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THE AGE, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1957 AFRICAN EXPERIMENT MELBOURNE, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1957 TODAY'S ISSUE, 20 PAGES. GHANA PREPARES TO CELEBRATE HER INDEPENDENCE LETTERS to the EDITOR Education Cannot be Stationary Sir, The United States magazine "Science" in Us issue of December 28, 1956, contains a forceful and convincing article entitled The Future Through Science, written by Glenn T. Seuborg, who is professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of California. I 0 Wednesday the Gold Coust, one of the four British dependencies in West Africa, will achieve independence. NORTHERN Under its new name, Ghana, it will become the first Ncpto nation in the Commonwealth, equal in status to the original dominions like Canada and Australia.

TERRITORIES li I) i possible. There are many indications, however, that amongst thinking citizens grave doubts are developing respecting the adequacy of the existing systems to provide the trained brain power which the near future will assuredly want. Without doubt the Rus. slan challenge Is partly responsible for this growing anxiety, but there are other disturbing factors for example the belief that expansion in population demands an expansion In educational activity which apparently is not evident. That so grave a warning should be given by a leading man of science must be disquieting to Americans; it will be disquieting to Australians also and their thoughts will turn to technical colleges and universities as well as schools.

W. A. OSBORNE (Kangaroo Ground). nation is expanding a calamitous position will arise, but Professor Seaborg fears that the efficiency of teaching is slipping downward and a "complete breakdown" will occur unless remedial action is quickly taken. His anxiety Is directed towards the teaching of but leaders In other fields of education are equally concerned, possibly more so, as there Is a danger of the utilitarian crowding out the aesthetic and humanistic.

Australians Interested In education who visit the United States look with admiration, not unmixed with envy, at the well-equipped schools and wonder when such fine libraries, class rooms, laboratories and sports grounds will appear In the Commonwealth. The enormous natural resources of U.S.A. have made this high standard of educational Institutions 7 5 ASHANTI i(f A i rn! 5 i if 30 40 AO SO WO political consciousness developed under British administration in the latter half of the 19th century. Europeans did not settle on the Gold Coast as they did in central and Souih Africa. Ghana escaped the destructive Influence of the color bar.

Today only some 13,000 are not Africans. success of Christian missionary schools and hospitals has helped political development. Practically all the Cabinet of the Prime Minister (Dr. Kwams Nkrumah) had their primary education in mission schools. The majority of the population Is still pagan, holding the traditional anl-mlst beliefs, but Christianity, spread particularly by Presbyterian and Methodist churches has been well founded in the life of the people for generations.

Lately Islam has attracted adherents in the north. But the pre-natal history of Ghana is Incomplete wl'hout the fact that the proclaimed central purpose of postwar British colonial policy has been to MAP of the Cold Coast, now Ghana, with its position shown in inset. Professor Seaborg does not mince matters In this powerful appeal and warning: "But teaching, far from being a well-paying profession, is one of the most poorly rewarded occupations. Electricians, plumbers, auto workers and railroad conductors and engineers earn more than teachers. Every year thousands of capable, effective teachers, who love the work they are doing leave the profession because they simply cannot support their families in any decent standard of living on the pay that they receive.

These factors have led to a severe decline in the quality of our secondary school education. Half the American public high schools offer no foreign language at all and one quarter teach no physics or chemistry or geometry." If education remains stationary whilst the Britain Must Not Act Alone SIR. MR. R. WELD-SMITH (262) truly states in regard to the Suez crisis that "the guilty parties have again got away with it." His outburst, however, that "England showed herself, with France, unafraid to act" begs the question that, if this be so.

why did England (I should prefer to write Great Britain) suddenly decide to withdraw her forces The fact is that the Eden Government suddenly decided to act, without consulting her partners In the British Commonwealth of Nations, much less her ally the U.S.A. The Eden Government's action shocked the world and. in the words of Mr. Lester Pearson (Canadian Foreign Minister) "broughti the British Commonwealth to the brink of dissolution." No one In Australia will By BRUCE GRANT in London producer of cocoa and is hazardously dependent on Its raw cocoa exports (worth 84 million sterling In 1954. the peak year) tor revenue.

Price falls last year caused the Government concern. Dr. Nkrumah has announced that he wishes to give every encouragement to foreign Investors, provided native labor is used and native promotion encouraged. It is his Government's policy to Increase as rap-Idly as possible the number of qualified Africans in senior technical, professional and managerial Jobs. THE great dream of every modern African Is the harnessing of water power, his country's inexhaustible asset.

