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"H.M.V." SERIES OF THE WORKS OF GREAT COMPOSERS INTERPRETED BY LEADING ARTISTS AND ORCHESTRAS.
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BEETHOVEN
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BORODIN
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BRAHMS
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DVORAK
164 ELGAR
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210 FAURE
Work
Choral-Symphony Quartet in D Maj. Sextet in B Flat Maj. Four' Ballades Symphony in C Maj. Violin Concerto Quartet in C Min.
GILBERT SULLIVAN Complete Operas
195. LALO
224 LEONCAVALLO
50 MENDELSSOHN
216 MOZART
103
84
232
PUCCINI
RACHMANINOFF
RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF
68 SCHUBERT
209
SCHUMANN
54 STRAVINSKY
192 STRAUSS
114 TCHAIKOWSKY
237 WAGNER
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Symphonic Espagnole
PAGLIACCI (Complete Opera) Trio in D Min..
Concerto in A Maj. Madame Butterfly
Concerto No. 2
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
Mr. and Mrs. V. FD'Azevedo and family wish to thank all their relatives and friends and the Sea and Boy Scouts for their atten- dance at the funeral of their only son, George. Victor, also for the many letters of condolence "re- colved and the doctor and sisters of the Kowloon Hospital for their kindness and sympathy,
BIRTH.
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on December 7th; 1930, to Mary
Higgs, the gift of a son.
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Concerto in A Min.
Petroushka (Music for the Ballet) Rosenkavaller (First Act) Pathetique-Symphony
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1938.
BRITAIN NOT DETERIORATING
In view of all the foolish talk
Around This American Woman, Who Once Lived In Hongkong, May Revolve The Destiny of a Great Empire
HOW
an American journalist has studied the "personal · life and characteristics of an American whose name has been in every newspaper recently is shown in articles written by Jane Dixon,' of New York.
the..
She traces the history of Mrs. Ernest Simpson from a humble home in the minor American city of Baltimore to her place in the brightest of London society and on the front pages of the journals of the world.
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It is interesting to note that Mrs. Simpsom lived in Hongkong and Canton with her first husband, Lieut. Earl Winfield Spencer, U.S.N., shortly before she divorced him in 1925.
MRS. SIMPSON is medium in height and
thinnish.
She pushes aside cakes, but takes champagnes and wines, which, though they may add a bit to poundage, are fine whet- stones for wit.
Neither by classical nor by professional standards is she a beauty. Her features are too sharp. The Spartan diet to which she adheres has taken its toll. Her chin is pointed. So is her nose, with a hint of a crook in it.
She has acute facial angles, and she has the driving energy which, when baulked, becomes ill-natured.
Her hair is deep black. She parts it we hear about the deterioration in the middle and draws it back in wide
neck.
of the British ruce, it is re-waves-to-a-small-chignon-at-the-nape-of-the- assuring to read the recent de- claration made in the House of Commons by Sir
Her coiffure always is in perfect order but is never "set." Her eyes are deep and dark and almost uncomfortably alert. They belie her speech, which is a soft Southern drawl. Time and again it has been remarked, "She has the most beautiful voice in the world."
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HER mouth is wide and has a good natured_up>-
turn at its corners.
MRS. BIMPSON
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Friends characterise her as "snappy," ultimate in compliments to the smart-set women. She lends chic to the plainest attire. She has a flair for repartee and peppers it with bright quips and potent slang.
Those who pride themselves on being abreast of the latest word or phrase that puts a firm finger on a spot-especially if it is of American origin-are highly amused by "Toby's" facility in the art of "slanguage.". To intimates. she is "Toby." She appears to speak out loud in church, to say exactly what she thinks, but this is a carefully cultivated pose.
In Mrs. Simpson, dance addicts find a peerless partner.
She is graceful, rhythmic and tireless, and is an adept at every modern step, whether swinging a fox-trot in one of London's fashionable West End night spots, dreaming through a tango in a St. Tropez Cafe on the Riviera, or walking the rhumbn in a Biarritz bar basque. It is a tenet-of the Simpson technique, never to drop. Hers is a strictly where-do-we-go-from-here tempo.
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Wilo is this miracle woman? In Baltimore, her birthtown, those who knew her say: "Oh, you' mean Bessie Warfield! Her name's Elizabeth. She took the name Wallis when he died. She's a Maryland Warfield. The first one came from England in 1662. She came out-in-Baltimore- In 1914; had a way with her; went to Annapolis to a dance and later announced her engagement to Winfield Spencer, jr., a handsome young naval officer who was once stationed in the Far East. Next thing we knew she'd divorced him.
Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, when he declared that "we are not a C. 3 nation; the reverse is the truth, and, viewed over any period of time which enables just com- parisons to be made, our national health has improved not merely steadily, but remarkably." This Were it not for the dramatic arrangement of the hair, the "After a while she visited a friend in New York, a statement was followed up by facts mouth would be the most conspicuous feature of an ensemble Canadian ship broker's wife. His name was Ernest Simpson. and figures which should put the that is in no way notable for artists, but which is compelling for Next we knew Bessie was Mrs. Ernest Simpson and had sailed
students of character. Issue beyond all doubt. For In the recent selection of Paris couturiers of the ten best way to London with her rich young husband.” example, latest statistics show dressed women, Mrs. Simpson was well to the fore. Simplicity is Mention Mrs. Simpson to conservative matrons of that the expectation of life at birth has increased by seven year's in the last twenty; whilst -infantile mortality last year was the lowest on record, the figure
her metier. She affects black. Last summer she wore ankle- London's social stratosphere. They say: "you refer to that length gowns in cities and slacks or shorts in constal towns.
