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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956.
American Musicians
PA To Take Part In Prague Festival
Prague, May 1,
American musicians, for the first time in six years, will perform at Prague's annual spring Music Festival to be held here from May 11 to June 3.
Georg Szell, conductor of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, will take over the baton of the Czechiasoval: Philharmonic Or- chestra for one concert,
Juilus Kartchen, in American pianist living in Parts, will be the soloist in performance of Prokofiev's third pianoforte con.
vert, by the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchester,
Evenly Balanced
It will be Mr
Katehen's flest But Mr Szell sit to Prague, will be on familiar ground agato
than 20 years. was conductor at the Theatre here in the 1930's.
after mort
1
He German
his
The Festival is being devoted largely to the works of welt- gang Amadeus Mozart and Czechoslovak contemporaries in tonour of this year's 300th an niversary celebrations of the farmas
Austrian compet's
birth.
Some concerta will be given in a pink-walled villa on a hill alope Ditove Prague, where Mozart ved for two years and wrote his opera "Don Juan." The opera itself will be per-
[ormed ta the city's Tyl
Theatre, where it had a world premiere 169 years ago.
Organisers say that they hope audiences testalling between 70,000 and 10,800 people will The only American to come allend the various performances, anes which will be staged in 13 con-
the Prague Perivat 1948, the year the CommunistsCert hals and theatres
took over the Government
Czechoslovak capital
iri
Czechoslovakin, is Pout Ruse- som. He came here in 1950. But of LAC Festival, [ organisers started in
In 1948, glaim thing
has been a cultural platform
where artists
T
East
West could meet even in years when the "cold war at its peak
and
in the
Other Performances
-
All artists from abroad howar
wild. The their expenses
that it costs Katusers estimate the about
1,000,000 crowns (about £50,000) to put on the Festival.
was
Une of its centres
24
4711 the
Trks year, urlists from East House of the Artists," o large and West will be about evenly | 19th century building balanced. Those from the West banks of the river Vitave, which will include two of the guest housed the Czechoslovak Parlia- enductors, M. Andre Chuylens,ment from the foundation of the of France and
Hans Republic in 1918 until the Ger- Dr Schmidt- [ssustadt, the West
mans occupied the country 1930 It has statues of com- Germm chter of the Stockholm
posers on its roof and was re- Philharmonic Orchestra.
stored in its original
pur after World! as a concert ball War III is how the home vi Czechoslovak Philharmonic the Orchestra.
Another guest ronductor will
Soviet Unk come from
Mr Nathan Rakhlin—and fourth. Mr Zivoyin Zdravkovich, From Yugoslaviu.
Othors Invited
The organisers
Barbirolh Jolin
invited Sir Britain's of
China Murid; P: Lid, Wyzdinile Orchesten to conduct two Street Hoogkees คราน
Czechoslovak Rout, Kaw loun
concerts by the Philharmonic Orchestra but he was unable to come.
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works from the West, Monique
Mozart Another
de in Brucholleric, of France, will
play Mozart's plano con- certo in D-minor with the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Örchestra and will also give a solo concert. A Hungarian planist, Annie Fischer, is also taking part in the Festival.
Others invited are Margarethe Klose, a German contralto, and Arthur Grumlaux. Belgian violinist. Soviet artists include Igor Oistrakh, violinist sun of David Oistrakh, and a pinlet, Svyatoslav Richter.
Vladimir Orlov, of Rumania, will give violoncello recital and Bogdan Paptocki, a Polish tenor, will sing in a perfor- mance of Gounod's "Faust,"
Mozart's Works
The Vienn Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Pro- fesor Rudolf Moral will give two concerts and the Comic Opern Company from East Berlin will perform Weber's and Richard
"Der Freischutz” Strausa "Dic schweigme Frau." Yugoslavia is sending chamber orchestra and soloista.
Other performances will take place in 17th and 18th century and Gothic palaces, Baroque formerly belonging to Bohemian and now aniswcratic families owned by the state, as well as in a 12th century monastery on the fringe of the city-China Mati Special.
EMPEROR Marriage By Numbers'
VISITS ZOO
The animals in Ueno Zoo recently had two distinguished visitors-Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako. making their second trip to the zơu since the end of the Recond World War. Picture shows the Emperor and Empress gazing at some
elephants.--Express Photo.
George Medal Awards
Loralon, May 1,
The London Gazette tonight | announced that the Queen hus approved the immediate award Medal to Lem- of the Gearge porary Police Inspector Hassan Bin Shahabudin in recognition
during ปร gallantry engagement with terrorists the Federation of Malaya, and 10 Mr George
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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In S. Africa
Identity Rules Revised After
Chaotic Start
Capetown, May 1.
