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Ever
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written
to the Editor?
LETTERS of all sorts,
Typed and scrawled: angry and glad: long and short: crazy and sensible..
What
manner of people write them?
And why?
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or suggestion to contributo (there Jan't any one of us who hasn't)
be known his stuff, and he writes clearly, concisely, neatly,
A good article of this type is better than a sloppy article to any editor; and it helps him to keep in contact with his readers, to give them
the newspaper-service that they want.
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1 Inquiry.. to got specific in-
formation or service.
2 Response... to contributo use
ful Information, opinion, argu» ment or suggestion this sort
of contributor provides the editor with a sort of straw vote of sub- seribor-opinion.
Letting off steam . . this pro- vides a vicarious emotional salia- faction for those readers who have similar complexes similar straws in their bonnets, 4 The crazy lettor
a very extreme degree of 3.
letter do?
To get trouble and a corre personal problem of his own, though An unhappy, neglectal, querul- spondence, all one need do is you might not know it. One of ous wife who laments the lack of
nd those two the functions of any lottor column chivalry
romance and attempt. to answer
is to act as safety-valve for his novelesque qualities in the modern questions..
ör her-relief.
she is having an oblique Whose Something written has touched smack at her husband
G. Exhibitionism. a motive only anyway that slug Wistly
abnormal in excess and often COMMONER than you might think him well on the raw he is apt fault is
motivating quito valuable stuff. is the plumb crazy letter. to regard it almost as a personal chose security instead of romance? Easy enough to recognise on insult
The spinster-in spirit if not in . he will express himself
condemning the sight..
the nouns are in capi- with an acerbity that he would fact vehemently
committers ΟΙ cruelty to. dumb DEADERS whose letters would be tala
almost every other never permit himself. in private animals. cruel to her fellow most "valued often hesitate to
wavy life. to the point even of sug man phrase is underlined by a
perhaps not so eruel na write, thinking: What good can my ...the hund gesting that any one who thinks they to her. Roadline for emphasis
writing is oddly irregular. . different is feeble-minded, dis-
But don't forget that a newspaper should really-përhaps ideally-be the name, address, and date may be honest and hardly worthy of being omitted... rarely are all three permitted to five his letter is A THIRD type of letter writer is result of an interaction between its present.
highly charged and explosive ..
the exhibitionist, the epistolary readers and its Editor..
The letter to the Editor is an in- all plainly a result of the sudden nudist. the breaker of records.
His grand pansion is to be seen portant part of that interaction. It Contents are of two kinds :--
retense of highly compressed and
the in print he writes weekly or is reader's Comment-the Editor's The first full of hate
suppressed emotion.
due. oftener to the papers. .. but in makes vague references to malign He may be a disgruntled old only successful once in a
Type out 100 words in three para- while. forces, usually unnamed
graphs Make the Brat your iden, the . neglected and unloved gent.
Not such a bad sort really secand your argument, the third your of ideas of persecution
who blasphemus at the younger his stuff is often good despite the conclusion-preferably a constructivo sometimes boldly assert that the generation. in reality, poor old slightly kinked motives that father conclusion. writer of the criticised article is pent, he is being sorry for himself. it,style a tie on the dogmatic Then post it and forget about. It BRITAIN'S BUDGET
nually some one else in disguise.
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quite was a beauty when young-who ing periods are Gladstonian and harm. Whatever may be said pf Mr.
affers grotesque recalls the gracious measunce of a klitorial there is a touch of Welling to the Press is among grandiose. Neville Chamberlain's Budget and cranky solutions to the world's delightful long-past quarter-cen- acerbity,
"after kick," other things-n splendid spiritual
aperient. suggests tury when she queened it. the directed towards the Editor, whom Men have slaved off proposals. the outstanding really big problems... feature of the statement which pretty-bluntly that it is the writer's world is naturally not now so good, he half-suspects of being lonth suicide by a useful habitED.
mission to offer these to an ungrate. God bless her! ful. pretty undeserving world. ... says be.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, APR. 23, 1936.
he presented in the House of Commons on Tuesday is certain-
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A Poet Was Born At Stratford
HAKESPEARE is not only our
greatest dramatist and poet; he
is also our greatest national stock joke. Even in these days, when we appear to be losing our sense of hunt- our, the comic artist and the music hail comedian can always be certain of a laugh by calling on the name of Shakespeare, and it is only in the schoolroom and the cocktail bar that
dare not.
