THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950.
SAD-FACED GROCK BACK TO DO MORE CLOWNING
POCKET CARTOON -byOSDENT LANCASTER
"I promise you, darling, that # I hadn't been in the Stater and
so dreadfully out of touch, should never have dreamed of consenting to be the Festival of Brilein Ground Nut Queen in the
frat place in
A famous psychiatrist examined a sad-faced patient and said: Go and see Grock, the "What you need, Mr Wettach, is a good laugh. clown." The patient replied gloomily: "I am Grock." Sad-faced Charles Adrien Wettach, 70, the world's greatest clown, was coming out of retire- ment again because he was broke.
Once more Grock wouldjed ot about two-yearly Inter- don his enormous false bald vals.
Each now four netted him pate, his baggy trousers, his quick thousands, but they soon share losses, long check coat and clou- disappeared
and gift to gated flat shoes for another postwar inflation
friends, relatives and charities. circun tour of Germany.
Grock retired from the stage: and circus for the first time In 1932.
SECOND IN YEAR
This is Grock's second re- turn within a year-last Sep- tember he mado a film of his After 50 years of clowning, life at Amiens and gave four he had amassed a fortune of
with n £100,000, Chinese Riviera,
performances special
bizarre Moorish local circus.
on the Ilallan Even at the age of 70, sad- on which he spent faced Grock is still the matter £100,000, a smaller has of that mixture of whimsy, his native Lausanne, another in France.
pathos and grotesquerie. only
His 1.
rival contemporary Charlie Chaplin.
He Turned
His Red Nose Up
Many notablo "dend- beats" have been omitted from the 1950 Almanac Do Skid-Row, the "social" gister of New York's alum quarter, The Bowery.
"Bozo," Crown
re-
Prince of
Two years after his first re- urement, Grock was back on the Paris
his slage, uttering
In his half-century of clown- famous fag line "Pas mat hein."ing, he played privately for the hoboes, has been omitted be- Bio of his fortune had vanish-kings and queens of eight coun- ed in the financial crash of the tries, before Mussolini and Hil-cause, according to the Aimanne,
ler and audiences of common he has recome More Melba-like farewells peoplo estimated at more than seelally." and returns to the stage follow-40 milllens.
1930's.
Dumb Duke Talks Of Castles
The Spanish Duke, Don Jaime of Segovia, who began to speak for the first time in his life at the age of 40, when he married his second wife last year, is now talking mainly about his father's £2,000,000 fortune.
top ambitious
Explaining why In England, Grock played in character "Ilome
in other European hard" was deleted mime, but countries be used patler and Longs (be is considerable the Almanac saldi- musician of both plano andl vlolin).
Onc country Grock won't tour again Is England. He left there in high dudgeon 28 years)
"Never again,” ngo, muttering
British income tax because collectors billet him for £4,000,
BOY CLOWN
well-known Rellef RI- this year.
"Now that he is getting home relief cheques regularly he turns his red nose up at all his old pals. Drop dead, Dick!"
"Boxcar Betty," who has been registered in the Almanae for many years, made news on The Bowery recently when she dis- covered that cigars tosted better His offer of £1,200 was re- after being dipped in beer. jected and, although London
producers twice Professor Jesse
Walter Dees offered to pay off the arrels was included in the Abnanc
salary, the clown never set to Ket copy for his book, 115 nrg wife ins been foot in England again. teaching him to speak, claims Grock remarkable progress for the Duke, who was born deaf and child of n alonst dumb.
Don Jalme 1s second son tic star Charlotte Tiede-theatrical of former-Spanish-King-Almann. He is tall, dark_and and give Grock £000 a week because he lived with hobous fonso, head of the Bourbon has a long, thin moustache. family and married to opera-
STORM OVER
SLEEPING "IN RAW"
thirteenth Was the
Swiss watchmaker.
He began clownbig as a boy in! the local inn, with a dog kennel
Don Jalme raid he would ealing ʼn dresslug-room. in family conference to split up the castles in Spain, the share. holdings and various European velling villas and chateaus left by King Come a Alfonso.
Alfono willed that £1,000,000
A film star's boast that should be
the Spanish Monarchy.
At 12 he joined a tiny tra-
chreus, hoping to be
clown, but the circus did badly and Grock took to piano-tuning.
But he got his chance at last. His hour-long act of acrobatics, strongman stats.
Flophouse.
.
DIDN'T LIKE WHITE MEN
Negro Charles Howard, 20, was delighted when Los An- geles doctors found he was pro- the symptoms of ducing clevoted to carrying
albinolsm. she sleeps nude "for com-The rest of his fortune was to yodeling, fort and glamour" has be split into two parts-one to Juggling, playing the plang, ac- brought a storm of horrified go to Don Juan, his third ron, in now Pretender to the protests from American ho
Throne, and the other part to fashion designers.
be divided among Queen Eun, Don Jaime and h Fisters, Beatriz anxi Maria Christina.
The row started over the widely publleised advocacy of "raw" sleeping by Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame.
The Negligee Manufacturers Association of America leued!
IN NO HURRY
A few months after the first cordion and violin bad nu.symptoms appeared his skin was so white he decided to try diences clamouring for more.
to pass ng a white man.
An interviewer asked Grock
Ife went to San Francisco what made him laugh most.
him and "Myself," replied the clown.where nobody knew
Wils warmly accepted where
"I raw myself in a film by 1931
and screamed with Celight like obvious Negroes were barred. ja baby.
