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GRAMOPHONE NOTES

A POPULAR STAR.

VALUABLE INSTRUMENT OF GLORIA SWANSON AT THE

MUSIC.

COMPETITION RESULT.

QUEEN'S.

FINE PROGRAMME.

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Whatever habitual patrons of

AUGUST 13, 1926.

CANTON'S WAR,

PREVIOUS "DEFEAT" NOW INCORRECT.

NORTHERN AEROPLANES.

[By "Marento."]

Latest war news, by Chinese My esteemed colleague, local cinemas may think there cables, from the Canton front "Allegro," writing in a local con- must be unanimity as to the (ie, in Hunan province where quality of the programme sub- the Canton forcée are opposing. temporary, voices the opinion mitted at the Queen's Theatre last the Northernors) indicate that that the task of wading through night,

previous report of a defeat of the dozens of indifferent records in As that programme will be, re- Kuomintang is incorrect.

Genera Tang Sang-chee is in peated to-day and to-morrow let the hope of finding one or two

it be said that it is certainly one command of Canton's vanguard. gems is altogether too driveiling that can be recommended without He did go back to Hentgehow, as

A correspondent, too, who pre-the slightest fear of disappoint-stated, but only to welcome Gen-... serves a discreet anonymity, up-mont.

eral Chang Kai-shek (commander- braids me for wasting time on First of all there is an excellent in-chief) and not because he had, tinny gramophone records. Gazette depicting international to retreat.

Criticism of this kind-happily lawn tennis events at Wimbledon Canton is also stated to have fast becoming a thing of the past and the great Air Pageant at sent up fresh tropps to the front is due either to a genuine-averHendon, which far outweigh in in-line and fighting has broken out. sion to the gramophone traceable terest any pictures in the Home at different points being severe to ignorance of modern achieve-papers.

at Pingklang and Chincheng. ment, or to a lamentable effort to There дте

A Kingsi detachment is moving some excellent keep alive old-fashioned pre- views of the Riviera, that popular to attack Tang Sang-chee's rear. judices with the prop of facetious- holiday resort of the blue Medi-Tang has sent Brigadier-Geń-

terranean, showing quaint towns Chan Ming-shu. (formerly

Increasing Interest.

[

com-

Reverne on Lake. Another Canton commander is

say 800 bayonets) crossed the Tung Ting Lake (a Margo ехраине, of water in Hunan) only to be disarmed by Wu Rei-fu's allies on attacking Nanhsien.

mittee and of the Colonial Trea-ness.

It is no longer true to accuse and a profusion of flowers that manding at Kongmoon) to fore- The framing of a Budget under the present day gramophone of would make the most enthusias- stall the movement,

When tie horticulturist in Hongkong circumstances similar to those being tinny or drivelling.

Used with intelligence it is, in green with envy. that have prevailed during the fact, both a valuable instrument. The great feature, of course, is reported to have met with a past eighteen months is more or of music and an important contri- Gloria Swanson in "Manhandled." serious reverse on attempting a less a formality that has to be button to the musical life of the It is a considerable time since the sortie. Two regiments (any num- complied with in the way only of people, capable of re-creating writer saw this popular star, Sheber up to

music sans blemish or distortion. a guide. Its apparent sanity may be upset by the subsequent intro- duction of Supplementary Estirn- ates totalling many millions of No. 5,WYNDHAM ST.HONGKONG|||dollars. Fortunately there has of Telephones Central 22 & 4641. late been a greater tendency on the part of Unofficial members to scrutinise these votes carefully and to be satisfied as to their

To ignore the growing claims 'necessity before passing them at of gramophone music is mere pig- At Home. it is the the behest of the Government, headedness. There may be no expert financier subject of increasing interest, as in the service of the local Govern- witness the space which all the more important journals devote ment, but that need not deter the to-periodical reviews of records. public from expressing a feeling The musical critic of the staid of relief that the financial position "Daily Telegraph," for instance. Fat the end of 1925 was so healthy the gramophone as. to music, and

as revealed at yesterday's meet-

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Hongkong. Friday, August 13, 1926.

IN COUNCIL.

GREAT MINDS.

SHANGHAI WANTS "SHIRTS

AND SHORTS"

י

The opportunity to test the truth of this assertion is not yet within the reach of everyone, but the advent of a less expensive i

moment. means than for the exists, will surely see gathered to the gramophonic fold many a pre- sent disparager.

now devotes as much attention to

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even the conservative Musicals naturally older looking, ard Times" and "Musical Opinion" does not altogether suit the "bob- to name but one or two of the bing" process. "But she is

vivacious and sprightly as ever, more responsible musical papers-and sustains a difficult role, or have capitulated each with a monthly column of gramophone rather a series of roles, with con-

summate

"Manhandled" bears a sort of resemblance to

notes.

ege.

