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SUNSHINE Automation Behind The Iron Curtain 25
TEMPTS
BRITONS OUT OF DOORS
Early
London, May 25. runshine
tempted
thousands of stay-at- homes out of doors today
to make the best of a coot Whit Sunday.
Flut the weathermen warned fravellers to Lake thel rala- roots and mullers with them for the forecast showed showers, temperature's and Gropping Thunderstorms ahend.
BUSY
Kent and Sussex
ronda were
SHE MADE MANY FRIENDS
IN JUST A FEW DAYS
Australian Opera Singer On A Short Visit
by J. P. Prettejohn
VISITING Hongkong at the moment and finding a wealth of genuine
friendship is Australian-born opera singer, Miss Alice Gange.
She arrived on May 7 after attending the Festival of Arts in Japan.
At the same time she got slage Local music lovers Miss Gange fell in love with
experience as a mezzo soprano with opera companies.
will be
kusy with nose-to-tail traffic Hongkong the first day shrable to hear and see her singing edging It way to south coast tanded-not with the many ver television tomorrow night reuside resorts. There were sea-sceule spots, but the genuine 1 8.20 p.m. It is possible she
people she may many friendliness of the font traffic jams and hepenes were crowded
with net. cautious paddlers and plenickers.
were
High Standard
Radio broadcas! over Hengkang early next month.
Miss Gunge was attracted to
ALLE the stage na youngster
(hal stic one day ditorevered
More Training
She sang with the Sadiara Elsewhere in Britain the roads
Wells in 1940. Then she did one season with the Glyndebourne quieter than normali
She was in a cafe that day hind a good voice. She attended Opern Company at the Edin- Nummer Sunday. Several special | Trippers' trams were cancelled. and finding it difficult to make singing classes at the New South burgh Festival and also perform- Conservatorium. Ened with success with the Carl Many Londoners without buses the waiter understand what she Wales
A tudy whe on town or country services or wanted.
was couraged by her teachers, sho Rosa Opera Company in Eng the wider-ranging Green Line sharing the table with line, began broodcasting and ap-land. coaches, stayed home.
pearing in radio shows in her Botellhome town.
IN FRANCE
helped.
She was Mrs Joyer
and the two struck up a Arm
Later she decided to go Europe for further' training.
to
In Paris, despite a political friendship. crisis at poor weather, Puris- Since then. Miss Gange sald, She studiod first in the United jam etfyamed, into the country-Mrs Botelho had introduced her | Klugdom and later travelled to de for a Whit weekend holiday to many of Hongkong's amateur | Europe where she studied in in the hundreds of thousande, fartists such as Miss Irene Yuen. Milan and Madrid.
Aboul 400,000 left the capital | Mine Irene Lian and others
were whom Miss Gange regards yakortafelans of a "very high stan-
Card."
by af-244 extra trains put on rad about the
ono
auber travelled by car.
The autoroute de l'ouest, of the main roads leading out of Paris, yesterday betwee?! am and 6 pan., carried a record 43,083 vehicles. China Mail Special.
A Must
On
Tuesday
LIS
"They and many people here
Miss are really nice,"
Gange said. " came here less tan three weeks ago a total stranger and now I am a friend of many Iriends."
Morning
Paquerette's
PROMOTION
of
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Starts on 27th May
A wide selection of Summer cottons under $100
Swirly Cotton Full Skirts from $45
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Not being satisfied with what
she has done up to now, M:59 Gange will go lo Vienna for more training after a brief stay
in the United Kingdom.
"Dul," she said yesterday, "a second visit to Hongkong is niust"
П
The Memorable Moiseiwitsch
By D. E. GRAY
I imagine Hongkong will wish to say its biggest "Thank You," to date, to Harry Odell for bringing Benno Moiseiwitsch here. Saturday night's recital in Loke Yew Hall by Moisei- witsch revealed him to those who had never heard him before, and confirmed the fact to those of us who had, that he is one of the great pianists of our time.
pro-
One lesson local artists might learn from Saturday's gramme is that in presenting a building" recital, "programme
is of the fist Importance. The
cnicu-
SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNIQUE
years -AGO
BY COMMUNIST NATIONS:
Moscow, May 25. Russia and the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, in a communique issued today, showed an urgent desire to raise the level of consumer goods production by a wider use of automation, without sacrificing the priority of fendant linda crowd round hims heavy industry.
