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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1980

London Diary:

Barrister Who Became Spare Time Actor

"HOW

66TTOW do you say, aro you Guilty or Not Guilty?" Hundreds of prisoners at the Old Bailey have heard these words spoken by Mr J. F. B. Sharp, Clerk of Arraigns. And thousands of cinema and theatre-goers have heard Mr Sharp say the same words.

tact,

to successful botel As well an boing a.barris-pensable

Mr Gelar- ter Mr Sharp is an actor. Io management, thinks

dt, in tact. You cannot get on started acting in 1895, was unless you exercise tact, called to the Bar in 1905.net." "After all, there are strong

he apeaks, similarities between the four languages; drama of the theatre and of French, Italian, English, Ger-

a criminal court," he says.

Mr Gelard can exercice

man.

SOUTH BANK JAZZ Ife has often played the pro-HERE are to be Jazz concerts

Justice, and the rollclior

Festival inchestras in the new "The Silver lux." On the fall on the South Bank. Be screen he usually appeared enus of this Mr John Stove, a Judge: "I suppose it was my general mannger Jungur look."

han just heard his first jazz concert.

Lecuting counsel in Galsworthy's T as well as symphony or

of the hall,

Mr Sharp male his last stage

He went to the Cambridge appearance in 37 at the Emi- hany. In 1940, after 30 years Theatre for a performance pro- the London Jazz practice at the Bar of the Oldpted by Balley, he became Clerk of Chib Arraigns. There he advises on Sald Mr Shove afterwards; procedure, keeps an eye on the Jazz will help cover the losses! jury, is often consulted on sen-on ymphony concerts. I shud leave the choice of bands to the promoters."

tences.

Now ared 75, Mr Sharp re- tres i the end of this session. Hr will write

Jopl forinoirs.

HIS CAREER IS GONE T 45 Mr Geoffrey A. N. Hirst, Tory MP for Ship- PRINCESS AS BRIDESMAID les since February, finds him- PRINCESS MARGARET, in a relf without a career or an in

pink

the

of

the

down

House full-skirted, orchl

come outskle morgmin gown, was the carliest Commons.

Mr Hirst chairman of of the three bridesmaids for the

Miss Leeds firm of manufacturing wedding of her cousin,

Brooke and Margaret Elphinstone, to Mr druggists. Hirst, Denys thodes at St. Margaret's, ira. He is the fifth genera Westminster.

tion of Hirst to be head of the The Princess, a coronet

of family business, has been work- white handing her hair, was in in it sure he went cheered as loudly as the bride. fron. Cambridge.

The King and Queen arrived In March 1940 shares of the by the

entrance to the firm, combined with the Sou- Fide church Just before the belde.thon Laboralaries, were offered The Queen was in strawberry the public to float the Bm pink, with a pleture hat of the of rst, Brooke and Soutợn. same material.

Proits for the year pre less Prince Philin was also there. than £0.000 instead of the ex-

rected £48,000.

the

hils

A-BOMB DEFENCE PLANNED IN COUNTRY HOUSE

The horrors have been overstressed,

Cars stand in the drive at Sunningdale Park. Their owners were inside attending

the CD courses.

ILLEGAL TO TEACH

STILL ILLEGAL

DARWIN IN TENNESSEE

John Thomas Scones still doesn't believe the State of Tennessee should have fined him $100 for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolu- tion. Scopes, a tall, greying ecologist, lives in a small suburban home with his wife and two sons. But back in May, 1925, 24-year-old John Thomas Scopes was a headline personality, defendant in the famous Day- ton, "monkey trial."

He was the high school biology teacher who decided that the state legislature's opinion about the evolution of man wasn't as good as Darwin's.

up

The judge didn't even re- tion, Revivalists hurrica around trial.

posters in brimand him when he got back town tacking defence

the of

biblical Inte.

had The great orators explanation of where man came imored his absence in the heal

of their debale, from, America's pulpits chord alted tule that the hubbub

Darrow Scholars around the

and Bryan Davion.

capable men, Scopes said. world look note and walted for the legal decision.

