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During the tab by three days available, travellers may disembark at Suoz, take motor car or 'train to Cairo, Sufficient time is available to see
SATURDAY, JUNĖ 1, 1929.
WORLD'S BEST
ORCHESTRA.
AMBITIOUS SCHEME FAMOUS
LONDON BAND.
London, Apr. 30.-. London, it is hoped, will give the world is greatest orchestra as the result of an ambitious scheme which will finally be settled within a few days.
An arrangement has been made between Mr. Lionel Powell, the Impresario, the Gramophone Com pany (H.M.V) and the authorities of the Royal Opera at Covent Gar- den which will put, the famous Lon- don Symphony Orchestra on n permanent basis.
"England has the best orches tral players in the world," said Mr. Powell to a Daily Chronicle representative and we want now to give the world its "best orchestra.
"The deputy ayatem by which a member of an 'orchestra wishing not to appear may send a sub- stitute is suicidal to music!
"Under the new scheme the de- puly system will not be allowed. This means that members, of the orchestra will always play together; they will always rehease togather; and they will be able to develop thất spirit of team work which has made so many foreign orchestras famous. "The orchestra will play during the opern season at Covent Garden; they will give concerta under my direction at home and abroad, and they will make records for the Gramophone Company,
"Contracts, which have yet to be sigued, are for three years."
They involve, it is believed, a considerable amount of money..
The first appearance of the or- chestra under the new scheme will be at the Queen's Hall on October,
14.
Mr. Powell added that if the B.B.C. desired to engage the
·L.S.O. for broadenating there would be no objection. The or- chestra, it is not unlikely, may appear in British "talkie" films. At present only a proportion of the members of the L.S.O. play at Covent Garden during the opera sasson, but in subsequent years the orchestra will be exclusively kaged. It will consist, as at pre- ent of from 75 to 100 members, and there will be no permanent conductors; leading conductora of the day are to be engaged quired.
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Tours, in which the orchestra will show America and Europe what British musicians can do, will probably be arranged.!
10,000-YEAR LEASE FOR SUSSEX ESTATE.
EXHIBITION OF OLD COUNTY DEEDS.
Interesting light on life in Eng- land in the Middle Ages is reveal- ed by an exhibition of old Sussex deeds and estate maps, arranged by Lady Wolseley and displayed in the public library at Hove, The deeds are on parchment, excellent- ly preserved, and in inost· cases executed with infinite care. În many cases they still bear the old court scals.
The earliest deed in the colleg tion dates from 1282. It is in the asual Norman Latin and relates to Pashley Manor. Anather is dat- ed 1455, and bears the signatures of Geoffrey and Thomas Boleyn, relatives of the unhappy Anne' Boleyn. Another ancient docu- ment strikes deep into English history, being the original au- thority for the restoration of the Norfolk title* to the Howard family.
Apparently those who lived in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century had a very | firm opinion of the future stability of property tenure; because a lease of land at Steyning dated March 1, 1601, is for a term of 10,000 years. The old estate maps are in many cases illustrated and 31- luminated in manner reminis- cent of the manuscripts of medie- val monasteries. ..
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Some of the estate maps in the present. exhibition show farm- yards with their buildings, to- gether with drawings of the agri- cultural implements then in use. These drawings are of great value in tracing the history of mechani- ent devices applied to the land- a history which is almost incredi- bly alow of development fram
| Biblieut times to about the third decade of the nineteenth century. The maps give striking evidence of the aldw-changing nature of the Baglish countryside in, districts' where urban development has not taken place, Outlines of fields and roads can be traced which have not been altered in many centuries,
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