THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 17,
1936
Insist on
He Wrote 87 Verses to
to Prove
You
New Army-
GEN, GEORGE 8. SIMONUS
Two now generals have been namod by the Army for Far West high commant. Maj. Gen. George S. Simomila, deputy chief of staff of the War Department General Staff, has been names commanding general of the Ninth Corps Area, with headquarters at Ban Francisco,
How Old Was Methuselah?
BIBLE STORIES IN
NEW LIGHT
The theory that instead of the
Can't Do That There 'Ere
COMPOSED IN
A
BATH
SECRETS OF FAMOUS SONG-WRITER THE composer who has written 87 verses to the tune of
"You Can't Do That There 'Ere," and is now looking for an 88th, told the secrets of songs that have swept Britain.
He is Mr. Raymond Wallace, one of the world's best- known song-writers, and when his music goes round and round, it turns out cash for him.
Mr. Wallace disclosed that he had:-
Written smash-hit songs whilo shaving.
Composed in, the bath.
Thought out a song winner on the way to the office.
Written 87 verses of “You Can't Do That There 'Ere."
That may not be the way Mr. Wallneo likes writing the Wagner and Mozart composed," he words best of all:
said, "but it js evidently a good "A lot of my songs were com method for my sort of songs,missioned by famous customers," because my nong I'm One of the Mr. Wallace continued, "Special- Nuts from Barcelona' sold 890,000 |ly written for stars like. Maric copies in Britain alone.
"Four million copies of my Apple Blossom Time in Normandy were sold in America."
Titlo First
"
Mr. Wallace explained how a popular song in composed.
First," he said, "I get the title. Occasionally it comes through Inspiration. But, as a rule, it is i hard work,
"Sometimes it takes three weeks, "Then comes the tune.
|
Lloyd, Florrie Forde, Clecly Courtnedge, Ella Shields, Ella Retford, Clarice Mayno, Ada Reeve, Vesta Tilley Juck
Pleasants, and G, S. Melvin,
"An important market for me nowadays is the dance band world.
"Comedy numbers with patter are, of course, very popular, and
—Leaders In U.S.
DEN. HENRY B CLAGGETT. -
Brig. Gen. Heary B. Claggett has assumed command of the First Wing, general headquarters air force, with headquarters, at March Field Riverside, Californin.
I supply a lot of this material to See His Son,
band leaders like Jack Paytic, Debroy Somers, and Henry Hall,
"The hardest part about writing ] "I have co-operated with Jacki a new tune is shutting the old Payne many times. The most not familiar tunes out of one's hend. able occasion was when we pro-i *Tunes come to me in all sorts|duced_that_nong 'You Can't Doi of queer places. I have thought That There 'Ere."
of a melody when I was shaving, In my bath, in a Tube train.
"One of my best songs was telephoned home."
single Abraham of the Bible story Mint Accused
there must have been at least two, and possibly three, separate in- dividuals, is put forward by Sir Leonard Woolley, excavator of Ur of the Chaldees, in "Abraham,
Of Fraud
Recent Discoveries and Hebrew COINS ISSUED ON ITS OWN Origins," published by Faber.
Sir Leonard is deeply concerned to preserve the essential historical nc- curacy of the Old Testament narra- tive, at least as far back as the time
ACCOUNT
Budapest, Apr. 9. The Magyarorszag reports
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"I've already written 87. vernes for it; and I'm not finished yet."
Mixed Blessings
4
Success in the song writing business brings mixed blessings.
The more popular a song comes the more it is brondenst→→→ and the shorter its life.
"The average life of a popular song is about 13 weeks," said Mr.
Wallace.
"At the peak of that period a successful song will self 40,000 copies a week.
"In my 'Barcelona' days, a popu lar song might reach a million
of Abraham, reinforced as it in by a big financial scandal from Bel-sales in Britain, but the top nown- remarkable series of correspondences with the early history of Mesopo- grade, where, according to the days is about 250,000."
tamin, as now revealed by excavation. paper, the Yugoslav police have
It is from this point of view that his arrested the owners, directors and new theory is put forward...
