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THE LITTLE ORCHESTRA
By ERNST GOTTSCHALK
XITH the two concerts given by the Little Orchestra W of New York on Thursday and Friday, Hongkong was most fortunate to make the acquaintance of an orchestra which has personality, ・・
· The orchestra consists of about fifty players who all are first clats musiclang and virtuosos of defato, personally rad great ugecmplúchment. And the fact that they permitted themselves to be welded into such a re- catly unlied ensemble by thetr ・emmatti consider Tumis &chennen, stone vou- ches for their reliste intarity. Thus the preheatre is able to refect to perfection the pers sunnlity of its coriductor and thin the zest of the per formances, which we heard during their two coneérth, 'con- trolled as they were, was indeed exhilarating.
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Its impossible in a review of Tritt length to dwell detals are particular exerl- lences experienced during the prolongacice of
works
among which were two full- Jeng A sphalen. I
therefore, confine myself to more general remarks,
lag of the airings and the tone quality of the violas nad cellos,
The virtuosic qualities of the orchestra were breathtakingly displayed during Mendelssohn's Immortal incidental male to "a Midsummer Nighy's Dream" and F. Jacobi'a "Night Plece ant Dance, where the solo filoudist, Mr M. Prnitz, excelled ká brnuty of lone ünger technic.
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Virgil Thompson's Incidental music for the im "Louisiana Story" was given all of its in- fectious liveliness and Beetha- ven's "Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra," where Mr J. Schulman, the excellent the leader of the strings was sololst, were played with ₫ streamlined elegance which 13
rare,
This was Tore
It appeared to me tint, to Mrphrosing might Scherman, who i a ciuduzor who does not indulge in on-
showmanship.- necessary
the subtle balance of proportions Is of first importance
and being closely attentive to the texture and, in the modern works, to the bloom of the music, he gives
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THE CHINA MAJL, ¦ SATURDAY, MARCH 28, › 1959. "T
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY 'MAIL' FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
Dr Jekyll
And
That
Means
Mr Hyde
Too!
Goes
By LAURENCE TURNER
London.
IN a dingy upstairs room in Orchard Street, Highgate, N., a man of two personalities gazed
A cat named Candy lapped a saucer of milk,
"My wife's nerves were shat-
tered. So I took proceedings to evict him."
I love Candy
Upstairs last week, 40-year-old Mr O'Dayc-Mr Hughes sald as he looked in the mirror:
While during the performance musi
of Beethoven's second symphony at himself in a mirror läst week. “Dr Jekyll and how and then some relaxed Mr Hyde, eh? I think I like being called that," he
have given greater impression of continuity, chuckled.
not noticeable any during the playing of Schubert's third symphony and Tchaikovsky'a "Suite No. 3" which indeed received a per- Mr Michael O'Daye,. of the 1mance of great thylamic drive plum-coloured waistcoat, looked and superlative carrying one cally over the un-George Hughes, of the raincoat execution, again in the mirror at Mr performances of disarraing beauty and strength.
deniable longeurs and weak-with the collar turned up. nesses of Furthermore,
the Schubert the modern
sym- "Yes, I am one and the same works benefit greatly from hyphony.
though Indeed, I felt that the Schubert person," he said. "Mogle is my detail. This feeling for Ane
hobby," specially noticeable in symphony Aaron Copland's splendid -eltrax f.or Blech's highly "Music for the Theatre be intense concerto.. But since the cause Copland's use of concen-programmes of the concerts had trated Ideas in composition is been obviously put together with one of the reasons of his success, an eye to the listener's staying power, it was after all not such a bad choice, bringing at the, some time before the public a work which is perhaps too neglected by other orchestras.
was
Performing Ernest Bloch's admirable "Concertu Grosso" for string orchestra and plano obbligato, he communicated to his players his own burning conv.b.son about thin WCTX. Nor was it conviction
only; It was particularly at 171
stame that
comunca feeling between players and conductor, arising from a shared background, became evident and that made the concerto so in pressively eloquent. During the performance of the concerto I admired even more than before the excellence of the part-play-
was too much on
Series of lies
He pointed to a crammed bookcase D which was FL volune, The Secret Lore of Magic. Nearby were letters eddressed to him in both the numes of O'Daye and Hughes,
..
