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THE
TUESDAY, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
APRIL 27, 1937.
Pity me... I'm 6 feet Tall
DEAR ANNABELLE
Did you read that story about the man whose wife dominated him because she was taller than he was?*
It didn't help me, because she lives up to her measurements, I don't. I'm hopelessly tall, but not the least bit domineering. If I were lucky enough to be happily married I wouldn't want to chivvy my husband around.
I suppose you'd call me a very feminine type-1. like to be managed, not to manage. And that's the last thing.people expect of me.
A
T school I was doomed by hatred of organised games. At home, being largest of the family, was always called long-legged Jim and regarded as a clumsy foot.
Since Ainishing
training I've been
continually in and out of jobs. I only get temporary ones, I've though
excel-
lent testimonials.
My three months with Bardolphs and Bardolph NIG
just knew little Mr. Brown I work- wouldn't
ed for
have a giraffe around a minute
longer
than
my
secretarial
Even Ever
Alice in
Alice f}} Wonderland, who wasn't early put, Dut, wp3 upset tehen she found
she was growing
taller.
he
Alice. "Good-bye
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried
Flect!"
Afor
when she looked down at her feet they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were so far ofq.0
needed.. I lowered
over him. I tried the al sagging shoulders and
standing with my knees bent, but it didn't help any.
Another madden-
ing thing is I'd jus!
It's like than in life.
got a length of that Altby maroon co- kids used to shout, "How are the sky- lour we have to wear in the oflee, And scrapers looking to-day ? Or, Gut a length for me is a length. I can't any snow on your hat culle?
get away with a remnant the size of
& postage stamp.
It looks ng though I'll be in and out
of jobs all my life. A panieky thought because the older I get the harder will these temporary places be to find.
NO I asked her if she'd never minded at nil. She said. "When I was fifteen I adored being because of netball then, like I am of the team of show girls here now,
I don't suppose I'll marry, which is blager than the others what I'd really like to do. All the tall men seem to like dainty small girls.
SMITH critical listener
Second of the music articles in the SMITH INTO SUPERMAN series. When you turn on the radio, these are the instruments you hear, and this is how they're played.
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MITH knows a violin when he sees one. He knows a 'cello be- cause people with long hair play it between their knees. He has heard stories of the fabulous prices paid for. a "Strad."
The violin is the ultimate form of a musical instry- inent which has obsessed the human race for centuries.
The Arst bow was drawn across strings by the Ilin- dus in 1500 B.C. More than 3,000 years later Europe in general, and Haydn in particular, developed the most perfect combination of sounds mankind ever thought of -the string quartet.
of Smith may not think much "chamber music" for one reason or another, but at least he can feel that in the string quartet Western civillsn- tion achieved perfection, at any rate In one direction.
Viola Players scarce
TO-MORROW
Smith learns to listen
to modern music
William Walton, and Vaughan Williams
APART from two vigu have all written works for it.
rest of the string quar-
horn)-an oboo deeper in register and even more melancholy in tone.
As an instrument it is neither Eng- 11sh nor much of a horn; it derives its name from cor ungle-an angled or bent born; it is bent near the mouth- plece.
Played with a reed
NEXT
the :on
composer's mellow sounding, score come two clarinets wooden instruments played with a single reed.
Below the clarinets come the bas zoons, split-reed instruments with very much the same tone character as the обос.
Mendelssohn called the bassoon "the clown of the orchestra," but though it can produce-humorous music, It has been used to add a strangely bitter- sweet tone-colour to the orchestra.
These instruments complete the wood-wind group.
Next come four horn's (called French horns), brass instruments with The modern symphony orchestra has a lot of curting tubes capable of almost every tone-expression known to music, as its foundation the string quartet, from sweet, soft distant tones to flerce, with the addition of the double bass.
tet consists of a viola and a 'cello.
The viola as a solo instrument has never been so popular as the Addle or As the mechanical side of other in- cello, partly because composers con- struments developed so the symphony sidered to be neither as agile as the orchestra was enlarged until to-day It violin nor as sweet-toned as the 'zelle, includes (on the average) sixty string and partly (and consequently) because players and twenty players of wind in there have been few first-class execut- ants on the instrument.
struments.
brassy noises.
Trumpels and trombones are brass well
instruments that Smith knows enough already. But what Smith may not know is that the trombone has not always been the rather vulgar instru- ment is now thought to be.
The average orchestra required to
In the seventeenth and early eigh- play works in the standard repertory teenth centuries trombones were used is as follows:-
to accompany Masses sung in church. Two flutes, originally made of wood, This, the sackbut of the Bible, became now often of metal, one of whom is the most solemn-sounding of ali instru- expected to play the piccolo (Italian ments.
