1938-10-15 — Page 11

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

15, 1938

HONGKONG TELEG

WEEK-END SECTION

Girls and Boys' Corner

Address

Namo

Dear Kiddies,

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This is all my own work

Lots of entries again this week. Kiddies, and many of them beautifully printed or crayoned,

The prize-winners this week are Yeung Kit-wa (nged 133, 18, Bonham Road:

4. Village

Dorothy Coates (aged 7), Villa, Happy Valley:)

tafoor Hux (aged 5%), E, Eat Tolat #tore, Causeway Bay,

Coupons have been sent to Yeung Kit- wa, Dorothy and Gafloor which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Tele- graph" oflices. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

Specially commended for good work are the following:

Arche. Beniors: Daniel Choy, Mary John Anderson. Gun Velança, Stephen Mose, Hameedali el Arculi, flo Shuk- chun, Willie Yorkran, Paul Verona, Trang Ta-ming, Jim, Tinson, Allee Toddy, Mansoor Al, G. D. Abbas, Henry May, Charles E. Clark, W. Flencher, Georg Iludson.

Intermediate: Jane Paget, 8. S. Bux. Lela Corvissiano, Jeon Hunter, Hone- mary Lanatay, Ann Hunter, J. Yarkson, Kenneth Mužuly.

Juniors: P. Wong.

ממנווניאן

A picture-puzzle for this week's com

You see above the shapes of six dif- ferent fish and within thèm, in pletorial form, you are told what fish they are. For example, the frat la SKATE." Whal are the other five?

If you can tell write the six answera In a neat, numbered list, in ink or pen-

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ct, on a postcard. Your name, age and address must be added and the cord must be signed by a parent or guardian to show that the entry has been done with- out help. Cards must reach Uncle Eddie, Hongkong Telegraph, Wyndham

by next Wednesday at 2 pm. streerizes will be given-one for the

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best answer in each Section,

Good luck, Kiddies,

Uncle Eddie

A.LAMENT

-By Yeult Cooper (nged 12) Why did I buy to many sweets? Why did I buy that comic book? It won't be the end of the month for

weeks!

And my purse is emply-look!

Why did they tell me "Yea very

cheap,"

Why did I into temptation fall? When I think of those things, I could

weep and weep.

For 1 did not want them at all. Why didn't they tell me before I went? before 1 Why didn't they tell me

atarted?

(I wish they had done for 1 haven't

A cent) That "o fool and her money are Boon

parted".

G AGIDAI

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NOW YOU KNOW

Answers from Fago 2

1.-The rose.

2-(0) Straites (b) Bishop (c) Foster (d) Schubert (e) Douglas (1) Arne.

3.To study mental diseases. 4.-An antonym.

B-One (the Great Pyramid). 6.The Bren.

7-Jews.

8.-Loquat.

A magician.

10-10 cents,

11A young pig.

12.--Heated.

13-On land and in water.

14.-Herbert.

16.-Five

18-England,

10.-Budge.

17.-Doyle.

Wales.

ID.-Nutmegs,

Scotland and

20.-Lord Halifax.

21.-Plain mister.

22.--Half-brother,

23,--Turkey.

24-Marquens should be Mar-

quise,

25.-15 years.

Puzzla Corner Answers

Cryptogramt Hawald's first American tourists were whale tlahermen from

England. New

They arrived in eighteen hundred and twenty, and moine stayed.

Hidden Dietal: Lend. zinc. aluminium for aluminum), platinum, gold, silver, Iron, tin, copier, nickel. Leiter Changing; fire, hinre, hard, lard, land, lend.

Dividing 45: 0, 12, 8, 20.

Fun With Antonyms: Spiny-month: private-official; likely inpoltin; senseless-signțicont; gótafül-unproft- able; combative-peaceable; porous- compact: temporary-perinnnent; tran- tic-calm; prompt-alow,

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR

SOLUTION

The girls had been playing Bezique for three hours with cards taken from the two new packs, Playfair had noticed that the cards not required for Bezique had hardly been used at all.

