1938-01-05 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1938.

Famous Film Star Spends Her Honeymoon In Haunted Hollywood Home MIRIAM HOPKINS BUYS LOVE NEST

ONCE OWNED BY JOHN GILBERT

HOLLYWOOD.

LOVERS WILL LIVE AGAIN IN THE FAMOUS "LOVE NEST" OF JOHN GIL- BERT.

For nearly two years the great home built by John Gilbert, Hollywood's prince of lovers, has been descrted, a ghostly memorial to the dead star.

Now Miriam Hopkins and her director- husband, Anton Litvak, have bought it for their honeymoon.

They married in September. But since then both have been so hard at work in the stain that only now can they snatch a huncympion.

And they have chosen a palace of romance, in which to spend their first holiday together.

Miriam Hopkins and Anton Litvak wdl bring fe

to that dead house. But some people way that the ghosts of John Gilbert's loves have never left it.

They believe it is hauntest

Lovers, walking on the moonlit Beverly Hills, avoid

the house and grounds.

A LOVE SONG

Once a girl who was walking with the house had her Dance near sounds and ribed to the sheriff.

She told him that there were Hounds of music coming from the dark house. Someone was sing- ing a love song, accompanied by a guitar...

iler fance corroborated the story. But when the sherif went to the house he found nothing but Caled carpets nd red rose in a vase.

dust withered

An art that has been handed down through the venturies. Swedlsht women in Dalaine moulding Christ- mas candle.

In 1929 he married for the third time. His wife was Inn Cluve, the actress.. She divorced him in 1932.

In the same month as Bat divorce That, was all that remained of the!

Gilbert, the great he married Virginia Bruce, but that #ory of John

the marriage lasted less than two years. lover, once the greatest star of

CAREER WRECKED

xereca.

fils dark, Handsome Jack, with glistening; eye, was king of the im Retting Wan world 131 1928. He £2,000 a werk. He had succeeded Valentino as the great screen lover.

HIS ONLY FAILURE

But he was not only a screen lover. Passion ruled his life.

It was Gilbert who helped to make Greta Garbo the star she is to-day And he fell madly in love with her. ife had lowest inany women, be had been married and divorced twice, but Ciheln was the greatest love of his life.

He made love in her while they played opposite each other in "The Flesh and the Devil." Ife made love

to her off the set.

But Garbo, the exclusive, did not respond.

11 was Gilbert's only failure as an Irresistible lover, and he never forget

it.

And meanwhile Jack Gilbert had lost his position as the great screeni Jover, the Star of Hollywood,

He had a high-pitched voce, arul the talkies had wrecked his career.

Then Garbo, whom he had mare a 'star, gave him a new citance,

She insisted that Gilbert should play as her leading man in "Quern Christina."

the He recaptured some of thaim in that film, but it wa the great suceres of which he hat pinned his hopes.

When John Gilbert died, in January, 1936, he was a rich... fallure.

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And the "love nest"-in which he had lived was his silent memorial.

Miriam Hopkins and her Now husband have brought life and tovr and laughter into it again.

Dr. Gronin

Explains

"My Shipmate—

The King'

Warrant Engineer Herbert Rich, shipmate of the King, sunk into his chair on the terrace at the Star and Garter Home, Richmond, and gazed over the river.

He was smiling. The blue eyes, set in ruddy, wind- beaten cheeks, were gleaming with pleasure. Herbert Rich was happy.

Because he had met his shipmate again.

When he presented a bouquet of flowers to the Queen

at a concert for war-wounded soldiers and sailors, the King recognised him, remembered that they had been together in H.M.S. Collingwood, shook him by the hand.

And Warrant Engineer Rich, 64 years old, paralysed after being torpedoed, forgot his white hair, forgot his suffering, straightened up.

Back in the Star and Garter Home, the burly sailer talked in his soft voice of the days when he had salted with the King.

on H.M.S. "I was an engineer

ho told the Collingwood then,"

Sunday Chronicle. "The King was

a midshipman.

A WONDERFUL MOMENT

"Each midshipman had to undergo six weeks' engineering course and they pass an examination before could become second lieutenants,

"His Majesty was sent down below and it was my job to show him round and explain the various pieces of machinery to him.

"The King was a model pupil.

"I found high keen to learn every thing he could. He wanted to know all that could be known about the i engine raam.

New York.

Dr. A

J. Cronin, the novelist, to-day explained a statement attri-! luded to him that he was thinking of

coming an American citizen. Hela

: nicht----

."1 was talking about our fear of war in Europe, and mentioned that! Amerit was 1,700 miles away from; the possible seat of trouble, while we in England were separated from! the Content by a bare twenty-one, miles.

"Bering this in mind. 1 said that! if I weren't British I would certain-! ly like to be an American citizen, but I sold I was impossible for an Eng Tishman to overcome his affection for his own country. I shall come home at Christmas."

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"But suddenly His Majesty became ill with appendicitis and had to abandon the course temporarily,

"Still, he remembered me all right. ....Thai was Knew me at once

wonderful mument." Herbert Rich nodded and took off his glasses to wipe away a mist that had suddenly appeared on them.

Roosevelt's Message Discussed

London Opinion Not

Unanimous

Favourable U.S. Reception

London, Jan. 4. President Franklin Roosevelt's message to Congress formed prac

London Stock Exchange

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London, Jan. 4.

The Continent supported leading oils and diamonds on the London Stock Exchange to-day, while a SUS- tained advance in glit-edged stocks led to renewed talk of an Impending Government loan.

After opening steady. Royal Dutch Shelt and Transport eased sharply owing to disappointment in the in- terimi dividends, the former being six per cent. against the previous five. and the latter seven and a half per cent.. which was unchanged.

Commnedities and wheat were firm, and a good United Kingdom deniand for base metals Improved the after- noon session, in sympathy with Wall Street, which opened firm and more cheerful.-Reuters Special.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

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by the President are on the budget Handfontein Estates and also urging strengthening of the anti-Trust laws, with possibly a third submitting supplementary! But Niget estimates to rebuild the navy.

Mr. Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman, mais of the Federal Reserve Board, Shell Tears, estimates that the Board's Index Ogure for production

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|BRITISH ROYALTY TO ATTEND WEDDING

London, Jan. 4. The Duke and Duchess of Kent left London to-day for Athens where they will attend the wedding of

Prince Paul of Greece-Reuter.

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SHOPS ON CRUISE H.M.S. Medway and the Fourth Submarino Flotilin departed from Hongkong his morning on a southern eruise. The Flotilla and Mother Ship will "show the flag" In various ports, Including Manila,

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It will be at the

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