1941-04-17 — Page 12

THE

BLUE FUNNEL

REGULAR AND FAST- FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES

To

THE UNITED KINGDOM PORTS

For dates and ports of call

apply to Agents

to freight

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 17, 1941

=

RADIO PEER HITS

12.13 p.m.-Short Service of Interces.

sion.

12.30 p.m.--Excerpts from

lo'a

Shows.

Ivar Novai.

Careless Rapture-Selection

do & his Orchestra,

Gerul.

Glamorous Night The Giri 1 Knew

Elisabeth Welch with Orch

The Dancing Years I Can Give You the Starlight Waltz, Waltz of My Heart Waltz New Mayinu Dance

Dearest Dear My Orchestia Mary Ellis & Ivor Novello My Life Dunstan Hart & Bekngs to You Mary Elles with Ivor Novello at 3210

1.00 0 1.

Local Time Signal.

1.01 p.m. New Mayfair

trik.

the

Dance Orches

F-Trul Music Bath Charis

Show $.

Fox Trot Honey Nursie! Cabotard Mom, Quick-Step NUISH

Fox-Trot Somewhere Sea Tango Fox-Trot Where

at the

AT CIVIL

SERVICE

A FIERCE ATTACK on Civil Servants “ignorant of the swaying passions and interests which dom- inate ordinary humanity," was made in the House of Lords by Lord Perry, chairman of the Ford Com- pany, who recently resigned the post of business adviser to the Ministry of Food.

"Are we compelled to muddle through to vic- Fotory?" he asked.

Gleaming. Cafe Lights

the

White Girent Trot Angel Way. Novelly Fox-Trot Speedboal

House, Wanz

411

2. The Hauntech Lonely Sweetheart

1..10 p.m.--Reuter AunovnePinents.

&

1

maximum delay."

ser-

of the Crown, " "Ministers added. "are served by a person- nel which has been carefully selected for peacetime pursuits. It Rugby Press and is only those having experience,

as 1 have, of Government vants in other countries who can the British per- appreciate that Taylor.

manent official is in a class by 110111 Otello: "Otello" Suite Dance

He is never failing in Funeral himself. interne LID; Children's

Willow Soug Military courtesy and deportment. March,

New Symphony

1.45 p.m.-Compositions

March

01 Coleridge.

Orch

"He

Thou hast Bewitched Me, Beloved. į This is the Island of Gardens. Un thoughts are better than quick des

mundial Herkless

11220

Celestro Dawson

u!

Arthur

believes that second

eision, and that to sleep on a mat- ter is preferable to immediate

the Buses

Juter. Baritone) & (heh New Light Symphony Or Sons of the Sea Peter action. Bass-Baritone) with Oreh

Close down

2 15

545

p m

Indian Programme

6 30

- losing Local Stock Quote

LEGORIES

12pm11

Tut IvR |

OPRAD

422

Litle

Lacks Thrill Of Hazard

the "Given a young man on threshold of hfe, whose ceiling of ambition Short

J

little work, mediocre surroundings.

has

ין

f10

The

Me

Tuna Love N

sch

"Given a young man content to go through life wait.

for ing year by year

dead men's shoes to 6ccurc pro.

goal is to motion, and whose

who is

Daner

of obstruction and

Lord Perry referred to the "ex- with which traordinary rupidity Ministers have been changed since the outbreak of war," and added. "Why have the executive and ad- ministrative departments been im- mune? It is they who are charged and of arming with the duty equipping our fighting forces

When one finds a succession of all-suited Ministers, it is permis-

ible to ak

the whether it is Minister who is to blame or the staff.

"I know of nothing worth - while and worthy which they have done since the war began."

The Lord Chancelkar, in reply. sairt they should study the post- tion, but he was giving no Clov -

mental asurance

Load Perry withdrew has - ten tot papers

Information regarding INWARD CARGO

and

relating all matters and passage will gladly be given by

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

Tel. 30332

AGENTS

1, Connaught Road, C.

PRESIDENT

LINER

SAILINGS

To San Francisco and Los Angeles

Vio Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu

TO NEW YORK and BOSTON

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,

Bombay and Copetown

6.8. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

8.5. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

S.S. "PRESIDENT HAYES"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TYLER"

S.S. "PRESIDENT GARFIELD"

TO MANILA

S.S. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

6.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

TO NEW YORK and BOSTON

Variety & Dance Music

Men

at Sunduan. Dance Band

Vocal Moon over Miami

ayton asith piano

Waltz

All from It's a Date), Fox-Trut

Dreamer

They Call

Raben & Orchestrat

it

his Striet Tempo

Comediem

Khery 'Epplew ite

Favity

Fox-Trot

Hollywood

Orchestra

Shufio

can

reach sixty years when he Extent

retire on half pay.

EA 1

Gracie the

&

Lionel Bampton One

Vocal & 14473

Morning in May. You Dughta Be in Pictures

Derickson & BrowIE

7.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News.

7.15 p.-London Relay Talk

Uncle Sam'.

**Meet

7.30 pm.-"Fats" Waller (Organ) and

Hi Rhython.

Fox-Trots

Anta; I Used to Love You "Fals" Waller (OF Deep River Fan). Fox-Trots Something Tells Ines017. Road.

