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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 is the secret behind the star's Christmas when I caught a cold. disappearance. Silmining nearly That was the start of my illness. cost her her life, and Tilly has been

"The doctors immediately sent me undergoing treatment

to Switzerland to prevent terious! Ganatorium.

complications.”

Et

Swiss

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

the comes good news that she will soon be seen in a new production on a West-End stage.

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

"My case should be a warning to all those who have taken up slim- ming fads." she said.

"When I was in Hollywood for the films, The Garden of Allah' and 'The Good Earth, I thought it essential to keep my weight down. Not that I was huge, but because I had the mistaken idea that the slimmer was the beller dancer I would be.

"So I ate nothing but raw veget ables,

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

BEING SENT THERE WAS LIKE DEATH SENTENCE

The dancer who slurled her bril-j lant career at the age of six in the Vienna Opera Ballet shuddered as he recalled her early days in the

sanntorium.

"Being sent there aremed to be a death sentence. It was a terrifle shock to learn that I was seriously 1 for I had never been 01 In iny life before.

"A friend who visited me left me Although I had box of paints. ever painted in my life before, I tried my hand with the brush,

and

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

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

"I shall also make final plans for| my first straight stage role. It will be a play enlled 'She Couldn't Say

"I was on holiday in Wales last No!**

Water-Spout Hits Beach

Mr. D. F. Landale delivering h Is speech after the recent launch- ing of the Glenorchy at Taikoo Dockyard.--Mce Cheung.

'Perfect Cockney' Is Not Worrying

HARRY HAYNES has done

almost everything. He has

HIS "CHOKER"

About Sft. Din, tall, broad across THOUSAND of Blackpool holiday-ı Stall-holders were trapped amid sold crumpets on winter even- the shoulders, and wearing the in- evitable Cockney "choker," he tells, makers saw gigantle water-out flying planks and their own wares, ings, run a winkle stall some in a volee that would make sweep towards them from a point two but no one was Jajured,

summers, and, most days, does Walker jealous, of living his whole miles out to sea recently,

In another stor at Birmingham an energetic eight hours as alite within a few hundred yards of

It was more than 500 feet highlightning struck the home of Alder-docker. with FA base nbout 100 feet In diameter.

man A. E. Ager.

A thunderstorm. with torrential rain, was raging at the time.

The water-pout, as high as the. famous Tuwer, twirled and twisted like a snake..

It swept past the Central Pier. renched the water's edge and bumi. on the bench,

Snake Causes Traffic Jam

SPOKANE, Wash.

the Walworth-road.

"It's like this," he said,

August 21, 1939:

Me"

DANCE BAND PLAYS

AT CHURCH

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

Alderman

A. B. Kempe. Mayor of Ramsgae and Enter- tainments Committee chairman, read the lesson, nd Billy Merrin and lils Commanders, played the voluntary. · Miss Tessa Watson, concert party soprano, mang # mola,

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 shav- ings and surrounded by a menagerie.

As he chisels, planes and hammers he carries on a conversation with Jackdaws, monkeys, rabbits, gulnen pigs, guils, raveny, ducks, budgeri- gars, bantams, doves, owls and bab- boons.

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

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

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

Perhaps the secret of it all lies in the fact that at some time or other Mr. 1) has saved his friends' lives.

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

And when they are well, they will never leave him.

Syd Peer's Son, Countess,

In Crashes

זיי

Recently, as fic lowered, with rather enviable ease, a pint of ale, in for a pint of beer and I walked

was just out of hospital, and I went THE Countess of Wharncliffe 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 a chap from the B.B.C. Stuart-Wortley - Mackenzie, re-

casts,

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.

"I 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 48, script but not read it much. You Ightham, Kent, recently. the see, I've broadcast before and I'm not worrying. They're that nice to you that you find things come!

sily. They tell me, 'Say this, and I just say it.

by

East

Harry Haynes, aged about A 5-foot bull snake caused a of Brandon-street. just oft traffle jaru in downtown Spokane Walworth-road, S.E... was picked Two stalls and some seats on the It apparently bad ridden in from the the television people for the promenade were upset. Otherwise

hills on a car. Motorists and pedes End broadcast on July 10. Twenty miles away, at Morecambe. trinna stopped to

unul a whirlwind struck the Winter Gar Patrolman Dan Webster eaptured it

The B.B.C. calls him "a man with dens fairground, Stalls were rated,

urich Cockney voice and a fine per- whe and stick and turned sonality." frum and roofs stripped

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Harry has a sense of humour. "Chap came down to-day, asking me what colour my eyes were. laughed! Only time I nollee the colour is when they're black!"

