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Edinburgh Festival Of Music And Drama

The stage is now set for the Edinburgh Festival, of Music and Drama, tho first great international Festival of its kind to take place since pre-war years. From August 23, when the Festival commences, until September 13. Edinburgh plays the role of host, to thousands of visitors from

Bookings already show that the number of visitors will far ex- cecd 100,000.

PEEPING TOM NOW AIRBORNE

New YorkPeeping Toms.In helcopters havo embarrassed nude ballers at the Ambassador Beach Club at Santa Monica, California,

The club has sought an injung- tion to compel helicopter pilots flying the mails to change their route,

The club's complaint, fled in the Superior Court at Los Angeles, says the pilots use their hellcopters to observe sunbathers not at all."

women

"attired scantily or

The complaint says that "with-

by out.compelling necessity or reason of the course of navigation, wind, currenis, or otherwise, the pilots closely approach the club roof

mechanisma

"By the use of pecullar to belleopters, Hager over the said roof."

they

EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING

ON PLANES

the

the

Fe.

overseas.

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Internationally famous musi- cinna and artistes of many nationalities will be, playing to "International audiences."

ances

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1947.

A

A

stirring play about

THEATRE.......by BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP

Britain in AD 2313

STM Henry VIII remarked, it As

who WIS # bravo man nte "the first oyster. It was also

brave management which put on

"Dark Em- manuel" at the New Lindsey, At the end of July close on 100,000

The play gets off to a flying start scals had been booked for perform-

Festival. So by beginning in the year 1950 which the during widespread and enthusiastic is the is described as "Before the Down- Interest aroused by this year's Fes-fall.” An this is a political and tival that it has already been de sociological play, and as 1950 is the cided to repeat the Festival next

year when the next General Election year.

Music and drama la to be per- should take place, it is possible that formed in Edinburgh's Ave theatres Mr Gordon Holle in perturbed at the and halls. Visitors will be offered the facilities of a Festival Club with thought of a Conservative triumph. restaurant, snack bar, lounge, read-

On the other hand, ho Is not very ing rooms and. Information bureau,

friendly to the Socialists, and endows and people from oversens will also have the use of Edinburgh Inter-only one of his male characters with national House which offers similar honesty and sincerity of purpose-a facilities.

Jewish Communist.

No less than 250 Intérpreters re- presenting 20 countries have offered their services for the Festival,

the Jew on the theory, as propounded by Bernard Slaw, that assassination In the most effective form or censor ship. Only Die Socialist MP shows certain reluctance at this demonstra- tion of how to get things done.

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better than its incoherencies. would suggest. At any rate, Mr. Holle need not be discouraged. He made at lust, one dramatic crifle think-

that few mo- which is something dern authors achieve.

That was 1950 that was. The next set in in the year 2313, which is a BOTH Tess of the D'Urbervilles" at the Flecadilly and "The long hop even for this natural chaser, Play's

the Thing" at St. James's Mr Holle. And here we must the author for daring to go against have been proviously reviewed. the modern trend of thought that be cause something is new eit must be progressive, and that every contry is an improvement on the ono "that went before.

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Miss Wendy Hiller probably does as much as any actress could to bring Hardy's tragic character life, but "Tess" needs the slower tempo of the novel for her develop- ment.

has taken on

Britain in 2313 has gone sidly to

Mr. Hugh Burden pieces. In the revolution of 1950 tife atom bomb hus destroyed London, the part of Angel Clare, the man

civilisation. The whom and -therefore

everybody. denounces British have become a rural tribe. prlg because he leaves hotte It is the cave man age over again when he finds that she has had a with witch doctors ruling their lives child by her wicked lover. Accord

ing to the critics a decent chap and the Big Brother who takes Leir would just say "Bad luck, old girl," flocks and their daughters and in and forget all about it. much respected by all.

you

To all of which I take no excep- tion. The only criterion for dramatie

Now comes the climax and authorship is whether it is artisticallyll have to concentrate whether you

great in convincing. If it passes that test, feel like it of not. The then the argument can be along any dustriaist of 1050 on his way to or lines one likes. I would much rather from revolution was killed by the sen a good play, advocating Com- blast, whereupon his soul went in munism than a bad play in favour of search of another body and anda it when a young man in the year 2313 is killed by a full from a horse.

