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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928.

BRILLIANT TATTOO SUCCESS. view, fing along winding paths, poro Brigado, R.A.: 2nd Bn.

as the "warriors" appeared In Ing units-Hongkong and Singa- which, in the uncertain light of King's Own Scottish Borderers; magnesium flares gave the illusion Hongkong Volunteer of glens and mountain fastnesses, Corps. (Motor-Cycle Machite-gun would seem that a bit of Cale- Section); Hongkong Male Corps;

MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

Defence The Helena May Musical Season WI

FIRST NIGHT DRAWS THOUSANDS donla, stern and wild, had bean St. John's Ambulance Association

OF SPECTATORS.

MANY COLOURFUL SCENES.

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and other devices against a dark A.R.C.M., background.

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transplanted into this corner of (Hongkong Brauch). Sookumpoo...

The personnel taking part in

The Khattak Dance.

evident from

Lion and Dragon.

Miss Hansen's Farewell- The Plano as a Domestic Instrument: a Defence.

[BY ALLEGRO".]

the

Mrs. Cashman and Mrs. Clements, and the second by Mr. and Mrs. Bowes-Smith; while on March 7th Mrs. Womack is getting up an Operatic and Costume Concert. o wind up the senses, the March 21st concert will be a miscellane- The concerts are, as usual, open ous one, given by all the artistes. to the public and tickets should be applied for in advance.

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this scene word as follows:--- For this first night of the Villagers from the Hongkong Tattoo, the Chinese community The Winter programme of Con- Philharmonic Society, the long had arranged a typical national certa at the Helena May Institute kong Amateur Dramatic Club and tom in the form of lion-playing has been published and the or the Hongkong Reel Club Chief and manipulating the Celestial ganisers have followed the plan tain, Kinsmen, Clansmen and pipers from 2nd Battalion King's Dragon, both of which were very adopted last season of arranging acceptable, adding variety to an special concorts for different already imposing programme.. kinds of music. Each recital is' Varied, colourful and impressive were displays given last Own Scottish Borderers.

Again the arena was thrown alloted to a particular person who night at Sookumpoo Valley on the occasion of the first of the

Into darkacas, then a spotlight is responsible for the details of three nights of the Grand Tattoo in aid of military benevolent

The spirit of war was continued picked out the enormous head of aita programme, the names of the organisations and the Naval and Military Y.M.C.Ă.

syllabus. Thousands of spectators gathered to witness the unique in the next scone in which were on, whose gargoyle cast of coun- organisers being given on

figures dancing around 4 campment as it followed an elusive ball On Oct. 25th, Mrs. Hargreaves- spectacle provided, and the measure of support given must a number of lithe, sinawy tenance registered much amuse- have been most gratifying to the organisers. It was in every are. These were Khattak hillmen, stuck to the end of a pole that Browne is arranging a Gilbert respect a magnificent show, presented with that thoroughness warriors of a fierce Indian frontier was dangled before its eyes. The and Sullivan concert and on Jan. 0 programme of modern and precision which we have come to associate with the Army.tribe, who were giving expression Lion was played by two men whose 10th

completed the

necessary French Music. On Nov, Bth, 22nd,' Last night's programme was such as to suit all tastes, to an uncontrollable. impulse by lege

leaping and madly quadruped effoot. It was followed and Feb. 7th there will be ordinary varying from typical Scottish displays to weird Indian and whirling,'

Possibly rating around the fire, against by a second lion of smaller Musicales of Chamber Music run 'Chinese performances and realistic battle scenes. the most colourful were the Gathering of the Clans, the Sur which their lean figures were out-dimensions, varitably a "Little by Mme, Bonenfant, Mrs. Balean lined in medley of grotesque Un" which was manipulated by and Mrs. Bellamy, respectively. motions.

one man and which followed the Mrs. Davenport Browne's concert: render of Edinburgh Castle and the Torchlight Tattoo. Al

Faster and faster did the tom-"Big Uns a cub, word follow on Dec. 13th is devoted to Music were most realistically given, whilst the playing of the massed military bands on the opening of the Tattoo was most inspiring. toms beat, and madder and madder its mother. The movements of of Childhood. On Jan. 24th and grew the pace of the dance. the lions were timed by the Feb. 21st, there will be two Plano The word "tattoo" is defined in King's Own Scottish Borderers. Sometimes the pace and beats throbbing of a drum and the beat-and Song rocitals, the first by the dictionary as the besting of the 3/16th Punjab Regiment, and died down, and the dance then ing of a gong.

