1938-02-26 — Page 27

TELEGRAPH.: THE HONGKONG.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1938.

"SLOVENLY SPEECH," G. B. S.

English

Is

At Its Worst In The Theatre

•

66TF you want to hear slovenly speech that conveys nothing to the unfortunate audience and wastes the labour of the author the theatre alone can provide you with it," declared Mr. George Bernard Shaw in a message, written in shorthand, read at a meeting at University College of the Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama.

Mr. Lo Hung-chun, who graduated

Went Into Oblivion To Escape U. K. Taxes

Miami, Feb. 15..

In January, 1934, Botty Car- stairs, wealthy English speed- boat racer, turned her back on the civilization of Europe, and established herself on a sub- tropical island in the Bahamas for the professed purpose of escaping British taxes.

Now-four years after caying

He wrote that the dramatic side of their work did last year from the University of goodbye to Mayfair and the world of not interest him a bit.

"There are dramatic schools all over the place; and yet to- day all the professions speak English better for public purposes than the dramatic profession," he declared.

"About 60 years ago the clergy murdered the Liturgy so

Hongkong.

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scandalously that I protested publicly against a candidate for Miles And

Holy Orders being ordained until he knew the difference between a Collect nad a gargle.

"One reason is that our dramatic Queen schools and our producers are 20

Tho only speaker in those

technically

perfect

days was

No Accident

sports Miss Corstairs has no apparent intention of ever leaving-except on "vacation"--tho "Island paradise" which she has created on tiny Whale Cay, once a mangrove wilderness.

In 1834, quidating the fortune which reputedly earned her an in- come of £6,000 a week, the dynamic little Englishweman purchased Whale Cay from the Bahamas government, and made it virtually self-sustaining settled down to a life of seclusion.

Miss Carstairs was born some 35 years ago in England, the daughter Victoria, whom some of our worst distracted by the other arts which AIR SERVICE RECORD f an American, the former Estello Bostwick, who was the daughter of stage gabblers would probably desthe colouring, the dressing and the ASTORAMA

stoge fashions in what is called 'ex- Qantas Empire Airways which Abel-Bostwick, one of the founders she pressionism' and which mostly ex-operates the last lap, between Singa- of the Standard Oil Company.

Christene Marian Barbara, folly pore and Brisbane, of the England-

was brought to the United States To-day the Church gives us some presses nothing but sheer

she was six. of our best broadcasters, headed by that they have no time left for the Australla Imperial air route, has just wher the two Archbishops, the vicar central art of speech on which all celebrated its third birthday with a educated at Hartford, Conn. During Towkesbury and the Hov. Pat Mc-

plays that have any bralna in them record of 2,105,020 miles to its credit the World War she drove an ambu- Cormick.

depend.

without a single forced landing and lance in France, and after the war turned to speedboat racing as an out- let for her energies. without injury to any passenger or employee.

cribe as a 'ham' elocutionist.

"WONDERFUL" PHONE GIRLS

"The political tub-thumpers, 100, know their job; they may talk no- thing but nonsense but they at least articulate it clearly.

"And the telephono girls are won-!

they

"For my own work (he continued) prefer actors who have been trained as musicians.

verbal music or no trained skill in

An opera sung by people with no derful: they speak so clearly that ears for maste is not more horrible are not only efficient but than a play by Shakespeare or Shaw spoken by people with no sense of peremptory and terrifying. "In the Law Courts

a slovenly executing it. speaker would have no chance.”

"Yet such people offer you Shake- "SHAKESPEARE OR SHAW" speare, though they would never Referring to "the slovenly speech dream of offering you Handel or

Elgar." in the theatre," he said:

10

She

Wow

Although Miss Carstairs renounced the bustle and turbulence of civiliza- its comforts. mangrove She caused the matted tion, she did not give up jungle to be cleared away and much of the island to be landscaped.

The service was opened by the Duke of Gloucester three years ago. In the first year it carried an out- ward mall of about 500 lb. a week the service averages about 1350 lb.

She spent an estimated $250,000 in Now, a week outward from Darwin, the work, building a 10-room Spanish saya Austral News. The Chairman of style house of cement blocks, can- structing a highway system and laying the company, Mr. Fergus McMaster, cut little farming plots which her however, considers the service still employees, mostly Bahaman Negroes,

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