What the Aswan dam Is to the Egyptian, the Volta River project Is to the new citizen of Ghana. It envisages a huge dam and a power station capable of generating 600,000 kilowatts combined with aluminium production NEW TASKS FACE SEATO POWERS THE forthcoming meeting of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation In Canberra will have more than formal significance for the elsht member States. Born under the shadow of the war In Indo-Chlna, SEATO has proved to be more than a temporary alliance formed to meet a temporary emergency. The Canberra meeting will be the third full-scale conlerence of Foreign Ministers and the first held at Australia's Invitation. Appropriately, the main problem they have to discuss will not be far from our shores.

In its original conception SEATO was a broad organisation, including Asian Powers like Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines, with Australia and New Zealand, and the Western "Big Three" which have important interests of South-East Asia Britain, the U.S. and France. It was designed both as a defensive alliance, with provision for military consultation, and as an economic planning group, since the two aspects of defence cannot be separated in such an area. From the first it was recognised that SEATO overlapped the Colombo Plan on the economic side and the Annus pact on the military side, and there were doubts whether it would prove a workable body when the immediate threat of the fighting In Indo-Chlna was removed. The Immediate Impetus to the formation of the body was the threat of Communist penetration In South-East Asia, and this fact led to the refusal of neutralist India to take part in its discussions.

As a regional defence organisation SEATO is, therefore, far from complete, but it has still proved a useful piece of machinery In case of emergency The possibility of emergencies arising in South-East Asia is always present, and it Is Important that when danger Is sighted there should be a common meeting place for the Western nations and their Asian partners to prepare their plans for meeting it. This link between Eastern and Western nations who are united in political outlook may again prove valuable and Indeed necessary If the threatening political deterioration in Indonesia Is not soon halted. It is a common tactic for nations suffering from disunity on the home front to present Irredentist claims to territory as a rallying point for their discontented subjects. As a member of the Afro-Asian group, Indonesia has been able to enlist strong support in the United Nations for its claim to Dutch New Guinea. But this brave show of allies will not conceal from the world the weakness of the Djakarta Government and the uncertainty of its future.

Whether this huge and heterogeneous collection of Islands, races and religions can ever become a viable State remains to be proved President Sukarno's latest proposal to abandon Western-style democracy for a national front Government representing all the major parties casts grave doubts upon it. Such a proposal, among other things, would make a present of roughly a fifth of portfolios to the Communist party, which Is growing in strength. Once in command of Government departments, it might be impossible to regain control of them from these practised infiltrators. But many Indonesian politicians may secretly share Australia's doubts about the future of their country. There is no threat to peace at present, but there Is a case for SEATO to examine closely when it meets in Canberra.

Such a practical task may, In fact, give a new sense of strength and purpose to the group of partners A NEW BRITANNIA TO RULE THE SKIES WITH the visit today by B.O.A.C.'s turbo-prop, airliner Britannia, Melbourne will share in another notable chapter in aviation history. This giant aircraft, symbolising Britain's postwar achievements in the air, is about to begin a service which will bring London within 'wo days of Sydney. In these days of supersonic speeds, a two-day journey half-way around the world is hardly likely to cause surprise. But, as the "Whispering Giant," huge and silent by aircraft standards, cruises overhead it will provide a sharp reminder of the swift advances in this ago of flight. In just over 50 years the aeroplane has moved from the clumsy contraption in which Orville Wright made the first brief and hazardous excursion into the air to the speedy and comfortable airliner represented by the Britannia Australia has played no small part in this progress.

Nai.ies such as Sir Ross Smith and Sir Keith Smith, Bert Hinkler, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and a score of other pioneers are firmly established in the annals of aviation. The use of the Britannia on the Kangaroo route by B.O.A.C. in partnership with Qantas is also a reminder of Australia's contribution to the development of the world's air routes. But It is the aircraft itself, as a triumph of British engineering, which gives this occasion particular significance. The Britannia, designed to carry 100 passengers at a cruising speed of nearly 400 miles an hour, is a triumph after a scries of setbacks to British civil aviation.

