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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END

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SPIKE HUGHES SAYS..

Radio's great pre-view

'VE always had a passion for portman- teau words, until the clever ones are abused-words like "cinèmactress," for instance,

I encountered a new one the other day: somebody was spoken of as working "Inac- countant's office." Lazy, perhaps, but neat.

It's an odd fact, however, that after all this time, I've only just noticed that the Radio Show is called "Radiolymplu." I've always called it, very carefully,

"Radio Olymplu."

Not because I disapprove of the official title, but because Radio- fympia has already become such a national institution that I'd never bothered to go into the question deeply. Anyway, everybody's al-

ways known what I meaất.

Having got that straight. I must also admit that I've never been to Radiolympia Which is strange in- deed, seeing how much of my career on this newspaper I've spent writing about exhibitions.

But it has always happened that way because I've never been in Londen at the right time.

HOWEVER, I don't expect the organisers to change the dale on my behalf.

After all, Radiolympla (yes, I'm still getting it right) is the radio industry's preview. The season for listeners starts in September and August is obviously the best time to get people interested agalo after the casual listenlug of the summer months.

I must confess that, in spite of weather entirely appropriate to in- door pleasures. I've Batened even less than usual to the radio his Bummer.

The truth is that, once possess- ing a Television set, I have found ordmary radio has few charms. And I rather suspect that this apathy is shared by many Bsteners

Humours Of Golf

A

GOLF professional engaged by a

big department store to ve gulf lessons was approached by two ladies.

"Do you wish to learn to play golf, madam?" he asked the younger lady.

"Oh, no," she said smiling. Ita | my friend who wants to learn. I Jerned yesterday,"

"My wife left me because I played so much golf," remarked the club; bore.

"I say." Inquired a newcomer, "how much would a set of golf clubs i cost me?"

"Well,"

said the young golfer. "what do you think of my game?"

"I suppose it's all right," replied the caddle dubiously," "but I sul prefer golf."

"I'm tired of you laughing at my game," said the amateur golfer. "It

I have any more impudence from you I'll hit you over the head with a club."

All right," replied the enddle, "But I'll bet you don't know what would be the right club to do it with."

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fale Burnle

In "Magyar Melody," which was suuress- fully received over a wide aren,

who do not possess a Tel vision] Art.

As far a. the B B.C.'s stand pro- grammes are concerned, we have beccne set-owners as opp sed tu isteners.

Of course, one of the objects of Radiolympia is to get us interested In new sets. don't think the radio industry need worry about that. The less we care for the B.B.C.'S

[0 programmes

more eager do we grow to own sets which wil free us from the regular

of National and Regional

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But Radiolympia kn't going to be content with that, for it is a patriotic institution, and in its heart would prefer that we pressed. a tuning bulton for British station to one for a forehro wave- length.

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When the show opens on August 23, you'll see that Radio'ympia will do more than Interest you in sels. It will do its damnedest to get you interested in what comes out of them.

For a little over a week a Yast theatre is being boil at Olympia- - the first theatre ever to be built

CHESS PROBLEMS

White

11 Pieces

10 Pieces White

White to play and mate in two,

Black

White

3 Pieces

8 Pieces! White to play and mate in three.

Twins Of 85 Drink A Toast

specially for Television.

broadcasting and

If you like statistics, I can't tell you whether, if this miniature replica of the famous Hollywood Bowl were filled with champagne, it would font a battleship stretch- Ing from here to Edinburgh.

But I can tell you that the nutitorium will hold 2,500 people; £5,000 to will cost more than build, and has a semi-circular re- volving slage to accommodate more than 300 performers.

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THEN, I am told, there will be n

staff of Television cameras and saterophone experts, lighting engi ncers, stage and front-of-house staff, and a tew radio stars, of course, with a salary bill for some 400 people altogether amounting to more than £0.000. And a light- Ing bibigger than that of half of London's West End theatres put together."

It is in this theatre, of course, that the 1.B.C., sponsored by Radiolympia, will show a little of what it can do.

The Variety Department will present no fewer than 21 pro- grannes by the Kentucky Min- strels, several variety programmes and one or two examples of "I Want to be an Actor.”

If the Show were not in the middle of the Promenade Season. 1 would have suggested that the B.B.C. might have shown off its Symphony Orchestra.

Nul everybody manages to get ta Queen's Hall, and Blactfully chosen programme would have in- terested many people who are still ofrald of the bogy words, "Sym- phony concert."

Arge orchestra is a fascinating sight, and a dally appearance at Radiolympia would have convinced many scepties that good music isn't so bad after all,

Like last year, however, this Radiolympla will be primarliy Television show.

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IN addition to complete transmis- slaus fruin Alexandra Palace to Television Avenue," there will be many opportunities for watching Television at first band.

A.P. is taking a great deal from Olympia, relaying programmes from there. to viewers.

It is even relaying viewers. At least, the publle is invited to " Come and Be Televised. If you feel you've got the Iner for . you can write to Gerald Cock, Director of Television. Alexati- dra Palace, R.22, telling him your name, address, and the subject you'd like to talk about to one of the Tele vision announcers.