SIDE GLANCES
By
Sir Cedric
Hardwicke
By George Clark
but showmen, should have the hand]- ing of Shakespeare, the honour of in- troducing him to the younger genera- tion. If Shakespeare is to be put where he belongs-that is, in the hearts of the Brigliai: people-he must be treated as he himself would wish to be treated, as an entertainer, not as a task innster, a giver of pleasure, not a doler out of punances.
The coming of the talkies has
be of paramount value. In America, Germany, and Italy organisations for
the production of films of, educative
value are in being, and in Germany and Italy receive · considerable help from the State. In Germany, for in- stance, the Entertainment Tax is re- nitted at cinémas wilere such films are shown.
ling, contrasted with an expected LIFETIME SALARIES excess of revenue over expendi
The time is not far off, we be a joke about him will not gel over.. ture totalling only half a million. lieve, when the pensions system, those two centres of learning because us, and ane of the mildest ways at carrying out this suggestion. The They will not laugh in the first of Shakespeare was minde detestable to greatly simplified the task involved in Mr. Chamberlain rightly claimed) it is enjoyed here and at Home the literature hour is no time for that. He was inflicted on us as "re filming of the plays of Shakespeare as this as a wonderful demonstra-and in most civil services of the deity, and in the second because they petition," as an "impot," and, even "silent" is indeed, like "Hamlet" worse, as a holiday task. As regards without the Prince of Denmark, since tion of the buoyancy of the present
The sobbery which forbids any the latter form of pedagogie cruelty the poetry and not the spectacle is day, will
be radically Bright Young Person from admitting there could be no surer way of mak the aim; but modern apparatus and national revenue. In days when changed. Reforms recently sug the slightest knowledge of or interest ing the very nume of Shakespeare modern technique in the film studios
in, Shakespeare derives
from the stink in the nostrils of schoolboys for have greatly simplified the problems. most Governments are facing seated are the first reactions of school days from those days when ever; even Edgar Wallace himself that filming such works as Shakes-
Without go- ' public which commences to be just the child attains a hatred of him so could have been struck a well-nigh peare's plays present. heavy deficits and are quite-un-
a little critical of the treatment implacable-that-it-might have been mortal blow had his works been set ng too deeply into technicalities it able to balance their Budgets, civil servants
inculcated with set purpose and act in schools as holiday tasks. The can be mentioned, for instance, that receive. For in mailce. In fact, from my own experi- follies of pedagogues have made the by means of the Dunning process- the British position must be re-stance,, this pension system; how ence, I was convinced that the master plays of Shakespeare a byword and by which figures can be superimposed garded as amazingly good. For many employers of labour, even the to whose doleful lot it fell to take the his name a mockery in his own land. upon any setting-and other "tricks bored and liatless class through
of the trade" the production of such dims in a manner acceptable to mod- the soundness of the Governmost highly skilled and specialised "Henry V." and "Julius Caesar
ern youth does not present any great Belongs labour, guarantee a man à consis- schools recognise no other Shake Pur Shakespeare Where He
difficulty or entail any huge expense: ment's finance methods there can tent increase in wages and a line peorean plays, so for as I have ever
What can be done to restore Shake. The Film and Drama been able to discoverwas handing on
The film as an educative force a be nothing but praise. When time bonus of some fifty or sixty a vendetta bequeathed to him in turn speare to his proper place, to make the position is analysed, the per cent, of his pay at the time of by the English master of his own him not only interesting but lovable only just beginning to be appreciated,
childhood days.
