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THE' OBSERyER, STTNDA i JANUARY 3, 943 i'. Z' -l -V'-''-''1' --i- THEATRE AND LIFE THE FILMS ATvm By IVOR BRQWN By WILLIAM GLOCK By C. nejw-'fUrn. JJY reference toMr. Solomon's UTILITY but life-sized, lusty creatures who have just tumbled out of the trees and hedges, as natural, as bird or bud.

At least, that is my im LEJEV-g. -v was.not mqrtient's tribute1 in '4flh. Parallels Mr. -Prtman sketched -a-Nazi1 -wnb-'Awasv-alsoa; fanajacal-idealist- Squadron Leader "-'ho. and a 1 -called to start off the NeW Year.

pression on trying to imagine my- 'co ward rrhoiis noTui anybwiyrf selt meeting Uberon and Titania for the first time. Before going to the Westminster, try it for JN the valley of that merry tirook quaintly named a cottage surrbutided by that everts a peculiar fascination on small-birds. In it some years ago a pair- of wallows in both repairing and cleansing by the owner of" the garden) successfully hatched broods within one summer. bfv1942 jta 'yetvriifo'rs' unusual. At Christmas wren "was watched calngftopiece of moss, and a- lereenflch-oi ajl birds definitely beginnihg to build.

Now rtiiewren- one of the winter-timf iiriffirc1 mav" elicited various comments: most of I'm sorry to say, in favour of dreaming. So let me try to define my idea' of performance. First of all, some of us claim to know a musical work when we have studied it carefully and thought about it a gra't deal, but have never reached the further stage, of knowledge which comes only from practical experience on Lest this news should encourage us to grow complacent, lihaBfinto 'add that; there's a-pretty-'bad-ohe, 'too, called lAe and My Gal." Thislshould bring some: of: usback again into our healthy state of alarm and desp'bridency. Squadron Leader and Pavilion) is a. British 'fllmbut' we needn't be complacent talJouVfthat either.

I see rib reason' to suppose that it's-'going to. better British I'ihardly not-evenwsrus own tbugtt-Jfab'gwhich eakadowUhe sportsmMttsyricfly foitfa.nnfj&maTi, to the actor's. credit, and. a remarkable -oi the. saumi'i GaP TO pretend that a well-known and oft-read book is entirely new to you, to try to shut out all your preconceptions is not easy, but well worth trying.

The obvious case is the New Testament. Attempt to meet that for the first lime as an adult who has, never heard a word of it before; it is naturally an astounding 'experience. The same holds, with less urgency, of any classic Being immobilised this week I was unable to visit the Westminster Theatre, where Robert Atkins is giving "A Midsummer Night's Dream after his success with the two Henry IV. s. Accordingly I attempted to approach this play as something hitherto unread and quite unseen.

What emerges? First, that the I play is meant for quite a small cast and that all our swarms of a more or less distinguished level" nasses thertime iiflereeably witlv been ehgage'd' in properly season- rtfavlfnn "crlriiprl think it likely ithat rival producer; "THE ROMANCE OF DAVID GARRICK" You probably remember how Garrick', cruel only, to be kind, out to cure a romantic girl of her infatuation, and was hoist with his own petard. The shade of Mrs. Garrick might demur, and the muse of history, smile indulgently. But that is. the story; and in her new version of it at the St.

James's Theatre Miss Constance Cox sticks to it. Garrick himself, who was man enough to impose a happy ending even on King Lear," would probably have welcomed that which rounds off Miss Cox's workmanlike play. The plot may be apochryphal, the situations more piJesumaDiy xposedtp By TOM HARRISSON 'Y'HE unforgettable donkey in my life was in an instalment of Dorothy Sayers's The Man Born to be King (due for rebroadcast-ing). Our Lord sends for the ass. It comes.

Each supposed hoof beat of the animal is indelibly stamped on my memory as banality in the midst of solemnity. So often spunds spoil verbally excellent programmes. There is, for instance, a snatch of B.B.C. Seagull, which Ihave heard represent the sea over and over again once four time.s in a day. panics, planes, cranks, cranes become stereotyped roars or rumbles, dull, without character.

Then there are the effects curiosa," like the hansom cab, with belled horses in Trelawny of the Wells," decades before bells were thus used (on Shrewsbury and Talbot hansoms); or a recent railway programme where the L.N.E.R. Pacific-type train did a four puff rhythm, whereas such trains actually puff in sixtime. These little points of ass and bell and train reflect an unsatisfactory background set up, o.r upseft. Life's Melody For our B.B.C. is audibly insensitive about sound.

Its staff seerrjs to-think one can hold a 'toiicro-phone in front of a machihe or waterfall, leaving the rest torelec-tricity. But steel or water, like thrush or nightingale, has a private language which must be listened for, separated out, and understood. It may take hours to find the snot urhAm th milrn most 6t -the 'others is its spanking gopd- script7-; Forces programme. Victor Mature -tBe soldiers. 'and naiuf1ailyj'- manages to marry the most eligible -girl and the largest sum o-money.

