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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 20,

1939.

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AUTHOR LIKES SHAKESPEARE- FOR CROSSWORDS

IF you want to write well you must read the Bible and

the great classical writers of the past and present.

That is the unanimous opinion of five distinguished modern authors who were questioned on their reading. All of them acknowledged their debt to the books they were

forced to read at school.

Jailed Ex-Magnate Actress Sent Gifts Back

AMSTERDAM.

SIGFRIED WRES-

ZYNSKI, ex-million- aire, against whom a re- ceiving order has been made in London, spent £1,200 in a fortnight in

DICKENS, NO JOKE

Evelyn Waugh, who confessed that This principal use for Shukerneure was In solving crossword puzzles, de- clared: "An author should read the clasates and the newspapers and not worry

about what his contemporaries fore writing"

Tested on a list of 70 authors of classle rank Waugh put up a gond

scort.

"Yes, I know Milton pretty well- especially his prose, Dickens? Yes, but I cannot bear his jokes and for that reason I cannot stand 'Pickwick Papers,

A. G. Macdonell; "You have not to read the classics in order to write the Paglish language, and the Bible should come at the head of the list.

JOB'S EXAMPLE

"No author knows his stuff until he knows his Bible backwards and

Amsterdam just before he forwards and the whole of the 30th was arrested for alleged frauds.

He showered furs, diamonds and orchids on Eva Busch, a fair-haired German stage and radio stur, with whom he was hopelessly in love.

BROKEN-HEARTED

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|Chapter of Job by heart.

In the 38th Chapter of Job God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind. 1 "Dekens? Not Dickens was supreme creator of character, but I would not go to him to learn to write Eglish."

R. C. Sherriff: “I make a point of reading the classics whenever I go on ja,long train journey or sea voyage.

also multe it a penance to read the classies in Bollywood-n perance Have champagne parties and an antidote. Consequently, I night after night Amsterdam | have read more of the classies in clubs in her honour. He went to follywood Dan anywhere else in the prison broken-hearted because world,"

she did not return his love and rejected his gifts.

While Dutch detectives watched hi shave in bis huxurious hotel apartment before they took him to prison nearly two months ago his one thought was to telephone Miss Busch. He could not find her. She had left Amsterdam.

Mr. Cor Steyn, a broadcasting or-j gonist and band leader mel Wreszyn- ski when Miss Busch was singing at the City Theatre here.

"Mr. Wręszynski oftengjold me he was very rich," said Mr. Steyn. His pockets were always stuffed with

Miss Tennyson Jesse passed the

| tent with a high percentagé of marks.

The Bible? Yes. I know uny Bible from beginning to end. Milton? Everything except, I am ashamed to say, Parndise Lost': and naturally know thy Shakespeare."

READS WRAPPINGS

Miss Tennyson Jesse re-reads one volume of Dickens, une volume of Thackeray and the whole of Jane Austen every year. In addition, she finds time to read four serious boots and four novels every week.

"F

y

cannot live without print," she

I have even read the newspaper wrappings round the breakfast kip-

notes, and he threw them around apers for want of someth a better."

if he were a millionaire.

"I have known Miss Burch, who la twenty-three, many years. Mr. Wreszynski told me that although he had been married three times he had never really been in love be- forc.

"I have never seen a man spend money like he did in those weeks. He gave her a mink coat, a big diamond ring, diamond bracelets and a gold efgarette case. She did not want his friendship, but he pursued her everywhere. "Big bunches of orchids—they must have cost at least £10 a time -were delivered to her every day; wherever the was. I went with them once to a night club. In an hour I saw him spend £10 on champagne.

Sax Rohmer reads the classies---ar at least a fair number of them-with

deliberate object in view.

authors of the

"I find," be explained, "the great the Best cor-

to the slipped Americanised style of to-day Into which one can slip so easily.

"Milton?--Haven't read him for donkey's years!

"Yes, I read Shakespeare seme- times."

Dean Mathews Worried

Pasadena, Cal Detin Shailer' Mathews, head of the Divinity school of the University of Chicago, told the Pasadena townhall meeting that America's three great- est contributions to the world are being threatened. These he sald are religious liberty, a written con- ! stilution and written gunrinlees or treatles between nations.

Expanding Fleet Air Arm

London.

