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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1958.

DIVORCE AND THE QUEEN'S PROCTOR THE CARELESS HUSBAND,

AND THE LOVER

WHO WAS TOO CONFIDENT

May 6, 1807.

"Dear Sir,-When in Dublin ! spoke to you abpul eenzing your

It is no longer considered part of a correspondence or intimide with husband's duty to stand on the threshold

my life. And you have not carried out your prointer to me. Unless you спп satisfactorily explain this I fear you have for- the appellation felted

of

gentleman,

I av alt, pours faithfully,

Albert St Paul."

T

1

THE writer WAK 11 middle-age solicitor. The addressee Was J1 the gay young captain in Dragoons.

of his home as a watchdog against the marauding male. But in the 1860's conni- vance was one of the most powerful of the Queen's weapons

weapons in the Queen's tor's armoury..

1

Proc.

Proctor.

The Queen's Procter took the hint, and the case was reopened on his intervention.

'com-

Collusion the agreement be-

Poor Mr S1 Poul was tween the parties to present

hod that he સામ to the court and con- pelled to admit nivante deliberately shutting indeed been shockingly careless one's eyes to the misconduct of in letting his wife see so much He had allowed husband or wife-nre ever with of Farquhar, u38.

her to go to Ireland for her Today, with the emancipation health white he slaved nway at point in his practice in Kent, and it was of women, the third the trident is perhaps irifle in Ireland, where the Dragoons blunted,

were stationed, that the mis-

It is

considered chlef had begun. no longer

ex pari of 1+ husband's duty

Invitation On the threshold of his male, in the Eng- ex- marauding

It is a nice question how one should best answer

this letter of

nature- always supposing that such letters are written in these

Captain days. The tempted to be facetious. Dear Sir (he wrote},

I beg to say that I have

Was

Jaleation to explain what you home as a watchdog against the WHEN he visited ireland him-

ask, as I have nothing to plain. I was

Acquaintance with both

wholl net us

Some

15

the

until la

your however, J WDS still sharp a quiet

chough.

DAN

in

**

the 1

Pocket untouched

Mr

exchange

lover,

be

ឆន

and

With

Uncle Joe's

compliments

SO DISRUPTIVE... THIS PEACE

London Express Service.

SALUTE TO RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

ODAY

Britain, cele-

++

By GERALD BOURKE

This interest first ap- merely' key-signatures, haye Windsor peared in his well-known shown this to be specially

"Fantasia on theme of true. Thomas Tallis.", where cle-

marked of his own work with his accustomed frank-

ness?

"Well, if that's modern music, I don't like it."

It was, however, inevit- able that he should compose music that had sown itself

a masque

How Pompous You Can Get At 136°

By

DAVID BURK

In one month you're

TN one month you'visit ten

than 7,000 miles by air alone. Do you return' believing the world is a small place, and still abrinking?

On the contrary. You are Impressed by the fact that there are still 118 many statute miles between one place and another, and that they make quite a differ

enco.

Tako Greece, for example, The Greeks run a diesel- electric train from Athens to some of their main pro- vincial towns. It is fast, comfortable, and each 60%. Rent conch has its own bar- kitchen.

one

Barman-chef Yorgo, with Stoward Ylanni to help him, feeds and refreshes conch-load of passengers on the five-hour Athens-Patras run. Their equipment? A

single gas-ring, fed from a cylinder, an Ice-box, croc- kery, and cutlery.

Yet, within ten minutes of "take-off," you can have Turkish freshly brewed

freshly-cut Band.< coffee, wiches, cold meat with made-to-order salad, and a wide variety of Iced drinks. PHOENICIAN DESCENT'

self and met Farquhar he had an intimate and ol The <ight:cn-sixties, invited him over to dinner and of billiards, Kamo

wife Instead of dragging ble wife and yourself, ani

husband "A husband who has himself away from the lure of a hand- you give withhold correspondence 10 a thrown his wife Into temptation, some uniform

So the affair had gone Will

brate's the 81st birth- and friendly way with your wife, 1 and exposed her to the addresses should.

again in

day of Ralph Vaughan the have lutherte of other men," said the judge in on, in England

husband "should DOL be Ireland, with cuse, your this done. I can but ascribe

decision, wanting Williams, O.M., composer 1131 after allowed to cast her aside after "wanting In ridiculous epistle as

Armness, wanting manly as firmly rooted in the in Brr ebullition at tenipar. dinner

she has yielded to templation."

assertion of his own rights," as English countryside as the and as such I treat it.

the judge put it.

