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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 22, 1938.

MUSIC-HALL SONGS READ TO JUDGE

Songs that were called "weak" and jokes that were "below standard and about which the censor would have had a lot to say," were read to Judge Woodcock, K.C., in Marylebone County Court re- cently.

The writer, Mrs. Violet Mabel Lezard, a widow, of Chester- field House, W., sued Miss Ann Penn, the music-hall artist, for £19 11s. in respect of work done and services rendered.

The action was dismissed with costs.

Mr. Beddington, for Mrs. Lezard, said that her case was that she wrote three songs and a piece of dialogue specially for Miss Penn, who expressed her approval.

It was not until a suggestion came from Mrs. Lezard. that it was time she received some money that any dissatisfaction was heard.

Mrs. Lezard, in evidence, said Miss Penn asked her to write a song, "We are the backbone of latitude the censor allows is pretty the business, don't you see?" extensive?—Yes.

n circus, and a another about third, a parody on George Form- by's "Cleaning Windows."

"HEARD WORSE"

Cross-examining. Mr. Duveen, for Miss Penn, referred to a line in the dialogue, and said, "Are you sug

that an artist with Miss gesting

Penn's

like thatallon would use a line

have heard her use

worse lines than that.

Miss Penn, giving evidence, said she told Mrs. Lezard that if she had anything suitable for her, she would pay for it, and Mrs. Lezard replied That she would have a shot at iL" Nothing was accepted.

Judge Drysdale Woodcock:

The

the

Fau

Dismissing

nction, Judge Woodcock said, "I should not belleve for a moment anybody in the de- fendant's position could have garded the lyrica as anything else but rather stupid. I have read this patter through and I fail to see a touch of reni humour in it. One can forgive coarseness if there is some- thing very funny about it."

Students and teachers of the Institute of Business Administration are shown above as they gathered for a party held recently under the auspices of the Stu- dents' Association of the Institute.

Snowball Woman

"Downfall"

Bridegroom FROM

Marooned

For A Week

THOUSANDS

TO £4 A WEEK

York. "There will never be a scheme After having her wedding post-like this again-it is all over poned for a week because her bride and finished with." groom was marooned

Each

In a glit

Sec

she

monses under the Betting and Lot- teries Act, after questions about her netivities.

Four years ago, she said, she was worth about £50. Then she started to bug clubs and turn them over to other people.

"I grew in a matter of a few months. It did not take yours." She was questioned at length about the return received by men- out that in one cuse the investor of bers of her clubs, and she pointed £4 obtained £10 return.

turn in

Tells

Lions Try to See Lyons

Paris.

of

Five lions escaped from a men- agerie in Lyons recently. After running through a number small streets they created a panic by suddenly appearing on one of the

main boulevards,

Police were rushed up, but be- fore the unh

animals could be sur- rounded four of them lay down on the

pavement and went to They were soon enticed back to their cages.

slte]?

The Sith was more difficult; ho had to be lassued. No one was injured.

Fire

Hoaxers

Read

This

of Her

BLONDE HOSTESS

FOUND DEAD

In the ballroom at Romano's, in the Strand, recently people asked about blonde Lynda As- taire, popular and attractive dance hostess there. They were tohi she had died.

Lynda was found in a room filled with gas at her flat in Dolphin-square, Westminster.

For the first time many of her this friends discovered through tragedy that her real name was Mrs. Lynda Woods. She was 31.

One

fre-

FATHER A MAJOR

night the regular quenters of the restaurant had been absence of Lynda striking black-and-

puzzled by the Astaire in her

white striped frock.

For the last three years she hind bern present almost every night, usually bringing a dance party of guests with her.

The husband of Mrs. Florence house, Miss Shella Gaughan, Talr. ney. 39-years-old "snowball" haired daughter of Irish farmer was married in the village church trader, of Middlesbrough, suid this recently, while his wife was at Blacksod, Co. Mayo, recently. Everything was ready for the wed-facing her public examination ding, when fighthouseman Jolin Dil-at the York Bankruptcy Court.

Manager of financial schemes lon should have finished a six weeks'

Mr. Kay: That is a pretty big re- spell of duty, but the lighthouse is which were described as of "pheno- now

short space of time.-Oh, five miles off shore, and gales kept menal dimensions,"

an agent for a credit working as him a prisoner.

ach day Sheila

walked down to draper at Stockton, and earning yes, but to my mind the figures given

in the police court were ridiculous.

cems to me as if they were the rocky share and waved in the about 4 a week. Her husband,

correct. It well

lo me It seems her blast furnace man, has been un- hope that John would

pretty Urough his telescope. And each day employed all this year, and is re-

you would

to make a lot of John sent messages for her by morse reiving £1 6s, unemployment bene- be about 273 per cent, I suppose money from somewhere to meet what code radio.

