QUEEN FAIDA AT CAIRO OPERA HOUSE: Her Majesty, seen with her ladies-in-waiting when she altindeti, recent pertinasance given in niti of Egyptian Girl Gojde.
Bride And Groom Bound With Chains
A NEWLY-WEDDED couple were chained together after their wedding at Watchet Methodist Church, near Minehead, Somerset, recently.
The chiren who bound them
Brokers Expelled would not let them go until they had
By 'Change'
TWO members of the London
Stock Exchange were expel- ¦ led recently for irregular con-
Bald "luck silver" to pass through
the church gates.
This West Sauerset gustom is be- lieved to bring good luck to a happy married life.
The couple
couple were Harold Gitmblett,
Monday,
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NAZI CHIEFS QUARREL
OVER JESTER "Robey" Of Germany
BERLIN.
WERNER Finck, Germany's George Robey, who was banned by Dr. 'Goebbels for "wise-cracking" about the Nazi Party and Dr. Goebbels, is causing trouble between party leaders.
Since 1933, Finck, with his breezy “gugging" and sly quips, has been convulsing German audiences. A new Finck joke spreads through the country like wildfire..
For one of his jokes he announced Field Marshat Goring, who keep u fer als audience that the manngeinent, fle of jokes made anga.net himself, has regretted that "Old German Fairy/regarded Finek us an unofficial court Tales had been taken from the pro-} jester.
gramme. A political lecture would,| Dr. Goebbels has not power to send lowever, be delivered in plarz. Pnek to a concentration camp. This Fickl-Marshal Goring and Count authority is hid by Field-Marshal Helldorf, police chief of Berlin, are Goring, and it is understood he has plued at Dr. Goebbels brause he decided it will not be necessary. acted alone. · They met la discuss the position reemily,
Meanwhile, Dr. Goebbels, in an al-i tempt to justify his action, which thee! Count Heldorf thints the ban ve-country and many high Nazis regard fleets on him, for as Tertia policeļas absint, has launched a "Humour chief it seem de rezuld have closed Contest" in his paper Angrif. The down Her Finck's show when it prize for a "trar German jok" - opened five weeks ago.
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Dr. Oswaldo Aranhs, Foreign Minister of Bruzil, who made an official visit recently as partist of The Federal government, Fle distanced with President Rome- velt and the State Department better relations between the twe governments.
Colonel's Legacy For Chorus Girl
Evening Dress Thieves Rob A GIRL who ten years ago had
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Mary Lawson
VENING DRESS THIEVES HAVE CARRIED OFF A £2,000 COUP IN THE CHELSEA FLAT OF MISS MARY LAW. SON. THE FILM STAR.
Slander Suit After Party
WEST END party is said to have been responsible for wo suits for alleged slander
the Somerset county cricketer. of which were heard recently it "Blakes Farm, Bicknoller, Somerset, the King's Bench Division. duct.
aurt Miss Marguerite Burgess, only !
The plaintiff is Mrs. Meriel Knowl They were Mr. Frederick Joseph daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bur- Yeardsley and Mr. John Boulden, who trated as Ritcher and Co, and, of Knapp Cottage, Watrhet. were the only partners in the firm.
Mr. Houlden had been a member of the Stock Exchange since 1932. while his partner had operated there;
since IB33,
They even used several silver hair brushes treasured by Miss Lawson la forve lucks, thus gimshing them.
Mr. Lionel C. Beaumont, the film director husband of Miss Lawson, | said that the booty includes wedding presents, furs, and jewellery worth £2,000.
a small part in the chorus of ja Broadway show jumped into the ranks of New York's mil- lionaires recently by the filing of the will of Colonel Jacoli Ruppert, owner of the famous Yankees baseball team and hend of a large brewing combine.
She is Mies Helen W. Weyant and she will receive 100,000 at once and a life income from £2,000,000.
Colonel Ruppert, the svcond largest real estate halder in New York, left
£16,000,000, on which £10,000,000 | inheritance tax is due,
AN OLD FRIEND "Among the hissing articles," he He left Miss Weyant one-third of sabi, "is a watch which I gave to my the residue, the remainder going to wife as a wedding present.
two
nieces, Mr J. Holleran and "This watch had the name "Mary | Mrs. Hasil Maguire. Beaumont set out on the dial insteadl Miss Wevant lives in the fashion- district of 35th Street, off Fifth-avenue, with her Inother and brother.
She was been at Winthrop, Mass., of English-Irish parents.
of the ual one of twelve numerals," able residential
ins, wife of Captain Harold Wire Countess Dead
Gimblett, who is 24. will be re. Knowing. She is therwise knows Mas Meriel Buchanan, the membered for his starting debut in Arst-class cricket in 1935.
authoress, of Tedworth-square. Chel- i sea. Against Essex, at Frome, he hit a entry in 63 minutes, and so won! In
she is claiming the fastest; dumuges
against Miss Marjorie the trophy given.. for
Lawrence. uf Belle Vue-gardens, mindred of the season.
