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Television.

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HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE

Oxford Pinks

The October Club, Oxford's re- volutionary organisation, bas come! to life again. Recently it held a meeting in conjunction with the National Unemployed Workers' movement. It was addressed by Mr. Tom Mann and took place in the city's biggest dance-hall.

Some 500 peoplo attended it. more than two-thirds were mem- bers of the University.

as a

The proceedings were as orderly lecture in the schools. A Christ Church don was in the chair.

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Mr. Mann-Impersonator

Mr. Mann's discourse lasted nearly two hours.

of it was

in

The greater part praise of Ruskin, Robert Owen and

John Stuart Mill.

ROMANTIC PAST OF BUDAPEST

FAST VANISHING LANES

AND COURTS

HUNGARY'S CHANGING CAPITAL

(By Noel Panter.)

This article describes the East. Recent excavations have re- Taban, a small district of Buda-jvealed, in dungeon-like pits, many pest, about one square mile in human skeletons-grim testimony extent, which is now being pulled of crimes committed centuries ago. down. It lies at the foot of the In the days when licence un- Buda Hüll on the further side bounded flourished in the Taban, from the Danube..

venturesome burghers or swagger- ing cavallers from the town would of TT is only too often trus that sometimes go to it in search

Often their night's hygiene ends. Poor drainage, in-revelry was ended by a dagger

ventilated

Days afterwards their adequately

dwellings, thrust, crumbling roofs and damp rheuma-bodies would be found floating in tism-provoking walls constituted, the waters of the Danube,

I where romance engine, there amusements

perhaps, too great a price to pay for The Taban was ever rich in those memories of the past, for that mineral springs, and they no doubt The speaker evidently held these poetic enchantment which clothed furnished the young bloods of eminent Victorians in greater re-the Taban in an atmosphere all its fortified Buda with the excuse for verence than did his audience.

their excursions. Some of the Mr. Mann is 78 and his vigour is' A matter of fact municipal coun- bath still in use date from Roman astonishing. His style of oratory cil has decreed that the entire area times, and were developed by the is dramatic.

evening.

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fast

His impersonation of the Prime blot, so it was said, on the cul-Turks in the sixteenth century.

that The people of the Taban, some Minister at the World Economictural escutcheon of a town Conference was the success of the prides itself upon the healing proof whom may still be observed

perties of its thermal springs-dismally surveying their

vanishing surroundings, differed Lenin would not have approved should be razed to ground.

Little is left of the Taban now. greatly from the other citizens of of the Oxford pinks. Their politics

But Afty or aixty are hardly as rosy as their cheeks.in a few months time villas, sana-the capital.

toriums, and blocks of modern flats years ago Buda and Pest, on' oppa- will have arisen where once stood site shores of the Danube, werc Flats In The City

quaint and picturesque cottages. regarded as different towns. Even simple- Commenting on the news that Most of these were built by the to-day the peasants and

had little minded people of the serving class residential flats are to be built in owners themselves, who agreement will perhaps have the City, the Lord Mayor, Sir knowledge of architecture, but some draw the distinction very definite barred bomb-carriers, as well as Charles Collett, stated recently:

thing of poetry in their souls,

ly. submarines and battleships. But I have found the greatest pos

In many of them constructed on: Many of them are proud to live Will there by any need for such sible pleasure and interest living rising ground, there were steps lead-in Buda, with its historic walls, things as Leagues of Nations, in the heart of the City. The rest-ing from one room to another.its castellated bastions, its palace, Geneva Conferences, or Kellogg fulness and charm at night. Narrow ways, straggling, apparently its Ministries and its homes of the Just so it was with Pacts after television has reach- especially when returning from the at random, between the Houses, with aristocracy. ed its last stage of development, West End, has to be experienced to white and yellow walls and over the Taban. if there be a last stage at which he understood."

hanging enves, bore names such as] The inhabitants, rarely, if ever, At night the City streets are un-"Moonbeam Lane" and "the Street crossed the Danube to the busy

