1936-04-27 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1936.

Englishman Who Cheats Death Celebrates

His 28th

FLUNG OVER CLIFF: FOUGHT

AN OCTOPUS-

Banbury, Apr. 15. SITTING in his home here a tall vigorous man told to-day the story of how at the age of 36 he has cluded death more times than any man living..

Here are a few of the adventures which he

has survived.

Flung over a precipice.

Collided with two lorries, while driving a small car. Fought an octopus.

Escaped from a man-eating leopard,

The man whom death passed by is Mr. G. Hamilton Snowball, of 41. North-bar, Banbury, Oxfordshire.

"My most recent brush with death occurred last month, when the car I was driving went out of con- trol and plunged down a mountainside in Africa," Mr. Snowball said, "1 hung on to the wheel until ! was knocked unconscious.

"When I come round I was lying in a dried river hed. Apart from a head wound I was un-) scratched. A few yards from me was the car completely wrecked, that was my 28th escape from ! death.

"When bathing af Port Sacan 1 spotted a shark coming after me. i beat him to the beach by three i

yards.

"In the Low Archipelago my suri bent overturned and 1 found myself swimming with sharks all round

But they missed me.

me.

Leopard Escape

"On the same trip a wounded leopard pounced on me and struck me down. My native boys saw it standing over me. They fled, and their action distracted the leopard's attention.

"It turned and ran them."

Lucky

Escape

The work at

Anne Balfour Delights At Helena May

THURSDAY'S CONCERT

By "Orpheus"

RADIO BROADCAST

Į

Relay of Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

From ZBW. on a wavelength of 366 metres (845 kilocycles);

5-7 p.m. Hongkong. Hotel Dance

The alteration of the time of commencement of last Thura-Orchestra.

:

day's concert-the last of the pm. Musical Comedy. series-to 9.15 p.m., as was sug-The Desert Song: Selection-Words Vocal Gems-The Blue Mazurka; gested in the account of the pre-and Music: Vocal Gems-Bitter Sweet, vious concert which appeared in 725 p.m. Cinemin Organ Solos. these columns, was a decided I want to bo snappy; Ninette change for the better. There (Maud); A Japanese Sunset (Dep.

Famous Tauber. Melodies. were at least three times as 7.45 many people as at some of

p.at. A Recital by Richard the Crooks (Tenor). previous concerts and although even then the audience was not Targo it was certainly most ap- preciativo and enthusiastic.

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1. O Song Divine; 2. Neapolitan Love Song (Herbert); 3. The flosary (Novin); 1. Love everlasting (Friml).

8 p.m. Time Signal, Weather Re port, Stock Quotations and Announce, ments,

8.03 P A Relay from Po ling Theatre (Chinese).

On this occasion the concert took the form of a song recital by Madame Anne Balfour and 11 p.m. Clore Down, to her sincere thanks and con-gramme from ZEK. on

8.05-10 p.m. European Pro- 1 fre- gratulations must be accorded.quency of 640 kilocycles. If the programme hacked mo- 8.05 p.m.

Carroll Gibbons and dernity it certainly showed his Boy Friends. rare taste and contained many 2. According to the Moonlight: 3. 1. It's an Old Southern Custom; the great National Monument in exquisite songs, Madame Bal- Smoke gets in your eyes; 4. You've America to its presidents has progressed so far that four has a light, lyrical mezzo-got to admit; 6. Let's fall in love: besides the head of Washington, now the head of soprano voice well-trained and 8.25 p.m. Four Songs by Mille.

U. Love is love, anywhere. Jefferson has been eut in the rack. The picture above of beautiful, clear tone. atves an den of this gigantic work.

She Lucienne Boyer (Soprano). sung every song in a perfectly 1. Ne dis Pas Toujours; 2.“ La Jeffortless manner and, however.

