1938-05-26 — Page 3

JESSE MATTHEWS LOSES

HER MOTHER

The Best Friend She Ever Had

By H. W. SEAMAN

While thousands of film-goers laughed at and with Jessie Matthews in "Gangway," her mother was dying in a London nursing home.

SO TRAGEDY HAS COME ONCE MORE INTO THE LIFE OF THE MERRIEST OF FILM STARS.

She has hind her share of It. Over and over again sad shadows have cut across the life of this girl who seemed to have been born for sunshine.

Her baby died. A little later long illness brought Jessie herself almost to denth's duor.

And now her mother, who saw her dance her first steps in the kitchen of their fat in Soho, who watched over her as she climbed ench perilous step

I fine, is dead, and omething of Jessie' self is gone fran de world.

All through her life Jesule Matthews has stayed close to her family.

DAILY PILGRIMAGE

Though she has climbed to the heights of fame on the stage at the screen, her heart has been in the London street where she was bu: 21 For weeks Jessie Matthews has fought for her mother's We. She called in Lord Horder, the King's physletan, and Mr Lawrenev Abel, the famous surgeon, in the hope of saving ber.

Twice every day Jestie has gone from her Hampton Pourt home, to he mother's bedside. Usually the has called for her father on the way

11 in not many years suver George Matthewn, her father, was "George the fruiterer" in that crowded streets of shops and stats known Market, ond since Jessie was a little girl dancing round a street organ.

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singe people there mant ive bees imelight in their blood, for five of Jessie's six sisters and one of her four brothers were destined to go on the stage.

Jessie herself, while she was a Hitle girl, used to skip her homework to spral he, nights at Sotley's Well: *Theatre

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Hollywood's Inferior Productions

New York Sommel Childwyn, the well known titre producer and head of the United

Corporatlim, on returning | Artists" From Europe denounced Hoby w and unferior picture making

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father and mother first." stage.

And it went on, until her sangy When Andre Charlot, the famous ang of "A Room With a View" in Noel printuces, suw her fest she was fan-Choward's "This Year of Gitare mule interesting-looking child with big everybody take note of her as more

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than a jeremulsing young performer.

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Cochran's. But I was over with her mother. Chalot who picked her first (rom a When her baby died Jesse Mat- group of chorus girls during an nudi-thews and her husband, Sonnie Hale. tion at the Vaudeville Theatre,

Tried to 31ll the gap in the lives by Chartet did not know where she adopting a baby girl came favm, but he could see that she was going a long way.

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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB?

Scientists Say That 60 Answers Will Tell

By RICHARD JONES

Do you believe that a Beethoven sonata is of greater value than jazz? Are you certain that a leisured class is necessary to maintain art and culture ?

Or are you one of those people who think red is more popular than blue but aren't quite sure about it?

You may think these questions a waste of time--but on the strength of the answers to them, and 57 others like them, may hang the happiness of thousands of young men and women.

The National Institute of Industrial Psychology is putting those questions to people in all walks of life because it believes the results will prove useful for vocational guidance purposes.

The institute wants to discover the ways in which persons with the same job resemble one another and the ways in which they differ from people in other occupations.

And so a piquant questionnaire is bring sent out to find the secu- pallonal differences between the ductor. The teacher, artisan, the typist, the married woman, and so

Certain diferences, of course, arti obvious, but there are psychologenl respects which can determine success

future of an individual career. The experts believe that psychologi- mal knowledge von provide the right for any job, thereby bringing a new zest into work.

"What's the use fitting Mrs.j Sauth little boy hate the building if he los fair and talent for statistics they ask to effect.

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DO YOU BELIEVE—? Hener the questionnaire with statements, sume of which the reader muy consider true, sume fadse-and

he is asked to say which. Points de- ! note the strength of conviction garding each ane.

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Art la intre vital to 11 tam serenge?

Capital punishment is the only Just sentence for murder?

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Bul the Chief Constable Liverpool hus described him as the "greatest detective in the North,"

Mr. Burgess started work the age of six and rose to International fame as one of the men chießy re- sponsible for stamping out the oplum trofe, of which Liverpool was the headquarters.

"When was put in charge of C Division I was warned that i went in Ganger of my We it 1 tackled the optum problem. But I did. and won," he told the Daily Herald Jast night.

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CASE TOOK 5 YEARS Inquiries in the noted palm kernel cuse which Involved the loss of £30,- 000 worth of kernels from ships arriving in the port, tools Inspector Burgess five years to complete, and one of the accused committed suicide after the case had been going on ten days.

Apart from his work in stamping out the optum traffle, Mr. Burgesa had to contend with the racial rlots In Liverpool after the war.

During his career in the city force ho earned six merit budges--a record that has never been equalled-and was complimented and rewarded for his work more than 100 times by

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