The Tennessee legislature had passed a law forbidding anyone to teach that man was descend- ed from any tower form of life, or to deny the divine creation

reto of man. The popilar interpreta

of Darwin's theory was that decreed it

thal man was descended from monkeva. The "

tion

PRESS ASSEMBLED Scopes was bewildered, but ffundreds of news- adamant. paper men assembled to report of the argument, every word Bryan, though he was to dle a legislature made it illegal to few days after the trial endod, was spirited and in fine valce, Darwin's theory teach

Darrow, the compelling logician, Tennessee.

plotted a brilliant defence of Scopes and the Darwinian theory.

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He arrived alone,

TACT IN FOUR TONGUES

SELLING OUT NOTABLE hoteller retires To safeguard the shareholders after 30 years in London. interests, Mr Hirst is selling out New York, Rome: Mr Guillo and deferring payment for his share- Gelardi, general manager of the own shares, unli Carlton Hotel since 1935.

MADE HIS POINT He holders are provided for. thinks it "time to withdrow, In the process he loses

Scopes himself was almost lost Scopes believed the law was sail for South Africa In Sep-faintly business, his salary tember. He is still "on the sun-chairman, and about three- bad and that it stifled the free-in the shade. One day he went dom of teachers. He set out to off to a swimming hole to coc) quarters of his capital. ny side of 70."

Meanwhile, Hirst. a bachelor, prove his point in court. He off during a moon recess of the This remarkable personality,

bibliophile and classical can carry on with his £1,000 & arranged to be caught teaching

theory gen-year as MP. At the election be the Darwinian scholar, was successively

He was arrested and eral manager of Claridges and scraped home with a majorly the Savoy hotels in London, of 81 over Mr Creech Jones in the Excelsior and Grand hotels four-cornered night.

in Rome, and director of the The National Health Service Waldorf-Astoria in New York. is blamed for the company's

Predominant quality indis-poor results.

In Berkeley Square

IN Berkeley Square-where a popular song once credited a nightingale with singing the famous plane trees are being lopped of some of their branches. (London Express Service)

K. O. CANNON

THE IS WHAT WE'LL DO, WHISPER, -

FIRST BLUFF THE SERVANTS INTO LETTING US IN.... HAVE A GOOD BHUFTI AMOUND TO 859 IF WE CAN SPOT ANY SIGNS OF THE DOPE HIDE-OUT... THEN WE'LL DET AWAY DEKORA THE

COUNT ARRIVES...

classes,

tried.

In his

Before he knew it, Scopes was

national news, Clarence Darrow,

the best known criminal lawyer of his time, offered to argue his (asc.

Fundamentalists rallied the elderly, buį slili cloquent William Jennings Bryan to the side of the Bible and the state law.

"It was like a chreus,” Scopes recalled. "People came from everywhere to see what the monkey business was all about." Pitchmen worked the streets of Dayton, selling books on evolu

NOBLESSE

OBLIGE

A man claiming to be n grandee of Spain and the second cousin of the late King Alfonso XIII, has been hauled into n Paris court. The charge: the theft of 115 pairs of men's trousers from the department store- where he worked as a sales- man.

He is alleged to have run up big debts at a dozen of the most

exclusive bars and

restaurants of Parls. When at last he was told that his credit was no longer good he is said

to have replied, "All is well. I will repay you of basis."

*

barter

"From

sald that momenat,** the police prosecutor,

"Where developed a veritable avalanche of trousers. Whenever comeɩbe said, “What about that debt?' Don Alfonso would produce another pair of trousers in pay- ment Barmen, head waiters, restaurant proprietors even laxi drivers have benefited from this unexpected trouser boom. Every type of trouser was in- volved."

She's It!

IN her latest picture, Yvonne De Carlo reveals that she has the sexiest face in Hollywood. Make- up expert Bud Westmore makes that claim for her, and says it is because of Yvonne's eyebrow 6.

(Acme)

THE RIDDLE OF THE ROME REBELS

.....AND REMEMBERE....

WE'RE VERY OLD FRIENDJ

OF THE COUNT...

"COME IN,MA, CANNON. I'VE BEEN

EXPECTING YOU.......WOULD vou MIND RAISING YOUR NANOS " YOU

· AQMIMBIA MBI THE NAME 15 STUART [.. DON'T MAKE ANY STUPIO MOVES,CANNON!... SHOULD HATE TO ESSE THIS,

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"....two brilliant minds in opposite camps, Bryan full of emotion, Darrow full of logic."

