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ADVERTISEMENTS. ROYAL AIR FORCE VERDI'S "OTHELLO"

Air A.D.C. To The King

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THE MACAO ELECTRIC LIGHTING CO., LTD.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Twenty-Sixth Ordinary An- nual General Meeting of The Dowding, K.C.B., CMG., whose ap- Shareholders of the Company will pointment as Principal Air Alde- de-Camp to the King was an- be held at the Offices of Messrs.nounced in "The Times," is the Lowe, "Bingham & Matthews, fifth officer to be selected for this Mercantile Bank

Building, post, since. It was instituted after Second Floor, Hong Kong, on the War.

The original holder of the ap- Friday, the 2nd day of April,pointment was Lord Trenchard, 1937, at 11.30 a.m.

then Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff.

The Register of Members will be closed from the 25th day of March to the 2nd day of April, 1937, both days" inclusive.

By Order of

The Board of Directors,

JOHNSON, STOKES &

MASTER,

Secretaries. Hong Kong, 15th. Mar., 1937.

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Editorial

and Business

INSPIRING

APPRECIATION BY REV. C.B.R. SARGENT

LECTURE BEFORE DANTE ALIGHIERI

ASSOCIATION

At a large gathering at the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday evening, at the request of the Consul General-for Italy, the Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, "Headmaster, of the Diocesan Boys' School, gave an address to the Dante Alighieri Association Verdi's "Othello," the opera memorable, the essence of the tragedy of which lies in the spoiling of the beauty of the love of Othello and Desdemona by Ingo's villany,

om February. 1925, it was held by Sir John Salmond; from March, 1930, by Sir Edward Ellington; and In illustration, Act I of the opera from December, 1933, by Sir Ro-was played complete on the grama- bert Brooks-Popham, all of whom phone, also excerpts from other at the time of their appointments | parts by Tamagno and Maurel, who were Air Officers Commanding-in-sang in the original performance, Chlet, Air Defence of Great Bri- and Melba and Zanelli. both tain, a post which lapsed in July famous in this opers. last when the home commands were reorganized.

The rhythm of the music, tuned to the melody and timed to the romance of Othello's love song, Alling every heart with anxiety. carried the listeners into a dream-

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version, a fact still more amazing when we learn that Bolto could. only read the play in its French version.

"No higher tribute to Bolto can. be paid than to say, as I think is.... wholly just, that his libretto is worthy of its great original. "RIGHT NOTE IN RIGHT PLACE” - *In Othello, words and music fit, each other with almost uncanny

King George V. approved in July, 1929, that an officer who had held the post of Principal Air A.D.C. should be permitted to continueer's paradise, the gateway of perfection-every changing mood

to wear the silver crown and Royal cipher in monogram style after he had relinquished the appoint- Oa full dress the crown the and cipher are placed on shoulder straps and the bird and crown removed. On mess dress Night Editor (Wanchai Office): the device in miniature is placed over the ranking lace. The device

on the shoulder straps of the greatcoat.

Office: ment." 15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel. 30351.

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period no transfer of DEBEN ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. London Office: $3. Fleet Street is not worn with service dress or

TURES can be registered.

By Order of the

Board of Directors,

0. FAGER,

Secretary.

Hong Kong. 17th March, 1937.

R.

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PUBLIC AUCTION. PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 22nd day of March, 1937, at 3 p.m., at the Office of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Repulse Bay in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be

fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.

ST. PATRICK'S 'DAY

Wednesday, 17th March, 1937.

HONG KONG & WHAM POA

DOCK CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Offices of the Com

E.C. 4.

The Baily Press.

Hong Kong, March 17, 1937.

OFFICERS FOR THE

NAVY

In accordance with the de-

motion to the rank of comman- der.

glamorous imagination Abbored with rainbow beauty,

The story of "Othello" was told by Mr Sargent with auch simplicity and charm that not only won the admiration of all those who were present but will also be a living memory to Verdi, the greatest of all Italian opera composers

It is

DEVELOPMENT BY COMPARISON

In the course of the delivery of his paper, Mr. Sargent said: "Othello is a great and noble masterpiece, in the fullest sense of these often abused words. With Tristan and Isolde it is one of the two supreme operatic tragedies, just as Falstaff ranks with Die Others point out the undesir Melstersinger and The Marriage A wreath. will be laid at the

ability of creating a class

of Figaro among comedies. ol

almost incredible that a work of CENOTAPH by the President

officers without prospects, open such vitality and freshness of In- and Committee of St. Patrick's

therefore only to those without vention can be the work of an old Society at 11.00 a.m. Members pany 2, Queen's Building, Hong

ambition, who as they grow older man of seventy-two, yet there is of the Society and their friends Kong, on Monday, 22nd March,

will inevitably be influenced less no trace of the slower pulse and halting step of age, nor dny falling are asked to assemble on the 1937, at Noon for consideration

by zeal for the Navy than by the off in the abundant stream of. North side of the Supreme Court of the Directors' Report and

desire to find for themselves melody. Statement of Accounts for the prior to the Ceremony.

year ending 31st December, 1936.

some comfortable backwater of But the chief The Share Register and Trans.clared policy of the British the naval Service. fer Books will be closed from 12th Government, fully approved by objection to the intended revival of the Supplementary List, to to 22nd March, 1937, both days

country, the Navy, after a lean period of unilateral dis. judge from certain reported com inclusive.

armament, is now in process of ments, is the fact that it is re- being restored to material garded as a definite setback to long career.