Wearing a tailored brown suit, you had promised?-It

Many fire stations in London mall brown hat, and horn-rimmed clients who were foolish enough to have received false alarms dur- glasses, Mrs. Iley was telling the sell their tickets, and the money ing the last few weeks.

One of the dance hostesses sald: Sixty-six-years-old Mrs. Rhoda "Lynda was as sweet a girl as you Rodman, a widow, of Crescent- would find anywhere-but she was street, Notting Hill, W., took no very, temperamental. When t notice when the local association saw her here she was in the best of

spirits. for the blind sent her one of "She had several ment those white-painted sticks they supply to people with failing sight.

Then the weather improved, and John's rellef was rewed out to the

lighthouse.

Sald John after the wedding: "Lighthouse-keepers have been. Im- prisoned for monitis before now, but the last seven days have been the longest in my life."

Sold Shella: "It has seemed like a century to me."

Quakes Losing Force

OAKLAND, Cal

In a typical case of snowball trading a client is asked to "in- vest" £4 on a promise that, if he induces ten friends to "invesi" » similar amount he will receive £16 at the end of six monilis.

By this time the promoter a £44 In hand. He exists on the lapse of time, but each month' his ability to the second set of "Investors" grows tenfold-thus his loss of £12 per investor in- creases in grometrical progres- sion.

was the

clubs were the losers.

Mrs. ley denied that she ever mentioned a sum of £30,000 or 10,000 as her income from the club Uckets she had bought.

Her examination was adjourned to enable her to make up a state

ment of accounts. "I will do very best to get it done." she said.

my

"I'm not so blind as all that," she

'Keep Active,' Marriage told her friends. I can get along

Elther California earthquakes are getting weak or else the public is Omeial Receiver, Mr. W. A. Kay. getting used to them. With 37 shocks about her downfall," emphasising during the past year, the most the her points by rapping her list on the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey table, could report was "nobody hurt; no Described as a club agent, of Arn-plete" is the

Advice

CLEVELAND. "Keep active and your married fe will be happier and more com- successful marriage

all right without any sticks."

Mrs. Rodman was completely blind in one eye. The sight of the other was rapidly failing, and she was al- most stone deal.

WHO WAS TO BLAMET Recently she was knocked down

Anns-road, Notting Hill.

As dance hostess, she was in con- She was an exquisite stant demand.

dancer, an umusing companion, good looking.

Or

lust

friends.

Sometimes she would bring in a four. She was party of three probably more popular with guests than any of us.

"We saw her picture in the news- papers during the last Ascot meeting she was wearing a fashion which attracted attention.

"At the dances here she always wore very striking frocks." ALWAYS THERE

to Major G. H. T. Mac- Collingham-gardens,

The visit

of kintosh,

"Mrs. Wood wag

damage." Boulder City and Bould-side, Martin-in-Cleveland, she was formula of Mind ad her both and Itilled by a fire engine in St. Earl's Court, S.W., said only daughter

at Skinner, who celebrated wedding anniversary.

er Dam reported 13 shocks but no-fined body even got excited.

£300 £300, with middlesbrough last June on sum-

costs.

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She did not see the red-painted of Major Muckintosh, who was in- engine until it was too late: she did formed of her death by a telephone not hear the persistent clanging of message this morning,

"He is a widower and was the re bell. She stepped off the pavement right in the path of the tremely fond of her. She visited engine.

him regularly, always alone, and they went out together sometimes to theatres and cinemas.

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And the machine was racing to answer un aturm which proved to be false! The police are trying to trace the person whose strange idea of a Jake had caused her death.

Mrs. Rodman lived alone. She was of her proud very Independent; proud ability to do her own shopping.

Every day she was to be seen grop- ing her way slowly along the street,

"It's

quite all right, thank you," if anyone offered to help.

SPURNED WHITE

saying

"Major Mackintosh, Army coach, was greatly distressed by the news."

"Mrs. Rodman hated to be remind- ed of her infirmities," a friend said We tried to persuade recently. her to use the white sulck which the Incal Institution of the blind gave her, but she refused to do so.

"Lately her signt had been very

One of her greatest as much worse, but it made no differ-

moking. She consumed every day ence. She liked to get about by her- two packets of cigarettes, which she self, and it worried us a good deal.

"When we told her that she must bought from a shop near her home.

She was on her way to this shop be careful of the traffic she replied when the fire engine came clanging that she was quite able to look after down the street,

herself."

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Meat From

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But her heart

is subject to change without notice!

Because

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