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January 18, 1941.
Can France Come Back?
By William Henry Chamberlin
Now that the shock of the fall
first adjusting Italy's annexationist
desires with the sort of moder
of ate settlement which Laval could present to the French]
France is over, the people as a justification for the
policy of dealing separately with]
question whether, that Germany. country can "come
It is only th few gallant
back," can reoccupy its Frenchmen in exile, under the leadership of Gen. Charles de place among the leading Gaulle who are doing their best to realise the other assumption European Powers as that England will win, that Hit- lerism will be overthrown and sumes additional urgen- that France will be reinstated in
ey and significance.
1
every
German
Its fornior frontiers. There are 80 few of them because; of the
of difficulty leaving! This is not the first time grent that France has seen its it is safe to say that, the number France at the present time. But capital and its territory of Frenchmen who hope for occupied. Defeat followed British victory increases with month of successful the resounding victories of
British resistance. The up- the Napoleonic era. France plause that greeted pictures of was overwhelmed in the British bombing of
towns, when these were shown in Franco-Prussian War of the moving picture theatres of 1870-71. In both these cases octupled Paris is a symptom notj
to be disregarded, recovery came about more
Perhaps the surest guarantee quickly than might have that, "France is not lost," to been expected.
paraphrase the words of the Polish national hymn, is the Now the situation is more rich luminous tradition of difficult and more complicated. French culture and civilisation, What has crushed France is not a tradition that is equally excm- some magnificent only the secular enemy, Ger- plified in
cathedral of the Middle Ages, many, but a Germany dominated with its rich stained glass win- by totalitarian revolution, dows, and in the bound volumes Germany, the hostile Power, of one of France's great masters might be satisfied with the ces- of art and thought, such as sion of Alsace-Lorraine and an Moliere, Racine, Pascal, Mon- indernnity; but the Germany of tesquieu, Voltaire. It is in this sanctuary, one may be sure, the totalitarian revolution may that many of the best French-] demand nothing less than the men are taking refuge, secure surrender of French political in the knowledge that if French and economic independence. temporal power has its moments France has fallen farther and of eclipse, French civilisation is harder than was the case in eternal and indestructible. 1815 or in 1871. There is some, truth in the bitter remark of the Royalist publicist, Charles Maurras, that in ten months France lost what it had taken ten centuries to buik.
But the will to live remains and Frenchmen of the most op- posed schools of political thought are probably united in wishing to rescue France from ils present state of economic] dislocation-physical-suffering
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
USING THE SELF-TIMER
A self-timer enables you to get shots of yourself-such as this breakfast. table studywithout having someone else anap the shutter. Such a device is a great convenience in the camora kit.
HAVE you over tried taking in acier studies and make-up, self-por- formal self-portraits- or por- trails with a self-timer may be even hape a story-telling soquence of more fun. Set up the camera Just shots of yourselt, busy at some hobby or everyday activity about the house? It's an entertaining cam- era pastiine-and with the aid of well-mer, you can shoot such ple tures easily.
·The self-timer is a small "de layed-action" device which elips on the cable release of a camera, aud trips the shutter after a brief time Interval. Somo Ane cameras oven have a self-timer bulit into the shut ter. You simply place the camera on a firm support. press the releuso catch of the self-inter-theit step into the picture, and pone as you wish, until the shulter clicks.
below a mirror, in which you can check your expressions. Put on the make-up-work out the most suit- timer and it does the rest whilo ablo lighting-then release the self-
you pono.
The great advantage of using a self-timer, in photography such as this, is that you can take as much time as you wish on details-and not keep someono clso standing by just to trip the shutter for you.
If you make a hobby of building ship modois, or airplane models, or similar construction work, the self. timer is also useful. With it, you can got anups of yourself at various stages of a job, and these will pro With a couple of photo bulbs, a vida a welcome addition to your self-timer attached to the cable re- hobby record. In family plctures, lease of your camera, and a short the self-timer is likewise a great "acenario" of n half-dozen or so pic help. You need no longer be "Just tures to net out, you can have no the photographer." With the aid of end of fun all by yourself. For ex- this tile gadget, you can appear ample-taking the picture aboro as] in any picture you take. a eno-you might show yoursolt at a hurried breakfast, putting salt in the coffee by mistake, burning the toast, spilling milk to new paper, and then discovering it's Sunday and you don't have to work after all.
Or, if you're interested in char
The self-timer, of course, can only be used on a camera that has a fitting for a cable release, it your camera is no Stted, you should by all means have one of those devices and you'll and it one of the most wonerally useful items in your kit.
Johu van Culler
"With Wooing Words GODS OF
and Loving
Song"
By Vincent Edwards
It is good to know that the Suvo- opposite sides of the, stage, but
Nor did Queen Victoria contribute.
and abject dependence on thej vardis ore carrying on in Great ignored one another and never spoke will of the conqueror. Naturally Britinin, just as though there were no while they were in the theatre. the means best calculated to rude persons pounding of the door, achieve this end depend in so to speak, and threatening to break large measure on who will win up the show. Come what may, Eng to harmony between the two. The land will never give up its Gilbert composer was knighted in 1883, but and Sullivan-and, for that matter, the Queen took such strong exception
satiric
of his partner pen who else in the English-speaking to the world would do without it?
that when The Gondeliers" was pre- cented by royal
the war.
