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Mayfair Prisoner In Court QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

Says Chocolates, Please'

Heiress Weds

JAIL 'BULLY BEEF' Heiress

MEAL UNEATEN

"Chocolates, please" was the first request made by John Christopher Mainwaring Lonsdale-one of the four Mayfair men-who is serving eighteen months' imprisonment in con- nection with the Hyde Park jewel cosplracy, when he arrived at the Law Courts recently.

He complained that thera far too many potatoes In The Wormwood Scrubs prison diet.

were

Lonsdale, twenty-four, son of a Dorset country squire. was the defendant in an action brought by Kent Trust Ltd., West End moneylenders, who claimed £230 16%. 10d., principal and interest. They

won the case.

Lonsdale's counsel asked for n of execution, pending appeal, which was refused,

stay

An

A Jalter accompanied Lonsdale from prison. They had travelled in a hired car at Lonsdale's expense and returned four hours later in a taxicab.

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Mr. C. Salmon, counsel for the Kent Trust Ltd., said Hervey had not been joined in the selion becouse he had been adjudiented bankrupt.

BORROWED 100

Mr. Jack Koski, managing director of Kent Trust. Lld., said Hervey and borrowed £180 from him before the later loan.

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A Cobbler

BUT HE WILL GO BACK TO HIS JOB The Cinderella fairy-tale story was reversed in the picturesque vage of Haslemere, recently, when a £3-4-week shoemaker wed an heiress.

But the shoemaker bas na intention of exchanging a life of toll for one of Juxury and ense.

After the honeymoon, which is Leing spent at an "unknown desting- tion," he will go back to his job putting out uppers for boats and shoes In a Wellingborough Northants, fue- "He still owed £65, Ms cheque tory; Bessie

Maltby, Koski said, "an I told him and daughter of Mr. T. R. S. Maltby, head Mr. Lonsdale I would not lend any of a London firm of stevedores, was more money till that was repaid. the bride. Mr. Edward Stuart, of

| Wollaston, was her groom.

| havingg been

dishonourei,”

Mr.

lenders, and it was a gamble for me. "ite Was Involved with other

Mr. Koski described how the £85 was repaid in ten-shilling notes, on None of the young man's relatives Hervey's behalf. by Mr. Percival was in court.

Murray, of the Cabaret Bottle Party Club.

He had been given a packet of bully beef and brend for lunchi when he left the jail.

He did not eat it. He hoped he would get a meal from the Law Courts' restaurant, and was bitterly disappointed when his request had to be refused.

M

Margery

workmates and other guests, the To the cheers of Atty of Mr. Stuart's

couple drove off on their honeymoon. Trailing behind the car--a symbol the bridegroom's occupation-was battered sine as an omen of good luck and happiness.

A

After the wedding a friend of the couple said:

Lonsdale, in a tired, despondent volca, gave evidence that he had only "backed the blll" for Hervey "Mr. Stuart met his bride white and was not the aclus borrower. [nn a visit to his aunt, who is nurse- He denied that he was heavily In-companion to Miss Maltby's mother," volved with moneylenders.

he sail,

"It was a case of love at first night. His defence was that the contract The engagement leaked out only was unenforceable, the rate of inw days before the wedding." Waterest-00 per cent.-excersive, Ex that the transaction was "harsh and Unronselonable."

Thir moneylenders claim based on a promissory note for £100. jointly signed by Lonsdale and Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey 4atz January 13 last year.

Hervey, godson of ex-Queen Ena of Spain and a nephew of the Marquis of Bristol, was said to be at present in Paris.

More In

Mr. Justice Asquith rejected all three clains of the defence.

Sigrid Gurie

"freedom" Gets Divorce,

After four hours' Lonsdale went back to work in the prison carpenters' shop.

Court Bans

Hollywood.

Sex Talks Recriminations Schools

Cardiff.

Sex talks and frank instruction on all aspects of sex have become part of the ordinary education of children in South Wales schools.

Sigrid Gurle, star of the m "Marco Polo," has just obtained a divorce from her British husband, Thomas Stewart, in nine minutes. She alleged that he slapped her, threatened her with a thrashing and locked her out of the house.

