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By TANG LEANG-LI
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HERBAL OINTMENT
KIPLING AT
SCHOOLTM
M'TURK'S MEMORIES
Schooldays With Kipling. By G. C. Beresford M'Turk). With an Introduction by General Dun- sterville (Stalky), Gollancz. 12. Bd
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SCOTTISH NEWS
FROM FAR AND NEAR
Highland Division Sets The Pace
“TELEVISION
COMES TO LONDON"
PROGRESS AT HOME
AND ABROAD
September
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London, June 14.
now is.
generally given as the date when public Mr. F. C.JEN EIN, deceased, programmes from the new Alexan- are Palace station wil start, after about a month of experimentai work. The BBC. is not yet in a position to make a definite state ment, but those whose information is usually reuable say that there is little hope of a real start before the early autumn.
now ac
including two women announcera
musi-
Mr. Beresford in his incorruptible to a name and a great tradition of Producers, stage managers,
cal directors. and film cameru
directors of very considerable ex- perience in their own lines.
London, June 17. Territorial commanding officers In the south would like to know the As a direct descendant of "Stalky secret behind the recruiting efforts and Co" this school story is assur
which keep the Highland division ed of its market; so it must be said at the top of the divisional, tree, writes 1 correspondent. But is of it in the first place that it would
a secret? The prevalling make its way without this famly there Influence. With the exception of view here seems to be that Army King, Mr Beresford takes but little recruiting is much easier work in where from "Stalky"—which he would the remote country areas have us know was action; and he counter-attractions are fewer than owes no more to the legendary in the large cities, but, if this were
Mr. Gerald Cock, the BBC. then true, Kipling than would a
son enter strictly
recruiting ing Parliament with an opposition should fall off as the country- Director of Television, has ticket to his father. the Gabinet man's range of entertainments in anered round him a staff Minister. His Kipling is neither.creases. The record of the High-proaching a hundred in strengin Beetle nor the future singer of land division shows that this is not Empire, but a curio or a chrysalis. the ease. After all, there is much and several producers, assistan determination to renounce the es- valour" and service, so, whatever capades of the Schoolboys Three the real reason for the Highland and the vigorous reactions of the division's pre-eminence. long may, SERVICE TO READERS masters has swang over to an ap- it continue!
proximation to still life with both
HAILE SELASSIE AND parties unheroically set on mini-
SCOTLAND mizing friction. He gives us the Scotland will see two notable uneventful school story of fact, with visitors from abroad this summer
his chief personage was too short-the Sheikh
Bahrein. The sighted to play games there are no sheikh's full touring programme dramatic scenes on cricket pitches and round of entertainments as a or goal lines. Nevertheless he makes
guest of the Government has al- and shapely
closeknit
ready been drawn up with guide-
éclat be stcry out of the elements to which book precision and the he has restricted himself. The atting a reigning potentate, but country. book lore with which he credits the faller. Emperor's immediate As there are not likely now to "Gigger" as he calls Kipling-in-pians are in contrast somewhat be any transmissions that can be volves him in a long campaign
at the Olympia against King, and this culminates In the only kind of victory that can be plausibly attributed to a schoolboy ever a
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LTD., and the HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through their London Office, at 53, FLEET STREET, E. C. 4, Tel. 3137, are prepared to give Subscribers and Visitors advice regarding accommoda- tion available, motoring faci- lities, suitable shopping centres, etc.
If, when at home, they will call or telephone to the above address, they will receive the utmost assista ce and the latest available information on all subjects of enquiry will be placed at their disposal.
The Job Printing Department
Book Binding,
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All descriptions of Illustrated Catalogues, Circulars, Visiting and Invitation Cards with latest Royal Script Type
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All executed on the premises at the shortest notice.
Law Work,
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the further tenue sagt, as in the Emperor of Abyssinia and
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master-one in which he slips away from the en-
circling forces.
The story is organic, also, in that all the little episodes go to the building up of a personality con- sistent in its potentialities. "Gigger"
was handicapped in the competi- tion of school not only by defective sight. Ideas he had; an if one for- gets his inherited connexion with the arts, it may come as a sur- prise to learn that they were the ideas of an "intellectual" but he lacked the aptitude for expressing
them!
