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A Few Orchestral Selections from the “H.M.V." catalogue, played by the World's Loading Orchestras.

Marche Slav (Tchalkovsky) Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Flying Dutchman--Overture (Wagner)

D-1046

D-1050

D-1092

Twilight of the Gods (Wagner)

(Siegfried's Funeral March)

New York Philharmonic Orch.

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REGULATION

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D-1214/4 Causo-Nalactie Suito (Tchaikovsky)

(Complete on three recorda). Philadelphia Symphony Orch. Valse Tristo (Sibelius)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Serenade, Op 40 (Volkman) Flight of the Bomble Bee

D-1284

D-1203

D-1205

D-1314

D-1867 D-1427

¿

D-1482

D-1408

(Rimsky-Korsakov),

Orpheus in the Underworld-Overturo (Offenbach) Parts 1 & 2

State Opera.Orchestra, Berlin. Blue Danube-Waltz (J. Strauss)

State Opera Orchestra, Berlin,

Mastersingers-Overture (Wagner)

State Opera Orchestra, Berlin,

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY

FREEDOM OF PEOPLE

THE

IF ROOSEVELT FAILS

By R. J. CRUIKSHANK

Professor Einstein's statement that modern life will not be worth living unless the liberty of the Blue Eagle of American quickten the Imagination of his Recovery has been dying countrymen by his plan for bring through stormy weather of late.ing the food surpluses direct to It has shed some of its feathers the hungry. It is a tragic Irony in the economic gale, and has that men and women in New York been made a little nervous by the should be suffering the tortures of shots fired at it by Mr. Henry hunger while tens of thousands of pigs in farrow are being slaugh- Ford and other sportsmen

tered in Iowa by the command of Ita keeper, General · Johnson, has found it necessary to repeat his famous warning "Don't fool about with that bird1"

Individual is preserved comes with especial force at this time. Prof. Einstein points out that the powers which seek to suppress intellectual and personal freedom are stronger now than they have beon in years Without such freedom, he reminds us, there would have been no Pasteur, no Llator; we would not have, com- fortable houses, or railway trains, or protection against disease, or books; most of us would live dull life of slavery, just na under the ancient despotisms of Asia. The assault against freedom is | succeeding, not because the mazs

Yet although the Blue Eagle la not such a glossy bird as it was a few weeks ago, it is still strong on the wing, and the hopes of the great mass of the American people are still fixed on it with an almost a rollgious fervour.

of mankind suddenly has become convinced that freedom in worthless, but because the terrific prosauro of economic calamity has forced people out of the old

groovea,

TANGLE OF MODERNITY

States.

DIFFICULT JOB

in

What is being attempted America is an experiment quite as

the Government, and farmers in Kansas or Nebraska are burning : their grain. Mr. Roosevelt now doilars in the direct distribution proposes to spend some 75,000,000 of meat, bread and coal among the famished.

NEW YORK DISCONTENTS.

084

The Very Idea!

THE PLAN OF PLANS By Eddie "Roosevelt" Kelly, WE should worry about the drop

in the American dollar. Or about President Roosevelt's Pla to save the United States 'Adolph Hitler. Or the Fuklep Independence Movement. Dr the:+ price of Beer.

· Haven't we got Edward Kelly?

By popular, acclimation and his own inclination, Mr. Kelly has undertaken to salvage Hongkong or let Hongkong, die in the at- tempt

Now read on.

He saved from itself.

TONGKONG, has got to

Didn't a correspondent say 80 when he complained about the fact that visiting cele brities aren't invited to Gov- ernment House."-

It is humanly understandable The badge of the Blue Eagle that with the sombre shadows of appearing in myrinds of windows, the fifth winter of want stealing on flags, on the windscreens of across the land there should be cars, the devoted loyalty of thou-unrest among considerable sec sands of volunteer workers, the tions of the people. Tho

In order to save Hongkong genuine sacrifices made for the tonishing thing is that they should cause by certain classes of the have been ab patient under this we have had to prepare a

plan. It is our own modification · community-all these signs attest long strain on mind and body. the enthusiasm created by the

It is the accumulated discontents of the Russian Five Year Plan, President's campaign.

of the past years that partly ex: the N.I.R.A. campaign, the Nan-. plain the epidemic of strikes and king Plan, the Voronoff Treat- other labour difficulties now trou-ment, "Hongkong As I Knew It," bling the country. The immediate (by Stella Benson), the P.WD. cause of this unrest, however, is Report, Sanitary Board Agenda, the sense of opportunity of now Legislative Council freedom for labour created by the "What a Young Woman of Forty N.R.A..

Should Know," the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Treatment for Hong kong Foot," and "Contract Bridge In Five Minutes.?

WHAT HAS BEEN

ACCOMPLISHED?

But what hard core of accom- plishment can be found behind the cheers and the parades and the waving of fings?

N.R.A..

Hansard.

Hundreds of strikes, large and It is the unemployment figures In Russia. In Italy, and in Ger- that will be the real touchstone of small, have broken out like a rash many freedom has been discarded the Recovery programme. How across the face of the country.

