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THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1936,
SPECIAL TRAINING
FOR BUSINESS
The growing popularity of the course of business training be- gun some years ago at the Lon- Jon School of Economics is
world awaited the revelation. of a grave scandal.
One thing it does show: that the keeping of a diary
Locked up!
-Says-
Margaret Lane
indicative of changed ideas is a dangerous amusement. Inter, they usually manage to
The only kind that is safe
which now prevail in regard to, fitting young men for a commer-
has been a stream of university
However amusing they are to yourself at the time, and to other people, for other reasons,
bite the band that writes them.
Mary Astor (left) talking to her friend, Ruth Chatterton, in court during the nensα- tional lawsuit in Los Angeles.
~
before the
ABOUT by The Showman
AM grateful to somebody-I have forgotten his name, and I "am too lazy to look it up-who wrote an article, this week, which hinted at a progressivo world water shortage.
Ho admitted, by the way, that this. was hard to believe in Great Britain now that summer is here!
But he did envisage an arld world reduced to tapping the polar ice-caps for water, an Lowell suggested had been done on Mars with those disputed canals.
This is a conception to which tho word "awful" may be properly ap plied. Thinking about it does you good,. because, for once, you nee the idiotic aquabbles of nations in their right per- spective.
Bhall we ever combine for happiness and self-preservation? Or as seems probable now-will the Last Man be ieft shooting at a reflection in the Last Mirror with the Last Machine Qunt?
'EGGS OF HELL"
I have been urged to continue my uncompleted novel. Eggs of Hell," past the point where I got stuck be cause Captain Peter Pullover, of the Becret Bervice, faced by five glant Chibear with automaties, had misla his machine-gun.
You may remember that a bomb In his breakfast ega lind exploded, britt- Ing down the ceiling, and that he and n wife called Lady Elsie, of dazzling beauty? Very well. Now read on
Her Ladyship's Entrance SUDDENLY & machine-gun began its devilish chatter behind Pull- mouthlang over, and the Chiego, curtes, were strickru to the floor.
"What on earth..." he began. Then there was a crash, And he knew No more.
When he recovered consciousness.. his wife was bending over him and ad- Justing his amoked glasses so that her dazzling beauty would not blind him.
Yes," she said softly, "it was 1. The explosion threw your machine pun into my hands upstairs. There tas na ceiling, so I saw the Chinese; and then-" she laughed deliciously
just dropped in on you.”
-
He, Loo, laughed, and drew her into A long embrace while the floor, also weakened by the explosion, began, very alowly and very tenderly to give way. beneath them..
Fairy Story
THE news was this. Francia Lederer had a surplus of cabbages on his farm near Hollywood, thirty thousand of them. So began posting them off in sackfuls to everyone he knew.
And what do you think he found (1)~ derneath each cabbage? Why, a dear, ittle baby film-star. And now they are all hawling their heads off because There aren't enough diamond-studded cols to go round.
I always regard with wonder A Melody from the Sky-Fox Trot Casani Club Orchestra.cial life. It is shown in the is the kind that is not worth anyone with the persistent per
to keep a diary. I nearly let Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot. School's Intest report that there keeping, for all the best sonal faith
Diarists are born, not made, and
mail Wellington Got to dance my way to Heaven-Fox Trot.
Jay Wilbur's Orchestra graduates from the principal diaries are thoroughly indis- I have never been able to keep publication of the memoirs, and one for more than two days of his famous reply: "Publish together.
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To be able to take a little a defiant dignity which even The Scene Changes-Fox Trot
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from perhaps?) Johnson's Orchestra attitude of business leaders is in
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Every time I look at you-Fox Trot.Johnson's Orchestra. striking contrast to the view so
drawer in your desk and dis- Harriette, more fortunately cover what you, were doing on for posterity than for her noble long held that the best and only Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)
NOTES OF THE DAY that particular 12th of August admirers, published with relish, means, To be sung by Mr. Eden in Primo Scala Accordeon Band. [efcient training ground for
must produce a delicious sense and the rush to buy the paper- young men is in business itself. .Charlie Kunż.
a of personal importance,
backed numbers in which the proved Broadcasting has Those who adhered to this view-
strong stimulus to education in
book appeared was so riotous point envisaged the boy fresh England. Thousands of school Great Scandals
that a barrier had to be erected and students can now from school beginning at the children
to protect the publisher's shop.
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About 500 faith in the said diary's sold 30 editions in one year,
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Her book had all the quali- lies which make a dangerous diary live.
Isn't that a pretty story, ducks?
Eden's Lament
A BALLAD, inspired by Sir Austen ernment for not saying clearly what it plaintive volce.
Chamberlain's rebuke to the Gov-
:
I hope, oh, I hope, oh, I hope
You WILL not confuse the poor
Cabinet:
I know that I hand out soft soap
With precious jeto facts you can
grab in it.
But please do not blame me-you.
- know how I trylon .
Or clac, I assure you, I'll break doion
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Now please don't, now please don't,
no10 PLEASE
Don't ask for a definite answer.."
air:
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Wags' Corner
The fat man and his wife were re- turning to their seats in the theatre after the mterval.
Did I tread on your toes as I went out?" he asked the man in a seat on the gangway.
a great variety of subjects. and THAT sense of importance, of working his way up to the top-lent education authorities, realis course, is one of the prime A Best-Seller-- Chater Road. The university-trained younging their value, are contributing essentials of keeping a diary.