This is the significance of the communique issued after Soviet and East European Communist and xlate leaders mot here as
Econo members of the Mutual mic Assistance Council for four days beginning from last Tuet- day.
fi referred to the necessity to the inke Into considération mutual interest of the Socialist countries when drawing up long range plans.
ning
Necessary
The English Novel: Look For
It In... The U.S.A.
it is no wonder we have no re- and close co-operation to an actual review viewer in England who can re-
The need for rational plan- BEFORE getting down their hosts bed clothes alight, would be rspecially becca of "By Love Possessed,"cognise a work of literary merit embarked on > Jargo pro-it is perhaps necessary The easiest way out for the
the Eastern bloo
STATIILO of buying Western
when he comes across it.
products, surrested re. to say a few words about Egilsh reviewer Americans the
In absolute terms the volume
CHINESE was fried $1 or four days in prison by Mr
yesterday Wynne-Jones
(May 19) for causing on obstruction In Jublice Street with a sack of snakes. The Police said the do-
and he was performing tricks with the reptiles.
The Magistrate Jublice Street is too crowded with people to let you go playing about with snakes,
Defendant-I never let them
out.
Forty-eight vessels were dir- mantled in Japan during 1932.
of They totaled 200.048 tone which 28 of 197,030 tons toere veerais imported for the purpose 52,427 of scrapping and 20 tons werd of Japanese registrų. tons and Japan- cre vessels of 39,922 tonE
During 1931, 41 imported vessels
diamantled.
were
£
was to quote
and
| LTERATIONS to the ground blcat, which floor of Gloucester Bulld cently by Mr Nikita Khrush the astonishing success Henry James." To
are foreshadowed in chev, Soviet Prime Minister, Underlying the whole com- this novel has enjoyed in could reply with one word that ins
the Editor would not print. scheme which is nearing com- the wing munique is the Soviet Union's America, and the sensa- You could as easily say, Scott pletion to transform avowed intention to catch up and pass the United States in tion its more recent re-Fitzgerald, or Budd Schulberg, facing Pedder Street Inlo
or Ford Madox Ford, In short, lounge... Mr P. 1. Newman, Industrial production per head. lease in England has a novelist's novel. manager of Gloucester Build- The theme is that of James ing, suld the plans had not been of Soviet output is in many in-caused.
Joyce in Ulysses, in that Cozzens passed and he could not give dustrial categories now for James Gould Cozzens, tho takes forty-nine hours of the any information beyond exceeding that of Britain or author is neither an angry young life of Arthur Wlance, a decent firming the fact that a lounge France and second only to that man, nor an embittered old middle-class American, and for would be constructed. It of the United States.
Production custs in Russia, however, are higher tien in the and before Hussia can compete against the American economy, there has to be a re duction of industrial waste and much higher level of enclency
US.
combined with consumer search.
re-
In this connection, the ecm-
nt the
munique referred to the parti cular attention given
council meeting to the need of further increasing the specialisa- tion of engineering with a view to sharply reducing the produc- tion costs per unit.
Special
i
man; he is a middle aged writer
tho
a while, the reader finds he has present plans are approved, tho who has enjoyed the respect of laken over the personality of lounge is expected to be ready his fellow Grafteroon over the main character of the book. round about September. number of years.
To become a best-seller in
Greatness
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your teens is nothing nowadays,
After many delays it looks at All you have to do is to dredge
As a written piece of work, if work will commence at the gutters, and report the con- vertation of your companions, it has all the characteristics of carly date on the erection of a
the greatness.
Hongkong It is writing that bullding for and your novel is ready made.
has been polished and pains Amusement Co., Ltd of a cinema But to write exerat stuff takingly produced. 1 am told theatre on what may be con- for years, and then schleve ante eight years went into the sidered one of the finest rites of New Post success in middle age on the writing of it, and I can well Macao, facing the merits of your writing is some-belleve it,
by JOHN LUFF
Ofice Buliding and beride that of the Municipal Council,
The A
The machine construction in-
And dustry was singled out by the thing.
