MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925.
GAY LOSSIE LOON...
· MR. MACDONALD IN MERRY MOOD..
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, 'M. P.,
JEAN DE RESZKE,
THE GREAT DAYS AT COVENT GARDEN.
Some rócollections and
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The following passengers left on the ss. President Taft on Saturday-For Shanghai — Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Au, Mr. An King,
was the gay "Lossie Loon" when appreciation of Jean de Reszka, he made sport among his brother, the great artist whose death was truly great all-round artist, and his ashamed of being in It It Mr. C. Breyer, MPa. C. A. Cook,,"
Miss A. C. Cook, Mr. Jack Carter,
Later on Jean de Reszke was to study this and all his oiber Wagnerian parts in Ger man Trisan and Siegfried he sang in America before doing so. hero, and his triumph in both parts was equally pronounced on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a Announced were given, an versatility was amazing. He was, opposed to my social ideas. A
in
Miss Chow Wel-yin, Mossrs. and sister Scots in London. He interview with a representative of in my opinion, the last of the great woman could be quite happy in a was the guest of the London The Observer, by Mr. Hernan heroic tenors of the Meyerbeer bath-sheet."
Mr. John Jacoby, governing H. A. R. Conant, E. M. Cheng, F. Sents Labour Club, and, respond. Klein; president of the Critics' School, which in his case, as in
manufacturers, of Hartley, P. L. Han, B. W. Jack-. ing to the toast of his health, pro. Circle, and the well-known teacher that of Niemannn and Winkel director of Messrs. Jacoby Ikle, Guthrie, J. R. Hobhouse, C. W.
of "singing, whose Intimate mann, proved, curiously enough,Ltd, lace posed by the chaltasan, Mr. acquaintance with him extended the right school for the training Wood-street, E.C., made, these son, G. H. Keatley, H. P. Lewis, over that brillant part of his career of great Wagnerian, heroes. He observations at the Board of Trade Lum Ching-hsun, and C. I. Leon- Goorge Dallas, he said:-
and child, Messrs. 2. There are many ups and downs widch began with the first season brought to hear upon all his later Committee which is inquiring into berger, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Moor- of a queer kind in life. For in of Tail Opera given by Sirersonations the benefit, not the application of the Nottingham man tance, if you had been in Lossie Augustus Harris ar Drury Lane poly of a long stage experience, lace trade for an ad valorem duty Morinage and C. W. Milligan, but the Impress of a reined in-on imported machine-made lace Mr. and Mrs. F. A. McCarl and son, Messrs. H. A. Pullian, A. F. mouth about fifty years ago and Theatre.
"It was indeed my good luck,"tellect and a cultured mind. Hence and entbroidery.
He was speaking of fashions, Rosemond, W. Rosenthal, J. C. hid asked what was the genérs! opinion of a certain nick with a, he said, "o have the privilege of their singular variety and a degree hick head and very often not persuading the impresario, when of psychological interest, notably and said he did not agree with the Shirszec, A. A. Eca da Silva, and operatiin parts like Tristan and Siegfried. necessity for some of the fashion. W. H. Torpey, Mrs. W. H. Torpey, uch eise you would have found he decided to start
Jacoby told Dame Helen Gwynne, Lieut. J. L. Shipley and Mrs. that he was regarded as being management, to do whr the such as one rarely found in operatic ble articles of the trade. Mr Mr. Tien Yuen-ph; for Kobe destined to be hung I am not all co-operation of this gifted tenor tenors of his day.
Shipley for Honolulu - Mr. that Colonial women like to follow Alfred Waller; for San Francisco sure but that something like that and his equilly famous brother LAST APPEARANCE AT COVENT Vaughan, one of the committee
GARDEN. has happened, because there are Edouard, who were then both
"The decline of his powers may the fashion of Englishwomen, but Mr. and Mrs. V. Beghin, L. O. Chan, Chan certain experiences in life that are earning great popularity at the
Miss of nearly the same kind of trouble. Paris Opera 1 accompanied Shave been felt by himself, but it Englishwomen would not always Messrs.