Cool Fire Fought

Waynoka, Okla. Firemen fought a summer blaze under ideal conditions here. The Are was in the storage room of the Railways Ice Company. Sub- freezing temperatures in the am- from monia pipes and chilled alr 2,000 tons of ice offset high outdoor Lemperatures and the heat of com- bustion.

PORTRAIT

of an

AVERAGE LISTENER

By Spike Hughes

'M only a new boy at this job of writing about radio. I have been doing it actually for less time thinn I have been writing for the radio.

But I think I have been doing It long enough to know an Aver- age Listener when I see one. And a pretty complex character ho (or she) is.

To look at, he (we'll say "he" for convenience) is by no means

The Average The Average Man.

Man is a colossal bore, with no views of his own but a lot of com- monsense.

The Average Listener has ittle commonsense but very strong views of his own. And he is far from being a bore.

The AL. has a fairly good radio set, which he buys, as I bought mine, for about Ave chillings a week. It isn't by any means an all-wavo sct.

He doesn't need one, because he has to go to work in the morning and can't sit up all night listening to America. But he can get a lot of foreign stations, especially when the moon is full.

HE can listen to the Sunday programmes from abroad which are intended for English listeners; he can hear dance musle from Holland, opera from Milan (though it is better from Rome as far as reception goes), the weather report from Paris, and church services from Oslo.

Not that he particularly likes any of these things as such. But ho is still enough intrigued by The Wireless to like to listen to foreign stations for the sake of listening to foreign stations.

Dance music, whether it comca from Holland or Blackpool, ho is not over-enthusiastic about. Still less does he like the young men and women who, sing with plums In their mouths and a whine in their voices about "Two Lovely Peeput."

But if that dance music weren't .there every night-he'd kick up

an awful fusa.

The Average Listener, you see, is not really very musical, I wouldn't go so far as to say what Roy Dis- ney once told me of his brother, Walt, that he "can't carry a tune In a bucket," but he does need the pattern of the words to jog his memory of the melody.

Mind you, the Average Listener

THAT'S

Harry's wife

"SHE" enters. All eyes are upon her. On every lip the question "who is SHEZ"

Immaculate from head to foot- styled to the minute-looking as If she had just come from the hair- dresser.

And then the secret is out. SHE only goes occasionally to the hair dresser to have her wave set--ber Coiffure modernized! A friend tells how particular she is to shampoo- regularly at home.

And there's really no trick to it Discriminating women know that Mulsified leaves 'the hair soft and easy to manage—pre. serves the WAVE -- makes it sparkle with new life, glass and lustre.

Womenwho knowwlit tell you that the hal- ural oils in Mulstiled nourish the scalp prevent its drying out. Fres of harsh alkali Mulsified is safe even for Baby's tender scalp.

Mulsified

COCOANUT OIL SHAMPOO

fan't over-fond of singing on The Wireless

He hates these groups of songs that keep creeping in during a good brass band programme. These groups are included not only to give the band a rest, but to please the Average Listener. And as the AL. never changes, neither does the repertoire. Which is why wo and always hear "Glorious Devon "Drake's Drum" whenever a barl- tone gets a job at the B.B.C.

Though the Average Listener is not tremendously musical, he is more musical than you might think,

moro He is certainly musical than the radio's manner will sometimes let him be.

AN announcer has only

present to

A ** pro- of gramme

chamber muste" or mention that such and such a work is "in four movements-allegro; adagio ma non troppo; vivace, and presto assal" for the Average Listener to lose all intercat.

He feels immediately that he is being educated, and he doesn't like 1t. music of this sort were put over in a matey kind of way, ha could sit back and enjoy it—in the same way that Prince Esterhazy. for whom Haydn wrote the quar-

The Average Listener has very strong views.

Binco soven, played the wireless and is heartily sick of it by half- past eight.