"It's all a misunderstanding,
names,
It's true I used both
I deny I was deceitful. The
truth is I wanted to stay on in his house as a tenant. I'm Q struggling
abstract artist and I use the ntine O'Daye on my paintings,
"No, I can't produce any of my paintings. There are one available just now. I am carn~ Ing a living buying and selling rare books at present,"
He added; i am not wor-
In the Appeal Court carllerried about the judge's criticism O'Daye-Mr Hughes must leave books on magie and my pet cat, a judge confirmed that Mr
but I am worried about my the upstairs flat where he now Candy. ives and which he previously
owned.
Praisa is also due to the pianist Mus Elloen Fissler. In line with all the other member she proved to be en excellent, nimble-fingered musician, being niways awice- of the <NORMOUR difference in style of at the music she had to play. So she
The Judge confirmed a pos- had to perform in the orchestra either the paris criginally writ-session order in favour of the ten for harp or, in some of the modern works, for the plano and finally the demanding obbligate for Bloch's 'Concerto Grosso,"
M.V. "TAI LOY"
DAILY SERVICE HONGKONG AND. MACAO
DEPARTURE
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TIME
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2.30 A.M.
cw owner, Mr John Hands, and described the behaviour of Mr O'Daye-Mr Hughca as "extraordinary" and, sid he had been involved in a series
of lies,"
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It was, sold Lord Justice Kod- sen, truly a "case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." -
Downstairs Mr John Hands described the amazing cequence of events which followed his call to buy the two-starcy bouse.
"The owner sald his name was Michael O'Daye. He seemed nice enough.
had no desire
upstairs was
He told me ho
to stay on, but
a tenant named
George Hughes who did want
to stay on.
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would introduce me
this
perled it he tenant Hughes. But always an excuse was put up for Hughes not being there,
Proceedings
them for the world
I wouldn't abandon when I
leave here.'
In the Appeal Court carlier it was said that the house was sold to Mr Hands for £825 with vacant possession of the ground floor.
The court deelded that "quite clearly" Mr O'Daye had no valid tenancy of the upstairs flat.
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Evicted RAMC Plans
Pick-a-back Baby Is
So Used To Flying
New version of the Red Indian squaw's way of carrying a baby was dreamed up by Mrs Jean Morris, of Upperton, Sussex. Baby Allison (eight months) loves it; and she's an expert. For in this picture she's leaving her plans at Prestwick airport after her. second return trip to Boston, London Express
Service.
SUE WINS A REPRIEVE
London.
JACKIE APPERLEY, 11, was told to take his dog, Sue, to the vet to be put down. But he was determined to save her-so he ran away instead:
Sue
A Hatfield Starts
Verbal Feud
Over
Legend
Now Orleans.
For The Nuclear War
By GEORGE HOGAN
London.
FEW of the nuclear warheads that may be expected to be used in any future conflict will be of megaton size capable of destroying whole cities or blasting nations into immediate submission.
n
An army in the fold will not equipment and casualties were be exterminated by a hydrogen being evacuated-wounded men bomb strike unless tactically who had a more rapid journey to driven Into
appallingly hapital and certainly a much unmilitary concentration.. But smoother one thin any casually muclear missiles of smaller size in the last two years. That fo would be used in battle, and to the basis of RAMC training and counteract this, military think- forward thinking immediate ing evolving new training aftention, by medical orderlies when doctors are not available, rapla evacuation, and a smooth journey to a hospital bed.
procedures.
A "small yteld" nuclear miastle coula devastato a battalion of infantry in close formation The Whirlwinds on show did and yet destruction would be a good job in quick ime but the confined to a relatively small RAMC also has a futuristic eye If "casualties. were on a much larger plane, the reached and tended. "quickly, vertical take-off Rotodyne, with many yes could be saved, which they are experimenting while the knowledge that aid and which can take a full field was immediately and automati-medical company or 48 stretcher cally forthcoming would boost cases in one lift morale and efficiency,
area.
