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WELCOME TO THE

MARIE WILSON

RALPH BELLAMY FRANK MCHUGH DICK FORAN Divine LLOYD BACOK

A KAS RAIL PRETERS Screenplay by Beča and

Samal Speck

"KENTUCKY

IN TECHNICOLOUR

with LORETTA YOUNG RICHARD CREENE

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 16, 1939.

Jessie Matthews' Father Dying, ALHAMBRA

Says Carry On With The Show

JESSIE MATTHEWS played the lead in "I Can Take It," at the King's Theatre, Southsea, Hants, recently because it was the wish of her father-once a coster-that she should keep up the tradition of the stage: "The show must go on."

LATE NEWS

CHINA'S

For fixty-biree-year-old George Matthewe has died-not in CURRENCY

the backyard. rooms off Great Pulteney-street, Soho, where he helped her to fame, but in a comfortable house in Ruislip, Middle- sex, provided for him by his daughter.

In Berwick-market, Soho, customers were buying fruit at the stall, now run by Jessle's brother George, which their father opened more than forty years ago.

Jessie was with him all afternoon, comforting him; though she know he was sinking she had to leave to catch train for Portsmouth and the show.

but,

her

Gloomy Hint By British Paper

LONDON, Aug. 15 (Realtr),—The

plight of the Chinese dollar presents one of the most difficult

Currency

She was on the stage when he died. For several weeks she had been making the journey every morning to London from Birmingham, Manchester, Brighton-not but interfere seriously with what wherever the show has been-to visit her father,

She bas never forgotten the SETTLED IN COMFORT

When Jessie became famous she days when she used to play on a string awing hung from the lamp-settled him in. comfort at Ruislip. post near her father's fruit stoll in But the atmosphere of the market

too much for old the market and long for footlight was fame.

Matthews. He used to come up on Saturdays and mingle with his old

| problems that have been encountered even during the last twenty years of exchange chaos, says the "Financial Tinics,

The fall of the Chinese dollar can-

remains of British trade in China bint the causes of the collapse are military rather than economic.

The Stabilisation Fund has done good work but the recent drop shows George clearly at the endeavour to hold the dollar at 8d in June, or even Gd early in July would have been im possible. The Inception of the Fund was very largely the work of Britain who, therefore, made a big effort to uphold her own Interests and those of other countries with Far Eastern associations; it is only a negative satisfaction that the lack of success had serious reactions upon Japanese who provoked Its

failure.

Though "Dad" Wax sceptical friends. antagonistle at Brst he put by all Jessie said: "When he saw I was the pennies he could spare from his determined to go on the stage there takings to pay for the training of his was nothing he begrudged me. dance-loving "doughter.

was a dear all through."

He

STARE Save Life For 19 Years

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AManaged by

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SANJOE VENUTI

Zijn tahnala Reuls Soletry Calennai

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He converted his motor-car into an ambulance at his own expense and he has covered more than 43,000 miles in the service of the suffering.

Reconly Captain Baynes was Aned protest to the flome Sceretary and 5s. by the Bow-street magistrate for the Commissioner of Police, causing an obstruction by leaving The boy Captain Baynes had taken | his ear-umbulance outside Charing to Charing Cross Hospital had a mal-| Cross Hospital.

formation of the legs. The captain said he had to leave home at seven

A policeman said it was there for three hours. Captain Baynes told him he had brought an emergency case to the hospital, and said: "If Voluntary work I I shall do."

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In the witness-box Captain Baynes

lock in the morning to get the child to the hospital by 10.30 for examination, and as he had to take him back again he left his car out- side because there was no room in the yard.

said he and driven a a boy from a B Captain Baynes said he would still

surgical home in Banstead, Surrey, carry on his ambulance work, but did and had had to wait for a medical not intend to do any more examination | examination. He had driven cases to cases because of the risk of another practically every hospital in London, prosecution. by day and night, and had never | before been reported,

"IT'S A SCANDAL"

His car was recognised by the police as a voluntary ambulance, and be claimed he was entitled to parking facilities.

"MY car is noodlit at night," he said, "and 1 can travel in an emer- gency at sixty miles an hour. 1 don't want to boast about my work, but I have saved life on more than one occasion by responding promptly to calls which come to me at any hour of the day or night."

and

He was flushed with Indignation Captain Baynes is sixty-one, pertly when he spoke outside the court. He paralysed from war service, called his prosecution "a scandal," and never out of pain. He has the use said he intended to write letters of of only one of his arms,

Countess Lives In Cottage On 10/- A Week

was sister to Lady Ann Hyde, eidesti

MRS. ETHEL AMY great-grandmother Lady Mary Hyde, MARTIN, plumpish, kindly-daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, faced, claims royal blood and who married James II. lives on ten shillings a week "Now this story should be called in one of the smallest cottages something like How Are the Mighty

because I have Folien,' in the Suffolk village of great adversity, Haughley.

In a soft, hesitant voice she said: "I'll tell you what you should write about mo- although I do not like talking about myself.

"Of course, I'm a highly cultured woman and connected with half the nobility of England. Then you might mention that I'm # peeress of France.

"I don't use my title very often, but I'm Madame la Comtesse du Luce. That was my mother's name. In France, you know, titles of the old nobility descend from mother to daughter. We belong to the family of the Duke of Orleans.

"A very beautiful woman, my. mother. It was her cousin Major

Pomfret who sounded the Charge at Balaclava. Or was it Major "Joy?. He was there too, anather cousin."

FAME FOR LOOKS

Madame

a

In Comtesse gavo kindly smile and supposed that her Interviewer was wondering from where she got her "famous skin and complexion."

She said: "Without doubt I am the most beautiful grandmother in the country. Every one tells me that.

"My lovely colouring comes from the royal Stuarts. They were always famed for their looks.

"Now wait while I show you my pedigree."

From an old book-"long out of print and very valuable.

there

isn't another copy in England except In the British Museum”—she traced the family tree of the Blackmans. produced birth certificates and old letters to show that her great-great-

suffered

"I went to America with my husband and soon was left alone With two children to look after.

"Not many neople of high degree have had to go on working with a broken arm. But I did, and people said I was very brave. Blood will tell, you know,

"Now I live alone in my cotlage, have little money and look after my- self. I do not complain."

CENTRAL

Britain

Suthe

tain cannot be expected to give active support to the exchange with- ut a limit in the absence of closer out a

affected,

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but

we can and should refuse the demands of the Japanese who intended to make us help enlarge their Hmited success In implanting their own currencies in

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Stock Exchange Improves

A. R. P. Lectures.

The Air Raid Precautions Office: announces that a course of A.R.P. LONDON, Aug. 15 (Reuter)—Anbetures in English will be given ut. all round advance in busler tradlug 8.30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, took place on the Stock Exchange commencing on August 23, at the owing to more optimistle views on the Chief Air Rald Warden's Office, 20

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Road, Hongkong. because of the wage disputo.

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