Freedom from racial per-
Alfonso's oldest and young- "I sald 10 myself, Why,secution was sweet unill he fell a Negress. She est cons died from haemorrhages that's funny, and then I knew in love with (they were hereditary bleeders) why
able to make refused his attentions because I'd been
the following comments by and his second son, Don Jane, people laugh all these years." he was a "white" man. Irading fashion, experts:
Mollie Parnis: "Women
al renouncel
throne.
ways look better with clothes
his
rights to the
on. anywhere, any place, ang So far, only £81,000 or he
iking's £2,000,000 eate has
Lily Dache: "It's what you been distributed.
wear that you don't actually Den
-
need that makes you glamorous about the
"Just as a woman fooks nire gets
Juan is in no
settlements
yeur 150,000 a
berry
from
12x hat, she looks prettier in Spanish monarchists,
nightgown."
Financial advisers say that Adele Simpson: “A wornan who doesn't understand the now, eight years after Alfon- £250,000 value of mystery is certainly no 50g death,
Don lamour girl"
there
Juan will Rel
javallable from the estate.
half d Don who has worn cheer black Jaime £42,000.
Esther Dorothy: "Any woman
nightgown knows that Grains
is lending a lost caure."
Brigance: "As a bachelor 1
think the average man prefers subtlety. A
beautifully vell, handled, is part of allure,
Jolin Norman: "Even Eve recognised the decorative value! of the g leaf."
STOMACH NOT
ESSENTIAL
DANGERS
SITTING
in
Science Enlarges Men's Minds
Three important scientific displays are being planned connection with the Festival of Britain, 1951. They will deal not only with the utilitarian aspects of science, but will demonstrate-against a background of the living working world in Britain today-how science enlarges men's minds and brings home to everyone the wonders,
OF pattern and beauty of the world around us.
from
.
in
of the
One display, located on for is accumulation of scientific the South Bank of the knowledge has accrued directly.
the adventurousness, Thames, will illustrate the both badly
and mind, of British people. practical consequences There are a lot of tangers in sitting in a chair, Dr Lpure selence.
A science ex-}
A feature of this particular hibition in South Kensing exhibition will be the Dome of He told the Southern Metelton will emphasise the re- Discovery, where
the themes
Garner says.
Association in Cincinnati.
of man's knowledge curiosity space as well
concerning land, sea and cosmic as his growing concerning the ultimate na-insight Into the nature and ture of malter.
If you sit slumped back involutions in human thought selected will Illustrate the ex- chair you are linble to injure which have resulted from tension The coccyx (the two small bones man's scientific
the spine). at the base
Slumping forward in a chair is worse. It sends up the blood of the
pressure, cuts down the flow of
of
Removing the stomachs uicer sufferers is the latest sur- gleal craze in Amerlen, Dr Edward S. Judel,
structure of both dead living matter.
and
the
And in the Kelvin Hall, Glas-
Sir Edward Appleton. famous Mayo Clinic, Minnesota,r to the lungs, and puts rocks cow, an exhibition of Industrial
illustrate scientine eminent scientist, when discusa- raid:
Ining the Dome at a London con- Total removal of the stomach pressure on the abdominal or Power will
that they collect Rans
the knowledge and techniques
their promotion of industrial and ference the other day, said he felt that the visitor would come polcons of the system.
engineering progress.
away from it profoundly con- Britain's initiative In one respect, the most am- vinced that corpora
three exhibitions in exploration and discovery is villous of the
matter of the will be the one on the South by no means a
of the great past, and that she continues to Bank because variety of the illustrations or breed among her people "those the way science has influenced ranging adventurous minds who modern civilisation, and its pre-start things on their own rather
the wake sentation In "human settings." than The visitor will see how much others,"
Is being found more and more successful in many lending hospitals and clinics in Amerien. People who slump forward or
function of the stomach backward encourage is taken over by the small buttons as well as becoming tired testine.
and mentally fogged as a result "The stomachless person fa uf careless sitting. healthy and active but ho must cat frequently, often up to ten The ideal way Is to sit up meals a day. This is because straight with the spine forming the small intestine has so little a slightly forward curve, the room for food."
doctor advises.
K. O. CANNON
WHAT A DUMP! HOPE THE DEPA AND DOMIHOTS ARE SETTER
THẦN TRI GI
ÁHEVIAY
OLDE ENGLISHE
THAY'LL BE THE CAR'
follow In
The Riddle of the Red Domino
NOW HIDE, YOU TWO-BEHIND
THAT BAR CURTAIN
WITH YOUR THRIN DOMINO PLAYKIU!
WE'LL TEACH 'EM
OUR MULES
of
NEWS IN PICTURES
TOUR OF INSPECTION-Madame Chiang Kai-shek poses on Kinmen Island with two Chinese Army WACS while on a visit to Nationalist troops on the island, which
was the object of an attempted Communist invasion last October.
FOR AMPUTEES ONLY-Regello Hernandez, right, a U.S. Army veteran, tries out new equipment on a practice rig at a California naval base. Charles C. Asbelle, rehabilitation specialist, directs the game, developed to allow amputees to play tennis.
NEW-Jackie Brunsfeld
models a new sleep set in Chicago. The three- plece clever print en- semble features beltless construction, assuring
case and comfort.
FASHION IN FILMLAND-Actor-director Richard Whorf paints a skirt for his wife In Hollywood. The gaily-decorated, brightly-coloured, hand-painted skirt will be soaked in vinegar to prevent the textile dye colours from running.
-THE HUMAN THING TO DO-Even a couple of performing chimpanzees like a photographle, record of thele monkey shines. At Miami Beach, Florida, Patsy poses
smiling Mary for a picture.
JUNIOR GREAT PRO- FILE-Like a' chip off
·the old block, John. Barrymore, Jr., is seen in Washington, D.C., where he attended a press con- ference prior to the opening of his first mo- tion picture. At 17, the resemblance to his famed father in't too notice- able, but he has a lot of time to grow into it.
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