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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIĻ 22, 1941
RADIO BOYS ARE BETTER
5.45 p.m.-Indian Programme.
8.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quoin-
tions.
von Geczy & His 6.32 p.m.-Barnaban
Orchestra with Heddle Nash (Tenor). Malaga Rixneri. Poem (Fibich
Barnabas von Geezy & bis Orch. Pasting By Betrtek & Purcell)
Hubert Eisdelt. Heddle Nash, Den- mis Noble & Not on Allin
I
Know of Two Bright Eyes (Chul- Eily Mayouneen drom The Heddle Nash
NAKETA 3
Lily of Kilinines *^)
Hinche Song from Sadito"),
Barnabas von
COOKS THAN GIRLS
(By A Special Correspondent)
BECAUSE THEIR COOKING is better than the Valse girls, schoolboys at Nelson Street elementary school, Birmingham, cook dinners for their masters four days a week. The girls do the cooking only one day.
Triste (5ibellus 1 Geers & his Urchestra 7.00
P.M.- London Relay The News. 7.15 p.n. London Relay Talk:
Lain Speaks".
BTI-
7 30 p.m.--Portuguese Program310. B.00 pm-Local Time Signal and An-
Notificerats
8.02 Dn. John Gay's The Mursten Version
Opera"
Beggar's
I found a dozen boys between the ages of ten and twelve preparing a dinner of fish pie, cauli- try Fflower and potatoes, and a milk pudding, for their masters. Two of the boys were cooking a special Willis, Audrey dinner for the house master.
order of
Ruby
Austin: 1 Singer it They
Bruce FeRR. Ray Hen- apja arute derson Conslausce Mildmay. Michael Redgrave, Grichrist, Linda Gray Joseph Par- 1inglun, Alys Brough, with Churus &
Michael conducted Orchestra
Made
854 pm
Violin Interlude.
by
Lattermezzo (Souven de Vienne)
m -Londen
Ou Kyndel
9.00
0 15
BM
-London
E of the Hour".
19:30 pm -Arthur
Relay The News. RelayQuestions
Rubinstein (Piano)
and Gall-Curci (Soprano). Grande Polonaise, Op
22 (Chopin)
(Alabeff)
Arthur Rubinstein (Pianos Russas Nightingale Song
Galler 1 Sopran
Engionie Cathedrale
5.10
Capricio
Bralinis)
Plan
13 #2422148 Arthur
In their white aprons the boy cooks were busy over pastry- boards and the Ras-stove while their teacher, Mrs. D. Douglas, watched them.
More Methodical
"1 scidom have to correct them once I have told them what to do." said Mrs. Douglas. "Boys much better cooks here are
their
than the girls. They are much
with more methodical cooking.
"Cooking and other domestic Debussy 3.1
curri- Cin are now 70 subjects 2
OLAT
Rubinstein culum for boys. They learn how to do washing and bring their own shirts here to wash and iron. We have a different course of boy cooks every morning."
Pala Valse Arditi. The Gypsy & Gal-Curei Benedicti The Hird (bupiano) Miniet &
Pro Hubinstein 2
9 45 p.m.--News
Wave only)
10,00 p.m.-London
Abroad'
10.1 p.)
חו
(Schubrali Arthur
French Ter
Relay
Short
Scots
What'll Mother Say? Dennis Rudge, aged twelve, of Shakespeare Road, Birmingham,
BRITAIN TO GET 15,000
'PLANES
programme
Official sources revealed the in Washington that lend-lease now calls for the produc- tion of 15,000 'planes, 330 merchant ships and about 5,000 tanks for the Brit-
A Light Scultish Programme who has eleven brothers and sisigh. Great Britain, offi- ters, lold me: 1 bike Cooking cials said, has expressed
with Sir Harry Lauder.
11% A Know Th T
(Lauder)
Se Harry Lander (Baritone)
Mackay nbauuden a
Gustard at the Oigan
MI Jell
Stop the Willow Djack i
Harry Lauder
Seuttish
Yesterday the boys turned out a special
dish
of sausages
and hope that the U.S. will be Medier of Old Thine NOURS Sydney chawl, brussel sprouts and pola-
able to complete this pro- It was one of our special toes.
gramme by July, 1942. Swartime diners. "I'm
the 1 can Bure
cook
and I'm Sunday dinner at home
ask mother If i can going to do it one of these week-ends." The headmaster of the school told me: "All the masters enjoypropriation. the boys' cooking. The boys turn Qui our dinners like professional cooks. But I must not say much against the girls.
Country Dance Diehestra I've Samething 1 the Battle for the
Morning (auder & Grafton) Harry Lauder
10.35 p.m.-A Swing Programme.
Sir
Love Me, Or Leave Me, Why couldn't it Be Poor Little Me Benny Goo+el- in & his Orchestra Hindustan
Bub Crosby's Bob Cafs.
Lying in the Hay Oh Johnny, Oni
Johnny. Oh ! Arthur Young Hatchett's Swingtette
&
Pla Ja
Someday.
Ambrose & his Orch Sweetheart. That Da
Di
Stram
Muggsy Spanter Ragtime Band
B
his
11.00 p.m. -Close town
'NO KILTS, NO FIGHT' THEY SAID
The programme which also pro- vides for large quantities of or- dinance and food, will be financed by the $7,000,000,000 war-aid ap-
Most of the planes will be tac- too tical craft, predominantly bom- 13.000 of Approximately bers. them will be for the R.A F. The remainder will be for the Fleet Air Arm.
WOODEN SHOES FOR PARISIANS
Dress styles inspired by Hunga-
Most of the tanks will be me- dhum types, virtually theme as those being produced for the U.S. Army.
The merchant ships, officials in- rian paesants and Spanish dancers dicated, will be similar in design caught the eye of a large throng to the 60 vessels now being con- of visitors at Maggy Rouff's where structed in this country for the standing room only was the order British. of the day.
Spectators consisted
A large number of aircraft eu- almost entirely of private clien-gines and a sizeable order of ma- tele, including some visiting Ger-chine tools alo will be produced
for the British.
mans.
dresses were Spanish evening shown in printed crepes with wide lace skirts flounced with black
According to one defense of- ficial, the British are placing more and more emphasis on fin. the U.S. Ished products from rather than on raw materials. Germany, he said, is still far ahead of Britiain in producing for war and "the British needs are terrific." The Germans, he added, effectively mobilised the resources of occupied coun- tries.
A battalion of the Cam-and big black lace sleeves. Full shirred peasant skirts of checked eron Highlanders, order-silks were topped with black vel- vet boleros worn over balloon- ed to fight a rearguardeeved sheer white blouses, action to hold Arras, re- Day dresses featured peasant fused to go into battle in blouses and reflected the Spanish have very
influence in boleros and toreador trousers.
They put on their kilts and went into action with the bayonet, one of their pipers playing the same pipes on which his father played the the Camerons into action in last war.
This incident in the retreat be fore Dunkirk has just been re- vealed.
Though there has been no lift- ing of the ban on the kilt as bat- tle dress, more and more Scottish soldiers are reverting to the kill 18 when off duty.
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Among them are many Scots in the killed battalions of the Do-
A minions,
number of these
kilts brought their
with them. Others placed orders to have
made
soon they reached England.
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"If they think they can stamp out the kilt by putting us all in khaki trousers they're mistaken," one young Highland soldier said.
"It makes me furious to think those flne Greek highlanders are allowed to go into battle in their kilts while our kilts have been banned."
All the Scottish kilted regiments which went to France with the B.E.F. at the beginning of the war took their klits with them to wear when off duty,
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been reported off the
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