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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24,

1938.

CINEMA'S

VICAR EXORCISED

EVIL SPIRIT

But It's Still

Still As

Bad As Ever

The Rev. Lionel Calway, Secretary of the Christian Psychic Society, dipped his hand in water, pointed towards a door, and said, "I command you to stop these evil prac- tices."

At the Grotrian Hall, Wigmore-street, W., recently he was performing a rite of exorcism among a little band of spiritual- ists who sought to lay an evil spirit which they blamed for interference with an ex- hibition of religious films there.

Some mallclous influence, it ap-,

10 The penred, was antagonistic showing of the film, "From Monger to Cross,"

ALWAYS A HITCH

Before the rat performance, a heavy film projector mysteriously overturned and a display of religious books was as unaccountably sentter-1 ed. Since then scarcely a perform-| ance of the film has passed without a hitch.

"Eight separate projectors have been put out of action, and lie. film has continually broken," said

Fantastle schenies, including a plan to use forged White House stationery to obtain mili- tary secrets, were disclosed at the recent New York spy trial. Threo defendants, mem- They are: Johanna Hofmann, bers of the alleged German spy ring, are shown above. Europa hairdresser; Erich Glaser, army deserier, and Olio Voss, airplane mechanic.

Experts Thought He

Was Mad

doctor.

Paris.

A

4 TIMES WED, NOW SHE GOES TO SAHARA

Lady Idina Haldeman. forty-six- year-old, four times married sister of Lord de la Warr. Lord Privy Seal, loft London recently to motor across the Bahara to her home in Kenya.

Blonde, attractive, and vivacious, she said:

"It is a trip I have always wanted to make. I am going with three or four friends, and we may take two cars. None of us has done the cross- Ing before, and I admit it may be difculi, even dangerous.

TRAVEL

"Africa la really more my home now than England. For over a year I have been travelling around the West Indies and in Europe, and now I yearn to go back there and stay.

Lady Idina, one of Europe's best- dressed women, is going first to Por- tugal, where she will stay for a few weeks before meeting the rest of the party in Algiers.

"We have taken most meticulous care about our food supplies and petrol," she added. "Everything has been weighed out and calculated to the last pound.”

SPENT £80,000 ON PARTIES

AND "FRIENDS"

-Now Penniless

-A doctor arrested in Paris recently the Rev. Brian Hession, Vicar of because he had escaped from

Once Francis John Merritt earned £100 a week- Walton, near Aylesbury, Backing- tunatle asylum is neither mad nor a

owned a big house, a farm, cars, and forty suits. Recent- hamshire. "Yet the film has been! other places) shown in numerous

But he was clever enough to per-ly-penniless and shabby-he was jailed for eighteen without the slightest trouble," Undoubtedly, decided the spiri- suade real doctors that he was mad

months for theft. tualists, a poltergeist was to blame.nd real patients that he was a And since the type of spirit so termed

doctor.

A few years ago Merritt was "on the balls" as The Electric is held lo require mortal agenti "Dr. Benneteau could not afford to Eel. His salary was more than the Prime Minister's. He spent from which conduct its mischley-j take medical training, so he devoted it all-and a fortune of £30,000 left him just after the war-on ous practices, the business of the all his spare tine to reading books on champagne parties and betting, or gave it away to charities and meeting was to "purify" the person toedleine.

housing it.

D). Crosby Fisher

sat

in

circle about

the

Mrs. Gradon

cross our legs.

Thomas,

in

10 sent him

friends.

In 1936 he became involved in

He was a foundation subscriber to the, Variety Artists' they theft and simulated madness to escape sald daylight broad

arrest Ile did it so well that Benevolent Fund home for distressed artists at Twickenham. medium. specialists chlet

Villejuif His name was put on a plaque of honour there. Then his riches carefully asylum.

пов to obeying Пе injunction

Nine months ago he managed towent-and so did his friends.

In the dock at the London Sessions he said: I have got a were invited to escape and set up as a doctor in a We pray and concentrate on the depar-Paris suburb, where he treated his terrible record, but I am not a criminal by instinct.

my downfall. I have gone through £80,000. ture of the evit influence.

It

was rather

Suddenly patients free of charge.

1 s

Mrs. Thomas excialmed. man standing over there"

startling for the "laymen"

present, but turned out to be a spiritualistic or trance conjura-i tion, visible only to the medium. She described the "man" as a Moslem. In turban and robes.

Now he has asked to be dealt with by an ordinary court and to be l examined by mental experts.

parents and his uncle and aunt had told him that they had na- tives as spirit "guides,"

LIVING IN ONE ROOM IN A BACK STREET

When he was arrested Merit was

Drink is

overhanging a drop of more than 100ft.

Sald 10:-

"I used to practise in my cell.". living in one room in a back street Now prison warders and fellow near the Elephant and Castle, S.Eprisoners will again be "The Elec- His only noney was what he got tric Eel's only nudience. from the Public Assistance authorl- This was accepted. In private ses-ties. His clother were so ragged that through someone handling the ap- sion with the medium the young he went out only at night. paratus in the cinema operating box.man was "cleansed of his aura. She had a vision of a young man of middle height, falrish hair, and with

"He"

פטען

artistic hands.

working, she said,

NATIVE "GUIDES"

PERSISTENT

Afterwards, Ronald

Wills said:

In 1925 he was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for blackmail.