James Gouldi вpecial communique for
TV- Cozzens has done just that, was said that ference and it
"By Love Possessed." development in this field would
have on proceed "based on the principles only topped the best-seller list,
mado "Book of full. equality and rights, but was
of the mutual research of national in- Month," in the States. Further- terests and Socialist mutual aid."more, "Reader's Digest" paid the condensation (Radio Budapest announced $100,000 for
turned Hollywood today that a communique signed rights, and
lated to evoke, and the sequence. with which they are presented, all leave their impression an audience, Dpart from the the various manner in which works are performed,
To someone who, for 80 years has enthralled audiences with his playing in every cily from Shanghat to San Francisco (via London), who, for some 30 years has played in the United King-rature of the work, the key in dom before the most discriminal- which it is written, the mooris ing audiences and under the which these works are most watchful eyes of the Ernest Newmans and the Neville Car dus's of our time, I feel it is almost comical for me to be writing as a "crille" about this great man's playing. In all humility I recognised this fact.
Molsdiwlisch is now 08; he called here on a world tour. While we hope he will, he may not pass this way again, and I am glad to report that Hongkong did not miss the opportunity an this occasion. The hall was packed to the door.. Everything about the accital gave the im- pression of greatness.
It was a memorable evening's certain piano music-cnce a portion of the audience thought At to turn up from their dinner table. When I was very young, I was told it was the height of bad manners to turn up to a public funcion after the Gover- nor had arrived, Times seem to have changed, and we had the amazing spectacle on Satur- duy, of people crowding in front and mining in behind him, while Moisciwitsch was waiting at the plano for the unmannerly anthem had been
Suc-
has not, but of which he enter- tains opinions.
BASEBALL Fame at 3.30 wiil Ap.m. today (May 20) be the attraction at the Soulk Caroline For the small period of time China A. A ground, selected by the Cozzens, all the, The game will be between and ideas that an intelligent man the Hongkong Americans entertains come up for review; the South China Boys. and not only the things he has Hongkong Americans experienced, but such things he very strong bali team and will have the service of Al Heubner who has been rated as the find In pitching circles around these is parts. With Heubner will be Blash- the Leonards-Terry and David, brilliant dialogue and backs. Sex plays its part,
End "Big Ben" Zafra, one time king and one scene is pretty fierce going, of "Swats" in Hongkong, but it is not given the sewer a number of new comers includ- treatment, and neither Is written for sensation.
Ing Dunham of the American Consulate who will bring.
type of baseball bolter Hongkong.
The method of the novel·
at the end of the meeting in over the same amount for the Moscow of the eight members of film rights. And that is language the Warsaw Pact would not be Hongkong can appreciate, published until all delegations cess spelt with a capital $. had arrived back in their home
I am not going to say that Mr The meeting ended Cozzens' success was unherald- countries. yesterday,
ed or his ability unrecognised, It falls into its place in the (Last night, the redio sald It For almost two decades, the theme of the novel. Controversy was sure, from information to American literary men have
is there, and one character in ceived from Moscow, that the been hammering at the great made to make a vicious attack leaders had signed a communi- American public and telling on religion. Yet as we recognise que suggesting a collective non them they had a writer in their such things are part of every-
many-headed man's Rfe, lis aggression treaty between the midet; but the
the throng to get to their seals, long Warsaw Pact nations and
North Atlantic Treaty Organist tion.)-China Moll Special.
THE PIANO. Firstly there was the piano, This was a University plano an a University bali, People are extremely lucky, in the absence of a City Hall, to have, by after the courtesy of the Vice-Chancellor played.
of the University, the Use of
this fie hall. The plano is SIDE GLANCES
adequate for The purposes for which it was installed; but, ag
was
+
4 "concert grand" for a world famous planist like Molsciwitsch, there question about its inadequacy,
Yet, Moiseiwitsch never tried to bring more cut of the In- strument than it was capable of giving. Let me throw out the suggestion to Harry Odell, the Muste Society, the Philharmonic Orchestra and all others who use that hall, that (If Mr Odell is going to continue to bring pianists of this calibre here.) they might all combine to help him buy really top-grade 11- foot 8-inch "concert grand."
