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THURSDAY, DEO. 20. 1927.

THE MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.

DECEMBER 29, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

TO KENDER YOUR NEIGHBOUR A

at B 20 after relit.

There was no business of public interest at yesterday's tweeting of the Sanitary Board.

MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

An Overcrowded Profession George Woodhouse and his Pupils

-Local Music..

The Very Idea!

He: "If you keep looking at me like that,' Fì" going to kiss you. usherWell, I can't hold this ex- pression very much longer,

[BY: "ALLEGRO.""] The number of people taking up various professions in Great Bri-

I got it at last!" shrieked the tain is in most cases in excess of the number they can really inventor. "I'll make a fortune." #upport comfortably, and musicWhat is it this time?" asked teaching has been no exception Just a little dovice, but it will

the during recent years. In the Arst bring in milichs. Every church place, anybody can set up sma music teacher; all sorts of dubious in the country will buy ond, It's a collecting box with different-slots. and unqualified Colleges of Music for different coins. All silver |exist' which "issub - degrees, gold

medals, etc., that are no criteriononey falls on velvet, while cop The Empress of Canada, which of the pupil's musical ability pers drop on a big bell."**** left Hongkong on the 7th Decem-or qualification to teach. You ber, arrived at Vancouver on will see ""Teachers of Planoforte" Christmas day.

and "Professors of Singing' in any suburb of London or the pro- vincial towns, and folk with even

The motor vessel Ceylon (Swedish East Asiatic, Co.), which left Immingham on the 23rd inst., is due here on February 5th,

mattering of knowledge about {the musical world fight shy of those with atrange degrees after

Sho had her hair cut short,

while he

Let his grow long, each alde. That's why they thought she

was the groom

And he the blushing bride.

revenue for public works and SERVICE WILLINGLY BOWS THE GEN other undertakings, Hongkong's EROSITY OF YOUR CHARACTER TO PRESERVE BILENCE OVER IT, THE contribution has risen trement- GRANDEUR OF TOUR SOUL-Pup- ously, until to-day we believe Ite is well over three and a half million dollars. It is based-andThe Linan was undocked from this is where the anomaly comes Taikoo this morning and Berthed In-not on the "cost of the gur rison, but on whatever the re venue for the year might happen to be. True, there is a provision in the Ordinance that the sum paid must not exceed the cost of the garrison, but it would be in teresting to know precisely how that cost is worked out. By the Ordinalice, the contribution is levied for the defence of the

Federal agents at Detroit recent- Colony," and the point now na turally suggests itself whether

their names. The Royal Academyly apant hours in pouring 300,000 of Music, Royal College of Music gallons of beer down the sewers this means exactly what the Messra. Mackintosh and Co,and Trinity College degrees are a following the biggest Prohibition words imply, or whether there is Ltd the well-known' men's wear criterion of a recognised musical rdid over made in the Middle East. any possibility of the phrase be specialists, have issued a handy standard, but the number of amal This haul was made in an under- Ddesk calendar for the coming yealer Institutions which derive reground brewery covering nearly ing Interpreted to cover, say, the

venue from examination fees and city block half a mile from the cost of any additional military Navigation in the West River taps and gowns, and seem to business centre of Detroit. The strength centred in the Colony for has been greatly impeded during thrive, without any guarantee of plant, evidently the property of a the last 48 hours by fogs and adequate tuition, is extraordinary: well-organised business concern, the protection, should the neees-number of groundings have re-

hnd equipment valued at £40,000, The ranks of the concert

agents, ing, and in conséquence those who

The brewery had a score of can make a financial success of

secret tunnels, some of them lead- giving vocal or instrumental reing to houses in the neighbourhood, citals are few in number," When and most of them being connected one can hear first-class artists with stores which were "blinds" at concerts and on the wireless, for the distribution of the beer. it is naturally a very poor chance that remains for all those exdel- Magistrate at Tottenham: Is it lent performers in the second true you kicked your wife? Man: rank and the still greater number Yes.. Magistrate: You ought to who would have to be described be ashamed of yourself Fancy as third class. I know a brilli- | kicking a wife. Man: Oh, ant pianist named Arthur Sand- thought you said "kisa.""

