THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1950.
SINGING HER WAY INTO
THE HEARTS OF ALL PEOPLES
If it's music you want then meet Dr Laura Boulton, musicologist, ethnologist, explorer and lecturer who is at present stopping over in the Colony.
She can talk music-which she considers the basic human emotion-all day and far into the night.
Possibly one of her most in- teresting trips was in a schooner manned by Eskimos in Hudson the Arctic Circle Bay within where she was able in film and record their life in the frozen. north.
LAURA BOULTON
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FATHER gets the bills.
TO-MORROW AT THE
Dr Boulton has been offered West German Red QUEEN'S
In 15 expeditions to various countries she has recorded over 6,000 folk songs to acquire what is considered the largest private collection in the world and is worth more than US $300,000.
She is member Q
the of Faculty of Music of the Univer-government hospitality in all sity of California and a repre- the countries she has sentative of the American evon te the extent of lending Museum of Natural History. Dr { her cameramen and local assis- Boulton hails from Cleveland, tants. Ohio, and learned music before she was able to read or write. This is not surprising as her mother was a brilliant musician and excellent singer,
In 1929 she was all set for a concert career in New York when she received an offer L go as musicologist with the Strauss Central African Expedi- tion. The concert career went by the board, but she has never regretted her decision to accepted the offer.
It
the African was on pedition that she realised by using music she could ge.,10 the hearts of all the peoples of the world.
ex-
that
"Every nation has folk songs," she said, "and when Ι πιουι people who do not speak the same language I find that by merely singing
song to them
they realise that we both have something in common.”
Dr
Boulton has proven her point hundreds of times in Cen- tral Africa, the South Seas and as far north as the Arctic Circle.
LIGHTS
CLEAMED
On one occasion in Africa she arrived at a village with her cameras and recorders to find
that the villagers were afraid of
her, not to mention the equip- ment. She sang to them and lights gleamed in their eyes. She waited and after a time one of the man sang a haunting melody which she recorded on a tape machine. To the astonishment | of the native he heard his own voice played back.
That was the end and the wanted to beginning--they all sing and play their intruments at the same time so she had a great deal of amusement queu- ing them up.
One night in Africa a whole village descended on her camp and she was forced to spend nearly 12 hours recording, but she was able to add many fas- cinating songs to her collection.
visited On Warmongers"
Berlin, Nov. 5,
When she returns to the Herr Max Reimann, the West United States she will complete] Gorman Communist leader, a series of articles for a number} assured the "All-German Peace of magazines. She will also Congress" here today that "the appear on television and radio German people will find ways
and means to realise its will
intentions of the against the foreign and German warmon-
programmes.
STATUE ARRIVES |TS."
IN SINGAPORE
Addressing
the Communist- sponsored meeting on its second Singapore, Nov. 5. ord Ana' day. he hailed the About 15,000 people, most-regant Prague proposals as "the only way to solve the catas- trophic situation into which the war and the colonial policy of the occupation forces
here
ly Catholics, gathered
day to welcome the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. which
rived by air from Rome. The statue is to be taken on brought West Germany."
a tour of Malaya.--Reuter,
Reuter.
has
India's Policy On Red
China May Change
Washington, Nov. 5.
The Evening Star opined editorially Saturday that it was too early to say whether the Indian policy toward Red China will be changed as a re- sult of the invasion of Tibet. -
"But since invasion is plainly a stiffer chase."
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