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Fleta's Concert.
Telegraph.]
That being granted, Chinese might well welcome a government mono- poly in aviation until the country wore settled down, and with this new executive arm the feudal lords might be crushed and the country [To The Editor of Hongkong stabilised. The scheme is not without precedent. The country of Irak has been pacified by the British Air Force acting for its Government. "Quotations from Sir Philip Sassoon's new record, of his air journeys show that the sub-readers. stitution of the air. arm for 赫 ground force has in Irak saved the British Government millions of pounds, and proved startlingly efficient. A development on simi- lar lines might solve the problema of the government at present.
Sir, I have hesitated before again replying to "Allegro" because
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The Very Idea!
THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY IN WHICH MAN OR WOMAN CAN DEVELOP REAL
According to an elderly corres- STRENCTII, AND THAT IS TO FIGHT UNCEASINGLY AND TO STAND AD-pondent who has been smoking SOLUTELY ALONE.-Gertrude Ather cigarettes since he was at school. in 1870, their drat appearance in ordinary tobaccentats' shops was about that time. Then, too, the Russian cigarette was being pri- vately imported by a select few who had met with it at Ems: Baden-Baden, and other resorts of the Russian nobility.
The Dollar Steamship Company it is so obvious that we look upon is circulating some useful bridge music and art generally from suchpada entirely different viewpoints that to continue discussion seems like H.E. the Governor, Lady Clemen- beating the air and wearying your ti and Miss Clementi are due here
by the Empress of Asin on Mon- The first sign of eigarette smok- day morning, after their holidaying becoming really fashionable in Manila.
I am flattered that "Allegro" should credit me with Bach as favourite composer. Our personal tastes cannot be of much interest to your readers, but I may, perhaps, be allowed to say that I have no "favourite"-I love the works of at least thirty of them from Bach and Corelli down (chronologically) to Elgar and Frank Bridge (list im-on application!) so that. I don't "Allegro" seriously contends that feel narrow! we ought to go and bear Signor Fleta because he is going to sing "excerpts" (horrid word!) from operos like "Manon" and Tosen"!
Apart however from the mediate problems of the Chinese Government the permanent pro- blem of policing the country will remain to whatever government secures itself. One of the real
1,000,000 difficulties of disbandment at prArin or what not out of the middle
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The following forthcoming wed ding is announced. Mr. Harry Owen Hughes, No. 402, The Peak, to Miss Frances, Isabel Oakley, No. 367, The Peak.
The Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith and the Misses Hayley Bell were Lieut-Col. and Mrs. Hayley Bell, amongst the passengers by the P and O. s.s. Kalyan from Shanghai,
was about 1872, when the Prince of Wales discovered a new kind. with a spiral mouthpiece, sold ex- clusively at Rheinboldt's celebrat ed shop opposite the 'Baden-Bade.1 Kursanl. He brought some back with him,and soon afterwards the "Rheinboldt"
was sought for eagerly by the English Young bloods of the day.
"Brigadier-General" writes to the same effect, and he recalls that the cigarettes sold in the 'Sovan- ties were provided with a
card-
To begin with, 'excerpts" must ob-board mouthpiece about a third of viously be bad art. To take an
seat is that the withdrawal of of an opera, away from its context troeps from the centres occupied and deprived of scenic effects, stagecraft and other aids of that throws the district concerned into hybrid art (opera), and sing it on
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. panic. It is not that the soldiers a bare concert platform merely
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are efficient, or in themselves very different from the bandits they are required to control. But their commanding officers necessarily have a degree of responsibility which does not attach to bandit chiefs, and for the sake of their reputation and their standing with
their superiors they want to make a show of keeping order in their district and being personte pratat with the people. The presence of troops has a moral effect on the
because it shows off the range and flexibility of one's voice may bring financial success to a concert but does not reflect artistic glory on the performer. It is not as if there' were not hundreds of beautiful songs for
tenor voice, because
everyone knows that there are.
Galli-Curci must, I suppose, be the champion, "Excerpter" of the world because only in operatic music of the Italian bel canto type can she find the trills on high C'e and cascades of high notes in scales which are the,,stock in trade of the "Coloratura" soprano, You will not often find the real artists of the vocal world, people like Elena Ger-
Including two new Musical Masterpiece Hongkong Telegraph. neighbourhood. On their with harging and Carl Hentschel; in
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By Alfred Hertz & San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
FRIDAY OOT. 25, 1929.
