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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1030.

QUESTION OF INTENT

There is one point in General Francisco France's statement to the Landem Times correspon- dent which seems to offer pos- sibility in the direction of pre- venting attacks upon legitimate merchant vessels, engaged izl handling ordinary cargo and carrying neutral observing officers. In the past they have been safe nowhere in Loyalist Spanish ports. Now the insur- gent leader somewhat be- lately suggests-and it has been suggested before-that a port be designated at which neutral steamers may call and discharge their freight providing it is not WELF material. But there are

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I'm glad I don't run

the B.B.C.

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HERE are twely mil- lion listeners Eng- land.

It in whderful thought. Or not. It jepends. Sometimes, should y happen to write for the radio, is com- farting to know that lihly 1 per of those people isten to your work, you have audience twice the size of the cfvd at the Cup Finul.

cent.

At other timea. ould you happen to write abot the radio, and you want to knd what the Ordinary Listener fants, the thought is appalling.

I won't pretend Bat twenty million listeners wrifto me with their views on broadcfing, though sometimes it deemake it. But during the last the months 1 Ive come to have ₫ lđơn of the listening habits of sirge number of people.

Letters come to Trom, Aber- deen, from Dubly from Yar- mouth, from Ceshend and Torquay.

By the same 11 the Aber- donian and the Dubliner state their point of vv.

Both are What you might fill "average" Hateners-workinfolk with simple.

Instea

They write to pute some sug- gestion I may put in my column. They if only contradict me they contrlet each other. And all the timehey feel that the B.B.C. Is neglecậg them.

NOW Fre is a lot to be

Bad fainst the B.B.C. One of the east of British sporta and basilmes. to criticise the BBC. It ne answers back,

But there shore to be sald for

P

-says

Srike Hagles

It than against it, though it is not in the Britial temperament to admit it often.

Above all things, however, the B.B.C, has my sympathy.

Until just recently I never knew exactly how

conflicting radiu tastes and idens could bo,

By starting a little quen-

tlonnaire of my own, in the hope of finding a' good, univer- sally accepted listening period, I learned that if there are twenty inilion listeners there must be nearly as many individual views on broadcasting.

Look at the sort of thing that happens.

I. as a respectable licence holder, think it might be a good idea 1! aur programmes were divided into 15- minute units.

they Аге JAL America,

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An equally respectable Beener holder in Essex immediately writea saying that not only does he dis- agree, but that, what's more, the Saturday night variety should last from 6.30 to 9.

It would be beside the point to hint that the B.B.C, already bas a weekly headache trying to find enough artists to fill an hour's pro- gramme. let alone a two-and-a half hour bill,

But that is a good instance of conflicting instes.

There are times, 100. when I have been badly shaken to and how far one can innocently mis- Judge public taste.

You and I, surely would have

expected that even the unmusical British might be able to get along easily enough with “Carmen,"

Yot when I suggest that "Carmen" might be more accept-

able than some of the obscurer operas now being produced by the B.B.C. I am told to bear in mind that some listeners are not "high-brow" as I am.

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By the same post another typical render, a miner in South Wales, tells me how much he enjoyed a programme of chamber muste.

So there you are, and where are You?

But chamber music What magnificent abuse this inspires! The slightest mention of chamber Juusle and half of twenty million steners fumo angrily. "After a hard day's work," writes one of the Len million, Wo chamber music"

That is opinion A

don't want

OPINION B is that cham-

ber muste is best heard

In the evening after a hard day's work because it is soothing.

This popular aversion to cham- ber music disturbs me. If mankind ever invented a near-perfect sound I was the string quartet. And it happens also to be a sound which broadcasts very faithfully.

But so many people consider it a waste of valuable money, especi- ally when it is spent on "new" music.

In so far as only a few people are pleased some of the time,

maybe it 15. I would, however, Ike you to remember ano thing: the B.B.C. is a State servico...

