GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

REVUE PRODUCER’S DECISION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Jan. 16. A famous revue producer, J. B. Cochran, has decided that the day “of the present day skinny telegraph pole girl has gone. In future revues will return to rotundity, insisting on back and front, which pleased father, grandfathers and men of my age in their younger days. We shall serve scientifically prepared luncheons at rehearsals to build up flesh.” DOCTORS’ SUICIDE. MOTHER SUFFERS SEIZURE, LONDON, Jan. 16. The “Daily Express” states -Mrs Smith of Edinburgh, mother of the twin cancer specialists who committed suicide, had a seizure when the news was broken. It is learned that another doctor son was killed during the war.. A fourth is understood to he in New Zealand, married. WELLINGTON WAR MEMORIAL LONDON, Jan. 16. Xjie first, five-ton..hell for .the. Welifitgtori ’ war memorial. ca ri llon ; was -.cast in the presence of Sir J. Parr. If is - expected that, the, forty-nino bells will be completed at the end of March, when there will he a public demonstration. SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. ’ : LONDON, Jan. 17. Sir Austen Chamberlain who is at Birmingham, said some newspapers, speculating on his future, promoted mm to. the House of Lords. As far as his personal feelings were concerned, lie would like as long as he remained in politics to stay in the Commons representing West Birmingham. METRIC SYSTEM FOR TURKEY. LONDON. Jan. 16. “The Times’s” Constantinople correspondent reports that the Ministry of Finance has drafted a hill for submission to the National Assembly, providing for the introduction of the metric system in Turkey in June. FABRICATED INTERVIEW. ■ LONDON, Jaii. 15. The Trades Union Congress has announced. that Mr Citrine has issued a writ for libel against the “Sunday Express” in respect to an. account it published of an alleged interview of Mr Citrine with Signor Mussolini. SOUND PICTURE STAGE. DESTROYED. NEW YORK, Jan 17. ' | A Hollywood message states'that a stage just- completed Tor'the 'production of sound pictures, at a cost of more than a million dollars, was destroyed by fire. No cause for" the outbreak is ascribed. DRUNKEN DRIVER MENACE. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. A Cleveland (Ohio) message states that Charles Lloyd, of Adelaide, Australia, told the.annual convention of the American Roadhuilders’ Association. that Australia, although without a prohibition statute, had avoided the drunken driver problem by making penalties so strict that motorists feared to incur them. POPE, KING AND MUSSOLINI. LONDON, January T 7. The “Daily Express’s” Rome correspondent says a meeting between the Pope, tlie King and Mussolini is quite probable. It would be greeted with national rejoicings, as signifying an end of the quarrel. The diplomatic relations lietween the Vatican and Government are expected to bo resulted shortly.