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by WALTER

Newsletter From R. G. Weetlock

BRITISH DRAMA LEAGUE DIRECTOR RETIRING

RAMA

D throughout whether dimculty the out of and trees

Irlab.

Jests And Jeers

Spring weather is reported In Bri- tain. Shelley's reputation is saved.

General Chiang Kai-shek has ap pealed to the students to return to their classUS, The real face-saving solution, of course, would be to start telr summer holidays now.

People's Political Council members In Nanking icarly came to blows while discussing whether China should be put on a gold standard. The Ittle gold that is left in the country, however, is hardly worth Aghting for..

Interviewer: I suppose you have travelled abroad a great deal, Sir (VJWam?

Baronet:

Certainly nott foreigners want to see me, let them come here.

The first art of being a parent is to sleep when the baby isn't looking.

and thereafter ago

some while, presumably for fuel. This Is not a usual practice in British

forestry but it is one that has the effect of prolonging the life of a becch very considerably.

•

enthusins t-s is done will it be really certain the name of a tract of woodland come Itself. Colloquial cloquence of this which the name alludes are some

Overheard in a Happy Valley tram particular supporters of particular brand is not an accom- large and curious looking becches, on Monday: amateur dramatic companies, normally look for in se

plishment that the British people some of which must be in the neigh- Girl: What are those six men doing

another, bourhood of a thousand years old, with their horses in all this rain? will, Lam sure, hear with regret They expect it all the Ume from the Normally beeches do not live beyond Boy: There's a big prize for the

one or two centuries. the announcement of the forth-

These trees, first one. however, were coming retirement of Geoffrey

Girl: Then why are the others run- lopped for ning? Whitworth, Director of the British Drama League, who is now In his 65th year.

The League, which የቢ founded by Mr Whitworth in 1919 was intended to be the whether professional or amateur, were anxious that a virile, pro- gressive and artistic theatre impatience. should flourish in Britain in place of the welter of commer- cialism that then threatened the English stage.

A considerable section of the Eri- tish pubile keeps a very jealous eye on the country's famous beauty spots, and the slightest threat to any of them from any quarter always The above account of the condi- roues a swarm of strongly worded tion of these famous trees is the most of these resorts had to be requisition ly received. letters in the British press, Some rational and now the most common- There are, however,

BETTER THAN rallying point for all those who, ed for various purposes during the various fantastic stories in existence

STANDING

Sitting is better than stand- ing. It doesn't matter that man began standing 25,000,000 years ago. He still can't stand upright quietly for longer than 10 minutes without becoming a (1) non-fainter. (2) fainter, who sweats and becomes dizzy, or (3) an intermediate.

It's as Dr Hymen S. Mayerson, professor of physiology at Tulane University, told the New Orleans Academy of Science: "You can't beat gravity for drawing blood away from the heart.

Watch For Further Announcements beati

RAF To Help Survey Of Queen Maud Land

The Royal Air Force and the Royal Geographic So- ciety will both co-operate in the proposed Norwegian- Swedish expedition to western Queen Maud Land in the Antarctic.

ARMY HELP FOR FARMERS

farmera Army help for Britain's during the harvest months of July, August and September, will be given priority over training.

unit assistance,

The Geographic Society has already contributed £2,000, says

its director Lawrence Kirwin, while another official spokesman said the Royal Air Force will probably supply aircraft and technicians,

who do so will, if they can be spar- {Davia, is going to Oslo shortly

The non-fainter, however, con stand upright for a relatively long period with only a slight difference in the expansion and contraction of the heart. The fainter, who sweats and gets dizzy and eventually falls down, shows the results of a lack

of blood in the head within 10 to

30 minutes,

The intermediate can tolerate re- Intively long periods of standing at some times, but not at others. An example, which the doctor did not would be a man who fainted use, while standing at the kitchen sink, but who stood Arm in line for a packed sports stadium ticket.

Struggle Against Gravity Mayerson sald man was not de- signed originally to stand upright, hence the struggle against gravity. for the past 20,000,000 years.

Progress was very slow at first, but as membership grew, particularly among amateurs, the League soon bc- came established as an Important institution in British cultural life. New

plays which the commercial theatre would not finance were pro duced, small theatres were

acquired and amateur dramatic companies aliated to the Lengue. It is parti throughout the British asics became cularly significant that some of

the best modern stage directors working in Britain today, men like Tyrone Guthrie, Normani Marshall and Mar- tin Browne, gained their first exper:- ence and training with the British Drama League.

Under the League's guidance and the stimulus of Geoffrey Whitworth, the standard of amateur dramatic

performances in Britain rapidly im

the

proved, and it was indeed a moment

ent for the League when in only four years after its one of Ils amitated companies, "Welwyn Garden City Theatre Society" went to New York to take part in the American le thentre tournament and returned to London with the coveted David Belasco cup

delays that have arisen over restoring But they have many Interesting bis- second World War, and the inevitable which have invested them with

more than purely aesthette interest. them have been a source of natural

toric associations, being survivals of nounced recently, to the relief

the old Royal Forest of Windsor, and One such release that was on- much later being a haunt of the poet only of the people of Buckingham Country Churchyard." He

not Gray, author of the "Elegy On A

wrote shire but also of not a few Lon them in 1737 that they covered vala of doners, was Burnham Beeches which and hill and "like most other ancient has recently been de-requisitioned people are always dreaming out of by the British War Omce. This is their old stories to the wind."

