1939-05-18 — Page 3

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 18, 1939.

Carole

Gable

Will

Now

Call

"Pa?

Gassed Man

"I Shall Darn

Identified As

For Summer Comfort

NECESSITIES FOR THE TOILET

AND THE BEACH.""

His Socks"

Hollywood,

CLARK GABLE and his bride, Carole

"Lilac Time" Midshipman

Star Dies A MAN who was found

gassed in a Yeovil boarding- Mins Florence Vic, England's house inst December has been Lombard, "Marie Dressler, died in a London | identified. snatched a half-day honey-nursing home, nearly four months moon at their Hollywood after she had been found lying un home..

conscious on the floor of her London fat.

The couple arrived here, after their wedding in Mr. Gable's white roadster.

They said they were tired after their 750-miles drive from Kingman, Arizona,

Oito Winkler, publlelty man, who accompanied the two on their trip. sat awkwardly in the car between them. He got out, shook hands with

them both and watched them run up the steps.

From then, guards and pollee dogs kept the crowds from the doorbell.

BACK TO WORK

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-The district corenes Ruiter) sald recently:

(Mr. John

"On January 18 I held on inquest on a man who was found to have died from carbon monoxide poison- The discovery was made by an-ing at Pitney House, Yeovil. At that other member of the east a few hours time there was not sumelent evidence

was due to play n before Miss Vie

to show the leading comedy part in "Call"it"

state of his mind, or to Day" at the Q Theatre, Kew, on Jan.

Identify the deceased.

"Thanks to the efficient organisa- uary 12.

tion of the police throughout the country, it has now been possible to establish this man's identity. He is Brian John Webster, aged 20. a midshipman,”

Miss Vic had been taken III sud-

denty and had apparently fallen into

a come before she could call for help. She had been under treatment, ever since.

The coroner added that the reason Webster went to Yeovil to take his Miles Vie, who was about 60, reach-life was to avoid causing embarTARS- ed the height of her career during the ment to his parents, and he had suc-

roles in many _famous_productions. She sang In 000 performances of "Lilac Time."

MISSED HIS EXAMINATION

Late that night Mr. Gable was ex-War period. She appeared in leading ceeded. pected on the set. He is filming in "Gone With the Wind." His wife, too, will start work almost imme diately.

Mrs. Gable has told close friends she will be an "uld-fashioned" wife.

"I shall work for a few years," she said, and then I want a family. I shuli let Pa (Mr. Gable to you) be the star while I stay at home, darn sucks and look after the kids,"

Later in the day she told 300 dis- gruntled newspapermen, "Clark and I bath adore

Duke Of Kent

Is Godfather

The Duke and Duchess of Kent were godparents at the christening at

It is understood that recently Webster's father went to Yeovil to make Inquiries about his son, who left home lust November to go to London for an examination.

He falled to

прредг at the examination and had not been seen since.

The father was shown a photograph of his son at Yeovil and various effects of a naval character which were in the room in which he

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new ranch home in Sun. Fernando of the twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Valley soon.

Their motto will be Geoffrey Kennedy, of Woking. "Privacy"

Chief witness at the ceremony, Mr.

Before her marriage last year, his wife, the identity was established. Howard Gate, was so confused that he Mrs. Kennedy was Miss Dashka forgot to kiss the bride..

The couple plan to move into their St. Margaret's, Westminster, recently was all the father came

from

'town in Sussex, and after taking the photograph home to

A number of £1 notes which their Banaz, step-daughter of the Jugoslav 500 drew from a local bank were millionaire and shipowner, Mr. Bozo found hidden underneath the carpet Banaz. In her native country she of the bedroom which the son had

Cicely Courtneidge's was called the Pearl of Dubrovnike used.

Father Dies

because of her striking beauty.

She is an intimate friend of the Duchess of Kent, and in 1038 the Duite and Duchess cruised off the Dalmatian coast in a yacht owned by;

Robert Courtneldge, theatrical manager and father of Cicely Court neldge, the actress, dled recently at his fat in Marine-parude, Brighton.her stepfather. at the age of 70.

