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NEW H.M.V. 'RECORDS.

DB2405-6. | Sonata in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ('Moonlight')

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

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John McCormack. Tonor.

€2721 Invitation to the Dance, (Webor) The Little Ring (Chopin)

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

Part 1 The Man from the Country, (Part 2) The Man about Town ....Light Symphony Orch. C1723. "The Three Men" Sulte....... (Part 3) The Man from the Sea. Valsette from Wood Nympha ....Light Symphony Orch. C2725. Staccato Study, (Nubináton)

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Viennese Dance No. 2, (Gartner)

Pianoforte Solas. Cyrli Smith. C2726. St. Patrick's Night...........Selection of Popular Irish Songs. C2724. Tond of Tond Hall" Selection.....Now Mayfair Orch. 18287. With a Snifle and a Song. (Sievler-Wood) The Pavement. Artist. (Jenkins)

18286. If All the World Were Mine

Your Dog's Come Home Again

18288. The Continental.-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HYPOCRISY RULES IN BRITAIN

POLICE ASSESSORS OF MORALITY

CONQUEST OF PURITANISM

By An Old Stager

In ore of those dramatic pre- faces which in some respects aro as entertaining as his playa, Mr. Shaw tells us that It is impossible to live in England even to-day Ashmoor Burch. Baritone. much it lost through not being without being conscious how

conquered by Napoleon. As to that contention there may con Gracle Fields. Comedienne.ceivably be some dispute, but it is

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.

Stay as Sweet na You Are. 'Vocal.

Belle Baker. (In English) 118289. Melodies of Yesterday, ........Ken Harvey. Banjo & Plano, B8277. Dancing with a Ghost.

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

Let's Lay Our Heads Together. Vocal.

Frances Way & Arthur Riscoe 118283. Walt Disney Silly Symphony Selection

BD114. Pas de Quatre. Barn Dance,

New Mayfair Orch.

Archibald Joyce Waltz Medley. BD114. Home James! and Don't Spare the Horses. F.T.

Snake in the Grass. F.T. BD121. Sleepy Time in Sleepy Hollow, F.T.

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

How Can You Face Me. F.T.

#D125, Too Beautiful for Words. F.T.

New Mayfair Orch.

Jack Jackson & Orch.

The Puritan outlook which that subjugation enforced has had the most profound and far-reaching Influence on British life. To deny that much of that influence was admirable would be absurd. Yet one sometimes is oppressed by the auspicion 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 of its attributes stl

New Mayfair Orch. survive, F.T.

Jack Jackson & His Orch,

Come a Little Closer. F.T.....Teddy Jayce & His Orch.

RD128, Old Mommy Mine. FT.

Valentina, Rumi

BD127. Let's Have a Jubilee. F.T.

Teddy Joyce & Its Orch,

With All My Heart and Soul. F.T...New Mayfair Orch.

One is more than a little in- clined to fear that it is the nar- mower and more bigoted survival which causes us to be regarded by

intelligent foreigners as a nation

of hypocrites. We do rather strain at guats whilst blithely swallowing camels.

SHAKESPEAREAN SHOCKS To some, people's way of think ing we have grown too sensitively

MONDAY, APRIL

QUAINT STYLE

Elizabethan Ruffle In Chiffon

PUFFED SLEEVES.

"Shall we go Elizabethau?" Here is one suggestion that some of no may the rugic made of stiffened, organdio. - chiffon or net, worn, with a little. Jucket that has quite pufy sleeves.

SANDWICH GIRLS

PARIS-Members of the Sand

wich Men's Unlon complained that glamorous Sandwich girls who have been parading the streets in short skirts and silk stockings, were ruining their "profession."

PHILIPPINES PLAN ARMY

WILL SERVE TO POLICE NATION

Manila.

Despite "renunciation of war as An instrument of national policy," the Philippines will have an army of 25,000 troops at the time they attain completo independence, B doende hence, according to plana' of Filipino leaders.

Legislation to lay the founda- tion for the future Philippine Army, which for the time-being will be known as the National Police Force, has been proposed, calling for a force of 25,000 mon and s corresponding increase in appropriations.

The army of 26,000 men will bo achieved through the gradual In- crease in enlisted strength of the Philippine Constabulary, which t present numbers around 7,000.

The bill, providing for 4 Philippine army when "protection of the U.S. Army" is withdrawn, expresses belief in the practica-' lity 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 kponsors

tq present, a complete solution to

In the.

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$1.50 per person

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but to formulate plans for nucleus "of our future army."

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In addition, the need for organi- along antion of militia force

National Guard lines has been tressed by Senor Leon G. Guinto, under-secretary of the inferior.

Existing soni-military and elvic organisations, of which there are a score, Señor Guinto believes, They said they feared being may be used as the nucleus for a national militia in the event the thrown out of work because they Government decides to create one. could not compete, in employers-United Preas. eyes, with pretty girls and that anyway the girls were not a good invoalinent because everybody looked not at the aigns they

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far too tolerantly lax about vital issues.

top of which we send policemen

into the musle rails to decide what the great democracy must and must not hear. It would be interesting to have a frank census of that, music-hall audience, and discover just what percentage of them objected to the penalised comedian's stage gags, and how many felt that they had sustained any moral or intellectual shock.

