1940-05-25 — Page 17

Mrs. G. B. Cbayman

Saturday,

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The Animals Went Out One By One

MR. TINGAY SELLS UP THE WHOLE CIRCUS

BRITAIN FIRST, SAYS

FILM STAR Niven Puts Army Before Films

THREE months ago he was in sunny California with all Holly-

wood at his feet and £1,000-a-

KANGS £4 EACH

By REGINALD FOSTER

CHESHUNT, Hertfordshire

WHAT?"

"said the auctioneer from -his-lion-cage-rostrum, £12

Examining Lot 31-two dingoes for half-a-dezen kangaroos. It's cheaper

for sale.

than turkeys.”

The kangaroos went for £24, and auctioneer Frederick A. Tingay turned to the elephants.

He was selling "Chapman's Circus." But to Mrs. G. B. Chapman, whose husband died five years ago, it was like, selling a home, with wild beasts in the place of furniture.

The sale was at the Cheshunt farm, which has been the circus headquarters, and purchasers could inspect their fancy Before bidding.

"We'd never have sold except for the war. But food and transport difficulties have made it impossible to carry on." Mrs. Chapman said to

me.

So she saw her home sold-to cirous and zoo people from all over the country.

Nearly 1,000 people crowded in the farmyard at the strangest of auctions.|| Mrs. Chapman knew many of them. "There's Afis Ruby Vínning. You know

week contracts on offer from all They sold the lion complete with her playing ponica? quarters.

To-day he is a humble subaltern in

the Rifle Brigado at a few shillings a day, training to England for service Overseas,

of Lieutenant]

Such is the story David Niven, star of "Raffles," polished adaptation of E. W. Hor- nung's famous novel.

Niven had hoped to get leave to attend the private show of this film. the

first

in which ho stars on

his own, but he sent a wire of re- tret stating, "Sorry, unable to get AWAY.

over

busy running Too

all

whol

cape to save trouble.

of

Arrows 4300 B. C.

Found

Persia

in

He gives his finest screen per- formance la date as a man-about- town and famous cricketer steals a necklace to save from ruin TIIE earliest known traces of the brother of the girl with whom he Iranian (Persian) civilisation

have been uncarthed in excava

is in love:---

Intriguing Shots

forces

to

Olivia de Havilland is the pretty tions at Tappe Sialek, near Ka- Kirl who

reform shan, in the province of the and give himself up in Duilley Digges, an apparently slow-witted sanie name.

a fool as he looks!

Scotland Yard man who is not such It is estimated by archaeologists that some of the arrows and knives There are some intriguing shots of a country house cricket match, in found date back to 4,300 BC, while other objects were probably left which Niven seems just as at home there about 2,800 B.C. Gold pieces taking wickets as he is in stealing were found in many pots. "his"hostess's diamonds.---------

The Sialek area was believed -10 If the story is not one-hundred-have been inhabited by two peoples will beone who arrived about 4,400 B.C., per-cent, convincing, this overlooked by all who can appreciate and the other about 1,800 BC. the polished acting and romantic ap- peal of the handsome cracksman,!

Abandoned

Stay In Family

*And there's the Fossetts and Chipper- fleida, famous circus families, oh yes, and the Baker boys from Bertram Mills,

May 25, 1940.

GERMAN TROOPS IN OSLO

THE GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY.- Troops catering Oslo harbour in a tender.

STAFF Nazi Woman

MAN

VISITS Spy Betrayed

BRITISH

"And someone from Chessington Zoo. And there's Bir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake, 1 pr. And someone from Wolverhampton....” The Bengal tigers roared and Mr. Tingay spoko—"Your kind attention. unique opportunity... finest animals in the country”

We reached the two large performing clephants.

"Worth £250 aplece," said Mr. Tingay. I'm- offered 180 for the two. They cost more than that to train.

"You don't want elephants or you'd havo Jumped at the chance, Wall, you don't want them, £150,"

They were bought by Miss Ads Chap man, Mrs. Chapman's aunt, who is stil running a circus,

"I didn't want to see thicco two go out of the family," she said.

£145 For Baby

A baby elephant ("it's got its life bot Mara It") fetched £140-best price of the day

They sold the tigers with the cages" to save you the trouble of leading them home.

