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Six may Splendid concert
cost
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London, Feb. 28. THEN n bateman hits a Henton, A
Wixat
hamlet near Chlanor, in Oxfordshire, it may cost the village cricket club £2.
Miss gar-
That is the price of a criçkot ball--and six cricket ball de- longing to the club now rest in the hatched cottage
whose Elsie Daverstock. den adjoins the pitch.
A "please can we have pur bail back?" quarrel between Mi Baverstock and the club came in a head last season when she "Impounded" every ball that was hit into her garden.
She told the club members, "I am expected to have my hens property
my overrun, frightened, and my summers i ruined because sportsmen must
play."
Most of the hamlet's popula tion of 50 are on the aide the cricketers,
of
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right
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by Campoli
By D. E. GRAY-
LAST: night at Loke Yow
of
Hall, University Hongkong, the music-loving public of the colony wel- comed an old friend-A- fredo
Campoll; violinist
I
BY
THE WAY.
Y
by Beachcomber
AM often accused of wild Bylo Hampney in 1571, and the of the traction engineO exaggeration in the news driver
Iteins which I print from time to with a life-membership of the timo.
Byle Bampney Literary Circle. A musical nation WORTHING, the Venice of
Yel I bave just read that a frite is to have A stuffed pumba as a mascot. Is it not, Sussex, is to be the scene then, my duty to report that on of an experiment in its Ledo. Inverness Banner, whose cows Underwater loudspeakers are to are mliked to the music of bog- be installed, so that divers and pipes, shut mice which he found swimmers under water may not bling the wire round a dog- bo deprived of the tinned music blasted out for people swimming on the surface. The promoter of
kennel?
Malayan newsletter from Gordon Hung
Pipe-smoking among
women
has
become the fashion
Kuala Lumpur (By Airmail)........
the scheme admits handsomely Women in the capital are buying pipes-not for
their boyfriends or husbands-but for them- selves. And they are smoking them.
This latest fashion for women charges" to cover "operational started øfler A report Bom hazards.“ London showed the 20-year-old daughter of F local doctor smoking a pipe.
The university
The Minister of Labour, and Law. Mr. K. M. Byme, sald that the activities of bookmakers student, Miss had deprived the Government of
large sums of revenue from the Singapore Turf Club...-
All agog
that "there is no logical reason My only fear is THE ¿TUE entire population of Byle for doing this."
Hamprey is preparing to that the operation may interfero welcome Roy Footle and the with the pleasure of those who traction engine on their arrival, are dancing under water to the music of their portable, water- The Mayor, boms free, but now in the chams of office, will road proof radios. a speech from the neo-Palladian Agricultural note
and
method of AN account of
**a tasteless, to Topsy Turvey, the two- and was treated to a splen This concerto has gone, out of portico of the Town Hall
producing did concert of violin music fashion of late for some res year-old daughter of Sir Derek odourless powder from grass and
de- or other, and it is rarely heard Turvey, will present Ruy Footle maize prophesies the replace- Dora Dicum, was quoted as say
ing: " know that there is a which enchanted and
with A
of bouquet
plastic ment
of cattle by processing lighted, "in a programme nowadays on the concert plat- form. How pleasant it was,
If people wanted to bet, it was that pipe in her mouth. Vitall and therefore, to make acquaintance nasturtiums. The Fire Brigade, machines. It is pointed out that prejudice against a girl with a ranging from
in new tunics, will form a guard cows "waste the energy
the Goverment duty to see that while Bach to Bruch and Turina, with it again, oven though it
the Mayor
by breathing comes from grass
"But really, it is so tach they went through the Turt was not necompanied by full of honour
so that the State would the traction
and engine. and walking about. Machines healthier
clearren, then Club, At the plano
inspects was
After that there will be on
do not have to do this." } cigarettes."
