1939-05-31 — Page 2

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Jaws

May 31, 1939.

GIRL DANCER PROPOSED

TO FLOWER-SELLER.

He Accepted: Is Jailed

GEORGE HOLLINGSWORTH,. hawker, stood in drizzling rain outside a Piccadillý 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

FRS. NOSA ROTHA, white-haired,

MRS

"Will you marry me?" was her reply.

at

And that was how thirty-eight- grey-eyed, small and demure, year-old George Hollingsworth be holding a bunch of pink and yellowitan an adventure which ended in roses in her hand, sat on the settee ale months' prison sentence of No. 1 dressing-room in the St, James's Theatre, B.W.. recently and said In German:-

"It's not nice for parents to speak in flattery of their daughter, but we have been very entertained and very happy."

and her "We" were Mrs. Roiha husband Paul, middle-agef Viennese jeweller. They had just seen their! twenty-five-year-old daughter Wanda act in one of the strangest perform- ances ever given in a London play-

house.

The show comprised scenes from "Elisabeth of Austria," a play which finished a three months' West End run in January. Wanda Roths was the star.

Her parents, whom she has nat seen for two years, wanted to see, her act in the play, but difficulties arose over passports. By the time they were settled the play had been withdrawn.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 sat that afternoon two solltary people surrounded by empty stalls.

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

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Old Balley recently.

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

"My name is fierta Rittel," she said. "I am a professional dancer, an Austriun, and I want to marry an Englishman and gain British nationality, because I am having mculty in renewing my pass-

port.

"I will make you my manager, I will give you £5'down, and £20) after the marriage.“

PAID 2/ FEE

An hour later they entered the lice of Mr. Joseph Bond, superin- FIL Caxton Hail, Sendent registrar Westminster,

"We want to get married as soon!

possible." they said.

George Alled in the application i 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 Scot- Jand-yard knew all about George. nlready They and discovered he had a wife and seven children. allens department gave them) full information about Hertu.

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

In court recently Ceorge pleaded guilty to making a false marriage There was no music, no change|declaration. He received his

of scene, no applause. The volees tence with a worried frown.

of

Miss

Rotha, Gyles Ishain.

Richard Alnley and Olwen Brookes

sounded loud and hallow In the

empty theatre.

They spoke to other characters

Rare Pygmy

Shrew Found

sen-

and

with wife and seven children

Gracie Sells Her Home,

But Not Goldfish

RACIE FIELDS has sold Green Trees, her lovely

N.W.

London home in Finchley-road, St. John's Wood,

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

Norwegian Royalty

Norwegian Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha re- ceived a tumultugas welcome as they arrived New York la

open the Norwegian Pavilon at the Fair and to visit the United State#. Here they are aboard the reception boat, Riverside,

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An Italian art treasure has 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 cathedral 200 years after con- three passed to the Lyndhurst Club, proprietress of which is noisseurs had lost trace of it.

It is the lost portrait of Filippo forty-four-year-old Russian-born Mmc. Freda Potel.

Benizi by Carlo Dolci. The deal involved more than] Twice Gracie nearly called

It has been identified In Ports- £25,000,

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 becaUSC donor's grandfather in Italy

The painting was purchased by the in the sale are crystal chan-of her attachment for the the middle of last century, Mr. and Mrs. Rotho, as the guests | INDIAN HEAD, Sask. A rare

animal, a pygmy shrew, was found deliers in the principal rooms beautifully laid-out garden, now here by Mrs, J. Kirchner. She was value at £250 each, and "Gracie's looking its best. than that of ordinary field mice. A her friends in the drawing-roon mystified by its snout, far longer Bar," at which she entertained

her, and when she was going through letter to the Torento museum clear-When the club opens next a crisis in her life, he unashamedly ed up the animal's identity, the wiped his eyes.

muscum advising that the discovery month the bar and its signplate

will still be there. It was an oddly moving afternoon, was a rare one,

who were not there.

of honour, were the only people on

the ground flour. When their daugh- was happy, Mr. Roth inughed with ter, who played the tragle Elisabeth,

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reservations at the theatre,

that she said she would rather not

Gracie was so fond of her goldish

sell the house than part with them. The new owners agreed to resteck the pond, and Gracie sent her gold- fish to Peacehaven, in Sussex, where she will now live.

were

about

Philip Benizi in the black habit of the Servites is shown renouncing the triple crown of death in 1688 In a brief memoir by his a Pope. It was mentioned shortly after Carto Dolel's

friend Filippo Baldinucci, but it dis- appeared soon after

Identification is confirmed by the discovery in the British Museum of a print, referred to by Baldinucci, re- negotiations The

producing almost

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was the complete when Gracie looked out of her-bedroom-window-one-mornin Servites, or "Servants of Mury" ats

most ilustrious

the member of and saw the flowers. She suld: "I

Augustinian order which enforced can't leave these beautiful flowers."

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

It look ten pantechnicuns to moveļ Gracie's furniture to Peucehaven,

She

a life of penance and prayer. He died in 1285.

Dear

Cougars Thin Out Deer

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