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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938.
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So Rare-Fox Trot
..Billy Cotton's Orchestra You're here, You're there-F.T...Billy Cotton's Orchestra 9185 The Valeta
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On the Avenue-Selection
..Dick
Till the Clock strikes three-F.T.
9148 Dixon Hits No. 16 9152 Yours and Mine-F.T.
For You-Quick Step
9156 Sandy's Happy Home
9157 Sweet Adeline
'A Little bit of Heaven
9161 Gipsy Violin
..Billy Merrin's Band ..Billy Merrin's Band Jay Wilbur's Band Robertson's Orchestra
Dick Robertson's Orchestra Reginald Dixon .Brian Lawrence's Orchestra . Brian Lawrence's Orchestra!
.Sandy Powell
..Joe Peterson Joe Peterson
The Organ, the Monkey and me
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I
N Shanghai, cockpit of the East, where I arrived just after the first evacuation of white wo- men to Hongkong and Mani- la, there now reigns a strange stillness and stagna- tion.
In May the great city was the scene of booming business. Ships plied their way up and down the Whangpoo, bringing manufactured goods from all over the world for the 400,000,- 000 Chinese, and leaving with tea and cotton and other pro- ducts.
In luxurious offices wealthy
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XAVIER-At his residence No. 1, Liberty Avenue, Kowloon, on February 13, 1938, Daniel Paulo Xavler, aged 32. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. 14. Monday, February (Canton, Macao and Shanghai papers please copy).
on
WEDDING
the benefit. Their wives drove about in limousines, for you do not walk in Shanghai. Night clubs, and places of entertain- ment were crowded with gay throngs.
Then the first shots were heard.
women.
-By
Michael
Killanin
who has been "Daily Mail" Special Envoy at the War Front in Southern China.
of trade
"Asks+
Jack Payne,
The Famous Dance
Band Loader
a fortune waiting for the man
THERE is
or woman who can think out something new in dance music. New rhythm, new steps-that is the urgent need of the modern ballroom.
For years the waitz, the foxtrot, and the quick-step have been the mainstays of dancing programmes and will probably remain so for many years to come.
That is all to the good. These are dances firmly established in public favour, and it is idle to contemplate replacing them.
What we need is a dance that will Foreign vessels no longer took
make a vital contrast to those three. away tea, but under armed escort smali man was affected first. Something. If you like, that will began removing the white The cessation of communications shock us with its essential newness. standstill and the
Some scized Way to Riches Soon there were none left but wrought havoc.
IF you can think out such u IF left to seek fortune elsewhere.
rhythm, if you can devise Russian cabaret girls and others their few remaining dollars and who could ill afford to leave.
As the white women were Some struggled on only to throw new steps to it, and this is most im- taken away Chinese coolie themselves into the rushingportant of all-if you can persuade the pubile to take it up, you will make a fortune. families poured in from outside. river.
find Efforts were made to them accommodation and food. Nothing could stop them from entering.
The forthcoming wedding is an-
nounced of A, R. H. Esmail, Frightened
The
If the fighting has moved to another quarter, this stagnation of business and the feeling of hopelessness persist.
number.
These numbers, which may well be
very variety
in
no
defes
factor
of success common to all of them.
Very few people realise the extent of the modern dance music industry. In this country alone something over 60,000,000 dance records are sold every year, and on each record a The big business men who royalty is paid. Every time a dance because it was a rollicking comedy have been able to stand the number is played the composer re- eldest son of the late Mr, and
THEY arrived on foot, strain of the hold-up of trade ceives a copyright
fec. Mrs. H. M. H. Esmail, of the
Billy Hill, by cart, and by boat in remain optimistic. They go to
fill, composer of "The Last described as the song hits of 1937, must have made well over £250,000 H.K. Sharebrokers' Association
Round-up, vers
averaged £40,000 cach
in profits to their composera and and Proprietor of H. M. H. their thousands till nearly a their offices in the morning now
in royalties on five of his songs, publishers-and they are stili, sell- Esmail and Sons of China million roamed the streets hunt- from force of habit.
