"Knock 'is 'at off-like Lindwall did 'Utton's "
Three famous
writers analyse
green-eyed
the
monster ...
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1953.
London Express Service
Folk Music Reveals Country's History
By YORKE HENDERSON
THERE'S romance, in ethno-men-naccessible bush to return and folk
musicology-in plain language,..
the science of music in relation to music of the country.
race.
+
record
This mild-mannered man, who looks as if he would be more at home in some cloistered academie backwater in Europe, back blocke to talk primitive peoples out of has repeatedly trekked alone into hazardous their shyness, and to capture for posterity their vital, unaffected singing and playing.
Take the case of the missing records for examplo. They are not much to look at; just a collection of wax cylinders, But they represent a vital link in African history, and international musicologists--the men end is in sight. By the beginning of 1855 Now the hard times are paying off. The who trace # country's history the survey of Uganda music will be through its folk music-would give complete and British anthropologists will a lot to lay their hands on them. have enough material to keep them busy for yours to come. Sinco 1948 Dr The cylinders old Edison-type Wachsmann
are
has collected
about 600 phonograph records, and they are among records, But with new tape recording the first recordings ever made of African units and the help
of an American music. They were cut in 1907 by a German, Fulbright scholar, he hopes to add another expedition on its way through Uganda, 1,400 within the next eighteen months.
They disappeared
The records were last heard of in Berlin before the war. Then they disappeared. They may have been destroyed in the air raids. But some musicologists believe that, in the early chaotic days of the Allied oc- cupation, someone who reptised their worth lald hands on them.
One of the men who would like to know where the recorda are is slight, bespectacicil Dr K. B. Wachsmann, curator of Kumpala Museum, one of the world's leading ethno-
the musicologists and living evidence of the romance behind that tongue-twisting op- peliation. If he could find them he could out Britain further into the lead in the International race to record African history in music-a race in which Britain, thanks to Dr Wachsmann, has already gone far ahead of its rivals.
Since he arrived in Uganda in 1937, Dr Wachsmann has travelled thousands of
Nigel Batchin
HE. Hates
Edgar Lustgarten
Already world anthropological authorl- ties are beginning to pay a lot of attention to the work of the man from Uganda. He has taken part in a conference in London when experis met to pool their findings'yn. ancient African history.
More recently the Royal Anthropological Society in London paid him the tribule of asking him to write the first paper to be read to its newly created ethno- musicological section.
To be enjoyed
It was Dr Wachsmann's lost publie engagement before returning to Kampala and the new museum which wil house the completed record collection. The build- Ing reflects much of the doctor's personality. Based on his theory that inuseums should be more than just dusty resting places for objects no one particularly
to see, the one in Kampatu has been built to be enjoyed,
wants
In the musle gallery-the Doctor's special preserve trained musicians will be on duty to play ang of the collection of African instruments, end ány- one who so desires can "have a go" on their own. The same applies to the record collection.
4 Το mako sightseeing Ters arduous; a coffee and soft drinks bar has peen· Incorporated and De Wachsmanin bas set himself a standard of areas for his museum. He says anyone yawns in it, I'll know I've falled."
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CHEUNG
JEALOUSY
HOW MANY "FACES" has the green-eyed monster?
Three writers of renown are called in to make a modern-day "dissection" of JEALOUSY in its main aspects: Jealousy in your emotional life. Jealousy as it touches your career... Jealousy in its subtler forms now, emphasised by the strains and pace of life to- day, Two eminent novelists-H. E. BATES and NIGEL BALCHIN-will each be writing in this series. But the first witness is one who sees Jealousy as the Law sees
He is known to millions for his broadcasts titled "Prisoner at the Bar."
it.
C
ONSTANT and unin- terrupted, year after
year after year, through
BY EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
to form a provisional, conclusion that no сле is ever quite immune from jealousy.
And further tempted to add, though as a matter of opinion, It escape
that those who we are very
in a normal spun
few and very fortunate."
And yet how reluctant we all are, to admit it! Here is on experience almost universally shared; one, which, in itself, is
moral nor illegal; but | will resort to the most manifest evasion, rather than confess this feeling has affected them. The murderers no less than the rest.
