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Pity me... I'm 6 feet Tall
EAR 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.
a very
I suppose you'd call me feminine type like to be managed not to manage. And that's the last thing people expect of me.
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T school I was doomed by hatred of organised gumes. At home, being largest of the family, was always called long-legged Jim and regarded as a clumsy fool,"
Since finishing training I've been
continually In
and
out of jobs. unly tet temporary ones. though I've excel- lent testimonials.
My three months
with Bardolph and
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Bardolph are just
up. I knew le
Mr. Brown 1 work- rel for wouldn't
have
around Jonger
a
giraffe
minute.
than he needed. I towered tried him.
the and
over 30RKINK
at
shoulders
standing with my
knees bent, but it
didn't help any,
Another madden-
Ing thing is I'd just
my
secretar:1
in Alice in Wonderland, who wasn't easily put out, 108 unset
Even Alice Even
when she found she was growing
taller,
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice. "Good-bye Ficet!" Afor when she looked down at her feet they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were so far offq.0 It's like than in life.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
S
APRIL 27,
1937.
SMITH ritica
cr
a l
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.
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 instru- ment which has obsessed the human race for centuries..
The first bow was drawn across strings by the Hin- 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 much Smith may not think "chamber music" for one reason or another, but at least he can feel that in the string quartet Western civilis- tion achieved perfection, at any rate in one direction.
Viola Players searce
APAR
PART from two violins, the rest of the string quar-
tet consists of a viola,and a 'cello.
!
TO-MORROW Smith learns to listen
to modern music
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William Walton, and Vaughan Williams have all written works for it
The modern symphony orchestra has as its foundation the string quarte, The viola as a solo instrument has with the addition of the double bass.
As the mechanical side of other in-
got a a length of that fithy maroon co- kids used to shout, 'How are the sky-never been so popular as the fiddle or lour we have to wear in the office. And scrapers looking to-day? Or, Go:
a length for me is a length. I can't any snow on your hat cutie?"
gel away with a remnant the size of
a postage stamp.
It looks as though I'll be in and out of jobs all my life. A panicky 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 all. She said,
ot
"When I was fifteen I adored being I don't suppose I'll marry, which is bigger than the others because what I'd really like to do. All the tall netball then, like I am of the team of men seem to te dainty small girl show girls here now.
Y
man
"Alice
"From seventeen to twenty-one J lontied it and was self-conscious to a degree. Could have done with a bit In Wonderland's friend is of
shrinking My best
called Archile, but I'm mushroom. einbarrassed walking and dancing with "Worst
moment of all was my first
Felt appearance.
It. him. We look so silly, he only comes mannequin up to my shoulder.
high and gawky to match.
D
He took me out last night to cheer Sald perhaps an office isn't a good me up about losing Bardolph and Bar. Idea for me and 1 ought to have been dolph. We went along to-n-West End-a mannequin, same way as she started. Gave me some good clothes tips. Says show where he said he knew a giri height makes the right clothes look ele-
Is alter than I am and likes i It was hard to believe but true. We fant wide shoulders, large hats, tight saw her after the show. Joanna Saf- skirts, and so on.
who
felle she's called, Very good to look
Great Joke that women who bought
at, and she's married a man who is 0 models she wore were always fat and
2 Ins..
led short, led away by slinky appear-
She thinks I made a mistake In ance on Joánna.
pretending not to be so large. "Toi
But Joanna Saffelle has been lucky.
all for standing straight and holding my er height has helped her, The only head up," she said. "Being proud of advantage in mine at the moment is
that I shall certainly see the Corunn 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.
"Afu toife is taller than I am."
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As an instrument it is neither Eng- lish nor much of a horn; it derives its name from cor angle as angled or bent horn; it is bent near the mouth- piece.
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Played with a reed
on the
composer's
NEXT
mellow sounding, score
come two clarinets wooden instruments played with a single reed.
Below the clarinets come the bas- soons, split-reed instruments with very, much the same tone character as the oboc.
Mendelssohn called the bassoon "the clown of the orchestra," but though it can produce humorcus music, it has been used to add a strangely bitter- sweet tonic-colour to the orchestra. -
These instruments complete the wood-wind group.
(called
Next come four herns French horns), brass instruments wilh a lot of curling tubes capable of almost every lone-expression known to music, from sweet, soft distant tones to flerce, brassy noises.
