VIOLIN RECITAL Fine Performance By Sitson Ma
TSCHAIKOWSKY CONCERTO WELL RENDERED
Sitson Ma, the young Chinese violinist who gave a recital to a%. small but thoroughly appreciative audience at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden last night, has al most remarkable command of his instrument, technically and music- ally: remarkable, because he is playing in an alien medium, but show not the slightest sign, visible or audible, of it. He has a fine sense
of touch, musical
values and interpretation, all of which were amply displayed by his sensitive playing last night.
Probably the most exacting! oferta technically, on the pro-
Fay Wray and Gene Raymond both appear in “Ann Carver's Profession,TM ■ Columbia picture which commences at the Queen's Theatre to-day.
ROAD CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN
Classified Census Completed
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"THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 1935
MAN FISHES OUT
5-FT. CROCODILE
FROM WHANGPOO
Amazing Scene In Shanghai
BRIGADE AND AMBULANCE.
NOT REQUIRED
Pedestrians passing the Canton Road Jetty at Shanghai received
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a man leaped from a sampan into NY. Rubber the waters of the Whangpoo to grapple bare-handed alligator.
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Wheat: The domestic crop pic ture remains unchanged Thef Lack of speculative interest in all grains is keenly felt. Total sales: Wheat: 19,670,000 bushels. Corne 7,020,000 bushelz
"Cotton The market is extremely thin and nervous. - Mills were moderate buyers. Some scattered
London 497 497 497 covering by shorts was in evidence. "Flash: Steel inill activity dur- 11.33 fing the past week is estimated at ILMS per cent. of capacity, against
48.1 per cent the previous week.
"The magazine Standard Statis- tics states that the market is in }z more speculative stage, with no indication of any major change in trend.
Increased buying power, owing the enormous, credit ne serves, justifies an advance. The retention of selected investments |is recommended. Political - uncer- tainties continue to confuse the commodity markets.”
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The alligator of the Yangtze C. Corn Sept. 74%
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board of one of the steamers ply-Elee Boody&
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Later, the creature contrived to Int. Tel & Tel 12 get out of the box that kept it Loew's The caged and during the excitement; Montgomery that ensued on board. slithered over the side of the ship into the NY. Central Standard Of deep.
NJ.
Valuable Specimen Considered a rather valuable specimen of the crocodile tribe..
compensation for
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The following cables were ceived last night:—.
re-
THE BREAKING POINT !- When Brain And Nerves Cry Out For Help.
Life in the Far East has many pleasures, but it also has its perils, expecially at this time of the year.
The long period of damp heat; and loss of vitality through, excessive perspiration, exact a heavy toll upon the constitution even of the strongest. Overwork and the business worries so common to this day and generation, make a further severe tax upon the strength, all of which explains, why so many people are feeling physically and mentally played out just now.
When you have sudden dizzy feelings, cannot."collect your thoughts,” find out that your memory is no longer reliable, that you are unable to Com-concentrate on your work, sleep badly, lack appetite, and need stimulants to keep you going, when after slight exertion you feel mentally and physically fazred out, any doctor will tell you that yours is a case “bor- and proper measures are taken to set matters right collapse will follow. dering on neurasthenia or nervous breakdown, and that unless prompt
is weak, watery, impoverished blood, and that therefore it is your duty to
Da Font de Nemours and pany have declared a regular divi- dend of 90 cents per share, plus an extra dividend of $5 cents per share..
The decline in Utility issues was
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influenced by the probability of the passage of the Utility Holding Company Bill during this session, in spite of earlier expectations that mo action will be taken just Inow.
gramme was the Tschaikowsky "harmless Concerto, with its necessary? cadenza so- curiously and unusually placed in the first movement instead of the finale. Mr. Ma did the work full justice, and was obviously playing it with
London. To-day- a sense of that assured familiarity,
The week's traffic census from long and which comes arduous study, of such an exacting ganised by the Ministry call of all the technical tricies of a Transport ended yesterday morn
jing.
She owner sought to retrieve the LADY BUXTON'S GIFT Tiolinist.
