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THE HONGKONG" "TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, .1938.

SCHOOLDAY LOVERS 60 YEARS, WED

Now Bill, 69, Brings Fanny

Her Morning Tea

HOVE.

There is no age limit to happiness. You notice that when you meet Hove's oldest bride and bride- groom, Fanny, aged seventy three, and Bill, aged sixty-nine, now Mr. and Mrs. William Soughton. With their children and grandchildren assembled to bless them, Fanny and Bill were married recently at the Register Office, Hove.

fore they parted that evening they

made a date for the next night.

Huge New Swimming Stadium

edi.

Sitting in front of their own fire to be built opposite the Prince's

A £125,000 swimming stadium is i place Bill said, "Think, if she hadn't catre on the site of the old Holborn recognised me I would never have, which are now being demolish- been able to hold her to that promise she made me all those years ago, Afterwards the two families gather-sters I asked her to marry me.

"Yes, when we were both young- She ed at Bill's six-room collage for Wedding cake and port wine. Fanny used to go about with my sister. Somehow or other we parted, but we are together again now and it is a fine thing.'

has Ave daughters, two sons, seven grandchildren and seven Breal- grandchildren, but she buzzes about her new home as gally as a bride of twenty.

'PARTED SOMEHOW' Five weeks ago Fanny, who was Mrs. Gralmes, widow,

beside sat

Slic Bill, widower, in a Hove hotel. thought the remembered his face. She asked his name.

It was a reunion of schoolday sweethearts after sixty years.

On their first day of married life Bill got up at six o'clock, brought his bride her morning tea.

SECRET COURTSHIP Fanny looks after him too, She Ands his slippers, holds his egal, reads fine print for him because her eyes are better than his now, smiles ? ever she looks at him.

"We had a secret courtship," she Be-cald, and it was lovely. We didn't tell the children anything about it, but after that first night when we met we saw each other every single

MEGAN TAYLOR evening. REFUSES £10,000

Megan Taylor, the 18-year-old Manchester girl who won the world amateur figure skating last championship for women year, denies that she thinks of turning professional.

"I have been working in the day- time for a friend of mine and BI came along each night to meet me after work. Just like he did when we went to school sixty years ago. "I was lonely in my house over in Brighton and Bill was lonely here, There never was a thing to do after ten.

will enjoy cooking for Bill; I un a good cook and he has a grand appetite. I've brought my lodger "Iyalong here too. He and Bill can sit

together when I'm busy,"

"I am only just 18 and I want to remain an amateur," she said. had

Alen some

tests at Denham

offered Studios, and I was

a bl contract Ko to Hollywood, but wont to defend my work title and also to enter for the British cham- pionship at Wembley in December.

"I will also enter for the European

title ut Earl's Court In January.

"My big ambition is to win the

1940 Olymple title and I must re- main amateur till then."

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When complete in the summer of 1940 It will contain two pools-the farger 103ft, by 4ft., the smaller 90ft.

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Holborn Counei), which is Anancing the new stadium, hopes to stage international competitions and galas the larger pool, which will be known as the Swimstad.

The diving end of the pool wiil be 10ft. deep.

"The scheme may sound costly, but o many swimming clubs hull func- lions at the Holborn baths that we do not expect the new baths to take

our rates." much money out of council member said.

The larger pool will be filled with underwater lighting.

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Personal attention to the wounded in Chincue hospitals is part of the maulfold duties accepted by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese Generalissimo. Here, right, she inspects surgical instruments received as a gift from Czechoslovakia,

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Friends of the couple who had gone to Caxton Hall were mystified by the sudden cancellation.

Mollison spent the afternoon in his Now that they are married Bill

flat in Berkeley-street, Mayfair, with Five minutes before Jim Mol- the woman who should have been calls Fanny Male. She loves it.

ex-husband of his bride. "We'll never have any trouble," she lison, airman

"We'll live together on our Amy Johnson, was due to marry "DOMESTIC REASONS" pensions here and be happy and com- wealthy plantation owner Mrs. fortable. I know we will be sallaßted Phyllis Hussey, recently, he with each other. Bill was kind und nice when he was young, and he still telephoned Caxton Hall register is. There will not be a cross word office, Westminster, postponing

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Later Mollison said: "There is nothing unusual about the caticella- tion of my wedding plans.

"Phyllis and I found that for domestic reasons it was not con- venient for us to marry to-day."

Asked when he was going to

marry Mrs. ilussey, Mollison smiled and said: "Some ime in the future." He would not give a

date.

"We cannot understand why the cancellation of our wedding should cause such a fuss," he added.

"The reason is a purely private one, and there is no cause for any rumour or speculation in connection with the postponement."

CROWD WAIT IN VAIN

Mr. Mollison's telephone message concelling the wedding arrangements was received about two hours after he had made a definite appointment to be married at four o'clock.

It was impossible, he said, to get along, and the ceremony must be put off for a few days only.

A lurge crowd had gathered out- side the register office. Sume nd office had opened at eight o'clock. been waiting since the

The chief registrar, Mr. Bond, said: "We do not know when the wedding will take place, but it has deinitely been cancelled for to-day.

"Notice of the marriage was frat given three weeks ago, when it was intended to take place by licence." WHIRLWIND COURTSHIP

Mrs. Hussey, former wife of Cap- tain Hussey, owns plantations in the West Indies, and is one of America's wealthiest society women.

Mollison proposed to her after a whirlwind two-week courtship. His marriage in 1932 to Miss Amy Johnson was dissolved fast August,

Film Beauty Was

Bored, Fell From 16th Floor

New York.

Just after dawn recently, beautiful film actress Dorothy Hale scribbled a note, "Will not need you to-day," to the maid who called every day at her sixteenth-floor suite in Hampshire House, fashion- able New York hotel. A few seconds later Dorothy crashed to her death on the pavement 200 feet be- low.

Startled people who rushed to the huddled form noticed there was still a smile on the face; the black hair, in the latest fashion, was not disarranged.

Mr. Gardner Hale, brilliant young American painter, who was killed in 1931 when his car plunged over a precipice in California.

After living in seclusion for some time Dorothy played in Broadway

and later went even-productions, Hollywood.

With her black velvet ing gown she wore silver san- dals with high heels; around her neck was a black ribbon from which hung a gold Floren- tine pendant.

The note to her mald is the only clue to the tragedy of the woman who had played opposite Ronald Colman in "Cynara," had been twice married, and, at thirty-three, was a talented painter and sculptor, an ex- cellent linguist.

Her friends believe Bho WAS "utterly bored." The police record reads: "Tell or jumped-probably suicide."

Miss Hale, who come time, ago was reported as engaged to Mr. Harry LA Hopkins, U.S. States Works Progress Administrator, was former- ly Miss Dorothy Donovan, of Pitts- burg.

Her first husband was Mr. T. Gaillard Thomas, with whom she maintained a salon in Paris. A divorce followed, and she married

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