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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION.

GRAMO NEWS

THERE was a time when

the overture to "Tancredi" was the bugbear of wretched children made to practise it, four hands, on the domestic piano.

It was a fate that overtook many overtures by Rossini and his contemporaries, but I believe this to be the that suffered most.

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Happily that formy of musi. enl torture has been obsolete long enough for us to listen to "Taneredi" once more (18 music. It is the overture to Rossini's first serious opera, the one which made his nume in Italy.

But the overture, like that to "Semiramide," sounds to our ears much less serious than the

to which it opera belongs.

In fact, most people, myself included, would call it jolly. Try the record issued by Parlophone (E 11338).

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More than a hundred and twenty years ago Beethoven wrote his Triple Concerto, which to-day appears in a record (Columbia) made by the Vienna Philharmonic un- der Weingartner. It is fresh, as exciting, as full of illuminating Louches of genius as ever. Possibly the music is not the finest Beet- hoven. Nevertheless, glows with vitality and is in- dividual and original to a de- gree unattained by any of the Swing composers. If those gentlemen listen to this ad- mirably played record they ean learn Beethoven's trick By and start composing. that means they may create something really new and in- vigorating.

For those who like cinema- organ music there is an effec tive record, "Christmas Med- ley," made by II. H. Cleaver,

S. G.

THE next two records are

culled from Italian opera Lina Pagliughi has recorde for Parlophone the famous "Polacca,' "Son Vergin Yezzosa," from Bellini's "I Puritani,"

The opera itself is almost forgotten. but that ornate song still earns bouquets for coloratura sopranos,

On the other side is "Qui La Vole Tun Soave," which is not so well known. Those were the days when, after the precedent established by "Lucia di Lammermoor, every opera was in honour bound to have a "mad scene." This is the "mad scene" from Puritan." (E 11335.)

Edwin Evans.

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Bridge Problem

No. 44

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and North-South must win all seven tricks,

• Solutions by Wednesday to "Bridge Problem" Hongkong "Telegraph" Wyndham Street.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM 43

South leads the ace of spades fol-

lowed

by the three of

which North wins with

diamonds the king. trumps

North

wins with jack of (hearts) on which South discurdy uce of diamonds. North also wins with diamond 10 on which Eust discards a spade and South a club. North then lenda diamond seven,

and whether Enst discards a club or n spade South discards the reverse.

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If West wins the trick with dia- mond eight he must lead up a club and South wins the rest of the tricks, either with three clube or two clubs spade; it however West has thrown

his diamond 8 earlier North's Keven wins and South discards. his spade jack whether or not-East dis- carla spade king. North follows with a spade and the only trick East- West can win is his king of spades if he has retained it.

Correct solutions from "Emjay". AEG, REL, J.A.I., "88023," M.D,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1938.

ENTERTAINERS

Of

Course

But

The Bryman's Trio, who are entertaining at the Glousector Hotel.

How good a detective

are

Another in our series of potted mysteries which you ought to be able to solve in

one minute.

FORDNEY made notes as he read

the newspaper account of the brutal murder of Agnes Roland. Doctor Milton and Agnes Roland left town at five p... intending to have dinner at the Nook, five miles out of town. At eleven p.m. Oscar Ward, walking along the country road, noticed in the moon- light blood spots in the show at the end of the bridge two miles from town. Looking over the railing, he saw the body of a woman lying on the ice of the frozen river.

He hurried to the river, found she was dead, and summoned the police.

Ward moved the body a bit upon discovery, but its exact position was

When you're choosing wines

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VEN if you don't know much about wines you need not be embarrassed by the wine list if you can choose one or two wines well.

How about burgundy? This is a more generous, a fuller wine than claret, though it would be wrong to say that it is any less delicate.

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The best burgundy (both red und d'Or white) comes from the.Cote Department of France, a small area which is divided into two districts

and called the Cote de Nuits Cote de Beaune.

Unfortunately, you cannot (as you .cnn with claret when you have a reliable wine merchant) tell a good burgundy by the name given on the label of the bottle.

