MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1931.
TO DEMOCRACY VIA THE DRESS SUIT
WHEN WE ARRIVE THERE.
Everyone Will Dress for Dinner.
By J. i. Priestley.
ROUND THE LOCAL CINEMAS.
What Mail Reviewers Say.
"THE GHOST TRAIN.”
Teddy Deakin
Mrs. Bourne
Perry Murdock Richard Winthrop Saul Hodgkin Dr. Sterling Julie Price flerbert Price
Notice any man look-Charles Bryant
When British when he has Elsie Bryant
even-
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Jack Hulbert
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HOW TO LEARN ANATOMY.
Advice to Young Doctors.
PREVENTIVE WORK.
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Chief
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The great change has taken she feels completely at home in Train." possessing a simple plot, Sir George, declared that the The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf
The station master
A Failing.
the
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Act was passed for the preven-or before the 11th January, 1932, or tion as well as the cure of sick- ness, and Sir George asked:
they will not be recognised.
"The teaching and practice of .Cicely
Courtneid medicine have been all too often badges to gain admittanco. ....Cyril Raymond preoccupied in a confused and Donald Calthrop unequal struggle with end
Allan Jeayes results." Angela Baddeley "We have learned our anatomy
Caino Henry .Tracey Holmes from the dead rather than from
Carol, Coombe the living." To the more nustere readers, pearance.
talking picture Sir George Newman, of this paper 1 apologise in ad- ing in the glass vance for this article. They finished dressing in the
He does not wear his or-productions were first introduced Medical Officer of the Ministry of will tell me that this is no time ing.
audi- Health, expressed these opinions He has a special to the Hong Kong screous, for sartorial extravagances. But dinary face. the truth will out, and this time face and a fine, thoughtful, ences levelled criticisms galore, in an address to the students of Charing Cross-Hospital But after passing medical school, at the annual its mouthpiece is the editor of romantic face it is to wear and the pictures were shown only the
Nevertheless, loo seldom. the Outfitter who has just told above a dress tie. us that at least 20 times as many he does not feel comfortable with- through that stage, British ple- prize distribution.
tures have made their stay here,
"When you go into practice," in that laundered armour. dress suits are sold as in 1914.
are startling proposi- moves stiffly. He soon becomes judging by the crowds that flock he said it is not the rare.
ed to the Queen's Theatre yeater ease of the complex surgical oper These tions. There is, it seeme, an too hot.
will provide your Notice how. wisdom has been 'day to see and hear Gainsborough's ation which ideal before us: one man, one
the thriller, "The Ghost Train," which daily round and between
common task. The Steamship, dress suit. Week after week nently divided
or indigestion When Woman goes out is also being shown to-day and to It is bronchitis more and more shirts are bolled, j sexes.
which will call for your skill.". and even in the East End they in the evening she wears a gar-morrow.
Adapted from the famous stage!
Emphasising the importance of inquire anxiously of one another ment, that is at once light, cool,
comfortable. You can see that play by Arnold Ridley "The Ghost training in preventive medicine, now: "White tie or black?"
that of smuggling arms into Run time was not far distant. If it place, you notice, since 1914. it.
she has then by railway, has mystery had not already arrived, whon In this matter
The action in centred in the public would demand preven- The War to make the world safe for democracy has also made the laugh of us. Have you ever re- plenty.
