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· EAGER INHABITANTS CLAMBER ON TO VESSEL,
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927.
· MOUTH ORGAN COMPETITION;
"STARS" AND AMATEURS
PLAY "ANNIE LAURIE.”. “
The Inhabitants of St. Kilda, to When it was firat announced the west of the Outer Hebrides, that a contest was to be hold for havo spent a joyous week-end said the mouth organ playing cham- a Fleetwood correspondent of the pionship people who had never bo Manchester Guardian recently. fore known that there was such a At the Accond attempt, while on thing na the Mouth Organ Lengvo the way home from the far north in existence were overwhelmed to ern fishing grounds, the Fleetwood learn that there would probably fishing steamer Robert Murray be as many as a hundred com- has succeeded in getting the ninetitors, each of them in turn play- bulky bags of mails, which including the same teab tune, "Annie ed the overdue Christmas and New aurie." The secretary, Year letters and parcels, to the alanders. It was the first ship to be able to get near the island since October so stormy has been
the wenther.
of the
League said that it was now im possible to estimate the probable number of competitors but so many had already entered that the con- test had had to be postponed, and the final would be held on Feb- rury 25. Each competitor will which has ay "Annie Laurie," been selected because it is a sim-. ple tune giving plenty of scope for expression and individuality. Ho
ill also play a second piece, and 5 he may choose anything he likes, the audience, dazed with reiterated sentinients about Annic will be relieved to hear the com petitors let themselves yo on their own favourite pieces, perhaps sometimes on tunes they have themselves composed.
The Month Organ League han a membership of 5,000, including
On Sunday the 9th the steamer was in the vicinity of the island in the darkness but the gale was so severo that the captain, J. Tomlin- son, had to get away from such a dangerous place as quickly as possible, and soon afterwards came across another Fleetwood steamer coming home to whom he communicated his inability to and the mails. He proceeded to the Ashing ground thirty-five miles away, with the mails aboard, hut on his way back to port this week, with the weather moderat- ing, he got into what fishermen call Parson's Bay, so named be cause the minister's house adjoinaofessionals who can make from £10 to £40 a week on the halls. the bench.
and the rank and file who play to "As soon as I got near the fa-amuse themselves. When one land blow the steamer's whistle hears the secretary.talk about the as hard as I could," said the cap organised bands of layers who thin of the Robert Murray, who tour the country with great sue- arrived with his ship at Fleetwoodcess, and about the stars who this afternoon. "Ve could sen
Burn princely salaries, even there was a regular scramble, of Pugh the instrument may have men, women, and children from cast no more than a shilling, the the huts to the beach, and every- vision of the amateurs' of whom boly, even the youngsters, gavë ajone knows most soumis to fade hand in assisting to launch a away. The stars are so impres- small bout-a discussed lifebout.sive, and there is heroism in the There was a scramble for places story of the £40 a week profes- in the boat, for the whole popuła- įsional who gave up drinking und Lion appeared to be trying to smoking and became a vegetariań board the boat at the same time. order to be physically fit and They rowed to the Robert Murray able to have full control of hin
at least thirty bearded men, breathing. amongst whom was the parson. They scrambled aboard like cats and were begging tobacco, etc. from the crew. They got the reall bags transferred to their Small boat and they also brought a small hag for us to bring back to England. They flooded us with prders for provisions, and asked is to take them as soon as we
could.
A New School Subject. Some of there men have great endurance. There was one, Tor instance,, who said when he pul big name down as a competitor that he had played dance musie the other night at a dance for three hours. No doubt he aprees with the Americans who teach organ playing in the
They were very short. th have bundles of orders for pota-schools, not only because it leads ices, flour, soda-they almost live the pupils on to study higher en scones made of flour and soda, grade instruments, but because -paradis, and: tobacco. At the playing a mouth organ is such top of one order, and that from fine exercise and teaches the chil- female islander. "was a requestdren to breathe correctly. The in prominent writing for a bottle agua, which is doing its best to of whisky. If I go out to St. Praise the standard of playing and Kilda again I shall take thu, pro- visions, and if I don't some other skipper will take them.
One of the crew of the steamer said there was a bag of apples in one of the mailbags. "They must have been rotten with being ther Fince November 9, and you could smell apples all over the ship. What the letters in the same bay would be like I don't know.",
G.B.S. REVEALS A SECRET,
"THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA,”
There are no particularly rare
encourare is among boy scouty and in clubs and village institutes, would like teaching to be intro- duced into the schools here. One can imagine what the National Citizens' Association and other rities of our educational system would have to say about that.
But it is neither the musle-hall performer nor the street player earning good money who is the mainstay of the league, nor even the star amateur admired by his mates. It is the man who plays for his own anusement when he is tramping along a country road on his day off, or who feels that his visit to a football match in alien territory would lose smuch of its charm unless he and his companies tramned along to the
or valuable volumes among the sound of a dozen mouth organs as eight hundred books from the they used to do long years ago lu library of the late Mr. A. B. Walk-France.
ley that are to be sold at Sotheby'e The competitors are coming auction rooms at the end of this from Scotland, Wales, the Mid- month, bat between the leaves of lands, and the North, from mining, seme of them are letters to the villages and from industrial towns, dramatic critic from Mr. Bernard and it is likely that some will Slw, Max Beerbohm, and others cross from Ireland. It is hoped that make whimsical and spright that the final will be decided it a ly reading.
London music-hall. Miss Kate Two letters from the playwright Carney, one of the pioneers of accompany Henderson's critical biography of G. Bernard Shaw, and reveal who were the original of some of the chief characters in "The Doctor's Dilemma" and "Arms and the man."
One. dated from Welwyn, Nov. 18, 1906, runat
artistic merits of my play.
mouth organ playing in this ecuatry, who has returned to the stage with her band after an ab- sonce of twenty years, and who has now hooked uparements for three yours to come, has promise:l to present the prizes.--Ex.
"My dear A. B. W.-Lot me bribe you
with some in-
One day the writes) in January, formation that does not touch the 1905 Mr. Methuen had the happy thought that un lustration on "The scientific side of it is ac- the title-page just might commend curate and up to date. Sir Colen-Mr. James's forthcoming back to No Ridgeon the hero is, serum-Mudies' subscribers and even to pathologically [the name of a
Boots's.
The author, Mr. Beerbohm con- famous still living doctor] knight- ed. last birthday (May) for his tinues, became aware of the illus osonin discovery.". The situa-tration just before publication, and at once wrote a letter occupy. tion of the doctor having more cases than he can treat, and conse.ing three and a half quires of quently having to choose whom to note paper. Mr. Methuen then cure and whom to leave, actually suggested cancelling these copies
at the author's expense. existed last year, and does to som: extent exist still.
"The Hueiform sac (of which you will hear in the play) is im aginary-n nom de theatre for the vermiform appendix.
Mr. James's agreement. WAS prompt and unconditional. But his telegram was longish. The operator at the Rye post office, working feverishly and without more than threg pause, upent hours in transmitting it.
Perhaps because of the delay this caused, a few copies of the disfigured volume found their way irto circulation.
"The blunders of the Court Physician are founded on. fact."
Mr. Max Beerbohm sent Mr. Walkley a copy of Henry James's "The Golden Bowl"-"it la one of those which are sought after- Another document that will br 'very rare, called in title-page prized is a postcard written from copies." After remarking that Max Gate exactly twenty-three. this work is James's very best years ago yesterday by Mr. thing, whereas "The Awkward Thomas Hardy asking Mr. Walk- Age Is "utterly damnable and un-fey to accept a copy of "The readable," Mr. Beerbohm explains Dynasta," because "some remarks the rarity.
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