1938-11-24 — Page 7

LADY EDMEE

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

MADE HELL

INTO PARADISE'

Husband

Is 'Mac': She Is 'Memita'

The new husband of Lady (Edmee) Owen, six-foot- four, with a seamed face and glinting blue eyes.

He la Scots, and ex-Scolland-yard. He worked on the Crippen murder ease in 1910.

"Mac," he calls him. ite is o £500-a-year, district commissioner in British Honduras. Ha full name is Captain Vernor MacCall

"It's five years now," he said in "aince I read London recently,

Memita In Memita's life story." Spanish for Edmec they speak a lot of Spanish in British Honduras,

I hope to get a charity of heart and a shoulder to rest upon. That's how she finished up, and that's what Kut me," he said, "I determined to I wrote give her what she wanted. to her; the answered. We corres pondet fairly regularly."

was

A successful sale of work was hell recently at the Heep Ynn School. Left to right: Rev. Edward Y. P. Lee, chairman, Mrs. R. O. Hall, who opened the sale, and Mrs. W. K. Che ung, principal of the school—A. A. Kahn,

Out Of

459,414 More Out

Work Than Year Ago

There was an increase of 38,376)

On the other hand there was an in the wool textile,

in Britain's unemployed during the improvement

12, carpet, hosiery, pottery, bool and month August 15-September

shoe and clothing industries, and in coal mining.

Before her marriage to Sir Thee-1938, und compared with September

last year the increase was 459,114, dore Owen in 1915 Menita Edmce Dormeuil, London stage Ministry #gures published list favourite. In 1024 Sir Theodore left night show that on September 12, her £100,000, which she whistled her 1938, unemployed persons numbered unemployed, to through

the bankruptcy 1,708,018 wholly why

1,324,151; temporarily stopped, 412,- rourt in 1938.1

404; normally in casual employment, $1,073.

DRANK FROM SHOE "After that I was determined to have her out to visit me," said Mac. "Four times, I sent her the passage money. And four times she lost it on the dogs.

Then she came.

they

The number in work: (exclusive of persons within the Agricultural Scheme) was 11,380,000, which was 22,000 less than on August 15, 1038, und 320,000 less than on September 13, 1937.

A TIRED HERO SMILES

RADIO

24,

1938.

BROADCAST Braemar Knitwear

"Spelling Bee" from Studio: Uncles v. Aunts

ZBW ORCHESTRA

Radio Programme Broadcast from ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 0-11 p.m. on 9.53 m.c's. per second.

11. К. Т.

0.0 Studio--Children's Hour, 7.0 Closing tocal Stock Quota-

Hons.

7.02 Handel "Alcina" Bullo. Philharmonic-Symphony Orches- tra of New York conducted by

A grey little man, tried and careworn, stood meckly in the drizzle outside a London subur- ban house.

Obediently he smiled at the re-Willem Mengelberg.

on embarrassed photo- quest of grapher.

le raises his hat for another Fleet Street, London, by G. Thalben- comeraman. His ready compliance Ball. with their requests seemed almost like that of a man crushed.

Then he walked slowly to the ear at the gate and drove off through the drab afternoon.

Its name is in "Who's Who," Beneath is the description: "One of the leading figures in the Little Entente."

LED A NATION

But even the 1938 volume is out is now a of date. The little man leading figure nowhere save in a nation's secret thoughts.

7.15 London Relay-An Organ Recliat from the Temple Church,

7.45 Rubinstein playing Chopin, Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1: Nocturne in G. Miner, Op.37, No. 1; Andante Spianate, Op.

8,0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Brahms-Gypsy Songs, Op.

103.

The Madrigal Singere conducted by Lehman Engel with D. Evereit Roudebush at the Piano.

8.12 Studio-Z.D.W. Orchestra. 1. L'alienne Alger Over- ture (Rossini)...:

Orchestra; 2. My Ho in Dr. Eduard Benesh, former Dear Soul (Byron-Sanderson); O Dry Those Tears (T. del Riego) President of Czecho-Slovakla There was deamn in his appearance Muriel Brunskill (Contralto) with outside the house in Gwendolen-Organ and Violin Obbligato: 3. Fara Avenue.

