1923-04-10 — Page 7

PIANO RECITAL

Professor Sklarevaki's

Brilliant Work. Piado playing of superlative merit was beard at the City Hall

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

(SOUTH CHINA POLITICS. THE CANTON LAND

Some Reports from Canton,

The following items are from the Canton Daily News:-

to the Sun Back Wah Pao,

SALE

General Chan King-ming Blamed.

General Cann Kingiming and concluded the business transac ibe present administration only

tion almost under obligation.

the sale of this valuable pro- party the action was taken in face of urgent necessity for relief of the military strained situation. The transaction, as reported, was

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The vernacular press is full of last evening, when Professor reports of the movements of the

Much has been talked about Sklareriki. the noted Russian leading militarists aiming to share the sale of public lands by the pianist, gave the first of two in the riches of Kwangtung by government of Canton recently, recitals to a most appreciative controlling the whole or a part of especially the sale of the Agricul audience. The programme offered this province.

toral Experiment Station. The was one of wide variety, demon- General Chao King-ming, definitely learned that the sale of Canton Daily News says it has strating the wonderful versatility cording to a local news agency re the Experimental Station was not of this geaias of the piano.

port, is organising an office in

initiated by the The opening nurabers were Hongkong with Kim Chang, «

present ad- Grand Fantaisie and Orgel Guga former mayor of Canton, as direc

ministration AS the lands (Bach-Liszt in which the pianist tor of fiance. It is charged that

of the Station bad already displayed his completa mastery of he is trying to raise funds by ask. been pledged for a loan of the instrument and which he in- ing former officials onder Generale 400 thousand dollars by terpreted with great depth of Chan to contribute liberally. the formar administration under understanding. Then came two General Luk Widg-ting, one charming compositions by Scar-time the foremost militarist in latti-Pastorale and Capaccio, Kwangtung and Ewangai, sccord- which were beautifully rendered.ing to the local press, is consider. Io these, Professor Sklarevskiing the return to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's While regrets are generally negotiated the intricacies of the constitutionalist movement Luk expressed by the officials of pieces with a touch of amazing is desirous of doing this because softness and with a technique of his having been cut out by which was perfect. For close on Peking altogether in its distribut- half an hour, the "pianist wasion of appointments. then engaged on a group of Yang Yung-tai, a former civil twelve - "Chopin Etudes governor of Kwangtung, says a atupendous task, This is the local report, is bringing a big first time we have ever heard sum of money back to Hongkong Other Property Fold. the whole of these given at one for political activities in Canton sitting, and their interpretation | Ex-Governor. Yang is a leader of Reproaches continue to flow was a tribute to the earnestness the Chenghsuehhui Political into the Mayor's office at Canton) with which Professor Sklarevaki Party, one time a political factor in regard to the sale of public bas studied the great master. Heia Canton.

property, which includes the gsre a new meaning to these General Li Fub-lia, now com. Grand Buddhist Temple, the eld beautiful compositions and was manding the troops in Honam, is Tartar General's famen, loudly encored for his really enlarging his strength by adding reply, Sun Fo has pathetically

Namboi Magistracy etc. astounding work.

more mea to his army, according pointed to the empty vaults of the Following a Nocturne and Mazurque by Tschaikowsky, both Tao Yi-ping, commander of m Treasury. The necessity of raising brilliantly played, came Arensky's Cantonese force in Waichow, is the wind is urgent, be said, and he Prelude. and then two very pretty visiting Canton. He reports that could not see how sentiment could little numbers by Lisdov-the all troops in Waichow are loyal be allowed to enter into the discus- Musical Snuff Box and Waltz, to Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

sion when it has been clearly rendered with delightful delicacy. Since the condition of affairs in demonstrated, as The true poetic tooch was mani Canton is being gradually restored of France, that even precious fested in Debus-y's Evening in to its normal state Dr. Sun Yat-monumente had to be sacrificed Grecade, and as a final item the sea and the local authorities have national and public needs. pianist gars arabesques on recently wired to Shanghai re-Apparently those who initiated Strausa popular Blue Danube questing the important personages this controversy have not been Waltz (Schultz-Evler), one of the of the. Kuomintang Party, to re-