The N.R.A. ‘arbitrators, drop- because it has seemed that only have they been affected by the ping with fatigue, aro

rushing The great principle of our plan | most spectacular campaign over

fs. "DO IT IN NOW." Whatever a ruthless despotism could straigh- undertaken by a Government in from one industry to another.

This epidemic of strikes is load-you've got, spend it. Don't hoard. ton out the tangle of modern life peace timo?

ed with dynamite for the Adminis- The man who goes home at night The latest statistics obtainable tration. It may cause a reaction with money, in his packet is a and koop people from starving at the time of writing show that. amidst plenty. Fasciat and Com- 4,000,000 persons have obtained against both Mr. Roosevelt and the traitor, because it won't be worth

anything to him in the morning. munist alike share that belief.the White House last March. Na

work since Mr. Roosevelt entered

The conservative elements in

We see that $10 bills are n.d.g. in Canton. That is exactly what They differ only in their dens tional Recovery Administration the country ato alarmed at the THE EUROPEAN WAR about who should be the despots. officials point out that the returns growth of Labour unrest. They will happen under our Flan.

SCARE

All of which becomes especially represent only a limited number do not understand why the workers Under the E.K. Plan yesterday's of industries, and that the actual should be more.discontented to-day money will be valueless. This significant when viewed against increase in noarer 6,000,000. They than they were in the darkest hours will entail no hardship, except on There are two ways of look-the background of the present re. employment designed to reach volt entered the White House, the because as far as we people who

are now preparing a census of of last winter. When Mr. Roose the rich people who can afford it, · ing at almost everything, and the fear of a new war in Europe covery programme in the United those tens of thousands of em-American Federation of Labour earn by the sweat of our brow are ployers who are not on the records was at the nadir of ita fortunes. concerned, we never have any is no exception. Germany's Bavarian Dancos (Elgár, Op 27) London Symphony Orchestra.

of the Labour Department, and To-day the recognition given to money at this time of the month. this they believe will substantiate organised Labour by the N.R.A.

Spend till It hurts. If you've· Fire Bird (Stravinsky)-Dance of the Fire Bird-Philadelphia Or withdrawal from the League of Nations can be considered as a

their claims to the higher figure. has brought an immense accession been in the habit of spending $5 Khowantchina-Entr'acte (Moussorsky)

a day at the Gloucester Lounge, Philadelphia Symphony Orch. calamitous step, a threat to the

Until this census is taken we shall of prestige to the Federation.

The Administration has mado it make it a point in future to spend have to suspend judgment on the Largo (Xerxes") (Handel) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, pence of the world, and the har-

success of the Blue Eagle in plain that to raise the status of the $10 a day. After all, signing a Flavonic Danco in G Minor, (Dvorak)

binger of exceedingly, stormy

alleviating unemployment, workers is the chief purpose of the | few extra chits is neither here nor Chicago Symphony Orchestra. | weather ahead. It certainly far-reaching in its potentialities

What is beyond doubt Is the Codes Encouraged by this attitude, there, especially as, under our urgent necessity for relieving the the Federation chiefs are seeking Plan, you won't have any money Tannhauser-March (Wagner) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. looks like that on the surface, for mankind as the experiments greatest multitude of destitute to recover all the ground they lost at the end of the month to pay Damnation of Faust-Hungarian March (Berlioz)

At any rate, it has produced a of Stalin and Mussolini. President persons any modern natian has since 1920, and they are aiming at them. Berlin Philharmonia Orchestra, deal of war talk. But it is also Roosevelt is trying to find

ending. the open shop and unionis- some had within its borders.

In conformity with the NLR.A. ' According to the Governmenting the whole of American industry. Plan, hours would have to be Beeton Symphony Orchestra. possible to see in it one of these way of settling the almost insoluble relief agents, at least 15,000,000 The N.E.A. has given them a great reduced. Say by about ten hours

problems of Boston Symphony Orchestra. sudden shocks which occasional-economic

the men,

women and children will strategic opportunity, and

a day. That would make a four- they declare they will not rest teen hour day. No need to go Boston Symphony Orchestra. ly bring hitherto futile discus-twentieth century without resort-have to be fed this winter.

ing to despotism trying to The achievements of the Blue! until they have built up a migh-home to the wifo at all thon, as This is a small selection from our stock of "H.M.V.". sions down to the realities. There

ty union of twenty-five million It's not worth while sleeping is certainly this about it into straighten out the crossed wires Eaglo are small indeed compared

during the seven, hours between of production and distribution on with that gigantic problem of mass meetings of statesmen who have the one hand and to preserve in- destitution. The Roosevelt Re- It is easy to imagine the ap- | sunset and sunrise, talked disarmament for months dividual liberty on the other.. It designed to move

was originally Grehensions of the conservativo in- covery campaign

forward on dustrialists as they watch the ro- without evincing any serious in- is an enormously dimeult job. three fronts simultaneously, surgence of Labour. They blame tention of doing anything_con- Three_of_the_greatest nations of through the Blue Eagle, the Dir. Roosevelt for having released crete there has appeared some-Europe have given it up as utterly Agricultural Adjustment Agency this Djinn from the Bottle." one who has had the courage to impossible. Other nations appear tunately, largely as a result of

and the Relief Agency. Unfor- "CHISELLERS" lay down the law in a most un- drifting slowly to the same con- the antiquated machinery and