One of the worst of these was the gap left in the civil aircraft industry by Britain's concentration during the war on the production of fighters and bombers for the Allied forces. Now the leeway has been made up, British aircraft engines are the most sought-after in the world and British airliners are establishing the pattern of speed, comfort and reliability for the future. All Australians will share In the triumph of a speedier link with the old world which the Britannia will provide. Britannia, we hope, will rule the skies. fail to sympathise with Mr.

Macmillan and his U.K. cabinet In the task of repairing, not merely Anglo-American relations, but in trying to restore good faith within the British Commonwealth. Great Britain can still share In "great power," but only so long as she is prepared to consult and act with her British partners, especially Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Britain cannot afford rashness such as we have so painfully witnessed. M.

McNAB (Hawks-burn). Standing in Blue Trains SIR, I THINK THAT a great many suburban train travellers have before now voiced disapproval of these "Blue Trains" of which the Railway Commissioners are so prcud, and which. I understand, are in Dunstan was on the stiff of the Rooatrlation He then lolneri thj Herald and Weekly Times accountant, later becoming assistant manager and then general manager from 1934 to 1953. On his retirement from that post, he became a director of the "Herald." OBITUARY FIRST WAR V.C. AT AGE OF 20 WI5ILL" DUNSTAN, V.C, was one of JL xl 1 a m.

i me must iuuuesL in men. 10 nis high distinction in war he added a notable record in the newspaper iVElF FILMS A FEAST FOR FILMGOERS JISW releases piled into Melbourne at the week end one on top of the other, making a veritahle feast of entertainment, much of it well above average. The film year is launched in earnest. THE country's new green, gold and red flag with Its black-centred star will fly over ceremonies In Accra, the capital, and London. lis English-educated diplomats will present their credentials abroad, and the Governor of Ghana (Sir Charles Arden-Clarke) will receive the credentials of foreign diplomats.

The place that was once called the white man's Rrave will be launched into the world with the full dignity of a sovereign State. Unlike the Asian Commonwealth count I s. Ghina has elected to follow the tradition of the Crown Dominions and recognise the British monarch. So the Queen will be represented at the Accra ceremony by the Duchess of Kent. The number two man in the British Government.

Mr R. A. Butler is attending. All the Commonwealth countries including South Africa whose pre" senl Government is now popular in Afro-Asian circles, will he sending representatives. INDEPENDENCE for the 4,600,000 African people of the Gold Coast is also an Important event outride the Commonwealth.

It is an answer to charges of "colonialism" ofien indiscriminately levelled against the leading Western nations. This undoubtedly explains the presence in Accra of the Vice-President of the United States (Mr. Nixon) who before he left Washington said that Ghana was a hopeful sign that "in the struggle which Is taking place today between the forces of freedom and the forces of slavery," Africa would go on the side of freedom. Ghana becomes the first all-African member of the Commonwealth for a number of special reasons. It has been In touch with Europe far longer ihart most African coo-.

tries. Although the early pur-nose of the Portuguese. Dutch. Danish, German and English Intruders was to get gold. Ivory, spices, slaves and later cocoa News OW far should women einanci-pnlion go Should the equulily nf the sexes extend to Niitionnl Service THESE questions came to the minds of the members of the L.C.P.

State Council on Saturday when they had to deal with a Mooroolbark branch proposal, "that girls, a well as young men, be called up for National Service on the age of 18 years." When the matter was brought up, Mr. A. E. Woodward (Croydon) said both Mooroolbark delegates had left, believing the Item would not be reached. He said a middle-aged woman, who had not been seen previously, attended a Mooroolbark branch meeting and put forward the resolution for submission to the State council.

"She has not been sighted since," he added. The motion had caused "quite a bit of embarrassment and it would be wisest to put It and have It cleared up," Mr. Woodward said. The motion was put and lost without further ado. No Parking JUGE notices in the city's "little' streets announcing that dav-thne standing and parking of private vehicles was prohibited appeared to have scant effect on Friday.

In Flinders Lnne, between Elizabeth and Queen Streets. In the early afternoon the only kerbslde space unoccupied by a car on either side was that accommodating the notice board. A large luxury-class EniMlsh limousine up and slid to a stop opposite the notice. A Cltv Council parking otlleer strolled over, picked up the board, moved It sceral yards closer to the corner and politely waved the ear Into the vacant space. Helpful pRESTON council Is not Riving Its local athletic club much encouragement, despite the presence of several councillors at the charity athletic meeting held at a 1 from the vast bauxite deposits.

