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DU2405-6. Sonata in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ('Moonlight')

Beethoven. Planoforte Solo. Wilhelm Backhaus, DA1939. A House Love Made for You and Me (Contes) The Quietest Things. (Haydn-Wood)

John McCormack. Tonor.

C2721 Invitation to the Dance. (Weber) The Little Ring (Chopin):

Miliza Korjus, Soprano with Orch. C2722. "The Three Men Suite. (Coates)

Part 1 The Man from the Country, (Part 2) The Man about Town.....Light Symphony Orch. C2723. "The Three Men" Sulte... (Part 3) The Man from the Sea. Valactic from 'Wood Nympha Light Symphony Orch. C2725. Staccato Study. (Rubinstein)

Viennese Dance No. 2. (Gartner)

Planoforte Solos. Cyril Smith. C2726. St. Patrick's Night,....Selection of Popular Irish Songs, C2724. "Toad of Toad Hall" Selection.....New Mayfair Orch. B38287, With a Smille and a Song (Sicvier-Wood) The Pavement Artist, (Jenkins)

138286. If All the World Were Mine

Your Dog's Come Home Again

18288. The Continental.

Aalimoor Rurch.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HYPOCRISY RULES IN BRITAIN

POLICE ASSESSORS OF MORALITY

CONQUEST OF PURITANISM

By An Old Stager

faces which in some respects are In one of those dramatic pre- as entertaining as his plays, Mr. Shaw tells us that it is impossible to live in England even to-day Baritone, without being conscious how much it lost through not being conquered by Napoleon. As to Gracie Fields. Comedienne. celvably be senie dispute, but it is that contention there may con- a much less argumentative sugges- tion that nobody can live in this country, even in the present post-war epoch, without realising how profoundly it was affected by being conquered by the Ironsides. The Puritan outlook which that subjugation enforced has had the Frances. Way & Arthur Riscor.most profound and for-reaching

Stay as Sweet as You Are. Vocal,

138289, Melodies of Yesterday. 138277. Dancing with a Ghost.

Bello Baker, (In English) ...Ken Harvey. Banjo & Plano.

Pardon My English....Frances Day, Soprano with Orch. 18278. I'd do the Most Extraordinary Things.

Let's Lay Our Heads Together. Vocal. B8283. Walt Disney Silly Symphony Selection BD114. Pas de Quatre. Barn Dance.

New Mayfair Orch.

New Mayfair Orch.

Jack Jackson & Orch.

Archibald Joyce Waltz Medley. BD115. Home James! and Don't Spare the Horses F.T.

Snake in the Groka, F.T. BD123. Sleepy Time in Sleepy Hollow. FT.

Tiny Little Fingerprints. FT. BD124. She Fell for a Feller from Oopsała.

How Can You Face Me.. FT.

BD126.

Influence on British life. To deny admirable would be absurd. Yet that much of that influence was

one sometimes is oppressed by the suspicion that the best of the old Puritan spirit has evaporated in the course of two and a half cen- turies, and only the least com. mendable Now Mayfair Orch, survive. F.T.

Jack Jackson & His Orch,

BD125. Toe Beautiful for Words. F.T.

Come a Little Closer. FT....Teddy Joyer & His Orch. Old Mammy Mind. F.T. Valentina. Rumba

Teddy Joyre & His Orch. F.T.New Mayfair Gech.

BD127. Let's Have a Jubilée. F.T:

With All My Heart and Soul.

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Despite "renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy," the Philippines will have an army or 25,000 troops at the time they attain completo independence, a derade hence, according to plans of Filipino leaders.

Legialation to lay the founda- tion for the future Philippine) Army, which for the time-being will be known ns the National Police Force, has been proposed, calling for a force of 20,000 men; and a corresponding increase in appropriations.

The army of 25,000 men will be achieved through the gradual in- crense In enlisted strength of the Philippine Constabulary, which at present nunibers around 7,000.

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The bill, providing for Philippine artby when "protection of the US Army" is withdrawn, expresses bellef in the practica- hility of an

army with a dual function-for military duties well as police work.

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The bill, however, asserts it is not the intention of its sponsors

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But to formulate plans for a nucleus "of our future army."

In addition, the need for organt-DEV

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

along

force of fis attributes at PARIS-Members of the Sand-sation of militia

wich Men's Union complained tressed by Senor Leon G. Guinto, National Guard nos has been One is more

than a little in that glamorous Sandwich girls ciined to fear that it is the nar-

who have been parading

under-secretary of the interior. rower and more bigoted survival streets in short skirts and silk Existing semi-military and elvic | which entises us to be regarded by stockings, were ruining their organisations, of which there are of hypocrites. We de rather intelligent forekners as a nation | "profession.""

strain

SHAKESPEAREAN SHOCKS

it score, Senor Guinto believes,

.

They said they feared being may be used as the nucleus for at gnals whilst blithely thrown out of work because they Government decides to create one. swallowing comela.

a national millia in the event the could not compete, in employers-United Press, eyes, with pretty girls and that anyway the girls were not a good To some people's way of thluk-investment

becaus everybody in we have grown too sensitively looked not at the signs they aqueamish over unessentials and carried but at them. far too tole antly lax about vital IRRÚCS.

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top of which we send policemen into the music halls to decide what the great democracy must and must not hear. It would be of that music-hall audience, and interesting to have a frank census

them objected to the penalised discover just what percentage of comedian's stage gags, and how many felt that they had sustained any moral or intellectual shock.

16

Across

1 A caricature that gives a rub the

wrong way.