He Ukca" Monday at Seven" and

tho "In Town To-night,

one because the same people turn up in it every week, the other for exactly the opposite reason.

And "Musle Hall." The Averago Listenor likes Music Hall, but he loathes the way artists play to the daft audience in St. George's Hall. Ho dislikes that audience, but one of his life's ambitions is to go and see a "Music Hall" in the flesh.

It's no good arguing with him, because he's sot on it. He'll never understand that once you're in St. George's it isn't easy to get out if you're bored, and that if it is a really good radio Music Hall bill half the things the artists say aro

IN Britain there are 8,009,800 wireless-license bolders. Seven

of every ten familles own a set.

70,000,000 Bets are in use throughout the world. World listeners are estimated to number 278,000,000.

B.B.C.'s income; by last report, is £3,356,000. Expenditure in- cludes 1,729,000 on programmes, £14,000 on artists, and (reputedly) £9,000 to its Director-General.

B.B.C. claims

Treasury is entitled to 25 per cent, of licence revenue after Post Office has been paid for various services. grants from Government's share as required.

B.B.C.'s staff 15 years ago numbered 7; now is 2,500.

tet, sat back and enjoyed it after dinner hundred and Afty years ago,

Just about now, headed by George Bernard Bhaw, the Aver- age Listeners of the country are a bit upset because the News is broadcast at 10 p.m.

Apparently the fact that there is News at 7.30 isn't good enough. The Average Listener must know- the very latest.

It has occurred to nobody, and surprisingly not to ex-newspaper- man Bernard Shaw, to reflect what morning newspapers

aro for...".

The Average Listener goes to bed early, about 10 pm. He listens to the radio between 7 and 0- Mondays, Tuesdays, except on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

If a good, high-light programme is put on at 8p.m. the Average Listener doesn't get home until nino If it is put on at nine, the Average Listener has been home

Inaudible beyond the first row of stalls.

on

That is the Average Listener's great filusion, and I have never met ona who hasn't had thin lusion shattered after going to St. George's

a Saturday night.

The Average Llatoner, although ho is always out when the best things are on the air," somehow manages to hear everything. He may disapprove, he may be thrilled, but he will never be in- different to what he hears,

A GOOD democrat and no flag wagger, the Average Listener will ilsten intently to tho B.B.C.'s programmes of tattoos, naval reviews and the like, because the B.B.C. does this sort of thing extremely well.

The Corporation has a genius for doing the wrong thing, but it also has a genius for doing the

Individuality of Border Towns

THERE is a distinct individuality in Border the make-up of our towns, reminding one of the rivalries of the towns of ancient Greece, in sports and local pageantry.

annual common riding. It is a stir- like her neighbours, holds the rivers, ring pageant of past derring-do. Langholm has her special appeal as an old-world town, rich in Border

Melrose, of ancient lineage, has also come into the limelight in song and pageantry. The historic glamour of her old Abbey still casts a glow of romance around this ancent town, in whose old heart is the old grey Ancient Hawick stands pre- eminent, old as the encircling hills, Mercat Croas, a cameo from the past

keep's ward. these hoary altars of Terl-Bus and Langholm, that outpost of Border Teri-Odin. To see Howick in all the flow of local pride and patriotism, you must perforce be there "the nicht afore the morn." Here is fervour unmatched in recalling the glory that was Hawick; symbolised

soidart; Hawick's nearest neigh- by the captured Flag of Honshole, a thrilling pageant of history which bour, has also entered the pageantry has made the youth of Hawick Im-contest. Here the glamour of the past mortal,

still holds the mind in thrall, but the Selkirk

common-riding modern pageant cannot vie in splen- pageantry runs Hawick very close four with the glamorous pageantry for honours, yet Selkirk lacks the of the days when King Alexander

gorgeous pageantry fierce glaw which animates Hawick. umid Novertheless, Selkirk has played a crowned at the Abbey.