In addition to this bit of fun and games, however, Television is putting on special versions-of-cture-Puge " th the theatre, varley programmes and fashion parades as well as the regular day's transmissions.

Reverting to the opening thoughts- of this article, 400 people sent in port- manteau words to describe the hour's variety show the B.B.C. will broadenst on the opening day of the show,

The winning suggestion was "Radio- lympia Calling," which is not over- Imaginative but means two seats for Its creator at the opening night.

Sixty people, on the other hand, Othera thought of Varadiolympia." were "Radiolympics." "Stars Paradio." Variopia," "Varadio."

On

Manchester alone suggested 00 differ ent tiles Which shows how Radio- tympla, though it is held in London bas become a nlionat, not a local, affair

So much so that even I know now that it's not "Radio Olympia.” ...

Rapid Transport Of Troops

SYDNEY.

MR. JOHN BOLDERO, 85 years old recently, stood up

In the most comprehensive test in a room at the house where he lives alone at Horringer, nearity of troops in time of emergency, yet made in Australia of the mobi- Ipswich, and drank to the health two battalions of militia were taken

his and happiness of

to Narellan, twin recently from Sydney brother.

Nearly 12,000 miles away in Auck- land, New Zealand, Mr. Edward

similar Boldere drank

The troops and their heavy equip- brother, John.

ment were transported In 300 cars They have corresponded regularly and 50 lorries in 05 minutes The four and a since Edward left for New Zealand transport column was

half miles long, but there was only

50 years ago.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1939.

The Seven Ages of Man

ET UB divide life into seven

decades,

which make seventy Which is the

years the Psalmist's term of life- and see which of these is the best.

The first is childhood, The poet says that "heaven lies about us in our infancy," but a good many other people le about us also, and get us -into no end of trouble, If there la

greater misery

a child's, I than Ahould like to know about it.

The poets can't be trusted when they sing of the joys of childhood. They see it through the mist of and it looks all right a long way of. But they forget ils miseries--the brother's east-aff garments one had to wear, the awful secrets of truancy one had to keep, the weeks of dread one went through lest some little misdemeanour should be found out and one would get a spanking, school horrors of caning and bullying which harrowed the tender soul.

ycars,

The chlidhood of a sensitive lad Is period of horror, Why, going to bed in the dark often seems far worse to him than the cruellest toe- ture of the inquisition. No! Happy childhood is a myth.

The Thoughts of Youth

Best?

drawn to the head is relaxed some

what. If a man is ever going to make anything he begins to see re- sults. His position gets to n moro settled state. He may not have realised all his ambitions, perhaps very few of them. But he has grown inore philosophieni about life. If he the Academy. We look back in has not got all

wants he has wonder and reverence at these great learned to be more content with what men, and think what splendid times

This makes for he hag stot. they must have had. But the trouble

ness and

and contentment.

The

children is none of them really arrived until are growing up fast, and have be- yours and years afterwards, when come companions for man and wife. some of them were in their gravest | Home life, in fact, ought to be në its They had a good deal of inword best now, and that is a very great

satisfaction doubtless, but they had to contend with poverty and neglect and opprobrium. Making a Home

This third decade is often a period of sad disillusionment. The high hopes of youth, the thoughts of fame and honour are not realised. The work is cold to your best thoughts and Inest achievements. It is well content with the old stuff. It does not want the youngsters' new fangled

ideas.

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asset.

The comforts and amenities and certitudes of life are now at their maximum. There is a settled feel- ing about thig deende which was not there before. It is possible that this decade is the best of the bunch,

But the next decade, provided a man keeps ft and well, is not much

1ts different.

characteristics Are very similar. The hair has gone thin on top, and there are distinct signs it of greyness, but, these do not camt business is good, home life happy. friends

staunch,

and health Food Rut the home life is not the same. The boys are off, some to the distant

city. The girls are getting married, corners of the world, some to the big

BU, ** | proaching.

Now comes youth-ten to twenty, say. What of that? Well, it must be mitted that this period has its advantages. The shrinking periods are Just ordinary mortals with The Darby and Joan stage Is ap

has passed. The boy begins to feel more on terms with the world. He begins to hold his own and assert himself, and the growth confidence brings a lot of happiness and satisfaction.

Yet this is the time of courtship and marriage. Is not that a happy time? Yes! But It is accompanied by the most terrific anxiety. We are not all poets and painters. Most of living to make, and the shortage of means to set my housekeeping is a perennial, worry. How many young Peace and Contentment fellows spend the years between

and twenty-seven,

of how

Besides, this is the time of day dreams, and imagination is the very best thing in life. This is the look

forward stage, and if things are pretty rotten really, the thought that when we grow to manhood we will do big things and make the world hun is an inspiration which tends to Youth lies in the keep the heart up. Land of Hope, and it is a sunny land to live in.

But the first five years are much better Than the second at this stage

When of existence.

lad gets into the later leeus he begins to catch

to ap his mirages, and Ands them thin. Besides, he begins to Very worry. Yesterday he was flapping his wings and crowing. Now be wants to fly, and finds he can't. He is in the bad lauds of doubt and self- mistrust.