The best burgundies are not classi- ned. They are not called Chateau anything, either, which obviously makes the whole business much more complicated.

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HERE is another difficulty. With claret you know that

the quality of a particular Chateau

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ensily defined by the depression it had made in the ice,

Milton claims that Agnes left his cur at 5.30. after a quarrel, deciding to walk back to town. He drove on, had dinner at the Nook, and then drove to a village some miles away.

Driving back to town he discovered the girl's body lying on the bridge. Knowing she had been dead for several hours and fearing implication, he carried her to the river. He claims that the time of finding the body was 10.30.- While there are some gaps in time in his. alibi. he can prove his presence at the Nook and the village.

The marks in the snow оп the river bank and a man's unidentifiable footprints look as though something had been dragged over it. Agnes's shoes are missing.

notes once Fordney checked his more, and then wired the police: "Milton's account of his actions untrue. Hold him for murder."

What prompted the Professor's telegram?

Solution is upside down on Page

Three.

To fined out if you're tough

THEY say this test is supposed to show infallibly whether a man is_a_tough, he-man or just a well-got-up imitation.

The test is to

(1) drink some water out of a

glass,

(2) strike a match,

(3) look at your fingernails. You pass the test if you

(1) don't look into the glass as

you drink,

(3) strike the match towards you,

not away from you,

(3) Look at your fingernails palm

towards you.

It's fun to try on your friends whether you believe it or not.

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wine of a given year should always į The best vintage years for bur-

be more or less the same.

have

gundy are: 1923, 1020, and 1929 in In the case of burgundy, how that order 1919, 1928, 1033 and 1934 ever, a vineyard will often

were also good years. several different owners. It is, know therefore, more important

You must remember, however, the name the shipper than the name under which the wine is sold. that there is some poor wine made Chamberlin, Musigny, Richebourg, even in the best of vintages, just as Remuner and Corton are the names there is some good wine made when of some of the best-known vineyards the vintage has been a comparative

fallure.

of the Cote d'Or.

Can You Solve Word

Problems?

PROFESSOR JOHNSON_O'CONNOR, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, arranged a vocabulary test. His list of word-teasers on the Humanity Page caught out many readers. Here is another test.

One of the words following the bold-type word in each line comes closest to its meaning.

1

Which one is it?

A most perfunctory manner-persuasive, insolent, Indifferen,t kindly.

2 She was rather laconic-smart, irritable, insolent concise.

3 Perempforlly, he told him to go-quickly, harshly, rudely,

dictatorially.

4 A most chullient person-exclted, impoverished, nolay, fat.

5 An Invidious comparison-unfortunate, illegal, unjustly dia-

.criminating, truthful.

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An abject apology-firm, speedy, grovelling, complete.

7 A succulent morsel-tasty, appetising, juicy, delicious,

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8 Isn't ho puerile?-clever, famous, childish, swelled-headed. I'm taxidermist-mend taxla, drive them, make maps, stuff animals, cat fruit.

10 He's Indefatigable-tireless, inefficient, powerful, unpleasant. 11 He showed marked exacerbation—res/stance, exasperation,

apottiness, temper.

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By The Dragoman

You Know,

You

RYPTOGRAM should have been cryptogam

yes, I know, I know. Circumstances over which

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I had no control, etc., etc.. . I was the victim. Mind you, I tried hard to eschew that intruding R, but there was a steady, almost ruthless insis- tence by someone Higher Up, (to wit, the next floor) to give my cryptogam a cryptogrammatic character. So if you can't forgive. for heaven's sake, forget!

And so to business. One of my crypto- gam correspondents this week said last week's were trifle hard, anyway. Well, these are easy. Just to prove it, I did them myself and got fifty,... Two paints for each question answered correctly is the scor- ing basis.

1-1f you don't know what the morta Is, ol 'I en sny (can 1 get away with 1?) is uorto. Come now, the aorta ist-

The big toe hane; the top of the spine; the bottom (of the spine); the veinous system, an artery; a medical pseudonym for the heart.

2.-Ever used-heard und--or seen In print the Latin word velo? No excuse, then, for not knowing veto means:-

Stop; beware of the dop: I forbid; watch and pray; break it down.

