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Undoubtedly many events in history could have been more *** | dramatically arranged if the participants had allowed Holly- wood to write the script. The motion pictures, however, seem not to let facts interfere unduly with a story.

There is much to commend in the recent trend toward factual and historical films, especially the records of strivings and triumphs of great men who are benefactors of humanity. But the development has also its puzzling side to those in search of learning by the visual route.

Int a statement recently,.

deplored the

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THEN.

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Our Desert Army

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Is

Ready

E was Corporal Alan Mac- Leod, of the Second Aus- tralian Imperial Force.

Standing on a ridge some- where in Palestine, he gazed town

the camp the upon eternal warrior brooding on the battles to come.

Perhaps on that spot, probably

by Harry Levin

any

in the attitude, Richard the north. I'd trust them Lion Heart had surveyed the where, to-morrow."

Meanwhile, it is up with the

tents of his Crusaders.

of

ttune,

but

"Waltzing Mathilda,"

recognisable of

That, he explained knowingly, was Australia's national anthem, which these fine men had taught him. them- selves.

And if anyone is a fudge of men it a white-bearded Abdullah, re- cognised storyteller, arbitrator, men- tor in affairs of the heart; and, of Jerusalem's Old City,

A Look Through The="Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

June 25, 1800, An Anglo-German Convention has been concluded by which Germany withdrawn all claim to Witu and Bomaliland and in exchatige receive the island of Heligoland.

Isaac Peral, the inventor of the sub- marine boat, has been granted a title and: $100,000,

E

Mir. Stanley, speaking at, a banquet at: the Fishmongora'

in- llall last night, veighed againet, the abandonment by Great Beltäin of her commerce. In East. Africa in favour of Germany, and urged. that a deputation from the city should. wait upon Lord Salisbury to impress upon him the necessity for maintaining Deliuos rights in that quarter,

•

Prince Diemarek - has been giving out. his views on the relations between Furla and Germany to the Nevoa. Vremya'" correspondent. He said Car- many needed the Austrian alliance for the same reason that Russia norded France. He then added: "I have always been against a war with Rusia. It would be a crime for Germany to extend, her fronilers beyond Memel, for the Balle Provinces without Poland would be of noi valuo, while the annexation with 'ring million Catholle Polea would' raise the number of Catholics is Cermany tơ half the population. War with Russia is Im-- · posible."

25 YEARS AGO

June 25; 1915. Reuter's correspondent in Paris says that the fallan fleet has taken over the immediato guard of the Adriatiq;. This is nalified by an order of the day of the French Admiral-in-Chief, who praises the endurance of the bluejackets who have- been engaged for ten months In this re-- gion,

During the question time in the House of Commons, Mr. H. J. Tennant,. Under Becretary for War, said that the aéropiane service could not be improvised in a hurry, but is steady, development had progressed since the war and was con- ilnuing rapidly, The possible devolap- ment of the Flying Corps was a legitimate- cause of satisfaction to the country.

10 YEARS AGO

June 23, 1830. The famous Australian airman, Captain Kingsford Smith, who left Port Karnock, Ireland, in the aeroplano "Southern Cross" at 30 this morning to fly across the Atlantic wirelessed at 8 p.m. that he was in latitude 50.40, longitude 34.30, Ho was therefore more than half way acroSI. His speed is 10 miles an hour.

There was a largo gathering at queen's. Pler this morning when the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, Colonial Sectatory, and dirs. Southern left for Home leave.

5. YEARS AGO.

June 25, 1905.

It is authoritatively learned from Home- that Iinly intends to demand actual. sovereignty in-Abyssinia, through the use of arms if necessary, using the Anglo- German naval agreement as partial Jusшlication, Hence, the conversations of Mr. Eden with Bignor Mussolini are ex- pected to be most interesting.

RADIO

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 mètres (9,520 kilo-cycles) A B.B.C. Recording Of "Hail Variety”

He is not the only one who, thinks 30.

Radio Programme Broadcast by Mazal, Young

the diminutive Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. Yemenite Jew who polishes shoes by and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. day and learns the three R's by night, and 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c't. per no longer wants to be a police officer

second. when he grows up.