got the maximum revenue from Irene Yuen, whom we know orchestra. Concerto accompany-
have put 11 better
the proceeds of these bets, he for very well as soloist in her own me is a very difficult business
a planist at the best of appalling dinner in the "Turvey couldn' time 1
times. right. This is the first
One or two tuttis lacked Arms" at which Footle will be myself. presented with
(London Express Service), an old print of have heard her in the role of accompagist, and it gave very the firm even tempo which one in to be real pleasure, to observe the hep to maintain if the imitation which she and of the orchestra partnership
But I achieved.
very waa Campboll enjoyed, particularly in
fine effort nonetheless, the Bach and the Turina,
violinist like accompany Campol satisfactorily is a real achievement, by any standards.
our own
Cumpoll
Th is
extremely emelent, violinist. We had ex- pected first-class playing and we got it from beginning to end. He was playing on a Stradivarl violin called the Viotti Strad. His notes on the string were extremely rich and his Anc
violin seemed to maintain the some rich timbre on the very highest notes.
★
The Ciaccons of Vitall opened the programme good choice, ind this WOM followed by Bach's 'Arioso' which was sensi tively played by the artists,
A
for to FOYLES'
The Impeccable playing of Campoll in the Somata Espagnol of Turina was matched by his partner's tonal support at the piano-this was a real delight.
Some Caprices of Paganind and the favourite 'LA Cam- janelle ended the programine, рідусі But all exquisitely
added
An early failure turned into a
carcer.
huge success
By MARIS ROSS
London.
The
the Turf Club trailed muye as the totalisator revenue had fallen "alarmingly" over the past five years because of book- makers on the course.
The shocked father, Dr. M. sald.
What is Dicum, exclaimed;
Has she up to? my daughter turned boatník?**
Here in the capital a large de- partment
salesman ("Things won't be the same any more") said that for the first time over the weekend some girl came into the store to buy pipes.
selling pipes to
"I've been men for many years. But not even one woman has como to boyfriend, buy a pipe for her husband or father. Men prefer to choose their own pipes.
A
23-year-old Australian cowboy, John Manning, has offered to help the Federation Government
run a cattle ranch. It proposes to start in Batu Arang, about 40 from the capital.
Batu
Arang the
miles
dite
of
Malays's only open cast coal mine, has been closed down be- losing
mine
"Well on Saturday, some girls came up and said they wanted to buy pipes. I asked what type of pipes their friends preferred
wback I was really taken when they said the pipes were the audience would not let him Fifty-seven years ago, two brothers, William and
Gilbert Foyle, flunked exams for a civil service for themselves.
"So I chose the lightest of our pipes weighing about one ounce a road to each. That initial failure started them on
And what do these girls say success that has resulted in what may well be
about this new emancipation? the world's greatest bookstore, known from
Mies Sally Song puffing a carnech as she typed said: back to work. London to Louisiana simply as "Foyles."
thought it might help me CONCEN- trate. I've a lot of typing to de Lack of space is an increasing The Foyles' book business got
including figures which need con- started in their mother's klichen problem for Foyles in its present
When William
and Sentration, when they began selling the quarters.
falled to Gilbert made their first move hard to light at first, but the textbooks that prevent them
he obligingly Ko iki thres encores-well-known trifles by Faure, Kreisler and Pader- cwpki.
This was
first-class con- The charming Uttle affuer Rondo in G by Mozart (or cert, a most enjoyable evening and our ranged by Kreisler as a salon of fiddler's music, piece)
followed by was
the thanks go to Harry Odell for concerto of the evening the bringing Compolt here Bruch Concerto in G Minor. ngulň.
once
An experiment in
translating music
+
bad from flunking out of their mother's kitchen, it was to a small East End shop the rent was the
"it's not bad, you know, a bit aroma is heavenly." their tests.
Mrs T. Santhanam, broadcast. Business grew as the Foyles where
"I'm begon buying and selling more equivalent of 70 cents a week. Ing assistant, said:
even had to books and their trade outgrew. Continued growth brought theginner at this-I
ask my friend to help me light the kitchen. Today, in London's store to its present headquarters book centre of Charing Cross and the place is practically burst-it at first,
"The men laughed at the way Road, Foyics spills over through ing at the scams. melodies are well-known and two buildings with some four The basement is plied high I held the pipe. But I'm doing the task of orchestrating these million books, old and new, in with books, new, old and ancient. t the right way now-and I'll
therefore N interesting concert folk-tunes
aslock.