The broad comedy of a Shakes- Victorians, though they perused pearean play. If given on the them privately, placed the works stage to-day without extensive of Rabelais on their domestic pruning of the more Rabelalaian "index expurgatorious." In 0 dialogue, would scandalise large doing they committed one of the sections of the theatre crowds, grandest psychological blunders and raise n storm of righteous | imaginable. It was na stupid as protests. Yel

that same crowd, endeavouring to keep sunshine and perhaps most notably the very and sea breezes away from a con- sections Toullest in their moral valescent patient. Not humour, indignation,, make no bones at all broad or otherwise, is the enemy about reading the most daring of the human soul, but salacious modern sex novels. Nor does the news furbished forth under a gloss post-war flapper's codo of of false roniance and dainty feminine conduct, which would prettiness, Humour is truth bur- have frightened the Elizabethans lesqued. Its effects may be who enjoyed their Shakespeare brutal but never demoralising. being persuaded to accept them unbowdlerised, greatly perturb] The dangerous commodity is vice 18 infallible arbiters of good those same censorious crities of | dressed as simpering virtue. stage comedy,

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Public opinion may well be left to do its own censoring of humour. It will be doubly effec

ive beenuse it will be honest.. It will not set up a false standard, and its condemnation will be the more sweeping through not being hypocritical but sincere.

Surely there is an intolerable amount of mental ostracism which is only a politer way of indicating sheer hypocrisy, about this public attitude? 1

imagine can urtistically libidinous novel, or for that matter even a gorgeously camouflaged musical comedy,

A little while ago two policemen having very hurtful moral In-1

role of music-kall fluence on a certain class of con- played the sumers. But it is altogether censors, and a famous popular entertainer, whom most of us beyond my powers of credulity to have seen and heard without imagino a line from one of Shakespeare's grosser clownings suffering moral hurt of any kind. having any such effects on the was hauled before the local Bench listener in stalls or gallery. Even and fined for overstepping what these policemen canaldered the the modern high school lies, we may be sure, reads her Shakes mark in his stage gags. peare without skipping the lines forbidden on the stage. There may even be tendency to con- centrato on the censorable parts, But are any young and innocent lives shipwrecked thereby,

BAD PSYCHOLOGY

WHEN IN PARIS

This is the sort of thing that causes amazed foreigners to gasp at our lunular hypocrisy. British visitors were the mainstay of the old Moulin Rouge, and are still a Incrative clientele with French guides who show them the least gavoury night sights of Paris. The smokeroom story is almost an Anglo-Saxon monopoly. And yet we allow policemen to net as our censors of music-holl gagal

When those policemen, who played the role of local Hitlers over the crowd, narrated the objectionable gags to their pro- fessional colleagues, I wonder was there nny appreciative chuckling in the private audience? One may entertain the higheat respect and admiration for our 'splendid police farce without

taste, not to mention public morality.

over

BEDROOM SCENES

villain of the earth, but I would Perhaps-I-am-alone the ribald personally much prefer to sco youngsters of either sex, in whom I am interested, laughing even rather broad jokes than wallowing in delicately indelicate fietion. Taughter has influence. It blows away the Imaginative cobwebs and braces the intelligence.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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1 A caricature that gives a rub the

wrong way.

5 The ungrateful viper's shelter. 8 A "ward win" with a prize of

new-mown hay (andg.).

10 Provider usoful security.

Bont.

12 He takes in a nobleman about

n_letter.

13 Indians.

16 Mino is something to swear by. 17 Sounds us if it had an in-

congruous opening for an cleaiastical meeting,

ve-

18 Demanded by sceptics, 20 Warm trousers would seem to

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

23 The horse that's equal to the

hill.

churches.

Down

Imbibing literary pornography24 Bird associated with many City disguised as elever modernity has

28 The reporter hands his in, but a tolally different effect. In fact,

your bank keeps yours, to put it bluntly. I believe the 29 Very hot. atmosphere of the bathroom is 30 A famous writer before his end. bealthier than that of the bed-31 Frank, room. I have seen bedroom scenes on the stage without any sugges- tion of official censorship either by the police or the fro brigadą, which produced far more barrassing effects On mixed audiences than any of Shakes4ut into peare's consored comedy could possibly do.

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Before we allow the police to gag gagging comedians, I think it would be as well to invito a few selected chief-constables to make

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

last 3 What Cleopatra's

lover wanted to borrow,

words indicative of Speed. 5 Give the lad a copper for the

main portion.

6 Discovered like a leopard.

7 Fashion an old under-garment

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MOEP VOZIL

and it will do temporarily. D Overwhelm, though only partly

20. strange as it may seerd.

14 Good-bys, so far as Spain is

concerned.

15 Jones, the architect.

16 You

may think accident.

of this by

18 If you buy this bird the 'bill will

bo a big one.

19-Ran-away out in the middle, anf

was Jeered at.

20 Scottish seaport.

21 Fish,

25 The things wrong after dark. 20 Barely seen by the artist. 27 The kind of clue you like.

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It seems to me axiomatic that even the broadest humour, though It may offend against nice canons of taste, which, after all, is a widely varying. And variable criterion, cannot inflict any real moral harm at all. Vulgarity, in A curious anomaly confronts

A lecture entitled "Celestial Bodies" on Friday, April, 12 at 8.80 p.m. fact, is absolutely fatal to sala- us. In this country we have a conscientious tour of modern

of pure theatre and cinemas. They might will be delivered by Prof. F. A. Red-ity. The lecture will be illustrated elous romance. Brond humour enshrined the gods kills scented sex illusion as cer- democracy. Government of the then

sec fit to readjust their mond, B.SC., D.L.C., Fas, to the Hong- with slides. All interested are wel-- tainly and instantly as laughter people by the people for the standard of music-hall ethics akong University Engineering Society came.

people is our proudest slogan. On bit.

does passion.

SALESMAN SAM

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