"Marriage by numbers" has now been accepted in South Africa after a chaotic' start leading to a redefinition of identity
Thailand, Pakistan, Lebanon, Ger- rules.
mony and Great Britain, 10 a.m.
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Couples marrying since April
One English language news- enited the marriage
1 have had to produce identity paper
of
Africa, numbers as well as their bletly muddle the latest instance by to the the Afrikaans-speaking certificates--a sequel
Government compulsory use of identity cards Nationalist under the Population Register "bureaucratic interference with Act-but
marriage the normal lives of citizens by when new
Another English regulations were arst applled regulations." Inst January 1, supplementary Tumpuage newspaper called information about parents, with another Donges blunder." their Identity numbers, WOR also demanded.
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The British Empire Medal is Elizabeth Miss awarded Chlow in recognition of her gullantry when attacked by an in Sarawak... armed ussallant
Henderson,¦ France-PressC.
IMAGINE
A HORSE
HOPPING
ON YOU.
THE QUESTION IS--WHAT OTHER INSECTS GOT TO THAT
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MEAT-EATING
INSECTS --
Oh--NO! LISTEN--
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BUNDAY, MAY 6 By Surface
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--WOOD--BEING CHOPPED-AND
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JOHNNY HAZARD
SORRY MESS WE PLOTTED OURSELVES INTO THOSE SPIES
PROBABLY HAVE BROOK BY NOW AND HERE WE ARE, HELPLESS IN THE
DRINK 2
MAR.-5
NOT COMPLETELY, SNAP.THEY'RE STANDING BY TO MAKE SURE WERE DONG FORI GIVES ME A
CHANCE TO
•SWIM UNDERWATER AND GET ABGARDI MEANWHILE, YOU HEAD FOR SHORE: {ROUND UP HELP, COAST, GUARD OR SOMEBODY!
CHECK
DO MY BEST, JOHNNY! DON'T DO ANYTHING RASH TILL I SHOW WITH THE MARIHED,
HEAR
hout notice.
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forced to postpone them for thee months for clarification and simplification,
to
way
Press criticism of the in which the new regulations were launched was almost unanimous. Even the Nationalist Party's awn newspapers, normal- by solidly behind the Govern ment, found the first demands unrcasonable.
Should Resign
"A man and woman eager to marry want to get married and nothing in the world will con- vince them that it is in their own interest first to collect a number of obscure and partly statistics in far-off
Afrikaans Dio refuse to
places or even overseas," wrote the Сарс Town fatigu
newspaper language Burger. "TE they comply with the now require- ments they will have the over- whelming support of the public."
No immediate provision trad been made, among other things, for people born overseas or out of wedlock. Clergy all over
were left in un-irrelevant the country
whether happy dilemmas perform ceremonies or not for couples who could not produce all the detailed facts.
of Scpres delayed or Government
for
in spot rulings pressed
After days cases. uncertain of bowilderment, the Minister the through announced, Afrikaans language press, that the new regulations would be suspended for "re-examination,"
EVEN
marriages were postponed white authorities
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Die Burger warned the ad- ministration that "the gather
statistics of
and the ing compliation of forms can be come
a bureaucratic obsession against which a good govern- ment should be watchful.”
The Leader of the United Farty (Opposition), Mr Jacobus Strauss, said in Parliament at the time that in "any self res- pecting country” the Minister would have offered to resign over the mess made of the new regulations,
the
Pledging
repeal of the Population Register Act im- mediately his party returned to power.
Mr Strauss asked whether South Africans werd to be turned into a "raco of numerals," Was this the shadow of things to come when any normal activity would be im possible without producing a number, he added.
Legal Impediment The Population Register, started five years ago, is an attempt to tabulate South Africa's whole population on a racial basis with photographs and numbers,
OULT £500,000 sterling has so far been spent on the task. still far from complete. Staff In the Bureau of Census and, Statistics have been more than doubled, to nearly 400, to cope with the work,
Weil
over 2,000,000 people have already been photographed their identity cards. Many people have yet to receive
hem.
for
Some reports suggest the ex- tensive use of identity numbers in the dally lite of the South, African public once the register Banks may be complete. amber
to file clients by instead of names.
Under the amended marriago regulations now in force, only the identity numbers and birth certificates, of the couple thom- Polves are necessary and not those of their par
parents. But also emphasiced that nothing
but a legal impediment can stop a marriage. Required informa- flon or documents must be pro- ur vided later If not availablo immediately..
These
Both Parents
the
revised regulations apply only to South African residents. People from else. where who have been in the country less than" a month when they got married do not need Identity Unumbers for registration of "the", marriage, Immigrants to the country nood not produce birth certificator Identity munt
provide
numbers, are based, the last census taken in South Africa, in 1951. Anyone not in the census can be given. a number by applying to the Bureau of Census and Statistics
Under the how regulations,
on
.
Identity
parents
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