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By RONALD SALISBURY
1930.
It was found near
dropped.
Stavanger,
DELAYED REPORTS
WDS
Andrea fool with
HEN a message is
The world time record for Bealed in a bottle 5.0.5, messages in bottles is be- Norway, some 3,000 miles cast
the spot where lieved to be duration attached of and cast into the to one picked up on the lonely sea, where will it "beach" Hiratutemura coast of Japan in And when?
The message wus dated One might as 1784 and was written by a Jap-
In 1897, the Swedish explorer, well ask: "How long is tack ocaman named Molsu-
Salamond Andree, attempted piece of string?" It is an yama, a member of the crew of the extremely perilous venture unanswerable question, a treasure-hunting ship wrecked Time and direction depend on un uninhabited coral islet in of crossing over the North Pole
the Pacific. The entire ship's balloon on tides and currents. The company of forty-five men dled him a number of bottles which he dropped overboard to report quality of the bottle's cork of starvation,
his progress. Unsurprisingly, A bottle picked up on and its resistance to percoki-
the the venture ended in fragedy, tion are important factora. west coast of Australia in 1935 but every few years his bottled was calculated to have travelled reperis were washed-up at Ceriainly, the most remark right round the world in 2,447 points many hundreds of miles able
travellers on the Seven days. This particular bottle to the south. In fact, what is Sear are botijas. Some sealed was seni adrift by a German believed to be the last was bottles are known to have eit barque engaged in the study of picked up in 1937, after being - pumpavigated the globe and to currents and the movements of sen-tosted for forly years.
have remained afloat for half a fish. It began its voyage hall- century or more before being way between Kerguelen Island pleked up.
and Tasmania.
fish
A noteworthy bottle was that. As a rule, bottles cast in the picked up, by a Russian fisher- sen do not travel quickly, about man, on the beach of Vilkliski half-a-mile an hour is the Island in the Arctic. Inside normal speed, although there is was a scrap of paper bearing a record of a bottle travelling at message in English and Nor- well over three miles an hour. wegion:
"Five ponies and 150 This bottle was despatched from dogs remaining. Desire hay, the coast of Newfoundland and and 30 sledges. Must re- arrived at Donegal thirty-three tum early in August. Baldwin." days Inter, covering appro-
ximately eighty miles a day.
Another thrown into the Gulf An 5.0.5. from the missing of St Lawrence was a year later Polar explorer, Evelyn Baldwin, to the very day picked up off who had cast the bottled- the lonely Lofoten Island, message in the sea forty-five North of Norway.......... years previously. Baldwin won Harry Harper, famous pioneer through, but his 5.0.5. was not pilol, dropped a bottle into the picked up until long after his Atlantic when making his first natural death,
eple crossing. Six months later
The message was identified as
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and Smooth
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Although
Andree's original project was a failure, his bottled messages did give to the world some very useful data on fides and currents.
In November, 1933, the West sicamer Sazilby, Hartlepool bound from Newfoundland to Port Talbot, South Wales, dis- appeared without trace several hundred nules West of Ireland. Of the twenty-six members of the crew nothing was heard for over two years Then, one day, a person strolling along the beach not for from Port Talbot, idly kicked a cocoa lin. As it did not sound empty, he opened hastily it and found, within scribbled note: S.S. Suzilby sinking of the Irish coast, Love to sisters, brothers and Dinah- Joe Okane.'
words of a Thus, the last doomed sailor were delivered
had lyed at Aberavon.
Saldom do S.0.5. messages by bottle-post achieve their pur. pose. Usually they are salvaged many years or months too late,
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1958.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
©
TIL DE US. PAL OTK
NA Garden. Bon.
3.1%
"What do you moan, I have an inforiority complex!"
A
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
My night out in the crazy torture-chamber
JOSEPHINE DOUGLAS
reports from PARIS TOBODY-knocks the rock in Paris, and nobody aneers
From the Files
25
years AGO
AN important change in the
of
constitutional management the New Territorica Evangelisation Society was
when control, hitherto
vested
The "rats" --- not cats over there just don't dig that kind of music.
Jazz violinist STEPHANE My description of the wath-Church, was formally trans- GRAPPELLY teils me rock 'n' board played with thimbles on roll lasted about three weeks in the fingers must have made a Paris. Musicians who loathed it big impression. For me, from Jesa then Stephane grudgingly now on, though, it is kitchen credited it with a three months' music. run. Either way, it appears to havo hit the city with all the impact at an American record Ing star in a theatre without a microphone.