Kelso likewise has come into pro- notable part in Border chivalry. The old Pant Well is a touching minence by the revival of her ancient memorial of the tragedy of Flodden, pageantry. Here, during civic week, linking Selkirk with this national she will show to the world the glory trogody. Yet still the old song stirs of her past and the fertility of her the blood "Up With the Soutors of genlus. What a setting for a pageant the old Norman Abbey in the fore- Selkirk."

ground, and above the meeting of the wnters!

the finest

In her

tho

.

Galashiels has come but recently Into the pageant rivalry, and right well has she staged her past history. Her War Memorial is symbolical of the true Border spirit, and is one of land. The spirit of song is a rich inheritance in Gals, her "Braw, Brow Lads," both in words and music, is unsurpassed. Burns certainly mado a good job of his version in modernising the old ballad. After all, the appellation Ciala "soor plooms" is a milanorder.

Was

Old Roxburgh Castle, with its glory, is now but a green mound, buried almost in oblivion.

in

So let them all sing together their various local songs, and we shall hear a musical festival unsur- passed; the quintessence of all the loy, the triumph, the sobbing, and the sighing which enshrines the story of the Borders

James Aitken.

right thing at the right time, bften quite unintentionally.

The Average Listener realises this and appreciates it. He was un- bearably moved, for instance, the night King George V lay dying, by the slow ticking of the interval- That semi-silence signal clock. was tremendous drama.

A CONTRADICTORY this follow Listener.

Average

Ho isn't in

the least interested in cricket, but he will always try to be near a radio when Howard Marshall is breadcasting from a Test Match. The AL, doesn't like football .much, either, but he rushes home on winter Saturdays, and curses the announcer who rends the results too fast for him to see if his pool coupons are filled up correctly.

He is a great upholder of free speech, too. He is tolerant of con- troversial discussion on the air, but he will write a furious lotter if he happens to disagree with the speaker's views.

In his way, the Average Listener Is a bit of a sucker.

Dress up an ordinary programme of light music, songs from rims, in a gaudy dress-a flamboyant title, an augmented orchestra, and a lot of "presentation," and he will think he is on to something start- lingly different. He won't recog- nise the muslo as the same ha heard a month before, because ha has been told it's different and better.

•

THE Average Listener, indeed, is a very credu lous creature. He'll bo- Heve almost anything ho -hears on the air... That is why good satire, even good burlesque, 13 rare in broadcasting. The AL. takes it all seriously, and writers? are discouraged.

Some while ago, John Snagge did a parody of himself doing a. commentary from an imaginary London Theatre, He called it the "Colodeon."

Averago Listeners wrote in to know where it was, just as they thought Café Colette existed, and B.B.C. Ballroom.

Tolerance where programmes are concerned is not one of the Average Listener's qualities. Ho will admit that there are people with different tastes from his ("takes all sorts to make world"), but he still expects that. the BB.C. should concentrata 100 per cent. on entertaining him." He doesn't seo that as a Stata service, the B.B.C. has certain duties to perform-that it should give now works a hearing, engage: world famous conductors, not merely to plenso a minority, but- because it is a question of noblesse) oblige. The B.B.C. can't afford to: be small in such things.

ON the whole, however, the Average Listener, jej a pretty remarkabla in dividual. His intelligencel underrated, his sense of humour overrated; he is very faithful, in- credibly patient and always eager to try anything once.

is

Gradually, he is living down some of his major prejudices; he is getzing to look on the B.B.C friend instead of a governess - 100 he is engerly grasping the HTT stretched out from Broadcasting House that they call "listener.com operation."

He professes to think that radid is silly or the whole, but he would be the Arst to grab an opportunities of going on the air himself,

He is a problematic, contradió.. tory, temperamental creature, and I wish Professor Ogilvie joy of him;

-To-day's Thought- AND yet she listen'd

enough Who listened ones, will: Hofen

tipica.

--DYRON.