Foyles buys an average 20,000 | amoke a pipe to Miss Dicum." second hand books a week from involving in experi- prodigious
libraries and private owners. whole collections arè. When
cut, the rest sold in bulk to paper the mills,
By D. E. GRAY
A demonstrating
mental design in music was performed by the Hongkong Philharmonic Chinese Music Group at Queen's College, on Saturday evening.
one,
RARE BOOK
the first place a setting down Volumes dating back to the ira music script of the melody 25th century help all the 30 self, before proceeding to the miles of shelves with books of amculties of orchestrating for every topic. instruments which coploy scale other than the diatomie.
approach
4
The nature of the experi- This experimental ment concerns the attempt to will obviously bring about the orchestrate Chlocso folk tunes emergence of many interesting Western harmonde and contrapuntal re- Д more or less symphonic form. The instru- lationships. menta ars of the Chinese As well 05
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traditional type, innovations entirely "Hongkong credit
In character.
The orchestral sections con- sist of bowed instruments (the viqla), plucked instruments (moon-lutes, tri-strings and brass
strings), wind Instru- (barnboo flutes and pipes, a double-rood Instri ment called an alto pipo) and percussion instruments.
Korean art
*
on
bought, the best books are culled Singapore bookies are
the run sa the govern ment, Is cracking down on them in a determined effort to wipe them out.
Sections of books run gamut
WELCOME of subjects from free- masonry to needlework, but for
real treasUTC- Lillian Manning, the Arm's collectors the ground of Foyles is the rare book buyer who says she was "brought up among books," checks the in- section.
coming books for collectors items and catalogues and prices the worthy ones,
was
cause the money.
Since closure at the beginning of the year, the Government has been exploring avenues to make e of the large tracts of land surrounding the mine and put- ting the 500 men Hving there
cattleman since sald that he thought Batu Arang would be a good experimental station where a'ruitable breed of cattle could be evolved. cattle and sheep.
He is on a world tour studying
John. a
Florists in the capital are not worried by the in- creasingly heavy imports of plastic flowers from Hongkong and Germany. They are confident "that arti- ficial flowers hvill not affect their businesses.
Instead of a luti, many, dorists Bro now going through an unprecedented period of pros- perity.
"Fresh flowers are stili popular weddings and Several big operators have for big parties,
parties," sald Vnu closed shop and scores of anall- birthday time bookies have suspended florist. business The rest go out.
Commenting on the anxiety One bookmaker who used to expressed by nursery owners in William Foyle, at 75 still con hapdie thousands of dollars of Singapore about the import of trois the organization, and hie daughter, Christina, helpy direct beta sald things were "getting artificial flowers, he said: "That
is only their imagination,"
Ho End his
1
rumers had loft
him and that bookmaking was elmost at a standstill.
A Vow who still dare
to
eperste have increased "servien
The oldest book on sale right now is "Asteranus de Ast, writ- ten in Latin about 1479. The Theirs is no mean task-all price is a relatively modest $350. But it is not unusual at Foyles to the Hongkong Phil to have collectors vying for old harmonic Chinese Music Group Ands at prices ranging up to it. Gilbert Foyle withdrew as too hot." for undertaking it.
| 62,000 and more.
a director of the Arm in 1850 One of Foyles' specialties is and now lives in retirement in early 19th century books with Sussex. The firm sells about deceptive gilt-like edges to 35,600,000 worth of booke each their pages. When these edges year and an average 5,000,000 are pressed slightly they form books. The Korean fine art exhibi- hand-painted plature of Prospective customers tion, with a fine-display of work
street scene or a town,
made so welcome at Foyles that by modem. Kersin collata, - w26
there during thei The walls in Foyles two students go opened to the public this morn-rambling buildings are hidden lunch breaks to lap up know- and at no With the ledge undisturbed Celebrities concert, conducted bying at St John's Cathedral Hallrompletely by books.
and noted treatises on freemasonry, needle- cost, Chan Wing Sou, who has ar- Scrolls, broader and rather work-and birds and fishing writers are no strangers among ranged most of the music, was more vigorous In composition are leamed reports on nuclear the browsers.
