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“CHOPIN & HIS MUSIC":

"Poet Of The Piano": Dr. Gordon King's Address

To Rotarians

HONGKONG ROTARIANS EXPERIENCED A NEW, BUT WELCOME, DEPARTURE AT THEIR WEEKLY TIFFIN MEETING YESTERDAY WHEN ROTARIAN DR. GORDON KING FOLLOWED HIS TALK ON CHOPIN AND HIS MUSIC” WITH A PIANO RECITAL OF SELECT" ED WORKS FROM THE GREAT COMPOSER, comprising three Preludes, Valse In G Flat Major, Nocturne in G minor and Polonaise in A Major.

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The programme was rendered with considerable ability and much feeling, and was greatly appreciated by the fairly large gathering present. "Dr. Arthur Woo, president, was in the chair.

That the heart of Chopin

was destroyed by German ACTING GOVERNOR

bombs last year was one of the many interesting facts. revealed by Dr. King in his- talk on the musician's life. Although Chopin is buried in Paris, his heart was taken to Warsaw where it was pre- served in the Church of the Holy Cross. With the Ger: man, bombardment of that city this relic of a great

musician is said to have been Jost.

THE ADDRESS

AS HONORARY ·

ROTARIAN

It was announced at yester- day's meeting of the Hong- beng Rotary Chub that His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government, Lieut-Gen. E. F. Norton, had graciously consented to be an honorary member of the Hongkong Rotary Club.

which his friends. had given h'm on leaving Warsaw near- ly nineteen years before.__He was buried at Pere la Chaise

inParts, but his heart was taken to Warsaw, where it was preserved in the Church of the Holy Cross. I read with regret that the Church was destroyed in the German bombardment of the city last year," and that this relic of the great musician La sald to have perished,

FINEST WORKS

GALA AT CHINESE Y.M.C.A.

· SPORTS & GENERAL..

Tonight.. commenting. At 8 o'clock, at the Chinese YMCA pool, Bridges Street, "Lai Tsun Swimming Union will be hosts to an aquatic squad from Eastern Athletic Association.

As Eastern have in their ranks some of the finest Chinese swim- mers In the Colony, Lai Tsun will be fully extended and fans are assured of a fine evening's sport.

Of the events, the men's 120 yards medley relay and 160 yards free style relay will undoubtedly prove the attractions: Consider-

in the talent available from each Club, Eastern are practically cer- taly' to armex the 160 yards event while a most interesting race is

predicted for the medley.

FINE INNINGS BY VALENTINE

Aldershot Command Wins By 243 Runs

LONDON. Aug. 27 (Reuter)-At Aldershot, Aldershot Command. beat Aldershot and District in a "two-day match by 243 runs.

Features of the second day's play was the fine bowling or! Gover, of Surrey-who- took-eight wickets in the course.. of the match, and another fine. Innings by B. H. Valentine, the Kent player...

Scores:-

:

'A NEW GAS DETECTOR, one of many now ready for use in London districts, being examined after it had been installed.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1940. GIRL STUDENT GAVE UP CAREER TO JOIN STAGE

One in the great band of young people who have thrown over a planned career for the more adventuresome life of the stage is petite Elleen Cochrane, youthful blonde member of the Chang Company at the Capitol, Singapore,

A graduate of Witwatersrand

DEATH AFTER University. Transvaal City, Miss

BOXING BOUT

Cochrane has temporarily forgot- ten her all-important B.A. degree and pursuit of a seriously planned The name of Mario Orestes life as a teacher of elocution for Egea on the list of passengers who dancing, arid when Johnnesburg- arrived recently in Hongkong con-born Julius S. Fisher, Capitol ceals the identity of a professional manager, received the Chang-Com- boxer, who fights under the name pany in Singapore, he discovered-a.... of Clever Paco.

girl, whose family he knew, born Clever Paco had an unpleasant in the hometown-Elleen Cocb- experience not very long ago in ranë. Singapore when his opponent. And Elleen now is getting a Young Gauder, whom he fought pretty good intro to Singapore by on Aug. 11 in that city and whom one who knows the place as well he knocked-out in the seventh as he knows Jo'burg.

round, lost consciousness in the dressing room and subsequently dled.

At the Coroner's Inquiry into the death. Clever Paco described his fight with Young Clauder.

