1939-08-01 — Page 2

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 1, 1939.

NOVELIST BUYS HAT WITH LAST "BOB"

She Says "I Needed It"

AUBURN-HAIRED DOREEN WALLACE, THE NOVELIST-IN PRIVATE LIFE MRS. R. H. RASH, WIFE OF A SUFFOLK FARMER, OF WORTHAM MANOR, NEAR IPSWICH-HAS SPENT "HER LAST SHILLING” ... AND WITH IT SHE BOUGHT A NEW HAT.

Sho wore it for the first lane i recently when she went out of her horge without a penny in her pockel.n

Because pie refuses "on principle" to pay the £200 the awing on the

she two farms

owns, Doreen Wallace has been made bankrupt

by the Title Commision.

In August her furniture, even the beds, will be piled up on the town of her beautiful country home and knocked down to the highest bid- dere

"JUST HAD TO"

"I was feeling so depressed after the auctioneer had been round every room in the house making an inven- tory of all my possessions that I Just had to have something to cheer me up," she said

"But because I am not allowed to receive any money of my own, not even the carnings from my books, wifi after the bankruptcy proceed. Ings are over, all I had left was n shilling

"What I needed to cheer me up was

a new hat, and I was lucky to get one

from the bargain counter.

"It is a very attractive Hitle hat and

I am very pleased with it.

"But now I have no money ul ull

and shall have to depend on clarity until my bankruptcy proceedings are: Over,"

TYPEWRITER TO GO

After the sale, Northinm Manor will ise inft practically bare of furniture,

Even the typewriter with which. Doreen Wallace has typed all her novels will be sold.

"I shall be very sorry to sue it goj because after all this time I have be- come quile attached to it," he said,

HUGE "FAN MAIL"

Doreen Wallace has a huge postbag from strangers in all parts of the country who support her in her stand for a repeal of the present the tegislation, which, she says, is ruin- ing farmers all over the country. "I get communications from

far- iners who are so hard up that they have to write on labels, the back of handbills, and any odd paper can get for nothing," she added,

they

Her preliminary statement of nf- fuirs shows a surplus of assets over Rabilities of £2,520.

Ceremonies by Latin American growers at the Venezuelan, Cu- ban and Brazilian pavilions at the New York Fair and by Americans at the Court of Peaco opened Iced Coffee week. Hero IN Elvira Laine. air hostess, chosen Iced Coffee Queen,

MEN DREW DOLE

AND WORKED

EMPIRE NEWS

CANADIAN PREMIER AND ELECTION

OTTAWA.

Mr. Mackenzie King Federni Prime Minister, stated recently that the question of an autuma general election in Canada had not been de- elded.

I should want to study carefully the situation both in Europe unl Asia," he said, "before deciding to Inunch this country on a Generai Election."

The Prime Minister indicated that if the international situation grew any worse during the next few weeks The would have to end a special session

of Parliament.

SOUTH AFRICA

CAPE TOWN'S NEW HARBOUR

CAPE TOWN. Almost one-third of the reclama- tion work on Cape Town's new bar- bour and foreshore scheme has been [completed.

It is estimated that 11,000,000 cubie yards of material will be required to All in the 383 acres of sea that will eventually form the new foreshore.

in the 13 months since the work started the Dutch dredging contrac- tors have deposited 3,800,000 cubic yards of material over the area.

Here's a giant panda, ready to play in new home si St. Louis, Mo., zoo, after purchase in New York. "Happy" weighs 250 pounds and is four feet tall. "Happy" passed through longkong last year on his way to Lendon.

Deanna Durbin's Parents

Re-Visit

England

More 'Planes To have arrived in England for the first

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Two sides of Britain's strength in defence, revealed in speeches recently.

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JOE DANIELS & HIS HOT SHOTS..

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Crashing Through F1442-Vintage Valses, Plano Medley.

two planos with string bass & drums

İVOR MORETON & DAVE KAYE..

BILLY THORBURN.

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Begin The Berufne

.MILDRED BAILEY & HER ORCH. 12671-Caresses, Waltz,

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Mr.

James and Mrs.

