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A Few Orchestral Selections from the "H.M.V." catalogue, played by the World's Leading Orchestras.

Marche Blav (Tchaikovsky) Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Flying Dutchman-Overture (Wagner)

D-1040 D-1058

D-1032

Twilight of the Gods (Wagner)

(Siegfried's Funeral March)

New York Philharmonic Orch.

Symphony Orchestra,

D-1214/0 Casse-Nolzette Suite (Tchaikovsky)

D-1284

(Complete on three records) Philadelphia Symphony Orch, Vaise Triale (Sibellus)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Serenade, Op 03 (Volkman) Flight of the Bumble Bee

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NOTES OF THE DAY

GERMANY AND GENEVA'

A work should. determine what in most likely to happen next in Europe. Germany, already feel- ing uncomfortable in isolation, is- is anxious as Britain to resume the disarmament discussions, but

"THE FIRM OF WEBB"

By HAROLD LASKI

would. If she could, leave the was time that a friendly and ser. achievements; and they were

League of Nations out of it.

The Very Idea!

MORE METABOLISM

Y

By Edward Kelly, Bouse. ESTERDAY evening we went along to the Uni versity to listen to a lecture by Professor Gerrard.

We don't know what it was all about, but as a result of going out in the night air to attend the lecture, we have caught a chill, which is sure to turn into galloping consumption.

From what we can make competent hand should paint not the kind of experience to. Italy is inclined to support Horr living portrait of the Webba; for which his remarkable gifts were out the subject was "Cau-

there is no one in the Labour best suited. -

terisation of Ploural Adhes- Hitler in this much and, regrettablo

Their function-sociology apart ion in Cases of Incomplete as it is, a section of the British Movement in this country who Cabinet, doubtless motivated by a occupies, or is likely to occupy, best performed behind the Pheumothorax An Ad-

scence. They are euperb in get- desire for a quick decision, niso, their place.org seems prepared for extra-League Mrs. Hamilton has done ating others, to work, in making a vance in the Treatment of activities. The warning given by thoroughly workmanlike job in her committee creative, in finding the Pulmonary Tuberculosis." Mr. Norman Davis that the book ("Sidney and Beatrice Webb," right job to do, and the right United States would have nothing by Mary Agnes Hamilton, Samp people to help in doing it Wobb to do with European confabula son Low, 108, Gd.). She has know would have made the ideal socre a Socialist tions outside. Gencva auspices ledge and sympathy, and a sanse tary of the Cabinet to seems to have been forgoltan. No both of the proportion and the Government; and if it had pos- objection would be raised to pre-fitness of things. She has had a sossed courage it would never have liminary discussions, seeking a great career to record: and she lacked Idens.

has given us a real insight Into

They have always lived simply settlement of differences before

its significance.

and without ostentation. They are risking a formal conference, but oven in this event it would -- scem

The Wobbs have done for the open-minded people; at seventy- undesirable to make London the Labour Movement in England five I think they are more amen venue, aa has been suggested. The something of what the Benthami- able to argument than anyone I for Radicalism a know. They have an infinito, Hague or Brussels recommend tes achieved. themselves first. The last thing hundred years ago. They have capacity for learning-I know the British Government. should made it conscious of Itself. They nothing more remarkable than the embark upon at this stage is any have given it a programme and a way in which experience of Rus- thing permitting an inference that method. Thoir books on trade fa has adjusted their views of Herr Hitler la boing allowed. to unloniam can legitimately claim the Socialist outlook. overrule the competence of the to have marked an epoch in socta.i

sclence, League of Nations.

EXCELLENT START

1.

•

Wo have nad Cirrhosis ourself now for some time, and even our best friend won't tell us.

If, however, we recover," "we intend to give a lecture of our own. Couched in as simple lan- guage as possible in order that our public can understand us, our subject will be "A Pharmacopoe- dia description of the Reactions to Intoxicatus Metabollam, with a special reference to the products of Johann Walker, and glosling (Juniperous communis), and an escursus into the Influence of They are wholly devoid of per- Wassail on Cirrhosis Liver." sonal ambition. They have, In- We will prove by experiment It was not only by the picture deed, a certain brusquerie which that Cirrhosis (80+L) can be im they drew of a world unknown to is easily mistaken for dogmatism.mediately cured by an application the economist; it was also by But they will take blow for blow of liberal quantities of a vitreous. The only useful initiative can method of approach which has roin argument, and your attack carthly, white, transparent to come from Germany. And heremained an unsurpassed model in leaves no wound.

translucent, bitter hydrous mag- Herr Hitler can bé“ compumented | ita field.

