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ET us consider Mr.

Stuart Hibberd appreciatively, critic- ally, reminiscently. ·

Because Hibberd, for 11 years chief announcer of the BBC, is a man in a million.

Not necessarily through force of personality, but by nature of

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He is the man who, more than any one else, tells the world. He is at the top of his profession, vital, familiar Stubbs Rd. figure in every British home throughout the Empire. And. as such, worthy of dissection.

PITTENDRIGH-William Mackenzle Pittendrigh, at the War Memorial Hospital at 4 am. on December 20, 1938. Funeral passes the Monument to-day at 5 pm.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1930.

"BLACK SPOT" IN

INDUSTRY

A

QUIET man ... ly over forty,

Portrait of

BBC

chief

announcer

with suggestions

for other

announcers

Blight by JONAH BARRINGTON

Fair hair, brushed straight back, tops a broad, intelligent brow, rather narrow eyes, a fair military moustache, a good humoured mouth.

The figure is still alert and vigorous resuit of strenuous week-end tennis.

· Several familiar mannerisms a shrugging of the shoulders, an upward gesticulation of the hands.

A number of fixed habits- an orange eaten at definite hours, a gargle and a mouth wash before bulletins, a little singing before speaking.

Endless little kindnesses and During the recent House of attentions to others in Broad- Commona debate on the distress-casting House-the invariable ed areas and the location of in- phone call to the home of any dustry, strong pleas were made member of the staff who hap for extending special mensures pens to be ill-the baskets of for the reduction of unemploy-home-grown vegetables for col- iment districts which do not leagues. come within the Special Areas Act, but which have, none the less, suffered severely from the

And a whole heap of quite genuine modesty.

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down corridors, to the right Hibberd standard to receive an one.

irate message from authority.

The general strike of 1926- with lists of trains and buses lasting over an hour to be read.

A word of slang, and the en- tire Board of Governors rings up....

With the result that (Freddie The frantic inquirica to Savoy Grisewood excepted) the BBC, Hill-thousands of phone calls has for its announcers a group when Father Knox broadcast of lesser Hibberds-men lacking possessing

a play depicting London in a his charm, but state of revolution and the qualities which are not allowed House of Parliament on fire,... to become apparent.

Hibberd, voice surcharged with genuine pleasure, announc- ing royal weddings. ...

veloped.

set

WHibberd has

17HAT lies ahead? standard of announcing which is second to none.

etc.

TUCH of the trouble lies Broadcasting House that tele-

Min the rule that every vision announcements must be

URN from this mo-

Ternity this carping

Hibberd, with genuine emo- thing must be read. A man typed-and memorised. tion, announcing the serious may only have to introduce illness of King George...the Bernard abdication of King Edward VIIL enough, an hour or so before Shaw. But, BUTC

Thus he has grown, and de- the broadcast, down comes the and criticism-back to Stuart

typed book of words from the Hibberd. executives.

Soon he'll be back from his "This is the National pro- Canadian and American tour. a gramme. To-night we have in

the studio that distinguished journey-back and forth-from Soon he'll be making his daily dramatist Mr. Bernard Shaw," Bickley to Broadcasting House. But it is not enough.

Soon-as Witness the time when I met

familiar 09 the Hibberd, or the B.B.C. au- No chance for the wretched Nelson Column and as reliable cular, stress was laid on

thorities over him, should train man to think this out for him- as the Bank of England--he'll the claims of South-West Lanen journalists and wag

He had been talking to 50 men in a dozen different stan- self-or even to improve on it. be at the microphone. shire, one of the worst industrial worried.

a little dards.

He must READ-and usually The honey-tinted voice, with "black spots" of the country.

They should take promising he sounds like it. He asked me how it went.

its flavour of the Eton and At the same time. the Lanca-I reassured him. 'I'm hanged develop them.

men, note their characteristics, Over in Alexandra Palace, Harrow match, Ascot, the Boat- ahire Industrial Development if I can think of anything to say

where television lives, they do race-everything that is tradi Council is making a further ap-on these occasions," was his wards slang, let him be slangy

If a man has a leaning to- things differently.

tionally British-will penetrate peal to the Minister of Health comment. That-from, a man in certain programmes.

Leslie Mitchell, for example, once more into a million British for consideration of Lancashire's who, did hebat know it, en-If he can be funny-and-in--Impromptu. Obviously he can't-Wo welcome him back

is making his announcements homes. claims to special assistance in counters a front-page story for timate, encourage. him-again be seen fluttering a sheet of Radio's No. 1 personality. view of the decline of her basic almost every week he puts in in certain programmes, Industry. Previous appeals have on duty.

paper, so he gags. Sometimes But up on his throne there is failed.

