1938-11-15 — Page 15

Actress' Quest Ghost Bed

In the long gallery of Rufford Abbey, Notts, haunted, it is sold, by,; the wraiths of a monk, a child and an elderly woman who died there centuries ago, hundreds qecently watched

of people

break-up another great Dukeries household.

The home of the Saviles for three centuries yielded up the first batch

of its famous collection, accumulat-

ed from every corner of Europe,

Deds in which kings inve slept,

THE

for

GRACIE'S

"IDEAL"

CONDUCTOR

and specimens of every kind of Levy, famed for his broadcasts

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Voronoff Talks Of Brain-Oil

Serge Voronoff, high priest of rejuvenation, has worked for years perfecting his method of grafting mon- key glands so that men may

Gracie Fields will have Louis live 150 years. His offer workmanship, ranging from tapestry of Music from the Music," and was youth for age. Hun- dreds of people have found

to armour. will find new owners "You Shall Have Music,"

among millionaires, actresses and guest conductor while she it irresistibly attractive.

Miss Frances Day, the actress, ur-makes her Tribute Performance

.dealers.

Convinced that some of his rived to bid for a bed which, says for the London Hospital Bl-patients may add half a century tradition, is haunted by the ghost of Centenary Appeal, in the Albert to man's maximum span, Voron- a child murdered in the Abbey cen-Hall.

off is now leaving this work to turies ago.

his imitators, calls it too easy.

Instead, he is working on what he more dimcult, more thinks children bralny. worth-while task of making dull

She was disappointed.

She considers him to be the The bed will not be offered until "ideal" .conductor to accompany her Juter.

One of many purchases by Mrs. singing, and he is doing so at her van der Elal was a sedan chair for special request. He will be going

straight the concert which she paid 20 guineas.

Noxt month the 15,000-acre estate, the 500-acre park, the abbey itself with chapel ond crypt, many forms, and the greater part of six Notting hamshire villages will be offered for anle in lots.

to

broadcast.

# from

Some of Britain's greatest artists are taking part as a contribution to the Appeal, at the invitation of the

In London recently on a brief visit he talked at the Dorchester about his life's work. Though Voronoil has never experimented on himself, he is a fine figure of a man, at sixty-nine stands Oft 3in, and

At the end of the session 220 late News Chronicle, With Gracle they still has the wiry body of an athlete, i

total of 3,000 had realized more of than 20,000 for Sir Albert Ball, the present owner, who bought the es- inte from Lady Savile and her 10- year-old son, Lord Savile.

An oak coffer fetched 150 guineas, n refectory table 120 guineas, and eight Chippendale chairs 480 guincas,

form an outstanding programme.

There will be Reginald Foort, the

organlat; world-famous

Harold Williams, the oratorio baritone; Wal-

ter Widdop, the dramalle tenor; and

Lance Dossor, the coming planoforte celebrity.

MOTHER NEGLECTS CHILDREN, JAILED

Sittingbourne (Kent).

Mra Nellle Taylor, of Newington, near Sikitingbourne, was sentenced at Sittingbourne recently to three months' imprison- ment for neglecting her four children, aged from four to nine years.

"There is a limit to age," he said, and that is an admission for him, for once he thought that by monkeys man might rival Methuselah.

Then he began to talk about his work with children whose develop- ment, both physically and mentally, had been arrested, for whom no cure was known. He grew more excited. Hands, arms, were flung in spacious gestures, dyes shone.

'A MIRACLE, SAYS HE

"What I have done, others can do. What is certain is that a vast num- ber of unfortunate children may be restored to health and intelligence by this method of grafting."

have of

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Such arrested development caused, Voronof said, by failure of the thyroid gland to function. He His first case, detalls of which called the thyrold "brain-oll." Just been given to

to the surgeons goes back to 1918. A grown up, slood only three feet alx, was, in fact, a complete idiot." No apes were available for grafting, so the boy's mother gave the left half of her own thyroid gland.

Another gratt

Her husband, David Taylor, him that he gave his wife all his two-old youth had never

accused with her. -charged.

was die-

Taylor, a hard-working man, told money but she spent it on herself and the other mon.

The mspector added:-"One night Mrs. Taylor admitted that she had' gone off twice with another man and I found the children alone and the left the children at home by them- house in darkness. I fed them and selves.

played with them for two and a half hours in the light of the headlamps of my car."

Inspector Sadier, of the NS.P.C.C., said that he called at the Taylors home several times and found the to eat, with little children alone They and the house were dirty.

Taylor said that he spent Sundays cleaning the house and washing the children.

