OXFORD MINDS MACHINE-MADE?
Dean's Attack On Playing Fields.
Åre compulsory games ruining the public schools!
DRAMA FOR
Novelist's Advice Producers.- ¿
Sir Arthur Quillar-Couch, as president of the Village Drama Society, delivered an, address on
THE REAL WALES
How the Revival Came About.
Professor Alfred Zimmern, who
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Writing in the Empire Recies some difficulties of the society at was professor for some time in of the annual general meeting at the Welsh University, has mach Mr. Godrey Elton. Dean
Worcester College, Oxford. The to say about Wales in the artiolei Queen's College, says
To-day the humanities may society exists for the purpose of on Mr. Lloyd George in The stir the mind still, but football Promoting the production of Century Magazine.”
by the inhabitants "The real Wales is the Wales and rowing exhaust the energies plays and the intarest that Gladstone of country villages, and its of the common people, of the and Freeman and J. R. Green experience has shown that the bourgeoisie, the small farmers, used to give to pondering the drama in village life supplies a and the artisans, labourers and condition of England. The bet means of developing the arts that shepherds. It is among these, especially among the ter minds among young men at hitherto have not existed in the and Oxford are in much less contact country. It also gives opportunity humbler members of the com- with the world than they were 50 for historical and literary study,munity and in the remoter And it brings all ages and classes country districts, that the "Oxford is still largely fed by together in a refreshing rearea genuine national tradition lives the public schools, and the publiction. The society is in corres-on and the national genius is still schools have been throttled by pondance with nearly 1,200 aflame. compulsory games.
"At the moment the public schools stand between Oxford
years ago.
"In
spent
their
spare
old
villages in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch said
DEMAND FOR COMEDIES
given
to Welsh lifa,
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"The power that stirred the Welsh soul to self-consciousness was net political, but religions; and its duty to the nation. They that, thanks to the crusading not the call of the French Re no longer breed individuality: activities of the hon. secretaryvolution, but the preaching of the often and often they do actually the society had reached a-point English dissenters. It was the in- of success at which the actual leunce of Wesley and Whitefield discourage ability,
was over-taking the the high
times demand of Tom Brown. schoolboys supply. They actually wanted and their Welsh followers that hours many more good plays; much precipitated the Great Revival' that is reckoned the dawn of fighting gamekepers or skinning better plays than they were set-modern Wales. It is this ex- moles-experimenting excitedly ting. They got a great amount with life in general. And in con-of almost intolerable rubbish.raordinary outburst of religious sequance the schools bred, and The great bulk of that rubbish fervour, releasing, as it did, ele- sent on to Oxford or Cambridge, was limitation of old, bad, con-ments of national personality mon of brains and originality.ventional farces or sentimental that had been repressed for cen- turies under the Anglican and To-day, when they come out of plays. The desire of the Village aristocratic regime, which has their form rooms, the boys flock Drama Society was not to go back rerforce to playing-fields where and act archaic things, but to and political, cultural and reli- the Battle of Waterloo may (or make the drama a living source may not) have been won, but of interest among the people, so ous, the peculiar imprint that still distinguishes it to-day. From where the Battle of Loos was that they went on, and wished to
go on, performing things which that revival sprang the missionary most certainly lost.
"They are passionately en-they more and more understood.labours of the tour great sects
nonterritorial tribes as a witty couraged to these compulsory
They wanted plays that dealt Welsh student of Athenian con- games by masters chosen as often i
stitutional history has called for their muscles as for their with village life as the villagers them the Baptists, the Was brains. Daily and inevitably, the saw it plays that dealt with it boys learn from authoity that the as stories, and more with actionleyans, the Congregationalists, great things in life are the easy than with dialogue. They wanted and the Calvinistic Methodists, things: play and being like one's moving stories, and they should whose unpretentions chapels may be observed in fierce or friendly' comedies of village follows; the things that matter be the less, the things to be tolerated at life, preferably. The pastoral was competition in every Welsh town- best, are brains and thinking for also required, because the country ship or village.
"It was the Great Revival people and most people, for that
hymn-writers, in matter liked to dress up. They which. in its passion "The universal children to be allowed "to do real liked to see their children, par-restored the dignity of the an work" and to be unlike other ticularly, dressed up as fairies and vient language and gave Welsh- children dies, murdered officially, flowers. They liked to see them men the beginnings of a modern at school. Anyone who bas viva'd dance. Another thing the society popular literature. them at Oxford college entrance wished to evoke in the village was through the chapels and their examinations will tell you that the dancing as the accessory of the multifarious ramifying influences & freemasonry KIOW OD average mentality of the young
They also wanted pantomime, among classes hitherto disdained men who come to Oxford from the public schools is inert, with- one that was very difficult to get.and kept under which paved the out alert individual interests of A great deal of pantomime de-way, first, for political organiza- any kind. respectful of fashion pended upon personal topical tion and, later, for an ascendancy and blankly indifferent to nine-allusions, and that was a very in local government in parlia dangerous and delicate matter.mentary representation, and in tenths of English life.'
(Laughter.) Comedies were par patronage to appointments in the WEST INDIAN UNITY. ticularly wanted. They did not Principality which has lately be want the sort of comedy that come endangered through the in- A New Scheme Announced. dealt with old ladies sitting round fluence of Labour.
one's self.
drama.
tha:
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a table, but that in which fun The fact is that the chape!! Arts
It is not practicable, according could be made of gossip and has been and still is far more to a joint report prepared by scandal and of the village police-than a mere religious organiza-
Wilson. Colonel Sir Samuel Governor of Trinidad, and Sir G.. The villagerman was altion. It is the main, and still in ways a fair butt. (Laughter.) Rest many parts of Wales the only, Haddon Smith, Governor of the of all, the comedy most taking in outles for the inner life of Windward Islands. to give further
which, the Welsh people. a village was that in
It serves consideration to a suggestion put somehow or other, the men were as a channel, alas: too tenuous
forward by Mr. E. F. L. Wood, put to do the women and constricted, but capable at
after his tour of the West Indies.
work and the women to times of surprising expansion. two years ago, as Under-Secretary do that of the man. (Laughter.) for the outflow of the exuberance for the Colonies, that the Wind: The funnier of the two to the of thought and passion, the pent ward group should be combined with Trinidad, fur governmental purposes.
