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JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
A Man Of
Affairs
ICHARD looked -the
Rsort of man who is for
over
Living Language
Why we say Monkey.
The Latin words, mea domina mean "My Lady"| and became the Italian' word Madonna. This was contracted to monna to mean "un old" Indy" and this in turn becamo
FO called because they looked Like Bittle old ladies wrapped in furs,
being photographed||monicchio. Monkeys were being seen off at home air- ports by batteries of pro- tective personal assistants, or welcomed at foreign fields by hopeful Ministers: of Commerce or Finance,
The shape of his head was! Burgeritive of brain-power, Uhe trin cut of his grey hair, the splendid! At of his dark overcoat, made clear the importance he attached to his appearance. The deep lines on his face, the ponched eyes, might have borne with to the warmth of hospi- tality an international business .man must endure.
Richard stepped smartly into the dock at Great Marlborough | Street anal, curtly as a magnate saying. "No comment," to a re- porter, he pleaded guilty to the charge against "him. Ho was
accused of stealing, as a servant, £61 10s, 3d, from the car-hire Buy that had employed him.
"HE
·
4
E complains," said
tho detective in charge of the cue, to Mr Paul Bennett, VC, the magistrate, "ut there was no gale at the garage where he worked, and that he had to take money home with him at night, Later, he took it to the firm's head office. On this occasion. he took in only £13, Instead of
L64 19я 3d."
What do
you know about him?" Mr Bennett asked,
"He's a married man, aged 55," the officer sald, he has six children, three of them grown up, the youngest, 12 months are for previous
old.
There
Carvictions.
He began to read the list, Six months' prison for stealing B a servant, in the early '30s.
velve months
for false pre tenees in 1930, when 75 offences; were taken into consideration) ...three consecutive sentences of 15 months in 1041 for false; pretences again.......then a three- 37 sentence, when 105 further
enses came
to light,
-643ZIEN he came
out of
prison," the officer went
on, the first worked as a costing
clerk at £8 a week, then he
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 By Air
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· Philippines, N. Borico, 4.30 *p.nt... C.P.A. western Sutesi
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Africa, Great Britain, Europe Indo- China, France. French North & West Attica, 4.30 p.m., Air Vietnom.
Stevenson
The
Annoys Republicans
Washington, Feb. 15.
formed his own export company. American Republicans today
This went
in accused Mr Adlai Stevenson of into liquidation 1949. Stuce...
he's...worked "confused thinking" while De- then for a car-hire firm."
mocrais
their rullied behind "What was the nature of the 1952 Presidential candidate for false pretences?" Mr Bennett his criticism yesterday of what asked, It is the magisteriai ho called the Eisenhower equivalent to "What's His Line,' mtilstration's "dollar
"I haven't yet had details," the lomacy." detective answered. "There is one thing to say in his favour, he's been very frank."
And Richard was still prepar- ed, evidently, to be handsomely frank, for drawing himself up, be addressed the magistrate in
the assured tones of a chairman presenting a highly satisfactory annual report.
•
Ad-
dip-
Mr Stevenson came here to meet Democratic members of Congress in three days of party conferences before leaving on a world trip to "educate" fiimself oa foreign problema,
His criticisma of what he called the big stick or the ultimatum" tactics in dealing with European Allies brought vigorous Re- publican reaction,
Senator Frank Carlson (Re- Kansas) *sold -- Mr In
*on 12 years," he said,
worked hard to build up. the business. I was very success- ful, very successful indeed. But publican for events In India-political Stevenson seemed events-I should by now have favour five factories there, Five fac-philosophy" of continuing a Santa Claus programme for
forles worth £2 million.
"Because of political events, Europe. the firm went, Into liquidation. I had to sell everything." Sull confident, the chairman passed from old history to more cur rent affairs.
to be
of "the New Deal
"I think our people want to continue ald to Europe and continue support of NATO," Senator Carlson said, "but they want
realistic a
approach- "In the case of this charge,"
they want to know that their he said, "I suppose I have been over-zealous in trying to obtain and is not just a case of pour- ald is accomplishing something more
business, To act new business, you have to be hospit-ing money down a rat hole."
able, you know. Hall-porters On the other hand, Senator give us most of our trade, you Guy Gillette (Democrat Iowa), have to do a good deal of entera Foreign Relations Commitice taining. I. hot this money in
member, Guid he agreed my pocket, as there wasn't A anfe in the oce
thoroughly with Mr Stevenson and
well. I will try to pay
that co-operation with Europe the moncy
on defence against Communlam back. I can start a new job,
"cannot be there is someone who has faith
accomplished by
in me. I have heavy respon-threats, elther open or indirect."
sibilities, You know, three-Reuter.
young children, wife, mother and father-in-law, still, I will pay it back."
