1939-06-28 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 28, 1939.

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Ten WORLD'S ART DICTATOR DEAD

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- alitics to sing it to you, and each might strike a slightly different note,

Ten nations met at a conference at Broncrusting House recently to. try to end this strange stale of affairs. At the invitation of the British Stan- dards Institution they discussed an International agreement on concert pltch.

It is an old problem. Fifty years ogo musicians were complaining that they bad to change the pitch of their instruments according to the country, And the difficulty still exists.

An orchestra turies on the note A of the treble clef. But the note A has That is where no absolute meaning.

"pltch" comes in.

The only absolute way of axing the pitch of a note is by its "frequency." if you make a violin string vibrate 500 -Ups eccond it will always give out

te, and it will be the same

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f an organ pipe in which vibrating 500 times second, or of a singer who is making the In his vocal passages vibrate 500 times a second.

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

An official of the British Standards Instution said: "The varying de- grees of concert pitely have caused chaos in the musical world for years." "British Interests are agreed to u standard of 440 cycles, but we want to make it on international standard."

Six factories and 30 houses off Yu Yurn Road, opposite Jess- field Park, Shanghai, went up in flames recently. The combined strength of 11 fire engines was not suflicient 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 asked in

the Blouse of Commons recently re- garding the Japanese occupation of Hainan:-

TWO

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.

Mr. W. Roberts asked the Prime? Their demand was made at friends are menaced we are going to

the annual conference

Mnister whether he can make a state-

ment with regard to

the extent

of the occupation by the Japanese of Bunk Officers' Guild.

Hainan Island and the Spratley Is-

of the stand by them."

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- fullest generate promising

thun were the men who lands and whether any joint discus- stons with the French authorities animously

fought in the last war. have taken place with regard to it; support to any members whose The conference sanctioned a provi-

liberties and, if not, whether such discussions civil

might besional 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 Far East?

by employers.

Scottish British Legion.

"I WAS A BAD BOY"

Mr. Herbert Collins, of Bath, pre-

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 Duvcen was the man who turned art into big business with "astronomical" prices for world-famous pictures.

Lord Duveen died at a London hotel at the age of 69. Sir Frank, who was 71, died while on a voyage from Australia 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.

Pieces which had cost 5s. in Hol- Innd fetched £5 at Boston.

Joseph, the eldest of 11, was born at Hull and joined the firm at 17. He was later to become the first Baron Duveen

reen of Millbank (where the Tate Gallery stands) because of his mag nificent gifts to British museums and

galleries.

SHOCKS IN FIGURES

Sir Frank Dyson, who retired in 1933 after more than 20 years ns Astronomer Royal, was fond of giv Ing facts and figures about stars which, if they had not come from so distinguished a scientist, would not have been belleved,

Greenwich Observatory in 1931 worked overtime taking photographs of the planet Eros, some 14,000,000 miles from the earth. It was part of inding out the exact distance of the Standing apart from all auction- sun, which is roughly 03,000,000 miles roo cuteries and establishing his away own tradition" Duveen becaine a force which upset all the reckenings!

of connoisseurs and dealers virtual

"dictator" in the art world:

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fus collection (Italian Renaissance). £500,000 for the Benson collec- lon (Batticelli, Titian. Andrea del Sarto and Luin).

£285,000 Panels.

£175,000 Madonna.

for the Fragonard

for the Raphael

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

was

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

The court found Lance-Corporal Mineur 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 delin-daughter of the millionaire ban-

Mr. Butler: According to my The conference was private. Al- noble Friend's information the Island terwards Mr. T. G. Edwards, general! of Hainan has been only partially, oc-cretary, explained that the resolu- siding at the Harrogate conference of cupied, while it appears that there ton 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 some banks regarding marriage and perturbed Japonese, His Majesty's Government political activities. are keeping in close und constant touch with the French Government in this matter,

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Queen Mary Is

quency.

was a bad boy myself and ker, Edmund Stedman, and her

he added. family were connected with that Working On Book

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UEEN MARY has become a

sub-editor.

"Although there is no written ban know un marriage." he said, "there is un- discipline, in all schools were derground opposition.

fairly robust and it kind-hearted and of the former United States Pre- well-meaning people would trust sident, Grover Cleveland. But *The position Itz England and

Recently she has spent much Wales is not so bad as in Scotland. I teachers to administer sultable medi- she had been ignored by her 1 but clerks under a certain age or cine when necessary, we should hear

relatives because she of her time correcting and of these juvenile delin-blue-blooded earning £200 to £250 a year feel far less

quents."

married Milton Decs, her chauffeur amending proofs of a book about that if they marry without the up-

the Royal Family, "Royal Caval- Salary conditions in some areas and also an amateur poet. their superiors their *proval of

cade," which is to be published were described at the conference of be churces of promotion

the National Association

Pallee had thought that it was a this year. of Loenl jeopardised.

Government Officers at Torquay us routine.case of suicide, but when they Queen Mary, herself has written "Bank executives want to know all disgraceful and appalling.

called

in Dees to check up on the several interesting passages, includ- about their employees both during

may

were

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A demand was made for a minim- I dead woman's antecedents, hering narratives about the private lives and after work hours. It is an intru-um salary of £225 a year for a fully wealthy background was revealed. of members of her family,

Helping her in the work has been qualified man of 27. sion into their private lives."

Some local authorities

She had been brought up in a small, it was stated, that it would luxury home in Lawrence Park, Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen

Victoria. HAND OF FRIENDSHIP

and her Arai husband a 3d. rate to bring a junior Bronxville,

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was the noted author and oculist,

"Her Majesty has been most help- clerk's pay up to the proper scale.

Dr. George Gould, with whom she collaborated on a life of her grand-ful," the authoress, Miss Erica Beal,

said,

A thousand delegates to the British Legion annual conference in London

made it the largest of many Whit- sunside public gatherings.

Major-General Sir Frederick Mati- rice, in his presidential address, sald: "We are willing to hold out the hand of friendship to German and Italian ex-Service inen, if their Governments will make it possible.

Milk Saves Auto Afire

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father.

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

The couple recently completed

"Queen Mary is a most punctilious reader, and besides revising the book she revised the genealogical tables.

"In one passage I described King Edward the Seventh's Court, and various ladies were mentioned for their beauty.

"The chapter was returned to me

"But let there be no mistake about William Driver's automobile is in- this: If our country is attacked we tact, thanks to a five-gallon can of are going to defend it to the last. If milk he was currying. When the 20.000-miles motor tour before re-with a blue-pencil mark through one our liberties are threatened we are automobile caught fire. Driver ex- turning to live in the coloured sec-name, because, as the Queen salt,

'Lady X is not beautiful.' going to fight for them. And if our tinguished the flames with the fluid.

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