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By the time Pius. X. was elected WEATHER RETORT.
The Vatican, oldest and wisest of Pope (1804) tolerable cordiality Italian institutions, knows well that Yesterday's weather report, fore-reigned between Vatican and its present Italian character is only cast 'and remarks, issued by the Quirinal. The war considerably accepted without question by the AT HELENA MAY INSTITUTE. disturbed that atmosphere, yet by Catholic world at large, because its the time next Pins was elected complete independence from Italian (1929) belief was general that a political influences is self-evident. solution of the Roman Question was That is why, while neglecting to ex-ence enjoyed to the full last night's tolerably near, without any of the plors no likely avenue leading in concert in aid of charity held in many projects for its solution the direction of formal reconciliation the Helena May Instituto in Gaz appearing more practicable than with Italy, the Vatican would not den Road. The programme was the others. For any salution muse
rush headlong into any arrange-exclusively devoted to local talent ment capable of interpretation as and really consisted of a series of imply either a voluntary abandon an alliance with Italian Nation recitals. ment of territory by Italy, or her aliam. At last it seems a mutually consent to the establishment of satisfactory arrangement has been
"Variations and Fugue on made; and future Popes will be Theme by Beethoven" composed an international guarantee of the Popola person and position, or, least thinkable of all, a humiliating re treat by the Holy See from its con atantly reasserted attitude.
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and the composer, and these two clever musicians worked well to gether a la duetta. This composi- tion contained much of interest. although it is only fair to say that there was nothing extraordinarily original in the score. Fatigue be- came evident toward the finish.
To superficial observers it seemed, Vatican's loss of temporal power of the two pianists, Mrs. Bonenfant however, that from informal cor-over a larger, Empire diality to formal reconciliation could be but. a short stop. The Fascists (not always profound ob servers) determined to take that step. In preparation they multi- plied outward courtesies. Shortly before the march on Rome Mus- The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern is SOLINI began exalting the Papacy to distribute the prizes at the as the repository of the Latin and Belilios Public School on February Imperial tradition, although not 5th at 4 p.m. A Chinese play wili long before he had been a gruff Anti-| follow the prim-giving. Clerical. The first Fascist Commis- DEATHS.
sioner ostentatiously visited the BLAGDEN.-Ü January 7th, ag
Cardinal Vicar of Rome on assum Totnes, Devon, aged 53 years, ing office. The crucifix was placed ARTHUR HERBERT BLAGDEN, late
in the schools. War was declared Deputy Engineer-in-Chief and
on the Freemasons The Chigi Manager of the Municipal
Library was presented to the Pope. Electricity Department, Shang-Principal Ministers lost no occasion hai. BARDLEY.-On January 9th, At Shanghai,, PET FRANCIE, ON of Mr. and Mrs. P. F. J. EARDLEY.
of being seen in public at mass. On the Vatican sido these courtesies were returned, though much less demonstratively.
The master of the Sam Lee Tailors shop, of D'Aguilar Street, has re ported to the police that a partner named How had absconded taking 8300 of the firm's money with him.
The command of the cruiser Sufolk his changed hands Capt. Neil O'Neill has been succeeded by Capt. G. S. Arbuthnot, D.S.O., who has been a member of the Ordnance Committee at Woolwich for two years
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Three songs composed by Mr. A. M. Bowes-Smith "were sung by his wife who possesses a soprano voice with great possibilities. Fiddler of Dooney" was a song of ・・ moods. The other two items were "A Lullaby" and "Sunshine and Happiness." Of these two, num- bers, I much preferred the former. It displayed a charming sentiment Expectation in the Fascist ranks
and the accompaniment was taste- WIN now tense. The dangerous "Matteotti period" had been traver:
fully arranged although, to my eed without more than a little in- Seats may now be booked at idea, the accompanist was inclined cidental friction. The authorita Moutries and the Star for the to over-ride the soboist at times in tive voices of the Church had de- entire "season of Coyne's London finitely refrained from making, the Musical Comedy Company, whose the last item. Mrs. Bowes-Smith- "moral question "(as the Opposi- opening revue "Keep Moving
sang "Goodbye, Beloved" ar tion termed the sum total of their will be presented at the Star Hong Kong Office; 11, Ice House objections to the MUSSOLINI rule) Theatre on Monday next at 9.15 encore mumber..