Augustus when he went 10 Parts was never allowed to become adopt the fashions in dress of Yim, Chin Yuen-chin,"
Sara Furnerburks. Mrs. W "Tat great characteristic of our to engage them, and was present palpable, to his hearers in this French women.
Mrs. A. H. When he
E. Hicks, countryme is that they wander when the contract was sighed. contry.
At the opening of the inquiry Humphries, Mr. Jue Yu, Miss over the world's good and ly Their appearance in Aida' on the Romeo with Melba at Covent secondarily for their own. It is opening nigh; of the short summer Garden on a hot July night in 1900 Mr. C. E. Losely (counsel for Leonore Kinney, Messrs. J. Nock true that wherever you go you season in 1887 was not a debut no one knew that it was for the the applicants) replied to state Kays, Kwan Min, and Kung Kiu, will generally find a Scotsman athere for either, Edouard having tast time, nor would one havements criticising the conduct Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Liamag, the head of affairs." I have found sung for several seasons at Covent found it easy to believe, for he of the lace industry. There Messrs. C. Lagisquet, Lee Bing- however, tat Lossie men are Garden, while Jean nad appeared sang with all his old tenderness was no cross-examination because you, Lee Chong, and Lee Tuck, even better than-(laughter) en gears before, at Her Majesty's and chares and irresistible beauty that particular point had not been Mr. and Mrs. J. Mongey, and see I don't require to completo my Opera as a bartone
of voice, and at the end of it he
three sons, Mr. J. Morton, Mr. sentence. A. Scotsman is 'gey
said, not fate well, but an revoir.
and Mrs. M. Ko Clolland and son, gleg in the uptak. Te this case
Thereafter he sang in Paris, but
Messrs. Quan Oi, Quan Bun, Quan think the mathematical maxim
only for a short time. The end
Cherk, and Quan Yin, Mr. and that the greater includes the less is
of his career as a singer had come gloriously, and he felt no wish to
Mrs. R. A. Rodgers and three sons, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. da Roza, unduly prolong it.
Stewart. Mr. Sum Yan, Mrs. J. H. Williams, Messrs. Wong Miss Emma Stark, Miss Reba C.
Hing, Wong Kee-lung, Wong Fun, and Yee Sok-wah.
not true,
"Regarding Lossiemouth and Scotland, the less includes the a big London store the other day, greater. A friend of mine went to ordered some furniture, and gave as an address Lossiemouth, in mediately proceeding to inform the man behind the counter that Lossiemouth was in Scotland, The
"That'Aidu' night was the most brilliant that I can recall, with the exception of the one when Verdi's opera was first produced at Covert Garden with Adelina Patti in the title role; only this time the Such triumph was for Radanes tenor gave us had been heard from beautiful singing as the new Polish the lips of no man since the famous Mario. His successes as Lohengrin and Raoul were no less. unforgettable. In a word, the
Bang
in
"His work as a teacher, which was for twenty years a privilege of he had recently carried on at Nice,
inestimable, value for countless young aspirants to vocal fame. He was a complete master of every branch of his art, but towards the
A PROTEST.