Wide Field Covered The three weeks' programme of music and drama covers a wide field ranging from "Le Nozze di Figaro" and Verdi's "Macbeth" performed by the Glyndebourne Opera! orchestral concerts, including performances of works by the old masters and con- temporary composers; chamber mu-Conservatives. sic, vocal and instrumental recitals and Negro Spirituals, to Shakes- peare performed by the Old Vic at classical company, a

plays performed and modern French by the Compagnie Louis Jouvet and the Sadlers Wells Ballet,

Schnu-

The Vienna Philharmonic Orches- tra

L to be conducted by Bruno Walter with Kathleen Ferrier and Peter Pears as sofolate: Paul Paray The largest generator ever conducts L'Orchestre Colonne; John Barbirolli, the Halle Orchestra which assembled at least in the

playa with Szigeti and Fournier Liverpool Malcolm Sargent, the United States--to produce

Philharmonic Orchestra with nenrest thing to natural light-bel and Primrose as soloists; Walter ning, has been enlisted in Susskind, the Scottish Orchestra and Ian Whyte, the B.B.C. Scottish Or- first comprehensive basic

chestru, search project to study the In the Freemasons' Hall recitals effects of lightning on aircraft are to be given by the Jacques Or

Quartet, the chestra, the Menges

the in flight.

Quartet. from Paris, Calvet Robert Masters Quartet, the Carier In use by the Lightning and Tran-Trio with Leon Goossens and the Elents Hesearch Institute of Minnea- Czech Nonet from Prague, Schu- polis-under the joint sponsorship of the United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, the Office of Naval Research and the Army Air Forces Air Material Command-the genera- tor's lightning effects make possible the study of the probable behaviour of an acroplane when struck by an electric bolt.

The generator produces 200,000 amperes of electrical current for 100 micro-seconds or a total of one fen-thousandth of a second.

search.

Press.

MR HOILE Sets

intriguing

problem in 1950. A mighty indus- trialist summons to his country house Leduction. a Socialist MP open to

if not actual bribery: a tilled women who is raising an army of women; a flecks young man who belongs to a cult that lives at the best hotels on money supplied thro.gh the agency of the Supreme Brother of All; a strong man who belleves that the

MAN nation needs a STRONG only he can be found; and a Jewich Communist agitator.

The industrialist has sent for them because the nation is on the verge of industrial collapse and war is just around the corner.

What is needed is unity so that wages can be kept down and recovery assured. Something has to be done to put an end to the demands of the

bort and Brahms songs will be rung in the Usher Hall by Lotte Lehmann and Bruno Walter. Todd Duncan will appear in a recital to include Negro Spirituals, and Aksel Schietz, workers. One for all and all for one

Is the Industrialist's motto, but the Free-problem is to find the One.

the Danish tenor, will be singing in

the in a Schubert recital masons Hall.

Scottish Dancing The Sadler's Wells Ballet led by Margot Fonteyn and Robert Help mann has a two weeks' season of "Tho Sleeping Beauty,

The Glas-

gow Orpheus choir will be singing under the baton of Sir Hugh Robert- son.

Boits fired at a stationary plane by the generator later will be com- pared to Instrument records on air-

Displays of Scottish dancing and craft struck by lightning in the sky, piping will also take place in Exun- says M.M. Newman, director of re-burgh and the World's Pipe Band The object is to provide Championship Contest will be de- the Festival. greater safety from lightning in the cided there during design of future planes.-Associated Some 76 or 80 bands are expected

to participate in this event.

In additioo the programme.of music and drama, there is to be a full programme of other events. including bowling, tennis, horse racing, swimming, fishing and gell. For business men there is the ex- hibition "Enterprise Scotland which is a display of Scottish Industrial design, representative of all Scot-- tish industry.

Colour Movies

For Shoppers

Super-markets in New York and Chiengo will shortly offer

CROSSWORD SOLUTION housewives free colour movies

Solution of yesterday's puzzle,-- while they do their shopping.

