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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1929.
H. K. -PHILHARMONIC MUSICAL NIGHT AT singer and I are just one person
SOCIETY
JAPANESE CONSUL SEES "THE GEISHA"
SECOND PERFORMANCE
AND KOWLOON”
this season at the Theatre Royal. usual.
Those who had been to the "Arst -night" on Saturday were unanimous that the musical play had become a distinct success. At any rate, the large attendance last night was very appreciative and several encorea
and not two separate people. *
Another great thing I want you te remember is to treat your plano As your friend. Caress the note PIANOFORTE RECITAL BY
gently and never if possible thump PUPILS OF MRS. J. I SUITER them as though they were your eaches Do you belleve in A LECTURETTE ON MUSIC You, you say. Well, so do I, though I have never aden The acting Japanese Consul- St. Andrew's Hall, Kowloon, was one. Everything beautiful is ac- General In Hong Kong was anwell filled with an appreciative ap-|companied by a beautifu] fairy, or Interested and delighted member ofdience yesterday afternoon when fairies? Look at these beautiful the audience when the Hong Kong Mrs. JR Bultera planoforte flowers; and everything 'élie beau- Philharmonic Society presented pupils gave their annual display. tiful and imagine the beautiful "The Geisha" for the second time The programme was longer than fairlee playing amongst them, which you cannot see. It is the The "tiny tots" were given their same;with a piano which can givę chanea and were the most impor-forth such beautiful music. When tant porformers of the afternoon. I sit down to play a piano I ask Each had hteir part to do and were it to speak beautifully for me just there to do it well. They show as I would like to speak beauti- ed what Mrs. Suiter could in a fully to everybody I am playing Rhart time accomplish from two toto. · And you will find that the six months' tuition.
piano will do this for your brain Japanese Ladies' Duet and the keyboard are, acting to- Two Japanese ladies opened the gether like one person.
Playing in Public concert with a duet in their na- tional costume. They added beauty Never play a piece in public that to a well set-out stage and their you don't know. And when ask- playing was delightful. Both ladies ed to play never refuse, if pos- were heard again in various sible. But play a piece that you The principals were at their best parts of the programme. Several know thoroughly, so thoroughly, In other performers were Japanese fact, that you can present it artis- and showed no sign of tiring. Those and all did their various items tically. Try and have plenty of with success even down to the nerve. I noticed during the rect- tiny ones.
tal that several of you big and The advanced pupils were all Bttle boys and girls were nervous.
were insisted upon.
M. Bakaleinikoff, of Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., gained further laurels for his masterly work as conductor. A word of praise is also due to the members of the orchestra -ladies, civillans and Servicemen-- for the music was the beat "the Phil." has had for many years.
The Minor Roles
who had the most prominent roles, naturally, received the most alten- tion at the premiere. Attention was directed, accordingly, to some of the others last night; and among happy in helping to show what I know it would be silly of me Mrs. Suiter's teaching had to tell you You must never be those who might be aingled out for done for them and surely the nervous for nervousness, like sea- 'special mention were the four Geisha girls (Nellie Field, whose teacher must have been proud of sickness is a "rotten" complaint dancing was very graceful, Doreen her pupils as each item was suc-of which we would all like to be
cessfully played.
cured. It may cure you as it cur- Smith, Phyllis Hunt and Nina
Two Solos
ed me if you take my mother'a Valentine; "Nami," an attendant,
Mrs. E. W. Gardiner sang two advice to me when I was a boy. Evelyn O'Hagan; Takemini, M. M. Maas; and Captain Katana, Hubertolos which were accompanied by This was "never forget, if you are Japanese ladies. Hor singing was playing or singing in a crowded Annisa,
at his an added attraction to a very fine Cathedral or other place that you Reggie Greensmith was
She was presented are only playing to one person." best in his caricature of the Chinese Programme. manner quote extracts from medi- ultra-sharp merchant of half a with a basket of flowers by Miss You think this over well and you
Beatrice Pestonji.
will soon see what she meant. I A Talk on Music
have no doubt cal journals which seem to the century ago, with many local refer-
most of you did ences which "went down" very well. undiscerning eye to favour their Margery Bowes Smith as "0
Mr. George Grimble, in address-not care about playing here to
night but we certainly all enjoy- Thus they will quote a 'Mimosa Šan" and Leila Clarke as ing the pupils, said
I congratulate notable bacteriologist as saying "Misa Molly Seamore" pleased Im- Mrs. Suiter has very indly naked ourselves and
ased me say a few words to-night you. The object of having these mensely, as did H. V. Parker that certain properties in the "Reginald. Fairfax" in their series during which I have to thank recitals is a good one for it is an Overland China Mail. system tend to destroy such and of popular numbers.
