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LETTERS Three More Tour Liners Due
TO THE EDITOR
ANTA Concerts
Sir.-Permit me to inke up the argument which Mro Dek- ker
De
raised in her yesterday's letter In respect to which American artists nhoyla sponsored by ANTA and which should not have that distinction and honour,
For the purpose I would like to quote what I wrote about two years ago in the "South China Morning Post", na music critle on the occasion of the concerts given by Benny his band which Goodman and also were sponsored by ANTA and presented by Mr Harry Odell
1 wrote then-"They (Good- man and his co-kings of the swing era) produced from the Inspired, but fatterdemalion
musle of the early jazz era, a new rauste form, polished and'. popular, but rich in laventive genlus, that could serve on model for every group to follow.
"Alter
the war
small-town
It took the
United States some time to understand how deep its jazz
had been sent into the rest of the world by men like Good- man. To impress nations over- KODB with American culture. musiciona were sent abronci with Government ald to per- form German symphony In Bonn and Italian operà in Rome. The natural reactions of the Germons and Italians was to Boy: Yes, these Americans per- form our music quite well.' And the tours were judged success- ful.
"But how much more valuable to American cultural prestige It in to send abroad exponents of tho U.S.A.'s own musical culture, in which it not only has clear technical superiority but the undisputed credit of invention.
"Fortunately this idea pene-} trated through to American offlelalciom
several
year ago.
when they discovered the pro- puganda pull at jazz in East Berlin; and since then the American Jazz orchestra has bren a steady builder of good- will abroad."
I am still of the same opinion and I think that the "Golden Gete Quartet in its own way- which one may like or not like
ES representative
www.l
of
na-
American colture, which turally includes light entertain- ment too, as the jazz bands of Goodman and some of the col- leagues and that for exactly the same reasons. Perhaps they
Kungsholm Due
Tomorrow
For 2-Day Stay
By A CHINA Mail reporter
Three more luxury liners are due shortly to
arrive in the Colony.
They are the Statendam on March 22; Caronia ofi
- March 27 and Kanimbla on May 31,
QUIZ PRIZE
BRINGS
HIM TO. HK
Rrider Vendkvern, a Norwegian, won a quiz content in Oslo seven months ago. He la now enjoying his prize in the form of a round-the-world trip at
The Swedish liner ms Kungsholm, is scheduled 10
arrive in the Colony tomorrow. Her nerary was reported in Salurday's Chinu Mall She leaves on Friday.
The 10,491 (gross) ton Staten- dam, owned by the Holland- America Line, and under the
| command of Capt. Van Dalen, is en her second round the world cruise. She has a special cruise sloff of 23.
The Uncr which Is carrying 200 passengers left New York on January C. The entire cruise will inko 111 days, cover- ing in all 27 ports and 33,200 miles.
Australian Ship
During her two-day stay in the Colony, passengers will be taken on Island and New Ter- ritories tours and will be enter- tained at the floating
TO- sicurants in Aberdeen.
She sails from Hongkong for Keelung on March 22 and will take in Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco and Acapulco before returning to New York via the Panama Canal. She is due back in New York on April 27. Th Australian Liner Kanimble, which made her first visit to the Colony in October last year, is due back again on May 31. She is wned by Meilwraith McEacharn Ltd.
The 11,004 (gross)-ton liner is on 40-day cruise from Sydney. Her other ports of call will be Rabeul, Yokohama, Kobe and Madang,
Coming Back
will
**
The liner
remain in Hongkong for about two and a half days, during which time, a local tearist agency has arranged the usual sights:cing tours of the Istand and New
the expente of the contest's į Territories and the customary
прольота. more representative Amerjena musical culture
are even of
than
who
artists like Platigorsky. was already o famous collisi before he became
on
Aunerican citizen.
ឆត
the
Therefore I bellovo that ANTA le absolutely right track to send abroad such artists as Benny Goodman and the
"Golden Gate Quartet.”
But this, of course, does not ex-. clude the right to critisise the
quailty of their individual per-
Air Yendkvern arrived
In
Chinese dinners,
The Kantmbla will Hongkong on the
- Icave evening of
.The 2,291-ton Statendam due in Hongkong on March 32.
MAN TELLS COURT OF
CHOPPER ATTACK
Ran When He Saw Wife Being Kicked
this morning by PAA from Bang June 2 but it was learned that kok, after having travelled she
re-visiting the wilt be through Europe and India. Colony before the end of thy From Hongkong he wit go on year. to Manila, Sydney, New Zez- land, Fiji, Honolulu, América and London. He expects to return to Oslo by Apri: 10.
