1938-04-19 — Page 7

THE

TUESDAY, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

APRIL 19, 1938.

Rebel Daughter of Queen Victoria, 90.

Has Quiet Birthday

SHE IS OLDEST MEMBER OF

ROYAL FAMILY

London.

FEW people realise that in the seclusion of Ken- sington Palace there lives a daughter of Queen Victoria who celebrated her ninetieth birthday this month.

She is Princess Louise, the old Queen's eldest surviving child and the oldest member: of the Royal Family.

Owing to her great age she will celebrate her birthday on Friday next very quietly at the Palace, her mother's birthplace.

She, herself, was one of the few babies born at Buckingham Palace.

HER "TREAT"

receive

There will be no party on Friday, and the Princess will

no visitors except close relatives, but hundreds of letters and greetings are already arriving from her friends, One of her birthday treats will be enjoying the view over Kensington Gardens which the recent sunshine has made exceptionally gay for the time of year.

"Dear Mamma's" wishes are still respected in many small matters at Kensington Palace.

been

more

There has never staunch upholder of the dignity of the Crown than Princess Louise, though she is the most unconven- tional member of her family.

"May I summon your car, ma'am?” she was asked one day.

"No, thanks," she replied, "I'll take a tax), You see, Satur- days the car goes to Frogmore to fetch the week-end vegetables, so

I just manage without."

All last autumn she was as vigor-

AELIM

THE NAVY STARTS ITS OWN HOLLYWOOD AT SEA

ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY,

pus as ever, and though she has now THE BRITISH NAVY has opened a school on Whale Island, Portsmouth, to train their own photographers und been persunded to take life a little cine cameramen. The picture shows some pupils outside the school with a few of the many types of cameras

used by the salior photographers. inore restfully her interests are still active.

She has always composed her own speeches, writes many letters her seif, and gives personal attention to all those which she receives.

A PAINTER

with

Her brother, the eighty-eight- It has been her pleasure to main-

vast correspondencé year-old Duke of Connaught, hastain a orranged to cali at Kensington with overseas friends and to send seasonal his birthday offerings before leave greetings to the various regiments ing for his country

of which she is colonel-in-chief. Bagshot.

residence

Princess Louise was a beauty in her youth and is still one of the best-looking members of the royal fumily.

BORN IN '48

portrait to She has sat for her famous artists. Including Winter-: halter, yet she hates being photo- graphed and boasts that she is the Princess who is never recognised.

Formerly she would travel the

Carapbell, Continent as Mrs. attended and unknown.

Born in '48, "the year of European she was a pioneer among revolt," rebel daughters.

50,000 Cheer Mothers-

In-Law In Texas

New York.

FOUNDED on the remorse of a local newspaper editor,

Even regular visitors to Ken- sington Gardens seldom know that the statue of Queen Victoria1 which stands there is the work

whose version of the mother-in-law joke made a

of Princess Louise, who is also an friend's wife's mother cry, Texas is celebrating to-day its

accomplished painter.

She has often exhibited ot Scot- tish exhibitions, and has until re- cently been engaged in completing

water colours in her studio,

The Princess has always taken an un-interest in domestic affairs, and

Again and again she has been the first royal lady to make some par- ticularly democratic gesture.

She was the first Princess of the Blood for many generations lo marry out of the royal circle.

It was with great reluctance that Queen Victoria gave her consent to her

marriage with a daughter's

Di Lorne. commoner, the Marquis afterwards Duke of Argyli.

"DEAR MAMMA"

It was this marriage

which sel

the precedeni which has been fol- lowed as recently as the wedding of fie present Duke of Gloucester.

Mother-in-law Festival.

The day is thus designated by proclamation of Governor James Allred.

Cheered by huge crowds, 500 mothers-in-law drove through the streets of Amarillo.

WOOD CARVING TAUGHT hud a habit of drawing Ittle designs to show the cook how a dish was to

BERKELEY, Cal-Wood carving look when finished.

is undergoing such veritable One of her greatest distinctions renaissance, especially in the western Is that she is among the few women states where fine woods are cheap, living or dead who were admired by that the University of California hes Carlyle, who thought her "uncom-Inaugurated a wood carving course monly pretty, and clever too."

for adults.

YOUNG COUPLE WERE DRUG AGENT VICTIMS

A young Mayfair wife of twenty-nine has learned that the agent of a West End drug trafficking ring, who plan ned revenge on herself and her husband by "planting"

Mrs. Roosevelt, first lady in the United States, and herself a mother- in-law, was among the spectators of the five-mile-long parade.

Eva

RADIO BROADCAST

Turner (Soprano) From the Studio

ROTARY SPEECH

Radio Programine Broadcast by

0.52 m.c.'s. per second.

B.W. on Frequencies of 845 it.c.'s,

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of

Intercession from 51. John's Cathe-

drol.

