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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MARCH 8. 1935.

HIAWATHA PROTECTION FROM

CAT BURGLAR SENTENCED

Splendid Philharmonic

Performance

AIR RAIDS

VOTE

London, March 7..

BRITISH HOME OFFICE ADMITS. CHARGES OF

THEFTS

"Defendant is a cat burglar,". POOR PUBLIC SUPPORT

A sum of 592,000 is included in stated Detective-Sorgeant J. Ken- Police Hongkong's so-called music-the 1936 estimates of the Home nedy at the Kowoen

Court this morning when Loung lovers, whose voices are constantly Department for expenditure on Ng, unemployed, appeared before being heard raised in proteals the defende of the civil population

Grantham, charged with against the absence of musical against air raide.

housebreaking and theft of cloth- antertainment in the Colony, last Provision fa Included for ing at No. 59 Prince Edward night showed their appreciation of

the the Philharmonic Society's effort respirators, for special air raid Road, theft of a searf from to meet the complaints by staying personnel, research and experi- roof of No, 220 Cheung Sha Wan Road, and possession of two Away from the opening perform montal services.—British Wireless acrew-drivers, Instrumenta fit for ance of "Hiawatha."

an unlawful purpose.

·

THE SOLO WORK

"One would have liked a little|

Defendant's plea of guilty to the theft charges was accepted by the police, and the third charge was dropped.

Sergt. Kennedy stated that on

Never before has the Society which they sung.. been so discourteously treated by the public. Hongkong's persistent Indifference to such musical entor- tainments forces one to the con- clusion that the Colony la either more power in the tenor solos. his arrest in Shanghai Street the definitely not music-conscious, or On the other hand, Mr. Kennedy's defendant took the police to 5, Yee is so miserably apathetic that the cultured voleo discovered a not Chow Street where a number of pawntickets relating to the stolen Philharmonic Society's activities unsympathetic interpretation of property was discovered. are so much waste of time.

several difficult pasangen.

Defendant told the polleo that And it was doubly unfortunate Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith was he had also committed thefts in that the attendance should be so particularly good in the soprano Shui Po districts. He

the Tsim Sha Tsui and Sham whs an poor last night, Without reserva-solos, finding full range for her unemployed carpenter and had no tion. "Hiawatha" can be named one of the most successful as well voles in the passage "From the fixed place of abode.

lightful performance. “

an one of the most arabitious tasks brow of Hiawatha.". A very de- Defendant told the Magistrate that he stolen in order to raise ever attempted by the Society.

Mr. Billing sung the intricate money to send his wife to the The beauty and strength of this extraordinary work by Coleridge-baritone solos with verve and a country.

3ix months hard labour was Taylor obviously lies in the depth of feeling.

To Mr. A. B. Yulo goes much passed. choruses, and so splendidly are: these sung that the success of the of the credit for an outstanding presentation can remain entirely performance. Under his skilful baton, singers and orchestra were. held in clone harmony, while her guided the chorus, through many dimeult pasange with masterly precision.

with them..

PREMATURE BLAST

It is no exaggeration to observe

St. George, Utah, March 7. that some of the finest concerted

Eight were killed and 12 injured singing heard in the Colony was

In a premature explosion of nitro- supplied in the second chorus The acoustic properties of the glycerine, which was dropped into which open "Thus the gentle China Fleet Club are romarkably an unfinished all well here to-day. Chibiabos." It was full of tonal good, and this fact, allled with the The explosion rocked the beauty and Illuminating ex-sincere work of the Philharmonic countryside and threw scores to pression. Coleridgo-Taylor com- Society, makes "Hiawatha" an the ground.-Reuter. posed some startling phrases in outstanding achlovoment.

this cantata, but in this chorus hoi A repeat performance will be CANTON SHAI RADIO PHONE rida himasif of his somewhat given on Saturday night when, In

Shanghai, Mar. 8. fantastic note arrangements and the interests of the future It is officially announced that the offers a melody and harmonic activities of the Society, it is to Shanghal-Canton radio telephone effects rich in musical poetry, be hoped that a big audience will service will be opened to the public The chorus, in fact, deserves be present to enjoy the vanata and on April 1, and will begin accepting unstinted praise for the confident, at the same time to encourage the commercial traffle on the same day, accurate and musicianly way in Society.-S.A.G.

--Central News.

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