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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany

Ashley Sterne

A forgotten work by Schumann with one leg shorter than the for two planos, two cellos, and at other?"

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When, during the next Grand Opera season in London, Meyer- beer's "Les Huguenots" is revived, Mr. John O'Sullivan, who is to sing the tenor role, is going to sing the famous top C sharp in the fourth act in his natural voice (says a newspaper.) He is fur- ther átated to be the only tenor in the world who, without ainging falsetto, can get up so far. Never- theless, I know a tenor living at Putney who frequently gets up as far as Kew.

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French horn was recently revived] "No; I heard it was born with at a London concert, and called one leg longer than the oiler." forth from a none-too-crudite eritic in one of the musical papers the opinion that the composer had employed, a very extraordinary combination of instruments Good heavens! Has the fellow never heard of Pijk Smkff, the famous Jugo-Czecho-Slavakian] composer, who has wrillen no fewer than 3,571 compositions for far more extraordinary combina- tions of instruments then the fore- going? For instance, hia "Valse Neurotique et Hypochondriaque" in B double-flat major is scored for 14 church organs, two tin whistles, and a tambourine; while his "Nocturne in the Old Kent! Road" in C double-sharp minor is) scored for 29 portable barno- niums. 76 bagpipes, 2 muffin- hells, and Big Ben. Space does not permit of my giving? details of the remaining 3,569) works, but

just I may tion that hig

Chorall noble Symphony, sub-titled "Grog-Blos- som-Time al Burton-on-Trent", requires, in addition to the usuali of semi-chorus voice-parts. Japanese singing mice and a solo] quartet consisting of a nightingale, swo tom-ente (alto and tenor) and

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a kettle just on the boil.

men-

A writer in a contumporary has bean complaining that the pro- tracted foga nade February seem the longest February on record. Cheer up, brother! Perhaps March will turn out to be a quick March..

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Sonnet to a March Hare.

I do not know, I'm sure, why you

should be

Selected out of all things animal To be dubbed "mad" in March.

That's what I call Injustice. For you're no more mad

than me,

And, as I think you'll readily agree, I have far better cause for being

rad.

Look at the tickling chilblains I

have bad!

That down of Tu! that touch of

pleurisy!

And when I think the rent I've got

to pay

For these pour premises on Lady

Day,

The tradesmen's bills, the doctor's

heavy for,

(Having but just coughed up. for

Schedule D,

Fer, local rates and local taxes,

ton,).

I rekon I am far more mad than

you!

I see i reported that the bones of a dozen or more dinosaurs have beer received at the Natural II-

and that it will take at least five gears to art them all out and set in the skeletons. I am not sur- prised. From all I have, rend on the subject. learn that the skeletons nf these prehistorie monsters are never found intact, from which I infer that they were an huge that they died on the in- stalment System. Take the case of the diplodocus Carnegii, for

I have been vastly intrigued in reading about the discovery at Urtory Museum at South Kensington, of the Chaldees, where the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania are engaged in a apot of light excavating. of a manicure set stated to be 5000 years old. In some correspond- ence I have had with my friend, Professor Pilinger Rattenbleiter of Potztansend, that eminent archeologist tells me he has every renson to think that the manicare set in question must have been Abraham's wedding-present 1. Sara. Unfortunately, he doesn't atale the grounds for his opinion. and I know it is no use to ask him. "If Rottenbleiter says it is so, it is so" is his only answer to auch questions. Some years ago ho Was gruvelling about in e Sahara when he suddenly came upon a hole about the size and

example. This little pet was 8416 feet long, 14 feet tall, and good- ness knows how much round the tummy. It is absurd to suppose that it could die all at once. I probably took at least a week over The job, during which one could not reasonably expect the undead portions to loaf around waiting for the window-blinds to be drawn Consequently dinosaur bone-surt- perplexing ordinary coal-shoot. in must be a very shape of an He hung it around his neck, Lask, since I cannot for the life olme see how a sorter is to know triumphantly walked home with it, and announced to the world that whether he is handling the merry he had found the long-missing eye thought of a niepälsaurus or the of Cleopatra's Needle. When ask-funny-home of a brontosaurus. ed for proof, he merely barkeul out

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"Prove to m it isn't"--and, as The only news I have received nobody could do this, his word had from Professor-Barmion Crumpett to stand. It saya much for the this week is somewhat cryptic confidence the sciente Brother- ablegranı from Poona. which hood place in one another that runs as follows: "Part me when Ruttenbleiter recently pre- rupee annus four pice each way sented the museum of the feteero- Oxford for bout enge. Send more logical Often with a small dent in melted butter and red lead at once. a piece of putty, and stated that Can't find umbrella anywhere. it was that famous "secondary Which do you prefer--Regent depression of Iceland" which we Street or Shrove Tuesday? Am are always hearing so much about, forwarding under separate" cover it was graciously and gratefully large hole in piece of paper fer accepted as such, and no questions use in case of fire or panic. How asked.

do you spell cheümberrit looks to me as if the old fool ad "Have you heard that Mrs. had a sun-stroke, or 'a' sun-spot, Quiverfull's new baby-vas-born or a spot-stroke, or something.

