1939-02-15 — Page 14

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NORMA SHEARER SAID

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'£100,000 A YEAR OR I LEAVE'

Film Boss Borrows Money

New Yoric.

court battle over £6,000,000 as

A sour bows. Incorporated,

stockholders In Metro-Goldwyn-] Mayer, major Hollywood producing) company, has culed in vietory for the

company,

Supreise Court Justice Loula Valente denied the motion for an ac counting of the profis and refused to allow the action to go further.

The action was brought by mino- rite stockholders Locw's, They claimed that executives of the Blin

and other allicers company

were

overpaid.

COURT THREAT

During the hearing, witch lasted six weeks, it was sold that at the teath of her husband, Irving Thal- hark, Norma Shearer claimed that

the yearly lury de

to him

[£100,000 until a year should continue

contrant would have

pired, two years after.

Norma Shearer threatened to leave Metro unless they agreed. She said

she would bring the matter to court,} and to prevent this the company

offered her a new contract Worth

£120,000.

Witnesses sold that Markon Davies was paid £30,000 for n ihn called

"Evelyn Prentice," which made.

tund

he never

£013,000 1930 and

Attorneys claimed that been spent between

"rejected continuities"

1930

(treatments of original staries for the screen), and that Nicholas Schenck, president of Loew's, had a salary of £00,000

4 year.

Attorney Em K. Ellis repeatedly challenged Schenck with this Sually goading him to the remark: "This is very distasteful to me. With all thei money you accuse me of making I've had to borrow money to pay my taxes in the past two years."

WALKED INTO JOB

Sam Katz, a producer, told the court that he had been

the loone" for two years, walked Nicholas Schenck's office one morn-

into

ing, asked for a job, and got it-at

£700 a week. He also now takes A per cent, of the profits of Metro.

Winning first place in the Macfadden trophy race between New York and Minmi, Fla., Mux Constant, right, of Hollywood, Cal., covered the 1,195 miles at 204.227 miles on hour. At left are Russ Holderman and his wife Dorothy, who came in second. Mrs. Holderman slowed away on her husband's plane at the last minute.

To Marry

Mother Unaware Hitler Is Told

"Millions Man' Is Gaoled

READS TO HER

MUNICH.

February, 15, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

ANTI-SEMITE BILL IN

SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Town.

The publication of the terms of a private bll, which Mr. Eric Louw, De Nationalist M.P., proposes to in- troduce in the next session of Par- llament, has caused great surprise and indignation.

of

The bil proposes to prohibit the entry into South Africa for perman- ent residence of "all persons Jewish parentage," including, ap- British-born sub- parently, natural

Jects. It refusca permita even for temporary sojourn to any allen whose passport provides that he is to lose his nationality, or does not permit bls re-entry into the country issuing the passport,

The bill provides for a registra- flim card of all aliens at present in the Union.

This is the first openly discrimina- lory measure against Jews to be in- froduced Into the South African Parliament. and departs from the principle pt the Allens Act, in which all aliens are treated alike.

Though it is unlikely that Parlin- ment will accept the bill the debates will rally votes to the Nationulisi party during the Bethal and Pretoria City by-elections next month.

Mr. Louw was South African Min- Ister in Paris for several years and was previously High Commissioner

in London.

NEW ZEALAND

AIR FORCE OFFICERS FOR ENGLAND

Auckland,

The Minister at Defence, Mr. F. Jones, announces that 19 candidates selected from all parts of New Zen- land for short-service emomissions in the Royal Air Force, will sail short- [ ly.

been selected Four officers have

Air Force.

HITLER sat in the white study for service with Royal New Zealand of the Fuchrerhaus, Berch- Command of H.M.S. Wellington.- tesgaden and heard five of his Cmdr. R. E. Hyde-Smith, who suc- chief lieutenants plead with him reeds Cmde, G. N. Loriston-Clarke in the command of the escort vessel to marry.

Wellington, has arrived at Auckland told him it was essential

Headed by General Goering, they by the liner Otranto, 20,026 tens. should have an heir.

that he

Airport Record-A record for the number of commercial aircraft using New Zealand airport in one day From a high offulal of the Nazi was established during the Christmas period at Rongotai aero- A total of 52 House, Į heard to-night of the drome. Wellington. dramatic scene.

alr-liners arrived at and departed from Rongotal, carrying 370 passen- "Unless you marry," sold General cers. cialism in Germany is uncertain. Goering, "the future of Nationa! So-

JAMAICA

to set an example.

"The people look to the Fuehrer, ARBITRATION BOARD

You urge them

IN a flat in a quiet corner of West London a frail, aged woman lives quietly unaware that her son is in a Dutch gaol awaiting trial on charges of fraud.

She is the 80-years-old mother of Sigfried party in the famous Munich Brown holiday Wreszynski, Mayfair's mysterious "Man of Millions," in whose affairs the police of six nations are interested. Not a word of his arrest has been allowed to reach her; she still thinks of him as the wealthy son whose different mode of Nicholas Schenck said the late Irving Thatberg in 1932 said that his living, rich friends and associates, have led him away from his health was so bad from ever work family.

