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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ANGEL-WINGED AIMEE STILL DRAWS

DRAWS CROWDS

They Laugh (

HOL

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937.

At Three

At Her

Jokes

), Sing (

With

Bands

d), Pay (Collections

By TREVOR WIGNALL

Los Angeles, July 2. [OLLYWOOD is only a few miles away, but as the painted city of films is not a place to visit on the Sabbath I decided to let it wait until later.

The air voyage of more than two thousand miles was .such a success that when I have finished with California'

I shall fly straight back to New York (2,750 miles)..

The air liner arrived dead on, the minute, but my first. dis- covery was that so many conven- tions are being held here that the main hotel was jammed.

Most of the inhabitants were out on the beaches, and there were sald

Iter serinon was lifustrated with

strange noiso through loud-

speakers, by the appearance of a simall dog which Almer look Into her arms and hugged, by. The warblings of a male quartet and by a series of inbleaux vivants.

These latter reminded me of my small-boy days when I was lead-i

to be half a million at Santa Monica, ing performer at Band of Hope en-

twelve miles distant.

My Sunday, therefore, was as quicti

tertainments,

Almee looked youthful and lovely black curtain to silhouette

at it would have been in London. I with am not much of a picker of fight her form and with every light in the winners, but I am still pretty good building focused on her face.

She

ut choosing things to write about made great play with her stalwart Last night I hesitated between Shirley Temple's new picture "wee on, whom she called forward to kiss Wille Winkle" and Evangelist Almero add to her words,

The rather amateurish tableaux Semple McPherson. I chose Almec. were intended to illustrate the spols

5,000 SAW HER

The impression in America is that Sister Aimee has had her day and that her influence has waned: that was not borne out at the huge and orsate Angelus Temple.

The place was packed with five thousand and hundreds were turn- ed away.

When Alinee's co-preacher. Floyd B.Johnson, naked visitors to Cali- fornia to declare themselves inore than half the congregation stood up Sister Almee macc & magnificent

entrance.

Flooded With Hmelight she marched down the length of the church to roaring cbeers wearing

to which good and bad are destined.

Almee spoke extempore and was never at a loss for a phrase, She indleated when applause "amens" were desired, but through there was clapping hands and cheers.

And.

All

of

event of

The most astonishing the evening was 11 honest-to-

thic goodness' wedding on

singe with organ and bands afi playing the Wedding March,

Almee officiated, and save for the

omission of the word "obey" the ceremony was practically identical with that of the Church of England.; MEXICAN BRIDE

The

WHAT A HEADACHE FOR M. BLUM!—Tangled political and financial affairs of France caused Premier Leon Blum many a headache before he and his Cabinet resigned, recently. Here he tells about it to Paul Faure, Stato Minister (back to camera), and Marx Dormoy, right. All three are in the now cabinet, with M. Blum as President of the Council of Ministers.

Back Into

Fire After

Rescue

'Plane

Blown

He Forgot To Bits

CUIXTY - FIVE - YEAR - OLD

The couple were Mexicans.

reticed street sweeper John a beautiful white gown with dran-bride was dressed in white and was Hurion, of Preston, rescued a Ings to her arms so arranged that attended by bridesmaids; the bride- mother and her two children when her arnis were extended they

#room wore a dinner Jacket with exactly resembled wings.

a while tie

forgol No suprise was shown!

he had

the sayed the gathering when

children, and turned back into She carried an enormous bunch by

Almee

an upstairs room.

of red roses and there were gar-soundly kissed both on the lips.

dentas In her vestraents. bosom was a vast cross.

On her!

Two-thirds of the congregation were wonen, who were compelled to]

their remove

hats when Aimee On either side of her were white appeared. She says she will shortlyi rabed angels. In front a brass band conduct another campaign in Eng- and behind another orchestra of land, but I noticed that her angels Ruitars and Lerrific

trombant are not now

and attractive! women, but med matrons. player.

When I left the building I asked. She is a restless woman, and for

polierman where I could find al The three hours she was on the stage taxicab, the laughed loudly and ex- she was fussing with her Marcelled plained that taxicabs do not wait golden hair, fiddling with a micro-side Angelus Temple as they phone or issuing loud orders to her never have fares. This was proved [by the long line of yumcars, which!

of Aimee's masi worshippers are lowly and ill-paid.

many attendants.

