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Mr. Andres. Segovia will appear at the Theatre Royal on Saturday, September 7th at 9.15 pm.
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KEATES-On September 5th, at French Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kentes, a daughter,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1929.
DAY BY DAY.
AN ABLE MAN BROWS IS SPRIT by GENTLE WORDS AND RESOLUTE ACTIONS; BE 18 NEITIPER HOT NOR TIME-Chesterfield.
A cargo coolie was yesterday killed through a fall into a hoid while working on board the 9.8. On Hing.
MUSICAL JOTTINGS.
Segovia: The Prices and tho Booking-Nature of his Concert Misunderstood-A few words to Music lovers-A Chat about Records.
[BY "ALLEGRO."] "If Hongkong 'fails to realize that it has an opportunity of hearing
The Very Idea!
Joseph Paskar, a convict who recently finished a term of twenty years' imprisonment at Sopron and Szeged, has constructed a remark- able, clock which goes without humun supervision, and in which. every part, to the minutest wheel, constructed of wood. The
these are extremely ateep In gradient, which only servet, to add to the dangers. Add to the conditions the further fact that these overcrowded tenements are usually situated above abops, and it becomes apparent that when a serious outbreak occurs on the ground floor, the people
one of the greatest musicians now above have very little chance of
before the public of Europe and escape, unless they can somehow
Among passengers leaving yester-Amerien, when Segovia gives his clock, which is built into a cup- watches, which show simultane- manage to get on to the roofs. day on the Korea Maru were Mrs. guitar recital on Saturday, it will board, contains thirty different The difficulty of the problem, of F. G. Hunt, Mr. I. W. Joynson and not bo the fault of the Hongkongously the correct time in the Musicial Society. It sent out two thirty largest cities in the world. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Easterbrook.
hundred postcards giving arance
special watch A contractor's coolle living in the intimation of this concert, and Besides these a Hangson matthed at Wongneichong, nearly as many to serve as a re-shows the movement of the sun, was taken to hospital yesterday subminder. These intimations called moon, and stars, and a barometer her that the prices charged were marks the passing of the days equent to a fall from the upper forth a rejoinder from one mem- prodiets the weather. A calendar storey of the structure. -
too high. The prices have noth- weeks, and months, unaided, suc Throwing herself from the lowering to do with the Society: ita cessfully overcoming the irregu
function is to make known, well in larities of leap year; and a weigh...
machine completes deck of a Yaumati, ferry launch, young Chinese woman was rescued advance, concerts that it guaran- ing
The would-be teen will be well worth going to mechanism. by a fishing junk.
"Ba eureful Donald," called moth- autelde was subsequently taken to hear, and its members undertake; if they possibly can, to back those the Government Civil Hospital.
concerts and make them known or warningly, hearing a sound of Among their friends. Considering hammering or you'll hit your "No, zhan't mother," called artists here in the course of a
Donald, cheerfully. "Betty's hold- we only get three or four of these thumb again." ing the nall."
course, is that so much property make the Is concerned, and to buildings really fireproof would be practically impossible. How- ever, the dangers, if they cannot ba be entirely removed, can lessened, and in this connexion the Brigade report throwe out a suggestion which is worthy of consideration, namely, that fire- proof material be insisted on for the staircases and first floors. If this were adopted, the view is expressed that there would be little likelihood of people being burnt to death In these tenement houses.
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Tui "Sing-chal, an 11-year-old boy, living with his parents at No, 69, Elgin Street, was severely scalded yesterday through falling into a tub of hot water. His con- dition was serious when taken to hospital.
For carrying two chickens sus- pended by the wings, a Chinese was fined $5 by Mr. T. 5. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when charged with causing unnecessary and avoid able, cruelty.
the
year, and hotel and travelling ex- penses are very costly not to mention the fact that these musi-
The talk along bathing, beaches cians are able to command very high fees for a single performanco in England this year isn't so much in America and Europe-I do not about the scantiness of costume, consider $5 too much to pay for but of the safety of Chem. New the best senta at. "Colebrity Con- ones on the market have small certs. For those whose pockets special chambers flatly placed in are not deep enough, there are front and back. These chambers 50 arranged cheaper seats available where the can be inflated and will support a artist can be heard just as well as swimmer. They are in the more expensive ones. Galli- that an unconscious swimmer will Curci filled the Queen's Theatroj float face upward. at $6 a seut; even that price did not deter peor'e from going.
