1937-05-05 — Page 22

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1937.

Liner Stewards get

TIPS WORTH HAVING

A

SHIP'S steward has just

died, leaving rather 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 Iners, I do not think this is so.

at

One must bear in mind that Mr. William Twigg, the steward in ques-

some 50 years tion, had spent

that probable nea. Also, it is many of his "ps" were Stock Ex- change tips. Financiers are perhaps more communicative at sea than they are abhore!

If there are any members of an ocean liner's staff who get more

generous tips than others they would be the smokeroon stewards. In all big Atlantic liners the auction pool

the daily "flutter" on the ship's zun-ls bid nightly in the smoker room. The total in the pool may' be as much as 2000 each night; and, according to unwritten law, a per- centage of the winnings is divided; Among the smokeroom staff.

It is indeed a fact that while the

SMITH INTO SUPERMAN

AGAIN

This time

a music

YOU

MAY NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS, BUT IT MATTER

DOESN'T REALLY

it's

CHORUS

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; captain may make £350 a year and 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.

sultes

and stateroom make good

Bedroom stewards in charge of He sings the National Anthem at football matches; he is moved, money. Promotion takes them from on the death of kings, by Chopin's "Funeral March." Music, in sters and bows cabins 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 hand- 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 to expect there.

I have known the occupants. of the music he wants.

the Bridal Suite to give a five-dollar

And yet it frightens him. He is terrified by "classical" music

bill to their steward on bringing as though it were a bitter medicine instead of a pleasure enjoyed them bottle of champagne.

by his own less experienced ancestors in the most ordinary manner.

that is Bridul Suite rates!

But

SOME ocean travellers do not

believe in tipping at all. I

remember sitting in the veran-

each-and put down dollar bill (four shillings).

-IT'S

Courtesy D. Feldman à Co.

"9

“TIPPERARY,"

AS A MATTER OF FACT

How does Smith sten?

(of their kind) they are both poetry. He will not stop to ask what musle And so Smith, once he can recognise is for, 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 ONE of Smith's first difficulties about music is that it's so "foreign." Twentieth-century Smith is less of a world-

Smith's Arst preference for music-like sering the ball at cricket.

Music students who are brought da cafe of the Mauretania at the citizen than the Mr. Smith who was born in 1750, less inclined will probably be for music played on

the plano.

up the right way are told to listen next table to a world-famous Ameri-to accept "un-English" ideas and art,

He ordered three enn millionaire.

Most of the music Smith bears when he turns the knob of his

Fumous pianists are always more to as much music, of all kinds, us successful with the public than possible to get used to the sound cocktails-priced one-and-threrpence radio set is composed by foreigners, has foreign titles, and is

other instrumentalists because they of music. described in foreign languages.

WU ull know

That Is

student- what Smith, He has a horror of a Greek-derived word like "symphony." play an instrument

should do. He should Jistener, He waited so long for his three-

accept, to begin with, the greatness pence change that his two com- which has as its root a simple word "together," he boggles at fairly intimately, and which oven a

"allegro," "scherzo," cat can produce a noise from. panlons left him to take on airing on "sonata," "movement," "chamber music,'

ol Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and deck!

Beethoven. He will learn later to regularly "trio," "nale," "andante," and the other phrases which are part

for him- The same millionaire

WITH one finger we can estimate their greatness Walay note on the piano st pays his bedroom steward eight of the everyday language of music. shillings at the end of the trip.

The technical terms of music are mostly Italian, not because

listening to his Smith,

first But, in spite of idiosyncrasies like music first came from Italy, but because music as we know it to-day which will sound a note not so dif-

orchestral broadcast, may feel con this, the average liner passenger

(But it will be different.) knows perfectly well that he sets first found its feet in Italy at the beginning of the Renaissance ferent from Paderewski's one finger,

fused at first that the tunes of a But a violin!

you've got to aside one-tenth of his passage money 1400 to 1550. for tips.

Thus a word like "sonnta" is Italian for music which is

the same instruments. hold it up, have a bow in the other symphony are not always played by "sounded" as opposed to "cantata," which is music that is "sung."

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

become accustomed to being un- sembles. nothing on earth." conpiece of music played by the orchestra together ("in symphony") and then produce a sound that re-

assisted by the eye. Smith's ear templating a cruise this year. between the scenes of an opera.

The plane has one great advantage will run across the orchestru In the "Lempo" Suppose your passage money is

as an instrument to listen to. Smith same way that his eye adjusts itself Later the composers got to like speed. This £30. You should spend £3 in tips,

for "time") is again de will find that it gives him all the to the different type-sizes used as a (Italian AE "sinfonia" the Idea of

richness of tone of an orchestra with headings on Page One of the Datly as follows:-

job of work worth doing for its scribed in Italian.

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

differentiate between individual in- the opera house

struments.

to those who are

Bedroom steward, £1. Table steward £1. Balh staward, Boots, Night Watchman, and the steward of the public room you have most fre-

share.