Grim Crimes Of Other Days

That scenes as well as sounds) the progress of any science must can be transmitted on the wings balt? Already experiments in disturbed save for the sports car of the Golden Duck." Somehow, one shops and thorough fares of Pest. of the wind is already a demon-thought photography are report of a Guards ensign returning to fools that the ghosts of forgotten They preferred their quiet back- strated fact. But as yet not fored to have been made with more the Tower (where leave is un-lovers surely will haunt the wide water nestling on the edge of the or less successful results. After obtainable after 3 a.m.) or by the macadam, ronds of the Tabon that is teeming metropolis. They kept to any great distance. Televisjon appears to be at somewhere about might hesitate to say that some leaving a City dinner.

recent experiences the wiseacres worshipful anecdotage of aldermen to be, and will sigh regretfully at their ancient customs and to their the stage that aviation had day it may not be as easy to see

the changes wrought in the name ofjold-fashioned ways of speech. reached prior to the war. Some what anyone in any part of the Londoners do not avail themselves

It is often wondered why more progress.

Respect For The Old Pagan God On summer nights when, seen It was in a Taban restaurant who wagged the head of superior world is thinking as what he or

of this oasis of tranquillity.

from the high hill of Buda, the red that I heard the good wife scold- scepticism when first told that she is doing When that stage

rays of the setting sun flushed the ing her Swabian maid for brushing Bell's telephone enabled people of evolution is reached the golden

western sky with fountains of out the parlour in a seemingly em- miles apart to converse over aage dreamt of by the poets of Your Daily Smile!

radiant glory, the Taban would seem cient yet unorthodox fashion. "May wire, have lived to gossip with old may not be far off. Diplo

to beckon. Then lovers would des the old good punish you for brush- friends at the other side of the macy will fave become impossi "Sitting in an armchair reading

cend the steps in the shadow of the ing towards the window." world without even at wire to ble, and with it will go the great-every evening, instead of going out old fortification, and make their way According to un ancient super-

and again, dull a man's carry the sound of their voices. est perhaps of all the Interna-new

to the lanes and old-world courts stition of the peasants, it is un- But it sharpens tional trouble-makers by which brain." we read. Television is perhaps further the world's peace has ever been his wife's tongue,

beyond.

lucky to brush manure towards the ahead now than the telephone imperilled. It would be no use

sun, and this belief became modifi- was then.

For some time the saying one thing and meaning

There they would dally in the ed as time went on. The expres cinema has been able to trans-1 another,

fragrant gardens, drinking the ston "old god" has its origins, too, when everyone's port the exact reproduction of thoughts were plain for everyone £10,000 for waiting a song, I readheady Magyar wine and lulled into right back in the beginnings of the any scene with the sound of else to see. Imagination would and knowing my voice as I do, I'll melodies' conjured from the gypsies King Stephen of Hungary intro-

forgetfulness of every care by the Hungarian Christian era, any voice anywhere and at any be appalled by the plight of the bet that's nothing to what I could time in a handysized box. Now gay deceiver who had to make get for not singing any song Irving they would pause, perhaps, by the be a better word-Christianity in vicline. Later, homeward going, duced enforced would, perhaps, television brings the original the but plain-featured Berlin ever wrote. scene directly under the eye of heiress believe that undying love It only requires was the only motive, impelling the onlooker. further development to enable him to propose marriage to her. anyone actually to see any part Plots and conspiracles of every "No," said the Scotsman to the they would whisper to one anothering for the mysticism of the new of the world as it is while sitting kind would come to an end. gangsters who had kidnapped him the tale that is older than the island religion. in his own home. From two to Even the amiable little hypo- and wanted him to sign a cheque of Cythera, yet ever grows new in They obeyed their king and the seven years is the time in which crisies which lubricate the ma-for £5,000. "No; I'll no sign.** the telling. It was no coincidence Christian inissionaries, but they experts estimate that this will chinery of our civilisation could "Aw, come on now," said the Big that the young men and maidens of still had a lingering respect for be possible. "When" This is serve no purpose. The polite Shot, poking a gun in his ribs, Budapest, repaired to the Taban to the old god, who was chiefly the achieved it will probably make man with the big bank balance "for Auld Lang Sign."

