1939-06-28 — Page 27

Ten Nations Discuss

ANY musician would tell you

that the symbol in the head. line above means a crotchet A in the treble clef. But ask half a dozen singers of different nation- allties to sing it to you, and cach might strike a slightly different note.

Ten nations met at a conference at Broadcasting Ilouse recently to try to end this strange state of affairs. At the invitation of the British Stan- dards Institution they discussed an

International agreement on concert pitch.

It is an old problem. Fifty years ngo musicians were complaining that they had to change the pitch of their instruments according to the country. And the dimculty still exists.

An orchestra tunes on the note A of the treble viel. But the note A has no absolute meaning. That is where "pltch" comes lu.

The only abrolute way of fixing the pitch of a note is by its "frequency. If you make a violin string vibrate 500 times à revend it will always give out the saine note, and it will be the same note as Unt of an orguns pipe in which 11 the air is vibrating 500 times second, or of a singer who is making the air in his vocal passages vibrate 500 times a second.

At present the standard A of dif- ferent countries varies from 435 10. 442 cycles per second.

An official of the British Standards Institution saith "The varying de- grees of concert pitch have caused chaos in the musical world for years.” "British interests are unreed to n standard of 440 cycles, but we want to make it an international standard."

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WAT June 28, 1939.!

WORLD'S ART DICTATOR DEAD

Six factories and 30 hauses off Yu Yuen Road, opposite Jess- feld Park, Shanghai, went up in flammes recently. The combined strength of 11 fire engines was not sufficient to prevent the total destruction of these premises. Upper picture shows the fire in progress with the flames and smoke against the skyline. Lower picture shows the remains of one of the houses.

Bank Clerks Demand

Japanese Occupation Right To Own Lives

Of Hainan

London.

A further question was used in the House of Commons recently re- garding the Japanese occupation of Hulnan:-

TWO

WO hundred bank clerks from all parts of England and Wales demanded in Birmingham recently that their private lives should be their own, free from the restrictive influence of bank executives. Their demand was

made at friends are menaced we are going to

Mr. W. Roberts asked the Prime Muister whether he can make a state- ment with regard to the extent the annual conference of the stand by them."

of the occupation by the Japanese of Hainan Island and the Spratley is- Jands and whether any joint discus-

Bank Officers' Guild.

As in 1914, Germany was saying that we were afraid to fight, but our They passed a resolution un-young men to-day were no more de

than were the men who alons with the French authorities animously promising fullest cncrate

fought in the inst war. have taken place with regard to it

The conference sanctioned a provi- and, if not, whether such discussions

liberties might be sional agreement for co-operation be- will be considered in view of the threat to the interests of these two threatened with encroachment tween the British Legion and the countries in the Fur East?

support to any members whose civil

by employers.

Scottish British Legion.

"I WAS A BAD BOY”

Two Carpet Bags Laid Family Fortune

ASTRONOMY may be said to have linked two famous Britons who died recently-Lord Duveen and Sir Frank Dyson.

Sir Frank Dyson was the mathematician who, as he once said, "drifted into astronomy" and became Astrono- mer Royal in charge of Greenwich Observatory: Lord Duveen was the man who turned art into big business with "astronomical" prices for world-famous pictures.

Lord Duveen died at n London hotel at the age of 69. Sir Frank, who was 71, died while on a voyage from Australin to South Africa.

The fortunes of the Duveen family were laid by one Henry Duveen, who at the age of 12 was sent by his father from their humble home in Holland with;

two large carpet bags filled with Delft blue china.

SHOCKS IN FICURES

Sir Frank Dyson, who retired in 1033 after more than 20 years ag Pleces which and cost 55. in Hol-Astronomer loyal, was fond of giv

Ing facts and figures about stars land fetched £5 at Boston,

which, if they had not come from to distinguished a scientist, would not have been believed.

Joseph, the cklest of 14, was born at Hull and joined the firm at 17. He was laler to become the first Baron Duveen of Millbank (where the Tate Gallery stands) because of his mag- nificent gifts to British museums and galleries.

Greenwich Observatory in 1031 worked overtime taking, photographs of the planet Eros, some 14,000,000 miles from the earth. It was part of finding out the exnet distance of the sun, which is roughly 93,000,000 miles

Standing, apart from ali auction- rocin coterics and establishing his way. own tradition" Duveen became a force which upset all the reckonings of connoisseurs and dealera-n virtual! "letator" in the art world.

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He launched the art boom of 1921 when he bought "Mrs. Siddons as the Reynolds for Tragie Muse"

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Morning Tea On ARTISTIC, Army Bill Of Fare

HEN Lance-Corporal, Roy Sidney Minear, 2nd Balt. Grenadier

£30,000 and paid £170,000 for Gains-Guards, was brought up at a court borough's "Blue Boy" for America.

martial at Pirbright, Surrey, recently, charged with striking Guardsman Other spectacular deals were

£1,000,000 for the Gustave Dreying story was told by Chandler.

Hornce Patrick Chandler, the follow-

fus collection (Italian Renaissance). £500,000 for the Benson collec- tion (Hoiticelli, Titian. Andrea del Sarto and Luini).

£205,000 for the Fragonard Panels.

£175,000 for the Raphael

Madonna.

Besides presenting pictures to the Lord Tate and National Galleries, Duveen added a new wing to the National Portrait Gallery, provided an extension for moxtern foreign art at the Tate, a gallery for the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum and In early Venetian gallery at National Gallery.

the

"The corporal demanded ten, and I referred him to the master cook. I said it was no use arguing with me. 500 eggs had to be fried.

"He started digging me in the tummy with his finger to eruphasise his words, and sald he wanted tea. "I said: "Who are you to tell me to make tea.' He then struck me in the face."

The master cook said early tea was fare, and it was on the bill the cook's duty to prepare whatever was on it..

The court found Lance-Corporal | | Minenr not guilty.

Society Bride Of Negro Driver

New York.

MRS. LAURA STEDMAN GOULD DEES, aged 55, former

society woman who had been spurned by her friends since she married her Negro chauffeur 11 months ago, was buried recently near the coloured section of Queen's County, here.

She hanged herself in her modest apartment. was not unduly Laura Stedman was a grand- about Juvenile

daughter of the millionaire ban- bad boy myself and ker; Edmund Stedman, and her

Mr. Butler: According to my The conference was private. Af- noble Friend's information the Island terwards Mr. T. G. Edwards, general Mr. Herbert Collins, of Bath, pre- of Holman has been only partially oc-secretary, explained that the resolu- siding at the Harrogate conference of cupled, while it appears that theretion had been thought necessary In the National Association of Head- has been no actual military occupa- view of restrictions operating in Teachers, said he tion of the Spratley group by the Japanese. His Majesty's Government rome banks regarding marriage and perturbed are keeping in close and constant political' netivities. touch with the French Government in this matter.

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married Milton Dees, her chauffeur amending proofs of a book about that if they marry without the ap-quents."

the Royal Family, "Royal Caval-. In some arens their Salary conditions proval of their superiors

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HAND OF FRIENDSHIP |

A thousand delegates to the British Legion annual conference in London made it the largest of many Whit- sunside publle gatherings.

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rst husband Bronxville, and her was the noted author and oculist, Dr. George Gould, with whom she collaborated on a life of her grand- father.

Dees, who is inconsolable, recently sald that the marriage had been "one of minds." Though earning a living us n chauffeur, he is a highly edu- cated and cultured scholar.

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Major-General Sir Frederick Mau- rlee, in his presidential address, said: "We are willing to hold out the hand of friendship to German and Italian ex-Service men, If their Governments will make possible,

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