Throughout the proceedings there suggests was as much premeditated comedy and laughter as solemnity and fer- vent "amens,"

Almce continually cracked jokes, the richest of which preceded one of! the three collections. She asited the gathering the difference between a Sept and a canoe. The appeared to be that a canoe can tip.. AIMEE'S DOG

that

To me her sermon and general flullering about provided remark- able entertalament, but the only

from. blazing house recently

He heard shouts for him to return, slid almost unaonselous down a ladder to safety. When he recovered he said, "I went back because the children's crles were ringing in my cars. I thought they were still

there." airs. Brock, of Inghamstrees, Preston, and her children, aged five and three, were trapped in bedroom when thele kitchen below became a raging furnace, Bucion.

neighbour,

went through the kitchen. up the

through staln

smoke and flames, carried the three to the window, where two other men had pinerd a ladder,

11

7

proposal I care to make is that she BIG CHANGES

should be siopped from singing. Invariably she sang her own songs,

answer the words of which were no better

Even during the one-hour sermon Aimee Indulged mainly in anecdolus.

"THEY BOTH PLAY FOR THE SCHOCK NOW. IN 10 MOJO

OF THEM NURSE."

"You have every tight to be, Mrs. Evans. I cau sce u wonderful improvement since you took my advice about "California Syrup of Figs

"I could tell from what you said that there must be lozin in their sys tems. When children are cross and peevish and lose interest in their food and games, you can be practically sure it's an accumulation of poison- o malter upsetting their insides. I've seen it so aften! Just cleanse the system in a safe, natural way, chil- dren go ahead like wildfire.

"But do be sure always to give

California Syrup

Figs. It's them a natural fruity laxauve which safely cleanses and purifies the bloodstream and creates a fine healthy appetite.

"Keep on with the weekly dose of "California Syrup of Figs,' Mrs. Evans, It's a fine laxative for young and old. As a matter of fact I use it myself and advise you to adopt it for The whole family."

Be sure to get the genuine "Gall fornia Syrup of Figs."

"California

Syrup of Fiqs”

'NATURE'S OWN` LAXATIVE

than her voice but I thank her for a Sunday night the like of which had

experiences,

N FUTURE

nover before been included in my OF MEDICINE

Husbands

Must Not Say 'My Baby'

WHEN a husband in

Wimbledon Police Court referred to his baby as "my child," the chairman

THREE DIE

(By A Correspondent) Stanton Lang (Staffs),

June 30.

Want War Minister

To Wear Kilt

London, July 1. When Mr. Losile Hore- Belisha (War Minister) ad- dressed the Annual confer- ence of the Scottish National Liberals, they want him to wear, a kilt. Sir William Baird, Scottish Nat-Liberals Chairman said on Friday "There can be no excuse be- cause he has the Cordons and the Camerons in his charge as War Minister. If he cannot get a kilt, I will supply mine." -Our Own Correspondent.

RECRUITING FOR

THE ARMY SERIOUS FALLING

OFF

THE PAY QUESTION

(By A Military Correspondent) The serious falling off of enlistment Into the Regular Army is the first problem that will engage the atten- tlon of Mr. Horc-Bellsha at the War Omee. In spite of the efforts of the last two years, the number of recruits Joining has falled to make good the wastage due to discharge on expira- tion of me. The figures for this year are likely to be the worst for

many years.

Mr. Duff Cooper had a good deal of success in his campaign to draw attention to the needs of the Ter- ritorial Army, it is a fairly easy task to appeal to the patriotism of those in steady employment. It is not nearly so easy to attract men to a Service where conditions of pay are Iso low that a man drawing his allow- unce from the Public Assistance funds Is a lot better off in the matter of money to spend..

Recruits for the Navy and the Air Force enn be obtained easily. Con- ditions of life in these Services and the prestige which attaches to being a sailor or an airman may have some- thing to do with this, But the main at- traction is that in either of these ser- vices pay is much better than in the Army.

The reply of the Treasury to any suggestion at the basle rate of pay

ALL that remains of a in the Arms in

Air Force would have to be raised at

new-type R.A.F. the baste rate in the Navy and the bomber plane that crashedjie same time. This is perfectly near here to-day are correct answer from the Treasury tattered bits strewn half a one they can make. mile round a wreckage.

pile

viewpoint, und, indeed, is the only It is not, how- of ever. the basic rate of the soldier's

pay which needs altention.

