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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 2, 1988.
At cotton-picking time in Dixie the economists were concerned over the Rust mechanical picker, shown at work near Memphis, Tenn. The machine pleks about 1,500 pounds of lint and seed an hour at a cost of 24 cents for 100 pounds. Field hands, lower panel, are paid 75 cents to $1 for 100 pounds. The machine costs $5,000, but factory production is expected to reduce that figure. The machlue is no longer in the experimental stage.
Woman's
To 'Firing
Dogs Sentenced
11
Squad'
Lewes.
Eleven prize-winning settlers worth hundreds of pounds are to be taken from their home in the Sussex village, of Framfield, and shot.
offence is sheep worrying.
ORCHESTRAS
MAY LOSE THEIR CONDUCTORS
Orchestras may soon be playing without a conductor, Mr. Adolph Busch and his colleagues have been showing how well a conductorless orchestra can play.
It has not yet been attempted on a large scale and no one, apparently, can say with certainty at what stage a conductor becomes indispensable or whether there is a definite limit to the number of musicians who can play without a baton to hold them together.
Scott Goddard writes:
It is curious that no impresario has produced one of the conductor- less orchestras from Russia for London to cor.
We are deluged with stor per- formers on every known Instrument, voice included, and within the Inst half-century the muestro conductor has risen to, untold heights"of glory.
HOW IS IT DONE?
It is an intriguing problem, how these conductorless orchestras do the
Elephants
Routed-By
A Slipper!
trick. They can never be tenderless, Armed with only a carpet slipper. however much they may be conduc-Councillor J. C. Dempsey, of Roth- torless. Rehearsals (where all the well, Northants, recently drove two real work is done) must have some circus elephants from his cabbage central authority.
patch,
The elephants escaped from a cir- The iden seems to be, in essence: cus which was about to leave the In return to what went on before
Beethoven's day. Then there was town, roamed across a field, and no conductor, but performances entered the cabbage patch.
"The arst I knew about it was were controlled by the man sitting at
Thief In Abbey As the rpsichord--the leader in fact, when a man ran into my
Woman Prayed
"I am particularly anxious to stop this form of crime," sald the Bow- street magistrate, Mr. Fry, when Walter Bareley, 59, described as in- dependent, of Queen's-crescent, N.W., pleaded guilty recently to stealing a handbag from a woman praying in Westminster Abbey.
This is the order of the Uckfield! "When I returned they had ton ogistrales. The dors' alleged down sone wire netting and eleven of them were missing. I have many Their owner, beautiful countrybred cats and kittens, two goats, horses, Miss Kathleen' Slattery, said: "1 am and the dogs are on the best of terms
Miss Joan Louise Kiy, o Civil Ser- to with them all." doing everything in my power
Miss Slattery spends all her time vant, of Manor Park, said that on save their lives.
che noticed that Bar- The National Farmers' Union have with her pets. She has an aviary missing her bag
lovebirds, and a Jarge cley, who had been sitting behind her, pressed for the dogs' destruction, al-filled with lo
had disappeared. though the farmers concerned have white parrot.
"I shall try to form * petition She hurried from the chapel and not asked for them to be punished.
found him walking away, with the Mian Slattery told how it hap among dog lovers, Dogs are pened. "I had not taken them out hobby, although many people think bag under his coat. He for their usual morning walk. I went I am mad to keep so many. I should tained by a verger.
Barcley was away in my car and the dogs were be broken-hearted to lose any one of
them."
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"I ran out and, with a slipper in ons hand and a cabbare I pulled out in the other, managed to hold up the elephants, who were having a fino time.
and told me two large elephants were
cabbages," Young Beethoven appears to have busy eating my done that job at rehearsals (unpaid) Dempsey said. in the orchestra of the Elector of Cologne. At the end of his life, when the Ninth Symphony was per- formed, the orchestra was to all 'n- tents and purposes conductorless, for though Beethoven was officially in command he was by then completely deal.
VIOLIN LEADER Since his movements were
be which tuide to the orchestra could not hear, the first violinist, Duport, kept the players together.
no
EATING CABBAGES
"They were pulling up cabbages with their trunks, enting them, and spitting out the stalks and roots.
"By the time I got there there were plenty of spectators but no helpers.
