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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Moduly

15, 1939.

Urnen. Supreme Court

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Mayfair's Marriage Bureau Needs More Room

300 EACH DAY WANT A

ROMANCE

ARRANGED

Lady X Will

Save £2,000

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AYFAIR'S ONLY MARRIAGE BUREAU HAS BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL SINCE IT OPENED IN APRIL THAT ITS TWO EX-DEBUTANTE "MARRIAGE BROKERS"- MARY OLIVER AND HEATHER JENNER-ARE MOVING INTO BIGGER OFFICES,

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Eve y day an average of 300 letters pour into their Bond- street office.

Since they started they have filed 9,000 letters, and now they and their three secretaries can no longer cope with the number of visitors who call daily.

So at their new premises, also in Bond-street, they will have one huge waiting-room, a filing-room, and an office.

The Situation

In China

London.

A short atatement was made in the House of Commons recently in reply to questions regarding the present position in China:

Mr. J. Gibson asked the Prime Minister whether he has any state- ment to make regarding the position in China generally, and in the Inter- | national settlements in particular: and what steps the Clovernment are taking to safeguard the lives rel interests of British subjects in thear

rend?

The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (3r. Buller): Some

fighting has been proceeding Central China in the Han River aren.

Since April there has been one marriage ceremony and fif-but the general line held by both teen engagements fixed through the bureau.

"Think of it!" attractive eligible husband, she has paid young Miss Oliver said. "Fifteen 45 registration fee at the bureau engagements in so short a time, that the match-making can be done We are terribly thrilled about it.)

SAVING £2,000

for her.

sides renning the same. The generat situation in the futernational Settle- thement at Shanghai remning substab- solally unchanged. There has been no reduction in the numbers of the land- ing parties at Kulangsu and negotia- tion for a settlement there continue. Mr. Noel-Baker: Are the British and American marines still on land at Kulancha?

Now Miss Oliver und Miss Jenner will send all their suitable young Thanks to the bureau, at least onenen (with the right figure incones) well-known titled lady is saving a lot husband. If they pass the tests, then to be interviewed by Lady-and her of muney this season,

Instead of spending about £2,000 they will meet the daughter. 1 bringing-nut $15. debutant:) daughter in order to And her an

14-lbs. of Ugly Fat

One young man, who had evidently passeil with flying culars and net the girl, telephoned Miss Oliver. she has led a very sheltered life..." "Well, you must remember that Not been about much

She said."

lout in 11 days yet, you know...

kford Wormaçts withaale, pleasant,

teaiment

have taken s

1 tl uykurk and feel like a new prick me only 11 days 14-its have lost about

- ware 1-1, in a and

Mavent hers sakurat ni reguláity. I wear dresses antes smaller. It ended my stomach trouble, constipation, -headaches and tired farting "

HILDA G. LANTZUR

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HEIRESS' PROBLEM

Mr. Butler: Yes. Sir,

Mr. Jolin Morgan: Has the right hon. Centjernan any information with

regard to the Japanese enterprise at Kagan and with regard to the two British officers held thero7.

Federal Judge Martin T. Manton leaves Federal Court, New York, after convletion of conspiracy to sell justice. - Adopted son David with him. Conviction may reopen 3,000 cases at which he presided,

No Weddings In This Village

ONLY

NLY two weddings have taken place in the last eleven years in the Gloucestershire village of Frampton Monsell.

the

There are no houses to which, . There have been pleas that grooms may bring their brides. Cotswold architecture should be pre- served, but it would cost more than Young men and women waiting 1,800 a cottage could the in for houses have gone away to traditional stric. other centres in despair.

Mrs. Stayte, who keeps the village | ship, sald.

since

who thal

Mr. Buller: I have had some recent information on thai subject, I under- stand that the Chinese Secretary toj the British Embassy and the British old folk.

The village is peopled mainly

"My, alster, Hilda, was married $1 military tuison officer are returning)

years ago and there has been only Recently six of them were served one wedding of a villager to Peking und were expected to get

house faunch a back there yesterday with the latest with orders to quit their cottages, has news. When I have

which have been cundemned. There time. She was a girt fiving about a will communicate it to the hon. is "euuell talk about building six mile away across the downs.

"One housing scheme was planned. Member and to the House.

