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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

APRIL 19,

· 1937.

Convicts Want Jazz, Riot As Classics K SHOES

Are Radioed INSULTED REICH MILLION

EX-B.B.C. CHIEF

"MADDENS US"

Winnipeg, Apr. 5.

BRITISH radio education

methods, brought to Canada by Major Gladstone Murray, former controller of programmes at the B.B.C., are causing riots among the men in Headingly Provincial Gaol.

They say they are tired to death of having to listen to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Schubert's Serenade, and similar compositions. They want "The Last Round-Up" and "Ol' Man River."

So at every meal they yell and Jeer, bang their tin cups on tables, turn over chairs.

Max Bateman, just released from the prison, explained the men's viewpoint: "We're fed up on these classical programmes every night. It gives us the willies."

Chief Wurder Jake Hundel had little sympathy for the jazz-ınad prisoners. When they rioted one day

said: "You'll have classical music and youse guys will like it. We're goin' to have more culture in this joint, more intellectuals, or what you calls it. Yeah, and if youse guys don't like it we'll cut out the radio," RIOT AGAIN

were

But next day the programmes changed, A gramophone played jazz songs by Warden J. C. Downie's order. The classical music was back in the evening, however, and there was another riot.

Red Rub, "King" of the Canadian months. hoboes, sentenced to ten says: "We can't sleep at night after listening to that classical tripe. 11's driving me mad."

So frequent have become the men's protests that the Royal Federal Com-i mission, inquiring into other prison unrest in Eastern Canada, are going Headingly to send investigators to to see if the programmes are really too much for the convicts.

Mother Of 13 Year Old Bride Defends Girl

Santa Clara, April 1. Recent marriages of very young brides have caused Mrs. Joseph Rabello of this city to speak out.

Mrs. Rabello, married at the age of 13, and the mother of 21 children, 18 of whom are living, and the most of whom married early, favoured carly marriages,

LEADER

HITLER BAITER ROLLS ANOTHER-Undisturbed by the furore "brown- created after he called Chancellor Hitler of Germany

shirted fanatic," here is Mayor La Guardia of New York rolling the first ball in the opening of the American Bowling Congress tournament. Retorts in German papers to the mayor's utterances started a sharp international diplomalle exchange.

King Edward VIII And The Elder Statesmen

Outspoken Book

PEOPLE TO VISIT LONDON

CORONATION INFLUX

London, Apr. 1.. Experts estimate that more than 1,000,000 over- scas visitors will come to Britain this year... Of these, about 300,000 will be here for the coronation May 12 and the rest will come be. cause it is coronation year.

England will be undisputed host to the world during the coronation festivities, but all of continental rations Europe are attempting to draw the tourists away from England after that period.

the

The tourist trade is well worth working for, as the visitors will bring

with them between £50 and £100, In an effort to keep this money in the British Isles, every industry as preparing for record sales, and the of resorts are spending thousands pounds

for

week, it is During estimated that

venue of

£2,000,000 will be taken in by the sale of the 400,000 scats along the 04 mile route of the procession. All of the 12,000 bedrooms in first class hotels and boarding houses will be filled.

un the coditional attractions.

250,000 BARRELS OF BEER Over 250,000 extra barrels of beer will be required during May in order to toast the King's health, accord- The ing to the Brewer's society. drink bill on coronation day is ex- pected to be £2,000,000. Thousands more will be spent on every type of souvenir which will bear inscriptions or pletures the King and Queen.

courses, soon

Those who desire to act as guides for the visitors are being given special training. These classes, the first of their kind in England, started tentatively with only two but

enrolment the large brought the number to six,

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GUIDES Instructions for guides include such subjects as personality psy- chology, dress and appearance, de- livery and diction as well as a thorough grounding in knowledge of the sights of London, Stratford-on- weight of the burden laid upon the Avon and other show places. More ambitious guides are studying heir to the throne.

Queen Mary is said to have feared foreign languages in order to qualify that her son would lose all power of as guide interpreters. Although the ever settling down, and to have ex-bulk

visitors will be from the un- pressed her anxiety

the Empire and America, a large num- journey to India was proposed. ber will be from non-English spenic- But an eager and short-sighted ing. nations. The languages receiv- Government exploited her son's ing the most attention, are French,

German and Spanish. charm and talents to the full, The above are but a few of the in- sending him hurrying when he dividual and industrial preparations should have remained with his which are being made, aside from parents to grow more and more the official one made by the Corona- into the strength of their family

tion Committee. Manufacturers of example.

chinaware, clothing, cutlery and host of other objects are in readiness for record sales.

