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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

"Slimming Nearly Killed

Famous West End Danger's Ordeal

RECENTLY Miss Tilly Losch, the famous dancer, arrived back in London after a six months' absence that puzzled all except a few of her intimate friends.

This in the secret behind the star's ( Christman when I ́enuight П cold. disappearance, Slimming nearly That was the start of my illness, cost her her life, and Tilly has been undergoing treatment in a Swien sanatorium.

Now she is completely restored to health. With the mystery of her

"The doctors immediately sent me

to Switzerland to prevent serious| complications."

The dancer who started her bril-

disappearance nolved comes the lant career at the age of six in the good news that she will soon be seen | Vienna Opera Ballet shuddered as in n new production on a West-End he recalled her early days in the stage,

Tilly talked about her six months ordeal and the time when she be Heved she would never dance again.

"My case should be a warning to! all those who have taken up slim- ming fada," he said.

sanatorium.

"Being sent there seemed to be a death sentence. It was a terrific alock to learn that I was seriously . for 1 had never been in my life before.

"A friend who box of paints.

visited me left me Although I hnd

"When I was in Hollywood for the Aims, The Garden of Allah' and 'The Good Earth, I thought it essentini never painted in my life before, 1 to keep my weight down. Not that

I was huge, but because I hnd tire mistaken Idea that the slimmer wan the better dancer I would be.

"Soate nothing but raw veget- ables.

"The absence of square meals, the doctors told me afterwards, had un-! dermined my whole constitution and lowered my resistance.

BEING SENT THERE WAS LIKE DEATH SENTENCE

tried my hand with the brush.

"My models were myself and nurses and doctors in the sanatorium, and I also painted portraits of friends] from memory.

"When I come to London, 1 am going to arrange an exhibition of my paintings. I think they are cond.

"I shall also malte final plans for my first straight stage role. It will be in a play called 'She Couldn't Say

"I wns on holiday in Wales last No!"

Water-Spout Hits Beach

sweep towards them from a point two but no one was injured. miles out to sen recently.

Mr. D. F. Landale delivering his speech after the recent launch.

ing of the Glenorchy at Taikoo Dockyard-Mee Cheung.

Perfect Cockney' Is Not Worrying

HARRY HAYNES has done

It was more than 500 feet hightning struck the home of Alder-docker.

man A. E. Ager.

with diameter.

Imse about 100 feet in!

A thunderstormi, with forrential rain, was raging ut the time,

HIS "CHOKER"

the Walworth-road.

"It's like Usts."

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August 21, 1939.

Me"

DANCE BAND PLAYS

AT CHURCH.

A CHURCH1 service at which the voluntary was played by a dance band was recently held at Ramsgate.

Alderman A 1. Kempe, Mayer of Itamagae and Enter- lainments Committee chairman, read the lesson, nd Dlity Merrin and his Commanders, pinyed the voluntary, Miss Tessa Watson, concert party soprano, sang' a salo,

Has Zoo In Work-Shop EVERYBODY in Southwold, Suffolk, calls Mr. Fred Hill "St. Francis,”

This white-bearded cabinet maker stands all day in his work-shop ankle deep in shay- ings and surrounded by મ menagerie.

As he chisels, planes and hammers he carries on a conversation with Jackdaws, monkeys, rabbits, gulura | pigs, gulls, ravens, ducks, budgeri- gary, bantains, doves, owls and bub- boons.

"They understand every word," Mr. Hill satd.

Joey, the tortoise, chased him at a word; Jack, the rabbit, rang a bell; Sally, the baboon, laughed immode- rately.

It wasn't "Never more" that the raven quoth, it sounded very much

ka 1

"Perhaps the secret of it all lies in the fact that at some time or other Mr. Hill has saved his friends' lives.

People bring him injured animals and birds from far and near.

And when they are well, they will

almost everything. He has About 5ft. Bin,, tall, broad acruss never leave him, THOUSAND of Blackpool holiday~| Stall-holders were trapped amid sold crumpets on winter even-the shoulders, and wearing the in- mikers saw a gigantic water-spout dying planks and their own wares, ings, run a winkle stall some in a voice that would make Syd Peer's Son, Countess,

evitable Cockney "choker," he tells, summers, and, most days, does Walker Jealous, of living his whole In another storm at Dirmingham an energetic eight hours as a life within a few hundred yards of

In Crashes

Recently, ሲና he lowered, with was just out of hospital, and I went THE

HE Countess of Wharncliffe rather enviable case, a pint of ale, in for a pint of beer and I walked and her 18-years-old daugh- he told all about himself, how he out round to my brother-in-ter, Lady Barbara Montagu- spends his life, and why the B.B.C. law, and met u chap from the B.B.C. Stuart-Wortley - Mackenzie, re- has decided that he is the perfect who'd been sent down to sort me ceived severe facial injuries type of Cockney for television broad-out and arrange about a broadcast.

"1 didn't mind, and I don't know when their car came into colli- what I've got to do. I've seen my sion with the rear of a lorry at Harry Haynes, aged about 46, script but not rend it much. You Ighthum, Kent, recently,

just. off the see, I've broadcast before and I'm The car was practically wrecked,

not worrying. They're that nice to but the chauffeur escaped injury. you

that you find things come Captain the Hon. Richard Norton, easily. They tell me, 'Say this, and director of Pinewood Studios and son

Just any it.

The water-spout, as high as the} famous Tower, twirled and twisted like a snake.

It swept past the Central Pier, reached the water's edge and burst on the beach.