They are extraordinarily vivid ncalum sulphate, which generally upon เก excellent start, The The long series of volumes on and alive; perhaps that is why crystallises in the orthorhombic negotiations with Poland once English local government have agan give indications o1 -stats- put them, with the Hammonds and they retain their hold on the af-system, and is. sometimes found manship replacing popuur tab Professor Tawney, head and shoul-action of youth. They always in botryoldal, masses.

acem to have read the last politi- thumping. The ban upon the ders above all other Hying hiscal work, they are always eager to notorious manual of war-cult torians of Great Britain. And by Professor Banse has done these works are only the most out know of and explore the lost young Fevan, more to create favour standing among a vast array of an of promise.

iheir energy is astounding. To THE BAN ON RAFFLES [able impression abroad. There volumes which entitle them to be

is reason

to believe tout fresh It would be interesting to assurances of goodwill have

of sociological history this coun-there been anything like It since State Opera Orchestra, Berlin, know by whose order, and on been made through, try has so far produced.

aneis. and with other acitivi- Work such as this would have Von Ranke, at eighty, dictated his what authority, the order has ties and actions Blue Danube Walts (J. Strauss)

provim filled an ample lifetime; yet it is history of the world? State Opers Orchestra, Berlin' been issued placing a ban on

stronger cause or accepting them only a fragment of the Webba They are splendidly impatient raffles in aid of local charities. at their face value, the outlook achievement. We owe to them no of second-rate work. They are Mastersingers-Overture (Wagner)

State Opera Orchestra, Berlin Apart from the merits of the month ago. The outwards signs secondary and technical education People to be stimulated, theorică is happer 10-day tan it was a small part of the development or always full of plans to be fulfilled, Bavarian Dances (Elgar, Op 27) London Symphony Orchestra, question, to which we will come

of change for the better are in London. They annihilated, in to be analysed. And they are, in D-1427 Fire Bird (Stravinsky)-Dance of the Fire Bird-Philadelphia Or later, there is something de-marked and if they prove to be the famous Minority Report of the full sense of the word, hum

Khowanichina-Entr'acte (Moussersky)

finitely wrong in conditions genuine, Herr Hitler will soon 1909, the old Poor Law system of ble people.

They have for over forty years discover that the friends he lost this country; that was, perhaps

“Ladies and Gentleman, Hal Philadelphia Symphony Groh which permit changes to be to Germany in a brief nine months the most devastating criticism a done the Intellectual spade-work Chicago Symphony Orchestra, made in the Colony's regulations | w

ever pro- of Socialism In England because Roach presents for your enter Leir conudence in Royal Commission has

they thought it right to do it; and talsment and approval. Our Gang without notification being given, | quicker time.

duced.

they have had a full and Intimate in Tho Peninsula." Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

for the information of the

sense of fellowship with all who Tannhauser-Murch (Wagner) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, public, through the customary SIR JOHN SIMON

have laboured by their side. Damnation of Faust-Hungarian March (Berlioz)

official channels. The first in-

They have their defects. I have Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

timation we have encountered of

never felt that they understand Boston Symphony Orchestral | the revocation

the yearning for freedom as, say, Boston Symphony Orchestra. ment's permission is to be found

man like H. W. Nevinson under- Boston Symphony Orchestra. in the annual report of the So-

stands it. That was why they were on the wrong side in the ciety of St. Vincent de Paul, ani organisation which has done

Boer war. That was why, aleo, never really understood untold-good-along charitable

D-1203

D-1206

D-1314

D-1367

D-1432

D-1498

(Rimsky-Korsakov).

Orpheus in the Underworld--Orerture (Offenbach) Parts 1 & 2

Largo (Xerxes") (Handel) Slavonie Danca in G Minor, (Dvorak)

D-1950

D-1800

Bolero (Ravel) Parts 1 & 2. Bolero (Raval) Part 3

Gymnopedie (Satlo arr Debussy)

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regarded as the foremost writers sit down at seventy-five to write a magnum ppila on Russia has

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They were the founders, as they have remained the inspiration, of the London Bchool, of Economics one of the few academic institu- tions at this country where radical thought need not, perhaps I should add "as yet," speak in an under:

In fact we are willing, at any time between now and Christmas. to match our Cirrhosis against ProCor Gerrard's Plourat Adhesion. We will even, if he likes, snow him our operation.

be Cantor Can?

Speaking of operations reminds us of the other Eddioddle Cantor. Or Can't he? Should It

Which reminds us that the last t.no we went to the pictures we one or these Hal Roach saw comedies, The, one where tho two pints. come out and say:

Direction

by Edward Kelly, Dialogue by Mrs. Edward Kelly. Story by Edward Kelly, Scenario by Mrs. Edward Kelly and Production by Johnny Walker.

“W。 TANK you."

Moanwhile, the talk of Cabinet of the Govern-criticism of Sir Joan Simon's anding of the disarmament pro-

may be distreu more ado. No-one realised the tone. delicacy of his position more

my than the Britisa Foreign}

If they did not found the Fablan Secretary and it to sale to assume Society, they gave it its main pur- ther linės over a lengthy period of that he contented himselt by Fose and drive; and until the war either the Nonconformist fury over-he missed his boat, and has had- years. It is to be presumed varying out the Cabinet's diroc. reorganised the political Labour the Education Act of 1902 or the to stay in Hongkong longer than

tons na to procedure. Blotcuver, a specific na- he did not pursue tional policy. Sir John Simon's ok at Geneva was to work in with other

close

association

in disarmament without pushing Cermany aside. Germany, with drawal was dictated more by the requirements of all poly than by intransigence on the part of other Powers

TRYING EVERYTHING ONCE

eye

Tho

CONDEMNED.