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The mand at Windsor
When France fell in June it was the almost universal con- Did you ever observe the look that Castle in 1891, Gilbert's name was viction that England would not comes over the faces in the audience omitted from the programme. I
when the orchestru strikes up the remained for King Edward VII to hold out for more than a few overture at a Gilbert and Sullivan try to amend this undeserved slight. weeks. It is difficult for one revival? It's the friendliest expres- The librettist became Sir William who did not actually ex-sino in the world. It's just as though in 1007.
or
"The Mikado's"
the music of Sir Arthur.
The sabre true
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to
am
CHINA
WAI TOR
The name is a Cantonese cor- ruption of the Indian Vadya.
perience the process to realise all around you were answering Gilbert "employed the stinging wit
"If you want chorus, what an impression of com- to know who we are, with the re- which annoyed the Queen on other plete collapse and defeat was mark, Yes, we know exactly who occasions. In his later years he had conveyed by the spectacle of you are and once again, we are very as his neighbour Sir Thomas Day, the millions of homeless and glad to see you!" All in all, a jolly, who had risen to fortune and a title helpless refugees and the understanding body of people, oife through his great jam and pickle
business but who could not bear big family, so to speak, paralysis of so many of
have his trade referred to. One day the normal public services,
Sir William S. Gilbert may have Gilbert's dogs killed some of Day's It was against this back been something of a bear to his partridges. When Sir Thomas wrote haughty complaint, the former re- ground of reckoning with pro familiars, but his wit has made a hat bable British defeat that the world of playgoers kin. And so has plied: "Dear Sir Thomas: I have just received your letter about the Vichy Government wite
loss of your partridges and ganised. Many of those What other opereitna can equal taking steps to keep my dogs from Frenchmen who believe that these for solid comedy? The nu- trespassing on your preserves in the dience stays smiling even when future: Yours sincerely, W. S. G- Germany will win the war and tragedy threatens the hers and he bert. P. 5. You will pardon the use duminate Europe for a long in
ninga some moving plaint like of the word preserves, won't you?" time to come maintain that "Farewell, My Own," or "Al, Leave France has no alternative ex- Me Not To Pine Alone and Desolate." cept to conform in many res. And listeners are convulsed when Nothing that either Gilbert or Sul- pects to the German political they are toki of an imaginary be-
hending where and economic pattern and to try, to obtain modification of the rigours of the German occupation in exchange for aome measure of co-operation This huge amusement springs from hundreds who can repeat .Ko-Ko's cause he is considered the guar with Germany. This has been the spirit of continuous raillery which song, "Tit Willow,"
Infects all the operas. Savoyard The Gilbert and Sullivan operas the policy of Petain and Laval, followers know that the direst things remain in a literal sense, words and His place in the temple is always although the veteran Marshal may be mentioned, but they seldom music "thut go round and round." behind the Laughing Buddha and of France has more scruples of happen. All is bound to end happy There is never a time but what, facing the main temple in the
"The
collaboration between the honour than the supple pro-
The
Itinerant remains somewhere in the British Isles or temple gateway. composer and rhymester Fascist politician.
ips the North American continent or the of the most curlous
partnerships While a veil of mystery and in theatrical history. How this pair Dominions "down under," one of the monks can always stay in any censorship still hangs over the who never had special fondness works is not being played. They monastery they come to, but they
made able to match have money, too, for the must first worship the image of details of Hitler's talks with for each other were fectly is ns D'Oyly Cartes a cool $2,500,000, in Wai Tor.
words and music so Petain and Laval there is some] Wor
mysterious as their genius. After the past sixty-five years!
He is sometimes shown hold. reason to believe that
But more than that, they havel the Gilbert had worked out a plot, he former definitely opposed en- would ship off a considerable number made friends. Words and musicing a club. If the club is practi- trance Into the war against of the verses to Sullivan. Then the 'were fitted together so perfectly that cally horizontal, the stay of the Itinerant must be short, The England. Another factor that composer would work on the music, one is never thought of without
other. As long as people love to has delayed the conclusion of a seldom bothering the librettiat.
sing, loads will be lightened and cares higher the angle that the club is definite Franco-German agree-
relieved by the gay lt of the held, the longer the stay that can ment, and which may limit' its] When D'Oyly Carte, their noted flowers that bloom in the spring tra- be mado.
producer, revived "The Sorcerer" la!" or the sober refrain of Uno Ad- scopa if and when it is con- In 1008, Gubert and Sullivan bowed miralty Lord who "polished up the
Walter C. Clark. cluded, 'is Hitler's difficulty in to the applauding audience from handle of the big front door."
one of
Cut cleanly through lils cervical vertebraet"
livan did alone has survived in the Actually, no such person as this same way as their joint work. Sir existed, for Wai Tor is purely a Arthur's hymns are sung on Sunday, symbol and is always shown as a but his most ambitious work, the strong, handsome youth, dressed grand
opera "Ivanhoe," is largely as a general. forgotten. To one reader who knows Gilbert's "Bab Ballads," there are He is dressed in this way ba
dian of the monastic community.
tho