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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938.
ILKLA MOOR NOW BAHT BAN
Restrictions Go: Ramblers Free To
Roam
Anywhere
Ikla Moor, of the famous song, may now be walked on not merely "baht 'at," but "baht" the permission of a local authority or landowner.
The local council's experiment in removing restrictive notices dyas quoted to show that the interests of grouse-rearing and rambling do not necessarily conflict because they occur in the same place.
Convicts To Sing Opera
Choruses
Prisoners in Pentonville are to have community singing and one day may broadenst as choir.
Mr. T. P. Rateliff, the well-known community singing leader, has been invited by the Governor and the Chaplain to organise a weekly pro- gramme at the prison. The first "sing" will be shortly.
NATIONAL PARKS PLEA
National parks, where sport, agri- culture, runbling and general re- creation could be pursued side by side, were demanded by the confer- ence: also a Parliamentary measure to make all mountains and other incultivated land fres for publle walking
A fear that unless a national sur- vey of England's open commons is made without delay their protection will be more and more difficult was expressed by Sir Lawrence Chu!
Chubb,
"A comman is only a common while the rights of common--pasture, etc.-continue to be practised," he said. "Cars drive away, the cows,
ly
and unless something is done quick- to define what is common land and what not it may be impossible in a few years time to tell where publle rights and privileges begin | and end."
POLLUTED RIVERS
The power of a lord of the maner "1 am hoping to organize three-to veto the regulation of existing part harmony in which everyone | commons and thus check public re- will join-tenor, baritone and bass," creation should be modified by Act Mr. Ratcliff endd,
of Parliament, he added.
Dirty rivers were another subject
"MIKADO" CHORUSES
of complaint. Decturing that control "Part-singing is not everybody's should be exercised on the basis of gift, but it can be taught. it anyone watershed
areas, with central has not a good vulee they can still
Mr. W. R. Hornby Steer
sing with a large body of men and mad the River Ouse, where
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Icse their self-consciousness in the seven tons of sh, poisoned by in- crowd.
dustrial refuse, were taken out haven't decided what the pro- between Bedford and Cardington, gramme in to be yet, but I am think-and a rural district in Leicestershire ing of some of the choruses from in which all the fish in the River "The Mikado-Tit Willow' and the Soar died and the children had to go
Flowers that Bloom in the Spring'
"What I am hoping to do is to create so ne a choir that we can broadcast to the whole country."
"Hut," said Mr. Rateliff, with smile, that is for the future."
ENTHUSIASTIC
five miles away to find clean water to bathe in.
Covernor comes as the result of the enthusiasm shown at Pentonville.
On Armistice Night Mr. RateLI held his eighth annual singt of Huli. Ale. Rateliff has for some time been "Old Kit Bag" "Long
Long holding hymnal services in prisons Trail," and "Tipperary" were among and the present invitation from the the songs.
Chaplin (
and moustache
Mra. Hazel Buchholtz recently went into a Los Angeles court clad unly in a bathrobe. When Court Commissioner E. D. Doyle demanded to know what it was all about, the woman charged that her husband, Richard Orville Buchholtz, restaurant owner, took hier clothes when they separated in September. "This in an I’have," she told the court.
Hospital Clue
Saves London
From Anthrax
Working on a single clue, public health authorities have saved London from a possible epidemic of anthrax,
to deadly disease usually transmitted through animal hair.
Satirise Dictators
By WALTER WYNDHAM
Hollywood.
Recent Nazi reprisals against German Jewry and the effect these have had upon American public opinion has solved Charlie Chaplin's greatest dilemma. He will now definitely make his next film a satire on dictatorship and he will play a dual role.
case of anthrax was ding- nosed in a man admitted to
Guy's Hospital sometime ago. It was found that the man was a
household brush-maker with Southwark Arm.
ife had been working on a consign- ment of Manchurian horse-half bought three weeks before from a Bermondsey Arm.
SUPPLY STOPPED
The Bermondsey dealers had ob- tained their supply from a City wholesaler.
sca and other parts of South Lon- don, but every brush was recovered and destroyed,
At its next meeting, Southwork Council will be urged to send a resolution 10 the Home Office recommending that 30 Man- churian horse-hair should be im- ported into this country, except through Liverpool, where it can be disinfected prior to distribution.
Apple Blossom Time Again
The scenario. now nearing completion, la likely to become the Specimens of the horse-hair wereapple blossons here and said his tree
foal one, although a week or twoj ngo Chaplin considered rewriting the story in order to avoid a ban on the film by countries maintaining friendly relations with the Reich.
Chaplin admits a personal re- semblance to Herr Hitler, but insists that this depends mainly on the characteristic moustache, "and I cer- tainly had mine long before we heard of Herr Hitler," be added.
Chaplin plans to play a timid Jewish refugee in a German con centration camp who, while cleaning military uniforma as his daily chore,} dons one and is mistaken for a die. tator whom he resembler,
of a
finding himself the central subject followed by growing crowds, finaliz great public demonstration which restores his own self-con- fidence, resuscitates his drooping ego, and makes a new man of him.
Whether DI not to show him ultimately usurping the power and position of the real dictator is as yet undecided, as is also the question whether Charlie Chaplin, as the mistaken publie idol, should speak or maintain his customary silence.
Fliming will definitely start in January or February according to personal promise Chaplin las given
Unable to explain himself, he is to United Artists
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