1926-11-25 — Page 7

WRONG MAN?

COUNSEL CRITICISES

POLICE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1926.

MUSICAL JOTTINGS."

Chinese & Western Music-What Is Classical" Music? The Philharmonic Society's "Programme.

[UX "ALLEGRO,”]

M. KRASSIN'S WORK.

EFFORTS TO RESTORE BETTER RELATIONS.

Rugby, Nov. 24. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons to-day, ex- pressed his regret at the death of M. Krassin, the Soviet charge D'Affairs in London.

Replying to a question about the open and continued, breaches by the Russian Soviet Republic of the Trade Agreement with this coun-.

"GUIDANCE" OF WITNESSES?

That the money was "planted" on the defendant in an endeavour to make a scapegoat of him, was

It is at present rather a rarity the defence advanced in the case for a Chinese to assimilate Western In which Wong Cho-ming, a police musle to the extent that he can not wharf searcher, was charged this merely overcome, the technical dif- morning with accepting a sum ofculties of the instrument heiatry, Six Austen Chamberlain stated money, without authority, from a studying but can play with gonuine that he had recently once more passenger of the towboat from expression and poetic feeling, enter-made it clear to M. Krassin that Taiping,

ing right into the spirit of the com- the propaganda carried on by When the accused, who was pre-positions.

With those Chinese Russia was the principal obstacle viously defended by Mr. Leo planista one has heard, the general against any improved, relations d'Almada, appeared on remand be impression is that they have a won between the two countries. fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cen-derful aptitude" for acquiring:

The newspapers in their ob- tral Magistracy this morning, he digital dexterity, but that, either ituary notice of M. Krassin, ap- was represented by counsel, Mr. through natural disability, or the preciate Krassin's efforts to put C. G. Alabaster, who, in the course fault of their teachers, or lack of his..country's relations with Brin of the case, criticised strongly the opportunity of hearing Western tain on a better footing. It is manner in which the identification munie, they do not possess the pointed out that while Krassin parade was held. Because of power of expressing emotions in was doing his best in this direction acts alleged to have been perform thoir playing. ed by the supervising police officer with a feeling of intense interest In the case, which were alleged to that one listened to the playing of amount to actual guidance of the Miss Daisy Ma, a young Chinese identifying witnesses, the wrong, at Mr Harry Ore's piano man had been picked out, said pupils concert last week. Mr. Alabaster.

NO EVIDENCE,

fence first begun by Mr. d'Almada at a previous hearing, that there was no evidence that the money involved in the ease was received by the defendant either འགྲུ gratuity or as a reward, and he proceeded to review the evidence on this point,

It was thereforehla endeavours were doomed to fallure while Russian money was coming to this country for the miners-to help one side in an in- ternal industrial dispute.-British Miss Wireless.

Ma Has been heard before in loss pretentious places and has shown

At a raid carried out by officers too bashful in her entry, and rev. D. C. pipers start practising.

from Police Headquarters, at the living quarters of waterfront searchers in the new Government Building, certain places of papers containing money were found, which two witnesses now

from a passenger of the Taiping towboat.

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The Cathedral Hall is, however, any of those at the City Hall that a much better concert room than gloomy, forbidding edifice, with its rows of creaking, wobbly chairs. motor-cars

and street cries ruin any concert held there. As for the Theatre Royal, the, grievances of its patrons

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grunt promise; but when she played tip-toe into their seats and whisper Mr. Alabaster took-up the de-Liszt's "Nightingale" the other day in bated breath during the interval. strides in that very direction where applause in that hall; the general she proved to have made great Never have I heard enthusiastic it seems most difficult for a Chinesentmosphere makes it sacriligions to to progress. She has a good idea clap one's hands too loudly. The of interpretation and a certain

Beats are ordinary wooden ones änd that she feels the music; she does. But at any rate the surroundings charm of style, and it is evident the piano is a mediocre upright. not appear to be nervous but seemsare quiet except when the H. K.

is a failing to be easily overcome. tirement from the platform, which

three years studying from the Her, technique alone-after about A. B, C. of the instruments renched the stage to which the stated were received by the defendant average British student would find The noises of trams,

it hard to attain after six years of work And this is in spite of hav ing tiny hands which are a sovere THE WRONG MAN?

handicap to technical efficiency. One cannot expect virility or virave been too often ventilated to not, however, tuosity from her; her technical Noither the theatre nor the City They were

require any comment from me. found in the defendant's own success will to in delicate finger Hall possesses a grand piano, room, much less in the defendant's work such as the Nightingale" bed, continued Mr. Albaster, and it demands. But her greatest succeRS was an inference, just as reasonable will lie in the development of that have a limited number of more com- In the Helena May Institute, we as any which the prosecution could musical understanding which isfortable chairs and the interior of draw, in view of what Sergeantpeeping out in her playing. Kellett himself had said, to the of

the hall is certainly the best of its fect that when he entered the

kind in Hongkong. But the great Mr. Harry Ore has an interest stumbling-block room he saw two of the men''hide

of disturbing something" under the bed clothes,ing task, before him and he and noises is again encountered. Every that this "something was the Mr. E. Mason and other piano ten minutes, two Peak trams ramble three pieces of paper. Further teachers must search diligently for past, practically drowning any more, according to the evidence, the hidden musical talent in other music that is going on, and the pity defendant was not there, he was Chinese pupils for what is possible of it is that being a glorified not the man who hid these things, with, Miss Daisy Mu can also be Crystal Palace--the entire audience and not only was he not there, but achieved with others of a similar is distracted by the sight of those he could not have been the man whe temperament, It is a pity that trams and the anties of rowdy

such cases hid these things.