The Navy is faced with a formida bie task in building up the Fleet Air "Each moming he sent her a 25 Arm at a time when all the services bottle of scent. Nothing is too are expanding. Even the floating good; get the best, he would may

branch of the Navy, which in nor- tossing a note to the hotel porter.mal times might have helped the air "In October last year Miss Busch branch by transferring personnel, went in the same ship with him to now wants to keep all its engine- the United States. They had not room artificers and to get more. been there more than a few days The problem has three sub- when he gave her a diamond ring divisions-namely, pilots, observers, worth £1,000.

and mechanics. For years past alf "G-men hung about his hotel for the observers have been naval per- three days waiting in arrest him. He sonnel nad mostly officers, so there managed to elude them and fled the is here no question of replacement, country. Miss Busch WILS inter- unly of expansion. Of the pilots in viewed by the police but was able the Fleet Air Arm 70 per cent were to prove she knew nothing of his naval officers at the time when it financial affairs.

was decided to transfer the arm from

"She was left penalless in New | the Air Ministry to the Admiralty, York. From Luise Rainer she so that only 30 per cent had to be managed to borrow some money with replaced, though again expansion which to get back to Holland.”

complicated the matter.

nus

in Baste. She later left

Miss Busch has recently been MECHANICS playing in a revue, "Roi Albert VIII" in a night club, the Gambri- The most serious business is the for of air mechanics, for provislan Paris.

hitherto the RA.F. has provided all Wreszynski owes £13,000 to peti-the N.C.O.s and men needed on the tioning creditors in Lontion. His carriers and the catapult ships to principal creditor is Mr. Benjamin nintain the aircraft, engines, orm- Ussher Wood, West End clubman, nient, and electrical and wireless in- now the guest of the Maharajah of stallations in proper Rajpipla. Ila original claim was for Navy, starting from zero, bug now

£0.000 for money lent.

to replace the whole of the R.A.F. maintenance personnel with naval

order. The

ised naval flying has to be taught at spécial

Is

Miss Jean Gilbert, of Jersey, believes in looking ahead. She has already, started training for the 1030 National Diving Cham- pionships which take place at Minehead, Somerset, in July and has moved from Jersey to Lond on to practise daily at the Mar- shall street Baths, W. Here she is caught by a speed-camera,

HEIRESS BORROWS FARE TO COURT

MRS. Grace Welsted, a pretty brunette, of Sunny Court, Solent View-rond, Gurnard, near Cowes, stated at Guild- ford Bankruptcy Court recently that she spent £7,000 in three years, and had had to borrow her fare to get to the court.

She told the Official Receiver that £9,000 came to her under the will of her grandfather, who left about £00.000. She had previously borrowed £2,000, so that she received only £7,000.

She borrowed the £2,000 for personal expenses and to invest in a firm of gown dealers who went into liquidation in 1935. She received nothing at all from the company.

Lost Memory Man Speaks

schools. This naval Ideally the best system and the most ernnomical. The principles and practice of elementary flying train- under the charge of the ings are RAF. Central Flying School, and they could Jurdly be improved. It would be a loss K the Fleet Air Arm were to break away from the C.FS.

ALF-DECIPHERABLE writing on for organisation. The only reason

a piece of blotting-paper is one having separate elementary schools would be if the R.A.F. could not of the clues to the Identity of a mys- cope with the numbers of pilot tery man who called at Salisbury pupils for both services, and this Infirmary suffering from loss of does not seem likely to happen, al-memory and was admitted to a ward. though there may be some temporary Two names are being investigated pressure. Netheravon is the school by the police. A bill found in one where naval plots are taught ele- of the man's pockets and receipted meatury dying, but lately the Ad-at the Crown Hotel, Worcester, on miralty has dockled to train some December 14 was made out to "Mr. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Chapman." officers as pilots, and it has not yet heen decided where they are to be

taught to fly.

The public trustee, with her con- sent, arranged a settlement in 1936 "to protect herself from herself."

PAY ALL DEBTS

In August 1036 she borrowed a further £1,000, £500 of which was used in settling her debts, and the remainder lasted her 18 months. She still went on incurring debts,

She thought that after she fled her petition in bankruptcy the settlement would become void and she would have been able to borrow money in the ordinary way.

