THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1950.
Is Elgar among the greatest composers?
AM coping at the mo
ment with some hostile Talking about
correspondents who have
misunderstood two passagen
in a recent article of mine.
The passages are-
"Outside England, Elgar
has not escaped
the
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By NEVILLE CARDUS
herited a certain circumlocution and turgidity,
But my
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la not correspondent-that it
innovadora
nevessarily
form and technique who are the greatest artista. Ernest New- on once remarked that "real men don't begin epoch-They end them" It is not easy to to repat the same
picion of having heard the echoes of the muse, rather than her own volce speaking my altouration of this munter. w od for him and through him."
and
"Can we say of any English composer since Purcell that, if he had never lived the coun of music in the main would have been different?"
Composer Writes
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RETURN. he goes back to Clyde, the old entitled "Roll an, thou deep and POINT OF NO
blue copy-writer Foll!" home town in Massachusetts? Is darit By John P. Marquand.
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that makca Hemingway kind of love." And they are full of that Nash Kini of haughtiness.
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Yes, there is a lot to be said for Marquand. He is down-to- the poet of the earth, he knows how much rapture can be squeezed out of a good bank balance.
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of love?
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the vice-presidency in not get the Stuyvesant Bank. On inert, on seniority, he would be sure 85, of it. Pity he do not have the technique of back-slapping Roger Blakesley.
This is the story of a sound middle-class man, reared in the Purlian tradition, tomallag with priestlike altruism the invest- ments of people with 10 times and his income prospect of paying off the mort- Rage on the Hille house in Syen- anore Park and sending his boy
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Lancaster. Murray, Hs. 6d. 70 pages.
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Osberi seizing the pen from Lancaster. The tongue-in-cheek historian, hilariously embroidera chromete of Drayeßlete Srem Word 30 Welfare State,
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SURE AS A COLD IN THE HEAD SOME ONE WILL LET YOU SAMPLE HIS FERTILIZER.
Ledger Syndicate
"PHEW!"
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"JUST WHEN WE LIVE
·GUECTS: COMING?
SPRINKTIME NIGHTMARE
LOST IN A
SEED CATALOG.
ONE OF
DOST
THE SWEETEST | LIKE THIS?
SIGNS OF
SPRING
YOUNG
SCALLIONS
100 EARLY?
WHEN SHE GOES SHOPPING AND COMES HOME LOADED WITH NEW CLOTIES ITTA SURE SIGN OF SPRING ... NOT TO MENTION
FALL WINTER OR SUMMER
ONCE UPON JA TIME YOU COULD TELL IT WAS SPRING WOMEN..
WITH SOME FOLKS YOU CAN'T BE SURE IF IT'S SPRING FEVER, A REGULAR HABIT OR JUST THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.
THE APPROACH OF THE
LAWN MOVER CEACON
AS
IT SEEMS
TO THE CLAVE.
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MISTAKE
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TAKE
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WHEN YOU HEAR THEM DISCUSSING THE POTENCY OR WEAKNEST
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