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M. LEO PODOLSKY:

A DISTINGUISHED RUSSIAN ARTISTE.

SOME INTERESTING

DETAILS...

TWO GREAT ARTISTS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9th, 1927.

FOR THE SERVICES.

LEO PODOLSKY" AND "VER THE PROGRAMME FOR THE

· MIROVA” AT THE QUEEN'S..

A WONDERFUL CONCERT.

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WEEK.

"ANOTHER CITY HALL CONCERT.

A very attractive programme has. been arranged by the Naval and Military YMCA Entertainments Committee for the current week,

In addition to concerts and whist drives at the "Cheer. O and "Better Ole" Y.M.C.A.' enter tainments have been arranged at barracks and billets.

It was with great anticipation AL Leo Podolsky, who gave a that I went to the Queen's Theatre brillant pianoforte recital at the last evening to hear Leo Podolsky's Queen's Theatre last night is no classical piano recital and to see stranger to Hong Kong or to many again the greatest interproter of of its residents. It was five years classient dancing, Madame Vera ago when this distinguished Rus- Micova, and my hopes were not dis- sian pianist paid his last visit here, appointed. It certainly was

In a chat with a Daily Press re-entertainment of the highest order presentativa yesterday he gave for which thanks are due to the

Next Saturday the first of a new soma interesting particulars of his management of the Queen's. The "career and tours of the Far East audience was very enthusiastic and series of fortnightly grand concerts His musical career has been "aif all demands for encores had been will be given at the City Hall. Mr romantic ane. He began his train-fulfilled the performance might Costen bas had to give up organis ing when eight in Odeas. He never have ended. Unfortunately, ing these, as she is leaving the studied under. Professor Lalevier, however, the audience was not as Colony for Haiphong, and her work and in 1914 be won the Liszt prize, large as a performance of this has been taken up by a sub-com- and later signed a contract for a standard deserves and it is thoughtmittee who have every intention of two year concert tour, one of which that the attendance must have been not allowing the Servicemen to was to be spent in America. The affected by the hot and ansettled forfeit a fortnightly treat that they war, however, forced him to fożego weather and to the fact that two very much appreciated. the fulfilling of this contract and concerts were given on the same on his way to Petrograd and Mos night, the second one being at the cow he gave several recitala.

Theatre Royal

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Next Saturday'a concert is being arranged by Mrs. Younghusband,

another hard worker for the Ser- vice Y.M.C.A.'s

respon.

LOCAL WILLS.

SHAMEEN. BOMB OUTRAGES RECALLED.

FRENCH MERCHANT'S

ESTATE.

VALLEYS OF DEATH.

TORRENT WIPES OUT GERMAN. VILLAGES.

130 PEOPLE KILLED.

DRESDEN. Thunder and darkness and the

The bomb outrage at Shameen in June, 109, when a bomb was rush of mighty waters have thrown during a dinner given by brought death to the loveliest of the French Consul at Shamoen in the valleys of Southern Saxony.

The full extent of the catas- honour of the Governor-General of

when the Indo-China is recalled in connection trophe last month,

streams became great rivers that with a will of one of the victims.

Letters of administration with the carried away all in their path, is will annexed of the estate of Henri not yet known, but it is feared Gillaume Gerin, a partner, in the that at Iqait 130 people have lost arm of, Geria, Drevard. & Co., Silk their lives.

The burgomaster of "Berggies- Merchants, Shameen, Canton, who died at Shamten under the circum-shubel told me to-day, anya a cur- stances stated on June 19th, 1994, respondent of the Daily Mail, that have been granted to Mr. Michel in his village, which has suffered Drevard, merchant of Shameen, the the moss, 83 persons were killed attorney of the widow of deceased, and 15 people are still missing. who is now resident in Paris, and who is the sole beneficiary under

the will,

Deceased left estate in this Colony valued at $3,500,

Two valleys of the pretty coun- try which is often called the Saxon Switzerland-the green valley of the Gottleube and the valley of the Muglitz-are the chief scenes of the disaster. The people of the vil fages on the banks of these two narrow streams, with brown watDI flowing rapidly to the Elbe, are humble people who live by cultivat- ing the ground and by making toys and watchion. In simmer they look after the needs of the visitors to

Extensive Estains. Letters of administration with Laat night. a capitál concert for will annexed to the estate of Cheng Hong Pui, aline Cheng Man Yeung, which Miss O'Keefe was sible, took place at the Royal Air alias Jacob Tsieng Aphot, late of Forge Depot, Cameron Road, and Mengtau (or Mongtse), Yunnan, it was mach enjoyed, especially the merchant, who died on June 10th, 1923, in a district outside the West ern Gate of Mengtsu, has been the village tuus, granted to Ng Wai Kan, 14, Queen's Street, Hong Kong, the attorney! of Tsienk Kony, alias Cheng Kwai,

I have talked with numbers of alias Cheng Kan Sting alia these poor people to-day, and they district as deceased.

