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June 15, 1939.

Tragic Death Of Lovely British · Film

Film Star Twin Born 4 Minutes After Mother

TWO AMBITIONS OF AILEEN MARSON

FILM AND STAGE CIRCLES WERE SHOCKED

RECENTLY BY THE DEATH OF ONE OF. BRITAIN'S LOVELIEST AND MOST PROMISING STARS.

Aileen Marson, it was announced, has died after giv- ing birth to twins in a London nursing-home.

One of the twins was born four minutes after she died.

It was stated at the inquest at Kilburn that both children

- boy and a girl each weighing 6%1⁄2lbare doing well. The verdict was death by misadventure.

Aileen Marson, screen and stage actress, had two ambitions--

to become a star and to marry happily and have children,'

SHE WANTED CHILDREN

At 27 she and made a great nime for herself as an actress, and as Mrs. Jack Scott she was happily married.

All she wanted was to have children

Recently, in giving birth to twins she fled. At her bedside in a Los- don nursing-home was her young husband,

Almost her last words to him were to say how happy she was

Wedding In Evening Dress

ALL the guests were in full

evening dress at a day. light wedding in Hanwell Parish Church, Middlesex, re- cently.

The reason was that the 20-j

that her ambitions had beca ful-year-old bride, Miss Barbara . Alled.

Her father, the Rev. A. Pitt-Mar- son, a former vicar of a parish in West London, collapsed when he heard of his daughter's death.

Southgate, of Bollo Bridge-road, Aoton, W., was determined that the reception to follow should not be a matter of "duty," but of real pleasure for the guests.

Trying To Live On £1,750 A Year

Knowing how frequently wedding LADY (VERA) HODGE (orį In 1030 she married Sir Roland

LUXURY NURSERY

Aileen Murson was only four when] her mother died, and since then her receptions tend to 1zzle out if they father had been her only guardian, are held at the conventional hours protecting her, educating her, and of 2, 3 or 4 p.m., Miss Southgate de shaping her career.

cided that on her day the guests should dance til midnight.

He had prepared luxurious nursery at his home at Weal Blatchington, near Hove, Sussex. und he was eagerly looking for-

ward to the visit of his daughter as soon as she could leave the nursing-home.

Eight years ago Alicen Murson told of her two ambitions,

But she said she would not marry she had seen her nume in

until lights.

That day came when she starred in the film "My Song For

You."

This followed a brilliant stage carcer. Bad luck, however, came to her in 1935 when she produced the musical play "Vicky" at the Garrick Theatre, London.

She put nearly all her savings in the production, but the show falled and Alleen Marson lost nearly

£5,000.

"HAPPIEST" MARRIAGE

But she was still a great star, and in 1937 she toured South Africa as leading lady with Sir Seymour Hicks. In Johannesburg she renewed an old friendship with Mr. Jack Scott, and they were married in London In December of the same year.

-Of-this-marriage-friends- zaid It was the applest union

that

possible.

At the nursing-home it was slated

that the bables ore perfectly healthy and are progressing well.

Mocking Bird Rules Roost

CONCORD. Cal.

Mocking birds are not to be mocked cutat least by other birds. | according to Mr. and Mrs. C. Benedetti, For days they watched mociting bird successfully defend two massive redberry trees with branches spreading out 20 feet against whole of robins and waxwings who wanted to share the fruit. Vicious assault by the mocking bird kept all adversaries at bay until alt of the berries on the two trees had bron consumed by the one bird.

Kean at

Hodge, and in the following year he executed a deed of separation under which she received £1,250 year.

At one time her income was more

Cathcart) told Mr. Registrar London Bankruptcy Court that she was "trying hard" to live on £1,750 a year. than £5,000 a year,

She was appearing for her 5.30 pan. CEREMONY

public examination in bank- "Frank and I planned to make it ruptcy, which had been deferred possible for the reception to turn for a month "until the weather into a proper social engagement by is warmer." asking all the guests to come dressed And recently was for the evening, and we left the warmest days of the year. wedding until after 5.30," she said. The debtor, who said she was the "Receptions which start at four that she still used the name of Lady wife of Sir Roland Hodge, declared o'clock are definitely afternoon al- fairs, and with the best M.C.s in the Cathcart at the wish of her son, the world can't be kept going after six.) Then guests want to leave.

