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The China Mail sert was blended with a char acteristic dislike of compromise | and convention. He rid himself

Hong Kong, Monday, June 17, 1925. young of any personal ambi- tions, nor would he fulfil the ambitions which others held before him. Long before his death his admirers had to re- gret that a man of real great- ness had already cast off the his-world.

The Lawrence Legend

Man

Few figures in modern tary have so combined to 'puzzle and attract as did the whom, his countrymen called:

T. E "Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence, who became "TE

Breach-Of-Promise Law

Here There

and I

Everywhere

WHY "ROTTEN ROW?”

MUSIC IS TOO

HIGHBROW

PLEA FOR RETURN TO SPONT ANEITY

Like so many other words in THE INTELLIGENTSIA

English, the name is a corruption

of the original Franch name, ^in this case. "Route de Boi

When the Plantagenet kings Ered at the Palace of Westminster, where the Houses of Parliament

AND THEIR

CULT OF DERISION

(By Eric Coates)

Much of his music is stand now, the route in the royal-DAY, while the gramo cians.

phone and the loud-speaker sheer entertainment. but it is bunting forest lay by what are are bringing music into thou-revered to-day because of its now known as "Birdcase Walk" sands of homes, it is unfortun-superb craftsmanship.

Haydn's Spirit "Constitution Hill" and "Rotten ately true that Music herself is FOTE**

far from well. As a composer, We could do with more of his This road way. forbidden to all who has had the good fortune to spirit, and I am convinced that but Boyalty; the only exception capture the public fancy with a composers would sometimes was the Grand Falconer of Erg-series of orchestral works, per unbend a little it would contri land, by virtue of his duties in the haps I may be able to throw a bate considerably to a renewed hunting field

little light on this paradox. interest in music among the This office still exists, the Here As I see it, the crux of the people.

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ditary Grand Falconer of England problem lies in that awful gulf. Fortunately, the lure of the being the Duke of St. Albans, and between the confessed high-foreign name is not so great as up to the early part of the present brows and that section of the it was, but there are still people century the holders of the title public whose musical appetite is ho will talk about Mendels- exercised their right by driving satisfied only by unlimited jazz sohn's Lobgesang rather than once every year down Rotten Row. This "split" is a comparatively Hymn of Praise, and in hun- creds of other cases an English recent phenomenon.

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FOR THE GOLF MANIAC

work out:

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For example, in the eightitle is considered too plebeian teenth century there was no What nonsense it all is, and A new golf publication from such thing as highbrow music: how damaging to the spread of Paris called "Golfgraphescore," people never sat in solemn con good music! contains 30 pages of elaborate cave to decide whether a cer- On the Continent, a man like graphs enabling the gulf maniac totain piece was worthy of their Lehar will have his music re- consideration. If Mozart wrote gularly performed by such His gross score for every day the "Jupiter" symphony, he also orchestras as the Vienna Phil of the year;

wrote a number of serenades harmonic, and I have often His net score for every day of and what were known as diver heard my own works broadcast the year

timenti, and no one thought the from abroad by large orches

As their tras In England we owe a golfless of him for it.

name implies, these divertimenti debt of gratitude to Sir Thomas

for horrifying play-were performed simply as diver Beecham

sions, usually out of doors at a sedate Philharmonic audience garden party or on a summer by opening his programme with evening after dinner..

the Overture to "William Tell" But if some distinguished Many came to jeer and stayed Your Daily Smile! composer of our own day wrote to cheer, for he showed them an intermezzo for a cinema that the music, so often mas- orchestra there would be az sacred by fourth-rate bands. outcry, and people would say he was worth playing well and was selling his soul and wortherefore worth the considera- shipping Mammon and good-tion of our finest orchestra and

conductor. Iness knows what else.

His handicap on every course in the world;

His score for every hole ed during the year; and

The number of miles be covers in his golfing year.

A Long Pie It was her first attempt at cooking, and when her husband came home he saw a very long pie, on the table.

"Whatever is that?” he asked. "I couldn't get any shorter rhu- barb," she replied.

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Cheek

Become A Calt

Strauss Waltzes

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When anything enjoyment." spending the first

Thus music has gradually re

It is pathetic that so inany ceded from our public life, and

people have lost what Gilbert A lage store received a letter from has become the cult of a few called "the capacity for innocent Shaw" in the hope of escaping Two members of the House of a country customer, ordering a ramme the tedium of a celebrity's life, Commons raised last month a "Please find enclosed 15 shillings for intellectuals. failed in his attempt to destroy question which has troubled one of your famous razora the "Lawrence legend." Now many lawyers, the possibility of ertised, and oblige, that he is dead those impressive reforming the English Breach "P. S.I forgot to enclose the 13 because it is of the people, as last thing they want to do is to

as ad becomes a cult it is a sure sig part of a concert devising neat of its death. The reason why epigrams to fire off at their William Mayhew. jazz is so splendidly alive is just friends in the interval The

Tour valued order received yes

of

"Takedown and Co.

lenjoy themselves.

but entirely unfounded rumours of Promise laws. The State of shillings, but no doubt a firm of your which arose in one country after New York has recently abolish-high standing will forward the razor folk song was years ago

Folk song died with the first

It was amusing to read the another, that the daring Coloneled what are caled "heart-baim" to me."