of great onka I not treat the intimation

The Queen's Proctor, nonc TN this particular instance, the

that forest. prove your letter with the ridkule

flighty Mrs St Paul asked the less, falled to I should take deserves,

Mr St Paul's conduct had con- for nothing more. thats to

What has this remarkable gant string writing built an The "Sen Symphony," during these troubled years. matter into my own buns.

east aside. Very shortly fter duced to his wife's lapse. The yours truly, remalo.

evidence he called showed only composer given us in more atmosphere of calm, based written first, shows the The symphony stands in Duncan A. Farquhar,

momentous the

confessed to the too clearly that she had fallen

her than 50 years of music on the firm Christian faith landsman's contact with the sharp relief against his Captain Farquhar posted his letters she

tain from, grace before ever that Captain T Jawyer letter and went off to his mili- unhappy

and husband knew of the captain's making? Essentially, music which the composer also might of the sea; it is less other works, except Satan's

But there remained that tary duties with the gratifying Farquhar was her

on his atmospheric than Debussy's dance in "Job," there: brought to bear was already feeling that

s üresome that she refused to give him up. existence.

followed

which the formidable charge of con- young Proceedings civillan with the pretty

is more direct since we do as by Binke. wife had been put firmly in his were undefended, and Mr St nivance, and here he seemed on musle that lies always in editing of Church hymnals. "La Mer," but the impact inspired as much by Bunyan

Folk-music event Paul was granted a decree nisi. firm ground. Could any man the life of the countryside

not merely watch the sea place. In fact,

In a only

despairing note to his have been so blind?

the works of poets

at play, but feel its power. was to sbow, he hud

St Paul

The letter... declared: own wife, succeeded in cooking his

inspired by Britain's native THEN, in 1922, Vaughan Nor does it contain the "I shall never seek a solatium goose to a turn.

damages. YES, said the judge, he could,

ways. For Vaughan Wil-

Williams brought his ad. nostalgic beauty of Delius's and for my, disgrace in

was. und * guilt." three from the partner of your

that he had been was in the liams is the least artificial miration for Bunyan into "Sea Drift." therefore letter

LI

They are, The captain could alliterativo

that Captain Farquhar of living composers-with the open with the opera think himself lucky, for damdgza

From the sea, Vaughan world in many forms. In 1943, descendants of the Phoeni- gave us our I watched him climb slowly onto cians, who Sibelius the Delectable Mountains", Williams returned fushion in those days. But I letter of his

pocket was untouched, he he had hoodwinked a fool. If Finland's Jean

had not yielded to the and, I would add, one of the that was later incorporated London, where he showed the rostrum at the Henry Wood alphabet and, before his was none the less in on awk-

scoring off

in his morality opera, "The us the sights in "A London Promenade concerts to conduct tory, were buying tin from temptation of

least predictable. ward position.

Pilgrim's Progress,”

performance of This Symphony." We heard Big the first despised adversary. Farquhar's

Cornwall's ancient Britons. It was one thing to

umuse low little scheme might have

But perhaps it is best to was produced for the first Ben as we passed through symphony in D Major. De

At Basra, Iraqi port on himself with another mail's

the Queen's

the main course time in 1951 at Covent Westminster, cockney tunes dicated "without permission and the Shatt el-Arab river, wife, but quite another to hav-succeeded, and

swept us to the East End, with the sincerest

flattery 40 and birthplace of Sinbad that wife upon his hands. He Proctor would have had another follow

score of of his inspiration -the Garden. case to add to his would be expected to marry her decrees set aside.

great the example set by the great But in all his music dates and the third movement Jean Sibellus,

his called forth the sounds of a example is worthy of imitation," just how pompous people Sailor, you wonder and that would mean the and

But one wonders what the of his career in the Dragoons.

of her lover's English writer, John Bun- are deceptive, since

inspiration in He began to regret the whole lady thought

and what they said yan, whose "Pilgrim's Pro- music evolves often from great city at night. But in it again sought

Bunyan, and

can get at 136 degrees in. finale, behaviour

shade. The once affair. That

oblivious the 264 of a husband

WIE when all was gress" has been the staff the germs of folk-music. the to each other hed marle things altogether too

to which on which Vaughan Wil- His symphonies,

Club-it to the raging British-run Port liams, our modern Pilgrim, he has not given numbers, ty with the

is now managed by, one Perhaps ir hint to the Queen's

preferring to add titles or

The third of that near-extinct race, Proctor

movement bore. the Assyrians-barred me......... the quotation:

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[of a substantial scale were the had dashed off so boldly. the possible exception of scone, "The Shepherds of

he

over?

a

man confident

that

cagy. It was his fault really. Charles Berry has leaned.

