A tour of the floral establishment showed a dearth of mistletoes one those on display commanded. high prices, 'Theve did not dampen the desire' of shoppers to bring home more than a sprig of the traditional Christmas berry. "he quantity of polnseltias on display was heartening fund heralded the advent of the great Secasion of the year, AMuny of Shanghat's chitdron already had a foretaste of the year's Christmas delights having oltonded the number of children's parties usually. given before December 25. and where the ttle ones have had' their fair share the "Oodles' of good things pre Vided and the annual stumpluous spre, Timely Alarm Foils Kidnappers" Attempt Dec. 10, Flawless Concert On Sunday Shanghai, Dec. 2 Every once in a while Shanghai privileged to hear a work played as only it can be by the perfect coordina.ion of each performer. Such performance was the Mozart Con-corta in last Sunday's concert Throughout it was Mawless, apart from Miss Pezzini's initial nervous ness, with the orchestra, soloist and Maestro Paci as one man, If Tam. bhat mistaken Miss Pezzini is a pupil of Maestro Paci and this fact does} much to explain the complete success of the Concerto. So often conductor and soloist are out of sympathy with each other either ¢rom divergence of view point or from inability to acknowledge one In the Mozart Concerto Maestro Paci was master both of pianist and) of orchestra with the result. that, there was none of the usual struggle, Maestro Paci, although he turned over the pages of his score, in fact conducted from memory which is the only way a perfect interpretation can bbe accomplished. Ais Pezzint eave 4 masterly exhibition of musicianship. Never for one moment did she fore wet that the musie and not the soloist teas supreme it that she a: well the orchestra
Pezzini may long be associated with conductor's J trust that" als: wust be guided by the
Maestro Paci if only that we, the musical public, can be so rewarded.
The programme as a whole was of rear interest, Starting with Stravin sky's "L'Olseau clu Feu" the concert carried us through the misieal. Aeetion of the storm of 20th Century. life to the grace "and "comparative calm of 18 Century rococo with Brahms' Second Symphony as an Intermediary link. Musie is neces: sarily mirror to the composer mental rife and to the general lie
troubled, uncertain, sometimes" is as listening to one's own thou sits the ay. "To ten to Stray
Fest but alivays swirling and choatie.
Then yomes Brahms with the 19th Century's lesser but always growin! problems with its certainty of pur: pose and yet with w hardly percep: Uible in de siecle doubt that. sub: fonseiously ropes back to 1 nally Mozart 1etn Century when life was sheltered from mental storms, when prusress seemed to have reached the limits of human attainment, when att was considered {0 have revealed the ult peace of it was per andi one left the Lyceum for murky: December evening thankful that alter the strain of Stravins the Sunday newspapers and of one's own self came the repose ut Mozart land the race of a les sorely tried: on The high cos of caused 20 for many labour troubles in Shanghai, was the reason for another dispute yesterday, when 700 employees of the Foo Foong Flour Alli in Mokanshan Road went on a sit-down strike at 8 am. following a disyreement between the workers afd the management of the mill The trouble first started on Decem-ver 12 when the management. an= nounced that it would change native ree, which wes given to the workers, to Saigon rice. The employees, how: ever, protested against this, claiming that the Saigon rice was much cheaper than the local, "They demanded that they be given the difference in cash, which would amount to approximately $12.
Basing their claims on the ditference, the workers refused 19 ocsept ly alterations and called the strike yesterday morning, later presenting more demands, which were called "ridiculous" by the omicials of the mill.
'The workers remained on the pre mises of the mill. yesterday, some three hundred being' inside the mil, No violence whatever has been ported by the Police.
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