Me and. My Gal (Empire) is un fairies (and even at times of1 livestock) are an ovex-growth. The large-scale, Drunolanian If Toscanml had not been a great conductor, could his iden of the Eroica have rivalled the effect he achieves in perforrh.ancet' I doubt it; and, in doubting, I approach this subject with some humility. There is a wonderful passage in the first movement of Mozart's major piano concerto' K.503, in which a rhytttmical figure of three quavers (up-JJeat), followed by two crotchets (jiown-beat), is repeated several times while the music modulates from flat minor towards major. Now if such a passage occurred in Beethoven, the rhythmical figure would probably hold chief importance; the tension would gradually increase.

Interpretation In Mozsfrt, however, I feel certain that the effect should be one of attenuation and of cadenza-like freedom. I feel certain." Of course, reasons could be given, ac- lucky iri arriving just one week" alter we naa-ciosea our. annual stinker- competition. I am sorry to have to disqualify such a -really distinguished stinker, with the old tunes the last war, the new discovery from the theatre. Gene Kelly, and Mr.

Kelly appears as a vaudevilleJn Dreams were utterly un-Tudor. For the fairies a few boy-players would amply suffice. Much more important is the fact, which seems to me apparent on' a fresh reading, that Elizabethan fairies are quite different from ours, far less tinselly, far more human, rustic, and earthy, and not at all fussed about moral values. Fairyland was fatally moralised in the nineteenth century. Fairies became Good or Bad.

They also became dainty and began to spin about on tip-toe in ballerina style, waist-deep in Mendelssohn. I know that the public hunger and thirst after Mendelssohn and must be fed. But the whole naveni foeen tou beusinvp awui. scripts in- the past, and I see no signs of a change in future. Emeric Pressburger wrote the original story'Of Squadron Leader and Wolfgang.WUhelm did the A lot of people have had a hand in the final effectiveness of the piece, including one or two actors, but Messrs.

Pressburger and Wilhelm certainly gave them their opportunity. Mr. Pressburger, as you may have noted If you are a smart reader of crexiit titles, wrote the story for "49th Parallel" and of Our Aircraft is. Missing." His speciality is escape. Squadron' Leader is about a Nazi Luftwaffe ace trying to escape fjrom England.

The author gets him to England, by a device which, like most of the other tricks of the plot, may be unlikely, but manages to seem remarkably plausible. Equipped with an R.A.F. uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his wife and child, and a packet of. Players, he is dropped over Ghent by parachute for German propaganda purposes. Unfortunately he chboses a night when the Belgian patriots are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the Channel.

Before he can say Johann Robinson he is landed on the South Coast in a fog. The rest ofjthe film follows the good old chase" motif. hot on his heels, the fugitive tries to contact his old friends in Lon capture that note. It's the i i Mendelssohn atmosphere is alien to the Shakespearean, -which is far better realised, asGranville-Barker d.d.o. joo to Know mis, and to increase our sound sensibility, dulled in man by his vocabulary and dulled again in civilised man by the cacophony of internal combustion.

We live in a world increasingly of words, with a barrier-between us and earth, to which we should ever keep one ear. Books of Sound Producer Francis Dillon has lately shown a commendable concern for good sound, including in hid lf a io5aiuic mie re corded material by Dr. Ludwig iwt.ii, wuu iiiaue unique sound pic- is one of the few that usesV its nest as a. dwelling house in-Scold weather. Overcrowjiirig The other 'day an account reached me of a wren that continually littered a bedstead in.

a summer house with mpss and other rubbish, while repairing its nest in the wall. In one instance within my knowledge a wren's nest tumbling down because overweighted by the number of wrens that had collected in it- for warmth. At same time, their nesting periods are "singularly eccentric. In the last war, in the garden of a French chateau, eggs i were laid in September, but, not, I think, hatched. Greert finches are singularly numerous, arid few birds are fonder of a garden or tamer in the nesting Personally, I have harid-fed this bird on the nest on more than one occasion.

But to build in December that is quite a new phenomenon. Spring Before Winter Such experiences as these within the Mimram garden are of bourse altogether eccentric; but from all parts of the country come reports of an untimely spring arriving before winter has well begun, and during the longest hours of darkness. Song thrushes and missel-thrushes have broken the young day's heart even in the Northern and further south have not ceased to shout hilariously for a good while after, the sun has set. Perhaps the only creature that has surpassed them in a display of December vigour is the earthworm! This singular creature, which so greatly interested Darwin in his old age, has converted greens into tilths; and is doubtless much popular with Charles Darwin's grandson! Mushrooms -Premature anticipations of spring are yet more general in the kingdom of plants. From the base of this same Mimram cottage mushrooms were gathered and eaten on Christmas Day; and those who boast the more catholic taste that is urged upon us in regard to this form of food have enjoyed a wider choice than just agaricus cannpestris.

There are open commons where it looks as if the worms were holding up umbrellas. Their casts and the toadstools are the most obvious objects over the open surfaces. In any considerable garden a bouquet of a good score of open flowers could be picked, and if weeds were reckoned inVthe quantity might perhaps be doubled or more than doubled. It is almost startling- to see a blue clematis open on the wall, competing wj the' yellow jessamine. Should we be glad? Fruitgrowers who make a winter inquest of their trees find it much more-easy than usual to distinguish fruit from leaf buds and have nothing but regret to see their plumpness.