|plight their troth. Instinct, inherit-god of war. radical changes in the social and expressing regret for being un-

rich

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SILENCE IS GOLDEN Irving Berlin sometimes gets

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ON THE DOTTED LINE

home life of the people." It is able to assist a hard-up friend LAUGH THIS OFF

a safe rule never to prophesy might as well keep his regrets as A doctor states it is possible for without you know, and it is well as his money. The cordial mirth to prove fatal. Hence, equally prudent to admit the pos reception of an unwelcome caller laugh and go-phol! sibility of much that at present would be wasted courtesy. seems to be impossible. Probe the success of television in the "NOW. JOHN..." bly the wiseacres so far would merely material world. may be

calculated to

If

make radical

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Those big, stern, firm-minded have made fewer mistakes changes in social life, how much women may not make men the following the latter of these pre- further might telepathy which best wives; but, gosh, they

cepts than even by sticking to made every man's mind an open make men the best husbands.

the former. If people could see hook for every other man to read and hear everything going on in be expected to carry? Would it the world without moving from turn the world into a bear-gar

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HAPPY ENDING

de

old

stone cross near the Taban the eleventh century, The Mag. Church. With overhead a sickle yars, a soldierly and nomadic peo- moon and a myriad golden stars, ple, had at first little understand-

jed and ineradicable, drew them Thus they frequently Invoked

there.

him and alluded to him, and the For decades this had been their custom, though having lost its prerogative, and it was an under significance, has been handed stood thing that parents, should not down to the present day. Catholfe Iprobe too deeply into the secrets of Hungary still offers opportunities to Ithose meetings.

the student of the pagan mind,

But it was not always that the Taban was the home of Innocent romance. Three and four hundred years ago it was the abiding place of those whose reputations caused them to be shunned by the honest burghers and guildsmen of· Buda,

A jaded novelist went to see à The inhabitants were outcasts, be-

the one spot, the only reason for ten, or would the effect be to film version of his latest novel,yond the city walls, and their num- travel would be to enjoy the mo-create a paradise? Every sort and it gave him a splendid plot for hers were augmented by the indis- tion of the ship or the car or the of doubt and fear being banishm/new.onc aeroplane as a child enjoys a ride ed in the calm, clear atmosphere merry-go-round. Until of truth and trust, then would quite recent times the great pro all things become beautiful and who has no pubilelty agent. blem for a military commander all persons happy? was to know what was behind

the nearest hill in front of him.

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A beautiful scroll with an address criminate rabble which in those in Chinese, was presented to Mr. distant days assembled near every Alfred Morris by Mr. He, Kom-long We read of a Hollywood actress large town to pray upon the citi-on behalf of the Chinese merchauls, | yesterday afternoon when: Chinese actress with such a gift for ori In times of war the Taban, lay merchants of the Colony gathered at ginality as that doesn't need one at the mercy of the enemy. The the Gloucester Restaurant to bid him Turks, when they stormed the for- farewell on his departure for Eng. “Woman Saved From Drowning By

irens of Buda, took possession of land on June-1. E97Crinoline"

16. 16-10 said that its very name it. Bir No. Kom-long, G.B.E, pr of Turkish origin, and; being in-sided at the function, others present terpreted, means "the foot of the being Hon. Bir WM:Shenton, WANA Hon, Bir Shou-son Chow; Hon. 2. H. Soldiers of the Sultan, soldiers Kobewall; Hon. Dr. 8. W. Tab, Hón.

Those buoyish mandes,

DISILLUSIONMENT..

pre

The history of the world has COLONY MEDICAL REPORT often hinged on the accuracy with which he guessed. The

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He thought she was girl, after

inuch use for it. And the work persons died from small-pox,one The kitche may have developed acnse enough from diphtheria, two from typhold day may

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