D'yves; 3. Landgrirette; 4. good this may be in one way, 938 pm. Light Orchestral Selec.

extremes. No matter what she was March of the Toys ("Babes in singing khe remained charmingly Toyland") (ilenbert): A World of dejure all the time. Never once did Romance; Love Tales (arr. Hall). she sing below mezzo-forte and very

9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin. scidom rise above it. This calm, 9.15 p.m. A.Violin Recital hy effortless style in a programme of Fritz Kreisler. |songa which should undoubtedly have I. Thaia-Meditation. (Massonet); made great demands on any singer 2. Tambourin Clinols, Op. 3 (Kreis- was rather inclined to give the whole fer); 0. Ronno (On a theme hy recital n feeling of sameness, and was Beethoven (Kreisler); 4. Fair Rose- somewhat disappointing. This is not mary (Kreisler). meant to be unduly critical, but 9.30 p.m. merely to indicate the heights which, In the writer's opinion, this line artist might have attained.

¡Ballado.

CLYDE PANGBORN PLANS it can, of course, be taken to tions.

NON-STOP FLIGHT TO

RUSSIA: AFTER WORLD RECORD

New York, Apr. 25,

Clyde E. Pangbarn, first to span the Pacific ocean by air, has announced a projected flight from the United States to Russia in after June in an attempt to break the world non-stop distance record of

5,604,2 miles..

Mr.

A few weeks afterwards,

The former army officer. one | August, 1939. They flew from Floyd Snowball was attacked by a black of America's leading airmen Bennett Field, New York, to Rayak, mamba snake, then flung From a with a record of 19 years flying Syria, in 6 hours. crashed lorry into a river infested without an accident, said he with crocodiles.

might make the 60-hour flight Home again in Britain he was pilot for his "Vance Flying alone if he gets an automatic involved in a car collision with two | Wing." lorries when the entire upper parti

In the whole Colony there are per haps only half a dozen first-class musicians who, by virtue of their training, experience and extensive repertoires, are individually, capable this group of course must be included of giving a successful rectal, and in

the Cathedral organist and Mr. Harry **The NR-12700 was built for dis taking for any artist, but on the Ore. A recital is an ambitious under- tance Aring." Pangborn said. "It is inger the demand is greatest of all, struts supporting the tail simply a wing and a motor with twin There must of necessity be tone colour, there must be versatility, section. | nuance, rubato and above all a sense Vance built it in 1929 with a round of dynamics. If these are lacking -wold flight in mind. But even then monotony must inevitably result. though the ship is quite old now it fur

Perhaps one should rather say that surpasses - up-to-data-speed - planes-in--Madame Balfour set-herself -n-tank- endurance.“

that was rather too great for her capabilities, Another singer or The "Vance Flying Wing" was built player with her to share the pro

the Burnelli principle and is gramme (and there are plenty to be distance similar to Pangborn's new ship, the her

found!) and the pleasure of hearing "Uppercu-Burnelli," which he will use tremendously.

would have been enhanced As it WAY, group for his fight around the world. The followed group without any feeling flying wing has a tremendous payittle change of mood.

of contrast or climax and there was load Because of its huge wing, 54 feet long by 10 feet wide. A 500-horse- Of the programme itself the Old English songs were well chosen- power Wash G motor furnishes the little gems in fact. Here a broader power.

treatment of "Fain would change that note" (Hume) would have made "I expect to take off either at Dal-all the difference. In these songs Ins during the Texas Centennial Ex-detion who not good the prolonga- position or from Daytona Beach" tien of the secondary vowel, for Pangborn salti. "A straight route turbing-but in the French group instance, in the diphthongs was dis- will take me vor New York City, there was an improvement in every Newfoundland, Greenland, Jeeland, way. In these the singer Scandinavia, Finland, Leningrad and obviously more at home. If only she

had let herself go more!

of his car was torn off. The was "The Night will enable me to coni- unscratched.

plete arrangements for refurling dur- "Since then."

