THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
"SLOVENLY SPEECH,"
English Is
At Its Worst In The Theatre
ETF you want to hear slovenly speech that conveys nothing to the unfortunate audience and wastes the labour of the author the theatre alone can provide you with it," declared Mr. George Bernard Shaw in a message, written in shorthand, read at a meeting at University College of the Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama.
Mr. Lo Hung-chun, who graduated
SATURDAY,
G. B. S.
Went Into Oblivion To Escape U. K. Taxes
Miami, Feb. 15,
In January, 1934, Betty Car- stairs, wealthy English speed- boat racer, turned her back on the civilization of Europe, and established herself on a sub- tropical island in the Bahamas for the professed purpose of escaping British taxes.
Now--four years after saying
He wrote that the dramatic side of their work did last year from the University of goodbye to Mayfair and the world of not interest him a bit.
"There are dramatic schools all over the place; and yet to- day all the professions speak English better for public purposes than the dramatic profesalon," he declared.
"About 50 years ago the clergy murdered the Liturgy so
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scandalously that I protested publicly against a candidate for Miles And
Holy Orders being ordained until he knew the difference between a Collect and a gargle.
No Accident
sports Miss Carstairs has no apparent intention of ever leaving-except on "vacation"-the Waland paradise" which she has created on tiny Whale Cay, once a mangrove wilderness.
In 1934, liquidaling the fortune which reputedly earned her an in- come of 25,000 a week, the dynamic little Englishwoman purchased Whale Cay from the Bahamas government, made it virtually self-sustaining and settled down to a life of seclusion.
Miss Carstairs was born some 35
"The only technically perfect "One "reason is that our dramatic opeaker in those days, was Queen schools and our producers are so Victoria, whom some of our worst distracted by the other arts which AIR SERVICE RECORD years ago in England, the daughter of an American, the former Estelle stage gabblers would probably des- the colouring, the dressing and the UN POR DENT Bostwick, who was the daughter of cribe as 'ham' elocutionist.
stage fashions in what is called 'ex- Qantas Empire Airways which Abel Bostwick, one of the founders "WONDERFUL" PHONE GIRLS pressionism' and which mostly ex-operates the last lap, between Singa- of the Standard Oll Company.
Christened Marian Barbara, she "To-day the Church gives us some presses nothing but sheer folly-pore and Brisbane, of the England-
to the United States of our best broadcasters, headed by dane they have no time left for the Australia Imperial air route, has just was brought
when she
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She WA* the two Archbishops, the vicar of
During Tewkesbury and the Rev. Pat Mc- central art of speech on which all celebrated its third birthday with a educated at Hartford, Conn. Cormick.
plays that have any brains in them record of 2,103,020 miles to its credit the World War she drove an ambu- depend.
without a single forced landing and lance in France, and after the war- without injury to any passenger or turned to speedboat racing as an out-
let for her energics.
"The political tub-thumpers, too, know their job; they may talk no- thing but nonsense but they at least articulate it clearly,
"And the telephono girls are won-i
derful: they speak so clearly that they are not only efficient but peremptory and terrifying.
"For my own work (he continued)
preter actors who have been employer. trained as musicians.
The service was opened by the An opera sung by people with no Duke of Gloucester three years ago. cars for music is not more horrible in the first year it carried an out- than a play by Shakespeare or Shaw ward mail of about 500 lb. a week spoken by people with no sense of executing it. verbal music or no trained all in the service averages about 1350 lb. Now, a week outward from Darwin, "Yet such people offer you Shake- says Austral News. The Chairman of the company, Mr. Fergus McMaster, speare, though they would nover Referring to "the slovenly speech dream of offering you Handel or however, considers the service su
Elgar."
to be in its infancy,
"In the Law Courts a slovenly speaker would have no chance,"
*SHAKESPEARE OR SHAW"
in the theatre,” he said:
Although Miss Carstairs renounced the bustle and turbulence of civiliza- She caused the matted tion, she
she did not give up its comforts. mangrove jungle to be cleared away and much of the island to be landscaped.
She spent an catimated $250,000 in the worit, building a 10-room Spanish style house of cement blocks, con- structing a highway system and laying out little farming plots which her employees, mostly Bahaman Negroes, cultivate.-United PresĹ.
FEBRUARY 26,
1998.
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