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(1) To investigate the present,
THE ART OF
OF GOOD CONVERSATION Simulation Of Reality And Spontaneity
100D conversation is an art.all There are limits — and rea-
GOOD conversation is accord amblem are
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LOCAL WEDDING
MONEY PROBLEM
IN BRITAIN.
In the current
Lloyds Bank Monthly Review Mr.
H. D. Henderson discusses Bri
tain's monetary problem.
·
MR. A. M. XAVIER
satin, which disclosed the
The the
one are skilful a what Dr. Johnson flection of the voice alone.
of listening limits impatiently termed "arguing for strain victory": there are the controver-length of dialogues. A half-hour's The board will then promote.
sia lists; and there are those rare conversation is the rough limit of with such measure of State and local financial aid as can be se practitioners from whose conver-sustained interest and enjoyment. sation is born that offspring of The results are obvious. If such cured, the composition, production marriage of true minds" that obstacles do not spell the rain of and interpretation of musical and dramatic works' or art
means for us an enlargement of good talk, at least they condition experience. And yet, for all the the technique. There is no time Sir Hugh Allen painted a picture richness of our language, good for exposition. The subject "must of the mechanised tyranny in conversation has not flourished in be familiar and knowledge of the which we live where the reward England. To-day it is largely a facts assumed. The best broad-
with LONDON SCOTTISH MARCH satin
He considers that it is now a MISS A. M. NORONHA AND of the artist declined in ratio with lost almost a despised and sus-cast dialogue is the simplest, with the enlargement of his audience.pected art, a languishing tradi- few points made, but all made well. question of major importance
The President of Magdalen Coltion. At first sight it would seem A man must somehow find means whether the cheap money policy should not be modified to pre- At the Rosary Church, Kowloon,lege admitted that undergraduates, as if broadcasting might play the within the narrow limits of his And let himg vent the development of an un-yesterday afternoon, the wedding in spite of the cinema, the wire host and revive old table talk. It time to provide an illusion of ease manageable boom, and has in was celebrated of Miss Augusta less and sports cars, were still ex- can pick and choose and, though and spaciousness.
The manner of his talk mind the possible development Maria Noronha, daughter of Mecited by the joy of producing a the guests may be few and select, eschew oratory and the grand
they could surely be discovered. manner. -though it has not taken place J. M. Noronha, and Mr. Antonio play.
Dr. Malcolm Sargent, looking And if good conversation is à ci-is dictated not by the environment announcers in yet of a "vicious spira" in Marta Xavfer, son of Mrs. J. M.
fit after his Australian tour, im-vilised attainment, eavesdropping of studios, and which rising costs of living and Xavier.
The Bev. Father Rossi perform-plied that the Prime Ministers of is surely a delicious lapse from black ties, and red light signals. rising wages pursue one and
ed the ceremony.
Australia and New Zealand were normal civilised deportment. Thus but by the listener. Tub-thumping other.
He fears such a development The bride, who entered the ready to give State aid in their broadcasting could provide not oratory sounds queer and nocon- because the productive capacity Church on the aim of her father, own countries. But they hesitat-only a good table and distinguish-vihcing to a man with his feet on Directoire ed to take such action in advance ed guests, but such a crowd of un- the fender and pipe in his of Great Britain is being in-looked charming in a
seen eavesdroppers as never yet mouth. Such artifices is not easily creasingly absorbed into the style ensemble composed of a white of the Mother Country.
put ear to keyhole!
achieved production of armaments and satin Princess slip with overcoat
Illusion Of Ease
Rehearsing A Talk not into the production of pur-of Valenciennes lace inset
Nothing short of elaborate pre- But, alas, none of this can be. chaseable commodities.
It is understood that the Lon- In order to avoid the over-underskirt. The gown had a long don Scottish hope to carry out a To the niceties of a fine art are paration and rehearsal has hitherto expansion of constructional ac- train. Her long tulle veil border-route march in the Northern High-sdded the problems of broadcast-succeeded. The speakers meet, tivity, Mr. Henderson suggests ed with Chantilly lace, was caught lands next year. It is the desire ing technique. Good conversation settle the points at issue between that public Works schemes to the head by a halo cap of or of their commanding officer, Col is ample, leisurely. Broadcasting them, agree roughly the order of Good talk is discussion, and proceed to natural talk. A steno- should be held over while the ange-blossom The gown was by L D. Henderson, that the march goes by the clock.
But broad-uninterrupted present activity lasts. "The: "Vogue," of the Gloucester Ar- should begin at Inverness, the an-natural spontaneous.
You must grapher takes down the dialogue; forces making for trade re-cade.
cient capital of the Highlands, and east talk is artifice.
read from the written page, though it is typed and gone through covery are so strong that a rise The bride was attended by the extend into Ross-shire. in the Bank rate to 3 per cent. Misses Therese Noronha, Eleonor The last time the London Scot-with the liveliness and ease of a again. Redundant passages are would probably have no great Xavier, Cynthia Silva and Marie
sh had their feet on their native man thinking aloud. And that for cut, and the whole sequence effect beyond increasing some Pinna, as bridesmaids. Little Ena beath was in 1933, when the re- most is as natural as eating cold discussion fined down to the limits what the difficulties of the Bad- Roza-Pereira was flower girl iget problem. But while sug- Mr. S. F. de Pinna and Mr. J.giment trekked from Stirling to porridge with a smile. The problem of allowed time. But the original is, up to a point, insoluble. Crowd-spontaneous forms of speech are Edinburgh. Ap- gesting that delay in raising E. Noronha were best men.