But it would cost about 230 millions sterling. At the moment the scheme is before the International Bank. To the outside world the most interesting aspect of Ghana's Independence concerns policy which her Government may not yet have decided. What will her foreign policy be In earlier times the importance of a country's foreign policy depended on the power of her arms, of which Ghana has virtually none. Today one vote in the United Nations Is as good as another.

Will Ghana become known as a member of the Afro-Asian bloc in the United Nations Would she attend another Bandung conference After March 6 the challenge of Ghana shifts from Britain to the Commonwealth. It has been said so many times that the Commonwealth Is a family of nations that the meaning has often got lost. It now contains, with the civilisations of Europe of Asia and the new world, the free contribution of African negroes. It is a breath-taking, sobering thought. and tenderly by Deborah Kerr and John Kerr, and Mr.

Mlnnelli again shows his mastery of character and MetroColor. JJJUSICAL biographies are usually set in the mould of extra-marital love culminating in consumptive death; the Austrian Him Mozart (Savoy) is no exception. Taking the composer's latter years, it tries to prove that while loving his wife, he was only inspired by other women In this Instance his Magic Flute prima donna. The color here, too. Is almost as rich as the music.

And if Oskar Werner has a hoo'esless task depicting genius, he at least makes the composer an attractive figure in cheerful surroundings. The sound track alone makes It all worthwhile. THE Power and the Prize (Metro, Bourke Street) has the distinction of being about the first Cinemascope film to be shot in humble black and white. Elizabeth Mueller, an Intense Swiss personality playing a refugee pianist, has vivacity and a certain assertive charm. But it goes to waste before a tired-looking Robert Taylor and for the most part a tired-looking script.

He Is a Junior mining tycoon, and their love affair In London while he wangles a dubious financial deal teaches him a lot about human values In big business. Only Cedrlc Hardwlcke. as a proud British businessman, and Burl Ives, forsaking his guitar to make a serious study of the senior tycoon, convince us that this Is more than a cautious Hollywood hotpptch of social and political ideas THOSE who enjoy the spectacle of men bruising each other into Insensibility will revel in World in My Corner 'Esquire), an orthodox addition to the repertoire of boxing pictures. For me, this illustration of the "sport" by Audle Murphy adds even more weight to the views of such people as Dr. Edith SummerskilL COLIN BENNETT.

ognise it quite another to meet it In a way which will put Ihe new country on Its feet. Unlike France, which has always remained European at heart, Britain developed native administration as part of her colonising outlook Paced with ardent Nationalists, like the handsome, flamboyant, 47-year-old Dr Nkrumah, who like many good men before him has been to prison tor his beliefs, she had already prepared the machinery tor the handover of power. Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, who went to the Gold Coast as governor In 1948. was the chief instrument of British policy in the crucial years. Afterwards, when violence was always beneath the surface and occasionally broke through.

One story reveals his attitude. To an Irate general, who banged the table one night at Government House demanding that Britain should hang on to Its possessions, ne replied: "I quite agree, general, but might I suggest that we first make quite sure that we really hold a territory before we decide to hang on to It?" THE removal of the governor's powers has completed the transition to self-government and Independence. The governor has now become the governor-general, as In Australia, and except that the legislature has only one house, the constitution of Ghana broadly follows the British parliamentary model. In size Ghana is almost as large as the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Its main Industries are agricul (which accounts for 70 per cent, of the working male population), fishing, minim; and forestry.

It Is the world's largest Day Toy Soldiers THERE were 50,000 of them, and they stood guard as the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) opened the Australian Book Fair in the Lower Town Hall on Saturday night. From the armies of many lands, they wore uniforms which have Altered through history since man first raised a mace. A French foreign legion-alre stood close by a Johnny Reb, the Immortal Light Horse were paraded In Immaculate line. There were Gurkhas and Australian infant Guardsmen and the soldiers of Wllhelm n.

They were a little more than an Inch tall models collected by the Australian Military Figures Collectors' Society. Mock Battles THE Military Figures Collectors' Society has been active for a period of three months. On Saturday, two of Its members, Messrs. Bruee Snowfoot and Bob Powell spoke of a liaison with counterpart organisations In America and the U.K. In addition to the figures, thev were displaying models of artillery, vehicles and other military equipment.