ย strength commensurate with its the hopes and aspirations of the inevitable responsibilities. "That lower deck. process involves the delivery in the next few years of new ships in markedly greater numbers than have been added of recent times; and, since the new ships coming into service are for the most part larger than those they replace, it entails a double in crease in the numbers of naval

B. H. C. HALLOWES, Hon. Secretary, St. Patrick's Society of Hong Kong.

In the Goods of MORRISON BROWN YUNG Mining Engineer, deceased.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an latending bidders are advised order limiting the time for credi. that immediately after the gistors and others to send in their: posal of the lot the purchaser claims against the above Estate will be required to deposit with to the 8th April, 1937. an authorised officer who will be j present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, $200.00 in

All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to

By Order of the Board of Directors,

E. COCK, Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 1st March, 1937.

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THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO

SHAREHOLDERS,

the'

officers and men.

But ships can be built quicker

A

cash. This 'sum will be refund. send their claims to the under- General Meeting of Shareholders. to-day inay be expected to reach

ed on payment of the purchase

||

The Sixty-eighth Ordinary

will be held at the Offices of the

25th March, 1937, at Noon, for

"There is little at first sight in between the crudeness common and blatancy of Verdi's early works and the exquisite delicacy of the last two, yet closer study reveals a steady progress throughout his อ never "ceasing struggle to throw off one by one

and inflection being followed and

made clearer by the score. "The Right note in the right place is a essential true summary of the quality of the music. The least addition or subtraction would spall its balance and rob. it of both point and beauty.

Themes are used, but not in the Wagnerian manner, They may

called ""motives of be brance" rather than leading mo- tives.

remem-

"The use of the orchestra is es- sentially the same as in the early operas, but it is infinitely more Hexibly used, with far more rich- ness and variety of colour.

LAGO

"The original title intended for. the opera was Iago, and as in most of Verdi's works, this, the bari- tone role, is the protagonist, the source of action, and while Othel- To in his noble simplicity and the Innocent Desdemona win our love and sympathy, they are by com- Parison with Iago's intense reality, Idealised figures.

"The essence of the opera lles in the spoiling of the beauty of their love by Iago's villainy and malignant cunning.

INCOMPARABLE BEAUTY,

It is the amazing rightness of the fetters of convention as each

the opera and its relation to real one's use is ended, and an ever

life and people that make it a growing technical mastery, till the fumbling technician of the early work of such power" and warmth. works becomes the master crafts- From beginning to end one in- comparable beauty succeeds an- emotion and each other, each character exquisitely portrayed in

man of Othello.

Promotion from lower deck to quarterdeck was, no uncommon occurrence during and before the Napoleonic wars, but after 18,

"In Othello. produced sixteen there was none for nearly a cer

years after its predecessor Alda, we tury. So long ago as 1890 the have far more attention to detail Warrant Officers of the Navy than ever before, and nothing in presented to the Admiralty an it falls short of the higi est stan "Earnest Appeal" for promotion dard. from the ranks in the Navy: but. when, five years later, a dearth of lieutenants, such as exists to-day, seemed to provide bothi, a reason and an opportunity for a favourable answer, their hopes commissione, not to Petty in were dashed by the granting of

"FOR LOVE'S SAKE” "Like Wagner's Ring, Othello was not written with any definite expectation of its being finished or produced. It was written for love's sake, because he could not help writing it.

Verdi's music was built upon a

the music. It is almost impossi

ble to Usten in a "detached and critical manner, so often is one deeply moved. so often thrilled with pity, admiration, sympathy, or sorrow.

"The performance over, one feels not as a spectator does, but as one who has lived with Othello and Desdemona, or suffered at the hands of Iagó, Nowhere else in music have love," anguish, passion and hatred of men been presented

signed on or before that day.

Dated the 15th day of March; GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON | the purpose of receiving the Re. public schools at the higher age Warrant Officers, but to officers and strength of purpose and what-ing.

price.

1937.

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than "officers can be trained. naval cadet entering Dartmouth

commissioned rank about 1945, undersigned on Thursday, the while even those eutered from

of about eighteen can hardly port of the General Managers, together with a statement of reach it before 1941. Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1936.

The Share Register and Trans. fer Books will be closed from the HONG KONG, SWATOW AND 11th to the 25th March, 1937,

both days inclusive.