Roderick Morison

played in the concert hall,

"Symphonies" and "conatus"

Bre divided

"Movement" refers to the move, ment of the music, is mood and

into

mood

or

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

A piano which is a black

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

be

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the first movement-a true

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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 facts ming pool) El, with the public-ns Smith has learned through his unte; Scherzo; Finale: Presto," and you muste in black and white. It (tunes)-that-go-to make up a sym-

phony, Smith for all that he likes music, is the ground plan of music. room steward petting the bigger loud speaker)

"movements."

docsn't know what the man is talk- But, just as blue prints con ing about.

extremely beautiful in themselves, If Smith does happen to know so can the plans. Italian he will learn that though

to Smith, Hstening

Chopin "Allegro" literally means "ally," 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- promise to be dies suggestive of the human volce. levantly as a sidelight on the story. "mederately folly," it may quite well

The slow movement will give him turn out to be an extremely earnest The human voice that same organ mure facts the deep emotional facts

with which Smith asks for a mild- of a Courts page. piece of music. ·

and-bitter-is not only the founda-

The third movement-scherzo or "Allegro" has become a conveni- tion of all music, but the ultimate ent term for fast, just as "Andante" criterion by which music is judged, minuch will provide the entertain- Ang galety of the feature pages-the has come to mean slow, though on to which all music strives,

Home Page Cat and Beachcomber Italian will use the word to describe

might issue straight from a Haydn an easy walking. pace,

symphony.

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JOE DAVIS is firmly convinced that

bBROWN

OPINA

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to the man who shakes off prison fetters. The champion, In the third game 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.

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*

"Masse?" thought Horace, don't fancy It." With look betokening nothing venture, nothing won. Horace made - up his mind.

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pro- to hear a tune. '

given 13 good conductor

The finale leaves Smith fully satisfied-sports pages and pictures rolled into one; no great intellectual

The human voice by itself is cap able only of producing a tune. So But what about the word writ- Smith listening to music should, ten "Shirts-oh," and pronounced since he can produce a tune, be able "Skalrtzoh,” or "Fine-ale." nounced "Feenahleh"? Smith prob- ably knows Finale," because he has And Been the word in musical comedy Smith, when he turns on a broad- fort needed, but its absence would programmes, and he remembers cast symphony concert, will, hear eave an unaccountable feeling of

discontent. to "Presto" from his Christmas party what (a) the conductor wants conjurer days. But "Scherzo" is a hear and (b) what the composer new one. It means nothing more wants Smith and the conductor to than a "est"a gay, fast piece of hear; the tune. music providing light relief,

Good music is only a collection Get it

When the announcer is through of tunes, whatever you may any. 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.

To appreciate imerick, is one thing: to understand a Shakespeare sonnet is another. But

Try these tests

They will recall

some

of Smith's earlier lessons

1. Can you think of any reason why Ameriça was discovered In 1492 and not at some other date?

About ten years carller the Turks captured Constantinople, and It became increasingly difficult to obtain suficient supplies of splees. These were needed to favour the usual diet of salted meat,

Men, therefore, began to look for new routes to the Indies. Columbus believed that by travelling westward he would reach China and the Indies, and he put his theory to the test of experiment. He camo on America on the way.

2. Why were so many canais dup towards the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 10th?

There was a large increase in population, especially In_towns,? These people had to be fed and goods carried to them.

The roads, usually made simply by ploughing and levelling, were incredibly bad, and useless for transport; there were no rati ways until after George Stephenson got his steam engine going in 1830. So canals were dug for transport purposes.

right

BILLYCOCK DILLYCOCK is the old name for the bat known in this country as the bowler and in America as the Derby.

It was invented by one of the Leicester Cokes named William, found his who, when

top hat incient in crawl- and creeping about. He ing

hat for therefore Invented a himself which later became known as the "Billy Coke," and subsequently as "Billycock."

BLACKGUARD

is a

curious THIS Word

example of deterioration in menning, for there was origin- ally nothing objectionable about a blackguard.

It is derived from "Black- guards," the name given to of selected Bervants certain

Court. King Henry VIII's They wore black uniforms, and, while these particular, ser- vants were of humble origin or rank; they were never con- sidered to be unworthy people.

ACROSS

7 Even the strect urchin in this way can make a thousand profit. 8 Grent people that authors love. 10 Last month the notices out, excluding juveniles,

were

11 Often heard spoken of as four words when they actually cover pages.

12 Trying to learn. 14 Is in reverse. 15 Undiluted,

18 There's something of a swindic in being so closely confined. 20 It would be salter without any

vegetable.

22 The noes have it.

24 Not up

to much (hyphen, 2, 2). 20 Cuckoos

28 Soldier who is no burglar.

30 Kind words of appreciation

from Persia.

31 Something, or somebody you ́

can't think of.

32 What people who differ may

come to.

DOWN

1 A regular dust-up in the desert. 2 The led is after the 0.50 in

Suburbia.

3 Make up or settle down..

4 Shows Buttons insects.

5 Tassel (anog.).

Like a Bute with an organ.

0 Continental capital..

13 The reverse of a do.

10 Made out of peas to give tho

monk case. (Oh dear!)

13

14

16.

17 A more wise

tedious.

alternative to

19 So buge that no mouser could

swallow it.

21 Yet one could scarcely describe such a rabbit as crop-cared (hyphen, 3 5).

23 You are known by this.

25 Never all square, though it is

admitted that the sides' equal.

are

27 H'ni, I suppose it is a bit of a

triumph.

28 Comes from the most.

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