BOOKS Why Mr. Surmelian

by

George Malcolm Thomson

got drunk on New Year's Eve.

NE New Year's Eve, Mr The narrative

gentle, yet his toes, Mortifying laughter.

rang:

on through the church, and the bishop-

Surmellian knew that he would never a pastoral, of said "Kiss the cross, the crossl"**

recover from this disgrace.

Leon Z, Surmelian, Ameri- trembling with authentic life:

account, sereno as can citizen sincerely at- ancient loveliness and hideous down- tached to the Constitution, was fall. drunk again, a disgrace to his adopted nation.

Little street

gentlemen," says Mr Surmelian, The Turks drowned him. Surme "But I ask you, ladies and UNCLE LEON was an Armenian revolutionary who kept a rifc.

"what can I do?"

llan's father opposed the For he is lonaries, believing that Armenians

revolu haunted by poignant memories and Turks should dwell in friend- Geoffrey Whitworth established and of a distant childhood and a dis- built up an organisation which has gained worldwide recognition; al- tant country. They will not though he is now on the eve of his allow themselves to be for- retirement the League's plans for further encouraging drama in Britain gotten.

auciclics

and overseas have reached another

of

Several Once be development, in another experiment, Mayerson British amateur dramatle

was a small Armenian societies. boy, living in Trebizond, that ancient said, subjects were placed on a

are making their plans for tours of city on the Black Sen. It was, Re stationary bicycle, where they were

on it with nostalgle exchanging visits with he looks back required to pedal

against 2,000 Europe and foot-pounds of pressure per minute British Drama League has decided to

life. the Continent. The tenderness, a lovely on

There were beautiful village women. wear- for ten minutes. Afterwards, they accept responsibility for sponsoring ing costumes like Byzantine frescoes; were placed on an incline of 75

a cliff-top from which he could see the Luteen-rigged Turkish coasters like white-winged birds; a monastery called Vank, crowded with pilgrims on Ascension Day.

degrees.

"We don't yet know what we will send," said the RAF spokesman, "be Apart from

cause the plan is only in its initial requ ull ranica, including ATS, are encourag-stage, and we don't know what they ed to give voluntary help, and those want, but Squadron Leader J. F. DF.C of our directorate of ed, be released at 3 or 4 p.m. instead with Mr Kirwan, and they will find of at the normal end of duty time.

out what co-operation is wanted, und Members of the Polish Land Forces then we can discuss things again in the United Kingdom and the here." Polish Resettlement Corps will be available for agricultural work in the same way as British troops.

German prisoners of war will con- tinue their work on the land under

existing arrangements.

DOUBLE

QUITS:

OR

The answers POLITICS: Japan. 2, British Labour Party. 3, Latin America and Canada. 4, Western Germany. 5, Mostem League.

ENTERTAINMENT: 1, A Matter of Life and Death. 2. Britain. 3. Elta Hayworth. 4, English ballet dancer, 5. Linda Darnell.

be found in these hundreds of thou- sands of completely unchartered square, miles,” he said. "Only a

It was found that some of the men who tolerated ten minutes in the upright position were unable to do the bleycle trick, while others who pedalled the bicycle stand the posture test.

couldn't

flon of the test-whether it was an

and therefore

these visits and cultural exchanges,

MR Sean O'Casey's play "Red Roses

mnil traction has been geologically less stobllised than the circulatory Land play "Oak Leaves and of the Mothers' Union.

response

of of

Loveliness

an

LIBRARY:

LIST

-Special Duties:... Air. Vica---

Marshal A, 8. G. Lea (Sampson Low, "e07. War.Balkans and Middle East during troubled and exciting years. With close. up of Tito, and King Michael of Rumania's own account of bia bold anti-German coup. Storm in April 1 AR Wylin (Cassell, ta), Nine unpretentious stories by a afifu writer who has a suro sanio for the limits of her talent and keepa steadily within them.

Willam Godwin: George (Porcupine

Woodcock Press, 125, 60.).

The career, dimppointments and personality of the Brat and most eloquent prophet of libertarian "socialism” (us to the authoritarian Bheny Lernola, tre long neglected, Godwin bas a special interess for our timea

ship. The Turks killed him. These Armenians of Trebizond

were ing on the edge of the abyss. If they shut their eyes to the danger, how could a boy be expected to sce

the

Half-barbaric

the city from the mountains, wildly VER all, there was the half-

barbaric life that potired. Into.

from an unchanging past. costumed, with a fierce, sharp savour

Hot

When war came, the war of 'id,. old women in the villages said: "It is an ill emen. May God protect us." But the Armenians, did trouble to conceal their sympathy with Turkey's foes. As the Turks Enid, "If you want to know the situation in the Dardanelles, look at an Armenian's face."

