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THURSDAY, FEARGARY 3, 1938.
THIS WAY TO FAME AND FORTUNE
Having seen something of the Dick Robertson's Orchestra result of the children's holiday .Reginald Dixon] treat affered by local theatres, Brian Lawrence's Orchestra observant persons will conclude Brian Lawrence's Orchestra that the motion picture industry Sandy Powell of the present day, despite its million-dollar productions, is Joe Peterson Joe Peterson backward in developing along new and profitable lines. It Gracie Fields
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its duty to a most casily amused public, the children.
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Ramazanabrüczasamized the parents into his big tents
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as well. But modern industry, represented by the motion pie-j ture producers, seems to have forgotten the little people. Even the experiment with Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse did noti concern the youthful cinema- ; goers. Disney, of course, knew very
well that the sort of nonsense which children love is generally very acceptable to the adult sense of humour. How many people have chuckled aver "Alice in Wonderland?" And what father has not surrep-) titiously read "a little piece" oul of his son's "Chums?" As for the Beatrix Potter books, and 21
host of others, few grown-ups can resist them, perhaps for the memories and associations that
wwwEBRUARY
Breeze
ingers
Tis soldom that the beginning of the year passes without
a cold spell to freeze the sponges, burst the water-pipes, and warp every pond and lake in England.
Frost in the chief characteristic of late January and early February, and it was for this reason that our Saxon ancestors called January Wolfmonath, because in hard weather these animals become more than usually dan- gerous.
From an agricultural point of view, frozen felds at the year's beginning have always been regarded as beneficial to the crops.
Excessive cold purifies the furrows, bringing death to the slugs and other lowly pests, and there are not wanting several ancient proverbs to testify that the considered Judgment of old-world farmers was unanimously in favour of severe weather at this time.
"February fill the dyke
Either with the Black or white,"
"A' the months of the year.
Curse a fair Februcer."
"Under water dearth
Under snow brend."
The rigours of winter have about them a rom- ance very universal. Per- haps the striking trans- formations that take place with a Jack-frost, or heavy fall of snow, minister to a suppressed yearning for change unconsciously present in the hearts of all of us,
For there are occasions when we all even the most docile among
us grow passing weary of our silly
homes, crying out for some- thing freer and more imagi-
native than we are able to de- rive from our poor monotonous, uninspired days.
by Llewelyn Powys
severe weather by the barbarous rite of roasting an ox-hair, horn, and hoof-upon the Ice in the middle of the Thames.
The human race must have ex- perienced the same kind of emo- tional release from the earliest ares.
The cave men of antiquity, with- out doubt, would emerge from their dark subterranean smoke-smell- Ing. offal-smelling caverns with
glitter of the sunshine upon à snow-covered hillsidel
Binking with drowsy ennul, we awake week after week to regarderies of gruff jubilation to see the in a mood of rebellious disillusion. ment our stolid bedroom wardrobe and domesticated wash-stand, the same, the same, the same!
Then one morning in carly Feb- ruary we walk to the window Ilst-
lessly to draw back the curtains, and in a trice our restlessness is appeased, for behold, we find our- selves looking out upon a brave new world!
In a cruder form It was this same
childish craving for novelty that prompted our ancestors to cele- brate
of weeks
exceptionally
-To-day's Thought- THEN came old February all-
Lig
In an old wagon, for he could
not ride.
Draton of tree fishes for the
season Alling.
Which through the flood before
did softly slide And swim away.
SPENSER.
opportunity in this direction appears to be proved by the at- tendance during this week at the special children's perform-
the at
Queen's and Alhambra theatres packed every morning to see
ances
houses
The dazzling light, the crisp air, would cause their hearts and heels to be light as feathers, as, gambol- ling off together like a troop of hatry goblins, they followed the tracks of some forest beast whose heavy-footed treading had been hampered by the snow.
*
fashionable winter N centres it is a gay sight sco the boys and to girls darting back and forth with so sure a balance, deftly cutting the ice on steel-shod too: but it is likely that the purest delights to be got from skating belong to those who avold crowded pleasure- centres, with ice-hockey and ex- pert figure-skating taking place
discover everywhere, and
for themselves tracks of unvisited ice where, with a brother or a few friends, they can abandon them-
THE "VERY IDEA"
11
*Behold, we find ourselves looking out on a new world!"
selves to this novel form of exer- cise without any sense of social obligation.
Skating on a river is always ex- cellent, because it affords easy opportunities for escaping from other people; but the frost must have been very protracted before running water is frozen in Eng- land. In the year 1895, my brother Littleton was able to skate from Cambridge to Ely. but few can boast of having done this.
W
THEN New York City Is in the stern grip of a hard winter with an arctic-breathing north wind whist- ling between the sky-scrapers, a wind that has come straight off the bergs and ice floes of Bamin's Bay, it is a comparatively common oc- currence for the great Hudson River to bear from bank to bank.
To my mind, the happlest skat- ing of all is to be got from skating
After flooded land. Over nutumn of wet weather country ke Sedgemoor becomes white with water for miles and mites, and three nights of frost will make half a county accessible a bold boy with bread, cheese. hard-boiled eggs, and apples in his
to
pockets.
no
low
Often the foods on Sédgemoor are no deep that only the top bars of the drove-gates are visible.