Across Tudor; 4, Pace; 7, Super-market managers hope dree Desk: 9, Upon; 11, Bitter end; 12, monotony of Uselessly; 13, Rep;15, Rinse 10 housewives daily shopping expedi-Triangle; 10, Een; 20, Green: 11,

films will break

ing mood.

the

Down:

Stars.

the

HIS gullible guests fall into

trap except the Jew, who makes a fine speech declaring that he will the workers do his best to rouse

GO that the against their masters rotten edifice of capitalism will be brought down and a new Jerusalem built on the ruins.

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So the Industrialist turns up in the body of the young man, but he still Have you got it? laks it is 1950.

girl, and we all do. She know what love can BUT there is a realises what has happened but is quite ready to have a husband nearly three hundred years older tan here self. So they fondly embrace and kiss, which is artistically wrong on Mr Holle's part. Love that spans three centuries can be more than spiritual, but not physical It's

against the rules.

The play ends with the Big Bro- ther turning up at the suggestion of Father Venusan Informer, and the industrialist and his giri are sentenced to death, along with some Jews who have been doing no one any harm. But before he goes, the now enlightened industrialist Pro- claims the individuality Then off he goes, a Briton strikes a Jewish boy, and the curtain comes

down.

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of man.

MUST admit at once that despjie the play's incoherencies and Res- pile the author's inexperience both af polities. and the theatre, I found and felt my imagination stirred mentally invigorated.

Mr. Antony Eustrel is an actor of his enunciation is many gifts, and a joy. Lovers of the theatre should go to Notting Hill to see how he brings this dificult play to life and inspires the other actors fire and fury at the climax.

with his

When he is gone, the strong man

In fact there were so many ex- Is chosen by the committee of public

of acting by the east safely to be the nation's leader, and they immediately decide to murder that one feels that the play may be

cellent bits

WIFE-SHARING IS

NO LEGAL OFFENCE

Staid Vancouver. was shocked to learn that wife-sharing was a wholesale being practised on scale at one of its leading sum- mer resorts.

tions and keep them in a good buy- Seem; 1. Tabulates; 2, Deler-

of The offenders were members mine; 3. Ostier: 4, Pursing; 5, Apes;

the religious sect "Elders of the Ten-minute programmes will be 6. Endymion; 1, Disagree; 8, Keep projected on ground-gloss screens,

Inge; 10, Only; 14, As; 17, Arm; 18, Spiritual Community of Christ," a

breakaway mavement Inventor of the apparatus, Berne Eer.

fanatical Doukhobors, who Ella, says women's order of pre-

long been a headache to the Ca- ference in entertainment is: Musicals,

dlan authorities. Comedies, Mysteries..

Among

:

educational films they Child decoration, like: Interior welfare, Beauty culture.

Lowest in vomen's favour is news.

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Rupert and the Young Imp--46

Rupert now thoroughly mysti-? fied at the queer things that have happened, Those Imps of Spring do know how to cover up their tracks," he says. "They lifted that stone and opened the door in the rock with no trouble at all. I aup post we shall never discover the secret, of how they do things." · He moves away with Bill and Podgy to find where he dropped his shuttle- cock, when a shout makes them turn and Billy Goat comes running up."

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humour.

Mr. Cilve Brook's production of Molnar's slight and witty comedy has elegance, style and If It Isn't quite Molnar's best, there is the pop of the cork and there are bubbles in the glas

DUMB-BELLS

JREGISTEREDUS

YOU'VE WON THE PRIZE FOR QUESSING THE EXACT WEIGHT, OF THAT COW, HOW DID YOU DO IT?

The

PATENT OFFICE

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ID A DONE

BETTER THAN

THAT IF ID 'A' BEEN IN PRACTICE

WHAT'S NEW ON RECORDS ?