The school paper which he came to edit is now at a premium to be gathered from an unkind compari- son: "Nobody is giving £20 each for back numbers of "The Times" of the eighties." But what its edi- tor produced with infinite labour was "sententious journalese."
Yet "Gigger" showed the stamp of greatness in his determination to qualify for the only career he considered open to himself that of a writer. He was a book-worm distended with undigested learn- Ing, but a militant bookworm skül- ed in employing the aroma of this learning as a defence against boys
Indefnite-
ON
WEDNESDAY,
JULY 8, 1936
Conxancing Ar 10.30 A.M.
A No. 409, THE PEAK. (SEVERN ROAD)
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Drawing Room, Dining Room and Bed Room Suites, Silver Ware, Cutlery, Curios, Pictures, Curtains, Carpets, Rugs, Books, Crockery, Glass
Ware, Carved Wooden Figures, etc., etc.
Among his many activi:les Mr. Cock has found time to write the scenario for, and assist in the production of a film with the title Television, Comès Co London." Trus wil be a pictorial history the vast task of getting London's nigh definition station in working order. It is timed to run about sweaty minutes, and, besides being One Kelvinator snown as part of the initial tele-
be vision programmes, it may released to cinemas all over the
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reflection, Perhaps, aemonstrated of the uncertain International Show, there is a possibility of u situation. The date of Haté Sel- separate television exhibition in assie's departure for Switzerland London. If this does take place, has not yet been fixed, but the it will undoubtedly prove a very question of a holiday in Scotland big attraction.
AMERICA'S START has been discussed with his en- tourage, and he will probably go North before the end of this month
to stay with the Duke of Hamilton.'
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY'S
KIPLING MSS.
J
The Racio Corporacion ci America expects to start experl-" mental transmissions on a wave. length of about six metres on the
also
and
A Quantity of Plants in Pots.
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AUCTIONEERS.
last Monday of this month from PUBLIC AUCTION.
top of the Empire State A glit or Kipling MSS, to the the Edinburgh University Library was Building. The system will use 43 announced by the Principal, Sirlines with interlaced scanning, as Thomas Holland, at a meeting of compared with the 405 lines, inter- laced scanning, system to be used the University Court.
The gift, which is to the form of on the Marconi-EMI. apparatus a volume of some 180 pages, in-at Alexandru Palace which is to cludes the collection of short sto-be used week by week alternative- ly with the Baird 240 line system. ries "A. Diversity of Creatures, together with the greater part of the short series of letters written by Kipling under the 'general title of "Eyes of Asia." published in 1917. The pages are in Kipling minute and beautiful script, and un some of them there are numer- ous deletions and alterations. The volume has been sent to the Uni- versity by Mrs. Kipling.
THE LONDON SCOTTISH
The arist to be used on top of the Empire State Building is similar to that now nearly com- pleted at the Alexandra Palace. It looks something like a turn- stile, and this type of radiator is becoming known by that homely name. If the American system is a success the RCA hopes to start a regular service towards the end of 1937.
semi- Public buildings. The German authorities have refused to allow the trade to sell receivers until they have decided on a policy that is likely to remain unchanged for
In Germany programmes are out for two hours each I understand that regimental sent
the proposed evening, bus so far the only re opinion regarding change of title for the London cefvers available have been those and masters, and insistent on his Scuttish has been made known to put up by the German Post Office "astigmatic rights." The deter- the War Office, and, as a result of and some others, not more than mination is to be seen in the draw-consultations, a compromise satis-about seventy in all, in ings of Kipling with which, toget-factory to both parties may be her with others with names famill-reached. The suggested change, it ar to us, the book has been lus is true, is only of a name, and in-
contrites, "ttle more than the shifting of some brackets," but there is a wealth of tradition behind the proud title of the London Scottish which merits at least judicious bracketing. Thus, from the re- cruiting point of view, it is important that the actual "Lon-
trated by the author. It should be volves, as one military writer sta
added that "Stalky," who butes a preface, warns us that that the other fellows "were not as
Kipling has been MTurkifted and bad as all that."
TRIAL OF PEERS don Scottish" title should be kept
STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE BILL
some years.
Preparations for permanent ser- vices are als. being made in Australia and in India. In India the Nizam of Hyderabad is plan ning to install a medium defini- tion transmitter, which will be the first in the sub-continent.