AIRCRAFT AND POLICE IN CHINA.
citals. drawal the villages, which rely on
All this may seem ultra-purist the enforcement by public' opinion and "highbrow," but the point I of the decisions of the village want to make is that, in my humble efders, but who are without deview, a leader of musical opinion in a place like Hongkong would do fence against bands of outlaws or well to try and educate communists," are thrown into a musical public up to the point of distinguishing good art from bad state of acute nervousness. The art and good music from vocal or and #gymnastics result is a very wasteful kind of instrumental
sobstuff. Instead of "backing"
a non-
No. 55 Symphony No 6 in GMajor Two apparently insoluble pro- gendarmerie, always liable to be "Excerpters" and indulging himself
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An aerial police, although it has manifest dangers to the life of
blems face the attempt of the Government of China to achieve unifieation. One is the feadal paychology of the military leaders, scurce one of whom with troops the community, might under give themselves a chance to hear at his back can be relied on to good government be, the most carry out Government orders until efficient means of keeping order, he has satisfied himself that their land of strengthening the hands of tenour coincides with his own ambl- the village elders, with what local tion. The other is the notorious defence corps they may happen lack of communications in the to have, so that the countryside huge area which the Government might have peace. Its develop- nominally controls. Is it possiblement would take time, until the
a peril to the government if its in such phrases as 'heavy classical atuff," I should like to see him army chief falls foul of it.
pointing out that Haydn and Mozart are, perhaps, the "lightest" of all composers and that "Classi- cal" music (which so many do not owing to a snobbish dread of being thought "highbrow"!) has only be- come classical because it is the best of the music of its epoch and has survived owing to the considered appreciation of successive genera tions-in other words the popular note-Yours, etc..
MUSICAL CRITIC. Hongkong, Oct. 24th, 1929.
that
The Hongkong Dollar.
Sir, I think even "Observer" will agree that I am justified in replying to "Sanity's last effort.
THE "TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT.
Comprehensive Selection
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The pictures appearing in to-morrow's ússue of the Telegraph Art Supplement
·will cover a variety of topics and deal with events not only in Hongkong but in various South China ports.
Of local illustrations there will be photographs of the KOS.B. "B" Company's foot- ball team, the Signal Section football XI of the Somerset Light Infantry, and of officials. and staff of the South China Athletic Association, as well as ampshots taken at the Aitkenhead Shield bowls. match and the polo final for the K.O.Y.L.I. Cup: „An. ́in- teresting old picture of Hong- kong Volunteers at Stanley in 1864, as well as a group of the "Whizz Bangs Concert Party, will also appear, and e photo showing the Navy League wreath being laid on the Hongkong Cenotaph.
Pictures of the Swatow bridge disaster, of a student' procession in Amoy, and of the Wuchow aviation field will be given, as well as photo- graphs taken at the wedding. in Canton of Mr. L. Werner 'and Miss Dorothy Paget.
We are informed by the Royal Observatory that the time-ball was out of action yesterday, owing to an electrical defect, and that it
could not be raised this morning for the same reason. Repairs are now in hand.
the length of the whole. I dare.. say many of my readers remember. the advertisement of "Our Little Beauties. Do not stick to the ipá." These cigarettes wore pres- sed flat and had one end of the paper waxed.
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Father: "Don't know the French " for cat, and you had a French nurse for years!"
Hopeful: "But, dad; we hadn't got a cat when Adelő was with 19."
A recent mention of rhymes reminds a writer in a Home paper of a certain music-hall performer of some fifty years ago who gave out to the audience that he would make a rhymed verse on any word the audience wished. On this invitation he was asked to rhyme to "Idiosyncrasies.".
The unfortunate man on the stage had evidently never heard the word before, but he was not put out of action. He made a little speech in which he said: 'I have always made it a hard and fast rule never to refer to scriptural subjects in any entertainment. I must ask you, therefore, ladies and genta, to excuse me. (Immense and sympathetic' applause.)"
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Spall BoyPlease, miss, to tha pictures."
A small firm which had been doing very badly secured an able manager, who, during the first year, wiped out the loss, and dur the second made a profit of 100
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Addressing the manager, the "The board are chairman said: very pleased with your work. I have in my hand a cheque in your
Amongst the passengers who name, and I have to tell you that arrived by the s.8. President Pierce if the business shows the samo this morning were Mr. Chan Harr, rrogress next year, it will be dated Manager and Director of the and signed!" Sincere Company; Mr. Foster
ROB ROY.
the Chinese Government network of aerodromes could be could at, one and the same time put up over the country, and effect a speedly development of doubtless it would be tried out in avintion and secure to itself a limited areas first. This aspect of
I had concluded that the object Knight, of the Chinese Maritime || Stutucum monopoly of aerial activity? By possible flying development may of his previous letter was to en-Customa, en route to Canton from such a development it could cen- be added to the interesting review phasize the negligible significance Mukden; and Mr. R. S. Ward, who WHO WAS-? tralise its power, curb revolution of the prospects for aviation in of the recent fall of the dollar ia proceeding to Canton to assume when compared with the tiuctua the post of American Vice- ary activity, and nullify the pre-China given recently to the Eng-tions of same years ago, and my Consul. gent perils of immediate disband-ineering section of the Hongkong "diatribe" was an attempt to con- ment. A development of aviation University. Apart from coastal which, even if under commercial flying it is difficult to see that the companies, would be at the dis- prospects are great until the posal of the local military chiefs country settles down and exten. will only prolong possible civilsive up-country flying becomes war, at the increasing expense of possible. the unfortunate civil population. A development under the Central Government, with at first central control over both civil and mili tary flying, would add immensely to the prestige and actual power
of the Government,
Local Factory Acts,
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vince him that those fluctuationa were brought about by an unpre-indubitable indications of discom cedented international cataclysm, fiture in an argument of this sort were not by an means confined to are irritability, abuse and that this part of the world and could frantic reaching out for outside not be accepted as a palliative support. contrast to present-day financial What on earth has my "pointless
troubles.