12.30 Songs by Raymond Newell (Baritone).

Let Me Love You To-Night (Grey, Waller and Tunbridge); Here's To Life (Talbot and Atitinson); Man- dalay (R. Kipling and C. Willeby).

12.40 Now Light Symphony Orches- tra,

Buffoon (Confrey); Liebesiruume (Liszt); Kamennoi-Ostrow-Op. 10, No. 22 (Rubinstein): "La Boheme" Selection.

10 Time and Weather.

PLEA FOR SYMPATHY Later the wife of the President made a speech extolling mothers-in- law and pleading on their behalf for greater sympathy.

Amarillo describes itself

as the "centre of the mother-in-law belt."

contrite,

sentimental editor The con started the iden; it then swept the whole State, and this year 50,000 visitors were attracted to the town to-day for the "biggest ever" cele-Accordion Band; A Little Ramble In Greta bration of the festival.

Springtime With You.....

"On

With The Show" Accordion Band; The

Me On Was

(Strachey, When

Learn French Greta Keller: Six

THE EMBLEM

1.03 Greta Keiler and Primo Scala's Accordion Band.

Six Hits Of The Day, No. 14....

Keller

Its sponsors are pained by efforts Selection.....

Carter); beautiful thought behind the porade, Carter to make commercial capital from the Laugh

(Thomson).

dion Band.

and are coming down heavily on drug Hits Of The Day No. 16..... Accor

stores, offering mothers-in-law Tree

sodas.

Bomb Comedy drugs on them, has done no more than ruin all their hopes ice-cream ou're stirred by the men-

on King's Tour

of prosperity in their early married life.

The revenge had failed in its main object-sending her husband to

A "bomb," which turned out prison.

to be two pairs of socks, greatly Mrs. Brenda Clement heard with amused the King when he visit-rellef that her twenty-nine-year-old ed the Earl's Court section of husband, Robert Edward the British Industries Fair, says had won an appeal at

a correspondent.

Pawned Infant

Cement To Buy Drugs

ARBARA BOARD, pretty, young globe-trotter, Is Just back in Britain after amazing adventures! among drug addicts.

the London Sessions against sentence of three months' hard labour for possessing When the Queen went to Earl's 110 grains of heroin, Court on Monday, she ordered the

His partner in a West End club socks a new kind, which need

Brookins, coloured suspender for the King. The in- Thomas Robert

Miss Board lived in the home of a ventor of the socks, Mr J. Nichol, singer, who had also been sentenced, peasant family in a little Egyptian decided to present them personally. also won his appeal. Both men were vilage.

With a cardboard box under his awarded fteen guineas costs.

arm, he took up his position on a DISTRIBUTION OF DRUGS

gangway.

him

Suddenly

he found him-

"One night my landlord, thinking

I was asteep, came to the dour of This house, undid a mysterious little book

self surrounded by pollee, who asked | "Bob⚫ opened his dining and, white packet, and toolt out a tiny

to step outside and show them billiards club in the West End in steel dogger," she writes in

November" explained Mrs. Clement on her experiences, just published. what the box contained.

L

Mr.

Nichot stepped out. There was to the Daily Express. "I backed it moment of letise expectation. Mr. with £1,000. We hoped to mukej Nichol whipped off the lid of the box £2,000 a year, and a month later we --disclosing the socks. Apologies married. followed.

"I watched him bend his head over the paper, then saw with amazement that he was making. an incision in his left arm.

"It was about 3in. long and fairly

"We found that a certain man was deep, and must have pained him Hurrying back to his place in the gangway, Mr. Nichol met the King, using the club, as we suspected, for considerably, but he did not cry out. presented the socks, and told him distributing drug supplies to West He just prised it open with the knife as if he had been used to doing it every night,

POWDER ON Knife

what had happened

cd with laughter.

The King roar-

End ellents.

"When we cleared him out he said,

"The police seemed to think I had get even, if it's the last thing

"I saw some white powder Jash

ubamb, Mr. Nichol sald to me later. do. Get as much as you can out of on the blade of the knife, then "The King was immensely amused. the club mud get out.'

He said: 'If you will stand about with| a box, you must expect to collared","

Fred Perry In Airport Scene

Miami, Florida.

bel

Fred Perry, the tennis star, was nearly left behind when he arrived

at the airport here to-day with

watched him inserting the powder Then the police, who had received into the open wound. He was taking

Ja telephone call from Paris, came to

the club. They found a registered)

heroin.

"Stranger sill," she goes on, "whe the story of the father who bought

envelope containing packets of cocaine for ten plastres (two shill- powder addressed to myself and my ings), leaving

his baby

with the

husband, and another to Brookins. seller until he should bring the "They had been sent from Paris, money. It was 15 days before he

returned to redeem the child." Bob and Brookins were arrested.

TRIED TO INVOLVE WIFE "A week later, when the person in

Ellsworth Vince and others en route Paris found that I had not been

revenue officer.

