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HE" CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY," «NOVEMBER 15, 1950.

Mary Garden Turns Talent Scout

NEW YORK.”

Mary Garden, whose beautiful soprano voice charmed the world's opera audiences during three decades, is back in opera again. This time if is talent scout to find “two or three young, potentially. great, American singers,” says a Paris dispatch.

The blue-eyed Scotswoman old do you think that is?", be visited Paris to select some asked. clothes before leaving for America, where she will tour 12 cities and hear some of the candidates. for scholarships offered by the National Arta Foundation of New York,

The editors of- Whợt Whọ probably have never nom Mies Garden. They list her birth date as Feb. 1877, in Ab deen, making her 77.

She was full of enthusiasm for her new job and for American Opera, which she said 'is' “Just beginning to

to got interesting.** She

the mixture of peopics

Before retiring in Chicago in 1930. Miss Garden sang 23 roles in 80 years and created 14 in Ambition, there must be great i famous parts, including Louise voices there. If we can and two AT 2.30, 5.15, at its 1900 Farls premiere, then or oven three fine young singers,

Salóme and Mellande.

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S

Stage Fright!

Slim and vivacious in a dark- blue tailorod mult, she called a reporter "a dreadful man" for neking her age.

"I am as old as I look; how

Proposed Political Ban

we shall give them three-year scholarships in Europe and let them decide whether they want to study in France, Italy or Germany.

"First they must study the language, then voice, and after three yours they will have a European debut "Then they will return to Amries."

Her audition tour will begin in Boston. Later she will visit Chicago, San Francisco and several midwestern university opera workshops. Arrangements kave been made for winners to sing is the Berlin Opera House and in Milan's La Scala,

NO MORE CARUSOS The London County: "Your Dorothy Kirsten will Council Staff Association be a great opera singer some day has called a special delegatet she sticks to it and comes to Garden cald,

meeting for November 17 Europe Miss

"Another American with a love-

de Los Angeles of Barcelona and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf of Vienna.

"But there aren't any more Carusos. There's only. Kirsten Fingsted."

to discuss the Council's pro- jy volce Nancy Care of posal to bar Fasciat and Chicago. Two bonitiful European Communist employees from voices I have heard are Victoria access to secret documents.

The general committee of the Association, Immediately after the proposal was announced, passed a resolution opposing in At 2.30, 5.20, principle any discrimination against members of the staff. because of their political views. At the meeting on November 17 the members will be asked to endorse the committee's re- solution. and a memorandum explaining why the committee takes this view has been cir culated.

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It points out that the proce- dure for singling out members of the staff for exclusion from to conidential work is able abuse, and may result in the wrongful accusation of innoceat persons through gossip and ill- founded information.

SECRET WORK

It suggests that person who are determined to pass on secret information to 11 potentin! enemy would take good care not to be identified with ang

How about Margaret Trumant "I've never heard her sling, but I admire her for not staying at home," Miss Garden "I've never heard

Truman play the plans either, but I approve of everyone play- ing the piano-If he knows how to play. United Press.

'Ghost' Ration

Cards

"Ghort" ration cards in Bom- bay numbering 60,000 have oc- counted for a loss to the state government over 4,300 tons of food grains a year, the Civil Supplies Department announced.

“It's a dreadful thought—but at £500 a head to train a conscript you lot run out or £3,000 a year.”

Londeti Express Berries

Sitting on the

It will be a hard winter.

It will be a mild winter.

Opinions of two weather,

experts.

Power cuts will be in forge until the end of January, “

-Ministry of Fuel

TF winds blow east, or

winds blow west,

Oh, what, dear friends,

care we?

We have no cares,

fair, shares,

Fence....b

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

My friends, don't fret, don't

fur

have My dear old pals, the hospitals

They all belong to us.

We have austerity; The sun may shine, the frost

may bite,

0

and

And snow may foul the way: We'll all have queues joints from owes And power cuts each day.

