THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 17, 1937.
THE
Remarkable Germant
WORLD Experiment
Berlin, To-day.
GOES BY The audience who listened to a
*complete opera in a small German town yesterday were amazed by
ER books include unusually the fact that though they could
rine the Great and Queen Chris- tina of Switzerland.”—“Daily Ex- press."
chestral accompaniment.
Although music was being "play- ed, the orchestra was not in the Students of Swiss history may theatre but in the nearest Jarge remember the riots of 1678, when town, many miles away! the Swiss suddenly discovered that This apparent phenomenon was Christina had been fooling them the result of extensive experiment for forty years and wasn't Queen by a German engineer, Dr. Fischer. of Switzerland at all, but Queen of Sweden. Were those boys sore Did they burn!
The idea has beèn evolved for the benefit of small opera companies who are unable to afford travelling “You didn't ought to of done it!" expenses for their own orchestra, said William Tell, speaking sim-and who perform în country areas ultaneously in German, French, Ita- where no local orchestra is avail- lian and Romansch.
able.
י:
"Oh, no?" said Christina laugh-s
TIMING PROBLEM ingly, "and what about you, you The problem of timing was the hairy old Swiss tease? You've never main problem confronting Dr. existed at: all.”.
Fischer.
This was rather a "facer" for This he solved by two sets of Tell, being true, and pretty silly he telephone wires connecting the looked.
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One set of wires transmitted the stage performance to the orchestra,
TO
It Might Be You
He may wear a mask of indiff-leach member of which was provid- erence: he may even face the world ed with headphones. The other set MORROW
conveyed the orchestral music to
with a smile: but he carries with
him a burning sense of injustice, the stage, where it was distributed
by means of loud-speakers... ·
for
He can never attract a waitress's attention:
In hotels he is always given a room which has a champion snorer on one side, a bottle-party on th other, and a fanlight through which a strong light shines from the cor- ridor all night long:
People always tread all over his feet in the Underground;
And, in a cinema, he always finds himself behind either two inces- sant talkers or the world's largest woman in the world's largest hat.
RELIGION IN RUSSIA
Freedom Does Not Mean End Of War
Moscow, To-day.
A second conductor in front of the stage kept the singers in time and was also able, by means of a| switchboard, to regulate the volume of the orchestra.
JOE E. BROWN in
WHEN'S YOUR BIRTHDAY?
BORENTALE
Yesterday's experiment was stag-LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY®
led with the singers and orchestra
300 miles away from each other)
perfect success. and proved a Trans-Ocean,
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FRANK VOSPER
BURIED
New Theory Of Mystery
"The funeral of Mr. Frank Vosper, the actor and dramatist, took place at Plympton St. Mary, near Ely- mouth, Mr. Vosper disappeared from the liner Paris on March 6, and his body was washed up near Beachy Head."
The clause in the new Soviet
The service was taken by the Constitution, guaranteeing full re-Vicar of Plymouth, the Rev. E. J. ligious freedom, by no means signi Sandford. In spite of the heavy fies a fundamental change in the rain, hundreds of spectators official Soviet attitude towards re ligion.
This statement is made, by the leader of the Soviet youth organi- sation, the Komsomol, in an article in "Pravda."
The clause, he says, is not a sig nal for cessation of anti-religious propaganda.
Rather Thould atheist propaganda be Intensified
Trans Ocean.
he con
gathered in the churchyard.
Mr. Peter Willes, Mr. Vosper's friend, who was a fellow passenger
om
board the liner, entered the churchyard a few minutes before the service was due to start. He accompanied Miss Margery Vosper. sister of Mr. Frank Visper. They did not go into the church, but re- mained near the gravě.)
**&*New Theory
A new theory. for the body of |Frank - Vosper, the actor, being NAVY'S NEW MEDICAL CHIFF found unclothed was put forward
The appointment
Ferciva
by an expert. This was that Vesper divested himself of part of his clothing after he fell into the sea and that the action of the water removed the “rest.
of Burgd; Rear Adml. Nicholas Hơn. Fucien to King, to be Medical Dire eral of the Navy Hle will succeed Surgn. Vice Adml. Sir R. W. Basil-Navigation experts have now
•Hall on July:Zort: moldoen da
plotted as occurately as is possible the course which was most likely to Surgn: Rear-Adml. Nicholls, v
have been taken by the body before tis 59 entered the Naval Medical it reached the Sussex coast.
Service in 19015 «Freviously he was It has been calculated that the house physician of Middlesex Hospit body drifted about 225 miles in 16 tal, where he received his medical days, travelling at the rate of 14 training: He served throughout the miles a day, odgold als being War; mati kwasăpromoted to his sent rank in 1932. He was former ly Medical Officer in Charge, Hospital, Malta.
This, in the opinion of experts, is the speed which would be ex- pected, considering the prevailing tides.
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