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DEFENCE OF DIALECT SPEECHL

·ORAL TEST FOR ENGLISH

ADVOCATED.

A spirited defence of, dialect speech by Sir Michael Sadler was the feature of one of the meetinga recently in connexion with the Educational Conferences now he ing held at University College.

This meeting was held under the auspices of the British Drama

League, and its purpose was to discuss the advisability of intro- ducing an oral test for English into the General Schools Examina- tion. It was pointed out that in that examination there are oral tests in French and German, if these langunges are taken, but there is none in English.

Sir Michael Sadler, taking part in the discussion, said the art of speaking intelligibly, pleasantly, with the right rhythm and colour of tone, gave great pleasure, not only to those who listened but to the performer. himself, and had a real intellectual Influence on those who practised the art.

What was going to be the effect of the B.B.C. on our standards of speeck? No one could late to Mr. Rex Powell or one of his colleagues without wanting to copy them. He suspected that the effect would be just that of good shop, windows on people's

tante.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1928.

BERLIN ENJOYS BRITISH PLAYS.

SHAW-AND SHAKESPEARE --SWELL RECEIPTS.

In the last theatrical year Mr. Bernard Shaw was far and away Berlin's most popular dramatist. There were no fewer than 261 Superman" was played 78 times, Shaw performances. "Man and and the "Doctor's Dilemma" 62

times.

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The longest, run of any single play was enjoyed by "The Prisoner," the mach debated play! of the French dramatist Bourdet, which has been refused public pre- sentation by the British censor, though it was recently produced privately in London. It was play- ed in Berlin 153 times-also à re- cord run for any Berlin season.

Shakespeare heads the list of the classies with 95 performances— taken altogether-of-" "Hamlet," "As You Like It." "Measure for Mensure," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream";

Germany's own great classic' dramatist, Goethe, comes very badly off* 'in comparison, with only 20 presentations..

Altogether 60 per cent, of the Berlin theatres last year wero of plays performed in the principal foreign authorship. None of the younger German playwrights

cured successes comparable. In box-office terms with those of mo-

dern British playwrights such as Lonsdale and Edgar Wallace.

The English Liturgy....... "The Ringer" was one of the biggest popular hits of the season, In this generation people had and "The Last of Mrs. Choyney' ralber less opportunity of lear-was played 119 times. ing beautiful speech than in that

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our grandfathers. We did not go to church so often. What mortem examinations were em- The dangers "attending post- was there more beautiful than the Liturgy of the Church of England phasised at a Lewisham inquest on rightly read and said? Think of Surgeon-Rear-Admiral Sir Percy the great and eloquent and mov-Bassett-Smith, aged 66. As in preachers of the past. As far member of the staff of St. John's she could judge from atten- Hospital Sir Percy performed a dance at University" sermons in post-mortem examination, but he Oxford, at privilege was not solid not wear protective gloves. He contracted septicemia, and the much used to-day.

house surgeon attributed this to the examination. A verdict of ac cidental death was returned.

When he was at a preparatory school he was constantly trained to say a great deal of Latin in an Intelligible, clearly-enunciated Negotiations for a commercia! rhythmical way, and before the treaty between Greece and Jugo- helidays there was "standing up"slavia are expected. Business cir are before the master and reciting:cles in Salonika are unfavourable without the book, these, Latin to the extension of the Serbian verses. He had never forgotten free zone, which they consider the music and rhythm of those adequate.

verses.

Ife did not want to hear every- body pronounce English In the same way. It made 1 great Impression, on bim when the went to Rugby to hear Mr. Arthur Sidgwick pronounce English. He always pronounced "last" as a Yorkshireman pro- nounces it, and not like a Lon- doner.

He (Mr.. Michael) had gorc from a Htle school where he had been generally despised because | he had "Yorkshirelsms" ip, his in-

Lonation and phraseology.

It impressed him that Sidgwick' should have had the moral cour- age to preserve that exquisite Yorkshire pronunciation instund of yielding to what some would have culled "standardised Eng lish,"

Temple's Burr.

When Frederick Temple came down to preach he spoke with a tremendous Devonshire burr. Temple looked like a Hon, and spoke like a lion, but he was far from speaking "standardised Erg- fish." It was refined, educated, intelligible, and more or less grammatical English. There wan something to be said for that kind of variety

Later he heard Dr. Thomas Fowler, of Lincoln, later Presi dent of Corpus, speak with a racy Lincolnshire rich accent. That made him feel that there was somebody in Oxford who belonged to his part of the world, and had not had these old' provincial tinta abhed away. It had the same kind of effect to hear Archbishop Magee.

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He hoped nothing would be done to frighten people out these local racinesses. It was not generally known that Word- aworth, one of the greatest of our poets, was of West Riding ances- try and stock, and was the truest. expression of the Yorkshire tem- perament.

In the neighbourhood of Burne- ley there was a village called Pogmoor. At Pogmoor there was published Tom Treddlehoyle's Almanac," one of the best dialect publications. That annual book enriched the language. A 'great deal of the wit and humour and protective caution of the Burns- ley temperament was mixed with the fact that he spoke that kind of language.

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