NOTHING FOR SPECIALISTS All that remalus to 'pfove that)

All that is necessary is that the R.A.F. three young

men were soldier should be given the same killed in were a bunch of keys,facilities as in the Navy or the Air Alight-sheets Force for obtaining extra pay for a penknife, and the bearing the names of the crew on special efficiency. In the Navy and r Force specialists of all kinds draw for their special work. In the pay Young

Edward Army the specialist draws practically Sergeant-Pilot

nothing.

His arm can be stiff with Moorhouse, who had just risen from badges denoting special qualifications the ranks to quality for bis wings, without any apparent effect on his took the machine up from Bicester.(weekly pay-sheel,

The flight.

Flying with him as observers to gain Tradesmen in the Army " do. experience were Aircraftmen Sydney course, draw extra pay, but the num- Herbert William Coember and Alfred|ber of these ranks Is comparatively George Martin.

Ismall.

As the

FLAME SHOT UP

bomber approached

In the last Army Estimates the sol- dier was told that he could not be this given a rise, but that the grievance his pay, small is

--Sir Farquhar Buzzard Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, Re- gius Professor of Medicine at Ox- ford University, recently hinted sleepy village of 200 people, Mre of "stoppages," whereby, but ple at big changes in the organisa- Juck Lloyd, of Lythe Bank-cottages removed. This promise has not been |

heard the crescendo of its engines follled. The benefit to the soldier come over the hills by Ludlow.

by the time the complicated book- rear became a popping keeping arrangements of the Army and spluttering. Then she heard ave done their work is very smult the clatter of her husband dropping | his milking buckets.

tom and practice of medicine when he presented prizes at St.; 'Thomas's Hospital Medical School.

Their

Indeed.

The possible recruit is not impress- ted by the promise of better barracks Huhning to her door the glimpsed In a few years' time, nor is the ques-

"The old iden," he said, "of the doctor who knew all that there was a huge, camouflaged airplane as it ton of foreign service the bugbear wrong with the patient as soon as disappeared behind a bank.

It is made out to be. The only real mutter of interest is pay, the amount

amusements.

over

for his

he entered the room is rather faded, "Then," she said to me to-night from the pay which can be allocated "I think you will all agree that the "there Was Bn explosion that to the help of the soldier's family and day is past when any doctor can seemed to rock the coltage and althe amount he has

great piece of flame shut up." really work as an isolated unit,

"BRIBERY OR CORRUPTION "

"It is quite true that ut present ni

(Mr. Edwin Trim) inter-doctor in practice, is probably able rupted him,

by hook or by crook, ar by favour,

"I don't like the way you say or by bribery or corruption, to obtain

'my child,'" sald Mir. Trim. "Why most of the help he needs for his

A PLAIN ISSUE

**s of the 'plane were still flying fro2gh the air," said her husband to me.

The issue before Mr. Hore-Belisha "When the am-

The Regular Army is bulance arrived the men were told is a plain one. that some people had been killed.necessary as "Keeper of the King's but there were no bodies to be Peace" all over the Empire. Unless men can be attracted into the Army moved."

in sufficient numbers to make good Police, when they reached the wastage and bring the units up to don't you say 'our child." A baby patients, but that condition of things spot, found scattered bits of the strength the whole of our army sys

unsatisfactory, and certainly plane. "hardly enough to make atem will break down. A completu ro- perambulator," as one of them put organisation of the system will then it.

be the only remedy. "I believe that the whole organisa- Smith, Wimbledon Corporation emtion of medical services on a much Scraps of painted markings and Equipment without men is useless. ployee,

bud complained 10 the

two greater scale than ever before is notgures, pieces of cloth blown into To reorganise army pay so that on magistrates that during her

tree branches, were identified from efficient man can earn reasonable years married Wie her husband only imminent, but absolutely neces-the flight sheets as parts of one of wages as he does in the Navy and the all grounds--those of the planes of No. 10 Bomber Squad- Air Force will undoubtedly be a big!

ron, Bicester.

lask. It is, however, necessary.

Is a Joint aftale, isn't it?"

Doris Maud Smith, young und uneconomie. pretly wife of Thomas Edward

treated her like a servant.

anry

"He ordered me about the house efficiency and those of economy."

and was cruel when he did not like the meals I'got him,” she said.

Mrs. Smith applied for a separa-metrav tion, alleged persistent cruelty, and Raid she was afraid of her husband.

'TRY TO MAKE UP'

"I did not treat her as a slave" Smith said. "I respect my

Mr.

wife."

Mr. Trim suggested that the two should try to make up their differences.

"If he will change his ways I will go back to him," Mrs, Silih said.

Mr. Smith promised, the case was adjourned, and the two left court) together.

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