H. K
Philharmonic Society
Final Performance Of "Hiawatha"
Notes On Saturday's Rendering
His Excellency the Governor and day?
There was however an im
most disappointing,
Was
· Lady Peel showed their keen inprovement on Saturday evening, terest in choral music by attend- The "Death of Minnehaha” was ing the Philarmonic Society's certainly "Hiawatha" concert an- ThursdayInstead of being moved and while 011 Saturday evening merely amused-which was a pity Major General 0. C. Borfor it can be wonderful and is easy rett and Mrs, Porrett were present of effective interpretation, Both concerts were well patronised.
Instead of any attempt to paint]
One certainly did not attend the these pictures in tone we heard, the Concerts armed with blackboard work ploughed through as if it had: and chulk in an endeavour · to] been a hymn tune in a monotonous- emulate Beckmesser in Wagner's ly dead level forte tone in a small! immortal opera, und, tick off every hall only relieved at times by being little fault. We are always hear-even louder still. Did anyone
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1935
Countess le Debour-Wichelin, nee Gladys Olcott of New York, was in a French gaul for 15 days be cause she, kidnapped her three children from her first husband,' Jean Waddington, who won their custody after her Reno divorce.
To-day's Short Story.
Civilisation
By R. Hernekin-
Baptist
TUNDASI lived in such fair the king, although not, unfortunate-
M wide country. It was coun-ly, with assegal and shield in the old
try of high yellow grass, but proud way of young men defending from one point not far from his their chief. Yet some of his father's: father's kraal you could see a trionds who had been on other ships blue line which he had been told had safely returned,, although al was water.
ways, drunk and at the heer-pot: As a young boy in the kraal how these had told the kraal that honour- happy he had been, as happy as any able fighting was allowed only to young boy should be that has never white men, and that proud young known the corroding Influence of black warriors had been made, in civiliantion those strange stealthy view of all the world, to work like changes which spread in a night or women at fetching and carrying and two like the blighting fungus under digging, ACMA
the leaves of a lusty plant. A night | Oh, yes, yes, his uncle who had or two....a decade....a century or gone down in the sea with his com so....What is time?
panions had at least saved his pride.
How did it begin, this great trou-And these young men had not spent ble which tore Mundasi's heart in two hundred, golden sovereigns col- two as he stumbled away from the lected by, the tribe for their great dark stairway of a London office into Journey, Yes, his uncle the head- a terrifying fog? Now, to-day, fog man had insisted on showing the!
ing too much of that sort of thing realise that Part II was supposed FREE-FOR-ALL AT wept dolorously around him, chilled assembled council the wonderful
From a musical point of view how to be sad?
tact.
Too Much Fortissimo
Lack Of Feeling
that
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What did they stare at, those with deep cries to see the dazzling suffering eyes?. Nothing but the sight. fading of a dream. Only a dream, but it wan the same dream, which had beckoned Mundast to cross the вед.
Why, even
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ever the performances were cer- tainly open to criticism.
The result naturally was "Good" but "uninspired" was the these was 'not the slightest feeling comment made to me by a musical or climax, but the monotony of poor friend as I was leaving the Theatre verse merely exaggerated. on Saturday evening and in that The conductor Mr. A. B.. Yule, succinct phrase, both concerts can must not; of course, be blamed for be fittingly described. This has been everything, but things would have the opinion also of every person been different if he had varied his
The fight amongst the crowd To cross the sea? with whom I have come into con-beat-he made no attempt to do at the Kowloon Football ground that is adventure enough for a man
{this.
on Saturday afternoon had its bred in a kraal, a boy to whom the As someone mentioned to me it sequel this morning at the Kow- word sea means one bright strip of As soon as the tenora and basses was like soldiers marking time loon Magistracy when Charles blue in the landscape: Mundast re- confident fortissimo, --replied to injgiven. If only the chorus coulajengineer of the 8.8. Segars; and fifteen at the time--when the new donald had not taken. those beauti- To Messrs. BORNEMANN & CO Please send me free of charge, started their opening phrase in the order "Forward" was never, Jorge Pinto, the 37-year-old chief membered the day he was the same way by the contraltos and have let themselves gol Dr. Wala native of Lisbon, Cheung Cheecame that the youngest of his un-ful sovereigns into a bank and ex sopranos I thought it was' splendid; ford Davies once said "Let the song 'chung, a 25-year-old independant clea, a fine man of twenty-five, had changed them for paper money, but as this same forte tone con-sing itself;" but the rhythmic flow Chinese, and Mathew Chang, a gone down with eight hundred other aurely then it could not have wasted But who can tinued right through the "Wedding was always retarded and the music 31-year-old clerk, appeared" be- young warriors while on their way away so quickly.
fore Mr. A. W. G. H. Gruntham over the water to protect the white watch over paper money? Feast," at times, becoming louder, never allowed to gain its own. and then persevered right through momentum,
Len charges of disorderly con-king from enemy tribes.
