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WHAT'S GOING ON

By EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

[OST intriguing problem:

MOST

Where has the Hare-

wood fortung gone?

In 1916 Lord Lascelles, tho present Earl's father, inherited £2,500,000 from his uncle, the Marquis of

Clanricardo.

Thirteen Усала

Lascelles' father

other £300,000,

later Lord left him an- together with

30,000 acres in Yorkshire, much

more valuable today than when ho inherited them.

And this was not ait; for he had

meanwhile married the daughter of King George V.,

though the

and

tune of our royn)

never published it

privato for.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1940.

family in

"Owing to a vory officiant book run by Smith Junior this form quito o low of us will

bo romaining at school for the hols, sir."

la reputed

to be one of the greatest in

Europe.

he

Yet when, as Lord Harewood,

died in 1947 he left only £540,000,

And now his son 23% hei must sell much of his land te

pay the £182,000 death duties. bill

Du not shed tears over Lori Harewood's difficulty in raising small sam out of much

Go

A

vast resources,

Ask yourself rather where has the fortune Rome"

Beer is best!

P

Londen Express Bervice

I was shocked by London's orchestras

London.

T is necessary, not to see a place or a faco, for a long time to realise how It has gradually submitted to the wear and ravages of time.

We have all experienced the shock of returning to a friend after years of absence and find-

Talking about Music.

by

Neville Cardus

ing him sadly changed, but the music. I had chastised orchestral people who have seen him every playing in Sydney, not because day haven't notleed any marked of its want of technique, but its difference. Some such shock was lack of understanding of and administered to my system by response to style. London orchestms when year

I found

ging ahead to take the places of. .our established ones-all dishor

veteran or middle-aged---| Beecham, Boult, Cameron, Sargent, Barbirolli.

Ly it that young talent is not. encouraged by opportwulty? *!

It is algnificant, too, no matter how loudly the patriola may trumpet profests liko Blimpksh clephants, that at Covent Gar- den, Bournemouth, and Ginsgów. the orchestras aró conducted by musicians from foreign parts.

Australian singers

TOT only is our orchesiral playing in a low state, Fow

alone.

Or so ago I came back to this Questions in the House singers of quality have been country after a lengthy sojourn do much had I "slated" Au- discovered in England in recent among musicians and music-stralian music (for the good years. Kathleen Ferrier slands lovers in Australia (where, by of its soul) that one darkening At Covent Garden, two : Aus- the way, I seldom met a cricket winter's day questions were ask tralians have been called on to er and very seldom saw a cricket ed about me in the House of

sing. Important parts. Sylvia match).

Parliament. of Canberra "How Fisher is one of the best soprano much longer is Australia to be here in, as Captain Doyle might pestered by this man?" demand singers in this land. In Australlu

Sonator

Lamp of

of Tasmania. No answer emerge

of wild nudible, from Mir

The

по solemn truth is, I it

that

tho Sydney Symphony Orchestra or tho warned her that compellten Orchestra of Victoria were to wat

there would be severo but come to London on tour, under a

expressed my belief that after good conductor, Goossens or any "some experience""go in the other, our own star

standards might chorus at Sadler's Wells, it

orchestral playing

say, a most "terr-ib-lo stato of chassis,"

The irony in that I had flown from Sydney to refresh my stan- dards of experienced and mylish

Why Professor Haldane's

ex-wife

forsook

Communism

other quick de- them

ALTHOUGH! It is more usual today 10 And peers selling their innd than buying, ROFESSOR J. B. S. editor of the Dally Worker and There were

now, who eventually there is an almost unique ex-

HALDANE is one of one of the most powerful men cisions to follow. When she left the party or who died, lite ception, the phenomenal Arthur

Britain's most eminent in the party. He told her was organising Telp for the one American in Spain,

"shot Nall-Cain, second Lord Brocket.

"the party would Spanish Republic (un a newly either in the chest or in the He is also one of bluntly that He is edding

to his posses-scientists.

not for

memes tolerate Joined and still suspect party back." Blons

Britain's foremost Com-

tvorce between twe roin- meinber), her son, aged 17, At 45 he

owns three munists, highly esteemed by rades Whee partnership, in told her that he had joined the estates

four in England,

In the party because of his addition to the usefulness of the International Brigaste and was Scotland, and two in Ireland.