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Poor Contrary Mary. F.T...BILLY THORBURN & HIS MUSIC.. Mr. and Mrs. Durbin are English R2469-Dreams Come True. Tango. but Mrs. Durbin had never been to

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EUGEN WOLFF & HIS ORCH.... before. When they let London Liverpool so long ago to make their fortunes in the new country tey be little thought that they would returning as the parents of one of the most famous of film stars. SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Air

Mrs. Durbin, who la grey-haired | New Union Stamps. Recently Minister, sald in London that in thei stamps of three values-1d, 2d and next two years the Government now, saw the coast of England from 3d-were issued to celebrate the would increase the number of air the deck of the Normandle with eyes 250th anniversary of the landing of squadrons

like her daughter's. She xintioned staining the Huguenots in South Africa. The oversens.

and her husband are going to visit their relatives in Manchester and to commemoration of the landing will

They would include squadrons to pick up the threads of the family take place early in September.

protect our vital trade interests,

life they left so many years ago. AUSTRALIA

TINPLATE TARIFF

APPLICATION

SYDNEY.

AIR POWER

permanently

Training centres for pilots would be formed in the Middle East. in cluding Egypt, Kenya, and Southern Rhodesia, and in the Far East. in-. cluding Hongkong, Singapore, Pen-

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Their daughter is to them a wonder and a joy, If it had not been for her, the Durbins-simple people would never have been able

make this purney, and Deanna has been unable to come because of her work.

The Tariff Board is conducting anong and Ceylon. The possibility of training volunteer reserves in West inquiry inlo

by an application

Malta, and the Channel Broken Hill Proprietary for tariff Africa,

"We are very fortunate-this sort protection against imported British Jalands was being examined.

of thing does not happen to a family tinplate.

Sultable bases had been surveyed every day," Mrs, Durbin said. She for a civil air service from: New described how Deannu works 14 Zenfant to Canada. It would be the hours a day, sometimes with lessons last link in the chain of British air in French, Binging and appreciation services round the world.

of music. Mrs. Durbin stopped

Broken Hill Proprietary suggests that, given this protection, it would be in a position to establish a tin plate industry in Australia at a cost of more than £4,000,000,

Contesting the applications,

With the rapid development and Deanna singing on the radio. the range and speed of modern air- "I would rather have my girl than porters of tinned butter have told craft. Sir Kingsley added, the rein-more money," she said. "Deonna is the Board that the proposed manu-forcement of any part of the Empire even prettier off the screen than on. facture should be done only under within a matter of hours was rapidly She has fair hair and a very beaut!- subsidy, or under conditions by becoming a definite possibility. ful skin. She is always laughing.

which exporters of produce in tins are

LIVERPOOL. fdrew £72. They were caught be permitted to import freely all special FOOD PROBLEMS

mixed with

night)

tinplate.

+

A Royal Labour

Experiment

London.

Both men were sentenced to three! years' penal servitude at Liverpool Quarter Sessions recently, pleaded guilty 10 unemployment

They

"Well, now she is seventeen she goes out more. which is only right," she said. "But there is in her anything serious

never

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never had-tempered; plays "pingpong, likes swimming, riding and playing DURING sixteen years Hughese delete docters unit after nis qualities, sizes and descriptions of

Burns, thirty-eight-year-old listening to talk in dockside public

SIR HERBERT MATTHEWS, who with the dogs.

"She is under contract with Uni- Tinners have given evidence that was in the Ministry of Food during labourer, of Owen-road, Liver- houses.

the project was almost certain to the war, declared that Britain's food versal for another five years. Then, pool, worked--at-Liverpool-Docks What puzzles Ministry of Labour entail-further losses of trade to position to-day was worse than in perhaps, when she is older she will

go into opera: under a false name so that he officials is how the books get out on Australia and to raise further resent- 1014.

the haz the exchanges. Every book is locked ment In Great Britain.

"Our population," he said, "is Mrs. Durbin thinks she could draw dole as well as wages.in a safe at night.

number of most wonderful voice in the world. Rain in the Desert.-The scientific much larger, and the During ten years Christopher

our Inquirica about the tumours of It is impossible for any one to expedition led by Dr. C. T. Madigan merchant ships much smaller; Sandison, aged forty, of have a blanks book unless it is stolen hos found both rain and water in the land is poor and half-starved owing Deanna falling in love were greeted Sessions-road, Liverpool did the or given away wrongly.

arid Simpson Desert in Central to a long period of low prices for with a mother's patience. Australia, which the expedition is farm produce and the number of same thing.

crossing on camels, The rain was farm workers is greatly reduced."; limited to a few drops, and the water Sir Herbert was speaking oa presi-) was 3ft. below ground in a "son"dent of the Industrial Transport: in the now dry watercourse known Association at Norwich.

friendships. the Hale River,

Great quantities of leaflets, omeially

forms, and plication forms, order

"One day, I suppose, she will real- tekels of different sorts had beenly fall in love."

