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Paris, April 15, The romance of Victor Hugo's A dispute between London of Bishop Fabregues in China.
Several papers strass the work | Joan Valjean is recalled by a de- music publishere and the B.B.O. In the Echo de Paris, Bishop cree granting a pardon to an ex- threatens to exclude all dance Fabregues makes an appeal for convict named Chantecaille, who, aftor oscaping several times from music from wireless programmes, money subscriptions for a college the ponal colony of Guiana, had The Music Publishers' Assoola, the intends to found at Poking. established himself in a provin-, tion decided recently to send an Havas cial town and was loading an ultimatum to the B.B.C. stating honest life. His identity had re- that unless the latter agree to cently been discovered, and he certain royaltios on popular music had been ordered once more the publishers will immediatoly Lo go back to the torrible withdraw permission to broad life of the penal sotoast their copyright numbers. tlement. But great efforts, which
Wright the have now been successful, wero publisher, explained to the Press made to persuade the President later that': ito pardon the man.
Under last year's contract It was in 1886 that Chantecaille the B.B.C. paid a royalty of 48. was sont to the penal settlement per station per programme. Tor in Guiana for theft. He escaped every dance tune broadcast, and four years lator, and, getting on 58. for ballads and standard an English sailing ship, reached music." Liverpool. A few months later fie was recaptured and sent back
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to the penal settlement. Twice for dance numbers and 3s. for inter he escaped, only to be re-standard pieces. The publishers captured on each occasion. Yet rock-bottom figures are 3. for again he escaped, and this time dance music and 4s. for standardments which afflict almost every reached Venezuela. After lead-music." ing an honest life there for eight yaars ho came back to Paris but was again caught and sont bäck to Guiana,
PRESIDENT'S PARDON.. Once more, he escaped and for ten years worked for a banker in Venezuela who was also the Dutch Consul there. In 1920 he returned to Franch and settled at Puymoven, near Angouleme, where he married and had two children. In 1924 he had an at- tack of neurasthenia, and doelar- od he was an escaped convict, He was arrested.
"The number of listoners-in increases from millions daily; the numbor of copies of shoot music sold decreases proportion- atoly," added Mr. Wright.
"Broadcasting often has a sorious effect on the run of a song. The gramophone shortened the life of a popular song from about two yours to about six months; wireless has reduced it to weeks.
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"Broadcasting has a tendency to kill new songs before they are really born, and if this tendency In the village he and his family is not counterbalanced by adequate were highly respected, and hoffees, song publishers must refuse was recognized as a hard-work- to allow their numbers to be ing and honest man. He was, broadcast, however, taken to prison, and was awaiting an escort back to Quiana when the President's pardon arrived. His previous Sentence had been committed to oual lanishment from the place whore the theft was committed, but this will not prevent him from living at Poymoyen.
The cup kindly presented by the late Mr. A. E. Algar for the amatour golf championship of China has now beer. received by the Shanghai Golf Club and was on view at the premises at Messre. Lane, Crawford & Co. for a few days.
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Já Jamaica native family
A Canadian Paciße touring steamihip auchárod'off Mardinique
uring the latter balf of the soventeenth century Port Royal, Jamalca, was the wickedest spot on earth. That was when the "Brethern of the Coast,' bands of buccaneers and pirates, made their rendez- vous thera Today, the remains of that spot. 'stand away from the land, n dẹt on the deep, pear the mouth of Kingston Harbour. There i a sandy beach which looks like molten gold farthe sunshine. There sa wide lagoon which looks like molten ginge ju the moonlight. Palms, marshalled in orderly rows, like stakes in a flooded racadow, reach half-way down The magle of the Bahamas has found its way into the lagoon. There is an ominous quiet and stulness the hearts of writers and poets. The coloured little which belies the scenes of the furious battles for gold, houses, the gleaming streets, the sunny skies, the when long ago, mahogany-coloured men with cut-groat, blus sen, many have attempted to picture faith- lasses and forbidding looks, some in rugs, others in fully. Mark Twain, the immortal American humorist, eilka, boarded proud Spanish galleons and took their and Bliss Carman, the Canadian poet, are among wealth
these. Mr. Carman sings this song of the lalanda:
Jamaica le a land of springs and forests, where long before the white man set feot, the native Caribs loved the paradise in which they hunted, fished, and danced, made canoes and smoked the leaf of a plant named "cohiba." And, to signify the abundance of good things in the land, the Caribe called the land Хумаса,
Canadian Pacific liner Montroyal, which left New York on January 28 for the first West Indies cruise this winter, la now carrying delighted tourists to this little island of happiness. The vessel also calls at the Bahamas, a long stratch of verdant lalands, Irising only about one hundred feet above the shore
live,
"What do you sell, John Campiejohn,
In Bay Street by the sea?
Oh, turtle-shell is what I soll,
In great variety.
"Tis none of these, John Camplejohn,
Though curious they be But something more I'm looking for
In Bay Street by the sea.
"Where can I buy the magic charm
Of the Bahaman sej
That fills mankind with peace of mind
And neni's felicity?
Look from your door and tell mD HOW
The color of the sea-
Where can I buy that wondrous dye
And take it home with me?"
There дго about 3,000 Islands in the group of Bahamas, but many of theas are only tiny white coral outcroppings from the ocean. Among these in Watling's Island, the first spot of land that Columbus saw on his voyage of discovery. Namau, the capitai. city,
la a white, sunny place, with long avenues on which are planted rows of royal palms. The houses to the West Indies, there will be so many more eager are like coloured illustrations from a book of fairy travellers roady, to visit John Camplojohn, In Bay talos. All are low, but some are white, others pink, Street by the sea, that there has been arranged an and some are even ornago and blue,
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