THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1937:
Convicts Want Jazz, Riot As Classics K SHOES
Are Radioed
EX-B.B.C. CHIEF
"MADDENS US”
Winnipeg, Apr. 5. BRITISH radio education methods, brought to Canada by Major Gladstone Murray, former controller of programmes at the B.B.C., are causing riots among the men in Headingly Provincial Gaol.
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They say they are tired to death of having to listen Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Schubert's Serenade, and similar compositions. They want "The Last Round-Up" and "Ol' Man River."
So at every meal, they yell and jeer, bang their tin cups on tables, turn over chairs.
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Max Bateman, just released from the prison, explained the men's viewpoint: "We're fed up on these classical programmes, every night. It gives us the willies."
Chief Worder Jake Handri had little sympathy for the jazz-mad prisoners. When they rioted one day classical said: "You'll have music and youse guys will like it. We're goin' to have more culture in this joint, more intellectuals, or what you calls it. Yeah, and if youse guys don't like it we'll cut out the radio."
RIOT AGAIN
But next day the programmes were changed. A gramophone played jazz songs by Warden J. C. Downie's order. The classical music wus back in the evening, however, and there was another riot.
Red Rob, "King" of the Canadian hoboes, sentenced to ten months. says: "We can't sleep at night after i listening to that classical tripe. It's driving me mad."
So frequent have become the men's! protests that the Royal Federal Com- mission, inquiring into other prison unrest in Eastern Canada; are going Headingly to send investigators to
to see if the programmes are really too much for the convicts,
Mother Of 13 Year Old Bride! Defends Girl
Santa Clara, April 1. Recent marriages of very young brides have caused Mrs. Joseph Rabello of this city to -speak-out.
Mrs. Rabello, married at the age of 13, and the mother of 21 chlidren, 16 of whom are living, and the most of whom married early, favoured early marriages.
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LEADER
HITLER BAITER ROLLS ANOTHER—Undisturbed by the furore created after he called Chancellor, Hitler of Germany a "brown- shirted fanatle," here is Mayor La, Guardia of New York rolling the first ball in the opening of the American Bowling Congress tournament, Retorts in German papers to the mayor's utterances started a sharp international diplomatic exchange.
King Edward VIII And The Elder Statesmen-
Outspoken Book
PEOPLE TO VISIT LONDON
CORONATION
INFLUX
RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music from The
Hongkong Hotel
Z.E.K. PROGRAMME
Broadcast by Z.B.W. on lengths of 355 metres (845 k.c's). 31.40 metres (9.52 m.c's).
wave-
5-8 p.m. European Programme, London, Apr. 1..
6 p.m. Relay of Dance Music from Experts estimate that the Roal-Garden of the Hong Kong
Hotel more than 1,000,000 over-
6.30. p.m.
A Light Orchestral scas visitors will come to Concert.
Orchestral Falling Leaves (Ken- Britain this year. Of these, nedy-Carr), Piccadilly (Meskill, Har- Ambrose and His about 300,000 will be here vey & Carr)
Orchestra.
for the coronation May 12 and the rest will come be- cause it is coronation year.
England will be undisputed host to the world during the coronation festivities, but all the nations of continental Europe are attempting to draw the tourists away from England after that period.
of
Soprano Solo-Pastorale (arr. Lane Wilson). Ellaabeth Schumana.
Orchestral-The Jester nt the Wedding (Coates), Erle Coates and Symphony Orchestra.
the Solo Under
Lilac Tenor
Derek Old- Bough (Clutsam) ham.
Orchestral-Rhapsody in Blue
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Plenty of shoes look good when new, but, if you think shoes ought to look good when old, you'll. appreciate F's.
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The Plus Fitting prin ciple ensures this.
Boston Orchestra. Call and see them. at
7 p.m. Scottish Songs. Mary Morrison (arr. Moffat) John Edington, (Tenor).
The Auld Scots Sangs (Bethune Margaret & Leeson-arr.
The tourist trade is well worth working for, as the visitors will bring with them between £50 and £106. E. Stewart)
In an effort to keep this money in the British Isles, every industry ns. preparing for record sales, and the resorts are spending thousands pounds for additional attractions.
coronation week, During the estimated that revenue of £2,000,000 will be taken in by the sale of the 400,000 seats along the 4 mile route of the procession. All of the 12,000 bedrooms in first class hotels and boarding houses will be filled.