į new houses, but the villagers are) "The heiress wants to meet a man!

years ago, but a complaint was windo Mr. Morgan: Has any representa-sceptical, who can't possibly have heard itxut Eos of any kind been made to the!

fouse-building has been discussed! that lines of washing would b her money," Miss Oliver sald. "So Japanese Government?

for 30 years. but not a house has visible if the houses were built. she's come to us."

"I can only remember four village Mr. Butler: Yes, Sir. The whole been erected either at Frampton or You wouldn't think beautiful mon-matter has been taken up with the in the neighbouring village of Sap-weddings in the 20 years since I was nequins would need

morried." marringe Japanese military authorities,

perlon, in the same parkda

As well as titled people, actors and heiresses have registered at the bureau.

bureau, would you? But they do.

About half of the registered women

at the bureau are mannequins.

The young-men-about-town that most.

manners meet don't want to marry," she said. "A great many! manacquins fish up in the suburbs..

Co-ed Hitch-Hiking Banned

ATHENS. Ga.

"But there are hundreds of eligible The University of Georgia has bachelors living the colonies who turned thumbs down on the practice want wives-decorative wives-and į of lone co-eds pitch-hiking to and they come to us when they are on | from elusses. Furthermore, School Jeyr. "We call ourselves Empire gfficials have placed an absolute;

| ban on catching rides after dark, re-

gardless of the

sex or number of students.

Builders!"

CHAPERONE

The real procedure is for Mas Uliver or Miss Jenner to introdues the couples. Often, Miss Oliver acts as a chaperone.

Recently she took a 25-years-old Hrt to Paris to awet a wealthy years-old business man,

Play Inspired By Fight

For Husband

WHILE NURSING her husband back to health and fighting for his recognition as a poet, a beautiful English- woman has won fame as a playwright.

She is Mrs. Margarot Branford, whose play. "A Woman's Occasionally, would-be clients have to be turned down.

was recently presented at the Kingsway Theatre, Privilege.' Some clients have met actually on London. the way to being registered and

Mr. and Mrs. Branford bave been Her second play, as yet unnamed, ked the look of each other.

When her Letters trom Japan,

Australia, is to be presented in the West End married for 10 years.

husband went to Austria for treat- India, France, New Zealand, were hortly by Mr. Maurice Browne.

Branford accompanied "Through these plays i hope toment, Mrs. One was from Sarawak, a 35-years-help my husband and to gain enough hi ald man who wanted a homely, good-influence to make people recognise Exery marriage ceremony means tooking girl to loin him in the jungle. his genius," she said. 34 guiñets to the bureau,

He only visits England every five- Besides acting as chaperone, Miss years, and until his next leave they Oliver also helps to buy thewill have to correspond and exchange Mr. Frederick Victor franford, her

The couple have corresponded and, exelanged photographs, and Mies Oliver hupe; to stre thet scon

married

scattered about the ofice desk.

resent-wedding-enke.--fturnire photographs, and arranges about inviation cards,!

It seemed to me that if a lonely receptions.

young bachelor Wanted a wife he farther than the bureau premises, for brunette Mary Oliver and blonde Heather Jenner have all the necessary qualifications. "Yes, we've lind plenty of invita- tlons out. und proposals," Miss Oliver laughed. "But they've all been turned down,

"I am working special arrange- need not go any ments with some of the shops sa Buat our clients can get their wedding things at a slightly less cost," Miss Oliver said,

CRASHED, INTERNED

·husband--is--the-Buller---o£--two- volumes of poetry, "Titans and Godar and "The White Stallion,"

There she wrote a plny in German and it was performed by n local company. Its success eneotragedi her to write her Best English play- "A Woman's Privilege."

Pupils War On Flies

TIFFIN, O.

His health was shattered by his war experiences, · When serving in the Royal Naval Air Service he Pupils of the ninth grade here, told crashed in Dutch territorial water, Į that every housefly killed now means swam ashore and was interned, millions less later i the season, "For years my husband has been an killed 8,220 of the insects in one invalid," Mrs. Brandford continued. week. They computed that their vic- "Six operations brought 1ttie Im-tims would have been ancestors of dis- will be well enough soon to resume case-breeding descendants by next his writing."

i fall.

CUT RATES Special terms are made at the burent Ior working-class propte. The gistration fee for the men is 30s, and for the women, according to I'm not ready to drink my own beerovement, but I am hoping that be 40.330,000,000,000,000 Luzzing,

their incomes.

"I like to marry one duy,

Just yet."

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