THEY FLY THROUGH THE
AIR-HANKOW!
Agby Eddie Kelly, Rif-R.A.F.
A SPOT OF BRIDGE
Walt Disney's films, some excel- FOREIGN aviators have cent, all of them good. In three formed an International There might even be occasions when, in order to make up n days of single morning per-Air Brigade in Hankow, a bridge four or a poker school, an formances these two theatres recent message informs us exchange will have to be arrang-
Really, if this sort of ed. Two
balalaika thing is allowed to continue, players should be a fair trade their fascinating pages bring to. uncles and aunts, mothers and it's going to have all sorts for a Canadian stad poker ex-
of international repéreus- Į pert. fathers. So successful has the sions (my, how you do fill
mind.
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over
9,000
shown have kiddies and a sprinkling of
Russian
So it seems that an adventure programme been that the morn-up your column, Eddie!). is that intense rivalry may arise
An obvious danger, of course,
into the realm of King Arthur's ing shows will be continued
in securing the services of an Next thing We know, an airman who is known as a liberal Round Table, a picturisation of until the end of the week and Australian on the Chinese side chit signer, and the Interna- children's stories from Grimm perhaps they will be repeated. I will drop a chit over the Japan-national Brigades may even for- to Barric, fairly tales and high Hundreds
turned ese aerodrome with the following get their liner instincts and start have been adventures, should have an ex-away from the Queen's Theatre. cellent chance of success with
The time is not far distant, one dares say, when aomeone
the general public.
But even if such productions will build, a chain of children's
message:
"Dear Splinter--Run uut of the makinge Next time you're over our way, drop no a coupler ting of "baecy, will you?—
Ginge,**
scrapping.
NO PRIVATE WAR Or an Irishman might be un- surpretingly allowed to fold one Bide,
Perhaps, after all, we're safer
The largest rhines then are only to be traced by rows of regularly arranged twigs which, Uke the bristles on a hog's back, riso up through the ico wherever pol- Jarded willows border the dyke.
How happy it is on a February day to be abroad on those wide frozen marshes, with voiceless un- known birds flying southwards. southwards, far up overhead; and rare birds to be flushed out of hoar-winter boscage, and the every afternoons growing dark carly be- cause of the dun grey clouds that drive always towards the coasts of Devonshire!
Then it is that the cosy taverns of Langport and Bridgewater can. present themselves to the imagi- nation as havens of hospitality.
to be matched, with scarcely friendly apple-orchard Somerset girls bringing in fresh eggs and crisp toast to a table drawn up near
to a warrantable fre, the warmth of which seems all the more grateful to wet stockings and cold kneecaps
that because of memory of the wild acres so re- cently traversed, and with a vision of the dark onerusted waters of the Parett sweeping on and on through midnight hours, swiftly, silently down to Burnham.
H
UMAN beings are natur- ally gregarious, but it not in frivolous chattering crowds that men gather to themselves those long, long memories that outlast a lifetime.
In the company of more than half
alf a dozen choach friends the vanity of human beings in too casily displayed, and this is a sorry detriment to those simple. solla pleasures through which Nature will often reveal her profoundest secrets.
When the soul wishes to commit suicide it enters society. The poet Wordsworth used to enjoy skating alone, and, at night, over Winder- mere; and he was wise. groanings of icefields at night in-
The mysterious crackings and
press a lonely man with a sense of the inconsequence of our prepos- terous human pretensions. Above his head is a crystal sphere clus-
A
tered with silent stars, yellow ns wasps, and below his heels buoyant surface, smooth and allt- tering as a dancing floor of glass!
TH
THE month of December la not the only month of divino revelations; In the month of Februnty nino man may learn secrets mintunal and profound.
Though no "long green leaves" are yet to be seen Nature remains subtle, Intrepid, full of resource. sensuous summer-evening snalis sleep scaled up in their twisted mud-swallowing Worma our Great and Admiring Public, concha, we must refuse this offer from burrow deep and deeper, and all
England Iles under “n wintry voll- of maiden white," the Hankow Avintors.
This is known as giving them
The very branches are spread out the air.
against the cold evening sky' in So which out for our bright shapes naked and fanciful as the column again, We'll bʊ CNACing agree patterns of pressed sea- weeds, while, firm and unemo- As the Scotsman said to the Jew: tional, stand the great tree trunks "Pan-American Airways to you!"
bolow,
do not please the adult, steeped theatres, where Captain Kidd And an American plot with in Hongkong. For the sake of as he is in saucy humour, some and Mickey Mouse and King the Japanese will feel just what sullied wit and frequently Arthur will hold court in turn fnbly annoyed as he drops this overdone -drama so that judg-to the overlasting glory of the chit to his pal on the Chinese
side: ment of good, bad or indifferent motion picture industry, the
"Pete, you hell-firing bozo, millions of cinemas is much impaired, there sutisfaction of
You gol-darned coot, you smashed the bottle through not picking it carefully before you 'chuted it
in still the vast child population' youngsters and the proût of open to exploitation, And tho some worthy pioneer,
down."
you.