A "FRUSTRATED" King, who looked on his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and some of the older Cabinet Minis- ters as "a critical and

sympathetic company," is the portrait drawn by Mr, Hector Bolitho in his book Edward VIII.: His Life and Reign (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 108, 6d:)-

It is quite unlike the conven- tional royal blography. Instead

when

Mr. Bolitho mentions without "en- dorsing the rumour that on his return from South America

of a flat and indigestible narra. tive of events we are given a WISH TO GO OWN WAY Mrs. Rabello's marriage has lasted 38 years and she says she has nothing character study, written with Her children | warm though. erratic sym to regret about it. range from 35 to 11 and most of the pathy, a large measure of can surviving ones have followed in her dour, and at least some first- footsteps as to early marriage."

hand knowledge. By no means One of her daughters married at all the author's judgments will 13 and has two children now. other married when 14 and has command general assent. children, as havd others who married when 15 and 10.

An-

King Edward might have risen to magnificence if he had "Of course, I don't approve of any come to the throne during thing like the 9-year-old Tennessee war or at a time of acute crisis. girl getting married. I don't think But, writes his biographer: that should be allowed. But a girl

of 13 or 14-that's different. It the He assumed his Crown surrounded wants to get married and she and the by old and comparatively tired men, boy are healthy, why, let them go with a Prime Minister who stood for ahead. I was married young and

the safety and apathy which he never regretted it.

could

neither respect nor endure,

proudly.

Was

were no

"I was the mother of seven children, and with an Archbishop to whom he including one set of twins, before

hostile, Thero

in-

was

20," Mrs.

Rabello declared quential members of the Cabinet of experience and, his own age and As to the economic aspect of the once more, he suffered the penalty problem, Mrs. Rabello said it was of belonging to the army that come not so difficult as economic experts back from the war. argued.

THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND

Rabello is a prune-pleking con- tractor and trimmer and, while even California prunes do not grow the whole year around, he makes ends moet.

"In winter sometimes, things are difficult," she admitted, "but we always manage somehow."

Of the 18 surviving children, >lx are boys and 10 are girls. The oldest

is Mrs. Teresa Napolitana, aged 38,

and the youngest is Aloysius, 11. All were born in Santa Clara.

Qué of her daughters, Mrs. Viola Costa, married at 14, now has two children, 2 and 1 year old.

and is 17 now, has two children,

Mrs.

Marie Rose, another daughter,

One of the chief objects of his Mr.. Bolitho, would заув reign, have been to help the unemployed and the wretched:

a

COMPETE WITH CONTINENT After the coronation, however, England must compete with the rest. The Prince's wish for freedom of Europe for the patronage of the and the right to choose his own visitors. Operators of holiday re- staff was so fierce that he wrote sorts in England, realizing this, are of his decision to renounce his spending nearly £1,000,000 on Im- rights and settle in one of the provements and

additional Dominions if he was not allowed to follow his own way. King George V., observes the author, always regarded the training of his heir as his heaviest respon sibility.

attrac-

The Chamber of Commerce at one resort reports an outlay of £250,000 which will provide for an addition to the sea side promenade and a new entertainment centre. Expenditures for other resorts range from £80,000 He was an exacting parent. Ils down. Included in the new attrac- discipline made it difficult for him tions are swimming pools, an under-

E RADIO BROADCAST

Dance

Music from The Hongkong Hotel

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

Broadcast by Z.B.W. on WIVC- lengths of 365 metres (045 k.c's). 31.40 metres (9.52 m.c's),

H.K.T.

12.30-2.15 gramme.

12.30 pm.

p.m. European pro-

Danco Music.

1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 p.m. Light Opera and Musical Comedy.

An-

1.30 p.m.

Reuter Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and nouncements.

1.40 p.m. Reginald Dixon at the Cinema Organ.

2 p.m. A Recital by Lucienne Boyer (Soprano).

2.15 p.m. Close Down.

6-8 p.m. European Programme.

p.m. Relay of Dance Musle from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.

6.30 p.m. A Light Orchestral Concert.

Orchestral-Falling Leaves (Ken- nedy-Carr), Piccadilly (Meskill, Har- vey & Carr). Ambrose and His Orchestra.

