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True or False?
Undoubtedly many events in history could have been more dramatically arranged if the participants had allowed Holly- wood to write the script. The motion pictures, however, seem not to let facts interfere unduly with a story.
SAUCY JANE
ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK
THEN.
NOW
Our Desert Army
Hi
Is
Ready
TE was Corporal Alan. Mac- Leod, of the Second Aus- tralian Imperial Force.
Standing on a ridge some- where in Palestine, he gazed upon the camp-the
battles to come.
Perhaps on that spot, probably.
by Harry Levin
of
but
tiune, "Waltzing Mathilda."
recognisable—o
That, he explained knowingly, was Australia's national anthem, which these fine men had taught him them selves,
And if anyone is a judge of men' It is white-bearded Abdullah, re- counised storyteller, arbitrator, men- tor in affairs of the heart, and, of Jerusalem's Old City.
$0.
He is not the only one who thinks
A Look Through' The "Telegrapht"
50 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1800. An Anglo-German Convention siam been. concluded by which Germany withdraws all claim to Witu and Somaliland ondt in exchange receive the island of Heligoland..
Isaac Peral the inventor of the sub- marine boat, has been granted a title and $100,000.
Mr. Stanley. speaking at a banquet at: Lo- the Fishmongers Hail fast night,
by abandonment veighed against the Great Britain of her commerce in East Africa in favour of Germany, and urged that a deputation from the city. should Walt upon Lord Salisbury to Impress upon him the necessity for maintaining British: rights in that quarter.
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Prince Bismarck has been giving out views on the relations between Rusla and Germany to the "Novos Vremya'a correspondent. He said Ger many needed the Austrian alance for the same "reason that musula - needed France. He then added: "I have always been against a war with Rumia. It would be a crime for Germany to extend her frontiers beyond hemel for the Baltic Provinces without Poland would be of no value, while the annexation with nine million Catholio Poles: would raise the number of Catholics. In Germany, to hal the population. War with Russla (a fi possible,"
.: 25 YEARS AGO
|_June_29, *1919. Reuter's correspondent in Paris Bays that the Itallen fleet has taken over the Immediate guard of the Adriatic. This la notified by an order of the day of the French Admiral-in-Chief, who praises the endurance of the bluejackets who have been. enfared for ten montha in this re- glon.
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During the question time in the House of Commons, Me: H. J. Tennant. Under- Secretary for War, said that the aeroplano service could not be improvised in a hurry, but its steady development had progressed since the war and, was con- Unuing rapidly. The possible develop- ment of the Flying Corps was a legitimate Casino of satisfaction to the country.
TO YEARS AGO
Jun 25, 1930: The famous Australines airman, Captain Kingsford Smith, who left Port Karnock. Ireland. in the aeroplano "Southern Cross" at 430 this morning to dy across the Atlantic wirelessed at 5 pm, that ha was in latitude 53.40, longitude 3430. He was therefore more then half way across. His speed is do miles an hour..
· There was a largo gathering i at Queen's Pler this morning when the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, Colonial Secretary, and Mrs. Southom left for Home leave,
..
5 YEARS AGO
June 25, 1935.
It is authoritatively learned from Home actual that. Italy intends to demand sovereignty in Abyssinia, through the use of arms If necessary, using the Anglo- German naval agreement 16. partial justification. Hence, the conversations of Mir. Eden with Signor Mussolim are ex- pected to be most interesting.
RADIO
ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc.) anes 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles), A B.B.C, Recording Of "Hail Variety"
Radio Programme Broadcast by Young. Mazal, the diminutive z. B, W. on a Frequency of 845 kc's.. Yemenite Jew who polishes shoes by and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m.. day and learns the three R's by night, and 8-11 p.m. on 9,62 m.c's. per no longer wants to be a police officer second. when he grows up.
H. K. T.
He wants to be an Australian. And there must be thousands of cession, other youngsters who think the same
There is much, to commend in the recent trend toward factual and historical films, especially the records of strivings and down triumphs of great men who are eternal warrior brooding on the benefactors of humanity. But the development has also its puzzling side to those in search in the attitude, Richard the north. I'd trust them any of learning by the visual route. Lion Heart had surveyed the where, to-morrow."-
Meanwhile, it is up with the
The "Aussies" leave day is the tents of his Crusaders. In " Atatement recently,
Tel-Aviv, I interrupted Corporal Mac- dawn and strenuous training children's hollday, particularly In Their abounding good throughout the morning. Dore Schary, motion picture Leod's reverie to tell him so.
