IF, LIKE ADAM FAITH, YOU PLAY IT BY EAR...
A DAM FAITH, who has made a fortune selling his own brand of voice-und-guitar records, was asked if he would learn to read music.
"No," he replied. "It wouldn't.
Fell any more records, would | portant to develop their mustent
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The National Music Comell
"But it's not just the Adnan sensen," Faith who don't know how to reat music.
11. of schoolteachers don't know a note of musi Trim A hull los, either," the principal of the Trinity College of Musky
Wilfrie! Gremiose Allt,
Dr
Lagging
3. -11 his stuly at the college where, if notes of musle were bull: frek, de slammede
wade! have averrun alt London und the Home Cimatus.
Di Alt, pit-cher ked and 21, spunkter quirkly, with emotion Freste con Pinuzione,
sneration growing up with no musle at all in many juntor schools just at the sure when it Ik vitally uns
"There'
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
I you have a strong pawn
<if Grent Britain, of which Br Allt is president, has spirt: Britain Ings 50 years behind
the encouragement Kiven
eg pasie in America and several Europena entntries."
D
I urge the setting up of Governinent committee on the matter. Dr Allt is backing, a move to make sure that trained teachers for junlor schools know
more about music.
Only about our per cent of schoolchildren, take "0" level music in G.CE. euch gear.
"It all depends largely on the whim of the headmester." ex- plained Dr Alit, tinkling a tentle toccata on a harpsichord which used to belong to Talian commmer Scarlattı.
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"If he is musleal, und h education committee” isn't too mean, the sehnal will probably j have a good orchestra, a choir. Land a ranked teacher prepar- na pupila for nasie in G.CE.
"At least they will know
sonnethitis of how to apprite
anowie. Yes Jazz inchulert.“
He hanked down the keyboard cratre which controls thed. "But 15 he is one of the a
Rreater part of the board und
anthesunter
hends withraut
eramps your opponent's pieces, park of music in him, they may you will generally have oppor-get ene dreary period of singing Lunities of deciding the game week, ur perhaps nothing.
Here by king's side aitark.
Is
Illustration from the
Nismeten tournament (Lopez v. Teacher 1 P-444. P-QB4;
Exciting
You can't draw con-
clusions about this place unless you've got a social conscience and
haven't. So much is happening here it leaves you bemused - sort of squalor-punch-drunk.
And yet it's Rot nothing so much nothing it empties you, makes you foxcl
inoxolically nostalgie, bewildered, and rather you'll wake up 10.
Dr Allt stared up al o bust fearful that
of Bach as a pipe organ thud-the morning and it with alt be
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ball of the college below us,
paral touch,"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1961,
Wish you were bere!
from SALLY VINCENT
the
pleasure, and were
mailev group of grinning Disney tragically improvised mud and thought they'd combine business hands in front of me, and pro-
various now ceeded to enact
roa- Kiss. Then the dreary queues straw hus and the squatting with
the alport, which is like an sheet wrapped North Africans of wondering why.
tortions in my wake all the way outskirts of Alexandria. abandoned youth hostel.
In my Gatsby mood I tagged up the street, her little briss The sallow, heavy-lidded Then the inappropriate, good along and spent on evening In begging-plate clinklug on Egyptians, with each a cranson, wide streets of the city itself. inded night-spots witts tury, tasselled fez, and the big full of long. low. felly-mould entertainers than customers Saquisition for entry to the land ears.
of flies.
"What valuables have you?" -"None."
The man in the fez opens my thoroughly. ease and rearches particularly in a box of carbon-
paper.
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Es esential
It
music you've in nu gand tryinka died.
away used to seri 11xjon that
Alexandria,
oven
ones
Where have
come Athena," when from?"-"From never been before. was the only might that day.)
And yet you can't the Yogating it rac than any other
world
The
ona
It
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for Black to counter-attack in at one that they like more life
P-13): the centre with 129, 14, P-Q3: 13 PK real notice of it any more.
and
"And thes
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find learning once in ist ab re exciting Fuster and Burrell must have
than etching a blackboard.
got there just before the death He rationed a schood where res and used in the last of
its fchildren sødd ice cream to buy
and nude, instruments
And Per heard of one where they Poddy Boye have no burclinic
nagle.
Arrival
Passport
slonna arg
The
The
Neons
or
more pavement.
the ETL
streets the night motorists don' drive, they mill about, dodging the Arabs who
Sleepers
the
peoples' mosques.
the only shining thing.