Members have staged "battles" since the organisation came Into existence. The cannons and the attacking and defending armies are set down on a tennis court. Everything Is to scale-artillery ranges, tank and troop displacements, the area of battle. The skirmishes last for two days. Running Deer THE Olympic "running deer" targets and equipment, the fate of which were in doubt, have been bought by the Victorian Sporting Shooters' Association.

And members are anxious to erect it permanently in Melbourne preferably on a vacant part of the Wllllamstown range. Local rifle enthusiasts are keen to be reoresented at Rome In 1960, and point out they will need a good deal of practice with deer targets. Installations erected for the small-bore section of the shooting are to be retained at Wllllamstown, tended ultimately to replace the older models. It has always been a cause of complaint that the seating accommodation is so Inadequate. Why should travellers (even from the terminal station) have to bring their own camp stools to be sure of having a seat Personally.

I think that these trains are suited to underground travel onlv, and for comparatively short distances only. Let the Railway Commissioners try travelling In a blue train at 6 p.m. on a hot summer afternoon. It Is Impossible to get away from the scorching sun pouring in at the enormously wide doors. The Inadequate windows open only from the top, so that it is Impossible to get a breath of breeze.

Let us hope that they will not be abie to nut more into running before next summer. E. C. TONRS (Sandring-ham). Wines Named by Districts SIR, FROM HIS letter (13) it is apparent that Mr.

W. S. Morrison is ignorant of the English laws regardine: the nomenclature of wines. No wine may be sold under the name of Sati-ternes unless it has come from the appropriate district In Gironde in the south of France; none may be called sherry except if it comes from Sherez, in Spain: champagne must come from the French province of Champagne, and so on. The Australian exporter has perforce to invent entirely new names for his wines as otherwise they can only be marketed as "Sauternes "Sherry-type," and who would want to drink "Sherry-type" 1 niJTII BRIGHT (Middle Park).

slope in front of the Government offices, is more convenient, and the scenery and costumes made a colorful spectacle that was easily visible. ANOTHER famous operatic heroine, Smetana's Bartered Bride, also made her reappearance on Saturday night, and she had the advantage of the Town Hall roof over her head. This enjoyable concert performance by soloists Elizabeth West, Max Worthley and Keith Nlel-son with the Orpheon Choristers, the Sandrlng-ham Choral Society and the R.A.A.F. band, was largely a repeat of that given last year In the Wilson Hall. On Saturday I heard the second half of It, and once more admired the skill with which Squadron Leader Hicks, the conductor, never let the music or the listeners' interest flag.

DORIAN LE GALLIENNE. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS THE telcphin- number Dr-GEORGB SMART, who hw IUC-Cfeded to the MMlcM PrMtlca Dr. ROBFRT WI' SON. fl Hllrh Street. Prahren, chanted from to LA26S1.

IN THE CHURCHES Page 9 bring Its colonies to full Commonwealth membership. John Gunther wrote in "Inside "Great Britain Is the only colonial Power that maintains an avowed official policy the ultimate objective of which is to train Africans for complete self-government within the Commonwealth." The first post-war decision was made with India in 1948. Ghana, which becomes the ninth full Commonwealth member, is the fourth since the war. On the list for the future are Malaya, the West Indian Federation. Singapore and Nigeria So far the only loss has been Burma.

JT has been a policy which demanded skill as well as good will. It is one thing to be in sympathy with rising nationalism, or forced to' rec- of the Mr. A. E. WOODWARD, motion lost.

the Preston oval yesterday. The club was granted the use of the oval but had to prepare nil the tracks ana field games run-ups itself. A working bee was formed yesterday morning to mow with ordinary hand mowers the six-lane 130-yard straight track but there was enough time and labor to mow only one circular lane for distance events. A lopn of equipment, and some labor, from the council would have made the lob a lot easier. The club deserves high nralse for the manner in which the meeting was staged and for the better-than-average trophies awarded.

A bsent-Minded pROFESSOKS are popularly supposed to be absent-minded, but Rev. Lyall Dixon tells of one who really earned that reputation. In his sermon on "Absent mindedncss" at Independent Church last nUht. Mr Dixon recalled that a Professor Patterson, of Edinburgh, who was notoriously absent-minded, forgot how many children he had He was left at home to look after the children and put them to bed When his wife returned he reported that the three eldest had gone to bed quietly, but the two youngest had "raised an awful hullabaloo." and he had to put them to bed by ma'n force. "But," said his wife, "we've onlv got four "Well.