Putney,

where he has found phrase on "The Lereley" (Nesvadba)

in 8.30

Orchestro. drama refuge-but

London drabness.

In

д

a

Seven

11 was

Relay "At The Mist was rising from the damp Black Dog."

Mr. Wilkes at home in his own pavements, the last roses in the

Presented by S. E. short front garden were dripping bar-parlour, In the rain, the atmosphere was Reynolds and Pascoe Thornton,

0.0 Btudio-ZBW, Orchestra. oppressive and the man who had

1. Plazza del Popolo (Frederik- Jeu the Caccho-Slovakia nation looked a ilred and slek man.

by Night (Ban- sen): 2. Caravan

Orchestra; 3. his fawn overcoat, sombre zalo) .... AREA FIGURES

brown sult and trilby hat you would Popular Spanish Songs (Falla).... During the past month unemploy-have taken him for an ordinary, dull Conchita Supervia (Mezzo-Soprano)

4. shall; ment increased in London by 7.752;worker in some uninspired occupa- with Piano Accomp. by Frank Mar- South Eastern area 6,000; South-tion.

(Lehar)....Orchestra. Western 5,500; North Eastern 1,710; HIS WIFE BESIDe him

Western

Scotland 20,178; North

By him stood his plump, pretty 0,031; Wales 5,000,

Mid-wife. It fell in only two areas: lands 14.171; Northern 2,229.

They seemed almost eager to do as the photographers wished-like two timid people afraid of hurting any- one's feelings.

SCHOOLS CLOSED "We drank champagne out of her

Four cases of suspected infantile TRADES HIT little gokien shoe the April night she She

paralysis were reported recently at the of arrived in British Honduras,"

Three Sussex. Employment declined between Crawley lukes size two, he takes eleven.

weeks Six

kater

were August 15 and September 12 in patients are children of school age,

distributive trades, and the other an infant.

Crawley Church of England School married. When Memita preceded buliding, the her husband on leave to America hotel and boarding house service, the he kept an altar with her photo-collon industry, iron and steel manu- and Crawley Council School have certain branches of been closed, and choir boys were in- graph on it, and a black-and-white facture,

ihe fishing. Industry.structed not to attend a recent peace leading figures in the Litle Entente size-two sealskin shoc. By these engineering,

and the port service at St. Peter's Church, Craw-went for a dull drive round the wet trophies he laid a bunch of red food manufacture, transport industry. roses every day.

For twenty-four years Captain MarCall has been burled in British Honduras Seven years ago he and his first wife, an American, parted was dissolved. and their marriage

His children were grown up, and he

was

alone.

"So when Memitu came it was like changing Hell for Paradise," he said. "She civilised our bungalow by the put up sen in Punta Gordi, She

curtains tied spotted blue mustin

with black velvet bows, sang hur stage songs to me, and danced in

the long tropical nights.

"She made one or two mistakes.

For instance, she brought

out for

These You

me crepe georgette sheets. aren't suitable for the tropics. stick to them.

MUSLIN CURTAINS "But Memita is a fine cook. We have an English breakfast at 7.30 I get porridge, bacon and eggs, and marmalade before I go to pass judg- ments in court. Memita comes along to breakfast in her feather-trimmed negligee."

In the mornings Memita teaches the cook how to cook lunch. After- She shie roes botantsing. boils up the plants she picks, makes face creams and rouges.

noons

"Have you made any more witch- craft creaint nak when I come home for tea and layer enke at 4,30," said Captain MacCall.

Memita's chief success in the witch-brew line has been a lotion made from plants which she rubs on Mac's head. When she met bald. Now his hair

him

he was

Is sprouting again.

She is a

a mixer of oilier brews, too. Before dinner they drink her "mahogany cocktail"-half part, half gin, a dash of bitters, a drop of lime Juler, and a pinch of

pepper.

ley.

Waltz "Luxemburg"

Comedy Harmonists singing Humoreske (Dvorak),

9.27

9.30

Bec".

London Relay The News, 0,50 Studio “Spelling Uncles v. Aunts.