H. K. T.

He wants to be an Australian. And there must be thousands of cession,

The

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12.30 Coleman Hawking"and" fle other youngsters who think the same Way Aussics"

Saxophone. leave day is the

$12.40 Prima Beala's Accordeon. I interrupted Corporal Mac- dawn and strenuous training children's holiday, particularly in Band,

Tel-Aviv. Their abounding good 1.09 Local Time Signal and Wea- Dore Schary, motion pictureLeod's reverie to tell him so. throughout the morning.

After dinner-amid a whole humour, friendliness and generosity ther Report, script writer,

1.03 "Dance Musio by Harry Roy "Yes," he said, "they must

them the finest playmates and His Orchestra blatant departure from fact in have camped hereabouts. Won- some flavour of earth, leather, above all, their tremendous vitality

1.30 Reuter- and Rugby Press, such films as "Suez" and "The der if any of my Scottish ances- rifle oil and stew there is a the youngsters have ever had.

short break, then more work. If they interrupt the traffic for a Weather Forecast and Announce

·Buccaneer." But he says, "Film tors were there?

Several afternoons a week while with their waggish processions ments.

1.45 Compositions of Mozart. -well, the grown-ups do not mind. biography can't and shouldn't "It probably looked much the

there are games. The day they They laugh, tea...

Close Down, same then. Same».tents-no follow fact precisely. The things huts, though-spread all over arrived, practised eyes among them were searching out likely that happen are often so un-the desert." dramatic that they are boring.' The banner, at least, were sports grounds.

a

Instead of the When Edison invented the different. electric light his men had to Crusader's cross, there was

blue flag bearing on it the Union wait around the laboratory forty Jack and six stars-the flag of hours to determine whether it

Australia. would burn that long. But in

For in this corner of an an- Tel. 21279 the picture; "Edison, the Man," cient land, part of the A.I.F. is TeL 20352 it was thought better to heighten in training..

Companies were falling in for the interest at this point by

inspection. Batteries were clank inventing a character who shoulding back from the ranges. A trip and break the lamp in bring-squad with a machine-gun was ing it upstairs and who should going somewhere in a hurry. then be given the opportunity by Away on a hillside, a sil camels caravan of Edison to retrieve himself by houetted carrying up the second lamp stood, petrified at the sight of when it had been made. "Even a line of tanks.

And yet, in spite of this though this did not happen, it activity, most of the work was

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6.00 A Programme of Dance Music .0.58 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.

7.00. B. B. C. Recording “Halk

It was rugby, soccer, hockey behind the lines, the Australians had

In the last war, at the front and Variety."Written and devised by

and basket-ball then. Now they the gift of becoming legends. This are laying down cricket pitches. generation will be no different.

Canteen hours may be short and

With Palestinians, they are already. early bed the rigid rule, but there a legend. is plenty of time--and facilities for entertainment.

No wonder the Sydney

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Announcements.

8.03 Jack Hylton and His Orches tra-Medley of Old Songs, with Vocal Refrain; Sweet Suo;. Grinzing; The Watermelon Fete; Down South. Bassoon; Ya Got Something Thero; 8.33 Sea Shanties-Haul Away, tee; Why Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor; Fire Down Below:

There is the Jerusalem widow for of whose ailing Infant a party Each camp has its cinema and "Aussies" whom she has never seen lelsure room. There are wireless bought a new prom and cot,

There is the crippled pedlar whose seas and plonos, and the Aussies'

entire wares some of them bought sing-songs are renowned.

"Sun" up

before sending him home to get wrote: "There is a shortage of men a "decent night's eyeshut." singers in Sydney now so many of There is the Arab village bride Hullabaloo Balay; The Sailor Likes rot a wedding present of a His Bottle-O; Clear the Track, Let camel.

the Bullgine Run; John Goss (Bari And there is the muste-loving tone) und Cathedral Male Volco Polish refugee boy who found

Quartet, violin one day with a note, "From

them are in the army?"

Long before I came upon a camp one night, I heard the hills echoing the voices of some of them.

There's a track winding back to an old-fashioned shack.

"Along the road to Gundagal.

Wagga to Palestino Lance Corporal William Box, for

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8.43 Selections from Musical the Australian, who is also fond of Comedy."Rio Rila" Selection, musle, whom you showed the way "Rio Rita"You're Always In My to town the other day

Arms, Reginald King and His Orches- Thero and many others will, talk tro: Comedyland Medley,

Columbia about the "Aussies" for years.

