1939-05-26 — Page 14

Danzig Citizen

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 26,

1939.

Earl, 33 Last Month, Sells

Treasures To-day

Adolf Hitler, born in Austria, Chancellor of Germany, is now a citizen of the Free City of Danzig. Berlin radlo picture shows Albert Foerster, Nazl. district leader, presenting scroll on Hitler's 60th birthday.

Locking your car doors does

WHE

not mean it is safe from thieves

THEN you lock the doors of your car and leave it you 'cannot be sure that it is safe from thieves. Mr. P. Godfrey, official of a firmi of jewellers, found this out recently.

Here is his story: "I left my car, with jewellery worth more than £1,000 in it, in Lime-street, Bedford. The car is specially fitted with padlocks and chaina, and I left everything fastened.

"I called at a jeweller's twenty yards away, round a corner. When I returned ten minutes later the car had gone." Police were still looking for the car la te that night.

Play Made £20,000

For Author

"FRENCH WITHOUT

TEARS,"

the comedy which nearly all

the Royal Family have seen, was

Actress Lost Her Money

and raised

300-Years-Old Home To Be Girls' School

AS

S the Earl of Buckinghamshire entered his 34th year recently an auctioneer began the sale of the treasures of Hampden House, near Gt. Missenden,

·Buckinghamshire-for over 300 years the home of the earl's family.

The earl succeeded to the title in 1930,

The mansion was first. made famous as the home of John Hampden, Cromwell's chief supporter.

The contents of the mansion are for sale, and the mansion will be turned into a girls' school.

They include pictures, furniture, Persian, and Chinese rugs, wineglasses, and rare books in French, Italian, and Latin,

Even the organ in the leried great hall is to be sold.

Norman Conquest the estate was gal-elven to a Norman count, who ap

QUEENS' PORTRAITS SAVED Some of the pictures, including por- traits of Quech Elizabeth and of Mary Queen of Scots, are being retained by the earl.

The great house is set 700ft. up In the Chiltern Illis. Hampdens are mentioned as having lived before the Conquest in earlier houses on the site. Recently, intending purehusers who parked their cars on the

grass in ront of the house saw one of Buck-

EMPIRE

NEWS

FEVERISH BUYING IN NEW ZEALAND

AUCKLAND.. The new import restrictions have resulted la. bewilderment here. Un- employment and a scarelty In many ranges of goods during the next few months are regarded us inevitable.

Stocks have already been reduced by the earlier import restrictions. Feverish buying of stocks in hand, is already sending prices to high levels. The home industry will be unable to handle the demands except in a specialises limited range of fashion goods as it the lower grades. Novelty goods must disappear, and women are already concerned at the drab outlook in the fashion world.

pointed the former owner his steward. Business takes comfort from the The steward married the count's thought that the Government is fac- daughter, and she received as a dowrying the position courageously. The the Hampden estates.

dominant Impression is that three years of Antince theories are ended. KENYA

..

The building has undergone many Cannes since John Hampden's time, but it still retains a stately dignity.

In a little church nearby lies the CLOSURE OF FACTORY remains of John Humpden.

WPA Drops Loafers

Toledo, O.

CRITICISED

MOMBASA.

In the Legislative Council a mo- tion introduced by Major Grogan de- plored the Government's "envalier" treatment of Liebigs, whose meat ex- has been tract factory in Kenya closed.

Aboot 100 WPA workers have been inghamshire's views down "Queen's dismissed here because they did not Glade," an avenue of trees, a mile in perform a reasonable day's work," length, cut in honour of Queen Eliza-and several of the dismissed workers beth when she stayed at the house, openly refused to do assigned tasks.

Major Grugan accused the Govern- In the Domesday Book it is stated District Administintar W. D. Schmulil

in the reign of Edward the Con- said there appeared to be organized ment of dishonest action in request- fessor one "Baldwyne de Hampden propaganda to the effect that men ong Liebigs to build the factory and | then failing to secure it adequate was "Lorde of Hampden." At the these jobs "do not have to work."

supplies.

He

THE world's

Rewrote Bible Rhyme

In

strangest Bible-

written in verse 200 years ago, and Illustrated with pen and ink drawings-was sold for £12 at Sotheby's sale room, W., recently.

GUY FAWKES!

The Bible was the big iden of one Abraham Sheares.

