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On Your Gramophone

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by SPIKE HUGHES

AVING once got caught up in the traffic coming away from Aldershot I can testify to the popularity of the Alfershot Tattoo. As annual an event as the tramo jam along the Hog's Back in II.M.V.'s on-the-spot recording of the Tattoo.

This your there seem to be more moonia of masaod bands than usual; pertinps becausa 1,330 musicians is a larger number-thinn umal,

*The massed pipes, massed drum and Alca, and tho massef hands, of the Aldershot And Eantern. Commandi be tween them manago to make a stirring net of records (13 8453; 2843-5), wilź1 The Lost "The Minstrel Boy." Chord" and "With Honour Crowned " tying for the position of theme song with two performances each.

Lest anybody should mispect recruit- ing propaganda, let me amure them that the muale chon by the massed 1,300) musicians La for the most pari tightly less exciting than a B.B.O.. Sunday programme. The atmosphere and the sense of space is what maken

Leo recorda,

* ★ *

If the natural instrument of expres- on of tho Army the brass band, bat of the Navy in the human.róleo. ut of three mpecial Naval records Tued by Columbia FB 1453-5) only Er is vocal, the othare two are by tmpds.

This is an abgioma sisu that the British Navy la not what it wa

Twenty-nine numbers are introduced in those six alden, and only three are shanties.

First it was to withdrawal from the Mediterránean in my day the Brith kept their ships where they, pleased without consulting foreigners, sir), and now this The writing is on the wall

ADY

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Corsica la rather a wild faland, and there are not many gramophones on

Judging by what I heard there during my holiday last year, I calculate that however many or law gramov phones there are on the island, there is only one record they over play, and' that is a record of a Corsican song by a singer.called Tino Itosil.

Ron, when he first went to Paris; crented a furore on the stage there with his ainging-a handsome, roman- tle-looking chap, with flashing eyes and a persuasive voice which he accora panics on a guitar.

This month Tino Rossi makes his debut in Columbia's British catalogus. and they expect him to be as great a auceesa hero as he is in France. H record (DB 1894) is not, alast that Cor- xican song of blessed memory, but of two Pencli ballads.

Even if I told you their titles you would not be much the wiser; nor would it matter if you were, for most French songs are alike in that they all concern l'amour and fa chérie, and have peculiar charm that only

French singers know how to put over. And Rosal is a particularly good putler-over of charm.

ROUNDABOUT

by The Showman.

MME amount of food alleged to have been consumed by the ix-day cyclists at Wembley, fast week, reminds a reader of the testa of Milo the Cratonfan.

Well, this Monday, so we may as well Atrike a bright note and pursite 10 Buliject, capietally for the beneft of those who switch off the B.B.C.% Tata for Schools,

Millo, then, was bom in Crotuna, In Italy, some thousands of years ago, and

e carried a four-year-old bullock forty yards, killed it with one blow of mia fal, ani ato 11 up in one day.

The wife got ao wied to accing large Num moving altout,

apparently under their own aleam, but really on her. husband's shoulders, that, when charged by a bull, le simply said (untingly, of course), "Is that you. 5913257"

#ut 1 wasn't, tof sounin); and Mrs Mila was thrown into the air, and fever ballet again

Nurther information should bc obtained fromi the D.B.C.. and a stamped, addressed envelope enclosed for the usual oficial expression of

mability to say anything.

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Garbo's Garden

XCLUSIVE pictures of the elusive Greta Garbo'a garden retreat in Hollywood will be seen with interest by

ry Alm-gocr."

But that is not enough for me. I want a human story behind the gar tena pathetic attempts to dodge pub- Heity: how it employs two tons of arth, a bunch of paper flowers, and a strip of false grass as its understudy.

flow it was caught by the enterpris ng photographer slipping into the sen,. inuled back, and persuaded to pose,

And then I want a complete account oils love affairs, and an interview with its white-haired mother, old Mr. Pertilizer.

Our Novelists

"THIS very morning," says Mr. J. B. Priestley, "I received, from Okonda, a long review of my last novel. Iteviews tend to silly, but the Canadian variety appears to be ailler than the rest."

Which inspires me, as an old re-

viewer to sing:~

Or, I LOVE J. B. Priestiry,

lila epat is so warni;

And, if I don't hurt him,

He'll do me no harm.

PIPING UP

THE pipers at Balmoral Castle, are

How Alling their bagpipes with

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his Silkworm, you will see what gifted prophet I am concerning the Japanese altitude towarita Citirsa,

Now.

General Takalınabi Matsu maro says. "We have tried to teach nad advise the Chinese, but they don't

aten,"

Well, that is much what I nosi. In China, today, one dies and learns.