"How," Sir Leonard asks, "a
"are we
several other officials of
the
Appeals To The King
MR.
R. G. A. BOYNTON, actor and father, for- bidden by the L.C.C. to see his three-year-old son, whom they have compulsorily adopted, has written a peti- tion of protest to the King.
am
mind me of my dead wife," he "My boy is all I have left to re-
said. "I broken-hearted. This is Bumbledom at its worst. "I allowed Tommie to go to an L.C.C. home at Ashford, Middlesex, inst year. My wife was dying. I could not look after him. There no money coming into the home.
wan
"I was allowed to see him once a week. The Public Assistance Com-
Ex-Spy's Name mitte, paid my train fare, 15. nd.
Kept Secret
to accept the 176 years of life allotted Boskovich Bank on charges of to Abraham, to years of Methuselah, and at txard by forging coins of 50-dlaars in nothing of the, having cheated the Yugoslav State the Biblical dates na far back--as great numbers. Abraham as being substantially ap curate!" Following are the main proprietor of the Koynia A. G. a
The Boskovich Dank is the chief SCOTSMAN WHO FACED stages in his argument:
"Longevity" Explained
joint stock company which holds the exclusive privilege of coining the The early Biblical genealogies, small money of the Yugoslav State. with their name lista and precisely stated Agures,
The mint has been carrying out material which may be plausibly sup- and received for this purpose the are not the sort of Government arder for 50-dinar pieces, posed to have been handed down by necessary stamps, When the stamps oral tradition,
would inoat were returned
.records.
but
was found that ́n]
FIRING SQUAD
Tommie was always glad to see me.
'Never To See "Him'
"When my wife dled the LC.C. de they have by the Poor Law Act. cided to adopt him, under the powers
"I was told that I was never to see him again. I had committed no rime. When I protested I was fol that it was a decision of the L.C.C. Publie Assistance Commit tec.
"I
could not believe that they could be no cruel.
am afraid Tommie will forget
A Scotsman's adventures in sequent effect on his health Russia in war-time and the con- which led to financial trouble! naturally be derived from written number of them were missing, and Warwickshire) Police Court re-me. Some time I hope to get a home
were related at the Solihull There is a parallel, in unnatural!it is alleged that the mint had used longevity, between these lists and caul those stamps for producing 50-dinar cently when he was summoned together again, and have him back. early king-lists of Ur.
for arrears of rates.
But I must see him from time to time. "I have written to the King for justica" that Mr. Boynton is barred from see- An L.C.C. official said: "It is true ing his son. The decleton is one of the Public Assistance Committee. We can say nothing more,"
Mr. Boynton is unemployed.
dates.
pieces on its own account,
ваше metnt
3. In both cases destructive arities They are exactly like the legal have urged auch longevity as an argu- money and have the
Mr. A. Pardon Smith (for the) ment against accuracy in respect of value, but as the producing cost of defendant), said that his client did ono piece is only 12 dinars, the mint not wish to have his name and 4In the case of Ur lists, King profited by 38 dinars on each piece. address disclosed. He was a Scots Mes-anni-padda (circa 3100 B.C.) was It is stated that a number of persona man who during the War belonged supposed by many scholars to be who hold prominent positions in the mythical, on account of the great al-nancial and economic life of Belgrade to the Intelligence Service and had followed by a reign of 30 years by his expected.
ged length of his reign (80 years, are dimplicated, and more arrests are gone to Russia where he became a member of the Tsar's own regiment and Flying Corps,
"aan," Mes-kl-ag-Nannar).
-Excavation
temple near
has revealed
a
Ur built by "A-Anni-
· padda, king of son of Mes-anni- padda, kind of the said A-Anni- padda not being mentioned in the king! Hists.
0Conclusion: A-anni-padda wes accidentally omitted from the lists on account of the resemblanco in name, the length of his reign being at the same time credited to his father in addition to the latter's own.