Born of humble Scottish parents. Mr. Courtneldge gave up his job as an errand home toy and ran away from Recept his first theatrical appointment-the rolling up of a stage carpet at Prince's Theatre, Manchester, for shilling a night.

RESPONSIBILITIES

were

christened

The twin giris. Alexandra and Teresa (Tessu).

By undertaking the office of "Kum" Jugoslav for god father-the Duke assumed wide responsibilities to-

In ume he was appointed manag-words his twin god-daughters. Ing-director of the theatre,

His first great success as an actor- manager was with the pantomime "Cinderella." Later he produced and collaborated in "The Arcadians," which ran in London for two years,

from April of 1000.

If their parents were to die, he would automatically have to act as their father, and in any event is re- sponsible, by Jugoslav custom, for their moral and material welfare and

upbringing...

British Ambassadors To China and Japan

Bride Dies In Fear Of War

FEAR that war would separate

her from the man she was about to marry, in believed to have been the cause of a girl's suicide.

Whon she left home Miss Child

told her parents that she was to have her wedding dress But she did not go to the mokers

Bantamweight champion boxer, Sixto Escobar, presented championship belt by Puerto Alban Sports Commission, after win- nhig 15-round title bout with Kayo Morgan, at^ San Juan, His trainer. Whiley Binsfein, left, examines the bell,

Palace Of A Homer Hero Discovered

Believed Home of The Immortal King Nestor

'PYLOS, Bay of Navarino.

The remains of a 3,000-year-old palace, claimed to be that of the sage King Nestor, immortalised by Homer, have been found on a hill top at the north end of this historic bay of Navarino.

The discoverer, Professor Karl William Blegen, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cin- cinnati, will not guarantee that this building is King Nestor's palace, but he thinks it "very likely."

More important still as a means of throwing fresh light on the Homeric age, Professor Blegen has discovered 620 clay tablets covered with writing.

These are records of the lof Nestor is at Kakovatos, 60 miles 13th century before Christfurther up the coast. Homer in the "Odyssey" tells how Telemachus, and the first of their kind tired of the presence of his mother's suitors. In his palace, came to Pylos to be found on the Greek mainland.

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ask Nestor if he knew what hnd The bride-to-be was Miss Edith

become of his father, Ulysses. Tele- Helen Child, aged 24,

machus found Nestor and his many of Histon, Cambridge, near

Only the first traces of this sons sacrificlag nine bulls by the sea- Her fiance is Harold Whitehead, aged 20, of Oak-remarkable palace have been shore. Ington, a blacksmith."

The presumption, therefore, has unearthed. It will take two been that the paince of Nestor was going Years of work to uncover the also at the edge of the sea. But the favour of Atted. area of 170 yards by 80 yards great argument now in dress-on which it stands.

Prof. Blegen:is that he hus, after all, The palace, as revealed by a few found a Mycenian palace at Pylos.

Prof. Blegen lives in a house which walls and remains of pillars, may contain great treasures: but it is stands just above the picturesque. more likely that these have been re- small town of Pylos. moved in earlier ages,

TEN YEARS' WAIT Two hundred yards lower down the Prof. Blegen, who is one-armed, is hillside Professor Blegan has disa modest, retiring American in the At the inquest the coroner read covered a "beehive" tomb in which Aftles, "I came here on the invita- tion of Dr. Kourounictis, Director of

Later her brother Gordon found her dead in the kitchen of the house which was to have been her home. Her head was near the gas stove.

her flance:

LAST LETTER

A question was asked in the House days that he spent there he took the from a letter written by the girl to

of Commons, recently regarding opportunity to compare notes on

"The life you offer me is lovely, so the recent visit of the British number of questions of common in- Ambassador to Tokyo to Shanghai terest with His Majesty's Ambassador have to do this instead of having it What you have to China. The latter is at present taken from me. -and-the-subsequent-visit-of-the paying one-of-his-regular-routine given to me. I cannot give you." Ambassador to China to Marshal visits to the headquarters of the The coroner returned a verdict the Chiang Kai Shek:-...

