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If they went on the halls they'd be a smash hit
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THE CHINA “MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1956.
THE vacuum cleaner (held like an
instrument, left) is in full song in
The Hoffnung Music Festival." There are three cleaners and a floor-polisher In a Grand Overture-written and conducted by Malcolm Arnold.
ABOVE: George Stanlland plays a hot-water bottle in this "explosion of musical exuberance."
Skylarking At The Royal Festival
Hall.
London.
The Palladium? In your eye. It was the Royal Festival
Yes, they were playing vacuum cleaners, hot water bottles and they huffed and puzzfed down empty champagne bottles-BUT IT WAS GOOD MUSIC!
London critics agreed it was a winner. It was called the Hoffnung Music Festival Concert of 1956. Mr Hoffnung plays a tuba in a London orchestra.
They Shoot Magnets Into Cows' Tummies
St Catharines.
modern, mechanised farm machinery
buon
Although
IL
to
has proven farmers, cows who have gobbled up the nuts and bults left behind by the machinery have developed traumatic
Hutritis und
have to le magnetised to from dying prevent them
of the "mechanised disease."
Cowi
Until recently, when swallowed meal bjeels they uzily died when they pierced the animal's stomach Uning, or they developed. traumetle gartritis.
Or 1.C. Swna, a local veier- Inarian, recently started treating the alling cows by shooting magnets into cows' stomachs He treated wal special gun.
12 cows in the district and they are brieved to be the first magnelized cows in Canada.
The magnets are about three inches long and a half-inch in diameter. They are designed to remain effective for 10 years.
Avoids Surgery
The Royal Festival Hall was crowded and serious musicians showed promoters of light entertainment how to do the job in a big way.
the
"It sped from the mark
that never Il # pace islackened from the start," wrote Percy later in
Daily Mail.
The audience was caught out beautifully. 1 may have been accidental. but it was one of the best strokes of the night.
jasa. the
The Kneller Half rumpeters, drums rolled us for the National maret et smartly en Franck Anthem, and the auta
conpo er af their fan- sat down ruefully fare, raised his baton, the
1
Another
member of orchestra
the
Autobahn Doctor
strains
instead.
SO
of the fanfare period
Malcolm
Amold's "Grun! Overture" was interupled by violini Ytrah Neagh, who, fiddler, togged up as a street capered round the hail, playing Bach. holly pursued by 1- tendants.
Clashing Brass
The overture brought ringing chords from hornst Dennis Brain, organist prq tem, whirr of vacuum cleaners and
the
n floor polisher, rifle shots in
of
carbon, ps it were, a belch light and smoke from a cannon (ordnance) and bangs en eight
priser
foot drum.
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The Andante from the "Sur. Symphony brought among other surprisce, seven members of the B.B.C. Music Division as "hot water bottlists."
The delightful Yvonne Arnaud, un Relzenstela's "Concerto
Popolare" had unfortunate dif- ferences with Nerman del Mär and the orchert,
The reote traversed the Tchol- kovsky No. 1, the Grieg, the Beethoven Fourth, the Rath- maninov Sezond, and other con- certos in part, but there was lack of liaison as to which should be played at any given
mc.
In the last "ninnber," Res- pidghi's "Roman Festivals," an affair of exuberantly clashing brass and clashing overything oise, Maltaim Arrold was among the trumpets, Norman del Mar with the hormists, and Yvonne Arnaud in the plane.
Tfie orchestra, with many girls
It looked tired In
after an
immose day of rehearsal and on concert, but it was all worth it.
Dr. Swan mid the magnets, which stay in the cow's second
Duesseldorf.. stomach for its Ifetime, hold sharp metal objects in the North Rhine Westphalian stomach and prevent them from State Police are to station plereng the stomach lining. a doctor permanently,
The magnets are just coming the dunt carriageway high- into general use among farmers way, leading through the in the United States and it 15 | heart- of the industrial expected Canadian farmers wil Ruhr.
accept the new technique, Dr Swan sold.
Seven -Minute
Marriages The "Autobahn doctor" would
with
go to the scene of any trame "Fer the cast of only a few accident
Melbourne. together
the dollars farmers can protect their
An Australian husband de cattle frem demage and elimin-
patrol. police
acrta his wife every seven Police
founi that tray minutes, Dr David Mace of the ate the need for expensive surs
од the Autobahn gery, which has often proved seeldents
occur for from the British Marriage Guldanes
not successful," he said,
centre of any town and far from
doctors
Here
Interesting News Stories Fron
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Paris
The World
£40 FOR A MONROE WORK
It was the only bid for Marilyn's painting
By Michael Friend
London.
The painting nt the art auction which everyone wanted to see was but a few brief wisps of yellow upon white. The subject: a girl, nude but for the suspicion of a transparent skirt.
WHAT IS
The
Writing On The Rocks?
New York.
The girl, her hair awry, appeared to 1 trying vainly to touch her toes.
The signature, scrawled boldly along the the edge. was Marilyn Monroe Miller
Did she really paint " J was assured she 'reilly did.
I was told something That Marilyn Monroe Miller painted it in a temper because she was fed up with being gical actress,
Any Interest?
for tine
THE MONROE PAINTING: Done in a temper ??
GETTING DEARER THERE
Kinkelbos.
The high coil LL
cl living hitting African bachelors in this wall town. Wives now cost £200.
High prices being demanded
Killer Infection Strikes At The Playmates
Loition. MYSTERY disease
A which doctors describe
"h powerful, over- whelming infection" has killed two 2-year-old chit- dren, who were playfutes, In a Scottish town.
an
Irene Melliny Wied within 25 minutes of being placed it oxygen ten ut Greenock: Geurge Dlomond died within three hours of reaching the hospital.