To-day he is one of the foremost

The programme opened with pianists in the World, and holds a Bach-Stradal's Organ Concert play- high post in one of the biggested by Leo Podolsky a storm of music academies in the world, emotions, & richness of colour and namely the Sherwood Music School movement such as I have not ex- in Chicago.

Ferienced since Godowsky was in Hong Kong. In this initial num-dancing by her pupils. ber M. Podolsky proved how great nu artist be is. The next item was Sarabande, a 19th century tune by Rameau Godowsky in which Vern

Speaking of his present tour, M. Podolsky said this was a record tour of four and a half months space. I undertook this tour," he said, mainly as a recreation, but

The Programme.

The programme for the current week is as under:-

To-day: Cheer O Concert,

drive, 7 p.m.

Two Awful Minutes,

have found that I have crammed a Mirova gave a very pleasingolo/7.30 p.m.; " Better, 'Ole": Whist Charles Nam Sang, of the same tall a tale of two awful minutes.

lot of recitals into it.”

During this tour he gave no fewer than 40 concerts in 61 days in Java and Sumatra. From there he went to Singapore, where he gave one recital, and then came on to Hong Kong.

"I am sorry that I have had to confine myself to co few recitals, in many cases only one, in one place of visit. I regret this especially in Hong Kong, where I ain so well known, for Hong Kong is a plaça

To-morrow :-Rope Factory: Con- cert, by the Y.M.C.A. Mobile Con- cert Party 7.45 p.m. Hankow Barracks: Concert, by the "Revel- oflera Concert Party, P.; "Cheer O": Whist drive, 7.15 "Better "Ole": Singing p.. competition, 7 p.m.

Thursday: Cheer 0" In formal dance, p.m..

dande. Bratas Intermezzo showed the high musical feeling of Vera Mirova; her dancing, was

a poem and interpreted every note Brahms. Then Mr. Podolsky played the Romance by Schumann, and Brahms Rhadsodie. In both these popular concert pieces he played as only Podolsky could play it, -.

The second part of the programme "Old opened with Godowsky's Vienna" to which Vera Mirova danced with a verve which equalled I should like to have seen a little that even of Pavlova. She appear more of it, after a five years' ab-ed as a beautiful Dresden Fayance sunce. However, I cannot help it, figure and the colours were for from here I am booked to give bright as" if the porcelain came recitals in Shanghai, Japan and freshly from the kiln. A vociferous Honolulu. Then my time of reencore was the result of this creation will be up, and I must re-beautiful display of dancing. Sub- turn to Chicago.'

M. Podolaky explained that he sequently M. Podolsky played has to be back in Chicago by Debussy's Moonlight and two poems September 10th, as he has been ap by the young Russian, composer pointed a Professor at the Sher.

Then came a Hindo wood Music School, the first in. Scriabing. stitution of its kind in Chicago dance by Vera Mizova and the and one of the biggest institutions Raphsodie by Dohnanyi which has

not been played here before.

of its nature in the whole world.

This can be recognised when it

is stated that there are no fewer

the best

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The performance closed with

than 5,000 pupils under 150 pro- L'Homme Mecanique" the dance fessors and teachers studying there.

arranged by Prokofieff, to inter- Only the greatest musicians are engaged as teachers. Sherwood can Fret the present century where pay better than the institution at everything is due to mechanism and Leipzig, and that is fort

there is little soul or heart. Niddy masters are secured for

M. Podolsky, our representative Impekoven was the first inter- learned, is personally in charge of preter of L'Homme Mecanique !! the Masters School (the cream of and made a great "sensation with musicians in other words).. In it. Vera Mirava danced it in in- former years there were Masters imitable style. Schools at Berlin and Vienna and fabulous prices were paid to the tenchers Chicago went one better, and for every one Master engaged on the Continent at these great schools of music they engage about

tea.

Asked his age, M. Podolsky ad- mitted that he was only 33.

Ten years ago, he stated, he went on tour, from Tokyo, and gave 420 concerts. It was 1917 when he started, and he completed his tour in 1822.

He has made 96 sea voyages.

On previous trips be covered 6,000 kilometers by car in Java and Sumatra, and during the present tour covered over 2,000 kilometres

Mine, Mirova.