For

mesure he lus nuthority in the intellectual indivisiuni pervices, was of in- off good

mense propagaisia value to 11" Repubile. two London houses, an hotel in worki Tralee, and another in Dublin.

part of these not inherited: hts empire for

how

The greater

:

possessions were

ho has built himself-o

Remained loyal

to fight for the Spanish STILL, DESPITE the big

the jealousies, the internal She went to ree squabbles, she

remained loyal Harry Pollitt. Com- to the party and her husband, who although loyalty to him musi

have been trying.

For years he and his wife By JOHN PREBBLE secretary,

Charlotte, also

15 Communist, beer-and

ported to run all his land at a propaganda pront.

Good for 'Nye'

PAT ON THE BACK for Mr "Nye" Beyan. Like Dantel he is about to enter the lons

den,

He has agreed meeting of Fleet

inten

Street Jour-

party.

nctive

were of great value to the

Their work as a politica team was all the more effec- tive because of the marriage bond that held it together.

Then suddenly, although " Professor Haldane began to

nalists in January totals figure more and more in the

duty of news- democracy, nudo a half-hour

them on the paper in a face all-comers in

of questions.

It should noon.

be a lively after-

The white cloth

party's activities, there was a silence on the part of Mrs Haldane.

That silence, it is just re- vealed, began when she was

a correspondent in Russin's

LONDON'S Itegiment. the Wartime capital of Kutby-

Royal Fusiliers, is back in shey during the winter of

the Tower of London, wherej 1911,

it was raised 264 years ago.

There, in The museum,

il

regamentoi aud-slated while cloth holds place of honour.

The cloth unce belonged to the monks in the Benedictine monastery on Monte Cassino, where the GermaNES held up

On mother's lap

PUSHING THROUGH n growd

af refugees, she found her. self staring at the waxen corpse of a starved baby.

It lay on its mother's lap in

the Allied advance to Rome a cardboard box, entwined with the spring of 1944.

When the Poles ited the Royal Fusiliers eventually stormed the heigh's, the Ger- survivora took a white

mon

fred and white paper flowers,

Charlotte Haldane

"Ab

baid sceptically. suppose ye've coam to tell me 'e can't go?"

When she told him had that she fell sho

no

right to withhold her son, in gleam came inte Pollitt's black eyes....He

beady

whg

соп-

On one occasion, she saps, lie accused her of "eaves- dropping" on a secret meet- ing of the party's ARP.

burean,

But

returned 10 wpr cor- political dis-

whom formerly I had re- spected and befriended ne trusted comrades.” She did contact

ber

not

immediately

ed

now.

well receive refreshment.

Each of these orchestras would run the second, or third best in

she needed to "battle,” and aftor I had drawn general attention to her valeo sho asked me for ad- vico about "prospects** England.

urged her to go to London,

needs be"she'd forgo ahead.

I did not dream very soon sho would be entrusted at Covent

London a hard race: an orches Garden with so important a role

tra selected from Sydney

and s

Leanora In Beethoven's

Melbourne night surpass in Fltello.

certainty of attack, balance and

AL Sadler's Wells, Stanley

freshness of spirit every Engilsh Clarkson, a Sydney bass, la al-

these

orchestra with the possible exceptions of the Philharmonia, ready becoming indispensable the Royal Philharmonic (under ubiquitous

Beecham) and the Halle.

Australians are really

But the point is this: only as

do not know the reason why & consequence of an ucute in general the technical pre- towering of our standards could sentation of muste in London is these comparisons of musicul nowndaya poor. There is, of talent from a young country

with that of one rich in tradition

course, too gros distribution of much that passes for music and experience and population night by night.

be sustained for more than a moment.

Every orchestral concert in party superiors. Sydney or Melbourne is rehear Instead, sho fook up accom- sed five times. The achievement modation

Savoy, from of the Halle under Barbiroll, which strategic position she has been made possible by this pot in touch with her hus- band.

the

"His reaction to my report was a forecast of the disbelief and opposition I was to en- courier among

all my former friends and comrades."

Her old friends dropped away: "I was an outlaw, a political lever, fair gamo for persecution, and, if possible, economic rulnation,"

But is the last centenéo of

Бато regular and intensive scheme of preparation.