I asked him what he thought of the Cockney himself.

"They're nice boys, all of them. They've their own troubles, but they

The car was practically wrecked, but the chauffeur escaped injury.

Captain the Hon. Richard Norton, director of Pinewood Studios and con of Lord Grantley, and Miss Laine Lindon,

the flim star, were among those injured when Captain Norton's car crashed at a cross-road near Yeovil, Somerset.

Lord Forbes, piloting his private plane, flew Mrs. Norton and two Harley-street specialists to Yeovil yesterday.

After examining Captain Norton they returned to London,

professes that he doesn't mind mucli.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph

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

Uey're honest; which is more than neighbourhood that the leg-pulling is jyou can say about a lot of people." likely to end in different coloured Harry gets his leg pulled un-eyes 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 walter and kitchen-boy, has eloped to Paris with Miss Ann Dyer, 24-years-old ex-debutante,

British Embassy At Chungking

The British Embassy

London.

at Chung- king was the subject of a question in the House of Commons recently.

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

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

"The wire simply read, "We are married.' 'I understand that my brother and Miss Dyer were mor- Sfr G. Fox asked the Prime Minis-ried at Caxton Hall, but on which ter what British Embassy staff is available at Chungking, the present day I do not know. It was a great sent 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

His Majesty's Am many bassador to China has visited Chung- king in the last, alx

how months; long the Chinese Government has been established at Chungking; and

by

Oscillent buildings; on how

when he anticipates it will be possible to have a 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 six shillings o

Mr. Batier: The Diplomatic Mis-week; tips averaged just over slon at Chungking is at present in pound a week.

charge of Mr. Prideaux Brune, act-

ing Chinese Counsellor, who bas under him a number of clerical as- sistants.

Civilization Fatal

To Beaver

CHAGRIN FALLS, O.

口

The headquarters of the Chinese Government have been established at Chungking since the latter part of October, 1038... His Majesty's Am- bassador pays periodical visits to A beaver, whose species virtually Chungking, and, within the last six has been extinct for 100 years, took u months, has been there from the Ding at civilized life here-but re- 19th April to 19th May.

Detalled Information as to the dig-retted his adventure before it could

| orientate itself. The

45-pound tances involvgi is not available. Mr. Prideaux Brune, however, resides rodent's first encounter with modern within easy reach of the Chinese life was an automobile's fender. The Govrnment offices.

polt is now on exhibition at the

tory.

It will be observed that the staff Cleveland Museum of Natural His- | can be expanded at will,

(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London).

SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW

CLOSING DATE & TIME:

29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.

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:

SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human Studles. 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10 SECTION FOUR:

For Story-Telling Pictures.

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

SECTION TWO:

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

1st. $30. 2nd, $15. 3rd, 510,

Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30, 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. 1st. $15, 2nd. $19, 3rd. $5.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1-The Competition is confined ex-

clusively

amatour photo-

graphers

2-No employes ar member of any Arm in the photographie trade is perrallied to compete. 3.The prizes will be awarded to the competitor sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Section. Each entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the pertod of the Com pelition,

must be and which pasted on back of entry.

The right to publish any or all of the antriem "la reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

5-All photographs entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already" antared · in other Competitions are ineligible, -No responsibility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of or damage to entries.

7-All entries to be wither black, sepia, or toned pieturos, and mtanÉ

USE THIS FORM.

AND PASTE IT

ON THE

BACK OF EACH ENTRY.

be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible. --Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by a -kmaller. prink in black and while. No picture to entered in more than one Section.

10--Mounts to be only white or the cream, and, except Children's Section, must be of ona .of the following sizes:—10X12,

16X20.

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12-Patries in the Children's Section must bear is entrant's name,'ago and address on the entry : foria, counter-signed' by a 'parent. 15-Memberylot: the State (at 1 Hongkong Telegraph and

South Ching Storming Post are not permitted to compete. 16-The decisions' of the 'Judges shall

be-final.

the the

15-At the conclusion of the Can- petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph vinces within seven dark

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SECTION

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