It is a great pity that only one concert was arranged; a repetition

Friday: Cheer O Conecrt, 7 p.m.; "Better 'Ole": Concer, arranged by Entertainment Con- mittee, 7 p..

Saturday:-City Hall; Grand concert, arranged by Mrs. P. Younghusband,, 6.30 p.m.

Sunday: Men's "Cheer O," .45 p.; 'Ole," 8 p.m.

meetings: Better

„GIVEN AWAY BY THE

DOGS.

SERVANT WHỞ TURNED THIEF.

"At midday there was a thun- The deceased "attached a photo- graph of himself, and one of his der-storm," said one woman, "and executors to the will, and states that all day there was a torrent of rain. he was a native of the Heung Sha The river overflowed its banks, and district, had a wife, three concu bines, and three sons, the last men as the water kep rising we did tioned aged 15 years, 8 years and not go to bed It must have been 6 years, respectively when the will about half-past ten when the worst was made on April 3rd, 1925.

he

various other places.

came. A towering wave of water

• Deceased stated in the 'will that { Tonkin, Yunnar, Hong Kong, the two minutes it had done what you had extensive properties in rushed through the valley and in Prefecture of Kwang Chau, Macao see and she embraced the ruins and in his native village, and

around us in a sweeping gesture. This was at Borggiesshubol, the village which had suffered most. The Gottieube was rushing over its stany bed, and had I not seen

He directs that the executor must wait until all the sons; including posthumus gons have attained maturity before administering the estate between them jointly

**European W

Resealing of probate of the will of the late Mr. John Murray, late of-12, Ashbarn Gardons, South Ken sington, London, has been granted to Mr. L. R. Andrews, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, the attorney of the widow and other

executors,

QUEEN'S THEATRE

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW at 230, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20

RUDOLPH VALENTINO

The Screen's Greatest Lover as the Hero of one of the Most Famous Romances ever. written

MONSIEUR

BEAUCAIRE

The second of the big pictures being screened again as a result of the recent voting.

WORLD

IN

STAR

CONRAD NAGEL

HOLLYWOOD

AND

WITH

POTASH

AND

PERLMUTTER

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW Orchestra at 5.15 & 9.20 only. Chinese Interpreter at 2.80-& 7.15.

STAR

TO-NIGHT Ar 9.30

PAULINE STARKE

IN

SUN-UP

A tale of hill feuds

TO-DAY AND ~ TO-MORROW Continuous from 2.80.

"SNAPPY"

ANCHOR BRAND PURE MANILA ROPE.

*THE CORDAGE. YOU CAN TRUST.”

all around me the evidence of its MARINE KOPS tearful power I could not have be lieved that this narrow stream could could possess such titanic TRANSMISSION Power.

There were the heaps of stones

and bricks and roofing which had POWER ROPE [ | been "houses. Four houses had been Deceased left net estate in Eng bowled over like ninepins by the estate in this Colony valued at water.. land amounting to £18,033, and $11,800

perished.

A Chinese pleaded guilty before Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday to

The inhabitants, · bad And near these ruins He directs that £500 be paid im were houses of which the front barglary at Noa, 2 and 3, Mallory

when he stole a quantity of jewellery, trinkets, the use of a house the water. Street, Wanchai, on Saturday night mediate expenses, and bequeaths to

her various things such as jewel-walls had been wrenched away by ery and money worth $2,060, the and a certain income. property of Mrs. Peuster, wife of Mr. P. O. Peuster of Messrs. John

Mannera & Co.

Sergt. Rozeskwy said that all the stolen property with the exception of a pair of earnings and 810 had been recovered. The accused had previously worked for Mr. Petster but left at the time of the 1925 strike. Recently he had again call-

of this programme would all the led at the house, but was ordered

beatre.

SNAPPY.

Бы

CAPITAL PERFORMANCE AT THE STAR.

Mr. Charles Chämier's talented Carabet

by Mr. Peuster not to go there again.

He bequeathes £50 per annum each to two female domestic ser vants, and also makes many other bequests to relatives in very lengthy will.

LETTER FROM BIAS BAY.

KIDNAPPED COMPRADORE WRITES HOME.

"UNTOLD HARDSHIP."

After weeks of suspense a letter

Bridges Swept Away.

The people in this village who suffered least were those whose houses were only flooded to the first or second floors. Their goods and chattels, covered with mire, were piled in the atrect, and the ear- cases of horses, cows, pigs, and sheep which had been brought on the swirling water, were lying" about. A stone bridge recently strengthened for motor trafic had bean swept away.

