Peiping, Apr. 29. At last winter has come to an end and people in gare wearing ight coloured spring suits and putting away their fur coats, the weather has been very seasonable lately in as much as we have had one sand storm after the other, the three world tour Ships were indeed lucky as they just missed them. We have had abundance of concerts during the past month and quite a few more on the Programme for May, among these given this fortnight was a joint con-Cert by Miss Lalia Fuchs and Miss Mariette Deshesne, the former a young painist, the latter a young. Nocalist. The concert was held in the the Pekin Hotel and was well attended and many beautiful baskets of flowers were sent up to them by admirers, 'Then there was the 'Shwartzburg-Pipes concert which ws most enjoyable and given under the auspices of the Institute of Fine Arts, the' American Ambassador, Mr. Nelson Johnson and Mrs. Johnson had lent their beautiful reception room for the occasion which was fied with all the music lovers of Peiping. My, Nana Shwartzburg looked a very young boy, I believe he is only seven-een, to be entertaining such a critical musical audience as is found In Peiping but this he certainty did most successfully and proved himself fu artist of real ability, He was as sisted by Mrs, Susie Pipes in the first half of the programme, Mrs, Pipes is well-known" in China and Japa where she has given many private and' public concerts and is always Very popular being a violinist exceptional merit. Among the audience were H.E, the American 'Ambassador, Mr, Nelson Johnson and Mrs, Johnson, General and Mrs Crozier, M. and' Madame Laura, the later the well-known authoress, Mrs. Calhoun, Mrs, Norman Seat, Mr. Mayo Newhall, Madame Munthe, Miss Lan, Mrs, Pao, Mrs. B.C. A. Dunn, Ins. Dieualde, Miss Helen "Hayes, Mrs, Siekman and others too numerous fesseur Agrégé) in medical clinics and has taught for five years in Marseilles at "Ecole d'Application clu Service de Santo Colonials, Both Dr. and Madame Blane will practise at the French Hospital in Peiping. as Madame Blane is also a doctor of medicine and a specialist in children's
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