Weather conditions have for. Brahms Sonata Musically, the best thing on the tunately been normal, so that the alligator by offering some worthy anyone willing programme was the noble second figures collected by the army
to take the risk of diving into the movement of the Brahms, Sonata 10,000 enumerators at nearly 6.
river after it. The creature was in G major, probably one of the 000 points throughout the fnest offerings of its kind ever try will afford a sound basis for not large, only four or five feet in? length and it was pointed out;/ written: though the sparkling the plans to deal with modern
the risk
Usually well-informed circles There were no takers: of historic interest or natural think that the domestic price of third movement comes only a frac traffic problems.
great satisfac The statisties will be analysed that is, not until after the noon beauty, has received a gift from tion behind. The least
copper will be raised to-day. tory of the three movements is the locally be surveyors before they hour. when news of the creature's Lady Buxton of 50 acres of
Latest Quotations first, which Brahms in a much go to London to be co-ordinated
escape had been fairly well nois-South Downs extending over.
Newtimber Hir to Saddles- The following quotations were later work, the D minor, did with and classified nationally.
combe, on the outskirts of
received by Reater- a perfection that will stand for It is already apparent that the ed around on the water-front,
Seen Off Band evermore as one of the loveliest figures of bicycles in use will be
About 1 pm, a man
Brighton, and affording exten-1"
to the north and NY/London " bits of composition for violin and found remarkably high, and may
necessitate further consideration ampan sighted the alligator, apsive views
the famous cross-mate piano ever written.
Chanctonbury and Cissbary NY: Cotton Oct Of Mr. Ma's lesser items last of the need for special tracks for parently enjoying his recently west, including
NY. Rubber Sept. night there was little to choose bicycles-British Wireless
front of the Canton Road Jetty, rings
A feature of the property is Chicago Wheat Sept. 86% Apparently, without stopping to between the varied fare offered vice
the avenue of beech trees known Montreal Silver Dec. 66.40
Chicago Corn Sept. but Chaminade's. "Serenade Es-
consider what might happen to as Beggars Lane, where Lady Silver Oficial 65% pagnole appealed to us most.
Dow Jones Averages while the performer did full
sink its teeth into an arm or leg the late Lord Baxton, Governor-30 Industrials 127.96 126.33 163 off justice to the fireworks of Sara-
the man leaped over board and at- General of South Africa be- 20 Rails 36.98 35.53 145 da Bate's well-known show-piece.
tempted to grab his quarry by the tween 1914 and 1920, who was 20 Ualities. 28.18 27.01 117 off
40 Bonds --. "Zigenerweisen." Recalled by an:
a great lover of the Downs. enthusiastic demand for an encore,] The story concerns the career
11 Commodity Pedestrians on shore, seeing British Wireless Service-
Index Mr. Ma played the "Chanson Louis of a woman lawyer whose sensa-the man plunge over the side of
Business Done:--2,070,000 shares. XIII." published as a Kreisler tional courtroom exploits estab-the sampan, were not aware that
Ser-
aboard a
gained freedom, almost directly in
Cinema Notes him, should the animal contrive to
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tail
Buxton will erect a memorial to
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arrangement of Couperin, but now lish her as the outstanding the fellow was after an alligator. CHILDREN. BURNED
known to have been composed by feminine barrister of New York They had seen no alligator and the great violinist himself— Her husband, meanwhile, forges subsequently reasoned that the chaening and unpretentious frag- slowly ahead as an architect, but man was trying to commit suïcide. ment in the old manner. Though it is his wife's salary that main- Someone put in a call to the police, Mr. Ma of necessity missed the tains the household.
while somebody else called the fire grand sweep of the Master him- Edward Buzzell, the director, department self, his rendering was thoroughly believes this story is one of the
Owner Gets Back Prize most significant yet written for satisfactory and enjoyable.
A few minutes later the screen, in that it deals with balance from the If accurate double-stopping (es-problems faced by all profes section of the fire brigade roared pecially in the playing of octaves), sional women.
down the street, attendants tense Fay Wray plays the part of Ann and prepared clean and firm bowing, and, unf-il-]
to put a drowned ingly rendered harmonics are the carver, and Gene Raymond her man on a stretcher and take him test of a good violinist, Mr. Ma is husband, while Claire Dodd, to the morgue or a hospital But
Evidences Of Skill
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30 - 210- ambulance
TO DEATH
Fatal Attempt At Rescue
and Danube.
