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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1955.

Britain's Ambassador

D

Of

Music

By GERARD BOURKE

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URING the last cen- A short, dapper" figure, Sir He had given him hope through

Malcolm enters wearing a red, music during a long fatal tury. Britain Way

white, carnation, and or

with. ness. When the boy died, it known to Continental sweeping gestures begins their was seen he had left Sir Mal- audiences as "The, Land concerts with the British na- con a small legacy expressly

carnation without Music." The epithet tional anthem, sung in a special to pay for the

made by Sit inevitably wears. was partly deserved, since rangement

Elgar. And

the work

Critics have accused Sir Mal- until the undulating Glou- that follows is his great aratorio colm of overdriving his orches-

of C rontius," Sir

tras on occasions. Be that as is

cestershire.countryside pro- "The Dream particularly happy it duced Sir Edward Elgar, Malcolm

since He has named it his

60th

WES

ho OL

may, his performances, especially of choral music and Britain had no composer, to favourite music along with

modern works are often bril. place near such figures as Handel's "Messiah."

Bant. His manner and dress have earned him the nickname Wagner, Verdi, Mahler or After watching him conduct a

Harry, but this he Bruckner. But today faithful reading of one of his Flash British music occupies a works, Sir Edward Elgar once accepta good-humouredly as it is

with remarked, deeply moved: "As intended.

His prominent position,

birthday such as

long as Sargent is alive I have Sir composers

no fear that my choral works spent conducting his Royal Choral Society In Coleridge- William Walton, Sir Arthur will be misunderstood." Bliss and Benjamin Britten During the First World War Taylor's "Hiawatha." And

he joined the Durham Light may reflect on his rich life

an which winning world-wide recog Infantry, and afterwards he took music.

he has

nition.

his degree as Doctor of Music, observed: "Providence has been becoming the youngest in the exceedingly kind to me. Unlike literature, music must country. He also began study vocatior. has brought me

has led me be interpreted, and British music ing the plano seriously with the tinual happiness, would not be nearly

into many beautiful places, and $0 well distinguished player,

given me enduring and valued known abroad were it not for Moiseiwitsch.

friendships." the

efforts on its behalf untiring by Sir Malcolm Sargent, whose "sixtieth birthday, fell on April 29. He shared it with an equally famous British conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, who was 70%

Benno

Chief Conductor.

Since the death of Sir Henry Wood, founder and brilliant or- ganiser of London's promenade concerts, his place has been taken as chief conductor by Sir Malcolm Sargent. It was at one of these remarkable

concerts

Sir Malcolm Sargent has Britain's rightly been dubbed musical ambassador, since he has conducted concerts, always including a high proportion of that he first conducted in public modern British music, in places his own composition. "Impres as distant as New Zealand and

on a Windy Day" in 1921, Australia, North and South at the invitation of Sir Henry When be later saw him America, Cape Town, Scandina- vía, Jerusalem, Tokyo and Oslo.

the first performance of

Happiest Days

sions

Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast" with which he is now especially associated. Sir Henry Wood advised him to devote all his time to

to this branch of his art Orce launched on Born at Stamford in' Lincoln-

lines these shire, he first had an opportunity he advanced swiftly, conducting to conduc: when a local operatic Russian ballet seasons, the old society presented an opera by British National Opera Com- Gilbert and Sullivan. Watching pany, as well as regular con- bis, easy command, the singers

cert series. Then suddenly it little suspected that the 14- appeared that he had overtaxed year-old choirboy would later, his strength through his

enthusiasm, and he conduct the same opera for the bourded famous D'Orly Carte company was ordered to spend a year ... and record it authoritatively resting in Switzerland.

4

713-

My

con-

ME

VOTE

FOR

"I like the way they tell you how they're going to grind their opponents in the dust in the same breath that they

ask you to elect them as 'a man of peace.""

RINGS ON HER FINGERS

HAD been shopping all other was just going. I slipped the morning and de the rings inlo my inside pocket, cided that I would lunch finished washing, and when the attendant returned, told her cf at my favourite large my find end

asked her to send When free to return to music, store, where the restaurant myns, who claimed the figs At 16, he became assistint he

enforced is bright and attractive and up to the retaurant, where I should be for the next half- organist

Peterborough separation had only increased not too crowded.

hour; if no one came I would Cathedral. These were among his powers.

deposit the rings with the the happiest days of my life,"

showed that his

I went into the cloakroom

lunch

he has remarked: Days spent In common with other leading to wash, looked round for manager.

I went up to the restaurant, £.. learning by heart the entire musicians, he gave his services the attendant, whom I knew organ werks of J. S. Bach, freely during the last war, con quite well, and concluded told the manageress about the studying also the plano, and ducting concerts to help ease the

burdeni

of those working long that she must have gone for rings, then sat down to have my rehearsing the choir.

hours in

gave her lunch as her usual chair industry.

was empty. It is, in fact, as a choral con- them Mozart symphonies in loved it ductor that Sir Malcolm Sargent secret places. They received his first distinctions, and went back to stuff in more and the performances he gives TNT," he observes wryly.

conductor today as permaneat

'Not yours'

woman came up

She was young and öbviously nerous and excited, and she appeared to resent my

question.

of the Royal Choral Society in Loves Children particularly. As I filled the and asked excitedly, "Oh, have half-hoop

scream.

this

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· London Express Service

DID

HAP

Another story-in this series by famous people. Some tales are fact-and some fare fiction.