And one day a Turkish soldier - was posted outside each Armenian home. The whole nation was, to be deported-temporarily,

Nobody doubted then what was going to happen, Surmellan get early warn- ing. A Turkish playmate, son of an official, betrayed the secret. The Armenians were to be exterminated.

H

The symbol

Brz

were

From the scientific, economie bio- logical and meteorological

Marute, which was seen in London world, deant raki siting, cross- His father, the best druggist in the view.

IS mother left him

nt points, sald Kirwan, the expedition

He did not explain the Impilea- not long ago, was a signal success. legged on a mattress, and declared

orphanage. He never saw her is of extreme international impor I argument against riding a station-His latest play which was only re- that he was an English lord. Hia

again. He wandered with other lost tance.

children, witnessing frightful hap-- "Radioactive minerals may possibly ary bicycle or standing up. But he cently put on at the Lyric Theatre, mother was beautifulhad not

penings, waiting until some employer sald football players were among the West End of the British capital. her?-and plous. His grandmother, Hammersmith, has not yet reached Austrian prince been attracted by

would take him. He did not find a the most consistent fainters, suf- "Red Roses For Me was set in Dub very pious, was perpetual president

ready adopter. gesting that "standing is of mornin; the

And all the time he was obsessed' recent development

by the thought, passionately In un old country house

clung | surveyed."

to, of a magic world of civilisation,. hope and electric light. Kirwan said that meteorological life and death since the beginning." scene has something to do with the

In England during the Battle to exercise, a matter of Britain.

Possibly the change

At one material which may be obtained

moment its symbol was a German should be of extreme international

is change in reaction. The ille line LMOST in a single night, that it behind the charming facada

life?

motorcar, glimpsed while he was 4 interest, especially to countries like Australia.

spoken by ghosts inhabiting the charming life, which seemed so

fugitive. At another it was a ragged- bloom secure to a boy of eleven, was shot- There was the house; the lavender will

little street he Russian cap found in a bazaar. tered for ever. The old were killed, lived in: his friendship with again and the oak leaves laugh at the young sold into servitude. A Persides girls, Greeks. On a lamen- terribly hard to reach. He escaped

But civilisation, and safety, the wind in the storm"

remnant escaped, fleeing hither and table day, he hit the lovely Helene to Russia, to a religious school, In the play are land-girls, mem-the five continents.

thither. Now they are scattered over in the face with a wooden clog, where

who. The shame of it would, he knew, claimed to represent a

a queer boy bers of the Home Guard, conscien-

world-wide: never leave him.

secret organisation, the Society of The government of Nicaragua is tlous objectors, village policemen, And, by the waters of Babylon,

Self-gods! considering a loan of $10,000,000 great ladies of the country, comba-nowing bountifully pant him in Therd was school, and the joyous from the United States to

Russia dissolved balanco Lant young Irishmen, and the

in revolution Hollywood, Mr Surmellan sits down day when' holidays began and the Armenta's resurrected the budget and continue her public eighteenth century ghosts. But the and mixes himself another. Martini Ink-bottles were, by immemorial hopes collapsed in defeat. In

national cloquence with which Mr S. O'Casey on New Year's Eve.

the rite, smashed on the cobblestones. end. Surmellan sailed for America.. enchanted his audience in

Red

There was the church, and his Europe became like an historic myth, A loan of $4,500,000 was Fecently Roses For Me" seems this time to He has, however, done something distinguished position

w

DB choirboy: almost. secured from the Bank of America have caused some shaking of the more than that. In I ask you, On Maundy Thursday, the prelafo The past was behind him, But his San Francisco for which the heads. Several critics have suggest Ladies and Gentlemen (Victor Gol- washed and anointed his feet, memories; the terrible and the love- government is giving 4,000,000 ed that the eloquence might carry lanez Bs. 6d. he describes that Klas and go," said the bishop. ly, followed him across So far, Queen Maud Land has worth of security. The loan now is more conviction after soma revisions vanished society and tells of its And Surmellan, stretching his neck, World and into the pages

being repaid by a customs services in the costing. Possibly only If this destruction and his own, escape. vainly tried to kiss the ointment on book.

13 Arctic Ships "The thirteen meteorological ships in the Arctle provided us with price- less information during the which was used for bombings and so on," he said..

war;

Scientific adviser to 'the expedition PLACES: 1, Tai Lam Chung Valley, 2, Nicaragua, 6, Prague. 4, will be Swedish professor Hans Ahi- Brazil. 6, Germany.

minn, expert in climatle changes. Ahlmann is now working in the de- PEOPLE: 1, Vernon Bartlett, 2.partment of meteorology in the Uni- Field Marshal Kesselring. 3, Harry versity of Chicago: Gordon Selfridge. 4, Winston Chur- chill. 8, Earl of Harewood,

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SPORT: United States, by 8 games to 4, 2, Football; Britain versus. Rest of Europe; Britain won 0-1, 3, 706;

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