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THE
HONGKONGI TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 16, 1938.
GILBERT FRANKAU,
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
GRAMOPHONE
SOME new recordings of ballet differ from each other in style music come as a reminder of of playing, and that fact gives the fact that ballet enthusiasts their performance an extra pl.
Connoisseur are more numerous in London quancy, especially apposite in
Of Life
By Douglas West
Wollbert Frankau?
XHAT 'sort of man is this
Gilbert Frankau is one of the most popular and interesting of contemporary Englishmen of letters. He is lithe spare, alert. His movements are quick and purposeful,
He wears good clothes with an air. He is at home in the world without
∙any marked suggestion of sophistien-
tion.
You would credit him with being at home in the hunting field, taking his own line and loving all the fine points of the chase. You would not be wrong.
You would recognise in hini also
than in any other European capi- music such as this which is full tal. Schumann's "Carnaval" in of comment and repartee. This its original form as piano of mu- is an ensemble of contrast, which sic is not ballet, though in its is always pleasant to hear, crchestral dress it is, and the granted, of course, that the of their new H.M.V. records of this sure players
only needed favourite provide anyone who instruments. It has seen the stage spectacle with this record to remind us how
magnificent, such mastery the right atmosphere.
case
are masters
Can
Eugene Goossens has made be. these records with the L.P.O. and the result is extremely good, much better, be it said, than MASTERLY in another way is Dohnanyi's writing in his generally the at actual "Symphonische Minuten, four theatre performances,
short movements, light in char acter, delicately scored and a TCHAIKOVSKY'S "S wa n perpetual delight to the ear. The Lake" is not his best ballet, record is issued by Decca (four though it is charming to watch, sides), and the playing, which is the well-known waltz is recorded excellent, is by the Queen's Holl by the L.P.O. under Efrem Kurz Orchestra under Wood. (Col.), and the same performers
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are responsible for an equally THE name of Shakespeare ap- ffective record of four move- pears seldom enough in nents from an older bullet, lately connection with the gramophone | revived with much success at for special interest to be aroused Sadler's Wells, namely, "Cop in Columbia's album of seven re- pelia" by Delibes.
cords of excerpts from "Richard II" with Maurice Evans in the
The
a connoisseur of life, a man of taste NE of the most splendid pieces name part and a distinguished and wide Interests, a desperately! of the carlier classical period, company supporting him hard worker; the sort of man who J. S. Bach's Concerto in D minor recording is extraordinarily_true. Is never bored, and so is able to for Two Violins, has just been As a test, try through the Depo- communicate enjoyment to others,
But would not
you
com-re-recorded, this time by Colum- sition Scene on a good instru placency of the narrow professional bia, with Szigeti and Flesch as outlook which is characteristic of soloists.
His
And
the
was
mind a
ment
Work it out Yourself
George makes a small but regular income during the winter by laying bots against the intelligence of his friends.
This week he won a small sum from Henry on this problem:-
"A farmer," said George, "was asked how many animals he had on his farm, and, after thinking for a few moments, he replied, "They are all horses but two, all sheep but two and all pigs but two. How many animals were there on the farm?"
Henry guaranteed that he'd get the answer right first time, But for some reason or other he guessed six and lost his money.
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Later, George won some more money out of a problem. He bet his friends that they wouldn't be able to answer a simple question on a 70-word paragraph after they had read it once.
Here's the paragraph, and you must only read it through once: "A bus leaves Knightsbridge for Barnes with twenty passengers; at the first stop one passenger got off and three got on; at the next stop three got off and one got on; at the next stop two got off, none got on; at the next stop five got off and four got on. Including the next and last stop at the terminus-how many times did the bus stop?"
Would George have won your money, too?
OIL
CASTOR GAS MASKS
TODERN scientific needs have discovered a new use for sun-
AMONG new Columbia recorda guard civilian populations from gas attacks. previous recording by of music from films, mention,
The leather in gas-masks does not keep mustard gns out very Menuhin and Ernesco, a moving may be made of "The first time satisfactorily unless it is specially treated. Sunflower seed oil or performance. And yet, in my I saw you" (Hall), "Whispers in castor oil is treated with oxygen and then with silica; resulta opinion, this later record should the dark" (Gibbons) and "The clear, sticky fluid. This fluid is treated with sulphur and diluted be placed level with its elder Trouble
You" in water. Leather soaked in the mixture is impregnated without companion. Szigeti and Flesch (Elrick).
being hardened, and mustard gas cannot get through.
some successful novelists of the day. Inevitably there comes to He is an example of hereditary literary ability,
mother Frank Danby, ni popular Late, Vic- torian novelist. His daughter Pamela one of the most individual of the young women writers of to-day.
