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SOCIETY BALL,

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WANING POPULARITY,

The guests at a society ball In Buxton.There is no question A workhouse orphan who may that there is a slackening on the be presented at Court is one of the West-end of London were part of the public throughout the the proudest "possessions" of the startled in the early hours of a whole civilised world in the demand Lewisham Board of Guardians. recent morning by an outbreak of for planus," said Mr. S. E. Moon, in She is no longer really theirs, but fire which, but for the prompt ac- his presidential address to the they maintain a proud and affection of the brigade, might very Federation of British Music Indus- tionate interest in their one-time easily have assumed alarming pro-

inmate, who is now the adopted portions. tries Convention, which opened here daughter of a wealthy and cultur: Happily no one was injured, a last month. Nearly 200 delegated family, states the "Evening fact which is probably to ne f many of them accompanied by their

Standard.

tributed to the entire absence of wives, have come from all parts of

She has £600 a year in pocket pante among the guests. the country to the convention. money as well as a beautiful The ball was being given by Every branch of the industry, from home.

Bower Tomay for her manufacturer to dealer, la repre- The dearest wish of the staff daughter, Miss Del lamay, and was sented.

that nurtured her is that the taking place at 25, Bruton-street, secret of her humble origin ahalla thoroughfare connecting Bond- never be known to a critical street and Berkeley-square.

"The piano is a very technical Instrument," continued Mr. Moon. "It is just possible that its deve-world. They are bound by a well- lopment or evolution is not yet finished. I wonder whether it la not possible to evolve some ins- trument la the future which would be played in much the same way as the piano of to-day, but which would be as different from the piano of to-day as the plano is from the old-time. harp." They already had the mechanical player and the reproducer piano, he continued, but no reproducer plano, however

good and marvellous

its production, could ever take the place of a musical instrument play. ed by a skilled Individual performer, (Cheera.) It was not the magnifi- cently worked out reproducer piano that was going to bring people back to the desire to produce music for themselves.

Dance Craze Influence. Why was there this slackening on the part of the public to produce music for themselves? It was, first, one of the inevitable results of the war; secondly, it was due to the craze for dancing, which had affect- ed all types of music. To some, dancing was the only way in which they could express music. Most of the music of to-day could be used in a dance hall, and the average

man in the street looked upon music as a kind of syncopated rhythm to

which he could dance.

Referring to the difficulties of manufacturers, he thought that overhead charges could be consider- ably reduced if they introduced the co-partnership scheme. As far as was known at present, there would be no pianos exhibited at the next British Industries Fair, as suitable accommodation could not be guar- anteed, and the question was being considered whether they should not themselves organise an exhibition. (Cheers).

or

Chairman Claude 8. Bhaver, of the Demperatic National Committee.

intentioned conspiracy of silence, "Her aecret is safe with us," they say. "We have hundreds of such secrets in our keeping.'

The Little Mother. The romance of the one-time pauper who is now a Society girl told by an official of the was

Guardians, who Lewisham said:-

Years ago two tiny girls who had no parents or friends in the world were left in our care. One.. was older than the other and al- ways regarded herself as a "little mother towards her baby sister. "They were bearded out by us Dancing and jazz had had a won at institutions, and found to be derful effect on the gramophone and charming and graceful children. wireless industries. While a year

"Then we had an application many from a retired Army officer two ago there were makes of gramophones there lieut-colonel and his wife who were very

of re- had no children of their own and few makes cords, but to-day there were who badly wanted a little girl to numerous makers of records and all cherish and bring up. continued to make innumerable

"There was no candidate in our homes better suited for this pressings of jazz muale.

Alderman Charles Foulds, Not-beneficent offer than the elder of tingham, President of the Music the two little girls. The colonel Trades Association, attributed the and his wife saw her, spoke with a bond of affection decline in the demand for pianos to her, and the fact that people to-day were sprang up between all three at physically and mentally lazy. that was a phase which would pass

But once.

"Proper provisions were made, and the Board of Guardians gave the necessary authority for the little girl to be formally adopted by the colonel and his wife.

Mrs.

It was, about a quarter-past two In the morning when the fire start- ed, and it became so force that the guests, who numbered about 400, had to leave the house, and there were very soon in the street groups of men and women in even- ing dress, many without their coats and wraps.

The firo occurred in a marquee which had been erected at the back of the house over the base- ment kitchen. The marquee · was. being used as a buffet, and was lavishly decorated. How the fire started is not definitely, known, ' but the belief is that an oil or spirit stove was overturned.

Tho decorations and the canvas of the tent were almost instantly ablaze, and the heat of the flames was such that the dresses. of some of the ladies were scorched before they could get away. Fortunately the majority of the guests were in the ballroom at the time, only com- paratively few being in the buffets.

The flames reached the interlor of the house, and some of the furniture and decorations there were damaged. The house con- tains a number of valuable .pic- tures, and these were rapidly re- moved, a task in which the guests assisted.

Six fire engines and two escapes were quickly on the scene, and the

firemen soon had the fire woll in hand, but it was not till about four in the morning that the last of the Salvage Corps left.

The heat was sufficient to break the glass and scorch the woodwork of some of the windows of the ad- joining house, which is occupied by Lord Islington.

pounds, from which our former "She continued to live under inmate now draws £600 a year. the care of her adopted father, and the two are more devoted to one another than ever since the loss of the colonel's wife.

"She is now 21 years of age and She well launched, in society. will probably marry well before long, unless she feels called upon to take up a profession.

The

"But she had riot forgotten her little sister who had remained in the care of the Guardians and who was boarded out at a London, convent for orphan girls. two sisters corresponded fre-

elder attained her majority she quently for years. When the felt she was able to do something for her only blood-relation.

"She, therefore, applied to the Guardians, with the sanction and backing of her adopted father, for the custody of her sister.

The Guardians decided

this approve

course, They interviewed the elder sister, found her a well-bred and self- possessed woman, and gave her charge of her young sister."

"When Things Settle Down.” Mr. R. W. Pentland, President of the Scottish Music Merchants' As sociation, said the demand for

The Separation, mechanical music had grown be-

"There was some sadness atto yond all anticipation. In days gone by, young people setting up their first at the parting of the sisters, homes required a piano and a draw- but the younger seemed so the ing rooin. To-day it was a smoking roughly happy with her fellow lounge with a gramophone and a orphans in the home that the garage. But that was a passing elder took the separation in good phase brought about by the war. part. She was shy at first in her Once people settled down again, novel surroundings, but soon be fathers and mothers the young came adapted to the new life into people of to-day-would soon be which she had entered. saying, as they saw their children growing up, "Oh, we

must have

"So we shall see the last of the orphan. But we shall never for- get that one of our babies made and then came back to give a good in the hard world outside, chance in life to the little sister shared her had once

"She was sent to a good school, and received every care and affec- who tion from her adopted parents. 'poverty." THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO, them taught the piano." (Cheers.) She made a large number of

Mr. H. V. Strong,

Peking having, fallen into the repre- 'Phone 2232.

friends in her changed circum- senting the music printing in-

and became indistin-hands of the Nationalists, anys the stances, dustry, sald that he was glad guishable from her well-born Chinese press, hundreds of officials to state that the largest part companions. of the music published in this "Recently this lucky girl be- country was printed here. (Cheers.) came a partial orphan for the But orders which did go abroad, second time. Her adopted mother where prices were from 20 to 60 died.. In token of her affection per cent. below ours, while net large for the kind ministration of her in number, were by no means negli adopted daughter, she left the

latter several gible in bulk and value.

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