- non-stop † ing my round-the-world He said, "}}

flight hate this summer." the 39.year have benten off an petopus old pilot said. "Since I had to make while pearl-diving, survived a trip to Russin anyway. I may as four head-on motor crashes, and, well try to lengthen the suffered 12 severe bouts of record, I don't expect to have much malaria in five-years."

difficulty. This lying wing will fly In 1918, when he was an appren-hour. Anywhere pasi. Moscow is

hours, averaging 120 miles an tleed engineer at Gateshead, a record." plece of metal penetrated his eye, which had to be removed. In the The present record of 5,604.2 miles hospital it was discovered that the was made by Captain Maurice Rossi metal had missed piercing the brain and Paul. Codos, French aviators, in by one-thousandth of an inch.

Fell Off Ship

Falling into the sea fully-clothed and muffled in a heavy winter over- coat was another of his adven tures,

"While going over the battleship Lion, after her return from the Battle of Jutland," he said, "I tripped over, a coll of rope and) pitched over the side.

"A seaman, prodding In water with a boathook, hitched in my overcoat."

ORGY OF INQUIRIES AT WASHINGTON

an

CONGRESS AS SUPER SCOTLAND | Mosenw.

YARD

Washington, Apr. 10. With the opening to-day of the Congressional Inquiry into the the Townsend old age pension move-

Was

The Scarlatti aria ('Glu Il sole dal gange) was the first Item in which there was a feeling of life and one had hopes that from here the pro gramme would grow in emotional interest. The Glück song, too, was nice and fresh and beautifully `sung. The two great songs, An die Musik and Verborgenheit"

breadth of treatment and their sonr-

Danco Music.

19 p.m. Big Ben: Close Down

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMEŞ

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The following wave-lengths and frequencies are observed by Usyenity.

Call Han Frequency Wavelength

49.69 8,450 .. 9,510 k.r. 31.65 metres 9.586 k.. 11,30 metres 11,750 .. 24.43 matres 11,4, 34.18 ме 15,140 kr. 30.01 mairea 17,90 k..

GSA

GSU

CBC

CSD

GSE

CSP CXC

24.RM metres

GSB €81

GBJ GBL

21.478 h.c. 11,97 metres 18.200 k.. 13.00 metres 21,040 k.. 1533 meiras

6.130 k.e. 45.10

Transmission 1

(G.9.N., G.B.D.)

MRZETTER

Daner

1:15 p.m. Die Ren. The B.B.C.

Orchestra. 1.49....p.m... Iranaby Williams, -ile-famous

character impresionist. 150 p.m. The II.B.C. Dance Orchestra. 1.55 p.m. Talks "We Live and Learn.” 2.10 p.m. The 0.0.C. Empire Orchwire. Greenwich Time Signal at 1.15 p... 2.24 p.m. The News and Announcementte. 3. p. Clone down,

Transmission 2

10.8.J., GR.G., G.S.D.)

D.M.

ኔ

Big Ben, Light Orchestral Maxie. 7.10 p.m. Talk "Prominent Northcountry.

men in the Hanth,"

7,25 p.m. The Winford Reynolds' Griet.

with a Searle,

Greenwich Time Bignal at 8 p.m.

6.10 p.m. "Jack and JG

Up the River," Being Nogi in the series of adventures of Jack and Ji§. 8.55 p.m. Light Orchestral Mak $ p.,

The News and Anneeneens was fa, 920 p.m. The ..C. Dance Orchestru. 9.45 p.m. Close down.

Transmission 3

(0.8.4, 0.8.2.) 10 p.m.

igen. A Rectial of Engülali Songs of Spring. Old and New.

19.3 p.m. "Spring Cleaning." A domestle

revue.

11 pm, Sonata Recital. 11.30 p.m. Ileading.

1145 p.m. Bymphony Mtuale.

Quintet.

11.35 p.m. The News and Announcements. 13. .. Frank Biffo's Benas.

George Backford (Percuzalon). Greenwich Time Signal at 22.30 ... 12.m. Close down.

