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Damnation of Faust (Berlioz) DB-3009-3010
HEIFETZ AND RUBINSTEIN:-
Sonata in A Major (Cesar Frank) DB-3206-3207-3208
FLAGSTAD KIRSTEN:-
Sangs my Mother Taught mo (Dvorak)
NEW-
VAUXHALL
TWELVE:FOUR
NOW
Where is
my "gunker"?
a
small
child
asked James Douglas
HERE is no doubt liberty of body and mind makes
them more intelligent.
T
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THE SLEEPING GIANT
The troubles of Europe have When I Have Sung my Songs (Charles) DA-1524 KREISLER FRITZ: AND LONDON PHILHARMONIC gained world attention and scant Concerto in E Minor (Mendelssohn) DB-2460-2461-2462 interest is taken in Far Eastern
ORCHESTRA:--
RUBINSTEIN ARTHUR:-
Proludo in a A Minor (Debussy) DB-2450 Tombeau Couperin-Forlano (Ravel)
GIGLI BENIAMINO:~
Lost Chord (Sullivan) DB-1526 Goodbye (Tosti)
STOKOWSKY AND
PHILADELPHIA SYMPHONY
heard anying. The best child sayings are overheard.
WHEN
a child looks at a mustard pot with un- diagulsed loathing and romarks, "Dirty mustard," it is not easy to explain the difference between mud and mustard.
It is no use to say that grown- ups like the taste of mustard
of mud. Now, a gunker is a perfect and dislike the taste day is a miracle of. The new child is allowed to
express its own personality. It word for a croquet mallet. It The fact remains that to the happiness and health, of is not treated as an automaton is far more descriptive than the child's eye mustard looks dirtier grace and gaiety, of liberty without a will of its own and an word mallet. How did the babe than the dirtiest mud.
think of the word gunker or the "It is a mistake to bully a child imagination of its own. and life..
verb to gunk?
into eating food which it detests. I sometimes suspect that most
When I was a child-I was forced Mr. Bernard Show may be of the ills of humanity are due I FOUND this little boy
to eat porridge with lumps in it. pretending to row as right in his gloomy conclusion to arrested growth. If the
If L left the lumps on my plate that man is a failure as a poll- adolescent mind were allowed to he sat on two rubber rings.
I was not allowed to leave the tical animal, but at least we have grow as rapidly as the child "I'm oaring my oar-boat," he table till I ate them. Hence my discovered the secret of giving mind grows the fatality and said. It must be admitted that lifelong dislike of porridge.
stupidity of the the child a chance.
would be eliminated,
human
varing"-da a better word than "rowing," and tike "scrhoat”
The forcible feeding of chil
We are hardly aware of the
The mind of a young child is is a better word than rowboat, dren is an outrage. I knew a little boy reacted against it change in childhood which has in many ways immeasurably The same boy was warned so violently that he refound „đơ been produced by its emancipa- superior to the mind of the that he would hurt himself if he eat at all. He would sit deflant- tlon from all the old tyrannies adult. It is far more plastic. persisted, in some nerobatic feat ly at table staring at his uneat- and all the old inhibitions. If It acquires knowledge with which he had invented for his table food. He was cured by
It is in a arms and legs. "No," he re- letting him go hungry, we are not free men and free amazing rapidity.
torted, "I won't hurt myself.
The palate of a child is more. women our children are prodi- state of constant expansion.
sensitive than the adult palate, gies of freedom.
If you watch the ripening of I'm a tough guy. the child mind you are astonish- Nobody knew how he had which is corrupted by eating un- If we could do for ourselves ed by its receptivity. It absorbs picked up the phrase "a tough wholesome food. what we have done for our chil- ideas unconsciously. It invents guy," or how he was able to use dren we should be supermen and new
express its it correctly as a metaphor. The uperwomen. In the first place thoughts. The routine symbols thing was an insoluble riddle. we have delivered childhood of language are not rich enough He must have heard the slang from the shackles and fetters of to reveal the play of its imagina- and somehow divined its exact
tion.
menning. superfluous garments.
t
words
to
"It is forty years," said an old glutton, "since I was hungry,
but thank God I am still greedy."
A child should not be deprived.
of the opportunity to eat when. it is hungry and, drink when it
events, though two of the most
Another child was taken for is dry. The new child is allowed to Any mother or father can tell
"I momentous phases of China's
aro not. CHILDREN breathe through its spine as well stories about the talk of infants the first time to the sca.
spoiled by liberty. struggle are now taking place.
as through its lungs. It wears which are almost inexplicable don't like it," he said. "It's too
Homer is not They are invigorated by it. The. TOSCANINI AND PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:On the Yangtse two great armies less and less every year. It has revelations of the vigorous mind busy." Even
dangers of repression are far Somiramido-Overture (Rossini) DB-3079-3080
are locked in the struggle for now got down to the irreducible of the untaught and untutored more direct or more precise.
greater than the dangers of ex- the Wuhan area, strategically minimum of clothing. The child.
A little boy was rebuked for pression. If the child is father the most important area in all result is that its skin breathes
Its holi- IT is a pity that the say. licking his spoon. His mind of the man, the free child is the.
ings of young children worked with lightning logic. father of the free man. Central China, while at Geneva through every -porë.
