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Answers on Page 10
1. Оле оf thesm towns. „IK named after a boxing cham- Blon
Louisville, USA; Carper- tras, France; Wells, Somerset: Bendigo, Australia? Hammer- Jest, Norway?
2. If you were accustomed to using Flemish bond ́ you would beum
Stationer, bricklayer, Belk 'gian tea' drinker, stockbroker?
9. Before the Marble Arch “was, moved to its present post-
tlon it was
At Temple Bar, outside Buc- kingham Palace, opposite Albert Hall at Storey's Gate?
4. Well-known radio names. Do you know them?
5. The last royal Derby winner. WR B
Diamond Jubilee, Minoru. Sansovino, Persimmon, Flying Fox?
G. Which three of these
hishops always' linve
the House of Lords-
Reals to
London, Oxford, Durham, Winchester, Salisbury?
7. To which. counties of Britain would you go to reach
Devil's Dyke, The Ladders, Heavensgate?
§. Rowland Hill is the name
A battle in the first World War, Rand gold mine, the inan
who introduced penny postage.
a dance band leader?
9. If your grandfather clock losca,
the pendulum weight
should be..
Raised, lowered?
10. When
"Hall to
Shelley wrote: thee. blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert," De was addressing
A nightingale, cuckoo, swan, skylark, swallow?
Measuring Penicillin
Chicago engineers are using beams of light to weigh the drug pealelllin, It's a neat trick to measure off .0002 of an ounce of something that costs US$13,000 a pound and cap It in a bottle. They are finishing a bottle per second. with an accuracy of plus or minus one percent.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947.
Wanted: a few angry authors
NY theatre manager and most critics will tell you that the public do not want a play with a message. On the other hand, many of the most successful plays are full of message.
Even if we exclude, Shakespeare, who was always' pointing a moral, we could fill this column with such titles as "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Dear Brutus,"; Idiot's Delight," "An Englishman's Home," "Journey's End" Damaged Goods," "Ghosts," "The Skin of Our Teeth,” - and oven auch recent oxamples as "The Guinea Pig" and "The Man from the Ministry."
WHEN the then Sir John Simen
wont to Paris to do a broadcast radlo he was told by the French authorities that he must speak as if he were angry. "But why?" ask- ed the suave Simon. The answer was: "The French people will not listen to any politician unless he Is angry."
There is something basic in that, To
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extent a considerable dramatist should not write a play unless he has something to say on a aubject which
him moves emotionally. The London stage bad-
by BEVERLEY
İ
BAXTER, MP
COALETTIESTEERTOLNATION, GURENEJE.
the young criminal to Borstal to be cured of evil and will not believe him cured when he comes out,
Truly a pitiful, provocative and disturbing theme and we should be grateful to Mr Beckwith for bring Ing
it before us,
Then why does his play merely disturb the mind while "Barabbas ly needs a few authors who are moves the emotions to an almost angry and not merely irritated.
message in 4
Nevertheless the play is full of pitfalls. No audience wants to pay the cost of its plus oalertainment tax in order to
be lectured.
unbearable palgnancy? The di- ference is in the way each delivers his mesange.
מם
YN "Barabbas" there is no good
man gone wrong, no bad become good, no cruelty even in the That is where the unskilled
cell. Tet corruption, condemned dramatist comes a cropper. He will not let his story point the moral, he crucity and despair are there be
It is human nature will not be content with the altud- fore our eyes, tion, but must rend his characters against the system--and the systeni down to the footlights to tell us on his behalf where "virtue ends and sin, begins.
wins.
of
contrast with the world shadows how pleasant it. was
to sit in the mellowing sunlight and listen to Robert Alkina's Open Air Company frolic in the lovely non- sense of "Twelfth Night,"
I can never remember the imper sonation of her brother by Olivia being cat
carried
off so successfully by any two players as Patricia Kneala and Hugh Manning without either Autrandoring the attractiveness of their own sox.
Y the critic should re-
Miss Kneale has a wistful beauty as well as a pleasing/voice, and if one is inclined to think her per- formance better than that of her fellow RADA graduate, Miss Chris- tine member "Viola has beaten coma of her best actresses on the stage.
Atkins Mr
as Shakespeare's hat on Whit Mon- ballift tells mo
at day his amphitheatre was crowded by Cockneys, costers and men, who were showing their ponies, and all the rest of London's philosophers who stop work when the bank takes a holiday. He said they listeged, enraptured nor do I doubt it.
An evening of rare delight.
No Cures,
So Blamed
Witches
BRITISH RUNABOUT PLANES
· British" light - aircraft» manufacturers lead the world with their products, which are to be seen in almost every part of the world. These "runabouts" of the air need no special landing grounds-their short take-off runs and low landing speeds enable almost any fleld to be used. This picture shown assem- bly lines with 100 h.p. 3-seater “Autocrats”... În various stages of completion.
Duchess Tried Pub
Beds Herself
Twenty-eight-years-old Charles John Robert Manners, Duke of Rutland, has reopened his pub. and, becomes the first ducal publican" in the nation's history.
He and the Duchess are out ed to attract American tourist to make their guests com- trade to the Peak district. fortable. The .beda are all
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
THE activity known as song-
plugging is making the public fonder and fonder of good music. So fond of guod music are they that they love to hear something by Chopip, let us say, provided that it has nice words put to it and is given a catchy title.
