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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

1987.

How Woman Lost a Vast Fortune

NITRATE KING'S DAUGHTER ON MONEY CRASH

MISS SUSAN DORA CECILIA SCHINTZ—daughter

of the late Hans Gaspard Schintz, the Swiss "Nitrate King”—described at Kingston Bankruptcy Court recently how she lost the förtune she inherited from her father.

Her pubile examination was re- sumed after a lapse of five years.

The receiving order was made in July, 1830, and the examination was originally fixed for October of that year. Owing to the illness of Miss Schintz, now over 70, the examina- tion พาย ndjourned generally in November, 1931,

The Oficial Receiver said that In a statement of affairs sworn by Milsa Schints in August last year, unsecured liabilities were given as £27,340 odd, and contingent labi- files at £67,130, of which only

£1,268 was expected to rank. Ming Schintz said she expected her assets to realise £25,095.

The Official Receiver: The actual deficiency which you show in this statement of affairs is only £2,0147

"VERY LITTLE LEFT Miss Schintz agreed that from 1012 to 1021 she had an Income from £215,000, When the Offcial Re- celver suggested that from 1921 to 1020 she had an income from £385,- 000, she said: "It had depreciated to £270,000."

The securities were reinvested in various ways, and there was very title left at the time of the receiving order.

Points from Miss Schiiz' replica

were:

1006 Her onrents gave her an estate in Warwickshire on which her father spent £00,000 in Improve-

ments.

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1921-Sle mold a ranch she own- ed in Argentina for £240,000, of which she received about £200,000. 1914-1919-Conducted a military hospital which she equipped for

£30,000.

£200,000 IN COMPANY Miss Schlatz and that while con- ducting the hospital she advertised for somebody to assist.

This advertisement was answered by a Mr. Fred Lionel Rapson, who from 1922 until the date of the re- ceiving order acted as her secretary

Miss Schintz added that Ropson was an inventor and in 1022 she provided about £200,000 for another company,

with premises at New Molden.

She thought that about £230,000 of her money went into the Rapson companies.

"When I algued that I was noi -very-well." she said, explaining-a guarantee for the parmeni of debts to any amount of Rapson's

Among her reasons for Insolvency she included the non-receipt. of money she expected in royalties; to lasses on the cale shares, and to

her ability under guarantees on behalf of a Rapson company.

The examination was adjourned: for closing.

All-Women Play is All About Men

New York, Feb. 10.

THE season's most sensational play has arrived on Broad- way.

"The Women" is by a woman. Clara Boothe, and is acled by thirty-five women-without a man in the cast. The settings all re- present places where women gather apart from men.

Beauty parlours, fiting rooms in luxurious shops, the "powder room" of a night club, boudoirs, and the bathroom. In the last one charac- ter is seen swathed in soapsuds at she sits in the bath ringing up her lover on her husband's telephone.

Although no males appear, man dominates the play. The women talk of nothing else but the other- sex.

HOW TO SNATCH 'EM

"Its all-woman casi," wrlies one, "is people with the best-bred hell- ents and social flithmongers that ever parted happy couples with their crmined smul”

"The play is all about men," says another, "how to snatch them, cheat keep them, and get rid of

them

them."

"Woman Are So Like

Lions

""

From A Correspondent

St. Albans, Feb. 10. KTM giving up llon tamming for

marriage."

Mr. Willem Saunders, of St. Albans, thus announced to me to-

day his plann. to marry Misa Betty Sinfeld, aged 23, who at East Ham Police Court yesterday admitted breaking a recognisance after being bound over for theft by not giving notice of a changed address,

He promised the magistrate, Mr. W. R. Howard, that he would marry the girl, and the ease was adjourned for a month to enable Use wedding to take place. Mr. Howard remarked that a waman required different treatment from allon.

"JUST FIRMNESS" **Thinking things over,"

Mr. Saunders said to me, "I'm not 50 sure about a woman requiring dif- ferent treniment from a lion. With liens, you know, It's just matter of *firmness and persuasion, not cruelty, and I rather think it's the same with women, We shall seo...