August last
The Caronia is corrying 373 Mr: Year Vandkvern entered, with 50 passengers
108-day
Caronia
од her
other people, a quiz contest around-the-world cruise.
A 39-year-old farmer of the Lun Shan Village in the New Territories today told the Victoria District Court that he ∙∙ran away from his hut when a neighbour accompanied by four other men came to his place and kicked his wife. The farmer, Lam Shek Yau, said he got frightened when he saw the baby
girl his wife was holding fall on the ground.
Govt Press
Officer On Leave
Mir
Knowles, Blanley S. Hongkong Government Press morning by Officer, left this
He was giving evidence be- fore Judge R. H. Mills-Owens h a case in which Cheung Sap- ynt, 31, also at the Lun Shan Village charged with assault with latent.
Lom said that on June 22, last year, he was sleeping oul- side his hut when He heard someone spealding "with a loud voice to hig wife and asking for money.
I Was Followed
*I reccanised the volce
and saw kiek my wife.
of
Death Of
Former Resident Of Shanghai
From the Files
25
years -AGO-
SIR; Your paper recently published a telegram concerning the attitude of the Hongkong Government in the matter of cement used in the Colony, Re- ference was made to dump- ed cement.
As you are aware Japanese ships, which are heavily sub-
Decorations sidised, secured the freight and
For Duke
Now
Coming Down
STAFF REPORTER
are thus able to compete with British shipping operating from this port to a for greater extent then if no cement were carried.
Mr Malcolm MacDonald sald in Parliament that the Hong- kong Government was doing its hest to combat Japanese. dump- luk by using only British cement, I have before ine a listed tenders accepted by the PWD up to the end of January which I have reason to believe is ac- curate. It is noted that out of
The decorations which were the last 40 tenders for Pubile oracted for the visit of Works, 30 were based on using Japanese cement and were ac→ the Duke of Edinburgh, cepted by the PWD. The state- are now being dismantled. [ment in Parliament, which was But it is not yet known said to be based on local in- what is to become
of formation, would therefore op- pear to be at variance with the thom...
facts, N, CROUCHEIL
Government offelst sald he had received no instructions yet, as to what would happen to them.
Thea there BTC the lump- posts which were painted in pastel-shades, along the roule trom Queen's Fier to Govern- ment House,
Again, no one is sure whal
I to happen.
REPRIEVE has been
A secured for some of
the Nathan Road trees. In view of the strong repre- One Goverment official said sentations made to the that may stay their present Government, protesting. colour until Colony lamp-posts against the wholesale felling get their next ecal of paint of the banyan trees along which may be In another year.
sure.
Cheung," he said I then looked A former well-known Shong. But, he added, he could not be the road, the original in- structions to the Botanical hai resident, Mr R. G.. Another official sale they may and Forestry Department Macdonald, died in Eng-be re-painted green very soon have been suspended pend-
Hongkong Electric too, are losing further consideration. land on Sunday. He was definite on this point,
He was accompanied by four.
other
men.
"When I saw the baby girl my wife was holding, fall on the ground, I got frightened and
85.
Mr Macdonald served for ran to the police station,
on the Shanghal many years "Half way thore, I noticed Municipal Council, and several Cheung of its sub-committees. He was
I was followed.
who was following me, caught Commissioner of Police Specials
Men
Admit
Commenting editorially, the SCM Post fuld: ""Kowloon" ro- sidents will feel grateful, for the Government's ready stien- tion to the protesta....His Ex- cellency the Governor gives
with public opinion which he his arrival in the Colony. has evinced many times since
up with me and chopped me on in the International Settlement Opium Charge evidence again of a sympathy
the right side of the head,
In Shanghal ter a number of
"I tried to push him away years. but he caught hold of my left hand.
"He chopped me agala and then began saw my left hand with the chopper.
A businessman with wide terests, Mr Macdonald, was on the Boards of a number of lead- ing firms in Shanghai and was a director of Dodwell's,
Before coming to Hongkong was When I came to, someone was in 1950, Mr Macdonald helping me to get on my feet Chairman
"I then lost
consciousness.
of Lester Trustees,
and I was taken to hospital. I ond he liquidated the interests had. cix wounds and I cannot of Harvic, Cooks and Co., when we my left hand any more. he left Shanghal stayed
cne meath
and three
pro-
weeks in hospital."
Inspector Wheeler 1s
wponsored by the Farmers Co- During the 33,000-mile trip Swissair for Karachi, where hecuting, and Mr William Wor ---Ogmanety, from a strictly musi-operative of Hamar, Norway, Phe-will-cross-three-oceans and will join his wife and daughters. ↑ (M.K. Lam and Co) appearing
paint of view as well as to dispute the menter in which publicised. concerts ore
their This, however, is a matter with which I do not want to concern -myself-aw«thimorantgmast
ERNST GOTTSCHALK.