If winds blow east, or winds

blow wast,

Don't worry, friends, don't

whine.

When a the coal, down every

hole,

Ig young, my friend, and

mine;

When every railway coach

yours,

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And all the dirt that's in it, The heat they cut, is yours, you

mult--

Enjoy each frozen mintite.

Ratloning officials recently discovered iwo - extra · ration: cards made out in the names of 1f winda blow cast, of windo political organisations. In any

blow west, event, it is stated, the amount two pet dogs belonging to a film of secret work, mainly

con- actress. cerned with civil defence mea- A Pathan with 31 ration sures, is very small

cards in his mane which he had various ration

A second resolution, support-registered at

Oh, what, dear friends, caro

wet

It cuts give đu to me and you,

At least the cure is. free;

ing the proposed ban, has been shops in the city was recently An if not cured and we get

tabled by two members of the staff on the ground that exist- ing conditions render such ac- tion necessary in the Interests of national security, and that only a few persons will be liable to be screened under the procedure suggested.

"Gentleman's Agreement"

The young wife, Mme. Josette B, of a French lawyer, recently asked Paris court to end a con- tract signed with her hus band under which, it was alleged, she was forced to tolerate her husband's as-}·

woman.

arrested by the police..

worse,

At the Town

rer-er.

Hall

H, there you are, Mrs Br

I've forgotten your name again, but it's nice to you're a stalwart of Civil Defence, I'm sure

see

Oh, no, that's Mra Um..

And she's Mrs Rum-er-rer. not talking to Mr Ex-rem-er- charming old rer but to that Irish lady, Mrs O'Something of Other, who wants to drive our fre engine,

You mean the one who's

• husband was the King of Munster and starved in a mortgaged castle?

the

Oh,

And I've forgotten your. Mrs. name, too, Mrs Urm-er.rer. Who's going to be our lecturer tonight?

I think it's Mr. Mr....er.... Mr Rer-crm-er-rer, who took us through blast last week and is taking us through fire tonight. He's one of the unpaid lecturer, of course, and quite the gentle

man.

One of the middle classes the Government despites TO much, I suppose? Pre alwaVS raid the middle classes are the first to volunteer, though I expert there would have been more here, if they hadn't been insulted. Is that Mrs. Un-ct-rer. Mrs over there talking to Mrs Er-term-677CT?

Portuguese Convinced Columbus, Not Another, Discovered America

LISBON

***

O'Something

Mirs

was no. That

else. Well, I suppose we'd better take our Beats now. Have you brought your noto book, Mra Um Mira Er-rem-er?

Yes. but I've forgotten my pencil. That's

And what was your syornis diet as a young min?

Hey?

What did you cat as a young man?

As much as Oi coulą pot a hold on.

*

your

I'm trying to discover vitamin

Gargle intako, Mr What was your favourite break- fast?

Pickled pork, Ol recicon. Pickled pork for breakfast Mr Gargle?

Ah. And plenty on it. Didn't you have any orang juice or cereaia?

Heu?

What did you eat with the pickled pork?"

Ent with pickled pork? New bread out of the oven.

And plenty on it.

And for your dinner? Pickled pork and taters. No green vegetables? Pickled cabbage.

tell

me you had pickle

for suppert

And plenty on it.

There must have been occa

different,

Me Gargle. Say

a funny thing. I've sions when you ate pornethma brought my penell and forgot

Sunday dinner, or a birthday perhaps? ten my note book.

Then perhaps you'd like to borrow, my note book and malce notes for both of us with your pencil?

I would if I hadn't forgotten

We ad pickled pork a-Sunday and at all birthdays, wedding ann funerals.

Didn't

to bring my reading. glazzes, sip you over høre dyspoj

Mrs Um .... Mrs Mr.... Mrs

Exum

So have 1 Mr3

Regt-dr."

Hey?

Didn't

acho? Mrs

Oh, well, we shall just have to rely on our memoride, won't we, Mrs.

