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The Winchester governing body will meet shortly to choose a new headmaster in succession to Dr. A. T. P. Williama, who takes up his appointment as Dean of Christ Church after Christmas. :

old:

Mr. Spencer. Leeson, an Wykehamist and a former Winches- ter Sixth Form master, in a strong favourite for the post,

as a housemaster.

a

Your Daily Smile!

Wife: "I'm reading a mystery hook." Husband: "Why, that book looks to me like our household budget."

Wife: "It is."

ROMANCE OF SONG WRITING

THEY CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE

A

HEART-THROBS

Bong

EVERY TIME

(By Stephen Williams)

London. Jevery time.

of

"Give 'em some-

a

COUPLE of gamblers on the thing that'll make 'em laugh or

popular

exchange cry or break their necks twice called one day just before the nightly," a publisher said to me For some years to come there is war on a music publisher in the other day. They divide songs into classes: love songs almost certain to be a bad block in Shaftesbury-avenue. promotions to headmasterships be- They brought with them, the ("we write their love-letters for chorus song 'em"), mother-songs, baby-songs cause of the youth of present-day manuscript of a headmasters.

which they thought might prove and "whimsies" of the "Little- They had hawked it man you've - had -a - busy-day"! The combined ages of the head-a "hit." masters of Eton, Harrow, Winches-about a good deal in the past few type.

A publisher may receive about ter, Rugby, and Marlborough is only weeks, and this was probably the

Of last of many weary calls in an a hundred songs a week. 220-an average of forty-four.

The publisher these about one on an average Headmasters salaries, are difficult exhausting day.

But his is by no to define in precise figures. Often looked at the song and thought is accepted. they are composed not only of a he saw in it the germ of success means the end; often it is only the the beginning. The lyric may fixed sum but also of a capitation It appealed to one

certain strongest and most enduring of not have the right appeal, the fee for every boy over number plus something more again human passions: the longing for tune. may want touching up, the home. It was the story of an pitch may be too high or too low. staff of In round figures they run from Irishman yearning for his native The publisher has about £2,000 for the smaller schools country: a likely "winner" in the lyric-writers who can re-write to £5,000 which is the approximate days when Irishmen were popu-existing lyrics or supply new figuro for schools like Rugby and larly regarded as wanderers on ones for the tunes he has bought. the face of the earth; as roman-He has also a staff of expert Wellington.

Harrow is the chief financial tic exiles, turning from pleasures musicians who can take down a melody (the plum. It is reputed to be worth and palaces and the vast fortunes and harmonise

they were supposed to have "composer" is frequently able about £8,000.

amassed in heartless cities, and only to hum or whistle the top gazing through a mist of tears line) and who can detect plagi- towards the green hills of Erin arisms, conscious or unconscious. and the brown stout of Dublin, Failure to do this often has He bought it, probably send-serious results. The publisher ing the gamblers away happy of a dance tune was. recently with a small sum on account. obliged to pay £8000 to a firm of The song became a modest suc-opera. publishers because jfact that in every Eden there is

cess. It was "plugged" in pan-phrase was identical with Jalways a Serpent; every Faust

It happened in New York's lower tomimes, it was sent echoing phrase in "Tosca." has to meet Mephistopheles; and the "Yin" period has now been East Side.

tune! "How many seasons are there?" askund the halls. Its sentiment

Six Months' "Age" Limit and plain, easy-going succeeded by an era of "Yang."

It "sold caught people's fancy.

The composer and lyric-writer As General Smuts expressed Ited the teacher.

"Just two," answered Rachel. "What are they 1" inquired, the a few thousand copies.

each receive from 5 per cent... characteristically "Mankind has

Some- once puzzled instructor,

Then the war came, and one upward on the sales. National Introspection struck his tents and is

again on the march." What we

"What are they?" inquired the puzzl-hot and dusty afternoon a com-times they are paid an advance pany of soldiers marching along sum which may range from £5 ed instructor. One of the most fascinating should like to know is, in what

"Slack and busy," replied Rachel. a country lane broke into thejto £200. writers on history, whose annual direction is he marching?"

