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Programme for Sunday, 25, Sept., 1938. 1 p.m.2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME
1. Le Barbier de Seville. Ouverture, Rossini,
Brunetto or Blonde, Wallz
2.
3. Itapsodia, Andalouse
4.
Faunt.
Selection
5. Je me souvient de Naples
0.
Was Blumen Tracumen
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VISITED "SKODA"
While Skoda is the largest, it onc unit in the arma-
KODA is the richest mould pressed the ingots down, menta shaped like dumb-bells.
sceno is but shooting sparks, and then ex- Beaming down on this part of the treasure pelled them as glowing-red shell from a place of honour on the ment production of Czecho which Hitler failed to shapes. Then the lumpen-pro- wall was a portrait of the late Slovakia. Here follows a fairly take on May 21 and which fetarians threw them non- President Masaryk, apostle of complete list of munitions plants his
mobilisation chalantly on a pile to cool. present
peace and democracy.
and what they turn out: again threatens. Skoda is There was a heap of funny the largest of Czecho. little trench-mortar shells in one Slovakia's arms plants. And corner, fat artillery projectiles it ranks-alongside Krupp and Schneider-Creusot-as one of the largest in the world.
In another.
:
The Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka at Brno-small arms and the machine-gun, which made under THE cannon work-shop, licence in Britain is known as the
however, presented Bren. which the most arresting picture. THE "museum,"
The Tatra auto works in Some gun barrels turned slowly I next visited, was simply a shell sample room. On around in the mouths of huge Prague-tanks and motorised
lathes, Derricks raised others, equipment. It is also, as I discovered re- nent shelves lay the various pro- Still others suspended by chains cently, a difficult citadel for a ducts from 2-inch up to 15-inch. journalist to storm. In Prague On one part of the shelves were from roof-cranes, sailed swing-
machines. I saw
guns-
The Skoda auto works at Boleslav aeroplane
I had first to satisfy the Foreign ranged anti-aircraft shells, some ing by only a few feet above the Molada
many neat motors and Diesels.. Office of the innocence of my in- long like cartridges with brass
Office bodies, for long range
piles of finished anti-tank gun tentions, then the War
The Ceskomoravska-Kolban Danek plant at Prague-autos, and finally the management of others, short with variously barrels.
neroplane engines and tanks.
The Benes (no connection with
the company. My passport re- coloured and caligrated tips. I saw piles of used cannon
armament secrets.
ceived close scrutiny and I had
"This is n cadmium tip. You barrels. Škoda does a big busi- to sign one paper waiving claims see different customers have ness relining, reboring and re- the President) plant-aero-- for personal injuries and a different notions as to what they pairing these barrels. I watch- planes. other promising not to pry into need," explained the Skods offi- ed a reboring machine-a long, The Avia-the largest aero- cial, with an indulgent smile. I shiny oil-spattered steel cylinder, After these formalities I have remarked the same sort of rotating slowly as it pushed its plane plat in the country.
a Yugo-Slav cannon The Aero auto factory-aero- went to Pilsen (Pizn), the ram- shuile on the lips of tailors when way into bling. smoky old Czech city they said that some, gentlemen barrel, then as slowly withdraw plane engines.
famous for its brewery insisted on two pleats in their ing. The boring knife, placed on the end of the cylinder, was than its arms factory.
a tiny affair, about the size of a Then into the shell-finishing thumb-nail, made of fine steel, Letnany-small arms. works (the next to the last tungsten and molybdenum Besides those, there are the factories to which people in Prague refer
more
Hongkong Telegraph.mutes
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930.
GENEVA AND THE CHILDREN
trousers.