10.15 Reginald Dixon at the Or-

Rakes of

HAIL

Irish Medley: Intro:

At a window above them three ttle boys craned their necks to Morrow; Mother Machree: When see all the excitement below, and Irish eyes are smiling; A Little bit Owen; Irish they laughed among themselves as of heaven; Garry bushand and wife stood posing. Washerwoman; Peggy O'Neil; Rose

Theirs was ready laughter. But the man below smiled only tof Tralee: Killarney; St. Patrick's. Day: *Chorus Gentlemen, Plense: Intro: Hunting we will go: Sally in The man who had been one of the oblige a camera-man.

сап the matter be; Londonderry Air; our Alley: John Peel; Oh Dear what There's n Tavern in the Town.

10.25 Dance Musle and Variety. Dance Orch. Hadn't Anyone You....Geraldo and His Or- chestra: Vocol-It's D'Lovely (from

up)....

Frances Day

London streets.

WARNING TO

HOSPITALS About

THE SACRIFICE

has been

A great sacrifice made

Mr. by 82-years-old George Heppinstall of Darfield, near Wombwell. South York-

altre,

For 50 years he had worn a

beautifully beard-p

Aowing beard, which turned a venerable while as Mir. Heppinstall's years advanced.

Came Uic crisis and a problem. Both Mr. Heppirstall and his beard could not get into a gas One mark at the same time.

had to be sacrificed, so the beard was cut off. I have no destro to be gassed yet." he said.

WAITER'S HOAX AS CAPTAIN

A

ofcer much-bemedalled

in

Post- Mortems

on

Drove Two Years

With 'L' Licence

John George Babb, fined at South Western Police Court re- cently for three motoring offences, was sad to have been driving a car for two years with a provi- sional drivers' Reence.

Bubb, who lives In Lombard- road. Battersea. 8.W.. said:

་་་

my living with it. I sent for my test straight away, and will lake it In fourteen days."

The practice of hospital bought the car for £5 and I get doctors holding private post- mortem examinations patients with no official re- presentative of the coroner present was condemned by Mr. J. Kenyon Parker, the Sheffield coroner, recently.

"If this practice persists," he warned the solicitor representing the Sheffield captain's uniform was noticed recent Royal Hospital, "there will After dinner (for which they ally in Paris barracks, at military be trouble with trade unions ways dress, Memita in black and courses, in conversation with officers. high heels) they drink her special He was among the officers who and others on whose contri- liqueur. For this she takes two tipe marched past King Leopold of the butions the hospital de- oranges, pricks them, puts them in Belgians who recently unveiled in

a preserving bottle with halt a Paris a memorial to his father.

pends."

pound of dried prunes and a bottle Then he was notleed-by the The widow of John Dungworth, a of brandy, and leaves in the sun for two months, then strains.

"WE ALL WEPT"

police when they heard reports that the captain had been trying to obtain money from women.

the immortal The captain, like "We listen to the radio when we can get England," said Mac. "When captain of Koepeniek 32 years ago, they started the Empire broadcast in had houxed the army. But not the 1932 I was sitting with the doctor police.

We heard Big and other white

they The "Captain,"

53-years-old engineer and atter, of School-lane, Dronfield, near Shefeld,, told the coroner that she gave permis slon to a slater at the hospital for a post-mortem to be made.

fle was Bned 20s. for speeding. 10s. for not having "L" plates, and 10s. for driving while unaccom panted.

10 Years' Ban On Dog Owner And Why It's So Long

When told by General Sir George Jeffreys that she would be debar- red from keeping a dog for ten years, Mrs. Jane Fanting, aged 70, of Uptongrey, near Basingstoke. said: "That's a long me. I shali bo dead by then."

"That why we made it so long." replied Sir George.

She was summoned at Basing- sloka recently faintly with her husband, Ethrian Panting, aged 75, for cruelly to a cross-bred sheepdog which had been kept tied up for two months and had to be shot.

Each was oned 2s. 6d.