to his own people? I believe we can The tradition of the manual and the thought naturally suggests it-retirement? Not many. Despite "Studying a Shakespearean play, do this by wreating him from the
enlightened educationists throughout self that the situation would be the risks to which men of the Army analysing it, dissecting it, writing hands of the schoolmasters and restor copy-bok dies hard. Nevertheless, even brighter still but for the and Navy are always liable to be notes about it for all the world as ing him to his friend-the artists and the country are optimistic for the if we were witnesses at an autopsy, the actors. Not teachers of English, future, and especially in the inculcat necessity; in view of the general exposed, civil servants pensions was only one of the ways in which but impresarios, not schoolmn'ams, ing of a love of the arts, can the fibu international outlook, of huge are considerably higher than those expenditure 011 the defence granted to the fighting services. services. The nation, however, We believe it is near the time has long since reconciled itself when compulsory saving by a con- to these heavy charges, consci-tributory Provident Fund system! ous of the need of real security will take the place of pension schemes. Private enterprise --is in these times of general anxiety becoming more and more widely and widespread uncertainty
Interested in this development, and regarding the future. The pro-is generally ready to support Pro- gramme envisaged by thevident Funds in the belief that a. Government calls for the laying worker with a savings account is out of tremendous sums, but it of greater value. The worker| is evident that the intention is actually creates his own pension by not to meet the whole cost, out this system, assisted by the cm- of current revenue, Mr. Cham-player. Together with health and berlain having forecasted the unemployment insurance, Provident possibility of part being met by Funds bring a social security never way of loan. Such a loan would known before. And one of these days the workers of all nations 'who without question be readily pay taxes are going to demand a taken up. The Government has cutting down in the bill for elvil with obvious reluctance decided service pensions.
some increase in taxation, and, on the principle of spread-
the general "situation, it is ing this over the community generally, the additional revenue difficult to see that the Govern- is to be found from alight ad- ment could have chosen any vances in income tax and the tea other type than that upon which duty. On the other hand, some it has decided. Taking all the concession has been made in factors into account, the Budget increasing. the income tax. can be regarded as even better! allowance in respect of children than might have been expected, and in raising the general even though the increased taxa-1
Its allowance for married people. tion may prove irksome. This will offset in some measure chief feature, as we have re the
now imposts. Increased marked,. is its reflection of the taxation, whatever its form, is inherent soundnoss and stability never popular, but, considering of British finance methods..
on
"I guess
I must be falling for him, I'm beginning to worry.
when he spends money on me."
Admittedly the sponsors of thin "movement" will have to proceed cau- tiously, and my opinion is that the Alm for use in the schools should be re- garded as quite apart from that in- tended for universal consumption at the cinemas.. No matter what may be said the box office must receive its dun share of attention in the latter case, and the public can be very sus picious of "teaching films." In the public's case the showing of unault- able films of say, the plays of Shake- speare, might canily tend to increase the distrust which such plays already breed in the public mind to-day.
The children, however, are not in- fluenced in their likes and dislikes by the factors that govern box offico re- ceipts, and it may, well be that the very things which would bore the adult, Bimsated public, would prove the greatest attraction to the younger audiences. Filma will have to be very carefully prepared, and by those who not only love Shakespeare, but under- stand youth,
I am sure that by such means:a gonuine appreciation of Shakespeare could be coupled with an enlightened view of many aspects of history, and I can imagine the delight of the child in seeing, say, Cardinal Wolsey a real, moving entity rather than a boring name or a date in a book, In discover- ing that Shakespeare could be funny and that he is full of robust humour and comle cross-talk, and that his dramatic scenes can be far "creepier" than any modern "thriller." Then will Shakespeare come to life again and rise from the degradation of bore dom and derision to which he has been sunk, to his right position as a glori ous, beloved figure in our national consciousness,
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