1937-10-30 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL OCTOBER 30, 1937

AN ACTOR'S HINTS Danish Memorial To NO RADIO BEFORE

TO FUTURE

DOCTORS

WITTICISMS OF SIR SEYMOUR HICKS

"Beware Of Bedside Manner"

British Sailors Lost In 1811

BREAKFAST

BBC Pleads Poverty

that

in every

While three aeroplanes dipped and the elements. I Thank you for hon-physical circled overhead in salute to the ouring the British officers and sailors help would be given the National Advisory Council for Physical Train- Sir Seymour Hicks, who has play-dead, Adml. H. Rechnitzer, Chief who lie here side by side.”

ing and Recreation in normal pro ed almost every possible type of of the Danish Coastal Defence, un- Bishop Vestergaard, of Ribe, con-gramme hours. part in half a century on the stage, relled a memorial erected by the ducted a special service in Sonder This is the first time that the filled a new role when he gave ad-Danish Press to 1,403 British sail-

vice to young medical students. ors who were drowned off the Jut-Nissum Church where some of the B.B.C. has openly pleaded poverty British officers were buried, and as a reason for not undertaking a He was inaugurating a new school and coast on Christmas Eve, 1811.

representatives of the Danish Navy new development. It is understood year of the Westminster Hospital Medical School at the Caxton Hall. The monument, standing in Fjand and the Danish Press placed wreaths that the Council asked for broad- casts on the lines of those gives His speech was filled with anec sand dunes, on the west coast of on the tombs.

before breakfast from European and American stations.

dotes, many of them, he claimed, Jutland, is of 6ft granite boulders, Most of the bodies avere buried in "very nearly trus and all designed flanked by anchors. A star, symbol the sand dunes of Thorsminde, to give point to sound advice from of Christmas, surmounts the in- ever since have been called "Dead

"just an ordinary fellow who paints scription "Christmas Eve, 1811, his nose for a living.”

half a mile off shore the British Advice which he offered included: ships of the line, Defence and St. "It is the doctor's duty to elimin-George stranded.” ate fear. Fear is the usher who brings us to your waiting-room. A good doctor who is also a good ac tor can inspire confidence.

"Of all the difficult people with whom you have to contend the worst are artists. They are nervous peo- ple who live on their nerves-or other people's and have to bej treated as with a silken thread.

Sir Patrick Ramsay, British Minister in Copenhagen, was to have attended the ceremony but was prevented by illness. His place was taken by Capt. Troubridge, British Naval Attache in Copenhagen.

BRITISH THANKS

Offering thanks on behalf of the "Always beware of the man who British Navy for Danish friendship 'wants to know the truth. Believe and hospitality, be said. me, that is the last thing he wants.

"In war and peace all sailors have

"See that you have a cheerful maid to open the door. Too often continually to combat one enemy, the door is opened by a maid whose face seems to say This way the morgue."

to

"Beware of the bedside manner. Carried to excess it makes one won- der whether to be up and about or to invite the undertaker to lunch.-- “NEVER QUARREL”

BETTER CHURCH

HYMNS NEEDED

SOME IRREVERENT AND FALSE

"Never let anyone talk scandal to you. Always bet 10 to 1 against anything you are told, and you will make money. Forget luck in life; make everyone you meet an op- KING'S ORGANIST ON *portunity. Never quarrel with CHURCH'S ALLY

anyone, and if you are annoyed go to your room and bite the wardrobe.

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it will relieve you.

"John Brown's Body many variations of which were chanted by

"Fifty per cent. of us are natural, the troops during the war was

per cent. are shy, 10 per cent. are snobs, and 10 per cent. idiots. Be nice sung as a hymn in Westminster Ab to the natural people, tolerant to the bey 20 years ago. Mr. Stanley shy, give the snobs a kick, and Roper, organist and composer to the

King, and Principal of Trinity Col thank God for the idiots, for they

lege of Music, referred to those days will never find you out.”

in an address at St. George's Church,

The Dean of the Medical School, Mr. Adolphe Abrahams, announced Hornsey. He said:

that work on the new school would “This bad music is now merely begin early next year. The school a matter of historic interest. It would be unequalled both for equip ment and convenience.

Mr. H M Clowes, Chairman of the School of Medicine Committee, presided.

would be well if it were more gen- erally understood that nature has so arranged that where people are musical they would rather listen, and where they are unmusical they would rather sing.

Worshipped In A would urge particular care in the

Smithy For 30 Years

Nonconformists

Fittleworth,

West Sussex, have held their first

service in a church.

For 30 years they have worshipped

selection of the hymns. It is in the hymns that the music of the Church is most fully and corporately ex- pressed?

“WORSHIPPERS DISMAYED”

There was a surprising contrast

in a smithy on Fittleworth Common, between they early Church, with its

but now the congregation has grown few simple melodies that delighted too

the educated listener, and our own institution, with its hymn-book of nearly 800 hymns and 1,600 tunes.

Mr. Arthur Bentall, one of the original members of the community,

When we first started siz When opened it filled the sensi- publicly baptised in a tive worshipper with dismay. There who were distressed, ttle Bognor. We were were persons iful in those days, and or even offended, by what was tri- vices were conducted in a vial or false or irreverent in some of Later we bought the hymns they were compelled to

too hear in

the

how we

it is time we should

had a real church

arch

usic

roble

Men's Dunes.**

which

The BBC works on a system of two engineering shuts daily. If the stations were opened at 6 am. or 7 am a third shift would be neces- sary. The cost is estimated at from £5,000 to £10,000 yearly. →

IN NAPOLEONIC WARS

Records in Thorsminde tell the story of the tragedy, which occurred Though the Corporation's annual during the Napoleonic wars.

income approaches $3,000,000, it is claimed that demands of the Em- The hurricane of Christmas Eve, pire service and of television have 1811, caught a British Fleet of eight imposed a strain on resources. ships of the line, several smaller is stated that to give a reasonably armed ships, and 150 mercantile satisfactory television service from ships, all on their way to England one station costs $250,000 a yea

The St. George, the flagship, lost part of its rigging, and the rest of the Fleet was ordered to proceed homewards Except the Defence and the Cressy, which stood by the St. George.

K.C.C. BAND CONCERT

The full military band of the 1st

Only the Cressy escaped. The other two ships were wrecked in the sight of people watching on the shore but unable to help for lack Bn The Seaforth Highlanders. is

playing of life-saving gear.

at the KCC night by kind permission It was only recently, when a year-11 Cal. whead and ly meeting of the Danish Press was ficers

is to be an open held at the historic place, that it concert and marks a resumption was decided to erect the memorial of the popular functions held

Mr.

Neerup, the well-known the K.C.C. some years ago. Eve Danish editor, became chairman of

a committee, and Mr. J. C. F. Ilrik, the Danish architect, planned the monument.

GAS

C. Kaight, and Mr. Laford: at the piano, as will assist in the pro-

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