The Vijenska Letecka Tovarna -the Government arsenal at
AS my guides led me stage, for the shells are charged raw materials which are also the "underground"
with explosives in a testing plant lure of the dictators.
through the factory outside of Pilsen). Hundreds
gate, they explained that Skoda of workmen bent over machines makes other articles than arms. lifting shells from conveyors, Skoda produces rails, locomotives handling little tools, reaming, (I saw two brassy locomotives
By Frank C. Hanighen
In one
all ready for shipment to China), planing, polishing,
corner stood some mysteriously. They are said to various kinds of forgings, all Some of the machines bore finished products-mounted 150 be hidden away under hills in sorts of machinery, etc. The German Names ** Dusseldorf, mm. howitzers. Some had their Slovakia. Here, in subterranean plant covers 400 acres and em- Leipzig. But many more bore barrels decorated with the crest workshops, small arms, cannon ploys 30,000 men the latter. the trade-mark of Skoda.. For of the King of Rumania; others and ammunition can be produced mostly Czechs, with some the machine-tool business, were destined for Yugo-Slavia, in perfect safety against air at Slovaks (and no Germans), or should war break out, will prove One bore a plate in the Turkish tack. ganised in Socialist
and to be a very criticnl "slot" for a language. Some had rubber National-Socialist (the Benca big buying scramble. France tyres, other carriage wheels. party) unions.
makes few machine-tools, im- For while motorisation remains ports many from Germany and important, many military au- No other small arms, Switzerland, Britain every corner of the globe, a machine-guns or aeroplanes in more than France, but still die artillery best for certain kinds large munitions establishment.
makes thorities consider horse-drawn more enlightened outlook is its Pilsen establishment. But it pends heavily on the United of terrain.
A new report published by the League of Nations contains the welcome. tidings that, in almost
Skoda makes no amall
| developing with regard to proh. turns out a multitude of shells, States and on Germany,
lums of child welfare,
Indica-
cannon and military tanks.
re-
nation
can boast of such a
'Hitler, hell-bent on rearmament, That was all the Skoda official could make no richer conquest.
He me to see. permitted But Skoda, I was told, is by
I asked the Skoda official for The shell foundry was an in- way of becoming self-sufficient fused to. admit me to the tank figures
on armament output, tions of progress, often of the ferno of noise and fire. A great Ere long, it will be able to pro any figures as to output. From tion, if published, might awaken. factory. Nor would he reveal suggesting that such informa- most unexpected nature, abound press broke off long thick bars duce all its most necessary ma-
of steel into little chunks-like chine-tools..
other sources in Prague, how the British public to the danger in the information which has pieces of stick candy. Trog-
ever, I learned that a year ago of a German attack. The off- lodytic-looking workmen armed We followed a truck of little, between 30 per cent. and 40 per cial shook his head and smiled, been collected from some forty with tongs picked up white-hot anti-tank shells into a testing cent. of the Skoda works were "I believe that the British Gov- countries. We rend of the ingots, scraped them with long room, where a score of girls ap- devoted to armament manufac- ernment already has this in- “Jordan's gardens" attractive iron instruments and tossed plied the British "Go-No Go" ture. Experts estimate that to formation and will act accord-
|them about--A massive pattern diameter test with little instru- day this has been doubled. ingly."
play centres for children- which are springing up in-Po- land. It is a great advance for Iran (Porsia) to send juvenile offenders to special educational
A
New Subject For
homes instead of to prison, or THE charge that the schools are out of touch with the for Iraq to appoint trained world is a charge often brought. nurses to look after the young-It cannot on all counts be sub- sters in even small, villages.
.
stantiated.
But there is one count on
BY ERNEST DYER
Chairman of the Northern Counties Children's Cinema Council
Schools
3)
They have learnt about sym- bolism, with special reference to Ibsen's "Wild Duck" and Masefield's "Tragedy of Nan." Did anybody re- mind them of the tumbleweeds roll- ing before the wind in "The Petri- fied Forest" or the rain relentlessly falling In "Winterset"?
They have learnt how Elizabethan
Making due allowance for the which it can, and that is in re- can all tell you, for example, how But they see a hundred films for lation to the cinema. As a for- Shakespeare liked to open his plays every play. Isn't it perhaps worth natural inclination of Govern-mative influence on the thought, with a short exelling secne so that mentioning that they will find dramatists like Marlowe took the he could grip the attention of his exactly the same device for opening popular blood-and-thunder material ments to paint a roscate picture standards and ideals of the peo-fenc
audience and then proceed at bis a story in "Mr. Deeds" and count of their time and gave it a touch of in their reports to Geneva, there le, the cinema is as important leisure with the "exposition" of his less other Alm in the same genre? poetry and an almost cosmic slg-
as the schools themselves. Yet theme.
