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Liner Stewards get

TIPS WORTH HAVING

SHIP'S steward has just

A died, leaving anther"

more

than £10,000, and one is prone to consider that tipping in ships is disproportionate.

From seven years' experience| of continuous travel in Atlantic liners, I do not think this is oo.

One must bear in mind that Mr. William Twigg, the steward in ques- nt tlon, had spent some 60 yearn

is

that probable sea. Also, it many of his "tips" were Stock Ex- change lips Financlers are perlinps more communicative at sea than they are ashore!

It there are any members of au occan liner's staff who get morc generous tips than others they would be the smokeroom slewurds. In all big Atlantic liners the auction pool

the daily "dutter" on the ship's runis bid nightly in the smoke room. The total in the pool may be as much as £000 each night, and, necording to unwritten law, a per- centage of the winnings is divided among the smokeroom staff.

It is indeed a fact that while the

caplain may make £350 a year-and

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SMITH

WEDNESDA

MAY 5, 1937.

INTO

SUPERMAN AGAIN

This time it's

a music lesson

----but you're not going to have to learn how to play anything: this is the first of four articles on how to listen to what you hear when you turn on the radio-everything from classical to swing.

Smith is worried about music.

He learned to use his ears before he could speak; he was soothed to sleep as an infant by music; he gets

no tips-the smokeroom steward is married to music.

often worth his good £2,500.

Bedroom stewards in charge of He sings the National Anthem at football matches; he is moved, suites and stateroom make good on the death of kings, by Chopin's "Funeral March." Music, in money. Promotion takes them from stern and bows cobins to those Ex-short, plays an enormous part in his everyday life, but still he is pensive staterooms amidships, where uneasy about it.

the traveller is willing to pay latiti. In the old days Smith might have found music something of an somely for the service he is entitled effort, but to-day he has only to turn a knob and he can hear all

the music he wants.

to expect there.

I have known the occupants of the Bridal Sulte to give a five-doltar bil to their steward on bringing them a bottle of champagne, that is Bridal Sulte rates!

But

SOME ocean travellers do not

believe in tipping at all. I

remember sitting in the veran-

And yet it frightens him. He is terrified by "classical" music as though it were a bitter medicine instead of a pleasure enjoyed by his own less experienced ancestors in the most ordinary manner.

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ONE of Smith's first difficulties about music is that it's so

"foreign." Twentieth-century Smith is less of a world- da cafe of the Mauretania at the citizen than the Mr. Smith who was born in 1750, less inclined next table to a world-famous Ameri- to accept "un-English" ideas and art. can millionaire. He ordered three Most of the music Smith hears when he turns the knob of his cocktails-priced one-and-threepence ench-and put down a dollar bili radio set is composed by foreigners, has foreign titles, and is

described in foreign langungen. (four shillings).

He waited so long for his three-

decit

The

YOU

MAY NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS, DOESN'T REALLY MATTER

-IT'S

BUT

IT

Courtesy B. Feldman & Co.

"TIPPERARY,"

AS A MATTER OF FACT.

How does Smith listen?

: 14-1༧,, 1ཐཱཧཱུྃཏཏྟཱཎྞཾ,

(of their kind) they are both poetry. He will not stop to ask what music And so Smith, once he can recognise is far, nor what it means, because the National Anthem when he hears nobody knows; but he should not it, is well on the way to appreciat- turn the radio off because he cannot ing a Beethoven symphony."

answer these questions.

It is purely a question of practice like rooing the ball at cricket.

Smith's first preference for music will probably be for music played on

Music students who are brought the piano.

up the right way are told to listen Famous pianists are always' more to as much music, of all kinds, as auccessful with

the public than possible-to get used to the sound other instrumentalists because they of music.

we all know

That is what Smith, student- He has a horror of a Greek-derived word like "symphony," play on instrument

Listener, should do. He should which has as its root a simple word "together," he baggies at fairly intimately, and which even a

accept to begin with, the greatness "gonata," "movement," "chamber music," "allegro," "scherzo," cat can produce a noise from.

of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and *

Boethoven. He will learn later lo "trio," "finale," "andante," and the other phrases which are part

WITH one Anger we can estimate their greatness for blm- of the everyday language of music.

play a note on the piano self."

pence change that his two com partons left him to take an airing on name millionaire regularly

WIT pays his bedroom steward, eight shillings at the end of the trip..

The technical terms of music are mostly Italian, not because But, in spite of idiosyncrasies ilke music first came from Italy, but because music as we know it to-day which will sound a note not so dif- Smith, listening to hls first this, the average. Umer passenger

prchestral broadcast, may feel con- knows perfectly well that he sets first found its feet in Italy at the beginning of the Renaissance ferent from Paderewski's one anger.

(But it will be different.)

fused at first that the tunes of u nside one-tenth of his passage money 1.1400 to 1550.

But a violin! ..you've got to symphony are not always played by for tips.

Thus a word like "sonata" is Italian for music which is "sounded" as opposed to "cantata," which is music that is "sung." hold it up, have a bow in the other the same instruments.

