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A scone from "Figaro" al Clyndebourne,
Girls' School
NE of the most devastating things that can happen to anyone is to take a friend to see your favourite comedian and, And that your companion is com- pictely unmoved,
I am risking this name humiliation. by recommending to you a record by Arthur Marshall in the Columbia list, Marshall is billed only as "in his fam- Dust Schoolgirl Impressions," not an a comedian. This is a le misleading breathe a ne u mimic or animal Imitator as his billing might suggest, but, indeed, a great parodis.
Arthur Marshall by profession n nster at a famous public school, # own to the broadcasting pub- He by his little sketches in those monthly, quick-fire revues that Nri. S011 Keys used to play In before. 11/ went and got himself into n
And at 11 Sartie Theatre,
ys remember those revites you will remember how Marahall created n whole gallery of fussy midillesated wonten brichte playing, bazaar opent- Ir and reloof-tonelling.
In
his first record (Columbia D13 18481 he tells a superbly typical Seboot Girl's Story." You are hot, I think, experted 14 laugh out loud at this, it it will give you plenty of chuckles and ten a little opportunity
110-
acnire fo Martin's school marm valer, d d bis extraordinary gunintence with the style and matter Pair seluol stories
The uther side, "The feat Mistress, " image salisteul. The character is the Eternal Read nl necessarily only demaje?, whose end of term addresses are full of town spirit and Empires
England's Story In Place-Names
on
Record
TELEGRAPH.
buikung And all the other fatuoin
ellches that schoolchildren have in. filcted on them to make them ap preciate their holidays the more.
Columbia must record many more of Arthur Marshall's studies of busy-ness,
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UNE. apart froni All
this zain. which
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doing my garden no end of good, hru. brought at least, one other consolation for unusual ellmotte behaviour Flbobrih Schumann appears in the H.ALV. 18 with four songs that BTC really worth her singing.
All on one record, slis has given up balads and bird-nokes, and Instendi a
ings four Brahms' songs (DA 1417, which costs 48.,,and may therefore be considered to offer gond value at a sinibing per songi
Just how delightful the human voiér ean he subeth Schumana, demati sirates in her own way in this record» Ing. The songs are the " Wiegenlet.
"Vergebliches Stand- "Der Jager." chen, und Nachugati,"
For the benellt of flinge who recently beard no innre of this newson's “ Hasen- kavaller" than was rolayed on Whit- Monday there is available a recording of -ile irlo and final duet from the kist,
L Th
Decen-Polydrr regarding (ÇA #235) includes on Octavian, Tha Lemnitz, who made a great HIL at Covent Garden in this part for a soprano who, during the course of the evening. has to act well enough to con- vince that she is not only a boy of
hit.
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Griguley Shizelite, Shubrooke. The history of England. as
Shuckburgh, Thursford, reveal the Hold in the names of its towns, belief in supernatural beings of
villages and hamlets, is the fas-lower order, elves, sprites, goblins. cinating material handled by Professor Eilert Ekwull in "Thfessor Elwall's books in the certainty
Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Numes" (Oxford University Press. 15s.).
One can strike at random into Pro-
Goodwin of Anding gold. Thus, Sands" is followed by the entry:
"There is 21 tradition that the Goodwins were an island belonging 10 Earl Godwine that was washed He has shown, In this book of more away by the sea in 1997. But Good- name of a dangerous Ban 300 double-column pages, what win may he may He behind the most innocent-shoal meaning literally good friend, sceming names-Bairinck, for exam-und given for the same reason as the called gullfol (literally ple, which comes from an early form wolf is
of Baghdad and commemorates the Goldenfooled") Crusades, particularly the part taken, Sweden."
in Them by the Knights Templars.
it some parts of
Hungerford is literally "hunger Then, Totternhoe means a spur ford," or "ford where people had to of land with a look-out house"; Baw-starve: fekarnshaw means "squireci 1, and Leatherhead probably drip and Snargate refer to traps for wood,"
publie fort." Leatherheat entching animals: Burrow contains a means "the word which meant a beathen temple stands at the point where the Male
is crossed by an important rond. So the tale, proceeds.
Names such as Kingston, Quinton. Names of domestic animais Athelney, Professor Ekwall explains, common, as in Cowley, Oxton, Shep-
It is ton, Slapwick.
interesting.
are
For VESTA'S Long Life tell us that the places belonged once Professor Exwall notes, to find that
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COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
to the King, the Queen, some princes.]
is
Reepham must have been under the the custom of grazing cattle at some Damerham distance from the home village or supervision of`ja reeve.
