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[BY PHILIP PAGE]

In the Bechstein Hall in Berlin, florid and hideous place where and Anton Johannes Brahme Rubinstein have played, I have just listened to the strangest concert of

all time.

Miraculous is an overworked ad- jective these days, but to musis that comes from no instrument and no

voice, that is neither heard over the wireless nor the result of a gramophone card it is surely ap plicable.

The quality of the music matters little, and those who produced is were careful to explain that they were primarily scientists, and not ship, and no deliberately cultivated atmosphere of mystery. Prospero's isle was far distant, but not, it seemed, his magic, and one did fa truth ask, "Where should this music be, the air or the earth?"

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autuma Mars came comparatively tempted to wonder if much near to the earth. In early Novem they seo can really be true. But in ber only 42,000,000 miles separat.all the strange medley of marble. ed us from our neighbour.

walled palaces and log cabins It was known to astronomers nothing is surprising as the year ago "that Dr. Coblentz and

scenes that deal with American col- Mr. Lampland were engaged in lege life and the American college seeking, at the Lowell Observatory, dapper. further confirmation or the reverso. If you have been to Oxford or of the temperature measurements Cambridge where sex antagonism is which they obtained in 1924.

still far from dead, or, London or Two years ago Mesars. Coblentz one of the newer universities where and Lampland found the equatorial there is a friendly but quite un- region of the planet to ho much emotional equality among the warmer than the poles, the after- men and women it seems frankly noon temperature to be higher than impossible Only if you have been the morning, and the blue-green to America, just to New York areas to be conțiderably hotter than or some sem European centre, do the reddish-ochre regions. Further, you realise that not only does this they found the mean annual tem: lave-making, or flirting or pet- perature to range from 7 to 18 de ting"" or whatever you like to call grees centigrade, or 45 to 3 de- it go on (perhaps not so vividly as grees Fahrenheit. These conclu-

on the film), but it is practically sions have been confirmed and may forced on the American girl by cer- now be accepted as beyond doubt. tad conventions half-Victorian, The dark aren was found to be half-ultra-modern, that govern her 19 to 15 degrees warmer than the life. bright. If this difference in teme perature," the astronomers con clude, is the result of a difference in elevation, then the cooler bright coloured areas (deserts) are per haps 7,000 feet higher than the dark areas. So smali

difference in elevation would escape detection would escape detection visually."

or engaged by the time she is nine-hia hands, with hands that touched hroidored ivory satin, her head auto passenger certificates issued by This confirms the view of Lowell teen or twenty, is quite as much He plucked, not at a harp, but at porting a towering headdress, of and other specialists that Mars is on the shelf as aur grandmothers the nir. With his right hand shak-jewels, and giving a play kap subject of a Court case against the

to centuries of playgoers in China, a level world compared to the earth.

or great grandmothers were. Paring, a non-existent plectrum, and his left moving slowly up and down ties, dances, and other amusements space to regulate the changes Lee Shut Fong, leading actress of played" | Chins and now visiting for the from piano to forte, he simple. melodies. Connie first time in the United States, pays" from "Mignon," Saint-

Schuberta gave the last of three guest per Saens's 'Le Cygne,' "Ave Maria "with a tone like formances at the Chinese Theatre that of a violin, though rather more in Oxford Street in Boston last rounded and horn-like.

month.

A litle over fifty years ago R. the miniature of our earth" and enumerated many analogies be- tween the two planeta. A quarter of a century ago, after the 'recog- uition of the absence of seas on

A. Proctor referred to Mars as

A Professor From Leningrad, The music was produced by man in a dinner jacket-Professor CHINESE ACTRESS IN U.S. PASSENGER CERTIFICATES:

the Theremin, a Russian, from Physikalisch-Technischen Institut, Leningrad. His knowledge of Ger man was peculiar, but not exten- ive, and a long vorspiel was de livered by a German friend. This basis of this was an explanation of the technical atherwellen-musik,”

Much may be said for and against American bustle, but it has had one deplorable effect in cutting down a girl's youth. Free and modern as the may be, there is no extension of youth and a good time. The American girl of the What Professor Theremin did middle west, if she is not married was in short, to make music with

are for either her younger sister or the young married set in which she

does not mix.

The Cutting-in "* System, My first experience of these fixed Mars, opinion swung to the view divisions came on asking an ex that the earth and Mars were wide tremely pretty but rather quiet girl ly dissimilar. Many-astronomers-in a typical-American small town held that the temperature of Mars if she went to many dances. "No," was below freezing-point, and that the atmosphere was almost desti- she answered, "I haven't been to tute of water vapour. The recent many this winter, but you see they Lowell Observatory results show that, after all, there is a close simi- are all for debutantes or the school larity between climatic conditions set."

and I will refer to it later,

nothing that mortal eye could” Bee.