persuaded to this viewpoint, most difficult pieces ever written turn to Cactos so

for letters 8:0 as to give sa-

still pour. for the piaco. This was a master-sistance in the present reconstruc-ing in, adding considerably to piace, and so delighted were the tion work. It is now reported

the worries of Mayor Sun. audience that the pianist was that Wu Hon-man, former Kwang- compelled to give a double encore. tung Governor, and Wang Ching- In all bis work, Professor Sklar wai, the noted scholar, left Shang- avski showed himself a thoughtful bai on April 4 for Cauton. musician of great talent, and it is As General Chang Teo-lin, hoped that for this evening's Commander-in-Chief of the Three recital there will be a crowded Eastern Provinces, is in favour of audience. Seldom bas Hongkong Dr. Sun'e policy of reusifying the the opportunity of hearing such a North and South through the musical genius.

disbaadmeat of troops, besides issuing several talegrams sop- porting the

Tae B.AT. buildings on the same, be has recently dispatched Chow Mong- Shameen, Canton, recently pur lin

come

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Co., Ltd, bave now been acquired ferring with the southern leaders from the latter Company by the The dynamic personality of with regard to the matter. It is Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, This, Priscilla Dean has been given now reported that Chow Mong-lin bowever, does not imply that the such forceful expression on the has arrived in Swatow. After his Company's project of building a Under Two Flags," arrival in Swatow on April 3 he hotel on the Shameen bas been the Universal-Jewel production of invited the local authorities there abandoned. On the contrary, we Ouida's famous novel, which to an entertainment. It is further fearn on enquiry that the scheme comes to the World Theatre to stated that at this entertainment, to go through. The B.A.T. morow. The spirited girl, Cigar- he expressed his views with building bas been sold because it este, idal of French regiment at regard to the military affairs of was found insufficiently large for Algiers, is the type Miss Deko the Southwestern provinces.

the purpose. And another and portrays so well.

bigger site is being secured.

The Canton Daily News states that the premises at present Gerio,

"UNDER TWO FLAGS.

screen as in

"

**

The excitement with which the

film abounds was felt by every

to

can-

"

in the case

SHAMEEN PROPERTY

SALE.

BA.T. Building Again Changes Hands.

member of the huge company FILIPINO STOWAWAYS. occupied by Messze

Universal City participating in ibe production of this classic of the screen. They all lived in the atmosphere of Algeria, where the action of the story takes place.

Seven Found Aboard "President Pierce."

stowaways,

Seven Filipino aboard the President Pierce, were handed over to the Water Police yesterday on the arrival of the steamer from Manila.

Drevard & Company, the Inter-. national Banking Corporation, John Manners & Company and Blackhead & C. mpany's old hong, have been sold to a Hongkong Company for £63,000.

BACKWARD BABIES.

A portion of the town of Algiers. with faithful reproduction of the French barracks there, was built at the big studio. Members of the cast lived in character" for several months. Miss Dean herself At the Police Court, this morn- became so accustomed to the ing, it was stated-by-Inspector costumes of the play that it was Spear that they were successful Begin To Thrive When Baby's difficult for her to readjust herself in escaping attention during the to habits of normal life when not first search, but, with the dis

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filter by the steerage steward, and bowels is responsible for most Several companies of French more thorough search was made, of the ailments which trouble ic- Boldiers properly uniformed and with the result that one after the fants and young children and keep armed, were recruited by Tod other the defendants were all them backward in development. Browning, the director, for use in brought out from their hiding Baby's Own Tablets clear the variona scenes. The harem of an places.

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"Until I began using Baby's Own Tablets my baby always constipated and restless and sleepless," writes) Mrs. Ford, of 301 Colborne St.,

An inch-worm attempted to In the Streets of Canton. London, Ontario. "I tried seversi In order to cope with frequent medicines but they did not help

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After climbing three feet in hour, it slipped back two feet. armed robberies, the authorities her. Since using the Tablets her How many hours would it take in Canton are causing those bowels have been quite regular

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And there, at night, we

pause 10 hear

The choir its saintly

anthem bum.

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