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MAN WITH SPLIT-MIND

LIVED 'IN

REVERSE'

War-Time Air Raids Did It

TWENTY-FIVE-YEARS-OLD Frederick Kendall, of Chaucer-road, Herne Hill, S.E., had dual personality -two minds, one of which was always undoing the work of the other.

Frederick Kendall, in fact, lived largely "in reverse." That was the result of war-time air raids when he was a child. It made him do queer things— things that he didn't want to do.

For instance, according In Ils father.

He did the opposite to what he was asked.

if requested to efore door he would do it-then open it.

He would give presents in prople. would take the back to give to sumeone else.

Recently Kendall was found un length of gas piping from a jet run ning underneath the bed-clothes,

connefour in his bedroom with a

"MIND OF 12"

Links With

Elizabeth,

Ellen Terry

A

FEW years ago it was fear- ed that Tudor Cottage, Small Hythe, Kent-for the last 25

The Biggest Customer

BRITAIN bought £6,000,000

worth of "munitions," main- military and civilian planes, from the United States last year. Britain was the largest purchaser.

China pent £1,830,000 and France

£1,300,000.

The figures are given in the annual report of the National Munitions Con- trol Board.

BAN SUCCESSFUL

It is also revealed, that the appeal by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, to American alreraft manufac turers not to export planes or bomba to countries whose armed forces are accused of bombing ely

civilian popula- Bons has been almost completely | successful in preventing such Ameri- can supplies renching Japun,

Mr. Hull's appeal was isstred on July 1, and since that date exports of aircraft to Japan have been neg- Dgible. although they totalled

£1,800,000 in the first six months.

years of her life the home of In Four-Leaf Clover

Dame Ellen Terry-might be taken to the United States..

Ellington, Conn.

bring Jucit,

If four-leaf clovers The Interest the National Trust Mrs. Leon Parker has enough to last now taking in its preservation re-doo of them

Metime. She picked more than 11is movea

danger

the during and will, it is chsure

the retention of the

Experts stated at a Southwark In-hoped, quest that Kendalf's mind was equal whole property as a memorial, to that of a child of 12.

In addition to the delightful old j The coroner, Mr. A. Dougins Cow-house with its rose garden and big burn, recording a verdict of Suleide Elizabethan barn-annually serving while of Unsound Mind when suffer- as a theatre for memorial perfor- Ing from dementia praecox, com- nanesthere are collages dating mented: "IL has been said that back to the reign of Henry VII. crimes have been committed by per- sons nullering from this trouble with-

TOLLGATE, TOO

out them really knowing what they 'With an old toll gate, the group of have done in other words, duni per-umbered dwellings in its rural set- sonality."

ting represents a little picre of old

Mr. Eric Robinson. his brother-in-England.

law,

door.

now

cald: "As a child he lived in Miss Edith Craig. Dame Ellen's terror of air raids. Perhaps I was daughter, told how she had arranged. this fear that brought about his dual an Ellen Terry Museum in the house personality.

known to have been standing in "Every night he locked his bedroom

the rel

reign of

Queen Elizabeth and a place of pilgrimage." "quite i "In one room I have got together everything I could find in relation to the Terry family," she said. "In an- other the Elizabethan kitchen, with great brick fireplace, are gifts received from Mrs. Siddons and Garrick,

"One of his peculiarities was his limbit of following his mother all over the house. He was de- voted to her, but his devotion seemed more like a dog's. He could not bear her out of his sight when he was at home,

"All through Christmas he acted

ifts

"My mother's bedroom has been

Was

when she

perfectly normally, and we thought kept exactly as it

he

had overcome this dream-like per- died."

sonality. Something must have Imp-

pened to his mind,"

Mr.

HORROR OF DOCTORS

Robinson added

that his

brother-in-law had a horror of doc-f

tors, and would never go for freal-}

ment.

£4,000,000

Cinema Deal

"To take the other side of his per-DE

DEON Theatres, Ltd., become sonality, he was a good workman, he the biggest cinema chain in used to come home regularly, and there was never any question of his Britain by the purchase from losing his memory and wandering. Odeon Cinema Holdings of a

It is typical of a certain type of further 82 theatres, of which 6G mental disease that the sufferer are

at present operated by

entirely lacks all sense of what action Odeon Theatres under manage- is appropriate at the moment because, owing to his split mind, he is less in- ment agreements.

terested in the affairs of the ordinary

The announcement of this deal,

world than in is private thoughts. made by Philip Hill and Partners recently states that the copital amount involved exceeds £4,000,000. The Anance of the project has been privately arranged by Philip Hill and Partners, and no publie issue will be involved.

