of
Are You Sure?
Anawers on Page 107
1. What in tis the left hand
of New York's
Liberty?
2. Nietate means————
Statue
Appeal graciously, cut in amall pieces, winke, chatter?
3. Which of these statements
is true of a plano-
(a) twice as znany black
nates as
white; (b) twice as
many white as black; (c) more while than black; (d)
black than white?
mtore
4. How many horses Is thễn
driver handling?
5. The turkey originally' esme
to us from...
tudta, Africa, Turkey, Malapa,
North Amerlea?
Horses are measured in
Brands A hand equals-
of-
Fina, 6ina. Sina., Ift.?
7. A triolet is a poem of
3. 8. or 13 linca?
8. Port of Spain is the captial
Bermuda, Jamaica, Dominica, Tuba, Trinidad, Puerto Rico?
9. Whose songs, in die Bible. numbered "A thousand and
live,"
David. Simcon, Solomon, Joshua, Salome, Judith? 10.
trute that WO always see the same side of the (b) Would be true moon? In Australia?
#FS1242 31319433 LR2032034 EVETEGAY CASTILINA CINOGENITERE JAAR.
Lived 90 Years
In Same Hotel
You might call "Aunt Clara" a woman who likes to live in a
hotel.
* Miss Clara Truesdail of Carlyle, Illinois, has lived in the same hotel for 90 years. It's called the Hotel Truesdail and was built by her father in 1857, when she was five years old. For many years she helped operate the hostelry, but it now is run by a third generation of Truesdails,
Miss Truesduil hopes to celebrate
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1947. FLOOD SCENE FROM BRITAIN
tavern at Ely with the floods Most of the low-lying streets of the city were flooded.
ONCE it was by the river, now it is in the rivar.... halfway up the front door.
Desmond Shawo-Taylor writes on MUSIC
Composers are startling, these
days..
IN how many successive styles Ito you expect a composer to
write?
hundred years ago Nearly a Lenz made his celebrated classi- works fention of Beethoven's
In which he seems to turn his back
on the world and ve entirety terms of some inner dream.
in
GREAT MIGRATION IN POSTWAR EUROPE
MANPOWER-HUNGRY FRANCE TO ABSORB
OVER 200,000 ITALIAN WORKERS IN 1947
. One of the greatest migra- Wolff's gloomy view of the future who want to come here to work, and tions of postwar Europe le under of France is not improved by the will not return to Poland. Much as we would like to take them in, we fact that France's birthrate this year can't because of the pressure from the CG.T" (The C.G.T. is France's
way as
'thousands of Italian
mnn-
largest labbur
group-the General Confederation of Labour),
workers pick up their belongings slightly higher than its mortality
rote, and trudge over the Alps into France, reports United Press. "It will take another 25 years for
France to profit from the
CAN JOIN UNIONS Unlike other large groups of
power," he explained, "What WE Europeans who are pressing to need to put France back on her feet have a burning need for manpower "The only country which does not
is Italy, who, with her 3,000,000 un- the unskilled labourers into France," employed, is only too glad to send Auffray said.
is immediate Increase In the num-
AS BOO
as they enter France, also Italians are permitted to Join the
move from one country to another, the Italians are not her of workers available. People do shunted into police barracks not realise that today they are suf- when they arrive. Despite the fering from the lack of manpower evident lack of passports, visas not only of this last war but or immigration orders, French of World War 1. Since priming of labour unions, where they are allow- officials greet the newcomers the birthrate will have no effect on
ed to vole in the same capacity as politician in the poem, he has been with joy. They are fitted out our teneration, immigration is the
French workers. everything by slacts and nothing jong.
with new clothes, given inden- only other possibility." tity cards and-more important The Monnet Five-Year -hot meals. Following a which is conceived to medical check-up, they are sign the French production machine,"
There is a similar touch of the unexpected about. Bartok's Inst work, bis Third Plano Concertn.
Hitherto those who cordially dis-ed up for work.
like Bartak and, those who find En his music much that is strange but!
ran
An estimated 20,000
Members of the
also
Border friction since Mussolini's "colonisation" attempts has existed Plan in the South of France, and for this
"modernise reason many of the Italians will be sent north. Alsace and Lorraine, centres of French Industry, are also scheduled to receive a high percen tage of workers.
provides for the increase labourers by 1,500,000 in the have Ave years.
French
admirable, could at any rate, agree crossed the border illegally since about the salient characteristics of liberation, and preparations are hin style: the wild, stamping. Hunga under way to authorise the pas
rhythms, the grinding dis- It is in this period that composers
inter-ange of 200,000 more before the sunances produced by close extrovert are opt to abandon the splendours of the full orchestra in, and the intense, other-worldly end of this year.
stillness and remoteness of his slow favour of The intimate self-
movements. of chamber communings
inusic (Bralima, Elgar, Debussy, above all
But his last two or three works Ministry of Labour and the Beethoven); their taste in harmony works which I greatly admire-con- Ministry of Population greet the grows drier, and drier (Fnure,
Lain passages of a disconcerting Sibelius); and event an essentially harmonie naivety (ometimes half incoming Italians, whether they
sleds popular composer like Verdi
disguised as parody), which makes Pop! many of the traits which have en-
one wonder to what shores his bril-enter France illegally or not, refinements it was cut by death.
into three styles; and as a rough dearest hire the tentar of texture and lont invention, was heading when with a sigh of relief.