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chorus, "It's a long way to Tip Nowadays very few popular Look Near the Ball

than six. summaries of political and social The old controversy as to the

perary."

songs last longer events and tendencies are looked perfectibility of Man is musty.

months.. Triumph Of Chance forward to by all serious stud-and reminds one only of the De-Golfer: "What's the idea, borrowing

There are 50 many ways ball?"

From that moment the song to-day of getting them across to ents, Mr. Arnold J. Toynbee, has bating Society of the callow ma shilling and laying it near th' wee Pro: "I must do something to keep

It became the recently been giving his irapres-youth of long ago. For Man is

was made.

the public. In the old days it our essentially, at his best, a creator. your head down."

:

* * sions of the tendencies in

marching, song of the British

was a case of plugging them on present civilization that make and perfection means that there

Not Soupy Enought

Expeditionary Force. It became the halls or through seaside con- for stability or breakdown. It is no further scope for creation.

Wife: "Don't you think I have put an expression of the aching is quite possible of course to dis-That is Professor Toynbee's first

men driven cert parties. But now a song home-sickness of

over the air reaches a million *Model Husband: "Not at all, darling. count all such speculations as be principle; his second is that too much salt in the soup, dear?"

homes at once. Then there are ing too vague and uncertain to when there is an opportunity for There is perhaps not quite enough soup through a foreign country

the most terrible adventure of the pantomimes, gramophones, have any guidance for immediatejcreation Man cannot refuse to for the salt, that's all.".

their lives. It was no longer an

the halls, dance-bands, hurdy- conduct; but a big generalisation take it up. If he is not, as Swin-

Irish song; for Tipperary they gurdy men and street musicians. Bis useful as peg on which to burne proclaimed. "the master of

read Oldham, Clapham, White One publisher often, when pase- chapel, Wolverhampton-places ing a street band, drops a shill- hang our observations of the im- his fate," he at any rate "has a mense mass of details that other critically intelligent understand-

whose grimness had taken on a wise seem merely to burden the ing of its causes. He can trans Of that his

new and wistful beauty in their ing into the leader's hand and gives him his name, and the memory without enlightening cend conditions."

hearts. And-it paved Shaftes leader goes round next day for the mind: It is at any rate worth tory is full of examples; but we

A clean bill of health was while to consider the, rumina-should not need to go beyond our

contemporaries to tions of a well-stored brain. own The trouble usually is that scho that it is true. What then is the ported in the Colony during lars are afraid to commit them-serpent that thrust itself into the 48 hours ended December 2..

The an- selves to theories; for those who latest dreams of Eden.

ahe China T

Hong Kong, Tuesday, December 4, 1934

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prove

*

Almanac Révision

"Slack and busy, replied Rachel.

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

1

A meeting of the Sanitary Board will be held at 4.15 p.m. to-day.

re-

the

.

on

bury-avenue with gold and sold more than a million copies

some songs.

one

a

The triumph of "Tipperary" There are people writing songs Itin every street in London. There was a triumph of chance.

songs that have survived their learned that he died worth popularity and may be heard approximately fifty shillings. to-day.

The s.s. Takada will leave Amoy was not an outstandingly good are men who spend their days in song; the words were full of buses, restaurants, pubs, listen- are not scholars are inclined to swer is "Mechanisation." The

while new wealth was really a triumph to-morrow, and is due here, or stock sentiment and the tune ing all the time for some chance commonplace. remark that may give them an spin theories with ease

was cheerfully they flinch from the work of of machinery and not of humani-Thursday afternoon.

But the outbreak of a war that idea for a song for an arrest- study which alone makes theories ty. There was a danger that the

machine was come to be the man The 4.8. Takada will leave here killed and impoverished millions ing first line.

And some fine morning one of weighty and enlightening.