They have learnt that the open-placonce. Have they noticed that Why have they learnt this? The ing scenes of Slinkespeare's plays Maxwell Anderson "Winterret" can be no question that the the schools, to all effective pur- theory is that it will help them to "establish the mood." Has anybody gangster flim in blank verse
view performances of Shakespeare instanced Mumoution's opening shot does exactly the same, work of the League's Child poses, ignore it.
with n more critical alertness and so for "City Streets" or Hitchcock's derive Welfare Committee is bearing)
and restless camera in the opening of completer satisfaction
"Young and Innocent"?
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
Yet what, it will be asked, ought] enjoyment. fruit. Its investigations and the schools to do about it?
I would have them all do two the publicity given to them are things. an incentive to the more laggard countries to do better. At the same time, by pooling informa-factors which act upon public opinion
In the first place, I would have them give to every child, as part of training us a citizen of a demo-
cracy, some account of all the main
-press, radio und elnema. The young citizen ought to know the way any these instruments are organised, the ex-forces behind them, their methods of
approach to the mind.
tion, it makes it easy for country, to profit from the perience of others. Further the Geneva researches into specific problems, such as the protection of blind, delinquent or neglected children, the effects
of
Secondly, every child, ought to be! helped constructively to get what he can of
of value from the films he sees. The All that contains nothing whatever for the mind is the excep
iton rather thon the rule. What ever it may be in Euclid, in the cinema the parts are often greater. than the whole. A second-rate Alm unemployment upon the may have music by William Walton or Arthur Bliss or Arthur Benjamin. An child, and the recreational unlikely story may be rendered full those who aspects of the cinema, have of critical, interest for
have eyes trained to see und cars proved of real sociological value.trained hearby nicctles of
direction or cutting The League in its child, wel-sound.
or imaginative
to
consider photography. In many fare work has adopted as its
a dra industrial town the photu- own the famous Declaration of|graphy that appears on the cinema screens is the loveliest art in the Geneva, originally put forward whole
lown. Yet the beauty of
the untrained.
by the Save the Children Inter-photography is not fully apparent to national Union. The keynote is A great deal of time is spent in that "mankind owes to the child schools in teaching "musical appre- elation," and now that radio has the bait that it has to give." brought good music within the reach of all a fine key to self-expression The encouragement already re-that teaching may be. Even more colved will be an incentive to literature and far be it from me time is spent on the "appreciation of THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. still greater efforts to turn this to disparage I
But sometimes I wonder just how honest ik all is. The 70,000 children
Bideal to reality.
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By Lichty
W.PA PROJECT
"Take my adulée, son gd back to college and pet your diploma ---then, - come and see me.
In
All of these are instances where normal academic teaching bears or might be made to bear on the appreciation of film. But the schools ought to go much further. The film has a language of its own. It should be assessed in terms of its medium, not of some older more familiar medium..
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A recent report of the hampton
own
Wolver- Education Committee realises this. "It may be desirablz," it says,
to tench at least some of the children what may be called the grammar of flim technique. Just as we do not exclude discussion of the poet's craft from school, so we aught not altogether to fall to train children to see the nieaning of that. technique essential to all flms that are art as well as photography."
Already come teachers are doing Recognition of, its importance grows dally. Schools Film Societies have sprung into being in Middieges and London. There is a Secondary Schools Film Society on Merseyside which Issues lists of recommended" film to its members and some of the schools have their own Flim So- cleties and publish their weekly lists of recommended films.
Training in film
a appreciation is one of the main objects of the Scottish Educational Film Association, a body with a membership of almost 8,000 teachers. In Americs, training in the aesthetics of the film is part of the course
of numerous teachers
colleges.
time
So perhaps it is only a mattor
of quertions
on the flm appear in the School Certificate Examination Itsolf, and 70,000 child- ren will be able to go to the pintures, and say with a clear concience that they have beer doble: their" 1öme-/ work.
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