The Semions" Judge there to-day sentenced to death Private Maurice Henry Durbin, of the First Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, for the murder of a regimental cont

Private Arthur Francia Percy

adsentence has to be confirmedḤ

The remaining 30 per cent, report her

by the High Courtsonfleute

Swan Culbertson

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