«DUT for your record," the
"B. magistrate said, "I would
have attached great importance
Huk Ambush
оп
Manila, Feb. 18, The Army reported that, 10 soldiers But It zeems to me
wounded WEDD man who cannot be Saturday in an ambush by Com- trusted with money. You will munist Huks in Central Luzon,
to that,
you are
go to prison for six months."
range acor
"Thank you," said Richard. foothills of the Zambales moull-
· The attack took place at the He went lightly down the dock
tain
Mangatarem steps towards the cells, glancing
town in Pangasinan Province, towards the Press-box
he ELA. went. "No comment," hla tight- The dimidenta, withdrew on lipped expression seemed to any sitfval of troop reinforcements, to the reporters.
-Ansociated Pres
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1958.
THE BOHEMIANS VANISH FROM THE MUSIC CLASS
STONE'S THROW from the Royal College of Muzio is the Albert Hall, where many ex-students have performed. Left to right: Shirley Hopkins (18), from Bristol, who plays French horn as well as 'cello; Jili Amherst (10), who started playing double- bass at Cheltenham Ladies' College; Peter Carter (17), who came from Durban, South Africs, with an heirloom violin which his grandfather, Wilfred Carter, played in London's old Queen's Halt Orchestra; and Maureen Powell (19), West Hampstead, 'celils, who took up musle (plano to begin with) as a nine-year-old war-time evacuee.
The boxer, the scientist and
the Guardsman take over
FROM the concert hall front come tales of fewer orchestral jobs than during the boom years just after the war. Yet the Royal College of Music is busy from morning till night
So many youngsters come crowding in for musical training that they hard to be weeded out by stig entrance examinations. For each new student enrolled, three at least are turned down. Every year 130 boys and girls finish their training, mont of them on scholarships or with public nid of one sort or another As-new-fledged fiddlers, planiste, trumpeters, obocists, they troop into the market place waving tho rollege diploma, passport (as they view 10), to a 10-a-week job pretty soon if you're fairly lucky.
There are, vory few who don't get appointments or work of some kind immediately," says Sir George Dyson, director of the college.
The Musicians' Union tako a slightly less roay view. Up to now youngsters who did not drop into orchestral berths were reasonably sure of musk teach- ing Jobs in schools. But, with education authorities beginning to count their pennies more carefully, the question is whether all these school jobs are going to last. On the point the Musicians' Union is doubtful, but hopes Bir George is right.
1, 2 AND 3
Meantime one thing is certain: the market place has no use for the half-licked. Taking their turn for individual tuition under 00 or so strumental profonsors in the honeycomb of college studios, 400 or 500 students tootle; scrape and tinkle away for dear life, frowning with concentra tion.
The collego has two student orchestras, each 80 to 60 strong. But
tint isn't enough. The students have formed a third orchestra which they run not for the fun of the thing but out of koenness to make jood. They elect conductors in rotation from their own ranks,
العدل cort
Gathering twice a week, during lunch hour or at night, in the college's sumptuous con- Orchestra No. 3 cantera through: new or old music which other orchestras never or rarely play.
NEW APPROACH
In the collego's opera house, I found William Reld, aged 20. putting & soprano and a mezzo through their proes in The Husband on the Mat, & translated Offenbach operetta.
Rold
and typifies a new acutely unbohemian approach to music. At 20 he took a Poly- technic science degree, became a research chemist in a mammoth plaat, found he was becoming Just one maro cog among thousands, walked out after thres years, got a diploma for plana playing and set up a part-time business in the family sitting room at Sunbury-on-Thames. Ho coaches and crams in maths. teaches selence at a Junior institute, has more than a score of piang pupils, plays a church organ. All this, at week-ents and in evenings, brings in 2750 a year. of which 9100 goes in college foes. No time for dreams. "I'm ever going to be a con- ductor," thinks Reld, "I mustn't waste a mibute or a penny,
But everybody at collego seems to be muttering the same thing. Alex Maun is 35, bandsman in the Irial Guards. He leads a
ENNEN PALERIE ZELMI ÉRUNGEZEKA TAROTE#TAKEAS
by CHARLES REID
breathless existcn.co shuttling between barracks and college for tuba lessons from Charles Luxon, a virtuose on the instru ment. The tuba is a fat cresture of curving brass which has to be nursed while you play it. Maun has been a Guards tuba player ever since he was a boy.