regarded as a real and serious Issue: "Our case is said Mr Loseby, "that the conduct of both the lace and embroidery industries challenges comparison with that of any industry in the country Had he thought the issue was cross-examined, and proposed to do so. raised seriously he would have
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man behind the counter impression that lean de Reszke end he devoted himself almost ex- Jacoby 'said; they would see whats.s. Fushimi Maru on Friday-
created led directly to the pulled himself up in a very lordly renaissance of oper which then
sald and dignified way, and "Madam, I beg of you, do not in-begin under the regime of Harris after a decade of disanpainting sult me by offering further ex failure, during which it seemed planations of that place. I believe that the Royal Italian Opera was there is considerable doubt in doomed to inevitable extinctie London as to where Edinburgh is. Whatever was achieved during the There is no doubt at altas to where next eight years was due in no Lussiemouth is
small measure to the enormous influence wielded by the presence at Covent Garden of Jean de Reszke, together with his brother and Dime. Melba and the rest of that brilliant caterie of singers
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great
:
"PRIMITIVE EFFORTS,” If Nottingham manufacturers: visited the factories. abroad, Mr. clusively to the task of preparing artistic work was being turned out his pupils for the stage. For the in comparison with the primitive Mr. Losphy: Is it not a fact technical side of singing he no fforts of Nottingham. longer had time to spare,
"I had not seen him since the that wherever labour bears a big war, but we always kept up a proportion of the cost of the whole termittent correspondence, Bad Irticle English producers cannot have scores of letters from him camel-That is not so to my always breathing the sime affecknow edge. tion and gratitude-for 1 think he never forgot. I loved him both as an artist and a man, and I shall miss him sorely."
Passengers who departed by the
were Mr. V. Elliott, Miss E, Elliott, Messrs. T. Eberth, F. F. Binger, P. H. McKay, Jackson, TR Rennett, and E. V. Pallard, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Christensen and children, Mrs. L. M. Thomas McCloy, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. and son, Miss K. M. Hill, Miss F. Davidson, Messrs. L. B. Woolley and R. F. Sedgwick, Mrs. W. B. O. Middleston and son, Mr. R.. Holden, Mrs. H. Jorgensen and two children, Messrs. Y. Petit and ~ Mr. J. €. Cocking, buyer for H. Jorgensen, Mr. and Mrs. Messra. Copestate, Crampion. Schroder, Mrs. R. F. Sedgwick and Company, Ltd, of London and two infants, Messrs. W, G. and Nottingham, said he could not Williams, Kortel Kans, and De give the proportion of German Guns, Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Farle goods purchased by his firm as he Miss A. M. Farle, Mr. and Mrs. had bought a proportion of them. R. Benstead and child, Mr. through Nottingham.
If a duty had to be imposed the only logical one, Mr. Jacoby thought, was one on weight.
PRINCESS MARY COLLAR.
WANDERER'S ADVENTURES. "Wandering about on the face of the earth, I remember one day getting into a certain place in Australia way down at the month of the Brisbane River, where I was
HEAD BLOWN OFF, befog met by a boat that was to
"I am proud to have had a hand take me to Brisbane itself. "Getting
Inhabitants of the Riviera resort aboardy 1 was received by in the wonderful change that came
Baif over the great tenor's career when of Roquebrune, near Cap Martin, Ame-looking,dignified.. respecting man, dressed in blue, he began the study of the more were awakened by a loud report with brass buttons-one of the sort advanced Wagnerin roles have from the direction of St. Ronan
Page. of gentlemen who whuld have told in the store of my 'Thirly
Three hours later a Monte Carlo the backs put up
of The Years of Musical, Tafe, how I met writers of the "Daily Herald" Jean and Edouard de Reszke at playce, who was out fishing, (Laughter) I thought there was a Ems with Lassalle, the relebrated discovered the headless body of kind of searching, specially friend- French baritone, and advised them. The shatted amino ly look in his eye, and as he kept to go straight off to Bayreuth the head were found later in the Falcon-street, EC, said a Bugges Hollins, and Anderson, the Rev.)
looking at me in a brotherly kind (which I had just left) for the pur of hearing. Die Meister
vicinity.
a
In the man's pocket was a copy
Mr. Loseby: Did you buy much German lace via Nottingham One very hig parcel.