He said he knew that Young Gauder was leading on points up to the sixth round and declared that when he floored Gauder with

Elleen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cochrane, Crown Mines, Johannesburg.. She spent three years at the university before touring" Europe. In England she stayed with an aunt, Mrs. Karri- Davies, at Hampton Court Palace,

a blow to the solar plexus in that Returning home-Miss Cochrane round, he went all out to win the toured the Union dancing and act- fight by 2 knock-out In the Ing and then decided to join the Chang Company just before it left seventh round.

"After a series of blows had S.A. to continue its tour through been exchanged," said Paco, Ithe East. hit him on the side of his head

That was seven months ago. with my left and he was counted Deeply attracted to the stage as a of out."

result of her experiences on this Paco added that he did not tour, Eileen intends ataying with think that his full strength was the show until after it returns to. in that blow.

America, where she hopes to later. The wedding took place at the The marriage is announced be- "I was concentrating more on continue. her

studies.(Malava Registry, yesterday. of Mr. Tslangtween Mr. Yuen Tin-yau, mer-hls solar plexus." said Paco, "be-Tribune). Chew-kwang. merchant, residing chant, residing at No. 123, Sal Yee cause I considered that his weak

simply to make

him raise his solar plexus.”

WEDDING AT

REGISTRY

T. S. Whyte-Smith. Registrar Marriages, officiated.

ANNOUNCEMENT

"Aldershot Command-265 for 6 at No. 97. Tal Po Road, and Chan Street. and Miss Wong Yuk-Un. spot. My blows to the head were guard, so that I could go for his

Yuk-ching, widow, of Tat Po. Mr. lot No 3, Yun Nan Lane.

dec. (B. H. Valentine 110, F. R. Brown 51, Denis Compton 49.) and 180 for 3 dec. (M. M.. Walford 103. B. H. Valentine 42.)

Aldershot . District-129 (Gover

4 for 371 and 78. (Watts 5 for 28, Gover 4 for 27).

Dr. King said, in part:- Chopin, the subject of our atten- tion for a short while today, be longs also to the army of men,cut: off before their prime. He died when he was only 39, a victim to the ravages of tuberculosis, and yet he left behind him a body of work which entitles in to last. Ing place, as one of the greatest masters of pianoforte music the' world has ever seen. Tt la idle to: speculate what he might have ac-

In his published works Chopin complished had he lived to a riper excels as a composer of groups. age, but there can be no doubt that His finest works go together in his early death was an inestimable clusters, such as the Preludes, the loss, He was essentially a "poet Studies, the Nocturnes, the Ma- of the plano," to use Heine's zurkas, the Walses, the Polonaises. phrase.

I cannot stay to speak of the Chopin was born in. February, other groups, but I want to bring 1810 in Foland. His father was my talk to a conclusion by at- French and his mother Polish, and tempting to play by way of illus he was brought up in an atmos-tration (I fear very imperfectly) phere of refined simplicity.

one or two of the Preludes, a Valse, yesterday:— He was' not an Infant prodigy, but he showed an early aptitude for the plano. We are told that one after- noon, when the pupils at thee was voiced by Ruterlan- Robert Boston school were unusually boisterous, son. who said that he was confi-Cleveland he restored them to order by im-dent that the gathering welcomed provising romances!"

GENIUS AND ORIGINALITY

a Nocturne and a Polonaise.

SPEAKER THANKED

The vote of thanks to the speak-

U.S. BASEBALL

RESULTS

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (Reuter) The following are the results of baseball games League

played

AMERICAN

R. H. E.

Pittsburgh

6 8 វា

11

2

4. 7

0

(Trostkey homered), the innovation "introduced by Dr. Washington King:

Travis homered).

3 8

0

•

From the first Chopin's talent The following guests were pre- The games between Chicago and for the plane showed both genius sent:Surgeon Capt. G. V. Hobbs, New York and Detroit and Phila- and criginality, and he was for R. N. Messrs. G. Miskin, A. T. Lay, delphia were postponed.. tunate in his teacher. Eisner, who C. C. Rommelin, D. Strellett, D.

NATIONAL replied to some of the boy's early Mitchell, F. C. Weller: F. J. de critics Leave him alone, he does Roma, A. M. Braga. not follow the common way be cause his talents are uncommon.

He does not adhere to the old

method because he has one of his own, and his works will reveal an originality hitherto unknown.”

Chopin's love" affairs vero not very happy ones, but they had a great deal of influence on his musical compositions. He was the victims of what

• George Sand called "emotional versatility" in the matter of losing his heart temporarily, -at-least: He could fall-in and----

out of love in an evening.

New York Chicago

ANNUAL CONCERT Philadelphia AT CHEUNG CHAU

45

Ro H.

