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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 10, 1939,

GARBO WANTS TO BE A LOON, AND WILL BE

ONE of history's minor landmarks of 1939 will probably bo

"Greta Garbo Turns Comedienne.”

As he is paid £38,000 a year, he The Swedish stur, identified with; the screen's most trigle roles for 15 should know. yeurs, his secretly yearned for some

II recent "Bluebourd's Eighth

me to play comic ports. In fact, Wife" shows that his cunning has not up to a point she wants to be a loon, waned. He thought Noel Coward's for Living" not funny Her wish in to be realised in her "Design

next pleture, which is to be directed enough, so he had the whole thing by Ernst Lubitsch, the world's lead-rewritten. Ing exponent of piquant social comely in films.

called The story, at present "Ninotchka" la described as a "kerio comedy about a Russian girl," and will show her hs a young thing from Moscow sent on a commercial mission to Paris,

It is an entirely new deporturi, for though Grela has been seen to simile for a few seconds in some of her pictures, her characterisations have been. by their very nature, quite humourless.

MUST HAVE FUN

.

Lublisch, on the other hond, bubbles over with humour, If any confirmation were needed, it is the fact that three years ago he was de- prived of his German nationally.

He has now left the Paramount studios for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to make two alms, "Ninotchka" being the first,

MAY BE AT DENHAM

It is Just possible the film may be made in England, for Garbo la one: of Metro-Goldwyn's stars for their Britials production plant at Denham, where "A Yanic at Oxford" and "The Citadel" have already been made.

Garbo did not make a flim In 1938. Most of the time the has been holidaying in Sweden and Italy.

Her reported marriage in Capri to Leopolit Stokowaki, the conductor, has not been denied by the slur, who refuses to say yes or no.

In September she returned to Bollywood, where Aldous Huxley, the "You simply must have fun in English novelist, has written for her every picture" he said in London a flim story of the life of Mme. Curie, inst year. "Omitting It Is the mis-Jolt discoverer of radium. take so many European, directors | This subject has now been post-

multe."

poned indefinitely.

£20,000 Relic

From

Vanished From Safe In Night

Stuckholm.

THE most sensational museum theft for years in Sweden- in many respects like the theft of Leonardo di Vinci's Mona Lisa

from the Paris Louvre in 1911

-has been discovered at the

Royal Historical Museum, Stock

holm, it was announced recently. The attendants found that the

most precious Swedish mureum's

the so-called Vadstena antique, braktea, was missing.

It is a golden ornament dating from the year 100, und it was found in 1587 in the earth at Vadstena, where St. Brigitta founded a

a convent,

An ornamented gem in imitation of a Roman gold cofn or medallion, it Is unique because it is the only piece! of is kind which has an Inscription!

in the unclent Runic alphabet.

NO DAMAGE

Selenists say that American collec- tors would give £20,000 for the piere if it were for rale,

The lost antique is so famous that

it is incredible that anyone could sell

it without detection.

The gein was lost after it had been! put for the night in an envelope in an -iron safe.

When the sate was opened the antique had vanishod, but no visible damage had been done to the safe. COLLAR BONE HARNESS

SEATTLE.

Flicked Pellet At

Girl-Fined 10s

FON shooting a paper pellet si

a giri by means of an elastic band. a 11-years-old boy was fued 10s. l Instings Juvenile court

recently,

He was summoned for discharg- Ing a missile to the public danger on lasings front on October 10, The girl, who was struck in the right eye, sald sho was still unable to sro out ôf that eye.

Police Superintendent Buddie nald It was not yet known whether she would lose her sight..

Auto Driven 17 Years

Akron, O. Lee Clough has driven his 17-year- automobile a distance equivalent 12 times around the to more than

ut the Equator alpee

1821. earth Clough still drives it daily, winter and summer, from his country home 18 miles to the rubber plant where he Is employed.

Stolen

Museum

Fiance Falls From Ship, is Drowned

Liverpool.

A TELEPHONE bell early one morning recently awoke 22-years-old Miss Joan Herrington, of East Mossley Hill-road, Liverpool, to hear that her 27-years-old fiance, Mr. Alfred Quine, a Customs officer, had been drowned.

Mr. Quine, who had planned to marry Miss Herrington, daughter of the Water Guard Superintendent of the Liverpool Customs Service, early in the New Year, slipped from a swinging rope ladder attached to the Norwegian steamer Europe in the Mersey.

Duke's New Canberra Home! Renovated

Canberra.

At least £25,000 is to be spent on renodelting and adding to "Yarra- lumla," the ofllcind government house, at the capital, before the Duke and Duchess of Kent take up residence there.

He fell into the water and when picked up by a searchlight bean was seen clinghit to a buoy, but when the launch reached the spot he had disappeared.

Mr. Quine, who was a Merseyside footballer, had been ill with in- fluenza, and he reported for duty yesterday, believing he was fit.

"His death is a terrible shock for my daughter and a great loss to the service," Mr. Herrington suid.

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GAVE UP JOB

Group photograpli taken after the recent wedding of Mr. II. T. Buxton and Alberta Pearce Walton-King's Studio.

Woman's 40 Feet Fall During Tight Rope Act

Bolton.

THERE was an unrehearsed thrill before a full house at the opening performance of a circus at the Lido Theatre, Bolton, recently when one of the artists appear- ing in a tight-rope act slid and fell about 40ft. from a rope into the audience.