Whether it is practicable not, at this stage, to Insist on such a proposal as is mentioned, we do most decidedly say that In the case of new buildings ronsiderations of fire dangers ought not to be overlooked. Not
Three wristlet watches, valued at to tenement only in regard
$100, were stolen from the counter houses, but also in the case of at Mesars. Sennet Freres shop in Chater Road, yesterday afternoon, blocks of modern flats, we have by a thief who had entered unob- heard of instances in which theserved. A report of the affair las RICKETT-On 4th September 1floors are wholly of wood from been made to the police.
to the top Fulmer House, Worbing. Sus the ground right up
Mr. Thomas Lay, living at 72B, sex, to Mr. and Mrs. C, A. 1. Rickelt, a daughter. Japan Storey, with a common stairway Nathan Bond has reported to the of the same material. It does allee that money and property to papers please "copy.
were stolen by. not require much imagination the value of $46, to foresee, what might happen in an unknown thief who rifted his clothing while he was bathing ut case a serious outbreak occurred the Taiwan beach yesterday. on the ground floor or the lower
Amongst the passengers who left storeys of such structures. The by the Empress, of Asin yesterday King Edward Hotel fire illustrated were the Honourable the Master of of Napier, Capt. and Mrs. Dubble, the dangers in big blocks
with conditions Mr. C. C. Stark, Mr. Allan Came-him buildings, but,
ran, Capt. and Mrs Holland, Mr. As they are, the risks are very R. R. Roxburgh, and Mr. J. O, much greater in the case of flats Sheppard, and tenement houses. This is a matter which deserves the most
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Mrs./S. K. Moosa and family bag to tender thanks to their friends and relatives for their kind pressions of sympathy in their recept hereavement and for floral tributes sent and for at- temlance at the funeral.
The
Fatal Injuries were received by Wat Mul-sal, an 11-year-old girl,
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"How did you get on la hos- pital?" n soldier was asked by a sympathelle friend. "Did they "Pilla!" replied the man, "why, give you a lot of pilla?" they gave me so many I've got ball bearings in all my joints!"
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No, if Segovia gels a poor house it will not be due so much to the price of the seats as to a pardon- able inability on the part of the local public to realize that this is no stunt guitarist from the South Sea Tales but a serious musician, (Regret has been expressed by musical worth to Kreisler and not scem possible to obtain such putting up a performance of equai seueral correspondents that it does
ceive what the guitar is capable of the days of their youth.) Casals, It is impossible to con-home-made bread as we made it until you have heard Segovia. He has so far transcended anyone clae who has tried to play "that instrument that modern composers are specially writing pieces for him to play, pieces which are cap able of being rendered only by
When this artist has been heard, the impulse is to write to one's friends and say "If you ever get a chance to hear Segovia, do not miss it." I have not heard him myself,, but all that I have heard from New York, London and La Argentina, Galli-Curel and Molselvitsch at enthused about him, as soon as his
Surely everything mentioned. points in every way to his being a really first class artist.
Hongkong Telegraph. serious attention on the part of when she was knocked down by pub- Paris bears out this impression).
THURSDAY SEPT. 5, 1920
FIRE DANGERS.
death-traps.
last year
the authorities,
be
He ear No. 166, at Pokfulum Road yesterday afternoon. Ten minutes after admission, she died at the Government Civil Hospital, from a fractured skull.
The local branch of the Chartered has received the follow. Bank
name WHA
that
The bread we used to eat,
When we were very young? The fine old-fashioned sweet We rolled upon our tongue; The cherries growing wild; The nectar ginger-beer, And all which to the child'
Of begone days was dear, Where are they now? And why.
Such luxuries nor taste nor
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do we
Alas, if truth be told,
It is that we,grown old. The horrid lesson have to learn That youthful raptures don't
return.
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Unele (arriving on a visit): "Isn't this a surprise?".
Children: Yes, and mummy is ever no pleased."
Uncle: "That is very nice of her." Children: "Yes, when she saw you coming up the street she said: This is the finishing touch."