Long and loud was the applause drums rocalling troops back to the Hongkong Volunteer Defence became a poetry of rythmic mo- barracks. In a wider sense, it Corps, came into view, and as they tlon, but thin was only for a mo- denotca a military pageant by ewung, in imposing array, to their ment. With the toms-toma aend-which greeted this display.

A dragon of equally, fearsome night, in which the harmony of allotted position at the other elde ing out the call for quicker and

danco, was aspect and of abnormal length motion, pa a large scale, made of the Gates, they presented a quicker motion, the possible only by the participation must striking picture. They were racumed with renewed and ap- next aled a sinuous course into of a mass of well-drilled mon, is commanded, in the order named, Parently unquenchable energy. It the arena, on a hundred legs, its Bandmasters Hi. Perry, was a scene not to be canlly for head and body illuminated to presented by means of torchlights by

W. H. Fitz-Earle, gotten, wild and grotesque in the produce a most bizarre appear of incense ance. The smoke A.R.C.M., Band Havildar Lachmi extreme.

The Khattak Dance, which was sticks rose into the air to proclaim The huge concourse which as-Porahad and Bandmaster A. J. M.

There was not a very large sembled at Sookumpoo Valley last Rodgrigues. The Massed Bands given by men of the 3rd/15th Pun- that this scene was essentially an

Oriental on and was the Chinese audience for Miss Hanser's final night soon discovered that, the were under, the baton of Band-jabis, was loudly applauded.

community's very own."

violin recital, but it was a good first Tattoo which this Colony has master Filz-Earle, except in ono

Torchlight Evolutions, when Bandmaster Perry ever scen was even more elaborate scene

The torchlight evolutious; which

Surrender of Edinburgh Castle. attendance for Hongkong and in view of the fact that it was her than the public had been led to conducted.

AB His Excellency the Omeer fallowed on the Khattak Dance,

Then came the final scene of the third concert, it may be taken as a hope. In planning the scheme,

the Government provided a rare sight. They were Tattoo, which had as its centre tribute to her artistry that so the Working Committee of the Administering Grand Tattoo had taken into full (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, performed by 440 non-commission-piece the imposing replies of many came to hear her again. On account the natural advantages C.M.G.Jattended by his A.D.C., ed officers and men of the 1st Edinburgh Castle. The mind was this occasion, Miss Hansen labour- of the Queen's Regi- taken back to a period 240 years ed under the disadvantage of provided by the physicdi contuur Captain A. J. Whyte, arrived with Battalion of the Valley and had so admirably in the arena after passing through ment, and it was

James fought play on, owing to her own two arranged matters that the depres-the Castle Gates, the National An the Arst that the scene was one age, when the Highlanders loyal having a strange instrument to

which must have entailed to

William's troops violins being badly affected by the sion of the Valley is one vast am- them was played by the Massed

an immense amount of drilling be-with Inspecting the

Killicrankle tropical climate, and although Mr. phitheatre and the green award of Bands. After

The Braga's Mangini is a beautifui in- ils floor a vast open-air stage. The Guard of Honour, His Excellency fore the various evolutions could at Dunkeld scenes are enacted against the walked across to the official stand be performed in all their intr-and

of the programme that the artiste dark background of the hills, where he was received by His cacy. The arena was now in dark-surrender of Edinburgh Castle,strument one felt in the first part faintly outlined in the night Excellency Major General C, C.ness, soon to be broken by points

acquainted with it beforehand. against the sky, and the effect of Luard, C.B., C.M.G., the Chair of light which appeared to flow

Kent would rather have become better space is lost when searchlights get man of the Working Committee, in from three different sources. to work focussing high spot-lights and escorted to his sent. The These merged, in a pattern of About Hong Kong.

green and red, into an undulating and bringing each scent into pageant then commenced. spectacular relief against the sur- Massed Buglers of the Com-stream, as the men moved in cir- mand, on entering the arena, cles, the movement imparting a rounding darkness.

Last night there was no route sounded the First Post, being fel-wavelike effect to the spectacle.