When he was sentenced again in

if WED not greatly surprised or 1930-to three years for stealing alarmed when heard that the pol-furs from a West End store he told On this slender description the tergeist Was probably working the chairman that he had even of- manager of the hull, Mr. A. V. Hoper, through me. I have certainly not fered his services to a circus for "his suggested the person might be 10-felt myself since I have been work- bare keep" to get work. years-old Ronald Wills, one of the ing here, and it may be that the

the three operators employed by

cinema. moned.

Young

Wills

Sum- wag

Free again last July, he told re spirit is using some of my energy-porters that he was "going straight"| Most

the manifestations have He said then- of

"Crime gets you nowhere. I don't He proved to be small of stature taken place when I have been pre-

sent.

mean to serve another sentence.

"I have given up drink and

and his hair was certainly not dark, Even while the spiritualists were though his fingers were rather of the holding their service one of the other gambling. I am finished with that "podgy" type, but immediately Mrs. operators hurried in to say that there, and I will work for my keep it be Thomas recognised him as the agent film had broken down again. The sheltering the phenomenon.

He was questioned and re- *piritualism. vealed an interest

He had, in fact, altended a seance only the previous niglit. What more, he said, both his

WAS

previous

ous night the manager was usked if conditions hod improved since the exorcism.

"No, they are just as bad as ever," he replied-poltergeists, It appears, are most persistent phenomena.

only they will give me a chance."

And to prove that his nerve and skill were as good as ever he stood on his hands on the roof parapet of the Daily Express build- ing in Fleet-street, E.C., his heels

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Skating the Lambeth Walk

4-

Skating rinks throughout the country may soon resound to the "D" of the Lambeth Walk. The National Skating Association secking new donce steps for the ice, and an open ice dance com- petition is being held at West- minster on November 22, in an effort to find the new dance.

Mr. E. G. Coggins, the secretary of the association, is not quite so sure about the Lambeth Walk, "nor the Big Apple," he said, Inughingly.

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"You see," he said, "the dance must not contain any steps which would prevent its being skuted in the usual dancing interval; it must be always progressive round the rink, and must maintain an caso

Mind of

YOLI, guidance.

I've never seen anyone try the Lam- beth Walk on the ice, but and he shrugged his shoulders,

Even if the Lambeth Walk can- not be translated into the rhyth- mic swing of a skating dance, young composer perhaps some will win a season's fome with a Westminster Glide or an Ice Pond Paddle.

SURGEON STABBED

IN BOND-St.

Scotland Yard officers are seeking a man, believed to a foreigner, who stabbed Mr. Sydney G. MacDonald, Welbeck-street consulting surgeon, in Bond-street, W.

Mr. MacDonald received a wound in the shoulder. His assallant escaped before the alarm could be raised.

A theory was advanced that the attacker mistook Mr. MacDonald for the King of Greece, who was visit- ing London

Scotland Yard, however, described this suggestion as "fantastic."

From his country home at Tice- hurst. Sussex, where he is recuperat- ing, Mr. MacDonald revealed that the attack occurred about 10 p.m.

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"I saw. subsconsciously, a man crossing the road towards me," sald. "I did not pay any particular attention to him, but he came along alde me, and muttered something.

"I did not even look round. As I passed by him, I felt a sharp blow In the back, which staggered me for the moment.

"The blow-it might have been in- Allcted with # stiletto caused wound: which, fortunately, was not very serious,

Tom Walls' No

to B.B.C.

Tom Walls has turned down a B.B.C. invitation to broadcast because he refuses to be what he 'describes as "one of a procession." The B.B.C. invited him to take part in the "Show- men of England" broadcasts featuring Albert de Courville, director of the latest Tom Walls film, "Crackerjack.”

"Much as I admire Albert de Cour- ville," he said "I refuse to play an in- significant part in his radio pro-

gratume.

"For ten years I was actor-manager at the Aldwych Theatre, and a dis- coverer of many stage and film sints. So you will understand why I cannot accept the BB.C. Invitation to creep and the wound was only half an inch in for a minute at the end of a pro- away from a lung. I hailed a taxi-gramme that boosts my friend, Albert cab and was driven home, where a de Courville."

MY

shoulder blade was struck,

surgical colleague attended mc.

Scotland Yard was then informed.

The whole affair to me 13 1 mystery.

had never seen my

assaflant before, and I can onl

assume that he mistook me for an-|HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE other man. I am still unable to use PROTECTION OF CHILDREN my right arm."

5 LAW LORDS HEAR LABOURER'S CASE

London... A Inbourer, David John Harris, of Eynsford Road, Geenhithe, Kent, through legal aid provided by the Poor Persons Department, was able to have his card heard, by five Law Lords in the House of Lords. He is claiming compensation for pit facel dent, which occurred wilt ho was at work but his claim was dismissed at two previous hearings..

General

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