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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an experi but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings such as burbor, plow, and althn,).

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7

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13

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b

19

170

21

123

24

25

26

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145

146

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150

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51

152

53

54

55

HORIZONTAL

-Antagonists

Rook that splits

11-Egress

12-Profix morning.

догова

14-Committed hostilitlem

in private vostel

16-Made three-fold

18-Those who shed

teare 20-Lacerated

37 38

Othe intraNATIONAL (VHOIGATE

HORIZONTAL (Cont),

42-Chingas Aber

43-Armpit (pl.)

44-Trified 45-Man's name 47-Center of motor

industry, 40-Yielde |31-Absorption

62-Sidalong tok 63-HUB |54-Strats

21-Embraced one osure 85-Stegnation of

against another

23-Very (French)

24-Animal with

twisted horns

26-Help

27-Fint

28-Stay 30-Former mayor of

New York St-Ornamental head-

drase 32-Beguiled 25-Measuring deviosa 39-Sheds feathers 40-Minister's title

(abbr.)

blood, clrculation

VERTICAL

Z-Fragrant plant

-The Axilla (Anat.) 4-Roulder

-Engineer's

Instrument for measuring

distance 6-Bolled slowly

7-8tatement of

bellat 8-Rodent

-Unasitable

VERTICAL (Cent)

10-Utter Indiasinotty 13-Not so great 14-Walk about 18-Insanity

17-Part in a play 19-Nevada city

22-Fell to comply with, 25-Cute Into cubes 27-Father (Latin) 29-Be drowsy [30-Jewel

32-Substance used as

tinder 83-Burrowing animat 34-Austerely

86-01Ra 37-Confusion

38-Bodily felings tri

senoral

40-Part of dyname

(pl.)

41–Stuksian MARMITE

of dletance [44-To draw (French)

46-Roulan

48-Moulding

50-Feminine namNG.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle

2011!

appear in to-morrow's insus along with a new cross-word

puzzla,)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

SCOBS

MILES

CON_LACTI O US PIE ALP BE CAPRICORN G DOR ONE CASE

SITEM ULPINE AN I KNOT ORT CI PERCEIVED

AS SAT 'RES FIT VIXEN HAS TRICE DEALT

Two boats in one of the races held by the British Outboard Motor-boat Club capsized at Hendon, Middlesex, and the occupants were thrown into. the water,

THE CHINA MAIL,

MUSIC DRAMA FILMS

NATIONALISM

A POWERFUL FORCE IN

MUSIC

180.

SAMOAN DANCERS

DREAMY MELODIES AND HAUNTING SONGS

down on the apot. He set to work to publish these songs for school,

To-day thousands of Hun- garian children in the cities and towns unconsciously keep up their Nationalism manifests itself nationalism by singing those The Samoan Dancers acored through the medium of a strong songs. Gilaka visited Spain in another hit last night at the Star personality, with a deep love of 1847. He tried in vain with the Theatre, Kowloon, when they pre- gultarist, Francisco sented another excellent programme the Fatherland-and we have all celebrated this in Liszt, Chopin, and Grieg. Redriguez, to write down in must of dreamy melodies on the steel Music, being expression, is based cal notation some of the popular guitar and ukulele, haunting native on the same psychological grounds songs typical of the style called songs, the Hula, Siva Siva and other as language. Chopin, we are told canto jondo, or flameco, in which dances weird but nevertheleas on all sides, is the most striking he found great interest, On his pleasing-basket weaving and eco- example of the elevation of the return to Russia he blended what nut pealing competitions, the two lat- folk-soul towards humanity. He he had learned in Spain with the ter giving the audience an excellent told the great Polish poet, clements of the Russian folk songs, insight into Polynesian arts, Other thus giving origin to the style that, items not native in nature were a later on, was taken up and deve- Russian dance by Fellani, the song loped by Rimsky Korsakoff, Thue "Show me the way to go home" by one can see how the unpolluted Lei lima dressed in a sailor's suit, music of one country will react for and Oriental, and Anitra's Dances good and stir another to musical and an exhibition of the Black Bot- activity otherwise inconceivable.

