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Professor of Mirth LASZLO SCHWARTZ searches for
Humour at the Uni.
and in his wanderings meets PROFESSOR L. FORSTER
ories still brewing within, naturally I am for over cham- pioning the Art of Humour in Schools.
A very, very wise old WITH such school-day mem-
Jewish gentleman once gave me this valuable bit of wisdom: "Never go to sleep with anger in your heart." Now, Professor Forster, who All of which sounds very ate as to ask such risky ques- no doubt never was so unfortun- well, but I wager my credi- tions, followed by such painful (tors' loans against my debts replies, naturally cannot see that this dear old chap never, with my eyes and feel with my Stubbs Rd. received RS many slaps, say about the subject:
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mighty and wholehearted, from a fully-developed pro- fessorial hand as I did in Latin school because again and again (and with no evil in DRAKE AL the War Memorial my mind or heart) my ques- Hospital at 7.30 pm. May 2tions. put to him in all carnest- Edward O. Drakte, of B, Å. T. Co., (Chinn), Ltd. aged 63. The ness, made the class howl with dearly beloved husband of Florrio laughter. Drake, father of Nick and Mary. Funeral Service at the Colonial Cemetery Chapel at 4 p.m. to-tiny. (China papers plense copy).
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SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1936.
JEWS v. ARABS
Marek Weber's Orchestra ...Marck Weber's Orchestra Britain has no quarrel with Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra the Bedouin population of Pales Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra which are presented to the "Follow the Sun”-Select'an-Parts 1 & 2
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Tango Habanera
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BD-336 -Songs of Songs (Moya) (Piano Accordeon)
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life (Herbert)
Gershwin Medley
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cheeks. This is what he has to
"Chinese students regard education seriously, and I agree with them, for there is a danger of humour diverting their atten- Lion from the serious things to be achieved merely to score a point of triviality.
"Of course I fully appreciate the corrective value of humour, but, at the same Lime, bear in mind
that laughter is a sign of superior adaptation on the part of those who feel superior to the victim; That is why I oppose sacrificing the essential in education only to laugh.
Mind you, if I, 400, had We . must Inughed i wouldn't have con- sidered these all too periodical and all too punctual slaps such flagrant breaches of pedagogie justice. But I didn't laugh. To be frank, I hadn't a chance. The techaique, routine and aim was so superhumanly uncanny in its accuracy that before I had a chance to join the class in laughing, I nursed a flushed and flabbergasted cheek.
score a
"As to a systematic cult, of humour in our scheme of educa. tion, I believe it would prove a boomerang.
"The conscious idea of hum our produces an artificial sense of humour. I admit that in the alt too few laughs in our school-rooms, but there has been a vast improve
tine. The British bayonets NOTES OF THE DAY past there were
breasts of the rebellious Arab THE WRONG TURNING are to keep him from the throat
late
Lord Allenby
ment in that respect during the past thirty years.
"What is the fate of humour under a dictatorship?
"You can't kill humour; even Dictators can't: they simply drive it underground. Then it expresses itself in fables, such as "The Lion and the Mouse,' etc. It becomes more subtle, or more biting, but it is never ́en- tirely downed."
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"How do you account for Shaw's great sense of hum- our and satire?" I asked.
"He is one of the very few who stands aside and sees how ludicrous all is about him. Many of us sec as he observes, but we haven't the ability to ex- press it as he does. As a mat- ter of fact, no-one can develop a great sense of humour unless he stands off."
"Please give me a bit of hum- our that you consider humour at its best," I suggested.
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WHEN and day our woaded fores father hinybe a more remote progenitor-made curious noises in his voice-box, his wife refrained from asking whether he had a pain, because the tone was different. This was not the effect of a spasm, but the outcome
Moreover, the sounds that were be ing emitted had a certain familiarity After she had endured much repeti tion our ancestress became convinced thai her lord was but imitating and echoing the sounds of nature. "
Itis teachers had been the wind, the waves, and the river; the earthquake, the thunder, and the landslide. Those voices of nature were his stimulation
GONU
Forster
"Then I'll tell you a story that dates back to the days of Pro- hibition in the United States of America. An American proud- ly pointed out the Statue of Liberty to a French fellow- passenger as they entered New York Harbour. The Frenchman looked up to it musingly; then, in a very quiet manner, com- mented: 'Yes; we also put up statues to our illustrious dead.'