The twentieth century, however, has produced several first-class players, and with them the repertory has na- turally grown.
Two of the best known of modern small) fute, which is high and piercing This tradition lasted. many years, un- viola players are British, Lionel Terils, in tone, two oboes (from the French til Mozart's me.
"haut-bois-high wood), instrumente:
is of Alice in Wonderland's shrinkingworld's director of viola propaganda, played with a split reed; producing an lumin" moment in Mozart's "Don
"From seventeen to twenty-one ' I loathed it and was self-conscious to n degree. Could have done with a bit best man friend MY
called Archie, but I'm mushroom. embarrassed walking and dancing with "Worst noment of all was my first him. We look so silly, he only, comes mannequin appearance. Felt
high and gawky to match." up to my shoulder.
He took me out last night to cheer 6aid perhaps an office isn't a good me up about losing Bardolph and Bar- idea for me and I ought to have been dolph. We went along to a West End a mannequin, same way as she started. shaw where he said he knew girl Gave me some good clothes tips. Says who is taller than I am and likes it height makes the right clothes look ele- It was hard to believe but true. We gant-wide shoulders, large hats, tight saw her after the show. Joanna Set- skirts, and so on. felte she's called. Very good to look
Great joke that women who bought
at, and she's married a man who is 6 models she wore were always fat and
ft. 2 Ins.
She thinks I made a mistake in pretending not to be so large. "I'm
led short, led away by slinky appear- ance on Joanna.
But Joanna Saffelle has been lucky.
all for standing straight and holding my Her height has helped her. The only head up," she said. "Buing proud of advantage in mine at the moment is that I shall certainly see the Corona- my height in fact."
"You haven't to mind a bit of rag- tion. My story really belongs to the ging. When I was in New York the agony column.
"My wife to taller than I am."
Your unfortunate
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11. Bass Drum
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After the brass comes group. the percussion Just-what-this..... group. consists of depends on the extravagance of the composer. Haydn, Mo- zart,
Beethoven ond were content with a pair of kettledrums, which can be tuned to definite notes,
Later cymbals and triangle, bass drum, and alde drum were added, Instruments without a definite note. "Kitchen" group
HE modern
THE percussion
ployer is expected to be able to cope with (In addition to the above) tambourine, rattle (the sort used to imitate a machine), Blockenspiel (strips of metal sound- ing like small helis), xylophone (Smith pro- bably remembers Teddy Brown?), tubular bells, castaneis, gongs, and even to beat à birch on a chair,
Modern composers have introduced anvils and typewriters into the per- cussion (known "in the trade" as the "kitchen") group, but Smith needn't | worry over-much about that, any more than he need, ask what a harp is, now also part of the regular formation of a symphony orchestra,
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1 You will aco in here, In entire content, many countries linked together.
5 Whatever anglers may claim, the measure of this fish is
8
certain.
They cannot beauty spots.
le
considered
10 This story always deals with a
engineer in Rome,
civil
11
Strong row?
12 Seconds.
13 In this family ability manifesta
itself about fifty.
16 The food purveyor of the dis-
tunt future?
17
It goses a lot while
hat docan't interfere
with its job.
18 Femiršne name,
20 Part of the ship that's made
from $ boy's bat.
22
zz Most genuine of all coins.
1. The moon: The most inter-23
esting time to observe it is when
it is about half-full.
2. The planet Jupiter and Its system of moons.
of
3. The
The nebula just at the right Orion's
belt.
4. The planet Venus, which shows phases like the moon,
5. The numerous stars in the Piciades.
4. The double stars in the tail
of the Great Bear.
7. The stars in the dagger or sword of Orion
The instrument should be sup- ported firmly on a stick or wall.
There is a great deal of veget able growth in this river.
24 Irish town.
28, As the French say
29 The Welsh mountain that seems,
to justify its name fn winter,
30 May describe port or an owl. 31 Flight of a couple.
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1 The antle seed.·
2 There's no Golconds in this, though one named, certainly.
3 A misleading extract.
4 The gaoler who only had to drop a letter to got his Christ- mas dinner.
5 Lots of people tread on
water-plant.
this
O A little lock with
centre.
warth
7 Often raised over a murderer
(three words, 3, 3, 3).
D. An arrow? Well, perhaps.
14 Describes a cake with at leasi
one good point.
15 Sheepskin?
10 Imitato
correctly? No, this warns you not to.
10 Everything in the exhibition is
lacking in depth.
10 There's no place for this, but that's neither here nor there.
20 Malco happy with less.
21 Take
a run and roll along.
25 You may have one French artist
or another.
26 Mercyt
27 Painter.
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