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Here

There and Everywhere

Though M. Andre Citroen was little known' in London, he had considerable interests there.

Short and stoutish, and rather silent-owing possibly to his scanty English he gave the im pression of a shrewd but cautions French, man of affairs.

WHAT DOES RHYTHM MEAN TO YOU?

THE "INIQUITIES" OF

JAZZ EXAMINED

COMMON MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF MEANING OF MUSIC

(By Percy Buck, Mus. Doc.)

AVERYWHERE nowadays]giment) is, in a strict sense..

Most of the talking was done by his manager, M. Philippe, who one hears of the iniquities not rhythm at all but metre. was as much above the normal of jazz, together with the rider

height as M. Citroen was below that at last it shows signs of Rhythm begins with the first

M. Citroen, who was of Jewish origin, carried adventurousness in business to the point of rashness

He suffered from

Left, Right...

dying.

disturbance of the metrical pat- Assuming that the public stern as a curve begins with the

tiring of jazz, did any good ever first bending of a straight line- come of abusing a thing of After saying "All the world's a which another man is fond?

stage Shakespeare continues: Few likes and dislikes (if And all the men and women: developed publicity sense. Not any) are to be affected by re-

merely players prosch or argument; they must which is metrical with the five

leven

∙over

the Eiffel Tower-from which at one time his name gleam-

ed in illuminated letters was too be grown out of:" and I per-accents in their normal places.

sonally, am glad for several Having established this pat- reasons if it is true that in the tern, he continues:

big for his purposes.

In many provincial towns the future I shall be condemned to They have their exits and their

most palatial building

Citroen garage which financed.

*

ALWAYS A GAMBLER

.

.the hear less jazz than in the past. entrances. he had!

Life: A communist is a fellow who

"In the beginning was which is rhythmical because it Rhythm” said famous is a departure from pattern musician.

Baby's Thump

There is nothing discreditable

"Her diddle diddle, the cat. and the fiddle" is metrical, but When the depression came. M.

We. and most animals are "The cow jumped over the Substitute Citroen refused to be depressed. born with the power of dividing moon" rhythmical.

This crisis, however, caused him time into equal periods The "bullock" for "co" and the to produce another trump card. baby thumps its pillow or kicks rhythm disappears. This was the front-wheel drive its legs in strict time. and the Now these two aspects of "Knee-action car, which is now newly born animal walks ́or music. the rhythm and the ubiquitous in France.

runs about with steps of equal(sound (that is to say, the melo- duration.

die and harmonic aspects) im- Ten years ago he was said to But have political ambitions.

The most primitive races posed on it have developed con-- apart from his business, baccarat develop this sense, on tom-toms tinuously since first they were was his passion, and the table at and similar instruments, to a fused together. The rhythm Italian troops occupy one or which he played always ranked as state of high efficiency; and for of "Linden Lear is as far ahead thousands of years they have of the little tags played on another of the so-called "towns", No. 1 for spectators.

had no other form of music. tom-toms as is the harmony of which are merely scattered col- The story is told of him at

It is a definite epoch in the the "Tannhaeuser" prehide whe Hong Kong. Saturday, Oct. 12, 193lections of hats that can be al-Deauville that one night he hand-

civilisation of a tribe or race compared with early attempt most as easily re-erected as des-ed a 10,000-franc chip over his troyed. Being built of dried shoulder with the remark: "Be 30 discovery that sounds of vary

when they make the startling at combining notes, The Fog of War

mud, with thatched roots, the kind, madame, as to take this and ing pitch can be superimposed

Ball Mark materials for restoration are al-stop breathing down the back of on existing rhythmical units, educated in music which does The hall-mark of being The casual reader who is in-ways at hand.

[my neck"

thus producing, for the first not mean being a “highbrow" terested in following the war Adowa itself is not quite on

time, what we would call music but merely that you can appre- news will probably come to the the lowlands, but it is the first Your Daily Smile! Everyone dislikes the jargon ciate good music-is the fact conclusion that there must be town that is reached after the

of technical terms, but a good that you are not appealed to by some very incompetent corres-climbing begins; and it is one

Semmer. A. carious climatic condi- deal of misunderstanding arises music which deliberately ignores pondents in East Africa; at of the most important facts of tion which occurs only while the other from the fact that we make the this progress and tries to work any rate the unfamiliar names the tactical position that, al-fellow in the office is taking his holi word rhythm cover too many on the primitive, unsophisticat of a part of the world which not though there may be a rough day. -

things. The division of time led, elemental instincts. only lies out of the ordinary road leading up that particular

into equal parts. with accents routes, but has been kept as far valley, there are also other as possible remote from general valleys North and South which thinks it's more likely that there's placed periodically (as in the in liking such a manipulation affairs can hardly fail to con- are equally available for irre something wrong with the country "left, right" of a marching re- fuse the mind. even if it were gular troops that travel habi- easier to keep in mind the con-itually on foot or on horseback. tradictions of previous days and which provide ideal cover In these circumstances it is for surprise attacks to the rear school with a new book under his better to form one's own cor of the advancing army. We ar "It's a prize, mother,” he said.