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AS a parting shot, the Pro-
fessor retailed Punch's story of the Oxford youth:
Lady: And what are you do- ing in Oxford?
Mudern.
Undergraduate:
Greats.
Lady: How interesting; and do you design them yourself?
SING?
1 refer to the fellow who sings in Rhythm in noise is resistible.. his bath. It is commonly surmised What railway traveller has not found that he is so full of beans" thus himself humming absent-mladedly In early in the day that he just must the course of a journey? That's the express his joy in living-and all the response to the rhythm of the rumble rest of it, or else he is practising of the wheels: The steady beat' of top note. Nothing of the kind! It the engine of a motor car has a like was the rushing of the water from effect. the tap that began it. That ancestor
of his lived near a water-fail and the impulse is inherited.
If this Spartan continue to slag after the bath is filled that is more bravado. I know, for I had a canary that burst into a frenzy of song every *ine water tap was turned on in his hearing. But he stopped when the water did.
employer of Inbour will tell Come back to singing at work. Any you that girls. Hike to sing al their work, and that they work better while they sing. It may be alleged that such singing is an ald to спегку a metaphysical tonic, a psychological cocktail, but I maintain that that view is inverted. Their singing is not, n enuse but a consequence. These girls Take other cases. A Jarly whom I sing because they can't help it. They know sings to rain. The patter of sing to noise, and the nature of the drops on path or pavement, groen noise determines the sort of the sing grass, Klass roof, or umbrella will set ing.
Many her singing softly in concert
Call me a besotted theorist if you housewives accompany the hum of the will, but listen to this: I know a Rotor of the vacuum-cleaner in ilting small factory to which is attached a lay, and one chariady, at least, can
Because warehouse-showroom.
of king in perfect time to the swish of the proximity of the latter, singing in her scrubbing-brush. It's the noise the factory is frowned upon. The that does it.
girla do aing, however they can't. help it. Ever and anon one can hear the low liit of song through the din of the machines,
Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra of the Jew. We must not lose It was a melancholy picture of! The Town Talks-Piano Medley, Vivian Ellis (Pianist) sight of this fact. Nor must we the world, "this broken world.". Reminiscences of Frim!-Paramount Theatre Organ. jump to the conclusion that we which the
Foort are fighting a battle for Zionism presented in
of the last one ever delivered, in Palestine. We are only play-speeches he George Scott-Wooding the part of a policeman eat feature of the European situa
Edinburgh recently. The strong- endeavouring to uphold pledgestion is that all Governments and George Scott-Wood given in the Balfour Declaration all propies lose no opportunity of of 1917, and to do our duty putting on record their desire for Renara (Pianist under the League of Nations pence and their abhorrence of war. mandate for this territory. And, as Lord Allenby said, human By the Balfour Declaration, nature remalus as it has ever been, Britain promised that she kindly on the whole and well to further establishment of a good things-of-the-earth-for-all- "national home" for the Jewish Even in the least progressive people, but at the same time countries, without the aid of that she would do nothing to of wealth is being steadily effected. formal Socialism, a redistribution prejudice the civil or religious Science, too, has placed many con- rights of the non-Jewish com-veniences and luxuries within the munities in that country. Un- reach of the great majority, Dead. fortunately, Zionist penetration, ly disonses are being overcome. encouraged and assisted by The general health is on the up-and his inspiration both. What the Britain, could scarcely help but grade, and people are living langer. lady listened to was an early effort in
singing. disturb the Arab population and On the face of it there seems to be give rise to the claim that their every reason why this should be rights were not only being pre-Everyone knows the futility of the golden age of the human race. judiced. but permanently, jco-war, which puts back the clock of pardised. They had, and have, civilisation without making anyone a strong case, This country the better. The case is clearly one has been their home for 1,000 for man co-operating with years, and 700,000 or 800,000 and nation with nation, so that the people in the 7,000 square miles world may be made a better and affected, most of thein farmers, stil better place to live in. have nowhere to go if their Instead, wo see the spectre of war lands are sold to Jews. Syria while the horrors of the last war ulrondy raising its head once more, is closed to them on the north; are still fresh in the memory of Transjordania, on the east has many-horrors that will be grently no place for them; and to the intensified in the next large con- south lies Negeb, and the desert.lict. Nevor was there a more dis- They claim, with some reason, tressing example of the ability of that they have as much right to mankind to see the wise course A bright young. thing was over- It is said that Hongkong has this land as the Jews. That, without being, wise enough to pur- heard to remark that this weather basically, is their cause for sue it. Fear and distrust, narrow made her feel "positively batty. complaint. Their religious dif- nationalism, and megalomaniac It's not the heat; it's the stupidity.
ambition threaten to spoit oll ferences with Zionists secondary.