'man was looked at askance, as financial assistance to many of the That,
listening schools,
its indiscretions making it an one whose head was so full of British chocls are recorded as re-
instantaneous best-seller. It is theories as to leave little room gular listeners, and the number violable secrecy. for the ordinary hard facts of rapidly increases. Over 900 were Once you admit the thought still excellent reading because between January and that one day your diary is going Hurriette, besides having num-- life. There can, of course, beMay this year. As a result of this to be read by amused and hos berless, love-affairs with the no disputing the fact that there increase, the British Broadcasting tile persons (as, needless to say, Rentry, had also a sharp wit, a.] is great value in first-hand know. Corporation ledge of business-that, in this more time to school broadcasts and every diary eventually is) you vigorous pen, and the trick of to develop the programmes con- are inhibited from entering any being able to reproduce exactly sphere as in others, an ounce of siderably. The new scheme is thing more innocuous than the conversational mannerisms. practice is worth a ton. of based on the replies received from times and places of
engagements. And theory. But something more is "chools to a list of questions cir- luncheon
eutated to teachers throughout those, even to yourself when you needed, and that "something" Great Britain, School broadcast-
Another succes de scandale Lan be summed up by saying ing was formerly concerned with are 80, are not good enough
was Lady Charlotte Bury's that the better the general the requirements of children from reading to have been worth the
eleven to fourteen; now provision trouble.
diary, published in 1838 by her education of a young man is, the is made for all children from five
Some diaries have made husband, (probably against her more readily will he adapt him to eighteen years of age. There
great scandals in their day will) when he was hard up. self,to a business life, always is one course, for infants, there
and have provided much ex- are seven for Juniors, eleven for
Since she had been for many Thorpe's attorney could wish, a due
for other cellent reading assuming that he has
schools. During the secondary
generations. .'
years a Indy-in-waiting to the share of character and intelli- coming year there will thus be
unfortunate Caroline Princess of had the good grace to write his gence. In other words, there twenty-five courses, including some
in Welsh, covering a wide range Perhaps even Miss Astor's Wales, whom the Prince Regent journals in code and to die be fore the immortal books saw must be specialised education as of subjects such as would normally diary, if carefully preserved. treated so badly and who was well as actual experience if the be outside the scope of the average will provide some future his- herself rather an unfastidious daylight.
The Central Council terian with invaluable material person, her diary was full of Parson Woodforde, whose best results are to be obtained. teacher. It is true that many instances for School Broadcasting has done on the social manners of Helly malicious revelations about the gentle, interminable, irresistible
much to develop the closest possi-wood in the twentieth century. Court, can be quoted of men who have ble contact between the teacher the breadcaster.. The result risen to high posts without the and
of recent efforts is that school Famous Harriette advantage of such education, but broadcasting has achlered these have succeeded in spite of measure of success undreamed of their educational shortcomings, by those who initiated the experi- THE greatest scandal of the and not because of them. This ment some twelve years ago."
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You did," the other replied grimly. "It's an right, Mary," sald the fat man, turning to his wife,."this is our .row."
chronicle of the small doings of
Though its sales were im- an eighteenth-century lifetime, mense the book cost Lady with no indiscretions greater Charlotte many of her friends, than the, compassionate noting of a housemaid's mishap, "created One of them, whose indiscreet no scandal, made no ears burn. was that which exploded in letters had appeared in the London with the publication of diary, wrote to her scathingly: Or Better ... Burn it! event, forge his way to the top. in his office, but has to be sought Harriette Wilson's mémoirs... "When I wrote the silly, im- through sheer determination and after and won in the face of
| type of individual would, in any
men
who
kind that was ever created
to
Memoirs are not, properly pertinent letters in question, be- DUT great diaries require an inherent capacity to adapt much rivalry. There are, ad- himself to changing conditions.mittedly, types of university speaking, a diary, but the notor- tween 20 and 30 years ago, 1 Dgreat diarists, and few of are unsuited for ious Harriette compiled her knew that I was writing to the us, no matter how violent the immortalise our He is not, however, typical of modern business. life which is amorous adventures for the Duke of Argyll's daughter, and urge the majority. With every pass- another way of saying that a Fress with diary-like fidelity to thought myself safe by all the emotional reactions on a clean ing year, business is becoming university education will not of fact and detail, and must have common laws of good breeding page, are really that.
The ordinary diarist is an in-, more complex, and the success-itself provide the necessary had a lifetime of small diary and morality. But I find I was extremely deceived." A nine fl pursuit of it demands larger equipment. But the man who, ates to help her.
teenth-century example of sud- trospective, self-centred person, irresponsible about the trouble knowledge and wider outlooks. by special training, coupled with They were pure scandal, im- den alarm over long-forgotten for others that these self-com- World competition is keener a practical knowledge of his plicating no lesser men than the frivolities! every day, and the Briton, whe-work, is educated in the broadest Marquess of Worcester, Lord
munings on paper are likely to ther he says at Home or goes sense of the term, will accom-Alvanley, Beau Brummell, the overseas, is being constantly plish more than he who has 3rd Duke of Leinster, and-
For these diárists there should made aware of this fact. No-merely fallen into a business choicest sensation of all-ike whore is this competition more career and lins taken little pains Duke of Wellington.
a thought of publication. thing locked up ok, better still, be a stringent rule-keep the evident than in the Far East, to increnso his knowledge or be-
Samuel Pepys, as indiscreet burn it? And for the rest of us,
The best dlaries in the crente. world are those which were kept secret, written without
where business no longer falls come closely acquainted with The story is well known of. 'into the lap of the man who sits modern commercial trends, Harriette's attempt to black- and self-revealing as even Dr. beware of diaristel