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INTERESTING TALK ON
MUSIC IN WORDS
Miss Curtin At English
Association Meeting
Enthusiasm was shown by severa! listeners after an in- teresting tak by Mas Kathleen 1 Curtin, BA entitled “Misle In Words," which was delive.ed to a large audience at the "fifth meeting of the English: Association yesterday, for the fo.mation of an verse speaking association locally.
The talk was given at the Helena May Institute, and was presided over by Lady Southorn, who also vo.ced her agreement with the scheme. Lady Southern expressed regret at the inabi - ity of Sir Whitism Hornet and Sis Toomas Southorn to be press sent. Mrs. Q.A.A. Macfadyen (Hon. Secretary) supported Lady Southorn in the chair, while among those who attended were the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo and Mriyle, Lady Pollock and Mts, Pliter,
In giving an interesting and luminative tak, Miss Custin quoted a arge number of poets, both ancient and modern, and an Innovation, which forcibly demonstrated the different tones of the speaking voice, was the use of phonograph.e records re- producing the "music in verse."
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Addressing the gathering, Miss Curtin read out a portion of an essay by Arthur Machen
she said she thought wou durni a fitting comment to stur; her leé- ture. with.
All of us, she said. however un- musical, had at one time or an other been haumed oý a please of beautifu, melody we had card. The speaker quoted a fow verses from the poem "Romance" by W.
Turner to demonstrate the effect
o the music in words.
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ULTRA-MODERN POETRY
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1936.
URBAN COUNCIL
Power To Institute jummary Proceedings
Conferred
The fortnightly meeting of the urban Council was held yesterday it the Board Room of the Sani- tury Department, Post Office Build- ing presided over by Mr. W. J. Carrie, head of the Sanitary De- partment.
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Among the matters discussed
was the minuig of the chairman relative to deputing authority to any officer lawfully performing the duties of Chief Inspector or Sentor Inspector to institute summary proceedings for breaches of by- laws,
OBITUARY
Miss A.A. Baptista
It is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Miss Adelaide A. Baptista, a member of 11 well-known local Portuguese ta", which occurred at her re- sidenca, No. 5, St. Joseph's Terrace on Monday, after a brief illness."
H. K. ELECTRIC
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Statement And Accounts
At the Forty-Seventh Ordinary Yearly Meeting of shareholders of tle Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., which is to be held on Wednesday March 11 at 11 am at the Com pany's Offices, the following state- The Inte Miss Baptista, who was 83 years of age, was a sister of Mr. ment and accounts of the Com- J Baptista of the Insurance De-pany for the year ended December 31, 1935 will be submitted to the partment of Messrs. Jarding Ma-meeting by the Directors. theson and Company Limited,
Although she had lived a very secluded life, especially during her latter years, the late Miss Baptista was greatly loved in her family circle, which included a host of nephews and nieces.
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THE FUNERAL The funeral took place yesterday It was agreed that the authority afternoon at the Roman Catholic be deputed.
Cemetery and Rev. Father G. M. Spada performed the burial ser- vices at the grave-side.
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-The principal mourners at the funeral were Mr. J. Baptista (bro- ther), Messrs. M.P., A.A., D. C. Baptista and J. C. Rozario (nephews) and several
Those who attended included:~ Hon. A. R Wellington, C.M.G., Vice-Chairman; Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson, E. P. W.; Hon. Mr. R. A C. North, S. C. A.; Hon. Mr. T. H. King I. G. P.; Hon. Mr. M. KĨ Lo. Mr. F. C. Hall. Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy,reces. Dr. Li Shu Fan, Mr. A. el Argulli, Dr. S. N. Chau, Mr. C. J. Roe Sec- retory; Mr. Im Ping-tseung Asst. Secretary.
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LICENCES' APPLICATIONS Applications for licences or various purposes were retused on
other
The balance at credit of Proft and Loss Account is. $1,994,451.29 this amount $450,000 has been ap- after allowing for Depreciation. Of
propriated for the payment of an Interim Dividend of $1.00 per share on 23rd September, 1935.
