1937-11-23 — Page 7

Man Dresses As

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1937.

A Woman For Ten Days

The Secret of "Miss

Miss Edith Alice Gordon

Greatest

Of His

Ordeal Life

Whenever Louis de Wohl, novelist, film scénario writer, traveller, and astrologer, wants material for a story he adopts a disguise.

He has masqueraded as an Englishwoman sight- seeing in Berlin, as a blind man, as a bearded veteran of 71, and as an Arab in Cairo.

Son of a Hungarian nobleman and nephew of the famous conductor, Felix von Weingart- ner, he has made his home in

London for the past two years.

That charming 671, tall Wonde who caught your eye Bay netually have been 34-year-old~~ Louis de Wohl in disguise,

Before he sets out on a masiquerade Louis de Wohl always consulis bis stars. By studying astrological in- fluences he claims that he can tell whether any of his enterprises will succeed or end in disaster.

AN AWFUL FEELING Once he lived for 10 days as un Englishwoman in L Berlin hotel. His aim was to get impressions of Berlin life through the eyes of a

feminine visitor.

Nurse's Ghost

Haunts Hospital

Aldershot, Oct. 28. Guardsman Jock, lying in bed at; thr Cambridge Military flospital, hours of the

So "Miss Edith Alice Gordon," of woke in the small

murning. London, was born.

"I looked Into the mirror," he says, "and for second had the awful feeling that i did not exist more, that ап rnilreis nij different person had taken place.

Any

"The entirely different person was a blonde, and an unusually tall woman with fairly regular tealures.

"She was smart; all in black with a silver fox collar, big pearl earrings, a rather conspleuous bracelet, eye veil, red-lacquered inger nails."

wandered "Edith Alice Gordon" through the dangerous quarters of Berlin,

and mpoke to criminals women of the lowest type, found the men to be gallant and courteous.

DISGUISE SUCCEEDS These ten days as a woman, said Louis do Woll, were the greatest ordeal in his life.

Always he had the sickening feel ing that someone would see through his disguise. But no one dll.

On one occasion he adopted the disguise of an old man and travelled from Munich to Berlin.

On another occasion he deler- mined to get Inside the feelings of a blind man and went blind himself-for 24 hours-by firmly bandaging his eyes.

As an Arab in Cairo he attended secret seances and a "black magic" festival in which camels" were sacri- Diced.

Work as a Beenarlo writer for the U.F.A. Company In Germany brought him in contact with many famous film personalities, and in his book. "Follow the Stars," which has just been published by George Harran, he tells of meetings with Fritz Lang, Conrad Veldt, Emil Jannings and Lillun Harvey.

Boy With

A Skull

Like Paper

How a boy with skuli in places no thicker than paper died after a plece of clay had been thrown at his head was told at a Rochford (Essex) Inquest re- cently,

He was 10-year-old George Harold Andrews, of Hockley.

Verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

The accident occurred wear the playground at Rayleigh Senior School. Dr. L. Bond, pathologist. after mentioning

boy's "abnormally thin sict," said if

the injury had been diagret

carlier an operation might have saved bla Kfo,

i

The window above his bed was open and the rain was Tashing in.

He got up to close the window, but it jammed. Jock Jooked round and saw a Sister come from the door of Ward 18.

Ele called to her and asked her to She did help him close the window,

not answer.

Guardamba Jork told the strange story next mornitut

Without a word the Sister 111

morning duly fetched a plsatograph, Jock recognised 11 as a picture of the woman he had seen in the night, She was a Sister who had jumped

window in to her death from t Ward 18 several years ago ... 9HATTERED ROMANCE

Here is the story. A few years ago attractive Slater M. was in charge of Ward 18.

She became engaged to a patient--

soldier in i Lancashire regiment.

He was drafted to India, but wrote her regularly. Then his letters slopped. Ite had died of. typhold.

beneath

Technical demands of television witt caur actors to 10- semble green and yellow gargoy jes, though th.y'll look Santo enough in receiving rets, Above Demard Shore applles weird. colours to Betty Grable, in Hollywood.

GIRL'S CLAIM AGAINST FARR FAILS

1

After hearing medical evidence, Bridgend (Glamor- gan) magistrates recently-stopped the case in which 23-year-old shop girl sought an affiliation order against Tommy Farr, the British and Empire heavyweight boxing champion.

The girl, Miss Clarice Mary Switen. lives at Porth- cawl.

Hundreds of people, many of them from the boxer's home town, Tonypandy, and adjacent villages, failed to gain admission to the court.

RADIO BROADCAST

Tenor Recital from Studio By Gaston D'Aquino ROTARY CLUB SPEECH

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 356 metres (845 .c's.) 31.40 metres (9,52 m.c's.).

11.K.T.

12.00-12.30 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 A song by Milica Korjus (Soprano).

Shadow Song (Dinoral-Meyer- beer).

12.38. Schubert-Moments Must- caux Nos. 10.

Played by Ethel Leginska (Pluno). 1.00 Local Time Signal and Wen- ther Report.

