1939-02-25 — Page 6

Charles Laughton's Leading Lady At 18

MAYBE you don't know

the beautiful girl whose ploture is on the right.

But you will soon, She is 18-year-old Maureen O'Hara, who is to be Charles Laughton's leading lady in the British fim "Jamaica Inn." which starts at Elstree to-morrow.

Maureen, whose home is in Dublin, is virtually an "unknown." She has never been on the professional stage or in a film in her life, and has only recently passed her finals at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

BURGLARS HAD

'L' PLATES

THREE burglars walling to rob a house in The Avenue, Twicken- ham, Middlesex, recently used "L" plates on their car to avoid suspicion.

For more than an hour the burglar at the wheel drove slowly in the triangle formed by Si, George's-vond, i St. Peter's-rond and The Avenue, ap- pearing to take instructions from the man at his side.

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They did this until Mr. and Mrs. A. Shelswell had left their house. Half an hour later Mr. Shoswell

passed the car on his return to the house.

And then he found that rings had! been stolen from one of his rooms.

Twelve-year-old Peter Richings, of

St. Peter's-road, said :-

"I was just coming home when a man ran past me in the bottom of Ulic tune. I ran after him and was Just in time to see him jump into a car with 'L' plates on it."

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 25, 1939.

Talking Typewriter Staggers Scientists Earl Seeks To CROONS, Divorce Wife SHOUTS,

DIVORCE petilon by the thirty-

one-year-old Earl of Lincoln against his beautiful Amerlean wife was in the defended list down for earing during the Law Courts term. Lady Lincoln, before her marriage to the earl in 1031, was Mrs, Jean Banks Gimbernat, adopted daughter of Mr. David Banks, of Park-aventa, New York. Her maiden name WAS Eugenia Van Voorhees

GRUNTS,

New York.

THE first "talking type-

writer" in the world, pouring out perfect human speech at a touch of its keys, with only a trace of

accent" shown to scientists at the Franklin Institute, Philadel- phia, recently.

She divorced her first husband in Reno, Nevada, mur

month before her marringe

"electrical Earl of Lincoln. Ati 10 the the time of

of their marriage-by spectat lleence six months after their Rrst inceting-she was twenty-five and the earl was twenty-three.

Lord Lincoln, heir to the Duke of Newenstle, captained the Eton cricket eleven, While k Cambridge he appeared in a Mayfair night club as drummer in a band started by him

elf and college friends.

Last November he was appointed to command No. 010 Bember Sqund- ron of the Auxiliary Air Force.

Wrapped In Red Tape

Santa Rosa, Cali The county still owns a steel bridge! over the Russian river. In prepara- tion for building a

one; the!

new

the

board of supervisors male the neces

WAS

Words sharp and clear, angry or happy, according to the needs of its operator, cane eloquently from the machine, staggering the scientists who had come sceptically to see this latest invention of the Bell Telephone Laboratories of New York.

LOWED, BLEATED, GRUNTED

In a brief, thrilling demonstration the machine spoke with the deep voice (of a grown man, the piping treble of a woman. It uttered not merely dis- Įjointed words, but coherent sentences.

Then, as if that were not enough, it sang, crooned, shouted, screamed, towed ke 11 LOW. bleated like a sheep, grunted like prit and pecked like a wood- pecker.

In appearance the talking machine

sary legal arrangements for the sale is like an overgrown typewriter or

of the bridge at auction. But on the undersized organ.

date of the auction there

wan no

Produce of Australia

the land

of

Fresh from shine

Capable of 23 sounds, the machine only erred a little bidder. The next day, however, the over the difficult consonant L, having supervisors had a bidder but no tegal the same trouble as a baby has-pro- authorisation for 471 auction. Sonouncing it with a blurred sound. they just decided to keep the bridge.!

THE

SHANGHAILANDER

An animal that comes swooping down occasionally from the north on pretext of cricket, bowls, golf or rugger, but actually to wallow in the delights of H. B. BEER.

SIR A. FLEMming's theORY Sir Ambrose Flenting, who is member of the Franklin Institute and the inventor of the therarionic valve, which revulutionised wireless tele- graphy and made wireless telephony posible, described the "talking type- writer" as "another very interesting electrical development."

It wa the Best he had heard of such an instrument, and he assumed that the "h" tones were pro- dured by mixing the harmonies,

Injured Boy

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Mother Objects To

Radio Crooner

MOTHER of lovely 16-year- I old Joan Richardson, Bri- tain's youngest "Glamour Girl," objects to her daughter being engaged. She says she is too young lo be thinking about marriage.

Joan became engaged recent- Jy to "Chips" Chippendale, well-known radlo NingCT. of Liverpool. She had kept i secret until recently.

Joan said she fell in love with "Chips" when she was 15,

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