Grand Brotherhood "What were you in Australia?" naked a corporal at a camp.

"A privato." "I mean before, that,"

Light Opera Company with Orches trag No, No, Nancito" Selection, "Show of Shows" Selection, New Mayfair Orchestra with Edward O'Henry (Organ); "The Cat and the FiddleVocal Gems, Light Opera Company with Orchestra.

9.16 London Relay

News Sum-

llustrates Edison's actual char-being done out of sight. ncter," holds Mr. Schary..

Through the clear air came the But how many who see this grunts of big guns. Echoing portrayal on the screen in a ceaselessly from the hills came mer music-teacher and choir-master of Wagga Cathedral, was at the setting of fact are going to know the chatter of machine-guns. that it did not happen? How It all meant hard work for the piano.

Private Harry Walters, a Sydney many in good faith may repeat Aussies.

auctioneer before the war, led the it as a story illustrative of the "But we didn't come here voices with a superb tenor.

"Member of the Melbourne Sted.30 London R

Relay-Topical Taik. kindliness of Edison?

just to look at the scenery," Sergeant "Tiny" Hamsay, who used Exchange," he replied as he walked

9.45 Some Welsh Hongs-David of" Apparently movie-goers are said Corporal Alan MacLeod. to be a lecturer in English Literature off with his new bosom comrade,

who had been an iron-worker in a the White Rock, Leila Megane (Con- witnessing a recrudescence in a "We came here to get ready for Sydney, was the bass.

traito) with Plano; Song of the Flood, The cornet blasts came from War foundry there was

Wullam democratie Olwen Mine,

Edwarday different medium of the kind of the job we've got to do some rant Officer Bartlet, who is the prin volunteer army, it is there

men of elpal shareholder in a Melbourne de- dramatization of history which where else."

(Tenor) with Harp accomp. My partment store,

the AIF. There are no typical Little Welsh Home, All Through the scholars have been trying to de-

An orchestra, with instruments privates, N.C.Os or officers.

Night, Lella Megane (Contralto) with bunk. Millions of Americans

Aussica Settle Down

ded by the Australian Comforts provided

10.00 of bare board, I found an in-

Compositions of Sibeliu have grown up supposing Parson

Fund-one of its many thoughts Sharing a tent, with the same Plano, Weems's story of Washington Considering their varied c- provisions is in the making. So is surance agent, the son of the Minis- Tone-Poem "Finlandia" Op. 20, No.

ter of Justice, a newspaper seller, 7, Leopold Stokowski and the Phits and the cherry tree to be cupations and environments less a divisional concert troupe.

78, But the great pleasure of the boys stevedore, the chef of Sydney's lead- delphia Orchestra; Romance, Op/ indisputable fact. It is in keep- than six months ago, the Aussies Ing with the Washington char-havo settled down with remark- from down under" is to visit the ing hotel, a low student, an Iron- No, 2; Danse Champetre, Op. 100, No. towns. These they conquered in an monger and the nephew of a baronet. 2, Dansa Champetre, Op. 100, No. 1 actor, but there is no historicalable aptitudė.

hour's B

Blitzkrieg the day they ap

And while we sat and chatted, a Emil Telmenyi (Violin) with Plano Heutenant looked in. At home he accomp.; Filckan Kom Ifran Bin confirmation for it. Will those No more-amateurs here one peared. Sheikh Abdullah el-Hllow was clerk in the law student's Alskiings Mote, "Sav, Sav, Susa, Op.

Old who wish to get their history of their Instructors told me.

10, No. 4, Marian Anderson (Con- from the movies have to begin They're soldiers. And, with a (Abdullah the Beautiful), monarch father's factory.

They are a grand brotherhood, tralto) with Plano: Symphony No. 1 to keep a card index as to which remarkable Inborn faculty for and sage of Khan es-Sultan in

Jerusalem's Old City, agrees they are these loose-limbed, cheery men from in E Minor, O. 88 Symphony Or

by Roberti "down-under But they are more. chestra conducted. "cobbers." incidents are factual and which Lawrence-like tactics.

To emphasize the point he hummed They are the vanguard of a nation Kajanus, "They'd be ideal for any cam- are dramatic licence if they can And out?

paign; în Asia Minor or farther the chorus a little cracked and out for whom democracy is réali

11.00 Close Down,