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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1952.

THE MONEY IN MUSIC? IT'S NOTHING TO MAKE A SONG ABOUT

SUNNY LOZIER, an American girl from Breakabeen (pop. 127), New York State, went to England as typist to her uncle, and has stayed to study music. She plays the French horn (an instru- ment that costs about £240). She would like to play it in an orchestra when her tuition is completed; but she says there in a

in prejudice against women orchestras, especially against women wind instrumentalists. Meanwhile she is studying singing and the piano. as well.

THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA

"Lucky to get £2 10s

jobs'

UNION BOSS

TELLS STUDENTS

By ROBERT KINGSLEY

London.

N the orchestra-pit of a modest 158- scuter theatre set in the heart of The newspaper world, between Fleet Strect and the Victoria Embankment, 40- odd young musicians, struck up the over. ture to Verdi's opera, Falstaff.

It was a rehearsal for a performance of the opera to be presented in the sum-

mer,

The orchestra was composed, just as the principal and small parts and chorus of the opera will be in the summer, of students of the Guildhall School of Music-young men and women who have chosen to make music their career.

There are about 1,000 music students at this school, which was founded in 1880 and is voverned by the Corporation of the City of London (at no enal to ratepayers). Their ages range from 16 upwards. Most receive grants from 'some authority or

other, and few expect make a fortune out of their vacation though many hope to make their living by it.

Seme are likely to be dis- appointed. For music is fun- cially 01.

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JEANNETTE WELTON, here with the cymbals at school orchestra rehearsal, is studying the vioin her principal subject. She is married to 2 medical student.

HELENKA EISENGER won the school's orchex- trai

wind instrument prize last year, is making the oboe her principal subject. She comes from Greenford, Middlesex.

two. Welsh girls, themselves well up in the pro- studios, are

whese home fezrion. Mnny would not get Myfanwy Jenkins. ie nowy In Hereford, and Jann one in a monit." Callow, from Newport, Mon- With fewer than a dozen full- neuth. They are both learning scale symphony orchestras in the singing. Myfanwy hopes to get country, and with the members much into opera, starting with small of these not changing Haris frat might earn her £10 a frem year to year, the general week. When her three-year in secretary reckoned that no mere strution is over.

nis would studienis Jean is more than 10

he interested in musical comery, absorbed in a year from all the schools :nd academiles, A regulat THEIR CHANCES job in catch an orchestra would

micari £10 10

£15 Д week. Both girls take cassee in the "There is parcely an orchestral br the country," musician in

ht schoul's drama side. Both have

erchestra leaders, lready carred money profes. 10, "rep: "Music," said the principal of slonully, by singing at Masonic who makes more than £1,000

Qechestra tenders may the school. Mr Edrie Cundell, dinners and similar functions. year."

tall, spure, friendly man, is The fees for such engagements carn between £1,000 and £2,900 like lims or the stage, At the vary from two to five guincas, though the figure is likely to be top there are very big tees. For It all helps to spin out grants nearer the first than the last. those not-at-the-top but good,-which-for-students-generally. there is a living, though it isn't average 44 a week princely. For the second-rate over and above tuition fees. well It's better to give up."

an unrewarding profes

TEACHERS SAFE

for living

SEASIDE JOBS-

upen-

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There might be some Many students told me ings during the summer in sea- that they expected, through side ofthestras, where the pay centrets

established through would be about £12 a week for their professors and others, to bo the

scason, There would be able to free-lance in orchestras openings in daner bands, though and earn £12-£15 a week when the training of schools and they left the school.

Eut MY Hardie

"For terching" Mr Candell added, "the market is enormous, and those who take the graduate

academies of music hardly, course here, in be teachers, are

Ratlife; equipped students for such simost sure of jobs when they general secretary of the Must- ekinluyment, tenve."

cians' Union, Buys: “Any student One in 5,000, Mr Hardie Rat- I talked to come of the from a school or academy would ellife thought, might become a students.

be very lucky indeed to average concert soloist; as to becoming Here, in one of the double- two engagements a week at £2 à conducior - "It is doored, deuble windowca 10s, ench. They could consider impossible," he said.

almost

These two discoveries made the modern wrist-watch possible

The watch you wear on your wrist today is a rafínnel, highly sccurate place of machinism. But it would not be what it is save for two great baralogical discoveries. This your marks their anniversary. Twenty-five years ago, the Rolex "Oyster case was parfasted, iwonky years ago the Rolex "Perpetual" movement.

The old planeers of horology, dreaming of perfect accuracy in watches, always knew that their ultimate goal was unattainable until the perfect machanlim It demanded could be gratest- ed by a really waterproof case, and guarded from the vagaries of hand-winding by a reliable solí- winder. In the Rolex “Oyster" case, patented In 1910, we have the first truly waterproof case. In the Rolex "Perpetual" movement, we have the Fient truly trustworthy calf-winding mechanism.

Proof of their affictancy, if proof ware needed, ilas in the fact that the waterproof self-winding watch is sccepted today as an integral part of our modern life. Genuins advances in watch. making science come at all too rire interval; here are two to which the entire watch industry owes a debt.

ROLEX ROLL OF HONOUR 'Autuma 1903. Launching of the First Rolan wrist-waleb,

Much 22, 1910. Fiert Rolen wrist-chtonomater to be controlled by the Swiss Government, obtain an Official Timing Certificato at Bienne, ; Switradend.

