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Sunday Classical Concert

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Programme for Sunday, 28, August, 1938.

1 p.m. 2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME

Ouverture Comique

Mazurka

Dreibund-Walzer

The Fire Goddess. Selection

Keler-Bela.

.Fresco.

Benhizky.

5. Prelude

Valentinof. ..Rachmaninow.

(Piano Solo Geo. Plo-Ulsk!)

8.

Scherza

.Armandola.

7

Norwegian Dance

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REPULSE

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ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE

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A FURTHER ROBERT LYND

ARE YOU EASILY BORED?

ADY

OXFORD, in vals. I do not object to this: the brilliant chapter ment, I think, would have been but such an evening's entertain-. which she has con- 100 short to satisfy Victorian

It is all the more curious that an age so enamoured of brevity

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BRITAIN MIGHT RESHAPE POLICY

London's commentators on diplomatic affairs are frankly concerned at the trend of events

A great journalist, whom i though in fiction, if not in the happened to be sitting next to theatre, the public likes value at Covent Garden lately during for its money and feels that the a performance of "The Magic onger the novel, the better value

it is getting. Flute," evidently shared Lady

that time even

03

LYND ESSAY

to

three.

TO-DAY I

Oxford's impatience with length, I fancy, how- for, before the rise of the cur- ever, the popu tain, he said to me: "Mozart's larity of the long my man. He's the only com- novel is partly poser who knew when to stop. due to the fact No one can respect the genius of that most people Wagner more highly than I do, borrow their fic- but he goes on far too long. I tion from the can't sit through a Wagner opera libraries instead now. I want nothing but Mo- of buying it, and

am less If a thing is good enough, in- zart. Ile's not only divine: he's it seems scarcely worth while

borrowing a short book like "The deed, we are more likely to com-

greedy. I think, most divinely short."

This passion for brevity has Cardinal's Snuff-Box," which can plain of its brevity than of its things go on quite long enough. liko to see more be almost finished in the bus be length. There have even been I should not even probably become much in Europe, and many are pre-general in the present century: fore one has got home, speeches not many-which I Test Matches prolonged for five have felt were too short. I al days: I should like to see the dicting that the British Govern- but it was already effecting

feel that the songs in rules of cricket altered, so that ment will shortly make a new changes in the time of Queen | declaration of policy. It is bold- Victoria. Sermons in churches

At the same time, there ways

be Mozart's operas are too short, the matches could be finished in is something to ly announced by one of the had already become shorter by

The only modern instance of leading London newspapers the end of the century, and by suid for sheer length in fiction, and, if I had the courage

Presbyterians if the novelist is good enough brave the wrath of Sir Thomas that Britain will pledge her

It is a natural instinct, enthusiastically support is the would have felt like assassinat to make his book better for be- Beccham, I would call for en- prolongation, indeed, which I nothing cores.

prolongation of the day through armed strength to the French inga preacher who lengthened ing long. There is

I believe, when one has heard a cause providing France fights out his sermon to last an hour drearier than a long bad novel, good song, to want an encore. I Summer Time. A long day, I as a consequence of her promises or more good preachers and there are few things drearier

than a long middling novel, but should like some encores even in hold, is better than a short one. "The Messiah"; I am afraid, At least, a long summer day is that it is difficult to imagine

Bat even

a long summer day, "David Copperfield" and "War however, the mood of the age is better than a short winter day.

against me.

since Mr. Willett's time, I will IN the same way speeches and Pence" could have been so books if Dickens and

admit, has one drawback. A in the House of Com- great

to

month ago it meant that one mons have dwindled from long Tolstoy had had less room

of their

extra hour to orations into brief and business- elaborate the story

SI grow older, 1 con- had to wait an AS Whether the characters,

fess, I feel less desire hear the nightingale singing by like statements.

There is this, too, to be said speaking has improved may be doubted but, at least, speeches for the long novel contrasted for such prolongations of plea- moonlight. are sooner over-which is some- with the long sermon and the sure. But, in youth, if I was long opera that the impatient happy in a theatre or a concert- thing.

be- render is always free either to hall, I would not have minded if the performance had gone on Plays, too, have surely

into the small hours. How stances have given rise to the come shorter in the theatre. At lay the book down or to skip.

I am not, I may say, an advo-

ruthlessly we encored ouri prediction that Britain will back least, when a play was very

either of length or of

favourites in those days! We the French pledge to defend short in the old days, the oven-

in itself. brevity as a virtue

would gladly have kept

WHEN a Canon of Ely was asked Czecho-Slovakin? The reasonsing was eked out with a curtain-

Homer, to tell

ped on the platform from ex- damp place, he replied "Yes, even his story, needs the 24 books of haustion. He almost did, my sermons won't keep dry there," place German newspapers-the have value for its money. To- 14-line sonnet:

day there are plays that seem

think, but, at least, he knew And on being told that the valet Courvoisier had been hanged for press is always a sort of wea-like short fragments of drama an epic.

