THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938.
Famous French
For St.
May
Ballet
Coming
Play Here Early In
To
Hongkong:
March
SATIRE ON BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
Ballets Jooss, the world's most famous Ballet, is coming to Hongkong.
The thirty players comprising this Company will most likely play a short season here in mid- March.
Illustrated on this page are sequences from one of their numbers-a satire on a meeting of a Board of Directors that should draw shricks of laughter from some of Hongkong's taipans,
This particular number received extra- ordinary publicity in London newspapers, such as the Sketch, Bystander, etc., early this year, when it was played in England.
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"MARCH OF
IS
OF TIME" CAMERAMAN LOOKING US
MARCH OF TIME, the movie contemporary of Time Magazine, took the world by storm three years ago. As many months ago it was introduced to Hongkong audiences for the first time, found instant local favour.
Now Charles W. Herbert, March of Time's ace cameraman, is in Hongkong having a "look-see" before sending for his camera and accessories and getting down to real busincas.
If the Hongkong and Chinese authorities are willing, Horbert intends to make Bins Bay, the notorious pirate lair, the background for a M.O.T. sequence on piracy in the China Seas.
With Chinese New Year only about three months off (Chinese pirates are notoriously more.nctive just before the New Year, in order to accumulate enough money to pay their debts--good luck joss if they do-bafore the old year dies), Herbert has hit Hongkong at the right time, and may yet get some good shots.
DAVENTRY PREPARÈS
FOR
WINTER
OVER
saw really antounded him, for the whole lekering bunch really look- ed like pictures.
Since then he has been raving the world shooting scenes for Fox's "Magic Carpel" travelogues. In his work with Fox, world critica have given him top honours, one eritle saying ". the man re sponsible for the enchanting Herbert has just finished a pie-beauty of photography in the 20 torial record of Shanghai, the mak. Magic Carpet relenges that took ing of which will bring to the him on a roving assignment over world the story of the development practically every part of the globe. is Charles W. Horbert... There of this vitally important Far East metropolis. Ila assignment. was is serious doubt that there is i to make a March of Time story of camera-man in Hollywood who enn modern Shanghai, and the Shang- match his work. Herbert is an-
other holdover from the hai he pictured was more the in dustrial and its effects
news staff. ነኛነ
From
quietly living Chinese civilisation than the bizarre and picturesque scenes that travelogues, he went to the vital.
living March of Time. delight the tourist,
For March of Time Mr. Herbert has shot many interesting histori cal dramas of the world. That he is connected with the most aston- ishing and dramatic movie newa reet produced dates back many years to his initial step in news-
THE EMPIRE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR photography. That was when
DISCUSSES HIS PLANS
Programme plans for the next three months were discussed by the Empire Programme Director of the BBC in his quarterly talk to the BBC's oversens listenera recently. I believe I can honestly say,' he said, 'your programmes from Daventry will be better this winter than they have ever been before,'
After giving an assurer of the Corporation's warm appreciation of the help and stuidance afforded by isteners' liters, the Programme Director referred to the new schedule of programmes, affecting all six transmissions, that recently come intu force.
can colonies, the West Indies, and the Falkland Islands. He sa
"We have been working at the pro- hiem of how best to serve this big jarea,
It's a complicated balance of pros and cons, with different fre- quencies and aerial directions to take into account, and recent months the process of swinging round to- He dealt first with the subject of | wards the west has entailed a short talks, for which, he said, there is a Kap in transmission, shortly before steady and well-informed demand, the news at 8.40 p.m. G.M.T
talks being much the most gener- When mid-winter propagation condi- ally welcomed items in aur pro- tions set in we org going to revert grammes, next to the News,' It was to our okl practice, and have a de- felt that the time had come for a Balte close-down of », quarter of an more organised plan of talks, he hour between the two parts of this transmission. This will make for of talks series had accordingly been greater efflciency of reception before prepared. It included:---
and after the interval. (The new arrangement came Inlo force on November 0.3
Headquarters of Ballets Jones are in Dar-stated, and a syllabus of a number tington, in England.
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(a) weekly interpretations of recent international events by Sir Frederick Whyte or H. V. Hod- sou (in other words, the con- tiiation on crgular basis of the popular series, 'Foreign Affairs and imperial Affairs');
characteristic (h) fortightly
counts of life in the Home Coun- try by Howard Marshall or A.-G. Street. In the intervening weeks we are going to try to bring you a breath of some other part of the Home Country, such s Marshall and Street bring you SF London and of the southern English countryside';
(e) fortnightly talks by speakers from other parts of the Empire, who express the distinctive point of view of their respective Do- minion Colony, Speakers in
this series, known as 'Empire Exchange, are not being fixed in advance, as we want to be free to pick our speaker from the men and women from over- sens who may be available at the time Empire Exchange' alternates with The Policeman's Lot, a series in which represen- Intives of the various Empire police forces (chielly those of the Colonley) talk about their work; (d) weekly series dealing with modern science, under the title of 'Scientists at Work': (c) weekly, in Transmissions 1, 2, 4, and 6. topical, subjects, serious or trivial, are dealt with as they 'Food for arise in the series Thought.
Of his musical plans, the Empire Programme Director said, "There is nothing revolutionary here; but I think some of the changes will make for easier and pleasanter listening, As before, the Empire Orchestra will be, the backbone of the musical pro- grammes from Daventry, and you will be hearing these very versalite musicians in a great variety of types of concert. Old favourites are heard once a month in a special programme entitled The Old Folkts at Home," and, at the same interval of time, in Transmissions 5 and 3, un operatic programme, in which well-known singers support the orchestra. This combination also takes part, once overy four
weeks, In a special musical production. You will find," he pointed out, 'that to a certain extent the same kinds of music appear in the programmes week by week-classical recitals on Tuesdays, chamber music concerts on Wednes- days, dance musle on Saturdays, and so on. Be added that the Sunday evening classical recitols in Trans- mission 5 are being continued.
