1939-04-29 — Page 2

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 29, 1939.

FRED'S EYE IS ON THE FRENCH

WINCHELSEA, [now it has on unclent custodion,” he

Hall

of

Mr. Chummy Barden, whose real naid: name is Fred, was' reappointed hiero To antiquarians the recently to his old job of keeping af grent interest. Here smugglers and sharp lookout for Frenchmen.

other offenders were jailed and Chummy ought to know a French- tried, and although the three cells man when he sees one by now, for have been removed sufficient remains he is 80, has been doing the job tor to show what steps were taken to years and years, and his father did preverit prisoners escaping in days) It before him,

gone by.

WESLEY RELIC

As the Frenchmen to be worthy of hla notice have to be pirates raiding! across the Channel, Chummy's 22 Qd. a year nary 18 fairly eally

earned.

ANOTHER TASK Winchelsen also chose a mayor to day. It is one of the two remaining unreformed berouglis in England, and the Town Council consists of "Jurata and freemen" Instead of common or gorden borough councillors,

Chummy Barden took over another

Heavy chains, formerly used to make prisoners secure, still hang from the walls, and in the 47t, wall of the old cells are still to be seen three iron gridn through which prisoners obtained what light and air they could

Overlooking the ball is the parish church,

rch, formerly of almost cathedral dimensions, but sadly damaged by the French; and nearly is a stump of an ash tree under which John Wesley

task caretaker of the old town hall, concluded his outdoor ministry on

"This is an ancient ́buliding, andi October 7, 1790.

Society Women

Secret "Waitresses

Are

"

In the dreary heart of London's Camden Town slums a group of society women under the leadership of the Hon. Mrs. A. E. Guinness, daughter-in-law of millionaire Earl of Iveagh, are acting as waitresses to poor tenement dwellers.

Every day they lake it in turns to deliver hot meals to people who cannot afford to buy good food.

In their cars they visit about 20 daughter-in-law of Viscount Hamp- homes a day, leaving ut each special den, does the work on Fridays. dietary food or nourishing meals for

people too ill to collect it themselves.

"The Indies are very well liked by

At 11.30 a.m. every day the food is everyone," Mrs. E. M. Kernan, secre- packed into enamel tins at the in-tary of the Kitchen said.

valld kitchens depot in Eversholt- "They deliver the food to the door- street, Camden Town, N.W., ready for step steaming hot, and can do the job the arrival of the "delivery

quickly in their fast Vans.

chra. They

The meals are planned and order- don't mind giving up a couple of ed by doctors and social workers, who hours a day to the work; in fact, put the details of the case before the they seem to like it." secretary of the kitchen. The top price for a meal is 3d., but many pay Id.

STRICT ROTA

.

When the society "waitress" arrives she is handed u list of addresses where the food is to be delivered.

They work according to a strict rola.

Greta Garbo May Play In "Hamlet"

Mr. Gabriel Pascal, the Hungarian producer of Bernard Shaw's Olm

On Monday it is the turn of the "Pygmalion," is reported to have told Hon. Mrs. A. E. Guinness to make Danish newspaper correspondents in the rounds.

Paris that he proposes to make a tim of "Hamlet" at Elsinore,

Tuesday sees Lady Bridget Parsons, daughter of the Earl of Rosse, and Mrs. Arthur James touring the dis- trict in their cars, followed by Mia Terenu Jungman, daughter of Mrs. Richard Guinness, and Lady Dufferin and Ava on Wednesday.

On Thursdays, Lady Katherine Big ham, wife of the heir of Lord Mersey and the Hon. Mrs. Thomas Talbot, daughter of the first Viscount Wim- borne, take over the duties.

POPULAR

He hinted, at the same time, that Greta Garbo would play the part of

Flomici.

If Miss Garbo does decide to play the part, she will have at least one famous precedent. Sarah Bernhardt played it at 54, without conspicuous

success.

Miss Gorbo has been credited with so many strange plans, however, that this report must be treated with the diplomat's reserve until her signature and is on the contract,

The Hon. Mrs. David Brand, daughter

Lord Dynevor,

of

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YOU ARE QUITE SAFE

WITH A

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Weird maalta for stratosphere flylýg démonstrated in Washington by Mayo Clinic doctors who developed them: Left to right: Drs: Boothy and Lovelace, Representative Randolph (W. Va.), Dr. Bulbulan and Representative Mapes (Mich.).

