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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 18, 1940.
1940-Biggest Song Hit was Inspired by
Mozart,
born in
By GUY RAMSEY
1756
Not for
THE SONG VINTAGE of 1939-40 will rank with that of 1912-13-which saw the birth of ragtime-as one of the "great" years of popular music. many seasons has there been such ́a crop of catchy tunes.
Leading music publishers were recently asked the reason.
One held the view that such "great" seasons "just happened"; a second, that the war itself had given a fillip to popular songs; a third that the black-out had made people stay at home, listen to the radio or the gramophone, and play the piano, and thus become more "music conscious"; a fourth that music is a corrective to war depression.
THE "SMASH" HITS Eight music publishers were can- vassed,
Include:
and the "smash"
bits
Why Does My Heart Go Boom?
Goodbye, Sally.
There'll Always be an England. Eighteenth Century
Drawing-room.
Somewhere in
France.
ella Bambina (new).
Wish Mc Luck.
Till the Lights of London Shine
Again.
Hap-hap-happy Day.
Sealterbruin,
We'll Meet Again.
Cherriah! I'll Be Seeing You. They Can't Black-Out the Moon. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones.
In addition, there are two "old"
Nazi Its
Derby to Have Name Nazified
BERLIN.
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WEDNESDAY
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country in the world where horses column and race, has "The Derby" among its
a half of classics.
'CRIMES'!
An issue of Voelkischer Beobachter,
favourites still going strong leading Nazi newspaper, announces
out the Washing on the Siegfried Line" and "South of the Border."
BASED ON SONATA
that Hitler is going to because change the name The top song of the moment is "Eighteenth Century Drawing Room," "the bloodstained history of which started life as an instrumental the British earls of Derby nece cry.. Words were inter makes the name unsuitable
According to the musical Press the for a Nazi horse-race." order after that is, "Somewhere in France" and "We'll Meet Again."
It
based on a Mozart Sonata.
Eight of the best-sellers have some- thing to do with the war: although some of them do not mention it ex- plicity, the sense of parting is im- plicit in the sentiment,
is the According to one expert, it tune that makes the song far more
than the words.
Well, if that's how you feel...!'
ME R.A.F. pilot had run out of petrol and it was getting dark. He made a dimeult landing on the sandy beach of what he thought was an uninhabited island,
As the plane pulled up, a man op- peared and in truculent Scottish said:
German?
"Are you
"No," said the
airman, "I belong to the air base at-"
"You're not Scottish?"
sald Lie
pilot, "I really bee
long to Capetown."
The Scat inquired exhaustively into the pilot's bona-fdes, and de- manded papers to support his state- menty.
At last, when the pilot said some- hing about "I'd like to shoot all the Germans," the Scot was satisfied.
"If that's how you feel, you've landed in the right place. Come and have a cup of tea," said he
Spy Jailed For Life
CASABLANCA.—Fritz Schubert, a German, was sentenced to life impri- sonment by a military tribunal in, Casablanca recently for espionage.-- Exchange.
LATE NEWS
It concludes:-
"One need not delve further into the history books to understand why we do not wish to see the name of of rapine, blood and murder, and the the exponents of an English policy land-grabbing of the lords of Derby perpetuated as a designation of a German horse-race."British United Press.
The German Derby has been run! every summer at Hamburg for sixty! **Firal Derby was run at Epsom in years. The new Nazifed name of 1780. Its orign is disputed. One ver- the classic is not yet chosen.
sion says that it did not get its name To support the change the Voel- from the twelfth Earl of Derby, as is kischer Beobachter gives £1 Hist of generally supposed, but from Derby- "crimes committed by the Derby haven, In the Isle of Man, where it family" running to one and a half was run for 153 years before being
· columus, .
transferred to Epsom Downs.
PETITION AGAINST PRINCESS
PRINCESS HARRIETT RADZIWILL, who is related by marriage to the ex-Kaiser, was the subject of
a bankruptcy notice in the "London Gazelte”.
In the notice she was
Grosvenor described as lately of House, Parklane, "but whose present address the petitioning creditors are unable to ascertain." The petition will be heard at the High Court on May 23.
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"Housemaster," the comedy of
MASONIC SERVICE
Scottish Freemasonry At Union Church
Divine Service, under the auspices Freemasonry: in
Youth which is to be presented by the of the Scottish European Y.M.C.A. Amateur Drama Hongkong and South China, was
tie Club this month bears in every held in the Hongkong Union Church acene the unmistakable imprint of yesterday,
Bro. the Rev. K. MacKenzie Dow,
Ian Hoy's master hand. No one is more conversant than he with school Jife, while his knowledge of the then- Senter-Grund Chaplain of the Scot- tish Constitution, officlated, and at tre ensures that the play develops the organ was Bro. G. E. Longyear. with dramatic and humorous effect.
-Present were the Hon. Mr. C. G. Ian Hay's comedy concerns itself Alabaster, Rt. Wor. Grand Master of with the clash of ideas between the the English Constitution and It. loyal and conscientious Housemaster, Wor. 3. C. Ferguson, District Grand Charles Donkin, and the Headmaster Master of the Scottish Freemasonry, of Marbledown School, the Rev.
Edmund Ovington, an individual Wearing their Masonic regalia, the whose lack of understanding is members, before entering the Church, rapidly sowing dissension in the ranks formed into a proccasion led by the
both
masters and, boys, The Pearl River. Lodge under Bro. Yin- arrival of three high spirited girls, son Leo, and Cathay Lodge, led by with their guardian Barbara Fane, Bro. J. H. Show, who were follow- begins a period of grave tribulationed by representatives of Zotland for the masters and delight for the Lodge, University Lodge, United wiregenerate
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20th and seats may be booked at "Housemaster" is being presented Andersons Musle Store, Hongkong or In the West Lounge at the European at the Y.M.C.A., Kowloon. The Co- Y.M.C.A. on Thursday, Friday and mittee has decided to contribute the Saturday, March 28, 29 and 80. His proceeds to the British War Organba- Excellency the Governor has promis-Lion Fund...
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong."
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