July 15, 1918, Roten obtains the first Clan “A” Obtenton Certificate over awarded to a wrist- chronamster by the Kaw Observatory,

October 3, 1927. Mercedes Gleitar, London skenographer, swims tha Channel wearing a Rolan Oyster, the world's first waterproof wrist-watch, 1931. Creation of the Rolen "Parpatail” the firi waterproof wrist-watch to wind itself, 1945. Launching of the Rolex Datejusk, first wiiztpraol, self-winding wrist-chronometar in which the date in shown through a small window an the face.

December 1947. Production of the 100,000th Officially Tested and Certified Relox writt- chionometer.

September 30, 1948. Rolerachieves the highest- ever accuracy for a 30mm, site wrill-watch at the world-famous National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England, with 93,8 points,

December 27, 1969. – Rolex sais a new accuracy record at Genara Observatory for a 28.3 mm. dīze movement with 239 points.

January 4, 1951, Production of the 150,000th Officially Tested and Certified Roleń wrist- chronometer,

. THE ROLEX "OYSTEN"

Malarialı of all torta, rubber, ovän oil had bean -useď în » vain attempt to make a waterproof watch. It was left to Ralex, in 1926, to discover the simple principle of the self-sealing action of one metal on another, and produce the first truly waterproof watch.

THE ROLEX “PERPETUAL”

A radical and brilliant départure from all other, ‚altempta át a self-winding watch was the secret of the success of the Rolex "Perpetual", Be- fore, the hammer ¡eck principle was used in pocket watches, buk the continual jerking of the self-winder as the wearer walked soon told on the mechanism. It was left to Rolex, in 1931, tô discover the Ratar, a semi-circle of metal rotating. smoothly on an axis, and produce the first islf- winding wrist-watch which Rolex christened "Perpetual".

The cream of the Rolex production in marked by the famous Roler "Rad Seal” le is e Alan that the chrang- meter to which it is attached has been submitted by the Swite Govein- mank ko khair own elgarous tesit, busi parced them with honour, and has been awarded the corsted Official - Timing Certificate.

ROLEX

Swiss Officially Certified waterproof. Selfwinding

Wrist-chronometers

A GROUP of students outside the school. Their ambitions are varied. Music for most of them is a vocation that will not be denied, but in cash returns the reward is likely to be meagre.

SARAH THORNE, of Newbury, receives a pinno lesson from Mr Cimbro Martin, In the mirror on the wall students study points about their posture.

can

CONDUCTING the school orchestra in rehearsal is the college's head, Mr Edric Cundell. "For tho- second-rate pupil," says, "it is better to give up."

Posterior Fire-brosilis

HUSBAND MANIA

Ashtigmatism

Wives rush in to tell how men annoy........

TUSBANDS,

Hamicted

near-

аге too, with pathological habits so irri- tating that they cause chronic domestic disturb- ance, 600 angry wives com- plain.

These women, siung" by my re- cent list of feminine failings, have reported on the masculme maladjustments which annoy them most.

From their long list I select some which seem to be the most prevalent

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

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self automatically absolved from any other and harder jobs.

jlousemaid's Knee,

The one

A

Status Emphatlens-A condi- tion in which the patient believes everyone else to be wrong.

tacks

Sleep Paralysia. — Severe nt- Decur when it is the the patient's turn to attend to baby crying in the night.

not reserved for his typist.

Posterior Fire-brositis.

Sceptiseemia.-A felgned con- winter complaint in which the dillon which closes the mind to victim appears to feel the cold any hint that prices are high, and in only one part of his anatomy. that last years frock isn't what Lowbar Pneumonia,-Internal he should be content to see his dampness due to exposure to too, wife wear. many draughts in low pubs. Not-sleeping Sickness. morbid desire to sleep in trains Gastro Energitis-Patient ap-

and armchairs, accompanied by pears to be in a commu until

delusion that the patient "only

moment." meal is announced, whereupon shut his eyes for he immediately leaps to his feet Collar-Blindness.-The patient and rushes away to finish off a seems unable to see things which half-done job in the garage or have been put in the proper the greenhouse.

place, in particular, collars, Pool-fomyelitis. Attacks its rocks, and handkerchiefs. victim first

Skirtsophrenia. post on Monday rorning, glving dse to a high with hemlines, waistlines, and fever by mid-week, and reaching plunging neckitnes

A Ketile asli. — Tendency to wont cehtinuous 'cups of tea.

involun- Resex Action-The

average tary response of the husband on meeling any other female.

Obsessión

Garden-cephalitis Letharglos. Seasonal malady making the male allergic to weeds and lawn-

mower.

GIL Complex-Preoccupation with saving money on the

Delusions of Man-deur-An treat-automatic assumption that be--

Cause they are masculine they are more accurate, broadminded, capable, dependable, energetic, forbearing, Велегона, logical orderly, punctual, résqurceful, Ashtigmatism. Inability to shrewd, thorough, unselfish, from giving his wife a hand with see an ash tray however large wise, and wonderful than wo- the dishes that he considers him- or prominently placed."

the "crisis" stage by Saturday. Club Foot. An Impelling housekeeping. evening, when entire household irritation of the feet, necessitnt- is compelled to silence during ing frequent absence for the reading of the sports results. ment at a club bar.

In 090 CO54S out of 1,000 deep Manner-allergy The patient depression follows,

Dishpepsia.A

divests himself of his good man complaint nors along with his overcoat wisich he

gives the patient such when entering his own home.. overwhelming self-ratisfaction

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NANCY

Licking That Problem

I CAN'T

'I'M AN INDIAN --- COME ON, CHASE

DON'T BOTHER

TO CHASE ME

LOLLY POPS.

ME

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