His ambition now is to become tuba in
symphony orchestra. The chance may corse when he retires from the Army on pension a fow yours hence. But first of all he must acquire now style, now polish. Forth- right and fearty on the barracks square, the tuba must be genteel. in, say, the Festival Hall, Luxon is teaching Maun low to make 1 purr.
WATER POLO MAN
Clive Carey, in charge of the opera school, is encouraging David ("Pat" Ward to do much the same thing with his promila- ing bass voice. Ward is another of the now-type music students; useful heavy-weight boxer, crack water-polo player; knows a lot about "naval guns and ammuni tion (RNVR lora); worked as teacher In a heteld primary school for Just three months. Not a bad background for oratorio. Already he is singing publicly in provincial Mescialis and the B minor Mass (Bacli).
The girls at college hava oven fower minutes to spare than the men. After all, they outnumber the men by three to two, which means they find it harder to get Jobs. On nights off they take the underground to the Festival Hali or cross the road to the Albert Hall
They note with misgiving that in some orchestras there are no women players at all, in others only a few. No matter how well we play there's a prejudico against us," they tell themselves.
AM ORCHESTRA?
Then another thought occurs: "How nice it would be if there were a full-scale women's aymi- phony orchestra in London:” But always some disillusioned older points out that women's hym- phony orchestres have been tried and have never really worked. Audiences, too, it seema, have their prejudicen.
But for old college girls who don't settle their problems by teaching or by marrying oil, there are always openings in chamber music teams, and the amalier orchestras espécially... It would be a sad day for Engilah music is the feminine touch and feminine talents word to disappear from Engilali concert platforms. WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
MAUREEN. POWELL could nearly get inside the double-bass, which la one of her instrumenta.
college gold medal as best pianist of 1851. At 10 she PATRICIA CABROLL (20), of Anerley, B.E., won
in Rachmaninov's Third Concerto at college uncert was playing chausies in 17.8, many camps here. Playa
on. June 5. Left: her toscher, Professor Arthur Alexander, whose musio she is playing.
MORE THAN £800 worth of bassoons here. Archie Camden bassoon professor and famous roloist, says: “I wouldn't take 2400 for mine.” That of Marie- gold Pickerlik (20), of Notting- ham (left), is 40 years old and came to her from an uncle. Bassoon of Hermione Coningham (20), of Minebead, Somerset,
cost. £180.
JILL HAYWARD (U19), "of Whilton, Mkidieser, plays harp in one of college's three orches
Father, Tom Hayward. plays harp for BNC. · Boʻdoen her twin brother Jack
National Service,
European Floods: Meteorologists
点糊
And Hydrographers Criticised t
Copenhagen, Feb. 15.
Mr. J. Egedat, a Danish scientist and meteorological expert, belloves that the recent floods in Britain and Holland might have been largely avoided and many hundreds of lives saved if there had been botter co-operation between meteoro- logists and hydrographers.
This would, he claims, have enabled "warning to have been sent out six or seven hours în advance of tho high tiden,
area, instead of proceeding ag↑ would have arisen but as it is usual towards Norway, moved, not deep, the wind was able to în a poutheasterly direction -- push the water forward. which meant that there was. Owing to the earth's rotation, very high water in the Southern enormous accumulations North Sea
water will always turn right with the rosult that the English
of
Northeast of Scotland, he says there was a low presstro area. This often occurs; but If thoʻsea had been deep, Mr coast took, much of the force this particular low pressure | Egedal - bellovos, vertical eddies of it--Reuter.
London Express Service.
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SHEAFFER'S
Skrip
Effects Of TV On Children
UNESCO Survey
Paris, Feb. 16." A survey of television in Britain, the United States and France shows it has not affected children's school work, but has re- sulted in both children and adult televiewers reading fower books.
The survey issued yesterday by the United Nations Educa tional, Scientifle and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) denit with the future of television in the classroom and its educa- tonal value among all DEC groups.