Heseltine, who has a good voice, wustes it in singing the cheapest ballads imaginable, and Hubert Eradell is going the same way,
Percy Grainger's "County Gar- in the past, that "nobody know dens is well-known in Hong- anything about " or that they kong, and large numbers of re- before. This attraction, with only saw the advertisements a week cords of it have been sold. It has now been recorded electrically. special mention of its uniquenesy,
a ten inch disc, played by was brought to the personal notice Grainger, and is a great improve of two hundred people "interested ment on the old one, Shepherd's In music. I cannot believe that Hey is on the other side, equally the present state of booking re-brilliantly rendered. presents anything like the "house"
on
Cleaning Up in Palestine, Ilaving taken all measures necessary to meet the Immediate emergency created by irrespon sibles in Palestine, the Govern-
Yet, judging from the booking- ment's attention is now directeding telegram from its Head plan, it would not seem as though in London:Directors the efforts of the Musical Society interim and the quotations from critiques It is an undoubted fact that towards the provision of guar-ce
antees against the origin of
declared have
28 of the tenement the trouble, and with this object, dividend for the past half quoted in the press, have so far the majority
is to leave for
succeeded in overcoming houses in the Chinese' districts Commission
pardonable innbility to realiza Jerusalem before the end of the year at the rate of 14% per annum
fres of Income Tax."
Segovia's greatness. At the mo of the Colony are, from the fire-present month,
Colonial the fighting standpoint, veritable Office again deserving commenda- A warrant has been issued by the ment the booking-plan in a dis: It cannot prompt and happy police for the arrest of Min Cheuk- grace to Hongkong. The dangers to tios for a
be said, as has so often been urged decision.. The most interesting po, an official of the Wo Yee Kok which occupants of such premises feature of the announcement is Chinese Seamen's Club at 31, Des are exposed are stressed in the the emphasis which is placed Voeux Road Central; on charges of annual report of the Fire Brigade, upon the limitation of the terms alleged theft of $286.44 und of em- of reference. The Enquiry in-bezzlement of the Club's funds to which deals with the desirability itiated is asked to discover the the extent of $61.20. of greater uso being made of causes of the outbreak, including
con- the extent to which it may
Hongkong estate to the value of fireproof material in the struction of these houses. In the regarded as preconcerted or due $16,000 was left by Cheng Wing- to organised action, wile con him, alias Cheng Fuk-hang, alias
The operatic records were not that will greet Segovia on Satur- conditions, prevailing, it is sur sideration of major policy has Cheng Mi-wo, alias Cheng Ngoi-lui,
No pleasing this month, the voices prising that the toll of life from been definitely ercluded from the retired merchant, who died at No.
purview, This may provoke 50, Main Street, Aberdeen, long day night; it is more likely due being shrill and piercing-deafen- to the tendency to postpone booking, in fact, in a drawing-room. outbreaks of fire is not greater further criticism from the. kong, on May 8, this year. Probate than it is. For the whole of Zionists who feel they have a has been granted to the widow, ng until the last moment, know- Doris Vane's record of Love, the.
ad-Cheng Wong-shi, who is the ex-ing that there lu no danger of find Pedlar, however, was charming. Time is When the Squire Celeste Octet last year, in a Colony which grievance against British
ministration and claim that the ecutrix and to whom everything is ing all the seats taken.
short now and music lovers might finds something more worth re- numbers its inhabitants by the fullest investigation should be bequeathed.
do their best in the next two days cording than movements from hundreds of thousands, the total held into the manner in which
to remove any false impressione orchestral works which sound When a Chinene was charged that may exint regarding this guitar heaps better on an orchestra, it death-roll from fires
the Mandate has been adminis was only ten, and of these five tered, but it is obvious that any before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at recital. Finally, I would say that will be possible to recommend
other course would be highly the Kowloon Magistracy this perished in one blaze, the detrimental to
in-morning, with being in unlawful these remarks are not intended in their records again. There may premises being of the customary terests of Palestine, and there- possession of a chicken, the defen- any "nagging" spirit; there is no be a demand for them, but sure intention of holding a pistol at ly not from those collectors who fore to the Zionist movement. dant, said he found the fowl in peoples head's and saying "You have heard symphony orchestra with Chinese type, tonements The dimeulties attendant upon the streets. His Worship remark- ought to go, whether you like it perform the same works. D'Aranyi situated over a joss-paper shop. the establishment of efficiented that a live chicken did not run or not." I have only endeavoured plays two dainty violin pieces on to show that, for those people who a ten-inch, which can be recom All the same, the handicaps im- government are sufficiently heavy wild; it must belong to someone.