Criticism
SI-Whilst I have no wish to prolong this correspondence I feel that the somewhat hysteri- cal letter of "Musicien" calls for analysis.
for
in the matter of value money "Musician" must concede
Each contestant had to answer call at 24 ports in four con- 30 questions on general know- Unents. tedrs.
Dorothy and Gwen and travelter the accused to Europe on the my Asia.
Hearing is continuing. Ho and the family are on home leave.
Priest Leaves
Envoy Leaves
European
An oplum dealer and an un- employed man were each
"As long as tbia public- fined $1,500...or four spirited attitude persists ንሮ months' gaol at Kowloon need have no fear of serious Court this morning, when disharmony in the Colony." they pleaded gulity of
manufacturing .oplum
without
#
licence and
possession of dangerous
drugs,
The death of Mr J.R. Hinton
They are Ip Kau, 51, of 100 of Butterfield and Swire cc. "P" Block, Shep Kip Mei Recurred at the Canossa Hospital settlement Arca, third floor, yesterday. He died of pneu-
Fined Foropium dealer, and Lau Wo, 02. monia. He was 33. He was
Assault
Hang Tak-Mala Birock n keen cricketer and a member. Shop Kip Met Village, un- of the Hongkong' Club. · employed,
A poller party under Sub-
Inspector Ng Shul-al and Sub- "Inspector
|-----Charles William Blace, 40,
the troopship 55 Oxfordshire tered an. T. Sullivan, en-¡. was fined a total of 5200 Dr
eight, weeks' gnol by
unnumbered hut at
Chu Kwo Chat Village, Sham-TTOLY Trinity Cathedral
Lat
Creedon at Kowloon Court Bhulpo, with n dangerous druga Shanghai was
The Caronta left. New York on January 20 and called in at AL the conclusion Mr Río de Joulera and Capetown, “Vendkyren was presented will, before heading for the Far East. a obeque for V8$2,000, which Sho will visit Singapore,
Mr Vega Mendez, Panamanian included a free round-the- Bangkok and Manila before
Ambassador to Talpel, and con- world trip. He began the reaching Hongkong and will
currently Panamanian Consul- world tour on February 28. then head for Okinawa, Japun;
General Fr. Francis Spaeth, O.D., who
in Hongkong, left this morning for disturbing and Honolulu.
arrived here from recently
Hongkong this morning by CAT the inmates of a tenement The trip ends on May 8 when
assaulting a attending the for Talpel to attend a reception block, and for Germany after the Caronia returns lo New provincial chapter
thegiven of
the Nationalist gov- Chinese maIL. Dominican Order In Cermany, ernment in honour of King This moming at returned to Talpel this morning, Hussein of Jordan, who arrived Chinese man, Mul Sung-tong, by CAT. Fr. Spaeth repre-in Talwan yesterday. Mr Vega met a police officer outside num- crowded the prosecutor's desis, James Neil of Shanghal be. Included 80 taels of came the wife of Mr sented German Dominicans In expects to retum to Hongkong bers 48 and 60 Parkes Street, They
and reported that a European oplum in three brass cans, one Geoffrey Robert More, son had kicked him in the head.
:
Gold Chain Snatched York.
Á min snatched a gold chain, that the audience is the Anal valued at $120, from a woman arbiter, and judging by the en-pedestrian in Boundary Street, thusiasm at both performances Kowloed, yesterday. the majority of the audience was satisfied on this score.
Captain Donald M. MacLean, a senior Cunard Line skipper, commands the Caronia on her world cruise.
Taiwan.
the sobriquet "Musiclan" means anything he should read again
I presume your correspondent refers to the music critic of your esteemed morning contemporary. Comparisons are odious, but lut it be said that in the opinion of many, your morning contempor- BTY has an Informed critle of fair and qualifed judgment. It
come to an unblassed conclusion.
"Amateur" (in your laue of: March 0) has
apparently
taken your erlile iterally. It lie would consult with some of those who were present, to would find that the Golden Gate Quartet, adhered fairly strictly
In 10 days.
Systematic Robbing Of Creditors' Judge Tells Bankrupt
for the purpose · of redeeming to the published programme. By
on one of the the-mortatge my count there were 18 items At the elose of the publle housch at Hennessy Road, with 10.extras on the programme] examination, Mr Justice Reco
the warrant, on January 22,
There they found Ip and Lau scene of an interesting wed- Mins surrounded with paraphernalla ding last week when used for the manufacturo of Jessie Ritchie Main Neil,
Exhibits in
court today daughter of Mr and Mrs
4
0.1..
aj drugs,
Large
Ind Onc small bruss
His attacker was now knock-cooking pan, six cattles of of Mrs M. K. More of Hong-
assortment kong. The ceremony residue, an oplum
ing at all the doors at numbers 48 and 30, Mul_said.