In 1929 the regiment. marched ed programmes make for short, al-kept. The revised, draft is re- interest rates might bring propriate music was rendered or from Aberdeen to Inverness. This locations of time. But that is not hearsed, once, twice more times. about a substantial fall in the organ by Miss Freda Dixon. was a triumphal progress, sterling, Mr. Henderson shows At the conclusion of the cereairds local authorities and towns- others. that he is a strong believer in mony, a reception was held at the
for
of
if necessary, until the stress and tone and flow achieves a spontan- The London Scottish are an ob-eity as near perfect as artifice can ject lesson in successful recruiting make it. The best dialogues have Bat cheap monetary policy, for he Club de Recreio. The honeymoon People turned out in force to wel- deprecates the idea of a rate is being spent in visiting the coast-come the men in hodden grey.
It was as long ago as 1898 that The strength shows an increase of been built on such a plan.
had their 80 during the past year. It in-not all speakers have time or pa- higher than 3 per cent, and al ports. On leaving, the bride
the London Scottish thinks the avoidance of a high wore a rust creation by "Au Petit erst route march in Scotland cludes representatives of practic tience for such conformity.
(Continued on Page 7) Since then there have been seventally every profession. Bank rate should be one of the Louvre." major objectives of economic policy in the next few years.
The advantage of raising the Bank rate from its present in-1 effective level of 2 per cent. — it has been ineffective for four- and-a-half year's -to the stil higher figure of 3-per cent, is not obvious, unless it were de- termined to make the rate effective.
EXPLANATIONS OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Sindbad's Tower
ASRA, situated near the Gar~
Ben of zen, in Iraq, is the
seven
A change in rate as things stand to-day would achieve lit-famous El-Basta of the Arabian itle beyond giving a warning to Nights, the famous port from
the public that the authorities which Sindbad made his Įregarded a change in monetary fantastic voyages: The glamorous
conditions as désirable.-
city of the Nights is now but al Managed currencies and man-shell of its former self. The ruin- aged exchanges have introduced minaret of the ancient Mosque (ed a new technique in monetary of Ali is now known as Sindbad's management, but it remains to Tower, from which it is believed be seen whether after all money that the adventurer "dew away on Irates in the effective sense cana stork's leg." Sindbad told of rise or fall except in response having seen a bird that could lift Ito changes in the state of sup-lan elephant in its flight.
ply, and demand.
It is open to question whether money since 1932 could have
been other than cheap.
The breakdown of inter-
Tougra
THE tougra, or signature of the Sultans of Turkey, was creat-
national finance was the greated when Mohammed, who was il- est single cause of cheap money literate, dipped his palm in ink to for thereby the biggest normal
outlet for it was closed.
affix it to a document by way of
Sultan Mourad I
The other important factor signing it. was the influx of foreign funds. adopted this signature, and since It was because the banks could then all the rulers of Turkey sign-
not employ their funds in ed State documents with the tou- The thumb, the index and aremal banking business that T
they were driven for some years the other three fingers can still largely to increase their invest be disserned in this curious sym- ment portfolios. They are now bol
finding it easier, owing to the
recovery in trade and the rise!
Your Daily Smile!
怡
in commodity prices, to lend
money to traders, but still not
to text
和
We recently heard of a vandeville)
to the former extent owing to contortionist who has been out of
the suspension of international work so long he doesn't know where
finance.
Until this is resumed the rise
The boy was snuffing until the
in money rates to former levels teacher could stand it no longer.
is likely to be a slow process. Finally she rose at her desk and said
Johnnie, have you--no
Mr. Gwilym Fielden Hughes,mad Johnnic, “but Mother
headmaster of Alton Senior Boys' said I wasn't to lend it."
School, has been appointed head-
艚
master of the Queen's Road "Hello! Is this the Tri-b
Senior Boys' School, Wimbledon, Bridge Commission 7
"Yer: What can we do for you?!
and will take up his duties at the "gow many points do you get" end of the Easter
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
SINDA TOWER
JA
DICKSON, Tenn.
HAS EYEBROWS 5 INCHES LONG! HECAN PULL THEM DOWN TO HIS CHIN
THIS
MARK
US BRANDED ON THE STOMACHS OF ALL CHAMAR CHILDREN-IN INDIA-
TO PREVENT COUC
"SIGNATURE OF MOHAMMED MOHAMMED-WHO WAS ILLITERATE DIPPED HIS HAND IN BLOOD AND MADE.. "THIS SIGN-THE FAMOUS" "TODERA”, USED BY HIS SUCCESSORSITTER SINCE.
SOUTH IRAQ
SINDBAD THE SAILOR FLEW AWAY ON A STORKS LEG FROM THE TOP OF THIS TOWER
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