without running into unnecessary The defendunt was fined $5 or like real music and would enjoy amended. posed on the Fire Brigadi in risks. To prepare a community seven days' hard labour,
recital on any other instrument, this having to cope with outbreaks so widely divergent in tradition,
performance of Segovia's, far from d such structures are. excred-racial, industrial and religious, For some months past Hongkong being a disappointment, will pro-
as the present population of Amusements Limited have beenbably be a revelation. |ingly great, and it can be said Palestine is a work requiring in endeavouring to secure the ser- that when fires do occur it is exhaustible patience. Those who viccs of a musical director of ex- in many instances only due to hope to benefit from the benevol- ceptional qualities and have now ent supervision of British ad been successful in engaging Mr. the skill and enterprise of the ministrations in Palestine munt M. R. Bakaleinikoff, formerly of the fire-fighters that the loss of life learn to be patient too. Britain Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, who is standing firmly by the Balfour takes the leadership of the orchestra is kept within such small dimen-
Declaration, and there is no idea at the Queen's Theatre from to- long,
of reconsidering tho British day. Mr. Bakaleinikoff has also with him two The danger is well Illustrated tenure of the Palestino Mandate. brought down
With that, the Zionists must be violinists from Shanghai: In the Brigade's annual report, content for the moment. When in which it is pointed out that the origin of the present trouble many of these tenement houses. has been revealed, and it is Canton Railway brought a charge have only one common staircase possible that outside influences of assault against twe coolles, be- will be found to be partly re- fore Mr. T. 8. Whyte Smith at the for two separate houses, which sponsible, the Government will Kowloon Magistracy this morning, In turn may be from three to four survey past policy with a view It was alleged by the complainant to possible rovision, but even that when he told the defendants storeys in height. It will thus here, no promises are made. We to move away from the entrance/ There was nothing of special in- times each, here and in Shanghai, I be seen that for scores of re- are satisfied it will be establish of the office where they were sidents there is only one pointed that the high purposes of the sitting down and blocking the door, of egresa,
and this, in mast Balfour Declaration, have been the two men, with others, set upon scrupulously carried out. If this him and assaulted him. Each instances, a Bimay wooden stair-la the case, there is no call for defendant, on conviction was fined
Generally speaking, also, apologies,
$5.
case.
the future
Turning to. Victor'e output for the month, the best record is Florence Austral singing the solo from Brahms' Requiem; the words The Four Ways Suite" by Eric are very indistinct but the tone Coates was one of the most enjoy and quality are aweet, and the of the ahle Columbia recordings last work, of course, is one
wrote month: Northwards is a March, lovellest things Brahms
Baint Southwards, Waltz; Eastwards, In the orchestral line, a kind of Chinese piece; and West Saens" Omphale'a Spinning Wheel wards, "thythm." The latter I can be recommended; in chamber, played over twelve times and it music Schumann's Trio in D Minor, grew more fascinating. The sulle is played by Cortot, Thibaud and more attractive than the Summer Casals, who have made such a Days Suite. Unfortunately, only reputation as entremble players. A watchman of the Kowloon-one set arrived (there are two Rence Chemet, the violinist, has discs) but many more are coming, emulated the examplo unfortunate. and I suggest ordering beforehand. ly set by Kreisler and recorded Billy Bennett gave us a funny sentimentali nawkish trifles; Galli- record. The Tightest Man I Know Curci gives us Old Kentucky Home and Norman Long's Songs at the and Love's Old Sweet Song. Hav Plano are up to his usual standard, ing heard her sing these three. terest among the dance records: should imagine they are great fa "I'm in Seventh Heaven" was one vourites of hers. How anybody of the beat. In the Heart of the would want to buy a record of those Sunset" (Fox-trot) issued the pre- two hackneyed items passas my com vious month was quite attractive, prehension. It takes many kinds of As was Billy Mayer's jazz-plano- people to make a world. playing of Wake Up and Dream."
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