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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TODAY (November 17.)'
Rotary Club Tiffin, Lane, Craw lord's Restaurant, 1 p.m.
Tennis at RC.
Cricket Elong Kong. Shang ha (Hong Kong C.C. ground) 10,30 Open Air Concert on H.K.C.C. grounds at 9.30 p.m.,
Hockey Radio Sports Argyl]-
HI, (Caroline Hill). Queen's Theatro: "Strangers May Kiss."
World Theatre: Emperor Chin Lung travelling Kinng Nam, episode 9 (Chinese film).
Star Theatre: "One Mad Kiss. Central Theatre: "So This Is Paradise, Part II. (Chinese film); | King's Theatre: Girls Damand Excitement.'
A.D.C. presenta Theatre Royal.
Dear Brutus,
Ton Dance at Hong Kong Hotel Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel
Tides-High at 1.10; Low at
0.34.
WEDNESDAY, (November 18.)
Interport Cricketers Dinner Government House.
at
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Cricket. United Services Shanghai (Hong Kong C.C.).
Football-First Division: Navy Argylls. (Sockunpoo), 415 p.m. Horkay H.K. Hockey Club H.K.S.R A. (U.S.R.C.), é p.m.
Rugby Club "A" Kowloon Rugby Club (Happy Valley),.5 p.In,
Tennis at U.S.R.C.
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Criminal Sessions Open at Supreme Court.
VOICES FROM THE PAST.
ENGLAND'S STORE OF HISTORIC
GRAMAPHONE RECORDS.
WHERE LONG-DEAD CELEBRITIES ARE HEARD AGAIN,
Melba, Patti and Curuɛd, Tenay son and Kolvin, Asquith and Ral- misled by the account of Me Shaw, Above hil, provided they are not four-they are all dead now, the generations to me will be able to accents that charmed their genera flourn just how the people of the tion are silent, writes Campbell early twentieth century spoke Eng- Dixon in the London Daily Felelish. Phonetically and historically grazik.
the pollection will be beyond price. But in a quiet room at the British Museun their voices are still re- to know how eloquent Demosthenes How much would we given to-day
in Middlesex I was allowed to con-compared with Fox, and Burke with corded in inetul; and in a studio and Cicero really were, how Pitt
jure them up in illustrious pro Macaulay? And how much more cassion, with a score of others would wo give to know not merely Lord Roberts warning the nation what they said, but how they aid it? of its perii in. 101, the great Did pater rhyme with cater? Wao, Tamagno in decline, Dan Leno in Julius really called Kaiser? Should the hunting song that convuland
we use the Italian and søt 2 and now can only be described as drcury.
1!
and "a" and pronounce Publius in the modern (or North Country)
It was an odd experience and a manner? We shall probably never little saddening: "unenfortable know." like listening to ghosts.
The British Museum's oldest matrix the metal negative from which ordinary positive records ars
Fire Brigade "Annual Drill Dis. printed-is one made by the Int. play, Central Police Station Com-Lord Tennyson. The circular motal pound, 3 p.r
Queen's Theatre:
**Strangers. May Kiss."
World Theatre: Emperor Chin Lung travelling Kiang Nam," episode (Chinese film),
Star Theatre: One Mad Kise," 9.90 p.m. Mantel, Co,
King's Theatre: The Brat." Central Theatre: "So This Is Paradise..
A.D.C. Presents "Dear Brutus," Theatre Royal
Ten Dances at King's Restaurant Lane, Crawford's and Hong Kong Hotel. Dinner Dances at Penin sula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel. Tides-High at 201 and 7.12: Loy at 10.42 and 10:17.
THURSDAY. (November 10.5 Cricket-Shanghai Kowloon Cricket Club.
Interport Cricket Dinner, Hong Kong Hotel.
Golf First Round of Railway Cup.
A.D.C. Presents "Dear Brutus,' Theatre Royal.
Queen's Theatre: Strangers May Kiss."
World Theatre; 64 Emperor Chin Lung travelling Kiang Nam episode 9 (Chinese film).
Star Theatre: Lord Byron of Broadway."
King's Theatre: "The Brat." Central Theatre; Holiday, Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel And Peninsula Hotel
Tides-High at 3.10 and 7.19; Low at 11.25 and 1.40.
matrix lies in a box benonth a desk, but as no positive was available had no chance to test. Its dubinus audibility. Nor whe ble to hear Tolstoy reading from one of his book-a record made in 1905 when he was 77
Gladstono died too early for in. elusion; and one misses the names of Kitchener, Swinburne, Meredith, Irving and Tree..
Collection Beyond Price,
Our Accent Preserved. Nor-and it is more important can we know exactly how our ances- tors spoke English. We who speak the tongue that Shakespeare wid probably speak quite a different. tongue altogether; and, as for the. pronounciation of Chaucer, it is a matter for intelligent guesswork.
While the Museum collection exists, no such obscurity can even veil the standard-accent of to-day But where is the record of the local dialects that are fast disappearing Many people have been lamenting the passing of county dialects which will soon be only legendary. It seems a pity that a growth so The living are better represented.very English should be allowed to There are speeches by the King and pass away and leave no aural trace. Queen, the Prince of Wales (og | It is, perhaps, oven worse that sportsmanship), Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Rameny MacDonald (on unemploy meat), Mr. Bernard Shaw (on Spoken and Broken English "), and records of many of the lead ing singers and writers of the inst quarter of a contury.
Most the records have been Presented to the Museum on the condition, that no use shall be made
wo should have made no adequate": attempt to capture for posterity the hundreds of Indian, African, and other native tongues which will soon be for ever, silent.
And what of the films A thou sand years hence professors will be writing monographs on * Intoler- ance" and Ben Hur" and Chno- lin. But the only sound film in the. of them for fifty years. It will be Museum is that epic of the Bur- possible then, and in later ages, to mese jungle, "Ching," Unleas print all "the copies desired. stops are taken soon, posterity will Posterity (allowing for mechanical not even have the opportunity of imperfections) will bo able to cati- studying an exhibit labelled" How mato the artistry of Melba, the He Lied to Her Husband," by G. golden torrent of Caruso, the elo B. Blinw (example of Primitive quence of Balfour and Asquith. Humour early twentieth century)..
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