Fourteen aeroplanes.to assist Wi Pei-fu against Canton, have arrived at Hankow (states a cable to the "Kung Sheung Yat Po")... and are new awaiting rail trans- port to Yochow.

The Fukien defence commis- sioner on the Kwangtung frontier, whose invasion of Kwangtung has been heralded for a week, is now stated to be converging on cer- 4 tain points with six model regi- ments and one regiment of artik lery, and on another point, with four regiments of infantry and one of artillery.

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BANDIT KILLED.

CANTON TROOPS ATTACK STRONGHOLD.

2 MEN LIBERATED.

Exigencies of the public serviceing may not permit of the Legislative Council taking a leaf out of the book of Municipal Councils and meeting fortnightly or monthly. It should, however, he possible for sessions to be held oftener than they are. They would create

A New Gramophone: The gotten for the moment. But The troops arrived before day- and stimulate community interestį

Columbia Gramophone Co. Gloria Swanson imparts reality break and besieged the outlawa" who in our own domestic concerns "Two seasons ago, correspon- that could not but be for the good dents wrote at considerable length whose shares, as a matter of in- and not merely artificiality to the resisted and fired on the troops. Ito the "China Mail" for and terest, recently yielded a magni- life of a shopgirl in a big The troops however rushed into the of al concerned. Where meet-against "cissy shirts." Now ficent 40 per cent. return, an emporium's basement. It is sheer bandits lair and succeeded in

ings are

WILL TAIPANS OBJECT?

Great minds think alike..

NOTES AND NEWS.

':

"The Price of a Good Time," in l Canton Government troops at which Mildred Harris once ap-tacked a large force of bandita af peared, and also to "The Shop. Shekpai (on the Canton-Kowloon girl," the heroine in which is for- Railway) on Tuesday,

The

HEADQUARTERS.

TWO TO GO.

.."

were

few and far between Shanghai is advocating for short nounces a new gramophone, to be good acting. In the subsequent capturing eight robbers, one of called the "Viva-tonal." No de- role of u Russian countess she is whom was shot dead while resisting there is a danger of business and trousers in hot weather. The tails are yet available, but as it is equally clever-in fact, great; capture. Two kidnapped men were legislation accumulating and of. C. Daily News," Shanghai, on ferert principle to any existing "fling" she wears some gorgeous the two kidnapped persons

following was addressed to the

said to be built on an entirely dif-whilst during the period of her found.

The seven bandits captured and the greater danger of the much August 7:- maligned but very much alert It may be remembered during instrument, one awaits its com dresses that bring to mind the

sent to Canton to be dealt with. "man in the street" concluding the War, that every British In- ing with more than passing inter- Gloria of a few years ago.

pathetic reunion with her motor- fantry Division was allowed the est.

A Novel Soundbox: The enter-mechanie lover is a treat in itself, that the Government is slumber-privilege of wearing shorts during

UNDER THE AXE. ing or takes only a superficial in-summer operations. In my own prising Orchorsol Co. of London pointing the obvious moral to flap- tereat in those questions that Division, for example, permission have just placed on the market a pers in search of a good time.

was granted, only to be with soundbox which it is possible to without a single word of prench- TREES AT CENTRAL POLICE really matter.

tune to suit the individual needs ing. drawn later amid general execra-

of any machine. It is claimed If the Queen's will continue Yesterday's meeting was not- tion. Soon afterwards, the word

that the invention is as successful with programmes of the same! able for the official statement in went forth from on High, that

with old recordings as with those uniform excellence--including the Trees on a side of the Central regard to the Colony's finances, shorts would be allowed in all by the new electrical process. efforts of the orchestra-it will do Police Station compound which cases where other ranks were in This gadget should prove a boon something really tangible toward have been familiar landmarks are Although nothing was revealed as possession of two pairs of pants, to the trade loan of three millions one of which being damaged be to all teen gramophiles who wish relieving the tedium in Hongkong now under the axe. sterling jta allocation, the yond repair was only fit to be cut to obtain the best results from of an evening.

their instruments and records. It: down for shorts. Needless to

"What counts is a balance, and the amounts repaid—

man's per- say, all of us were in shorts and, of course, notoriously a fact

that the ordinary soundbox, formance after he comes out of it was reassuring to be told that on occasions the pointed ques- the revenue for last year had ex- tions of the staff were unblush- turned out a la mass production, school; not the name of the school is not exactly the delicate and that taught him." Arthur ceeded the Estimates by nearly a

ingly answered.

no de carefully adjusted instrument it Brisbane. For a million and a half dollars-just a finite ruling and those who had should be, and as a rule, permite million below the record year of taken a chance in parting with little improvement.