Mrs. printed ready for distribution, he

said that ber

lo hungry mobs if food

not She never had any lessons before a there.

"talent scout" spotted her singing at The Government had announced a recital organised by some teachers.

and sugar, Congratulating the Government on purchases of wheat, at Liverpool Docks that although the origin in a conversation between the police and Ministry of Labour ins- King and a member of the Victoria the air agreement with Brition the whale oil. Lad these commodities. pectors have been trying to stop it for Club, a working man's institution. It "New Zealand Herald" says there is been brought into the country ar would be useless to store them in two years there are still between 300 was claimed that direct labour was at least the implied suggestion that were the Government satisfied with seaports and other vulnerable areas.

vas economical as contract. and 400 books missing.

"Well," New Zealand is undertaking service "futures."

Enemy 'planes would bomb them out sald the King, "build me a summer Sandison

If the food stocks were here, it [of existence. The ultimate effect of the described was

as house by direct labour." Exper arrangement is that in the event of the ringleader at the tracking. He artisans did the work, but it was sold unemployment cards to dockers not quite the economie proposition or the Dominion is offering to pro- for as much as 10s., besides drawing claimed. Nevertheless the King said ide an air expeditionary force of benefit to which he was not entitled, he derived much interest from It and 300 men annually

In seventy-four weeks he wrongly "the fellows were extrenicly sincera drew £04. Burns, in 101, weeks over the job."

assistance frauds.

Durbin

NEW ZEALAND The old summer house in Bucking- Patrick Abbott, aged thirty-three,ham Palace garden, which has now AIR AGREEMENT WITH said. They would not be much good daughter's acting is entirely natural. dock Inbourer. of Gribble-road, minde way for a bigger and more Liverpool, was sent to prison for modern one, was an experiment in fifteen months with hard inbour. direct Inbour, in which King George Trafficking in dole books is so bad was greatly interested. It has ta

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Empire unity in which the Govern "It is an inspiring example

ment is giving filing expression to the spirit of the country."

Disputed Will: £30,000 For Daughter

BY the statement of u will dispute In the High Court, Dublin, recently, Mrs. Olive G. O'Grady, of Red Tiles, ,Uckfield (Sussex), 18 to receive

£30,000.

Mrs. O'Grady is the only surviving child of Mrs. Marie Georgina Duckett,

whose will was in dispute.

The settlement was reached, it was stated, providing, among other things, Uant Mrs. O'Grady received £20,000 Ɛand that she withdrew her opposition

to her mother's will of July, 1820.

£100,000 ESTATE

At a previous hearing the jury had found againat n will of July, 1934, by which Mrs. Duckett left her £100,000 estate to various Protestant charities. In the 1020 witi Mrs. Duckelt lett [legneles to the sume charities and | bequeathed the reziduo in trust for the Church Association, Buckingham [Street, W.C., the Protestant · Re- formation Society and the London City Mission in equal shares.

From a Film

"CHICKEE DE COP!" shouted six poor boys from

New York's East End, as a stranger, whom they took to be a detective, approached them.

Their

a policeman.'

cry, The stranger was Sidney Kingsley, playwright, who was looking for genuine slum boys to appear In "Dead End," his drama of waterfront hoodlums who are gangsters in the making

in slum jargon, meant: "Look out! Here's

"Akey! Akey! Halfies" they screamed with joy when they heard of his project. It meant that they had found something valuable and all would share equally. The "Dead End Kids" became Cinderella boys that day and have since marched on to fame and fortune.

And recently. Leo Gorcoy, eldest Sam Goldwyn brought Leo.and the and toughest of the kids," who is still other Eve "Kids" to Hollywood for in his teens, flow from California to the film version, which was hailed as Yuma, Arizona, to marry 17-year-old a masterpiece. kama k film actress Katherine Mavis.

Leo was about to become a plumber's asalsfant when Sidney Kingsley discovered him. Ils ambliton to-day is to be a writer. Having had one. skort story published, he is now busy on his first novel, ki

Since then they have appeared in "Crime School," "Angels with Dirty Faces," and "They Made Mo Criminal."

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One of the "Kids," Gabriel Dell, wrote his own version of "Hamlet" when a boy in Brooklyn and hopes Following the great success of to become a Shakespearean actor "Dead End" bn the New York stage, when he's older.......

ORCHESTRA MASCOTTE.

Baby, Won't You Please Come Home

JIMMY LUNCEFORD & HIS ORCH.. ' R2677-In The Bush & On The Prairie & The Veldt. Comle.

That's How I'd Write A Love Song

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