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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 4, 1939.

HER PROBLEM-TO SEE SON OR DAUGHTER WED?

Too Busy

Mother Forgot

Mother of 12 children and nurse Mrs, Clara to her Invalld husband, Howard, of Ashford, Middlesex, is fo tied to the house that she had 10 choose recently whether the would attend the wedding of either her son' or daughter though both were mar. ried at Stainru Register Offee within on hour of each other.

In her 17 years of life Mrs. Howard hus never seen a talkie picture and she cumnat remember when she last went to a theatre,

"I should have liked to have atien- ded both weddings," she said, "but I

simply could not save the time from

home.

"I can never leave far more than a few minutes, and I chose to be the witness at my son's wedding.

scen the "I have never even parents of my daughter's husband." FORGOT TO TELL

Mrs. Howard admitted that she had been such a busy housewife that she forgot to tell her son that his sister was getting married on the same day It was only a week ago that brother and sister knew.

LONDON A.R.P. CHIEF

MR. HAROLD SCOTT, 51-

of

Prison Commissioners, is to zive up prison work for a time to become AR.P. chief of Lon- don.

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was announced recently that he had been appointed "en-ordinating organiser o! London's A.R.P. services."

Mr. Scott will be empowered to approve or reject schemes from local authorities, without reference to any Government department,

Pianist Cannot Get Hands Insured

Serge Rachmaninoff, the 60-years- old Russian composer and planist, wants to insure the hands which have made him Jamous. But no jcompany will give him "cover,"

He in now in London, celebrating

the 40th anniversary of his fest English performance.

Barten-Hunt Wedding

Smoke SKIPPER

BRAND BRITISH NAVY CUT

MILD, MEDIUM AND FULL STRENGTII

Recently he sold practired the piano for three hours a

that he still Group photograph taken after the recent wedding of Mr. F. N. Barten and Miss Doris Hunt.—King's Studio,

day.

"I am so tired that I have had to The brother said: "If only, my reduce my concerts from about 100 sister and I had known we were getto 70 a year, and I hove temporarily

we Liven up composing." he said. day, the same ting married would have had a double wedding and mother would have attended.

"But because of our big family ny sister and I have been strangers in

"I never teach muske, because my wife tells me I am a bad teacher.

LIKE JAZZ

Dinner To Lord The Fall of "Napoleon

Chatfield

Mure than 50 admirals gave n

our own home, and very rarely saw "I prefer Jazz to so-called 'good private dinner, at the United Service modern music.' I appreciate Elgar, Club, Pall Mall, recently to Admiral

each other.

Broken By-Big Drum

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MANY ghosts will be homeless when the famous old "I cannot remember the last time Arnold Bax, and Sibelius, but The of the Fleet Lord Chatfleld in recogni-Lyceum Theatre closes down this year to make room for

were It must have been last great composers that kissed her.

Strauss tion of his appointment as Minister new business premises, and the future of some of the and Debussy.

employees is uncertain. Many have "grown up” with the theatre,

when she was a baby."

MARRIED AT 17

"Foline has been experiment- ing with creating a ballet to some Women waited six hours outside of my music,"

The composer admitted that he St. Josph's Church, Battersea Park- road, S., recently to see John does not like playing his famous Thomas Paul, 35s.--week tler's ap-Prelude in C sharp minor, which is prentice, of Hanbury-road, Battersea, known to every amateur pianist.

I wrote five others which I much who celebrated his 17th birthday the week before, and 19-years-old Char- prefer," he said. lotte Sprang, of Larkhall-rise, Clap hom, S.W., married.

The couple will live in a two-room at in Wickersley-road, Battersea, which has been furnished by friends and relatives.

Delegate Starts Early

Cleveland, O.

Berlin's A.R.P. Lead To London

HERLIN.

DEEP shelters for Germany will be provided by house-owners, following Relch Garage Order issued by the Minister of Labour, Herr Seldte.

