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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931.
DAME CLARA BUTT IN HONG KONG.
: INTERESTING TALK ON PROBLEMS OF ORIENTAL
MUSIC.
JAPAN, THE LAND OF TENORS AND SOPRANOS.
Dane Clara Butt, who is giving a concert at the Theatro Royal to morrow night and another on Món- day, arrived in the Colony yesterday morning by the ss. Tutma. She is staying with her husband and her neice at Repulse Bay Hotel, where I found her yesterday afternoon resting after the rudeness of the China Sea. She was kind enough "Do to grant me an interview. say," she said, "how really thril fed. I am to be in China for the first time. As for Hong Kong I can only say what I suppose every one clec anys, how perfectly lovely it is, I had no idea that it was so beautiful!
The real reason for the extensive tour of the East which has given its the opportunity of hearing this famous English singor in Hong Kong, is that Dame Clara Butt has arranged to make a series of re- cords for the Columbia Company in the new factory in Tokyo. She set out early in the autumn of last year and has visited Colombo, Singapore, various places in F.M.S. and Rangoon, and in every place she has given one or more concerts, From here she goes to Tokyo and from there to Shanghai on her way Australia. Africa, too, will be visited before she returns to Eng kanal..
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To Make Japanese Records? I had heard that there was some suggestion that Dane Clara Butt should make a series of, records of Japanese songs in Japanese while she was in Tokio, und asked if this were true. " 1 should love to do f it," she answered, "but I don't know if I shall have the time, be- cause it would mean learning some- thing the languago.!
A Long Entertainment. From that our talk drifted into an interesting discussion of Oriental music, what is its future and how does it comparo with Western music The thing is, of course,' enid Dame Clara, that it does not compare, it is an absolutely dif- ferent.".
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voices of the singers were and unpleasing..
One troupe of Bengalis seemed to have come under the influence of the West, and there were among them several men with very good tenor' voices...
The Bingers of Japan.. "But Japan is the land, of tenors," she said. "I heard on Japanese records when I was in Bagdad both tenors and sopranos of absolutely perfect tone, far better than most English voices 1 am not sure that some of them were not the best I have ever heard."
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·RUMOURS ABOUT
PROHIBITION.
BIS THE COMMISSION
REPORT COMPLETE?'
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS LIKELY.
Washington DC., Jan. 9.-In- dicating that the report of Pre- sident Hoover's Inw enforcement and crime investigating commission is virtually complete, several mem- bers of the commission, which is headed W. Wickersham, left Wash- ington to-dny.
However, another meeting of the commissioners has been called for Wednesday of next week. It is understood that at that time the report of the, Wickersham commis- sion will be approved by those who have been drafting it for well over
A year and that then it will be submitted to President Hoover.
There are conflicting rumours. Fascination of Eastern Music,
Some assort that various sub-com- "What is it that fascinatos youmittees of the Wickersham commis about Oriental music?" I asked. sion have yet to file their reporta It is, I think, what is not really and that they will not be in a posi thero," she answered. "One feels tion to do so until next July, that there is something, if only it
Probable Recommendations. could be developed, their music is,
There is great speculation as to of course Gregorian, and there are bits of Bach. It seems as if it is what recommendations the Wicker- hidden, or half forgotten, as if there !sham commission will make with is something wonderful, if only one could and at. But I do not be rogard to prohibition. A great lieve," she added, after a moment, many predictions hold that the "that the man has yet been born who will develop Eastern music and carry it forward, as that of the West has been carried forward, improved and developed.
She described to me a visit to the Rajah of one of the native states of Indin on a previous tour; how having heard of her interest in Eastern music he hired a series of performers to entertain her. The "entertainment" Insted from early in the morning, all day, all through the night, until 5 a.m: the next day. "I thought I should go mad," said Dane Clara, " though it was very interesting at first." There appear-I ed to be, she said, practically no variety of tune and on the whole the
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SMALL FINE FOR INFRINGE- MENT..
The hearing was resumed at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, be fore Mr. Butlers of the case in
"But that is what one feels about so much which concerns the mys terious East; religion, art, social code and mysticism. Is there really something, latent, waiting for the genius who will bring it to fruition, or is it all a make believe, a reputa- tion built up ott sand
majority of the commissioners have already gone on record as urging a further trial of efforts to enforce the 18th amendment and the Vol. stead Act.
Considerable intérest as to when the report will be presented to Pre- sident Hoover contres about the fact that he has announced he will im mediately submit it to congrom, thereby precipitating a prohibition controversy and possibly making an extra session of congress necessary, for next summer.
And those of the South Seas, I mentioned the singers of the
Observers here believe that at South Seas, and Dame Clara was just another week must pass before all enthusiasm. What wonderful, the situation revolving about the voices they have," she said, "not repors of the Wickershani commis- nasal like most Eastern singing sion is clarified. voices, and their music, too, is music with character and vitality, "
Trials of Travel.
The tour has proved un extremely interesting one to Dame Clara, and she is full of enthusiasm and keen. ness to get the most out of it, The unavoidable trials and discomforts, although" maddening," at the time, have provided a fund of amusing anecdotes which she hopes one day to put in writing, and, with which in the meantime she is delighting the friends she makes wherever she goes. I was told of one deputy
maid," picked up. in Rangoon, whose stupidity exceeded that of the most irritating of celentials. When asked for lip salve, she'd gave me a boot."!
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WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD,
with having applied a trade mark, Bingora, which begins the following very similar to a registered trade Monday night, the zoti, in the mark, to his own 'goods.
Mr. F. C. E. Nedall appeared! for the complainant Kong Heung Po, who is the attorney for Wai Sai Pat, sole proprietor of the Yee Tin Tong dispensary.
Theatre Royal, with a different programme nightly, and the prices for revved seats have been fixed at 4, plus ta
The Westminster Glee Singers | last year made a series of gramo- Defendant, giving evidence, stated | phone records for Un Parlophone that the Isiness of hawking medi- Company and these have been meet- eines had been handed down from ing with romarkable BacPASA. his grandfather.
Popular amongst them are the novel sailors” shanteys, such na Billy, Boy," Fine Down Below," "Shenandoah," which will be sang" in the Hong Kong programmes. Interpreted on thes, records by the full strength of the sixteen beauti-
They dealt in plasters only, and there was no change effected on the wrapper of the pinster, when he took over. the business from his father. He had never heard of the dispensary until two
Yes Tin Tony mhe plaster was fully blended 10 voipes, then items
months ago. manufactured by him and distri- make a remarkable appeal. buted in Macao, Canton, Hong Mr. Branscombe expressce his Kong and other pinces.
views on jazz music and the buneful Vader cross examination defe influence that American music is dant said that his grandfather had having on the country in no un never registered the trade mark and certain terma. He openly attacks he also had not registered it.
Given one of his own plasters jazz as haing too tawdry to be defendant said that it was meation-spoken of as music at all and ed on the plaster that it was regis-shudders at their mispronunciation tored with the Govermirmont He denied haying copied the trnute of English. And his in not the anark of the Yes Tin Tong dispen- lament of a disgruntled man,
MT. T. CL Tendait said that t
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his client did not wish to press for triumphantly successful This undertaken, a public exasperated A heavy fine.
Defendant was couted and with too great a surfeit of rubbish aned 825, the magistrate giving an having rallied pound his perform order that defendants plasters and ances to an extent most favourable
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