Judge Cluer, at Shoreditch

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sity arise, of British interests insulted, but none have been attend artista, too, are filled to overflow all of which was stized by the Dry China generally. Incidentally, theed by serious damage. Malaya Association's memoraï-

This morning's Harbour Office dum points out that the cost of reports gave 14 arrivals and the maintaining the Volunteer Forces Ame number of departures, falls on

leaving 72 vessels, in harbou, the Straits Settlements, British 26. There were three Government. The position in that British arrivals and the same nun- regard is the same here, and her of departures, one of these rexisturing the only four figure under this heading alone Hong through freight of the day, but kong pays some $30,000 a year. the total of inward cargo by the In our opinion, the time has come nationality was less than 500 tons for this Military ContributionTonnage and returns were at an ford, who has toured considerably

exceptionally low level.

that as

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The voice belongs to Lady Ossulston, a peercas and a member of West End society, who has started a laundry.

She takes this method of coaxing passing, it may be mentioned that her friends to sample her venture, those readers who possess the assuring them that her laundry is place where buckles won't London, Dec. 28.

Columbia, record, "Dear Child," one

off white waistcoats and 124 played by the Debroy Somers come .4.88 5/16

34.88 Band, have heard Sandford sing where there will be no faundry the refrain-somewhat nervously, Her husband, who is heir to the marks splotching handkerchiefs. 12.06% since he was reading it for that earldom of Tankerville, is Landen's

.02% first time. in place of the vocalist

pioneer aerial taxicab driver." 20.43 who pleaded sickness.

25.25

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"And how," he said, turning to the superintendent, "did most of your inmates come down to this ?"-

18.07

The Important visitor to the.. 18.20

In view of this state of affairs 18.34 in the concert world, the number Holiday Home of Rest for Indigent 34.62% of pupils studying music serious-Professional Writers entered the 164 ly can hardly be increasing in dining hall, where the inmates .19% proportion to the number of were at dinner, and surveyed the 29.25% teachers. There is a marked dis scene with a kindly eye. 2.27/64 inclination among the rising gen- 365 eration at Home to settle down in 790 real earnest to the task of be- 47 coming a concort artist. This 1/6,3/32 particularly applies to males. At thirty peeresses, ten deans, fittye 2/7 the three concerts given at the nine actresses, twelve murderers, 2/0 Aeolian Hall this Summer by the twenty boxers, fifteen best-selling novelists, eight fudges, forty-one 1/10.15/16 pupils of George Woodhouse, prae-golf champions, and large num

26.7/16 tically all the solos were played bers of manicurists and actor- -British Wireless.

managers answered Him':

Too Much Blooming Competition

From Outsiders !":

.5.15/16

In one shrill scream six bishops,

in England and Australia. He County Court, to debtor who sald issue to be re-examined in which

got some of the highest honours It was impossible for him to pay: connexion we would point out! The Christmas Number of "The at the Royal Academy, and I see you live at Brixton-con- that the Imperial Government Red Triangle" the local organ of though only about 27 has many veniently near you will not have go. A reference to admitted some years, ugo

to the Kowloon Y.M.C.A. is an exceeding competitions to his credit, includ far to

ly bright issue, containing, as is ing an opera which was perform Brixton Prison.)

Mr. Justice McCardie, In the Straits Settlements Government meet at this season, a prepondered in London. He stated this

the precise methods by ance of light and humourous read-Summer that nobody wishes to King's Bench Division yesterday: which the contribution is assessing. In addition to the usual hear a second-class artist such as I hope I am not cynical or affected

editorial features, there are con- himself; recitals usually result in unduly by a long. 'experience ed were settled by mutual agree-tributions by members of the Aa-loss; and in despair he has beexperts, but from my observation ment, they were capable also of sociation dealing, in light-hearted come the pianist of the Debroy during thirty years. I have come to We observe from Singapore readjustment by the same pre-manner, with the various activi- Somers-Dance Band, which like the conclusion that the views of ties. The description of how to Jack Hylton's appeans at such an expert vary very much with the newspapers that the Association of cess..