Street
their own. The Government felt p.m. Prices of admission are 83, 82 that the time had come for a de- and 81. finite step forward towards formal resolution of the ecclesiñatical dead-1
FORD. On the 14th instant at No. 18, Granville Avenue, WALTER J. L. Ford, aged 51. Funeral will pass the Monument at 3 p.m. today. (Shanghai.papers please copy),
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The Daily Press.
Hong Kose, Jinuant Ifte, 1920.
THE
Four Cantonese Bongs. Four transcriptions for the piano- For allowing his motor-cycle to be of Cartonese songs by Mr. Harry lock, hoping thereby to earn great driven by an unlicensed driver, Ore, played by the arranger, re- prestige at home and abroad. As a Sanitary Inspector W. G. Gunn, beginning they named a Commis was fined 84 by Major C. Wilsonceived an enthusiastic reception. I sion to examine the existing eccles as the Central Magistracy yester cannot recall having heard anything inatical legislation, and this Com- day. Mr. Guan admitted the sum from a European penso aptly. mission, headed by a Clericalist more to be correct but added that
sentiments. Under Secretary in the Government, he did not know that the man had portraying Oriental ia 1998 produced its report, which no licence.
These songs, which by the way, proposed" important changes in a
sense uniformly favourable to the Mr. Peter Wong's name was were not true Oriental music be PRISONER" OF THE Vatican's known views. The changes called yesterday morning at the cause of the inability of the piano envisaged include relaxation of the Central Magistracy before Major C. to give the quarter-tone effect, were VATICAN.
State's right to interfere in the Willson in connection with a sum- nomination of ecclesiastics to mons taken against him by the nevertheless pleasing and possessed. ACCORDING to a-Reuter cable from Italian, preferments, and an im-Trafic Police for driving his motor much of musical value. The com Rome, reconciliation between Church provement of the position of reli- car at Caine Road on December poser displayed a fluency and ten-
30th, without a licence. "He was not and State has been at last reached.gious bodies as property-owners-
The Fascists not unnaturally ex-present and the case was adjourned derness of touch that marked him The long and bitter controversy
as no mean pianist. pected benevolent anile from 4ine die. Vatican quarters. What was not has points of interest for those who
their surprise and chagrin to have A dress suit belonging to Mr. J. are neither Catholics nor Italians launched at them from the columns (Fascist or otherwise) but for those of the Oservatore Ramona, the re- directly concerned the Rewe will get ice in the driest cognised mouthpiece of Vatican bo received with great satisfaction. of tones. The proposals are the Tacitly ignored for years, on end. one-sided work of the Government," ran the communication." If they contain improvements on the former legislation, so unjust to the Church,
devised by the Liberal Governments which for half a century ruled the
The songs were "Man Tak Yuen Whelan of No. 231, Nathan Road Tueng" (The Monk's Prayer).. was recovered in a pawnshop, last" Seung Fei Do Tip (Two But- At the Kowloon. Mugistracy, yester Saturday by a Chinese detective. terflies), "Yui Ta Ba Chiu" (Rain- day morning, Mr. E. W. Hamilton drops on Banana Tree), "Hou Tim ordered the suit to be returned to Lui" (Fairweather Thunderstorm). the owner without payment to the Mr. and Mrs. Bonenfant collabor. pawnbroker. The clothing had been ated well in an "Elegie for Celic pawned for 83.
and Piano." The 'cellist was evi-
dently quite at home on this num-
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Its execution, of course, was one-
aided. The State performed what it undertook to do. The Church passively acquiesced in a condition
be reform of the ecclesiastical legis popular music will be given from Andante con Moto) made great lation by full agreement between the 5.15 to 7.15.
demands upon Mrs. Bonenfant's two Fowore." The irritation of the Fascist Press at this frank reminder Last night the Macdona players skill. But this lady is evidently no that things were at bottom just gave another excellent performance novice and her natural sense of where they had always been between of Pygmalion," and though, owing the artistic evidently helped her to Vatican and Quirinal was intense, to the cold, uncertain weather the
some make her rendition of these works audience was not so good. and there was farious protest at the that have been seen during this most for the piano full of interest even stiff-necked attitude of the Vatican at a moment when the Fascist enjoyable"Shaw season it was for the most exacting critic. The Government seemed almost humbly very appreciative of the innumer tempo of the third number could,
able humoura of the piece. This I thought, have been slightly faster. anxions to please...