"

Between each piese he explained haltingly, that the rendering might

from nowhere else.

of eminent German scientists and

ORIENTAL DRAMA" IN BOSTON

CROWDED HOUSES.

Wearing gleaming robes of em

TEST CASE DECIDED AT MARINE COURT.

филирани

FOREIGN CERTIFICATES NOT VALID HERE.

An important judgment, relating

a foreign country, which formed the

master and owners of the as. Tai Fouk Shing on July 27th, and was afterwards referred to the Gover- nor-in-Council, was announced yes- terday morning at the Marine Court."

The Tai Fook Shing arrived here from Saigon on July 2nd with more than 19 passengers on board" in contravention of Section 10 of Ordinance 10 of 1800, Mr. M.-H. Lo appeared for both the owners and master, Captain B. Madsen,

Mr. Lo's contention was that *'"

The theatre was packed to the not have beets technically perfect edge of the sidewalk by men, but it come from the was fold women and children of the quarter viously sincere and truthful; but for the unusual event. The orches had he been the reverse, the array tra, made up of the flute player, professors would have discovered the players of the moon guitar, the any charlatanism by the sheer force cymbals and the one-string guitar. Chinese ship, flying the Chinese here and on Mars. The wheel of Search any American popular of dome like foreheads and intent exerted itself, although it "presory- opinion has therefore come" round illustrated magazine, and you and expressions of Teutonic intelleced the right to play in its shirt. dag, did not come under the Ordin-

tunlity to the nth degree. to Sir William Herschel's view that the analogy between Mars and the only two types of young girl port Elastein Pressut, earth is by far the greatest in the rayed. One is the flapper with a

whole solar system; and if we are prettily rounded make-up face and hardly warranted in saying that the planet's inhabitants probably the other the old-fashioned" just enjoy a situation in many respects like my mother" type, neither look similar to ours," we can at lenating more than seventeen. conclude that the radiometer re- sults of 1924 and 1926 have Expected To Make Conversation. materially strengthened the view Unless Miss America, does her that Mars is a habitable world.

best to imitate Baby Face of

RED, WHITE AND BLUE SHOES.

FOR MEN.

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Einstein was there, giving the

able infant."

G

Kong certificate was obtained.

which go to make our theatre. The arrived Hong Kong. - singing, the dancing, the 'gestures Mr. Lo contended that that as well as the ancient music and

вдос. Furthermore, the ship used sleeves.

Lee Shut Fong is accompanied to run between Canton and Saigon, without calling at Hong Kong. right German word when the lec on the trip by her husband, Dr. Later the vessel omitted Canton turer faltered, and applauding Henry Wei, son of a compradore, entirely and touched at Hong Kong, a sad-faced man in a dark grey of Shanghai, who is in America on

uit. Gerhart Hauptmann, robust business. Dr. Wei is a graduated in consequence of that, a Hong and rubicund, nodded approval. Among the many musicians were of St. John's College in Shanghai This certificats expired when the Leo Slezak, the Wagnerian tenor, where he took an 31.A degree Tai Fook Shing was at Saigon, and and Bruno Walter, the conductor.

several

years ago.

the ship was refused clearance by "Where the professor is" leading

Performances In New York:

the Port Authorities there until it the magazines, her beauty will not be to," Waiter said to me after the

At fourteen, mid Dr. Wei, had been demonstration,

Can hardly

thoroughly surveyed. meet with its 'żeward Also she think until I have viewed the whole my wife began her training for After this survey, the Saigon must learn the lang and vicacious position, calmly and alone, Music chatter se necessary to the Ameri-thout instrumente! A voice that the theatre. It is very rigid. It Authorities issued a certificate enn flapper. For as far as conver is no voice! The thing is in its in schooling in all the branches which held good until the vessel sation is concerned, the woman is infancy, of course-but a formid expected to do all the work. A man has no obligation to make con-

To the student of Hertzian waves versation with a girl at a dinner party or dance. She must struggle this air music" is possibly, not literature of our people. She rose certificate was equivalent in value to amuse the man she is with, other quite su formidable a problem to a position as leading actress in wise he will not dance with her or Professor Theremin generates these the Canton district. She is to that to one issued at this port, but the take her out again.

She has to waves in a small wooden box, from district what Mei Lan Fang, the magistrate decided that the matter. make all the verbal advances. It is which projects a brass rod about leading actor and female imper. should be referred to the Governor a foot long. He touches neither sonator of Peking is to Northern not his business.

the box ner the rod. The waves are China It means very hard work in-Council. As a case in point he which were The Quist Girl,

there, and by agitating them a high and thinking of nothing but the referred to negotiations,

still pending between the British Shoes in green glacé Ed.

There is little chance of the quiet note or a low note is produced. To theatre for many years.