Within reason we should allow an equally momentous struggle days are passed in a perpetual
triumphantly demanded. childhood to be childish. We can make childhood the happiest is being waged by the League of bath of sunshine and sea air. are not more carefully preserv. "What is the word, 'lick" for?"
ed, for they are often master- ho It is sun-free and air-free. pieces of originality. A child of His parents could not explain period of life by letting it alone
rude to lick a and setting it free from the un-.. Magic Flute (Moxart) Variations on air from Beethoven Nations-a struggle for its exís- tence. By its decision with
WE have given up the four was told that God made why it is not
bad old habit of bully everything. He replied by ask- stamp and why it is rude to necessary Do and the unneces regard to the imposition of
chlidren. Ing this unanswerable qucation: lick a spoon. sanctions against Japan and ing and beating our its invocation of Article Sixteen They live without fear. Their "Who made God?" with no more than a half hearted
THE
ORCHESTRA :----
Danco Macabro (Saint-Saens) DB-3077 -
CORTOT AND CASALS:~~
DA-915-916
SCHNABEL ARTHUR AND CARL:-
Concerto for two Pianos (Bach) DB-3041-3042
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Sunday Classical Concert
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Programme for Sunday, 9 Oct., 1938.
1 p.m. 2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME
1. The Cailt of Bagdad. Ouverture. Boieldieu. 2. Melody
3. Tres Jolie. Wallz
......Dawes. Waldteufel.
4. La Belle Hellene. Selecilon ..Ofenbach
5. Trees
0. Caucasian Sketches
7. Serenade..
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DOLPHINS
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How they accomplish thla evolu.... tion is a puzzle, considering the One of their favourite games is to weight of the creatures and the propel themselves into the air as a height from which they fall.
By Lichty
to watch, and here again à very puzzling thing is noticeable.
Although they can easily outdis- tance the swiftest steamer, and they swim quite near to the surface at such times, it is extremely difficult to detect any movement of either talk or Ans.
shoot They appear to through the water by means of some invisible, driving power.
LTD. blessing and with no attempt at nations wrangle, neither asking could tell me that, I would want TOBODY should ever make a sea and no splash, as if the force of firm or united action, the League her help nor willing to heed her to know who made the man who No voyage, however short, without gravity had suddenly been suspend-- Chater Road, admits its impotency. True, advice or offers of her good ser-made God, and who made him." keeping watch for the lively dolphin, ed just before they reached the
the situation in Europe at vices. The fault lies in Europe,
"You are full of vim to-day," for no other creature of the sea water.
displays more graceful or amusing present is such that determined not in the League. For the a nurse said to a child of three.evolutions. action by foreign Powers in the machinery of the League may The child replied. "No, I'm not Far East is practically impos- not be perfect, it may not be full of vim; I'm full of fun." sible, and the League, after all, ideal for accomplishing the The same child was trying to harlequin does through a stage trap- is but the common council of the original aims of those who hammer & stump into the ground door, and descend into the water Effortless Speed
As soon as they see a ship these Great Powers who are involved designed it, it may bo slightly with a croquet mallet. He in-again with a resounding splash.
word for the
Then suddenly they will change cetaceans almost invariably make a in European worries. It is an rusty and, as an engine, un-vented a new
their method, and, after making their doah for it and start to play about unhappy plight when the League economical, but it is at least almallet. He called it his gunker. leap into the air, will slip back into the bows. The grace and swiftness. is unable to intervene in one war good model and has by its, "Where is my gunker?" he was the water with apparent slowness, of their movements are marvellous
too successes established the fact much involved in conflicts among that the principle upon which it themselves, more especially since is built is fundamentally sound GRIN AND BEAR IT the League made no move to and that a newer and improved solve or help to solve the recent model would be worth the effort crisis and attempts to preserve lentailed in constructing it. For peace in Europe reflect no credit this reason the principles of the on that body elected to render League should not be forgotten to the world the very services nor, allowed to fall into disuse, which are so much in demand but shoull be recognised as to-day. This state of affairs worthy of applications and Is not so much a reflection support, and, more important, on the League of Nations of development and improve- itself, however, for the Lengue ment. The world, in so far as it is but A number of units is advancing and not de- rather than a corporate body, generating, is seeking peace, and than on world conditions up to the present the League is and world thought, which takes the most successful attempt at no advantage of an organisation solving the age-old problem of formed to do good, an organisa-convincing mankind of the tion which has already proved fallacy of the belief that might on a number of occasions its is right. Until some better plan ability to handle the most deli-is evolved for nettling the differ- cate situations successfully. Itencos which seem inevitable
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is indeed a sad day for the among nations, it is fitting that world when the association every person of intelligence formed after ono terrific con- should support the principles of flict to prevent the recur the League of Nations in so far
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"11 lan's that I sing the drining at a hoving your mouth wide open and not being able to sat) anything !!.
They delight in twisting over and under one anour, while still forging shead, with a sort of spiral motion, Then they will suddenly change to racing abreast in a straight line Just In front of the bows ond with their dorsal ins culting through the water Ilke knives,
Then is the time to see the lovely shapes of their tapering bodies to wards the wide-fluked talls... Parasites Theory
If one listens carefully the short sharp hiss of their intaken breath can be hen:d, for, like whales und porpoises, they require air.
One would rice to believe that the, sceming sportfulness of these crea- ture is really due to a sense of fun, and fondness for tunics; But the at- tributing of such human characteris tics to animals is usually p mistake.
Most large creaturos of the men are preyed upon by numerous parasites, and it is much more likely that, fur. from any intentional game-playing, the dolphins joyfully dash towards: the bows of every ship they for: the practical purpose of scraping themselves upon them, and thus rid", ding themselves of some of their, un- welcoirie tormentory,