AMOY "FREIGHT CONFERENCE

FOREIGN & CHINESE SHIPPERS

Notice is hereby given that as | from 1st. APRIL, 1937, rafes of freight from Hong Kong to Swatow and Amoy will be in creased 20 per cent over current rates.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

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rock, the rock of moral greatness with deeper insight or truer feel-

· MASTERLY · LIBRETTO "Verdi owed much to his bret tist, Boito, himself a musician of note, and their partnership is one of the most perfect on record. The

"Verdi has matched Shakespeare in the capacity to create, richly . colourful characters, and to make' us feel and shudder at the tragedy; that overtakes them.

worda,

"In D'Annunzio's

wept and loved for all.

*He

"As an Englishman I can show

libretto is a masterly condensation my homage in no way more sin- of Shakespeare's story: In most cerely than by saying that Shakes. places the text has been so closely peare himself did not, could not, followed in the Italian in which it do better, and that I am proud to was written that often it can be think that in Verdi's noblest work, translated back into Shakespeare's his name is associated with my awn words for the English singing fellow countryman's′′

of the Royal Naval Reserve. ever the winds of fashion or the rain of criticism. I do not think The disappointment, then felt the house will fall... Though the numbers now en-

was severe, and it lasted until sering by those channels will the introduction in 1912 of the presumably supply the Navy's "Mate" scheme of promotion at needs some years hence, there is last seemed to satisfy aspirations an immediate dearth which the which the lower deck had always ordinary sources of supply cannot regarded as legitimate. make good. In these circum-

Under that scheme no fewer stances the Admiralty bave had than forty-four men from the recourse to the expedient, used lower deck received commissions more than once in times of naval in 1918, and up to the end of the expansion before the War, of War the yearly average was even offering commissions in the Navy higher. The officers who received as lieutenants, on a supple-promotion under it proved them- mentary list," to Merchant Navy selves in every way worthy of it. only concern for the efficiency of scheme on the grounds that the officers who are members of the and, if few of them have reached the Navy that prevented them officers it produced were below Royal Naval Reserve.

the ranks of commander and from doing so. The Admiralty the standard required. Yet, un- Supplementary lieutenants"

above, that failure was due not of course must be the judges, of der the conditions now in force,. of commnissions are to draw the same pay as those to inefficiency but to age. Since the qualifications necessary to a the number The Tarif rates on Tränship-

Draft Programmes and Entry on the regular list; but they will the War, however, the numbers naval officer, and must therefore granted to seamen of the lower ment Cargo from United King Forms for the Second Extra not be eligible for promotion have steadily dwindled, and for lay down the conditions under deck in the last three years re- dom, Europe, Canada and U.S.A. will be increased by 20 per cent Race Meeting to be held on beyond the rank of lieutenant the last three years have average which a man on the lower deck presents no more than one in a SATURDAY, 27th and MON. commander unless for exception-ed no more than four annually, can qualify for a commission. thousand of men entered for the side-tank locomotives. Metta on and after the 1st Jane, 1937,

DAY,

29th MARCH, 1937 ul services, and they must retire It is not surprising if these But, if the layman is not entitled lower deck in the same period. gauge, outside cylinder, 7*

Full details of revized tari (weather permitting) may be ob. at the age of forty-five on a pen- figures are interpreted as indicat to question those conditions in diameter, 10" stroke. All rates are obtainable on enquiry rained at the Secretary's Office, sion lower than that of the regular ing the Admiralty's distaste for detail, he may, and indeed wheels coupled, Copper fire at the offices of the undersigned. Exchange Building; the Club officer.

deteriorated of late years to the the existence of any bridge from should, judge them by results. To judge from questions asked lower deck to quarterdeck. It will probably be agreed very extent represented by these MERCHANTS S.N. Kong Club; the Sports Club; and in Parliament according to the That interpretation is probably generally that there is no justifigures indeed the pronounce

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most recent Hansard, this action unjustified, and indeed has been cation for confining the entries toments of the Admiralty itself, Entries close at 12 o'clock of the Admiralty is regarded with officially disclaimed. The First the quarterdeck to the sons of together with the evidence from NOON on Thursday, 18th March, little favour in any quarter. Lord of the Admiralty stated those who can afford an expen-all quarters, are to the effect that CO., LTD. 1937..

Officers of the Merchant Navy last month that the Admiralty sive education for their children; so far from deteriorating it bas By Order,

contend that, if they are worthy would welcome the possibility of and it was with that principle in improved there seems to be of lieutenants commissions in granting more promotion to com- view that the Mate scheme good reason for a fresh survey the Royal Navy, they should not missioned rank from the lower was introduced in 1912. No of the working of the pret 5116 be branded as unworthy of pro- deck, and he implied that it was fault has been found with that arrangements.

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Since it is hardly credible that

the quality of the lower deck has