Miss Sinfeld, a smiling brunette, whose parents live here, said:

"One day at St. Albang in the spring of last year I went to see a show, and was asked to become a anake charmer. I soon became used 'to my job in the 'Pit of Death,' and I became just part of the day's work to put snakes in my mouth,

"Mr. Saunders was very helpful and friendly--and, well, we fell in love. I told him about been bound over, and he said it didn't matter,

Tabbles encountered in a night mare," declares a third. The plot is nothing. It merely tells how the heroine's happy marriage is wrecked. by these gossipers. The hellish of the play is the superb act. writes yet another, The Women" is confidently pre- dieted

a gold mine for all engaged in it. Women will flock to see how one of their own sex flay's them alive, and men will go with the wo men to learn what women say of them behind their backs,"

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PILGRIMS RETURN ON N.Y.K. LINER

at

The most important of a number of similar parties to the 33 rd Eucharistie Congress Manila returned to Hongkong to-day by the N.Y.K. liner Tatsuta Maru, which is flying the Papal Flag in Oriental sens for the first time since the visits of the Spanish galleons. At top left is Captain Shinju, Ito, commander of the vessel and a staunch Catholle, who has been received in audience by the Pope; while at top right is the main altor, at which masses and benedictions are performed daily. ́At left below are, some of the Japanese delegation; while at right in Arch- bishop Joseph F. Rummel as he was Interviewed by newspapermen. The liner also has aboard

Cardinal Dougherty, Papal Legate to the conference.

Good

Costs

Deed A Millionaire

£100,000

London, Feb. 1.

TR. EZEKIEL ELIA SHAHMOON, once an office boy, MR.

now a millionaire, stood in

A Regent-street shop yesterday smoking a cigar, watching the wreckage of a good deed that had cost him £100,000. -

RADIO BROADCAST

A Studio Recital By Anne Winter LONDON PROGRAMMES

Radio Programme. Broadcast by metres (645 k.c's.), 31.40

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metres (952 m.c's.).

12.30 The London Symphony

Orchestra. my having

"Once during the summer a new constrictor snake coiled itself round me and began to choke my life away, My Dance leapt on the snake and pulled it from me. How could I not

love him after that?"

The Nizam of Hyderabad, who is considered the richest man in the work, leaving the Indian Museum in Caleuita after the opening of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Princess Juliana Slimming

Warsaw, Feb. 1.

PRINCESS Julians, now on honey-

moon at Krynies, Poland, has decided to go on slimming by means of much skiing and a special menu.

Her meals are to be as plain us possible, with as little sugar as pos- alble, no butter and no cream in her breakfast coffee,

At dinner she will have only three courses, fish being preferred to meat. Her husband, Prince Bernhard, approves of the new diet.

30 MILES' SKIING Since her arrival the Princess had done about 30 miles' skiing up in the mountains near Krynica,

It is reported to-night that Queen Wilhelmina is likely to foln the couple at Krynica. Preparations for the Queen's reception are being made.

The President of Poland has in- vited the Princess and her husband to spend a week-end with him.

Two and a half years ago Mr. Shahmoon, forty. three-year-old bachelor, puffing gently at an earlier

DIVORCE PENITENTS:

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Opera and Musical Comeds.

1 p.m. Time and Weather.

Vocal Gems from Light cigar, went into a, West

1.25 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; End furniture showroom weather, Time, and Announcements. to buy his sister a present.

1.40 A Relay of the Rotary Club Tin Speech from the Root-Garden He liked the two young sales of the Hongkong Hotel. men who served him, and offered Mr. L. W. Amps on: "A Flight to put up money for a business Across America and Some Impres-

for them. And so the firm of

A JURY OF Leander and Co., Ltd., luxury CLERGY?

London, Feb. 1.

Convocation of Canterbury.

furnishers of Regent-street, was born.

WHAT UPSET HIM Yesterday Mr.

sions of European and American Affairs."

2.10 p.m.-Close Down 4-7 p.m.

A Chinese Programme. p.m. Italian Musle

Bari-

thus

Vocal Quartet "Rigoletto" (Verdi) -Bella Figlia dell'Amore (Fairest daughter of the graces)......Gall Shahmoon, curci (Soprano), Homer (Contralto), JURIES of clergymen to decide from a dais in the showrooms of Gigli (Tenor) and De Luca (Bari- whether professions of penitence the company, watched the staff tone); Orchestral "Aida" (Verdi)

Grand March, Act. 2; Vocal Duct- by divorced persons are genuine or selling off the stock. At a meet-Gran

"La Boheme" not, are suggested in a resolutioning of the firm's creditors on maid in the moonlight.....Rosetta (Puccini)-Lovely which appears on the order for the Friday it was said he had agreed Pampanini angoletto (Verdi) We meeting of the Upper House of the forego a claim of £55,995 so/tone Solos-"Rigoletto"

The resolution, which stands in the have 20s, in the pound.

that the other creditors could are equal; "Un Ballo in Maschera"

(Verdi)-And would'st thou have sullied a soul so pure? hame of the Bishop of St. Albans,

"Oh, I don't mind the £100,000) Giovanni

Orchestra- ju one of a series dealing with the

Inghilleri: Church towards so much," he said. "What does "Manon Lescaul" (Puccini)Inter- attitude of the

Solo"Madam But- divorced persons who have remar- upset me is that I messed up another mezzo; Soprano

big deal to start this business.

terfly (Pucelni) One fine day... rled.