WAS

TO

TR. D. C. SOMER-

M VELL'S slim volume

criticising the recently pub-

•

FAIR

WINSTON

BALDWIN ?

By Robert Blake

consolidate the dictator's power Inside Germany,

What is likely to be the Anal verdict on the Churchill view of history? Certainly it will not go, undisputed.

Nevertheless, It is likely to be a good deal nearer to finality the thesis which Mr ls endeavouring to

lished life of Stanley Bald- criticise a view of recent history win by Mr G. M. Young, that has come to be almost as

Holy Writ, the, Sir Winston Churchill is well than would scarcely deserve authoritative as special comment on its own version embodied in the stately able to defend himself, in the Somervell merits. But this particular volumes of Sir Winston Chur- unlikely event of his consider advance

chill's War Memoirs,

ing it worth the trouble, against Stanley Baldwin no doubt book has a certain interest

had great personal-merits, It about it. Mr Somervell's real

It is perhaps worth pointing is probably true, if only as a possible portent ah let there be no mistake arguments of this sort,

03 Sir Win- target is not so much Mr G. M. out

that-a

-firm stand against ston Churchill wrote, that he broad way It may be a' cloud no bigger Young as Sir Winston Churchill, Hitler would have been far more, represented in

whose authority, all the

more likely to shake than to consoli Domo of the strengths and effective for the moderation of its date Hitler's prestige. Further, ber the deluge which followed ression, has been directed the real charge against Baldwin many of the infirmities of our that apparently insignificant

with such damaing consequences lies in his fallure to give a lead phenomenon..

against the whole political re-

to public opinion. pulation of Stanley Baldwin,

of things to come.

thon a man's hand; but remem

Mr Somervel's bootive, to irst effort, however tentative,

• Stanley Baldwin. An examination of some features of Mr G. M. Young's Tiography, by D. Fober, 8, dit.

Pick a pack of

SAXA

the pick of packet salt

If Mr Young is criticised, it is

according Somervell, he has fallen too

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Mr

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course

island

race."

Mr Emest Brown, who was under Minister of Labour Baldwin, and who contributer a foreword to this

book,

we met reali-

march of the

unemployed,

and the fight for existence that comes with crowds

only a country dweller could perhaps have drawn such a dispassion- ate picture.

Next came

us to

Surprise

IKE all true artists, Vaughan Williams can distil the outside

whose

War.

bla

"Upon this placs stood a

AT Beirut, Lebanon tho capital, you cross threshold of the Orient. and learn that the Lebanese do not like to be called Arabs.

it

-seems

on the night of the monthly dance, as I was not "In Cross, and evening dress." Everyons little below

else seemed' dressed much as I was in dark trousers. and white shirt.

sepulchre. Then *He

he

anid:

hath given me

zurt

by His

The subtle distinction was

sorrow, and explained, On "formal"*

death

by His Basra nights the waist..

The

.

composer also encircling cummerbund is. noted sonic of compulsory.

the themes of

this symphony

are taken from

"The

an opera, Pilgrim's Pro-

Missing the dance turned out to be a good thing.. Instead, I

unfinished spent the evening with a tile red-haired Langástrian oilman who, after 30 years in the Middle East, knew the full "button- Inside story of the crusher" coste.

Now that the morality opera, work of deepest sincerity, has been performed, wo can see clearly the path along which Vaughan Williams has humbly

"A Pastoral ·

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony," in which the composer gave us exquisite gress." ecenes from the Gloucester shire countryside where he was born, the only son of a

LAUNDRY MYSTERY clergyman. His family was related to the Wedgwo travelled. It was a path chosen SAID he, spoting way down makers of famous English again in the next symphony, In

buttonhole half-way pottery. Peter Warlock once E Minor,

Brst performed in my shirt, "I see they've got you the symphony

already. Bachelor buttons are described

April 1948. Here it seemed that

The local derisively as "a cow looking the extraordinary epilogue -

the only answer, laundries' idea of washing a but that is always important, and over a gate"

shint is to wet and soup it, put what it is, as the composer revealing in his works-foretold

it on a

a board, and bong-bong- acknowledges. the end readily

bang it with a stone. You've been lucky. I've never known During the Second World fortunately it was not so,

them miss a button before." hand, driving a farm cart,

often

of his music. But Yet

Meinl biographei, un altogether had had the courage to warn the to may gree with all these war he sometimes lent at ld. I bellove, close the

Turmoil

composer's journey with Pilgrim leaving him face. to spend his last years exercising other facets of his genius.