He has no experience to encourage He is tortured with the thought him. that he is going to make a mess of things that he has not found his vocation, and never will. Self mis- trust grips him, and he Hes awake at nights sweating with a sense of impending failure, and all his friends looking at him in disgust. He has the key to nathing. Every door srems barred to him. Every place Scribs crowded with older people, who seem to know a thousand times more than he does,

Mixed Happinets

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Yet through all this there is the optimism of youth to uphold the lad of nineteen ፈን ያ twenty, his One:

to battle with the physical fitness world, a great rapuelty for comrade- ship, and those things are all in the direction of happiness. But it is mixed, anxious happiness, which is often very much akin to misery,

Young manhood. What of this? The glorious years betwixt twenty and thirty! what wonderful things have been done in these years! a man is a poet he does his best work. Millioh wrote "Lycidas" at twenty-seven. Keats penned his "Ode to a Nightingale," in a back garden

at Hampstead, at twenty- three. Shelley wrote "The Revolt of Islam" lying in a boat on the Thames at twenty-six.

One might go on for pages about these things. But were these men happy? Read their lives and see. Keats said, "My name is well in water." Coleridge gave his "Ancleat Mariner" to a jeering world. Millais painted "Autumn leaves" at twenty- one, and was almost howled out of

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Characters From Shakespeare's Playz

Can you place each Shakespearean 36 miles away, to meet an enemy character in his or her proper piny

by as indicated

the example imagined to be advancing on Sydney from the south.

checked?:

Bertie

Klas Leat

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une slight mishap, when two cars

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The Minister in charge of national emergency, Mr. Bruxner, congratu-

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"I have never set eyes on him | collkied. since then," anid Mr. John Boldero,

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"but we have never lost touch." "but we have never lost touch,

"Now he has retired, like me, Ilated the troops and voluntary don't suppose I shall ever see him motorists on their excellent per- again."

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they are going to

a home? And then, when they take the plunge, and charge it, the early years of married life are filled with the problem of making ends peet. One's position is all to make This decide is full of anxiety.

He

Is in

tettone Wesl." This

A Lay Sermon

PETER and the other apostles

were liberated with a very explicit command. They were to tell the people all words of this life. Tise italles are neces- rury. If we are to understand the Instruction.

When we speak about "this life" we mean

All the words of mortal

our ordinary.

this life.

Acra v. 20..

exist-

ance. But that was not what

meant. There is no

full

20.

the angel ston between verses to And Prison doors were mimculously opened: "Go." and the angel, "and tell them all about this

This was the life victori- ous, the eternal life which Jesun promised. Peter himself

As had declared (John v. Christ had the words of earn life, and the apostles were now bidden to proclaim them call, in the temple Itself, emitting nothing of Christ's teaching. They did more, as we read at the end of the chapter. They taught Jesus in every house,

This life! "He breaks the power of enacelled sin. He sets the prisoner free; His blood can nike the foulest clean. His blood avalls for me." Smell

one should sigl wonder that for a thousand tongues, with all the words of such a Gospel to tell.

Patchwork

Suit Prized

The shadow of nge lies over the

decade. Old Cicero pro claimed it the happiest time of life, seventh however. The fires of life he con- sidered were a disturbing element, like the volennic fires under the earth. But to this decade there is one great drawback. The friends of And what of the fourth decade youth are dropping out of the line.

arrive telling of Black-edged thirty to forty? During this period

20d another old chum the average man cannot see the wood

WORLAND, Wyo. (U.P.) — Pele decade has the sadness of autom the thick of for trees,

about it. But it is often, neverthe Peloff. Worland tailor, proudly dis- things. He has a young family, a

plays one of the strangest suits ever all work and less, really and truly happy. It is young business.

The writer would back lot of seen in Wyoming. The garments, nu play. The games of youth are

old boys, fur

anch real merriment of old age has

valued at $1,250, are mode of 2,500 philosophy gone; the not yet arrived. Life is at its strenu. heart happiness, against the some separate pieces of cluth. Peloff, who ous period. The ous period.

is hewing his number of real boys. As for early

started the suit when he was em way through the thicket, of life, and manhood it cannot hold a candle to

Denver Arm, said its cannot yet see his way ahead. He this decade for peace and content-ployed by a

completion required 18 months. is hoping for the best, but often happening upon the worst. This period has many compensations, not the least being a young family to nikd zest to life. But they also add a thousand anxieties.

A Great Asset

Forty to fifty? This is middle age. or thereabouts, Now the arrow of effort

hitherto which

has been

ment.

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But if the writer bad to vote for the best decade, he would vote for

or abandoned,

man has when the fifth, when man is in posses found what he can do and ceased to sion of all his powers, is surrounded

about whnt is beyond his by friends who knew him as a boy, worry

and when the hot fide of whose praise

he scope, and appreciation really values, when life has gained passion has fallen into its proper in tranquillity far more than it has channel and become a placid river

when Jest In zest,

ambitions have of domestic happiness. either been realised in some measure i

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