The orchestra

plays...

have

TREMENDOUS rides

In recording been made in recent years, and Decca's full frequency range, record. ing has produced one of The finest orchestral re- cow I have ever hel

On Decca 15 1574-1670 the London Philharmonie Oreliéstra plny „Stravinsky's L'Oiseau do Feu" (Tho Firebird), auite, conducted with great distincion Ernest Artermet. Dance of the Princesses" is a delight to listen to and in contrast the brilliance in the performance of "The Dance of King Kastchel” da something every can. nolour will treasure

The records have been issued for some weeks, but they are azceptional works, and I am sure every lover of good musle will want to hear them again and again." I suggest too that the London Philharmonie Orchestra

conducted Erich Leinsdorf playing the Overture to Weber's "Der Frelschutz (K 1803) is worthy of your attention.

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The Philharmonin Orchestra play Richard Straun's

Symphonic

Poem Don Juan on Columbin DX.

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The work is particularly #ulted to the dynamic personality and technique of Alceo Gallers the con ductor There are some

for

exquisite раздев strings a fine tune trom the leading .viblinist. And the third part introduces brilliant brass and wond wind It is altogether an exciting And satisfying plere of recording

United States orchestras conductors and those con nected with recording. would profit by giving nil these records their caro. ful attention

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Planning To Robuild' Boulogne Harbour

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as be

JESTS

AND JEERS

The high cost of living in some canes is due to the cost of high living.

The best way for China to stop smugging from Hongkong is to stop the smugglers from leaving. Chine for Hongkong,

Were you ever a boy scout?” "Yes, till I was eighteen. Then I became a girl scout."

Before marriage a man yearns for wife. After marriage, he just curas for her.

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A smart man is one who hasn't. allowed a womant to pin anything on hins since he was a baby.

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Overheard in the lounge: "Husbands are like furnaces. you don't keep an eye on them, they Lo out."

The young man approached clergyman for advice.

the

"Do you think," he said, "that I would be possible for mo to lead a good Christian life in Hongkong on $300 a month?"

the "My boy," cald

clergyman, #int's about all you could do."

"Do you believe in prayer?" the. employer asked his negro servant. "Yas suh, boss," was the reply. "Do you say your prayers every

"Yas suh, boss, Ali cert'nly docs."

visited by French experts planning) tho reconstruction of Boulogne day?" barbour. They arranged to inspect harbour works and facilities at Aberdeen, Fleetwood, Grimsby Hull with a view to incorporating British style and ideas when rebuild- ing the charinci port.

and

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"Well, Joc, does God answer all your prayers?"

"Yas, suh, boss. He answers one way or another."

THOMSON

These Frenchmen

are tough

Only over the

His first essay In collaboration was with Tennyson, who took fright and offered the composer

set his

£500 not to Sullivan poems to music. persisted. The Franco-Prussian war

baby was there broke out at that moment Tenny- HE Michelin Guide makes

dimcully. With the limitless con- son then declared that it was no little of the Creuze region. cet of new-mode parents, Mary time for so flippant an undertaking.

of tourists, ter- Mian and her husband were rearing army

a United States When Sullivan, to his own sur- their child upon rible with cameras, pass it by. Government bulletin, "Intant Care." prise as much as anybody's, took to Mary Mian is married to it.'

'light opera, solicitous friends hurried him off to Lake Como, hoping that the scenery would lead him back to higher things.

When the child was left alone, For the stony soll of the Creuze naked in the open air, the Mothers possesses the familles of masons and of France protested bitterly. "It is farmers who till it. And these fami- ty. I ask myself what sort of child

practical, but it is lacking in human lles, in turn, hold in an Invincible will she grow up to be? clutch each of their sons and daugh-

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Among other curious sidelights on this Erent Victorian, who has lurked hustlous partner,

ters. Even those sons who becdme This book is written with more so long in the shadows of his rum- sculptors and marry, In Greenwich than competence. village, young American social

workera.

SUCCESSFUL A

was a fever for gambling and the invention of a safety device by which runaway arustic partner. It is no exaggeration, then, to say ship is something of a miracle, horses could be released from their that Mme. Mian married the Creuze It Is the triumph of common interest carriages and accidents thus pre-

vented! The when she went through that cere over clashing ambitions, When it mony with Aristide. And there is happens, it makes an interesting complete fitness in the title she gives psychological study, such as Hesketh

book,

In his joint, bio- Country-in-law Pearson gives us My her (Michael Joseph, 10s. ed.).

graphy of Gilbert and Sullivan (Hamish Hamilton, 10s. 6d.).

the husband won't object. some applies in reverse."