Another source of peril to the ambiguous fashion. What Ger- clusion. If the freedom of the the Inefficiency of the local Blue Eagle will be the discontent many has said, in effect, is that individual la to be preserved in authorities, the Rellef Agency is of the consumers as prices rise and under the Versailles Treaty, done by the

the world, the job will have to be lagging far behind the other two incomes lag behind. I made in

English-speaking organisations,

quiries in everybody agreed to do some re-

a number of stores about Mr. Roosevelt, however, with the pricce of articles ranging from peoples. And it is nothing less his unquenchable administrativo radio sets to suits of clothes. Public spirited citizens are at ducing in armaments, and, since than that which is at stake to-day zest, has been seeking lately to "That was five dollars cheaper a

porfect liberty to send a few most of the Allies have done in America's vast recovery pro-revivify the Relief Agency, and month ago, and it may be five del- specimens along. Souvenira may nothing, she feels disinclined to

gramme and the indication by the raise it to the same peak of aclara dourer in a month's time," was bo sent either suitably framed or continuo tho discussions. If National Government triumvirate, complishment as the Blue Eagle. the answer often given to my in-In between two pieces of card- certain of the Powers are shock-MacDonald, Baldwin and Simon It was characteristic

(Continued on Page 9.)

D-1259

D-1880

Bolero (Ravel) Parts 1 & 2 Bolero (Ravel) Part 3

Gymnopedie (Satio, arr Debussy)

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ed and worried by this drastic that the next election will be move, they have themselves fought on à National basin. largely to blame. They devised

in some of the provisions of the DISARMAMENT

Versailles Treaty, a sure means

of keeping Germany's mind on

Commonsense has prevailed at

the gains that might bo secured Geneva and the outlook for dis- by a new war. They held con- aramament progress is as promis ference after conference on thoing as it could be in the absence of subject of disarmament, and let any German delegate. The change is the result of abandonment of each ono fizzle out without any

rigid formula. All proposals tangible result aceruing, Dur likely to lead to solutions are now ing the years since the Great open to the principal Powers. | War, Germany has had a succes- | Ultimate effectiveness will be the sion of "moderate" Governments | final test. The velled hint of which claimed to be devoted to Italy's withdrawal from the League the keeping of peace. Conces-need not, at this stage, be taken sions on treaty rovision or arms designed chiefly to bring about seriously. It seems to have been reduction might have been made the frame of mind sow actuating with some of these Govern-the delegatos at Genova, although ments, but they were not. Now it reveals plainly Italy's closer Germany has another type of relations with Germany. The fact Government, which wants als that Britain and France have showdown. Menacing as the boon. trying to avoid the Implica situation may appear at the tons of the Four-Power Pact. moment, it may be that a real signor Mussolini's object is to bring them back to it as the most showdown will, in the long run, promising instrument for the es help to clear the air and remove | fablishment of stability in Europe, the sense of unreality from the

whole disarmament question.

Britain cannot well be expected This may result from the method to make any further gestures: of direct conversation. Any she has more than fulfilled hor decided stop in this 'direction plodges. Chlof hopo lies in the would do more than anything zomoval of auspicions as bo- else to dispel the tension now twoon Franco and Gormány.so apparent in Europe..

of him to

persons.

"By George, wo had an exciting morning around here when

wo unpacked this breakfast set!"-

The only people who will be thrown out of work will be the Shroffs. Much as we dislike them. we cannot have anyone unhappy. under our Plan, so we will arrange a Civil Service job for them, or retire them in some other manner. As souvenirs of our great effort. to save Hongkong we are collect ing a few of the Hongkong $10 notes which will, naturally, ba worthless when our Plan comes inte operation.

board.

In return they will receivo a Apecimen copy of the famous Keily

| signature, suitably inscribed upon

an 10.U. form.

DEMOLARISING

"Stop" There were muffled sounds of a struggle in the next room, and the girl sercamed.

"Stop!" she cried.

No response.

"Oh,

anid

please,

No response.

don't! Mother

"Oh, wait a minute, plonso.” No response.

"Let me go this minute, or—” "One more yank and I'll have it out," said the Dentist.

NEGATION

Phyllis, though young, is very wisc.

She knows of such and such; She also knows

Of these and those:

In fact, she, nots too much,

MISTAKEN

The villain took a deep breath, and muttered, “Cursa It, curso it!” as be seized the shrinking heroine round the walst.

"No," It's not,” she whispered. "It's only a girdle.”

LEG THEORY

And then there was the case of the girl, who, after countless visits'

to the chiropodist found out that' he was only pulling her log.