Soprano Solo-Pastorule (arr. Lanc

Elisabeth Schumann.

the. Wilson)

Orchestra-The Jester at

Eric Contes Wedding (Contea) and Symphony Orchestra.

Tenor Solo-Under the Bough (Clutsam) . Derelt Old-

hum.

(Gershwin)

Lilac

Blue

Orchestral-Rhapsody in

Boston Orchestra. p.m. Scottish Songs. Mary Morrison (arr. Moffat).. John Edington. (Tenor).

The Auld Scots Sariga (Bethune Margaret & Leeson-arr. Moffat.. F. Stewart (Soprano).

p.ro.

Star o Hobble Burns (Boolh), The Auld Hoose (Nairne), . Peler Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

7.13

"Review of Revues" by Debroy Somers Band.

7.30 p.m. Closing local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report,

7.35 p.m. Variety. Orchestra-Talliding-Film Memories

Salon Orchestra. Vocal-When the popples bloom

Turner Layton, again

Band-Rumba Medley... Cubann Marimba Band.

Local GemsThe King Step Out," Orchestra & Chorus. Orchestral-My Dream-Weliz.. The Bohemians,

Vocal-He's on Angel. .. Turner Layton.

8

Time Signal, p. Local: Weather Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m. Relay from the Tai Ping Theatre (Chinese).

11 p.m. Close Down. 8,05-11 p.m. European Pro- gramme from Z.E.K., on a Fre- quency of 640 Kilocycles.

8.05 p.m. A Violin Recital by Joseph Szigett

Sonata No. 3 in D (Weber, arr. Sziget!), Scherzo Walse (Chabrier, arr. Loeffler). Stene de la Czarda, No. 3 (Hungarian Gypsy. Fantasy), (Hubay).

8.20 p.m: Scenes de Ballet, Op.52 (Glazounow), played by the New Symphony Orchestra.

8.45 p.m. Song Memories by Ramona and Hier Grand Piano.

Happy as the day is long, Raisin' the fient. Turn Back the Clock, Ah! the Moon is Here!

8.58

p.m. Bing Crosby (Vocal) with Reginald Foort (Organ).

Vocal-Song of the Islands, Aloha oe (Farewell to thee).

Organ Solo-Medley of Daly's Favourites.

Vocal-Me and the Moon, South

to comprehend the shaken genera- ground garage for 1,000 cars, tennis Sea Island Magic. tion which matured through the courts which will rival those

war..

at

It was his sense of daty Wimbledon, bowling greens, thentres which urged him, perhaps too and other such features, often, to criticise the Prince, Although the costs of preparation sometimes quoting the opinions of for the coronation visitors are high, other, older men in support of his it is estimated that £1,000 will be

taken for every £1 spent.

argument

The name of a prelate or a statesman would be brought in to but when he did so it was with ex- support the King's opinion. Per-treme bitterness.", hops King George, did not com- prehend the eare with which his own father had avoided the same

error.

In the last year of his life "King George saw his eldest son retreating| Many members of the Govern into a wilderness in which he could meni

resented

campaigns not help him." among the poor. They found his RESENTED OLD ORDER

eagerness discomforting, since It exposed the methods of the au-

married when 15. She, has two done?"

children,

a

con

he

One day at Northolt the Trince flow solo, after persuading his pilot to remove the front controls. Not satisfied, he made two fights alone on a later day. Alone the word sums up the tragedy of the Duke of Windsor's Itte ua Mir. Bolitho sces Il On one occasion, at Croydon, he per- Bunded his brother, the present King, to fly

him over the aerodrome to

into

energy

me

Organ Solo-Lover, come back to

Vocal-Robins and Roses. Organ Solo "Transatlantic Rhy-. hm" Medley.

9.30 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.

0.55 p.m. "Careless Rapture"--- Studio Scene (Ivor Novello), by Dorothy Dickson, Olive Gilbert_and Ivor Novello, nec. by the Drury Lane, Theatre Orchestra.

10

Dance Music. Rumba-Cuban Pete; Fox-Tro Old Sallor, Nun-Yuf and Sun-Yuff; One, two, button your shoe; Pennies

from heaven.