Reverend Mr. Macdonald had given 'duct. the next port, I lost interest com-
They at least had kept their him a few sheets of it, and all the it seemed to me as if the choir Cheung Kin-yan, a 28-year-old dreams, for they certainly believed rest, he said, was sent to London to pletely. Imagination seemed en were singing note by note, the tirely lacking and 'without its all phrase never being taken as the clerk employed by the American they were to be allowed to fight for bo kept safe there for his use. Al}} *results cannot be satisfactory, unit of expression (this applied Consul, also appeared on a charge Here is a beautiful cantata with equally to the soloists!) and the of obstructing Sergeant Nolan varying modes and shades of result was they could not see the from carrying out his duty.
A emotion, a Wedding Feast and alwood for the trees."
further alternative charge of dis- death with a solemn Dead March question of phrasing, too the Anal orderly conduct was brought. and all the descriptive writing of a syllables of words
against him by Inspector Stim- were always
nationality, cunningly introduced like pistol shots which sounded
who in charge of the prosecu- colour and rhythm which to him decidedly amateurish.
tion.
Mr. Peter Sin is appearing for The loud tone all the time was Cheung Chee-chung and Cheung Death Motif
probably due to the fact that the Kin-yan, while Mr. H. A. Botelho, Can one imagine the phrase de-conductor was at a disadvantage in of Leo D'Almada and Company, scribing poor Minnehaha when being so close to his orchestra that is appearing for C. J. Pinto.
A fine of $160, in default three shame hit him a sudden sickening At the thought of his failure Fever and, Famine visited her "Lay he falled to appreciate the correct
months' imprisonment, was there trembling, freezing, burning" balance of tonal power. It was the next Monday afternoon.
The case was remanded till posed on Wong Pak, a 36-year-old. The fog was getting thicker. At
im-blow in the pit of his stomach. sung in a real lusty forte, or the same all the time and no attempt first three defendants were al-Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham at the ly against a black and greasy curb The laundry agent, who appeared before that moment Mundasi stumbled bad- most poignant phrase of all was made to obtain that soft aing- lowed bail of $25 each, while the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, stone. For a moment he knelt help "Wahonomin," which should beling of which the choir have already fourth was allowed bail of $50. aung absolutely pianissimo, sung shown themselves fully capable or
On the
composer, who, being of mixed accentuated and were Ward son; of the Water Police Station
was native.
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in a jolly tone as it was on Thurs- indulge in any of those rubato
CHUNG CHAU NOTES More Inquiries Made For Houses
[From Our Own Correspondent]
Cheung Chau, Friday.
effects which the work demands to 'retrieve it from the commonplace.
It was obvious that the voices showed signs of strain even before the end of Part I
Good Orchestral Work The orchestra, ably led once again by Mr. Conrado de la Cruz
ASIA DERELICT Compensation Claim In Court
TWO PLAINTIFFS
UNREGISTERED
'MUI TSAI"..
he would have to do would be to sign) his name whenever he wanted. money.
If only they had let him keep the gold in his old monkey-skin bag] hanging on his belt, it would not
Security For $90 Debt now be nearly gone. Even a stupid
Many Months Ago
TEMPTATION SHUNNED
person understands gold.
All but gone, they told him at the bank, and his long delayed mis aton....
on a charge of keeping a 15-year-old lessly there on the London pave- at No: 124 Laichikok Road, second with that child's gesture pacullar to unregistered mui tsai, Lo Kan-fung, ment, one arnt thrown over his eyes
floor.
the savage. He wept aloud. Defendant pleaded that some But no one heard Mundasi 'excepti while back the girl's father had two thin little London boys. Hav come to him and borrowed $100, Ing observed this exciting pheno- leaving the girl sa security; since menon they hastened to the corner then she had been doing house-hold where the "Red Bull" sent its brave work.
lights out into the fog, to tell the [with Mr. H. L Evelle and Miss Before His Honour the Chief Jus- Inspector Fraser, of the S.C.A., policeman on duty there that there Flint ever in willing support were tice, Mr. A. D. A. Macgregor, in the stated that on March 1, a report was was a drunken nigger on the pave We were glad to welcome back'a most effective "foreground." Supreme Court this morning, the made at the Shamshuipo Police ment, EN from England Mrs. Franklin, who, They showed clear evidence of good Sing Hing Steamship Co., owners of Station by the girl and her mother, went Home to attend her daughter's training and much hard work must the s.e. Shun Chil, claimed compen and they were sent to the S.C.A. walked leisurely to the scene and he Constable Jenkins's bulky form wedding. Mr. E. P. Barker also have been devoted to the obtaining sation for salvage services rendered It was later found that four years had a good look. His experienced returned, but alone. He is to re- of such a good. ensemble.
to the derelict ship Asia, provi- ago the girl had been given to the eyes saw something in that torloru side in Hong Kong.
