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MUSIC MAKING IN Here

HONG KONG

Work Accomplished By

The "Singers"

There

and

Everywhere.

The following note, under the heading "Music-making in Hong Kong" appears in the October}~TSCHUGGI, TSCHLAGGI”” • issue of the Musical Times:--

In 1994 Mr. J. Anderson Miller

There are few loyalties as great

formed a small body of seventeen as that of the skier to his fav- picked singers and gave a concert ourite resort. The Tachuggen at' which madrigals and Brahms's Ski Club of Arosa held a dinner' 'Liebeslieder were sung.

So suc-in London last month at which 80 cessful was this effort that he re-Old Arusans were present.

AFRICA'S "SMOKE THAT THUNDERS” SPLENDID LEGACY LEFT

BY LIVINGSTONE

WONDROUS VICTORIA FALLS AS

A TOURIST CENTRE

I had never been seen before stone, the great missionary ex- by European eyes but plorer, enriched the cause of ceived many applications for mem- Årssans are vocal. They sang, scenes so lovely must have been science with his wonderful re bership and decided to form rodelled and uttered the cry of gazed upon by angels in their cords, and he left a legacy to felt is those people to whom distance choral society. In March of the local mountaineers, "Tschuggi, fight. The only want

no object in travelling to following year, with a choir of Tschaggi Tschuggi, Tschaggi, that of mountains in the back-lis sixty voices, Elijah' was perform-Hoi! Hoi! Hoi! Ski Heil!"

ground. The Falls are bound-witness one of the most formid- Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 21, 1936- ed in St. John's Cathedral, Mr.

The Swiss brefist of the led on three sides by ridges able wonders of the world.

He was the first white, ragn

the organ.

to discover the mighty Falls. A more ambitious programme for the following season included performances

Emergency Aircraft

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SPACE-NOT SEATS

water went; it seemed to lose 1862, the Falls were visited by itself in the earth, the opposite Mr. Thomas Baines, artist as lip of the fissure into which it well as explorer, who painted disappeared being 30 feet dis-the canvases that now hang in of the Royal Geo- tant. At least I did not com-the rooms and prehend it until, creeping with graphical Society, and which awe to the verge, I peered down will in time form a valuable re- the into a large rent which had cord by which to measure the been made from bank to bank alterations in the appearance Cock-lof the broad Zambesi. and saw and structure of the Falls.

that a stream of 1.000 yards

Beggar Description broad leaped down 100 feet and then suddenly compressed into Since then many gifted peo-

Ja space of fifteen or twenty (ple have tried to convey their

yards."

Coronation for the route of the

procession are

for seats, but for space, states

London paper.

2

Victoria jimpressions of the

Falls. But this is one of the "

Frederick Mason accompanying on "Clublied Tschugren” showed an 800 or 400 feet in height, which understanding of national psycho-are covered with forest, with logy. The German version ended the red soil appearing among which he named after Queen

the trees. But though we had Victoria Production

sentimentally with the words af Brahms's Re-bleibt stets uns in Erinnerung/reached the island and were

Dr. Livingstone's accomt at- The mail papers seem to inquiem" and Elgar's For the Fallen"

("remains ever in our memories within a few yards of the spot.

believe that no one could per-tracted other travellers; and The last line of the French was dicate that a way has been on November 11; a repratition of found for ending the most un- the "Requiem" on January 29 '15 a fortunate dispate between the tribute to the memory of King 20 less typical "Font de nos ceive where the vast body of some seven years later, in July. Air Ministry and Lord Nuffield George V: The Messiah' with or coeurs des paits d'amour ("Make

our hearts well-springs of love which has so deeply disturbed chestra on February 19; and

The "Englisch” version ran: public opinion. Lord Nuffield's Bach-Party recital on May 28, at

We are from Tachuggen Club The first on tom and race great organising ability and which Blest Pair of Sirens, "There

Three cheers for winners productive power will presum-is an old belief, "Sing ye to the

Arosa, lovely place, ably be placed at the service of Lord and Jesu, priceless Trea

What says

the ski-er and the Air Ministry and of the sure were performed, with the

sicster? country in co-operation with the choir increased to over a hundred

At once five. Tschuren other aero-engine building firms voices. Mr. Miller also had the za-

tails, waiter! taking part in the Shadow sistance of the new Cathedral or- Scheme. Certainly there is ganist, Mr. Lindsay A. Lafford

A Hedonist race. the English. nothing in the White Paper, The year's work resulted in con- which gives the history of the siderable sums being given to local controversy and sets forth the charities.

Preparation for the next con- policy of the Government, to

In these prophetic phrases given *** preclude or even discourage the certs, which will be

At present quotations for places David Livingstone, a little more few sights which beggar de- in November 6 and 7. are well

than three-quarters of a cen-scription, because- exaggeration general hope.

be-hand. The programme will be all- The main differences

not being made tury ago, told the world of his is scarcely possible, and words tween Lord Nuffield and the Air Elgar: King Olaf (with fall or

discovery of the wondrous Vic-appear to be inadequate. of chestra), the Bach Fantasia differences

toria Falls.