Foyles also traditional a delightful variation in con- than
Chinese power. Or the complete leather- oerts, both for its performance paintings, lined the hall with bound editions of The Gentle- picture gallery, musia strop.
Ica'ure
Lending bureau, and for the interest which 15 colour and imagery to delight, men's Magazine" from 1783 to
library and book clab-UPL by its nature, must arouse in the eye. the interested music listener.
The
Mias Esther Chow,
contributed two ROSTO 120, charming vocal solos *LAVIO Alver
Flowers and My There is no doubt that Chinese Folk tunes, well sting, and orchestrated for Chinese strumenta, are -extropies of very pleasurable miste Ina different idiom.
the
1002.
FILMS AND NIGHT SPOTS
FILMS KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Hound of the Baskerviline", starring PER Cushing, Andes Morell and Chris topher Las. (AGEM: "A MUSOR Light that Glow♫ a travel Bloo
af kongkong).
ROOVEN ́ GALA: "Brandal In Borrento, starring Sephia Loren 'anë vitorio, De le
Dr C. K. Wong can always be counted on to give a musicianly" | ROXY A BROADWAYĮ (AL 139 2 performance on the flute, be it Western style or bamboo. At this concert ho produced a most beautiful tone on the bamboo flute, and his two solos ‘Moun- tain Brook in Moonlight' and Wild Chattering Birds were enthusiastically received by an appreciative audience.
8.30 p.m.):"depth Pacide” in Told- AO. Starring Bonouns Brauci, Mini Claymor, Tolim, Kerg and, France LE ASTOR: "Goliath And The
Barbarian", starring Staya Keeves. } {LEK. Also—/A. Million Lights Khali blow travel kins on Hongkong), ROYAL STATE:"Killers of Kulmanjaro," starring Robert Tayler, Authony Newley and Anne arkida kommer Pizes,” starring Sandra Dee, Richard Egan and Dorothy Motivira, • BIZZ! "Don't Dies Up The Ship
Marriag zury* Lawit, and Đĺna)
The Little Rooster variations for solo viol played by Loo Kah Chi was a delight. This popu ler cradle song of Kwangtung, also orchestrated by Chan Wing Sou, demonstrated again the ORIENTAL: "zhi Winek of Thi Mary Desas," atuering Gary Cooper: potentialition that exist for there
lovely folk tunes in an orches= | MAFRATICI “journey zu The Contr?. tral setting.
This group, which is dedicat-
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PARAMOUNT: "Ferty To Hong- kong," starting Cart Jurgro, Orson Welles, and Kylvia Byms. START Nilamaro,” Japanese film
with Röglish sub-titles). METROPOLES "Nobody's Calls"
(Chinese film).
NIGHT SPOTS
his PARAMOUNT: Giancarlo and
Hallan Comão."Continental Cock-
and Vargas Alonso "Quartet Kapaguoi,"
MAXIKH: The ́“Dalekys,” the sero-
katie · consedy dance total -- CARLTON; 334% Centi ond
Comp GOLDEN MOENIX: "The
Rikonin "Ballet Bojero,” and
indrinies Therp, the trombonist, trily, a great com&=
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and his band, Vasil by Denay. BLUE HEAVEN, Allen Brothers and June, Comedy Team, and Medlock, -Marlowe ang Busan, famed imperi REGIMEN ALAI Allim Brothers and June, Comedy Team, ana MadJack, Mariowo nad Suman, famed imperi ponators, PRINCESE GARDEN; The Badzer VIREAR Trio, 1a) umeren, and Alonso {narbes Rapagnol.
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