Stockwell. In the other the defend
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Son of gardener at Lyne, near Chertsey, Mr. Yeardsley hee.ne a Stock Exchange clerk in the offices a wedding gift from Mrs. Yeardsley's ant is Miss Enid Kayli, of Warwick- of Mr. Kahn, later becoming as father. selated with Mesrs. Riteler and While the House is disturbed by Co
the necessity for the General Pur- The defence is a denial of the involved, as a pedestrian, in a rond HOME WEDDING GIFT
poses Committee's strong disciplinary | allegations, He married Ms Jean Hamilton, ¦ he tion it not expected the affair
daughter of the late Mr. 13. 3. Hamil-will have my important mangiar George Buchanan, last Bri- Mes. Kuoseling father was the tan, managee-secretary of the Cheri-effects. sey Gas Company.
Mr. Houlden fives in Helgrave- fish Ambasstudny to the Russian Im-
perial Court, Their home ị Pretorin-road was place, Belgravia, S.W.
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"I had no idea that Colonel Rup- pert. an ok family friend whom I haf known from childheed, would remember me in this way," she saki. "The first Information' 1, got was when members of his family naked. me to join them.
Countess Mari Kageneck, the weat, thy Austrian Jewess who vanished from a Knightsbridge hotel was "It was a great shock and I hope 1 found dead in the Thames off Green-shall be able to do enough none with wich recently.
the money to justity Colonel Rupe She was reported
heen port's kindness."
"IT'S MAGNIFICENT* When told she was njay the owner of a third of the famous baseball touum, she replied, ""It's magniflernt.”;
It is more than six years ago since she appeared on the stage.
-She wos in
accident on Westminster Bridge on the night of her disappearance.
have been seen riding in a taxi at A week later she was believed to Maidstone, Kent,
The Countess, 45 years of age, was the former wife of Count Franz Kageneck, member of the Viennese aristocrney,
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Broadway successes-Merry Mis- lone," starring George M. Colian; and "Thice Cheers," starring Will Rogers.
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Mrs. Brigid Hitler, who eloped with Herr Hitler's half-brother Alois when she was seventeen, appeared at Highgate, N., Police Court recently on a summons for non- payment of £9 13s. 10d. rates. She was given six weeks to pay.
She said afterwards: "I was expecting some money from Germany I can't tell you who was sending it but it got held up, "So there was nothing for it but to take the divil by his tail up the hill and go to the court."
Mrs. Htter, forty-seven-year-old daughter of an Irish former, "takes boarders" Priory-gardens,
Highgate, N.
In her drawing-room are half a dozen pictures of her twenty-seven- year-old son Wille-Hitler's nephew who works in a Berlin brewery. "WON MY HEART"
Mry. Hitler's husband Alois-same name as Hitler's father-has a res- taurant in Berlin, but he and his! wife have been separated since 1914. [
She smiled and said: “You know, It seems funny for an obscure. littlej Trish girl ke I was to get mixed up! in oll there International matters.
" was plain Brigid Dowling of Dublin, when I met Alols, who was a walter. I was seventeen und lud Just left a convent, and was very romantic, When I went to the hotel stif dance I met him.
"He was slim and about 5ft 9ins., and he fairly won my heart with his sugary talk and his foreign ways.
"My father-rest his soul-was a real Irishman. He would not hear
BABY AND THE LIVE WIRE
Mary Louise, a 10-month-old Ealing baby, has had a millen-to- one escape from electrocution.
Invited to a friend's house. her mother took Mary Louise with her,
Baby crawled happily about the earpel until, suddenly, there was a crackling noise.
Mary Louise was found holding the flex of an electric standard lamp. Sparks were coming from her mouth as site chewed the in- sulation cover of the wire,
She was taken to hospital, with the Inside of her mouth, her tongue and lips badly burned.
Now she is making 要 goo recovery.
me tell of a wedding to a foreigner turned to Austrin. She did not hear In 1014 Mrs. Hitler's husband re- "Alois and used to meet every from him until after the armistice. afternoon in the museum and plan
to elope.
UNLUCKY NAME
TALKED HIM ROUND
She said: "I was in a very poor "Four months later when Aluis way when he went to the war with bad saved enough money we went to three-year-old Willie on my hands.. England in the night boat and came My mother and I did the best we to London. I wrote to my mother could.“
and said I would not return until, Mrs. Hiller picked up a picture of j we tot permission to marry. She Willie he looks like the dictator- talked my father round and he gave and said: "When Hitler came into his consent,
power poor Willie had a bad time "We were married at Marylebone because of his name, although he is Register Oflee in June 1910, I took as English as you are. lim straight back to Dublin to meet the family, and then we went to Liverpool. He got a job in a res- taurant as a waiter and then became on agent for a razor firm.
"He was out of a job for eighteen months, so he went to see his father, who by that time had a big restau- rant in Berlin,
"His aunt Angela took him to see "Willie, our only child, was born her brother Adolf, who received in March 1011.
him in his office at the Chancellery "My husband used to talk to me in Berlin. about his family. He told me of his "Hitler offered him a job in it young brother Adolf, who was a German bank.
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dreamy sort of lad, and was studying | "He was there for a year. Ther architecture when we were married." he joined a German cor company,"
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