GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 29 October 1926, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

VARSITY MEN CRITICISED. LONDON, October 27. “For business University training is au absolute waste of time,” asserts Mr. AV. B Morris, the noted car manufacturer. “Though there are exceptions (he said), I have never found a University trainee any use in my organisation. The University will nut confer qualities essential in commerce but obliterates theyi if they ar e ori ginally present. It does not give understanding of th c workers’ psycnor°gy, essential tu carrying on a large scale business. I started life in an engineering shop, and therefore know what the workers think. Nobody can succeed without that understanding, l inveisity men absorb the idea that ble is an easy thing, and pay too grea t attention to sport and plea- I su re. ” DRAWINGS ON PAVEMENT. LONDON, October J 5 A Kensington pavement artist was laboriously drawing flowers and shipwrecks when a burly passer-by com inentcd: “I don’t think much of your ■‘Could you do better, guv’nor?’ was the reply. “I don’t mind having a shot*” said the passcr-Jiy who knelt and was executing a remarkable scroll when a welldressed man interrupted, “Hello, Jack, gut a now* job? I can do better scrolls han that.” “Get on with it then,” said thc substitute. The newcomer suited his action to the word. Thc pavement artist admit, ted that “it wasn’t so bad,” his judgment being endorsed when it was dis-c-losed that his voluntary assistants were Messrs Ricnard Jack R.A., and G. Fiddes AVatt, U.S.A., the prominent artists. CONSTANCE TALMADGE OBTAINS DIVORCE. NEW YORK, October J 4 Aliss Constance Talmadgo, the famous screen comedienne, has obtained a divorce from her husband, Captain Alistair Mackintosh, after seven months of married life, because he interfered with her kinema career. When Aliss Talinadge and Captain Mackintosh were married early this year they declared it was a “real love match,” and went olf on a honeymoon tour of Europe, which ended about a month ago. Aliss Talmadge’s first husband was John Tin logion, the son of a miliionaiie Greek tobacco merchant. She and Dorothy Gish, the Comedienne, ran off together, and the wo couples were married in Gretna Green fashion at a registry office in Greenwich A’illage, New York. The ground for divorce in that instance was that Tialoglan behaved inhumanclv. Iler sisters, Norma and Natali? are both screen stars. AVAR ATEDATs* S( BN ED. LONDON, October 9“That’s what’ I fought, for,” said iCharles Henry Munyard, throwing his war medals on the floor of thc Grcenpvich County Court when the jndge refused his application for partial posIsession of a house which he had bought. Aiunyard said that, despite the fact that he was blind in one eye, he joined the Australian Forces, and bitterly: “Now my country throws my freedom away. ” The judge said that onlv Alunvard’s record prevented his committal for contempt of court. AIcPTIERSON CASE. LOS ANGEI.ES, October 3 The trial of Mrs Aimee Al’Pherson, on charges of perjury and subornation, arising out of her story of alleged abduction, may last for several w'eeks yet. Thc lust two days have been spent entirely in tracing the signatures of Kenneth Ormiston at various hotels under numerous . aliases. He w’as always accompanied by a woman, whom Ihe prosecution is trying to identify as Mrs Al’Pherson. Arizona police officials gave evidence at length, declaring that Airs Af’PhcrUon’s story of her escape from a shack tin Mexico, to which, she said, her kidInappers took her, failed to fit the circumstances.

A gjngham dress, which Airs Al’Pherson Avas alleged to have A\orn in hei ,last desperate dash over the desert, jwas produced. It was being passed (round among court officials, who had been searching for dirt marks on it, when counsel for the defence tossed it ■into a basin of water, amid violent protests from Air Asa, Keyes, the district attorney. FRENCH ABBE’S PHOTO. "parts. Octoner 8. A French abhc was visiting the Vatican, and was astonished to find the Papal guards presenting their arms, the chamberlains making obeisances, and thc vergers kneeling and kissing his hand. A friend showed him the Pope’s photograph, and noticed a striking 1 resemblance. As a result an American kincmatograph company offered thc abbe a million francs (at par £40,000) to impersonate the I’opc in a film. WOMEN SMOKERS. LONDON, October 7. Four out of every ten women smokers are being poisoned by nicotine, states a specialist in the Daily Sketch, who explains that ho is not indulging in hypothesis, but that his statement is based upon facts*. Four out of every ton women consulting him, he says, exhibit unmistakable symptoms of nervous debility, lack of vitality, head noises, throat troubles, and palpitation of the heart as the result of cigarette smoking.