Eleanora, the artist, who was taking part in "The Slide of Life," was bruised, and a spectator, Fanny Loman (38), Iriam Street, Bolton, received an injury to the right hand.

was

"The incident began when Eleanora slipped as she ascending a rope stretched from the stage to a point near the centre of the ceiling," the manager, Mr. H. Ellwood, said.

SECOND ATTEMPT "She was then about level with the balcony, and the crowd cheered as she caught the rope and came down it hand over hand.

"The people among whom she fell

she was picked her up and she was taken to a dressing-room, where attended by a doctor.

"She was unable to take part in the second show. The audience were "She plucicily made the ascent naturally alarmed when they saw again, and had just begun in slide Eleanora fall, but were very orderly."

The Lido Theatre closed t down the rope when she came off it. For some reason her safety belt did cinema on Christmas Eve and re- not net.

opened later as a variety theatre.

Girl Accepts Proposal From Gravesend· Dock

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A fifteen-years-old girl said "Yes" in answer to a proposal of marriage from a young man who was stand-

"The couple met about two yearsing in the dock of Gravesend Police Court recently.

at Bournemouth, where my "I love you, and don't forget," the young man cried across daughter was working. As soon as the court. "I love you, and always will. I want you to promise they were engaged she gave up her me that when this is over. you will marry me."

post and returned home for domestic training. They were to have been married as soon as he received leave."

"Yarrolumla," is one of the old station homes, it was converted at Dr. Roger Anderson, Seattle bone cust of about £80,000 into a lem- official residence for the specialist, has designed a device that porary

ago. with Governor-General come years repairs broken collar bones comparatively little discontfort to the The new additions, says victim. The apparatus, made of rub ber and metal, holds the armpit and shoulder rigid until the bones have mended,

Tol. No. 24310.

Earlier 15 men were rescued from Australa sand hopper which sank after a News, will include a ballroom, en-collision with the Europe. larged dining and reception rooms. larger private quarters, and additional staff quarters.

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"Yes," was the quiet answer. Oliver George Morgan, aged 22, of

Thistle-road. Gravesend, pleaded Woman Posed

guilty to abducting the girl and com- mitting an offence against her,

and Old

was committed for trial at the As Duke's

Bailey.

The girl, a smartly dressed brunette, said she met Morgan in June 1037 and started walking out with him this year. They had stayed together at n house.

The

Cousin

ESCHIBED as a well-educated

had

She pleaded guilty.

Fell To Death While Girl Waited

girl's mother said that on December 2 she received a letter private income left her by her WHILE u blonde 22-years-old girl from her daughter which stated, "If parents, Alice Rosina Tibbs, 43-year- sat in a car outside Regent's Park you try to get me back I will do all old orchestra pianist, of Hampstend, tube station recently awaiting two can to drag you into the gutter.was at Marylebone recently sent to I would rather commit suicide than prison for three months for stealing friends, one DI them,

from a fellow-church-goer and for Harold Rateliffe, aged 20, n mining come back with you."

In an alleged statement Morgan false pretences.. engineer, of Devonclose, Perivale,

said:

id: "I have been

courting her near Acton, fell 70ft. down

since June. mean

un to marry her shaft and died later.

when I get my divorce. I did not The shaft one of three-was un-think I was doing wrong. I am not der repair and could only be rench-ashamed of what I have done, end cd through a small gate.

want to do the right thing by her After a luncheon party, Mr. Rat because I love her so much" cliffe and his friend, Mr. William Wood, of Uxbridge-road, Acton, drew up in a car outside the station. The girl watched them disappear down the station entrance. She waited; grew impatient, and then

House mice originated in Spain and had stumbled down the shaft.

were brought here from that country alive Was

when workmen in commerce, David Nicholas of the brought him to the surface, but died American Museum of Natural His in the ambulance on the way to tory told the American Society of hospital.

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Detective-Sergeant West sold that Tibbs became acquainted with Misa Martha Eleanor Smith of Southamp- ton Road, N.W., at Priory Church, Hampstead, and they became friendly. Tibbs stayed with Miss Smith occasionally and later told her that she was Lady Catherine Howard, first cousin to the Duke of Norfolk. She invited Mias Smith to Arundel Castle.

She said she had money in the standard Bank of South Africa and advance her Induced Miss Smith

She also sums totalling £16 16s. borrowed Miss Smith's fur and sold it, and did the same with two rings worth £10.

She was not known at the Standard Bank of South Africa.

She was married and had followed her husband to Buenos Ayres, but returned to England on medical advice.

Murals In Marble

Oakland,' Cal.

They will be helpers at a club which a group of stockbrokers Two of the largest marble murals have decided to open. A vacant warehouse has been secured ront in the world have been completed in free, a permanent caretaker installed, and facilities will be pro-the world have been completed in the the lobby of the Alameda County vided for a hundred boys to have cooked midday meal costing only court-house by the WPA Federal Arts a few pence. Light refreshments will be free.

Project. Twenty-alx variegated types

A member of the group, Mr. Henry C. Hatfield, said: "Many of marble from all over the world boys bring sandwiches for lunch and eat them in the City church- jigsaw puzzle fashion into the two were cut Into patterns and sited yards. Our idea is to provide a club where thoy can get a cheap huge murals. They were suggested hot meal between the hours of twelve and three. "There will also be a room for games.”

by similar marble decorations used during the early Roman Empire.

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