And

was describes his former chief os "a sentiment C. Somervell. much under the Churchill spell, pacifistle in the 1930s, but would great human."

unt given, despite his position as

it have remained so if someone

But there are that occasions when to be "a great Junduly adverse account of his notion of the dangers

subject's capacity as a slates threatened, at the risk of tem- human" is not enough. Indeed,

Mr Ernest Brown makes men,

porary unpopularity? For example, Mr Young on the At least Mr Churchill would significant observation when he whole accepts the generally held have tried. Baldwin never even writes: opinion that Baldwin falled in made the attempt, and it is this "I am not concerned with the

what may we not yet the 1930s to appreciate the Ger- failure which will, for all time, world scere in this note, nor O far, the symphonies receive from the composer who at 70 walked with slow gait, bul man menace or the necessity to count against his reputation as with the facts and forces and

were pictorial; thon sud- agile mind, Into the aim studios Judgments which led the then Yet Mr. Somervell's attempt Prime Minister to take the denly in 1985, the year in for to rescue Baldwin's memory course he did with regard to from its detractors is unlikely foreign affairs and defence, but which he was awarded the collaborated with distinction?

We received the first surprise Mr Somervell repudiates this to be the only one. For he with the statesman as 1 krew coveted Order or Merit,

Veunhea Williams's view. It. quite wrong, he speaks on behalf of a world by him"

having refused carlier dis when

and pays, to call the 1930 war the no means insignificant or un- "Unnecessary -War," - as Mr important, although unit for co Churchill does in his preface to long in alience that we might his War Memoirs. True, Hitler be excused for forgetting its could have been stopped in 1039, existence,

This is the world of and 1935, and 1030,

Bald True,

Baldwin-Chamberlain

Saiz Bolt is avalikka ta`martens und drums, plain or badioed. Trade anguillie de John 13, Hutchison to Cha Lidl, Post Der S, Kuto-Kann

rearm,

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a true statesmanı,

the

the first time and

..

Tre laundris also have a way with pyjama cords. The method Is a mystery, but you put on the pyjama trousers, pull the two ends of the cord, and there with two lengths of you are, cord in your hands.

Amman, capital of the Hashe- Kingdom of Jordan, is a

spreading modern city that, A couple of decades ago, was little

à collection of, more than ́à

5, mud- and-waille huis, What happens

ens when the 20th

a primitive Arab century hits

Incongruous parapher nalia pokes out from the bal- contes parched on the mosques minardis, Radio. To compete with the racket of present-day traffic the muezzin now calls the

tinations, his Symphony in Romance for Harmonica town?

Orchestra was played in London

F Minor spoke & musical by Larry Adler, to whom it li

But the historian who secks language quite unknown. It dedicated. But of much greater the announcement a final assessment of Baldwin remains unique in sym import is

that the. Halb Orchestra will cannot in this casual manner dismiss the most important side phonic style; here is no play a now work by Vaughan

faithful to compassion, but turmoil un- williams, Sinfonia Antarction" of his career.

Baldwin's indifference to

depleting Scott's voyages. cannot foreign', 'affaire

Ba laughed aside on an engaging Ülke being bad at bridge,

win who was in control at the Baldwin other words, the great time, failed to do

majority of the Conservative But would Sir Winston Chur Party in the 1030. chill

done any bet have

For years Mr Churchli answers Mr Somervell, for he an eloquence, which will tong would have been opposed by pub- be remembered in the annals of or

better had

*

But perhaps we should have one who wrote many years agotą!!The

he been Prime Minister? No, salled them-with a. wit; an irony, #olding no ear for mude., Only regarded as an outspoken expected such, a turn from

phone

prayer with the help

you most strikes

of all in, your travels in the varying atitude of omcialdom at each country's airport: France offers, doubtful competence with charm Greece offers doubtful competence with suspicion. The Arab countries offer:"dojshiľuk

leashed.

The symphony is general- commentary on the period composer must not shut himself between the wars. After up and think about art, he must the first performance of live with his fellow and make "art in expression of the Whole aven If a firm polley Iri 1938-had: we can forgive those who are. Baldwins before this country,wir? the? heavily, " orchestrated use of the community—if "we" competence with em ait để weʻza+/

score, with fierce

lie opinion, and public opinion in oratory.It is improbable that the contrary, it affected the both clies was overwhelmingly he has been wholly forgiven, whole destiny of this country

and pro-German. Moreover, events proved him to far more convincing case Moreover, adds Mr Somervell, be fully justned, and, though will have to be made for

partic

only, result would have been to give those whę sro right,

falled

rhythms, the composer ret