Government, the Board of Trade Shoes in platinum glacé, with intelligent girl being appreciated produce these notes and even a de- silver laces.

when she goes out into the world finite tune is not at all difficult.

and the Swedish Board of Trade -And not or women-but for men innless the borrows the flapper's

My knowledge of science simply

regarding the refusal of the British These were but a few of the many tricks. What makes it still more does not exist, but I found it easy

Board of Trade to recognise the examples of exotic footwear I saw impossible in the cutting-in system to follow the professor's example, at the use and Leather Fair in at dances. The one partner system and, with no discourteous inten: BRITISH FIRMS IN A SEVERE Swedish Board of Trade certificate. theBoyal Agricultural Hallis quite unknown Instead it is tion, I shook out Home, sweet

At yesterday's hearing Common- (writes an Evening News represen-point of honour to take a girl home from the air-a most un-

der G. Hole, R.N., informed Mr. Lo that the Governor-in-Council tatave). They were much

had decided against him, buż în startling in design than those in

view of the fact that the master tended for women's wear,ak

The platinum glace, shoes also had fancy stitches carried out in cherry colour.

NEW DESIGNS AT THE SHOE AND LEATHER FAIR.

Shoes in red, white, and blue leather,

Shoes in blue crocodile leather picked out with gold.

Tartan Shades,

more

Paidley pattern in a tartan shade glorised another pair of calf shoes for mere men who would be dan dies

The Limitations.

who is known to be so popular canny experience. that she will be cut in " On practically every time she goes round the room. If she is not claimed in this way, convention forces the man to dance with her

"At present the limitations of this mystery music are:-

SAFETY IN

THE AIR, ·

TEST:

WOMAN'S 'FLIGHT.

Seven applications have been re-and owners had only committed-a ceived for entry to the new "Bale technical offence, he would impose (1) That only a violin tone is Aircraft Competition which a light fine. He fined the master produced (though a scarcely suc being organised by the Daniel Gug- $25 and the owners. 8100 remarking .cessful attempt was made to extract genheim Fund for the promotion that, according to the Ordinance, a human contralto voice)

of Aeronautics, writes the Aeronau- he could have imposed a much tital heavier fine..

for the rest of the evening. So un less a girl has plenty of admirers ready to cut in a man does not ask her to dance because he'll be auglice at. if (2) That only a single note can

es indeed de to simulate greened bothus it he is humiliati be evolved by the individual, and

marble picked out with gold, with

or correspondent of the London

first prize is 100,000 dollars, is de-

In one the aircraft must come to

suffers at this public exposure of notes in combinatione, harmony are from British firms, one being soles abowing a mottled finish, were her failure. She will avoid going are not at present possible. from the Cierva Autogiro Com the first long cross-country flight illustrative of yet another new to parties rather than face such a Several individuals, however, could pany

remedy this deficiency by "playing" The competition, in which the ever made in a machine of this possibility. fancy.

British firme which have Other There is no denying that the simultaneously. There were shoes, too, of lacquer

American young man seems to en- Its astounding novelty consists in signed to foster the construction of entered are the De Havilland Air- red glacé, also bearing gold a joy this position of the Sultan in the fact that for the first time in safer aircraft, and the tests which craft Company, the Gloster Air ornamentation-also for men:

Very pointed toes. with first a harem. Why should he bother to history music (other than vocal the machines must pass are excraft Company, Messrs. Handley

Page, and Mecats. Vickers square shapes, distinguish the new go out and choose someone for him- music) is divorcing itself from tremely difficult,

Major Mayo, technical adviser to self1. Let her do the courting mechanical means. The air, not an designa

Fancy stitching is on the Owing to mixed schools and col instrument, is played upon. More rest in less than 100ft, after touch the fund, said that the competition erense, and the alliance of patent leges being almost universal, except over, anyone without any technical ing the ground. No existing star would be held at, Mitchel Field, leather strapping and reptile skin.in certain of the Eastern states, knowledge is able by this means to dard machine, with the exception Long Island, and that it would be and even, tile designs it black and there is none of the English school produce music comparable in its of the Autogiro, could pass the unlikely to begin before the end of

boy feeling that women are a neces- beauty of tone to that which the landing tests,

Two American firms hare enter- white, are new fashion notions.

sary evil but can be avoided till skilled player of an instrument Senor de la Cierva has been donext year, one gets older. Because it is usual may take years to attain, and this ing auch flying on the Autogiro ed and Mr. Fokker, the Inmous Cloth gaiters reaching to the over there to marry very young in not by switching on the wireless, recently. He has carried a large Dutch designer, has signified his thigh are a new idea for the pillion a large number of casca he will putting on a gramophone record, number of passengers, and a fex intention of entering Applica girl These are in different colours marry the college flapper if she or sitting down at a pianola. It is days ago he few & machine from tions are also expected from revolution. Evening Hamble to Farnborough. This is French, German, and Italian air- and are washable. They are to be trica for him hard enough. Man-indsed made in leather soon.

chester Guardian.

For The Fillion Girl.

Standard

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