Getting Married, one of Shaws most pianist also made much of Capt evening the Macdona players give to relieve it of monetony. The subtle and amusing plays and J. L. P. Macnair's Barcarolle in e-morrow they will present again A Flat" which certainly suggested
The explanation probably was that the Fascists had been shouting right and left that they wanted to valorise" the Church as an Italian institution, and to reap prestige from figuring, especially in the Near East, as the secular protector of the univerm3 religion. rapprochement thas indicated was so evidently of a merely political character that it did not at all please the more spiritual minds at
The
The Doctors Dilemma:"
one or two departures from the ordinary. There was nothing dia- Mr. R. Vaughan Fowler left Hongcordant in this composition which Kong for Japan yesterday on the certainly deserves to be heard more 8. President McKinley, Keenly often
A trio for pianoforte, violin, and interested in all matters appertain- ing to aviation, in addition to violincello, Trio in A Minor, No. giving lectures on sundry occasions 1 composed by Lt. Col. Cardew he has worked untiringly to further was the piece de resistance of the the Colony. Mr. Vaughan Fowlering of four movements-Allegro evening to my thinking. Consiat. a considerable assistance to Can- Moderato Largo e Mesto, Bcher- ton's Aviation Burean and was at zando (Moderato ma Vivace), and Imperial Air Force. He hopes to Spirito)-based on the usual struc one time attached to the Japanese Finale (Alegretto-Allegro renew acquaintance with several of ture of the classics, the trio is to the Duce created a painful in his old colleagues during his holi-written in cyclic
of affairs forced upon it: Tha the head of the Church, who were the cause of commercial firing in
Pope, remaining behind the closed doors of the Vatican, forgoes the privileges which he refuses to enjoy as a concession after being deprived of them as right.
a good deal perturbed to hear the praises of the Church mingled in the mouth of Signor FARINACCI with his super-patriotism. Further, some the daily cursing and bitterness of of the Fascist Secretary's panegyrics
where a renascence of something
THE HONG KONG A.D.C.
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form," Le, the
Ever since 1870 there have from pression in the supremest quarters day. Our renders, we are sure, will subjects or motifs which appear in time to time circulated rumours of like pagan Cesar worship is not miss the excellent articles he has the early movements ro-appear in an imminent solution of the Roman welcomed. Moreover, the Vatican is recently contributed on the subject the later movements in different CLA Question. As the years patsed, and alarm felt in French, German, and
rightly sensitive to the growing of aviation to the Daily Prest. American Catholic quarters at the prospect of any reconciliation which might imply too close an intimacy between the headquarters of the Church and the Government of a heatedly nationalistic State: NAPO IZON I. remarked once that he could tolerate a Papacy in Rome which he could not have tolerated in Madrid or Vienna. He meant that, situated in these towns, the Vatican would have become subservient to the powerful Governments of Spain or Austria Today he would prob ably have objected even more, to's Vatican in Home.
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the first bitterness of the dispute evaporated, these rumours became more frequent and more easily credible. For if each succeeding Pontif repeated on his accession the original protest of Pius IX. against the indignities suffered by the Holy Sec, and against the abnormal position in which the successor of St. Peter was placed, these formal protests were less heeded than the occasional informal cordialitics which seemed to reveal the existence in Vatican quarters of a les rigid sentiment
guises. Avoiding too many dis cords, the trio contained much that was original and, if perfect blend was not always obtained, the artistes, generally gave a fine sprem sentation of the composer's ideas which fully deserved the acclama- tion of the audience. The artistes The Com The Committee, of the AD.C. were Mrs. Bonenfant (piano), Capt.. announce that they are compelled, Macnair (violin), and Mr. Bosen-. through unavoidable circumstances, fant (cello) to postpone the production of "On On the whole, the exhibition; of. Approval," It is unfortunately im. Hong Kong's local talent impress- possible as yet to give the opening ed me very favourably and I hope night, on this depends on theatre to be permitted to attend many bookings by travelling companies.more of these concerts in the The date will, however be publish future:
"MUE BAC ed as soon as possible.
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