Star o Rabble Burns (Booth), The Auld Hoose (Nairne). Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).
it is
7.13 p.m. "Review of Revues" by Debroy Semers Band.
3.30 p.m. Closing local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.36
Variety,
Orchestra-Talking Film Memories
Solon Orchestra. Vocal-When the poppies bloom
Turner Layton.
Medley ... Cubana
ogain
Be King
Step Out," -
250,000 BARRELS OF BEER Over 250,000 extra barrels of beer Marimba will be required during May in order to tonst the King's health, necord-
ing
The
Local.
Orchestra & Chorus, Orchestral My Dream-Waltz. . .
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Vocal-He's an Angel Turner
Time Signal, p.m. Local: Weather Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m. Relay from the Tal Ping Theatre (Chinese).
to the Brewer's society. drink bill on coronation day is ex- The Bohemiana,
Thousands pected to be £2,000,000, more will be spent on every type of Layton. souvenir which will bear inscriptions or pictures of the King and Queen.
Those who desire to act as guides for the visitors are being given special training. These classes, the first of their kind in England, started tentatively with only two
courses, but the large enrolment
Boon brought the number, to six,
INSTRUCTIONS FOR GUIDES
11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11 p.m.
European Pro- gramme from Z.E.K., on a Fre- quency of 640 Kilocycles.
8.05 p.m. A Violin Recital by Joseph Sziget.
Sonata No. In D (Weber, arr. Instructions for guides include such subjects as personality psy. Szigeti). Scherzo Walse (Chabrier, chology, dress and appearance, de-arr. Loemer). Scene de la Czarda, livery and diction as well ns aNo. 3 (Hungarian Gypsy Fantasy), thorough grounding in knowledge of (Hubay). the sights of London, Stratford-on- 8.20 p.m. Scenes de Ballet, Op.32 "FRUSTRATED" King, who weight of the burden laid upon the Avon and other show places. More (Glazounow), played by the New looked on
studying Symphony Orchesira. ambitibus
are Buldes his father, the heir to the throne.
8.45 Queen Mary is said to have feared foreign languages in order to quailty
p.m. Song Memories by Archbishop of Canterbury, and that her son would lose all power of as guide interpreters. Although the Ramona and Her Grand Plane. some of the older Cabinet Minis-ever settling down, and to have ex- bulk of visitors will be from the Happy as the day is long, Rafain' ters na "a critical and un-pressed her anxiety when the Empire and America a large num- the Rent Turn Bock the Clock, sympathetic company." is the Journey to India was proposed. ber will be from non-English speak- Ah! the Moon' is Here!
languages recely- notions, The portrait drawn by Mr. Hector
8.58 p.m. Bing Crosby (Vocal) But an eager and short-sighted Ing the most attention Government exploited her son's German and Spanish few of the in-de (Farewell to thee).
are French, with Reginald Foort (Organ). Bolitho in his book Edward
charm and talents to the full,
Vocal-Song of the Islands, Aloha VIII: His Life and. Reign.(Eyre.
The above are sending him hurrying when he dividual" and industrial preparations should have remained with his which are being made, aside from. and Spottiswoode, 10s, 6d.).
parents to grow more and more the official one made by the Corona- into the strength of their family tion Committee. Manufacturers of example.
chinaware, clothing, cutlery and n host of other objecia are in readiness for record sales.
It is quite unlike the conven- tional royal biography. Instead of a flat and indigestible narra-
WISH TO CO OWN WAY tive of events we are given a Mrs. Robello's, marriage has lasted character study, written with Mr. Bolitho mentions without en- 30 years and she says she has nothing
though erratic sym- dorsing the rumour that on his return Her children warm to regret about it.
from South America range from 30 to 11 and most of the pathy, a large measure of can. surviving ones have followed in her dour, and at least sume first. footsteps as to early marriage.
hand knowledge. By no means One of her daughters married at all the author's judgments will 13 and has two children now. An- other married when 14 and has command general assent.
children, as have others who married when 15 and 16.