advice, as distinct from world safe for dress suits. This marked how much better-temper- Fal Vale Railway Station, where tive is as it should be. Indeed this cd women are on arriving at din- Mr. Hulbert, in the company of curative treatment, from
general practitioner. increase in dress suits is about ner parties and the like? That young girl, her lover, an elderly the only real evidence we have is beenuse they have not been busybody woman, a doctor, and a that the War succeeded in its wrestling with studs and starch-honeymoon couple, are marooned purpose. If we now buy 20 times ed things. They do not split for the night. They are en route as many dress suits as we did in their nails and saw their necks to Truro. 1914, then England really is be when they are dressing to ge successful in relating to the party
"Is the public getting an offer- coming
ing that the station is haunted. tive preventive service? If not, a democratic country.out. They do not end in a lather the story of the Ghost Train, add-|- And I write as a genuine demo- of sweat and a vile temper. Although mystery creeps round is it because the doctor has not crat, one of the few that still A Frightful Problem. them, Hulbert tries to laugh it off, been trained to provide it? Does To comply with the General Bond-
But on the other hand, Woman and makes himself disliked. It exist among men of letters.
has not had the wit to achieve would be unfair
he appreciate that it is his func-ed Warehouse Reguktions consignees Rovenug Officer in atton- must have Making Headway.
to disclose the tion to find out the cause of the dance when damaged duttable goods evening uniform, That is Most of my colleagues, notice, denounce democracy and where we can laugh. When I am rest of the narrative here, so ce bronchitis, the dyspepsia, the are examined.
the film for yourself and be thrill-
lumbago, the rheumatism, the No, Fire Insurance has been effect. ed. favour some aristocratic system, asked out for the evening I have
anaemia, the nervous breakdown, ed.
Bills of Lading will be counteragn. usually rather vague but always only one question to ask myself: Jack Hulbert is excellent, whilst
for which he is consulted?"
ed by, including themselves among the tack tie or white; or, if you the acting of Cicely Courtneidge
Many newly-qualified doctors
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in Britain did not appreciate or
Agenta, I have not to bother my head provided in welcome measure aristocrats and the governing prefer it, talls or dinner jacket?
apprehend the preventive trend. class. I happen to believe that the world has not passed by de- about wearing something new, Hulbert and Ann Todd. The rest
The Medical Faculty of every mocracy, but has not yet arrived something in the fashion, some of the cast give outstanding per
school would do well to devise a And these dress suits thing that suits me, I put on formances. The director was Mr.
scheme for trainees, which would anatomy of the dead by that of the living. We must apply our ahow that we are making head- one of my two uniforms and off Walter Forde, and the railway
include:- I go.
Lectures on the general sub-preventive and curative medicine But every fresh engagement scenes were executed with the co- 'operation of the Great Western
at an earlier stage." For the dress suit and the bath.
ject; Railway Co. ing costume are perhaps the only in the evening brings up a new and frightful problem for a genuine démocratic outfits jinssess. The dress suit is sim- woman, and the financial cost of ply the uniform of evening trying to solve these problems is leisure. I have always had a terrifying, though even that is contempt for the intelligence of not so bad as the wear-and-tear! First Church of Christ, those labour leaders who refused of the nervous system involved Scientist, Hong Kong. to wear evening clothes on the in this business of evening dress- ground that they were the signing.
And there is nothing at all de. SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY. and mark of the governing class,
in the the idle rich. the bloated capital mocratic about women
"Is the Universe, including Man, In that rainbow of ists. Mr. J. II. Thomas probably evening. deserves a place in any Cabinet dresses is the wildest and most evolved by Atomic Force?" was the in subject of the Lesson Sermon in all simply because of his drawer-full tantalising and infuriating
The rich are so in, Churches of Christ, Scientist, on of uncompromising stiff dress equality.
solently rich, the poor so timidly, Sunday, December 20. shirts.
The Golden Text was.-"Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the Once a man has his dress suit heart-breakingly poor.
at it.
way.
Ian
we
LESSON-SERMON.
by
on no matter how old, how! At every party you may see earth, and the heavens are the work green, it he is as good as the wives of poor young men of thy, hands." (Psalms 102; 25.) any other man. He is clothed in each of them so conscious of that
Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the
following
from
the Bible
Attendance at special clinic for the practice of preventive medicina;
Instruction in the preventive aspects of the principal sections of the turriculum; and
Examination before certifica-
tion.
