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B-8422 Don't let the river run dry
Just keepin' on
B-8421
C-2835
BD-334
Sung by Peter Dawson
. Sung by Peter Dawson
Vienna, City of my Dreams (Sioczynniki)
Sung by Webster Booth Stay with me for ever ("Giuditta") (Lohar)
Sung by Webster Booth Gertrude Lawrence Medley-Parts 1 & 2
Gertrude Lawrence Jack Hulbert Where there's you there's mo You're sweeter than I thought you were Jack Hulbert (Both from the Film-"Jack of all trades"} BD-335 Tap your tootsies (Film-"Jack of all trades")
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Lesson in American
DONNING cap and gown,
Professor C. V. R. Thompson will give the two million readers of the Daily Express an easy course in one lesson in the least- known language in the world-American. '
Oh, yes, I know grammarians tell us Americans speak English. But that is not true. I am not being rude or allying myself with those English folk who say, Americans, murder English. I am saying they have a language of their own.
English
Biscuit
Cracker
Bon-bon
American
Cracker
Bon-bon Candy and so on
take the highway (main road), and you will get a "licket" (summons) if you go haywire (awry) while driving.
WHEN WE ARE given employment Wo Aro "hired," and if the employer likos our work ho gives us a "raise," never a rise.
Wo
When we play party ganes
call
"Musical Chairs" "Going to Jersusalem," "Ifide and-Seck" "He and go Seck," "Postman's Knock" "Post Office." And, while I am talk ing of the post office, postmen are letter-carriers.
When we have any money we say we have a "big roll,"
are in the dough." A note is always a bill, a dollar is a buck, five dollars is a finn, ten dollars a sawbuck, a thousand dollara a "G" for Grand. Because the dollar used to be n piece of eight we call a quarter of a dollar-which is worth about a shilling-two bits.
A bank clerk is a teller, and a elerk is the man who sells you groceries, underwear, or cigarettes,
who say "Grozveenor" in place highball. Liqueurs are cordials. any one behind a counter.
Going on the wagon is limiting
ticket.
D senson-
AND HERE ARE
American calls a pearl a pail, Arkansas Arkansas instead of never a cinema. Then, perhaps, some of the odds and ends about
our
If you live in the suburbs and So let us consider a few facts of "Grovenor."
Nothing amuses Americans more drinking to beers and wines. Six come into town every day you are about the American language than the Cholmondeley, Beaulieu, quarts of champagne still see you a commuter, and you hold a com- and kindred subjects.
Marjoribanks joke. But they can on the wagon. If you have too mutation ticket, not FIRST. I WOULD not understand when the unfor- much you are "cockeyed." like to kill the story that every tunnte Englishman pronounces After dinner we go to a "movic,"
to see a. door show the American language and its an oyster an erster. That is a Arkansaw, cannot turn Carolina we go viclous canard, as the politicians into Calina, forgets to make cabaret to you-and after that users that I have discovered:-
feel like taking
That some schools in New say. The poil-erster language is Connecticut Conneticut and Balti we may
"brond," "jane," or "frail on the York do not teach foreign Stubbs Rd. confined almost entirely to New more Baltimer.
No one ever says "Not at " in fcor for a "twister" (dance). innguages because they have York's great suburb, Brooklyn.
WE GO HOME. quite enough difficulty teaching Leiseve they are the direct descen- welcome" is the phrase. You never Perhaps we go by one of the their immigrant pupils English.
Bostonians, who would have you response to "Thank you." "You're
morning." always busses" - they would not That President Franklin dants of the Pilgrim Fathers, talk hear "Good rather like the people of Norfolk. "Hello." If you want to be ritzy, understand if you said "omni- Roosevelt in the best speaker of Mid-Westerners talk likte Fredric you say "Hello, there,"
bus." Perhaps we go by subway American, that his favourite open- TELEPHONE March; Californians like a good
That Mayor Fiorello La Guardin, river, by tube (underwater tun- loud-speaker; deep, dark South language is different too. A (tube), or, if we live across the ing remark is "My Friends."
of New York, is the worst speaker eruera ilke a tired circular saw cut line is always "busy," ting through honey.
engaged. "Long-distance" gets nel). Or we may walk along of American, but at the same time
the sidewalk, which is
pave the most eloquent. New Yorkers talk like Boston. out-of-town JENSEX-Elly Elisabeth,' wife of F.
V. Jensen, died June 4, 1936, atians, Mid-Westerners, Californians, never ring anybody up-cali ment, being careful when we the War Memorial Nursing Home, deep, dark Southerners, Italians, them up. And if an operator cross the pavement, which is head of the Miners' Federation, is The funeral Cortege will pass the Greeks, French, Spanish, English, told you "You're through now," We live on such-and-such street, American. Monument at 5 p.m. to-day, and a mixture of all them. she would mean your conversa never in it. A house is always
That Amelia Earhart is the best Thursday.