Your Director recommend that the Balance avaliable for appro- priation amounting to $1.544,451.29 be disposed of as follows:-- To pay a Final Divi- dend of $150 per share
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450,000
shares To pay a Bonus of 50- cents per share on 450,000 shares....... To pince to Reserve... To carry forward to
next Accoun
$675,000.00
225,000.00 400,000.00
244,451.29
$1,544,451.29
Directors. During the year the Hon Mr. C. G. S. Mackle resigned Mr. M. T. Johnson was appointed his seat on leaving the Colony and
fill the vacancy. This appoint-
THOSE PRESENT
Among the large gathering of re- intives and, friends who assembled together to pay their respects were Messrs. F. M. F. de Graca, J. A M, Graca, A. F. Ösmund, A. J. C. Rocna, L. Ribeiro, A. J. V. Ribeiro, 4. F. Castilho, J. Barros, "G. E. Rocha, J. Webster, P. M. Marques, A M. de Silva, C. EL. Osmund, E M. de Rocha, H. Dixon, R. Aleraka,ment requires the confirmation of D. M. Tavares, V. F. V. Ribeiro, G. Shareholders. In accordance with F. Tavares, G. E. Carvalho, J. I the Articles of Association Sir Alves, M. and Miss Manson' and 'Shou-son Chow, Kt and Mr. S. H, others.
Dodwell retire and being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.
Auditors-The Auditors, Messrs. ing eligible, offer themselves. for Linstead and Davis retire and be-
re-election.
Dearing with the tchn que of the new music ultra-nionern poe- try. The speaker said she would like to touch on an entirely new theory of poetica, techn que, which was being deve opp n u.tra-mo- dern poetry and prose. The o.d poetic diction with its wine and roses, its nightingales and chalices had given way to clean-cut economic verse-structure and word usage. The old poctic subjects too had given way to a new range of The speaker asked why was subjects. in which the word and That in spite of the perfect mus-works of man were as much ob- cal combination of beautiful words
jects of the poet's veneration and to be found in every page of the
wonder as the works of great, literature of all languages
Another characteristic of this new people did not go about their
poetry was the growing use of fairs every day with one of those
words that were more sound than phrases ringing in their ears.
image. Like al new things * was. she said. because people did was exciting, and might well lead not hear great terature; they
to something as great as any poe-
It was agreed that the applica-Leopoldo Eugenio Rozarlo. Prima merely read it, or perused it with tica work of art in the past. She son for the registration of No. 109. J. M. Rodrigues, Albertina-Ernest, Intir eyes only. She thought that did not mention the Bible or the Johnston Road, ground floor as K. Okamoto, Celeste Maria Ozarlo the invention of printing had des- works of Milton, Keats and Shakes-a dairy, be deferred for a fortnight and others. troyed to a 'great extent one of
peere in this connut on because to enable members of the Council the nest cultural influences and
she realized they had the finest pleasures of mankind-the enjoy cuality of art wherein no 'effects' ment of musle of words.
were obvious. They had that ap- parent simplicity that marked the work of the supreme artist.
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Continuing the speaker said that in ancient Greece, as Aristotle tells In his "Poetics" the early traged lens used themselves to sustain the dialogue in their plays. They would recite their work to their audience and it was largely on the music the people of the language that would judge of their excellence. So it was too with one of the ear- est forms of poetry in England. Scotland and Ireland-the ballad Thus this form of poetry was born from the most primitive and na- tural artistic Impulses in the heart of the common people, a sense of rhythm and the feeling for music which expressed themselves in dance and song. If further proof were needed of
this inseparable connection between poetry and
natura
cont' usion, the speaker gave a resume of the movements which were now being made to revive the art of verse and prose speaking. These experiments were chiefly at tempts to educate adults to a rea
the recommendation of the Select Commitsce and conarmed" by the Council, from the following appil- cations: at Lot, No. 5918, Bal Kung Road (ood preserving licence); No. 16, Sung Hung Lane, second floor (offensive trade licence) and No. 13, Third Street, first foor (food factory licence).
to visit the premises and form an opinion of their own. The Chair-
man stated that both the Seleus
Committee and the Council were divided in their opinion on the matter. The use of the word
datry" was perhaps rather mis- leading and should really read milk shop". He himself had not visited the premises in question but understood that it was a com- pradore shop.