Wags' Corner

LOOK here, lad," and the York. ahre mill owner to the engine. man) "there's men comin' in after U

I'll have whistle's blown,

10 be altered, will this, tha' knaws.”

A few days later he asked if things had improved.

"Are," said the engineman, "last man in nal blows i' whistle,"

NDL

THE HONGKONG... TELEGRAPH. ⠀⠀ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1936.

News for Business

Girls

T

HE arguments for and against equal pay, for the sexes still go on in the House of Commons at Home. No decision has been reached yet.

One new arrangement that they have just made in the Civil Service at Home in to put one girl in charge of each group of five typists. Work- ing in teams of five the giri chosen to be in charge will receive an extra 6s, a week for her responsibilities. It has been found that girls work much better in this way than if they try to apportion the work out themselves.

WITH larger teams of, auy.

fourteen girls-there is a

superintendent in charge.

The Civil Service have found that, on the whole, their type of girl em- ployee likes to be organised and is happier when her duties are definite and clearly laid down.

women

WOMEN are striding ahead in Europe in all branches of photography: There are at least six very successful young running their own photographic studios in London, mostly specialla- ing in women's and children's photo- Kruphs.

Capital required to set up in this profession

high--but is not very overheads ure a serious problem, as a really good studio is essential and the modern photograph demands ex- pensive lighting outfits. A good photograph will, however, bring in between 7s. 6d. and two to three gubras from a commercial firm.

IN

IN a small provincial paper recently there was a case

of a claim against a drapery stores hy a young assistant, as her health and becomi undermined from an into life of continual standing.

is it a by-law every

In Britain not only wided for

for one seat to be three assistants in a shop, but on talding up employment in a firm it is required by law for the employer to Indicate the seats and tell the girl that she may use them when not netually serving. It is not sufficient for the rent: to be there, the new girl must be invited to sit on them offletally.

This will come as it surprise to many, but it is a paint that should 101 be igned, particularly if the

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girls get utterly tired by long hours of standing.

Walking is excellent for the legs and feet-standing is not, sa never stand when you are not huisy.

HAVE you ever considered how match you could do to improve the "behind the sečnes” of your office?

Some employers are very slow to realise how essential it is to the modern girl to provide a good mir- ror, a comfortable chair, adequate hot water service, and a supply of coat-hangers and pegs. These néces- sities are, however, for the girls themselves to insist upon as their right,

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LL this stuff they write about efficiency!" snapped Miss Giles, sourly watching two of the junior ty- pists titivating at their desks. "What's the good.

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modern dataco muse-that is, from NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN said Miss Giles. They haven't any real interest in their work.

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I certainly acema one way of killing

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of the Venerable Sage, Wang Puk and

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"It's supposed to make one more efficient," I said mildly. "Huh! Not one girl in five cores whether she's celent er, not," They only want to be adequate enough to scrape by without being damissed." "Sometimes, I supposę. But I never can understand why they do f.” "Because they're only marking time between school and marriage," sold Misa Giles, scowling through her spectacles at the titivating ones.

NOW this is one of the bees that buzz in my bonnet at the least.

prevocation, and forgetting Mr. Fothergill, who was waiting for some of Miss Giles's statisties, I answered with enthusiasm: "But even if they are, why don't they enjoy the marking time? Why don't they get the most out of what they happen to be doing, whether they intend to go on doing it all their lives or not? Why be bored when they might be Interested?

I urdu jos once where I did nothing but type" balance sheets. Anything duller than that I couldn't have imagined. But after a bit I actually got to like it I liked setting them out nicely. And I liked thinking about the people whose fortunes I was recording, wondering what, they were like, and how the various debits and credits affected their lives' and so on. Even the driest business affairs represent people, and people never bore 'nay ore."

"You're a romanticist," said Miss Giles, a little more kindly. "Well, if I am I get a lot of fun out of it. It's so much more pleasant to be interested in what you have to do-especially when you have to do it all day and every day. And if you're interested, you're more efficient, and If you're client, you carn more money. And no one will quarrel with that,"

HERE

JERE I suddenly remembered the waiting Mr. Fothergill, and

rushed away to practise what I had preached.

I do believe in getting all you can out of what you have to do, even if you're not fortunate enough to have a job, which you really enjoy. If you like, don't regard it so much as a matter of effelency as of being alive. Life's pretty dreary if you look on the hours between 9.30 and 8 o'clock as wasted.

That is one of the reasons why I

HAVE put my visitors' chair near the window, but tako trouble to make my office out of the draught. On a shelf near nice place. The other reason is by in an ashtray and a newspaper. that I like Mr. Fothergill and want This keeps them from talking to me to, help his business. One of the when I want to get on with

work. And I always put my tea or ways in which I can do this is to coffee-cup out of sight. give the ellents who visit him a comfortable place to wait in.

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