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RUSSIA.

Forty Thousand New Teachers Required.

Moscow, August 24...

AT KING'S PARK.

Well-known Local Artistes.

be Mr. W. R. Fleming la to

on the excellent talent he has gathered together concert at the for to-night's China Light, & Power. Recreation Club.,

In undertaking the immediate in-, congratulated troduction of universal compulsory elementary education in the whole of their vast country the Soviet leaders have assumed a staggering burden.

Three-million children from 8 to 10 inclusive must be regimented into schools which for the most part do not yet exist, taught by teachers who have not yet been mobilised, from textbooks which have not yet -been-printed..

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AMUSEMENT

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QUEEN'S present John Gilbert in "Redemption", The picture la said to contain a number of re- markable reproductions of scenes in regal Russia as it existed before' the war. One of the sets, on which report runs, a vast amount of time It is to be hoped that a repeti-

and money was spent, is that of an orthodox Russian wedding in a tion of last Saturday's weather- will not occur to mar the full-huge cathedral. A-talkie film ment of the programme, which includes many well known loca! artistes.

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theSong:-

The Commissarlat· of

that in estimates cation forthcoming school-year, begin. it must Autumn, ning this

It have 40,000 new teachers.

new must prepare 32,000,000 school. books and 200,000,000 note- books. The budget for education must be increased to 1,100,000,000 rubles,

Exacting as this burden might be other country, It uny

for infinitely more

because it Union the Soviet la at the same time shouldering equally stupendous tasks in other flelds. The breath-taking educational plans coincide with the very apex of the five-year plan in industry, vast schemes for socialising the land. unprecedented plans for the breed- ing of livestock and a dozen other related enterprises. Perhaps the whole of human history does not reven! a government which has dared so much in so short a space of time.

Promise and Preformance. Sober-minded observers do not whole seriously expect that the

will be educational programme achieved as per schedule. Even if

PART, I.

(a) The Dream Flower Tree",

Drummond. (b) "God Touched the Rose",

Brown, Mrs. G. R. Lieb. 2.--Something Humorous,

Mr. W. J. Geall, The Yorkshire Philosopher.

3.-Trio:-

(a) "Viennese Popular Song",

Kreisler (b) "Minuet in G".....Beethoven

Mr. J. Braga, Mr. L. Szente and Miss C. Braga. 1. Song:-

"Farewell in the Desert."

Mr. W. Houston Bailey.. 5.Something Nautical

Mr. L A. Jeeves.

6.-Song:

(a) "At Dawning” (b) "Rases"

Mr. Li Chor-chi.

CENTRAL features Betty Comp- son in "Street Girl:" Miss Comp- son is seen as an impoverished Hungarian violinist "adopted" - by -four-boys-who-are-members of a Through the manoeuvres of the girl, the little orchestra is given a trial in a Hungarian cafe, to which comes a European prince од A sight-seeing tour of New York's night clubs. A talkie film.

band.

MAJESTIC presents George Ban- croft in "The Drag Net," a thrill ing drama. A silent film.

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STAR features John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in "Flesh and the Devil" Elaborate replicas of old German castles, à complete repro- duction of the Berlin railway sta- tion and its trains, and other re- Cadman.markable feats of screen construc-

..Adams.

10 MINUTES INTERVAL

PART IL

1-Song:-

1. (a) "The Rose",

(a) "The River and the Sea",

Noel Johnson.

9. "Our Little Home" .Eric Coates.

Mrs. G. R. Lieb. 2.-Violin Solo:-....

"Czardas"

Monti.

Mr. John Braga.

(a) "La Serenata" (b) "Serenata"

Toseli. ,Tosti.

Mr. Li Chor-chi, Violin Obligato by Mr. H. S. Yung Mrs. J. Moodia and L/Cpl. J. McCalman. 6-Song

"The Drum Major"

Mr. W. Houston 'Bailey.

it is half completed, a notable ad--Song:- vance will have been made. In Muscow, where the number of chil dren in schools is relatively high, 350,000 new pupils must be accom-4-Highland Danelrg modated on October 1, necessitating schools and over about 800 new 4,000 additional teachers.

The official aim is to enroll all children between 8 and 10 inclusive during the next school year for a four-year elementary, course. Par- ents and guardians will be held Kable to punishment if they do not register their children for this minimum course. Boys and girls from 11 to 15 inclusive who have not had any education must also be put into schools, for shorter courses in accordance with their age and -mental capacity.

Only the most backward outlying regions of the Soviet empire are permitted a slower pace, according to the official announcement. The organisation of 100 per cent. com- pulsory primary education in those limited regions may be spread over two or three years.

HONG KONG HEIGHTSnection with this effort. Large as-

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Naturally a long series of mea- Aures have been outlined in con- aiguments are being made for the building of schools. Special duties have been laid upon the State pub- lishing houses in connection with providing text-books. In particular inducements have been announced to attract teachers, every community being obligated to put teachers in the same category as factory, work- ers the most favoured category possible in this country-in matters of obtaining food, clothing and shelter,

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tion, make the picture so authen- tic that one would imagine it had actually been filmed in Europe. A eilent film.

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WORLD presents Charlie Chase and Jean Hersholt in "Modern Love," a picture full of laughs. A silent, film.

MODERN ARCHITECTURE. Epoch-Making Appointment In Germany.

An important change has just taken place in the management of the Bauhaus, Germany's leading school of architecture and arts, by the appointment of Herr Mies von der Rohe, the prominent leader of the most modern trend in architec ture, to the directorship of the

5 MINUTES INTERVAL 0.Sketch by the China Light and school.

Fower Recreation Club:-

"Roy Aforesaid," Scene: "A Sheriff's Court in Scot- land."

Rory Maccoll (A Substitute Shop. The Sheriff Mr. J. V. Smith. Lawyer, Mr. F. d. Clemo,

herd), Mr. D. Lyon.

Mr. Mazcullum (A Scotch Farmer), Mr. I. N. Murray.

Court Officer, Mr. C. B. Easterbrook Witness, Mrs. J. H. Shaw.

God Save the King.

At the Piano: W. R. Fleming. Musical Selections will be render. ed by an Orchestra from The A. & S.H. Band (by kind permission Lt. Col. R. G. Maclaine, M.C., and Officers).

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indefinitely for the alleged sins of their elders.

Physical Welfare.

In drawing these millions of children into its schools the Soviet regime publicly assumes respon sibility for their physical ne weil as their mental care. Free shoes, free lunches and other assistance will be provided on a large scale to boys and girls insufficiently fed or clothed by their families.

Soviet leaders have always con- tended that illiteracy is one of the big stumbling blocks on their road to a socialist society. Only recently Joseph Stalin declared that obliga- The children of "enemy elements" tory primary education "will be the on the --of former rich people, aristocrats, greatest victory not only 297

priests and other disfranchleed per-cultural front, but on the political Feet.

Included la the and economic fronts as well." sons-are 1971

The in- educational scheme. tention clearly ia to give them the same advantages as working class children. If, however, space proves Inadequate (as very likely It will) then proletarian youngsters will receive the prefer ence. In any event, the purpose seoma ultimately to absorb the younger generation of the "undesir abla" classes, and not to punish them

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