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RADIO

12.15 p.m.-Short Service For Inte

'sion.

12.30. p.m. Beethoven.

"Ruins Of Athens” -Overture,

Vienna Philharmoniq .Orchestra

conducted by Arnold Rose,

Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2.

1st Mov. Allegro.

2nd. Moy: Adagio, Cantabile. 3rd Mov. Scherzo,”

4th Mov.1 Finale,

Flonzaldy, Quarter,

1.00. p.m. Local Time: Sie

gramme Summary,

1.02 p.m.-Film Selections.

CarolroomSelection,

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 15, 1941-

SHE IS BRITAIN'S NO. 1 NURSE

a young Scots girl was walking down a comitry lane near Glasgow when she saw a bird with a broken leg limping along in front of her.

ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO,

and Pro “Oh, you poor thing," she said to herself She tried to catch it, but just as she almost had it the bird, managed to fly into the air, and the last, she saw of it it was flying over a hedge, with its leg drooping.

"That Certain · Age"-Selection.

Robinson Cleaver. (Organ) and Pat. Rossborough, (Plano); "Evergreen"-Tinkle, Tinkle, Tin-

kle: Over My Shoulder. Jessic Matthews (Soprano)

Orch.

"Sweet Music"--Selection,

**Roberta"--Selection.

W.

Reginald Dixon (Organ). "Rhythm On The River"-Rhythm

On The River,

That's For Me (Monaco, Burke).

Bing Crosby (Vocal) with Instr.

Band"- Ragtime "Alexander's

Selection (Berlin). Lloyd Thomas (Organ).

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, and

Announcements.

1.45 p.m.--Arthur Young and Hatchett's

Swingtotte,

Mind, The Handle's Hot (Noonan). Dearest, I Love You.

All Over The Place (Gay, Eyton), Yes! We Have No Bananas (Cohn), I Hear Bluebirds (Woods, Tobias). Rumpel-Stlits-Kin (Tobias, Lewis). How Am I To Know? (Parker).

This

the

insignificant experience. "I was eager to see how was the beginning of a great nur nurses were doing things there," sing career for that little girl; be she said. cause from that moment onward, about the she began to think misery and suffering there is in the world.

In 1938-39 she went on a visit she to hospitals in Iraq-where

R.A.F-10 had served with, the And finally she decided to adopt Gibraltar and Palestine, chatting with nurses and patients always nursing as a profession.

in her To-day that little girl is a grown seeking something new woman and Britain's No. 1 nurse.profession, She is Miss Katherine Christie Watt, C.B.E, R.R.C... with 38,000 nurses under her administration.

She is a quiet, retiring lady, with sandy hair, and a soft Scots will The regular R.A.F. accent.

her as their former remember Matron-in-Chief.

"To-day," she said, "we are seeking student nurses-girls who aro anxious not only to serve their country in wartime, future carcer but who want a in the noblest profession in the world."

This woman, who thirty years ago dreamed of helping mankind. ini thewil tell you that her life has been She began her carcer

Western Infirmary in hard. 1911, a few years after her ex- perience with the bird.

Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider (Leon-Glasgow

ard).

Blue Ribbon Rag (Dasht}.

2.15 p.m.-Close Down.

6.00 p.m.-Indian Programme.

6.46 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.47 p.m.-Rimsky-Korsakov-Schehera.

zade, Op. 35.

1st Mov.: Largo e maestoso-Lento

--Allegro non troppo.

2nd Mov.: Lento-Andantino-Alle

gro molto.

3rd Mov.: Andantino quasi alle

gretto,

4th Mov.: Allegro molto-Lepto-

Allegro molto

Frenetico +

Lento Vivo, Leopold

Stokowskl

and

Philadelphia Orchestra.

The

7.33 p.m.-Liart-Sonata in B Minor,

energico--

Lento assal-Allegro

Grandioso.

Allegro energico-Andante sostenuto

Allegro energico. Allegro moderato-Lento ussal,

Vladimir Horowitz (Piano solo).

8.00 p.m.-London Relay--The News,

Relay-War Com- 8.15 p.m.-London

moniary.

