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The British Broadcasting Corpora- 4 series of recently started mogrammes designed to bring music to the factories, with the object of Increasing war production. Mono- lony, of course, militates seriously against the effelency of the factory worker, and music doubtless would help him.

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It is not merely that muste diverte Fis Brought frum wearisome routine: I gues, une imagines, rather

As Mr deeper than that. Stokes unce wrote:

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Think how the streets spring to life when the balder kind of barzel-organ rinds its tune! At are the streets become u THIS CL Acene. the

of movement passers-by end of traffic becomes 21 ballet of a Kori. So many things that lay in pleces in the mind" and which were projected into the external world as piere meal, rhythmless.. ure gather- ed together, organized and drilled by the music: and so we see the

We street differently things as new.

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By ROBERT LYND

At

SCENE

Was

SOUTH

MERICA

New York Daily Mirror.

Petain Versailles

1

that now

proposes to seek re- fuge among the faded glories of a past regime,

A SOLICITOR, defending an old man who was THE prosecuted the other day for "communicating informa-

French cafe in Soho on July tion regarding munitions," pleaded that his client had

14, when the pathetic com- spoken "not only without knowledge of facts, but foolishly memoration of France's intend, I wonder, to inhabit and possibly in a know-all spirit to impress the man national day in London was XIV's vist palace? Не сать over. A group of French hardly mean to hold court as a

with whom he was convers-

اكينة

in

Does the French Hindenburg

alone some corner of Louis

1 have myself, you have, soldiers were cheering them-new Roi Soleil of France. If he ing."

heard so many myths spread in this selves up in their clastic does, he had better remember That, I think, is the explana-fashion about royalties, statesmen,

way. tion of about ninety-nine per generals, poets, actors and actresses,

doctors, and other people that if ! "Just think,” said one of them, For cent. of Careless Talk.

had put them into print i should have "of old Petain going to live every Fifth Columnist, trying to spent must of my adult life in gaot as the Chateau at Versailles. It's could when they stormed its

punishment for criminal libel, And a bit thick!" spread defeatism, there are a hundred Mr. Know-alls --it sounds like the name of a char- oge gossip--the local beller. БСС

acter in "The Pilgrim's Pro- gress"-whose chief object in talking is to give other people the impression that they possess

It is, perhaps, much the same with the factory: the routine acquires pattern, and hence & significance that leaves it no longer 2 meaningless repetition. Naturally, some workers cannot profit by this experiment; for the thunders of the "1812 Overture" would be lost in the earth- shaking chorus of an iron foundry: but elsewhere employees are certain to be grateful to the B. B. C. for a

cven

mili that, to some extent, in its "mation like an angel sings."

Two Fly The Atlantic

inside information.

it is not only famous people who are Every village has its vilt- libelled.

that the screaming market- women and hungry crowds of Paris can reach this retreat more quickly now than they

grand staircase 150 years ago.

Will Petain sleep in 'Louis's "The old man will die of cold

room-that first-floor room when winter comes," said an- with three windows in the very other. "It's awful at Versailles

centre of the huge structurë, There's no central overlooking the Marble Court? That most stories told about people in winter.

convinced many heating in the Chateau,"

The windows above it are false, are untrue I

"That's why Laval suggested the rooms overhead were walled years ago by hearing from various friends of stories that they had been it to him," said a third. "He's up in Louis's day, for none told about myself. Not a single one been proclaimed Potain's auc- might lie above the King.

cessor."

Was

+

•

of them was true. Even those which had a small element of truth in them I do not know why human were as

faisc As the partly-true beings should feel puffed up if fabrications of Dr. Goebbels.

As he makes his way to the royal chapel (assuming that he A laugh followed this sally; will now attend Mass there) but a train of thought had been will Petain pause in the Hall of started which cast a shadow Mirrors to look up at the paint- by Lebrun -- another

they can give the Impression One story related how I had gone over many faces in that room. inge

prize- a that they know more than other up to receive a prize at

raised.

people; but undoubtedly many of distribution in a school of art, dress/Petain at Versailles! What pic-Lebrun, not the one he has de- ed as a policeman and sucking stouttures of tragic absurdity posed showing Louis's victories them do. Hence, if they hear a out of a baby's feeding-bottle.

over Germany, Holland and Petain, the old Marshal of Spain? Will be pause at the spot sensational rumour, they cannot thought it rather a good story, but,

They fortunately or unfortunately, I never France, taking charge of her where Clemenceau sat to pre- keep it to themselves.

over the fateful Peace

have a natural appetite for attended a school of art, never dress-destinies after being worked side

up as a policeman, and never upon, cajoled and persuaded, Conference of 1919, which ended,

bottle.