Le jazz at is the big thing in "The Left the litle clubs on Bank. In the Caveau de la
torture one-time Huchette, chamber and headquarters of Rebespiesto nards,
and the Montag- And skifle? Never even got storted. I tried to explain, in
last Saturday's where English and sign language, just Six-Five Speciat came fromt i what it was all about to a group is MAXIME SAURY et Son
After New of French techagers.
Orleans Sound, that is long time one of them said: packing them in from nine till "Ah! I understand, Eet ees musto three every night. of the kitchen!"
That Mozart flourish
gives Black a winner
RECORD
SURPRISING record is legued this week.
by PETER BUCHAN
A
does Black's overture How stand up to the company it
more
The answer is even surprising than the discovery of the name Stanley Black among the romantle Italians.
almost to his home for Otane It is called Showpieces for keeps?
Orchestra and is conducted. Gamba. the by Pierino Italian boy who was a con- ducting prodigy at nine and--. now, at 21, is making his name as a conductor of in- ternational repute.
Wag
But there is an occasional ex- coption. A Chinese passenger boat was captured by pirates on the Yangtee River. The pirates intention
to hide the passengers ashore and then de- mand high ransoms for their of the release, Luckily, one ship's crew was inspired to throw overboard a bottle con- taining on S.Q.S.
The plates were greatly sur- prised when, few hours later, a gun-boat arrived on the scene and rudely frustrated their carefully-laid plans.
rc-
But the surprise in his cord is one that can be easily missed.
the Consider the utics of four pieces that make up the by dise: Dance of the Hours, Pon-chiell, the intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, Notturno by Marlucci - all well known to anyone who has turned on a radio set.
It is fresh and vigorous-and as good as, if not, better than, the three other pieces on record.
the
囧
At 45, Stanley Black is small, quiet man, who smokes nervously, talks rapidly-when he does talk-in a shy voice with, a faint cockney twang.
Nothing to share
For his record company those sales have brought a turnover For of nearly £2,000,000. Black? He says: "I would say, it was about £25,000
£30,000"-
10
This, I bellove, is an under- gtimate. Many of the 25 re- Cords are by Black alone at that there 19 the piano, so nothing to share with costly orchestras.
By the time his royalties are added up, he could well have earned for himself more than £75,000.
Black has undoubtedly made more money in the. five years since he left the B.B.C, than he did with it.
This ace clarinet player and his boys are the CHRIS BAR- The BEE group of France, "rats" de le jive and to ter bug to this hot Jazz
At first glanco it looks ille our rock'n'roll, but the foot- work la much more complicated, and quito half the routine is dancet with arms round your partner.
These
in a joint committed representa- tive at the Union Church and the To Tai (now the Hop Yat)
irred to the 6th District of the Kwangtung
of Synod
the Church of Christ in China. An impressive servico consecrating the change was held at the Union Church af Kennedy Road, attended by representatives of the Presbyterian, Congregatiorial and other denominational bodies in Hongkong and Kwangwung, both European and Chinees,
Есеп
Tokyo-The press ban has Communist Ufted on a intrigue, involving three sailors of the three battleships Nagato, Haruna and Yamashiro, who were arrested in September last year on a charge of trying to spread Communist ideas arang the crew of the battleships in co-operation with some com- miunials ashore, who wero alas arrested. The three Red sailor
BIGAID Parisions think our way of dancing at arm's-length all the time is something of a waste of time, BERNIE WIN- TERS said to me: "One thing Jo. These kids don't clap on the 'on' beat. They neck on the 'on' beatl"
were brought to justtee before succeeding in proselytising a single sailor Into Red ideas,"
☆
wrtics about women's fashion-American wonhen appear to have adopted the
craze for
wearing men's style, Marlene Dietrich, The fom Hollywood film star, having set the ball rolling. Not sinco the late Lilian Fussell,
famous acTÉSS, another
with the quered the world
ilor hat and sliff collar has
His accent :
con-
DETE MURRAY rally on America scen such masculine
now, Three-piece sulta, comprising lounge jacket, trousers and shirt, are being Bild in Hongkong at $170.or US$40.
