SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1939.
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Dear Kiddles,
This is all my own work
The painting and crayoning entries were really splendid this week, kid- dles. I found it difficult to choose the winning entries. However, after careful consideration I have decided to award the prizes this week to:
Paul Versoona (aged 12), 6. Hill Wood Road, 1st floor.
Allee Pan (aged 954), 63 B, Wang Net Chong Road.
Mina Pillal (aged 7), 203, Pokfu- Jam.
Coupons are being sent to Paul, Alice and Mina which I want theni to bring to the "liongkong Tele- graph" offices in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.
Specially commended for excellent work are the following:
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Seniors: Derek Stokoe, Lo Pui-kin, Yeung Kit-wa, Mary An, Charles E. Clark, Oleg Julebin, Kostin Daniloff, Joan E. R. Gordon, Hameedah el Ar culli.
Intermediates: Florence Waller, John White, Fred Lee, Joan Agnes Daniel, C. Rozeskwy.
Juniors: Elizabeth Oliver, Susan Wood (Tni Po), Frankie Correa, S. David S. Bux, Shona Mcintyre, Asche, Gerald Marshall, Horst Kor- ner, Ann (you did not give your last name), June Gordon, Jack Dobson, P.
Wong, Rosalind Silver, Pauline Neubronner, Frank Daniel,
This week, kiddies, we are having
BOOK REVIEWS
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Fallen Bastions
VER five years ago the ad
thunder of artillery was echoing in the streets of Vienna's suburbs.
Yawning Assures appeared in the walls of the great workers' apartment houses, the pride of Vienna's Social Democrats, as the shells-fired by Chancellor Dollfuss' troops found their mark.
The work of stamping out democracy in Austria was in full swing.
Those shells and the machine- gun bullets that mowed down the workers wero clearing the way for the grey-uniformed Relchswehr troops who marched in triumph into Vienna's Ringstrasse four years later, saya G. E. R. Gedye in his latest book Fallen Bastions (Gollancz, 163.).
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Mr. Gedye is no "Red journalist. He is, and has been, for thirteen years correspondent in Central Europe for right-wing English papers, la now correspondent of the Daily Tele graph" in Prague and has earned the reputation of being one of the best Informed English newspaper men on Central European affairs.
His book's main value Bes in its admirabla description of the principal events and the background leading up
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against German expansion, to the East.
He tells of the fast moving events on that night nearly a year ago when Chancellor Schuschnigg announced over the Vienna radio that Austria was no more, Expelled from Austria
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Dunce, Door, Decimal etc. you have listed all the words, fill In the name, age and address coupon and send your entries to Uncle Ed- dic, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph" Wyndham Street. The competition closes at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Three prizes will again be awarded -one for the best in each section.
Best wishes, kiddies.
most interesting competition. Study Uncle Eddia
the pleture above carefully and pick out as many words as possible which begin with the letter "D" such as
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tho Nazis. came, the author was sont to Czecho-
which slovakia,
seven months later became the second fallon bastion. There history, culminat- ing in the Munich Agreement, repeated itself.
"Leaving aside the nice point of with or without honour, Mr. Chamber. lain, was this peaca?" Mr. Gedye naks. His answer is "No." That the vital defences of pacife Europe against a world war and the world hegemony of Germany have been given up with- out a blow.
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THIS view is shared by another Cen-
tral European newspaperman, Mr. Bydney Morrell, who was formerly on the staff of the "Dally Herald." but who acted in Prague for the "Daily Express."
In I Saw the Cruelixion (Peter. Davice, 7. Od.), ho describes the inst poignant days of Czecho-Slovakia.
Vividly he tells of the Czechs' hopes alowly changing from consternation to despair as the full. Import of Britain's "mediation" dawned on them.
His eye-witness accounts of the fort- night preceding the Munich Agree ment, the storming of the Czech polles atations by Nazis, the brutal murders nul the terror are admirably done.