It was to be regretted that nono sionally known as the Toa Maru, on defendant as security for a loan of figure which had not been visible to The Sun Chow has.gone into of the soloists endeavoured to intro-January 18, 14 and 15; The Tou $90. The mother visited the girl on the room full of clever politicians dock for overhaul and bar place duce any atmosphere into their San Hong Co., charterers of the 4.8.a few occasions at first, but later who had assembled in preoccupied has now been taken by the Sun Vainging. They merely followed the Apoey, also claimed compensation found that she had been taken haste for half an hour in order to
The mild weather is ushering in standard set for them.
against the s.o. Asla för salvage either to Macão or Canton.
listen to the lifelong grievance of an (Continued on Page 7) services rendered on January 13 and On February 28 this year the girl important tribe like the Komandas.
14.
is alleged to have run away from "Come, sir, don't take it so hard. Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., appear-the defendant's house as his con- We all has our ups and downs, ed for the first plaintiff, Mr. Leo cubine wanted her to become a There's a place round the corner D'Almada Jar, represented
the prostitute....
here. Go and have a cup of coffee seconded plaintiff, and Mr. F. C. The girl stated that on several or a drop of something warm." Jenkin, K.C. appeared for the de- occasions the defendant's concubine "Oh, Cunabel" wept Mundasi, fendants.
had spoken to her about becoming a clutching at the great red hand on Captain Lee, of the sa. Chun, Chih, prostitute, but she had refused. his shoulder. "I can't help it-my Raid, in evidence, that on January She added that the defendant had heart is so gorel"...
an early Spring, the gardens are blossoming and some early fruits have, ripened, flowering shrubs on the hillside are beginning to reveal their beauties, and the trees are putting forth young shoota,
Further inquiries for houses have been made, and two honeymoon couples are expected this month. Our old friends the Reverend and
gone on to Canton. •
CHILD FOILS THIEF
Cries Waken Mother
bied Constable Jenkins. We all get
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1935
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Mrs. McNeur have returned from! The crying of a child sealed the 18 he received instructions from the not been present on these occasions. "To be sure. To be sure," rum furlough in New Zealand and have fate of Lau Piu, 38-year-old unem- managing director of his firm to
ployed, who was sentenced to six proceed to the assistance of the ss. They could only make about two like that sometimes. Come, sir, up MRS. WRIGHT ILL A large party of visitors have weeks' hard labour by Mr. B. 1 Asia, which was drifting 64 miles knots an hour and at times were you get!?
completely stationary. They passed He raised the shivering form of come over from Hong Kong. Colonel Wynne-Jones at the Central Police south of Gap Rocky
He sighted the vessel on Macpherson and his guests went Court this morning for the theft of
the within three quarters of a mile of Mundasi. The figure that had look- over to Lactau in his motor junk a mahjongg set, valued at $7. morning of January 14 after having Gap Rocked so beautiful and imposing only a for a' climb in the hills. They had It was alleged that defendant was encountered a thick fog for the Captain Lee considered the task a few years back, before he had begun a glorious day for the trip in the habit of visiting com-major part of the night, she had most acord as the len was copying the dismal Furopean THE HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO,
The new road leading to the hos-plainant's husband. Awakened a pronounced list to port: He a vessel of 1,173 tons and a length fashion of other mission natives, 'pital, to the south of the police early this morning by the crying of manoeuvred his vessel to within 20 of 396 feet, as compared with the now looked like some New York
station, has been begun.
her child, complainant get up and yards of the Asia and sent a party 1,173 tons and 285 feet of the Chun negro-revue- artist, The Harbour Mission Junk is saw defendant going out of the aboard...
Chih. He had spent eight gulpens on the now moored alongside of the old house, with the mahjongg set in his Up to this time the Apoey had Mr Jenkin, cross-examining the suit, thirty, shillings for the hat, the pler. Special services are being hands. She could not pursue him, continued standing by, but she then witness, asked him if he knew that same for the shoes. The the and held on board, mainly for the boat as the child had to be taken care ofThe party discovered that the Kong for rescueing disabled ships. But how could he help it? Can
proceeded on her way.
there were certain tuga in Hong gloves alone had cost tan shillings.. people.
At about 8.15 a.m. a district News has been received of the watchman, in Wing Lok Street, saw Asia had no anchors and only, part Mr. Les Kin Chung, managing chler, from one tribe, visit the chief serious illness of Mrs. J. M. Wright, defendant carrying the set and ap-
of her engines.
director of the Sing Jing 8.8. Co, or another tribe and not do him the widow of Dr. Wright, one of the proached him. Defendant, being the Bad
cather Encountered
and the Tou San Hong Firm, was honour of fall. ploneers of the mission settlement questioned, ; admitted stealing it The Chun Shiền too
called and corroborated witness's So when here. We hope för, better nows by from complainant..
tow and Into
the next mail, Mrs. Wright took a very prominent part and interest in the social and religious gatherings on the Islandő
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