Then, when it La played, or rather sprayed over. tliam, by ahom
atops, organ with, gilt chromium pedals, coloured lights Tout le bataclan du tralala, they can join in the singing and nay, That was a lovely bit of Chopin." or Beethoven or whatnot
ct
The only interesting thing about song-plugging is that with all the elaborate machinery for stuffing songs into people's ears, the songs are BO Boon forgotten. The old music-hall song, which made their appeal on their merits, remain.
As the late James Agate once' pointed out, "The Lily of Laguna" is D. gay song about a man who was happy to be in love. And it outlasts all the groaning songs of self-pity. Hafod Bruch Pull
y
bar-
PREPARATIONS for the Royal Welsh National Eisteddfod at going Colwyn Bay in August are forward. Contributions for the die nightshirt are already coming in from Aberbananer, Liandrearie, Permaenboltyl, and Betyevlechon. Evans the Hearse, of Aberbananer, is also preparing to attempt once more to push a pen up Snowdon with his nose. Waste of Ume? Of - gorsedd
Fracas
Unless the author is such a lord of language that he can overwhelm us with the sound and fury of his words, then he should not make the mistake of explaining his play at once, the issue is broadened and for slander and for practising med! right. Her Graca made sure of furniture and pictures from calls for order.
Mr Beckwith is not content withi the conflict between the Ilving spirit) Villagers told stories of cows. Jan- and the stone wall. He presents us cing in moonlit fields when Madame young Augustine Tolard, inother of five and with the young brute, the
young helper in the Chateaubriand, Brit- hero, the young. Ingo, the thiet, the young imbecile; and thus, tany, school, was fined 200 16s
and his purposo.
the drama dissipated. It is society These thoughts have been engen- which is in the dock rather than the dered by "Boys in Brown," at the Borsial school.
Arts Theatre, which is the second Mir Beckwith might reply
that prison play I have seen in two Borstal is not his target, but the months,
conditions of life that lead to Ita It is impossible to B4/010 com.
Rates, parison between "Boys in and "Now Burabbas," for they both
Brown
deal with the suppression of human liberty in the name of Justice.
Admittedly
to
to
Perhaps it is this duality of in- tention which causes the author to try and clear his mind by lecturing Mr Home had the us so frequently, but the fact re- great advantage of having served a malas, that the boys he shows term, in prison, which meant that us do not alter in character their Incarceration. "Barabbas" was in the nature of an throughout
There is
the suggestion at the end inside job.
Mr Beckwith has a message and that Iago, brilliantly played by it is an important one. He sets out John Carol, might go straight, but Teason is given for this op- to show us that a Borstal Boy has no
chance of living down his Umism. a poor
This is a faulty play that is worth alliterative classification.
admirable per- Even when he is released from seeing. There are
brown, the school he has to report regular-formances by the boys in
ly to the Borstal Association which, and Mr Andre Morell as the joint though kindly in its concepilon, keeper of the school and the au- continues to identify him as a young thor's conscience lent dignity log. In other words society sends integrity to it all.
and
cine without a licence.
Madame Tokard, it has stated, cured many villagers of rheumatism and other allments by the use of herbs.
that by bouncing on them all. The Duke took over the Pea- cock at Rowaley, on his Derby shire estate, from his outgoing Now it is a tenant a yçar ago, high-class country hotel design
There were some she could not cure, and in these coses she let it be itnown that the patients would never get well-they were victims of sorcery. She named two women who, she said, were casting evil speils
Avas "robbed of his spirit," a man over the villɔge.
Villagers swore
after the learned mysteriously that " drop "dance of the cows" glant toads came of blood in his head threatened to out to milk the cows. Figa refuted, fall to his brain and kill him." to eat their swill, and strange marks appeared on women's arms or on the hands of children.
that
Some swore they had seen one of the two "witches" dancing by moon light in the streets of different ham- Icts. Panic took hold of the locality and every death was regarded with surpelon.
Villagers feared they were marked out by the two "witches," A child
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Madame Tolard prescribed re- medies. To turn aside the evil spella she fixed crosses behind the house shutters,, sacrificed chickens, and buried their hearts under the beds of the sick."
Even now that Madame Telard has been Aned, the villagers are far from sure that the "spell" has been broken.
"I THOUGHT
YOU SAID YOU PUT EMIN
·
The meeting grew rowdier, f Duke and Duchess brought spite of the charwoman's repeated their home, Belvoir Castle,
(Account of meeting). Charwoman (waving her mop al "working like niggers" to get the back of the hall): Order! Or the newly decorated and alter- der! ed hotel ready in time.
The Duchess, daughter of a Huddersfield stockbroker, and
marriage last year, planned all professional model before a
the soft furnishing detail her- self.
The old house, which has bren an inn for 300 years, Is close to the Haddon home of Dorothy Vernon, the 101b-gen- tury beauty - who ran sway during a ball to elope with one of the Duke's ancestors. Local opposition to the Duke's application for a build- Ing licence for the alterations was prolonged on the grounds of the acute housing shortage.
"Looking Ahea
Chairwoman: Pardon me. It is my job to restore order.
Charwoman: But it anys me. Chairwoman: A misprint, my good woman. They left out on “1”” Charwoman: Don't call me your good woman! Order! Order!
(Enter a printer. He hands the Chairwoman her ""). Chairwoman: Now then! Charwoman: You win.
She loves daisies
Nobody seeing her walking in the country would take her for a famous star.
(Film note). An actress by the river's brim A simple actress was to him, And it was nothing more.
(Keats).
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