terature is music. Most important work in this direc- tion was being done by Marjorie
"Dr. Wellington stated that ne Gullan. Principal of the Polytech had visited the place, and formed re School of Speech Training in the opinion that it was hardly suit- London and founder of the Glas- able for a dairy. The shop ap- gow Verse Speaking Choir. Besides peared to be shared between a er training of adults she had in- tailor and fruit seller. An icebox terested herself in a movement was kept on the premises for the which was vitally important—that ¦ Purposes of storing some milk bot- of speech training in schools. In tles which in turn were retalled. the past there had been some at- The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo recalled
music, they needed only to think/tempt to train children in speak- that in the now defunct Sanitary
of the name given to a vast body o' poetry" yric" which
meant
ing, but unfortunately it. had a Board some by-laws were formed most invariably led to an artificial permitting the sale of milk in such and overstrained method of elocu-shops, providing that the bottles "belonging to the lute or lyre."lon. Matters
were often made
were sealed and had beef obtained Lyric poetry fulfilled the same
worse by the addition of unnatur-
from a reputable dairy. Imitative function as the lute" or
al and even grotesque gestures ap- tyrc, "only uiing words instead of
piled with udicrous effect to non-{
After further discussion Mr. instrument.
dramatic verse, breaking the rhy, Bellamy moved that the matter be thm which was the essential eler deferred and that the premises.be ment of the music. Marjorie visited...
Gullan on the other hand had in- troduced a method of speech and rhythm training whith. If widely adopted, would, the speaker fel sure, accomplish the end which teachers desired, namely to give children a true love of literature, which they would develop and broaden when they 'eft school and which would be an inspiration to their whole lives.
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OWNER TO BE CONSULTED
The application for a restaurant licence at Nos. 423 and 425, first 4oors, and Nos. 427 and 429, ground and arst floors, Hennessy noad, was deterred for a monra, the Chairman stating that both the Select Committee and the
Wreaths were sent by Mr. and Mrs. Manson and Family, Mr.
THE STANHOPE GOLD MEDAL
First Award To A Woman
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London, Feb. 12. The Royal & Humane Society's Stanhope Gold Medal for 1935 was yesterday awarded to Miss Evelyn Graham Irons, M.A., a London otirnalist, who last July rescued á ·woman from drowning ini a rough sea at Tresalth Beach, Car- digan Bay.
Miss Irons is the first woman tụ receive the Stanhope Gold Medal, and the first woman sirice Grace Darling to receive the gold medal of the society.
Miss Irons was referred to as "Case No. 52938" at the annual court of the society at Walergate House, Adelphi The rescue was described in the papers which were before the members of the court.
On July 29 Mrs. MacSweeney, a good swimmer, while bathing in a rough sea, was caught in a cross- current, and swept seaward. Misa Irons, who was swimming about 50 yards away, heard her cries and swam over and supported her while calling" for assistance. A strong council were divided in their opin-reakers and callee. A small boat Awimmer tried to get through the
ion on the matter. According to
was launched anu capsized, and the Sentor Inspector who had ttempts to launch a larger boat visited the premises, he had found failed. ditions than since his last visit. that they were in no better con-
But in fairness to the proprietor, Mr. Carrie said that the former had not been officially informed about the defects that existed on the premises.
IMPORTANCE OF SOUND The speaker next showed how important a part of that artistic beauty the sound was, and how much of the writer's mood, char acteristics and thought could be conveyed by the sound alone. She quoted several authorities by an- clent and modern poets to show the importance played by the sound:
So the stated in Latin they noticed the flexibility, the case and rapidly of" movement; the romantic sound of the Greek verse compared with the more sonorous, more weighty more dig nified movement of the Latin. So too, there was dointiness, precision, neatness and finish in French verse; clarity and
In sweetness English; softness and haunting melancholy in Irish, and sturdy robustness, curiously ming ad with somewhat sentimenta; pathos, in
He would therefore suggest that Scottish portry. Engih iterature tak. and said that practica. con- the matter be deferred for a month alose ranged from what was term-sequences should be forthcoming. and that the proprietor be inform then probably have saved herself, ed jazz puetry to grand organ One of the things which he miss.ded by letter "to put his house in music and complicated synphon-in this part of the world, which order." Difficulty had been ex- ies. The speaker gave a few in- stances, to demonstrate this effect. Continuing Mis Curtin, gave a
A phonographic record of of Miss Gullan's choirs was then played which demonstrated elo- quently the practibility of her methods of teaching.