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" waved my slipper and cabbage, suits
and after a few tense moments, the truants ambled off back to the circus,
The fun was well worth the cab-
Bruno Waller has recently shown (in a set of gramophone records) that the trick can be done with bages I lost," he added with a smile. Mozart planoforte concerto. in-
how such a method could possibly succeed with a complicated modern score remains to be seen,
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most recent report of the Lunacy and Mental Deficiency Board of Control, just published, it is revealed A distinguished Englishman, who that a novel and ingenious device
led Particular men know the importance desires to remain anonymous, has has been tried successfully at Wads- of good grooming. We take particular presented the Prime Minister with a ley. A toy electric railway has care to see that your sult is thoroughly
of
Peace Bowl to commemorate the been erected and has been very use- Munich Agreement. The Bowl is in ful in obtaining the interest silver, is
handmade and is full of patients suffering from certain forms symbolism. The design la quart of mental disorders. Hitherto, run- foil in allusion to the meeting of the ning model trains has been regarded four statesmen at Munich. Its round as one of the rewards of fatherhood base bears the word "PAX" with the and their use in mental hospitals is date 1938, and radiant lines that
that appareatly new, though it is stated may represent a new dawn break- that one has been successfully em- ing. It has been made by Mr. Omar ployed in a Dutch mental deficiency Ramsden, the South Kensington colony. It is now suggested that goldsmith and silversmith, and a re- | some equally ingenious distraction plica of it may be seen in one of the might be devised for the female side dlass cases of silver at the Exhibition as the fascination of model traina is of Arts and Crafts now on view at apparently regarded as an exclusive- the Royal Academy,
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FRED BARNES, ONCE
Одее
£150-WEEK STAR, DIES IN POVERTY
а
£150-a-week musichall Later, when Barnes appeared in star, Fred Barnes, the comedian, was the County Court, a solicitor said recently found dead at his lodging in | that he was a very rich man, having St. Anne Road, Southend-on-Sea. received a fortune of several thou-
He was lying fully clothed in front rands. of a gas-ring in an upstairs sitting- room, but the tap had not been turn ed on, and a seizure is believed to have caused death,
Barnes, who was 53, had fallen on hard times. Yet for 25 years he had topped the bill wherever he appear-
ed,
terrible plight-with a stomach that Yet last year he was telling of his
was "an aching chasm" and hardly a sound pair of shoes to his feet.
PHOTO ON CHEQUES
For years Barnes kept a marmoset monkey as a pet. The monkey sat on his shoulder when he toured the
Eighteen months ago he was told that with care he might live six West End hotels. He had a big
months. "I'm not senred," he
the doctor. "Out with it."
He went to Southend for health.
told yellow car with the name "Fred Barnes" painted on it in large letters. He even had his photograph on his cheques.
his
Five months ago he said: "Betler
a merry three months than a miser-
For a bat of £100 he once stood able six," adding that he had been for an hour in Leicester Square in smoking and drinking what he liked evening dress and wearing a mask and felt perfectly fit.
trying to sell golden sovereigns for His health was failing, neverthe-od. No one purchased; he won the less, and as he became worse his wager. means diminished.
He received an allowance from a friend of the old days, but he be- came unable to supplement this, as he had done for some time, by play- ing the plane and singing his old numbers in a publle-house.
Ho complained.bitterly that no one seemed to care. He had shared ap- plouse with giants of the past lice. Marie Lloyd, Little Tich, Wilkie Bard and others, and he sold last year that his dreams were all he had teft.
A man who had known Barnes for
Then he perpetrated a great hoax by announcing that he had married an Australlari heiress by special licence in flot He afterwards apologised to the Archbishop of Canterbury for the hoax, which, he said, had cost him £160.
EXTENSIVE STORAGE OF PETROL
Wellington. The New Zealand Government has
40 years stated that the comedian's father had a prosperous business but imported and stored huge quantities left him nothing in his will. This of petrol for use in the event of war. Inspired Barnes to write his most This fact was made known by the popular song.
"The Black Sheep of Minister of Miner, Mr. P. C. Webb, who added that in an emergency, the Family.”
would call to its In 1927 Barnes claimed that he the Government had been left £84,000 by an Ameri-old all practical means for producing can woman, Mrs. Gordon Browne, oil from coal.
for assisting her in a London air It was hoped, said. Mr. Wobb, that rald: When It was pointed out that the prospecting for oil that was now such a woman was not known in the going on would reveal supplies suf- USA, one of his friends insisted ficient to remove the danger of a
shortage. that the story was true,
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