7-With that historical precedent, may not the various cases of Biblicul longevity be similarly explained7
Names Handed On
Thore still, however, remains
B
Man Who Made. His
Own Prison
Maison, Wisconsin, Apr. 8. The walls of a public prison which have held William Ellery
He became Minister of Trons- port to the Korenaky Government, but when the revolution broke out ho was arrested and thrown into prison.
"Ono morning," said Mr. Smith, "ho was taken out to be shot, in fan attempt to make him open, his mouth. The ruse failed and he
"LAW MADE ME A CRIMINAL"
MAN'S 46 YEARS' PENAL
· SERVITUDE When George Williams (72), stone mason, pleaded guilty at was taken back to the prison where London Sessions last month to ho was put Into what was known shopbreaking at Kentish Town as the cork cell-a cell filled with ho was stated to have had sen- mico and filth. He was kept thero tences amounting to 46 years shattered. Eventually ho escaped, penal servitude..
for some days and his health was
At Leeds, York and Rochester, he
further dimculty. How it Ja, si Leonard, famed University of but under the new rogime there had sentences of seven years; at
detalled Biblical history the name in an area of a few city blocks him.
was the grandson of the first, and was
name came to be applied to what, on for 20 years have been pushed When he returned to this countences of ten years.
Wakefield and the Old Batley, sen- the above interpretation, were two or back but not broken down, he re-try he obtained work, but could not more different persona? Sir Leonard believes that the "second Abraham" vealed..
Pleading for leniency, Williams keep his job on account of his bad said that he was
only 18 when he His wife, Grace Goldon Leonard, health. To-day he was in work received his arst seven years.
and was prepared to do his best "In those days," he said hitterly, "penal servitude was werae, than hell on earth. I was put in with old convicis, and there were thou- sands in those days.
called after him. Again, he can pro- is helping him loosen the grip of to pay off the arrears. duce a parallel from Mesopotamin.
"At Up" he writes, "were found the phobia which causes an un-
grandson la llshu-ibisha again",
Mr. Pardon Smith, said he was
servitude, penal servitude every time "I never had a chance. Penal
clay documents dated to the reign of Rovernable fear of travelling any willing to help, and suggested that King Hammurabi, which bear the im: considerable distance from his a portion of the deficiency should print of Inscribed soals giving the home. Recently he has been able be made up from, the Court poor Lames of three generations in a single to get about a mile from home, box. family; the first man is called Ilah ibisha, his son is Simiqiaham, his while a year ago the phoble fear
I went beforo a judge or recorder. bound him within a quarter mile out that the box at present con- The Magistrates' clork pointed. In addition, Abraham's brother, radius from this base, he explain-tained only five shillings.
THE HANGING SWORD". Nahor, was named after his grand ed... father Nahor, the father of Terah, so I suppose I really ought to be committee had no idea of the cir-criminal,
The Rating Officer said that his breaking. The law has made me a "All my crimes were for shop- that there was a precedent In the glad the public is so much incumstances when they applied for family for the repetition of ancestral terested in me, but I wish I could the committal, and ho was prepared Davies, K.C.) asked Williams how he The acting chairman (Mr. Russell Bir Leonard has given a most in. get away where I wouldn't have to to accept the offer which had been could trust him not to teresting and lucidly written account answer so many inquiries on the made. of the fainter in which recent excavat telephone, Leopard mild. "I'm Afterwards Mr. Pardon Smith
commit ther crimes. tom have, in niany respects, corro not wick, I'm sound physically, said the contacles of the Bolshevik and saying you will send me lo perial "By hanging a sword over my head borated and haminated the back only I Have this nervous disorder regime were long and there was servitude if I come back again," was ground of the Bible story. At the which I don't suppose I ever will an obvious reason why, the man's Bentence was postponed until next same time, by the above speculations,
the prompt Toplying, Ethics consider completely overcome."—United name and address should not be scalo for a report on: Williams by
Pra
the probation officer.
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