Curiously enough he reverts to ter instead of the servant; for it for Singapore, Penang, Rangoon, flung it into sudden fame and

office and by humming a top line a doctrine of the Chinese Sages developed versatility at the cost and Calcutta on Friday a 31 3 p.m. nade fortunes for its creators them may walk into a publisher's

and publisher. that human history oscillates be of mere routine exactitude in the

Chan Sum, 42 years, of No. 248, It is one of the few popular make enough to keep him for tween two opposite stages, man who tended it. The satirist

It was by sheer chance that an "Yin" and "Yang!" In a period Samuel Butler, imagined a revolt Des Voeux Road West, was admitted songs like "Mother Machree," the rest of his life. of "Yin" man is given up to the of Society against machinery, in to the Government-Civil Hospital When-Irish-Eyes are Smiling," serene and contemplative happi-which the possession of a ma-last night, suffering from body in The Long, Long Trail," and a hour after writing this I opened liness of rest. In a period of chine became a capital offence, juries sustained when he fell into a bunch of pre-war music-halla book on Franz Schubert and

"Yang" he devotes himself to the Those who remember an old best nullah in Water Street. changeful and energetic happi-seller called "Looking Backward" ness of action. The last part of will remember that the marvel-

Is there any "system" possible. the nineteenth century was alous efficiency of Society was

in this gigantic game of specu period of "Yin," when it was gained by a complete organisa-

lation? That, of course, in what thought that the economie needs tion of different grades of man-

Russian Without

ly few hundred thousand people! of mankind had been adequately kind with the sole aim of avoid-

engaged in the popular song Passport met by a system of industrial-ing all waste and confusion, at

trade spend their lives in trying to discover. Gradually they are ism which was able to supply all the cost of ignoring the person- that was wanted with a minimum ality of the human implement.

to Toynbee, William Gooseff, a Russian sub-reducing to a highly standardised of effort. Men therefore gave That, according themselves up to a study of would be the final defeat of Man-ject, who was sentenced to four craft the process of beating that

months hard labour on November immense totalisator the British Tiro months' hard labinandwas-im- their past and their future; the kind.

The mechanistic tendency he 26 by Mr. W. Schofield at the public. Publishers of "Song- known history of civilisation was

lift-boys, Yeung Fuk, Yeung Sam.. pushed back to twice the dis- finds typified in the Soviet sys-Central Magistracy for antering hits," like the adjudicators who rose un ench of the three Chines tance it had previously reached tem; it would redues Society it the Colony without a passport, to always gave Nero the first prize and Yeung Sal, who were charged and the probable history, before self to a machine which the in-day made an appeal through his at his own musical festivals, may with the larcency of 141 watches and the unlawful receiving of 43 the introduction of records was dividual would be unable to resolicitor, Mr. T. P. K. Kemble, not know much about music, but

GAOL SENTENCE. COMMUTED

THREE LIFT BOYS GAOLED

112 Of 144 Watches Recovered

POHOLATUM pushed back almost indefinitely, siat. The only agency of society Mr. Kemble said it seemed that human nature, good deal about watches, the property of the Hat-

since 1882

ance of mechanism is

In the light of the new know ledge it was not difficult to make properly organised to serve in the only offence his client had inferences about his natural instead of enslaving the individual, committed was entering the Co-

torri Company, by Mr. E. 1. Wynne Mentality Studied Jones at the Central Magistracy this

the unrivalled household remedy for all to the results of con Man is at the same time inferior lony without a permit, and that if They study the mentality of morning.

for use in

trolling them or indulging them to the machine and superior to he had applied for it, it would the people around them and de- Detective Inspector J. Murphy, that 112 watches valued at $152 Rheumatism, asthma, sciatica.

They lumbago, Insect bites, sores, head which would be a guide for the it in that he has changeful have been granted to him. His cide on which emotions they can appearing for the prosecution stated

the tance of the defendant. aches, coughs, colds, chilblains,uture statesmen and ethical moods. The ultimate civilising client possessed a through ticket be caught “napping."

teachers, so

that progress would agency is the human mind. His to Shanghal and that the offence know the precise catch-phrase have been recovered with the Basis-

or melody that will piles, sprains and dislocations.'

become continuous and well tory is the struggle of mankind was a technical

me the world about him Defendant's

com money They

ods.

muted to two months' hard la cynical about, it, trading

and openly on the more fac human that this diagbour

ntime leaves us pre

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