Mr. er

Mrs Umer.... Mrs Thing?

How

to live

long

An

American health

Gargle?

you have

storna

Last time Oi ad the belly at was when Of sole arpies out the vicar's orchard, Maybe they apples?

Vicar said it was a judgme .20 Ol've never had no arple

since,

doctor, Perhaps the secret of

you

surprised at the number of elderly long, healthy life is that yo people still hale and hearty in drink plenty of watert

the rural districts of England

Duhmo offered to discover the of the new continent' by way

THE Portuguese will con- By Adolfo da Rosa west Indies at his own expense Ttend thus Christopher Columbus discovered Ame- ++++ rica, from all the evidence.

Without financial means him- self, however, he came to an do Estreito, a navigator from That is in spite of the lay to the west. They know it agreement with Joao Alforzo

even before Columbus first pro- Madeira. opinion of R. Davies, pro- posed his voyage to King John fessor of Geography at the. If Portugal in 1484.

continent

40 DAY TRIP

to bo provisioned for Bix months.

University of Exeter, Eng- But Columbus did not know Under the agreement, approv land, that it was Fernao So ignorant was he of the ed by King John on July 24, theories of other nuvigators 1486, the expedition was to be Dulmo.

that, according to experts, be composed of two caravels, cach Ai thở British Association, realised he had discovered sailing under the command of

Only on his ¡meeting In Birmingham, Prot, new

to one-way trip was calculated sociation with a Persian Davies announced his theory third voyage in 1498, when he one of the two associates. The that pulmo, a Fortuguese cap came upon the Orinoco River, take 40 days and the ships were Main, discovered the mainland of in what is now Venezuela. She said that the evening America.

documents Existing

reycal mom

In his letter to Dulmo, the before their marriage her

His claim was read here with that in 1474 the King of Por told her that his

made frequent allusions to King husband

was influential courtier, the con- the

the navigator military of the cension

uninhabited ed to to cause a scandal in chirchy and geographer say. It

it So he had come to a "gealle discussed in Portugal long ago. tsiands of the west. Twenty-one forces to subdue the natives.

No decision could be reached.

months later the king extended Dulmo should succeed, he was man's agreement"

• equally be his married life.

bosayre many, documents are the concession to the inhabited to receive titles of nobility and missing. S

islands

great wealth. tween them.

Documents in Portugal reveal On March 3, 1480, the name of the horseman and

1.

..

former mistress had threatened jgrdate curiosity, but historians tugal gave to Fernau Telos, as the main continent and promis-

to divide

be

At the wedding next day mistress was in the front pow. Then, after a chori honey

of

an

apon one half of the week

appeared no cogpipers assert that there

NEW EVIDENCE

„Prof.......... Davies.... turned... up-no

captain Fernaa Dulmo in a is no reference to the results of new evidence, they said: The royal document. A letter goed such a trip in any record. His- autocording to Portuguese by King John II Indicates that torians believe that the voyage he lived with his with For the unna, are theses:27

captain at Terceira, navar came off. For on June Dulmo stiil other half he used to 1877 120 | Fortugudes navigators long Axores, was introduced to the 18, 1487, Fernao know where I am 15, anyone before Columbras à sailed on king by Duke Don Manuel, the was living on Terceira Island,

in the Azores-United Pros Kvants ind.”

u41692, know that land king'a kinsman.

Duimo,

despite poor, food, asked oña af them what had always been his

Heur

favourite meal. The reply Was of water!

paked pork, DID YOU MY

101

you are years old, Mr Gargle? Ah, An nover had a day's sicknósa. in your life?

Not till we ad the National Ealth.

SIDE GLANCES

I said maybe you drink a lo

Water? Oi secer drink s water,

Why not, Mr Gargle? Men ave doled, of it O.K., Mr Gargle." Let's sic It.. And I hope you enjoy you supper. Pickled pork again?

Äh. And glesty on it.

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