1939-05-31 — Page 14

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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May 31, 1939.

GIRL DANCER PROPOSED

TO FLOWER-SELLER

He Accepted: Is Jailed

GEORGE HOLLINGSWORTH, hawker, stood in drizzling rain outside a Piccadilly hotel, trying to sell buttonholes to passers-by.

"Buy a flower, lady," he asked

a beautiful girl in expensive furs!

Father Weeps At who came out of the hotel.

Show For Two

MRS.. ROSA KOTHA, white-haired,

M

"Will you marry me?" was her reply.

And that was how thirty-eight- Vi grey-eyed, small and demure, year-old George Hollingsworth be holding a bunch of pink and yellow gun an adventure which ended in ruses in her hand, sat on the settee a nine months' prison sentence

of No. 1 dressing-room In the St. James's Theatre, 8.W., recently and sak in German:--

"It's not nice for parents to speak) In Battery of their daughter, but wej have been very entertained and very happy."

"We" were Mrs. Rotha and her husband Paul, middle-aged Viennese) jeweller. They had just seen their twenty-five-year-old daughter Wanda) net in one of the strangest perform- unces ever given in a London play- house,

Old Balley recently.

fit

He dumped his unsold flowers and walked into the girl's £3-a-day sulte.

"My name is Herta Ritel," shej said. "I um a professional dancer, on Austrian, and I want to marry an Englishmen and gain British nationality, becntise 1 am having! difficulty In renewing my pass- port.

"I will make you my manager, I will give ynty £5 down, and £28/ after the marriage,"

PAID 2/- FEE

An hour Inter they entered the The show comprised scenes from "Elisabeth of Austria," a play which office of Mr. Joseph Bond, superin- Caxton Hall,| finished a three months West End tendent registrar at

Westminster. run in January. Wanda Rotha was the stor.

Her parents, whom she has no seen for two years, wanted to see her act in the play, but difficulties arose over pussports. By the time they were settled the play bad been withdrawn.

DISAPPOINTED

Mr. and Mrs. Rotha were so dis- appointed when they arrived that! this special private performance was put on for them. There they sut that afternoon two solitary people surrounded by empty stalls.

The performance cost 12s. 9d., the cost of paying three stage hands at 4s. 3d, each for the afternoon.

"We want to get married as soon as possible," they strid,

the application George Alled up form, stating that he was a bachelor, paid the two-shilling fee.

When they had gone Mr. Bond reached for his telephone.

Within twenty-four hours Sent- land-yard knew all about George. They had discovered he alrendy had a wife and seven children. The aliens department gave them full Information about Herta.

The marriage between the dancer and the flower-seller did not take place. Musicad, George was arrested, Herta sailed for the Continent.

In court recently, George, pleaded! guilty to making n false marriage

There was no music, no change declaration. He received his sen- of scene, no applause, The voices tence with a worried frown.

of Miss Rotha, Gyles

Ishain,

Richard Ainley and Olwen Brookes

sounded loud and hollow in the

empty theatre.

They spoke to

who were not there.

other characters

Rare Pygmy Shrew Found

with wife and seven children

Gracie Sells Her Home,

But Not Goldfish

GRACIE FIELDS has sold Green Trees, her lovely London home in Finchley-road, St. John's Wood,

N.W.

Workmen were there recently making alterations before its reopening as a private bridge club.

The deal involved more than] £25,000,

Norwegian Royalty

Norwegian Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha re- ceived a tumultuous welcome as they arrived in New York to open the Norwegian Pavilion at the Fair and to visit the United States. Here Bey are aboard the reception boat, Riverside.

Art Find After 200 Years

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Gracie also owned two adjoining houses. With the com-been discovered in an English pletion of legal formalities in a Lincoln's Inn solicitor's office, all three passed to the Lyndhurst Club, proprietress of which is forty-four-year-old Russian-born Mme. Freda Potel.

It is the lost portrait of Filippo Benizi by Carlo Dolci. Twice Gracie nearly called It has been identifled in Ports- the deal off. Once it was be-mouth Cathedral to which it was re- cause of the goldfish in the gar-cently given. Among the fittings included den pond; another time because The painting was purchased by the in the sale are crystal chun- of her attachment

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about donor's grandfather in Italy the middle of last century.

Phillip Henizi in the black habit of the Servites is shown renouncing the triple crown of a Pope. It was death in 1686 in a brief memoir by his mentioned shortly after Carlo Dolci's friend Filippo. Baldinucci, but it dis- appeared soon after,

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Mr. and Mrs. Rotha, as the guests INDIAN HEAD, Sask. - A rare of honour, were the only peop on animal, a pygmy shrew, was found deliers in the, principal rooms beautifully laid-out garden, now the ground floor. When their daugh- here by Mrs. J. Kirchner. She was value at £250 each, and "Gracie's looking its best. ter, who played the tragic Elisabeth, mystified by its snout, far longer Bar," at which she entertained was happy, Mr. Rotta laughed with the that of ordinary field mice. A ver friends in the drawing-room; that she said she would rather not her, and when she was going through letter to the Toronto museum clear-When the club opens a crisis in her life, he unashamedly fed up the animal's identity, the

museum advising that the discovery month the bar and its signplate The new owners agreed to restock

wiped its eyes. L

It was an oddly moving afternoon. was a rare one.

will still be there.

Gracle was so fond of her goldfish next sell the house than part with them.

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Identification is conflrmed by the

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she will now live.

The negotiations were almost complete when Grucie looked out of her bedroom window one morning _and_saw_the_flowers. She said: "I

can't leave these beautiful flowers.

But she gave way when the pur-i chasers agreed to her taking the garden statuary.

It look ten pantechnicons to move Gracie's furniture to Peacehaven.

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*Saint Flippo · Benizl

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Mme. Potel began her London carcer with a small club in the Finchley-road thirteen years ago. She fed from Russia with her Deer

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