The children lived do houses at Port Glasgow.
Dectors in the hospital labora- tory and the county public health officials are trying to Identify the
In next-
TOOller and discover the source of
the infectior
Irene's mother, the wife of a
salt;
It is estimated that the cus-91-year-old shipwright, tomary six to 10 beasts are now "She wno her contented worth £300, and, a beast
be slaughtered for wedding feast.
to
has! salt in the morning fat then the afternoon she salu - ከነ ሰ
was cold, and felt sick.
Three days later, while, neigh- for itle have pushed up the In return the husband price of tobola--the number of expect clothes for tho
canbours were at Irene's funeral, cattle traditionally
bride George developed a high tom- given to from his in-inws-Chins Mall perature. Within three-and-a- Harents for an African bride. Special
balt hours he, too, was dead,
Deep on 1h heavy_jungle |
air Alen Melville reached for of the Amazon headwaters his hammer and began to auc- There are murkscarved symtion pairings by Fumous
People boks which could turn out to seel Speccy and Drama
Central www
be a "time cuprule" na sange į from a pre-historic civilisa- tion.
"Now here." he said willi
pomp. "is a work by well- known visiting Angeleen, Mes Arthur Müller.
The tightly packed sard ence
A grenade: past back from his thiret alltion is a contimideraned forward.
Tort - dvr the mode of the
"Come, come," said Mr Mel- subot peat that mapping ville, eating good-naturedly,
of the pan can unelti rief urea je there snyore with any in- with auth:: 4
tera: 11a terest Ja Ms. Monroe? £57
The M rvi lones t the £ 2 10" Theory of ** civilisation t the Pre-history of South Athelet,
Gentpr Michanowsky. Pre- sident if the Amazonla Founda- on, let the re-ent four-month expolition
the Bolivian heartwaters of the Amazon River system
Inlo
Tan expedition forated. 17 the rege of a legendary river of writing." a boulder nieasuring 35 by 35 feet on which were
more than
20
Honour Satisfied
Mr
Melville made π Just, gallant effort. "At least," he said "you may say to posterity T have a Marilyn Monroe in my bedroom.""
Apparently no one wanted to. "Then I must tell you I have aready an offer for it of £40."
The gentleman who gets the original Marilyn Monroe Miller is Mr Terence Rattigan.
Arthur Miller has been satisfied.
"petroglyphs' -symbols by The artistic honour of Mrs which an unclent people may have tried to leave a messog? to posterity.
Mr
of
uibe
Thr Ayma ' Indiun which lives in the high Andes hos perpetuated the story of the existen.c
a "Khaweera Kelkain." or river of writing. Michanowsky atd. This tribe is thought to have been lille nie bait through the time of Columbus, but Mr Michanow. sky remeds. It os sienificant that Their
poken tangauge included a word meaning "writing,"
Mr Michunowsky believes the Liver in which his expedition's we is was done is the one to which the Aymara legend refers, The cyabis oito occur on other her reek auteroppings in the urea, He has developed a theory of the petroglyphs and has been at work on the
raje : for several years,
ANCIENT ROAD
The acrial
survey, in which three planes were used
fos photographing. disclosed An anglent road linking the low- lying river and jungle area with e nearby 14,000-foot plateau. The Amaras live in the moun- talnous area of the plateau.
Another accomplishment of the expedition was locating an The high picteau a stone-ware head of a Jaguar. There are no Jaguars on the plateau now, and the Spaniards found none there is their time, M. Michanowsky said.
"On the Jaguar head are painted symbols which to my knowledge never have been found in the Western femi- sphero before," he said. "One is an Egyptian-type tau withi
a conventional Maltese cross on each side of it.
This
all Ats into a theory of an ancient civilisation using some of the ancient symbols of mankind. It is an addition to
my theory that human willing may have originated through a universal organising principle, perhaps buried deeply, in pre- historic ritual and
mystical traditions.".
Mr Michanowscy bolleves that in the light of these dis- coverles scholars should re examine the question of whether writing
In existed
pre South America. Columbian Prevelling archaeological thought, he cald, has held that it did not,
As to whether some pre-Inca
in the
Fighton might have tried to
#
sold that Australians all petroglyphs, Dr. J. Henderson, chief of the medical a13.
They estimate that between over the country had been writ said that if he were asked 10 medicine department, al: the
Vestrinary College 10 and 16 per cent of ten ing to him about their marriage guess he would buy these 10 Ontario
problema son
have been trying to fell
aviat cataclysin
Guelph, Ontario, said he was in injured in such accidents might
terested in the new treatment be saved if medical: Help were patients were not gettinize, the porhobs neki: will do, research work on it. i avaliable moro; quickly!
Erentiment they, needed in china Mail-Special
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Long Skirts Are Out
Johannesburg. Skirts reaching down to only three inches above the ankles,
Bo
designed by Mr Frederick Starke, a London dress designer, 1911 110t be worn Johannesburg.
in
Dress manufacturers, designers
In town ard buyers
say that Jehannesburg women just won't hear of long skirts,
The owner of a firm of dress manufacturers in Johannesburg cald that because of the variety of materials on the market to
to day, It was not necessary think ou: stelling and unusuo!
The women styles to keep
of Johannesburg satisfied
An Italian dress designer agreed with him. "Dresses can be an inch longer, müşɓo. Bui nct more no, no, no," he said.
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