Club Has Sex Equality

Melbourne.

It is understood that Mr. Arthur Rank and Mr. Leslie Farrow arc

A club of 100 members at Mel-joining the Odron Board. bourne University

zCX

established

£30,000,000 PLANS

bas equality by a provision

The announcement pro-

alno mukes hibiting Its male members from buy-reference to the £30,000,000 deal ing tickets for wont'n at student between Odeon Theatres, Ltd., and entertainments and its women mem- the Gaumont-British Picture Cor- bers from allowing their escorts to poration, which has been in progresa pay for them.

since October. It is stated:

Punch To Jaw Breaks Ankle

months.

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Secretary of State Cordell Hull, giving one of the keynote speeches at the Pan-American conference in Lima, Peru, declared an embargo on totalitarian theorles, in behalf of the Western Hemisphere. His assertions were in accord with those of Jose Above. Mr. Hall at Marin Cuntito, Argentine Foreign Minister. the microphones.

Wreszynski Spent £300,000 Kept Them in a Safe in

·

in

A delightful photograph of Elva Rosemary, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

A. J. Skinn, of Hongkong, who recently married Lieut. O. J. F. Lockwood

St. John R.N., at St. Anne's Church, Kew Green.

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Afternoon Tea Praised

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GRAND SERVICES CONCERT

on

on Jewels, Park Lane | FRIDAY, 27th JANUARY, 1939, at 9.00 P.M. Park Lane

JEST END jewellers

WES

were discussing recent-

ly the jewels which were once owned by Mr. Sieg- mund Wreszynski, the one- time Park-lane financier now awaiting trial on accusation of fraud in an Amsterdam gaol.

an

Among the things they recall- ed were these:

In 1933-34 Wreszynski owned more than £300,000 worth of gems which he kept in a specially con-

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ARTISTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:-- MISS AUDREY OAKENFULL Ballet & Acrobatic Dancer

from the Arcadia Salon and Rochester Casino

structed spherical safe concreted Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor). into the wall of his home; in 1933

hi bought, for £58,000, the famous Helen Lockhart (Soprano). Porter-Rhodes diamond.

They remembered. too, that Mr. Eva Turner (Soprano). Wreszynski was regarded as one of

the leading connoisseurs of jewel- The Harmony Three.

lery in Europe.

Mr. Wreszynski bought in Paris, in

one go, more than £100,000 worth of Peanut Roach (Balancing Act). jewellery a few years ago.

QUEEN VICTORIA SAW IT

P. Guntrip (Baritone).

The Porter-Rhodes diamond which | Mainy (Comedian):

he bought in 1933 was discovered in

South Africa 1880. After it reach B.Q.M.S, Dicks (Comedian).

ed England, Mr. Porter-Rhodes took

it in u sealed envelope through a

snowstorm in the early days of 1881.M.S. & Mrs. Flinter to show to Queen Victoria. It is re- corded that she was "greatly fas cinated by it."

Wreszynski bought it in Paris and Mrs. Wreszynski wore it as a ring. The

diamond, when first discovered. weighed 150 carats in the rough. It became

a polished one-inch stone weighing 50 corals. It is now in the possession of an Indian Maharajah.

This

only one of the valuable many

Wreszynski gems bought for his wife. There was n perfect black pearl, weighing 92 grains, costing him £35,000 in Paris.

stone wa

It was set in

in a ring.

Mrs. Wreszynski had a black pearl necklace for which more than £24,- 000 was paid. There were 45 pearls in it, the largest weighing 56 grains. Each pearl was separated from the next by a fint facaded Rondelle dia- mond.

"Odeon Theatres are proposing to make an offer to the Ordinary share- holders of the Gaumont-British Cor- porntion and other negotiations are proceeding to acquire the holdings Including the voling shares of the Ostrer group;

Afternoon tea is definite old to "Examination of accounts and and a half inches by eight Inches, Thenith, Dr. 1. M. Rabinowitch told survey of properties will of necessity is being exhibited in science classes the McGill Chemistry Society here, bought a rosy pearl necklace weigh- 53, was punched so hard on the chin occupy some time, and it will not be at the Berlin Central school. In Dr. Rabinowitch said drinking of a ing 1000 grains for £32,000. that he suffered a fractured right possible to put forward a formal addition to a double yolk, the huge cup of tea during the afternoon hud ankle. He declined to пате his offer until towards the end of March egg also contained a second assallant.

egg, a definite value in keeping the efll- or the beginning of April."

neusuring six inches in circumstance. elency of the body high.

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