10 18

5 -11

2

5

(Rizzo homered). Cincinnati

.8 0

(Walker homered).

6. 10 1

L 3

0

0

(Glossop homered). St. Louis

1

5

3

(Gutteridge homered). The game between Brooklyn and Pittsburgh was postponed.

The annual .concert of the Cheung Chau Residents' Associa-Philadelphia. ition was held in the Assembly Cincinnati

Hall at 5 pm on Monday, when

the following programme was ren- Boston ................. 3 5 dered:-

!

Plano Accordion and Mouth-

"Old Bentucky Home" by Mr. W "Organ Dust, "Ora Pro Nobis" and

| Newburn and Billy Newburn; Male Quartette Two Roses" and "Stars

The second chapter of his life of Summer Night" by Messrs. P." centres round Paris, it is stormy and unconventional, charged with sorrow and illness, and closes with

were

Backland, D. Carlson, H Gravem the Lawn Tennis. League

No matches in "B" Division of

and H. Holton: Recitation "Bar-

played yesterday... gain Day," by Miss Gertrude Wahl;

his death: In Paris Chopin 500 Young Ladies Quartette "Will No 'became immensely popular. Els

TODAY

MEETING-Annual, of

umusic struck a new note which One Marry Me," by Misses Mary SPORTING FIXTURES was in harmony with the thought D Ray. Yola Burkwall, Esther and the expression of the French ruax and Anne Lockwood, ac- Romanticist School. He was show-companied on the steel guitar by ered-with-invitations to play-at- select gatherings, pupils flocked to him, concert managers vied with each other for his services.

OTHER LOVE AFFAIRS

Mrs. Rex Rays Recitation "Con~ YMCA. Huropean |

rary Mary." by Miss Faith Truax: Floor Lounge, 6

TENNISD Division: CRC "B" v CR.C. “A," Filipino Club V.K.C.C.

Plano Bolo, by Miss Dorothy Lock- TENNIS Division: AT.C.Y. Wood: Chalk Talk, by Mr. E Hill; Vocal Bolo "The Soho." by Miss

KITC CDR "A" v. KC.C.. Doris Dirk, accompanied op the

CRC v. JRC. C.BA" v. C.DR. "B" H.KUTC. v. HKPS.A... In Paris Chopin had other love auto-harp by Mr. H Holton: Vocal affairs, of which the most impor-and Guitar Solo That's Why Dár-

K.T.G.CA, V. 'S.C.Â:A. fant was his falson with Madame kies Were Born" and "An Old

TOMORROW George Sand, that strange but Fashioned Home," by Mr. P. Back gifted "woman. "One could 'not 'Im-land: Sleight of Hand, by Mr. P. agine 'two 'personalities more dia-Jones; Recitation "Osyterman,” by metrically opposed-George Band. Mas Lots Hay; Welsh Songs, by

FRIDAY AUGUST 36. the most revolutionary woman of Messrs. A. Thomas and P. Jones; the age, an inveterate cigar anck Women's Sextette "Juanita and MEETING, — Anïual, of Kowloon e., with her domineering. virile The Cat" by Mrs. H. Hill, Mrs. Football Club, 6p.m. thanner. and Chopin, dreamy, D. Carlson, Mrs. C. Lawson, Mrs. alim, fragile and tender as a wo "man" "Chopin was at "first repelled

by her,

In 1848, the year before he "éled," he visited England and Scotland and played on a 'nutre- Hér of “bbonßlófia, making

great impression on all 'Isten- On October 17, 1849

す

Chopin aled In Paris. His cof- fin was sprinkled with the sil ver goblet 'full of Polish earth

SATURDAY AUGUST 21

"Golf"Club and Pritë: Distribu- "tion, 6 p.m.

H. Holton, Mrs. Newburn and Miss MEETING.Annual, of Kowloon P. French, accompanied on the plano by Mrs. C. Erickson; Re- marks and Reading.: by the Prest dent, Mr. D. O. Silver; Shadow Pantomine, by the Young People, directed by Mrs. C. H. Reber: Com-pm on the Afternoon Beach, fol munity Singing led by Mr. W. New-lowed by a Community Supper. All those who intended being present

bun.

It was also announced that a were requested to bring their own. sports, meeting would be Held to plcfic baskets of food and refresh- day (Wednesday, Aug. 28) at 4 mente.

THE WINNING

HIT!

RIGHT INTO THE STAND AMONG THE

BURLEIGH SMOKERS

BURLEIGH

CIGARETTES