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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1950.
Must composers rely on the films?
M
NEVILLE CARDUS
on MUSIC
music, in fact, is at once con- demned by the majority
of
Y plea the other week to write an opera as appealing concert-goers because it is new.
A poor English youth of on behalf of British as "Madame Butterfly." Even conductors has brought then he will be at a disadvantage genius might endow the world in Britain, compared with an with another G minor queriet,
renowned,
just as much a white hope, as any Britten or Walton of Rubbra, the latest hour. Holbrooke writes to me na follows:
few names at random, adding protective E. and O.
The Support
a swift riposto from Joseph italian, because there are not but wouldn't be able to give his Holbrooke, who was in the enough opern houses in Britain time entirely to composition
period, even, when advance guard of our music to allow his royalties to amount not in
more money than ever before is being spent from the National 40 years ago, quite as con- to much,
the performance Exchequer on temporary and
If any of these composers of music. No use to tell him to
Rawsthorne,
Gordon write for the films. He might enrich his purse, but only at Jncob, Bus, Lennox Berkeley, enrich Arthur Benjamin
mention a damage to his serious musical production. William Walton has E.) were composed excellent music for the Alma: Would he wish to be article 'Few contributors to English ternfure emembered by it? "Reading your British Untons' Wag rather
they would occupy positions bewildering, seeing that a good ranking
say, those of many of them have been having Henry Williamson, Nell Gunn, fa lovely time of late years.... C. P. Snow,
ow. Martin Boyd, John Their incomes must be well
Brophy. H. E. Bates. I wonder above the poor composer's. ...” whether Vaughan Willams and Arnold Bax would be able to making
The economics of the
keep body and soul together by Available to collectors sheets poser's calling are not even
their compositions alone. with tele-bechie stamps, booklets faintly understood by the public. and stamp rolls of His regular Music ta written In what
issue of amounts to "technie and scenery"
The novelist, of course, has to a foreign language which 1040.
people can face stiffer competition than the only a few Whole sheets of the 5, 10 and 20 read. To print a score is ex- musle makers; also the play centime stamps will contain 80
demand for poser cannot expect the royally new books and new plays stamps, among which are 10 fele-sive: consequently the com- wright. But the
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income of a novelist, playwright, vastly exceeds the demand world Copyright Reserved-on- for even of a pet as much estab- for
lished in certain circles , ray. Auden or Dylan Thomas,
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with pairs. showing two zigzag lines.
Stamp booklets measuring 70x46 mm, of the 5, 10 and 20 witt be issued with loyers of parchment separating the stamps. Roll stamps of the 5, 10 and 20 c. are obtainable in 500, 1,000 or 2,000 stamps ench, while Ute 25, 30 or 40 c. stamps will be issued In rolls of 500 or 1,000 stumps, Checking numbers will appear on the reverse side of each Alth stamp of the cylinder rolls.
COM-
Edmund Rubbra
Let us take, for example, one of the most distinguished com- posers of the moment:
Extmund Huborn. He producen в зуш- tino phony. and though hu
trial-and- emerged from the
The 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 error stage and stunds at the stamps without lateral border top of the tree, he will be very
In sheets with may be bought
formed half-a-dozen. control numbers on the rummed lucky if this symphony Is per-
ene year.
side.
All specimens are obtainable at the philatelle agency of the the PTT. director general of Bollwerk 8. Berne.
Chile's contribution
times in the world over.
It
won't be printed as a score for a long time to come. The copy- ng of the parts is costly. The income from the masterpiece will, when tax has been deduct- ed, pay for his book repairs.
to the U. P. U. le a 68 centavos com- item bearing the
The poorest dop of n play memorative
Von Ifelurich portrait of
runs a dozen nights, more per- Stephan, founder of the Univer-formances will be
given of It Walton then of the William sal Postal organisation.
Violn Concerto In
many months. The author of a book that sells only 1,000 coples is likely to equal the many "returns" of the composer of the next really great string quartet.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Trygve Lle, has made public the official post office new world designation of the capital now nearing completion In midtown Manhattan.
The postmark for the U. N. bc: United post offer Nations, N. YU
as soon as that body takes over its permanent headquarters in the near future.
-Manuel Rabasa.
The composer's only hope, if he wishes to live-and no doubt there are instances, as in all the walks of human existence, when we might say, with Voltaire, that we fail to see the necessity—a
It is for the composers to save themselves; or rather, to belp. themselves to a portion, a very. alight portion, of the largrase Hiven through the benevolent channels of the Arts Council and
annually f on-£115,000
alone-in sup- Covent Garden port of the middlemen of music, the distributors, in short, those who sell music.
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DAB and FLOUNDER
by WALTER
Two
11
New Books by George Malcolm Thomson
A woman who went much too far
shop, she
coller at Madamo's never met him. All the letters, declaring his
passion, passed through Madame's hands.
SIX CRIMINAL WOMEN. clients. It was the 'sixties, and if Mrs Borrodalie had seen the
By Elizabeth Sampson. Low. 224 pages.
M
Jenkins.