But

you

tell

can. "I'm trying to protect your ---- Suddenly, I

heard a voice The manager said: "That's or someone else's property," I which almost amounted to There were two other

right. I saw her husband, Jack which? first said my was finishing

Before me stood the Manning. He told me about it.. women shoppers: I did not poached egg on toast when

"I think that you're being woman who had first come to No, the trouble' began with the notice either of them

à claim her rings-rings which I other lady." to my table very rude well, there's

od diamonds, an remembered were not hers at

"I remember her distinctly--

"By that time we'd had Lady I thought: emerald and diamond and all. I

is tall, middle-aged, pleasant voice-reporting the loss of her basin I saw that someone you got my rings?"

said: I

She described the rings accur rings here, Annie was in tears, "Would you

de she paused, "and - I think that going to be difficu had left three rings lying at

She said excitedly,

"Oh, ately. Was most grateful. In fact, the manageress in the restaurant my opal - yes, an wore scribe them to me, please!"

here! the side of the basin.

Do insisted on sending me flowers having hysterics. Then I got to She was young, and obviously opal Now, kindly give me my imagine seeing you

you remember me the day nerveus and excited, and the rings"

afraid that they aren't wanted you to give me. those appeared to resent my question

her your rings."

rings? I was so annoyed at the for her face flushed and

you voice rose, a little. "Are trying to imply that they aren't my rings?"

his greatest achievements. among (This august body was formed, by Charles strangely enough,

of the Today as conductor Gounod on one of his visits to

Broadcasting Corpora- its British London, and recently gave

Orchestra,

I picked them up. They were tion's Symphony 1,000th concert).

where he succeeded Sir Adrian good rings half hoop of dis- Boult, he occupies one of the moods, sapphire and diamond,

British and a single diamond leading positions musical life. But though music ls, of course, his pastime as well as his job, he still finds time for other pleasures.

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A great animal lover, he is a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society and goes regularly to London's zoos. At home, in his beautiful fat

to next

the matronly Royal Albert Hall. setting of the promenade con- certs, he always finds time play with his pet blue bud- gerigar, Hughie.

to

I glanced round the room. One of the women had gerie, the

GUARD AGAINST

VACCINE

concerts,

These

Bre

NEW

SPIVS

"From NEWELL ROGERS

"I tell you they are! This is intolerable, I'm very well known in this shop the manager is a friend of my husband's. L shall report the matter to him and see what he says about it!"

"I shall see him myself when I've finished my meal," I told her. "If no one has claimed the rings by that time I shall leave them with him."

She turned and flounced away, evidently very angry, and I con- gratulated myself that I had at Icast safeguarded someone's time. property.

Now I'm more

I

the next day"

Durbin asked "She didn't put work. I said to the manager her name with them, did she? here: I'll bet this is old Mother Broadbent up to her tricks again,'

by NAOMI JACOB

Before Naomi Jacob became a best-selling novellat she was'a successful actress. She has also been a teacher, a secretary, the supervisor of a munitions factory in the 1914-18 war, and an ENSA worker in the hat war. She divides her time between England, and her home in Italy-called Casa Micki, by which name she is known to all her friends.

Fee the

Tall woman

grateful "Just with many thanks or than I can say. My husband something of the kind and the they His love of children Ande

always says that if my head initials forget what I had reachedt the coffee were not fastened on I should were practical expression through his

"Might stage when an elderly woman lose it!

they have

been children's

I'm always losing frequent

New York, Other women interviewed in-tall, well dressed-came to things, and I am so

absent MT.B. often in conjunction with Sir

"I don't think so, I honestly Robert Mayer, enlivened by TEW YORK CITY is out Ed. Murrow's show have had to my table and said very quiet- minded

don't remember clearly," wear tiny microphones in their ly, "I believe that you found engaging talks.

to prevent the spivs, gowns Miss Monroe refused.

and "I didn't go some rings in the cloakroom---- always simple, yet never con- descending in approach, just as from taking over the Salk Her costume was too tight. She the attendant told me when I manager, because I thought I'd he believes that good tunetui infantile paralysis vaccine did not want to bulge in the went to look for them. It was tell Jack-that's my husband-

wrong places..

shamefully careless will always win their for the black market.

of me about it first. And when I music

So they concealed a micro There is a half-hoop my home there were my rings I'd young hearts to music.

Mayor Robert Wagner phone on the table in front of

that engagement ring - single forgotter to put any on Recently there was a sad ordered his Department of her.