8.25 p.m.-London

Post',

office

in

"My training wasn't casy."

her she stated in Whitehall, "but when I used to good we were doing for the suffering of the world, i was inspired to go on."

think about all the

She was nursing all through the last war.

"Sometimes," she said, "we had ΠΟ to work extremely hard, but matter how tired we felt we were never weary of our work."

And that attitude is even more true to-day.

"The nurses in all the hospitals," she continued, "will go down in history as splendid examples of modern British womanhood.

"Their devotion to duty, their Courage under terrible bombard- ments, and the personal sacrifices many of them have made to save the lives of others make a glorious chapter in the history of nursing.'

*

"But," she said, "I have the con- back and looking Isolation of

knowing that it has been worth while. Although I have seen much suffering and tragedy, I have also

happiness-I much watched the reunion of lovers after an accident, reunions

seen

have

of wives

and husbands, mothers and sons,

and it has been nice to think that had played a small part in mak- ing them possible."

"EIRE IS EASY FOR SPIES"

It is still too easy for the many German agents

cross in Eire to.

into Miss Watt is a lady who hankers Northern Ireland and spy

after adventure.

Rotay Listening

For example, during the Span-on our forces there, de- Exumination of Points in Dally Ger-ish Civil War, she made a trip teclared M.P.s in the Com-

Spain.

man Propaganda,

18.30 p.m.-Programme Summary.

8.32 p.m.-A Gershwin Programme.

An American in Paris--Suite, New Light Symphony Orch. Oh! Lady Be Good (From "Oh 1

Lady Be Good").

Bidin' My Time (From "Giri

Crazy").

The Foursome,

Strike Up The Band (From the

film).

Boston Orchestra cunducted by

Arthur Fiedler.

9.00 p.m.-Local Time. Signal and An-

nouncements,

7

9.02 p.m.-This week's Programmes. 9.05 p.m.-Studio~Poncil Plegbe.".

A Variation.of Variety. arranged

by Leonard Starbuck. 9.45-10.00 p.m.-Nowa in French (On

Short Wave only);

9,45 p.m:-Concert' Walzes; •;

"Eva"--Waltzes (From Overcšte

"Eva""-Lehar,, arr. Schot,

10,00

Carmen Sylva (Ivanovich).

International Concert Orch. Coeur Ardent,

Souvenir Fleuri (Composer

known).

Un-

Nullo Romant and His Orchestra

w. Guitar,

p.m.-Landon-The

News Commentary.

10.15 p.m.-Massed Banda

Royal Marines,

News and

of M, M.

Fan

"

Nautical Moments-"March *tasy" (arr. Winter).. Hornpipe Bill The Bo'sun" (From "The Drowsy Dustman Suite"). Roca-Spanish .March

Amparito

(Texidor, arr. Winter).·

La Belle Pensee (Erichs)." :

mons.

Sir

said William Davison

could easily onemy aerodromes be established by night for the of 50,000 to 60,000 landing

troops.

German agents could send in- formation to, Germany in the seal- ed diplomatic bags from the Ger- |man Legation in Dublin,

An..Uister M.P., Bir Hugh O'Neill, asked the Minister of Home Security personally to in- vestigate the situationin: con- Junction with the Premier.

He received a promise that this would be done, plus an as-

10.30 p.m.-Geraldo and His Orchestra.surance that the Government

Fox-Trots-T'Have Eyes.

11.00

realised the great importance of

You're A Sweet Little Headache, the matter

(Both from Film "Paris Honeymoon"),

Tangos-Poëma,

Moonlight Kisses,

Fox-Trots-There's A Ranch In The

Rockles...

Let's Stop The Clock..

Quick-Step-Mv Man

(From flim

"Rose of Washington Square"),

THEY PREFER BRITISH

DE 2580 persons granted British Wallz-There's Danger-In The Waltz nationality, in 1939, Germans (From "The Little. Dog Laugh-headed, the list at 390, followed.

ed");'

Fox-Trat-It's D'Lovely.

p.m. London "News" Home! by Howard Marshall,

11.15 p.m.-Close Down,

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