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"HOPELESS POSITION." (Sir Henry Wold) to raise the credit of British music all over the world.

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM ON BRITISH MUSIC.

"The Grand Brigand, of. Music.".

It was apparently to he left to the tender mercies of the grand brigand of music, the BB. Cor- porntion, whether Queen's Hall was to be closed or not.

Sir Thomas Beecham, speaking at the centenary celebration of Beethoven held in London, said they were at the cross ronds of They saw in the country a con. British music. They always wert. (Laughter.) They lived musical

tinual encroachment on the sacred ground of art on the part of ad-

ly in a continual state of suspend- mirable inventions like the gramo- ed animation. They thought they phone, and a constant diminution were forging ahead and making al of the real thing, music, (Laugh- move, and audenly a fute inter- ter) vened with little smäcks In the The promenades and symphony face, and they started again with concerts at the Queen's, Hall hal undiminished courage.

done a great plece of work. All So far as Britain was concerned, conductors knew how hard it was music had never been in such a to get a "fiver" for music. People, hopelessly bad position.

seemed to think they never could Referring to the probable clos- get a guinea's worth. If you were

lose Ink of Queen's Hall, Sir Thomas prepared to

21 thousand naked what could they think of a pounds, you could have a very bad country which had not provided festival. If you were prepared to in advance for the continued exis- lose two thousand, you might have. tence of an institution which was a very decent one, and if you were' one of the glories of this country, prepared to lose £8000 you could and by means of one individual have a great plece of art work..

SHANGHAI "SPLIT.”

BREACH WIDENS DAY. BY DAY.

"GOVERNMENT" ESTABLISHED

While the Cantonese troops st Chinking are receiving serious setbacks, says the Shanghai Times of Monday. members of the local Kuomintang Government continue. to bicker and quarrel among them- selves for the control of the Shang- hal district.

With General Chiang Kai-shek at the front and Mr. Wang Ching- wei en route to Hunkow, the "outs" are, taking advantage of the op- portunity to break down the weak i resistance before them and place themselves in power. The "outs". the majority of whom are the so- ; called Left Wing-composed of "Reds" and Labour Union agita- tors-have already gained a par- Hal victory through the reported establishment of the Shanghai Special District Provisional Gov- crnment.

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This "Government" is composed f of a commitice elected to office at the 62nd political confererice of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang Party on Feb- Wu Ching-heng was maary appointed chairman with Tsin Yuen-pal, Nyeu Yung-chien, Ad-| miral Yang Sze-chwang, Taiang Pah-chi, Chen Chi-tsai, Quo. Tai- chi, Yeh Tsho-chang, Yang, Han- fah, Liu Hwei-ting And Yang Ken-kong. General Bei Chung- hai and Wu Chun-sin were added to the committee later,

Inaugural Ceremony.

was

The inaugural · ceremony held on Friday, shortly after Gen- and Chiang Kai-shek's departure. for Nanking, at the former yamen of the Shanghai Tsoyin. Admiral Yang acted as chairman in the ab- sence of Wu Ching-heng, accord- ing to the Chinese press, and pro-i posed that the committee meet at 1a.m. daily and that the commit- Lee be "regarded as the highest organization in Shanghai and deal with all military, political and funcial affairs locally, and direct the Shanghai brunch of the Kuo- mintang Party.

Wang Han-liang, Chairman of the Canton Rond Street Union. has Entified the Shanghai, Provisional Government, according to the Chinese presa, that his partícipu- tion in revolutionary work was due to his sympathy for the doctrines of the lake Dr., Sun Yat-sen und that he was unwilling to listen to Bolshevism and Communism. He, therefore, decided not to necept membership in the Executive Com- milfec.

^ handbill distributed at a recut mass meeting said:

"The revolutionary movement conducted by us is approaching a climax when hand to hand fighting with the imperialists is inevitable! The imperialists are endeavouring hy subtic means to crush our re- volutionary infittence.

The on man well-acquainted with thesp Uniter hand tricks is Wang Ching-; wei. Therefore all revolutionary people should welcome Wang and ask him to resume office. In this way we shall secure leadership: that will enable us to heal down militarism and imperiulium. (Sgd.) Propaganda Department of that Shidqiai" Special District of the Kuomintang. Parly."

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