1.03 New Light Symphony Or chestra.

Two Symphonic Rhapsodies (Eric Coates); 1. I pitch my lonely Cara- van; Bird! Songs at Eventide I heard you singing: Ineldental Musie to Aury Rose (O'Neill); 1 Call of the Island and Interlude: 2. Prelude

Cull; and

Policeman's Holiday (Ewing); Pornde Of The Tin Soldiers In The Strand

(Jessel); Handel

(Grainger).

1.30 Reuter

and Rugby. Press; Local Weather Forecast and An- nouncements,

1.40 telay of the Rotary Timin Speech from the Roof Garden of the Speaker: Prof. Hongkong Hotel. -Erwin Reifler, Doctor of Political Selence of the University of Vienna, and Professor at Chiselung Univer alty in Shanghai. Subject: "The Man who Invented the Chinese Charac ters."

2.15 Cluse Down.

4-7 pm. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m. European Programme. .7.00. Light Opera.

Les Cloches De Corneville-Over- Jure (Planquette); La Fille De Ma- daine Angot Overture (Lecocq.). Paul Kerby: A Country Girl-Vocal Vienna Symphony Orchestra cond: Gems..,Columbia Light Opera Com- pany with Orchestra: Chu Chin Chow Sélection.. Gaumont British Or-

Loulu Levy, chestra cond:

7.25 Kreisler (Violin). Indian Lament; Slavonic

No. 3 In G Major (Dvornic).

Dance

7.33 Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

7,38

Shaw (Plano).

They watched the arrival of Farr, to put the matter in the hands of my (Tenor) accompanied by who had motored from Carditt. He solicitors?" sat at the solicitors table.

Miss Sweiten: No, sir.

Two weeks later she went to the window by the bed in Ward 18, in Mr. Dapho L. Powell, for Miss Mr. Davies: Did Farr say, "It is an which her dance hud slept. They |Switen, said that on Wednesday, I awful thing that if a tran has a little found her dead 011 the ground November 4, lust year, a dance was success, he should be blamed for held at Keng Tiili, a mining village something he has not done?"-No. hear Bridgend. There were aboutį vir. 1500 people prezent, a double attraction

being Santos Cusini, the dancer and allegation against Fair only after he She denied that she brought the Tommy Farr.

and won his fights with Max Buer and-Ben-Foord. She said she knew:

But the soldiers who are in the Cambridge Hospital say that Sister M never left Ward 18.

Call for 1,000 More Warders

staffed.

nothing about boxing and was not in ferested in it.

Studio-Gaston D'Aquino E, O'Nell

1. Il Sogno ('Manon'-Massenet); 2. Ch'ella mi creda ('La fanciulla del West-Puccini);

Marcchinre (Tosti); 4, Prechlera (Tosti); 6. When Daisies Pled (Arne); 6. Pri- cesito (Padilla)

3.

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Albert Sandler and His Or- chestra,

-La-Tosca-Fantasio (Puccini-art.

-"DANCED TOGETHER” ~----- Farr sent a message la Miss Switen

E. Tovan); Down In The Forest (Sir L. Ronald); Play Of Butterflies and during the remainder of the

(Jonny Heykens); Fairy Tale (Jonny evening, they danced together. Later She had gone out with another Heykens), in the evening he drove her home to young man, but not at the time when i 8.15 London Relay From These Porthcawl in als car,

she was meeting Farr.

Beginnings. There was some fondling in the Dr. A. Evans, a Cardiff specialist, A Pageant of Radio by William car, and Farr stepped on the way and said that the circumstances described Fitzmaurice Hill Production by the two stood for half an hour nearby the girl were consistent with the foward Rose.

11 He premature birth of

9,00 London child. a gate, embracing each other.

RelayAn Organ Recital. Mr. Davies said he would take a look her home and they parted.

It was clear

9.30 London Relay-The Newa. There was no auggestion of intimacy short cut In the case.

9.50

Selections that if he could prove that the baby

from Wagner's on this ocension.

On the

the following evening. Mr. Was a nine-months child no other Powell said, Farr drove her in his car

evidence but that of the doctor need Tannhauser'-Dich Teure Halie.... from Porthcawl to his flat at Peny-be called.

Elisabeth Rothberg (Soprano) and the Berlin State Opern Orchestra; remained there for two She

'Lohengrin'-Prelude, Act 3....Lon hours, and it was alleged

that

raig.

"A CHUBBY 'CHILD”

Operas.

Prison Governors and warders are intimacy took place for the first time, Dr. A. W. John, assistant doctor at don Symphony Orchestra; "The Val- Valkyries.... complaining to the home secretary It was also alleged that on the Bridgend Infirmary, said he wouldlkyrie'-Ride Or The that prison are dangerously under-following Sunday he took her to his describe the child when it was born Symphony Orchestra: Wotan's Fare- They ask for at least another 1,000 flat and Sutimacy ngala took place as a chubby, plump little girl. There well and Magle Fire Music..... Rudolf Bockelmann (Bass-Baritone) On June 10 Swilen

gave birth was no doubt that was u normal

and e Berlin State Opera Orches- They say that warders are having that it was prematurely born.

female child, and her case was Similar evidence was given by Dr. Sellg; Gotterdammerung

tra; "Tristan und Isolde Wie Sle to work long hours, leave is being Miss Switen, in the witness box, Jeffery Jones and Nurses Lucas and hide! Heilige Brau!! cancelled, and that many men have said she and Farr knew each other O'Brien, to work week-ends as well as during when children together in Tonypandy, the week,

warders.