Mediocre Conductors

UR trouble in the South OU

England

probably from part experienced and conductors. One or those

of

Unity and accuracy THE Halle Orchestra will soon

piny in London again. Here, at least, we shall and not only unity and accuracy, but a very definite character.

At its best, the Holle has always been a North of England prises bandt

Di direct masculino scarcity of strength,

with an appropriate stimulating

reticence of sentiment, two of

Under Harly an Irish roman- now in charge retle, and now under Barbiroll, so mediocre that poetie Justice the tone and the general manner would be honoured and served of expression havo acquired a if one no evening the players certain freedom from emotional when the

were to follow their beats.

Inhibition. no1 used to bourgeois Russia in 1941 as

Mercifully, the players seldom respondent her

Barbirolll approaches musle as mothers with the

Illusion In the Soviet Union the whole book which is per-do follow. They recall the remark one who loves it-or, I should courage of their

and the Communists began haps the most moving, directed of Lancashire trombonist, who

loves her. Bay, victions,"

He is never the witen is to her after a concert, It lay

bugs that as it.

at last be

routinier Throughout the whole infested her beds there or the husband.

got home, was asked by his wife.

So, born as I was fri Man- Well, and what's this her book

that this rats

in the gambolled

"What I, a Lone Femalo of ductor like that they've been chester, and brought up in Music Dwureness of being corridors of the Grand Hotel.

by the Halle under Hand Richter. no public importance, "bourgcols" persists

have making all fuss about?" It Joy rather in the fact been able to do, can be done

I shall go to the Albert Hall in trombonist replied, fall hope of witnessing a resur- with her.

when that, for from seeing improve by others,

And the Even

whose intelligence Well, lass, Ah can't properly rection of English orchestral she is in

Paris ns

ments since her first visit, she and whore opportunities for Comintern agent,

or found only degeneration,

exercising it are of much great-say-as Ah didn't rightly take playing of some joyfulness and China, in Spain, or in

acting ng t secret party member within a part Labour Party Jocal branch.

of

or

Close friends

VI

CHE WAS born Char-

lotte

of Franken, German ancestry. She She accepted this directive grew up fascinated by the con ou her family life until, after a cept of individual ilberty and second visit to Russia, she re- freedom of conscience. jected the party and all its directives.

When, as a reporter, she interviewed Haldano, she found such feelings reflected in him.

They drifted, in mutual sympathy, through passive Anti-Fascism to active mem- bership of the Communist Party.

In love "I swore a silent oath," she to write of the en-

CHARLOTTE HALDANE was was inter

divorced by her first hus- counter, "that never again would get on any platform to band, man whose health had table cloth from the monks convince an audience

that the been ruined by World War I. and hoisted it as a flag of sur-Soviet Union was the hope of Sho was in love with Haldane. and it must have been dificult

rationalise to

the emolonai She made close friends with

but always with 50 by a in the party,

looks back on

render.

It was hauled

the tollers of the world."

down by men Four yen inter this small problem. She did

paragraph appeared In British quick decision to marry film. people, as she newspapers:

of the Fusillers' "W" Company. Thelr comitiander, Major W. I. Thomas. D.S.O., has pre- pented it to the museum.

That is the cloth which to-

day hangs to the Tower of

London.

Our debs

RELENTLESSLY as ever, If sometimes a little des- perately, proud mothers press on with the annual ceremonial of Jaunching their debutante daughters.

What has debs of 19497

Where is

happened to the

Lady Blackwood, whose

Lady Dufferin

the

"Drereo ist granted to Mrs Charlotte Haldane

of desertion by Pro- round Bessor J.B.S. Haldane." Char- lotte Haldane never did stand again on a public platform in defence of the Soviet Union,

An

Tho irrevocable rejection of what. un to then, had been the motivating force in her spirtual life had in its turn an effect on her per- sonal life.

is not

not in the

Scientists whom her husband had asked her to contact on his Like the great geneticist Vavilov.

Hov, had either disappeared or were coldly inhospitable.

Once, after accing some pensante ir a condition of almost sub-human depravity and dureliction, the con- indifference of temptuous

shook her into her guide aclf-chamination.

at home, on "I saw myself C.P. platforms, maiding impas- sioned speeches from a sincere conviction, exalling the great and glorious Soviet Union, home of every toller, the hope of the workers of the world.