Mrs. Cock for so kindly coming inducement to you all to do bet- such bacteria. This will be fol- As the dapper midshipman, Mar- here to distribute the Certificates ter work in future,
all we
The Certificates congratulate lowed by a statement (their own)
garet Chubb can hardly be ex- which
I on having won.
Mrs. E. Cock gave away the ceiled.
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of Music examinations which were
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wores.
you
.
want for
plies the blood with this very every night this week up to Friday the delightful Recital of Music held here in the Colony. A pretty
cure
Inclusive: there will be a matinee which you have given, and property and assists a permanent
to-morrow. at 4.30. p.m.; and the which I know everybody in the of your ailment. Catch-final show is Monday night.
Hall has thoroughly enjoyed.
Mrs. Suíter has given me e phrases like "continual health," "new life" and "happiness at
eral subjects to talk to you about to-nght the first of which is sixty" have a high place in their
"Music."That is a subject on!
jargon, writ large across the
NEWS IN BRIEF
Brigade, R.A.
noon.
basket of flowers was given to her
by Miss Margaret Eccleshall. Mr. Suiter with a basket of flowers. Geo. Grimble
presented Mrs.
The Recital
The pianoforte recital was on
Hong, Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1929. either harmless drugs or simple, sented to perform the unveiling places and studies I intended mas- Tommy Suiter, Andre Pestonji,
+
Kathleen
Wood,
Lieut. J. E. Spedding, R.A., from which one could talk for hours, rather an ambitious scale, and in- page, with perhaps a few letters the South Irish Coast Defences, has 80 as time is getting short I will cluded works by Bach, Schubert, as an Offenbach, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, of reference from illiterate pa-been posted for duty with the H.K.S.simply state that Music
Art may be regarded as uncon- Mendelssohn, Chopin and Mozart. tients who live at Blanksea, but)
querable, and the greatest artist) Added enjoyment was lent to the who invariably forget to give A small quantity of ammunition must perforce be an ever-striving entertainment by the appearance of their names or addresses. and fireworks will be fired for student. The next subject is the Mrs. Gardiner, who sang "My The danger lies not in the fact proof purpes at the Stonecutton best system of study. So I will Prayer" (Squire) and "Spring la
Rifle Range on Wednesday after-just tell you that if I bad to be Hero" (Dick) extremely sweetly. that these concoctions, when
The pupils who performed a long zin studying music, and the piano, analysed, are found to contain
again, I would have a time table and varied programme were as
under: Lady Clementi has kindly con- and keep a note book to enter the
Full Inouye, Sumito Ishizaka, laxatives. True, their patrons ceremony of the portrait of the late eing. I would make notes of lose their money and are to some Dr. (Mrs.) A. D. Hickling at the the ground I had covered and Desmond Hooper, Peggy Macfay- LURES OF QUACKERY extent swindled, but no more Taan Yuk Hospital, Western Street, analyse such things as the length Stella Bander, Sanae Ohta, Yasuki den, Charlie Bander, John Green, of time it took me to learn, Mori, Jean Hooper, Mavis Glendin- than by other lures that wait to on Friday afternoon next. We are all familiar with the entrap the wisest of men
vise, and memories a piece. Then ring, Shizuko Suzuki, Cloment medicine hawker who harangues women.
Charged with boarding the week, by week I would ra-read Yaumati Ferry launch "Man Shun" these notes and, if necessary, ob- Leong, Edith Wood, Phyllis Teale,
Eric Chester, the crowd, about its ailments, Tel. Kowloon 889.
The trouble lies in the fact from a sampan thus avoiding the literate any erroneous observa Agnes Leong, Marian Gardiner, actual or imaginary. He feigns that many of these patent medi- payment of fare, a Chinese was at tions.
Bernard Bickford, Beatrice Pestonji, to despise both science and its cines not only fall t
the Kowloon Magistracy to-day Practice Makes Perfect to cure, but fined $5 with the option of seven.
Isabel Pestonjl, Alice Wood, Joyce practitioners, for the reason actually accentuate the illness daya' jafl.
The next subject la practice. You Paterson, Molly George, Joan Doris Booker and that every time doctors dip their they claim to remedy, An
all know that golden rule "practice Paterson,
Margaret Eccleshall. A Chinese named pens and prescribe, they are rob-analyst recently stated that he'
Thero is no Lo Wan, makes perfect." described as a coolfe, aged 45 years, such thing in music as too much Gramophone records some years bing him of legitimate panaceas had examined a certain prepara- committed suicide last night by practice. The finest musicians in go took the place of music learn- -Nature's herbs and other tion which claimed to cure hanging himself from the verandah the world to-day are those who ing in all its branches. Now the “healing”.... balms, mysterious malaria, and found it not only beam of 18, Water Street, West have practiced from aix to nine wireless programmes are delug packets containing powders in incompetent but aggravating to Falnt, where he occupied a bed hours a day, but not necessarily far more that there is not the.
all at one time. You should alla necessity for learning music which rhubarb largely figures, the fever. As is customary with
therefore practise diligently and
As there was years ago. To encour- sugar-coated pills and bottles of the vendors of patent medicines A Chinese woman named Lt. Mee as often as you can spare thee paplle it would be nice if they could help with wireless pro- yellow liquid that cost him less and revolutionary cures, they reported to the Police that whilst time to do so.
