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THE

GRONG ... TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1988;

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

GRAMOPHONE

GILBERT FRANKAU, SOME

now recordings of ballet differ from each other in style, music come as a reminder of of playing, and that fact gives the fact that ballet enthusiasts their performance an extra pi-

Connoisseur are more numerous in London quancy, especially apposite in

Of Life

By Douglas West

【THAT sort of man is this

W Gilbert Franknu?

Gilbert Frankau is one of the most popular and interesting of contemporary Englishmen of letters. He is lithe spare, alert. His movements are quick and purposeful.

He wears good clothes with an air. He is at home in the world without any marked suggestion of sophistica-| tion.

than in any other European capi- music such as this which is full tal. Schumann's "Carnaval" in of comment and repartee. This its original form as piano of mu- is an ensemble of contrast, which aic is not ballet, though in its is always pleasant to hear, orchestral dress it is, and the granted, of course, that the new H.M.V. records of this sure players are mastors of their only needed favourite provide anyone who instruments. It has seen the stage spectacle with this record to remind us how the right atmosphere.

magnificent such mastery

Eugene Goossens has mada be these records with the L.P.O. and

can

the result is extremely good, MASTERLY in another way is much better, be it said, than is Dohnanyi's writing in his generally the caso at actual “Symphonische Minuten," four theatre performances.

short movements, light in char- acter, delicately scored and TCHAIKOVSKY'S "S wa n perpetual delight to the ear. Tha Lake" is not bis best ballet, record is issued by Decca (four though it is charming to watch. sides), and the playing, which is The well-known waltz is recorded excellent, is by the Queen's Hall by the L.P.O. under Efrem Kurz Orchestra under Wood, (Col.), and the same performers

Are responsible for an equally THE name of Shakespeare ap- You would credit him effective record of four move- pears seldom enough in with being at home in ments from an older ballet, lately connection with the gramophone the hunting field, taking his revived with much success at for special interest to be aroused own line and loving all the fine Sadler's Wells, namely, "Cop in Columbia's album of seven re- points of the chase. You would pelia" by Delibes.

cords of excerpts from "Richard II" with Maurice Evans in the

not be wrong.

You would recognise in him ulso

ment.

The

Work it

out

Yourself

George makes a small but regular income during the winter by laying bets against the intelligence of his friends.

This week he won a small sum from Henry on this problem:-

"A farmer," said George, "was asked how many animals he had on his farm, and, after thinking for a few moments, he repiled, "They are all horses but two, all sheep but two and all pigs but two.' How many animals were there on the farm?"

Henry guaranteed that he'd get the answer right Arst time. But for some reason or other he guessed -six and lost his money.

•

Later, George won some more money out of a problem. He bet his friends that they wouldn't be able to answer a simple question on a 70-word paragraph after they had read it once.

Here's the paragraph, and you must only read it through once: "A bus leaves Knightsbridge for Barnes with twenty passengers; at the first stop one passenger got off and three got on; at the next stop three got off and one got on; at the next stop two got off, none got on; at the next stop five got off and four got oh. Including the next and last stop at the terminus-how many times did the bus stop?""

Would George have won your money, too?

CASTOR OIL GAS MASKS

TODERN scientific needs have discovered a new use for sun-

MODERN

rey and needed in order to safe-

a connoisseur of life, a man of taste NE of the most splendid pieces name part and a distinguished and wide interests, a desperately of the earlier classical period, company supporting him. hard worker; the sort of man who J. S. Bach's Concerto in D minor recording is extraordinarily true. is never bored, and so is able 10 for Two Violins, has just been As a test, try through the Depo- communicate enjoyment to

others. But you would

would not And the com-re-recorded, this time by Colum- sition Scene on a good instru placency of the narrow professional bin, with Szigeti and Flesch as outlook which is cha

characteristic of soloists. some successful novelists of the day. Inevitably there comes He is on example of hereditary

to AMONG new Columbia records guard civilian populations from gas attacks. literary ability. His

mind a previous recording by of music from films, mention mother Was

The leather in gas-masks does not keep mustard gas out very Frank Danby, a popular Late Vic- Menuhin and Erncaco, a moving may be made of "The first time satisfactorily unless it is specially treated. Sunflower seed oil or torian novelist. daughter Famela performance. And yet, in my I saw you" (Hall), "Whispers in castor oil is treated with oxygen and then with silica; result-a is one of the most individual of the opinion, this later record should the dark" (Gibbons) and "The clear, sticky fluid. This fluid is treated with sulphur and diluted young women writers of to-day.