joyed
himself in Paris. | fazhlon as
come The actor in him the fore and become a truo top Parisian. So much so that a
who French film distributor, didn't know Pete, and whom 1 met to discuss-showing the Six- Five flm in France, sald: "I would like your dadsome friend to make a fcclm for me. Never ave I met a Frenchman soch a perfect English accent!" Yes, it was exciting working student Montparnasse,
Wco
quarter,
London-For the 10th year in succession, thus aetting a record, Cambridge won the
sal "Varalty boat wiz
race, defeating Oxford by two length and i
The oficiat time was 30 mins. 57 secs....The relay in
by ZBW (Radio HK) of the quarter of the city. Every girl thero is a potential Sagan or Daventry broadcast of the Banz Saturday Race commentary on Bardot and every boy looks like
night (April 3) was a Distinct Ho tried one tour of one- Gary Lewis. The girls gamine
success and the oftelats, as the night stands with an orchestra, haircuts, most of them dyed a
local station deserve hearty and decided he didn't like the brilliant scarlet, make
congratulations on the way in to away from his home, his Willie Harris look faded.
Their black stockings-and-In---which-the-smattor-was-handled... wife (who, as Edna Kaye, was credibly short, full, black skirts
of the B.B.C.'s top onco one
I take, but cot the white and his-two-young-face powder and patert mauve lipstick! I tried . Instead of looking "pale and interesting 1 looked like
a bott Asan flu
Changes Bro coming in France. Rock 'n' roll may not be the only thing thesa agers will not accept,
As we talked at his home in Edgware, it became apparent that this record has pleased him more than, the 23 long-players The fourth? It 16 called he has made in the last six FACTS SCIENTISTS WANT Overture to a Costume Comedy years as a conductor of planist and sounds like a familair list of records."which has Not all buttie-messages are 5.0.8. nolca or schoolboy plece by Mozart. Every flourish brought him-sales-topping the singers),
and trick is reminiscent of 1,000,000 mark.
children. hoaxes. Every day many bottles are dropped into the sea from
Mozart. British meteorological ships in
Sea, the North
and Ilkewise from vessels acting on behalf of research organisations secking to build up dala for the map- ping of the ocean currents. The Tinder is asked to retum the contents of the bottle and slato the place, time and date when it was discovered.
A bottle containing a message addressed to the Royal Society was picked up at Wellington Harbour, New Zealand in 1945. It had been dropped into tho sea in January, 1939. For over ten years it had been drifting and had travelled bver 10,000 miles. It was scaled with a cup
on metal cap.
When science and rescurch
workers hear of bottles which have been found with their con- tents intact after many years in the sea. They are usually more interested in details of the cork, or method of sealing, than in the message itself. A stopper that will keep out sen water for half-a-century or se is, to them, worthy of the closest examina- tion.
But the composer's name? Stanley Black, the pianist who for eight years conducted the
B.B.C.'s dance orchestra.
Fresh and vigorous
How did Stanley among such company?
-Overture 10
G
Black get
Costume
Comedy was written in 1947 as music to J back-ground Alm- one of the 50 and more flims for which Black has com- posed and arranged musle.
tho scene was set in toyer
theatre. Black cda wrote his overture to be heard faintly in the background.
So many people asked about it that Black expanded it to A full concert overture and passed the score to his recording chick at Decca.
•Decca, LW5325 10-inch 33rpm. -Plerino Gamba, conducting the London Symphony Or cherira.
IN A CENTURY
By HARRY BACKLUND · Stockholm.
GO up, to a Swede in
POCKET CARTOON. by OSBERT LANCASTER (In America) JO'S SUPER POLPERMARKET
**Haven't you anything— but' anything-that's been touched by human hand?”
He says: "I decided the life I like is in a small back room," The back room he chose is in Wandour Street, where he writes The scores for films,
Film music is one of the most diMculi tasks a composes can tackle. For the music he wriles musi rarely be noticed. "It i 1s," says Black, "It is bad film
music.
"I suppose the fact that no one listens to my musle should viorry me. It doesn't.
1
case of
teen-
poKYO_In_Himeji, a coolle
has brought an action against General Araki, Minister of War, claiming Y05,900 arrears et wages. The man states that be was employed as watchmon during the Rumo-Japanese War, and has been watching ever, since. He also acted walch- 21:21 1 Tsingtao after the German fortress there had been
never reduced, and us he has acceived
any official notice of dismissal, considers he should on Friday, they were be still on the pay sell The the Cafe de la Paix, Paris,
Police have been instructed to
the Jyo
man medically, examined.
