HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
ARE YOU REALLY SURE?
Answers are on Page Three
1. "To-morrow Is St. Valentine's
day" said:
Desdemona
Ophella
Rosalind
Portia Gonerli
Olivia
2. In what country do they use
these weapons:——
(a) Assegals.
(c) Tomahawks
(b) Boomerangs (d) Tulwars
3. Which of these plays:-
"Lady Windermere's Fan"
"Vortex"
"Bill of Divorcement"
"Mrs. Warren's Profession"
"Night Must Fall"
"Time and the Conways". was written by:-
(a) Bernard
Shaw
(e) Clemence
(b) Noel Coward (1) Emlyn
13. How much money is:-
20, Which regiment is called: (a) Tins
(c) Green lowards
(b) Pontius
Body- (d) Saucy
Pompeys
(a) Buck
(d) Jimmy
Pilato's
(b) Pony
o'Goblin
guard
(c) Monkey
(c) Dime
(1) Tanner
14. Which character in
history
(c) Dufs 21. Which of these races of man- kind is most numerous. The-
was called:
Semitic
(a) Little Corporal
Negro
Caucasian Malayan
(b) Royal Marlur
Mongol
Red Indian
(c) Young Chevaller
22. The "Dark Ages" were called
(d), Knight without Fear and with such because of;-
out Reproach
15. Ulster. Munster, Loinsier Connaught. In which is:---
(a) Belfast
(b) Dublin
(c) Cork
(d) Limerick
or
Debased morals Slavery
16. The number of stars in the Great Bear 18:--
1
Dane
18
*22
(c) Oscar Wilde
Viliam
(d) Pricaller
12 17
14
Where do or did these peoples'
4. Which of these are counties in live-
Great Britain:-.
(a) Incas
(d) Maoria
disa
Sunderland
Kesteven
(b) Azteci
(e) Mohicans
Sutherland
Dunber
Howdenshire
Westmorland
1. Nanga Parbat is u:-
Dancer
Mountain
River
Species of goat
Asiatic ruler * Industrial
discuse
8. Did any of these countries ever belong to Turkey:-
Arabia
Albania
Greece
Tripol!
Palestine Surla
7. Which of these are included in
the British Isles?
Channel Islands Scilly Islands
Hebridea
Shetland Islands
Faroe Islands
8. Minorca's cupita! is called:-
Ajaccio
Palermo
Patma
Port of Spain
Port Mahon
Santiago
0. The duty of a "press gang"
was to
Gather news for the papers
Work in a laundry
Compel men to serve in the Navy Pack passengers into tube trains Make prisoners confess by torture 10. To what country does the northernmost portion of (a) North America and (b) Ireland belong.
of 11. The official name "Mounties" is thei-
North West Mounted Pollce
Royal Canadians
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
North-West Frontier Force.
Royal Mounted Police
(e) Alnu
(1) Hottentots
18. Complete the titles of these works by Jane Austen:-
(a) Pride and
(b) Senac and
(c) Northanger
(d) Mansfeld
19. Which of these occur la the "Arabian Nights":-
Bluebeard
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Sinbad the Sallor Sleeping Beauly
All Baba and the Forty Thieves Jack and the Beanstalk
Sisters
Intellectual darkness Solar eclipses
Supremacy of coloured people Short hours of daylight
23. Polar bears live in the:- Arctic
.Both
Antarctic
24. A hin is a-
Crons between a stallion and a she-
Pedigree fowl.....
Oriental ruler
Jewish measure
.....
26. When in flight does
很
bee
move its two pairs of wings up and down together or alternately?
28. Sephardi is at-
Long trumpet
Taper
Negro elder
Jew of Spanish origi
Piece of music
Short lyric poem
27. The validity of a British pass- port three, five, six, elght years?
Win Fight To Marry Men They Love
TWO sisters have fought for the right to marry the men they
love, against parental opposition—and have won,
Mr. Alfred Scammell, of Hayes, Middlesex, has two daughters, Edith, aged eighteen, and May, aged nineteen..
Two years ago the sisters wished to marry, but Mr. Scammell said "No."
Edith
SATURDAY, APRIL 15. 1939.