After dinner-amid a whole- humour, friendliness and generosity script writer, deplored the "Yes," he said, "they must
them the finest playmates blatant departure from fact in have camped hereabouts. Won- some flavour of earth, leather, move all, their tremendous vitality If they Interrupt the traffic for a such films as "Suez" and "The der if any of my Scottish ances- rifle-oil and stew-there is a the youngsters have ever had.
short break, then more work. Buccaneer." But he says, "Filmtors were there?
Several afternoons a week while with their waggish processions -well, the grown-ups do not mind. biography can't and shouldn't "It probably looked much the
there are games. The day they They laugh, too. then. Same tents-no follow fact precisely. The things huts, though-spread all over arrived, practised eyes among them were searching out likely that happen are often so un-the desert." dramatic that they are boring." The banner, at least, were sports grounds.
Instead of the When Edison invented the different. electric light his men had to Crusader's cross, there was a walt around the laboratory forty blue flag bearing on it the Union Jack and six stara-the flag of Australia.
srme
Already A Legend
of
12.10 p.m. Short Service of Inter- 12.30 Coleman Hawkins and His. -Saxophone.-----
12.40
Primo Scala's Accordeon.
Band.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wen-
ther Report,
1.03 Dance Music by Harry Roy and Ilis Orchestra.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press,
and Announce-- Weather Forecast ments,
1.45 Composition of Mozart. 3.16 Close Down. 6.00
A Programme of Dance Music.. 0.00 Closing Local Stock Quota-
4.68
tions
7.00 B. B. C. Recording “Hail.
In the last war, at the front and It was rugby, soccer, hockey
the gift of becoming legends. This Gale Pedrick. Production by Roy
Speer and basket-ball then. Now they behind the lines, the Australians had VarietyWritten and devised by
7.30 London Relay-Tho News. Canteen hours may be short and With Palestinians, they are already are laying down cricket pitches, generation will be no different.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather early bed the rigid rule, but there
a legend. facilities- is plenty of time-and
There Is the
the Jerusalem widow' for Report and Announcements. For in this corner of an an- for entertainment.
whose alling infant a party Each camp has its cinema and "Aussies"--whom she has never seen leisure clent land, part of the A.L.F. is
room. There are wireless bought a new pram and cot. in training,
There is the crippled pediar whose Companies were falling in for seas and planes, and the Aussles
entire wares some of them bought No wonder the Sydney "Sun"
up before sending him home to get inspection. Batteries were clank-ang-songa are renowned.
There is the Arab village bride who
A wedding present of a Long before I came upon a camp camel.
And there
music-loving one night, I heard the hills echoing the voices of some of them.
Polish refugee boy who found Quartet, There's a track winding back to violin one day with a note, "From an old-fashioned shacle,
the Australian, who is also fond of road to Gundagai, music, whom you showed the way "Along the
to town the other day."
These and many others wit talk about the "Aussien" for years...
Wagga to Palostino Lance Corporal William Box, for- mer music-teacher and choir-master of Wagga Cathedral, was at the plano.
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the
8.03 Jack Hylon and His Orches~- tra-Medley of Old Songs, with Vocal Refrain; Sweet Suo; Grinzing; The- assoon: Ya Got Something There; Watermelon Fete; Down South.
9.33 Sea Shanties-Haul Away, Joo; Why Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor; Fire Down Below; Hullabaloo Balay, The Sailor Likes. His Bottle-0; Clear the Track, Let. the Bullgina Rum; John Goss (Bari- tone) and Cathedral Male Voice
8.43 Selections from
Rita Selection, Comedy, "Rio "Rio Rita"You're Always In My
Arms, Reginald King and Ils Orches- tra; Comedyland Medley, Columbia. Light Opera Company with Orches tru; "No, No, Nanette"-Selection, "Show Shows" Selection, New
of
Mayfair Orchestra with Edward I O'Henry (Organ); "The Cat and the Fiddle" Vocal Geras, Light Opera Company with Orchestra, L
9.15: London
Sun-
hours to determine whether it would burn that long. But in Tel. 21270 the picture; "Edison, the Man," it was thought better to heighten the interest at this point by inventing a character who should
A ing back from the ranges. wrote: There is a shortage of men a "decent night's eyeshut."" trip and break the lamp in bring squad with a machine-gun was singers in Sydney now--60 many of
them are in the army!". ing it upstairs and who should going somewhere in a hurry. then be given the opportunity by Away on a billside, a sil
of camels Edison to retrieve himself by houetted caravan carrying up the second lamp stood, petrified at the sight of when it had been made. "Even a line of tanks.