I put five to bed said her husband He had Included a neighbor's child. OPEN-AIR OPERA WASHOUT 0PEN-air opera is one of the most attractive features of Moomba, and if tens bad luck that on Saturday night the National Theatre's Carmen literally, but not figuratively, proved a washout. His friends in Australia and abroad were legion. He was born in Ballarat. educated at the State school there and went to work first as a clerk in a drapery store.

As one of the first to enlist in the original A.I.F. he won his V.C. at Lone Pine on August 9. 1915. He was a corporal at the time, aged 20 years.

He was one of the survivors of a party of 10 Australians who caught and threw back grenades thrown by Turkish raiders at Lone Pine. Dunstan. was with Lieutenant F. H. Tubb.

Corporal A. S. Burton, and seven men when the Turks launched a fierce counterattack on the centre of a newly captured trench. The Turks blew up a sandbag barricade, but Tubb and the two corporals rebuilt It. Three times It was blown in.

the enemy repulsed and the barricade rebuilt. Tubb. Dunstan and Burton were the only ones able to fight at the height of the action. Then Burton was killed, and Tubb and Dunstan wounded. Dunstan being temporarily blinded.

An three received the Victoria Cross. Dunstan, who had previously been twice mentioned In desnatches. was also commissioned. He was then invalided home, and suffered intl-mitently from the wounds throuffhout his life. From 1918 to 1921 Mr Honor for Battalion The Governor General (Sir William Slim) will present the Queen's regimental colors to the First Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, at the exhibition ground, Brisbane, on March 30.

The Minister for the Army (Mr. Cramer) who announced this today said the battalion had recently been reorganised at Encg-erera Barracks (Queensland) and was the only Regular Armv battalion In that State. Some of the original members of the battalion had gone to Japan at the end of the war for occupational duties while the battalion had also served In Korea with great distinction. The battalion had not previously been presented with colors, added Mr. Cramer, AT the Regent, Mister Roberts brings back the welcome Henry Fonda to the screen, in his long-playing stage role as the restless lieutenant on the U.S.S.

Reluctant, a wartime cargo ship stuck in the Pacific far from the enemy. Failing contact with the Japanese, lieutenant and crew hilariouslv battle with their Queeg-Uke captain (James Cagney) and the knockabout is mixed, here and there, with a serious message about comradeship in war. William Powell (the ship's doctor) and Jack Lemmon (the "laundry and morale" officer) keep the ribald dialogue rolling. Parts are subtle, parts are crude, and if the mixture does not quite set it Is probably due to the fact that John Ford fell ill half-way through directing the picture. THE Man With the Golden Arm (Capitol) is limply the dreadful story of a man who is a drug addict.

It is not entertainment, but then entertainment Is not Its purpose. All the physical and mental agonies of a professional poker denier (Frank Sinatra) returning to his old weakness, heroin, in a world of sleazy, vicious, criminal poverty are exposed and exilored. His demented efforts to cure himself, the hellish battle against the craving, repulse us in Just the wav director Otto Premlnger Intended. The film Is a morally courageous, if unsavory, achievement It only errs a dangerous error in suggesting that addiction cm be cured bv will power. But then, without the final cure.

Mr Premlng-er's film would have been completely Intolerable. TEA and Sympathy (Metro, Collins Street) needs no introduction to Melbourne. In Vlncente Mlnelll's film version, the story of the schoolboy outcast In a "manly" world" who. like young Woodley, receives understanding affection only from his house master's wife, has been inevitably toned down by the Production Cods. But It la done sensitively TJNTTL the end of act 2, when rain came down to disperse performers and audience, things had been going very well, with a capable team of soloists headed by Julia Pusey, Robert Humphreys and William Howard, supported by the Cam-berwell Philharmonic Choir and the Victorian Symphony Dr.

Schlldberger's con-ducting always shows respect for the composer, and on Saturday It had considerable verve as well. Musically, the main trouble sprang from the fact that amplification, which is necessary in the open air, has come to mean a maximum of noise and a minimum of orchestra. I suppose that now, In fact, audiences simply wouldn't tolerate a properly balanced performance, and we will all end up like the man (he really exists) who eats tinned peas with relish, but can't stand the taste of fresh ones. The new setting in the Alexandra Gardens, If It Is not as imposing as the THURSDAY, MARCH 7, AT 3 P.M. IS THE BOARD ROOM TEMPLE COURT 422 CO INS MUhFT, MKI.noiHNK.

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