Moses
IN
talking about the
mo America flm actor CHAIL- "The TON HESTON-Moses Tea Commandments" - last visited Paris. He went to sco Woman Was Made," "And starring BRIGITTE BARDOT. When the lights went up after an hour and a half of Miss Bardot on the screen wearing **And then I can experiment." nothing but a sultry look, the
One of Black's experiments
"I like writing for films for the discipline it imposes. The music must.match exactly what is happening on the screen.
recognising
|
In a recently published paper, Mr F. H. Mitchiner of the con- sulting surgical stag of ̧'st Thomas's Hospital of London, made a very convincing plea for the routine use of tannie' acid in the treatment of burns and
In a scnic, the can hardly be called new, since burns and scalds have been treated with tea in China |· for some 5,000. years.
scalds. him, said: "Well, was to study Latin-American gentleman allting next to him, music. And he is working now your Ten Commandments didn't on a plano concerto based on do much good, did they?"" Latin-American boats..
Says Black: "It may not be successful-but £t will different."
NILSSON WILL
BE EXTINCT
be
When young men went off to
They're new
NOTHER Vocat group made its debut this week: THE HI-SPOTS. Their record ing is lazued on the Melodise Intel and is colled Lend Me Your Comb."
recordings I have ever heard.
neat catchy arrangement, backing with some Arst-class from
perhaps,
TWO-GUINEA bottles of scont
are being peddled round the West End of London for 78 6d esch. Expensive face powder is being offered at 30 per cent This is one of the best Brst-pstick which originally cost 25 below its retail price;' and
så per stick, can bought for
All tho ls 4d.
goods are They are of pro- smuggled. pilotory brands, and, can” be bought in night clubs, restaur ants and cafes. Scent is brought over from Hamburg, and other beauty preparations via arseilles do a base believed to be on the east coast,
the DENIZ BROTHERS on guitars, JACK COLLIER on
the wars in olden. tlmos they bass, MAURICE PLAQUET · · on often acquired names from the drums, and GEORGE ELLIOT military world. Some of these en electric guitar. I heard these stuck, and Alocky youths in boys and porsunded them to cut and then I helped Northern Sweden uro the street and ask
often the disc him his name. If it's change them to something more
found today bearing the names then place. it, Two hundred years ago there like Per Laang (Peter the Tail) Record company-one not Karlsson, 10 to. one exotic, Officials of the Swedish weren't any Karlssons or Nil-after seme long forgotten an- "Not enough beat in the back-
particularly in farming costor. it's Nilsson. Yet in 100 Arency of Statistics warned lo sons,
day, that if the trend continues
Karlssona left,
--
districta,
saick
The Union Waterboat Co
adutis, that, subject to audit, the not balance de tredio.
Lid
the year ending - December 31,
1932, is $22,324.38 which amount
Ing. but the 'group's good. The Statistics Bureau pub-There's an American version at years the two names there may be no Nilssons or A former called Johann prob- shed a list of 35,000 family this number, though. Profit and Lon Account for
Record, company, two said Anders, ably called his son.
nams in 1054. Most Sweden may be completely ex-
who want to change their name the Americen die wilt be put Around 4,000-applications for with no family name. · If there tinet,
use this as a guide, but In- so I don't think we can.rak the members of the Consulting -name-changes. · AFG' made here were two sons with the same:dividuals sometimes like to working on this onella pana
Committee: tolli,hat Al the More than 12,000 persons out;
Record company three sold; approaching_meeting of shares of Stockholm's 000,000, Inhabitly. The Statistins Erau nome villagers dataguiated brarich, out,
Ragirizations in the past "Too much beat in the backlog, holders, recommend de allocated unts are called Karlson. There frowns, on wiseneres, but, many them by placing the name of are 7,000 Nilssoas and 4,500 of them are for names like the farm, butors their christian month have included changes but the group's good" pas follows: Pay a dividend gof
But record company four run 50 cents per share, #10,105.4011 Svetissons, 19
Snoov{£?! (azow-- white), dame thus Bush-Kart and from Karlsson to Lavendel
Ryssland by enterprising 210GY JACK carrying forward to sa So, many bearers of those."Strusk" _(stuck-up and “Gre Gara-Karl, “Bames, which all. (Lavender) 49, and":
=(Russia) *United Press.
SON, mid:"14 a great record.? |-account, #3,217. -names ----axe-queueing.
ciclat in some rural areas. sip...........to } .venitelner!!. (grave-digger),
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