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BOARD OF TRADE FIGURES.

EXPORTS TO CHINA FALLEN FROM 9.2 TO 3.2 MILLIONS.

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The Board of Trade statistics showing the direction of British trade for the first half of 1997 are reviewed in Lloyds Bank monthly. for September as follows:- During this period Britain's importa from foreign countries amounted to 432 millions ns compared with about 400 mil- lions for the first six months of 1920, while those from British coun- tries (including Protectorates and Mandated Territories) amounted to 185 millions as compared with 202 millions in 1926.

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SINGING.

HONG KONG SHARE MARKET.

REVIEW OF THE WEEK'S ACTIVITIES.

THINGS ENGLISH: VOICES. CANNOT DO.

SMALL BUSINESS DONE BUT THE "FOR-REVER-RAN-DEVER”

PRICES MAINTAINED.

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singer's English" and the. In their weekly share report, differences between German, Italian dated Friday, November 18th,

and English voices are dealt with Hessrs. Benjamin and Pott's state that the volume of business trans acted has been on a small scale, but prices generally have been well maintained.

Great Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank's raled with small sales made at 31,130 The London quotation re corded to £119.10.0 (middle).

Unions were dealt in at 8902)/8200 and more are to be had at the former rate.

On the other hand, during the first half of 1923, we exported to foreign countries 185 millions as compared with 180 millions, aur exports to British countries being 137 millions in comparison with 133 millions Inst year.

There was very little comparative change in the re-export trade, the foreign total being 53 millions and the Dominion total 11 millions.

Our imports from Russia have fallen from 7.3 millions to 6.8 mil lions and those from Egypt from 15 millions to 13 millions; those from the Netherlands being also slightly lower at 21 millions. On the other hand, our imports from Sweden have risen from 8.8 millions to 105 millions; from Germany from 27.1" millions to 29 millions; from Belgium from 18.6 to 24 mil- lions; from France from 30.2 to 32 millions and from the U.S.A. from 100.3 to 110.7 millions. As regards the Dominions; decreases in im porta have occurred in the case of India, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Turning to exporta, trade with Russia has fallen from 3.2 to 9.6 millions; with China from 9.2 'to 3.2 millions, and with the United States from 24 to 21 millions. Increased exports are shown to Germany, from 113 to 191 millions; to the Netherlands at 10 millions, to Belgium at 8 millions; to Aus- tralia at 31 millions and to Canada

at 13.6 millions.

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The foreign total of 432 millions of imports represents 70 per cent of the total imports, those from British countries thus representing 30 per cent, while as regards ex- ports, the foreign section accounta for 54.1 per cent thus leaving 45.9 per cent. for those to British "coun- " tries.

"CANCER IS CONTAGIOUS.

DOCTOR" ADVANCES A NEW THEORY.

Hong Kong Fires are sought for at 8300 and probably a little more would be paid. ̧,

by Sir Henry Wood in this group of extracts from what he has call. ed his magnum opus," his forth- coming book "The Gentle Art of Singing” (Oxford University Press),.

Sir Henry has an unrivalled know. ledge of the singers and the singing of the last thirty years: he coached some of the greatest of our singers, and has been the Conductor of the Queen's Hall Promenade Concerts since 1805.

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Voice producers and voice ape Hong Kong, Canten and Macnocialists are not as a rule trained Steamboats are in some demand at musicians. Walk through the pass slightly below the present quotation.nges of fashionable teaching studios. Kailans are enquired for at 63/-, and listen to the exercises and the Raubs have buoyers at 833; Kow-quality of the tone you hear through loon Wharves were done 81201 the green baize doors. A walk in and continue "in request; Hong the Zoo is more soothing to the car Kong Lands were negotiated at 856. and mind.

If you open a green door you will Humphreys Estates further ad-he introduced to a thousand other vanced to $191; Realtys are a shade little fancies too numerous to men easier at 801.

tion. Pupils may be singing inta, cupboards or singing prostrate on a sofa, and they will certainly be as conscious as possible of their method of_production..

"Hong Kong Trams were dealt in ar 820 and 80.10: Hong Kong Electrics ruled firm, and business was done up to 351); Chinn Lights (Combined) changed hands at 812; Hong Kong Telephones are a turn higher at 83.70.

Hong Kong Government Loans are enquired for at 1 per cent premium.

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STAGE: TRAINING.

VERSATILITY DISCOURAGED IN YOUNG ACTRESSES.

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Recently I have plays in which every part has been acted with something approaching perfection. Yet someone has been saying that the disappearance of the old stock companies, in which actors and netresses often appeared in six different characters in a week, has proved the curse of the stage.

I have watched the work of these voice producers, for many years. But I cannot recall one singer whe has devoted the best years of his student life only to voice produe- tion and has taken any position in the operatic or concert world. Al these voice producers' pupils sing off the pitch.

Slobbering From Note To Note. The clear and agile singing of notes is lamentably rare among soloists. They sing unevenly, stickily, unrhythmically, mostly off the key, hardly ever in tune with other instruments. As for an en- semble with another instrument or other instruments, it seems to be beyond their aim or desire,

Ho-lee Spee-reet."

related to music should never, bo neglected by singing students. Until recently English singers were nearly all trained by foreign professors, with the result that they sang their own language abominably. To-day one still hears the Italian:“i”(se)-! used for the short English_vowel "i" as in "bit," "city". Even if the composer has set this vowel to a long note, its sound must be pure and correct.