Two stalls and some seats on the promienndr were upset. Otherwise!

Snake Causes Traffic Jam

SPOKANE, Wash.

A 51⁄2-foot bull snake caused a

-casta,

of Brandon-strect,

by

Ens!

1t apparently bad ridden in from the the television people for the trable jam in downtown Spokane, Walworth-road, S.E. was picked

hills on a car. Motorists and pedess End broadcast on July 10. trians stopped to watch il until patrolinan Dan Webster captured it!

The BBC, calls him "a man withi a rich Cockney voice and a fue pez- wire and slick and turned sonality." Anu

is nol it over to the humane society.

i wrong.

Twenty miles away, at Morecambe. a whirlwind struck the Winter Gar- dens fairground. Stalls were rased, and

roofs stripped "from

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far

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"Chop came down to-day, asking me what colour my

injured

Somerset.

Harry has a sense of humour.

near

Lord Forbes, piloting his private

and

eyes were. plane, flew Mrs. Norton

laughed! Only time I notice the, Harley-street specialists to colour is when they're black!"

yesterday.

they returned to London.

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I asked him what he thought of After examining Captain Norton the Cockney himself,

"They're nice boys, all of them.

They've their own-troubles,-but-they-professes that he doesn't mind much.

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The

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NINTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

June-September, 1939

$250

CASH

PRIZES

$250

(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph”).

help any man when he's down-and But there is a distinct fear in the TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250-

they're honest; which is more than neighbourhood that the leg-pulling is you can say about a lot of people."likely to end in different coloured Harry gets his leg pulled un- cycs for someone or other, sooner or mercifully about his broadcasts. He later.

Peer's Grandson Waiter Elopes

TALL, fair, 21-years-old John Fane, grandson of Lord Clinton, who created a sensation in the West-End a few months ago by working as a waiter and kitchen-boy, has eloped to Paris with Miss Ann Dyer, 24-years-öld ex-debutante,

British Embassy At Chungking

London.

The British Embassy at Chung- king was the subject of a question

This was revealed by Mr. Fane's brother, Mr. Charles Fane, of thei Coldstream Guards.

"The first thing we heard about my brother's marriage was a wire from Parls received by my mother," Mr. Fane said.

"The wire simply rend, 'We are! In the House of Commons recently. married,' I understand that my

brother and Miss Dyer were

mar-

Bir G. Fox asked the Prime Minis-ried ni Caxton Hall, but on which i fer what British Embassy staff is

available at Chungking, the present day I do not know. It was a great reat of the Chinese Government; surprise to my mother, for John is how long it takes to travel from the so young." premises where that staff is housed to the government buildings; on how many occasions His Majesty's Am- bassador to China has visited Chung- king in the fast six months; how has

long the Chinese Gonskim and

been established at

by when ho anticipates it will be possible to have

properly staffed

British Embassy at that place?

It was in January this year that Mr. John Fane was dis- covered working in a West-End hotel. He wanted to learn the hotel business by starting at the bottom of the ladder.

His wages were alx shilling

Mr. Baller: The Diplomatic Mis-week: tips averaged just over sion at Chungking is at present in pound a week,

charge of Mr. Prideaux Brune, act-

ing Chinese Counsellor, who has under him a number of clerical a aistants.

Civilization Fatal

To Beaver

A

The headquarters of the Chinese Goverment have been established at Chungking since the latter part of

CHAGRIN FALLS, O. October, 1838, His Majesty's Am bassador pays periodical visita to A beaver, whose species virtually Chungking, and, within the last six has been extinct for 100 years, took a months, has been there from the ning at civilized life here--but re- 19th April to 18th May,

Detailed Information as to the dis-gretted his adventure before it could itself. The 45-pound Lances Involved is not available. Mr. orientate Prideaux Brune, however, resides rodant's first encounter with modern within easy reach of the Chinese life was an automobile's fender. The Govmment offices...

pelt is now 'on" exhibition at the It will be observed that the staff Cleveland Museum of Natural His- can be expanded at will.

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SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW...

29th SEPT, AT 5 P.M.

CLOSING DATE & TIME:

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pictures.

Ist. $30, 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

SECTION TWO:

General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.

It. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd, $10.

SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studies.

1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10 SECTION FOUR:

Still Life and Table-Top Studies. Int. $30, 2nd. $15, 3rd. $10, SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years, 1st. $15. 2nd, $10, 3rd. $5.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

to

1-The Competition is confined ex-

clusively

amateur photo- graphers 2--No employee or member of any firm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete.

3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graph in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period of the Com- petition, and which must pusled on back of entry. 4-The right to publish any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

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All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which hays been, already entered in other Competitions are ineligible. 6To responsibility will be accepted for nee-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries.

7—All entries, to be either black. sepia, or toned pictures, and must

USE THIS FORM

AND PASTE IT

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY-

be mounted. Coloured

Kraphs are ineligible.

be

photo-

--Pictures submitted in sepia tones

should

accompanied by a smaller print in black and white. -No picture to entered in more

than one Section,

10.-Mounts to be only white, or cream and except in the Children's Bection, must be of one

Text followings:-10x12 INo correspondence will be entered -into in connection with the Com

petition, EN

12-Entries in the Children's Section

must bear the entrant's name, ago and address on the antry form, counter-signed by a parent.

13,--Members of "the Staff of the

the Hongkong - Telegraph and South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete,, 14-The_declalons of the Judges shall

be final.

15-At the conclusion of the Com- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph offices within sevCI days:

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