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Lonely Spinster Wanted a Record

of a Deep Booming Male Voice

MISS Valentine Britten knows the radio and then supply recordaja waltz than to Jazz! We supplied

more about gramophone records to the inquirers; and I shall deal him with some Johann Strauss, than anybody else in Europe.

with hundreds of questions

She has been appointed head of the central record information bureau at the Ills Master's Volce depot at 363 Oxfordstreet, W.

"In tracing encores 7 ani,nided by my own concert-going. 1 uitend nearly every big concert and many plays.

"Every_Inquiry we receive will be by fled for future reference.

They are of great variety and

The bureau, the first of its kind in the world, was inaugurated Sir Landon fonold.

"Another man wrote requesting a drum record for his · 20 cats. We supplied him with a continuous roll. "A spinster living in the country naked for a record of a deep male volee, xaying she was frightened of burglars.

"With a powerful radiogramophone and this booming male voice, she hoped to insure herself against

Miss Britten, telling about her originality work and the reason for the informaCoventry saying that his cows were intruders.

"One man wrote from a farm near tion service, snid:

"During my ten years ns a sales-casier to lik when he put on a "A man rang up to ask for a suit- woman I bave constantly received record, but he had noticed that theyjable background for his love-making. inquiries of all kinds about records, were more docile when listening to We decided on serenades.

The volume of questions har made the bureau necessary.

"I believe I spent half the time I jam owake listening to records,

"There are about 50,000 recorda in the current catalogues of the world. I do not claim to know them all, but I have a large number in my head.'

"At the burenu I shall trace music heard in encores at concerts or on

No Muddy Trenches In The Next War, Says Mr. Duff Cooper

“One reason why men do not join the Territorials is that people who should be beller advised are con- tinually telling them of the horrors

of the last war, of the mud in Flan ders, and the extraordinary Incom ̈petence of the generals,

"If there is to be another war, which God forbid, the only thing we can say about it with certainty that I will be quite different. We need not be afraid of having to go through Passchendaele again, or to sit through the mod of Flanders as so many did from 1914 to 1018."- Mr. Duff Cooper, War Secretary, at Marylebone.

Widow's Seance

Hollywood, Dec. 1.

Turn out the light, he has not arrived." With these words, an- nouncing that her husband, Harry Houdini, had not spoken from beyond the grave,

Mrs. Beatrice Houdini ended her seance.

At a long table sal twelve members of "The Inner Circle, a mingled group of Spiritualists and scientists, the widow at one end, Edward Saint, the magician. at the other.

Sarrounding them was a host of spectators, Including film camera- men with a ton of equipment to "broadclat" any message.

Solnt cried: "Harry, Harry, are you here? Give us a sign. We have walled no long.”

No answer. Saint wept.

7 Men "Sent Down"

From

Cambridge

Cambridge, Dec. 16. FOLLOWING the Cambridge Guy Fawkes "rag" on November 5 szven under- graduates have been "sent down" temporarily,

Some will not be permitted to return to Cambridge for the next term. This decision in- volves further terms at the University if they are to take a degree.

An announcement by the vice-

chancellor alotes:

Seven persons charged with mia- conduct on the night of November 5 were brought before the court of discipline. The charges in- cluded assaulting police officers,

resisting arrest, and interfering with a motor-vehicle.

tribunal the evidence they gave in the police court,

The seven men are: George Henry Bisacre (Trinity Col- lege). Fined in the police court

£4 for resisting arrest;

Henry Leopold Dor (King's College).

Fined £5 for nasuult and £4 for

pressohn Victor Goss (Trinity

College). Fined £5 for assault and £3 for resisting: Brian Marson Till (Trinity, Hall).

Fined £6 for assault and £4 for resisting:

William Nock Harley Wainwright (Corpus Christ College). Fined £2 for assault and £3 for resist- ingi.

Gilbert Alec Varley (Christ's Col- lego). Fined £5 for assault and

£4 for resisting;

Wiliam Harry Petty (Queen's Col-

Jego).

Fined £5 for assault and £3 for resisting.

All have left Cambridge.

A Downing College undergraduate, ned for resisting arrest, and an

The appearance before the court of discipline on Monday was for the purpose of communicating the de- cisions. Previously police officers undergraduate of Trinity Hall, fined had repeated before the University for assault, have not been rusticated.

BUDDHISTS

TO NATIONAL

AID DEFENCE

Shanghai, Dec. 18. -Buddhist monks are pacifists, but they are also patriotic. When the National Government approved their request to be exempted from military training because of their religious beliefs, the China Bud- dhist Association reciprocated with a regulation requiring all Buddhist monks to submit to a three month training in Red Cross-

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