But Darrow's logic could not carry the day, and the court found Scopes guilty of breaking the law. Fundamentalists jolced.

I

BACK AS TEACHER

Scopes paid a $100 fine and went back to his teaching. Later he studied at the University of Chicago and did geological field work in South America for three years, Finally, he found Ecological Job in Louisiana.

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Occasionally a newspaper man reminds him of the "monkey trial," otherwise it is a closed chapter in Scoper' Ufc.

Scopes still belleves in Darwin,

say men with no secrets

By VIVIEN BATCHELOR.

Sunningdale, Berks.

In a 40-room house which looks like a super- cinema, in the grounds of which the late Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen used to train his racehorses, plans for civil defence against the atom bomb are being rapidly worked out.

discuss defence

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Last year the Home Office have met to pald £50,000 for the plans.

WORLD'S CENTRE property to Miss Marjori They have come from all Cunliffe-Owen, who inherit ed'lt. Now it is the Civil Defence Staff College.

Here senior local offelals from all over the world come for courses of training in atom bomb defence.

arc

on a

over Britain, from Malaya, Malta, the US, A., Singapore, Holland and Gibraltar.

be

Sunningdale is rapidly coming the

world's centre of The yellow

civilian defence.

flag with the Union Jack In one corner and the Crown surmount-

GENERAL LETHBRIDGE 'A-bomb horrors are over-

stressed"

Forty doctora, including ons Ing the letters CD in the other, from the United States, medical has become a symbol of hope officers of health,

regional to civilians all over the froo

and countries of the world. hospital board officials

For the nlom bomb does not others whose job it will be to

total destruc- look after the evacuation of mean immediato corualties,

special lot.

Major-General J.

Those who have to sleep out S. Leth- course.

bridge, College Commandant, have dificulty in finding rooms 230 Already

town clerks, tald: "The horrors of the atom in local hotels, which are usual- been overly full of racegoers, golfers and chief constables, regional ARP bomb have always

visitors. other officers and fire service officers, stressed,

There are only three typista FIREPLACE MOTTO at four clerks on the office **Yet In reality

an ordinary start. Anderson shelter, provided it It is not all work at the has at least 3ft. din. of earth college, for the late owner had un top of it, and is not within private swimming pool, s 700 yards of where the bomb cinema and a golf courne, all'of rails, will five adequate pro- which have been kept up, and

ection,"

now provide recreation for the There are few secrets at Sun- stoff and visitors.

The 113 ningdale, Major-General Leu-

parkland acres of bridge wants the publie to know have been let out to local as much as possibile.

farmers, but the staff are rear In the lecture room, which mig their own pigs just behind used to be the drawing room, the swimming pool. with french windows leading

OVER THE DODE The yellow flag with CD

Union Jack.

and still doesn't think he should Stage-struck

have been fined for it.

"The general public should have no more right to tell a teacher what to do in his line than to tell a priest or anyone trained In the religious feld how he should lend his dock and teach the principles of Christ," he said.

But in Tennessee It Is still Illegal to teach Darwin's theory. -United Press.

TICKET FOR TWO COSTS

£10,000

to £10,000 for a ticket

Ufor two is being paid by

Americans in dollars for a 111-day world cruise in the British liner Caronia.

When the 34,200-ton luxury ship. launched by Princess Elizabeth In 1947. sails from New York next January, not one of her 600 passengers will have paid less than £1,170 for a ticket. Bookings for the all-dollar voyage arc round-the-world already "very good," said a Cunard official at Liverpool."

the west Passengers from coast of America will not have start e travel to New York to the voyage. Twelve days after she sails they will be able to Join her at Los Angeles.

Then the "Millionaires' Specļi?” After will head for Honolulu. visits to the Pacifc holiday Islands, she will sali south to New Zealand and Australia.

| Carrier Aircraft Successes

Washington, Aug. 15. British currier aircraft taking part in yesterday's naval sweeps Колек attacked a North

in

Koreaa minerweeper and tup with gned results, a Jalled States Navy spokesman saidt bere, today.