But don't forget that practising Joan would say to having young grammes. One wonders what Aunt than a few cents to prepare and condemned the use of quinine in he was walking in Queen's Road
Central at about 7.30 p.m. yesterday for a given length of time is not people's help on her "Children's for which he will charge you the treatment of malaria, and
ada thief snatched her handbag con everything. You must have four. It is half a dollor or more. He thrives the analyst commented that this t
certain that staining money and a gold chain, method in your practice and put they would thoroughly enjoy It upon, virulent distribes against was "unjustified and dangerous, worth together at $124. The thief brains in your work. By this, but they and the medical profession; he scoffs It will be remembered that a
'got away.
their friends mean that you should dissect the music and pick out the difficult about playing and listening-in to would talk for evermore
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the parts first and learn them separ- the wireless. It may be worth
at them, and scorns them. The London daily newspaper, Bome A Chinese woman was at crowd, open-mouthed and de years ago, had occasion to Kowloon Magistracy. to-day fined ataly. If you find the music is some consideration. vouring these ridiculous fancies, analyse the preparation of one $10, or 14 days' hard labour for the too hard for you to concentrata is hypnotized by his crude ora of its largest advertisers, and theft of six places of wood, the your mind on both hands at once
A remand of 24 hours was grant- tory and his violence and hastily found it to contain little more Property of the Foo Lung. Buildingtry one hand at a time. You willed at the Kowloon Magistracy in a "
Contractors, in Waterloo Road. It and this will make a wonderful case in which a Chinese was charged buys his wares lest the quack than water and cheap drugs of was stated that the woman hired a difference and that it will be in with the unlawful possession of 63 should rebuff them for ingrati- no curative value whatever. It coolie to carry the wood, which she excellent way of breaking new cattial of pine branches.
ground. Avoid inattention: 'and tude. In sooth, his is in the na
a campaign in Its page smuggled in a tundle of grass. ran
nover let yourself cultivate & ture of a theatrical performance, against the firm for some weeks,
The annual meeting of the dreary mechanical style for that
TEN YEARS AGO and a rapidly delivered vocabu with the result that one heard no Chinese Sugar Merchants Associais a waste of time: lary of adjectives and native more of the drug. While it is tion Des Voeux Road West took
Study the Composer
[From the "China Mail,". verbs is his stock in trade rather possible for all newspapers to place faät 'night, there being a Always try to discover what the
December 27, 1919.) adopt such stringent measures, large attendance. Messrs. Ho la Composer of the plece you are
Today's dollar is worth 5/- 2%d than his powders and pilla, which are but the price paid for the ficate for all products before they pectively for the coming year. find this a wonderful help, and the public, is it going to be so great or to demand an analyst's certi- and Lai Shun-chat were elected playing menus or is trying to tell
Chairman and Vice-Chairman re- you through his music. You will strike has come. The inconvenience to Shipping Strike: The shipping privilege of hearing him declaim. are accepted ag advertisements; Members of the Executiva Com-will make all the difference in these at Arst thought, but it will be It is not the medicine hawker the Ministry of Health should mittee of the Association were also world to your playing. To prove the public remember this. of whom we must alone beware, take steps to prohibit the sale of elected.
that I mean what I say I will tell yners, and the arbitration would that arbitration was refused by the but of those larger, sinister commodities, sold under the guise
You that when any kind lady or have; layolved disclosure of accounta Bodle floating about the seas of medicines, which are danger of domestic life like octopi, with ous to the public Health. The day,
to extract Patent Medicines Act should be
revised on money from those who are temptate of
to?
in them. Their
respectable enough,
hole columns of
at Home Cand" Övar
at are not examination by
At the Kowloon Magistracy to gentleman honours me by asking and profits. The conclusion to be before MzTS. Whyte me to play his or her accompaniawn does not need rubbing far: Al gith the series of summonses, and ment to a song he or she is to ind, man on dark night-in a dark).
s-summonses." filed by Revenue sing at a concert. I always ask polar could see it.
Tallon (for sasault) for the music first so that I can employees of the study and analyse it for one or Hallway for postwo days before we have our drst and wilful obstruce practice together. By that time Walk thairi of heating, know exactly what to do, and how formed the ceremony and 2 banquet at the proper times;2.40 was child»el the Hong Kong Hotel
been partitiven
Won, Broch The installation took place last night:
M.Wakefield to the Uhaly he lodge; A Parsever....
can feel that the After the ceremony
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