Gilbert Frankau was at Eton. That be placed level with its elder Trouble With Me You" great school has had a marked in- companion. Szigeti and Flesch (Elrick).

fluence on his life. He is loyal and

grateful enough to acknowledge the

debt. At Elon he wrote his first: book of poems,

When he was 21 he entered his father's business, and did not serious- ly turn to authorship until three or

four years before the war.

In 1914 he returned from his

Не

is

S.G.

Hints for Knitters

in water. Leather soaked in the mixture is impregnated without being hardened, and mustard gas cannot get through.

to

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Nobody is certain whether the gas creature has been induced 1s kept out simply as a window keeps breed in tanks. out the rain or chemically by com-

The difficulty has been that before and molecules the oyster egg grows up it passes bining with atoms within the impregnated leather.

One theory is that the atoms of through two stages, a free swimming mustard gas are charged with one stage and, a motionless stage called

For some "spat."

reason tanks kind of electric charge, and the ther

The trouble was a matter of dict. food through its body so quickly that it cannot digest green-celled, life which has cells protected with cel- luloso. It can only digest naked flagellates, or whip-like

animal-Mong Bank Bldg. culte, which are not protected with cellulose.

travels round the world, and soon HERE is a method of winding wool into the kind of ball that positively after the outbreak of the war joined refuses to roll about. Hold up the left hand with the fingers and thumb in the oils embedded in the leather oyators rarely reached the spat slage, the East Surrey Regiment.

extended. Begin by laying the first strand between thumb and first finger, are charged with the opposite kind. transferred adjutant to his brigade, and went to France in 1915. He fought at Loos, Ypres, and on the Somme; went to Italy in 1916 as a staff captain, and was invalided out of the Ariny early in 1918.

to the R.F.A., became with a convenient length (say, 12 inches) lying down the back of the hand. Then the atoms of the poison gas and The free swimming larva passes its

E drew targely upon H

As you commence to unwind the skeln bring the wool across the palm of the hand, round the outside of the little finger, round the back of the same finger, then between little finger and its immediate neighbour, across the palm of the hand again, across the ball of the thumb, round the back of the thumb, then between thumb and first finger, and aġain across the palm of the hand.

Repeat this of eight motion for `about 20 turns, and then wind

and tuck in the last end securely.

the rest in a circular movement round the whole hand. Slip the woed af. his war experiences in Remember to wind loosely and to keep the original end free all the writing the first of his novels time you are winding. Commence knitting with the original end. which caught-the-public-oye.|.............................. "Peter Jackson: Cigar Mer- chant" is not wholly a War book, but it was one of the first to describe the War in terms of fiction.

Gilbert Frankau's very clever satire in verse, "One of Us," nub- Ushed in 1912, had already made hist name known to the discerning. Frum 1910 onwards his record as a novelist

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The spat, having more me to give its dinner, is easily satisfied, but

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was one, and to Mary, his wife, ment also,

In the interests of science control of oysters en masse, fewer Advantage to humanity-greater |Paul-shaved-every-day-for-4 spat and larvae destroyed by-natural year at the same hour in the enemies, no danger of sewage pollu- same way He paid special at- tion.

tention to one square inch of BRIDGE OF WEEDS his right cheek immediately in front of the ear. This he THE natives of Uganda are shaved with one stroke of a certain that there will be a straight razor.

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5 To bequeath; in view of its in-

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