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When Rudolf Frimi last visited Hongkong in search of a girl to play the leading role in "Sing-Song" Girl" he discovered Alice Lan, well-known

But Mira. Lan re local Chinese beauty, with whom he is pictured above. fused to go to Hollywood, so the search must be renewed. Sea story, next

Column.

"FIRST NIGHT" SUGGESTS THAT YOU-

PROTEST IF INCREASED LICENCE FEE IS NOT FOR BETTER PROGRAMMES- ABOUT that extra two dollars per annum it's going

cost you to own a receiver.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,SATURDAY, MAY (80, 1930,

“ROSE MARIE" COMPOSER

ARRIVED ON A MISSION YESTERDAY

FRIML IN SEARCH OF A GIRL

RUDOLF FRIML, famed composer of music in "Rose

is back in town.

Since 1932 he has regarded Hongkong as his home town, and now lives here six months in each year.

But present visit-he arrived here yesterday-will combine business with pleasure.

He's going to make third and final effort to find Chinese girl who can speak English fluently, has a figure and pretty face and can act passably.

For her there'll be a contract with Paramount Film Corporation, a fat cheque, and an opportunity to become over-night a big-shot Hollywood star.

Girl is needed to take lending role in "Slag-Song Girl," Friml's latest operetta,

Fifty per cent. of locale is in West Point of Hongkong. Re-

mainder is in New York.

Girl who fits bill will have to go

to Hollywood. She can take many chaperones as she likes.

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for

This is Frim's third search "Sing-Song Girl" First search was unsuccessful, on second he picked local girl who was "perfect," but she pulled out before signing on dotted line.

Friml told me just before he left Hongkong to go to Hollywood to supervise production of "Rose Marie" that music, in "Sing-Song Girl" Is even more haunting then refrains in Canadian Mountie operetta..

All of "Sing-Song Girl" music was composed in Hongkong, in sulte in Peninsula facing harbour.

"Hongkong's beautiful peak at night gave me my inspiration." he said,

"Sing-Sorg Girl" will be produced by Paramount, under direction of Cecil B. de Mille. All exteriors, and many interiors, will be shot in Hongkong, finishing touches being put to film in Hollywood.

As soon as Friml can find his Girl, enmera unit and European 'members of cast will be sent out to Colony.

They will be here six months on production, may yet beat other units United Artistes to film exteriors for Gordon"-ex- pected here within few months.

to exterior Chineer Come to film

At a rough estimate, Z.B.W, will take another $5,000 from listeners this year.

Next year, it will cost more. Over 5,000 listeners will have to fork out an additional two dollars for their

licences.

It doesn't matter a tinker's cuss whether you listen to Z.B.W. or not. You've got to pay $12 per annum for the privilege of

owning a wireless net.

What's going to happen to all this additional money Z.B.W. will receive for licences?

Presumably the cost of running the station is not going to

increase.

If the money is for maintenance of the new 3% kilowatt_short- wave station now In course of erection, Hongkong listeners should" protest.

That station is not for our benefit. Its purpose is twofold: to advertise Hongkong to the outside world and to counteract pro- taganda from other stations In, Umes of emergency.

The first objective is the concern of the Hongkong Government, through the Travel Association.. Tourists do not benefit Hongkong listeners: they benefit the Colony as a whole, and the Colony na whole should be made to pay for them. Similarly, propaganda is not the plugin of Hongkong listeners: it is the pidgin of the authorities.

The new short-wave transmitter does not and will at no time serve the listeners who are paying to maintain Z.B.W.

Any revenué Government derives from the increased fee for broadcasting MUST be put back into broadcasting in order to

mprove Z.B.W's. programmes.

If that is the object of the Increase in the licence fee, few listeners will object.

But if Government is earmarking the additional revenue to construct costly short wave broadcasting stations to reach the enrs of the Canadian, American, Australian and European lis tener, you who in future must pay $12 per annum as a licence for your receiver have every right to blow off the deep end.

Remember what Z.B.W. programmes are like now. Compare them with the programmes you will be getting at the end of the year. Unless there is a vast difference, pack up your wireless net and buy a cheap gramophone.

Z.B.W can be improved in dozens of ways, and the money that will be obtained from increased liconce fees is too sorely needed to be frittered away on luxuries that are not going to benefit the

Heteners.

GIVE AMATEURS A

CHANCE AT Z. B. W.

Why not give amateurs a chance to broadcast from Z.B.W. Many would like to do so, but they don't know how to go about it.

