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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 bef

"Greta Garbo Turng Comedlenne."

The Swedish atur, Identified with

As he is paid £30,000 a year, he the screen's most trugle roirs for 10 should know. years, has secretly yearned for some

His recent "Bluebeard's Eighth

time to play comle parts. In fact, Wife" shows that his cunning has not up to a point she wants to be a loon waned,

Her win is to be realised in her "Design

of

He thought Nucl Coward's

for Living" not funny

next picture, which is to be directed enough, so he lind the whole thing: by Ernst Lubitsch, the world's lead-rewritten. ing exponent comedy In films,

The story, nt present called "Ninotchka" is described us a "serio comedy about a Russian girl," and will show her as a young litt from Moscow sent on a commercial mission to Paris.

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

MAY BE AT DENHAM

It is just possible the Alm may be made In England, for Garbo is one It is an entirely new departure, of Metro-Goldwyn's stars for their for though Grela has been seen to British production plant at Denham. smalle for a few seconds in some of (where "A Yank at Oxford" and "The her pictures, her characterisations Citadel" have already been made,

Garbo did not make a flm in 1938. have been, by their very nature, quiic

of the humourless.

she has been time holidaying in Sweden and Italy,

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

MUST HAVE FUN Lubitsch,

01 the

hand, other bubbles over with humour. If any confirmation were needed, it is the fact that Dree years ago he was'de- prived of his German nationality.

Mast

Flicked Pellet At Girl-Fined 10s

FOR shooting a paper pellet at girl by means of an etasito band. a 14-years-old boy was fined 10%. Hastings Juvenile court recently.

He was summoned for discharg- ing a missile to the public danger on Hastings front on October 10, The girl, who was struck in the right eye, sald she was silli, unable to see out of that cye.

Police Superintendent Buddle said it was not yel known whether she would lose her sight.

Auto Driven 17 Years

Akron, O.

Lee Clough han driven his 17-year- ot mutomobile a distance equivalent 12 times around the to more than earth at the Equator since 1021. Clough still drives it daily, winter and summer, from his country home) post-18 miles to the rubber plant where he

is employed.

In September the returned 10 Hollywood, where Aldous Huxley, the "You simply must have fun In English novelist, has written for her every picture" he said in Londona fim story of the life of Mme. Curie, Just year.

"Omitling it is the mis-jotnl discoverer of radium. take so many European directors This subject has now been make."

poned indefinitely.

£20,000

From

Vanished From

Stolen

Relic

Museum

Safe In Night Fiance Falls From Ship, is Drowned

Stockholm.

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

from the Puris Louvre in 1911

has been discovered at the Royal Historical Museum, Stock-

holm, it was announced recently.

The attendants found that the museum's most preclous Swedish antique, the so-called Vadstent braktea, was missing.

It is a golden ornament dating from the year 400, and it was found in 1507 in the earth at Vadstena, where St. Brigitta founded a convent.

An ornamented gem in imitation of a Ruman gold coin or medallion, it is unique because it is the only piece

of its kind which has on Inscription

In the ancient Runic alphabet,

NO DAMAGE

Scientists say that American collee- tors would give £20,000 for the plece if it were for sale,

The lost antique is so famous that

it is incredible, that anyone could self

it without detection.

The gem was lost after it had been put for the night In an envelope in an iron safe.

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 remodelling and adding to "Yarra- lumla," the official government house, |

there.

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

Mr. Quine, who was a Merseyside footballer, had been 111 with in- fluenza, and he reported for duty yesterday, believing he was fit.

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

GAVE UP. JOB

Group photograph 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.

was an unrehearsed thrill before à full house THERE

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), Irlam' Street, Bolton, received an injury to the right hand.

WBS

"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.

Was

SECOND ATTEMPT

"The people anong whom she fell "She was then about lovel with picked her up and she was taken to the balcony, and the crowd cheered as attended by a doctor.

Adressing-room, where she she caught the rope and came down it "She was unable to take part in the second show. The audience were hand over hand.

"She pluckily made the ascent naturally alarmed when they saw again, and had just begun to slide Eleonora fall, but were very orderly." The Lido Theatre closed us 0 down the rope when she came off it. For some reason her safety belt did cinema on Christmas Eve and re.

opened later as a variety theatre. not net.

Girl Accepts Proposal From Gravesend Dock

"Yes," was the quiet answer.

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 years ing in the dock of Gravesend Police Court recently. When the safe was opened the

where my "I love you, and don't forget," the young man cried across antique had vanished, but no visible' at the capital, before the Duke and ago at Bournemouth,

Duchess of Kent take up residence daughter was working. As soon as the court. "I love you, and always will. I want you to promise damage had been done to the safe.

they were engaged she gave up her me that when this is over... you will marry me.” post and returned home for domestle COLLAR BONE HARNESS!

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Fell To Death

While Girl Waited

Oliver George Morgan, aged 22, of

Thistle-road, Gravesend, pleaded Woman Posed

Builty 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 1937 Cousin

and started walking out with him

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well-educated

this year. They had stayed together fot a house.

The girl's mother said that on woman who had exhausted a December 2 she received a letter

Alice Resina Tibbs, 43-year-

The Day of all Days Wat in a che et de veres.old air from her daughter which stated: "I parents, inter fe left her, by, her

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sat in a car outside Regent's Park you try to get me back I will do all old orchestra planist, of Hampstead, can to drag you into the gutter... was at Marylebone recently sent to tube station recently awaiting two men friends, of them, Mr.I would rather commit suleide than prison for three months for stealing from a fellow-church-goer and for Harold Ratelife, aged 26, a mining come back with you."

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

a fi said: "I have been courting her near Acton, fell 70ft. down

since June. I mean to marry her shaft and died later.

when I get my divorce. I did not un-think I was doing wrong. I am not

ashamed of what I have done, and want to do the right thing by her because I love her so much."

House Mice Are Spanish

Detective-Sergeant West said that Tibbs became acquainted with Miss Martha Eleanor Smith of Southamp- ton Road, N.W., at Priory Church, Harpstead, 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 Miss Smith to Arundel Castle,

The shaft one of three-was der repair and could only be reach- ed through a small gate.

After a luncheon party, Mr. Rat cliffe and his friend, Mr. William

Uxbridge-rond, Wood, of

Acton, drew up in a car outside the station.. The girl watched

them

disappear down the station -entrance. She wafted; grew impatient, and then

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She said she had money in the left the car, to hear that Ratcliffe House mice originated in Spain and Standard Bank of South Africa and had stumbled down the shaft.

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when workmen in commerce, David Nicholas of the induced Miss Smith to advance her brought him to the surface, but died American Museum of Natural His sums totalling £16 158. In the ambulance on the way to tóry told the American Society of borrowed Miss Smith's fur and sold it, and did the same with two rings hospital.

Mammalogists here.

worth £10.

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STOCKBROKERS' wives are to come into the City each day to

serve lunch to their husbands' office boys.

She also

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

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

Murals In Marble

Orkland, Cal.

They will be helpers at a club which a group of stockbrokers Two of the largest marble_murals have decided to opon. A vacant warehouse has been secured rent in the world have been completed in free, a permanent caretaker Installed, and facilitics will be pro-the world have been completed in the the lobby of the Ameda 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-six variegated types

word cut into patterns and fitted

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 gsaw puzzle fashion into the two yards. Our idea is to provide a club where they 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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