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Belgrade. Six children were burnt to New York Cotton:- settlers between the rivers Theiss December death in the area of the German October
January (1936) 1123 Reed hats are constructed by March farmers as rest places for their May is in progress and the children children while work in the fields July Spot
a very good violinist indeed. Claude Gilling water and Jessie there was no victim of drowning Those who missed last night's per-Ralph are prominent in the cast in sight All that they saw was were killed when several burst New York Rubber: formance will have an opportunity
a man dragging an alligator out into flames. of the water.
September
of hearing him to-night over the "PALMY DAYS”—MAJESTIC radio. He is also playing at Can-
ton on Wednesday night. We
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The wife of one farmer last December In the meantime, a large crowd her life in attempting to rescue January had collected around the jetty to her children.
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hope we shall have the pleasure of One of Eddie Cantor's greatest watch the performance. Accord hearing him in Hong Kong again. pictures, and he has many fine ing to all reports, it was a great
Mr. Ms was well served by his firms to his credit already, will be show, the first of its kind ever RAIL TRUCKS CRASH Chicago Wheat: accompanist, Professor Harry Ore, shown again to the Hong Kong staged in Shanghai. The man won though he was inclined to be slug-public when "Palmy Days opens the battle. The crowd cheered and wish at times, noticeably so in the at the Majestic Theatre to-day.
then dispersed. The ambulance syncopated fast passages of the The picture contains more than went back to its quarters at the third movement, of the Concerto: its quota of laughs, songs and fire station. And
the alligator but generally be worked wonders dances, and is inspired by that was turned over to the man who with an indifferent instrument, touch of genius that only Cantor brought it from Wenchow. and his playing was always sym-can give. pathetic.
The following was last night's "DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE"
-STAR THEATRE complete programme:-- 3
Sorate (G Major)........... Brahms
Cacerto... Tschaikowsky Miriam Hopkins, most recently Danse Save.... Dvorak-Kreisler, seen in the screen's first all-co- Serenade Espagnole. Chaminade lour picture, “Becky Sharp," plays Scherzo Tarentelle Wieniawsky opposite Fredric March in the! Air on the G String "Zigenner weisen
HANGED IN WOOD
An LMS.R. goods train travel- ling from Willesden to Falcon Winnipeg Wheat:-
Angust Lane, Battersea, goods yard met
October with a mishap, as a result of
A man who has since been which two tracks were derailed December identified as James Edwin Bloom They rolled down the embank. New York Sugar:* field, aged 53, a licensed water ment and crashed into the back ma of William-street, Grays, room of a house in Amies-street, was found hanged in Nightin-Battersea.
Icently.
house was damaged.
Bach movie, version of Robert Louis Sale's Nest Wood, Upminster re- Nobody was injured- but the Sarasate Stevenson's horror classic, "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," which jopens to-day at the Star Theatre. "CHILDREN'S YEAR" Blonde, petite Miss Hopkins is
cart as the Cockney girl of the General Lee Reports On
Central Trading Co.'s Prize Drawing
streets who becomes the prey of
the evil Mr. Hyde, and ultimate-
ly meets a terrifying fate at his hands.
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Over 1,000 children attended at Miss Hopkins, in the space of Canton, to-day-General Lee Regarding reconstruction, Gen- January the prise drawing of the Central a few short years, has won amaz- Shu-chung, adjutant general of the eral Lee said that all the main March Trading Company at the open airling success both on stage and 1st Army Corps, who was newly roads in south Kiangat bave been playground of the Chinese, screen. Born in Bainbridge, appointed commander
completed and what is now under YMCA last Saturday afternoon-Georgia, she was educated in New
of the construction is the Shan-feng INAUGURATION CEREMONIES Many useful gifts, including toys,York City and studied me Kwangtung gendarmes, told focal bridge, which will be completed condensed milk and children's there. The stage soon exerted its press representatives that 90 per within three daily utensils, etc., were dis lure on her, and after several cent of the work of pacification completion
falbe starts," she managed to in south Kiangst has been com-through” bas
tributed
As the "Children's Year" falls secure a small part in the "Music pleted According to him, various. Shun-feng and this year, the Central Trading Box Revne” * which, in turn, localities in the south section of
Co. took the opportunity to offer brought her a featured role in Kings have been restored to According to free gifts to the children, at the "The Garrick Gaieties.” same time endeavouring to en-
courage the local populace to give
regard for the welfare of the drawing a group photogr
children. Se
taken as a memento of
At the cond
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normalcy except-Shoushan, where eral bus station will-be- built injand Cat
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