As was said at the commencement

"A landing just beyond Moscow will be best because once over the Ural mountains I'd hit the swamplands and have difficulty getting back."

Pangborn has flown around! the itment ($40 a month for all over world before and knows Russia and

60 provided they spend it all) the Siberia. To keep him awake he (Schubert) Shortly afterwards, while cliff has taken a back seat while mem- and the usual caffein drops. Land- Minger's powers. These songs require was inclined to be too self-effacing.

legislative function of Congress plans to take a special Japanese tea (Wolf), were frankly beyond the her only slight fault being that she climbing, a rock gave way beneath bers engage in an orgy of investi-ing on water will hold no terrors being phrases need sustained tone, good the audience was very encouraging him and Mr. Snowball slithered 30 gation. feet down the sheer face of the

cause the 1,200-gallon tanke in the fly-breath control and power. A feeling and there was an air of intimacy and eliff until he clutched at a small The munitions investigation is ing wing will keep the ship afloat in- of rubato in the last song in the pro- charm about the whole recital which tree.

definitely. only just over. The lobby investi.

gramme-Bescheidene Liebe" (Wolf), showed that both performers had a The rock he had, dislodgedgation conducted by

Ahowed how much the interpretation number of friends and admirers. was smashed to pieces on the Black, who is trying to find some

of ethers could have been improved. Every item was applauded and at the conclusion of the reeltal the audience bench 350 feet below.

thing shady behind Opposition to

refused move until Madame Administration policies, has reach-

Balfour sang again. She added a de- As a schoolboy, Mr. Snowballed its peak. An investigation in-

ghiful little song of Purcell's, was cut off by the tide at Tyne to charges that polities has enter- mouth and was rescued by fisher-ed into rellef is just about

start.

There is nothing in the Constitu-

men..

Bitton by Bear

seized my

arm,

Senator

to

To

to maintain interest for any length of time in a series of short songs strung together however good they are individually demands superb technique. The songs chosen were in themselves beyond" reproach; but perhaps the interpretative powers of the singer might have been more effectively stimulated if a song cycle Bay, Brahma, Schumann ог Schubert or even perhaps a group of been substituted. At any rate it was songs, by Debussy, Faure, etc., had a gallant effort and one which was much appreciated.

The Queen Mary 80,773 Tons London, Apr. 20. "A few months later I tried totion which gives Congress power ! ·

The gross tonnage of the make friends with a circus bear on to act as a kind of super Scotland new liner Queen Mary was the Town Moor, Newcastle, when Yard, but it is held to be an announced officially to-day ho suddenly turned. vielous and essential feature of its legislative

powers. The investigations would as 80,773, Slowly he snapped his teeth prosecutions in which the, Con the gross tonnage of the French pleasure to hear this one.

more accurately be described farther and farther. upwards

According to Lloyd's Register Sincere singers are none;too numer; ህ and it was indeed a great until nearly my whole arm was hampered by rules

|gressmen-prosecutors in his jaws.

of evidence, liner Normandie is estimated at lighted all those who were present at admonitions from the Beach, or 80,000, but an official of the the recital, and it is hoped that we "But-my-luck-still held. My protests from counsel for the French dine in Lontion this after-hall bear her again before long. screams brought his keepers rush defendant.

noon said that her tonnage was Ing out and they beat him off.”

Far more public interest is about 82,000, having been recent puniat and it was a pity she did not Mr. Snowball hopes that he won't aroused by an investigation than ly increased during alterations, have greater opportunity of showing look death in the face again for by a debate, and the chairmen of The Normandie remains the evident skill and ability. She some time. He has decided to committees get as much publicity world's heaviest and longest correctly and her light touch suited

played sympathetically. Bettle down: to a. quiet life in this as the prosecuting attorney In a ship, though the Queen Mary is the singer admirably. As contrast peaceful little town.

first-rate murder trial.

longer on the water-line.

and climax were undoubtedly needed, she might have taken more on herself

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