Mabel Wayne, who composed Building. to Miss Cherito
They meet at the club at "Ramona," "Whu Made Little Boyet their Guevarra, daughter of Mr. and ing for a window-sill or over- Mrs. Jose Guevarra, of Manila. hanging cave under which they luncheon and discuss the future. Blue" and "Little Man, You've Had analysis. There
Busy Day," has already received, it They meet again in the evening is said, more than £250,000 in They have made, and are making, might spend the night.
None of them knew what and discuss the future. As royalties on her songs. was happening or why they had they lean against club bars they come. They knew that they trim their sails according to were frightened, and that was what they feel will be best. all.
When I left, the majority MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1038.
All this time foreign business seemed sympathise with WHO'LL CAMBLE men tried to carry on. The Japan-but it is a case of one day China, the next Japan.. A ON PEACE ?
fickle, unhappy lot with Six months or a year agy, hand, and Japna on the other enormous stakes in a foreign perhaps more than that, people is a typical instance of this inland which is the scene of an in high places were predicting competence in diplomacy-Or-isndeclared war a naval race in 1938. Very few it something more sinister?| listened to the warning. But in Are there powers or leaders in Wives Return
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It sounds easy money, doesn't it? money because they have "caught on."" Many other numbers us melodious, Belleve me, it is not. There is no as full of rhythm, sentiment, and primrose path to success in this dance humour, as these, have failed com- music business. There are no hard pletely. and fast rules to guide you.. Made £250,000
CONSIDER
The history of the foxtrot, best known of all modern ballroom dances, serves to show how illogical and per- plexing pubile taste can be. The old for instance, Edwardian tradition. In dancing was some of the dance successes smashed on a certain day in 1911 for the past year. "Caravan" and which a young man at
party,
Irving The Merry-go-round Broke Down" Berlin,
plano and im- down at sat succeeded because of their rhythmic provised a lune we now know 05. value in dancing; "H
"Home Town" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band. A "The Greatest Mistake of My Life," young English actor who was present, teenuse of their melodies: "Moon at Vernon Castle, and his wife, Irene,
THE "VERY IDEA"
(Continued on Page 5.)
the past several weeks, with the world to-day bent upon MANY wives have re- Sea" and "Little Old Lady," because made up some steps which, for those
turned, but only for af their sentiment; and "They're days, were utterly scandalising world almost daily, flowering Whatever the case may be and economic rensons, because the Tough, Mighty Tough in the West," darkly in the press of every this is no accusation the whole feeling of uncertainty that exists s continent, the mass of the people crisis over naval building so far in Shanghai does not help to
has become alarmed, Slowly as these four great nations are make life happy or easy. but surely the nations have concerned, seems to have arisen It has been a strange life in allowed the situation to develop, out of an article published in an Shanghai in recent months. One or it has developed in spite of Italian newspaper to the effect could go up to the Settlement them, to a point where naval as that Japan was probably build- boundaries and see the two well as military armaments are ing battleships above anything opposing sides fighting each being piled ton by ton in pre-planned by powers signatory_to other throwing hand-grenades paration for what? Sober the new London Treaty. The and machine-gunning and anip- people to-day are asking them-three western nations, rightly or Ing. selves that question. And why, wrongly, demanded that Japan The Chinese appeared philo-ALL these London and
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RUNNING OUR HEAD INTO A NOOSE
By Eddie Beaverbrook Kelly
"Stop Press" Kelly they called us. We used to press and the agirls yelled "Stop,"
There was, quite a scene the last time we burst into his room.
we
said,
"See here, Monty", "About this half-a-crown we've deposited with your———-”
President Roosevelt was always pestering us to interview him at the white House, but we told him he'd
he wanted his name in our paper, have to come across to London if Too sunny bad presidents are created by Journalists pandering to these lesser fry.
SKITE ABOUT SKY TRAVEL
We were the only reporter to go with the first neroplane from Eng- land to Australia. It travelled in a crate on the steamer in which wo were a passenger.