TO MEET that he should have leave of absence. He said he had a better offer to go

nude his money," Mr. Wreszynski

Kingston. Mrs. Wreszynski does not under- (added. to a rival studlo at a better valary,

The Chainber of Commerce and £200,000, bonus, and a percentage of stand English, but her second son, "What mystifies me just as much nation when

the Labour unions have nominated who is staying with her, reads to her lost a lot over two companies he had put these facts to

is how he spent it all. I know be the profits every year.

Hitter swung round, sold that he three members each to form the new Schenek refused to release Thal-every day.

himself aArbitration Board to deal with the berg and threatened to love him "I have had to keep newspapers formed in London lo market patents thousand times, but he was "a man present Labour disputes. The first away from my mother during the he had acquired for such things as with a destiny." The work he had meeting of the Board will take place Finally, he offered him 100,000 last few days," he said. If she saw dells and toys, colour photography begun, he sald, needed all his on Tuesday under the chairmanship shares of the company's stock at £s my brother's name in print she and a cleansing preparation.

of the Colonial Secretary. thoughts and energy. "I believe the explanation of his

Some water-front workers on Hitter is getting old that is what strike written about him.

are refusing to obey their price.

When Thalberg became very

"Were she to learn the truth about govern his head." 11

that if he should not have an heir bourers who struck at two later they engaged two more pro- Sigfried it would probably kill her.

sugar the millions who venerate his name estates in the country have resumed he has built up.

barred from every studio.

to marry but stay single yourself. ¦ Want of Hell Hitler, our national greeting? What will happen to the

.?"

a share, which was half the market would probably ask what was being aimcultles is that he let his heart worries his Heutenants. They fear leaders when told to go back, Li-

Archer Bags Rabbits common

ments last year.

Fall In London's Underground Water Supply

Painter To Wed Cabaret Star

ducers, David Selznick (the man who even though he has not kept closely ALL GOLD IN WORLD will lose their loyalty to the system work. l now matting "Gone With the in touch with her in recent years, Wind") and Lucien Hubbard to do

We have not heard from him since COULD NOT PAY BILL his work at £800 and £750 his arrest, and I have not written to

him. If he asks for my help i willA SUM equal to more than all week aplece.

do anoth gone our own ways for the world was spent on arma- I can for him, but we the gold in all the banks of have many years and have nothing in

"In addition to the money he in-

The amount spent for ams in 1938 Spencervile, O. herited from our father, who died was £3,100,000,000 sterling, accord- Melvin Lowry, using a bow, and a when we were chlidren, he was left ing to the Armaments Year-book. single arrow, claimed a new hunting a lot of money by his first wife's

All the world's gold amounts to record after he bagged his limit of father. He began his career in his £3,062,000,000, according to League four rabbits within a two-hour father-in-law's dairy-produce busi- of Nations statistics, computed at 4.67 period. Three were shot sitting and ness in Danzig, and later branched dollars to the pound. the fourth on the run. All were out on his own in the some line, If you subtract from the sum spent pinned to the ground and were dead with Interests all over the Continent.the amount of actuat gold in the when picked up.

"I never understood how Sigfried world, you get minus £330,000,000.

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German cabaret star who was associated with Siegfried Wreszynski, Mayfair ex-mil- lionaire now in a gaol In Amsterdam charged with fraud, is to marry well. known young English painter, it was stated in Paris recently. Fraulein Busch is staying in the Paris home of the French painter Moise Kisling, who said that she will remain there until The fall in the water level in reher marringe. cent years has varied from about six

The report shows that the level of undeground water which feeds near- ly 500 wells contributing 11 to 12 per cent. of the supply in the County of London is falling at a rate which is likely to Increase.

inches a year to over five feet. Lon- She is greatly annoyed by reports don stands on gravel beneath which of her association with Wreszynski,

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clay from 300 to 430 feet deep. he said, adding that the facts were Then come beds of sand and below quite simple.

them

a huge chalk reservoir from?

675 feet to 055 feet in depth. This Wreszyriski in Amsterdam to go to She was engaged by contract by i Is the chief source of underground Hollywood to star in a film. water suppiled.

When she arrived she discovered | The fall in the water level had led that things were not what she antiel- to the polution of certain wella which pathe fact that she has begun an though small, is likely to spread.

and returned to Holland.

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The general conclusion of the re-action against the financier in the port is that the fall will probably Dutch courts, and that the will give reach the base of upper chalk in evidence in February or Marchi, is many parts of London during the proof that she was in no way as-8, Queen's Road C. (3rd Floor); opposite Dalry Farm's Fountain, Q's Rd., C. present generation. The sinking of bocinted with Wreszynski in bis fin- wells in the surrounding country has ancial affairs.

reduced the quantity of water which "She was simply an actress engaged would otherwise have travelled to to play a part in a purely business wards the centre of London.

Extensive bullding has decreased

understanding."

·

Miss

"After I left Hollywood we did not the catchment area, and improved speak to each other," sald drainage has decreased the amount of Busch. "He never spoke

me of water absorbed Into the lower his affairs, and I knew nothing of his strata.

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