"the judges manor." Charlion homestead-a custom still common in (Chariton) is "cillage of free pen Scandinavia-must have bem pre- sants": the name indicates that valent In England, not only in Scan-
districts, other villages had some other statis dinnylan
but in purely English areas. In the North, names and tells of early manorialism.
in "set" and "erg" testify to it,
Plaistow. Playford, Hesketh,
or horse-racing. are
comunenerated by names
Jike
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haps Follifoot, speak of ancient sports and in the South, we find numerous
Ancleat deer-parks names in "stac" and "wie.
Sumerion must have been a place Hartlip, Hindlip, Datlon, Dussett, to which people moved in summer Rolfey. Drakelow is probably are for the sake of better pasture, and miniscence of a myth in which n dra- there is even a case, Professor Ekwal! gon inhabited a mound.
?
records, where Somerton and Winter- fon are found close together.
In Kent and Sussex, "villages in WORSHIPPERS OF WODEN
lowlying districts had oullying They Place-names, says Professor: Ek-pastures in the Weali districts. wall, have something to tell us about were called 'denn' and seem to havu Anglo-Saxon religion and belief be been used mostly for swine-pastures, fore the conversion to Christianity. Likewise, marshland was allotted to Though the Christian religion was various vilinges. Place-names some- immigration into Englund, there had village of a 'dena' or piece of marsh. introduced about 150 years after the times give a hint as to the mother- been time for many places to get Tenterden is the den of the Thanet names referring to heathen worship,people, Burmarsh in South Kent, the Such names, for instance, as Wednes- marsh of the Canterbury people." " bury, Woodnesborough, Wansdyke, The bauk is more than an exhaus tlenote places where Woden was wor-tive work of reference: it is at once shipped, or that were associated with dictionary, history and romance.
MORE QUINTS
New York, July 20.
The new Dionne quintuplets are doing nicely. The quints- Maric, Annette, Yvonne, Emil and Ceell-were born at the home of John D. Dionne. They are pups of doubtful ancestry. Dionne Is no relative of the Ontario Dionnes-United Press.
SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936.
On Your
Gramophone by SPIKE
HUGHES
seventeen, but on occasion a boy amasqueradlag ns a girl.
Tiana Lemnitz dil all this and be- yond that sang, or she sings in this record, exquisitely.
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YEHUDI MENUHIN has gone. Inté tho Call- fornian wilderness to retire from con- cert work for two years, that he has left a lack of recordings beblad hin for us to remember him by
Hls Intest pleases me far, more than the mere playing. It introducen an un- familar concerto, Dvorak in A miner, which for my park can supplant the Brahms for the next few years without causing at least one concert-goer aur tears.
The Uvorak. like the Brahma, was written for and with the help of Joachim, but there the resemblance ends. Where the Brahms la repetitive the Dvorak gets on with the job. It in full of good tunes, especially the slow movement, and every bar of it is characteristic of the composer's grace and elegan, craftsmanship.
Yehull's recording i HIMY DR 2030-11.
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TEN
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years before Lizt diril Motle Rosenthal made his debut
pianist. Rosenthal, one of the few surviving pupiła of Liszt, is still playing the pinno
His first record for many years 15 isatied by B.M.V.
Rosenthel is one of the grent Chopin players of this world and his perform. ance of three Chopin preludes and the A Flat Waltz (Op. 42) is na lovely na you could wish.
Must enchanting of all is the way he plays the gracious little Andantino which in the seventh of Choplu's *Twenty-Four.
YOU SHOULD LIKE.
MARIAN ANDERSON (FEMV, DB 2837). A great Negro contralto, not unknown here but better known 127 the Contierat, where the sells out nine times in t Her record is of three spiritunis
ERIC COATES. One of the finest of British viola players trito is better kuomu these days as a conipoŝer, has written n vele suite: “ London Agata.** He ronducts himself on Columbia DX 736-7; Dick Crean and the Palladium Orchestra play it on #1,MV. (72847.
MAURICE CHEVALIER (HMV. 'D *440). From his new picture, "The Beloved Vagabond," Vás fue artist sings, “You look so swingt, Madeone," and Tin-doodle-day,
HC WAS A GENTLEMAN'S GEN. TLEMAN, Thia musical Jerres is erle. brated in song by By Cotton Regat MR 2098), Michael Carr-who wrote -Parlophon, F 480); Toy Fox LEMN, BO SU701.
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LUCIE MANNHEIM GODFREY TEARLE PEGGY ASHCROFT
GAUMONT - BRITISH PICTURE Directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK
John Buchan's greatest thriller with Robert Donat the famous star of "Monte Cristo," and Madeline Carroll of "I Was A Spy
A grand thriller."-Daily Sketch. "Robert Donat scores the triumph of his
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"A British Film worthy of praise without.
reserve. Madeline Carroll gives the best performance of her career.”—Daily Mail.
fame..
"When a picture is as good as "The 39 Steps" it is almost superfluous to detail its individual virtues."--Observer. "It is a picture which will keep you pinned to your seat and which most of you will want to see twice."--Sunday Dispatch.
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