She was given a death certißente,. which she took to the registrar's discovered, office, but found it clased, Ben, and we all wept."

was a walter named Paul Monmaron. The next day the registrar refused; And now the MacCalls are on six [Note The Captain of Koepenick to reglater the death. months' leave. They have been to was a cobbler who, in 1908, wearing America. Memita has made friends: a borrowed uniform, commandeered physician at the hospital, was naked office the first day, would not this

some soldiers and overawed the by the coroner who had suggested death have been registered in "She learned how to make me mayor of the town into surrendering that a post-mortem should be made ordinary way as a natural death? lemon pies and mince ples from my the town treasury.]

with the first Mra, MacCall,

first wife. They got along fine," said

Moc.

After America they went to Edin- Costly Bracelet Found

burgh, Captain MacCall's home town

Burlingame, Cal. There they met his fifty-year-old

Jerry Govla, gardener, one day sister Agnes, who is secretary to a religious society. She was full of found a tarnished bracelet while he was mowing grass. He gave it to his;

Came

Dr. George E. Robinson, a house

on Dungworth.

"It is a recognised practice for the senior nurse on the ward, if a doctor is not present, to show post-mortem forms to the re- latives,” he replied.

HURT AT WORK

The post-mortem

the

Dr. Robinson: No, because you were

"The Fleet's lit

with Orchestra: Dance Orch-Tu

Saia Tango....

Henry

King and His

Hotel Plerre Orchestra; Humorous→→ The Girl Next Door (Miller)........ Max Miller with Orchestra; Dance

Orch. Samum-Symphonie Fox- Trot; Procession of the Sirdar--Fox- Trot

Sydney Kyte and His Band: Vocni-L'Angelus De La Mer (Gou-

Orchestra

directed

chorus of

Damia with

by Gaston Lon

cais et Marie-Claire Carmen Torres and Robert

Folies

and

Basson

of the with Orchestra and chorus of

Bergere directed by Gaston Lapeyronnie; Voca

Vocal-The

Old ree Muskeleers (Ashlyn)... The Three with Plano: Dance Orch-I Can't Remember Her Name: A-Tisket A- Cotton Tasket--Fox-Trot....Billy

und His Band with vocal chorus,

11.0 Close down,

RAPE ALLEGED

Brother Accused by His Younger Sister

Alleged to have raped his 12-year- old sister, Lam Kwok-chung, 21, Mr. unemployed, appeared before B. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

Inspector W. Mair and Detective- Sergeant R. MacVey were present

for the police,

1t

was stated that on October 12, shortly after 1 p.m., the defendant allegedly sent his sister to buy him a packet of cigurettes. On her re- the turn, the defendant committed alleged set.

Some minutes later, their mother discovered what had happened. On being accused, the defendant denied it and became aggressive. The mother was then advised by fellow tenants to repart the matter to the pollee.

Medical evidence was given by Dr. R, S. Begbie, Government Bacterio- logist, Dr. L. Tillinger and Dr. K. D. Ling, of the Queen Mary Hospital, stated they found signs of inter- who ference.

After further evidence had been given, the tearing was adjourned to November 30.

The public was excluded from the Court.

GARRISON TOMBOLA

There will not be any Tombola going to be informed, It was not un-in the Garrison Lecture Hall on il after the post-mortem that we Friday and Saturday, but it will could say definitely whether it was a commence on December 2 when case of which you should be in- there will be a $50 Snowball. formed.

The Coroner: The ordinary medical

on Dungworth, practice is not for the hospital to friendly, advice.

Than they

to London. children as a toy. Noticing it later added the doctor, showed a cerebral make a post-mortems examination to "Twenty-four years ago London was on, he tried a little polish on it. It abscess, probably connected with a and out whether it is a case for the like an old duchess," said Mac. Look on a new sparkle. He took it knee Injury sustained at work, for coroner, but to report to the coroner "Now she's like chorus girl, to jeweller to see what it was. It which the man had been admitted to before an examination is made if

there is any suspicion of accident. I'm disappointed. I don't like was a platinum bracelet set with hospital.

The Coromert. But for the widow A verdict of Accidental Death was anything modern or fashionable, ex- 144 diamonds with a total value for cept my wife.”

the braclet of more than $1,500. being too late to reach the registrar's, recorded.

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