"The teaching of medicine and its practice," Sir George con- tinued, "have been all too often pre-occupied in a confused and with end- unequal struggle results. We have learned our the dead rather anatomy from
We have than from the living. learned our practice of medicine too largely from final entities witnessed in the hospital ward. We must correct our study of the
a uniform that carries no badges wretched old thing of a dress!
miserable shabby of rank and no suggestion of in- and those equality. It is far easier to tell shoes, and each of them trying to
the rich men from poor men in a carry it off and not quite succeed. "Hearken unto me, O Jacob and
This unpleasant state of Israel, my called; I am he; I am the and Health, with Key to restaurant at lunch time than it ing.
Mine hand Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy. All-in-all, be the is at a dance in the evening. things would vanish at once if first, I also am the last.
a uniform for also hath laid the foundation of the "If God, the Those rigid fronts are our fort-Woman adopted resses. The brotherhood of man the evening too. She would be earth, and my right hand hath creator of the spiritual universe, then everything is there in black and white. eaved so much time, money, spanned the heavens: when I call including man,
worry, she would hardly know unto them, they stand up together." entitled to a classification as truth, A Class System.
(Isaiah 48; 12, 13.)
or Selence, must be comprised in a
or The Lesson-Sermon also included knowledge We have suffered a long time! what to do with herself.
understanding of in this country from a shadowy Moreover, I cling to the theory:
a uniform evening dress the following passage from the God, for there can be nothing be and uneasy class system, in which that most people never know quite would actually improve the ap- Christian Science textbook, "Science yond limitable divinity." (p. 127.)
women, though "I where they are and insist upon pearance of
You must confess I have never yet pretending this and that. can, I imagine, be fairly com-found a woman who agreed with My argument is that the fortable and independent in ame society that has sharply defined monotony of cut and colouring social classes and demands that would really throw into relief you dress according to your sta- the features and figures of the tion. You can be still more com- women concerned, so that instead fortable and independent in a of looking more alike they would society that has abolished classes actually look more wildly and altogether. We in England have beautifully different.
Handsome in Black. been for a long time in the be-!
We
upon
tween stage, in which pretence Whenever I have seen a num- and snobberies abound: but now ber of women in uniform I have there are a thousand signs that noticed that my belef has been are approaching a real de confirmed. Their dresses would mocracy. Perhaps, when we get be all alike, but then all the at- there, everybody will dress for tention would instantly be focus- dinner.
ed
themselves their But perhaps, fall men are eyes, their noses, their shoulders to wear dress clothes, the time and arms. I remember a dinner has come when wo must decide party once at which, by curious upon some improvement in these chance, all the women were wear- garments. They are successful ing black dresses, and I do as- as a democratic evening uniform sure you though I do not spo- that I but that does not mean that they cially favour black are perfect in their present never saw such a handsome set! form.
of people round a dinner table. We men do not look bad in our Now that we men, from Eal dress clothes. Indeed, I thinking right to Ilford, are all dress- most of us look better in thom ing in the same evening uniform, than we do in our lounge suite, let the women find one for them- and certainly better than we do selves too. When that happens, in our idiotic, ugly plus-fcure we shall have a real democracy. That sharply contrasted arrange Even though we may be all dress ment of black and white, Taled in black and white, we shall ways feel, sets us off. It gives be living in a golden age-Even us a certain wise nobility of aping Standard.
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A Midwife's Duties. In midwifery, competence and skill at the crucial moment were clearly necessary. But still more was ante-natal and necessary post-natal supervision.
"All over England," said Sir George, "women come to child- birth unprepared. They prepare. for many hazards. They will pre
if 3,000 mothers a year lose their pare for anything, but not for this. It is an amazing fact. And lives in childbirth, probably more than ten times that num- ber come through their travail injured."
Here, too, was an occasion for wise preventive midwifery, and tional midwifery, which should for reparative and reconstruc- reduce subsequent malady and disability to a minimum.
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