According to this order proprietors of buildings must

under-

Kround garage protion sum-

Although the seventh World's clent for all vehicles belonging to Poultry Congress and Exhibition will pecupants of the buildings. not open here until summer, one delegate already has journey to Cleveland,

for the Co-ordination of Defence.

The idea of holding this dinner party grew out of a casual conver- station among a few of Lord Chat- field's friends and contemporaries in the Navy.

Chatfeld's

At first a small informal reunion was planned, but so great was the Inner officers on the Flag List that Interest among

Lord brother an organised gathering was arranged. Eventually it was decided to hold the dinner in the United Service Club, famous meeting-place of the leaders of the Army and

nd Navy. Adm!. Sir Percy G

Percy Gint, a member the club, sent out the invitations. During the dinner a message was read from Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, who was unavoidably prevented from attending. At the personal request of Lord Chatfeld there were no speeches.

of

FATHERS-TO-BE

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"Without musicians and artists," said Mr. Bert, E. Hammond, who has been Melville's general manager for nearly 40 years, "we have 138 on the staff. ferred to Princes Theatre..

"Some, of course, are only night-staff and some may be trans-

"We have an elastic date for closing down, and this show ("Queen of Hearts" pantomime) may go on after March.

"By arrangement, we 'could run another show here until about June. Many of our people have been with us for years. Perhaps you would like to chat with them."

SHOW WENT ON

"The most popular panto? Oh, Cinderella without + shadow of Mr. Jack Waters, the chief electri-doubt. Everyone loves it." clan, in his workshop, said.

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"I have been at the Lyceum for years. I was walking into this shop when a bomb dropped There during the war.

very

IN THE MONEY

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CHESTER BLACKMAN, PIANIST Wednesday, 5th April at 9.30 p.m.

Mrs. Miches (known as Miss Davies R 20084. and 34 years at the theatre us book- keeper): "Yes, as you see I am sur-R 20089. rounded by 'vers and Treasury notes. I have been surrounded by Inency all my life.

"I came here with Smith and Car- R020395. penter and if you put takings. nt

£4,000 a week you will find that in R020307.

fingers have handled

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RICHARD TAUBER

The World's Most Glorious Tenor on PARLOPHONE. RECORDS

O Solo Mio. (Di Capua.) Richard Tauber with Grand Sym, Orch. Ay-Ay-Ay. (Freire.) ... Tales of Hoffmann. (Offenbach.)

with Plano..

"The theatre was damaged and, San Francisco. nearby, many people were killed. The garages

rnges must conform in con- There is just one weak point in the

"I was thrown across this shop. hstruction with the type of shelter re-new, most modern 230-bed maternity

“A show was on but there was no quired as air-rald shelters.

ward of the city's hospital. That is ponie, and we carried on until the expend huge sums

The Reich will thus not have to the self-operating, clevator. It simply remen came and stopped us tell-

on shelters in can't keep up with the demands offing us that the pit bar was full of 34 years pounds—almost enough| R020370. Ich Liebe Dich! (I Love You.) "Zauber der Boheme"} future, and the new order assures nerve-wrought fathers and only too gas from a broken main in the millions of that the streets shall not become too occasionally goes out of commission street," crowded through parking.

under the strain.

Sidney A. Edwards, managing direc- tor of the exposition. The delegate is C. Ht. Turbet, of the Fiji Islands, who is making the trip here by way of London.

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Mr. James Hester (28 years work

Act. 1. Legend of Kleinsach. Act. 2. Hoffmann's Aria,

Richard Tauber with Grand Sym. Orch.. When You're Away. "Only Girl". (Herberi.). Richard Tanber. When The Sun Goes Down. (Arthur A. Penn.) (Sung in English) Sympathy. ("Firetly") (Friml.)........ ..............Richard Tauber.. Can I Forget You. "High Wide and Handsome") (Sung in English.).

Jan Klepura. Weire Nicht Bricht Eine Schone Frau Dir. Das Herz.

(Do Not Cry.) (Sung in German.)? (Puccini.)