Two tigresses fetched £50, a hyena was cheap at 8, and three penguins wero knocked down for ton guineus, after slight misunderstanding about the per- son who had made the successful bid.

The Hops ware not sold, as the bidding was not enough.

Gradually Mrs. Chapman's "home" went the peacocks and the wolves, the beara and the geese, the enu and a

particularly in his love scenes with Archagalogists, who did not fit poore of other animals.

any other traces of civilisation nt! Tho wagons were sold, the tig top tent

Olivia de Havilland.

am afraid this picture will have Sinek, have concluded that the re-and all the attinge.

Two cemeteries which were

un-

a devastating moral effect, for what glon must have been abandoned, but chance does law and order have they cannot say why, when a criminal is portrayed by al handsome young man who in real life earthed appear to have belonged to a sacrifices fame and fortune to Ath: rare of people who lived in the area. for his country.

about 1,500 B.C.

Will Of Lord Tweedsmuir

Signed By Cook and Butler

THE will of the late Lord

A similarity in the style of carvings and paintings found on objects on the Slack Plateau, and on objects dis

"No," aald Mas Georgia Bruce Chap- man, daughter of Mr. G. B. Chapman,

I don't suppose I shall go into the circus business again."*

The Lonely Man

Purchasers made complicated arrange ments for the transport of their "Iots," because you cannot take a couple of lions recently in Damghan and home in the car. covered

Then

became Lareston, has been noted,

Chapman's Farma** In Iran the spade has brought to allent

The Loneliest man left behind was Cap- civilizations. Ilgitt unsuspected Archaeology of the Iranian plateau tain Charles Faerber, manager of the has been with

circuses 50 years.

.

is scarcely known before an ad-winter quarters who vanced period in the Iron Age. In

Mrs. Chapman is quite right," he said Elam civilisation began as early mournfully. "It is like seeing the old as in Babylonia and the two coun home go.

"What will I do? Oh, I shall carry tries were using related types of palated pottery before 3000 B.Cen with animals somewhere." lly tradition, the Magi, or Three Wic Men, сате from Persia.j

Tweedsmuir, Governor-Gen-PLAITS

eral of Canada, bearing the

Sava,

CENOTAPH 'ORIGINAL'

signatures of his butler, ARE CHIC FOR SALE

crok and housemaid as wit- nesses, has been lodged in

PLAITS are the newest hair flat "Ionic" Combined with

the Register House, Edin-style for Service women. burgh..

a

It was signed "John Buchan"curls, they formed two of the coiffures shown by M. Emile at at Ardura, Craignure, Island of

Drene cocktail party. Mull, on July 31, 1927.

They at sungly under the back off Lord Tweedsmuir, who described peaked-ATS and WAAE. COPS, himself as "John Buchan, of Elsdeld One style showed long hair dressed Maner, Oxford, and Parkside Works into one plalt which lay on the nape Edinburgh" (the works of Nelsons, of the neck, the other shorter hair, the publishers), made only one a three ploited buns. public bequest.

Books For Library

He directed his trustees to hand over to the National Library of Scotland "all my books in my library dealing with the Marquis of Mon- trose which the National Library may destre."

All

"In wartime, M. Emile said, * worden must wear a coiffure that is eblo, and at the same time has allure, These dressings can be combed out in the evening into fluffy ouris,

"Plaita," one was advised, "are per- feet for Service wear. Once they are dressed you need not touch your hair

SIR EDWIN LUTYENS, seventy-one-year-old presi- dent of the Royal Academy, carried picture roughly wrapped in brown paper into the £4,000-a-year Park, lane. W., flat occupied. by the British Red Cross sales committee.

"This might raise a pound or two," he said, and went out.

The picture was his original coleured design for the Cenotaph; and an Australian organisation

here lins already said that it may

bid up to 5,000 gulacas for the drawing at Christle's.

Recently a woman from Scotiand

gave two diamond walked in and and-platinum rings, worth probably

relate others; wero bequests to for the rest of the day, except to £500.

ZANZACS±±RESHIAN A FINTINST

Sydney, May 24,

responding*.*

SPEE OFFICERS ESCAPE

The Australians are

ELEVEN MORE OFFICERS of the scutifed German battleship magnificently to the recruiting cam-Graf Spċe have escaped from Buenos Aires. palm In Sydney alone. 4,000 have My As a result, the Argentine Governmont confined the remainder enlisted in the past 24 hours, Reuter

in a transport.

