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An important change has come over the Chinese situation during the past week. In the North of the country a new war has broken out, and for the time being Yangtze happenings are eclipsed. Chang Tso-lin has become opposed to Yen Hai- san, the warlord of Shansi, and hostilities have started, first. blood going to the Shansi-ites, who have defeated the Fengtien long- troops at Kalgan. This looks like developing into drawn-out affair, though whether the troops will fight throughout the severe winter of the northlands remains to be seen. Full details are given in this week's issue of the "Overland Mail."
Swatow has again changed hands, the Reds having de- parted before the Cantonese troops, and again the city is under the control of General Li Chai-sum's forces.
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Canton itself has undergone a startling change, so far as its politics are concerned. It has declared provincial autonomy with, of course, Kwangsi as an ally.
Locally, the event of the week has been the giant fete hell at Lee Garden in aid of the funds of the Ministering Children's League. The people of the Colony responded gladly to the call, and it is expected that at least $10,000 profit will be shown. All local events, social and sporting, are fully described in this week's "Overland."
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MUSIC
"THE MIKADO" IN BERLIN.
Outrages on the Opera.
THE CHINA MAIL
DRAMA FILMS.
REMARKABLY RECORDS.
CHAUVE-SOURIS,
Novel Records By Columbla. Company.
in
It is not so very long ago since somebody's gibe that the average gramophone record of choral sing- When "The Mikado" was first Ing suggested the confused ejacu-
Those who have seen and heard given here forty years ago it had lations of a football crowd, had the "Chauve-Souris" will appreciate but a moderate success, although more than a grain of truth in it. to the full the records which Sir Arthur Sullivan himself ducted the opening performance at To-day we can sit and hear choir- ed company. Here we have Nikita con: We have marched far since then. Columbia have issued of this talent- the Royal Opera House. Since then It has been revived several times, realistic in atmosphere that one's with his entertaining nonsense. It singing and organ-playing 80 Balteff as if in the fleak, complete more or less in its original form, without securing a really long run. chance to open
seems room
by some fantastic is as good almost as a week's holl: To make a thoroughly telling a cathedral or chapel where divina day to hear M. Ballen murder the
into an English peal to a Berlin audience it has ap- parently to be lacerated, distorted, service is taking place within a English language in his own in- rehashed, and drenched with pun- stone's throw of us. The Columbia imitable fachlon. gent German condiments. In such Company has issued a remarkable The performances themselves are a condition, writes the Berlin cor series of records taken actually in of a high order. Varioua memberṛ respondent of the "Daily Tele St. George's Chapel at Windsor and of the company take part, and peri graph" on August 31, it was pre-in Rochester Cathedral. There are. haps the best results are achieved sented on the huge stage one or two hymns, an anthem by by Birse and Erahova. There are of the "Great Playhouse," and was S. S. Wesley, and several settings a Russian "Barcarolle," "Grief" (to enthusiastically applauded. from of the Nunc Dimittis, and the the music of a Chopin etude), a the vuet and crowded auditorium. Magnificat. At last it seems that "The Mikado" St. George's Chapel is the his "bercause," and, according to the "pastoral," a "gipsy song," 4 has come into its own in Berlin. toric fane at Windsor in which
But to the true Savoyard all this State ceremonies have taken place record, "O Sing to Me the Old din and glitter can only be vanity throughout many reigns. The Scotch Songs-in English!" Surely and vexation of spirit. The in music there is under the direction an Irish way of putting. It? dividuality of the aetting is not to of the Rev. Dr. Fellowos, M.A.
The "Waltz King's" Son. be cavilled at, but we soon learn Mus. Doc. The series of records
I Johann Strauss, son of the that the Wandering Minstrel Nan-under notice provides noteworthy "Waltz King," with a symphony gipo is in reality the son of the and beautiful additions to our orchestra. makes a good record of "Ohio Sugar King," and has fed to
These re- the "Blue Dannbo" and "Morren- Japan to thwart his father's plot to gramophone riches.
cords possess marry him to "Lady Katisha," the
markedly that blatter" compositions of his father. "California Fruit Queen," and so quality which. is rather vaguely Maurice Chavalier gives us a real combine the fortunes of the designated "atmosphere;" they do novelty-several jazz records
two families in a gigantle Jam Trust, not suggest the confinement of
French, his partner in duet muri- The sugary prince is appropriately studio, but the spaciousness of the bers being Yvonne Vallee. I didn't dressed in light pink flannel trou-austerely beautiful scenes in which know that "I Wonder Where My sers and a cornflower-blue blazer, they were actually made. This while her fruity Majesty enters for applies alike to the cathedral and Baby is To-night?" could sound so the first time in a resi motor-car, the chapel recordings. There is no convincing in another language l the make of which is punctiliously tonal confusion between organ and Other numbers are “Quand Je Suis recorded on the programme, Yum- voices, Everything comes out Chez Tol," "Je Ne Dis Pas Non," Yum must take a bath on the stage, clearly. Particularly fine is Stan- and "Mon Coeur." The accompani apparently in a condition of com- ford's Magnificat in B flat, record- ment is by Wiener and Woucet, on plete nudity, and the text is lavish-ed, at Rochester, with the trebles two pianos. ¿ ly peppered with local Berlin patter of the boys sounding beautifully. and salacious Jeats, any one of On the reverse of this 10in. disc which would have emptied the old (Black Label) is the hymn "All Savoy more quickly than an alarm people that an earth do dwell." of fire.
