Are You Sure?
Answers on Page 10
"you" "Were used to¬ aftting on tracks you would
Dancer, rail passenger, pote- squatter?
2. Most northerly of the,
British Isles 15---
Ulat, Yell, Unst, Fair Isic?
3. Yould you expect to find
the word hooligan in-
The Bible, Shakespeare,
Johnson's Dictionary?
4. Well known on the air..
G.
Who are they? Why is a secretary bird so called?
C. Palestine kotip is made from Jerusalem arilchokes, which originally came from-
Asta, America, Africa, Aus-
eten- these
tralia?
7. Apart from being trical units, what have three words in common~~~
8. Which county has
Ampere, olim, velty
plled most Test matchi
tains for England-
Middirsex, Sussex.
Kent?
0.
Small
aup. cap:
Nolts,
Yorkshire, Lancashire,
A basinet is n=3\
basis, perambulater,
headpiece of armour, cradle?
Mw
10. Bridewell, London,
wan
Prison, well, palace, church, parish?
or
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1947.
MUSIC & DRAMA TAUGHT HERE Has Russia Pierced
Guildhall School Has
Two Thousand Students
The Guildhall School of Music examined by specialists In their and Drama, which evolved respective subjects, from the old Guildhall Orches granted a number of exhibitions based The Corporation has recently tral Society, was founded in on the result of these examinations 1880. In Aldermanbury by the with the Corporation of London, and evincing special ability may receive since its foundation has been the opportunity of obtaining addi-
tional tuition. governed and controlled by the Music Committee..
object that
candidates
eminent
past
Two honorary degrees, the The original premises proved F.G.S.M. and Hon. G.S.M., ench inadequate and it was decided limited to 100 holders, are awarded
by the School, and many to remove the School to the musicians and actors have accepted present site on the Thames this honour. The fellowship of the Embankment. The building Guildhall School of Music
and was opened in December 1886.
Drama (F.G.S.M.) is conferred upon The School has now
distinguished professors and grown students of the School. The into one of the most important Honorary Membership of the School national institutions, and under (Hon. G.S.M.) Is of more recent the leadership of its present origin and is awarded to those who Princioal, Mr Edric Cundell, Hon vice to Music and Drama and to the
have rendered distinguished R. A. M., K.G.S.M., is recognised School. as one of the foremost schools of its kind.
Students altending the Schei have the opportunity of receiving a thorough education in music in all Its branches, the drama and speech training under the
eminent most professors.
Lectures are hold in aural train Ing, history of music, musical ap- precintian, pianoforte, violin playing, singing and psychology.
At the present time there are ap- proximately 2,000 students and the teaching staff is comprised of more than 100 professors.
Brilish
also
acr-
The School possesses a well-equip- ped theatre, with sunken orchestra, Arst-class lighting system, dressing rooms, shower baths and green room.
The Concert Hall, in which many of the students' concerts are held, contains a fine organ,
of
In both theatre and concert hall, students have the opportunity performing before, the public in con- certs, operas and plays, and a tolal of approximately 2,500 performances of the School, have been given since the foundation
and
prizes, established for the encourage
theatrical
How would you receive the news that you had won the Irish Sweep? This is how the Mimo Class at the Guildhall School thought they might react to the news.
Atom Bomb Secret?
By R. H. SHACKFORD
DOES Russin have the atomic win's challenge was blunt-calling.
bomb-7Or something
botter?
the
Whatever It was, the record of the first week's debate in the Generat Assembly provided several intrigu- ing aspects.
On Thursday, Inst weeks
of Vice-Minister
Foreign Soviet that the United States "conaltered" Affairs, Andrel Vyshinsky, observed felt to be holding a monopoly over "the most dangerous final stages of
Nobody expects an answer very soon, but the question is being asked more frequently in United Nations circles becaus of hints and innuendoes being tossed about the General As sembly meeting hall by spokes.gtomle manufacturing. At an- men for Russia and ita close other point, Mr Vyshinsky spoke of the United States "believing". it supporters.