We support it voluntarily, there Is, no tax to subsidiso the B.B.C. Burely, then. wb shouldn't grumble it our State broadcasting. servico should lead the world in. the matter of musteni culture. For that's what tho B.B.C. does. Toscanini may have a three-year contract with the privately-run National Broadcasting Corporation of America.

When he comes here it is we, the people, who engage him through. the B.B.C. And there is no other Institution in the world that cau or will do that,

Its

TN its fifteen years of life.

tho D.B.C. has

given henrings to composers, celobrated, unknown, exiled from their coun- tries.

In the BBC. wo have what no other country has a sort of National Gallery of radio.

Though I might be proud to run the B.B.C. I'm still glad I don't.

My tastes are directly opposito to my neighbour's. Yet my taste may find a counterpart in a Tumily in Middlesbrough,

Leaving my own bostbag for a minute, do you know the sort of lotters they get at the B.B.C.?

Do you know of the crnks who protest about this and about that? Of the three or four regular letter- writing lunatics who can so twist meanings around that even a church service is not free from obscenity in their cars?

о Do you know that there are people who disap- prove of "In Town To-night" be- cause, they say, it holds up to ridicule those working-class inter- viewees who have difficulty read- Ing their scripts?

Twenty million listeners. Ench Listener person with his ΟΠΤΙ taste, sense of humour, and senst- Live spots. Each latener so self- centred that he feels the B.3.0, is deliberately displeasing him if there is a programme he doesn't care for.

Each listener

80 willing to grouse if every moment of the day doesn't fit in with his listen- ing mood, so resentful if a pro- gramme he wants to hear is broad- cast while he is playing darts,

These are just the human quali- ties the B.B.C. has to contend with-twenty million people and all different. Yes, I'm glad I don't run the B.B.C. all right. I'd make an awful mess of it, if I did,

And so would you come to that.

Covent Garden Close-up

EOLE have been say. ing to me recently: "Wll, you're in for it. Sen weeks at Covent

such obvious difficulties in the, Garden Bn't you get tired of

opera?"

Why shild 1? Apart from the fact that I happen to enjoy listening to ореги, especially when It as well sung as it is quito off at Covent Garden, 1 like the ace and I like the people.

After aliey are only ordinary men and wom singing for their supper,

For insite, you don't expect to find a croonest Covent Garden, but there la one year. Webster Booth is a young tor who has never before this week su in any opera.

But has crooned in a Jazz band,

fo-day's Thought

LIF has its heroes and its Blains, its sondrettes and its penues, and all roles may be led well. -KRUTCH,

way of the scheme that it is al- most useless to expect any thing will come of it. A simul- taneous statement issued from Burgos at the time the Insur- gent chief

was talking to the Times, pointed out: "It must bej understood, however, that those objects in

enemy harbours which are a most important source of military equipment to the Republican Spanish Govern- ment cannot be spared." Prac- tically any sort of freight, from fuel to food, can be classified as a necessity to a fighting army; and it is within the power of the

bom That is so, But people Insurgents to decree at any

are fatalistic and stubborn at time just what materials can or time like these in Spain, and cannot be landed in any "pro-it tkes more than threats to tected port" and threaten to mak a man drag his family out bomb the place if the orders are of heir home and, leaving be- not obeyed. Obviously thishin his assets and his liveli

the in/strange surroundings. But Spanish Government and neu-no matter what warnings he has tral shipping. Moreover, it is gien, and no matter how stub- stipulated that all "military oben are the civilians who have Irmained to die in their unpro- jectives" would have to be re-teted houses, he has no excuse moved from the vicinity of the fr bombing centres which arc harbour

from a of

tally unimportant any "protected

frategic point of view. Granol- port"; and since railways anders and Alicante, it is held, are factories and power plants and got military objectives. They all such machinery essential to were bombed simply to terrorise

the inhabitants. trade appear to come under the; As for the bombing of British heading of military objectives, and other neutral shipping, if It is not clear how the protected these vessels are in proximity to port is supposed to operate military objectives, they must Finally, it will take so long tand that they may be damaged know they are taking chances, reconstruct a port which woulf unintentionally. No-one will meet the requirements of the complain about such accidents. Insurgents that it is unlikely't It is when the attacks are de- ebject is worth the effort.

liberate that British people com- General Franco repeats that mence to feel that the time has come to adopt drastic measures. ho has warned Loyalist cívillas Such diversions-If that is what again and again to evacute they are-may do much damage areas which he proposed to to General Franco and his allies.