King Edward might have risen to magnificence if he had come to the throne during a "Of course, I don't approve of any- thing like the B-year-old Tennessee war or at a time of acute crisis. girl getting married. I don't think But, writes his biographer: that should be allowed. But a girl
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of 13 or 14-that's different. If the He assumed his Crown surrounded wants to get married and she and the by old and comparatively tired men, boy are healthy, why, let them go with a Prime Minister who stood for ahead. I was married young and the safety and apathy which never regretted it.
could neither respect nor endure, "I was the mother of seven children, and with an Archbishop to whom he Including one set of twins, before I was hostile. There
were,
no in- was 24," Mrs. Rabello declared uential members, of the Cabinet of proudly."
his own nge and experience and, As to the economic aspect of the once more, he suffered the penalty problem, Mrs. Rabello said it was of belonging to the army that came not so dimcult as economic experis (back: from the war. argued.
Rabello is a prune-picking con- THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND
tractor and trimmer and, while oven One of the chief objects of his California prunes do not grow the reign, Баун Mr. Bolitho, would whole year around, he makes eads have been to help the unemployed
and the wretched:
meet.
"In winter sometimes, things ore duncult," she admitted, "but we always manage somehow."
Of the 16 surviving children, ix are boys and 10 are girls. The oldest
is Mrs. Teresa Napolitana, aged 35,
and the youngest is Aloysius, 11, All were born in Santa Clara.
One of her daughters, Mrs. Viola
Ing
are
COMPETE WITH CONTINENT After the coronation, however, England must compete with the rest The Prince's wish for freedom of Europe for the patronage of the and the right to choose his own visitors. Operators of holiday re- staff was so flerde that he wrote sorts in England, realizing this, are of his decision to renounce his spending nearly £1,000,000 on
additional altrac rights and settle in one of the provements and Dominions if he was not allowed lons. to follow his own way.
The Chamber of Commerce at one
im-
Favourites.
Organ Solo Medley of Daly's
Vocal-Me and the Moon, South Sea Island Magic.
me.
Organ Solo-Lover, come back to
Vocal-Robins and Roses,
Organ, Solo "Transatlantic Rhy- 'thm" Medley,
0.30 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements
0.65 p.m. "Careless Rapture"-- Studio Scene Dorothy Dickson, Olive Gilbert and (Ivor Novello), by
Ivor Novello, acc. by the Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra.
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Rum.
Dance Music. · Rumba-Cuban Pete; Fox-Trot-
King George V observos the resort reports an outlay of £250,000 author, always regarded the training which will provide for an addition to Old Sallor, Nun-Yuff and Sun-Yuff; of his heir as his heaviest respon- the sea sido promenade and a new one, two, button your shoe; Pennies
iras from heaven. Expenditures entertainment centre. sibility.
10.15 p.m. (Londen-Big Ben) for other resorts range from £80,000
Fox-Trot-No other one; Tango- He was an exacting parent, Ils down. Included in the new attrac
Fox-Trot-I'm one Venetian Moon; discipline made it difficult for him tions are swimming pools, an under-
of my shadow; I'll never step ahead of to comprehend the shaken genera-ground garage for 1,000 cars, tennis let you 20; 18 it true what they say
couris which will rival those nt tion which mataid through the wimbledon, bowling greens, theatres about Dizic? Rhythm saved the
war.
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It was his sense of duty which urged him, perhaps too and other such features. often.
criticise the Prince, Although the costs of preparation sometimes quoting the opinions of for the coronation visitors are high, other, older men in support of his it is estimated that £1,000 will be
argument
taken for every £1 spent.
The name of a prelate or n statesman would be brought in to but when he did so I was with ex- support the King's opinion. Per-treme bitterness." haps King George did not .com- One day at Northolt the Prince prehend the care with which his own father had avoided the same crror.
Dream Time: Lost: Inter-
world: nationalle; nation Minnie's got the Blues; Madam-Ahi La Marquise-Ah! Quick- Step-I te Bananas: For-Trol Take my heart; Waltz-Stars in my суса.
11 p.m. Close Down.
