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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936.

Lonely Spinster Wanted a Record

of a Deep Booming Male Voice

MISS Valentine

She has been appointed 'head of the central record Information bureau at the Hills Master's Voice depot nt 303 Oxfordstreet, W.

"Another man wrole requesting a drum record for his 20 eats. We supplied him with a continuous roti,

Britten knows the radio and then supply rekords 13 waltz thun to jazz! We supplied more about gramophone records to the inquirers; and I shall deat im with some Johann Straus. than anybody else in Europe.

with hundreds of questions.

"in.traeng encores I am added by my own concert-going. I attend nearly every big concert and many plays.

"Every Inquiry we receive will be fled for future reference.

"They are of great variety originality.

The bureau, the first of its kind in the world, was inaugurated by Sir Landon Roneld.

and

"A spinster living in the country asked for a record of a deep male volce, saying she was frightened of burglars.

"With a powerful radiogramophone and this booming male volce, she

intruders. hoped to insure herself against

Miss Britten, telling about her work and the reason for the informs Coventry saying that his cows were "One man wrote from a furm near tion service, said:"

"During my ten years as a sales-caster to milk when he put on a "A man rang up to nok for a sult- womin I have constantly received record, but he had noticed that they able background for his love-making. Inquiries of all kinds about recorda. were more docllu when listening to i We decided on serenades.”

The volume of questions kas. made the bureau necessary.

"I believe I spent half the time 1 am awake stening to records.

"There are about 50,000 records in the current catalogues of the world. I do not claim to know them all. but I have a large number in my head,'

"At the bureau I shall trace music heard in encores at .concerts or un

No Muddy Trenches In The Next War, Says Mr. Duff Cooper

7 Men "Sent Down"

From

Cambridge

Cambridge, Dec. 15.

tribunal the evidence they gave. In the police court.

FOLLOWING the Cambridge Guy Fawkes "rag" on November 5 Beven under. graduates have been "sent Henry Leopold Dor (King's College), down" temporarily.

The seven men are: George Henry Bisacre (Trinity Col- lege). Fined in the police court

£4 for resisting arrest;

Fined £5 for assault and £4 for resisting:

"One reason why men do not fołn the Territorials is that people who should be better advised are con tinually telling them of the horrors Some will not be permitted to of the last war, of the mud in Fian-return to Cambridge for the

and £3 for resisting; next term. This decision in-

Brian Marson Til (Trinity

ders, and the extraordinary Inconi- pelence of the generals.

"If there is to be another war, volves further terms at the which God forbid, the only thing we University if they are to take a can say about li with certainty is that it will be quite different. we

'need not be afraid of having to go through Passchendaele again, or To mit through the mud of Flanders as no many did from 1014 to 1018," Mr. Duff Cooper, War Secretary, at Marylebone.

Widow's Seance

Hollywood, Dec. 1.

"Turn out the light, he has not arrived," With these words, an → nouncing that her husband, Hurry Houdini, had not spoken from beyond the grove, Ara. Beatrice

Houdini ended her secure.

At a long table sat twelve members of "The Inner Circle," i mingled group of Spiritualists and scientists, the widow at one end. Edward Saint, the magician, at the other,

Surrounding them was a host of spectators. Including film camera men with a ton of equipment to "broadets!" any message.

Saint cried: "Harry, Harry, are you here? Give us sign. We have waited so long."

No answer. Saint wept.

degree.

An announcement by the vice- chancellor stoles:

Seven persons charged with mis- conduct on the night of November 3 were brought before the court of discipline. The charges in- cluded

naanuliing police officers, resisting arrest. and interfering with a a motor-vehicle, The appearance before the court of disciplim on

Monday was for the

Richard John Victor Gost (Trinity College). Fined £5 for anult

lul).

Fined £5 for assault and £4 for resisting:

William Noel Harley Wainwright (Corpus Christi College). Fined £2 for assault and £3 for resist-

Gilbert Aleo Varley (Christ's Col- lege). Fined £5 for assault and £4 for resisting;

William Harry Felty (Queen's Col- lege). Fined £5 for assault and £3 for resisting,

All have left Cambridge.

A Dawning College undergraduate,

purpose of communicating the defined for resisting arrest, and an ¡cisions. Previously police officers undergraduate of Trinity Hall, fined had repeated before the University for assault, have not been rustiented,

BUDDHISTS

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Shanghai, Dec.' 18.

Buddhist monks are pacifists, but they are also patriotle. When the National Government approved their request to be exempted from military training because of their religious beliefs, the China Bud- dhist Association reciprocated with a regulation requiring all Buddhist monks to submit to a three month training in Red Cross work.

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