MAKING SURE

present Lord Catheart,

one

of the

I. 8d. AT THE BANK Her liabilities were put at £3,931, and her assets 15. 8d. at the bank.

On a previous receiving order on liabilities of £4,583, with no assets,

ink.

Died

Eight persons missing, believed dead, 23 injured and $4,000,000 damage was the toll of a fire that destroyed

Ave Kiganlic grain elevators on the South Side of Chicago. Fire started After terrlic explosion in Calumet A Hift. Above is a scene as one of the is burns.

Got Money On Day She Died

"BEYOND INCOME" Subsequently she underwent opera- A CHEQUE for £100 came to tons

which cost "thousands of the one-time record-breaking pounds" and she retorted to borrow- airwoman, Mrs. Mary Sophia Catherine Willams, formerly She attributed her position to this expense, and added that she had Lady (Mary) Heath, on the day her three children. assisted her daughter-in-law with she was killed by falling head

first down the stops of a tram.

she agreed that since 1925 she had Answering the Omeinl Receiver, "lived beyond her income," but said that she had paid £5 a week to the trustee for her creditors.

The examination was closed. Lady Calheart said that she had suffered from synovitis, and it was for this reason that she asked that

held on a warm day.

"We wanted to make sure that our guests would enjoy our wedding reception, and stay till the last dance made in 1925, she paid a composic public examination should be Su everybody, including my bride-Lon of 55. in the £. groom, was in full evening dress." Describing her married life she The bridegroom was Mr. Frank said she first married Lord Catheur! Purkiss, aged 24. of Shakespeare from whom she was divorced.

oud, Hanwell, manager of a shop known Miss Southgate since they owned by his bride's family. He has

were children.

Army

On his death she received £500 a her a further £1,000 a year out of** year, and later the court allowed

her husband's estates.

Officer's Wife Is Divorced

BECAUSE of his wife's cruelty, a decree nisi was granted in the Divorce Court to Mr. Harry Nor- ton, of Calais-road, Burton-on-Trent, an insurance agent and former warrant officer in the Indian Army, The marriage took place at influence of drinit, she attacked hun Karachi, India, in 1906,"

with his sword.

Mr. Norton alleged that dur ing a riat in India in 1918 an assault upon him by his wife caused his rifle to go off, and this occasioned danger to both of them and to others.

Gruating the decree, the President, Sir Boyd Merriman, said he thought that the trouble of which Mr. Nor- ton cumplained would have gone on much longer than it did but for the fact that the magistrates at Burton separated them in January, 1924, on He also alleged, among other the ground that the wife was an things, that in 1922, while under the habitual drunkard,

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AT present no fit and able

bodied man of proper age can come before the court and say there is nothing for him to do.*--

At the recent Shoreditch inquest. where the verdict was Accidental Death, it was stated that before her fall she probably had a momentary "black-out." due to an air crash in- Jury ten years ago.

Mra. Williams was the first woman to obtain a pilot's certificate and the first woman to By Bcross Africa. After the funeral at Golders Green Crematorium recently, her ashes are to be scattered from an acro- planc.

Col. S. H. White, an old friend and Ingal adviser of the airwoman, sald

after the inquest, "We all knew that air crash through the roof of a con- she suffered from the effects of an

crete factory in America.

HAD £200 A YEAR Mr. Ronald Powell, the West-quietly Mrs. Williams had an assured "Although she had been living minster magistrate said this income of £200 a year. She re- when Frank McHugh, aged 32, ceived her usual half-yearly allow- a native of Darwen, Lancashire, ance on the day she died. appearing on remand charged with begging.

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'Nothing at all ? **

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"Yes, Sir -- Untcsa?!! "Unless you include a head like a rog football dredged from a canal and a my mouth like smoke'in a railway tunnel.

Our Paris repre sentative entertained me rather lap khly last wight."

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Mr. Alfred Stokes, conductor, anid that Mrs. Williams boarded his trom at lighgate-hill for Old-street. She 9532. seemed vacant and it was me Ume before he got the fare from her. Later she seemed to fall asleep.

It was stated that McHugh had now obtained work at a hostel, and he was bound over,

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"I will not, in the present circum- stances listen to any fit and able- bodied man coming before me and saying he is forced to beg.

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