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Correspondence.

CONDUCT ON A BUS.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMEER

1932

Some Impressions Of East And West

Dr. Mistowski On Music

In Japan

MODERN

DEGENERARY ”

The Editor, "China" Mail.”) Sir,--While riding on a bus to- day something happened which could hardly escape my notice, nor any decent person's, for that mat- ter. It concerned an Englishman! who has evidently lost all claims: of descendancy from the knights of King Arthur, and who is a supreme example of MODERN civilization a civilization of grab and keep. It was during tifan hour and the bus was packed with business men, school children and people of all Trinity College of Music's visiting have a peculiar way of holding the descriptions. The bus slowed "examiner, left Ceylon on August instrument; sitting on the floor 14, after six weeks' hard work, they held the violin against the down and the person in question is due in Malaya. to conduct body and the big toe! I've often jumped on. At the same moment examinations, and will pass been impressed with the very a Chinese got up and was presume through Colombo again later in the clever left-hand technique and ac ably on the point of offering the

Dr. Alfred Mistowski, the adaptable to any system.

They

seat to the school children and year, on his way to Bombay. He curate sense of intonation. As for expects to be in England by the bowing, it is rather rudiment- ladies. when the Englishman, Christmas.

ary, because it is held in an awk- thinking that the Chinese was get- He has been connected with his ward way. But it still serves its ting off, rushed at and took the work for about three decades now purpose well. seat (perhaps to steal a march on!

"Music in the East has followed

his fearful foe). He, then, smoked and has visited nearly every coun- this pipe in the perfect calm and try on the globe. He has had much a line of melodic development ex experience in the East, especially clusively. But in Europe, starting serenity of a well-won battle.

India, and bis views on the musical from melodic lines, our music has 'The "gentleman's" manners would require some overhauling if development (from the Western evolved on harmonic lines, with. complexity, until the sent had been genuinely offer standpoint) of the Enst may, there- increasing ed and accepted in the face of the fore, be considered authoritative, nowadays it represents several What has impressed him in re-melodic lines woven into a complex. weaker Box. Under the present circumstances I am at a loss to cent years in India is the emer-harmonic texture... describe him. If I had known the fence of the Muslim woman.

"One notices that Muslim girls “Indian music has, therefore, its "gentleman" personally, I would have given him a piece of my mind are taking examinations now, and limitations as it has never shown gratis, but now I must leave him considering that they have rather any tendency in the direction of its-melodie: to the pricks of his own conscience, held back till now, it is very harmony. Indeed, gratifying." he said.

characteristics are antagonistic to harmonic evolution."

if he has one.

"THE CHINESE DRAGON." Hong Kong, Sept. 12, 1932.

News in Brief.

Modern "Dissonance.”

for

Dr. Mistowski - holds decided.

No Purdah Difficulties, "This has been the case some time in India," he observed, views on the (Western) "music"of "and have had quite a number of to-day, views that would class him girls in Hyderabad, at a school for with the rigid conservatives. Ho daughters of high officials. There has nothing in common with the has never been any difficulty over futurists, dislikes the deliberate, chinery encourages party dead One case each of cholera and purdah as special exceptions are "exaggerations" and "dissonances" lock in the Reichstag, he is pro typhoid fever were notified to the made in favour of such people as of the so-called modernists. Even ROMANO-On Tuesday, Septem-nouncing a criticism of propor- Health Authorities over the week-school inspectors and examiners, the dance music of to-day is de

but on one or two occasions purdah generate, in his opinion. ber 13, 1932 at her residence tional representation which is end..

was observed without the slightest "The Western music of to-day," 5 Austin Avenue, Kowloon,

often made and which merita

he insisted, "has reached a point Guilhermina Francisca dos

At the Kowloon Police Court this inconvenience.”

The emancipation of women has where it seems that the physical Remedios Romano. The funeral consideration. It may very well morning, Mr. Fraser imposed a fine will pass the Monument at 5.30 be that von Papen feels more of $15 on a Chinese youth, who ad-gone on much faster in Egypt than endurance of the ear has reached pan, on Wednesday, September strongly than

he speaks, and mittad a charge of trespassing on in India, Dr. Mistowski said. Its limit.

Exaggeration seems to

be 14, 1932.

Military ground at Stonecutters "Purdah is almost dying out and that he would like to see

the Island

you see Muslim ladies at concerts rather the tendency of the present- whole republican fabric topple

and at the opera with only a make-day modernists' in their excessive

into ruin. But for the moments]

Miss Clark, living at 87 Glouce-believe veil. I had many such love of dissonance, which makes The China Mail. ~||

at least the thing is not abso-ster Road, third floor, has reported ladies as candidates to be examin- much of to-day's music restless and fatiguing to the listener. It seems to the Police that between 4 and 6 ed." lutely proved. The Chancellor pm on Sanday evening, some per- Coming to the question of talent to reflect the unsettled state of the Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1932. went so far as to say: "This son broke into her flat by wrenching among pupils, Dr. Mistowski re- world in general.

and Ceylon I

Shock Tactles, Constitution has fundamental a lock off the staircase door, and marked, "In India

