GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

'A-CANON’S CHARGES

DENIED BY ACTRESSES

[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. ]

LONDON, May 10.

Prominent actresses and managers are indignant at charges made by Canon Guy Rogers, Vicar of Birmingham, that charus girls ar ( e heyug sacrificed to the modern Moloch of luxury and license and that their profession is often gratuitiously insulting. They deny that they are exposed to any greater temptations and dangers then women in other walks of life.

Miss Edith Day expresses the opinion that English chorus girls are very charming and modest. She says that wnen the show is over, most of them immediately go to their homes in the suburbs.

• Miss Margaret Bannerman says that the standard of the theatre is much higher than it used to bo. The chorus girls are not exposed more to temptations than girls in offices and shops. Mr Cochran states that the modern chorus girls live the healthiest of hardworking lives. s ... .<>

Mr Julian Wylie-gays r Gone are tile stage • door Johnnies. The Canon is off the track! , ,

STtiTmS.IN INDIA. : :

TORRENTIAL RAINS

DELHI, : - May' 10,

■ Parts ofSouthern India .duive-'been swept by a cyclone and torrential rain. At Ernajulam, in the Cochin Statfe, fifteen were drowned by the capsizing of a boat, and hundreds of houses have been wrecked during a four days’ downpour.

Nilgiri, in the hill district of the Orissa province, has been isolated by heavy landslides on the railway. .. North-west India is suffering from a heat wave. The shade temperature at Thlior, in Sind, yesterday, was 119 degrees.

, PRINCH OE WALES. • VISIT TO RHODE ISLAND • ",. SUGGESTED.

OiVV:" NEW YORK; - May i.Q

; A message from Newport, Rhode, Island,. states?;that the, Prince of Wales is .likel.y to-be. a guest there during i:jtjhe i intbpnatfoiia|l yacht races: ;fqr'the ;Ame‘iufea ‘ C'ut>' 5 it) September. M ■ ii’^IXDiAN.AIRMAN.,

WINS AGA KHAN’S PRIZE

DELHI, May 10

Mnnmchan. Singh, a young Punjabi airman,, who made several previous attempts;.has arrived at Karachi in a flight from Croydon, England, thus winning the Aga Khan’s prize of £so(| for the first native Indian to make u.; solo '.flight, from EnglHiid.