NEWS BY WAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1921, Page 4

NEWS BY WAIL.

DEAD ACTRESS’S JEWELS. NEW YORIy, Nov. 21

A large crowd of kinema enthusiasts and film artists yesterday attended the sale of the personal effects of the late Miss Olive Thomas, the kinema actress, wife of Mr Jack Pick ford, who died from poisoning i|i Paris recently. The articles offered included jewellery, furs, motor cans, and a large quantity of clothing.

Several valuables were purchased as mementoes by friends of the dead aitist. Mabel Norma nd, an intimate friend of Miss Thomas, bought a 20pieeo ]4-carat gold toilet set, outbidding a number ot dealers who ran the price up to £350. Mr Selznick, the iilm magnate, paid £1 10 for an emerald and diamond ring. A gold cigarette case wit a watch inset, inscribed, “To the only sweetheart 1 ever had,” given to Alias Thomas by her husband, fetched £IOO. HIGH BRIDGE STAKES. LONDON, Nov. 21. An epidemic of high play at auction bridge has broken out again at several London clubs. In spite of the rule limiting stakes, some members insist on playing high points. Thoy make up little parties apd

“freeze out” others who do not want to play high. At two or three West End clubs where the points are not supposed to exceed £2, "or at most £5, per 100, it is not infrequent for rubbers to he played at £lO, £l6, or £25 per 100. A correspondent recently cut into a rubber where Jiis partner was playing £3O per 100 with a £25 side bet—this in a club where the regular points, which he was playing, were fixed at £l. At one large club it is no unusual thing for £I,OOO or more to change hands between 4 o’clock and dinner time.

HOUSE OF DEAD WOMEN. CAIRO, Nov. 20. Continuing their investigations into the mysterious discovery of two bodies under the floor of a house near Alexandria, occupied by a woman whose sister left her own house after a body had been found in a drain outeide, the police have found 7 more bodies of women. These were discovered in the house where the two corpses had been found. ■......■.-ii iinrun-—t"—*-