Trumpets and trombones are brass knows well cello, partly because composers con- strumen's developed so the symphony instruments that Smith sidered it to be neither as agile as the orchestra was enlarged until to-day it enough already. But what Smith may vielin nor as sweet-toned as the 'cello, includes (on the average) sixty string not know is that the trombone has not always been the rather vulgar instru- and party (and consequently) because players and twenty players of wind in-
ment it is now thought to be. there have been few first-class execut- struments. ants on the instrument.
The average orchestra required to
In the seventeenth and. early eigh play works in the standard repertory teenth centuries trombones were used The twentieth century, however, bas fg as follows:-
to accompany Masses sung in churchi produced several first-class players,
Two flutes, originally made of wood, This, the sackbut of the Bible, became and with them the repertory has now often of metal, one of whom is the most solenn-sounding of all Instru-
expected to play the piccola (Italian menta.
This tradition lasted many years, un- Two of the best known of modern small) flute, which is high and piercing in tone, two oboes (from the French
22:1 Mozart's time. At the most "super- viola players are British, Lionel Terlis, haut-bois-high wood), instruments human" moment in Mozart's "Don world's director of viola propaganda, played with a spill reed, producing an Giovanni," when the composer wante and William Primrose, who has proved easily distinguishable piercing tone, to suggest that something unusual is that the viola is by no means ungle, melancholy or pastoral in mood.
happening, the statue of the Commen- Modern British composers, too, have Obor players are usually capable of dature comes to life and sings to the
"cor Anglais" (English accompaniment of trombones, encouraged the violi-Arnold Bax, playing the
turally grown.
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1. Trombone
2. French Horn
11. Bass Drum 12. Side Drum
3. Trumpet
4. Harp
G. Piccolo
6. Phute
13. Triangle 14. Kotķiedrunn
16. Gynibala
ta. Double Baut
17. Cellu
7. Oboe
8 Clarinet
9. Cor Anglais
48. Viola
10. Banroom
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Later cymbals triangle, bass drum, and xide drum were added,
strumenta without definite note.
"Kitchen"
group
THE modern
percussion player is expected to be able to cope with (in addition to the above) tambourine, rattle (tie. Port used to imitate à inachino), glockenspiel (ntrips of metal Bound- ing like small bells), xylophone (Smith pro- bably remembers Teddy Brown?), tubular bells, Castanets,
Bongs, even to beat a birch on a chair.
Modern composers have introduced | anvile and typewritera into the per- eunsion (known "in the frado" as the "kitchen!) group, but Smith needn't worry over-much about that, any more than he need ark what a harp is, now also part of the regular formation of | nymphony orchestra.
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IF you have, or can borrow, a Telescope or a pair of opera losses, it will be worth while to examine the following objects In The aky
The moon. The most luter- ruthig Ume to observe it is when il le bout half-full.
2. Tho planet Jupiter and Its system of moans.
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3. The nobula just at the right of Orion's belt.
4. The planet Venus, which shows phases like the moon.
5. The numerous stars in the Pleindes.
6. The double stars in the tall of the Great Deur.
7. The torn by the dogger, or sword of Orloni
The instrument should be sup- ported firmly on n stick or wall.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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1 You will see in here, in entire content, many countries linked Logether.
Whatever anglers may claim, thu measure of this fish is certain.
They cannot bo considered beauty spots,
10 This story always deals with a
civil engineer in Rome,
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13 In this family ability manifests
Iself about fifty
10 The food purveyor of the dis-
nl future? tant
27 Though it gases a lot while working, that doesn't interfere with its job.
10
Feminine
pomine name..
20 Part of the ship that's made
from a boy'a bal.
Phero 18
22 Most genuine of all coins. 23 There A great deal of veget
able
In this river. growin 24 Irish town.
28 As the French suy.
20 The Welsh mountain that seems
to justify its name in winter. 30 May describe port or an owl, 31 Flight of a couple,
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1 The antic reed.
2 There's no Golconda in this,
though one homed, certainly.
3 A misleading extract.
4
The gaoler who only had to
drop a letter to get his Christ- mas dinner.
Lots of people tread on this
water-plant.
A little lock with a centre.
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WAIT!!
7. Often raised over a murderer
(three words, 3, 3, 3),
An arrow? Well, perhaps.
14 Describes a cake with at least
16
point.
one good Sheepskin?
16 Imitate, 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 Make happy with less.
21 Take a run and roll along.
25 You may have one French artist
or another...
26 Mercy!
27 Painter.
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