The diction which is not necessarily

Singers should study the English "i" or "y" in such words as

i

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softly." truly." The public is especially pained when Ho-tee Spec-reet is sung for "Holy Spirit,"

aample "for ample, n Шалп

man."leetal" for little," "oh-pen" or **oh-pun." for "op'n" and when the final r's before vowels are ridiculously trill- ed, so that we get "for-rever-ran dover-more" instead of "for ever. and evermore. The vocal "y". distinct from the trilled "r," is a difficult problern which is never solved by some vocalists.

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I, for one, venture to doubt it. In the old days a young actress who joined a touring stock com- pany would find herself cast for Cordelia in "King Lear," and for a comic servant girl in farce in the

Let us once for all, drop singers' sama ercing. Nowadays the young actress goes on tour with a English. Continental vowels are not London success and plays the same English; they are more violently and Oneness of part for six months at a stretch. sharply contrasted.

Both systems have their obvious position and calour is much more The remarkable suggestion that draw-backs (says the Daily Mail essential in singing English than in singing Continental vowels, and cancer is contagious, & belief which Dramatic Critic). the whole of the medical profession There are many people always nearly all foreign voenlists have has previously refused to admit, is ready to reverence the past and to difficulty in singing our short vowels., the present especially especially con long notes, without contained in a letter to the British condemn Medical Journal from Dr. J. Mewhere the stage is concerned-who nasal bleatiness, particularly when Leod, of Ingleton, Carnforth, Lan will assure you that the old stock they come to the English "ai" (ay) cashire.

system was ideal training for the as in may, pay, or day. Dr. McLeod, in his better gives novice. On the other hand, many How Volces Are Ruined. instances of three, men who were actors who experienced such train-

I think there is a great deal more not known to be suffering from eating declare that they were so busy cer when they accepted gifts of muggling" their lines that they in nationality of voice than many pipes from a friend, Mr.Xhad no time to think out their persons imagine. In my long ex- after Mr. "X" had smoked the parts, no time to study charac-perience it bas often happened to ine to witness the dire results upon pipes only, once or twice..

Mr. "X" later died from cancer, and within' the next year or two his friends "A" "B," and "C"

died from cancer.

teriantion.

With their roles changed night some English voices of Continental by night, all their efforts were contraining. A real Italian voice, far centrated upon getting themselves instance, can force white open tones to the top of the register, with a word perfect. The rendering was necessarily superficial and their blenty quality, and can sing such hectic dramatic operas as "Aida" Indulgent Pipe-Smokers. work was shoddy They neted an

and Cavalleria," to mention only MX was an indulgeat pipe conventional lines. smoker writes Dr. McLeod, TE- Of course many of those who two, without much vocal wear and newing an attractive and expensive served their apprenticeship with tear and deterioration of quality.. But if ordinary English voices try type of pipe every few weeks. He the old stock companies lived to do

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had business dealings with A, fine work; some lived to do great to do the same the results are, with B and C and presented each work. This was not due to their very few exceptions, appalling. with one of these used pipes. Un-stock company experience. It was Singers with pretty little English suffering from cancer of the parts in a hurry, but because they Florence to study Italian opera for stomach, and died within the year. were born actors and actresses. a couple of years, and, because the "A," says Dr. McLeod, died of They did not achieve fame because genre does not suit them in the cancer of the tongue and jaw, 'B' of the stock company system, but feast, vocally or physically, they re- They turn voiceless and useless. of cancer of the stomach, and 'C' in spite of it. of cancer of the bowel.

known to all concerned he was not that they were forced to learn voices run off to Milan, Naples, or OUR CABARET DRUMMOND

At the present time theatrical. have utterly changed their method "I leave the reader to draw his managers have gone to the opposite and kind of singing, and while they own conclusions,' adds Dr. Me extreme. Versatility is discourag have failed in Italian opera, bare Lood...

ed, and the modern stage has a become incapable of rendering A prominent London specialist regrettable tendency to pitchfork alieder, oratorios, or English songs.

German voices, again, can declaim pointed out that the suggestion young actor into a certain grove opens up an entirely now field of and to keep him there. Early in big stuff with the utmost force, ex- cancer theory.

his career he scores a success in a plode consonants, like artillery prac It has been possible to transfer certain type of chamcter, and he tice, without suffering, because of German Vocal cancer

from one animal to ania conderaned to play that type for the strength of other," he said, "in experiments the rest of his natural life or chords, and because the German work by means of transplanting the rather for as long as he succeeds in physique matches the weight and circumference to which it belongs growth, but never has a mouse, for finding engagements.

But in spite of all this we have German voices can pull through a instapice, been infected through nib bling at something at which a can-actors worthy of any play that moet drastic vocal curriculum and cer mouse bas nibbled

modern authors are capable of take no harm, where English voices Similarly, it has been proved, writing. It is rare for a dramatist are overstrained, so that, after n time and time again, that a man to be let down by his cast. It is year or two, they blow sharp end. who has cancer of the lip does not not rare for the cast to be let down flat on tones, acquire a vibrato and infect his wife with it although he by the dramatist. The acting become unsteady, stringy and raw

so often better than the play. in qualityEvening News kisses her."

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