No one in America drops his "h. tion was finished and you would "For rent instead of "To let." A woman speaker of American, The only guide to noble or humble hang up." birth is the use of the past tense.
BIRTHI,
HYLAND: At Peking, on 3rd June, 1936, to Phyllis, (nee Capell), wife of A. O. Hyland, a daughter.
DEATH.
The
Evie Hayes Hongkong Telegraph.
If I had rhythm in my Nursery Rhymes... Sam Browne .Sam Brownc The Star and the Rose
B-B416 Faithful Jumping Jack (Heykens)
BD-331
Standchen (Heykens) Obstination
Marck Weber's Orchestra .Marek Weber's Orchestra Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra Tango Habanera....Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra C-2833 "Follow the Sun"-SelectionParts 1 & 2
(With Vocal Refrain)
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936.
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numbers. You
street.
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That ex-miner Join L. Lewis,
the most picturesque speaker of
flat is an apartment, a punctured That the most-used words of the Cheese biscuits are crackers, tyre is a flat.
American language are "awell" and If you say "I saw him on Broad- sweet biscuits are cookies. A kind Our trousers are kept up by sus "okay." way last night" you can sip tea of scone is a biscuit. Muffins are penders instead of braces, and our That the latest slang word · Is with the Four Hundred. If you hot buns, unless English mufling socks are held by garters instead "whacky"-meaning crazy. say "I seen him etc.," you are out.
Win- of suspenders. A bowler is That columnist Walter NEARLY ALL are specified..
Mutton is a foreign word in the derby, trousers are pants, and pants chells' marriage of certain words, Americans pronounce words as American language. American are shorts.
such as "infanticipating," "Reno-" they are spelt. They laugh when sheep, like American women, have If you take a drive you go out in vating" have become part of the they hear an Englishman say learned the secret of perpetual your "automobile" ar your American language. "secret'ry" instead of their youth. They never get beyond the "machine." It runs on gasoline, That most Americans pronounce carefully laboured "seere- lamb stage, There is no treacle shortened to "gas." Parafin is donkey to rhyme with monkey. "Warwick is War-in America; it is always molasses. kerosene, and if you ask for paraf- and tomato to rhyme with potato. taanary."
That it is quite correct to pro- obviously incorrect interpreta-wick, not Worrick: Berkeley is Sweets are enndies--hard or soft, fin you get floor polish. If your
according to whether they are car is an old one you may hear it nounce vase as vaize. not Barkley, and there are some chocolate or "chewies," Sweet called a follopy.
That my course in the American course in a meal is dessert. Des-
By the time you reach the more language is over. xert is just plain fruit.
distant country you will see plenty
A whisky and soda is a Scotch yakels). If you are wise you will
CANTON AND
NANKING
Quite a sensational and an
tion has been placed by a Japan- | ese news agency on the Intest
West Executive Committee of
Foort manifesto issued by the South-NOTES OF THE DAY Whisky, as we know it, is Scotch, of hayzentin and hicks (country C.V.R.Thompson
Jack Jackson's Dorchester Hotel Orchestra BD-337 The Town Talks-Plano Medley ..Vivian Ellis (Pianist) BD-338 Reminiscences of Frim!-Paramount Theatre Organ
BD-336 Songs of Songs (Maya) (Piano Accordeon)
George Scott-Wood Ah, Sweat Mystory of Life (Herbert)
George Scott-Wood Gershwin Modley.
Renara (Pianist)
BD-339
the downfall of Ethiopla is the
the Kuomintang and the South- One of the first consequences of West Political Council calling" apon the Nanking Government effect it has had upon the Balkan to take definite steps in resis-States. These have been in con- tance of Japan. The manifesto, ference and already a tendency to which is in the form of a circular change in policy is becoming appar-
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Scientists Trying
To Cut it Down
other men born on the same day.
to a great age with his mental and
ysical abilities
unimpaired, yet rarely at any time in his life allowed but a repetition of innumerable It has been bitterly proved to those ing years in bed, and even if you are more than fifty-five you will spend
himself more than four hours a night. similar declarations made from small States, and others will be no five of your remaining years asleep.