Victorians, though they verused them privately, placed the works of Rabelnia on "indes expurgatorious," in

their domestic doing they committed one of the grandest paychologiens blunders imaginable. It was as stupid as endeavouring to keep sunshine played the role of local Hitlera When those policemen, who and sea breezes away from a con- valescent patient. Not humour, objectionable gags to their pro- over the crowd. narrated the. broad or otherwise, is the enemy of the human-soul, but salacious-

fessional colleagues, I

wonder neas furbished forth under a gloss chuckling in the private audience? was there Any Appreciative romance and dainty prettiness. Humour is truth bur-

One may entertain the highest lesqued. Its effects

respect and admiration for our brutal but never

splendid police force without The dangerous commodity is vice

demoralising. being persuaded to accept them dressed as simpering virtue.

Infallible arbiters of

good tasic, not to mention public to do its

Public opinion may well be left morality. Own censoring of tive because it will be honest. It humour. It will be doubly effec-

BEDROOM SCENES will not set-up-n-frise-standard, villain of the earth, but I would Perhaps Iani-alone-the-ribald and its condemnation will be the personally much prefer to sco mere sweeping through not being youngsters of either sex, in whom hypocritical but sincere.

I am interested, laughing wallowing in delicately indelicate 20 Warm troners would seem lu even rather. Broad jokes fiction. Laughter has a tonic influence. It blows

away the imaginative cobwebs and braces the intelligence.

The broad comedy of a Shakes- pearean play, If given en the stage to-day without extensive pruning of the more Rabelaisian dialogue, would scandalise large sections of the theatre crowds, and raise a storm of righteous protests. Yet that same crowd, and perhaps most notably the very sections loudest in their moral indignation, make no bones at all about reading the most daring modern sex novels. Nor does the post-war flapper's code of of falso feminine conduct, which would have frightened the Elizabethans who enjoyed their Shakespeare anbowdlerised, greatly perturb those

same censorious crilics of stage comedy.

Surely there is an intolerable amount of mental ostracism which is only a politer way of indicating sheer hypocrisy, about this public -attitude" can imagine an artistically bidluoua novel, or for that matter even a gorgeously camouflaged musical

comedy,

A little while ago two policemen having very hurtful moral in- fluence on a certain class of con-layed the role of musie-hall sumers. But it is altogether censors, and a famous popular beyond my powers of credulity to

entertainer, whom most of us imaxine tine from one

have seeo and of

heard without Shakespeare's grosser clownings suffering moral hurt of any kind, having any such

was hauled before the local Bench effects on the listener in stalls or gallery. Even

and Saed for overstepping what the modern high school Miss, we

these policemen considered the may be sure, reads her Shakes mark in his stage as. peare without skipping the lines forbidden on the stage.

There may even be a tendency to con- centrate on the censorable parts, But are any young and innocent lives shipwrecked thereby,

BAD PSYCHOLOGY

WHEN IN PARIS

BA

over

then

5 The ungrateful viper's shelter. BA "word win" with a prize of

now-mown hay (dung.).

10 Provides useful security. 11 Dont.

12 Ho takes in a nobleman about.

-n-letter.

13 Indiana.

16 Mine is something to swear by. 17 Sounds as if it had an in-

congruous opening for an clesiastien meeting.

18 Demanded by sceptics.

be indicated here in Berks, 22 Sally's friend.

02.

3 The horse that's equal to the

hill.

churches.

28 The reporter hands his n, but 24 Bird associated with many City

your bank keeps yours.

Down

disguised as clever modernity has Imbibing literary pornography

a totally different effect. In fact, to put it bluntly, I believe the 20 Very hat. atniosphere of the bathroom is A famous writer before his end. healthier than that of the bed-1 Frank. room. I have seen bedroom scenes on the stage without any sugges tion of official censorship either by the police or the fire brigade, which produced far more barrassing

on mixed audiences than any of Shakes- peare's censored comedy could possibly do.

effects

em-

1 A good enough road, perhaps; more than halfway, anyhow, 2 Renovation.

a What Cleopatra's Inet lover

wanted to borrow.

Pul into words indicative of bheet.

5 Give the lad a copper for the

main portion.

and it will do temporarily.

9 Overwhelm, though only partly

ao, strange as it may soRIT

14 Good-bye; so far as Spain is

concerned,

15 Jones, the architect. 16 You may think of this by

accident.

18 If you buy this bird the bill will

-be-a-big one.

19 Ran away out in the middle, and

waa jeered.at.

20 Scottish seaport.

21 Fish.

25 The things wrong after dark. 26 Barely seen by the artist.

27 Tho kind of élue you like.

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This is the sort of thing that causes amazed foreigners to gasp at our insular hypocrisy. British visitors were the mainstay of the old Moulin Rouge, and are still a lucrative clientele with French It seems to me axiomatic that guides who show them the least even the broadest humour, though savoury night sights of Paris. The it may offend against ntee canons smokeroom story is almost an of taste, which, after all. is a Anglo-Saxon monopoly. And yet widely varying and

Before we allow the polico to variable. we allow policemen to act as our gag gagging comedians, I think criterion, cannot Inflict any rent censors of music-hall gags! moral harm at all. Vulgarity, in

it would be as well to invite a few A curious anomaly confronts selected chief-constables to make fact, is absolutely fatal to sal us. In this country we elous romaned

have a conscientious tour of modern Broad humour enshrined

A lecture entitled "Celestial Bodles" on Friday, April, 12 at 8.30 pm. In kills scented sex lusion as cer-

the gods of pure theatre and cinemas. They might will be delivered by Prof. F. A. Red Room of the Hongkong Univer democracy. Government of the then tainly and instantly as Iaughter people by the people for the standard of music-hull ethics akong University Engineering Society come.

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