1938-11-15 — Page 3

Actress'

Quest for Ghost Bed

In the long gallery of Rufford Abbey, Nolts, haunted, it is said, by the wraiths of a 'monk, a child and an elderly woman who died there centuries ago, hundreds of people gecenity watched the break-up of

Dukeries household. another great

The Home of the Saviics for three cnrituries yielded up the first batch of its famous collection, accumulat ed from every corner of Europe,

GRACIE'S

"IDEAL"

CONDUCTOR

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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 Louls live 150 years. His offer Lovy, famed for his broadcasts workmanship, ranging from tapestry of Music from the Musfe," and was youth for age. Hun- to armour, will find new owners You Shall Have. Music," as dreds of people have found

guest conductor among millionaires, actresses

she it irresistibly attractive. denters.

Miss Frances Day, the actress, ar- makes her Tribute Performance!

Beds in which kings have slept, ngd specimens of every kind

of

and

while

Convinced that some of his

rived to bid for a bed which, says for the London Hospital Bi-patients may add half a century tradition, is haunted by the ghost of Centenary Appeal, in the Albert

a child murdered in the Abbey cen-Hall. turies ago.

later.

She was disappointed. The bed will not be offered until One of many purchases by Mrs. van der Elst was a cedan ehair for which she pald 28 guineas.

Next month the 15,000-acre estate, the 500-acre park, the abbey lisel with chapel and crypt, many farms, and the greater part of six Notting hamshire villages will be offered for sale in lols.

She considers him to be use "kleul" conductor to accompany her singing, and he is doing so at her special request. He will be going

the concert straight

to

broadcast.

from

27

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Some of Britain's greatest artists are taking part as a contribution to the Appeal, at the invitation of the News Chronicic. With Gracle they form an outstanding programme.

There will be Reginald Foort, the

organist;

to man's maximum span, Voron- off is now leaving this work to his imitators, calls it too easy.

Instead, he is working on what he moro more difficult, Q worth-white task of making dull thinks is children brainy.

In London recently on a brief visit he talked at the Dorchester life's work. Though about his himself. he is Ane figure of a man, Voronoff has never experimented on stands 6ft 3in., and at sixty-nine still has the wiry body of an athlete.

At the end of the session 220 jots

"There is a limit to age." he said, of a total of 3,000 had realised more

and that is an admission for him. than £0,000 for Sir Albert Ball, the present owner, who bought the es- world-famous

Harold for once he thought that by monkeys tute from Lady Savile and her 10-Williams, the oratorio baritone; Wal- man might rival Methuselah.

Then he began to talk about his year-old son, Lord Savile.

ter Widdop, the dramatic tenor: and work with children whose develop- Lance Dossor, the coming pianofortement, both physically and mentally, had been arrested, for whom no cure celebrity.

was known. 11e grew more excited. Hands, arms, were flung in spacious gestures, eyes shone.

An oak coffer fetched 150 gulneas, a refectory table 120 guineas, and eight Chippendale chairs 480 guineas,

MOTHER NEGLECTS

CHILDREN, JAILED

Sittingbourne (Kent).

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

Her husband, David Taylor, dis- accused with her, Was charged.

Mr. Taylor admitted that she had gone off twice with another man and left the children at home by them- selves.

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

Taylor, a hard-working man, told him that he gave bis wife all his money but she spent it on herself

and the other man.

The inspector added:-"One night I found the children alone and the I fed them and house in darkness. played with them for two and a half hours in the light of the headlamps of my car."

Taylor said that he spent Sundayı cleaning the house and washing the

children.

From the

first step

to the last

ledge.

'A MIRACLE, SAYS HE "What I have done, others can do. What is certain is thal u vast num- ber of unfortunate children may be restored to health and intelligence by this method of grafting,"

is

Such arrested development caused. Varonoff said, by failure of the thyroid gland to function. He called the thyroid "brain-oll."

His first case, details of which have just been given to the surgeons of France, goes back to 1915.

never twenty-year-old youth hind grown up, stood only three feet six,

LEGRAPH

TUESDAY, - NOVEMBER

1988.

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

and one of the nurses photographied the St. John Ambulance Brigade

with the cups and shield won by the Division-Yiten Chun Studio,

'Radio Bishop

Of 38 Will Be Sunday Censor

Dr. James William Welch, 38-year-old Principal of ASt. 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.

was, in fact, complete idiot." No apes were available for grafting, so the boy's mother gave the left half of her own thyroid gland.

Another graft with monkey gland was made laler. In two years the youth looked and was normal

Intelligent man.

That simian thyroid graft truly worked a miracle." declared the sur-

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In effect he will be Bishop of Broadcasting.

He will not only control all broadcast services from London, 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 certain 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 Admiral

The most difficult task of all, per- haps, is the contact with charitable organisations and churches.

A "pot" shot at a pheasant by an who Was motoring committees the Appeals and Religi- admiral's son,

Two

Berks, police court

ous Advisory-help him select those with a friend, let to a summons at organisations which are to be al-Maidenhead, lowed to broadenst

the during recently

For what "Week's Good Cause" and from

was described as 233 Oscur which church services shall be re-idiotic escapade," Captain Jayed.

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

LITTLE KNOWN

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

He is very popular among his friends in York and much liked by

pressive churchmen,

the tsford

the

Ordination

She

NOT POACHING served during the war with Mrs. Margaret Adams, wife of the subsequently training at head gamekeeper to Colonel Micklem, Test of Henley-on-Thames, sald she saw School under Canon F. R. Barry. Captain Fremantle pick up a phea- From 1021 to 1023 he was at Sidney sent and run with it to a car.

Cambridge. Sussex College,

and stood in front of the car and stopped from 1925 to 1928 at Westcott House, whereupon the pheasant was given

He was then ordained curate of to her.

Mr. W. B. Manley, defending, re- Gateslead Parish Church and mained there until 1929, when he pudtated any suggestion of poaching. This excitable young Fremantle, took up missionary work in Southern

some pheasants, Rhodesin..

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

re-

"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 atrald I cannot make any statement on what I propose to do, or what my policy will bc.

"The appointment is still six months ahead and I have been ap- pointed on the advice of other people knowing practically nothing about

the

·work, certainly not sufficient to justify me in now stating, a policy which will take months of actual experience to decide,"

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

CRASH PROOF PETROL TANKS

Britain's,atr. pilots, will be saved from their most dreaded peril-be Ing burnt alive. In a crash-by the Invention of a retired official of the Air Ministry,

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 get his.man-is about to retire.

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

Brain, found guilty of the "Lovers" Lano crime, was at the Old Balley 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 gulity of the manslaughter of Percy Arthur Casserley, and sentenced in May to 12 years' pennl servitude.

The inspector is well known in the Weal End, for most of hla service- was at Bow-street, with the Flying Squad, and at Cine-street.

War Mail Costly

The invention, approved, by the Ministry

after initial tests, is a

Mena, Ark. "crash-proof petrol tank which is

Postal service between here and seamless and rivellers and will stand Spain's battle fronts is slow and ex up to violent battering and twistingpensive., A letter written by Robert or bursting.

Tests were carried out by drop-M. Pike, who is with the 67th ping the tanks from various heights. division of the Loyalist forces, was Four have now been fitted to Air-four months in reaching Hugh Gore. Speed Oxford monoplarica for service The letter carried 82 cents worth of

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