The sun is
And then I went to Farouk's palace with its ceres of marble, careful lawns and complicated
watched over
by luxuries, respectful guides who paint out with national pride the palace the great king was in the habit of visiting for the expretal purpero of taking tex.
Conscience
} think perhaps my non- existent social conscience was sneaking up on me, for I went back to the city and songs out
walk in the roads, hoping to be All ot the sen wall lie a food market, krocked down, egged by huldled aliper
from
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10-
voices.
WHI
shag-
the women
hier dust
a crumbing wall
The market of Alexandria Is neen are beginning to arm-laying, big-smiling police gily-sheeted heads and warty wink and they say absurd, men who appear to live on the feet. apparently contentedly a fantastle and grotesque square, illicitly asleep. Proud and dirty Monlem bordered by policemen who for-
In bid
with Portsmouth-like things-"Sport- bribes they got for
you to wander women tu black rebs walk up ing Club," "Hosting Lake," and parked cars,
for fear of mailgning on their cameras night right with baskets Aribs in their stelped alley's Tours,"
charcoal heats; children
sit with their Egypt to the rest of the world. confusion of it is The hotels are Victorian, full shirts squat around
talking
(and le intently
thin legs outstretched, At Orst, of potted plants, depleted of ares, guests apart from ene two somehow anciently into each playing with their fingers in the reeking stalls, heaps of fish, car- cnsea of moving flesh, turnips, und misguided other's eyes, and sharing hubble- dirt and rubble. business en
and garlic, peepice by watchful, ITS various
A young tourists, and appear to be on bubbles. Beggars,
Between the dusty, palatial equatio Agures.
with a child in the point of closing down, stages of malformation, appear
doorways and folle inain streets of Alexandrin
sitting in the H's easy enough, at first, to
shimmer with arms is thin back-way's get a
Gatsby croasty for miles; children perth and noise. Bursts of sound trying to sell four hens' exES. Fort of Great
clean doors, and
wind- reling about Alexandrin. That car first evroing, standing on the erect, and try to sell est issue from every doorless door, A milky eyed blind man is lean
Eastern music, the ing against outside
없다 children
begging. my hangers. Everywhere something jangly le marble balcony
making hand to mouth signals oom, wearing When dress and is darkly. Insidiously happening abracadabra of harsh Egyptian and six layers of mascura, posing a Somehow you feel that
In the Bot dust, tive dark that they are huifgry na casually child indulges in dry martini
cigarette morrow everyone will have plus
skinned, knobbly people are as a British
Everywhere Is holder, I heard the faint, night packed up and gone. time tinkle of the donkey bells and leaked towards the blacken- be log sea and pretended to
I ate some great white queen. shrimps as big as bananas and in the morning, though,
was there for me. I woke big, leathery panenkes dipped in
the rabble of a pipe- I took the rond to King Farouk's Mes smacking against my face, delicious goo, and got waited on. un to
band There weren't exactly tourists and-crum
playing (1
an old woman called out to me. at my hotel-apart from a lost believe) an eightsome reef. with pulace.
from the great sleepy buffaloes and "Hallo woman marching stridently American family whose eldest soldiers stu heard asking his mother:
biblical pitchers from gumpa. And I never felt more lonely by britating Arab children. "When are we going to get along the bench road, pursued black roots and women Alling West,
and hopeless, stocped men, roped in my life, walking, through that this Gard-awful place?"-jual
place, As I left the hotel n girl of together to pull along the and swarming, raddled selection elf-beat rather Maybe I should tell you about
It Into a shaltered bus and along
14, in voluminous pink barges, and the yellow and pink smart English clothes and high- little of business Alexandria now, before 1 start the dirt tracks, past
of the mud heeled shoes and sunglasses. putting constructions on
the mounds of unidentifiable nith, brought their wives and who Turkish trousers, bounced on her striped prettiness plage which are probably wrong anyway.
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milk their wickedness I think merhaps this part of K-B 26 QxP mate Black can prevent this only on their trumpets. It's the Ety like a good film, You
letting off stem," know
been disturbed you've helving up his queen (22...t way of
when you walk out of the QQ2 or by blocking his own said.
cinema at the end of the pleture, Kin (22... Q-12; 23 Q-17
and your voice won't come for ch. K-UI: 24 Q-88 mate).