He had always Ghyslaine, French actress, who wanted to rewrite the Scriptures in recently withdrawn from the Fle-once played with the Comedie Fran- rhyme. cadilly Theatre after a West End cuise, sold her jewels run of 1,030 performances. Mr. Terence Rattigan, its 26-year-old}" author, has made £20,000 out of the play in fwo and a half years. Profits to the management amount to £15,000 and over 1,500,000 people have pasand through the box

office.

*

In aplic_of_the_great_success of the|

play, Mr. Rattigan cannot "cheer. "But for the slamp caused by the crisis, my play might have beaten

£2,700 to Anance the "robot brain."

mathematical gambling system And, when he did, he put in the "guaranteed" to win at roulette. She company of the scriptural characters tried it out in a Portuguese casino, such people as Guy Fawkes!

that she had to but lost so much borrow money to get back to France Recently there was it warrant for the arrest of the man who sold her the system.

--the-record run of 'Chu Chin-Chow. which had 2.238 performances in the West End." he said,

NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS.

R2842.

Volres of Spring. Waltz.

Autumn Murmurs. Waltz.

R2632.

Doin' Things.

R2030,

Start pl the beginning-in the

to a serpin' twisted up y tree, and with a apele ho tempied Eve as you may plainly see,”

LOT'S WIFE And this is the story of Lot's wife, who was turned into a pillar of salt:-

"Sunt after fee what did befall, For a Judgment on Lol's wife. hankering and luketer back, she lost her tender life,

The motion was defeated by the offeln and Indian votes. It repre- sents the views of mudy residents, who feel that the Government should have overcome native opposition to supplying cattle for the factory. TANGANYIKA

GERMAN FLAGS TORN DOWN

DAR-ES-SALAAM. During the Hitler birthday cele brations here, which were restrained but marked by the usual display of German flags, two large swastikas were torn down from two German private residences and destroyed.

Following complaints by the Ger- man householders, the police conduct- ed searching inquiries. SOUTH AFRICA

"It might be for her treasures there, then borning in the flame. A of salt she was then. God's

on her came." Those

who had not read the rhym- ing Bible found this catalogue des-part cription of Lot 203:—

DEFENCE SERVICE

FOR WOMEN

CAPE TOWN.

Women as well as men will take in South Africa's defence scheme, according to à communique

Garden of Eden as Abraham Sheares imagined it. Under his drawing of the serpent entwined round the apple tree he wrote in his own pecu- "Manuscript on over 1,000 pages issued here recently by the Defence Har spelling:-

of paper, illustrated by about 525 Department. "Adam was-In-Eden, garden- by spirited drawings in pen and ink, by name, in a very happy cause, many of them heightened with before the temptation came. Like colour,"

The communique invites members. of either sex who desire to offer any kind of service to do so.

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"Take a look at

my stockings, said Bee.

"One pair has

outlasted your

If

three!

you want them

to wear,

"

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KAYSER

HOSIERY-UNDERWEAR

THE SCREEN'S SWEETHEARTS

OF SONG

In a Pageant of Melodious Splendors!

Goin' Places. Rhythm Style,

Kisser In The Dark. Serenade.

Kiss Serenade.

Orchestra Mascoile.

..Joe Venuti & Ed. Lang.

Frederic Hippmann & His Orch.

R2025. Futuristic Rhythm. Rhythm Style.

R2620.

Get Happy.

Third Waltz Medley. (Robrecht.) .........Orchesita Mascotte. R2020. My Dream Tango. Tango.

By The Block Sea, Tango.

F1300. Murch of the Herald.

Sons of the Brave.

F1397, Jolly Brothers.

Baby's Sweetheart,

F1300. Park Parade. Sequence Dance. (with Dance Instruction.) F1300, Veicia.

St. Bernard Waltz,

F1305.

Victor Silvester & Ilis Baliroom Orch. Tutti Frutti......Joe Daniels & His Hol Shots In "Drumnastieks". Muliny In The Nursery, C.F.T.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

.Frankie Trumbauer & His Orch.

BOURJOIS

George Boulanger & His Orch.

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Philip Green & His Orch.

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More magnificent than "The Great Ziegfeld"... more romantic than "May time"...more runeful and

funnier than "Naughty Marietta". VICTOR HERBERT'S Love Songs! "Prary As A

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