The arm received the letter and puff of Stephenson's "Rocket reviews of shocked critics when Lawrence was assembling this cases. an extreme measure replied:

and it can never be revived in the, Vierna Philharmonic play-- or the other Eastern tribe for which: the buse of the Ameri- "Dear Sir

an industrial epoch; its value ed Strauss waltzes at the Albert mysterious purposes, may well can Courts may well have pro- be ended. But what Lawrence voked In England there will terday and we have much pleasure to-day is purely antiquarian Hall. Happy the man who can our famous But that is no reason why jazz enjoy a Beethoven symphony, a did during the war, and what be certainly be agreement with Mr.in forwarding one

razors as ordered

should monopolise the affections Schubert song, a Verdi opera, a failed to do after it will still Macquisten. who urged that

"Yours faithfully,

lof the masses. Indeed, when Liszt rhapsody, a Strauss waltz provoke discussion among vast girls who have been triffed numbers of his countrymen, and with for a long period” should P. S.: We forgot to enclose razor, any competent orchestra plays a Sousa march, and a good perhaps vaster numbers in the have some remedy.

bas no doubt a man with your cheek good light music it invariably modern dance tune.

scores a success with its audi-

Rossini used to say that there East Lawrence's life of action Granting that they should re-

were only two kinds of music- lence. was completed before he was ceive some damages if they

The tragedy is that so many good and bad; and when Rossini thirty. Within ten years a new have suffered materially (and Farmer: "That drought cost 25 of our finest composers either met Beethoven, the master's type of fame had come to him not merely spiritually) through over 6000 bushels of wheat."

迂 parting words to the gay Italian JoDy the author of the strange a

engagement finally "Yes, but there is nothing without refuse to recognise this or, brilliant book in which he re-broken, is it reasonable that some good. During that dry spell we they do, will not condescend to were: "Give us plenty of Bir- corded the desert campaign they should demand compensa could at least get some salt out of write music which the public bers," inferring that Rossini's Retired from the world into the tion for their frustrated hopes odd refure for quietism. an of marrying? At present the RA.F. uniform, he spent his lei-undesirability, often proved in stre upon a translation of court. of the husband they have an appeal came through for volan-lunch with a fellow composer It would do as good some→

as

will have no need for it.”

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Some Advantage

.

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the shakers!**

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teers ?

* * Courtesy First Sergeant: "What would you do if

Homer. Only a few weeks ago lost does not necessarily prevent it: “I would step aside, and be had passed inconspicuously the award of handsome, but let them pass into civilian life again. The man illogical damages in Court It of leadership seeking the role of is often pleaded that a woman

a private, the politician and the who has waited has lost her soldier lapsing into the recluse. hope of marriage to anyone at provided a paradox which drew all But surely this is a dubious

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

the

can understand.

genius lay in comic operas like The Barber of Seville" rather Not long ago I was having than in serious works.

"Hackneyed" Tunes-

• REFORMS IN TIBET

when the orchestra struck up a times to remember these words popular tune My friend was of Beethoven when we see our- indignant: "Why must we have selves in danger of becoming that hackneyed tune again and highbrow. again?" he exclaimed. **Be- cause." I might have said, “you] - and other composers persist in PARTICULARLY on him that public curiosity argument in a world where thei It is learned that Col G. R. V. standing aloof when you ought In an interview in Lanchowe, the to be increasing the repertory Panchen Lama is reported to have which he always shunned. old marry as well as the young-stewart, G.S.O., who was injured

Of Lawrence's brilliance on Moreover, marriage is in any when his car, fell from 75 feet there is nothing degrading in said that he will endeavour to have

writing for the public. The

reforms introduced in Tibet, on bis campaign his most hostile cri-case not the only career which

embankment on' down an

composition of popular music is his. return, in accordance with the tics can have no doubt. The presents itself to a

woman Taipo Read last week, is progress no easier than the writing of

Three People's Principles of Dr. mobile warfare which paralysed to-day.

ing favourably in the Kowloon symphonic works.

He would attempt the Turks east of the Jordan

Hospital

But the hard fact remains Sm. Yet-sen was neatly calculated to embar

that so soon as any music be to bring the two countries into rass is many troops, to destroy

A burglar who entered the re- comes popular, the intellectuals closer cultural contact. Jor, disor anise as many material

sidence of Mr. Herman Koerner, will ban it. Why is it meces- supplies as possible. Lawrence

No. 1 Tak Shing Street, first floor,sary to stuff programmes with was in his youth a voracious

in the early hours of yesterday great masterpieces? There are reader of works on strateg

morning, got away with the key of often three or four in an even- and no professional soldier could

Victoria the servants' quarters in additioning. No wonder concert-goers well have bettered the lessons he learned His influence on Canada is to be represented to clothing and other articles suffer from aural indigestion: and I venture to suggest that the Arabs was not that of an when a party organised by the valued at $55.

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Camp Conference At Tsingtao

eign subordinates; it was that to joint the Pacific Aren Older Mr. HC Macnamara, the well-entertainment music would of a man lay their own life, Boys Camp Conference at Tring known barrister at law, will del not only aid the digestion but counselling with a mind tamed tab, China, this month. At least ver a lecture on "Is Law Reason-would make concerts more to their own and gifted with one boy from this city will be able to the members of the Wah genial affairs.

Unfortunately gemality is wisdom as fexhaustible to the among the party.

Yan Past Students Association; in Arah observer as the bags of The meeting has been strang the Hall of the Hotel Cecil on exactly what the intellectuals gold which he distributed. Wheed to promote world friendship Thursday, commencing at 5.30 p.m. are determined to avoid at all

coets! and ther another, with equal re-

closer relationship be Tea will be served at 5.15 p.m.

Yet Haydn, the father of the sources for subsidies, could have tween East and West raised the Arab levies saccess-

The a Benvorlich left Sing-modern symphon

supre apore on Saturday and is expect arrive in the Colony on

fully fficient

ion Suf Lawrence himse

leave Seattle

with:

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