are so rare. Music-youngsters in a neighbouring play- lovers should take an interest in ground, whose shouts also reach the promoting the cult of Western precincts of the concert hall. On music among the Chinese, We are, the other side, a continual stream of of course, on the very fringe, but cars and taxis, in Garden Rood it is only a matter of time before adds its quota to the din... it will be popular as it is in Japan, Ibach grand piano is fairly good, I understand that a School of Music but it would be much improved if has been founded or is about to be the treble were toned down to an started in Canton. The degree of equality with the bass. proficiency will hardly be high for a year or so, but the institution is a step in the right direction.

His Worship concurred.

THE PARADE.

Resuming, Mr. "Alabaster said crepancies between the evidence of

thnt; regardless of the dis

the two principal witnesses, Ho

Wing and Mak Foon, as regards the papers, he wished to know, why Constable No. 319 was not arrested until four or five days afterwards, notwithstanding that the deposi- tions of Mok Foon also brought him into the case? Morcover, was ever an identification parade held such as this one, when two witness were allowed to be in the same room, at the same time, peeping through a hole at the row of men? One of these witnesses said that the man in whose possession the papers were seen was the one who was standing with his legs apart. The other witness said that the man with thick lips, who was lean ing forward, was the man.

The

Let us see to it, then, that when A new Theatre and City Hall are erected (as some day they must In a contemporary's account of surely be), representations shall be Mr. F. Mason's pupils' concert I made in the proper quarter as to the read that "the programme was an provision of a comfortable concert excellent one and, although on the hall, as far removed from the thor- classical side, was nicely varied."oughfares as possible. In that far- I had no recollection of there being off day when the Colony can go to. any Bach fugies, Beethoven sonatas the expense of a new-building, per- or Mozart aring on the programme, haps the powers-that-be will also so I looked through it again to see invest in a concert grand, which how far it had erred on the classi- will be available for hire, particu- cal side. In the vocal iterna, there larly when leading artists visit here. were 11 songs by modern British At present-shame to say-there is composers, three Russian folk songs, not one in the Colony and the Even after that, neither of the and threo by Rubenstein and Cho-smaller "grands" available have witnesses came forward to point out pin. Among the piano items seen better days. their man, and it was not until were five by modern British com- Booking for the Philharmonic Chief Detective Inspector Murphyposers, two by modern Russians, Society's production, "The Pirates touched his shoulder and handed two by Grieg, one by Mendelssohn of Penzance," opens on Monday him a piece of paper that these and a Czerny study, The question next at Anderson's. At a meeting witnesses said he was the man arises:-What is classical music?of the Society on the 18th. it was Was ever an identification held as In my understanding of the expres- definitely decided to produce "H. M. this one, when the men, put up for sion, there were not more than S. Pinafore" in April 'next, the identification, were paraded with half-a-dozen classical items out of Committee having recommended the their uniforms and their numbers 28 on the programme. But if, in elimination of "Trial by Jury", on? And it was a fact that the the opinion of others, the bulk of which was to have been given on witnesses had been given, or had those items were classical, it would the same evening, according to a known, the number of the man be interesting to know what would previous decision of the Society, whom they were naked to identify. be their conception of a "non-clas-It. remains to be seen whether

the sical" programme.

the production" of another Counsel, submitted that

Gilbert

Sullivan and

opera, evidence was wholly unworthy of credit.

There have recently been concerts immediately. following the "Pir- in the Cathedral Hall, City Hall and fates," will meet with the re- In adjourning, the

caso until. this afternoon, in response to an

Helena May Institute, and every quired support from the rank and one has set me wishing for a good file. My own prophecy is that it application from Mr. Alabaster, concert hall with a good concert will not do so, and it was noticeable the Magistrate, ordered the pro-grafie in it. Why are concert that a considerable number abstain- duction of the two witnesses men-rooms so horrible: is it because they ed from voting for the April show. tioned by the defendant, and direc-are designed, not by musicians, but

How are the mighty fallen! We ted that the police should give by architects? Where can one lis-expect to find McCormack singing every assistance in the finding of ten to music in Hongkong, sitting things like "Silver Threads among in comfortable seats in artistically the Gold," but the latest Victroin decorated surroundings, immune issue contains evidence that other from disturbing sounds from the artists in America are going the Mr. Ormsby Gorgi M. P., Parlin-outside world? In the Cathedral | same way. Mme. Alda renders mentary Under-Secretary for the Hall, with its architecture, one feels "Bells of St. Marys" and Tito Colonies, reports on his three, as if one is in church and it is Im-Schips, the talented opera singer, months' tour of West Africa in a possible to infuse anything like cor- has chosen "Valencia" for his latest Blue Book.

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