"During the last 25 years in to developments yet to come." It stole clothing to the value of $264. have come across remarkable talent

and distinguished pupils. I am Europe Alt has been evolving on Republican Germany.

would be going a bit far to sug-I Leung Wing-hau, 26, a tailor of especially glad to say that there is strange lines; expression or self- Formal observance of the gest that the fundamental ideas 111 Hennessy Road, was removed to ample evidence of good teaching in expression (blessed word!) seems to be the aim more than abstract thirteenth birthday of the Ger of a republican constitution are the Government Civil Hospital this country.

beauty, and what music has gaine knife "Japan's Refugee Artists. man Republic was not a joyful compatible with monarchy. The yesterday suffering from a

wound in the left shoulder, inflicted" was in Japan and China lasted in colour and expression it has occasion. One report speaks of German Republic has behind it a during an altercation. His alleged year, and was most interested to certainly lost in purity and sonse the scene 'in the Reichstag majority of the German people assailant has been arrested and is find the state of music unusually of proportion

advanced, especially in Japan. The "Under guise of originality chamber as a funeral rather It has in its favour the fact that now in custody pending investiga-explanation for this is that the there is a tendency on the part of.

tions. than a holiday. The friends of its opponents are by no means

State takes an interest in the sub many young composers to stun,.

an in-

the republic absented them- perfectly united. The aims and New arrivals at the Metropole Ject. There is a very good. State and even shock people conserva {selves, The official rites were tactics of the so-called "Junker" Hotel are: Capt. and Mrs. A. de conservatorium in Tokyo, with tives, I mean. The same tendency, performed by a Government Cabinet are still something of a Q. Silveira, Miss Silveira, Madam European teachers at the head. you notice, is found in the recent that is supposed to be anti- mystery, but it is plain that the Silva Mendes, Rev. Fr. M. P. There is also a big school with development of sculpture take

about 80 Japanese professors, all Epstein, for instance. republican at heart.

The com von Papen Government is far son, Mr. and Mrs. E. Davies, Mrs. Europe and America. They have call the Jazz poison and a general' Mendes, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Emer- of whom have had training in Now too, there is what I might iments on the Weimar Constitu-

tion were chiefly confined to from being deeply in love with S. Vale, Mrs. J. Soares and family, 800 pupils in their charge. degeneracy of dance music, I can-

Hitler. There is thus suggested Miss M. Rodrigues, and Mr. and showing how defective

"Russlan influence is very not but regret the passing of the Mrs. Ferrant.

prominent, and it goes back as far beautiful dance music of the past strument it is. If one adds the the historic parallel of the Third

French Republic in the first half Mr. Tong Lo, Consul-General at War. This influence has become which in themselves were so as 1904, during the Russo-Japanese generation, those charming waltzes uncertainties and anxieties" con-

dozen years of its existence Singapore and son of Mr Tong intense since the Revolution, be pleasant to listen to, music of such nected with the name of Hitler,

after Sedan With a monarch-Shao-yi, who returned to China cause of the number of refugee men as Johann Strauss, Gangl. it is undeniable that these are not very cheerful days for theist majority in the National As-some months ago to take over the artists domiciled there.

"A remarkable thing la" he con democratic cause in Germany, sembly the republican cause in directorship of the Shanghai office

of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tinued, "that once they have m France was kept alive by the left for the south by the Doller liner tered our scales, the Japanese and Yet people speak as if the re- jealousies of the various anti- President Madison, first to visit his Chinese go ahead fant. They have. cent election had produced an overwhelming majority against Lepublican groups the Bour father in Canton and then to protoo a lot of temperament

bonists Orleanists and Bonapar

the republic, or The fact in thất ng

ceed to Singa

the

Gladen Waldteufel.”

DINNER FEATURE AT PENINSULA.

New Programme Of

Dancers

pagal Commenting on the state of major dig music in the year Easty Dr.gada, eriensi Grey, who was towski remarked""""Here I have the opponents of the republican tits. By the time these had Me

ble, as architect, for found splendid talent among the regime are still in a minority of finished manoeuvring for post- largely respon

of the Peninsula Hotel Jews and Armenians, especially in several million votes, if one on the republic was firmly root-

and Exchange Building, besides Jerusalem, where Sir Ronald counts the entire Bight strength, ed. The republic in Germany other works in the Colony, has re- Storrs founded a sensol of müste and represent only a little more to-day is much stronger than it turned to Hong Kong again to prac Hadid the same in Cyprus. than one-third of the population, was in France in 1870-76. But ties as a Chartered Architect and Talent I noticed in Alexandria and if one speaks only of Hitler among its opponents the "Legi Chartered Surveyör. During Mr. Cairo too, That the German Republic will timists" that le to say the

be swept out offer out anybody during

to all

Junker crowd must be far from anxious to see Hitler make the Mussolink:

BATAVIA REDU

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FAMOUS ARTISTES.

Featuring an entire change

heir programme routine, the two famous Russian dancers,

Tania: Svetlanova and Mİ, Aler

een architect In Cairo 1 was much interested 38km "are delightings Palmer to come across a piece music | nightly, at the Peninsula. » Hotel,

Consulting printed from right to left, in order Roof Garden.

Work

to, conform to the Arab

awkward to read

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