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by Stuart Fletcher

and had a fan mail on the strength of R. At his first rehearsal at the Garden after he had sung his piece, Frich Kleiber, the conductor, laid down his balon, Webster walted for an aval- anche of abuse. Instead, Kleiber led the applause of everyone in the theatre.

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Which reminds me of a story about Kleiber that proves why opera is so expensive to produce. The other Sun- day Kleiber suddenly asked in the middle of a rehearsal for the juice of three orangen and one lemon.

England's national opera house is, as you know, not like a slightly over-ripe pomegranate in the heart of Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market. But a messenger had to go two miles in tax before he could get, Herr Kleiber's oranges and lemon!

And now to talk about beginnings. en Williams started life na n Welsh intner. Norman Walker, tho bass, as a Lancashire mill-worker, Gladys Ripley, the contralto,

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a waitress, then n £ hairdresser. Stella Andreya (Stella Brown), 竊 pantomime girl, was singing as the Princess in Aladdin when Bir Thomas Beecham looked in at the Hippodrome.....

Richard Tanber, of course, you all know about. But you didn't know that someone else in the company also Wears л monocle, Fraulein Mario Louise Schilp.

If only they could be persuaded to appear to the same opern what a pair of spectacles they'd make.

Margarete Kubatski, the new Polish soprano, tomches wood every time she goes on to the stage. Lotte Lehmann drinks a gins of sherry. She finds it more supporting.

If you want to get on well with Mme. Lehmann you do not say, "How benu- tifully you sang last night, Madamel but fow much I enjoyed your new short story for your latest poem)." As a matter of fact I have just read her Intest book." Wings of Bong." in which

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"I can't see what enjoyment the mon get out of golf-the clothes

they wear are so very ordinary!"

she tells the story of her life. and I enjoyed it very much.

Frida Lelder has a private golf course on which she plays sometimes with Lauritz Melchior, the Danish six- foot five giant tenor.

Melchior's father wanted him to be a schoolmaster, but Melchior protested that he would be a minit. Well, ho still is, as the Covent Garden wardrobo mistress will tell you without waiting to bo naked.

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Eduard Habich, the German bass, intended to be a professional photo- grapher, but singing one day in the dark-room he suddenly saw the light and promptly started to develop his volce.

Luelin Palkin, promoted to Covent Garten from the Carl Roan, sings Boprano in five languages, rides horsea and a bicycle, and once deputised for- Tetrazzini at the Albert Hall

But one soprano at Covent Garden possesses perhaps the most remarkablo gift of them all. Erna Berger can go to sleep instantaneously whenever she wishes to. She is the envy of every music critias

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"UNDESIRABLES” PARDONED

Ankara, June 20, All political offenders, lacluding

famous 150 undesirables" mentioned in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1023, have been pardoned in an amnesiy bill which passed tho National Assembly to-day.

The B becomes effective im- mediately.

The "150 undesirables" fled the country on the eve of the evacuation of Turkey by the British and their Allies. Eighty-four are still alive, mostly residing in Egypt, Saudi Arabin, Syria, Trans-Jordan and France. They have been promised. a safe return to Turkey and the resumption of nationality rights. Reuter,

CABARET IN AID OF REFUGEES

An al fresco cabaret will be held by the Hongkong Chinese Women's Soldiers' Relief Association at the Kowloon Tong Club July 6, from 0 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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The purpose of the function is to raise funds for the care of refugees. from war-tom areas. The associ ation in co-operating with Singnam Choy, in the publishing of

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