THE A.B.C. OF SWING Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
WHEN a Dritish Cabinet Minister baric quarter-bents, but the pounding for in profuse strains of unpremedi
uses the word "Jitterbug" in a pulse of "aking" (drums) and theated art. Here alone can be heard stevenson on the subject of
A quotation by Robert Louis public speech, it is a fair assumption boogiewoogle instruments maintain a
real swing in all degrees of lucan- that swing lingo has arrived. Not
descence. "Gutbucket" is unrefined "Work and Cheer" forms tho yet can its curious terms and phrases steadfast ballast.
swing, music of the rawest, coursest be found in a dictionary, not even in
Swing also has colour, but many kind accompanied by crude physical basis of to-day's cryptogram: slang lexicon. They are too hot
and symptoms, Screw- "TH IHN KHABCN ́NDEN Ecatures from the mint to be reduced to the exponents of Jazz were able to ball" is fast, fred Improvisation which, | CFCI EG 'NH JHAL' OG NH troduce a symphonie instrumentation when the players are "in the groove" cold print of a work of reference that was flcher and more various yet.
than swing. Melody is also a factor
JHAGDOQ, GH NH RC SDC
OG NH JHAGDOQ. in swing, but not always the type of
CAU DVGH; EIX NH RC DEQQU that can be sung, Singers melody
OG NDC KOAGN GNCQ NH depend almost exclusively on the
RCOIB QOHZG." printed word and note, whereas swing here is the essential clue-depends mainly on improvisation.
But this is only a matter of time, Swing has enriched the
American "language" with many words that have already passed into everyday use, and they are gradually being adopted in Britain and the Empire generally,
Pure, unadulterated swing lingo sounds like a foreign language to the uninitiated. For example: "The get- off man with the ngony-pipe went barrelhouse while the canary went 1
to lown with some hot licks that gave the ickles a real clambake and if you don't hep this live you're no jitter- bug."
This,
means: Interpreted,
The clarinet star improvised ad lib, while the girl soloist reached the heights in an inspired free-style exhibition that gave the audience a real treat, and if you don't understand this talk, you're no swing enthusiast. Growls from the "Doghouse"
Naturally enough, many
of the special terms of swing refer to musical instruments, The clarinet is
rather obviously the "agony-pipe" because of its thin, wailing notes Even more obviously the trumpet is the "horn." The vibraphone is called "Iron horp," the xylophone is the known as the "woodpile," and the trombone is, rather
cleverly, the "tram." The bass fiddle is called the "doghouse," presumably because it is the place where the growls come from, and a similar idea is ex- pressed in "boogie-woogle,' which means a style of music that makes considerable use of heavy bassin
struments.
Other styles of swing are various ly and indelicately known as "gul bucket," "screwball," "whackey," and "barrel-house." To be able to ap- preciate the subtle differences of meaning, it is necessary to know something about swing as it is played in America.
essence
(inspired) develops into "whacker The zenith of free expression is "barrelhouse" in which all restraints are shed and the sky is the Kruit.
The jam sessions are valued by the profession, not merely an exhilarat
Ing musical sprees but also because they provide opportunities for "wood- shedding
(experimentation.)
Thic performances are never likely to be come popular In the commercial senso because they are too crude and blar- ing. They are the rehearsals from which the public performances are
Free, inspired improvization, that is the foremost element of swing and it is this characteristic that gives it the special lure of the unexpected. In dependent of printed notes, each variation is a musical adventure; it is compusing while playing. But that is by no means all, The character-created. Isties of swing are so manifold, its "Long-Pants"
its appeal so so elusive, purely physical and emotional, that Ordinary music, musicians, and it defies concise definition. Perhaps their public are referred to in the
various this is why swing has had to create Jive by
uncomplimentary Old-fashioned. a vocabulary of its own to explain terms.
of the music itself.
non-classical type is
"Long- hair," "long
underwear," and "long- For public performances swing pants" are terms used to describe ad- bands use expertly-arranged scores.herents of classical music. A must- These provide stipulated opportuni- Pelan who plays from a score is a pa ties for impromptu playing above a perman."
Tin enra" is used to harmonic
skeleton. describe anyone who does not rhythmic and ha
allow unlimited clate swing, Such opportunities freedom to individual
players, Swing players must be first-class musicians,
whatever the long-pants may say to the contrary. Any ordinary instru- mentalist can play through a score but it takes a musician to be able to leave the score and to know, or feel, when to get back to it and how to set back to it. Jam Sessions
There are degrees in swing. The real, raw variety is only heard in the "Jam sessions" that take place in These are informal meet- Harlem. ings usually held late at night, where ents" (professional swingsters), free from the restrictions of scores, may taste the exaltallon of untrammelled self-expression.
appre-
Swing fans (apart from the all-
gators) are either "ickies" or "litter- bugs." There is a big difference between the two terms. The Ickle is a person
whose enthusiasm for
A Square and a Diamond This square and diamond both built on the same bases
a gem:
A....