could "continue to exercise a mono- poly with regard to alomic wea-
Almost all responsible officials of Western countries sull feel apparent-
pong" ly that Rusalu is a long way from On the following day, Russia's harnessing the atom or bursting Kuzma Kiselev told the Assembly: forth with some discovery even more "We should not forget the atomic fateful thon the American develop bomb of ono eldo may be answered mant of atomic power. The odds, by atomic bombs of the other-and according to most scientists, favour by something more." this bollet
Second Look
McNeil's Challonge
Mr
- On at least two occasions, per- This has not stopped many per- sons close to the Soviet delegation sons in the United Nations, how noted that the American press up- ever, from taking a second look at peared to have overlooked some of the reiparks made in the Vyshinsky's and Mr Kiselev's hints. Assembly last week by Soviet The British Minister of State, Metals and at the extemporaneous Hector McNell, Broke off his pre- challenge thrown out by Britain in pared address to the Assembly the midst of a general debate,
dare Mr Vyshinsity to step up and It seemed likely to many that "name
some monopoly In Russin's tinting was the product menta" which Russia had and would Imore of bluff than 'fact and that Bri- be
Wanted: A 4-Leaf Clover From China
By SPENCER MOOSA
He had, he said, a letter from
Lloyd M. O'Neal, of
B30 W.
a asking her to send him Chinese
Josef
the
he had sent clovers to servicemen 'all
Chino."
Lo
DEMIA-
inter
be willing place under national ownership and control
do to with the America had offered ntam.
113
The Soviet Innuendoes autcmall- cally
recalled to some observers Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov's emphatic premise to the Russian people on October Revolu t'on Day In 1945.
At that time, Mr Molotov said: will have atomie encrity and other things too."
It
occasions since America's big atomic was noted also that on several
secret came out with the bombing of Hiroshima, Moscow Radio and/ startling discoveries by Soviet scient Rusalan newspapers have announced
Ists in ex
experiments with cosmic force-something far more cataclys- thin atomic energy--and in nuclear physics.
እሱ
mle
Now Russian Centres
The School
Charles E. French, óf 2727. not self-supporting and entails a considerable annual Olive Street, Huntington Park. clover" and he expected both
Gen. Charles de Gaulle "but no Cramercy, San Antonio, Texas, wrote expense to the Corporation,
Cal., has been trying for several letter and a clover from the Pope, stamps, or pass his letter on to some The School is recognised by the
scholarships NEW NAZI DEATH Govern in respect of their Fure
years to get a four-leaf clover to whom he intended to write. one clse who might be interested. ther Education and Training Scheme, ment of the students by gift from the from Soviot Premier Joser "I've been working
Mrs Lucille Dunford, of 4962 S.E. CAMP FOUND and many demobilised men and Corporation, the City Livery Guilds,
Stalin. for several years-sent him 74th Ave., Portland, Oregon, wrote women are now completing their various public bodies and
Stalin. private
An airmail Inst Saturday and I'm asking for Information on how get a Perkinese dog shipped Pravda reports the Soviet dis-training for re-entry into the musi- individuals, are awarded annually,
cal and dramatic professions. The and the value of these is reflected in "Clover Charlie," conveyed this Barbara he had
French, who calls himself toping," French concluded.
In his first letter, French told Portland, covery of a new 'death camp in
Council is Poland for Kusainn war
students
four-leat bringing the large number of past
mode prisoners
Mra success as per- information to
Barbara clovers a hobby and had them front she said, "as My Sister has a birth- where.
"I will appreciate it very much," it claims, more than 07,000 students from abroad in order that who have gained soldiers and officers
they may study at the School, and formers, composers, conductors were shot
or Volin, secretary of Tho Asso- every state of the Union, alt under the U.S. poisoned by the Nazis.
Government teachers, or have obtained engage ciated Press bureau in Shang provinces of Canada, and 22 foreign day soon and I would like to sur A communique by the Soviet State Veterans' Administration scheme. a ments in
in the leading orchestras and hai. to whom he wrote after countries. During the war, he said. prise Her with a Peko right from Commission
inve ligating German mission.
companies. atrocities described this on the basis
Disorganisation occasioned by the seeing a photo depicting her over the world, including General C. Bray, of Riverside Hotel, Ste. outbreak of hostilities in 1930 neces-with a pile of Chinese of the exhumation of thousands of
bank- Sun of students for entry into all branches sitated the School being closed for notes, representing a month's the-jen, former commander of Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, this week
China New 1st Army.