សព្វថ flowing
With
It might have been different
England
other Rachel the Rachel who money.
brutally to the woman retorted
taking the shop at 470 Bond Street, after
the beautifying Maddox Street, Arablan the house in
"How would Bath:
10s, Gd. There was enough to keep who missed her diamond rings
io sacrifice 10 influenco
Mira
Borreda
RS BORRODAILE Madamo's pair of high-stepping you like your husband to know ought to have bays, and her box at Covent the real reason of your coming
Garden (£400 for the season).
here?" lown better. The
For beauty women were pre. As it was, under Rachel's
to pay rose pink brochure, the pared
Rachel know it very bought a carriage, furniture, slogan "Beautiful for over!" bolleve! above all the compelling well because once after scarlet lace for a wedding dress-all on personality of Madame fever she had lost all her hair. account of a man to whom sho apoken just two words, elimax came
had She remembered her despair.
when
Rachel were too much for She was literate, had been The
a bond for £1,600 for the small remuants of com- three times married, had seven signed
Ranelagh's supposed children, smoked cigars (when Lord mon sense the widow pos- customers were not about), but beneft-and then was thrown sessed.
she had brains. And, bad as into gnol for debt by Rachel. At And if as Madame alleged, she is, one can say that she is last, the exposure of Madama's
the worsi of Elizabeth other side. Lord Ranelagh really were not
was it Jenkins's wicked but fascinating enamoured of her,
sisterhood,
CLOVIS. By Michael not worth while to invest
Fessler.
79. Wingate. ten guineas in a flask of
Gd. 160 pages. the Magnetic Rock Dew
as Mrs one,
If only Rachel had known
But a victim so NOT a fat book but a funny Water of the Sahara, or when to stop!
for a sophisticated' gullible even a thousand guinens in boundlessly
Borrodalle 10,
the temptation audience.
Clovis, product of centuries The Royal Bridal Toilet
was too much!
Mrs Cabinet?
Borrodatie certainly of careful breeding is a parrot Madame's prices were thought it strange that although who can think as well as speak. consequence, ho is witty, hind no lack of Lori Hanelagh was a frequent In
cynical and bored; destiny, ho belleves, calls him back to his own people in the forests of Brazil.
Yes,
high but she
Women Set A
Set A Puzzle
London.
THE strange case of the Two Women with the Wrong Nationality baffling Amerien.
is
Joan Ceelle Marie Bolling von Goelz, 27, beautiful, her blonde Anierican hair upswept, fu un and does not want to be.
wants to
prefers Germany, -there-to-ve.
Sho
By FREDERICK COOK
Germany. If I can't I shall go to Germany some other European country as Europe."
soon as I can earn the fare."
made a
Last November Miss Von Goetz, then living in Berlin visit to surreptitious Thuringia. in the Eastern Zone of Germany, with her German Dance, Kurt Tackenberg.
She denied that their purpose Co was "to establish a love nest," said-that-all they wanted was a permit to live in Eastern Ger- many.
Ellen Raphael Boxhornova Knauff, 35, clark-eyed, allow, sole survivor of a Jewish family that made the journey to a Nazi wor extermination camp, is a bride. She detests the thought of going back to Europe, but has been forbidden to stay here.
She wants to adopt the land
anywhere
111
CASE NO 2
Ellen Knouff, who wants 10
He is wrong. His own people traitor. "In reject him as a addition to which," says an at- tractive female, "he's a sissy."
This is unjust, as is proved when Clovis travels to the United Sintes where he meets Honeybird, young heiress who describes herself (wrongly) as "Cower without perfume."
Ilo Also meets Honeybird's interested in relatives, pelf than perfume.
After adventures, triumphs humiliations, Clovis, a humbler parrot, in gled to get back to the forest.
stay, is on Ellis Island with n deportation order against her.
She first saw New York from ' the leck of a
GI bride ship in d midsummer of 1940. She was refused
entry. Oficial reason:
n
Supreme Court,
more
By Kenneth-Harris. Murray 8s. 6d. 215 pages. has been done a hundred times before: this time it is
well, Kenneth Harris United States with
the Oxford Union debating Io had time to watch
"Her entry would be prejudicial to the TRAVELLING TONGUES. interests of the United States." She has fought the case all the why from
New York's Federal to the According to her story, this Court was refused by the Russians, and is still ghling.
In a letter written while he done later
Attorney-
-General, Mr Tom toured the They
arrested, were
the Clark said: "She was formerly escaped and returned to United States zone, where they paid agent of the Czech Govern- team. were questioned. As a result ment and reported on American and to listen.
The outcome is an account of that Cecile von Goetz wants to she agreed to return to America, Personnel in Germany.
assigned to the civil
The America diverting, sensible and leaving Tackenberg in Cernany.
friendly. FBI feel that she would be
Horris learned a lot in a hurry, I renders will do the hazard to security."
Ellen Knauf calls this
skine. And enjoy it. A rat- rate book, cusation absurd.
reject.
CASE NO, 1
consider myself spiritu n European," says Cecile von Goetz. "I want to go back to
་་་ ally
JOAN VON GOETZ—"Spiritually a European."
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"IF YOU'D GET YOUR.
THOUGHTS TOGETHER, IF ANY,
AND OPEN YOUR MOUTH SO
1 COULD HEAR YOU.....
BUY ME Á GAS MASK MAYBE-
I WOULDN'T MAKE
MISTAKES.
AND-
#
NO, MA'M!
I DON'T WANNA
KISS NOBODY AND
GET SLOBBERED
ALL OVER!"
"I no
longer have anything in common with America," she says,"I am ready to give up my citizenship in order to live in
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THAT
MESS AND
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BREAK-
FAST/
NO, I'M NOT GOIN'
TO A FIRE... AND
I WASN'T DOIN' FIFTY- THERE'S A GOVERNOR
ON THIS BUS AN'
IT CAN'T DO MORE THAN THIRTY-FIVE
AND I CAN PROVE IT!*
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PIPE RIGHT HERE'
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YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU CAN
GO JUMP IN
A LAKE!