CTION FOR HONGKON
GE
Test your knowledge!
SEE if you can answer these questions set by member H. H.
Ahmed. The answers will be published next week.
1. Why do we speak of 5. Who saw Cock Robin 11. Of whom was the
person's weakest point
O S his "' Archilles Heel?"
2. What was the name of
Colossus of Rhodes an image?
die?
6. Who
##
was
more
sinned against than 12. sinning?"
What is a Firkin?
13.
How did Judas Iscariot die?
the statue brought to life by Pygmalion?
3. Who were the
father
and mother of Anti- gone?
7. Father and son shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915. Who 14. were they?
8.
What is Ramadan?
4. Which famous cric-
9. Were is Unst?
keter was known as 10. What was the "Apple "The Croucher?"
of Discord?”
15.
a
Who drew
perfect circle to prove his credentials as an fist?
ar-
Who led the anti- Catholic riots of June 1780?
Buck up_members! The 17-21
The
17-21 Club hundreds of members, but we can only tell that by looking at the roll book. Only very few of you con- tribute, and last week the mail-box was very very empty.
has The rules are printed clearly in this section, so you have no excuses there. And don't for- get that for each contribution published, whether it be a drawing. verse, photograph or story, you get a credit card. When you have 10 credit cards, we send you a book, or record voucher to the value of $25.
We suppose this dearth can be
put down to the fact that exams are looming од the horizon, but We are pretty sure that
have you spare time.
some
So buck up, we want to see our mail-boxes overflowing next week.
ZOO'S WHO GEORGE
EELS HAVE A LIFE HISTORY
> UNLIKE ANY OTHER FISH THE
EUROPEAN SPECIES LEADS
THE MOST SPECTACU-
LAR EXISTENCE OF
ALLERY IM
BUSHEDS
ÉN ORDER TO REACH THE OCEAN FROM FRESH-WATER LAKES AND STREAMS, EELS ENCOUNTER AND OVER- COME MANY OBSTA-. CLES
AMERICA
EN
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
SCARBO
WHO NEEDS
·COMPASS
IN FIVE MONTHS THEY REACH BERMUDA, WHERE THEY SPAWN AND DIE.. THE NEW-BORN EELS THEN BEGIN A 3000 MILE HOMEWARD JOURNEY.TINY LEAFLIKE OBJECTS, LESS THAN AN INCH IN LENGTH...
THIS IS EUROPE?
THREE YEARS PASS BEFORE THEY REACH EUROPEAN SHORES, IN COUNTLESS HORDES THEY ASCEND THE RIVERS TO WATERS THEIR PARENTS LEFTALMOST
FOUR YEARS BEFORE.. IMAP SHOWS THE EELS BREED- ING PLACE NEAR BERMEDS.
Club's
five rules
✪ Membership in the 17-21 Club is open to all within that age group.
• Contributions and all ac- tivities of the Club will be limited to members only.
O Contributions may consist
of anything that i publishable ́articles, letters, stories, photo- graphs, drawings, verses. But only the best will be printed.
• All contributions MUST be original.
o Written
contributions
should not consist of more than 350 words, photographs and draw- ings will only be accept- ed in black-and-white.
MEET THE MEMBERS!
ROBERT BERNARDINO,
17, student 54A
John at the organ in his church.
Only 10, this boy
composes and plays his own music
JOHN
Revezoulis of Sheboygan, Wis., is a dark- haired boy who would rather have his hands on a keyboard than a baseball.
At the age of 10 he is the assistant organist at St Spridon Greek Orthodox Church. Also à skil- donnell-road. U.B., Hong-ful pianist, he has composed several pieces of
kong.
نب سكر
Credit card to Roy Fay of 68 King's-road, Hongkong.
Mac-
music.
"Waitz of the Winter John practises piano an winds," WOS John's first hour every day. Besides a composition. He composed weekly piano lesson, he has it when he was only 8 years an organ lesson. "I like to old. He has also composed play the organ very much," music and lyrics for a Christ- he says. "It is easy for me." mas carol.
A 5th grader at Longfellow
According to Joha's
School in Sheboygan, John Mrs Robert Reizack, John show. the pianist in his music ed great interest in music even He has played for many school He ako roads, as a baby. At 4, he would sit gatherings.
aunt,
C:2:55.
at the piano for hours and fin- writes and speaks Greck duent ger cut melodies he had beard ly.
on the phonograph.
Youngest
"It wasn't long before his parents and relatives said, "John should learn to play the piano."
six
John bad his first piano les- son when be was 5. In months, he could play music which took most children much longer to learn.
John was the youngest pianist at his first recital. He played a duct with his teacher.
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