On reforming, the points of converging to the Valley that had lowed by the Drums and Fifes of not its stream of humanity, mov- the 1st Bn. the Queen's Regiment light sorted themselves out and Ing on foot or in vehicles long who beat "tattoo" and marched the word "TATTOO" was formed, before the hour fixed for

the around the ground. playing "Old helag presented to the view from opening of the Tattoo. The well-Chums" and "Citadel." The Bands the stands en. an inclined plane. conceived arrangements for the and Drums then advanced into the The evolution was smartly per regulation of this huge flow of centre where all were heard in

In the third evolution, the traffic and its subsequent diamassed effect. Stirring strains persal along convenient channels were provided for the subsequent pattern was of an even more in- in the basin of the Valley, with-march by Winson's "Carry On," triedte character. It

a the sounding of "The Colours" formation of a Crown having Ita out any serious hitch, was triumph of co-operation between bringing the first military scene green and red jewels at the base, the red Maltese Cross in the con- the various organisations con- an impressive finish,

ire, and a sides flanked by that emblem of Scottish power, cerned, and greatly helped towards

Gathering of the Clans. greenfleur-de-lis. The result was a followed as a matter of course, glittering design of green and red As it was enneted last night, the When the searchlights were lights, which was most effective. scene was vivid and Impressive as yet known.

In the last Jottings, we quoted a. switched on again, It was to re-

Ingidental music was played by a military spectacle and strangely

Winifred Ponder's As the spectator enters the veal, in every rustic detail, the Massed Bands in this scene, poignant when one mused over the Valley his attention is first drawn typical Highland village on which The Vanished Army," "Colonel fortunes of the ill-fated House of passage clar to a replica of Edinburgh Castle, was based much of the action in Bogey" and "El Abanico" being Stuart, and the blind loyalty book on Clara Butt which reported which, erected against the south the first big scene of the Tattoo the marches selected for "atmes which those Highlanders of old her as saying that Melba advised extended to a dynasty with which her to sing "muck" in Australia, ern side of the Valley, occupies that depicting the Gathering here."

Scotland was so closely associated, Melba has denied saying any such central position and is the pivot of the Clans.

The Battle Scent.

for weal or woc, for many hun-thing, and Clara Butt has arrang ed that the offending passage shall on which much of the interest of The scene opened with dancing the Tattoo is hinged. Long ere and general rejoicing by

In a welter of light produced by dreds of years. this, the Indian Recreation Club villagers upon the safe return of the combined rays of six power-

Again the pipes which had be eliminated from future issues of the book, What la "muck"? pavilion had disappeared from

a raiding party. This gaiety was ful searchlights, flooding the arena wailed over many sad doings in it musical fare that one die- view, and masked, camouflaged replaced by anxious waiting as a from end to end, a battle scene Scotland's history were heard in likes or is it "inferior stuff"? If and disguised under. ingenious horseman galloped past the village was next enacted under realistic slow measure from the distance it is the latter, it cannot be denied #5 wae and into the light now converged that many singers of our time treatment, il now emerges presentation of an ancient Sent by holding aloft the significant stated in the programme, of a as orle of two cottages in a scent and confirmed the general fears conditions suggestive, tish lumlet. When not in use.iery Cross. There was then a military operation at an outpost its battlement and keep in sharp Cormack is one of the worst | both Castle and Hamlet are blot part of the men-folk, and many ted out by the darkness, but carful partings were witnessed fanciful mind has saved the form with the lassies. But the messen er from complete oblivion at such

the general success of the Tattoo.

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Do you know that—————

The United States, Den- mark and Portugal were the first countries to have Consuls in Hongkong?

Mr. F. T. Bush acted for the United States in 1848, Mr. J. Burd was appointed Danish Consul In 1847, whilst in the same year Mr. F. J, de Paiva was appointed for Portugal.

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Miss Hansen is to give some concerts in Shanghai, prior to her tour in Japan, and then she will visit Java. She is looking for- ward to the voyage from Jaya to Marseilles as the only bit of real holiday for several months to come; the rate at which these concert artists are hurried, on from one place to another in fulfilment of a contract precludes them from enjoying the sights of the Far East at leisure, and it was rather a shock to learn on hor return visit here that Miss Han-

The next big artist to visit us sen had not even been up the

will be Moiseiwitsch, the planist, but the date of his recital is not

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on Edinburgh Castle and showing (Melba is among them and Mc- relief, a column of men marched offenders) have included in their A native fort at the far end was and took up a position before the programmes songs of a cheap the objective of an attack by a stately edifice. Followed other type, as a concession to the sup British column, and the events deployments, and then there enme posed popular taste, or lack of moments by conceiving the idea offer, all unheeding, had passed out leading to the attack, as well as a summons at the Castle Gates de-Lante, and I think that Schaunard,] illuminating the facade from the into the night with his grim sum the insight which the actual carry-| manding that they be thrown open in Musical Opinion, is right in interior, with most happy effects.ons, and from the hilla,, a gleaming out of the operation gave of for the entry of the King's sol-classing both Melba and Clara The spectators' stands with seat-presently glowed, and flared up military tactics, were an engross-diers. This was eventually obeyed, Butt among the singers whose "in-

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into the aky-the signal for the ing and thrilling nature,

fluence on the popular taste of "The spectator was shown the and the change-over made.