The strain of looking after bl numbers of prisoners--sometimes dangerous ones-tells on their health, they

say, "Smuggler forbidden articles into prisons and of letters from prisoners Lo accomplices outside is on the increase.

There is no question of a warders strike. That is forbidden by their contracts.

Camera

Το

A master of the school said U Pierce Fog

when Andrews was brought to him

there was no sign of injury, apart from a small bump on, the head."

The Jury stated that they con-

aldered a doctor should be called uri

Is Tried Out

John L. Baird, televiston Inventor,

a child sent home after an keeldent has invented an "intra-red camera"

at school.

Prison Bell Offered

which he hopes will beat the menace of fox to transport.

He plans to adapt it to trains, ale craft, and motor-cars.

The gont which he is now reaching is the result of ten years' research.

"My device is quite simple," Mr. Baird told the press.

to

school.

nine-inonthe child.

The chairman (Captain W.

-Bruno- (Siegfried's Death)....Lauritz Melchior (Tenor) it.and the London Symphony Orchestra,

10.20 Light Orchestral. Christmas Overture (Coleridge- Taylor); Lane Wilson Melodies.... Symphony Orchestra cond: Dr. Mai- colinn Sargent; Ballad Memories.... New Mayfair Orchestra (with Voca- lists).

but she had not seen him for about Llewellyn) said there seemed no 14 years. They attended the same point in pursuing the case in vlew of the medical evidence, und the bench hud decided that the summons should be denied

After telling of the birth of the child, she said that on May 7 she telephoned Farr and he wanted to

cow what it was about.

She told him she had been with He him in Penygraig in November.

said he did not remember anything about it, but promised to see her and they met at Porthcawl.

Farr said to her: "What is all this kettle of fish you are bringing on?” and she said he was responsible for her condition. He then sald: "I am engaged to be married. It will ruin my lappiness,"

He then said: "Let's get down to business," and asked how much money she wanted. She did not reply as she was too upset.

He told her mother that she was bringing his naine into the gutter.

"GIRL'S DENIAL '

Cross-examined by Mr. Joshua Davies, representing Farr, the girl denied that when she asked a nurse- at the hospital if it was a premature child, the nurse replied: "No, it was not." She said the nurse told her she did not know,

the

WAS

Owen Nares

Robbed

of £400

been

Jewellery worth £400 has taken from the London house of Mr. Owen Nares, the actor, by a "ent" burglar who entered by climbing to balcony and through a window.

Among the stolen articles are gold trinkets given to Mr. Nares by his mother, who died recently.

"They include a gold locket with a picture of my mother." Bald Mr. Narcs, "and a pendant which my mother often wore."

Somerton, Ariz. Rev. Lloyd D. Wells, pastor of the

"Intra-red rays are taken from an She denied telling one of the nurses First Baptist church, is looking for

ordinary Incantescent lamp, with the at the hospital Dini when a final resting place for Arizona's other light rays filtered out. How- "business" was all over she famour 01-year-old territorial prison ever thick the fog, an image of any going to open a hairdressing saloon. bell. It is closely connected with thing in the direction of which, the the history of Arizona and should camera is pointing is thrown on n

ground gloss sercon." Interested in interest some person

The device has alreally been filed to Farr, "We are going to blame you taken them to send them back na collecting and preserving state land- to the bridge of nship. It has for this," and did Farr reply, "This is they are of great sentimental value marits, the pastor said.

proved successful.

a case of blackmall, and I am going to me.".

"BLACKMAIL"

Mr. Davies: Did your mother

"T

am greatly distressed at the

suy loss, and I appeal whoever has

10.30 New Dance Musle,

Fox-Trots So Rare; My Cabin Of Dreams...Roy Fox and His Orches- tra (with Vocal Refrain); Moon At Sea; Wallz-You Needn't Have Kept It A Secret....Ronnie Munro and His Orchestra (with Vocal Refrain); Fox-Trots-I Never Knew.

Don't

You Care What Anyone Says.. Teddy Foster and His Kinga Swing: Fox-Trots-I Know. Now (film The Singing Marine'); Yours And Mine. (Alm 'Brandway Melody of 1938). Itoy Fox and is Or- chestra (with Vocal Refrain],

11,00 Close Down,

DAVENTRY PROGRAMME

7.20 a.m. Plantation Songs.

730 am. "Tobacco." A feature pro-

gramme by Stephen Paiter. Ga.m. The Symphontes of Beethoven-

7. The NBC Empire Orchestra. 0.40 nm. The News and Announcements, Greenwich Time Signal at 0.45 am. (Continued on Page 5.)

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