"1. was not jealous," Ley tells Sir Walter Monckton, his own bar-parlour, pul strychnine counsel, "I was not jealous,” he a .bottle of. solls he tella Mr Curtis-Bennett, cross- μπαιν the husband used, examining.. remained there for two be gun or human frailty-nol a single one hands with her. But the suspi- hours lest the wrong prey knife
or bare proves to be well-founded. poison
rions of jealousy would not be ensnared, watched from an arm- JEALOUSY, in Ita hands, the compulsion of
most allayed, and the rage of jealousy chair while the husband drank a jealousy claims its toll of virulent form, may animate the would not be appeased, except lethal dose, and, during the con- other sequent uproar, emptied, and
or
victims..
"
JEALOUSY
or one
were
these
LEY WAS 67. THE WAS 66.
Ruxton, too
I fought Mrs THE reason
Thompoon's husband," saya washed the bottle.
because he Bywaters, "was There can hardly have been a never acted like a man to his 'cooler' plan, more coolly carried wife." LADY out.
"Were you attracted to the dead man's wife?" asks Prosceuler. "Not at all; not at all," answers Vaquler, airily,
UNDER THE STRESS
or JEALOUSY, A HOT - HEADED MAN BECAME MORE CALOU- LATING.
the
old; more even than that, there by destroying can be jealousy of the old, object of suspicion. JEALOUSY may flourish Yet how old Bywaters, Stoner, Rux without any Inss of caution: people? ton, they differ only in de more even than that it can from inspire carefully premeditated grue of notoriety thousands upon thousands, acts, female, as well as male, who after its cause hos ceased; more may linger long have trodden
the same even
A cool plan than that, it can be
George Stoner did not go into road- and have' often retrospective,
the box; had he done so, ten to arrived at the same end. By way of demonstration, lot
the one he would have swelled the At the beginning of tempestuous murder take three
was chorus That end being
cases VAQUIER was the us
Buck Ruxton, whose which in their day attracted the and volatile by nature; more twentieth century, Thaw
America's wealthiest. gallows.
attention of the world: those of like a Frenchman of fiction than one of
young men. Stanford While jealousy verged on monomanla Thomas John Ley, Jean Pierre a Frenchman In the flesh,
When he fell in love with on was one of America's leading was at great pains to explain that every time he had quar- Vaquier, and Harty Thaw,
English woman whom he met in architects. Ley came to Britain a quarter France, it was characteristic of
rolled with his wife they had- of a century ago as an Austra-
One evening, at a celebrated quickly made it up and then Mon jealousy is not, in the lian publie ngure. He had been him to pursue her back to Eng night-apot, Madison Square Roof gono out together.
Minister of Justice in the State
and take up residence at Gardens in New York, Thaw,
These
replles, mate
by pub she and her husband who was having supper there prisoners with their lives at of New South Wales.
friende, shot stake, doubtless were here, owned.
with a party of he took a mis- tress, who lived
No excuse.
Fon of the law, a valid
eyes
excuse for murder. Although the hysterical pack of self-styled progressives who snap and yap ut the Home Secretary's heels have their way, it will doubtless fall into the category of "irresistible Impulse" (a lobel intended by them to serve A passport into Broadmoor).
True mirror
Is there a Dictionary
of
Jealousy? Well, some entries are so common that one seldom stops to test them.
Soon after his arrival
with him
at
various apart-
Tunel
the
It was equally characteristle White fatally as he passed the influenced by expediency, of him to be
architect's table. wildly Jealous
of the husband
menis and with whom his
hotels.
This
timate ass 0-
inamorata elec
ted to remain.
And it would rounded
cintion began have
In
In 1930, and -.. off the story. according to sultably, the parties came to an end in 1935-nearly
dozen years
accordance with orthodox ideas, if had shocking crime for which Ley Jealousy
goaded
before the
A
hlm vas. tried and (as Lord Goddard into some frantic frenzy as
result of which ho took the husband's life.
