CLOCK WITH TIGER’S VOICE

Evening Star, Issue 20255, 16 August 1929, Page 11

CLOCK WITH TIGER’S VOICE

ROARS EVERY HOUR

London craftsmen have built what is probably the most remarkable dock in the world. This is because it roars the hours in the voice of a tiger. Surmounted by a bronze tiger from whose mouth the time is announced, this clock now stands in a Maharajah s palace in an Indian principality. The Maharajah, is very proud of it, and claims that the tiger’s roar lias been most faithfully reproduced—not by some cunning Eastern artificer, but by prosaic British dockmakers, who carried out the potentate’s orders as part of the day’s work. The London agents of the Maharajah approached a well-known firm of clockmakers and asked them to make a dock which would roar the hours like a tiger instead of chiming them. The job was accepted, and for several nights the dockmaker' and his assistants watched by the cage_ at the zoo, and at length, one night, just as the watchers were beginning to doze, the tiger emitted a terrific roar. After months of experiment the correct note was obtained.

The report that Prince Louis Ferdinand, the second sou of the former German Crown Prince, who is at present in the United States, intends to mWy Miss Lila Damita, the German film actress at Hollywood, has been current in the United States for some time. It has been strenuously # denied by the young prince’s family in Germany. In reply, however, he is reported by American newspapers to have announced his engagement to the beautiful “ star.” Flora; “ Why are you steaming open that letter so carefully?” Paula: “Oh. I’ve had a quarrel with Freddie, and 1 want to see what he has to say before I return his letter unopened.”-