1939-01-21 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 21, 1939.

"Merry Widow,' £345 in Debt, Sings Wealthy

Her Old Songs

Blonde Who| Was 'Sacked TWO actresses stepped

Deadly Gas Halts Hiccoughs

Oakland, Cal.

recently out of the grim buildings that make up Lon- don's Bankruptcy Courts- one a young blonde, her head downcast; the other, silver-haired, humming the theory is that the gas deflates the French song from "La diaphragm and relieves irritation. Veuve Joyeuse" ("The) Merry Widow"), which Rare 7-Leaf

Physicians of the Alameda County) Hospital have successfully used car- bon inunoxide is for stopping a prolonged ease of hiccoughing atter

made her the rage of Paris

in 1908.

Je ne connals.voire Paris

Que depuis peu de jours,

Et je vous trouve trop d'esprit

Pour croire a votre ambir.

all other means had failed." Their

Clover

Lima, O.

the

The seven-leaf clover, not four-leaf variety, is the true rally| of that plaut, according to Harold

The blonde was Gwen Wyndham, Bly, New Hampshire, O., farmer, who went on the stage In 1928. Shey said he found 10 four-leaf and] and debts of C824, assets of £27.120 five-ltaf clovers on his farm in a She told the court she had had no single day, but that he had seen only engagements for two years, that she relied for her keep on her mother, seven-leaf clover in his life,

who allowed her £4 or £5 a week.

In 1835 her mother lent her £228, past puzzled unhers and equally which she handed to a friend in re-puzzled solicitors' clerks. She said: turn for a half-share in the profits To think of it-in the Bankruptcy the play "Lover's Leap" "1 was Court for a few hundred pounded an artist in the play," she said, "but And I used to earn £200 week after a few weeks I was given the when the stage was the stage." sack."

of

£824.

Born in India, a colonel's daugh- ter, Constoner Drever ran away from home at sixteen to go on the stage.

"I got my first big chance in 1903 In A Princess of Kensington' at the

Her companion in misfortune was showounds a week

was

the

She sued her friend for £81 nad obtained judgment, but this was re- versed on appeal. Her bankruptcy was due to inability to pay her own and her friend's costs, amounting to Savoy," she said. "Agnes Frater. the star, fell ill two days before the I took her place. and "Five salary. I used to bring down the house with the song, Little Princess, look up, look up! Walter Passmore and Harry Lytton (the late Sir Henry Lytton) were in the cast,

"But the port I created was Nadya in the French version of The Merry Widow at the Apollo In Paris."

of another generation Annette Constance Randall-Stevens, knuwn on the stage as Constance Drever, belle of Edwardian days, now fifty- eight. Hur debts were £345, her assols-nothing.

She told the court her sole income

that she

was £400 a year from a trust fund, would repay the debt to her bank--the sole creditor-by £80 a year, the amount of her income tax refund.

Her examination concluded, she waltzed gally down the corridor,

R.0.5 occurring in Tunis, after the demand in the Italian Chum- ber of Deputies that Tunisia be ceded to Italy by France, resulted in much property damage in the north African elty. Above, policemen stand guard at an Italian travel bureau where n window was smashed by rioters.

Coyote Led To Bounty

Oak, Cal.

em back alive when it comes o Tony Briceno knows how to bring coyotes. Unable to run one down with his car because the an.mal kept

an

Good Samaritan Robbed

Oakland, Cal. Mrs. Julia Donlap, partly blind, is Ardent believer that modern She was trying to and a room for u "good Samaritans" should go armed,

too close to a fence, he turned his headlights on so that it would be blinded by the glare, jumped out of And off she stepped on her hus- tall, while keeping his foot on Its the car, picked the coyote up by the band's arm-he, too, 15 a singer-head, took off his belt and fastened humming that haunting tune from it around the coyote's neck and led destitute Negro woman when she “The Merry Widow" "Vllin, O it to the county clerk's office to col-was held up and rabbed of $23 by a

Jest $2.50 bounty.

Villa, O mon cher tourment.

Negro.

U.B.BEER

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Child Dies In Lift

HRISTOPHER Coats,

four-years-old mem- ber of the famous Paisley cotton family, crashed 50ft. to death down the lift shaft at a block of luxury flats in Lowndes- street, Chelsea recently.

The boy, who had always been fascinated by lifts, had just returned from an afternoon walk with his nurse, and was about to enter his parents' flat.

He had been lifted out of his perambulator when suddenly, according to a member of the staff, he darted across the hall towards the lift.

Before anyone could stop him he entered and pressed the button. The lift shot up three or four floors,

Then, in trying to get out, he apparently rolled under the lift and crashed to the bottom of the shaft.

LIFT SEALED

Dr. H. Beckett Overy, who live opposite the flats, was called, but the boy was dead when he arrived.

tae

Mr.

The lift was closed and sealed by

police

Inter, pending inquiries. and Mrs. J. B. S. Coats, the boy's parents, have lived at the flat for about six montiu.

When told of the tragedy Mrs. Conts left with a mald to slay with frichda near by, Capt. Coats mained in the building.

They have another child, a daugh- ter uged 22.

MOST-TRAVELLED BABY

with his parents world four

When he was one year old Chrls- topher Coats was one of the world's

babies. Innst-travelled

Ho

went on a round-the-

His father is the son of a director of the

the famous Paisley sewing thread i firm. Its mother was Miss Betsan' Horlick, daughter of the late Sir Ernest Horlick, and Lady Oppen- heimer, and their wedding at South- wark Cathedral in October 1933, was of the most spectacular of the year.

опе

There werd sixteen brides- malds wearing gowns of white velvet and scarves In blue. green and gold.

Miss Horlick designed the wedding cake herself. Before her marringe she attended L.C.C, classes for arts crafts, studying architecture, house planning, decorating [2] poltery,

and

Mr. Conts' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Coats, live at Sundrum, Ayr-i shire.

Girl Has 34th

Fracture

Springfield, Mo.

Doris June Will'amson, 10. hos suffered the 34th fracture of a bone. Physicians said she "would grow out of it."

Llery, Supreme Court

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