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1 Here the lender conceals his

ригрове.

3 The shrub that gives tone in a

coasting vessel.

8 A kitchen utensil that demands

aptitudo frst and foremost.

9 Bait.

10 Utter in a semitono.

11 The riddle is misplaced before

nightfall.

12 Grandfatherly ejaculation.

18 Just a penny roil. How funny!

17 A sum can't be worked out in

the study.

18 This denizen of the deep in well

armed

21 Three or moro,

23 One of the blues.

24 How the golfer does like lying.

Anglers aren't in it.

Inhabitant,

28 "The car

1" take to

arrive

at Queen Victoria's well-loved

corner tanag.).

29 Dwellers here are thought to bo

in clover though it can be so lumpy.

30 Sta trenta (anng.).

11 The earth in boggy in front of

the den.

Down

1 Musical gatherings.

What the port called the lawn.

3 Gun type of young horse.

4 The Westminster trest that is

little before the rise.

5 Bath In dumb cranio.

6 What an kien, though not every-

thing.

7 Animal Cupids.

13 Alf of a dither.

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and the body

14 A little more

becomes inanimate. 15 Strength,

19 The first part of this light two- wheeled trade vehicle to reduced,

ao it costs less to run (hyphen). 20 Action of the elephant-on enter- ing the Ark-according to the fics.

21 When the adhesive has been set by Cook will be most un- pleasant in the mouth.

22 Inciton..

20 Indian butter.

27 Hun for these without hitting,

28 Act in a wrong way.

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The longer he lived, he said, and the more he had to do with univer sity graduate students, to say nothing of other so-called educated persons, the more urgently the pro- blem of written English forced it- self on his attention. The quality of the English, spoken and written, of university graduates was national menace. He lived in a suburb of London where there! were a number of large housus [with large gardens profusely stock- ·

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But many of the houses contained very few books and those they had got were generally of the wallpaper variety; often never opened but making a nice

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In the old days something went on in the home which had largely disappeared now--the dully 'read- ing of the Bible and the offering of i prayers from the Book of Common Prayer. The young ear was at- tuned to the rhythms of the best English prose ever written; the young voenbulary WOB enriched with the simplest words from the greatest things; the expanding mind was filled with counticas images of the utmost grandeur. So anconaciovaly and without the Add sugar and lemon juice. Dia- ald of any pedagogue, the English solve slowly. Cool a little, and add people, or the God-fearing middle well-whisked eggn. classes, like the Greeks of old, Pot and cover.

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-FEBRUARY ·· 11, 1985.

Pirandello Looks At America

TALKIES ARE TERRIBLE

AND SO ARE PRODUCERS

London.

The playwriter Luigi Pirandello will use the £10,000 of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded him, chiefly to pursue his favourite hobby-painting.

The dapper, bald-hended, dark- skinned Sicilian disclosed that he has already completed 30 paintings, in an exclusive interview with the United Press during a brief stay in London.

While dining at Gennaro's, well- known Italian restaurant in Scho, Siguet Pirandello took time out be- tween a plate of "Gnocchi" and a sip of bright red wine, to expound his theories on life, his low opinion of American theatrical producers and his progressive ideas on the theatro.

"I am going to rest and devote more of my time to painting," he said. "It's my main recreation. 1 paint mostly landscapes. I hope to exhibit them some day. Of course, I keep on writing, spring, I might go to the United States for a conference tour, if present negotiations materialise."

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Signor Pirandello can talk with subth humour of objective toples, but when subjective he assumes a different personality, le becomes

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ness and incfalveness which enable him to express difficult thoughts with ense. In these moments, his quiline nose almost touches the sndwy Vandyke beard which jerks pugnaciously. His expressive heavy- bagged brown eyes resemble two points of steel.

"I have been following the cun- temporary literary trend in the United States," he said, "and I see In it decisive signs of a brilliant artistic future. You RCC, the United States has sulfered in these Jast few years. And American Art THREE lemons and three eggs, needed this suffering. Before the

two ozs. butter and . sugar,depression life oversens was Melt the butter in a double pan. cany. People took it too light-

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What did he think of American Actors?

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The rhythm and harmony which lish In this country had been much found their way into the secret hindered by uninteligent adoption places of the souls of modern of methods suitable to the teaching children were of a very different of Latin. That was specially so kind: they bellowed from the non-in regard of what was called Egg- nolactive loud-speaker, which was

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Signor Pirandello thought the actora were excellent, but the | theatrical producers terrible.

"Commercialism," he said. Pro- ducers are too business-like. They only think of the money and do not hesitate to alter a play and distort even its original meaning, for the sake of the box-office.

"I think American producers are underestimating the intelligence of

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IN PLACE OF LATIN

cialism."

And what did he think of the talkies?

learning English grammar was one of the illusions bequeathed us by the classical tradition. We had

He sneered. His face expressed inherited a still worse illusion utter contempt. He threw his The classics would never resume their ancient sovereignty, and about grammar from the Renals-hands towards the ceiling, and lifted their only possible successor was sance that English grammar was his shoulders to the level of his thin the English language for English a rather pale imitation of Latin white moustache. boys. Yet so far English was only grammar.

"They are a bad copy of theatre, he snapped.. one of many subjects in the an

Denling with modern faults in archy of the modern school cur- the writing of English, Professor riculum. That was partly because

it had not yet proved its title to Dover Wilson said the chief vlte reign. The technique of English of modern English prose was the teaching, especially of English use of abstractions. There was speech and writing had still to also the cliche, the stereotyped be worked out. English, especial phrase, the mouldy outworn ex-

the writing of English

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prose, must become the central pression, the reach-me-down of and essential subject of the school hasty thought. curriculum, a subject to which The remedy was, first that all every teacher would give heed but teachera in secondary schools, which ran throughout the school course as the special concern of certain men whom he would not call English specialists but would rather call form masters. It must take the place of Latin, and must perform the function that Latin had for centuries performed..

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