Slow Fax-to lack
POLICE RESERVE ORDERS FOR CURRENT WEEK
flew solo, after persuading his pilot; to remove the front controls. Not satisfied, be made two flights alone on a later day, Alone the word sums up the tragedy of the Duke of Windsor's We as Mr. Bolitho sees On one occasion, at Croydon, he per- suaded his brother, the present King, to fly him over the aerodrome-to After the war- turning point in the consternation of the officials who thorliles and proved their work in his career, the four years in which, realised that they were in part res-
ponsible for the distressed areas to be slow and as he has said, he "found hals man- The the lives of two heirs to dermentioned 'members of the Chi-
In the last year of his life "King George saw his eldest son retreating Alany members of the Govern into a wilderness in which he could ment resented his campaigns not help him." among the poor. They found his RESENTED OLD ORDER eagerness discomforting, since it exposed the methods of the au-
blighted by caution. After a visit to
hood the then Prince of Wales
Orders by the Hon. Mr. T, H. King, Inspector General of Police, state:
Chinese Company Training Course: Part II.-The un-
nese Company will attend Chinese Company Headquarters on Tuesday, April 20th at 17.30 hours for Part II. of Training Course:Constables RZ
and
of
Costa, married at 14, now has two kitchen for unemployed men he pathy the cause of the returned teristic examples of the Duke of
The daughter who married at 13, walked up and down a room press-her's opinion, their uncomfort- curiosity, and his determinaton to Chan Tak-chiu, R4 Tam Hiu-fung."
children, 2 and 1.year old.
und
and is 17 new, has two children.
Mrs. Marie Rose, another daughter,
married when 15, She has two children,
boys in her family marted young, too, most
of them in their teens.
ing his hands together and sold:
What "What can I do? done?"
can
be
soldiers.
a dismal soup championed with particular sym- Mr. Bollo gives many charac-
Insatiable energy blo-Windsor's He shared, In his
He pays a R5 Woo How-ching, R6 Chan Shik able feeling that they were living see things for himself. among people who did not under warm tribute to him as a landlord; chun, RD Wong Yue-shun, R26 Lee in five years £300,000 went backt Chee-leung. R34 Napoleon Loung
nd 837 Leung
Leung Wing-choung. stand them:
He chose an Independent way for rebuilding and improvements, the Chinese Company will parade at
into the Duchy of Cornwall estates Pan, and
Inspection Parade. All ranks Mere poignant in the light of Central Police Station on Thursday,
of the Duke's Imaginative
Mr. Bolitho sets King Edward Her oldest daughter, Mrs. Nano- vividly against the background of his litano, was a 10-year-old bride. The day and generation, and remarks:
It was the inevitable fault of his training that his background was for ever changing. People crowded In on him and then they departed, making him feel that He was a whirl in which no person and no scene was stable.
The main thing in a successful- marriage," Mrs. Rabello declared, is for both man and wife to be healthy. Уход can teke care of anything
they
It led him far from the traditions of his father's Court. He'resented
of
the old order, and conventional cent events are the his April 20th at 17.30 hours for a gen-
war.
Immediately in hand, and his for Cover, Belt
White Uniform, Cap with White
society did not amuse him,.. It was not consoling to be told that social conscience, the fierce applica-cral inspection of equipment etc., by this was an inevitable state after tion which he brought to the task the Company Commander. Dress
with Brace, Truncheon, approach to all sorts and conditions
and note-book on "Pocket Policeman" The restrictions imposed on his of men. that happens and their children will
be Edward VII. referred to his sub-to
carried. The Equipment be healthy. I think when young The bald detalls of his journeys wish to enjoy aviation to the full people in their teens, fall in love and overseas after the war-the colossal may, thinks Mr. Bolitho, have com-jects King George spoke of his Officer will make a point of being want to get married, they should be mileages and staggering number of pleted allowed to do so and that no one towns visited, functions, speeches, frustration. He seldom Prince's people. Edward VIII., remarks Mr. present.
are Bolitho, usually addressed his fellow- and handshakes-bring home the old, referred to his disappointment, men.
should interfere."-United Press.
the theme
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U.S. FLAGSHIP LEAVES
·ON CRUISE TO SHANGHAI.
The U.S.S. Augusta, flagship of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, left, Hongkong Flying Squad Company Meeting-A Company Just before midnight last night ac Meeting for members of the Flying companied by the yacht.U.S.S. Isabel. Squad will be held at No. 2 Police Admiral H. E. Yarnell, C.-in-C, was Station on Thursday, April 22nd at aboard, bound for Shanghai and a 18.00 hours, All members must at short northern cruise,
The U.S.S Canopus and sub- DressMutu,
onal Patrol-The next in marines are following at A p.m. this
patrol for members of the afternoon. Flying Squad will take place on Fri-
day, April 30th, 1937. Members will Uniform, and Cap with White Cover. parado at Central Police Station at
Indian Company Training Course: Part III The 17.15 hours sharp. Dress-White
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