fly cheaply, how a wonderful bil- places as the Coliseum, Palladium, side by which he is called. British Malaya has issued a com-

Bards match was finished (with Ciro's &c. His ability to read

Bodside telephones are ringing diagram of winning shot), and a anything at sight and to impro- prehensive memorandum, on the

peep into the past when King John vise, bis technique and rythm, early these, Monday mornings in subject of the Straits Settlements

England's Valhalla.

was forced to sign Magna Carta combine. to, fit him for the job, Mayfair and a woman's voice says. Military.

Contribution, in the

are well-writter and entertaining but he feels he is prostituting ble firmly, "My dear, I want your wash- During the past two or three

contributions.

art and it makes one wonder how ing." course of which a strong plea is months, many of the London

many tales of disappointed hopes made for a revision of the basis on papers have been urging that

and ambitions could be told by all the other dance and cinema which that contribution is calculat-something should be done to make Westminster Abboy more than

instrumentalists ed. As in Hongkong, wo in the ever a mausoleum of the great Straits Settlements, it is provided men of the nation by enlarging ita accommodation in this respect by law that the contribution to the It has been pointed out that the Paris Imperial Exchequer for, local De- Abbey is already over-full of New York fence. Services shall be 20' per cent. tombs, and that a new wing or Brussels of the revenue of the Colony, after annexe might be built so that Geneva

Amsterdam present and future great men

Milan certain deductions under specified might be buried in this national Berlin headings have been made. Here in Valhalla. This rien, has, how Stockholm

been decisively stamped Copenhagen Hongkong, the revenues obtained

upon by public opinion and it slo from the Opium Monopoly, the now appears that little if any- Vienna Kowloon-Canton Railway, the Withing will be don in the matter Prague dows' and Orphans' Pensions Con-at least for the present. One Helsingfors

of the latest commentators on the Madrid tributiors, Land Sales, and Interest matter goes so far as to say that Lisbon and Sinking Fund on account of there is no real problem of find-Athens

Bucharest memorials in the War Loan are excluded from the ing room for

Rin Abbey. He adds: “I was present calculation, but all other heads of myself when the ashes of the

Buenos Aires Bombay revenue are assessable for the pur- late Bunar Law were buried there Shanghai poses of deciding the amount of under the floor method that Hongkong takes up no room at all. The Yokohama the Military Contribution.

real problem is how to get rid of Silver (spot and forward) The desirability of revising the the collection of grotesque monu- ments that spoil the church. Soma present method of assessment in of the eighteenth-century things the Straits Settlements is put for are amusing as a record of taste, ward in view of the fact that à

but what is there to be said for the repulsively bulky respectabili- great naval base is under constructy of the Victorian objects? No tion at Singapore, that a powerful great church that I know is clut- fleet. is practically certain to, be tered up with such an uncanny collection of monumental absurdi- stationed there and that the gar-ties as is Westminster Abbey. rison is likely to be increased. ItThe mischief is that they positive. is argued that the original arrangely prevent us seeing the church

Amidst two his programme when he gave his at all. They dwarf its noble Sir,-As a resident of the fifteen to thirty. ment was that the Colony should height and distract one by their Colony of many years' standing, dozen of them, a couple of bashful recital here. It is not a very in- contribute towards purely local de fussy inanity from appreciation I have noted that the weather male pupils may be seen in a dim spired composition and Wood- fonco, and that--this-term was of the splendid building What a forecasts issued daily by the Royal recess at one end of the studio! house made no secret of bla never "intended