"Just before the firm started |

Rosetta Pampanini.

7.30 p.m. Stock Quotations and was holding a milion pounds Hongkong Exchange Market Report. worth of silver. I knew it would 7.35 The Leek"-Selection Carr, go up. I xuld my holding so that Myddleton), I'd have the liquid capital to start Leander and Co, Then up went silver and I lost the chance of making about £300,000 profit.

It will be moved only if the House rejects the Bishop of Ely's motion | unconditionally debarring such per- sons from Holy Communion.

BISHOP'S POWERS

A sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Church and Marriage 'will recommend that divorced per- sons who have remarried during the life-time of their former partners; may be admitted to the sacraments by the bishop of the diocese con- cerned, if he has satisfied himself that the conselence of the parties is good and that he would not, by admitting them, be giving grave offence to the Church.

The Bishop of St. Albans' re- solution, however, stipulates that the parties, in applying for admis- ston to Itoly Communion, shall declare their repentance, express a desire for God's forgiveness and promise to give no future occasion for divorce proceedings.

men,

elected

7.40 From the Studio. A Light Recital by Maurice Dufour (Piano. Accordeon) and Miss Carmencita (Vocal).

I'm a retired man really. I made Accordeon Solo-La Chanson des my money abroad. This furniture Coobi (Gneug); Vocal-Espania; business was just a mistake."

Accordeon Solo-Till we meet again; The two young salesmen have now VocalPoems; Accordeon Solo- gone off to start on their own.

Swan

(a Chinese Air); Vocal- "I gave them a chance because Spanish Song. I know what it's like to struggle

D.m. Time, Weather, and An- for success," said Mr. Shahmoon, nouncements. "Fra a Frenchman. I started as 8.03

an oflee boy in China.

Peter Dawson (Basa- was twenty-seven I put through Municipal Orchestra, Conducted When Baritone) and the Bournemouth a £1,000,000 deal with the British by Sir Dan Godfrey. Government

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Dass-Baritone Solo-The Shepherd "I got out of a big rubber deal because of this business. That cost Boy's Song (Pepper); Orchestra me a lot of money. I could have sold Crocus Time-Serenade for Strings these premises at £10,000 profit (De La Riviere); Intermezzo Plzzi- before I opened the business. I didn't co

Bass-Barit (Montague Birch); Solo-Young Belton's "What am I going to do

Orchestra now? Heritage (Hennessy); referred to a panel of four clergy been my hobby for twenty-five years, street (Longstaffe); Good green acres This application would then. Oh, I'll go on collecting china. That's Dancer of Seville (Crunow); Bass-

Baritone Solos-The man in before triennially, whom, with the Bishop, applicants I've got one of the finest collections might be required to appear in the country. When this is all of Home (Kahal and Fain).

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A May Breeze (Mendelssohn, arr. Kreisler): Londonderry Air Curr Kreisler); Serenade (Lchar); Mor- guerite (Rachmaninoft, arr. Kreisler). 8.40 p.m. From the Studio. A Pianoforte Recital by Nura Kanis. La plus que lente-Valse....

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up three months,' Should the "Jury" advise that the Mr. Shahmoon lives at Trosley professions of the applicants are Towers, Wrotham, Kent. genuine the Bishop, being himself satisfied, is to direct that the parties | be admitted to Holy Communion, butį only after a period of "probation and Warsaw Gambles discipline" of not less than six months.

At Bridge Table

The Bishop of St. Albans. will

Warsaw, Jan. 30. further move that no resolution ad- Now that roulette, once n popular mitting to Holy Communion divorced- gambling game here, has been for- persons who have remarried during bidden, bridge-for high'stake-has the lifetime of their former spouses taken public fancy. During the first shall be acted upon until the canon two weeks of November, police closed law and the relevant parts of the five social clubs, which, they claimed, Prayer Book have been amended by had become veritable gambling places canoa mude under licence from the for "bridge flends" playing for high Crown.

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