V RN. Oliver, Mesars Vin-de Wateren, M.. G. Sunderland, and N. A. Rotchiff, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Holdworth and child, Mr. and Mr. J. N. Finity, buyer for Mrs. A. H. Aires and child, Mr. and and Mra, R. D.. Beel and two Messrs. Olney, Amsden Company Ltd warehousemua, of children, Messrs. A. S. Fraser, F. ion he made to a Nottingham W. Lanfes, Mr. V. Cerbul, Mr. of way I asked: "Have I seen you pose
a "Princess Mary" collar was not alore Monny a pipe havel smoked accompanied by Mdne Nordica case of suicide by a man who carried out. In three years the and Mrs. Shoobridge and son..
the Americi prinz donna, who discharged a dynamite cartridge turnover of the article, as imported for your granny."
telling me bow deenly in his mouth. It is presumed that from Germany and Switzerland, rl Another fellow I met in the wrote back wants nf Canada, had been impressed they had all been. These took his life in a similar had reached between £20,000 and talking to me about an hour, and result was that in the following manner.
The man is stated by the police £30,000. Had the collarings, been at the end it suddenly strark him year, 1889, we had Wagner's Lo he ind forgotten to tell me splendid pera at Covent Garden, indian, it is true, with the finest something that was very essentia! "Mester MacDonald, he said, 'Walther that had ever been heard, any awfully sorry, but I forgot to and certainly the most distis. tell you I was a Scotsman faguished that had ever been seen. Jamaica the other day, when 1 mi
before?"" God, mant. Seen mesinger. They went a week later. of an English newspaper relating manufacturer for the production of and Mrs. A. J. J. Martin, and Mr.
a lot of Scotsmén, as you d 1 found that nearly everybod on the island, provided he came from
Africa originally, has now adopted a Scotch name. The clans are even better represented.
There
than in Load m-Cumeron' by the
UR CABARET."
produced by the manufacturer at be Mr. William Smith, ot Boston, Lincolnshire, aged 37. He an initial outlay of £50, £10,000 is said to have been in business in worth of business would have been London' and had been staying at saved for the Nottingham lace
an hotel at Monte Carlo
The class Fundon "Cabarets") are presented by Joan Caryl and NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT. | Rene Delyge, Frank Milne, the extraordinary versatile comedian.. has an enormous repertoire of
Krade.
PICTURE ROMANCES.
CURIOUS STORY OF 'CRUCIFIXION."
"STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The B F... Machern No: London,
The D.9.L ́as. "Tros. Hay a” which ja doo at this port taday sailed' from | 880 Francisos on Apr. 26-on ictedule.
Thy B, LA..." Benglow" from Lalth, | Middlesbro, Antwerp and Lon lon lefc Cadia for this port on May 11 and indue to arrive bore to day
Rusia" PRM.. Fempress of I Arived an Manila on May 8 at 1.30 am.
of Maulla yesterday at 4 pm and is dus at Hongkong to-morrow at: ? a. m.
The B L. "Benalder from Leith
Rotterdam and Hamburg will be des patohed at 4 p.m. to-dag.
Consul-General, Middle-bro. Antwerp and London dus: Henrik Pollak, is in possession of to arrive here on day 58,-
The B. P. Teiresina" left Liver
The new Landon esize in enter.comedy saures and ugh. Be
The Persian- Our Cabaret, which sered in Calenta and Bombs thousand, Grant by the tens of sim at, thousand MacDonald 1 fair is the must of the Compsies that the greatest' personal sturens Of number, but all living godly, m Matirati, Ltd, rought many years. Scottish lives, following the very
dia, will arrive "in Regnald Selleck, and Madgo
best and the very worst of our
variegated traditions."