**A prize? What for, dear?”: the general lines shall hear of such attacks dur- ception of

***For natural history. Teacher ask-] which the operations are bounding the next week or so, perhaps to follow and to take for grant-with some frequency. They ed that they are running in are made for the purpose of their

course. unless compelling the invader to leave something sensational happens.a large proportion of his force rest of the class asid four, so I was

The terrain is by this time behind to guard his stores and Dearest fairly familiar through the transport; and it is a feature maps that have been pub-of this sort of warfare that the Scotland Yard was hunting a crim- In the Infants Hospital in perty of all, or a borrowed lished in the Press- It is not threat of an attack is almost as mal, but the only picture of him they Vincent-square, Westminster, is progression from Delins- or peculiar to that part of the effective as actual fighting. had was a strip of six photographs. the minute object which has broken Debussy, is crude and unskilful world. The whole of the Afri-The whole object is to "keepThis strip was sent to a provincial the world's infant light-weight re- can Continent consists of a low-the enemy guessing." A local town, and abortly afterward the fol-cord. It is the son of a Newcas Its structure, the element on- lying coast belt, with what look success or repulse is not in it "Have found four of the wanted tle plasterer, and at birth 16 weeks which an artist spends so much like mountain ranges some dis-self of great importance. The men. Hope to get other two soon." ago weighed only 13 ounces-an loving labour, is almost non-- tance inland, but are really the other day we were told that the

ounce less than the previous re-existent even the little joins ramparts of a high plateau Japanese public had come to the

cord-holder, a girl born in Surrey between the phrases, known. in: stretching many miles inland. conclusion that the war would

six years ago.

the trade as "breaks," can be: Then comes another "step" to be over in a few weeks because

The normal weight of a baby at bought at so much a dozen in a stil higher plateau, and right Adowa had been captured

birth is about seven pounds, and the Charing Cross-road. And from North to South is a central quickly. This illustrates mere-

at its twelfth week 12 pounds its melodies seem to a musi plateau, mostly now under Bri-ly how different is this African

This tiny infant, which is named cian, to be all the work of one tish control, which Rhodes used war from the German-trained

Joseph, now weighs about three man repeating himself. But in to call "the backbone of Africa.” mass manoeuvres to which the

pounds, and is growing so rapidly its rhythm it may claim some One does not need to be a sol-modern Japanese Army is ac

that in 18 months, if not before, merit. Until it came to bore us: dier to appreciate that the level customed

it is expected to be of

it was often felt to be original weight.

striking, and seductive.

natural

80

than with him.

#

The Nearest Wins

Little Robert came home from

d me how many legs an ostrich bad, and I said three.”

"But an ostrich has two legs.” “I know that now, mother, but the

Two More

|lowing: telegram reached the Yard

**

Practical Type - Civilian: "Well, I see the navy is building a new craiser."

Sailor: Yes, sir. We build only

new crnisers."

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normal

of sounds-we are all stirred by a bugle call, though we should not put it in the category of

"good music"--but it becomes a potential danger when the bulk of a nation, including those who in other respects would resent being called uneducated, openly" avow that this class of music is most worthy of appreciation.

Personally. I would not call jazz music at all. Its harmony", when it is not merely a scaffold... ing which is the common pro-

No Structure

To musicians the objection to jazz was that it was trying to

It is a six-months baby. Very few are born alise, and of these only about one in 20 survives. oust the thing that music had

No Temperature

For over

ground is difficult to defend, and The other side, of course, has the higher an invader goes also its tactical plans, to keep land the more opportunities the defenders guessing. It To-day is the SPCA, fag day, there are for holding strong would be a great mistake to and the Society is eagerly expect positions and for harassing the lump all regulars together into

come to be, after thousands of line of communications up one great column, because that here will be no office-to-stice

ing a good collection which all supplies have to be would leave so many of the de

His mother brought him to Lon-years of labour, in favour of something which was so purely carried either on the heads offenders free to raid around: the round-up of subscriptions this don because the Infants Hospital an appeal to crude instinct that porters, or on the backs of flanks. As has already been year, but we feel confident that re- has special facilities.

the primeval savage would, and mules, or by motor traction-mentioned, the "mountain ram-gular subscribers will send their six weeks now he has lain is does, appreciate it

The win. We would all of us like life most of which is nowadays parts are criss-crossed with subscriptions to the Treasurer cot in a private room. which can be seen in many of access to the higher ground in Bingham and Matthews) by post, electric blanket keeps his body at does not mean a return to the the photographs.

not resolutely hed But there and we know that all the other the normal temperature of 984 raw and uncouth; and, though The Emperor reported to the are half a dozen that are a bit people will give generously to the deg., for he has no temperature music may be a small thing in

of his own.. League Council that in order to more easy and broad than the flag-sellersDEA

the whole apparatus of life, prevent frontier clashes he had rest, and which are commonly

He has to be fed from a special rhythm was a fundamental fact withdrawn his troops twenty-used in peace time. Along

bottle seven times, by day and in us in a prehistoric stage five miles from the boundary three of these, apart from the He is the Lord of Gondar, and three times at night His diet And, whether through jazz or line; and it will be recollected main attack by way of Adows the other "Rasses, like Ras includes the necessaries he has any other modern perversion, that Signor Mussolini waxed forces are being pushed with Seyoum, mentioned as com- not had the chance of getting by few of us really desire to pan- very sarcastic at the idea that the object of distracting the manding one attacking force, normal means such as thyroid, der to our animal instincts.

made on the "caterpillar plan, deep valleys, any of which give [SP.CA. (0/0 Messrs Lowe, dow is flung wide open, and an to be simple, but simplicity

it was in the interests of peace attention of the Ethiopian staff have their own capitals also, calcium, extract of bone matter The withdrawal was, he said, a Should "ary one of these ad- and can cal on the absolute and vitamins. Seven-tenths of his war manoeuvre, and this was vances meet with no rest

food goes to produce heat. perfectly true. It was a pro at all it could make much con cess of posting his men on the fusion and could even be fura- foothills of the first rampart of ed into the main attack. "But higher ground. But obviously there are many towns cap this precaution, undertaken by of rving the purpose of a

the advice of the Belgian Star.

Officers who have trained h

small regular army

ery unimportant whether

from his

yalty of their own people. will be a long" Job # ma. ance of success depends

upon

th

amoun resent

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