1937-01-30 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ŠATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1937.

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Jack Doyle Says 'Hollywood

Was My

HEIR TO THE

Big Mistake' DUTCH THRONE

FIGHTING NOW

-WITH JUDITH

AS HOUSEWIFE'

By A Special Reporter

JACK DOYLE, singer, film actor and cabaret dancer, is "dend." Jack Doyle, curly-headed Irish boxer, told me so himself yesterday when he arrived at Waterloo Station on the Normandie

·boat train.

The resurrected Jack Doyle spoke too much temptation, luxury, late penitently of his former seit.

curs, and other things. One gets soft.

He bald: "It was myself who made the mistake.. I have made.

several mistakes in my life. The] "I kept walking round the sels biggest was when I went to Holly thinking it was no life for a fighter.

wood,

a

life of dissipation, Far

HISTORY OF

AN IDEA

(Continued from Pago 3.)

expended the whole of its available

resources.

"I'm Onished with film work and anything else but the ring. To-morrow I'm gong back to dear old Dan Sullivan, the man who] Fot me out of the Army years ago, and began to make a fighter of me.

"Dan has promised to wipe the slate clean and begin all over again; with me.

"I Want Title"

"I'm to appear at Wembley Sta-

The directors decided to raise funds by the issue of Income Deben- ture Stocks. Shareholders made a negligible response to the offer. It dium on January 19. Len Harvey is was decided to call for yesterday a matching me against Alf Robinson. meeting to consider winding-up the But that is only provisional. company which had never paid a dividend.

The The meeting was held. board's resolution to wind' up the company received only two votes. It was one of the stormiest City meetings seen for a long time, and the shareholders' refusal to have the company wound up was carried amid complaints against the directors and intermittent hissing.

"I want most to seck Petersen. First I want to be British heavy- weight champion, and my ambition' in sill to be world champion." The old optimistic Jack Doyle was back once more in his stride.

"It's father I m now-by adop tlon," he said. "Twenty-four hours! ngo my wife enbled me In the Nor- The Earl of Eldon, chairman of mandle that she had adopted a baby the company, could not make him- girl, four months old, with fair hair self heard at times. But share-and blue eyes. holders did hear that less than

"The quarrel between my wife

£1.000, ontside the £25,000 pro- mised by the directors, had been screen star Judith Allen) and me is appiled for of the recent oiler by all over now. It was the resull of the board of £220,000 Income De-wo people seeing too much of each

other. benture Stack,

As this sum was wanted to curry "Judlh is coming to England when on the business, the directors had to she was finished the picture she is nák shareholders to wind

up the making. Then we are going to settle company. Wages and other costs for down ni Chlalehurst. Judith is going the past two months, sald Lord to quit films as well, and be just a Eldon, had been paid out of the lttle housewife," directors' own pockets.

OPPOSITION

RUGBY PLAYER'S RESCUE

DIVE

Recent portrait of Princess Juliana, last member of the House of Orange and Heir apparent to the Netherlands Throne.

Young Wife Falls Asleep When She Laughs

DOCTORS have warned a young Wimbledon husband not to say or do anything that might make his wife Chief opposition to the winding up from Mr. A. P. Godfrey, a

laugh. For laughter sends her to sleep. came London stockbroker, who said he had suflicient proxies to defeat the reso-

Fred Johnson, the Leigh Rugby is being treated at the National Hos-

The woman, in the early twenties, In 'Modern Times' She laughed lution.

tremendously, then fell asleep, and three-quarter, when returning from a plta) in Queen-square, W.C. An had to be taken home in anlam- been attacked time and again, the help coming from the Bridgewater been laughing in her own home, she

Eventually, after the directors had match recently, heard cries for official sald.

bulance. She slept about four "Some weeks ago, after she had hours. proposal from Mr. Godfrey appoint Canni. Leigh, where John Murray, fell limply to the ground and went finally she was sent here. She was. "Doctors were consulted, and ing a committee of shareholders to Inquire into the position of the com-nged. 64, was struggling in the water into a deep sleep that lasted several suffering from narcolepsy-a pany and proposals for continuing Johnson dived into the canal and

minutes.

nervous complaint. Any sudden operations, WETC carried unani-

"Soon afterwards she went to a shock-laughter mously.

brought Murray safely to the bank. claems and saw Charlie Chaplin her.

Not one shareholder in the body

of the hall voted for the winding up.

At the conclusion of the meeting | a special shareholders' meeting was held, The. directors left the plat- form, and Mr. Godfrey was appoint- ed chairman of the new meeting. which then chose other shareholders to net, on the committee of share- holders.

INVESTIGATION

Mr. Godfrey proposed that the shareholders' committee should look into the reasons for the present financial condition of the company, into the present condition of the plant, Into proposals for the renewal of operations, into the desirability

or

qucrwise of a Board of Trade in-

He also proposed that approach should be made to the Lord Nuf- fleld distressed areas committee, who would, he thought, receive the ap- proach

sympathetically.

This month these 6s. shares were dealt in around 6d, while some shareholders, in despair, have tually sold them during the week at 11⁄2d.

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