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Ten years after his death a book appears from the pen of Wiliam Archer, the critic and dra tist. It is a study of dreams, edited by Mr. Theodore Besterman.
For ten years Archer kept a close record of his dreams and of his]
incipient
hypangogic illusions
dream-phenomena.
He found reading
detective
stories extremely
INDUSTRIAL FAIR AT MILAN
STRANGE SIDESHOWS FOR PUBLIC
“CHASTENED” ATTITUDE OF
SIGHTSEERS
(By Sir Percival Phillips)...
„Ninstructive
A instructive
indication of grim-looking chairs stood against
[were small portables
and the present time was given me rechamber many of the most Interesting cently at the Milan Industrial tanks of different sizes labelled dreams be noted down began in this Fair. This annual display of "filtered air supply for ten people home and foreign industries is for twenty people for thirty way. He wrote, indeed
One theatrical, model on the foor above the shelters was a
It is not without reluctance that I housed in a kind of White Cite ap- people.". thus pile up evidence of my debased propriated from one of the resi Jiberary tastes; but what will puc dential suburbs. not do in the interests of science?
от
Indirectly, many detective, stories Exhibits much like those at the storey apartment house in section. British Industries Exhibition, but, with the inmates wearing gas weat
to the making of a vigors on a smaller scale, are spread in masks descending to the bomb-
there- fonslaught on the doctrines of Freud.
an attractive way over a group of proof basement and sitting Archer rejected, from the
Paparilions, with various forms of in orderly rows. Another showed tical point of view, the suggestion
roundabout an Under-ground station equipped. entertainment mild that every detail of every dream is susceptible of rational interpreta for the sightseer when he tires of for protection against aerial looking at machinery and the bombs, the railway employees on:
guard in masks and padded uni anufacture" of macaroni.
Forms, and passengers, being con-- ducted to their refuges.
ENGLISH A MUSICAL TONGUE
Fashions In Gas Masks Manufacturers of gas masks dise played their wares in a row of booths adjacent to these models. The man in the street and his wife spent some time in compating the [different types.
It would appear that there is: a trend towards fashions ever in such unattractive forms of headgear. I noticed that the wile paused longer before the model which had a pest per forated brass cap on what might
be called the snout of the mask; as though preferring it to one with a less ornamentad
*ages
Outside the Pavilion.
Smly an infinite intelligence, he
Man In Street Depressed said, could cope with the task. And "infinite" intelligence has not yet The man in the street seemed to made its appearance on earth-even care little for these things. I 2 building in Vienna.
followed him into quarded by men in uniform who and were wearing gas masks,
him found that what interested The English language has con- most was the object-lessons, given quered the world, and no singer there in the preparation for de- car refuse_to-day to sing in Eng-fence against invasion by air. He, lish," Lotte Lehmand the Covent walked from one depressing dis- Garden soprano, said when she ar- play to the next with the look of rived in London recently from one who was determined to know! jall there was to be known about a The China Mail the value of sterling, which is also Vienna.
She had lately, returned from a thoroughly unpleasant subject shown by the fall in the sterling value of the gold dollarow six months' tour through the Unit but without evincing the slightest Hong Kong, Saturday, June 15, 1935. about twenty cents to a pounded States, and she said that nearly sign of cheerfulness.
Be stood as though fascinated less than at the highest--and by halt of her programme consisted of the fall in the price of gold per English and American composi- before a model of a populous city, ounce which is nearly four shill-tions, which she sang in English complete with modern fat-build- ings less than it was a few weeks "I met with some difficulties injings, stores, churches, and fac
Little coloured Eights Spiritual and Material Resistance; ago. It must be understood that the beginning," Mmé. Lehmann tories. there is no question of the sound-said, "especially with the pronoun-were flashing at the street corners to Air Baids was a full-size a What is the dollar going to do?fness, in the sense of solvency, oficiation of "th," but since then I have as an official in uniform, complete balance train of four coaches, It seems to have stuck for the any of the big currencies. The found that any prejudice that the with heary revolver and war which the man in the street passed
through, with an air of approval.. moment round about two shill-famount of American currency in English language might not be hons, pressed the levers
The guards were again masked, ings and fourpence, which must circulation is about $47 per head suited to a singer's voice is wrong.switchboard alongside.. be convenient for calculating of the population. The whole of English is certainly no hindrance The alarm is sounded so, and conversation with them was
said the officer. These lights dificult deals with Singapore. though the Federal obligations is about to the production of good tone. unless wages and other costs are £67 per head The British Habi- English-speaking audiences have represent syrens, and these are Not far from the ambulancer adapted accordingly, the value lity for public debit is about £164 most assuredly the right not only to signals indicating the way to train I discovered another topical
the mobilisation centres."
exhibit nothing less than the bow. does nothing to encourage the During the years when Mr.listen to the melody, but also to
The man in the street studied half of a model showing Italy's further increase of the one branch Andrew Mellon was Treasurer understand the words. Not every of our industry which had been enormous amounts of debt were song can be transisted without los them intently. Then his gaze was latest type of cruiser, almost start showing an encouraging increasepaid off, and even though the ling something, but there are plenty directed to a map on the wall beingly realistic with its heavy for
guns, and but We can go either way," said Mr. British debt has been decrease of compositions by English masters hind with the names of the prinward turrets and Morgenthau the other day, in re-land the Washington debt in which are well worthy of inclusion cipal cities in large letters and little reduced in size. Binejackets
Below figures beneath. ference to the power conferred creased, there is still a large in any concert programme."