Bulletin.

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Commander. E. Jacobsen, a Norwegian Naval staff officer on a visit to London.

EFFORTS of the Gestapo to smuggle women agents into England in the guise of refugees are being detected and checked by Scotland- yard's Special Branch.

One woman claiming Czech nationality, who recently arrived from Germany, has been intern- ed. The activities of two others are being watched.

The first woman attracted Bus- piclon when it was seen she had a considerable sum of monoy. She confirmed the Yard's doubts by being in too much of a hurry to get_permission to live near an RAF. centre.

Many other would-be German agents have made this mistake. They have been over-anxious to get em- ployment near military camps, naval poris or railway termini where there aro more than average possibilities of collecting information.

Now Tribunal

It is likely that a special tribunal will be set up to judge the cases of doubtful Czech and Polish refugees.

Meanwhile the Home Omee is con- Unuing its preparations to review the whole question of allens at liberty. The new regional tribunals will be- gin operations within a fortnight.

The review of the position which the Home Once has already made has given rise to the impression that the original tribunals look too liter- ally the hint that "we are at wor with the German Government, not with the Gorman people."

GENTS IN ENGLAND PREFER WIDOWS

THE likelihood of a widower marrying is greater in each age- group than that of a bachelor. A widow's marriage prospects are greater than those of a spinster except in the age-group twenty-five-thirty-five.

That is the view of the Registrar-General,

The City of London's marriage rate is nearly six times as high as the average for England and Wales, and the Registrar- General concludes in his report that, many persons who usually

The number of divorces in 1937 five per cent,

was 4,880 new high record. It The number of children who sur- was eight or nine times as largo as vived for two years from birth out of those for the years 1901 to 1010. 1,000 born, alive during 1021-35 is The number of divorced persons who estimated to have been 064 in New remarried-0,988-was also a record, Zealand, about 930 in Australia, Hol- being 8 per cent, higher than in 1930, larid and Norway, 542 In Sweden, An-investigation Into the social and 033 in the United States of class of the husbands of women with America, compared with 020i whom a child under one year of age England and Wales.

Five was enumerated in the 1931 census,

other countries gave showed that much the lowest per- favourable survival rates. centage was in Class I, the profes- alonal and generally well-to-do section of the population.

Rural Bablos-Healthier Each subsequent class, showed an increase, the highest being the filth class, which comprised labourers and other unsicilled ceilings.

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PLANES FOR ALLIES Figures of Purchases In United States

New York, May 24. A study of infant mortality dur Quoting authoritative aviation cir- Ing 1033-37 showed that the death cles, the New York Times gives the rato for children of residents in following figures for Allled aeroplane county boroughs was on the first purchases in the United States: day of

Ordered sinco tho dutbreak of war, of life eight per ount, fn ox-]

Delivered,

AL RECA and to wooks the exoem was eighteen per To be ordered under contracts ot csh; as one to three months it was present boing negotiated, 4,000, in- thirty-seven per cent and three cluding a number of Vulted-Sikorsky to twelve months- about seventy-altuck bombers-Neuter,

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THE HOUSE OF QUALITY & SERVICE

AISLE AND FAREWELL

*So the condemned man als a hearty breakfast?"

"Oddly mough he did — in spite of last night's stag party. All set now for the orange blossoms,” "And the little bead> ** "Tiching over beautifully old boy. Cool at a frame-full of cucumbers. Am I becoming a saturated solution n. (79) in is just she influence of a good

· WOHLEN §**

"Your ignorance of the facts of life, Edmond, a little short of monumental. Remember the long draught of Rose's Lime Juice I made you drink before retiring ? Pause and consider, Edmond

knowing mo sa you do --- was that pure altruism?"

"I'ow never known you do an wastelfish act in your life old boy," ` "Right. My only concern was to BAYO myself trouble and get you to the church in such condition that you could both speak audibly and walk unaided. With the help of Rose's Lime Juice I have succeeded. Listen carefully, Edmond, while I explain the chemical action of Rose's — " “I say ** lochi Quarter to eleven! Wincre's the ring ! Where's my 'hat'l ́ Is the car ready? Is mytis all right ? --- Hurry up, hurry up. Where's my --- sh, here it la — QUICK!”

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