STANDARD
The programme was drawn exclusively from the standard repertoire na modem or un- usual works, but things that we of this generation had been brought up to, things that no one could grow tired of, and that everyone loved,
There was the A fat Schubert Impromptu, a group of Brahms walless, the Beethoven Wald- stein Sonato, and a. Chopin group in the first half.
After the interval, Molaaj- pinyed Moissorgaky's witsch Pictures from an Exhibition'. This is the item which most Histonors will remember him for ay-long na they live. In every item
on this programme he
erally made the piano speak. Bul never was his cruunciation so clear as in this muND DR.
By Galbraith
4./2
Mom, Larry and I have some big news to tell you--
We've decided to play together steady
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Today's football attraction is a charity match between the smallness, it just wouldn't listen, Now they prejudices, Its intolerance, so we
Services and the Chinese on the have, and James Gould Cozzens and this novel builds up for un Club ground, Happy Valley, at
Proceeda itos arrived.
4.30 p.m. (May 20). a view of life which could be
will be forwarded to the our own. Yet so weil is it done Children's Playground Associa cleared for us.
In Hongkong, the release of
that we find our own minds
Delight
The literary man will take it
tion.
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THE STIVAL
here yesterday (May 11) of the French
the book is tled up with the U.K. market, and the English reviews will be relented along with the one I am writing now, but the English reviewers are anach puzzled over the book, and have relied on the Amerl-up with delight. It is just what steamer La Perouse commences In new. passenger and cargo can reviewers for their inspira- he has been waiting for.
Prediction is as uncertain' for (service which is being run by Maritime Line a reviewer as for a professional the Messagerien
I batween Australia end tho fortune teller, but I think
This
the first know a good bit of writing when Orient,
tion.
Subject
I am not surprised, for it is I come across it. And If the visit of the La Perouse to this a long time since 'a good novel success of this novel is not report, On her present trip abo found its way through the Eng-pealed in England, and in abrought 93 tons of flour and lish press, and most of the re-mailer way in Hongkong, then generut cargo to Hangkeng from viewers would not recognise a I shall be confirmed in on Australia and bad 12 cabin good bit of writing if they saw opinion I have held for some | passengers.
ten years. The writers of the
i am not saying the English English novel are in Americus, sydhist good, writing must have, we entertain on behalf of the BWoolsey were the principal. novelist cannot write, but I do and any hopes and aspirations PERT Wheelery and Robert
at Gloucester Building'yesterday
a good subject, and when we get English novel rest in the hands uesta at the Rotary Club in Kingsley Amis riding to the top of the American novelists. on a art of self-sallied philis finisco, and when his oats aro the heroes of smully Utils pro- vincial loon- bars, and their greatest achievement in to set
Found: One Alligator
"By Lava Possessed." by J.G. | (May 10). Rotation T. Đ. Cozzens. Published by Wilson, at whose Invitation, the Longman Green & Com-two villors were attending the pany Ltd. On sale at all function, said he had been in the streets the previous day and local booksellers. Price noticed a couple of funny look- $18,00.
ing birds, and promptly Invited them to tin. “They remarked that they had heard of the timin club from George :" Böenard:
they would-corns, ekhough they did not mako a practice of appearing, before the public · in
New Orleans, May 30. Responding to a woman's scream, Allen Kignemenu, 52,
Hammon, May 20 Jassoed a three-foot alligator in
Bandits robbed a tavern pro-person but only on the gurbeti, front of his downtown furnituro
10 přister and thren, customers" "di store yesterday."
· knows. flow the US$1,279 fist night, buf. pasəçidi. junidentified. unclaimed alliga-up two other customers because,
tor sot there, United Press Wihey looked drunk to us," Liternational
(Uristed Proen Interamtional,
Taken For Granted Shaw but if the food we good
No one
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