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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 14, 1937.

THE

Programmes To Explain

WORLD Coronation

GOES BY

to

Special programmes designed assist listeners to Daventry in their appreciation of the actual Corona- tion broadcasts in May are being has prepared by the BBC. They in-

clude:-

of

An account of the progress the preparations now being made Love for a

in Westminster Abbey;

Karlsruhe CITIZEN of

been sentenced to a year's penal servitude for "behaving in a race-oblivious manner." Jewess brought him to this unhappy pass.

Race-oblivion in Great Britain generally takes the form of falling in love with somebody not-quite-out of-the-top-drawer.

the

A series of four talks on the eccle-

of siastical and other rites Coronation Ceremony;

A programme showing the origin and development of heraldry.

Howard Marshall, who, as

has

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QUEENS

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HENRY HALL

IN

"MUSIC HATH CHARMS”

Galsworthy treats this problem in "The Apple Tree." His hero pulls already been announced, will be the BBC's observer in Westminster himself together with an effort at

Abbey on May 12, will be respon the last moment, leaves the girl flat,sible for the description of the and marries the usual well-bred angular mate reserved by Provid- Preparations in the Abbey. He will ence for British chaps of good fami- give listeners details of the almost unbelievable transformation of the ly.

Abbey's interior that is now taking Had he continued along the flowery place, and will tell them how far path, he would have sunk irrevocab the work has progressed. His words ly into race-oblivion and given up will be illustrated by sound-pictures "THE STREET SINGER"

NEXT

caring for cricket.

of the intense activity behind the Probably he would have also taken Abbey walls: the hammering, saw- to wearing soft-fronted shirts and ing, and other noises inseparable CHANGE a dinner-jacket when everybody was from the business of providing in tails.

seats for 7,700 guests, and repre- Sociologists attribute auch fren-sentative of activity of another kind zies to weakening of

moral the tuning of the organ. It is fibre.

hoped that an opportunity will be

the

"It is a matter, alas,” said one of found for representatives of the them in a special interview with men effecting the transformation-- the China Mail, "of being ensnared the night-foreman, for example, who by soft, unworthy charms and ignob was engaged on the same work dur- ly shrinking from the leathery mate of Destiny. One must needs ask oneself, "Would Drake have done it?" "

Love's Strategies

ing the Coronation of King George V to express their unique vjew- point of the work. "Getting Ready for the

Transmission 1, April 22, 7,10: a.m.

G.M.T.

Coronation |

Transmission 2, April 20, 11.45 a.m

G.M.T.

Transmission 3, April 24, 2.45 p.m. G.M.T.

"The boys said they set fire to the barns, causing £800 worth of damage, to attract a crowd. We hoped there would be some girls among them,' they explained," says G.M.T.

Transmission, 4, April 19, 9.20 p.m. G.M.T. and April 22, 6.25 p.m. G.M.T. Transmission 6, April 21, 2.55 am.

Reuter from Waterloo, New York. "Crowning the King' is the title This was the plea that got Guy of the series of special talks. The Fawkes off, if you remember your orstwill be given by Canon A. C. Cambridge history. He was hoping, Dean, one of the King's chaplains when the House of Commons blew and a Canon of Windsor, who will up, that a Miss Gathercole, at whom deal with the various ecclesiastical he had been making sheep's eyes rites associated with the Corona- for months past, would be among tion Ceremony. Mr. O. F. Mor- the crowd. Extract from trial:-shead, D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C., the Li- Lord Justice Coke: Had you no brarian at Windsor Castle, will be other means of attracting this young responsible for the remaining three girl's attention? No, my lord, she talks of the series, and will describe lives in Kensington.

the other rites of the Ceremony. He Lord Cecil: You might have tried will discuss their relations to the a passing

hoo. -She isn't country in general as well as to the that sort.

King, and will also have something Lord Justice Coke: It seems an to say on the recent proceedings at expensive way to go about it, blow the Court of Claims and the func-

lot of MP's-She tions of Officers of State such ing up 2

my lord, she's the Earl Marshal wouldn't mind that,

"Crowning the King'- got a sense of humour":

His Lordship then said: "Well,

Transmission 1, April 21, 7.10 a.m. boys, this is a clear case of love G.MT.

Transmission 2, April 20. 12.45 p.m. winning through. Miss Gathercole

G.M.T. of is evidently a nice girl, none

Transmission 4, April 22, 10.45 p.m. your fast, larky, Flora McFlimsy G.M.T.

the Transmission 6, April 23, 2.55 a.m. sort, and Fawkes here seems

MURA G.M.T. type of young man who could pro- vide a nice little home, the sort of nest," said Coke, wiping his "where Love is king for nye and Life's storms pass unheeded two hearts that beat as one. djamissed."..

A Bit About Spring

eyea,

Case

Not many more than a dozen fogs and cloud-bursts separate us from the beginning of Spring, that de licious season of which the French poet Mallarme wrote, “Voici l'Ang- lais avec son sang-froid habituel” a phrase translated by Walter Pater,

Here so appropriately, as

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the Englishman with his usual san- guinary cold.""."

Tennyson, too, has a perfect re- flection of the peculiarly English time sentiment, exhibited at this of year, in 4 couplet which every schoolboy knows:

Many a morning on moorland did we hear copses ring

the

the

With the sneezes wrung from Amy in the fullness of the Spring.

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