Sports clothes, which comprise three-fourths of her boarding-house keeper's daughter, I presume. One doesn't know wardrobe, are tailored, and evening gowns are of supple materials her, really." moulded to her faultless figure. She has no ruffles, few jewels.
Boarding-house keeper's daughter? Certainly. Why
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to rent.
How does a middle-aged woman with no particular claim to British matrons, in their effort to disarm the "Interloping
ROADS OF ROMANCE
"You see that rickle of tones there. on the hills?" he asked me, "Well, you used to be a pub
"A road used to pass there, he went on, "but you can hardly see it
been estimated variously between 38 and mid-forties-she has without fortune, supported herself and her daughter by taking At 40-which is near enough to her age, since she has not? During Mrs. Simpson's girlhood, her mother, widowed and being 67 compared with 74 in the courage to appear with the minimum of make-up and only "paying guests" into the modest Baltimore house she managed 1929. Moreover, as Sir King-necessary grooming from the beauty harbours. sley Wood pointed out, a healthy sign of the times is the growing
beauty, no towering intellect, no background of glory or commoner," give her the accolade due the only American. appreciation of the value to the glamour, manage to captivate attention as she does? The answer aristocracy, the nobility of work. Her mother chose to be an average citizen of the right way is personality. She is aglow with it.
independent earner rather than a dependent pensioner. of living, eating and clothing, fand particularly of the Increased
health which can be obtained, to the Health Minister's views: both of body and mind, from when the President of the Board of Education declared that to physical education and exer-describe the physical condition cises, such as field sports, swim- of the people as one of deteriora. WAS lonely. All the day I had almost forgotten now, that web the now. And this path were standing ming, hiking and more life in tion was grotesque and added kept to the hilltops and the moor-Borderland, and of the romance on once came from Melrose Abbey; the open air. The Government that, there has been in recent habitation had been of a steading country.
years a distinct improvement in land, and my few brief glimpses of which has become a part of
the monka used it in auld times."
We talked, unul the intense blue is also fully alive to the needs the condition of children. In here and there, shining unexpectedly
of the sky, had dimmed to green, and of the time and is assisting in some quarters, as a writer has white in the valleys below_me. He leaned back against the dyke, was already becoming shaded with dusk. We parted, and went our unfolding to me his remembered I was surprised when I did meet knowledge, All around us was the the further promotion of physi-pointed out, the British lion has
different ways. been freely represented as being someone, He
-came. towards me cal betterment by encouraging in the last stages of decrepitude chasing before him, his bent back lapping at the air. His face was act with me a pageant of shadow-forms; I walked into the sunset. But thir along the hillpath, him two dogs quiet of the hills. The two dogs lay
panting on the heather, their tongues time I did not go alone. There was the establishment of more clubs without teeth and .without
claws, and with a tail that can blue sky. He was a shepherd. We taken to flesif something of the raiders: Picts; a
shadowed against the shimmering and serious, and it seemed to have Roman" legions, helmeted, shining: for young people as well as more be twisted ad lib. British people met by a dyke, and leaned against moorland tones of red and brown; her countrymen; a king who return-
:D.queen'
en who fled from community centres in which not do not take these aspersions too it for a time, talking.
his voice, was low.
ef victorious from battle. All his- only physical but moral leader. Ioriously; and, in any event, the He told me of many things, of
tory went with, me into that colour- ship has a place. In these mat- British llon is fast being pro- shepherding and farming, of storing straight and conquering, and of the through the years, have used these He spoke of the Roman roads, ed sunset, all ages, all men who vided with new and better teeth he had known, of a book he had twisting battletracks the Ficts had roads. There tars, however, there is no in and claws, so that tall-twisting read.
Was the swaying made over these miles of hill and stage-coach with its straining horses. clination or necessity to adopt will not be so easy as it has been "It was * blasted big These roads, burled now the droves of cattle, the pomp Lane, Crawford, Ltd. compulsory schemes of national for those with inclinations that told me, "near as big as the Bible, with time, and only there in brief and gifter of a royal march: "These
regimentation and control which carried too far; and the assur- these parts."
way.
Self-depreciation can be and it was o' aboot the quid roads into look for them. He told me, too, pany of shadows. But, before all in stretches for those who know where and more, were part of my com- Men's Department
some of the European nations lances now given by those in a
of roads more distinct, where stage my mind, a monk, his head, cowled It had taken him all the long coaches used, only last century to and lowered, walked solitarily, su 1 have seen fit to put into force, position to know should help nights of a lambing-time to read, but make their daily journeys, and of walked along that hiil-path; he saw There was further support given towards correcting erroneous he did not regret that. It had told drove raads, now overgrown with the beauty aw; and perhaps he In the recent Commons debate idens on the matter.
him of many, things he had not grass, but even yet traccable, and loved this Borderland as all love it.. | known before; !of the roadways, easily followed.
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