One can only stand still and Ministry were policy as to the best means of Fugue transcription, Death on the

It is said that a "comfortable

After landing cautiously on realise the smallness of man in various Oxford-street providing for a great reserve of Hills' and other part-songs.

The phenomenal success of the space" jaero-engines in case of emer-

at-flats can be obtained for some £10, the island in the Zambesi which against the mighty and beauti- Few visitors to South Africa gency and with regard to the Hong Kong Singers, though

and his party made their way equipment of "shadow" fac-tributable largely to the infections Erisk business is now passing now bears his name, Livingstone ful forces of nature.

through luxuriant undergrowth for the primary purpose of at- tories which would be able to enthusiasm of the conductor, points round this figure.

A flat with 35 spaces-which which was drenched with spray tending the great. Empire Ex- turn out engines of Bristol type to an encouraging local demand for

means that some of the sightseers until they came to a bare lip of hibition in Johannesburg will in quantities sufficient to meet good music.

His Excellency Sir Andrew Cal-lat the windows will have to stand

rock. ja possible wastage bevond the normal powers of the Ministry's decott. Governor of Hong Kong, is can be rented for the day of selected factories to make good. President of the Society and takes the Coronation for £350, It is to be observed that theja keen personal interest in policy adopted by the Air Minis-affairs. try to secure this essential pur-f pose was recommended to the Minister by a Committee re- presenting seven great motor manufacturing firms, of which Lord Austin was, and still is, chairman. They came to the conclusion that "each shadow factory should undertake the manufacture of 2 different group of parts of aero-engines, md that the assembly and teste aval officer of Miami, of the complete units should be undertaken by two factoriesilost his false teeth in the jonly." The Ministry was}Stream as the result of a meeze. assured on May 7 that "the The teeth were found within a red Committee were definitely and snapper caught, by Capt. Olaf unanimously of opinion that the Swanson of the "Sea Hawk". After

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

A True Fish Story

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only safe and practical scheme the dental set was restored to its was for each firm to manufac rightful owner, the fish was dubbed

The Good Samaritan”. iture one section only."

Your Daily Smile !

Ministry, we are told, would have preferred that the sub- 'division should not be carried so far. But the seven firms, who

Nations Do That, Too recommended it, apparently

Lord Mother: "Boys boys! Stop that liked it just as little.. Austin frankly said that he this instant

Boys: "Aw, were not fighting; would have liked his firm to we're just defending ourselves from make complete engines which each other." of course, is just what Lord Nuffield desired to do also. Yet the Committee sacrificed their lown predilections in the public

interest because they

were

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with private bath on the car line."

"It is hoped every citizen will co- operate to the foulest extent with satisfied that this was the safer the Board of Health in an effort to course, and would guarantee a make the town clean”.

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Moreover, though this has been the real core of the con-

Ang! -. troversy, it was brought out for

Mother: "Do you known what hap the first time in the White Paper that Lord Nuffield's peas to little girls who don't tell the

truth?" has not been as consistent in its Babay: "Yes; they grow up and tell opposition to co-operation in the their little girls that they will get they eat the bread {Ministry's Shadow Scheme 28 curly hair if

we had been led to suppose crusts.” First the answer was a definite

No. Then there was a sugges-

tion about using a Coventry letter shows, unshaken confid- factory, but this was consider-ence in the Shadow Scheme and ed by the Ministry to be un-a determination to "see it suitable. Later Lord Nuffield's through." Decision, of course, representative submitted full in these high matters of policy proposals for the erection and must rest where responsibility That is to say it must equipment of a factory at Bir-rests. mingham, which were with-frest with the Ministry, which, drawn within a few days fol-fortified as it is by the unani lowing a change in the Manag-imous support of Lord Austin's ing Directorship of the com-Committee, is in a very strong. Ipany Obviously, therefore, not to say unassailable, pori-

there have been divided coun-ition. Bowever, the sels on Lord Nufeld's gið

while on the de méthe Engine Committee there is

us Lard Austin's re

once the pris

Is that Lord Nuffie

In The Centre

leave the Victoria Falls out of their itinerary. They will not be long before they are on the

To take the same fat for the At this point they found way either by rail, rond or air whole Coronation week would cost themselves in the centre of the to Bulawayo, the starting-off la mere £100 more.

Falls, on this small island, point for the Falls.

as it were, on the

Many people seek to compare Prices of sites for stands are balanced,

Six weeks ago precipice, the foam thundered the Victoria Falls with those steadily rising.

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4 a space was being asked for fon either side.

To-day sites in Oxford-street the price has risen to £10.

As the buyer has then to erect a stand seats will probably cost at least double

the

of Niagara. But it is generally great recognised that peculiar points of. beauty and association give Ito Africa's own wonder falls

pride of place. ---

Beneath were depths of the chasm; overhead sunshine, rainbow, and mists.

By this discovery.. Living-

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