3.The heaviest guns mounted on ships of the Brith navy are 10in-and the last time you inspected a Cruiser attached to China Station navy no doubt you noticed our heaviest mountings are only:-

sur-

4in Bing Bing 10in; 12ln.; 15in. 4.-Life's full of surprises-imagine my prise when was presented with a mouifion-a moulon, mind you! Of course, I'm expected to:-

Wear it round my neck; mount it on saj car radiator; send it to the Zoo; buy it some bird seed,

5.-Font of climbing? Well, say you wanted

summit to climb the highest mountain

in the British Empire-you would naturally assail:-

Mt. Blanc: Kosciusko; Nanga Parbat; Everest Table Mountain.

B. You don't have to know Murgatroyd long to discover he's omnivorous. My word, he's umnivorous.. by which I mean her-

Is a vegetarian; reads everything he can kty his hands ou; eats anything: is a lover of mankind.

7. Vegetarians mightn't know this, but any one who's caton mutton should know that there are more than 600,000,000 sheep in the world and the country with more sheep than any other coun- try is:--

Australia; Argentine; United States; Russia: South Africa.

8-Zircon of course you know zircon is tite name applied to a-

Small bush aninial; river fish; mineral; wild flower; an item of wearing apparel.

9. There's a chap in the fat next to me who recently passed an exam, and now puts the letters Ph.D. after his name. Of course, he's been study- ing

"Divinity; psychology:philately;-philo-- sophut phrenology.

Sure?

10-If you were idling on the banks of the Nile (though there's no reason why you should), the sort of boat you'd most likely see floating on it would be aime.

Kyak; miak; junk; felucca; sampan. 11. This metric system-what I yearn to learn Is, it a milligram is the lightest uult of weight in the metric system, the heaviest is a:-

Kilogram; tonne; murtagram: quintal. 12-In boxing (a fine, manly sportta watch) The lightest of these divisions is:

Cruiser-weight; fly-weight; feather- weight: welter-weight; bantam-weight. 13-If you are going to be decorated with a knighthood and want the highest form of knight- hood in the United Kingdom, take my advice and stick out for:

Commander of the Ball; Knight Bachelor; Knight Commander of the Bath; Knight of the Garter,

14. Australia wit be 150 years old this year and the day they celebrate as Foundation Day falls on:-

Jan. 15: Jan. 26; Feb. 28; June 4; July 16: Nov. 18.

15.Murgatroyd had just folded up his obbli- gato and put it away when the conductor said: "Here you with the obbligato I want you play leguto before you go." "Righto," Murga- troyd said, "Til play legato"-which means he played:

Fast and furiously: Juntreally slow; haltingly: smoothly: the fool.

10.There's plenty to be said about the League of Nations one way and another. But you needn't say anything except that it came into be-

ing in 10: 1920; 1021; 1020; 1923,

17.- Razebo for heaven's sake don't admit you don't know that a gazebo is!--

A striped antelope (African); a railway tricycle; a foolish person; a sort of summer house; a poepshow (Give us a gaze, Bol) 18-If you got all the people of the world to- gether and got them to sing, say, "Yes, We Have No Bananas," the greatest number would sing It in:-

Russian, German; English; Chinese; Bengal.

10-1'm keen on waterfalls-ure you keen on waterfalls? I'd like to see the highest waterfall in the world, which is in:-

Australia; America: Canada; New Zea- land; Africa; Switzerland, 20-France had three Empires

(Napolcon

started the Brst) and the present republic of France is known as:-

The First Republic; the Second Republic; the Third Republic; the Fourth Republic- and so on.

21-You don't want anything easier than this the President of the U.S.S.R. Is-

Trotsky: Peter the Great; Lenin; Staling Molotov; Kuasis; Tonisk.

32. The largest city (on a population basis)

In the Empire outside London is:-

Birmingham; Sydney: Delhi; Calcutta; Glasgow: Liverpool.

