1939-01-23 — Page 3

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 23, 1939.

Libory, Supapuo

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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~~

Links With

things that he didn't want to Elizabeth,

do.

For instance, according to

father

his

He did the opposite to what he was

asked.

If requested to clove a door he

would do it-then open it.

Ellen Terry

A FEW years ago it was fear-

He would give presents to people, i ed that Tudor Cottage, Snull}

The Biggest Customer

BRITAIN bought £6,000,000

worth of "munitions," main- |ly military and civilian planes, from the United States last year.

Britain was the largest purchaser.

Chin spent £1,830,000 and France

£1,300,000,

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

BAN SUCCESSFUL

It is also revealed, that the appeali by Mr. Curdell Hull, Secretary of Stafe. to American aircraft manufac- turers not to export plattes or boraba | to countries whose armed forces are accused of bombing civilian popula tions has been almost completely successful in preventing such Ameri») can supplies reaching Japan,

Mr. Hull's appeal was issued un July 1, und since that date exportsj ut aircraft to Japan have been neg- fatible, although they totalled

£1,000,000 in the Art six months.

would take them back fo rive to Hythe, Kent-for the last 25 In Four-Leaf Clover!

someone else.

"MIND OF 12"

with il

years of her life the home of

moves this

Recently Kendall was found un-Daine Ellen Terry-might bej conscious in his bedroom length of gas piping from a jet run-taken to the United States. ning underneath the bed-clothes.

The interest the National Trust now taking in its preservation re-

danger and will, It Experts stated at a Southwark In-hoped.

the retention of the ensure quest that Kendall's mind was equal whole properly as a memorial. to that of a child of 12.

In ultion to the cielightful afd The coroner, Mr. A. Douglas Cow-house with its rose garden and big burn, recording a verdict of Suicide Elizabethan barn-annually serving while of Unsound Mind when sulfers a theatre for memorial perfor- ing from dementia praccoa, com-mances there are cottages dating mented: "It has been said that back to the reign of Henry VII. crimes have been committed by per-

TOLLGATE, TOO sons suffering from this trouble with-

out thein really knowing what they With an old toll gate, the group of

Soother

words, dual per. Umbered dwellings in its rural sel-

have

Mr.

ting represents a little piece of old Robinson, his brother-in-England.

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

"Every night he locked his bedroom

cloor.

"One of his peculiarities was his habit 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.

known, to have been standing in now "quite a place of pilgrimage." the

reign of Queen Elizabeth and

In one room I have got together everything 1 could find in relation to the Terry family," she said. "In an- other the Elizabethan kitchen, with Its great brick freplaće,

are gifts received frum Mrs. Siddons and Garrick.

"My mother's bedroom has been when she

perfectly normally, and we thought kept exactly as it was

he had overcome is dream-like per- senality. Something must have hap- pened to his mind."

HORROR OF DOCTORS

Mr. Robinson adster that his brother-in-law had a horror of doe- tors, and would never go for treat-

ment,

died."

£4,000,000 Cinema Deal

To take the other side of his per DEON Theatres, Ltd., become sonality, he was a good workman, hej

used to come home regularly, and

the biggest cinema chain in

there was never any question of his Britain by the purchase from losing his memory and wandering. Odeon Cinema Holdings of u It is typical of a certain type of further 82 theatres, of which 66 mental disease that the sulterer entirely lacks all sense of what netinare at present operated by Odeon Theatres under manage- is appropriate at the moment because, owing to his split mind, he is less inment agreements. terested in the affairs of the ordinary world than in his private thoughts.

Club Has Sex Equality

Melbourne.

The announcement of this deal, made by Philip fill and Partners recently states That the copital amount involved exceeds £4,000,000.

The Bnance of the project has been privately arranged by Philip 1 and Partners, and no publie issue will be involved.

It is understood that Mr. Arthur Rank and Mr. Lestle Farrow

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

hos established

£30,000,000 PLANS

are

Ellington, Conn.