The destruction of bridges has

-Asked how the police got on the accused's track, the Sergeant said that when he (witness) went to the house two dogs on the premises

went for him." This led him to has at last been-received by the closed communication with many enquire how it was that the dogs aged mother of Lak Shing San, the places. I had to abandon an at- did not bark at the thief. It was Chinese compradore of the stempt to get to Glashutte, a then that Mr. Peaster, suspected Solviken who was captured by little town."famous for its watch. the accused. The accused was ar pirates.

Company followed up reated and in search of his house The letter was written in the making industry, because the their initial success with "Cock led to the discovery of the jewel- pirates' den and although it was bridges on the way had been ery tied in a handkerchief and not a cheerful one, it at least helped tails by prestating "Snappy another very clever and amusing left by the accused in the custody to kindle hope in the old lady's destroyed, and the towns where heart. Mr. Lak wrote to say that many had been killed could not be show, at the Star Theatre last of his wife.

Sentence of six months' hard he is passing through antold hard-eached without making a great

detour. night. Another performance of the Mme. Vera Mirova, who is M. same production takes place this labour was passed.

ship and bagged his mother to do Podolsky's wife, is a classical evening. The troupe was in speci

her utmost to effect his release. Jaucer of Brilliance.

The note was only a brief one, and ally good form last night and the. audience thoroughly enjoyed them- THE BUTCHER AND THE

according to the mother, it did not selves from start to finish.

give any address. It mentioned | nothing about ransom, so the old lady is somewhat puzzled as to. what steps to take to set her son free...

She has appeared in Belgium Switzerland, France, Spain and Germany,

As one who has seen her dance. on many occasions, told Gur repre- sentative, her whole body seems to music, inspired by mulle in much s manner that she interprets the music through her dancing which seems to speak more claarly than words.

To-morrow and Thursday Our Cabaret" will be given and "Tally Ho' on Friday and Saturday..

BENNO MOISEIWITSCH'S

BOY.

ASSAULT OR TWO SLAPS".

STEALING MEAT.

When a butcher of West Point market was charged at the Central Magistracy yesterday with assault ing a small boy on Baturday, he said he only gave the boy two slaps because he tried to run away with

TWO MOTOR OFFENCES.

Captain Thomas, a local matör. ist, was fined. 85 at Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday for driving his car without a light in Nathan Road on

A. Easterbrooke was also

SECOND CONCERT. This was borne out in her mar vellous dancing last night at the Last night's concert, the second Queen's. She is accompanied in and last of Moiseiwitsch's stay in her dances by M. Podolsky. Hong Kong, wse not. all Greworks. out paying for fre conts' worth of July 10th at 10.45 p.m. appeared before the Queen of more sweetly than any nightingale; Inspector Grant stated that the

NEW GERMAN TARIFFS. PROTECTION FOR FARMERS.

The provisional German" Tarifl drawn up in 1925 will lapse on July 31st, and the Reichstag was asked to sanction & proposal for, it to re main in force until December 31st,

Dr. Kohler, Finance Minister, in recommending this ...course, pointed out that the income "from Customs duties rose from £20,000,000 in 1925 to £47,000,000 in 1928 1

At the same time, the Minister

It is interesting to note that the Sometimes the piano trilled softly, beef, bought at defendant's stalled for disregarding an Indian of Food, Dr. Schiele, submitted-

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when Her sometimes it crooned soothingly, boy had beer in the habit of buying constable's signal to stop when proposals for increasing the duty jesty was there. And then it would burs out to a defendant a stall, but because driving his motor-cycls on July 6th the imported potatoes and sugar, OVER HALF CLUST As a guest star, she danced by thunders of sublimity. For such he had been overcharged he had Defendant said he did not know which he defended on the ground in LECLERC'SEX ASRIDWI the fnvitation of Adolf Bohm at pieces Chopin's Prelude in E bought his beef. elsewhere. The anything about the signal that the farmers, especially the color one of th the Ballet in Chicago, which in- Hat Minor Scherzo B Minor, stallholder became angry and is An Indian courtable said that peasant farmers require this mes vitation was one of the greatest Mazurka A Minor and Polonaise alleged to have knocked the boy defendant came compliments that could have been à fat Major, the applause came down and stamped upon him with paid to her and her art

very-freely ----When Moiseiwitsch clogs, made Today, M. Podolsky goes to reached the end of his programme The Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lind Maeso-to-give-a-rocital, and leaves his audience recalled him again and sell)-adjourned until today, allow for the North to-morrow

ing defendant bail in tes.

out of Wuhu sure

sure of protection,

Street into Kowloon City Road an the question of Customs did light was against him, but he duties" he said, we must hold did not stop. The summons was fast to the principle of solidarity dismissed with a caution to defer between industry-

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