The
As late as 1040,
1946, Loy was
partly
there is more to their defensive ness than that.
But
He gave the reason promptly: White had seduced his wife,
springs too from a feeling The name of jealousy are unconcerned with crime; a feel- known to blazo fiercely on ing of shame in Jealousy's
Ignition. Had the secret of his dominion.
wife's dishonour been revealed Why?
to Toow that evening. that afternoon, in the preceding days,
recapted beliefs would not have been so douted
by his conduct.
But the short association, of Mrs
Thaw
with Stanford White had ter- minated several
But that did not happen to be years ago, and how things turned out, gend
JEALOUSY is held to be a observed) mași properly. |con=
an victed. youth; concomitant element inspiring impetuous
gop merely underliner actions only,RIA
of the moral to be drawn from the consequence
provoca facts. Immediate and current"
60 Vaquier, murdered the hus tion, that does not survive the
"Jealousy, so band, certainly. He was executed circumstances that provoked It. consumed with These popular assumptions have obsessed by this lady's relation for it, but he did not strike, in acquired the force, of dogma. ship with men, that (in conjunc- frenzy, ur oven in grent hasta. And yet, if they are tion with a hired co-conspirator): On the contrary, he moved with scrutinised ahesh in the detailed he kidnapped and murdered an shrewd deliberation. close-up afforded by the courts Innocent young man whose sole
always the fruest mirror of offence lay in having shaken god
THAW HAD BEEN AP- PILISED
OF
IT PRIOR TO
HIS MARRI-
Lack of logic
It because, even in the horshest throes, some sub conscious'thought-process · Raserta itself, and insists that jealousy is devoid of logic, that It indicates woeful lack of adult sense
think, posed thus crudely, the answer must be
discards
An integrated - adult) jealousy from his composition. How many of us, however, have so far succeeded in being / an
AGE FIFTEEN MONTHS BE Integrated adult It FORE
thought you take calmly after One morning, he rose early to So striking and diverso, ora 120 oß 13.
went down, to the these“, cxamples, uno is tempted
-London Express Service)
Round the world
with
Francis Drake?
it had a circumferentò, and a diagrami of the planetary aspect, uide Leble and a nocturnal. Made byɛan Eng. lishman. Humphrey Cole, iz walled with one of the greaten of all Eog-' lishmen, Sir Francis Drake, And it also told the time-within half an hout ar o. (Reproduced by.courtesy of the- Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, Gremich, England.)".
WHEN Elizabeth I was on the throne of England and English sex power wat at lis height.
this dial was buccaneering the seas with Sir Francis Drake. It was probably with him when; la 1577, he laid course by Morocco and the Cape Verde islands and set out to sail around the world.
Nestly four hundred years were to pass before the Rolex
·Datejust made its appearance; but the analogy between Drake's dial and tho Datejust is not so far-fetched as it may icem, For Rolex watches, too, have quite a naval tradition, They've been used, for instanco, foi destroyer navigation when the ship's chronometer was destroyed-sod once, even, for timing fotila stack in the Far East,
But they've also served with distiacilon in quieter, tales; serted with such unwirled accuracy is to make, theft name s:byword.'' And top of a Rolex watches.we can put the Datejust-perfectly waterproofed by the Oyster case, powered by the silent, effeicot Rolex Perpens) self-winding Rotor," It shows tho date autómitifcally in a neat, clear window on the dial. Of all grest Rok. watches, the Datejust is the latest and the grestéss--so far, us lėksiy
Latest and greatest of the Rolex triumphs, the Datejust is waterproof, thanks to the Oyster cine;" and sellwinding., Ibanks' to the patṛnied Rolex Perpetual "Kotur." Moreover, the date appears atically and clearly in a negl window on the EngAcene? Of court. The ultimate, gocuracy), Rosar soeursty,
And the Reles Red Seil Tile a sign that the watch in which it fai attached hat been tested by an Ģicial Taming Sention of the Swit Governmeal, has beenawar død i ta own Official Timing thetidealchronometer. All Datejusta carty the
ROLEX
tandmark in the history of
`time measure reperit-
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