GENE TUNNEY IS WORRIED

for Nassau, Bahamas. All because arrested, he sent another letter to me

New York. of an argument with a United States alone, counting on the fact that the

Gene Tunney, ex-heavy- police would probably be watching DOOR

weight champion of the world, "That letter said, 'Give me new ad- cannot knock out the shadow of his

Allens leaving the United States.

vious year's payment, and Perry is

our mail.

P.S.-If you're

tal picture of this Texan festival, and wish to salute your own mother-in-

the correct gesture law.

is to send her sweet peas.

They were selected as their em- blem for the day by the vote of Amarillo mother-in-law 'clubs.

and Rugby Press, 1.30 Reuter Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Rotary Tin Speech relayed from the Roof Garden of the long- kang Hotel,

2.15 Close Down,

6.0-7.0 Chinese Programme. 7.0 Dance Music.

It's

Fox-Trots Goody-Goody; Been So Long (From The Great

JAP. SWORD FOR Ziegfeld'). Benny Goodman and

DICTATORS

with

by

His Orchestra, vocal refrain Helen Ward; Rumba; Fox-Trot-L Cucaracha; Tango-A Media Luz. Orchestra Tipien Roberto Firpo vocal refrain: Fox-Trois-The Jester; The Tea Dolls' Parade..... Bravour Dance Orchestra; Slow Fox- Trot-A Little Bit Independent; Will Carroll Love

Find

Way. A

the

Hotel Savoy Gibbons an

and Orpheons with vocal chorus: Waltzes Raisins And Almonds; Rehearsing

A Lullaby. .... Phil Green and His

Rhythm with vocal chorus,

7.30 Closing local Stock 7:30

tlons.

7.32 Variety.

Quota-

Vocal-Peter's Pop Keeps A Lol!!- Cow-Hand pop Shop; I'm An Old From The Rio Grande,... The Rocky Mountaineers accomp, by The Bunk House Boys; Banjo Solo- White Rose (Oaldey); Tony (Oakley). .... Olly Oakley (Banjo) with plano Tumble Vocal-Tumblingt necomp.; Weeds (Nolan); Going Home. Jack Savage and His Cowboys; Liners Of Variety NovellyTop

ered by John Watt), Time, Weather and Announce-

ments.

8.03 Bizet-87mphony No. 1 In C Major.

Played by The London Philhar- Orchestra conducted by

HERR HITLER and Signor Mus-monic solini will be presented with Jap- Walter Goehr. anese sverds by the Young Men's

£36 8.3B Studio-A Recital by Eva (Soprano) accompanied by Federal Association et Japan la com- { Turn A. Lafford (Planol.

memoration of the Three Power

Convention between the countries. 1. Reelt. and Alr: No more shall The picture shows the sword design armed Bands; Beneath the Vine.....

ed for Hilter,

From Solomon (1748)-(Handel); 2. Pastoral. (arr. Lang Wilson); 3. Over The Mountains, (arr. Quieter); 4. Plano Solo-Lindsay A. Lafford; 5. Spring's Arrival, (Schumann); 6. (Continued on Page 4.)

CAT UPSET THE POLICE FORCE

must have paid income tax duo or dress quick. Contact is bad. Jones' own reputation in the ring. It fol-

Santa Rosa, Cal. have pasted a bond equal to the pre-It meant nothing and the trick didn't lows him everywhere.

An automatic burglar alarm Село

is head of a distillery com-

the police to make an un- alleged to have refused to comply work. The police did not arrest me. with these regulations.

"When Brookins and my husband pany in Los Angeles, but everywhere enabled

with the same trouble.

and gas masks, the

police staff Eventually when Perry threatened were convicted that was the end of his to sell spirits he meets usual catch here. Seizing their guns to board the machine the airline everything.

People aren't interested in what rushed to the building indicated and officials said that they would be

"The club is shut up, we have the I think about the drinks," he com- cautiously working their way in dis- forced to refuse his passage, Then premises on our hands for three years plained. "It's chances in the ring covered a cat attempting to pull the Ellsworth Vines solved the problem and we are ruined,

they're worried about. They'd much carcass of a rabbit through the aky "I think I'vo suffered most through sooner know what I think about light. The rabbit's body had broken by guaranteeing Perry's return to

and Louis Central one of the contact wires, setting off the United States, and also his in-this. It's been awful. And now-Schmeling

the alarm. come tax.

[filter guineas costs, that's all."

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SKULLS MAKE RAIN

New York.

Indians in Dakota have regained two human skulls which years ago; their tribo possessed to bring rain. The Indians believe that the skulls belonged to "spirits" who visited earth in human form.

Directly a missionary took the akulls from the tribe 30 years ago the rainfall fell by several inches every year.

And it has remained low since.

Ever

DEANNA DURBIN

in a Now Universal Picture

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