Government to which he is accredited, that she gassed herself while ind no special significance need be balance of her mind was disturbed. attached to this.

the ancients buried their kings. So

far he has not excavated to any great

deprofessor Blegen has crowned 30 years of patient investigations In Greece by this discovery which may throw much new light on Greek his tory.

the National Museum of Athens, and

have collaborated," he

we

said

Ten years ago I noticed the site, but

have been busy in Troy up to this

year.

cannot say yet that this is King Nestor's palace. I can only say that

CATTLE INVENTORY

it is a Mycenian palace, probably of The tablets were found at a depth the 13th century BC. It will prob of only four feet. They were placed ably be two years before the excava- flat on the top of a low wall in a tion is finished. We do not know

shelf of a library,

Open Education Separates small room, as if this wall were the the person who wrote the records on

Mr. Gallacher asked the Prime Minister what was the subject of dis- cussion between the British Ambassa-

Mr. Gallacher: Are noi the Govern- dors to China and Japan in their re- ment prepared to make in cent, meeting at Shanghai; and what declaration in support of the herole was the object of the subsequent visit Chinese in their fight against the of the Ambassador to China to Mar-Japanese Invasion?

Brothers

Cleveland, O.

on a

Prof. Blogen sald that one of these clay tablets was Greek. There are some signs on them which are not tablets, when unearthed, was we usually found in the Minoan form. shal Chiang Kai-shek at Chungking Mr. Butler: I think that the general

and had to be dried with great care "The excavations have been On- The Tyler brothers--four of them

wire frame and swaddled in anced by Prof. and Mrs. W. T. The Under-Secretary of State for attitude of His Majesty's Government met again after 15 years of separa-cottonwool. It was about din. by aln. Semple. Mr. Semple is head of the Foreign Affales (Mr. Butler): His is well known.

tion, at the convention of the Amerland perhaps half an inch thick. classical department of the Univer Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo made Mr. Thorne: Does the Ambassador can Association of School Adminis- The eight rows of hieroglyphics sity of Cincinnati, I expect to return" his recent trip to Shanghal with the make any report as to the way intrators here. All four are college primary object of taking a short which the Chinese are pushing back faculty members-and in four cannot be read. But they are of the to. America shortly and to come back type described by the famous student here next spring to continue the work period of local leave. During the few the Japanese?

ferent states.

of Cretan archaeology,

gy, Sir Arthur of excavation." Linear Evans, ns

writing,

"OF FIRST IMPORTANCE" Minoan

and

Prof. A. J. B. Wace, Professor of has succeeded in deciphering the

Classical Archaeology at Cambridge phabet. The tablet had many numbers and University, said that Prof. Blegen's

discoveries were "of first import appeared to be a record of some kind,

He added: possibly of the number of cattle ance

"The discovery of the palace shows, possessed by King Nestor.

as was to have been expected, that There will be arguments about the there was an important centre of cul- belief that this palace is that of bed ture and civilisation at this spot in great Nestor, whom Homer described

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as "Nestor sweet of speech, the clear-the 13th century B.C. Some years voked orator of the men of Pylos, he ago Dr. Kourouniotis found two bee- from whose tongue flowed speech hive tombs near the excavations sweeter than honey. Two geherations where Prof. Biegen has now found a of mortal men had he ere now seen third. The presence here of a palace phas away

who of old had been born and Royal tombs means that people and reared with him in sacred Pylos, who cure to think that this. the and he was king in the third genera-famous palace of Nestor have very

good reasons for their belief."-- tion."

Nestor was the husband of Eury- dice, and among his sons was Perseus. Since his character was drawn by Homer ho has for over 2,000 years stood as personification of the elder statesman, ripe in wisdom and ex- perience.

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