VOTE OF THANKS Discussion on the lecture was then Lävited by Lady Southorn. Professor R. K. Simpson thanked Miss Curtin for her interesting
some-
perienced in the past in getting in touch with the man as he was never on the premises when the
The letter would be based on the
they would be able to enjoy at Home, were the verse speaking oc- casions at musica; festivals, and brief account of some of the tech. he thought, that they, as the Eng, Inspector called, nical devices ured by poets and ilsh Association, might do prose-writers to produce certain thing on the lines Miss Curtin had musical effects. Alteration, the suggested. There was no doubs, various reports submitted to the repetition of letters or sounds. he said, that at least fifty per cent. Council. When put to the vote,
this Course was could be used, it carefully handed. of the music they had listened to very musically. The repeated "m" this afternoon had been in Miss agreed upon.
Curtin's voice. It had been a very sounds, "the moan of doves. In im- memorial e ms, and the murmur of great pleasure to listen to one innumerable bees," was a perfect whose voice was so highly cultivat
"ed. example. Repetition of the
unanimously
of the Engilsh Association during ","t" and the use of onomato- | Mr. J. Russell, second rig the the temporary absence from the poeic words and sounds was com- vote of thanks, also suggested Colony of Mrs. AA Macfadyen verse speaking association in Hong on leave. While thanking Mrs zon. The onomatopoe'c device had been, extended considerably by Kong if it were possible. Other Macfadyen for her excelent work more modem poets in their imita speakers a so supported this sug
Sauthorn, a'so extended a welcome
Extraordinary General Meeting
An Extraordinary General Meet- Ing of the Company will be held Immediately upon the termination of the 47th Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing for the purpose of considering and, thought it, passing the following Resolutions, namely:-
1. "That la desirable to "'capitalize the sum of $1,- "'500,000, being part of the "undivided profits of the "Company standing to the "credit of the Reserve Fund, *and accordingly that B "bonus of $1,500,000 be de- "clared and that such bonus "be applied on behalf of the "persons who on the 29th 'day of February, 1936, are "the registered holders of the "450,000 Issued shares of the "Company in payment in full "for $150,000 shares of the "Company of $10 each and "that such 150,000 shares "credited as fully paid be ac- "cordingly allotted to such "persons respectively in the "proportion of one of such "shares for every three of "the said 450,000 shares then "held by such persons res- that such "pectively and "shares shall rank for divi- "dend as from the lat day of "January, 1936.
2. “That if, on such distribu- "tion as aforesaid, any per- "san would be entitled to a "fraction of a share, the "Directors shall,' in lieu of
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The beach was crowded, but no one could do anything effectual, irs. MacSweeney became uncen- clous, and Miss Irons continued support her, the waves breaking wer them continuously.
"At this stage," the report stat- fed, "there was small prospect of. any rescue; Miss Irons, who could
decided to slay by her friend and have her, of perish in the attempt. After about an hour the current changed and swept the two ladies society last September. There
silver three other nearer inshore. A strong swim-were mer put on a line and succeeded dallists, who were considered as in swimming out to them, others candidates for the gold medal. on the peach holding the Une and One of them was a Fijian, Jone forming a human chain close to Draunimasi, who tried to rescue the breakers, and all were hauled his nephew, Williame Jate, from ashore, Mrs. MacSweeney - was a barracuda, which, according to unconscious and was with diffi- the Governor of Fiji, who reported culty brought round; Miss Irons the case to the society, the natives was very exhausted."
7 fear more than the shark; Jone and Willişme were diving for
• June, saw the barracuda shells. attack Willams and seize his arm, which was severed at the shoulder, Jone dived, seized his faephew 'in nis arms, and, using his legs only.
The report added:-"Fresh gale 'owing. Bea rough and choppy, Rescue at least 300 yards out from shore and in deep water.
The secretary said that there as not a Stanhope Gold Medal
during her term of once, in the days of Grace Darling, but swam for the reef, followed by the
WAS awarded
the
gold i fish. - Two other: natives - brought.
tive rhythm's where one heard gestion.
On a proposal by Lady Southor, to Mrg. Barker: remarking she she Mase- rhythms instead of words. Held's "Cargoes" was a good ex- Mrs. Barker was appointed acting would be of great actiefance and medal. Miss Irchs was award a boat as quickly as possible, but
treasurer joy to 'the Association. bonorary secretary-and
ample.
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