U.S. Hails "Pygmalion".

"The Lady Vanishes”

British

Citadel"...

Films Are Filling Broadway Cinemas

NEW YORK.

BRITISH films are enjoying an unparalleled boom along Broadway, drawing larger and more enthusiastic audiences than the local products.

"House Full" notices are going up at the theatres where they are showing night after night.

So great, in fact, is the success of British pictures that exhibitors are clamouring for revivals of old favourites such as "The Thirty-Nine Stepa" and "Love from a Stranger."

Here are some of the new British filtns on show here: lavished by the critics, is in its fourth week, and looks like running "The Lady Vanishes," on which superlative praise has been indefinitely.

"The Citadel," with Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell, is showing in three Manhattan theatres alone and In dozens of suburban cinemas.

"Pygmalion." hailed as the most artistic picture for years, is jamming the Astor Theatre in Times-square.

In

The Beachcomber" (shown London under the title of "Vessel of Wrath"), with Chorles Laughton, Is hailed as "brilliant" and "magnio- cent."

Women Go To Safety School

ST. LOUIS.

TWIN PAIRS PART

WHEN Alfred J. and Agnes Bonaboom and Emil and Mary Bonahoom, of Detroit, were mar- ried the ceremony was a double one, the couples lived In twin flats, and the brothers worked for the same company,

They quarrelled and the bro- thers took sides against the sisters. Then Agnes and Mary shifted their quarters into one flat and the brothers took the other.

Now both sisters are seeking a separation.

Matron Accused Nurses

After Dance

NURSE al Kent County Hospital, Farnborough, at a public inquiry at the hospital recently told of a scene she had had with the matron, Miss E. Brownlow.

The nurse, Miss E. Stevens, said

she was in the kitchen with a male nurse, making a cup of tea. More than 250 women have en- "The matron saw us there," sald rolled in the Safety Council's 10th Miss Stevens, "and flew into a tright- annual woman's traffic school here. At the conclusion of the lectures prizes will be awarded to the women who receive the highest grade on written examination and the highe mark

the on

police department's drivers test,

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|Ministry of Health to 'consider an application by Kent County Council for consent to dismiss the matron.

NURSE "X"

Dr. J. F. Hackwood, medical super-

intendent of the hospital, said that:

A nurse who ran away had complained that the matron zo arranged her duty as to prevent her from meeting a friend out- alde;

Another nurse told him that the matron "treated them like dirt," they dreaded going on.duty, and that they were all going to resign.

ful rage. She said: 'I don't mind what life you are leading outside, but you are not going to do it inside,'

"The "matron ̋insinuated" that "I' was not leading a nice life."

The matron later apologised. The inquiry was ordered by the Nurse X, said some disciplinary action

'Mr.'s' Son Is Born

Viscount Reidhaven

A son and heir born in London recently to the thirty-two- year-old Countess of Seafield will not take the name of his father, Mr. Derek Herbert Studley-Herbert: during the life of his mother he will hold the courtesy title of Viscount Reidhaven.

Lady Seafield, whose Income is estates until she reaches forty. The said to be £90,000 a year, is one of family seats are at Cullen, Banff- five countesses in their own right, thire, and Castle Grant, Morayshire. Had her child been a girl she would have been known Ds Lady Ogilvie, Bonfires had been prepared on the Scafteld surname,

hills in Inverness-shire and along the Created in 1893, the carldom was Moray Firth to be lit in honour of Inherited by Lady Seafield in 1915, the birth. Hitherto the heir apparent when her father died of wounds re had been Lady Scafleid's uncle, Lord ceived in the war. She married Mr. Strathspey, Chief of the Clan Grant. Studley-Herbert in 1930,

Mr. Studley-Herbert was formerly She will not come fully into her fan officer in the Grenadier Guards.

Dr. Hackwood, referring to 1

was taken following a hospital dance, when the matron accused three nurses of having been in the doctors' quar- Lers.

The doctors denied the allegations. The nurses were reprimanded.

Dr. Hackwood also said that an- other nurse had been accused of go- Ing out with a married man on the staff.

The man denied the allegation, and the nurse's private belongings were threatened to commit suicide. searched. She was so upset that she

The inquiry was adjourned.

Chopper Ignorės Years

SUTTON, N. H. his 85th birthday, he dally accom- Though Frank W. Todd has passed

panies his sons George and Howard to the family woodlot to do his share in clearing hurricane-felled timber,

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