delight it is to eyes familiar with Observatory are often far from As Woodhouse is a great wit and opinion about it. "Learn it, if to cover f the stone undergrowth of our correct. Take yesterday's fore- something of a "gallant," it is un- you want to," said be, after listen- contribution to such Imperial Abbey to go into a church like casts as an example The one necessary to add that his students ing to it with obvious distaste. Notre Dame and see the columns issued in the morning read simply adore their master. Some "I suppose you have your lapses riving bare from the root to the "North-east winds, moderate; fair, times he teaches the pianoto as well as anybody else." But if naval base: The Association flowering arch. I therefore make cooler," whilst the niglit forecast some sisters at a convent and, as one were to descend to that level of British Malaya therefore sug-the mild proposal to clear out all was in these terms:-"North-east he naively admits, it is probably in ordinary every-day life, we'd

their one and only enjoyment of all be apitting about the floor." gests that the basis of the charge the tombs from the Abbey (except winds, light to fresh; fair,"

the best of the medieval ones 'In It will be seen that there was the week.

The principal musical event upon the Colony should in future the chapels) and if a "National not the slightest mention made of One of his pupils is a young locally in the past week or so be the actual cost of maintaining, Valhalla" is wanted let it be built the probability of rain, yet wo Hungarian girl, Miss Irene dewas the concert given at the for local defence, military units not at an innocuous and inaccessible have had quite a good fall during Marik, who gave two most suc Theatre Royal on the 28rd for the

distance as a concession to senti- the night.

cessful recitais in London this benefit of the soldiers and sailors. exceeding in strength the level of ment. If a memorial is wanted in I do not profess to be a weather Summer. Although only nine Local musical talent was well re- such units within the period 1910 the Abbey surely the burial of expert, or to understand the teen, she has qualities as a pianist presented. Then we had an ex- ashes and a name graven on the methods by which the Observatory which should carry her far. "It cellent organ recital by Mr. F. floor is sufficient,"

authorities deduce the meteorolo was wonderful, miss." anld Wood Mason, the music of which was gical probabilities, but I do aug house's valet to the Hungarian described by one payer as geat that trained men ought to be girl after the concert; "but what "voluptuous! There were one or Local cinema-goers will be in-able to tell, from the costly equip you need to perfect your playing two other affairs, including or to that in the Straits Settlements, terested to learn that a specialment at their disposal, when there if you'll pardon my saying so, chestral selections by the K.O.S.B.'s this question of the Colony's musical score has been prepared by is a likelihood of rain. Yestor to fall desparately in love with band and vocal items from "The "Ah{"replied de Messiah" at the Union Church on Military Contribution is one which Mr. Grovini, the director of the day's forecasts may, in official someone." should again be raised here in the Queen's Orchestra, for Tolstoy's phraseology, be termed "partial Marik, "I know that; so far I've the 18th. Among the soles was "Resurrection," which is being failure" they cannot, by any had no luck, but I'm trying to "Come unto Him, but one paper near future. We recall a Legisla-screened from to-day to Saturday, stretch of the imagination, be des over so hard!"

get a trifle, confused over the title and the singer's name and tive Council debate some years ago Owing to the length of the picture, cribed as "complete anccesal

One of his pupila brought to caused morriment by announcing. in which a plea was made for the performances start promptly at the Yours, etc.,

special times advertised, namely,

OLD RESIDENT.him "Rush Hour in Hongkong the Item as "Come unto me Mrs. fixing of the contribution at a 12.30, 5.00, 7.15 and 9.80.

Hongkong, December 29, 1927, which Moiseiwitch included in Bowes-Smith

property and interests

as 1

to 1022.

Although the position in Hong- kong is not altogether analagous

CORRESPONDENCE.

WEATHER FORECASTS.

من

(To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.

by girls. Woodhouse's studio on Saturday evenings, when his pupils foregather for an hour or Bo's music, some playing and be ing criticised before the others, The Prime Minister now pos resembles a lecture-room at a

Besses so many pipes, most of them girls' school. And I may say presented by his admirers all over that Woodhouse, with the dis the world, that a room has been crimination which marks him out set aside at 10 Downing Street as first-rate piano teacher, a sort of museum in which the seems to attract a set of really pipes are kept with their appro nice, good-looking and talented printo labels.

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girl planists ranging in age from