Because of threats made before the, action, the decree contalued an un- usual provision that the parties should

from refrain

derogatory remarks about the person or conduct of each

ther

by Samuel Goldwyn as a Norwegian Sigrid Gurie was much publicized

she was born in New York. Stewart discovery, but Stewart disclosed, that

Children over the age of 13 are made conscious of sex and are told about every aspect of the subject in the most open form. The experiment, which has been conducted by Mr. Theodore Tucker, of Cardiff, has been immediately successful and has claims to have spent large sums on a attracted the attention of eduentional authorities in Europe and America:

With Miss Muriel Pout, who instructs schoolgirls on sex, Mr. Tucker is joint secretary of the Welsh Council of the Alliance of Honour.

"These talks," Mr. Tucker said, "are only given to those children whose parents approve of the instruction. A letter is sent to all parents of children over 13.

Handbags For Men?

screen training for her.

He withdrew a cross-complaint ac-

using her of kissing and einbracing

other men.

STOP PRESS

Cholera In Nanchang

Nanchang. Aug. 15,

"Children in schools where we have the men's division of the Fashion- Said Mr. Ben Russell, chairman of given our talks all respond intelli- Institute of antly.

Americn, speaking in There is no sniggering or New York:- giggling, although we have found it

A cholera epidemic has broken out "You men should give up sticking in Nanchang and Kian, about "195 experient to make the talks as enler-things into hip pockets. taining as possible, with a little your suits into travelling offices.

converting kilometres south-west of Nanchan humour woven in here and there, to

on the west bank of the Kan River. you must carry give the children, a chance to laugh. around, do what the ladies do-carry disease here on Saturday and yester-| papers More than 10 persons died of the "We teach them that although a handbag or a brief-case."

day, it is reported. sex. is a serious subject it is not to

Other points from Mr. Russell's The health authorities are exerting be treated solemnly and spoken of

speech: in awed tones with bated breath. well-dressed man-nust include at

every effort to cheek the spread of "An adequate wardrobe for the the epidemic.-Central News. We encourage thera to ask ques- tions.

least ten sults--and more for sum- mer-and eight pairs of shoes.

"They ask us: 'How was born?" Where do babies come from? How old do boys and girls have to be to become parents?"

Why Is it that an unmarried girl) can have a baby?'

"Some of them even want to know what birth control is.

"The talks are always given by experts. It is specialised work call ing for special technique and tact."

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Bernard Shaw, in his new play of world politics, brings three dictators into the dock. Dressed in Roman toga, Wagnerian trappings and white uniforms, they unmistakably represent Mussolini, Hitler and Franco.

The week-end produced another seven easer of cholera in Hongkorg. A "rooster" that lays eggs has been making the total 300, discovered among a flock of leghorns

Witty and shrewd banter at the Four further cases on the farm of a local man.

of dysentery

expense of the Lengue of Nations phenomenon was

The were reported, bringing the aggre forms much of this comic tract. three of the

discovered when gate to 507, while one rooster, were Isulated and started two of meningitis, were also notified that he swoons twice and, a British flock, including the diphtheria, five of enteric fever, and An Anglican Bishop is so shocked producing three eggs daily.

Foreign Secretary is played with brilliant stupidity by Ernest Thesiger, made up exactly like the late Joseph Chamberlain.

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SHAMING DESPOTS Shaw's jibes are easy, but behind them is a real Iden-that the Hague Tribunal con revive itself into an Important court of human Justice by putting modern despots on trial..

The idea is that they will feel their shome before the world.

Unfortunately, in the middle of the trial,, a message comes that the end of the world is at hand through a solar lapse. This disperses every- body, although it is later proven a false alarm.

"Foreigner is a word not used in Genova but a foreigner is still a foreigner."

INTOLERANT

The plece was very well played by a company which included Donald Wolf, Eileen Beldon and Marle Ault,

It resembled most of Shaw's later plays by being entirely intolerant of any established authority, with the possible exception of Soviet Russia.

P. L. M.

IF ALIEN BLASPHEMES

He Must Leave The Country

Allens in Great Britain who blas- phieme or say or do things calculated The Shavian wit sil!) possesses to bring roligion into contempt will,' some sparkle, Here are examples; under a new Bill now before Parlia "Some of the greatest men have ment, be Hlable to imprisonment and

hated the human race-even God | deportation. would have destroyed it but for

This will strengthen the hands of Noah."

the British authorities, who some- "The powers have behaved as if the times have difficulty in finding su{}}- League of Nations did not exist lo cient reason for expelling known further their own ends,"

undesirables.

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