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Sunday Classical Concert

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Under leadership of

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Programmo for Sunday, 28, August, 1938.

1 p.m. — 2.30 p.m.

PROGRAMME

1. Ouverture Comique

2. Mazurko

3.

Drelbund-Walzer

4. The Fire Goddess, Belcotion

.Keler-Bela.

..Fresco.

..Benatzky.

Valentinoff. Rachmaninow.

(Plano Solo Geo. Pio-Ulski)

5. Prelude

6. Scherzo

Norwegian Dance

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It is all the more curious that

taining book "Myself When Gone Young" confesses that she

has always suffered from an age so enamoured of brevity should also be an age which has impenitent impatience." seen and welcomed the revival "I find everything too of the long novel. Half the long," she says, "lectures, best-selling novels of recent letters, speeches, films and years have been books beyond the common length. It looks as plays..

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1930.

BRITAIN MIGHT RESHAPE POLICY

as a consequence of her promises or more 43

to defend the integrity of were once expected to do. Czecho-Slovakia. In this corner

was

and

corch.

SI grow older, I con- AS

fess, I feel less desire for such prolongations of plea-

we

encored

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am

The only modern instance of

THE APT RETORT

A great journalist, whom i though in flction, 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 longer the novel, the better value Flute," evidently shared Lady it is getting. Oxford's impatience with length, I fancy, how- for, before the rise of the cur ever, the popu

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 ΠΟΥΡ. I want nothing but Mo- of buying it, and London's commentators

He's not only divine: he's it seems scarcely worth while on zart.

If a thing is good enough, in-

TO-DAY I less borrowing a short book like "The deed, we are more likely to com- diplomatic affairs are frankly divinely short."

greedy. I think most. concerned at the trend of events

This passion for brevity has Cardinal's Snuff-Box," which can plain of its brevity than of its things go on quite long enough. probably become much more be almost finished in the bus be- length. There have even been I should not even

like to see in Europe, and many are pre- general in the present century: fore one has got home. Idicting that the British Govern- but it was

specches-not many-which I Test Matches prolonged for five already effecting

have felt were too short. I al days: I should like to ace the ment will shortly make a new changes in the time of Queen

songs in rules of cricket altered, so that declaration of policy. It is bold- Victorin. Sermons in churches AT T the same time, there ways feel that the

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

is something to

to three. leading London newspapers the end of the century, and by said for sheer length in fiction, and, if I had the courage that Britain will pledge her that time even Presbyterians if the novelist is good enough brave the wrath of Sir Thomas armed strength to the French would have felt like assassinat to make his book better for be. Beecham, I would call for en- prolongation, indeed, which I It is a natural instinct, enthusiastically support is the ing preacher who lengthened ing long. There is nothing

prolongation of the day through cause providing France fights out his sermon to last an hour drearier than a long bad novel. I believe, when one has heard

good preachers and there are few things drearier good song, to want an encore. I Summer Time. A long day, I than a long middling novel, but should like some encores even in hold, is better than a short one. it is difficult to imagine that The Messiah"; I am afraid, At least, a long summer day is "David Copperfield" and "War however, the mood of the age is better than a short winter day.

But even of the world, where European

a long summer day, against me. IN the same way speeches and Peace" could have been so

since Mr. Willett's time, I will political news does not get the

in the House of Com- great books if Dickens

admit, has one drawback.. A same space, and display it does mons have dwindled from long Tolstoy had had less room to

month ago it meant that one. of their in Home papers, the situation is orations into brief and business- elaborate the story

had to wait an extra hour to rather more than vague. What like statements. Whether the characters,

hear the nightingale singing by There is this, too, to be said developments, many will want speaking has improved may be

moonlight. contrasted to know, have led to this state doubted but, at least, speeches for the long novel of nerves in British political are sooner over-which is some- with the long sermon and the sure. But, in youth, if I was

thing-

long opera-that the impatient happy in a theatre or a concert- quarters? What new circum-

Plays, too, have surely be reader is always free either to hall, I would not have minded if the performance had gone on stances have given rise to the come shorter in the theatre. At lay the book down or to skip. into the small hours. How prediction that Britain will back least, when a play

I am not, I may say, an advo-

ruthlessly very

cate either of length or of the French pledge to defend short in the old days, the even-

would gladly have Czecho-Slovakia? The reasons ing was eked out with a curtain brevity as a virtue in itself. favourites in those days! We

keptHEN a Canon of Ely was asked Milton attains perfection in a are not far to seek. In the first raiser, so that the public could 14-line sonnet: Homer, to tell Paderewski playing till he drop-whether that was not a

very place German newspapers--the have value for its money. his story, needs the 24 books of ped on the platform from ex- damp place, he replied"Yes, even

day there are plays that seem

haustion. He almost did, I my sermons won't keep dry there." press is always a sort of wea-like short fragments of drama an epic.

think, but, at least, he knew And on being told that the valet It is the same with horse that we were not complaining of murdering his master, it was that Courvoisier had been hanged for ther-vane in states where gov- composed round two long inter-, racing. There is the genius of the length of his programme. ernment dictates policies-have

rame Canon who said it was the fuj- Alment of the been making much noise about union would not help either the five-furlong sprint, and there

is the other genius that wins The truth is, we found every valley shall be exaltery "Every every incident which can pos- German, Italian or Japanese 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 Ger- many might be tempted to the Gold Cup at Ascot. Many we found every good play too mans in Czecho-Slovakin; and strike before such an inter-critics prefer the longer races as short, and every good football national group coalesces. There many critics prefer the longer match too short. We were not

ex- impatient. Everything 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 enhance her programme, point of view is not watered whatever it may be. She has down with Czech explanations or not hesitated in the immedinte 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 significant, but in addition

democratic bloc were an Germany has suddenly mobilised complished fact, Germany might her army for the most extensive feel adme 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 fored. 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 Yet 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 thero 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 be are gradually drawing together popular with the great bulk of into what may shortly be a poll- the Empire, whown people will tical bloo about which lesser reallas, that it is a defenalvo

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At a committee meeting, whenever man mode any objection, a domineering lady refused

scornfully remarking, used to listen.

side issue

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good

length

By Lichty

"That new patterit seeme to be at a loss for conversation"}; don't

„Think she's had her operationi

"Well, if you come to that," nå said the exasperated man, "woman herself is only a side issue." A clergyman learned that through a friend his son had been appointed a. teacher at a large institution for, young ladies. Fearing an early mar flage, he was horrified, and wrote an angry letter to the friend.

"There's nothing to be afraid of," was the reply, "for here are so many of them and the boy's safety is in Numbers."

The clergyman Immediately wired: "You are quite, wrong--bls only safety is in Exodus."

When

lady who was in charge of

a stali at a charity bazaar asked a I very short and fat man lo buy some- thing, he refused, Imprudently add- ing that he was not the prodigal.

son:

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

A hefty looking carler met another curi in a narrow lane, and after some. words he shouted but threateningly- "IT you don't make room for me will trent you as I treated the·mari I. met here last week."

On that the threatened 'man Bačk- ed his horse, and as the other was going by he asked-Well, how did, you treat the man you met høre last week?

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