Admirable, too, is another 10in. But the liberties taken with Gil-Rochester recording with a Stan- nothing in comparison ford Nunc Dimittis on one side with the atrocities committed on and "While Shepherds Watched" Sullivan. To begin with, his whole on the other. Stanford's music is score has been padded out, with extensively represented in these "orchestral colouring." several numbers dear to the heart 88ues, two further compositions of of the devotee have vanished com-
his being included in the Windsor pletely and their places have been series. His Magnificat in Ga
Reclamatory Records. taken by fashionable sentimentali- solo for boy soprano making a Professor Paul Berton, Margaret ties and jazz extravagances very effective opening) is paired Littlefair, Mdlle. Olga d'Avricoprt, which might well make Sullivan with Walmisley's setting of the and others contribute to a series turn in he grave. Even what has same canticle on a 12in. disc. Both of records on the subject of Train- survived has in nearly all cases sides of another 121. record are ing for Speaking." Mr. Berton la been lamentably mangled, by the given to S. S. Wesley's anthem impious hands of the "adapter," "Ascribe unto the Lord."
Professor of In the
Declamation and and the liveliest airs have been ex- 10in. issues a Stanford Nunc Dramatic Art of the Guildhall panded and elaborated to accom- Dimittis, goes with Dykes'a hymn School of Music, and these records pany the dancing of "Quouirma" "Holy, Holy, Holy," and Tertius have been made with the aid of his and elaborated to accompany the Noble's "Nunc Dimittis with students. dancing of "quouirms" and "Jack"When
They include Shakes- I survey the wondrous pearean excerpts, and should prove son Boys," who are thus designated cross." All the records are Black exceedingly valuable to students of on the programme, perhaps as Home Label. guarantee of the Anglo-Saxon ori.
elocution and public speaking. gia of the performance.
E. F. W.
bert Are
Then
VALUE OF EXAMINATIONS.
Dr. J. G. Bridge discussed the value of examinations in an address at Moot Hall, Colchester, on behalf of Trinity College of Music. Some people, he said, were inclined to sek what was the good of examinations? Well, in musical examinations the student was not obliged to enter unless he liked. In the speaker's opinion examinations not only show- ed whether one pupil was better than another, they also encouraged pupils to arrange their ideas care-i fully. Examinations were also good for the teacher, who would avoid getting into a groove, and they were good also for the parents. As to instrumental music, person- ally he regretted the passing of the old village church band. No doubt it needed reforming, as did the elergy; but the Church had not yet recovered the loss of the village players. He would like to see the violin and string instruments taken up more, although he did not for get the saying "God save you from a bad neighbour and a beginner on the fiddle.
Beethoven improvised his "Moon- light' Sonata for a blind girl.- U.S.A. Radio Announcer..
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'CHILDREN AND SWEETS.
Balmond Records. ference to the ranks of Columbia Felix, Salmond, of whose trans- recorders we had not been aware, makes a disc of "The Londonderry Air" and Saint-Saen's "The Swan." Both numbers have been done so often that it seems a pity that such a fine artist should worry about them. The items are finely played and perfectly recorded.
NEGLECT OF THE VIOLA.
In judging the prize for viola solo at the National Eisteddfod, Prof. Granville Bantock prophesied dolorously and short-sightedly about, the viola.. He deplored ita neglect, and said that as cinema orchestras have now decided to oust it in favour of the saxophone, he felt sure that in twenty years" time, there would be no viola left in the country. But one feels dis posed to ask, Does the last-word in these things rest with cinema or- chestras? It would be strange In- deed if all composers were to de- cide to deprive themselves in future of the valuable tone-colour which a viola gives; and it would be stran ger, still if all orchestral works and works of chamber music which can- not be played without 'violas were put on the shelf. And, after all, Is it safe to assume that the pre- sent craze for the saxophone will laat for ever?...
CHORAL SIDE OF MUSIC.
Over-indulgence in sweets spells and adults alike. In the case of A disordered stomach in children
children this may be speedily coun- teracted by Baby's Own Tablets, Sir Henry Coward exhorted an absolutely harmless yet super- Saltburn Rotarians to pay atten Intivaly efficient remedy Tortion to the choral side of worship. stomach and intestinal disorders and not to stand mute and listless in the very young.
whilst the music was being sung in church. Going on, he said that school life was very much brighten- ed by the introduction of music Into the, programme of its day's duties. due, the attention of the scholars In schools where music received its was greater than in non-musical schools Touching on music in re- lation to business, Sir Henry Bald that a business that did not culti vate a musical side amongetWits staff was likely to go west sooner than one that paid some attention
Baby's Own Tablets
The permanent managing Com mittee [of, the New York Bach Cantata Club] includes Dr. Tertius Noble, organist of St. Thomas's, Lynwood, Farnham, and late of not only remedy infantile in- York Minster-Daily Paper. digestion, constipation and colic, but they promptly check diarrhea, reduce feverishness, allay teething pains, relieve croup, and colds, expel worms. Of chemists every where, or 60 cents the vial, post free from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 60 Klangse Road, Shanghai to the art.
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I vividly remember Sir Walford Davies standing on a table in a tent and urging about a thousand "Tommies' to sing Elizabethan mad rigals...The amazing thing was that he succeeded-Evening Paper.
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