The Balfour Declarationcerned, saturation point has a Cheese Treatz, because their is sky blue!
don naval agreement describe it as post-box. Appropriately enough, which men of long visage might been reached, for persistent it's so full of holes. We suppose a have perceived must cause colonisation is robbing them of really water-tight understanding racial troubles eventually; when their homes. And they are would be dubbed "a Green Island it first appeared scarcely pro-rendy to fight for what they call Cement Pact." voked apprehension among the their rights. Arabs, but by 1920 their fears
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So it is that singing was in fashion
before music had an ordered be, ing. So it is that true singing is not an acquired art, but an imitative in- pulse. Present-day proof is ready to band. The unclothed descendant of that early singer still responds to like
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They are a normal crowd, thene machinists. Their after-houra musi- cal taste is probably best expressed in Jazz, but one never hears Jazz at the machinos. This fact is peculiar and might seem to blow my theory aky- high, for all sorts of operations are performed in this factory, and ench machine has its own private noire and note. The seamers give a steady run of plain bicker. The embroiderers tra staccato elide with frequent pauses. The buttoners emit a short,
harp tattoo, The button-holera dis- charge a long clatter which ends in
abrupt salek.
an
All this may suggest a perfect ex- position of jazz of the most virulent type, but the "song at the machine" We notice that a local resident Is either a hymn or a simple melody is enquiring as to the correct diet in a minor koy.
the noise to for daschunds. What about a Why? Just because.
which these girls are sub-consciously good hamburger?
compelled to sing, although of lower 口 A witness at the Budget leakage
pitch than any of the others, is one Efforts are being made to revize that dominates the senses by reason inquiry said he had learned by
Press was dog-racing at Macao. Now we gf its continuity and rhythm. It is the uncensing him of the motor, for experience that the
likely may all go to the dogs-1 usually best informed on
time is beaten with unfailing O 口 Thought-reading must changes.
by the muffled "plonk, be the newspaperman's strong auft.
And then there was the man who fell asleep watching the of the driving-belt as the joint greyhounds. He must have been passes over the pulleys. were
Simple melodica and hymn, tuner dog-tired.
harmonise with
compelling Some people fear that menibers due to exactly the same stenitor master-notse, and the girls singing is mulus as of the Mul-Teal Commission will was that of their far-off proni Ket out of their depth. One to the mounds of nature.
Hundreds of beer taps
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had taken root, and they saw
are inclined to feel their hopes of
for the national unity
#1 Bedouin deep diminishing and, what was sympathy, and if he raises his more important at the moment, hand against the British Army their living taken out of their in Palestine, he should not be mouths. For the Jews were demands most delicato handling misunderstood. The situation organised and the Arabs were not. From that time on the and much more tact than was offered for sale in Hongkong re- Supreme Moslem Council set used in the building of the cently. We hope this business is about to correct this unequal Balfour declaration. Perhaps not going bung! situation and organised. Arab it would be expedient, in view
0 commerce, so that now, with a of the really grave threat of Paucity of water. Poor city of wouldn't think sa after nacing The pundits may state the case strike in progress throughout bloodshed, if this undertaking water.
them awimming at Repulse Bay, differently. We may be told that the ᄆ
above da a simple illustration of the Palestine, a more serious situa- were revised, or at least that
A visitor recently exclaimed tion than that of the earlier Jewish immigration be halted
Mr. Baldwin in accepting Mr.of "pre-established harmony," May operation of the philosophical theory anti-Jewish boycott has arisen. until the Bedouins' caso is heard that she could not sloop in Hong J. H. Thomme resignation, nd-be sol. But it's simpler to say, "This..
lightning · A | dressed him as "My Dear Jim.' The Arabs insist that so far as and decided,
or kong for Jewish Immigration.
It is presumed that Mr. Thomas replied: "O.K., Stan."! -
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George Melvin.