The time is not opportune for
such a movement, it is declared.
The Windward Islands, the re-
village was when the men were put to do women's work, such as minding the baby. (Laughter.)
The play of a perfect type for
a village should be a story play.
and fermenting energy, of an unusually gifted and expressive people..
"It was an accident of history that turned Wales Puritan.
It should have a happy ending Wales accepted Nonconformity
port states. are not likely to give it should have much action and up their present status with a little talk. It should not be Governor of their own-without short sketch or a little farce. A getting something in return, while
as the first available means of release from Anglicanism: but it
on the other hand a widening of village liked a play of about one made of it something that the
English dissenter would not
the Goverment of Trinidad would and a half to two hours leagueasily recognize as his own mode It really did like also to hear of mean an additional expenditure which that colony is not prepar-something that happened in the ed to embark upon at present. To neighbourhood years ago, so that
attempt to force the proposal
transformed from a flat pedestrian. of worship. The sermon has been
discourse into ап acutely reasoned pbilosophical discussion calminating in an impassioned
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they could dress up their charac ters romantically. They could upon the islands would be a deal with, say, smugglers, recitative reminiscent of Italian take and would be likely to
cavaliers, or highwaymen. That
JEKYLL AND HYDE. [had his ambitions tended that or Orientral prophecy.
Way. create a situation, which might kind of play the village liked.
However, Mr. Doering's neigh- injure the chances
of West That kind of play made the The prayer, so often on English Holidays Abroad Spent In
bours did not know that during to its lips merely a lame and halting
Prison. allocution to a God indulgent to
How the leader of a notorious his absences abroad" he was or larceny, in the Missouri ters, becomes a call, a challenge, band of crooks posed as a benaro-serving terms, either for burglary a rallying-cry, knitting the con- lent suburban resident is brought Penitentiary. gregation together in a fervour to light by the death of Mr. W. F.
Indian federation later.
A broader scheme is now being
village more romantic
"discussed in the West Indiou.. inhabitants, which was another the embarrassment of His minis
relates to the setting up of a Central Body, consisting of delo- gates from the Legislature of each Colony, which should meet in a convenient centre once each year to discuss matters of common
Thing the society desired.
A PUZZLE A DAY.
the shape of a resolution which distinction. was unanimously adopted earlier
SMILES
Nor were they aware at the of devotional expectation: while Dooring, says a New York re-time of his argument with Mr. Berger that he had been released the hymn, sounding out from port.
Mr. Doering has died in the £20,000 bail pending appeal The above word is reputed to every throat" in the matchless interest to the British West Indies be the longest word in the English euphony of the Welsh language, hospital at Herrin, Illinois, from from a sentence of 30 years in- such as education, commerce, language, even though it contains transports the rapt worshippers & bullet wound inflicted in the
£600,000 mail rubbery committed finance, health, and so on. The but six letters. Can you discover in the homely chapel topper course of an altercation by Mr. prisonment for participation in a in St. Louis last April, and that deserves its unique moments to the City Everlas-Chorias Berger, owner of a gay suggestion came from Jamaica in why it
ting moments that are lived resort there.
To his neighbours in a semi-nearly £500,000 of the loot bad been found in his handsome villa. Monday's answer:
over again in memory during the
But to the St. Louis police week until the Sabbath comes fashionable suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, where, except during round once more."
abroad, Doering was well known as leader prolonged absences
of "Eagan Hats," a notorious he occupied a handsome villa, Mr. band of crooks identified with Doering Mr. Whiting as he was known to them was a benevolent numerous murders and holdups; man, accustomed to pat the beads and why he was out on bail in is easily and quickly overcome of the children he met during his any amount whatsoever is a mystery to the general public.. with the aid of Pinkettes. Gently walks, and give them coins and The nature of his dispute with laxative, they cleanse the system sweets. His courtesy to grown Mr. Berger is not known. Mr. thus dispelling bilious headaches, ups, to whom he always bowed Berger said Doering had fired at purifying the breath, clearing the and remarked pleasantly upon him without provocation. skin of pimples and blotabes the weather, caused him to be Dainty, tiny, yet thoroughly voted a charming man” efficient, Pinkettes keep you well
£20,000 BAIL
in the year by the Legislative Council. It was submitted to the State for the Secretary of Colonies, who was asked to trans- mit copies of the resolution to the various Colonies concerned for an expression of opinion by the Legislative body of each Colony. .St, Vincent has set the ball in motion by agreeing to the terms of the resolution, and to judge by 1 Press comment on the scheme in British Guiana, Trinidad and other Colonies, no obstacles are likely to be placed in the way of the establishment of such
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Questioned by the police s be lay dying, Doering gave way to such a prolonged outburst of So great was his popularity profanity that he died with s The drawing shows how the of chemists, or post free, 60 cents cantralsbody, which would go a five figures may be grouped per vial, from Dr. Williams that he might have been elected curse on his lips. But nothing
Bregular Medicine Co., 60 Kiangsa Road; to any public office he aspired to of what he said was expla long way towards the promotion together to form
Shanghat pf West Indian unity.
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