His incursions into the international political problem are not so sound na when, for example, he says and repeats that the independence of Austria was guaranteed by Britain and Franco at #tresa.
But these two men on the spot" have one thing in common. It is the belief that the Munich Agreement was not only a distionourable betrayal of Czecho-Slovakia, but an inexplicable betrayal of Britain's interests, too.
News About Music
DECENTLY a very special little REC Acentenary took place. In Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, a memorial tablet to Alfred. J. Clements was phyelled.
There may be those who ask who Clements was that he should be thus commemorated. Clements) was the man who in 1887 started the South Place Sunday Popular Concerts. If you aver went, as 1 now am glad i did for all that I hated turning out for work on a Sunday evening, to that strange chapel of the South Place Ethical Society by Finsbury Circus you will not need any reminder of what a notable experience that
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can say will bring before you an adequate picture of the place, demolished, of the people sitting listesing with such noatness and of the fine music we heard. · It was, and fortunate- ly still is in its now quarters at Conway - Hall, one of those half- bidden, almost unknown musical contres that are of great im»' portance.
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VERYBOY knows about the great orchestras and concort societies. But It is the work of such organisations as South Place that show more truly what a happening in the musical life of this country.
Je not only Clements the man, but the faith that was in hin when he began there concerts that was commemorated.
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ET me alto draw atten- tion to another London organisation where thare ATO concerts given periodically in tho theatre.. of the Northern Polytechnic, Holsway Road, by the Modern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Dennington. By force of circumstances a cri tle is fairly well tied every night the centre of London. But there have been times whan i have been able to get to N.7 and have always "come away stimu lated. This admirable orchestra, is made up I don't quite know how, but I gather
It is mostly a question of local amateur talent and that the rest (the smaller section) are students from insti- tutions like the Royal Schools. Recently the orchestra gave A concert with a programme con- taining. Brahma's Fourth Sym phony, Beethoven's Violin Con- certo, Ravel's "La Valse,"
FINALLY, while dealing
with some of London' less well-known musical features there are the Eoncerts given each Saturday afternoon by the League of Arts in 'the Lecture Theatre, of the Victoria and Albert. Museum. Recently the Longue's own choir, conducted Dr. Geoffrey. Shaw, 'gu gramme of unison" gals" and, folksod
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LILI PALMER
The amazing story of Lill Palmer's exile from Germany and her reap- pearance as an international star is Just one of the many fascinating personal stories told in" Strangers Everywhere"-an enterialning and moving book by. Fem. (John Lane, ...) 7. ed.). Ilumour and plty are ad- mirably blended in this neat collection of human documents about Europe's refugees who have made.
good in new surroundings.
Reviews In
Brief
Justly Dear, by E-Thornton Cook (John Murray, 7s. ed.). A quiet novel about those two literary Lambs, Charles and Mary, with some of the lions of the time as well
The Long Valley, by John Steinbeck Heinemann. 78. dd.). Bixteen power- fully imaginative short atorics from America, dealing in cruelty, tragedy, and death. The longest. "The Red Fony." presents memorably the work. ing of a child's mind and feelings.
Moviedom Gossip
Ruffles for Ginger IRENE CASTLE is s
ing personally the Astaire film, "The Cat D-- story of Irene and her h the most famous dancers. their day.
Miss Castle's sentimental in- terest in every tiny detail is creating trouble at the studio.
She has the privilege of ap- proving or rejecting every cos- tume, and if so much as a ruffle is changed on one of Ginger's dresses she decrees, "My clothes cannot be changed."
All the dances and dresses will be absolutely faithful to the period,
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VILLAIN on the Basil Rathbone is re as a hero by the children neighbourhood. Holidaying New York with his wife, Ra bone heard Hollywood w sweltering under a spell of ex ceptionally hot weather and wrote home to, his servants instructing them to let the youngsters in their neighbour hood
use the Rathbone swim- ming pool during his absence."
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come manager of a young welterweight boxer, and has him in training out at the Rooney ranch.
In his spare time, Mickey is busy arranging fights for his protege.
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