Milan in service kit were on duty at the For the President
tomargin of safety." The point
He knew gangway and piloted admiring This is Lotte Lehmann's 11th was printed: 750,000. dimmish the gold content of the is rather that if $47 is enough year at Covent Garden. She made what the figures meant, but I did visitors between the decks of the dollar by another 10 per cent for the the daily business per her London debut in 1924 in not, and so asked the lecturer to cruiser" or to increase it once more to its head, it is a fallacy, to suppose Rosenkamalier This year she is explain them. old content The singular thing that wealth can be increased by singing only as Elsa and Sieglinde. about the speech is that it the issue of more dollar notes Then she leaves for the Continent ignores the fact that it is precise than are needed Wealth is in sing at Milan, and will later ap- by that power of altering the goods, not notes
pear at the Salzburg Festival in value of the dollar by sudden
As the stock of gold is amply "Fidelio“: under Toscanini, and decree which prevents Great sufficient for all the coinage and Phigenia in Tauris under Bruco Britain from welcoming the sug-notes required the issue of "silver Walter gestion of an international agree certificates or dollars worth ment The prelude to any such $1.29 has either no effect or the arrangement must be concar-effect of decreasing the value of frence in ideas as to what money the dollar, and the tone of Mr.
I suggested that the sadden is supposed to be and to do; and Morgenthau's letter seems to in-too appy, Mrs. S
movement of 750,000 people would as it is a measure of value it is dicate that he is on the defen- Mrs. Tags: "Nop it's this 'ere uncer-jentail a certain amount of con- nothing but a problem if its value give
"Silver tain weather. against the
One day it's lot and gestion and confusion, and asked can be regulated autocratically Senators that is, he dwells on the next it's cold; yer, never know wou how it would be accomplished. instead of automatically by actual the large purchases made as 3D
"All that will be seer to, replied sales and purchases A reserve excuse for not buying any more.
-the officer, and went on switching of unpredictable variation makes The effect of depressing the Mother: “No, Tommy, I've told you the little lights into action. all calculations useless, and this dollar having been secured, any a dozen times, I won't give you Aclittle farther on in this in- uncertainty has been more felt further rise in the price of silver penny Lor, sweets with
spiring place I found a crowd jeven in New York than else would only counteract that re- Tommy (in aggrieved tones):
idea that comprising the man in the stree where; it is in fact the main sult So far as making employ-Con't see where dages the land and his family watching a cine
either
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Mrs. Opkins; "You're not lookin")
to pawn
Surprised
Homebodica
still go out with the Jones boy?"
you
Oh! Oh!
Next at hand was a pavilion con--
ma
Evacuating 750,000 People taining samples of modern "That is the number of people chine guns, which could be looked to be exacuated in case of java-at but not touched The watchful nion” he replied three attendant raised a warning hand fourths of the population. They if a visitor dared produce pencil "must" leave immediately, the or- and notebook.
der is given, by tram, omnibus, railway, motor-car, or lorry, for destinations which will be as- signed them"
cause of the slowness of recoveryment is concerned, the effect has!
matograph film which showed-var- which would have been much been mil, for nearly all the silver
Jious kinds of fires being “ertín- more rapid if there had been no of American origin comes from Girl Friend after returning to you guished by explosive missiles The experiments and no "Brains “mized ores, and the other, are after a long absence): Do you lecturer explained that this was a Trust The theories that have metals being depressed, the pur-The Other (wistfully); "No, you new invention for preventing the been pressed on the President are chases have not raised the see, we were married- over a year destruction of towns by incendiary not accepted as sound by most amount of employment, or even aga authorities outside of Washing the price of the shares in any iton They may be useful, for case, the total is only one-tenth there is no doubt of the ability of the amount bought. The of the advisers. There is pos- quantity that was already in the sibly good ground for thinking States, and was nationalised. was that to meet the requirements of more than four times as great, an Age of Plenty more elasti-and the gross total bought was. city is required in the creation over four billion ounces mor and imitation of currency. But than a quarter of a million orrices. It will be a long time before the in excess of the world's pr
public will understand any sys- tion for a year As three-detail Should Mr. Morgent tem that is not quite simple, and fourths of the silver produces
nger before any inter-employed in the arts or in national system will win confid useful alloys, the net
been to handicap indu worst of this subject is higher price.
re terrified concerned the
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bombs. The counter-bomb "Je-11- ed with great force, creating pare Professor "And whatever on earth 225 which blows out the fire
Smoke Bombs Demonstrated He showed themm lines, aren't when held in the he
that they were not danger
fixed to long poles-and
ang buil etonated
ed in resisting the pol ure to buy in the
be
What do you imagine interest- ed the man in the street when he had exhausted the exhibition of armaments and its side-lines in the structure of war. Babies. The demand for babies and yet more babies Empty cradles, rows of them, crying for oc- cupants A pavilion bearing on its facade a gigantis banner with the warning,“A nation whose birth-rate is declining is doom- ed
(Continued on Page 11)
CAPT. R. F. WALTER GOES HOME
Popular Aide-De-Camp
To Governor
SEEN OFF BY O. A. G.
Capt. R. F. Walter, R. A, former ADC to Sir William Peel and CDs Excellency the Officer. Administer ing the Government, Sir Thom
hom, Teft for Home by RMS Empress of Canada. yester
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