Poison Gas
Planners Right
The planners aro perfectly It would also help, to counter right to think along these line- the ignorance that now erects a Immediate attention and rapid frightening aura around nuclear evacuation-not merely for the warfare much the same way emelency and good name of the that tales of polson gas put fear Corps, but also because the into the minds of fighters and morale of tho troops must civilians alike in World War I. beneft from the knowledge that
The Royal Army Medical a nuclear strike. is
not "The Corps, in its jubilee year, is end and that succour is merely showing clear thinking and the strength of Introducing revolutionary train-blade away. ing to counteract the effects of the nuclear strike. Two parti cular revolutions are:
★The training of all RAMC other ranka in certain nurs- Ing skills
and responsibilities
that were
dutica oformerly the personal
and
The experimental 1150 of helicopters for immediate action wherever mislio bursis.
nuclear
Every infantry Battalion now has Ave RAMC non-commis- sioned officers each capable of carrying out casunity treatment In emergency without the supervision of a doctor. If only one of these survives a nuclear explosion skilled first aid, and qore, is immediately avaliable,
All-Female
A new type of field medical unit has been designed to give greater mobility than in the past End
to be resilient enough to take a for larger casualty load when necessary Its sub-unit field medical company which consists of 48 personnel
companies, with #_headquarters
a helicopter
The Boy Who Lived
4 Times
Too Fast
London. *
A BLUE light flashing
in a cubicle at the top of Hammersmith Hospital, London, sud-' denly stopped last week-and Jimmy Car- rington died.
The boy who had been living four times too fast had finally lost his struggle.
From his home in Romford hej parting with Suke. As Jackie set off for London.
took her from the house 1 turn- After he was missing two ed my back. hours, his mother told the police. "I couldn't free seeing A bir search began. "Our negotiations were com- pleted, I arrived one morning olcried to take over the house. I spoke boy and his dog. Mrs Apperley her now," 12_Mr O'Dexs dressed in a caladan zaichkove by Blanárske plum-com fred waistcoat and Road, Harold Hill. But there walking normally. We sald was no trace of far-haired good-bys
Jeckle the second eldert of hum
look at me with her appealing 4 MEMBER of the Hat- and 100 beds. Two or more Jimmy was the 22-year-old Essex and London police were eres. · I'm glad the is back. We field clan has started: art of medical officers, form a
the
Twenty minutes later, down the stairs came a man, limpinged, there was a knock on
Six hours after he disappear. badly, wearing a raincoat with door. It was Jackie. Suc was colisa turned up and hat pulled over his eyes, 'Ah, this must be the tenant Hughes,' I thought.
"On closer seruliny, I recog nived O'Daya. 'Good God, what have you done to your foot, O'Daye! I asked.
"Foot? It's always been like that. And my name is not O'Daye. It's Hughes,' he said. "I replied: "Pleased to meet you, Hughes. I'm the Queen of Sheba."
"It wasn't until some time later that he admitted he was O'Daye.
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by his side. They had walked. London, then turned back. seven miles down to the road to
In tears Juckle told his mother: "I was going to hide in
SURE CURE
FOR THE SNORER:
A PSICOFON'
Ganoa,
The trouble with snorers is they can't stop their tongues from wagging.
All They can now, however, they need is Dr Boris H. Vassileft's "psicofon."
Vassileff,
a noted Italo Bulgarian scitatlat, exhibited his Invention here and announced it waš,à suré cure far dñorers, ́ ̧ It amplies the more noses and wakes the snorer up.
The rest is simply a matter of "auto-psychological-therapy."
A Barrage According to Vasalloff, people suore, because the tips of their tongues curl up and vibrato a the breeze of respiration.
youngest son of 41-year-old hospital stoker Mr James Carrington and his wife, of
St Albans road, Watford, Hertfordshi
Ho hid two holes in his heart which had benten four times too fast since his birth.
They stopped him from witteng anch talking and taking any- thing but liquids.