"The British units were ep- parently part of the Allies:force that attacked targutam both sides of the Korean peninsula --ñortle ☺-- of › kho-4 lat÷Faca.ilél.———

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PEACEFUL SPOT

Expenses

1.

fa a terrace walk, he has this notice over the Adam Are- The local authorities pay the place:

of their representa- "Faith in freedom should not uves during their stay, and ara taken for granted, but reimbursed by the Government. should be bult into a dynamic Meals are provided in the force, and steps should to original dining room, where once taken to increase pubile under large parties of racegoers were standing of the exact nature, entertained. methods, and dangers, of the London threat to its existence."

art galleries have test paintings to adorn the now This is an extract from a bare walls, and the original of speech made at the council of "pigny and Impudence" now Foreign Ministers of America, hangs over the 'fireplace in the France and Britain. It is now dining-room. the college motto.

Courses of instruction from 1

week to five

Looking out from the terraed 10st over the park, with the lecturer's

french weeks. voice coming" from the

Classes Dverge about 40 men windows behind him, Major- and women.

General Lethbridge said:

"It is a peaceful spot. hope for peace. But the stronger: deciding our defence, the more success-

We

OFFICE STAFF OF SEVEN

One difculty in

the size of each class is the lack tul the plans wo wopic out

of accommodation. For in spild here, the more likelihood, I feel,

of

its secmingly

large Elzc, we have of obtaining that

there is only room for 22 people peace."

to sleep at Sunningdale Park Iwo in each room

-London Express Service)

Stage-struck Royal Fusiliers'

Weekly Ceremony

Burglor

While a Melbourne au- dience of 2,000 was enjoy. bright programnio Ing a

the Tivoll Theatre, police with torches scareli- est ile ro:f for irouserless thief.

Earller the thlet Jad slarited chorus girts

key returned to the dressing room, where he Was reen clad in upper

but

miaus Farmacots trousers, his face blacken. ed with grease paini.

The thief slezed a petil- coat, dived through a win- dow, scaled a drainpipe to the roof and it is believed cscaped down anoller drainpipe, taking with him A1 and the petticoat

The ancient and beautiful church of St Sapulchra's, situated in the heart of the City of London at Helborn Viaduct, in which the Royal 'Fusiliers' first Regimental- Chapel was dedicated in June, is the scene of a simple and moving ceremony overy Monday.

In its pleasant Garden of fusiller hoists the regimental On the flagalaff. Tha Remembrance, now bright

bugler then marches into the with geronlums und roses-church and urna over o pago a favourite refuge for many, the, Royal Fusiliers (City of hundreds of City workers London Holl of Honour in the during the lunch hours and Chap.

The Book, beautifully written other moments of leisure and bound, contains the names two soldiers carry out a ell Fusiller, who, fell la duty introduced after the World War Two. The Rew dedication of the chapel. timent was present at Sidi Bar-

In the early morning a bugler) blows the Long Reveillo

Coming Favourite

ALTHOUGH she has only been at Whipanade. Zoo, London, less than a month, baby elephant Vall from Ceylon, kjoke like becoming favourits No. 1: with the CHIME? (London, Express Service)

ant, Agordat, Keren, Kuneltra, Endaville. Peter's Corner

as Salerno, Monte Cambio and Anzlo, Monte Cassino, Croce and Mozzegrogno, the crossing of the Italian rivers and offier

engagements.

tio

the

In the late afternoon, two soldiers return,' and Repiniental Flog In the garden 1 lowered as, the bugler sounds "Retreat."

"FIRST ACTION

St Sepulchre's, by the way, is situated on the route taken by the Regiment on its first action In 1980, The Dusllicra had been serving as marines at the Nere when Prince William of Orange Janded at Torbay, The Fualllers were hurried back and, we are told by

were Samuel Рерув, heard to rumble through Lon don on their way west with the Royal train of artillery.

When the Scots Guards had Prince William gone over to and the Army began to disin

tegrate, they returned to Tower of London. Their loyalty

the

to the new regime appearing BOOS questionable, they were shipped off to Flanders and thus began their long and tinguished service.

carcer

reer of foreign

A somewhat similar, care-

mony is held at Westminster Abbey on the first Monday: avery month, to commemorata the fallen of the Royal ArmY M.dical Corps in two ware

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A party

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"of four men

on whose

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Services must inrad

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over one page of the Colden Book of Reineinh

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