One of our readers; who says

A shady city, and of dark

renown,

A woven tapestry of bright

devisings,

Of midnight parties, and

belated risings;

.

Of British arrogance and Army

dilties,

Of Navy men who dance wit

Ipcal prettios,

A town more glorious to look

upon,

Than all the bearded lords of

Babylon.

#

I sonso in Hongkong nights and

Hongkong days, ·

Ip all you dignified and

foolish ways,

In your hotels and your bottle

wagons,

Movement in this country, the Suffragette Movement. that the action has been taken

Fabian Society was the chief re- They have a zeal for efficient he wants to; sent us in the fol- by the police authorities, for what precise reason we cannot

search centre of British Socialism. organisation as such which makes lowing plaintive worse. He has Nor will anyone know, until its them tend to over-affection for a tagged. it "HONGKONG, by a guess. If this is so, it is surely

archives are examined. by a com- neat and tidy system. And that much-snubbed American tramp."

1.bring a testament of Hongkong. high time a stop was put to the Powers in exploring truly avoue petont historian, how immense has meant a sympathy for ad-

town, practice of the tions of the Colony being chop

Labour Party to birth. After Keir tended to explain their reputation ped and changed about at the

Hardic and Arthur Henderson, in substance absurd-as lovers whim of particular Government

think its existence as the second of bureaucracy.

Stato owes They lack the genius for pas- | departments. Matters such as

great party in the

any other sionate indignation. They would | these should come within the

more to them than to

have preferred the patient diplo person. purview of the Executive Coun-

Such a record, of course, omits macy of Cavour to the magnificent cil and be publicly disclosed

much, I say nothing of Webb's eruption of Garibaldi. They dis- when decisions have been

brief years in the House of Com-like the loose: Impulses of that reached. There is far too much

mons and As a member of the heedless and instinctive generosity hole-and-corner business along

A Wout leaves Washington Cabinet. They are among his les-1. (Continued on Next Column) these lines, far too much power w.tuout a shadow of m.sunuur- invested in the Inspector Gener-standing. He does not geo al of Police. On the general to eye with the resident's poney would question of raffles and suchlike by retaining olice

Be in the way. merely lotteries, we can quite well ap- preciate the desirability of keen-gnucant feature of the branch An tie Roosevelt tamily 18 ing them within reasonable chat Mr. Woodin is not per bounds, especially when run for mitted to resign, but is granted purely personal profit. But we leave of absence instead. In cannot imagine the possibility of short, Mr. Roosevelt, while de- the system being abused whentermined to give his gold policy the proceeds go to deserving every chance to prove, itself, is charities, as in the case of the not altogether sure of success. Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The gourd money advocate may The ways of Officialdom are in- yet have bo recalled to clean up deed strange. On the one hand, sweepstakes on pony-racing (in which the benificiaries are 'the from $2.75 to $12.00 lucky ticket-holders and the Club is permitted to organies Government, through revenue sweepstakes on Home and local SCARVES

from betting taxes) are permit racing, charitable bodies are ted, whilst perfectly harmless barred from raising funds by periodical raffles. No-one would from $5.75 to $12.00 raffles for charitable objects are think of arguing that there is a

declared illegal. The under danger of public morals. becom lying principles of sweepstakes ing corrupted through participa- and raffles are identical-both tion in raffles of this character. are lotterics which depend on Then on what grounds are they the chance drawing of numbers, banned? The prohibition is a In sweepstakes, the gambling element is even greater than in very serious matter for the So raffles, since the award of prizes ciety of St. Vincent de Paul, depends not merely on the draw which does such a magnificent ing of numbers but on the result work in the housing of the aged of the race as well. Lotteries Poor, paying passages for des. titutes, educating poor children, are legal in Hongkong, excep

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By ridiculous anti-raffle ortter

coach, what's the difference whether we win or lose?

After all, we're only playing for funk

And your richshaws and your

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There's not a moment for u

stiff uns.

which makes Lincoln, for some of us, the greatest democratie staten: man of the nineteenth century..

They would condemn Hitler out of hand; but they would patiently dissect his criminal folifes where another's instinct would be to de- nounce them thunderously..

Nor are they profoundly Inter- ested in personality as such.: Whe over-it was who frat said that while Graham Wallas, was Inter ested in town councillors the Webba woro interested in town councils, put his finger on some- thing fundamental d

They seo a Party, a Parliament, a Cabinet, as organic institutions, whore others ses leaders, members... ministers. They could be intor ested more easily in procedure thanifa the drama of politics

The things which do not relate to their world impinge surprising. ly little upon their consciousness. They are utilitarian in the sunse (Continued on 2004:47.

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