23. The first man to fly solo non-stop across

the Atlantic was not Sir Alan Cobham (ool that anyone suggested he was), but:-

Sir John Alcock; Commander Byrd; Kingsford-Smith;

J. Lindbergh;

Mollison,

A.

24. They make some quick changes in France at times. but I'll take a chance on the present French President still being President when you read this. He is:-

Clemenceaui;

Robespierre;

Lavnt; Lebrun: Tardieu; Brland; Carpentier. 25. You've heard of the zodiac and the signs thereof Sagittarius, Libra, and the rest of 'em. You needn't name them so long as you know the number of them is:-

4:-6-7-10-12-15;-20

Answers on Page 3.)

Girls' and Boys' Corner

This is all my own work.

Name

Aso

Address

Dear Kiddies,

Bowerman, Kan Yuet-hing, Franels Lots of excellent entries this week. Ribeiro, A. Brown, Maggle Alves ond I didn't realise how clever you were Fern Ellis (Seniors); Ricardo da Luz, at drawing. After carefully con- Joyce Leonit, 5.5. Bux, Tania Tchurin, sidering, I have decided to award the and V. Remedios (Juniors).

This week's competition is a simple prizes to:

All you have to do 'Pamela Li (aged 11), of 41, Robin- observation test. non Road, Hongkong, in the Senior la to answer six simple questions Section and

obout the picture above. Here they Gertle Remedios (aged 7), of us, pre-(1), How many girls are there Robinson Road, in the Junior Section. in the picture? (2) How many boys? Will Pamela and Gertle call at the (3) How many scarves are there? (4) "Hongkong Telegraph" offices for How many of the figures are exactly their prizes?

Alike? (6) Are they playing on ice or Merit Certificates are being sent to mow? (0) Is it morning.or afternoon?

Seniors: following!

The answers are all easy to find. Pomeroy, Dorn Thu, Antonio Souza, Write your answers briefly and as Thelma Mendes, Suen Mo-tak, Yeung nicely as you can in a neat list. Fl

Uncle Kit-wa, and

Yung. in the coupon and send to Wong Chiu Juniors Therea

Vivien Eddie, c/o Hongkong Telegraph," Bouza, Gillespie, Robert Earl Harper and Wyndham Street, by 4 p.m. en

Wednesday. Ann Thompson.

Specially commended for good There will again be two prizes—one work are Ho Shuk-chun, Ho Man- for Seniors and one for Juniors. chan.

Daniel Choy, Mimi Tong,

the

Vivian

12. He heaped obloquy upon him-objections, honour, reproach, Perry Barton, Amy Choy, G.F. Clark, Uncle Eddia

praise, earth.

(Answers on Pago Three.)

Maggie Cheng, Charles Foster, Ada Foster, Korian J. Khan. 5.A. Bux; Melba Cruz, Diana Hosking, Derrick

WEEK-END PROBLEMS

By Hubert Phillips

PROBLEM I

THE POETRY-LOVERS' CIRCLE

THE members of our poetry- lovers' circle are Messrs. Browning, Keats, Milton, Tennyson and Shelley. None of them is related, even re- motely, to a poet of the same name, but, curiously enough, the favourite poet of each is the namesake of one of the others. No two have the same favourite,

The following are some facts about the members of the circle. Mr. Browning and Mr. Shelley both delest Tennyson. Mr. Ten- nyson has no use for Shelley; the same is true of Mr. Brughius Mr. Shelley plays golf ontha week with the chaps whose

Invourite poets are Browning

and Milion.

of

Mr. Keats has recently broken off

hts engagement the sister the enthusiast for Tennyson. Name the favourite poet of each of the five members of the circle,

of

PROBLEM II

A WORD CHAIN Below are defined eleven four- letter words. The last two fetter Each word are the samo NA the Arst two letters of the word which follows it. The last two letters of the eleventh word are the same na the first two letters of the first word; this completes the chain.

1. So Casal looked.

2. Best-known author.

3. On an occasion.

4. That's that, in France.

5. Dyron was.

6. He-man's drink.

7. One means of access.

6. Also.

9. Novel heroine.

10. Poet's surname,

11. Suitable part. for the Fat

Boy.

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