Otello und
REAL DANGER The new plano concerto has a very taking first movement; and even its Ludwig-Koch-like animal noises in French people might die out en- "Do you realise that the oddities (such ភេទ those atrange
the middle of the slow movement)
CRITICISM
of
next
On
Allotment is as follows: 38 percent of Italian immigrants will enter mines, 15 percent will work farms, 10 percent in metal industries, To many groups throughout 10 percent in chemical Europe the news that France
Is industries, 20 percent in reconstruc- and other willing to take in 1,500,000
people tion and building. and the rest in was hope that they could finally And general categories, a suitable home.
But Bernard Auffray, chief of the new Office of Immigration, explain- ed that France was choosy.
necessarily
ASSIMILATION
Part of the agreement stipulates that Italian workers who leave part of their family in Italy may send 40 "A great deal of criticism has been percent of their salary levelled at us because wo
home, To did not Industrial workers in the north invite a large group of Dutch settlers Italy who have
of been facing the Into France," he said. "But the rea-
meagre rations allotted to the unem- ton was very simple. What France ployed, the chance to needs in agricultural workers and families is a definite lure.
feed their
working generalisation it still of new
style. similar
Falstaff rank among holds good; in fact, a analysis can be applied to a sur- prisingly large number of other but they will never. Le as popular the world's greatest masterpieces; composers, too.
as Rigoletto and Aida.
The life-work of. Verdi or. Wag- are curiously seductive to the car. tirely in the next 500 years if it miners, but the Dutch wanted to
I expect it to become popular ad- were not for the present im- dition to the modern repertory.
Alfred Wolff, William Wordsworth, on the other migration?"
gifted young English assistant director of Immigra hand, is o
s still in the process composer who is of realising the full possibilities of tion for the Ministry of Popula- his own style. I like the first move:tion, asked. ment of his Violin Sonata;. but L would be idle to pretend that his
"We are living corpses, and unlessS four Donne Sonnets do not suffer by setting of the same words by Ben- there is a real danger that France famin Britten.
may disappear entirely."
No. of course, to those who died youth. But when in comparative the life of any artist (whether pot, painter or musician) covers a rea- sonable span of years, his work is often found Lo fall into three periods.
ner or Beethoven traverses, obvious. Is, an Immense are; nevertheless, the line of development is more or less constant. What is new in our own time is the deliberate and sometimes bewildering switchover of styles in mid-career.
In the first phase we see the artist
Works like the Bolero of Ravel emerging from youthful Influences
own or the Fourth Symphony of Vaug- and gradually asserting his
fulf. perlad
self-confident neighbours to a starling degree; maturity; and lastly a time of life while as for Stravinsky, like the
buy French farms
and run them with French workers,"
Another thorn in the French im- the clamour migration problem s from groups of displaced persons.
"We can't take in DP's either,"
political problem. thousands of
"We hope that the Italian workers do not settle into small groups, and we are doing everything to en- courage assimilation". Auffray said.
"They will be given every right a French person has, including social security. In two years, an Italian worker becomes ever more privileg- ed, and in three, years he may hold card are which permits him to circulate like Poles, for example, any Frenchman."
her 100th birthday in five years-in Individuality; then comes the central han Williams stand out from their comparison with the more brilliant the population is bolstered sharply Auffray explained, "because it poses a special foreign workers"
the hotel, of course-United Prays.
of
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
I'NO!
I DON'T WANT
ANY MEDICINE!
YOU KNOW HOW YOU KICKED LAST YEAR. ABOUT ALL THE WORK
TAKING
CIDE OF THEA
a
There
**
"Spring Is Near'
BY KEMP STARKETT
CAN'T YOU JUST, SEE THE
ROSES IN
BLOOM: 25
THE "AGUE AND I...WE'D RATHER HAVE THE CHILLS
AND FEVER THAN THE
NURSING EFFORTS OF THE FAMILY
IT ISN'T RAWING RAIN, YOU KNOW... IT'S RAINING b VIOLETS A
(ALD BLANC>
WHEN HE SITS STARING INTO SPACE..WITH A FISTFUL OF CHICK BULLETING YOU KNONU
SPRING ISN'T FAR OFF.
"CERTAINLY I'M GOING TO WEAR IT
BUT IT'S TREEZING
OUT/
THE REAL GARDEN ENTHUSIAST GETS OUT EARLY...AND LOOKS AHEAD...
อ
MERE WE
LEAVES
TO RUKT
AND THE
BACKWER MEDE
WHEN THE OLDER BOW GET THE URGE TO DECK OUT LIKE A CIRCUS- PARADE IN NOISY NECKWEAR, AND O {COLORFUL "INDIES!..SPRING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER.
Lager Syndirau
EVEN WITH CIX INCHÈS OF SHOW ON THE GROUND SPRING I HEAR WHEN THE GALL GO SHOPPING FOR STRAW HATS..
(OR IT HAD BETTER BE.)
• WHEN "HE ANNUAL STRUGGLE TWIXT LOVE AND DITY BEGINS. IT'S A SURER SIGN OF SPRING
THAN THE SHUFFLES..
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