If he has a slight lisp-that's he's hesitant, sometimes Si Thomas Barlow,

ho's room for at least half a dozen Chairman of the Council, main-

TUINK back. There is a

grand.

funny, but all the time he's other personalities-men who tains that incentives should be Stuart Hibberd, fresh

The public would love a lisp human. very nervous, difficult

can offer contrast to his solid provided for the establishment service in the North-West Indian

ing announcer occasionally. Alas for informality. It will worth. There is even room, if of factories in Lancashire. He Police, applying for a job in

At present a man has only to only be a matter of weeks be- they bunch up a bit, for a wo- deviate a few inches from the fore orders come through from man, points out that the derating of November 1924 as second an- industry was an example of dis- crimination by the State as be tween different sections of the community and that if that principle, were accepted in the one case, there is no reason why it should not be applied to the better distribution of Industrial from owners

The

Afteen years first S.OSs-requests AND now,

after I made what the popular novelist of lost dogs, might enterprise over Great Britain in canaries, parrots, to broadcast "romance and riches," I can sit back call the choice between the interests of the community appeals with Hibber handing dispassionately and judge whether as a whole. As was pointed out out a polite. succession of re-that one should not marry for money. there is anything in this superstition in the debate in the House of fusals.... Commons, three-quarters of all The constant vigilance neces- If you are an incurable romantic, the unemployed are concentrat-sary to sco that speakers didn't or very, very young, read no farther. ed in four out of the nine insert gratuitous advertisements and the truth, perhaps, is fatal to the For what I have to say is the truth, Ministry of Labour industrial into their MSS (to-day there is popularly nccepted notions OL divisions and yet the Special the announcer's responsibility).

a censorship, but then it was romance. Areas Act deals with only some

Briefly, I was faced Afteen years 300,000 of the 1,200,000 un-

ago by a very simple choice. I was The terrifying (and thank-27, poor, but with somewhat expen- employed. There is a great less) bask of turning over for sive tastes inherited from a family Romantic Illusions mass of long-term unemployed pianista.

which had seen better times, and employed with a small manufacturing outside the scheduled areas who light when the lights failed.....

Eventually I asked her to marry Reading the news by match-concern in n provincial town. I was me, and she accepted, as I knew she have had no consideration of any

the export sales manager, and used would. But this was only after a Taking Mr. A. P. Herbert to make frequent trips to London, great deal of heart-searching on my

which only whetted

nouncer.

from

warning, he is at the micro- Four days Inter. without phone, saying, "This is London calling," and reading. His chief is away....

I MARRIED FOR MONEY

And Have Never Regretted It

She's Now a Shrew

Now, fifteen years afterwards, in- spired to put this on paper by the fatuous comment by an important person that "love is everything" I say that I am unreservedly glad that I acted as I dld.

I look around at the couples who cause I felt the time had come when is, I am convinced, happier than my ly I set out to marry her-partly be- "married for money" none of them And then gradually and deliberate-made love matches at the time that 1

I ought to marry and settle down, but wife and I and our two children. But. mainly because she was my em- many of them are far less happy. sently inherit the business. ployer's daughter and would pre-

kind... The Government's ori-(then unwell) to the wrong tastes still further my expensive part.

ginal claim was that by narrow-studio-rushing him, coatless, ing the front in this way, It

Welcomed My Company

I had to rid myself of a number of

The girl of my tennis club days soon found another young man and married him. She has never been particularly well off, and as I look at her now I thank my lucky stars I did not marry her, for life has turned hes into a shrew. I have missed nothing except, perhaps, a certain ecstasy which in the very nature of things would have quickly died,

And I have gained everything. illusions which had been instilled into A Fabric of Affection would be able to deal more ex-the trade cycle is still in operu with a girl at the tennis club I be happiness. Remember that in mar-A great affection, loyalty, st

me by every story I had ever seen. For some time I had been in love side of my nature, you can't buy could not be better off than I am now.

"Don't do it," cautioned the romantic

Even if I had married for love I peditiously with the problem. tion. In a capitalist society, longed to, but so far had not sald riage love is all Important." That claim has not been upheld. there are only short periods anything to her. I was naturally As the Commissioner pointed during which

derie-call it what you will--exists industrial re cautious, and although privately 1 "Fiddlesticks!" countored the prac fabric of affection which we our

between my wife and me. It is o out in his Report, under the habilitation can be effected.

suffered a little through repressing tical side of my nature. "Lools at selves have woven, and the point in Special Areas Act, "It has to be Unless the area of depression is disbelief in anything like "love in n sionately, as you would at a business weave it even if we had followed the my real feelings, I had an emphatic this thing squarely, and dispass that we should still have had to admitted that no appreciable re-to be extended and intensified cottage."."

problem. Being in love is not so duction of the number of those be eliminated during the present, and I used to have to go to his then? You create your own happl-

during the coming years, it must

portant a constituent About this time my employer tell anyway. Love

usual romantic path of marriage love-as every couple

marrylog unemployed has been effected.”

dles-and what

has to when love wanes. period of comparative industrial house to report en my business trips. ness after that. And if money can for the fever of love has never hidden It is clear that the problem of activity. Meanwhile, the Labour There I met his daughter, and not buy happiness the absence

Actually, it has been caster for 188, long-term unemployment arising Party is sending a Commission for some reason which was not ap for a man like you."

of could sense from the beginning that money can destroy it, particularly our real selves from each other. from the decline of basic indus-into the worst areas of depres- parent to me she welcomed my com-

From the beginning we have scen each other clearly, and seen each tries must be considered as a sion to establish the facts and pany more warmly than ordinary The practical side of my nature other whole. There has been no dis- whole, and must be attacked to draw up constructive pro-social courtesy necessitated,

illusionment, because there was posals which it will ihmediato- Although she did not evoke in me

never any lusion. That is why I immediately. If anything is to ly place before the Government any emotion comparable to my feel- qualms. I looked at my wife-to-be married for money.

But even on my wedding day I had am unashamed at confessing that I bo done it must be done at once with a view to Immediate and liked her as I liked any other pre- would make more than moral efforts xign myself.

ings for the girl in the tennis club, I and made a mental resolve that I whilst the upward movement of intensified action,

It has worked. And that is why I sentable, young woman.

to assure her happiness.

An Unrepentant Husband.

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