10.15 p.m. (London-Big Ben) Fox-Trot-No other one; Tango- Venetion Moon; Fox-Trol-I'm one After the war- turning point in the consternation of the officials who step ahead of my shadow: I'll never thorities and proved their work in his career, the four years in which, realised that they were in part reset you go; Is it true what they say the distressed areas to be slow and as he has said, he "found his man-ponsible for the lives of two heirs to about Dizie? Rhythm saved the

the Throne.

world; Dream Time; Lost; Inter- of Wales blighted by caution.

hood" the then, Prince

Slow Fox-Trot-Black Mr. Bolitho gives many charac- nationalle; sym After a visit to dismal soup championed with particular

the cause of the returned teristic examples of the Duke of Minnie's got the Blues; One-Step- for kitchen

unemployed men

pathy

Insallable

and Madam-Ah! La Marquise-Ah! Quick- blo- Windsor's He shared, in his walked up and down a room press- soldiers. The daughter who married at 13, ing his hands together and said:grapher's opinion, their uncomfort curiosity, and his determinalon to Step-1 ilke Bananas; For-Trat

He pays Tako my heart; Waltz-Stars In my were living see things for himself. "What can

What I do?

be able feeling that they

among people who did not under warm tribute to him as a landlord eyes,

went "back in five years £300,000

11 p.m. Close Down. Mr. Bolitho sets King Edward stand them:

the Duchy of Cornwall estates He chose an independent way. Her oldest daughter, Mrs. Napo- vividly against the background of his

It led him for from the traditions for rebuilding and improvements. was a 10-year-old-bride. The day and generation, and remarks:

of his father's Court. He resented More poignant in the light of re- of the 14 was the inevitable fault of his in her family maried young, too,

the old order, and conventional cent events are the instances training that his background was

hls Duke's Imaginative sympathy, society did not amuse him. for ever changing. People crowded main

was not consoling to be told that social conscience, the fierce applica- In on him and then they departed,

tion which he brought to the task this was an inevitable state after making him feel that life was a be healthy.

Immediately in hand, and his casy In which no person amil no Then they can take care of anything

of that happens and their children. will

scene was stable.

The restrictions imposed on his approach to all sorts and conditions Edward VII, referred to his sub- The bald details of his journeys wish to enjoy aviation to the full be healthy, I think when young people in their teens fall in love and overseas after the war--the colossal may, thinks Mr. Bolitho, have com-jects. King George spoke of his the theme of the Prince's people. Edward VIII., remarks Mr. want to get married; they should be mileages and staggering number of picted

are Bolitho, usually addressed his fellow- allowed to do so and that no one towns visited, functions, speeches, frustration. "He seldom,"

the told, "referred to his disappointment,men. and bandshakes-bring home should interfero."-United Press............

most of

Then in their teens.

thing in a successful marriage Mrs. Rabculo declared, "is for both man and wife

to bo

Whirl

war.

We

men.

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Transmission 1

(0.8.D., 0.8.0, 0.60)

p.m. Big Ben Didilme Dances. 2.10 p.m. A Hundred Year Azo-1.

talk by John O. Maude,

2.35 .01. The 11.0.0. Empire Orchestra, 5.25 p.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Tlose Signal at 8.80 p.m. 1.45 p.m. Variety.

Transmission 2

(G.8.D., G.S.G., 4.8.11.) **

$40 p.m. Diy Ben. Haydn and his Or

cheat 7.30 V..

Hames that Are Matory

An

extract froen 'Arthur Jamter, Dal- four, Fint Earl of Dalfour by

hia plece, B. E. C. Dugdale. Rend

by Mr. D. E. 0. Dugdale, 7.40 p.m. A Ballad Concert. Leules Nelson

Herrey (BOPEAND) and

Baritone). 8.16 p.m. Jeanne de Carelle In Uncle for moral fantany Arthur A +igan, and volone, by: John 'Pas-

8.45 pan, Haunting" Harmonies, by Jack

D p.m.

Curtis and John Hotchkis ut two. planos.

Tunes Everybody Khona),

0.10 p.m. The News and Announcements..

Greenwich Time Bignal at 8.40 p.m.

Transmission 3

(0.8.1., GA.F., (0.5.5.)

10.15 p.m. lg. Dan. Harry Farmer, at ahe Organ of the Grands, Tooling. London

20.30 pan. The Pride of the Regiment,

or Cashiered-for his · Country,' An unlikely tale of the Crimess War, set to musia by · Walder

11,80 p.m. A Bonata Reclial by Anienia Butler (Violoncello) and Kathleva Mürkwell: (Pianoforia)...... Muitary Marches,

11. 11.10

m. The News and AnnounceNRUẨN,- Greenwich Time Bignal at 12.10 mm. Ta 11.30 ..

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