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SHANGHAI JONGRONO TIENTAIN

NOVEMBER

1938:

Mr. Fan Shu-nam, Superintendent of the Mongkok Division of

and, one of the narces photographed the St. John Ambulance Brigade

with the cups and shield won by the Division-Yuen Chun Studio.

Radio

Bishop'

Of 38 Will Be Sunday Censor

Dr. James William Welch, 38-year-old Principal of St. John's College, York, is to succeed the Rev. F. A. Iremonger as Religion Director of the B.B.C. as from April 1, 1939.

In effect he will be Bishop of Broadcasting.

Look like a picture out of Vogue“

in one of these charming.

French Dresses

Only just arrived, these highly fashionable' dresses so greatly admired in Paris are priced as astonishingly low as from

$1950

each.

Beautifully wearable now and all winter.

and-

the most

important

styles in-

PARISIAN

MILLINERY

IN A VERSATILE RANGE OF SMART MODELS

ARE PRICED FROM

$850 to $1850 each

He will not only control all broadcast services from London, Fashionable Veils from $1.25 to $2.95

the Regions, and the Empire, but an important extension of his work involves the virtual censorship of all Sunday programmes.

Nothing will be allowed on the air on that day which has not first been read by him.

and ccrtala Morning services studio services are also taken by the Director of Religion, not as part of the routine duties, but as a voluntary

effort.

“Pot“ Shot. By Son of

The most dificult task of all, per- Admiral

haps is the contact with charitable

and churches. Two A "pel" shot at a pheasant by an millees-the Appeals and Rellgi- admiral's son, who

WBS motoring

polies court

us Advisory-help him select those with a friend, led to a summons at

Berks, organisations which are to be al-Maidenhead, lowed to broadcast during the recently

"Week's Good Cause" and from For what was described os ILF1 which church services shall be re- "idiotle escapade," Captain Oscar inyed.

LITTLE KNOWN

Dr. Welch a Church of England clergyman of wide experience, but he is ttle known at Broadcasting House.

He is very popular among friends in York and much liked by progressive churchmen,

Ordination

Cambridge,

his

Fremantle (28), of Sonning, Berk-. shire, son of Admiral Fremantle, and James Gaffney, South Side, Streat- hain Common, London; dental sur- geon, summoned for trespassing in search of game at Rose Hill Hurley, were each fined 20s.

NOT POACHING Mrs. Margaret Adams, wife of the He served during the way with the H.A.C., subsequently training at head gamekeeper to Colonel Micklem, the Knutsford

Test of Henley-on-Thames,' said she saw School under Canon F. R. Barry, Captain Fremantle pick up a phen- Sho From 1821 to 1925 he was at Sidney Lent and run with it to a cor. Sussex College,

in front of the car and stopped and stood in from 1925 to 1920 at Westcott House. it whereupon the pheasant was given

He was then ordained curate of to her. Gateshead Parish Church and ro- Mr. W. B. Manley, defending, re- mained there until 1029 when he pudtated any suggestion of poaching. took up missionary work in Southern Rhodesia,

:

"FRESH AND FRIENDLY” He has been Principal of St. John's since 1935.

At Broadcasting House those few who know him tell me he is "Fresh, friendly and enthusiastic."

Dr. Welch said: "I am afraid I cannot make any statement on what propose 10 do or what my policy will be.

"The appointment is still Bix months ahead and I have been ap pointed on the advice of other people knowing practically nothing about the work, cortainly not sufficient to justify mia in now stating a polley which will take months of actual experience to decide."

Iremonger, formerly vicar of Vernham Dean, was due for retire- ment on reaching the age of 60 in July.

CRASH PROOF PETROL TANKS

This excitable young Fremantle

some pheasants, happened to see continued Mr. Manley, "and he could not resist the temptation. Gaffney weakly acquiesced."

He asked that no conviction be recorded "as it might ruin their pro- fessional careers."

Always Got His Man

Disisional Detective-Inspector John Henry-the detective who always got his man-is about to retire.

It was his efforts that led to the capture of George Brain.

Brain, found guilty of the "Lovera' Lana" crime, was at the Old Bailey sentenced to death for the' murder of Muriel Rose Atkins.

CASSERLEY CASE

Before he was caught he spent a week hidden in a cave at Sheerness

inspector Henry was chief police witness in the Casserley case, in which Edward Royal Chaplin was found guilty of the manslaughter of Perry Arthur Casserley, and sentenced in May to 12 years' penal servitude.

The inspector is well known in the West End, for most of his service air pilots will be saved was at Bow-street, with the Flying from their most dreaded peril-be- | Squad, and at Cine-street, Ing burnt alive in a crash-by the lavention of a retired official of the Air Ministry.

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The invention, approved, by Ministry after initial, iosis, is

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