Did anyorte stone diamond, and a sapphire morning. and diamond. They are all set them?" them. For some years he had Investigation, Department

"An US Army has again in platinum, except the half- arranged that a crippled boy of of Health; and Corporation 12 should be taken to concerts counsel "jointly to in been caught practising the old hoop." or enabled

hear them relayed-vestigate the problem of "string saving habits that send. economy-minded Congressmen's

example of his affection for

PHOTOGRAPHS

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Softball Dance

•

THE

Heavy weather

gu:

claim

She

elderly lady. described them and they were obviously hers,"

"Well, I am, glad. So nice to see you again I must fly."

I thought. "You silly, addle-

Most effusive

"I bet they weren't MT.B those are her real initials."

"Do you mean they weren't her rings? But how did it come that she was able to describe them so accurately? I hadn't shown them to anyone."

Durbin gazed at me with on air almost amounting to pity.

“That tall lady with the pleasant voice who was 30

The

any.

"Very co-operative the chaps at the Yard Pawnbrokers were questioned-drew blanks. Finally we got round to Batchelor's, who do quite a bit of pawn- kroking as well as selling jewellery,"

.

>

"By The manager broke in, this time Ladywas in and cut of

office evolving my theories of her

own, nearly Now I driving me frantic.

happen to know old Broadbent

decent old boy and

very attached to his tiresome wife. I asked Lady if she insisted on prosecution if the rings were. found. She said My dear, man, I don't want to have to hang round police courts, and ste same wretched woman in tears, I want my rings Intact That will satisfy me

A warning

"So Batchelor's handed back the rings to me," the defective said, "and cleaned them into the bargain,

not

"We've barred Ma Broadbent the store, warned Lady to leave her rings lying about in cloakrooms, and now

he

13073.

sping to warn you, madam not

setting up regulations blood pressure, up. This time against over-charges and they concerned a lot of surplus

She had a pleasunt voice, black marketing of vaccine. nail-clippers for dogs and a

The trouble is that there warehouse full of girdles that and I asked if she would take pated idiot!"

lost

She said that I was in my favourite store grateful is one of the banes of their stretch

voDensive coffee with me. is not enough vaccine to go storage

later when the charges are

too. she would have been delighted, some days

my existence. She's not poor Dcused Impressively, around for all the parents

To add to the quartermasters's but she was meeting her hus manager came to me and asiced not that If she were it would

w to go about imagining yourself her. She just lifts excuse by our Staff Photographers who want their children embarrassment, unfeeling critics band in the carpet department if I could spare him a minute in

all Lup

his office. As we walked there thing that comes her way, as budding Sherlock Holmes. It in five minutes time. So the Army's old.

-and- vaccinated immediately. hoarding practices down through handed over the rings, which he stopped to speak to an under-

you might say, for the fun of it, caly leads to bother You found the rings in

"the another time you might be An outbreak of pollo any the years the case of soap dating she put in the inside pocket of manazer,

bag, because she was where in the country could back to the civil war in 1865, the her

ladies dressing room "Annie mixed up in the bother," and did not make black marketing profitable, packages of ramrods for muskets wearing gloves

was out at the

Were

I sighed "And she seemed ladies there when you such the spivs

there any also dating to that period, the

want to pull them off.

nire

woman" New York City alone is solid silver finger bowls for

"Send Durbin to my office, will found them?"

Durbin sniffed, "They all done ordering 500,000 cubic

"I hate wearing, gloves, she centi admirals, the row upon row of

“Only. and one of them told me. metres of vaccine. It will be horse-drawn ambulances.

"I make such heavy you, please? Tell him to hurry."-

left

other until you know entwell immediatel weather putting them used for children in the most

He said to me: "Durbin is our on t

Good a little longer, get back to my work. hate the seams to twist and detective Clever fellow, but may have been THE Republican Administra-est all crooked. Well, again a

I didn't really notice her morning, madam." 222_abrupt

suspect there,

me of I can't remember that I saw her tion declined with thanks the thousand thanks I can't tell

face at all. gift of a sailing sloop once used

"No, but Miss by President Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe's appearance in It was offered for the use of me send you some flowers, just going to show you that it's wiser she'd take care of that T bet an "at home" TV show put on by naval cadets, and would cost 600 me send you you owers us to le people do the jobs they she was watching you in the commentator Edward R. Murrow dollars to re-condition

should like to so much.

are engaged for. Ah, Durbin mirror-thal place is full of

waited She

long came after the show was overij Sol admirers ‹ of · F.D.R. - have

this is the lady we were speaking mirrors.

enough to hear what you said: For one hour she played the started to raise funds and

I said there was no need to, about" teran groet film star in a tight-fitting bombard the Secretary of the but she seemed so set on the A short, stocky man looked at to Annie when he came back,

tockabyes.

the was easy costume doraneetatic

Navy with demands that beide that I-save-bo-xay card me, and a

art of the "want. carcera cre

accept the boat.

Batchelor's, the jewellers to sell About a week later, so ecstatic? Why were they For the first time the- boes -

at a cocktail party-one of Durbin said: "Those rings. them. That was where she She had been allowed

here I saw the woman who claimed went wrong. handsome, packets, a pair to there are far

them first," I said. Met her at there before, they recognised erdeak is and everyone illis about dip a cocktail party. She'd left her her Temporised, and asked everyone rings at home. Most Weftiisive ther to come next morning when

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