The Lifebelt: Another import-est possible representation of phere of coolness to the houses 1924 and well above the revenue their lower extremities felt slight- ant gadget is the "Lifebelt." a

popular choice. ly self-conscious under the criticall of 1921 and 1922. Although ex-eye of the Brigadier, who under- simple contrivance of rubber used penditure had to be curtailed dur-stood exactly what was going on. and sound box. This little inven- ing the height of the crisis last In Shanghai, the situation istion has been introduced to the year--and since the total expen- similar. Any number of men readers of "The Gramophone" by

want to wear shorts and open its diture was kept below the Estim shirts but are restrained possibly Mackenzie, and marvellous re- utes to the extent of just over two by reasons akin to:

sults are claimed by those who million dollars. The year thus

have tried it out. It has been closed with a very substantial

found that the "Lifebelt" not surplus of over eight million

reproduction of records, whether only improves tremendously the dollars-a figure which during the

old or new, but reduces record last ten years has only been ex-

wear to a minimum, improves, needle track ceeded three times.

alignment and neutralises surface noise. It

time there was

(1) Too much limelight. (2) It looks like giving in to

the weather.

(3) Some taipana might ob

ject.

If the leading official offices and the leading Hongs would issue a short notice:———.

as a connector between tone arm

editor, Mr.

Compton

Two of these beside the motor cycle shed near the charge room have to go to provide more room for parking space.

The trees adjoin the shed and close to the wall of the officers' quarters. In their time these trees with their long spread- ing branches infused an atmos-

run

near it and sheltered many from sun and rain, but the period vedremo" of their utility has now come to

an end.

"Vissi d'arte" (Tosca)

di "Un" bel

(Madame Butterfly) "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" (Samson et Delila) "Prologo" (Pagliacci) "Vesti la giubba" (Pag-

hiacci)

"Caro Nome" (Rigoletto) "Air des bijoux" (Faust) "Celeste Aida" (Aida) "Toreador Song":(Carmen) "LA donne € mobile"

(Rigoletto)

C+

LONDON'S TUBES.

NEW LINK UNDER THE THAMES.

CHARING CROSS STATION,

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Rugby, August 12, The new station at Charing Cross

Many arias were excluded by a connection with the link under the Thames to Southern London

"During the summer months costs but five shillings and is easi-which

narrow margin only, among

„

were

leave the Charing Crose Under- at the rate of

This statement of the Colony's! finances undoubtedly makes plea-

Ah, fors, e lui, will be opened for trifle next male employees are permitted to wear open shirts and shorts,ytted to any type of gramo Miserere, Si chiamano Mimi, month. sant reading. Our financial re-

phone.

Flower Song, Una voce poco fa, At present passengers, enter and we poor bleating sheep could;

Soundbox Angle: The new E lucevan le stelle. sources have been conserved, and assume a sportive air during the angle for soundbox adjustment although strict economy must day, without appearing to treat being adopted by experts is now for violin and piano on four double 3,000,000 per year. It is estimated

The prize of Franck's Sonatal ground Station still be the watchword of the the serious side of commerce as a 70 degrees, but unless needle-sided H.M.V. records has been that the traffic in the enlarged epending Departments; the hope were no complaints about Volan track alignment is in pretty good awarded to Mr. A. M. Bowes 50,000,000 passengers per year.

comic opera: Incidentally, there will prevail that certain very teers wearing shorts at their shape, this angle should not be Smith whose entry contained but British Wireless Service..

pressing public works will be re- sumed or begun-as the case may bewithin the next twelvel months. Reasonable retrenchment in times of crisis are commend- able. But It must be reasonable.

COMPETITION RESULT.

offices

mobilisation..

during

last summer's

'I am, etc.

resorted to.

AN OPTIMIST.

FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT.

J

station will be increased to over

REFLOATED.

SILVER CEDAR RESUMES" HER VOYAGE.

two errors. Several competitors were successful with seven of the chosen arias on their lists...

Enquiries: I shall be pleased to| answer, in this column, any, en- It is no simple task to set apart quiries relating to the gramo- from the many favourite operatic phone, of either a mechanical or arias, the most popular to the musical, nature, Letters, should On the other hand extravagance A ORX in the night, griping pains number of ten only. The follow be addressed to the "China Mail,"

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