read
It is somewhat gratifying to find style" to do with the fall of the dol
lar? I admit having him having to resort to invictive "Sanity's" first letter with keen in and personal criticism and seek terest, but when we have so much ing, by flattery, an alliance with of real import to discuss, surely "Observer." To my mind the three the question of me and my inabl lity to express myself are un worthy of half a column in the Telegraph. I quite agree that my style leaves much to be desired, but "Sanity" has not gone far to convince me that the fall of the dollar is not worth worrying about.
Yours, etc.
ONLOOKER.
Kowloon, Oct. 24th, 1929.
Information' Wanted.
Sir,-Would any of the numer-
The measure introduced into Legislative Council yesterday pro- viding for amendments to the Industrial Employment of Children provided with guards. But as far Ordinance, 1922, contains ho
we can gather, the Colony Has really revolutionary, reforms, but no Surveyor of Machinery, to see So far as an outside observer is decidedly a step in the right that factory and allied equipment can see into the political situation direction. It draws the Colony's is kept up to a satisfactory degree the best thing for China is the legislation a little closer to the of efficiency, and safety. We draw views of the Committee set up in attention to this matter in view of rermanence of the central
au-1921 to enquire into the conditions a statement made to us récently, thority, even though the next best of the employment of children in the authenticity of which we can thing is to devise democratic mu-factories in extending the list of not guarantee. It seems that an trades which the employment of engineer observed during the chinery by which to
vary that children is prohibited. and, more operation of certain apparatus authority. Any government te Important, in prohibiting the em-n vortical Loiler "straining at the Gu's readers of your influential ployment of women and children on leash" so to speak, and as a mat-paper be kind enough to elucidate become stable must have some
night work. We understand thatter of interest, walked across to the following points in re
the variant of the proverb "The King some of the factory owners are not examine the pressure guage, which liquidation of the Hongkong Land is dead: Long live the King," some wholly reconciled to the regula- to his astonishment showed no more Development Building Co., Ltd.?. alternative, that is, to change of tions, pleading that they are liable than 10 lbs. The attention of the
(a) Has this Co. acquired any to increase overhead charges so man in charge was called to the Innd or property, or built government by revolution. Before considerably as to compel some of extraordinary power he was deriv any houses before it crash that can be attained however there the smaller
close ing from ten pounds, pressure, and
ed? must be a Government whose writ down. Industrial reforms, admit- the naive reply was vonchanted: tedly, require that the sponsors "Have been round once!" · The carries and much as оле may shall preserve a degree of caution story is probably untrue, but it sympathise with criticisms of the in order to conform with economic merely exaggerates A possibly present regime such as those of conditions, but we doubt If It is dangerous situation which require
possible to go too far in reason investigation. Chinese workers I know that many comparativoly Dr. Hu Shih or even, if they could able welfare legislation. Moan-nre not beyond interfering with poor people (like clerks, etc.) were be taken at face value, those of while there remains a great deal safety valves, in order to get ad-tempted to invest their little any- the Reorganisationists, yet a tem- to be done in other directions. We ditional power from boilers. The ings in this company and they have an inspector of factories, danger is principally to themselves will welcome information on the porary absolutism with lip service whose duty is to see that juvenile but we cannot see that that absubject-Yours, etc., to democracy seems better than labour la properly controlled and solves the Government from some 1 the present cloud of civil war. that all dangerous machinery is responsibility in the matter.
concerns to
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(b) If it had, of what value
were these? ..
(c) If it had not, then how ac- count for the great loss the Co. has sustained?
SMALL SHAREHOLDER.
Hongkong, Oct. 24th, 1929.
Outlawa, unlike poets, are made, not born. Robin Hood," the merry outlaw of the mid- land forests, was a peaceable subject until he was robbed of his title and estates; and bold Rob Roy, the Robin Hood of Scotland, was a law-abiding drover before, grasping credi- tors seized his land and stock- In-trade.
ers.
Thereafter his home saw him no more, and he lived on tho brac-side, gathering around him a band of venture- some and fearless' Highland- The early eighteenth, century was a troubled period of Scottish history, yet even in this age, when plundering the hated Saxons was no un- common thing, the exploits and escapades of Rob Roy and ́ Hiis men were famous.
In later life, Rob tired of his wild life, settled down. under the protection of the Duke of Argyll, and 'passed his last years in peace.
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Sir Walter Scott, ransacking-- Scottish annala for subjects and characters, found Rob. Roy very much to his liking, and put him into one of his first novels. The Rob Roy of the novel le a lawless but. generous-hearted man, who united to the trado. freebooting that of helping brave men to win fair ladies. It is he who removes the hero's greatest enemy, and thereby enables him to marry the heroine. As one of his admirers says "Rabbie's is the biggest, bravest heart that ever boat beneath the Mac- Gregor tartan."