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MODERN PLAYS
Characters With Whom
No One Could Live
Mr. S. P. B. Mels, lecturing atị the City of London Vacation Course in Education, on "Modern
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1934.
The late President Paul von Hindenburg_sejag borno so nis grave as ajautuvogi sceni of his greatest World War victory. This General scens of the impressive rites, shows the coffin of the beloved warrior and statesman in the fore-ground. Directly behind, spanking, is Chancellor Hit lor.
Literature,' Wob contemptuous children to eat food rather thanWHINES & GROANS" Patrick Moore, instead of marry- regarding some of the modern what he described as "foodo." plays and playwrights..
ing him.
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"There is too much cancer in
Baritone Criticises
Crooners
The marriage was to have taken place at a register oflice this month. Misa Melnotte Is 72 and Mr. Moore.
31.
"Is there one single creature you England now," he said. "The could bear to live with, or even bo found dead with, in the playa gures have doubled in the last
"The whole thing was a joke on was my part because I was so tired of
of Noel Coward?" he asked. few years. There is something! "They give me a sort of horror. wrong somewhere, and I cannot Strong criticism of crooners, New York literally falls at Cow-help thinking that food is going who, he said, were not capable of Ard's feet when he visits there, to be as important for the coming giving a full-blonded gong, but they see through him and he generation as international depinde by Mr. Dale Smith, the well-the business," Miss Meinotte said. comes in for a lampooning which | fence,"
| known baritone, lecturing on vocal "It was apparently taken seriously. he does not get in this country.
technique at the Summer School My engagement has been broken or Music and Musle Teaching at off, and I am adopting Mr. Moore St. Andrews University.
legally." Their work whines and groans were amplified by the B.D.C. and She continued. "It is necessary gramophone studios,
the for me to have someone to help me strange sounds they uttered were with the theatre. While my son given to the listener with the
was alive W0 worked for it strength of a full-blooded effort. Millions of peonie were deceived together. After his death I de- Jelded, for business reasons, to in this way..
adopt Mr. Moore,
He urged the teachers also to "However, wo do owe something teach loyalty because, he said, in to the Coward-Lonsdalo school of the terrible state of the world to- playwrights, because they have day it was growing increasingly been able to pull people back to the necessary. theatre in these days of counter- attractions of wireless and the LORD DUNSANY AND ANOTHER
cinema.
"The suggestion that Bergner is a second Duce la nonsense."
Another comment of Mr. Mais was "Imagine a mooting between Robert Bridges and Noel Coward. Who would be the inferior?"
WAR.
Lord Dunsany said that the question most discussed nowadays was whether there would be an- other war.
and
The crooner counted for nothing. to the mustetan because of tho "It was then thought advisable "Do not tell your children that caningless drivel he gave out, but to arrange a marriage instead of there was an inclination on the an
poople adoption. However, there is a reasonably_hopeful part of acrious singers as far as have made such an outery, sending Whether in flction, poetry, or chance that there won't be another strength of voice was concerned mu anonymous postcarda
Зав drama, we had been living too long war," he said. "Don't encourage to follow his example, and the though it Was any of their in the ley east winds. We were that line of thought, because if habit was creeping into our con-business) that we are returning to longing for the return of the warm you do you equip them with little cert halls.
our original plan.” west winds.
gilded harps and they will live in a fool's paradise which belong would soon have people walking our engagement was that Mins If this kind of thing went on we Mr. Moore said, "The reason for to another planet, and that planet, about with pocket microphones too Melnotta dealred to keep the Duke. so far as history end can lazy to speak above a whisper. It of York's Theatre in the family. preve, has never existed."
ADOLESCENT CURIOSITY,
Dr. A. C. Hughes, lecturing on the teaching of science, pointed out that little children were biolo. gically minded,
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was the duty of all singers to re-In view, however, of the public Half-and-half measures of dia- tain the seriousness and beauty of outcry against the proposed marrj- armament were not of any uso.their work.
nge, Miss Melnofte is going to place The question "How do they Disarmament was at least conais make babies?' is continually recur- tent, but he wondered if it avering and lounging about was of son."
The present-day habit of flopp-me legally in the position of her ring," he said. "What about tho had occurred to them-he had Httle uso to the singer. A lazy boy preparing for matriculation never heard it mentioned that attitude spelt disaster. "Sag and with his course of sound, light, disarmament could have no effect don't sing, or sing and don't sug' and heat? He la carrying many in preventing war. The deadliest should be the ery of every vocal discarded theories as to how he kind of war was hand to hand tencher. was made. He does not say any fighting.
thing about it, but do not make
any mistake. The boy da wonder- Lord Dunsany said that he be-
ing about how he was made and lieved that we should have peace what help is the course in sound, for some time, because the nationa
light, and heat, when he does not did not want war. They real
get a satisfactory answer to this that the present was not the time question. Selonco in senior for war. schools should help boys and girls
"Some years ago," he said, "the
WEDDING CANCELLED
Woman to Adopt Man
as Son Instead
to find answers to questions about nations felt they wanted war, and birth and growth."
Alisa Violet Molnotte, the London- Lord Dunsany, at a luncheon n I cannot help feeling that such & West End theatre proprietress, connection with the Course, ap. time may come again, and the only explained recently, why she is to pealed to the teachers to teach the possible thing le to be prepared adopt her manager, Mr. Archibald
for it."
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Hla Lordship assented to the settlement.
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