STRADIVARI'S SECRET

A Question of the Varnish

It was reported on January 5 from Bergame that a number of manuscripts in the handwriting of Antonio Stradivari, who gave hla name to the famous Stradivarius violins have been found, in one of which particulars are given of a secret process for treating wood with varnishes that gave his violins their unique tore. The secret is not revealed, and the documents have been impounded.

Stradivari never confided the secret of his varnish even to his wife or his daughters. Experts, how- ever, consider it doubtful whether it was really superior to all other; his secret was probably in its per- fect application.

That he used solely a pure oll varnish. the composition of which consisted of a gum soluble in oil possessing good drying qualities. Latest photo of Norma Talmadge,

with the addition of colouring Mikiewicz: "There are in the scat-ingredients, the Measra. Hil, who tered fragments of folk-music the fruitful eeeds of great art-works. Just as these scraps of tune form a real inspiration to the prosale people who invented them, so their collection under musical inspira- tion will represent the soul of a nation."

devote a whole chapter to the sub- ject in their "Life of Stradivari," It consider beyond controversy. is not so much the varnish itself as the question of colouring varnish, which, they point out, has proved the stumbling-block in the way of 20 many makers of the last "If players would be century. content with instruments treated with colourless varnish the difficulty of producing fine tone would be the very greatly diminished, as addition of various injurious colour-

In addition to being a vocal art lat, Dame Clara Butt is a proved woman of the world, possessing sound common sense. "We have," she says, "got too, much into the bahit of belittling ourselves, not so much, perhaps, in actual uttering substances adversely affects the ance as by tacitly comparing our material from which the Instrument.

is made." selves with foreign artists and by exalting them at our own expense. Nothing is good or interesting unless it is foreign; English is a bad language to sing in-and so She could not be more severe than when she alludes to "the

on."

Gwen Lee.

snobs who have brought about a fearful dullness in our recitala." The true English style, she alуs, is perhaps rather lyrical than dramatic-the ability to render a simple song or ballad with direct- ness and sincerity-an ability dis- tinct and very different from that of the average operatic singer, to whom the art that conceals art id Inot of much use. How very often have we heard opera singers with big reputations fall lamentably in the effort to sing a simple song..

Besides the Gorman Romantic- its we might also allude to three other examples of the influence of nationalism in music. Glinka, who was a pup of the Irishman, John Field, was the founder of the Russian School of Music which is so strong, even in our own day. Glinka took much of his inspira- tion from the sunny land of Spain as in his "Summer Night in

| Madrid"-" Bela Bartock, of Kun- gary, has, in his rooms in Budapest, nearly 3,000 phonograph records of Hungarian songs alone, famous canine star, with their many variante taken

tom by Miss Faye. All the items went well and were deservedly well applauded. Princess Roselant again made herself a favourite with the audience on account of her effective singing with a very pleasing voice.

A new photo of Mary Pickford, the world's sweetheart.

Mr. Lennox Boyd has been adopted as Conservative candidate for Gower, Glamorgan, at the next election.

Fine varnish, they point out, will not compensate for bad material or faulty construction, but that it makes or mars the perfectly formed Instrument is, in their opinion, be- yond dispute; and many examples

Mr. L. S. Whitehorn, coroner for are given of its influence, "It is, for instance, known to not a few Banbury, fell 30ft. from a window a critical that Stradivar violins give forth of his house, and is in

a character of tone perfectly distinct condition.

from those of his great rival

Guarneri. Why ? The answer to

the question is not to be found in the construction alone. Those who are really competent to make com- parisons can give only one answer. The methods of varnishing practised by Stradivari and Guareri were different.

"Carlo Bergonzi affords us an- other example, He was a pupil of Stradivari, and carried out more or less his master's principles · of construction; his varnish, however is much more like that of Guarneri, and consequently the tone of his violins more resemble that of this master's works."

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