Me. Scruntch. Water Boy

"Fats Waller Kan solo) Fux-Trots Patty Pally Cake: Cont for Nothin Love

(Or- Cake,

"That is the man whe is at- tracted by the Civil Service.

"He buys nothing. He sells nothing. He pays for nothing.

"He never has anything at risk and

that therefore lacks

life the champagne of thrill of hazard.

great

the

"Peace-time methods of Civil Service obviously cannot be expected to meet war-time con- ditions.

LEARNED TO

LEAD BAND BY DIAGRAMS

TEDDY JOYCE, THE DANCE BAND LEADER, WHO COL- LAPSED IN A GLASGOW PERFORMING HOTEL AFTER WITH HIS BAND, DIED IN A LATER. GLASGOW HOSPITAL IT IS STATED THAT HE WAS

FROM SUFFERING

FEVER.

Joyce's real name "Such

a body must be at 1

John Cuthbertson. serious disadvantage when it at-Canadian,

modern grapple with tempts to

8:00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and An- warfare.

muurscenes!

8.02 p.m.--Violin

Sandler.

April

21

May May

2

16

Soloa by Alberl

Pale Moon (ladian Love Song) (Lo Jack By- Kan; Allegio (Fiocent

Estudiantina--

Hek at the Piano.

Dolores Waltz Wallz Waldteufel) (Waldteufe)) .. Sydney Foulkes at the piano.

p.m.-Studio Local

Newsletter.

8.30 p.m. Keith Falkner (Baritone) &

New Mayfair Orchestra.

8.75

May

4

May 12 May

18

!

April

26

May

8

F

May 21

via San Francisco, Los Angeles and Panama

*S.S. "PRESIDENT JOHNSON"

*S.S. "PRESIDENT FILLMORE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAYLOR"

- CARGO ONLY.

* AMERICAN -

May

8

May 13 June 19

PRESIDENT LINES

"ROUND-WORLD SERVICE.

AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENtal and WESTERN AIR AND UNITED AIR LINES

12, Pedder Street.

Telephone 28171.

-

If You Are Too Busy To Write Home Just Post a Copy of the Oberland China Mail which gives all the News there IS

Both Local and Coastal

Don't.

San

Melo Keith

Jerume Kern Melodies--Intro: There Is Hill Beyond a HI: Blue 13 es; Dancing Time: Look for the Silver Lining. She did not say Yes: Whose Baby Are You: Who: Moon Love; I've told ev'ry little Star: Wild Rose

New Mayfair Orchestra Diego Betty (film "Mayfair dyna Without the Moon

A Musical Falkner (Baritone).

New Mayfair Comedy Switch ... Orchestra A Song Doesn't Care .Keith lar Mayfair Melody"). Falkner (Baritone). Love Tales- Heart; Here is my Intro Love, Speak to me of Love: A Bachelor Gay: 1 Love Thee; Frasquita Ser- vaade. 1f

Comes.. Winter Mayfair Orchestra.

New

9.00 p.m. London Relay-The News.

Reiny Questions

9.15 p.m.-London

of the Hour",

--

9.28 p.m.-Compositions of Beethoven. Somain in E Flat Major, Op 81a (Les Adieux } Adagio-Allegro-Andante espressivo Vivacissimamente.... Arthur Schnabel-Plano sole. Adelaide, Op. 48....Juusi Bjorling

(Tenor) with plano.

Romance in F Op. 50....Paul Kaul

Iviolin solo with plano).

9.45 p.m.-News in French (on Short

Wave only).

10,00 p.m.-London Relay To Talk of

Many Things".

10,15 p.m.--Verdi'a "Aida" Ballet Suita

and Act HI.

Ballet Sulte....Boston Promenade Or. chestra conducted by Arthur Fled- ler.

Aida Act III-Characters and. Sololalp in order of appearance: Amneris, Ca- Pharoah's daughter....Maria -puana (M-Soprano); Ramfis, High Pricat....Trancredi Pasero (Base); Akla....Arangi-Lombardi (Soprano); Amonasro, King of Ethiopa....AN- mando Borgtoli (Baritone); Rho- dames, a young warrior....Arnolda Lindi (Tenor); with Orchestra, 11.00 p.m.-Close down,

SPINAL

was Edmund

He was

be

became a

I

Describing how dance band conductor, he once wrote: "When I was a kid learned the fiddle seriously. Then 1 stiffened two fingers in a car crash and put an end to ideas of a concert career

14

"Low Pressure"

"He is not a

mere cog. In the He is the

to New machinery.

power. Eventually Joyce went Without him nothing can move. York and developed eccentric He is the steam in the engine dancing, He went to St. Louis at and the steam is of very low the age of twenty-two and was have to conduct pressure and operates through told he would

complications of many

valves, the band as well. He had no governors, gauges and other idea how to do it. but he managed contraptions designed-deliber- it by drawing diagrams on the ately designed-to afford the music.

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

TO

AUSTRALIA

CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND,

CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC.

NEXT SAILING

BEGINNING OF MAY, 1941

For Freight or Passage, apply to:

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Agents

Hong Kong, China & Japan,

Tel. 30332.