A visitor answering the man's des- cripton who registered at a Salisbury hotel in the name of Gibbons left the hotel ofter lunch recently--about Finally, there is the question of ten hours before the mystery man aerodromnes for the naval pilots. arrived at the hospital, This is not a question of training. Propped up in his bed at the in-

Her When fully trained they have to keep Bemary the mystery mon said:

unsecured Kabilities were in constant practice, and it is not

CSS 3. Sd,, and her assets £805, "I seem to remember staying at an practicable to do all their flying from hotel here. I think

leaving a surplus of £256 103. 7d. I took a bus carriers. They must have shore to go to Barford St. Martin (a villageimated value of the reversion was £1,050, which would be sufficient to aerodromes. Four stations are to be near Salisbury) to meet a friend. handed over fortinwith by the Ale

pay all her debts. Ministry to the Admiralty, and these ure Leg-on-Solent, Ford, near Little-

London. chester, and Donibristle, on the Fife seen him off by train to shore of the Firth of Forth. These After that I recall a fall will not long suffice for the needs of I remember paying an hotel blii, but "I know I stayed at Worcester and the Admiralty will have to acquire I do not think my name is Chapman. more and aerodromes, and probably overseas as well as at home,

4 REMEMBER A FALL'

"I seemed to have met a friend and

Wieszynski was not present at any personnel. Of course it can only be of the bankruptcy proceedings in one gradually, and the new payol hampton, Worthy Down, near Win to have returned to Salisbury and

Curey-street, when claims totalling a nechanics have £20,000 were mentioned,

Women Wrestlers

Will Be Banned

to

be

sent through the R.A.F, schools of technl- cal training. It will be several years before the process has been completed.

When it has been completed a new question will arise. The R.A.F. 14 expanding also, and to have to train naval mechanics as well as its own the

In no circumstances wit women men increases its burden,

be allowed to take part in public; future, will

be best for the pre-

wrestling matches in London, state tent system to continue, or for the the L.C.C. Entertainments Commit- Admiralty to establish its own tert- tee, reviewing the condition under nical schools?

which licences for public wrestling! As a general principle I should will be granted.

From January the L.C.C. is con- trolling premises used for wrestling, with similar powera to those which it now has over boxing halls,

Spelling Bee

Tow many of these words are How

correct and that is wrong with the others?

Anunciation Louis Quattorze

Lossiology setnibrieve

annulty

annoint

hold that a common system of train- Ing would be the soundest policy as well as the most economical for the country, The Air Ministry remains the Ministry of aircraft supply, whleti I consider the most satis factory arrangement. But if It should happen that Fleet aircraft come to diverge seriously from R.A.F. typen some other system might have to be considered. Cor- riers and catapults

ons ons altcraft design.

Impose limita- I cannot conceive that the needs of the two services in aero engines will be very diverse, and so there should be no need for soparate schools for fiters. TRAINING

́ ́English Oxford Dictionary spell-| A similar question with regard to Ings of these words will be found on flying training arises.. The R.A.F. page 9.

teaches all plots to fly, but special-

the Fleet Air Arm, and in due course

CONTINENTAL

Tha Sturdy Portable

CARLOWITZ a co.

4, Queen's Rd, Tel. 81225.

friend of mine.

That serins to be the name of a

"I think I am a journalist." The mystery man recalled spend- ing some time in China, where he was known by a Chineco namie meaning "Flower of the West."

Navy Dockyard Men

Get Increase In Pay

Busle pay of coppersmiths in Navy dockyards and other establishments at home is increased, from 108, a week (hired) and 40s. week (established) to 50%, and 478, dd, the Admiralty announced.

Prisoners Go On Spree

Sydney, N, 8, W.

A wrong label enabled prisoners in a Brisbane geol to have a apréo, A four-gallon tin labeled "bolled linseed oil" turned out to be spirits.

The case was adjourned.

"Residences" Replace Barracks

Kent free: Charruing country- side residence, every mod, con.. h, and c., central heating) large reception rooms, slipper and Blower baths.

•

And the lucky tenanta soldiers.

The "residences" are the new barracks being bulli in various parts of the country, and plahn- ed by the War Office Designs Branch, which is housed in un- pretentious offices оп the Birand.

Major-General J. II. Beith ("Ian Tay"), the new War Offico Director of Fabilo Relations, was mitch impresseit when he in- spected the Branch recently.

"The contrast with conditions In the old days is nutonishing," He said,

"Abari' from the gener de comfort and squalor, there was no such thing as hot water, and you had to go out of doors for everything.

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We have pyjamas in plain colours, contras-

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every kind of pattern,

discreet or cheerful.

The prices from $10.50 for lustro poplin up to $17.50 for light flan- nel. All prices loss 10%

cash discount.

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