He never grow much beyond the size of a new-born baby, and only 171b, when he died after a five-hour operation inst week.
was
Scant hope.
verbal foud with those who can't keep their
facts porarily reinforce another unit straight about the old Hat is the fasholtzatuatio
alivation field-McCoy unpleasantnéas.
The ́14 John E. Howes great-
first all-female Aeld grandson of the man who led the edited Company, complete with Hammerds langbuvid nging the women medical officers. McCoys, said the legend has of the Queen Alexandra's Royal.
Nursing become quite distorted through Army
Corps now been formed, and such the years.
time take their True, he said, that the Hat-units will. In. felds and the McCoys went at it place alongside any RAMC Co- It is as yet the only one pany, hot and heavy for a decade in the hills along the West of Its ind and would make Virginia-Kentucky border,
history if used in war as women. True also, he says, that the surgeons have never yet served whole thing came about because in the British Army in the field. of the disputed ownership of a The RAMC, fully realising the hog.
new problems of the nuclear age, has rightly decided that their transport of the future must be helicopters. The rough- But magazine articles, songs, riding motor ambulance is on books and movies have twisted the way out-it the mediens other facts, he protested a have their way, Ina. dec There have been so many monatration at Ash Vale, Surrey, nas-statements and extazera" laid on by the Field Training tions on the feud that r'a like Centro, AMC, Mychett, á Sald Mr
get the answers, and proveo simulated nuclear explosion the families were not Just (epectacularly set off by the bunch of hillbillies out to Royal Engineers with realistic shoot exch other,” lin;sald, fireball and full mushroom
The Hatfield are a promin-cloud) was assumed eat family in this country, par- caught an infantry battalion on to bevo
Facts Twisted
ticularly in West Virginia, but the move to the front llaç. you'd hardly know it from, the publicity we've gotten.”-
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The fight for Jimmy's life was watched from all over, the world. The Carringtons went home to their four outer children and looked through
480 letters. The letter from an Arab sheik, 'another 'from a Connecticut, U.S., housewife one contain ing £1 and
signed "Good. luck, from a London bobby."
Carrington: "The doctors told me before they, operated that the chances were 10-1 against success But for his sake we had to givo
our consent.
Then they took him to the little cubicle on the top floor. He looked up at ur end said ''Mum" twice.
Over the bed the blue light mosauring his heart-beats was flashing away. It was like a signal to say he was going to be all right..
On his next leave, Howes | light" jet-helicopter, had arrived plane to visit the old family from a rear position to survey battle ground and dig into the the scene and note that the loc] 5. Instead of a clamp to held history of that feud in which 100 Regimental Aid Post had been We
down the tourne, Vagtilefl'a: persons were killed over a 10- destroyed. The ultra light is a | paleofen - semplifies: the molar year period. He also plans to tiny bubble of a machine that from: the-mono and throat sovilt the old Tatfeld homo in appears to be hardly big enough.
waited...and then tho light guddenly stopped....
'JACKIE AND SUE No parting now London, › But I'm cold and hungry. ·Picaso don't let Sue
And Mrs Frances Apperity, the shorer thinks an artillery England when the Army train for the pilot but it has room 35 Years Ago who had decided Sue inuare o bombardment is sying off in fers him to Europe, as incre to take a stretcher case and one because, who fell five children – his room, N
The Hatfolds migrated to this | was provided for it by an RAMC were enough to cope with re- ja After a short time, the moter country and in the 1880's had corporal who had survived the
ORD Boothby, mg) Jented inganna marka chup Jag Jeams to stop, the more rub their "falling_out" - with the explosion stidi wan direndy work-inalden, anaboby nawaw
She said:)>"Yackie has now consciously 11% be dist rumble. McCoys. Howes Ille among his Ing amang the wounded of Lord Al
H sayad duo's life, twice. He got then gradually the morer by post-ferdangestors Dei Henry Good the late Whhiwled over the nest aposen e me to take her in when her auto suggestion gets she tongus D. Hsticid, former Governor of halleoptera
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