In the United States commercial firms pay a Major Bowes £1,000 a week to put on an amateur hour every Sunday night. The iden has grown to be a bigger craze than crosswords or mah-jong. Ten thousand unfortunato discontents, apply every week for a chance to grab a minute's fame before the mike,

Chicken farmers, garage men, mothers of families, tramps and Out of the ten thousand (the good grocers' assistants, they all come. major has to feed, sometimes clothe, most before they can do their little pieces, after hitch-hiking, thumbing a way half across America) at most twenty-five are chosen. The rest go empty away. Lucky (?) ones are entitled to nothing but their chance; but the good major generally gives them a couple of pounds

after the show,

onl

So of a Sunday night, the whole American nation Bottles Itaolf deeper, switches on and listons, with some thing of a savage and secret pleasure, to the panicky crooning, trumpetings, Impersonations and animal noises of twenty-flyo of the less fortunate citizens.

The Romans, on the other hand, preferred to watch Christians thrown to the lions,

17.B.W. on yet another hand, prefer to leave the whole matter of local brondessting to the recognised. amateur artisics, whom you theng day in and day out ikast without much variation...

LIB, KIRDY

(Winnor,÷ing the Chilliva's · Copstillen:

HONGKONG WILL B'CAST TO WHOLE WORLD :

IN SEPTEMBER

on

Work commenced at Cape D'Aguilar this week "new ̃31⁄2" kito-watt-short-wave- broadcasting station which will replace present quarter kilowatt outfit in пче ZBW

at

New transmitter will be powerful enough to reach every part of the world.

It will be completed in time to allow Hongkong to par- ticipate in annual Empire Christmas programmes, dur- ing which greetings are re- Inyed to and from London to every part of, the British Empire.

NEW RECORDS

MUSIC in the air this week and

two new topical records re- flect some of it. That "Die Meistersinger" overture, which (as some one is always pointing out) makes the rest of the opera rather unnecessary, appears on

dise recorded by

by the London Philharmonie under Georg Szell.

able Few lowbrows seem to re- sist the temptation of contribut- ing their own percussion obligato to this overture-even in public, which is why they should have this record. (H.M.V. C2800.)

Moriz Rosenthal-who, eighty-four, must surely be the last surviving Liszt pupil--le plu- ing London recitals now,

Just

and

at

a new disc records his playing of Chopin's. A flat major waltz on one side and three preludes on the other. Sixty years apo Rosenthal renounced the plano for philosophy, and his work has

Pachmann

to quality

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(H.M.V. DB2772.)

record of haunting charm has impressed upon it Ravel's sad "Pavanc pour une Enfante Defunte," which ought to be lis- tened to while looking at one of Velasquez paintings of Spanish Court life. (Deren CA8230.)

Jazzisis should welcome a new series of "swing" music which is just issued from the trumpets of. such maestri as Luis Russell, Taft Jorden, Benny Goodman, and Benny Carter. Although these names mean nothing at all to me, they are ones, to conjure with in the great world of Harlemania, and two discs I have heard are adroit and vigorous specimens of the newer Jazz. "Solitude" and "March Winde, April Showers" are on one record "Nightfall" and "Swingin' At Maida Vale" on an- other. (Vocalion Swing Series Nos. 3 and 4.)

For ordinary dance duty-i-pick- "I Don't Know Your Name" this week, brisk and efficient fox-trot. (Brunswick 021813.)

Transmitter will also be suitable for radio-telephony. It will provide Hongkong with radlophone link with Manlin, Singapore, Hanol, other cen. tres with which Colony has tested during recent months. Installation is expected to be completed by September; new station will go shortly afterwards.

Girls' and Boys' Corner

air

Dear Kiddiés,

Lots of you had difficulty.in solving the Hidden Names Competition last week. The correct answers were:-Ambrose Miller, Lily Brook, Muriel Gray, Robin Featherstone, Brian, Bridges, Mabel Wallace.

Taking neatness and age into account, Uncle Eddie has decided to award the Senior prize to Jeanne Freeman (aged 11), of 289 Prince Edward Road; and the Junior to Arthur Fisher (aged 6), of the Royal Armament Depot.

"

Specially commended for good work are:-Drana Freeman, David Mc- Causland, Phyllis Kirby, Peter Ferguson, John Clewer and Betty Manders. For this week, children, I'm giving you a Jig-Saw Colouring Competition. What you have to do to cut out the sixteen squares shown in the accom- panying sketch and fit them together so that they form a picture. Then paste them on a card and colour the picture in paints or crayons, Neatness and excellence of colouring will be taken into account in awarding the prizes.

There

will again be two prizes, details of which you will find in the vertising advertis

of tor columns, day's graph," one for kledica between 10 and 14, and the other for those below 10 years. state their ages. This is import

Competitors must

ant

.

Send in your ontrics, addressed to Uncle Eddio, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph," so 'ns' to reach him not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Phyllis Kirby. Thanks ever much Phyllis, for the lovely paint- ing of the grans. hopper. It beautifully drawn and coloured.

Uncle Eddie.

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