And yet, in spite of this though this did not happen, it activity, most of the work was illustrates Edison's actual char-being done out of sight.
Through the clear air came the acter," holds Mr. Schary.
But how many who see this grunts of big guns. Echoing
Grand Brotherhood portrayal on the screen in a ceaselessly from the hills came
"What were you In Australla?" setting of fact are going to know the chatter of machine-guns.
asked a corporal ut a camp. that it did not happen? How It all meant hard work for the
Private Horry Walters, a Sydney "A private." auctioneer Before the war, led the
"I mean before that." many in good faith may repent Aussies.
"But we didn't come here voices with a superb tenor.
"Member of the Melbourne Stock it na a atory illustrative of the.
Sergeant "Tiny" Ramsay, who used Exchange," he replied as he walked kindliness of Edison?
just to look at the scenery," Apparently movie-goers are said Corporal Alan MacLeod, to be a lecturer in English Literature off with his new bosom, comrade, who had been an iron-worker in u in Sydney, was the bass.NADA witnessing a recrudescence in a "We came here to get ready for
The cornet blasts came from War foundry.
If ever there was a democratic different medium of the kind of the job we've got to do some rant Officer Bartlet, who is the pre volunteer army, it is these men of (Tenor) with Harp accomp.
cipal shareholder in a Melboume de dramatization of history: which where else."
partment store.
the A.I.F: There are no
Night, Lella Megane (Contralto) with scholars have been trying to de-
An orchestra, with
instruments privates: N.C.Os or officera. Lite Welsh Home, All Through. the
tent, with the same Piano. Sharing a bunk. "Millions of Americans
provided by the Australian Comforts
10.00 Compositions of Bibellus have grown up supposing Parson
Fund one of its many thoughtful bunks of bare board, I found an in- Considering their varied 0 provisions-is in the making. So is rurance agent, the son of the Minis-Tone-Poem "Finlandia" Op. 26, No. Weems's story of Washington
ter of Justice, a newspaper seller, 7. Leopold Stokowski and the Phil and the cherry tree to be cupations and environments less a divisional concert troupe.
But the great pleasure of the boys stevedore, the chef of Sydney's lead-delphia Orchestra; Romance, Op. 78, indisputable fact. It is in keep than six months ago, the Aussies ing with the Washington char have settled down with remark- from "down under" is to visit the ing hotel, a law student, an Iron No. 3; Danse Champetre, Op. 100, No. towns. These they conquered in an monger and the nephew of a baronet. 2, Danse Champetre, Op. 106, No. 1, Emil Telmanyi. (Violin) with Piano hour's Blitzkrieg actor, but there is no historicalable aptitude.
ap And while we sat and chatted, a day they lieutenant looked in. At home he accomp.; Flickan Kom Iran Sin confirmation for it. Will those "No more amateurs here," one poared. Hilou was a clock in the law student's Alsklings Moto, Shy, Sav, Susa, Op." who wish to get their history of their instructors told me. from the movies have to begin "They're soldiers. And with a (Abdullah the Beautiful), monarch father's factory.
of Khan es-Sultan in They are a grand brotherhood, trailo) with Piano; Symphony No. 1 to keep a card index as to which remarkable inborn faculty for Jerusalem's Old City, agrees they are these loose-limbed, cheery men from in E Minor, O: 39 Symphony Or
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cobbers They'd be ideal for any cam To emphasise the point he hummed They are the vanguard of a nation 11.00 Close Downiev are dramatic licence if they can find out?
paign in Asia Minor or farther the chorus a little cracked and out for whom democracy is real.·
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