-B
Letter Changing Soon, it will be time to dig out the weeds from the grass. How about changing WEEDS to GRASS? It has been done in 6 moves.
What Is the Difference?
What is the difference in the rate of discount on a bicycle marked $85, and selling for $27.50, and one that is marked $40 and selling for $327
Classic Prose
swing is exceeded by his ignorance of it, while the jitterbug is a person so addicted to swing that it has de- veloped into a monia. Jitterbugs go "out of the world" when their fa-
A reader sends this list of vourite "rideman" produces particu-
and prose,
nuthors. farly "hot licks" or "riffa." Some of classic them are also "mugglers" (marihu- Can you identify each correct. ana addicts.)
ly as indicated by example
Bathere
12 | Jon Tyre
The Non-Q00 1
George Eliot
The Talimat
amets
Swing itself came out of inverted checked? commas some time ago and its tech- nical terms are fast achieving their freedom. With the release of jitter- Samuel Hoare, British bug by Sir Jam sessions take place in night-Home Secretary, swing lingo has clubs known to the cognoscenti of taken a big step forward. At all Broadway before an audience of "al-events, Jitterbug need never go back
enthus into the inverted commas that de asts.) There are no conductore, no hote a word not yet incorporated rehearsals, no printed notes. Musical into a language. conventions and inhibitions are cast
Wilson Ferber
ligators" (knowledgeable and her dance, Sydney, to their marriage. They were told
theSmith, aged twenty, summoned Mr. by the magistrate to come back in
Scammell for the return of things
a year. bought for Edith's "boltom drawer." Mr. Senminell was ordered by the court to return the property,
Then May and her flance summon- ed Mr. Scammell to show cause why they should not be married.
12. Codex Sinallicus is a manu- won the issue, married, and
Legion of Frontiersmen
script of the:
Old Testament
New Testament
Old and New
Testamenta Four Gospels
have a baby girl,
TRIED AGAIN
They now
Du the lovers could not wall. They wrote to the court officials, who replied advising them to ask Mr. Scammell once again.
This time Mr. Scammell gave his consent, and the wedding of Edith and Sydney took place at Uxbridge register office recently.
Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Scammell
Then Edith and her dance tried again to obtain the court's consent' attended either of the weddings.
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News About Music
About twenty-five years ago Jazz music shocked the "long-pants" (people who enjoy classical musle) of the world, and, despite criticism it caught on and flourished. To-day jazz is old-fashioned and outmoded. Swing players refer to it contemptu- ously as "salon" or "schmalz." Jazz hos found its way into the dictionaries where it
it is usually defined in two or three words, of which syncopation is one. But the lexicographers are still
** trying to find a concise definition of awing. Even the leading exponents of swing cannot define it. Tommy Dorsey says, "Swing is like love, you
REC can't explain 1. Robert M'Bride
ECENTLY the Bourne-day. It is, the more interesting avers that "Swing it swing; a musi-
mouth Music Festival therefore to recall the fact that clan cannot denne King of Swing started with a choral and orches his music has been branded as thinks that "Swing "b probably rhythmic integration."
tral concert under the direction decadent by those in authority.
in his country. of the permanent conductor of the Municipal Orchestra, Richard This opera is one of his latest Austin. The programme con- works and in its entirety the sisted of Brahms's German Re-music of it had never been heard
before in England. quiem and Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony.
Ordered Chaos
Swing certainly has rhythm, and its syncopalians are quite as audaci ous as those of jazz, but for all its abandon it remains an ordered chaos. The "rideman" (the player who tem- porarily takes the lead in departing from the score, if any) may skip ahead, chopping the rhythm into bar-
CHESS
PROBLEMS
Black
White
Nos. 99-100
- Problem No. 25
11 Pieces
00250
• Pieces While to play and mate in two.