Edison's ability to go to bui at Canton in recent years. To less poignantly disillusioned, that no We are all Rip Van Winkles, los hours a night, and that as a result he at 7 a.m. was remarkable, but an in-
and the
a.m. and awaken
fren completely refreshed view it as a declaration of war small nation need. look for protec-fnet that we divide up our against the Central Government, tion if it is attacked by a great of sleeping does not make the total of had "lived two months more than timate acquaintance has revealed the
less astonishing.
fact that he was in the habit of tak- From time to time energetle men, It is not surprising that scientists ing short naps during the day, It carrying with it the establish-Power. A small nation may be
may well have been that when the successfully subjected to sanctions, appalled at- what they comiter fed and women could not be "conditioned" total of these maps was reckoned he
hours bed, have tried ment of a new and wholly but a strong one cannot, because to train themselves to do with less to sleep less and thus enjoy a longer did not get so much less sleep than a dependent Government in the they would inevitably lead to war. and less sleep, in the same way as the waking life. In support of the possi- normal person. There is the further South, is to stretch it far beyond Might is right, whether it apply to runner trains himself to travel longer bility a great number of cases of point that many people find they re- its real purport.
ger distances. One man who men who have managed on far less quire less sleep as they get older, It is to be ad-sanctions or any other form of coer-knocked several hours a night off his than the normal ration of sleep have although they require just as much mitted that the South-West cion. That is the lesson the nations sleep over a period of thirty years been brought forward. The most rest.
Napoleon was another short sleeper, leaders have been greatly agilat- have learned from the tragedy of claimed that he felt as fit and well as often quoted is that of Thomas Edi-
when he took his regulation eight son, the famous Inventer, who lived but he like Edison indulged in the occasional nap. He was not abova ed by Japan's recent activities in Ethiopia.
taking one of these naps during the the North. both military and Having had this lesson burnt into
middle of a battle, and one is driven otherwise, and it is also clear their minds, the Balkan States are that the reports of a heal-looking about for means to limit ing of the breach between their military obligations, and to Canton and Nanking are, to put do everything in their power to it mildly, rather premature, come closer together in their search Without doubt, Southern politi- for safety. They will keep as far cal opinion favours the taking of as possible from entanglement in a strong line against Japan the differences of the Powors, and live in the hope that a reform of before the threats to China's)
the League will in time bring that integrity become even more pro-measure of security which the pre- nounced. But it only requires agent organisation has signally failed moment's thought to reveal that to give them. Canton could not, at one and the
same moment, appeal for nation-
al unity and decide to embark on might esally be a new civil war. hostilities against the Nanking But it is unthinkable that the Government. The Japanese in military initiative should come terpretation of the manifesto as from Canton. Dozens of rea-
a
move.
declaration of war may be sons could be quoted to show the nothing more than the wish unlikelihood of such a being father to the thought, for But whatever the future has in it is clear that nothing would store, it is indeed a sorry state suit Japan's militarists better at of affairs that, at this juncture this juncture than a renewal of in the nation's affairs, there large-scale: Internal trouble in should be fresh evidence of such China. At the same time, there a divergence of viewpoint as |would appear to be good grounds might lead to an open rupture. for thinking that relations be- Never in China's history was! tween' Canton and Nanking, so there greater need for national If far from being improved, are unity and consolidation. drifting from bad to worse. such unity is not achieved, the Should Nanking dotermine to eventual upshot may be the com- take active measures to bring plete loss of the nation's the South under more direct con- sovereignty, in face of aggres-¡ trol and discipline, the outcome sion from without.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark to the conclusion that many of the
"Madam, what did you say I might do, if he began to make a nuisance of himself?"
men who claim that they never need more than four hours sleep, actually take more at intervals. This is different matter from being able to do with four hours sleep for two or three nights running, and making up for it afterwards. Lindbergh went without sleep for almost three days when the Atlantic,
Пlying
but slept profoundly for ten hours on
Jonding. What scientists have discovered is that the quality of sleep is an
O im. portant as the quantity; or put it another way, if you sleep well you do not need so much sleep ns if you alep poorly. The man who sleeps in a perfectly quiet and dark room on a comfortable bed, with light bod- clothes, and who does not jump out of bed on waking, but takes things quietly for ten minutes, is likely to be as refreshed after six hours sleep as another man sleeping in a noisy room on a creaking bed after nine hours sleep. The effect on alcepere of even slight noise has surprised many investigators.
Women
are belleved to sleep longer than men; Indeed the old proverb gives them nine hours against sight, because they sleep more light- ly and aro more reatless,
By showing men how to sleep correctly, sefentists may be able to show them how to get as much benefit from shorter hours. Not all the time spent in bed is spent asleep. People take varying times to go off to sleep, and even the average may vary from day toe is largely wasted, and The time spent trying the gift of being able to go to
sleep
to
go
at will which has characterised many great
mien Is worth cultivating. Gladstone and Mr. Lloyd Georgo aro oxamples of the possession of this faculty, a very useful ose to a Prime Minister, whe frequently has to get to sleep when and where he can...