Gilbert Frankau was at Elon, That great school has had a marked in fluence on his life. He is loyal and to acknowledge the
grateful Elon he wrote hin arsti
debt. At
book of poems.
When he was 21 he entered his father's business, and did not serious- to authorship until three or Irom his
ly turn to
In
With
is Me
Hints for Knitters
S.G.
induced to
reason
tank
Nobody is certain whether the gas creature has been is kept out simply as a window keeps breed in tanks. out the rain or chemically by com- The dificulty has been that before bining with atoma and molecules
the oyster egg grows up it passes within the impregnated leather.
One theory is that the atoms of through two stages, a free swimming mustard gas are charged with one stage and a motionless stage called
For some "spat." kind of electrle charge, and the utom
The trouble was a matter of diet. are charged with the opposite kind. The tree swimming larva passes its Then the atoms of the poison gas and food through its body so quickly that the oils stick together by electric it cannot digest green-celled life attraction.
which has cells protected with cel- lulose.
digest It can only
naked
four years before the war.
1814 he returned travels round the world, and soon TERE is a method of winding wool into the kind of ball that positively after the outbreak of the war joined 11 refuses to roll about. Hold up the left hand with the fingers and thumb in Ute oils embedded in the leather oysters rarely reached the spat singe. the East Surrey Regiment. He extended Begin by laying the first strand between thumb and first finger, Aransferred to the RF.A became with a convenient length (2015, 12 inches) lying down the back of the hand. adjutant his brigade, and went to France in 1915. He fought at Loos, Ypres, and on the Somme; went to Italy in 1916 un a staff captain, and was invalided out at the Army early
in 1910.
E drew largely upon H
his war experiences in writing the first of his novels which caught the public eye. Peter Jackson: Cigar Mer- chant" is not wholly a War book, Hutrit was one of the first to describe the War in terms of fiction.
Gilbert Frankau's very clever satire in verse, "One of Us," pub- ilshed in 1912, had already made his name known to the discerning. From 1019 onwards his record as a novelist has been remarkable, and his general level of achievement has been high.
which "Three Englishmen." was published in 1935, he essayed with remarkable success the chronicle novel, beginning with the Boer War and carrying his story down to the ly. "Farewell Romance" present duty.. came out last year.
In
As you commence to unwind the skein bring the wool across the palm of the hand, round the outside of the little finger, round the back of the sanie Anger, then between little finger and its Immediate neighbour, derosa the aim of the hand again, across the ball of the thumb, round the back of the thumb, then between thumb and first finger, and again across the palm of the hand.
Repeat this figure of eight motion for about 20 turns, and then wind the rest in a circular movement round the whole hand. Sip the wood off, and tuck in the last end securely.
Remember to reind loosely and to keep the original end free all the time you are winding. Commence knitting with the original end..........
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LIFE ON THE ROCKS
TEXT spring we shall be er screen round about 65 deg. Further how true it is that all life is scientific deduction to explain founded on a rock: or rather this-66 deg. is the tempera- that all life depenis on the sort ture at which people put on of rocks that exist beneath the central heating, and therefore gurface. Gaumont-British In
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ACROSS
5 To bequeath; in view of its in-
evitability, no doubt (8).
8 The place to do this is in the
theatre, of course (8), 9 Train, carrying old coin (7).
do it, perhaps 10 Permission to 11 Mending Tommy's torn trous 13 He tries to upset people (8). 14 Reliable, but not bright intern-
ally (6).
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17 Bird (3). 19 Insect (3).
20
Mountain feature there may be something to rave about in (6).. 23 Take away the sailor's region
(8).
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or feed the second part with first part. (7).
mentory scholar flag in this? step further. Of course, there such that if we did not interfere all
(8). England would become a mass of have always been cultivated woodlands with a few bare downs 31-A number is accommodated in
the 'rocks for case (6), oyster beds, but now the tender nad moorlands.
PRADORES DOWN
Toyster has bien, carried the feet deepek formation of England leg st the interest of the ele
1 A flower entirely in cut (8). 2'He can't be dumb, anyway (7) a A frequent privatë átütude (5). 4 A mark of private, promotion
"Daco diet (aring) (8). The bird the baby rook heard
Boak (8)2
1val is mixed in 23 kerass (3)99
15 To put the remainder about the end of the dress is limiting to freedom (0),
16 Think intently upon the second
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21 A famous regiment (3), 22 Put mother on a confused trail
and she's anything but peace able (7).
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25 Speech that is more than a de-
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27 A natural consequence of bor-
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