Polico found Stace on the roof of 50 Parkes Street, and arrest- ed him.
Insp. H. M. Wong prosecuted
Burglary
WHODUNIT! ·
WIS
of brushes, one large Iron stove, performed by the Rev. E. K. two small kerosene stoves, a Quick.
pair of tongs, three bamboo atirrers, three wash basins, two strainers, one brass water con tainer and two feathers.
·
China Mail. Film
Critic. To
2
Both bride and bridegroom are well-known in ·Shanghai being particularly active in
sports.
The bride, whose father has :been the Commodore of the Shangha Yacht Club, as in- terested In salling and rowing, taking part in the competitions
Berghous
Mr More plays soccer and
Festival Juror cricket and han played for
the interport
Thieves broke into the third the reviews of both critics and "This is nothing but a Mr C. ML Stevens, who appeared himself ask Miss Tang to ht", tok the time' of the writ of the
floor of No. 9A, Wan'Tung Ter- teid. He admitted that it was :) #femona, systematic robbing of the for the Official Receiver,
Asked by Miss Tung Po-kin," his mistake for not doing so, 1 Another woman creditor, Nizace, between late last night sald creditors,"
Mr
of tho creditors, Chan one
Mr Stevons Are you sure that Shiu-chun claimed this morning and early this morning and stole Lo Wrist a diamond ring, Justice C. W. Reece at agreed that he had 1sked for at there was not roma・ molive in that she had loaned $0,000 to the public hearing of a further loan of $12,000 on this exclusion of Ming Tang from Chan on the security of come watches and some money totally
shares and that she had agreed valued at $1,000, debtor, Chan. Koon-pak, February & last year from her, the meating?
Chun: No.
lo relause the shures upon Chan dealed that he did not at the Bankruptcy Court but denied that that loan was
In Bhanghai Chan's promlan’that she would
China -Mail building this morning,
want Miss Tang to attend bo-be repaid immediately after the
Um-critic, Rugby toom. Anthony Fuller is one of tha cause she would; have asked a sale of the shares. number of awkward questions,
two jurors from Hongkong he played cricket in Hongkong. Prior to going to Shanghai, London, Mar. 0. Chan denied this. He said ho of which 15 items and 12 extras ordered that the 'cxarainition be He agreed that he had called Chan raid one of fils uredi | had only promised to pay her The Blaff of the London invited to attend the forth
At Wah ters were sung, together with some concluded subject to the debtor a creditors' meeting
EL Wis woman named † two or threo months after bo Mystery Magazine Company corning Sixth Aslan Tilm okiran not published in the pro-signing | the transcript of the Nam Restaurent an November] Leung Chil-chun who had ob- had sold the sharca. gramme. There was a good proceedings
in cat the Offcial feceiver, 17 Jost after the first meeting tained judgment for $10,000 Chan had tostilled yesterday had a mystery of their own to Festival In Kunis Lumpur, on
solve today.
May to Be Told ga deni ̧ of "open" 'aloging, and the maj
Against him by consent. He that he is now owing $273,000. Thloves broke into their améo · The other juror will be Mr Printed and published br microphones. were used for is an utter waste of limb Mr Stevens asked why Miza Bald Leung was the daughter of to his creditors. In 1984, he i London's West End durina Hilton Cheong-leen... THEY TRIENCE Compon NEWLANDM background and harmonising to ask him any further auga Tang had not been asked to ats, his maternal unble, s
requirník - $100,000 to pay the the week-end,;, forced open word recently elected 10, Te* PRARCH far, and on behalf of effects. I releain from the ob- tions,” he said" before making tend the meeting. Chan replied He denied mat the borrowing, debt but he carried on fils pro-:|fling catiricts--withi Scissors, present' 'the' Colonsay" "the ¦ South China Morning Post vious comment.
2" that he has asked. another notos Leung had hold were visions" business in the hope throw storyscripts all over the Hongkong Committee of the Limfied at 1-3 Wyndham Street, NOBILE. Earlier, two creditors asted a woman to relay the manage to falas. Ife siro denied that they that shapesne i woukt kin hän jhoor, but stole nothing, Chine Federation of; Motion Picture City of Victoria in the Colmir [This subject is closed-Ed.), | number of questions through pulse Tang. He said he did not had been completed just prior | in partnemhip
Be Mall Speċi#1)
Producent in Ale
of Hongkong.
the order,-