It is the same with horse that we were not complaining of murdering his master, it was that. ther-vane in states where gov-composed round two long inter- racing. There is the genius of the length of his programme. same Canon who said it was the ful- ernment dictates policies-have

flment of the prophecy The truth is, we found every valley committee meeting, whenever

shall be exalted."

were once expected to do.

defend to

of the integrity Czecho-Slovakia. In this corner of the world, where European political news does not get the same space and display it does in Home papers, the situation is rather more than vague. What developments, many will want to know, have led to this state of nerves in British political quarters? What new circum-

cate

THE APT RETORT

are not far to seek. In the first raiser, so that the public 'could Milton attains perfection in a Paderewski playing till he drop- W whether that was not a very

been making much noise about union would not help either the five-furlong sprint, and there is the other genius that wins

or Japanese

domineering

"Every

made

any objection, lady refused to laten,

a

fl

side issue."

good

every incident which can pos- German, Italian sibly be made to look like an ambitions towards fruition. Ger-the-two-and-a-half-mile race for good programme too short as offence against the Sudeten Germany might be tempted to the Gold Cup at Ascot. Many we found every good play too man mans in Czecho-Slovakia; and strike before such an inter-critics prefer the longer races as short, and every good football-scornfully remarking, "That is only

Everything ex- impatient. national group coalesces. There many critics prefer the longer match too short. We were not such a campaign is bound to is no use her denying that she novels; but both may be

came to an end too soon. arouse public feeling, for it is contemplates the use of force cellent of their kind. fairly certain that the German to

but

in

enhance her

programme,

She has

SITIVE

point of view is not watered whatever it may be. down with Czech explanations or not hesitated in the immediate GRIN AND BEAR IT defences. This trouble-breeding past to employ her weapons publicity in itself might not be when the situation seemed to demand it. If, however, the addition significant,

democratie Lloc were an ac- Germany has suddenly mobilised complished fact, Germany might| her army for the most extensive feel some restraining influence manoeuvres ever attempted in from that quarter. Hence, the modern times, and probably in talk of a British pledge to all history. She is therefore in France. There is only one a position of advantage if she danger in that diplomatic contemplates a swift adventure manoeuvre: it might have the against the neighbouring Czechs. effect of frightening the United Great Britain's suspicions are States out of any sort of under- not entirely without foundation. standing with either France or particularly when so many Ger- Britain, since it might seem to mans have spoken and written involve America in the affairs of the expansionist aims of of the Continent too deeply. their state. There are other Whatever Britain does will be things which would tend to cautiously weighed and ponder- make the time propitious for ed. It is a grave undertaking to a. Czecho-Slovakian campaign.pledge the life of a nation to There is the complication of the defence of Czecho-Slovakia. Spain, where Italy is believed to Yot It Is the sort of policy which be mustering a new army; there has long been England's, aimed is the French labour unrest; at preservation of a balance of there is Russia's still unsettled power and the integrity of quarrel with Japan. And final-smaller states. It appeals to the ly, German leaders may realise altruism of the British nature. that fear-infected democracies Such a promise might well bo are gradually drawing together popular with the great bulk of into what may shortly be a poll- the Empire, whose people will tical bloc about which lesser realise that it is a defensive

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"Well, if you come to that" at length said the exasperated man, "woman herself is only a side issue," A clergyman learned that through a friend his son had been appointed a tea

teacher at n large Institution for young ladies. Fearing an early mor- riage, he was horrified, and wrote on angry letter to the friend.

"There's nothing to be afraid of," was the reply, "for here are no many of them and the boy's safety is in Numbers."

The clergyman immediately, wireet; "You are quite wrong-his only safety is in Exodus,"

When a lady who was in charge of a stall at a charity bazaar asked a

very short and fat man to buy some thing, he refused, imprudently add- ing that he was not the prodigal

Bon.

"No," she replied, "you are much more like the fatted calf."

A hefty looking carter met another cart in a narrow kine, and after some words he shouted out threateningly— "If you don't make room for me I will treat you as I treated the inun I met here last week."

On that the threatened man back- cd his horse, and as the other was going by he asked "Well, how did you treat the man you met here last. week?"

"Well, I just got out of his way!" Two art students were comparing" notes, and one asked the other:-

"What do you think of my draw- Ing of Charles 117"

Ils friend looked at it doubtfully, and then inquired-"But the king-- who mat for him?"

"Oh was the reply in a rather conceited tone,

" did him from nothing."

Then the likeness is striking,” re- forted the friend, "for you've made him like nothing on earth.”

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