Solution No. 6924: 1 Q-Q2
hours and you want to walk by the river and try to suffer. Thei, rut 2 Q-KRZ). QxQ; 2
The man that hath wa wasie KL-84, or i
PKIS:
in himself QXB 2 Q-B4, or Q...--Q4, or
O-XS: 2 Let no such wan be trusted!" DAVID ASH -outon Express Servier).
1.
Look Reprens Nevelen.
A felt the echoing corridors of the enliege I half recollected
nething: 7'd been sught School Ruglish less-
Just Fancy
That!
London.
My Danport 15 carefully Last year's holiday examined,
scrutinised. man in the fez Deconies testy. Hp smacks the backs of his Angers angrily on a page, accuses me of coming from France. I tell him the date on the stamp is 1059.
"Where do you stay in Alexandria" "I don't know?
"Are you alone?"-"Yes."
a journalist?" -- -You ave yes,
surly frowns, Flip. Ap. dip,
Then, the more consultations. in cbout three weeks' time the biggest, toothiest grin you ever rince hits you and you start saw happens under the fez. enjoying
communicating some of the idetu, usually the
"See you write nlee more personal ones.
into Alexandria.
First the arrival (which hasn't really Le very much to do with
ff the airplane
about
Egypt," he says, and I'm allowed
31
who
had about
Rabble
set out like peep-show things. crocodile tears,
A Coptic funeral with its desperate, squalid ille.
ornate brass, cheruby hearse
is dragged by six hungry black
it
horses and followed by sobbing mourners.
In the heat of the afternoon
faw
Lonely
While I watched, with sharp
NO MONEY FOR MAGIC BATTERY
OUD and persistent "cooling" sounded above the Alexandria, but which probably L buzz of tulk between waiting lawyers and litigants sail is of political compri in the High Court the other day. At last just before las).
to the endy fatness of Egypt, Mr Justice Cross took his seat, the assistant tipstaff Jeeling like a refugee from the was ordered to "clear the court." And he ushered out|Antarctie in a tweed overcant, through the window two pigeons in the public gallery, crowded in by desperate-looking WORK on Britain's "magic battery," or fuel middle Europeans, greeled by a
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"HAIR TONICS
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The "battery" creates energy mixing gases inside a from special chamber.
Eighteen months ago it was hailed as a new form of power for Britain--a wonder fuel unit drive cars, lorries, trains, cubmarines without much of the cumbersome machinery now nedel,
to
World publicity was given to its first working demonstration on a Cambridge airfeld
What does the Navy say? We had a study group looking at ds, but it has stopped. 1 den't quite know why."
What does the NRDC say? we are
disappointed at the kvel of interest we have been able to noise in British in- dustry,
That must be the understate-
ment of 1981,
I quoted Mr Francis Bacon, I
Inventer of the first British ver sion which used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, as saying then:
"If we get enough money to back this project properly we could have earth satellite bat- terles operating within a year, trains and Submarines using then within two years and vehicles running within five."
£6M. A YEAR
These things have happened-- IN AMERICA-The U.S. in now spending £6,000,000 a year on developing fuet cells. The U.S. Nový just announced that it is tting them into submarines.
What has happened i Bri- tein. the Country which pioneered the idea?
This. The Cambridge team has dishanded. Work at the airfield han ceased. Some of the scientists have gone to work in the U.S.
The National Research Deve- lopment Corporation hos spent
£150,000 on it to date.
A second team of scientists working at the Sondes Place Research Institute, Surrey, Inve "broken through" to n, point where they believe the cell can be made to work on a mixture of ordinary air and almost any cheap ga.
But they are minriting time, because no one has put up the chish to carry through to en- Andering development noces.
saxy.
YURI'S WORDS
sian
The World of Science
And work halts because Britain won't gamble
"Please report to the Party, micro-meteoriles and radiation. and Government, and personally One type is called fused silica, to Nikita Sergeyevich Khrush
chey that the landing was SPUTNIK CHASING
normal."
Thank for that" wait! DORITISH scientists of the seem much more human and University College of plausible.
Wales, Aberystwyth hove Many people have inquired developed a special comora about the likelihood of Gagarin's with which to photograph spareship having portholes from other people's satellites. of which he could see.
publication ponding
Gagar sald it did have. And It can rotate to follow the scientific evidence. But not
tiny Yuri Gagarin's glass has been made by scientists aputnik, as fast as the
which will stand up to all the speck crosses, the sky-between stepping rigours of space travel-high nine and 90 degrees per minute. -London Express Service. temperature, shock, impact from
AM willing to swallow this-that
words ол quite a lot from Rus- first
scientists trust, from his capsule were:
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