The French official transmissions Lo the forefront.. Following on
from the Eiffel Tower have not representations now being put for-
been popular and have been ad- ward in oficial quarters it is prob-versely criticised as to both defini- able that the new name will be "The London Scottish (7th Batta- ton Gardon Highlanders)." I am assured that there is no question of adopting the Gordon tartan- the "hadden grey" will remain.
4.
London, June 18. Viscount Sankey's Bill for the abolition of the ceremonial trial of Feers by Peers is going to have an. unexpectedly strong opposition of when it comes to the House
GLASGOW AT OXFORD Commons for second reading. Mr. Churchill has given notice that he
London, July 18. will move its rejection because he
Mr Findlay L. Milla, MA, of the considers it should not be intro- University of Glasgow, who was auced in advance of the Govern- elected to a Shell Exhibition at "ment measure for the general re-
Ballol in 1934, and who last Sep- form of the House of Lords "fore-tember was awarded the Ferguson casted in the preamble of the Par- Scholarship in Classics open to all
lament Act, 1911, and since p
four Scottish Universities, has won frequently promised by various
Governments."
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THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936
COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M.
AT THEIR SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising ---
Black Wood Ware, Teak Drawing Room, Bed Room and Dining Room Oil Furniture, Office Furniture, Paintings, Pictures, Silver E. P. Ware, Porcelain and Glass Ware, Brass and Aluminium Ware, Rugs, Carpets, Ornaments, Books, Boxing Machines, Typewriters, Gramophones and Records, Electric Table Fans and Laupa, Cutlery, Tonuis Rackets, Caraina, Linen, Ice Chests, etc., ote,
and
Three Refrigerators One Upright Piano by "W Robinson,”
THE 8TH JULY, 1996.
tion and programme matter. The Os VIEW FROM WEDNESDAY. French authorities are apparently awaiting further developments in Germany and in this country be fore they make changes that will give them a system of real pro- TERMS 1-CASH ON DELIVERT. grimme value.
THE FIRST OF THE ANAESTHETICS
London, June 18. Mr. Wyndham Lloyd. in his "Hundred Years of Medicine,"
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other doctors he sat down in his dining-room to a drinking party.
They
glasses charged... their with chloroform and. immediate-
the Hertford Scholarship, the blue which is published to-day, recalls ly an unwonted hilarity seized the riband of Latin scholarship, at the that the anaesthetic properties of party-they became bright-eyed University of Oxford. Mr Robert gas were discovered by Sir Hum- very happy, and very loquacious the delicious Browning. M.A., who, gained the phry Davy as far back as 1799 expatiating Spell Exhibition in 1935, was hon- nearly fifty years before the gene- aroma of the new nuld. But suddenly there was talk of sounds Previously hash oplum, mand-being heard like those of cot ourably mentioned (third place)ral use of anaesthetics began." in the examination.
This con-
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More picturesque is the reason given for the rejection of the Bill by Mr. Mabane, a Liberal Nation al, and Mr. Michael Beaumont, antinues the remarkable run of suc- ragora and alcohol had been used ton mille louder and louder; a ex-Guardsman Unionist, who will cesses achieved by Glasgow men by surgeons to deaden pain while moment more then all was quiet- invite the House to decline to give in classics at Oxford, during recent some did so by virtually garotting and then crash! a second reading to a Fill "which years, Mr Mills, who was educated the patients, compressing the removes the last remains of one at Dalziel High School, Mother carotid arteries till they became
unconscious. of the oldest rights of His Ma-well, was placed first in the open jesty's subjects and repeals a re-bursary competition at Glasgow in cital of Magna Carta without giv-1830, and Mir Browning, who was ing any corresponding benefit educated at Kelvinalde Academy, either to the deprived subjects or gccupied the same place in the foll
owing year. to the realm."
CHLOROFORM PARTY
On awakening, Dr. Simpson's first perception was mental "This is far better than ether, he said to himself. His second was to note Mr. Lloyd quotes an amusing that he was prostrate on the floo account of Sir James Simpson's and that among the friends about discovery of the anaesthetic pro him there was both confusion and perties of chloroform, With two alarm".