sent Barbara a one-dollar Canadian corpses und also upon the basis eyewitness stories originating daring of the musical and dramalle profes- two weeks, but apart from this the
With each letter "Clover Charlie" noté and asked if she could salary. the Nazi regime in mass murder sions. the School provides excellent School carried on throughout the
gent Barbara a card, one side bear him "one of those Chinese bills, as "doodlebugs" enclosures near the city of Ostrow-facilities for the training of teachers war, despite bombs,
French asked Barbara for a four- ing the words "Good Luck," an large a denomination that you care Is recognised Marovetski,
leaf clover from Shanghal. She re- American 100 kilometres north- of music, or drama, and
flag his name and the to part with," cast of Warsaw,
by the Teachers' Registration Coun-
Early in 1941 the School suffered plled they were hard to get there. date, and the other a pasted-on four-
Barbara sent him one C$10,000 bill, Officer,
elt (Royal Society of Teachers) severe sethack, when the top floor Ho wrote her again and, in
In
the leaf clover and again the
C$2,000 bills, words one C$5,000 bill, two picious
three eurrleulum, elements" from among the respret ef. Its
the was destroyed by incendiary bombs course of his letter, which he en- "Good Luck."
C$1,000 bills, four C$500 bills, the testi-Diplomas A.G.S.M. and L.G.S.M. and and other floors werc severely foined her to "read carefully," he
and one C$100 bill, prisoner, sinesiately shot, said the Training Course for Teachers. damaged by fire and water. Ap- And he had no four-leaf clovere
It Barbara were to cash the Cana-States-:oked still more like the real mony, worn Pravda.
dian dollar on the black market-of thing to United Nations top people while others were abarved, The local and professional diploma proximately 30 to 40 planos were
course, she wouldn't gradually poisoned to death, benten examinations are another important destroyed and the theatre was tem-
do that-si than the guesswork touched off by to death, hanged or condemned to branch of the School's work, and in porarily put out of action.
would make a profit on the trans-Vyshinsky, Kiselev and Company slow death through dysentery, typhus London and at local centres through-
But she's keeping it as a but it has not stopped people from or other diseases.Associated Press. out the British Isles, candidates are
wondering.-United Press.
Jews and "other
B153-
number of Americans are seeking ad- In addition to courses which equip
In
and V.2's.
Despite these difficulties the teach ing continued.
Other Fon Mail
from Italy, France or Yugoslavia. Barbara's picture, which
was
A
action. souvenir.
"and should you run across any from any of those places, and can spare published all over the world as them, I'd be rather tickled to have graphic illustration of China's in them."
flation, produced other fan mail too.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
+23
send
To cap the series of speculation- provoking remarks heard in the As- sembly Hall, the United Nations World Magazine published an article which said Russia had built 100 new Industrial cities and alamic energy its own "Oakridge" development in ille-known corners of the Soviet Union.
Official public belief that it would still take Russia several years to att the bomb-not to mention matching the expenditure of close to US$2,000,- 000,000 which it cost the United
"Throwing A Party"
By KEMP STARRETT
["NOW! LOOK FOLKT?
A NEST OF
ROBINS IN
HER HAIR T
"LOOK
THE EARLY ARRIVALS... THEY BELIEVE IN COWING. EARLY AND S TAY- ING LATE INLESS, OF COURSE, THE JOY JUICE RINK SHORT.
PEOPLE,
FIELD
THE GUEST WHO LOVES TO PHONE ALL HIS PALS... JUST SO LONG AS THEY LIVE 2000 MILES AWAY
THE DRINKT HE DOESHIT SPILL; HO MASELF HE SPILLS
OVER THE COMPWY.
THE COMEDIENNE WILL GET STEAMED UP-LKE A TEA-KETTLE IN PLENTY OF TIME FOR ALL EARLY
BREAKFAST
?DOA HEAR
'ONE
ABOUT
WATCH OUT FOR THE PARLOR-TRICK ARTIST: HE'S & CYCLONE WITI YOUR GUINAL
THERE'S A SIREN AT ALMOST EVERY PARTY...AND PLENTY OF THE BOYT ARE WILLING TO RICK THE ROCKY GOING ON THE WAY HOME.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS,...OR AIN- WAY, COME KIND OF INDIAN, HE MAC NO HORE IDEA OF TIME THAN A CHIA- PANZEER
Ledger. Byndicats