Pussing on to productions, the Pro- gramme Director said that a larger. proportion of variety programmes
News Umings have u{s been standardised, and ard now as fol- lows:- Transmission 1
Transmission 2
Transmission 3 Transmission 4
Transmission 5
Twenty minutes be fore the end of the transmission, except on Sundays, when the Newsletter will be rend at 5 p.m. II.K.T.
9 pan. H.K.T. ex- cent on Sundays, when the Newslet- ter will be read at 8.65 p.m. HLKT. 12.30 nm. H.K.T. 2 am, and 5 a.m. I.K.T.
8.40 am. II.K.T. Transmission 6 11.40 a.m. I.KT.
Other points, dealt with by the
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NOTE on Q. 14. The authors of the other quotations given (1) R. Kipling (The Way Through The Woods"), (2) it. Belloc ("The South Country"), (4) John Masefield ("Sea Fever"), (5) W. H. Davies.
equipment.
will be included in all transmissions. Recently returned from America Although standardisation of timings, with the latest styles & best owing to the necessarily varying lengths of productions, is not prae- ticable, listeners would find that various features were coming round at fairly regular fixed intervals. The timing of many regular features in the Daventry, programmes would be. standardised. But the programme service will still be flexible, so that we can accommodate events like the Derby or the National Day of one of the Dominions.. We have no intention of letting the programmes become stercolyped."
The Director made an important announcement, affecting Rsteners to Transmission 4: Including, as it does, the whole of Africa, the Mediterran-
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In this connection, it is interest- ing to note that Henry Luce, editor of Time magazine, was born in China of missionary parentage, and has a warm spot in his heart for this part of the world,
In Shanghal, he shot 20,000 feet of film which when presented as a March of Time of Shanghai will he cut to possibly 700 or 800 feet. However, part of this will be used to build up a library of Shanghal Bernes to come, 'when a re-enact- ment of some Shanghai incident is necessary ... and evidently the he returned from the war and had editors of March of Time feel that are still to he served in the US. Revenue Depart-important events ment chasing oplum smugglers and Shanghal's destiny in the Far
East. rum runners in Honolulu. He had Just about had enough of that sort of thing when he came
upon J advertisement calling newspaper for a young man with capital to join a photographic expedition in Central America and the West
that Indies, The fact
Herbert never saw either of these places and that the expedition started out with his money and fine camera alpment but no films' is incon- sequential. The pertinent fact is that the 1-fated expedition came toa and end in a sheriffs ofice in
Lisa Perl singing "Donde lieta" Alabama and Herbert walked out,
from Act 3 of "La Boheme" and with minus his money and the none-top-edille Nash, John Brownlee and proud possessor of a motion pie- and an unwanted ture camera career ahead of him.
After several days of practice, still without films, just to get the technique of working the cantera, he took the plunge and bought a rol of film. In the private screen- ing of his pictures, he was the only one in the audience, but what he
SELECTED RECORDS
others the Death Scene from Act 4, Columbia LX 520, 12-inch, 65. Any- one hearing this lovely singing will desire the whole album containing the complete Act 4 In Italian, with conducting Sir Thomas Beecham (Columbia Masterworks Alburn 30, 24., on special order).
Francis Langford singing "When did you leave Heaven" and "Deep Shadows." Brunswick 02287, 10-inch, 2s. 6d. Vapid songs but so well sung- with Victor Young's Orchestra at its best. This and (of course) Bing Crosby on 02265, are the pick of the new Brunswicks.
Jack Hylton and bis Orchestra playing "Swert Sue" and "Grinzing," H.M.V. C 3850, 12-inch, 4s. There are the first records of the now fam- "arrangements" by Melle ous Weersma.
you appreciate the Programme Director Included the vivid cleverness of them and the present timing of Transmission brilliant performance, you will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. H.K.T.-which, looking out for mere. he stated, will probably remain con- stent until the end of February next; and a. complaint that too much time is devoted to sporting broadcasts in Transmission 3. On this point he asked his listeners' guidance, remind- ing them that a characteristic of Transmission 3 is that it is broadcast during the English afternoon, when take most of the sporting events place. It has always seemed to us, he said, a happy co-incidence that our listeners in the Enat were, on the whole, perhaps more interested in English sport than listeners any where else. Have we been wrong?" He also invited the opinions of lls-from the Sylvin Ballet of Dellbes. tenera on the complaint that too many identifications are given in the broadcasts from Daventry, 'Do you find the identifention announcements boring and superfluous?' the Director
'Or do you like to
have
In conclusion, he said: 'Listeners' personal experience are the making of this service. We can never compute what we owe to the guidance of a host of listeners of all manner of opinions and tastes and conditions.'
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(two planos) playing "Destiny Waltz" and Passepied," Parlophone F 563, 18- inch, is, éd. · A-spécini high mark for this, among the many two-plano records that are issued: "Passepied" is an arrangement of the scherzo
Ambrose and his Orchestru play- In "Serenade in the Night" and "When the Poppies bloom again," Decca F 6097, 10-inch, 18. Gd. The serenade is the English version of the continental smash-hit, "Un Violon dans la Nult"; altogether an ambrosial record..
Reginald Dixon playing "Dixon Hits No. 8. Rex 8880, 10-inch, 1s. The Blackpool Tower organist knows what the public wants and exactly how to garnish the rechauffe. -
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