Mr. Jeo Glyan (property master): frent and back-stage): "The Anest "I came here in 1910. My proudest thing I remember here was 'Scrooge, R 20380. La Boheme. Act. 1. "Che gelida manina (Your Tiny Hand)

Hleks," possession-is-a-collection of between with Seymour three and four hundred tambourines, helps to produce); "I came here as in which is the signature of every famous artist who has appeared at mere boy and played Harlequin. IR 20200. Turandot. ("Non Plangere Llu") (Puccini.)

are

the Lyceum during nearly 30 years.

There thousands of signa- tures, and I have a special room for the tambourines,

"The biggest show we ever did here was "The Miracle." I also re-! member Maud Allan, and, of course,

| Sir John Martin Harvey in "The Only

Way!

"Once, when Frank Lester was slt-

Mr. John Roker (stage director and

was in the first panto and I shall he with the last."

Common Defence True Comparison Of Naval Needs

Mr. Duff Cooper, former First Lord

ting on a horse us Napoleon in of the Admirally, speaking at Liver- Royal Divorce, the front man in the tableau hold his rifle: too low and the pool recently referred to the big in- wad struck the horse, which threw crease in the Navy Estimales Lester into the orchestra.

"Fortunately, he fell on the big drum and was not injured, but the man responsible fled and was not seen again for three weeks.

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and

"Do not, however, run away with the idea that we are by any means over-insured on the sea. It is easy, by comparing the German and the British navies, to acquire that feeling supreme self-confidence which is so dangerous in matters of defence. "Props? Well, we make everything It is possible to make here on the naval Powers you should compare not "When you compare these two premises. We can make you a leg only ton for lon, but also the coast- of multon or a golden crown at short lines that each fleet has to defend, natice."

you compare the coastline of the Mrs. Annie Baker (cleaner for 20 British Empire and the coastline of years): "I'm sure I couldn't tell you Germany you will find that it is Ger- The scrubbing I've done in 20 years, many rather than the British Empire but I've been on the films. That which is over-insured," was when they came to film the

Altthough

our population had Lyceum.

grown since 1914, and there were When George Robey gave a stage more mouths to feed, we had 2,000 party here, he invited me and other fewer merchant ships than we had cleaners.

then with which to feed them, while

and th

am responsible for the circle, the ships of other nations had in- the number of spectacles and creased by 7,000. opera glasses people leave behind- you'd never bellove,'

Rabit Farm Pays

Arkansas City, Kas.

Wally Mark (The Cat in "Queen of Hearts"): "I first came here in 1911 and for 20 years I have been

Ray Seeley, music store owner, has doing animals at the Lyceum.

romething new in collectors' items- Uncle Fred Melville was the cottontail rabbits. Seeley has fenced fest man to put me in a skin-a cat's In 10 acres of his farm in which to!

and I sul keep that skin as a keep rabbits, which he has shipped treasure,

to him from all parts of Kansas and other slutes.

EVEN A FLY.

"I have been a cat, in dog," a

monkey, an ape, a bear, the front

and back of an elephant, and even

a fly on the shadowgraph.

Help Kidneys

am 4ft. Bin., and i lose a stone Don't Take Drastic Drugs every panto through jumping about

in n hot skin."

Your kidneys' hava nine - mißan tiay tubes or filters which are endangered_by Mrs. Folly Bevington (nns dressed neglect or drastic, irritating drugs Be the girl or "boy" for every punto-, ware! If Kidney trouble or Bidder wonk- mime at the Lyceum): "I have been neas makes you satter from Gatting Up Nights, Leg Pains, Norvousnons. Dizzle here longer than anyone on the stage nos atitiness, Thoumatiem, Lumbago, stuff-33 years,

"Smith and Carpenter had the management when i came, and Hall Caine's "The Christian was on, with Matheson Lang

"I had ved next door Lyceum since I was a child.

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Martha. Act. 3. "Ach so fromm" (Like A Dream.)

(Flotow.)....

...Jan Kirpura, (Sung in German.). ..Jan Klepura.. Nessun Dorma") (Sung in German.) TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

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