SCOTTISH JOKES
The Scotsman, Mr. M. Don] though, was his own worst enemy. All the jokes at the expense of Scotsmen were favented by St me, and the peculiar thing was tut no one under tood then or sw the hamur in them except the S-disman. I once on played a Parliamentary Secretary? he sa'd nor for the purpose of giving me good advice in politics-because P| get enough of that and to spare without any appointments-bui for the purpose of supplying me with two original jokes against Sente. men every day of the week. He did it, and that is the reason why the Labour Government was so successful. (Laughter.)
f*r
Reginald Selleck and Madge Carter at the Plany in "Our Cabaret,"
a masterpiece by Tintoretto, paolan Apr. 26 for Hongkong, Shanghai Martyrdom of a Saintly Wond Fleukow and is dão at this port on man," declared by connoisseurs to or about May 39,
be one of the painter's finest works. Th.B... Memnon" Init Liver The Italian Government applied to post on Apr. 14 for Rtails Hoogk og, the Austrian Foreign Office, n, bani, Kobe and Yokohami sed, is alleging that the Consul hade at this port or about June 8. acquired the picture by illegal The BF Frotlus" left. Liver means from his relative, Cardinal pool on May for longkong, "hangbai, Locatel, and demanded it back ko and. Dalny and is das hoe on
boat In 1 property. The Foreign. The Marion a "loit Zivar- Office ordered the police top clon May 16 x Stad's, Hongkong. examine the matter, but the Con: "hanh . Moji, Robe, and Yokohama eul wis able to prove, that he had and is dus at this part on or abɔat Jane inquered the picture in a legal way. 20. Here Pollak is now worried daily which is no at this put on June & Tha: 4.0 LAK Tres. Jactron"! by agents and would-be buyersailed from Festile qa May 15, 03 and an American millionaire has schola'e.
ass
sent his private secretary to Vienna,
Mo offer 260,000 dollars. The owner, however, has resisted all temp tations.
Another exciting affair concerns
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a Rembrandt, "The Crucifigion of Cargo arrived por sa Romeoaut
ransitios, nedollvered after Mar 28, Christ, one of the four Rembrandtwill be subject to rent goats. - Gibby pictures in Austglan private pos Liricgs on GL "It has struck me that co long as
Cargo arrival per se, Batton Providence is looking after this Hongkong by the P. & O... Carter present double turn at the session. It was the property of an Country He selects Scotsmen as Malwa on Thursday, and will piano which for neatness and ex-count, who has a castle in 8 1" jem in ng nadelined after Way, His agents. Those of you inclined open the same night at the originality has not been seen here Styria, where it was kept. The who's bloo to ist Agents,
The Bank Lảna Ltd, 153 son of, an art dealer became, end NA to be pessimistic, fearing that the theatre Royal for a short season before. country will never recover again, in a series of programmes intro Charles Chamier and Muriel gaged to the ex-count's daughter have the best reason for boileving ducing the latest musical numbers, Van present sono clover comedy and spent a few days at the castle. that, because there, are no Scots-burlesques, slits, original scence, sketches, the latter lady doing After he had left a copy of the
The 8.8. President Grant. men in the present Government, and the absolute latest ideas in sterling work in various character picture was found in the place of It is the most ominous sign of the Cabaret dancing. The entertain-studies.
the genuine Rembrandt.It is brought the following passengers times. This country cannot be ment is entirely new to the Eust, Miss Gertrude Clegg is the impossible to ascertain in what on governed successfully unless there and every artiste will appear beMusical Director and Reedway the genuine painting, a work halte dre Scotsmen in the Ministry. Tam fore the Hongkong public for the Creasey the baritone, ips not sure however, that Providence first time. Our Cabaret scored thore le very killa of. ción payline given us up, because He has succes everywhere woy touch” in. Our Cabar made the Prime Minister half a played and it will be interesting to greatest laughter, Scotsman, Mr. Baldwin is half a sea low fur Hongkong theatre series of quick Baldwin and hall á MacDonald goers will ondorse this wonderful with earpr
But I doubt whether half a Scots
mán is good enough to maintain the great burdens of governing [his country” · (Laughter.)
opinion held in Calcutta and Bom Cab
yang anda gunanyament comp
Some delightful dancing of nour
kind usually soon in the Mautre.
of large size, could have been G
Lot without anybody noile Hollin,
Mount cancelled R.
man'
ohnson,
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