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TUESDAY, JANUARY

AMOY BANK IN TROUBLE

FOURTEEN DAY MORATORIUM

RUN ON OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

15, 1935.

FRENCH PIANISTE'S - RECITAL

Mine. Florigny At The

Helena May Inst.

Mme. Hence Florigny, who gaya ja pianoforte recital at the Helena May Institute yesterday evening, showed that she is possessed of Amoy, Jan. 15.

A fluent technique, a crisp, delight. Following an extraordinary ful touch in light passages and a meeting of the directors and remarkable tono power in bravura Shareholders yesterday, the Amoy ones, and some of the pieces, such Commercial Bank Limited suspend- as Liszt's Faust Paraphrase and a ed business yesterday, declaring | Chopin Polonaise were really simultaneously a moratorium for brilliantly rendered. fourteen days pending the outcome. It is a pity that insufcient atten--. of shareholders' meeting scheduled tion to the pedalling should have for January 30.

marred the effect of several of the

The moratorium announcement, works, and it is the more regrettn- which affects deposits of over! bio that it is impossible to avoid $2,000.000, has caused a profound mentioning this because in certain sonention in banking circles. Ao pieces, such as Leschetizky's Study Ductal of the aux is credited for the Left Hand, her pedal work with the statement that should the was excellent: in fact, the effect of accurate Bank be compelled to liquidate its the study depended on business, It is estimated that its pedalling and it was played as well On the pro- nasets and enah would be sufficient as any other Item

Pedalling defects were

to meet the liabilities of $2,000,000. gramme.

Popular apprehension over the particularly noticeable in the last Buspension of the Amoy Commer movement of the Moonlight Sonata,

C sharp minor. Valac

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ties of three other leading native banks was reflected in the run of Brahms Waltz which the planiste a number of prominent banks here gave us as one of her encores. may be (Just as an instance, It which started yesterday.

Some of these banka kept open mentioned that in the latter she until after the usual office hours to actually retained the harmony of meet the heavy demand of with-the third beat of each bar and the

first of the next with drawals by depositora, which

harmonies represent mostly aninll investors although

such a small detail as and savings accounts.

Chinese

make all the difference Amoy

enjoyment of the listener..

the I have never heard movement of the Moonlight Sonata an excessive rubato played with before: the rhythm was destroyed and the dignity of this movement marred by an excess of renti- ment. The third movement warf taken with verve and brilliance and was much more like Beethoven.

bankers, the Government and members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce an emergency meeting to discuss the situation last night.

held

ALLEGED JEWEL

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MUI-TSAI AND TWO OTHERS CHARGED

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It was in the Spanish pieces that Mme. Florigny excelled. Albeniz' Cordoba and 'Sevilla were excellent- y played and it was evident that the nudience thoroughly enjoyed Lai Teui-ka, a 10-your-old registhem. The pianiste's own Sondoda tered mui-tani, employed by Taing de Brezit was also charming. Pul-yuen, married wonun, at No. The third part of the programme 142 Whitfeld, second floor, was consisted of Macdowell's To a Wild charged before Mr. D. M. Mac-Rose, familiar to all of LIM but Dougall, at the Central Magistracy seldom heard on the convert plat- this morning, with having on form, thres Chopin pieces und the January 12 stoken a gold chain, Faust Paraphrase of Liszt. The valued at $39, n pair of gold Polonaise, preceded by an intro- bangles valued at $30, a pair of duction in the form of an Andante child's gold bangles valued at $19, Spinato, which it was a pleasure to a metal wrist watch, three gold hear, as is so often omitted, was finger rings valued at $136 and 4 certainly the piece de resistance of jade pendant, to the total value of this last, group. It requires free

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$274, the property of her mistress. treatment and brilliant execution, of lulling of a baby to sleep. The its appreciation and insisted upon Tam Sin, married woman, 26 and Mme. Florigny YoRe to the Waltz, which is marked Tempo two encores, the first of which- yours, and Tam Cheong. abus occasion and gave a splendid per- Giusto, (strict time), was unfor- Paderewski's Minuet-Was played na enjoyable as driver, were charged with having formance of it. The Berceuse, tunately taken with exaggerations beautifully and received stolen property at No. 49 which has wonderful passages of of tempo so extreme that very anything on the programme. Bettin' Siret ground floor.

to 24 Waltz dainty "filigree" work in the right little resemblance

Mine. Florigny was the recipient Mr. J. M. D'Almada Rerpedios hand, based upon a rocking accom- remained.

of several tokens of appreciation was also appeared on mean of the second paniment in the left,

The Faust item by Liszt was n in the form of baskets of flowers Was COD- defendant; and asked that a date faultlessly rendered from veritable tour de force and in this and at the conclusion

the Conaul for Technical standpoint. The only the pianiste showed both her re-gratulated by Mr. MacDougall axed the after-criticism of Mme. Florigny's play-markable tone power and her won-France. The attendance-was-ex- noon of Friday, January 18, for ing of it was that it lacked poetryderfully light passage work. At cellent. the bearing of the case.

and failed to convey the impression ita conclusion the audience showed

the fixed for hearing.

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