It revealed conflicting ap- preciations of television which varied from An American educator's "as dangerous to cul- ture
grateful
ca the atom bomb is to civilisation" to parent's comment:
Television
kerps Billy of the streets. It's a built-in baby sitter."
It also quoted the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, who described TV 08 perfect "nothing less than Ulsaster. It drives another wedge between the teacher and the pupil."
The survey revealed that in Britain there were 1,500,000 re- celvers and in France, the only country which had developed regular educational Television (TV) programmes, there were only 30,000. In the United Statca which bad 109 television stations, there were 17,000,000 receivers.
FAMILIES UNITED
扌
The survey said the claim that TV brought families closer
together was true in the sense that they spent more' limo in each other's company,
to
It said television had brought
the youngest people' ឥ awareness of the outside world which newspapers, movica and radio had first brought to older
Five age groups.
and six TV longer
year-olds watched
than older people.
The survey commented: "But bedtime is often serious problem,"
บ
It said the subjects most suit- able for Television were social studies (including government- history and geography), music, current events, English litern- ture and art-in that order.
On teenagers, television kept the 18 to 19 year-olds at home
more.
The survey said that in Bri- tala TV had lessened visits to the movies by 40 per cent in the afternoon and one-third at night. A study in the Naw. York metropolitan area showed 49 percent of books readers said they had not read books since they bought a television receiver.
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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
COPP, 196) RV REA MENICË, MO.
"What do you know! I just waited on a soldier who didn't
pull a baby picture on me!"
|
From The Filos
100 Years
Ago
The New Year Holidays at Canton have passed with... un- usual quiet; the only remarkable incident connected with them Chineso being the capture of 1
our. Jack Shepherd, in whom
and English contem-. poraries may perhaps detect a rebel or spy of rebels,
Indian
A month ago he took a house of considerable size in the 12th fo ward of the City, where ho lived in such luxury, and made such a display of wealth, as exclled the attention of tho
neighbours, which might have
Deen agrecable to the
the stranger but that it was accompanied with suspicions 29
his character, which brought the
were
the
to
police to him; and the whole household having been captured and taken to prison, upwards of $20,000 was found on premises. While the authorities engaged in trying to ascertain how the money had been come by, somo of the prisoners, not choosing to walt result of such inquiries, contrived to effect their escape through the roof of the prison, In the
of the sight of many townsfolk; who were too much amused with the scene to mar it by capturing the fugluver and this some of our Indian brethren will probably regard na a very suspicious circum- stance.
THE WONG AKEE CASË
id bo- In our last issue, we dore our readers an account of and case of
oppression
the In- "squeeze." In which former Wong Akce, allas Ma-
sow
Wong Agured con- spicuously; but
appears there was a alight mistake in
It!
on the and cut ber
saying he had received $30, the sum actually paid to him being $20, with a promise however of $10 more; and as this latter sum was not forthcoming, (the poor girl, named Alew, having "had to borrow the $20 at an interest of only 10 per cent per month,) he stopped her one day in the street, and told her that un- less she paid it forthwith, he would "carry her of to Chin- tsa-tsoy, (the village Kauloong ahore,) into Hitle pieces,”
The girl, in a state of great
to perturbation, applied
and ho European for advice, directed a noto to be written to Ma-tsow Wong, to the effect, that
in. unless the $20 was
repaid,
mummons out against him. would be To this Ma-tbow -Wong-ro- surned a verbal reply by the coolie, that it Akew would meet him in a certain house, in Tal-ping-chan, he would pay
her.
A
A SECOND NOTE
་
It would have been"-"pree posterous for the, girl to have trusted herself in' his company, zo another note was written
to him; and the answer thereto proving anything but satisfac fory, a summons was
applied for rand obtained for the Patty Sessions on last. when, a
Monday after Lengthy Investigation, in which a con siderable amount
perjury of was proved against the "defen- dant's
Hilller witnesses, Mr
the...
10
gave judgment in the Plain- tire favour for the $20, with interest and costs; and s in consequence of the threats held out by Ma-tsow Wong to Akow, she considered her life in matter оп danger, being
the represented Chief Magistrate, he bound the Defendant over to "keep - thu prace under bonds for. $800 himself in $400, and another in o like amount. But having since declared that ho will not be balked of his revenger - for eight thousand dollars, we trust the polico will keep thele øyes upon him.
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