NOTES ON NOTES
NOT so long ago, 1
commented in these
columns on the frustra- tions of Hongkong's "pop" music fans. The biggest names in the world of entertainment have visited these shores with hardly any attempt being made to have them perform here.
The main difficulty facing promoters is the lack of facill- ties. There isn't a concert hall big enough to accomodate. an audience wishing - to see and artist like well," say hear en Elvis Presley for instance.
But there are encouraging
all signs that
this will be changed in the not too distant future.
A promoter in Hongkong is convinced that he can stage concerts by top entertainers— without incurring a loss. And he has already started negotiations.
First big name likely to go up In lights here is Conway Twitty, popular American pop singer.
By CARL MYATT
Presley for Hongkong? Don't be too surprised
been written on the subject and just as much music has been written describing the emotions of love.
~et all.
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"Ebb Tide" and
tunes thus there are 12 photo- MEET
THE
win. Millions of words have thing is rosy and you are "In many Hongkong record buyers. Love Again." And so we drift The tunes include "Holiday For on to the finale which is wild Strings" and wonderous-and a salute to "Patricia" on side one, and the love and life for "Wild Is Love" very lovely "Lullaby of Bird- -and this is the title tune of land" (played here just as co- would have Nat's album. The orchestra is poser Shearing
Nelson wanted it to be played), "April Now singer Nat "King" Cole conducted by maestro
and "Cherry has recorded an entire album Riddle who also did the ar- In Portugal,"
Pink." with love as the subject. But rangements.
The It's a magnificently prepared this is an album with a different
music is light, and the story. Here boy meets girl; boy album. Between the covers are arrangements uncomplicated, as loses girl; boy and girl make up a series of colour photographs Stanley Black weaves his magic
reflecting the mood of a stage spell.
On London LL3105. The music and lyrics, written in the merry-go-round of love. by a husband and wife team Each is captioned with a tune. album. There are 12 comparatively new to Tin Pan from the Alley-Ray Rasch and Dotty Wayne-matches the mood of graphs which by themselves are
works of art. the moment.
There's the cl ce for the A refreshingly different boy to make for there are of album. "Hundreds and Thousands of Girls"; then the moment of romance the sudden recogni- tion of what is happening to you and "It's A Beautiful Evening"; then that uncertain period and you decide to "Tell Her In The known interpreters Morning"; the question is ask- modern dance music. His ed "Are You Disenchanted?" arrangements complicating, fascinating, Fin-lly the end of act one and trations are distinctive. frustrating, intriguing state. In this condition you try Latin America that Black is But It is with the rhythms of heartbreaking and delight the "Pick-Up"-
most familiar. And the appeal TONY KWAN PUI- Many fall whole- LOVE they say makes the ful
Act two and you are à "Beg- of his music is universal. world go round. And heartedly into the idea of gar For The Blues"; and in a Consequently his album "The HON, 17, student, 19 Wong- ever since Adam met Ere it love and marriage; many World Of No Return" or so Cash Box Instrumental Hits" neichong-road, ground Hoor,
great Kowloon. has ruled lives. Love is fight against it and rarely you think. But suddenly every- will find favour with a
“And now, don't lingh this one off either. Areneta Colligeum in Manila are trying to get Presley out this year. If they succeed, there is the possibility that "The King" might perform here. : :
Pat Boone who was scheduled to arrive this; month, has now ,postponed his visit until June Car July. · Comtmitments on the West Coast have held him back. But he is coming.
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your emotions are in a turbulent
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HON COMPASS Definitely too hot to handle
TO
you know that the
LMAGNETIZE A LARGE D. sun is Our
NEEDLE BY STROKING IT› ADROSS THE POLES OF A-* MAGNET (ABOUT 15 TIMES)
2. CUT A MEDIUM SIZED CORK IN HALF THE LONG WAY
USE A SHARP KNIFE TO CUT THE CORK
3.NOTCH THE ROUNDED. SIDE ENOUGH SO THAT THE NEEDLE WILL STAY ON THE
CORK!
40 times Fahrenheit-over nearest hot as boiling water.
stor? You have probably not thought of it as a star ́at │all.
The sun is 93 million miles away, and in the space world that is mighty close. That is why the sun seems so large and.
COPERNICUS
"THE EARTH ROTATES AND REVOLVES ABOUT THE SUN"
4.FLOAT THE CORK IN A hot compared with other stars.
PIE TIN FILLED WITH WATER. J'Actually the sun is about aver-
AND PLACE THE NEEDLE IN THE GROOVE IN THE CORK...
ONE END OF THE NEEDLE WILL POINT "TO THE NORTH?
age in size and heat production. It is just that the other stars are so much further away,
The second nearest star, for example, is 270 times as far away 25 the sun. Just multiply 93 million by 2:0 and you will
have the distance in miles.
The sun is the largest and hottest body in our solar Sys tem.
The Polish astronomer Coper- Dicus was the first man to find that the earth rotated Bround the sun. This was in the 1500s,
Up to that time, people thought that the sun rotated cround the earth.
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The reason that the sun burns at such high tempera- is tures, but never goes out, that it is actually a bure atomic furnace. There are continuous atomic explosions there as in an atomic reactor except that they are on a super-giant scale,
The bubbles, or sun spots, in the sun's disc are about 7,200 degrees hot. No one knows what causes them, but they appear about every 11 years. ·
-Some scientists think that the earth has severe storms at the periods when there are large numbers of sum spots. They be- lieve there may be a connection between the spots and our weather.
The gravity of the sun is 28 times as great as that of earth. If a spaceman could be pro. tected against the terrific heat of the sun he would weigh over two tons.
The sun's diameter is 109.3 times that of earth. The mass of the sum is 333,400 times that of earth. And remember, the sun is just an average-size star.
The sun is about one-fourth as solid as the earth. It has a mass of bolling liquids in its centre with a surface tempera- ture of about ́9,900 degrees!
-Walter B. Hendrickson fr.
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Here is how the rest of the_planets in our solar system compare in size to the sun. They are lettered in order of their distances from it; (a) Mercury, (b) Venus, (e), Earth, (d) Mars, (e) Jupiter, (f) Saturn, (g) Uranus, (i) Pluto.
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