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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1987.

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At one of the great ice festivities at St. Moritz the public was entertained by this original ice ballet which made a nice effect, on the background of snow covered mountains.

260-Year Law Fight

CLAIMANTS

OUT FOR

£300,000,000

FOR

TOR MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY YEARS, CLAIMANTS HAVE BEEN CHASING JEAN THIERRY'S FOR- TUNE OF £300,000,000 IN THE FRENCH COUNTS.

Now new

IF HOLLYWOOD

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HAS ITS WAY

Hollywood influences fashions as it fondly thinks it does-then skirts are going to be considerably shorter this year. There are 17 dress designers in Holly- wood who count, and the whole lot have come to the same conclusion.

"Skirts will be shorter and swingier -in keeping with swing music," said one designer.

In other words, from four to six inches will be clipped off, raising skirts from 14 in. to 16 in. from the ground. The reduction in length is highly important in design, say the men who matter.-United Press.

efforts are being Anna May Wong,

made to establish ownership, | and, should they prove success. ful, the French Government would be rendered almost bank. rupt.

To Resume Career

Hollywood, Feb. 28. Anna May Wong, American-born Chinese, was back in Hollywood yes- Claimants, numbering some thauterday to resume a film career, her sands, have formed an association to retirement to Chinn indefinitely dr establish icir, rights to the moncy, layed. and they have served notice of their

Intentions on the French Chancellor, The slender Oriental brauly, it M. Vincent Auriol.

was said, acceded to plena of her Jean Thierry, who left the money, friends in the Nationalist Govern- was the sixteenth child of a couplement at Nanking to continue an who were regarded as the heads of a clan in the Chateau Thierry region of America and Chins.

"good-will ambassador” between Champagne, with branches in Dasic, Switzerland and Lorraine.

but, unfortunately, the members of this mission were hoodwinked by three

Finding there were too many mouths to feed at home, Jean set out in quest of fortune, and attached himself to a Greek merchant in favour at the court rupt officials of the French Trea- of the Doge of Venice.

destroyed the family

of

Jean

sury, who records.

When he died in 1075, stipulated that his estate, consialing These officials persuaded Louls XIV. a great gold Ingot, four fect to make over the estate to them as the Ballart, six barrels

full of gold next-of-kin, and an arrangement was securities, a fleet of trading vessels, houses and land, should be distri-1,590,000 francs a year for life.

made by which each would receive buted among his fifteen brothers and sisters and distant members of the family.

The Doge of Venice sent a special mission to France to seek the heirs,

By this time, however, the Thierrys had heard of the fraud and denounced the swindlers, who were condemned to death In their absence.

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Robb Wilton Goes Shakespearean

Robb Wilton, famous for his comic policeman, fireman and judge roles on the stage and the radio, is making a quick change from a. music- hall and microphone star Into a Shakespearean actor.

Next month he will be Christopher Sly, the drunken tinker, in the Taming of the Shrew at the New Theatro, with Edith Evans and Leslie Banks.

He has never seen the play. not even read it, And he has never acted in Shakespeare- with one

minor

exception long ago.

"It came as a bit of a thunderbolt to me," he told a reporter.

But I'm getting-rather- keen on it now. I am fond of Shakespeare, though F wouldn't call myself a stu- dent of his plays,'

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