I four-leaf clovers bring luck, Mrs. Leon Parker has enough to last fetime. She pleked more than 400 of them during the months.

summer

UFS

Secretary of State Cordell Huil, giving one of the keynote speeches at the Pan-American conference in Lima, Peru, declared an embargo un totalitarian theories, in behalf of the Western Hemisphere. Ils assertions were in accord with those of Jese Maria Cantito, Argentine Foreign Minister. Above. Mr. Hull at The microphones,

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

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

sex equality by a provision pro- The ontwancement also makes hibiting its male members from buy-reference to the £10,000,000 deal ing tickets for women at student between Odeon Theatres, Ltd., and A. J. Skinn, of Hongkong, who recently married Lieut. O. J. F. Lockwood entertainments and its women mem. the Gaumont-British Picture Cor-

St. John K.N.. at St. Anne's Church, Kew Green. bere from allowing their escorts to poration, which has been in progress pay for them.

Punch To Jaw Breaks Ankle

་,

since October. It is stated:

Egg 8.1/2 Inches Long

Berlin, N. Y.

Afternoon Tea Praised

Montreal.

"Odeon Theatres are proposing to make an offer to the Ordinary share- bolders of the Gaumont-British Cor- poration and other negotiations are proveeding to acquire the holdings including the voting shares of the Ostrer group,

An over-size chicken's egg, eight Afternoon tea is a definite aid to "Examination of accounts and and a half Inches by eight inches, health, Dr. 1. M. Rabinowitch told During & fist-fight Lewis Thornhill, survey of properties will of necessity is being exhibited in selence classes the McGill Chemistry Society here. 53, was punched so hard on the chin occupy home time, and it will not be at the Berlin Central school. In Dr. Rabinowitch said drinking of a thut he suffered fractured right possibile to put forward a formal addition to a double yolk, the huge cup of tea during the afternoon had -ankle. He declined to name his offer until towards the end of March egg also contained ta second ega defnite value in keeping the em-

assailant,

or the beginning of April”

measuring six inches in circumstance, ciency of the body high.

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WE

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 an accusation of fraud in an Amsterdam gaol.

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 Ballot & Acrobatic Dancer

from the Arcadia Salon and Rochester Casino

structed spherical safe concreted Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor). into the wall of his hume; in 1033 be bought, for £58,000, the fumous Porter-Ithodes diamond.

They remembered. too, that Mr. Wreszynski was regarded as one of the leading connoisseurs of jewel- lery in Europe.

Mr. Wreszynski bought in Paris, 1n one go, more than £100,000 worth of

wellery a few years ago.

QUEEN VICTORIA SAW IT

Helen Lockhart (Soprano).

Eva Turner (Soprano).

The Harmony Three.

Peanut Roach (Balancing Act).

P. Guntrip (Baritone).

The Porter-Rhodes diamond which Mainy. (Comedian), he bought.in 1933 was discovered in

South Africa in 1880. After it reach-B.Q.M.S. Dicks (Comedian). ed-England, Mr. Porter-Rhodes took

12 : 0 scaled envelope through a

snowstorm in the early days of 1881 Q.M.S. & Mrs. Flinter

to show to Queen Victoria. It is re- corded

that she was "prently 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

many

welphing 56 carats. It is now in the possession of an Indian Maharajah.

This stone was only one of the

valuable

gems. Wreszynski Dought for his wife. There was a perfect black pea

pearl, weighlog 02 grains, costing him £35,000 in Paris. It was set in a ring.

Mrs. Wreszynski had a black pear? necklace for which more than £24,- 000 was paid. There were 45 pearls in it, the largest weighing 50 grains. Ench pearl was separated from the next by a dat facaded Rondelle dia- mond.

At the same time Mr. Wraszynski bought a rosy pearl necklace weigh- Ing 1000 grains for £32,000.

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(Accompanist).

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