Problem No. 100
11 Pieces.
Black
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【蘿油燒
家園
White
& Pieces
While to play and mate in three. SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS
No. 97 n-Kn No. 98 1. B-12
3. K-KO
7. 14-3ch
P-Koch
PxP
End-Game White wini; 1 KG-94 P-K8(9); * Ki-X17ch, K, moves, 3 Xt- Bsch, K-R. 4 B-18, Q moves: 5 3-Q2ch, Qפ; & Kt-Klich, and wins,
The libretto, which is by the composer himself, is founded on Apart from the musical value incidents in the life of the six- of this concert it was interesting teenth-century painter Mathis "to compare these two works, Grunewald. The action takes written within 40 years of each place in Germany during the other, and for a similar disposi-time of the Peasants' Revolt. tion of voices and Instruments, yet fundamentally so different in character and manner.
The programme of the second
THE Festival of the Inter- concert conducted by Malcolm
national Society for Con- Sargent was Brahms's Academic temporary Music is being held Overture, Dvorak's Fourth this year in Warsaw, under the Symphony, "Fetes," which is the presidency of Mr. Edwin Evans, second of Debussy's three Noc-who succeeded Professor E. J. turnes, and Elgar's Violin Con- Dent In this office last year. The corto, with Albert Sammona as judges have chosen works by aoloist.
composers from 16 countries as far apart as Japan and the Argentine. England is to be THE outstanding musical represented by Christian Darn- event recently in London ton (Five Orchestral Pieces), was the concert performance of Elisabeth Lutyens (Second and "Alan Hindemith's opera, "Mathis the String Quartet) Painter." This, was a B.B.C. Rawsthorne (Symphonic Studies
for Orchestra).
L
production at which the Phil- harmonic Choir, -the B.B.C.
~The Festival was to open on Symphony Orchestra and an im- April 14, and the last concert pressive list of soloists, twelvo was announced for the 21st, in number, were conducted by Clarence Raybould.
At the Adolph Hallis Chamber Music Concert at the Eolian According to the most widely Hall recently the first perform- accepted contemporary estimate ance was given of a concerto for Hindemith is the most distin- piano, string orchestra and per- gulshed German composer of the cusalon, by Alan Rawathorne.
A Lay Sermon
"How dark It was this morning," we asy, or, perhaps it was light very early." We know what the explanation was: there were heavy clouds in the sky, or there were none. We don't suppose for a moment that the sun rosa before or after its time. That would be unthinkable. And yet a man sat in my office recently and told me (as others have -done before him) that he had lost his faith be- He faileth not
cause things were so bad with him. They were, ZEPHANIAH if, is it la true, pretty desperate. The picture he painted might well have been called "Hopeless Dawn." But the point is, the dawn was there. Heavy and black though the clouds were, it was obvious that they were earth-born, and presently while we talked the sun broke through.
When Zephanlah says of God that "every morning doll He bring His judgment to light," he 21 employing the simile of the daybreak. He is bidding us remember that creation, with its exact laws, is the expres- sion of the Creator. "He will not do iniquity." God is as sure on the sunriso: His justice may be obscured, but it cannot fail.
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Moviedom Gossip
Film of Tragic Queen MERLE Oberon who has to full her contract with Alexander English producer Korda, will star in a film based on the life of Anne Boleyn.
Merle's brief appearance as with Charles Anne Boleyn, Laughton, in "Henry VIII.," it will be remembered, started her on the road to stardom.
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Debut of Celebrity
THE noted Spanish conductor-
pianist, Jose Iturbi, will make a brief appearance in the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette Mac- Donald film, "Sweethearts.” Iturbi, who had been perform- ing at the famed Hollywood Bowl, signed to play himself in a sequence of the picture, the high-light of which is his un- usual feat of conducting a sym- phony orchestra from the piano while playing a solo.
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Growing Up in Films PRODUCER Joseph Pasternak.
who is behind Deanna Dur- bin's screen career, thinks he has the solution to the problem of working the fifteen-year-old star from youthful to grown-up roles without disturbing-her- present popularity.
His plan is to let Deanna "grow up" in her pictures, rather than make an overnight jump to adult parts.
be a little more mature. Her In each picture her role will next three pictures will be "Three Smart Girls Grow Up":" "First Love," and "Unfinished
Symphony," *
„Fans Too Enthusiastic
AUTOGRAPH hunters have
been particularly enthusias- tic in Hollywood recently, Character actress Elizabeth Pat- terson is still in hospital being treated for a disloented kneecap, suffered when she was "sur- rounded by a crowd of fans eager to get close to the stars at "Spawn of the North" proview. Gene Raymond was another victim. Mobbed by fans · as he emerged from a cafe, he was pushed backward, through a glass door, and suffered minor injuries,
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