Vancouver churchment denounced the Doukhobors "having the sought morals of a cattle herd," legal means of stopping the tect's wife-sharing activities.

the from

had

After leaving the parent body at (British Brilliant town of Columbla) the new branch of the hnd Doukhobor, numbering 160, established a community at Quall cum, a fashionable resort on Van- couver Island,

zta

for

women.

But in his own way, Sullivan de serves some notice. His father play- ed the clarionet in a theatre orch- compared anegan grinder through companied an organ grinder through the streets before her marriage.

Sullivan, as a gold-braided choir,

LIBRARY LIST

There is a 'Spirit in Europe. Memoir of Frank Thompson. (Gollancz, 128, Gd.) Diary,.

of

books like this, we are the poorer in understanding of our age.

Catherine The Sword Between, Pomeroy Stewart. (Cresset, Bs. Gd.)

The Creuze is three-quarters down the map of France, not so far (gco- Gilbert has had most of the lime

from Vichy, light. He made the mots and in- poems of a glited young E They found they were powerless graphically speaking)

He was wit-

man, Infamously executed by the Attorney-General's It is inhabited by strong men and spired the anecdotes. The Provincial

enemy in Bulgaria. Here is insight Department announced that while l stronger

Although tier than most men and ruder than

into the thought and feelings of the wife-swapping might be a moral omewhat more gracious in manner, even the wittlest has any right to be.

best of our youth during its year offence it wasn't a legal offencer the Creuze people are, on the reckon- When Sullivan was not collaborating

testing, To read it is an inspir- ing of Mary Mian who halls from with Gilbert It is generally supposed ing, moving experience. Without to give grounds serving only

manse in Massachusetts, not so un- that he was writing anthems. divorce.

like Yankees. The wife-swapping controversy the in another chapter

True, the Church plays no con- marks

of the 48 years history

spicuous part in their lives. The stormy Doukhobors in Canada.

manure heap'docs-in ways which Originally followers of the ideas might offend one of the New England

Douk-Proprieties. of Count Leo Tolstoy, the Wealthy property-owners pro-

But those Frenchmen, grinding tested at their incursion, charging hobors migrated to Canada from

community freely Russia at the end of last century to their Iving from a stubborn that tho new

farm land on a communal basis. among the buckwheat, the linden boy of the Chapel Royal, first made conception of life threatens shared wives in rotation,

sions of his life, music and royalty, A delightful picture of life in a They refused to recognise Cana-trees and the heather moors, have contact with two of the main pas- marriage but is, in the end, resolved. Doukhobor leader. Michael Verigin

He studied the former in Germany, little-known part or Italy. dian laws. When the Government the Innate conviction that life is a indignantly denied this.

Mally tried to force them to send their serious business, to be worked at

Kyle. Lec. Elisabeth day. Returning, he became organist

(Peter Davies, Ds. Od.) Novel. There was no question of sharing children to school the Doukhabers And that it is meant by being and never went to a concert on Sun-

naked a Yankeenport by marching

of St. Michael's wives in rotation, he explained. It protested

of Western was just a simple matter of "mutual through the streets

Wisely, Arletide was sent on in where he trained the local police con- Mally American, settles in Scotland Canadian town/

advance to prepare the vast Mian stables into the best choir in London, and is quicidy fnyolved in probing:

40-year-old mystery of a arrangement."

wife fa This is still their method of pro- clap for a foreign wife, the daugh- The Church smiled on him. He re- the Sald Verigin: "If any

unusual story of detections, the settlement wishes to associate test against Conadian Government ter of a cure, and her baby. It went warded it with "Onward, Christian woman's

bolter than one could have expected. Soldiers.". with a man other than her husband, "oppression,"

NANCY

In His Face Red?

WAIT ---I WANNA LOOK THROUGH

DIS HOLE

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of

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REO PAINT

Chester-aquare,

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their

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