Sense of betrayal

BUT STILL she kept such a "Berco senso of gulit" to herself until she came home.

"I was filled with hatred for those parly leaders

TAMOND HORSESHOEK

THIRSTY NIGHT

NEW YORKERS went to by Billy Rose

the polls to elect a

"How's for killing an hour "Beat It, Bad," he said to the

newsreel first?" I heard man,

By what means, and in what mayor recently, and one of

she and her husband the issues was the efficiency, in a way,

a partnership or lack of same, of the police the man say. Caroline decided to end

In political department.

"I loid Miriam we'd be The man took a fast look at mother, which had begun

Johnny, heeled, and walked up cultural

early," said the girl. affinity and Ava, gave and

hurried girl the autobiography I, of course, don't want to get "Early

when you get Broadway. The

after him. she has just published (Truth | Involved in tais political there." Where the glamorous, wide- Will Out, Weldenied and Nicol rhubarb but I can't go along "I promised Miriam we'd

A bobbysoxer in the crowd "Guess she loves loughed, Laura Smith, daughter son, 12s. 6d).

him after all" she said.

her the biggest ball of the plain from

season?

eyed

of the late Lord Hambleden,

who made his millions as go- Courageous woman

verning director of W.H. Smith

and Son?

And

what has

ter of Lord Vivian?

become of

WHAT

saat

get

អ

spot said

with the

It's after tnik-talk about the there by 0.30. Inefficiency of the average New now," Yorkt.cop.

**I suppose it ain't never been B before," said the man, sticking In a thousand and one weeks his palms out as if he wCTO 【HAT IS plain is the picture

on Broadway.

I've gotten to Jolson. of a pathetic, courageous

I couldn't know a lot of the badgewearors

I 100 bad Sally Anne, 19-year-old daugh woman,

"Miriam's the best friend struggling throughout

T

their hook man," and I can raffle off dozens of got," said the girl, “and I ain't life.

faithful to her stories which

run prove that the going to miss her birthday Broderick, "or I'd have phrase "a bright policeman" is party for no lousy nowśrbel" them in.",

a contradiction

"Their what man?" I asked. is a personal ac- not necessarily

Don't make no mountains." Their hook man," said the sors. They lack stamina for count of what can happen to a in terms.

said the man. "I said I'd go, detective. "Thono two wero Calaying in the news..

Bonzitive Communist.

didn't I? Wo can get there on pickpockets, and their spiel was hour late and still be in time to hold the crowd while the to blow out Ulio canúllès.”:

hook

man was going through thair

I tried to spot

The debs of today do not emotions.

"seem to be mido of the, same

stern stuff as their predeces- Her book

1

Who, in the thirules, could rend the

It has probably surprised. her nowspapers without knowing whint was happening that the Communists have as attacked her in force to Roso Bingham or Margaret yet not Whitham?

articlés ahe for the heretical : may not have done has published on, them. at things, but they had

But an explanation may le in an incident that occurred before alie had thought of leaving the party, although she was at that time thinking of leaving Haldane.

personality enough to

koep

themaives In e-news month after month.

Not so the debs of today. Where do they get to, what do they do? N

Who knows? And, really,

who cares?

-

She discusand possible eLondon Express Kerulce) divorce with William Rust, then

· As for instance,

the

pockets. "After those drinke you had him, but I couldn't. Maybe he ON Election Night 10471 wes at the Aston bar," said the girl

standing, at the corner of "I wouldn't go blowing any spotted me first. Broadway, and 46th Street with candles. The explosion'd break

"How did you know couple were crobka?" I said. detective named Johnny windows 'for milty,”

he crack about the guy Broderick, since retired. It was the "whiching hour"—the hour

'wasn't milk or having a couple of drinks gavo Broderick. when everyone Is wondering magnesia you was drinking” them away!... and on which movie 'to. seo or which said the man For two cents It in't 8.50 yot

elcollon night, in case you've saloon to get potted in..

That

As Broderick and I. stood. Johnny Broderick stepped forgotten you can't buy a drinit there casing the crowd, a couple out of the crowd which had in New York until after 9 pou”. collected around the couple."

London Express: Bervics, came out of the Automat

undoubtedly

er value to the community...."mooch notice on him,”

new con-

There seem at the moment no -(London Express Service), young talented conductors for-

energy.

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