Through granting permission to the American Export Airlines to begin rumours, and, having heard one, drank stout out of a baby's feeding-with influite care and infinite here in this hall, with the patience, by the Nazis, first in signing of the Versailles Treaty? transatlantic airplane service in com- pass it on in a still falser form,

According 10 Another myth-Madrid, then (as the decisive petition with the already operating mainly for the pleasure of seeing slightly more credutable myth-it

Above all, will he remember Pan American lines, the Civil Aero- their fellow human beings prick once took six stewards to drag me, hour approached) in Paris itself. how in the days of Louis XIV. fighting all the way, down the balcony nautics Authority has followed the

the Hall of Mirrors was not only. stairs and throw me out of a political; path of traditional American entering up their ears.

the meeting-place of a brilliant prise.

meeting for making interruptions in favour of the Suffragettes. No

It is no Man of France but a Court but a place of public who knows me, alas! could believe bewildered, senile spirit, first audience where the humblest of me capable of such valour. But the hypnotized, then deceived by Louis's subjects had the right Man Who Knows seldom knows the self-seeking or allen tricksters, to wait for and intercept the man about whom he knows some-

King on his way to Council and.. ask his mercy or his afd7

After all, everybody wants to Pan American opposed the Ameri-be interesting, and what surer ean Export application, stating it was way of being interesting is there prepared to expand its twice-weekly than by telling a thoroughly service to alx-day service. But, apparently, after weighing the rival sensational story? claims, the CAA decided that a little competition might not be a bad

thing.

thing or other.

one

After a few experiences of this by many people to be supplying. U-

Or will he stand sometimes In This desire to be interesting at all kind I decided never without good boots with petrol.

the central hall of the Grand costs is, of course, not a purely war- reason to belleve any story that I There is an old saying that you time disease. It is merely the normal heard about anybody else. After all, should not believe all you hear, it Trianon, near by, remembering the myth making impulse is so strong is a saying that is particularly worth how, in this very room, his pre- The war has forced many changes passion for scandal-mongering adent in mankind that thousands of people remembering in war-time. If you decessor, Marshal Bazalne, was The reciprocal ed to war-time conditions. Scandal- once spread and believed Incredi- hear, un-effcially and merely through tried and found guilty of treason in the airways, arrangement between Pan American for surrendering the fortress of and Imperial Airways had to be the delight of appearing to be the Archbishops have been the victims been a parachute landing. in some Metz to the Prussians in 18702

of rumour as well as actresses. And distant county in England, treat:st us, scrapped. Likewise, American Ex-Man in the Know or the Waran most of these rumoura are spread in bunkum. Such a story was going] Perhaps, on the whole, the old an, ever more distorted form chiefly about the other day. I asked a man Marshal had better avoid these as a result of the vanity of men and who does happen to posscas some risplendours and content himself women who like it to be thought that side information with a little villa in the pleasant- they are in the know.

any truth in the replied:

puro by. "Bunk," hei

Rumours

port's long cherished plans to use its the Know, vessels at sea as weather-reporting How often has one seen a woman stations must temporarily be set coming into a room with a wild joy aside. Nor will American Export be on her features and heard her saying

And it wasly wooded 'outskirts of Versail able to make fullest use of the excitedly something like: "My dear, In war-time mythology la even.

I admit, are occasional-les. There, at least, he will be superior speed of its new Sikorsky have you heard the latest about the more exciting than in peace-time. Ly true; but it is absurd to believe a able to take his morning con.. flying bouts, designed to save refuel- Blanks? It's simply incredible. In the last war It was mythology Tumour on no other evideneg

than What is happening to the Civil that dung the great Lord Haldane out that of tittle-tattle. And it is all stitutional in the Bois de Both lines will share the traffle Service?" And, after that, comes a of the War Office According to an-worse to repeat it on such evidence. Fausses Reposes "the Wood of other myth, eminent Briikh The Father of Lies is the father of Falso Rest that lies so con- Tel. 21279 now, but some day the war will end tissue of mingled truth and falschood offer turned out to be a German most rumours; and he has been veniently at hand. Tel:29552 und United States lines will have so absorbing that no one would spy and was shot: he te living still. suthoritatively described as the

DAVID SCOTT dream of interrupting it.

Cornish, fishermen, again, were sald Enemy of Mankind.

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ing at the Azores,

European competitioní.

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