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THE HÔNGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY,

OCTOBER 22, 1937.

Author of "Love On The Dole" Has A Plan TO BE THE MODEL HUSBAND

Weds To-day, Aims

Perpetual

At

Love Affair"

. (By Constance Forbes)

London, Sept. 23.

PEARL OSGOOD, the twenty-five-year-old Ameri- can comedienne who becomes the bride of play- wright Walter ("Love on the Dole") Greenwood at Caxton Hall this afternoon, is booked to have the World's Most Perfect Husband.

Walter Greenwood is starting off with more Grand Theories about marriage than any woman is entitled to expect.

me about them yesterday in a state of ecstray.

After "Love on the Dole" be-1

Camo a

London success two

years ago he became engaged to the girl who inspired it. Alice dairy Myles.

Manchester EL ninageress. A few monthal Inter he paid her £700 damages to settle the breach of promise suit she brought against him.

In an article published in the Daily Express be wrote:

"Love is not for everybody; on the contrary,! Its for the very select few,"

Yesterday e elaborated on love All further.

"Love is the most important thing in anybody's life. When two prople arr as certain

дл Any

'mortals can be, the thing to do is

Intol

to hold your breath, Jump marriage and ant take too mucti

for granted of one another.

"Marriage ought to be a perpetual affair. The little attentions

Pay march

love

should not be forgotten.

heed to the smaller and delightful|

things.

"IF YOU'VE ROMANCE

IN YOUR HEART

"Marriage needs constant

Hon.

זיי

utten-

He told

This continuous-feed typewriter is being demonstrated at the Business in London. Efficiency Exhibition The machine has many new technical

believe in romance. It you have romance in your heart 1 don't think you can go far wrong... gadgets and to judge from the girl's "From what I see among a ver- face it must be a pleasure to type tain set of people, in Mayfair they on it. think romance is a thing to be laughed at. I never want to be England on Monday.

among such people.

We applied

I don't want for the marriage licence on Tuesday and we are going to be married to- I never did." any mere Mayfair. Mr. Greenwood and Miss Osgood cow

"We shall not go away until the

are staying at present in on pari-end of October. Then we are off to ment house in Ebury-street.

"April 2, 1936, was the first day

got terribly interested in Pearl. We had known each other a few weeks, and we had been asked to a swagger party in New York.

"When we arrived, there were so many people I said, 'Let's go one- where else. We set off by ourselves to our own party.

"We went to a quiet little place called the Russian Eagle in the Plaza lotel. We latened all the evening to a man playing Chopin on an Eng lish concertina. It was the kind of evening you like to re-live,

HONEYMOON IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

"Pear]

being

the south fo France.

To-day I am so exclled with everybody coming along with con- of moments In gratulations. super-Intelligence I say to myself that I ought to be able to control myself, but I can't help it. I have not done any work to-day, and I don't think I shall to-morrow. "I am halfway through the first Pearl, In the straight play for

meantime the bus a lot of work to do for me, typing, proof-reading and general factotum.

MUST A WIFE

RISK LIFE FOR HUSBAND

WOMAN'S "NO" TO LEPER ISLE

HOW

London; Sept. 23.

OW far, should a wife obey her husband's wishes? Should she follow him "to the ends of the earth" even if she thinks it may endanger her life?

Separation or life on the threshold of a leper colony

are the alternatives facing a wife of 29, and recently she made her final choice-separation.

I

The wife, Mrs. Rhoda Southern. Her husland, Mr. Robert South-

of Glastonbury-avenue, Mar-

ton, Blackpool, în May obtain ed a fi a-week maintenance order against-

ern, aged 29, who is super- Intendent of a leper island in the Straits Settlements. . He offered her a luxurious bun- galow, a car, and a motor- launch. -

During the week-end news reached England that the Penang

The Reverend Harold Wilde, who acts as chaplain, doctor, dentist, en- Alm and" railo operntor, gineer, schoolmaster and electrician on the British Island Tristan of Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean, is visiting London. The pleture shows him (at right) packing the many gifts he has received for the islanders from the British Royal Family among others.

Handshakes As State Hands Back

The Abbey

London, Sept. 23.

magistrates have refused to enforce the maintenance order on the BEHIND the locked doors

ground that Mrs. Southern was unreasonable in declining to go to Penang to see what conditions were like.

Yesterday a reporter broke to, Mrs. Southern the news of the Penung decision.

"1 CANNOT CO"

"Would you cut yourself off from the world to go and live among 1,000 lepers for the rest she asked of your life?"

go to him simply "I cannot there.

of Westminster Abbey yesterday a series of silent handshakes ended the last chapter of the greatest He said the work would last for Coronation period in its

"TERRIBLY CRUEL" -

10 years, and he would have eight months' love in three years' time."

"It is terribly cruel, I shall not see him for at least two years, and If he contracts the discase he will have to stay there for the rest of his and and we are man life. wife.

long history.

of

The Sub-Dean and members the Chapter assembled in the dimiy- nave with high officials of the Office of Works.

the

It was to hear the report of Sir the Charles Peers, Surveyor to Fabric, on the 'dismantling of "Unreasonable, the Penang magis- Abbey of its Coronation setting.

that

this small group of Abbey me. Heartbroken, des- trates call

and Governinent oficials un-Conons am I being the pairing, yes; but

unreasonable? Is there any woman mel. in England who would sacrifice her! chances of happiness of living

life-to such terrible normal end?"

"My husband has never offered to provide me 13 home outside settlement All along he has want- ed me to live in the bungalow there. I have asked him why we could not live in Perang so that he could go to the settlement every day, but he has never agreed to that."

"A year ago I was so happy. My husband was due to come back to England in March. I was buying clothes for him, longing to see him again.

"It was January 1935 when he last left me and went abroad to his job as a Navy laboratory technician. We were expecting to go to Capetown shortly after his return to Plymouth. I would have liked that-I would have gone anywhere in the world with him except where he is now,

"Then a year ago he bought his

"My mother will not be at the wedding, just one or two friends."

Mr. Greenwood thirty-three.discharge and cabled me to say that

13

with all his illusions intact. hard-headed favor

has been in New York comes her people. She landed in shire.

And he Lanca-

he had got his present job. I wrote, begging him not. to take it on, but it was too inte.

Wis

Sir Charles Peers bact surveyed the whole of the Abbey's Interior, found that its age-old walls. Its priceless stained windows, did not bear the slightest scratch

'Mr. Southern told the Penang court that he had often written to

And so the tension of nearly nine while the Abbey-most his wife imploring her to come to months, Malaya, but she had refused until satred edifice in the Empire-has receiving the maximum Leen in the hands of carpenters,

and he

engineers,

girder. uncient salary, which would not be for 20 wiremen,

erectors, was lifted. The 'years,"

Abbey went back once more to its custodians, the Dean and Chapter, just the same as I was before the

THEY THINK

Here are two opposing views on the wife's choice.

Miss Cheely Hamilton, the writer and Tuninist!A life of luxury---a motor-car, and a motor-boat would he little compensation to Mrs. Southern If she lived in a constant state of terror. In my opinion, she should, however, go to Malaya at ence, nnd, if conditions were not

work of preparing it for the Corona- tion began.

suited to her, she could return-to- England."

Glyn, the famous novelist: Elinor

"No peril in the world should keep A woman from the side of the mais she loves,

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