The King's soldiers were those their time had, to be fought ing accommodation for 6,000 aro arranged as three sides of a rect-gathering of the clans.

Presently there came columna of manner le which spies reconnoi

warriors, who fiercely tred around an enemy's camp at which were sent under the com- against." Florence Austral, Doro-

of General angle before the Castle, that for kilted

Mackay thy Silk, and such singers do not the garrison-foist on us in the final group on His Excellency the Oficer Ad-brandished their claymeres as they night, the sounding of the alarm and ministering the Government, the made their way, by devious routes, from the camp: the direction of of the Castle, and the their programmes the kind of stuff Chairman of the Tattoo and other through glens and mountain fast the attack, (with a fort, as the ometals and their ladies occupy-nesses, to the ing a very central position oppo-Above the tramp of wing-place objective); and the partial desfery old Highlander who emerged that Melba used to provide. Me- haunting skirl of the pibroch was truction of the fort by field and with as much dignity as he could | Cormack's final group is sometimes One often hears the view ex- The Opening.

heard, echoing from hill and mountain artillery. The action nude teen ma ena enough to make one heavel

Both

forces pressed that with the advent of dale, and it seemed to breathe into culminated with the capture and was the Duke of Gordon who had

the fort, to the accompaniment of for his King.

dressed in the colourful wireless and gramophones, the The opening of this, the first the darkness of the night the hosting of the Union Jack over held the Castle long and faithfully

much firing. function of the kind held in the fierce spirit of the Highlands.

And herein it was that the in- While it lasted, the spectator authentic dress of the period. It art of piano-playing will soon die Colony, was signalled by the fir

BB the genuity of those responsible for

work precision with which those that the Daily Express has been ing of three guns, and, sound of the last report died away the mise en scene was demonstrated.oxperienced thrill after thrill from was a joy to behold the clock-out, and it is interesting to noto amongst the hille, the Castle clock Readers of Scottish history and the crackling of rifles, the splut who now impersonated the cam-organising a National Piano Play- chimed the hour. With the last particularly of Sir Walter Scott'stering of machine-guns and the

The noise was echoed and thrown ployed to the deeply moving tune of piano playing. There are four tuneful note, there shot out into lay of the "Fibroch of O'Donul deeper note of the big held pieces. palgners of old marched and doing Contest to encourage the art

Bure, agree the darkness dazzling rays from Dubl" will, we are

being a very realistic representa- glinted from the bayonets, and age of the entranta being eight, the soldiers' faultless array, made and test pieces have been written searchlights operated from behind with one accord, after seeing the back from the hills, the effect of a slow march. The light which grades of performers, the youngest

the ancient

an impressivo sight as the troops specially for each grade. At the the stands. They criss-crossed presentation, that

There were many casualties, lo and finally came into focus on spirit of stern Caledonia had tion of the roar of battle,

Samuel played through all the ten the Castle, through, the gates, of been truly captured, and must

The ene would not have been test pieces, while Dr., Malcolm which, now flung wide open, amravel at the labour and thought judge from the activities of the slowly vanished into the interior cingeway Hall recently fold

to expended to obtain the right effect, stretcher men who picked up the of the Castle. military procession was seen Pass and debouch on the arena. Not only was the village such as wounded and rushed them to a First came the Guard of Honour, one would expect of the period, hospital post. This constituted complet. without the ceremonial Sargent, the conductor, spoke should furnish between the guards. This took nearly two thousand participants activities, and from the 5/18th Punjab Regiment, but that in the general scheme of another interesting phase of field attendant upon the change-over about them, and an audience of

responsible had

glorified music lesson, which was. Inter inspected by His Exceliency things, those

A curious coincidence, adding also broadcast. the Officer Administering the Gov-utilised very cunningly the natural valuable training for members of place before the Castle Gates with In the contest attended, the

who took part.

further interest to the scene, "Is In the Express pamphlet dealing ernment. They took a position to contours of hill and valley for the Hongkong Ambulance Brigade every military detail

Altogether, the battle the right of the Castle Gates.

fought at Dunkeld, three have ing defence of the Plano appears, Then the Massed Bands and Drums of four military units, valley served as the height upon was a decidedly clever prosenta that of the six Regiments which with the competition the follow- The personnel taking part in their modern counterparts who are and I would commend it to all

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(Continued on Page 12.) // namely, the 1st Bn. The Queen's which the beacon glowed Im- Royal Regiment, the 2nd. En. Tholpressively during the scene, and this scene were from the follow-

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