They if, as they declare, the nations reveal her intentions.
sophical. I saw them shelled
American war comes- do not want war, do they not succeeded, deliberately or not, in
excuse for and killed, but for them the do something to prevent this giving Tokyo an
alternative of life or death seem-pondents cluttering up the
He wouldn't let us finish. Had mounting rivalry, and all the indignant refusal to reveal led to mean little.
place reminds us that we us thrown out into Threadneedle antagonism and fear it breeds? single thing. It is not suggest-
The Japanese fight with great
Street. Probably feared we wanted There have been months ined that Japan is not taking an
once an old cam-
to withdraw our money. which to plun and act unreasonable attitude, in view fury, with all the spirit of were diplomatically in order that of the gravity of the situation Bushido [their code of bravery); paigner. the situation might be eased, which may result; but it is an and with a conviction that it is
A scarred old newspaper Every pacifying effort, up to undeniable fact that, knowing well to be killed for the Emperor. In the midst of the gloom you now, has been abortive. the people with whom they had Whether any power has serious to deal, the Governments of come upon many amusing incid-veteran, we were, and if the ly endeavoured to find a way out Great Britain, the United States ents and incongruities. It was linotypist doesn't set that been well strange to go to a Japanese word "scarred" with two of the senseless muddle, apart and France had from extricating itself from advised to have approached party and be waited on by any association with responsibi- Tokyo with all the formality and Chinese boys. It was stranger "r's" we'll complain to the lity, historians may be able to friendliness of which they are still to see, after the Chinese re- Editor. ΠΟ capable, leaving disclose.
possible treat from Shanghai, a Japanese Looking at it broadly it chance for offence and for the platoon advancing in rickshas| would appear that blame for rejoinder that their request for drawn by Chinese coolics.
Shanghai, remember, is the impasse is fairly equally information sounded like distributed, Of course there threat to these sensitive people. trinity, for although in a sense! have been trenties broken; and It is not suggested, either, there is only ono city, there are that is indefensible, though the that western nations should go three entities governed independ- treaty-breakers argue, perhaps crawling to Tokyo for informa-ently yet depending largely on logically, that they were not at tion on naval construction. But one another for their welfare fault; that circumstances gave since all parties protest that they and prosperity. them no alternative but to dis- want some form of control, even The three municipalities which regard the pacts their statesmen disarmament, it might pay to go to make up Shanghai consist had signed In years pastpacts | spend a few hours and A few of the International Settlement, which were shameful and unjust million pounds in talks upon the. French Concession, and the and which prevented their ways and means of rostricting Chineso City. ZZA IN DAN JEN DA ZA JA TEEZ natural expansion. That is a building, and preventing com- The International Settlement, We never printed, our interviewing for hours at their fountain pens, matter which it would be point-petition that will load either to which comprises the former with the Archbishop of Canterbury, together with the ald of a miracle. less to discuss at this juncture. bankruptcy, revolution or war-, British and American Con- because of the nasty insinuntions have succeeded to some extent.
But the old spirit la lacking. It matters not one jot who is to for all of them. When it is con- cession, is ruled by a council of that followed our last visit to his blame for the present epidemicsidered what immense sums the Americans, British, Japanese cathedral. In any case, the poor You can't do much good with this of fear that is abroad. What world is investing for security, and Chinese, who are responsible box didn't contain 38. 61⁄2-li had post-war stuff. does matter is that so few are would it not be sound sense to for everything from publicly is. 1d.. two buttons and a making any faithful attempt to gamble a little on peace, and try health to defence. combat ft.
not to think of every ''other) The defence is carried out The recent exchango of notes nation in terms of man-power, by representatives of all the between the United States, Great guns-and-naval tornago? nationalities living in the sottle
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We have been unsuccessful so far We remember during the war being sent to interview Ilalg. We in our efforts to interview Stalln. found him a dual personality-o keeps putting us off. Wo sua- Halg and Haig.
pect he is Stalin for time.
We are sorry to say that jour- We got our greatest kick out of nallem has degenerated since interviewing Mussolini. He kicked loft Its ranks. Men like Vernon
Colosseum.
and John Gunther have struggled Colors the front steps of the Bartlett, Karl von Wiegan, Monson
We
never desperately to maintain the level we created, and by dint of slaving night and day at their typewriters, suck-
Aword Wo would Colosseum again.
chipped-monocle.
IT WASN'T OUR VAULT Bir Montague Norman, the Gover nor of the Bank of England, was always a hard man to Interview
They will nover attain the heights" we attained with the Times. We well remember, on the day before we retired; solling no less than 78- copies of the Grand Old Paper or Fleet Street on our stand under- neath Nelson's Monument