But in a short while his cars will THIS knowledge will be useful "Symphony," in its original Italian form, was "sinfonia"a hand, drag it across the strings,

to those who are

con-piece of music played by the orchestra together ("in symphony") and then produce a sound that re-

sembles nothing on earth.

become accustomed to being un- assisted by the eye. Smith's car templating a cruise this year. between the scenes of an opera.

The piano has one great advantage will run across the orchestra In the Suppose your passage money is

mood or "tempo" Later the composers got to like speed. This £30. You should spend £3 in tips,

for "time") is aguln de- as an instrument to listen to. Smith came way that his eye adjusts itself will find that it gives him all the to the different type-sizes used as of a

a (Italian *"sinfonla" the iden

18 ns follows:-

doing for its scribed in Italian,

richness of tone of an orchestra with headings on Page One of the Daily Job of wort worth

out asking of him that he should Express. own sake, and so the sinfonia left and come to be

differentiate between individual in- the opera house

struments. played in the concert hall.

share.

"Symphonies"

and' "sonatas"

are divided into "movements."

"Movement" refers to the, move- I'ment of the music, Its mood and

MITH hears the announcer say: "The work is in four

A plano-which is a

black

And, like newspaper headings, these instruments will tell him and plorics, give him different aspects, facts

Bedroom steward, £1. Table steward El Bath steward; Boots, Night Watchman, and the steward of the public room you have most fre quented (lounge, library, smoke- room, deck, pymnasium, or swim- (usually for one or two instruments, movements Allegro moderato; And- white instrument to look at-gives possibilities, opinions of the ming pool) 1, with the public-s Smith bus learned through his anto; Scherzo; Finale: Fresto, and you music in black and white. It (tunes) that go to make up a sym-

Smith for all that he likes music, is the ground plan-of-music.- Your steward getting the bigger loud speaker)

doesn't know what the man is talk-

But just as blue prints, can be ing about,

extremely beautiful in themselves, If Smith does happen to know so can the piano. Italian he will learn that though Smith, listening to д Chopin. "Allegro" literally means "jolly," nocturne, will hear on the piano what tune stated barely, developed, an- and the music described as "Allegro the composer intended-long melo- other subsidiary tune introduced re-

may promise to be "moderately jelly," it may quite well, dies suggestive of the human voice. levantly as a sidelight on the story. The slow movement will give him turn out to be an extremely earnest The human volce-that same organ more facts--the deep emotional facts piece of music.

with which Smith asks for a mild- of a Courts page. and-bitter-is not only the founda-

Roderick Morison

4-CUSHION SNOOKER SHOT moderato

JOE DAVIS is Armly convinced that

bBROWN

Opi

DBLUS

2

Horace Lindrum is a second cousin to the man who shakes off prison fetters,

game The champion, in the third of their match yesterday afternoon at Thurston's, left the white tucked "safe as houses" behind the black on the cushion, just above the middle pocket, as shown in the diagram. The object ball, the brown, was at the top of the table, and Joe thought Horace was just about snookered,

After forming a mutual admiration society for some seconds, Joe left Horace to work out his own salvation.

"Masse?" thought Horace, "don't fancy it." With a looks betokening nothing venture, nothing won. Horace made up his mind.

་

He played on to the boltom cushion. The ball struck near the right hand pocket, rebounded to the side cushion, diagonally to the cushion above black, and on to the top cushion, where, lo and behold! it connected with the brown.

Was Joe's face red?

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TE will find hard news in

true

The third movement-scherzo or "Allegro" has becoine a conveni- tion of all music, but the ultimate ent term for fast, just as "Andante" criterion by which music is judged, minuet will provide the entertain- has come to mean slow, though un to which all music strives.

ing galety of the feature pages-the Home Page Cat und Beachcomber Italian will use the word to describe

The human voice by itself is cop might issue straight from a Haydn an easy walking pace.

able only of producing a tune. So symphony. But what about the word write Smith latening to music should. ten "Shirts-oh," and pronounced since he can produce a tune, be able The Anale leaves Smith fully "Skairtzoh," or "Fine-ale," pro- to hear a tune.

satisflex-sports pages and pictures nounced "Feenableh" Smith prob.

rolled into one; no great intellectual And given good conductor effort needed, but its absence would. ably knows "Finale," because he has seen the word in musical comedy Smith, when he turns on a broad- leave an unaccountable feeling of

and. programmes,

he remembers cast symphony concert, will hear discontent. "Presto" from his Christmas party what (a) the conductor wants conjurer days. But Scherzo" is a hear and (b) what the composer HH new one. It means nothing more wants Smith and the conductor to than a "est"a gay, fast plece of hear: the tune. music providing light relief.

a

to

Good muste is only a collection Get it

right

When the announcer is through of tunes, whatever you may say. describing what is really nothing. more than the composer's personal instructions to the conductor, Smith comes up against the more serious and complicated business of listen- ing.

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O appreciate limerick. is one thing; to understand a Shakespeare sonnet is another. But

Try these tests

They will recall some of Smith's earlier lessons

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12 Trying to learn.

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in being so closely confined.

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(hyphen, 35).

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