An early spring is wholly undesirable in their eyes. all buds have a native capacity for holding their hand if later weather is of a more limeous type. B. T. insisted long ago, by h-nglish Tudor music than by nineteenth-century foreign.

(Mendelssohn is admittedly perfect for the tuppence-coloured toy-theatre style of decoration of this play which the "Old Vic." gave us shortly before the war). Shakespeare's fairies, met for the first time, are simply emanations of the English country, "Playing on pipes of corn and versing love," Oberon is a Warwickshire botanist and -Titania provides, at some length, the finest description ever made of that familiar imposition, a drenching English summer. She too is a forester and cannot embrace Bottom without the exquisite botanical addition. So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist: the female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm. The whnlp nbv inct tVio tUlUgUC, lin Zoo, Belgian Congo, German artist is innocently assumed, "will never make.

the Time, because he is Small Time at heart." But the assumption reckons without the ingenuity of the Hollywood script-writers. Generously assisted by Miss Judy Garland, and helped a lot by coincidence, he not only makes the Palace, New York, but shuts a trunk down on his hand to evade the draft, gets remorse, joins the Y.M.C.A. in France, arid wins some sort of decoration. Miss Garland, who seems to have more modesty than common sense on' this occasion, hands the film over to him on account of it's way-down deep inside of her," Mr. George Murphy, as another vaudeville artist, stands hopefully by in the wings, waiting for a cue to act.

but doesn't get -it. A foreword to the film informs us that this is a chapter of American history which has never been amply recorded." Me and Gal rectifies the error, if one takes the Oxford Dictionary-definition of ample as quite enough." IN THE-SUBURBS AND PROVINCES In Whtch We Serve. Noel Coward's fine, brave film about the Navy, in which everyone should find something to give him pride and pleasure. The Big' Street. Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda in a Damon Runyon whimsy of the underworld, tenderly and skilfully done for its especial audience.

You-may like it very well, or find the whole thing outrageous. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. Sherlock Holmes and Watson, the screen's most picturesque anachronisms, are now solving the problems of global warfare and finding them elementary. The parts might have been written for Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and were, probably. Cairo, Jeanette MacDonald, entangled with Nazi spies, sings The Moon Looks Down on Cairo." Me too.

A uaiigu uui uy ni uer, ne produced here, with E. M. Nicholson. tWO SlinPrh htl-H CrtMrt Knnlrr Six years ago he put up plans coraing za one experience and knowledge of the composer's style; but the point I want to make is that such decisions are adventurous and have no connection whatever with the advice of scholarly amateurs who wish us to play what is written." Here we come to a useful distinction. Interpretation should mean an imaginative effort to see what is there, not an emotional effort to intensify the effect of something that, has hardly been seen at all.

The Viennese classics put in expression marks, as a rule, when they wished for some nuance that was not implicit in the notes as they stood; and if we wish to see what is there we should never play from bad, overloaded editions, but from the original texts which are marvellously clean and invigorating. Standards of Taste So far I have dealt with a single question of style; but let us approach the problem from another angle. Should it be our aim as modern interpreters of Mozart to understand precisely what his music meant to those who first heard it, and to play his works accordingly? Perhaps, on the contrary, this would merely lead ue to the obvious truth that there is mose in Mozart than can be fitted into any attitude towards him. We do not associate Chartres Cathedral with any particular period, for it embellishes all; and we can easily consume Mozart with stylistic attention, forgetting that his stature and humanity remain. Little wonder, then, that there are never more than a handful of great interpreters in any generation.

And now that we are deprived temporarily of their example it js all the more important that those who are heard most consistently by the public should uphold the finest possible standards of tafte. iui an euecuve sound library of aura rinniimpnt rv TKQ Aa You can depend on Cresta Utility, whether' it be -a. frock, suit or coat. The frock sketched may be seen at any Cresta shop 'and is jus -one of the many Utility styles we have in stock. You course, still find our non-UdOty tailored and afternoon -wool frocks and a very few 'in our hand-printed silk, although production of these is necessarily limited.

(Illustration: Style 3737. Price 3.1t3. Sizes, -14, 16, 18, 20. Colours, Rosewood, Brown, Convoy, Willow and Blue-j FAY COMPTON Prince Charming in Cinderella.11 at the Stoll. iDrarn by Stanley Parker.) romantic than true; but they are neatly handled, and green-room glimpses of Kilty Clive and Quin, Macklin and Mrs.

Pritchard, enliven them. Miss Rosalind Iden falters and advances, swoons and rhapsodises very prettily as the infatuated girl, while Mr. Eric Adeney blusters properly as her heavy father who enlists Garrick's aid Without stealing all Garrick's stage thunder and lightning, Mr. Donald Wolfit covers with confidence the histrionic gamut expected of a player who, no matter how lightly, assumes, with cloak and sword, name and fame of our greatest actor. H.

H. luca no, uuiiuug ui me Kina in tne country. Very late in the day the B.B.C. rivonllir rmi'a 1 i eavt itm.ii tx auui contract, soon terminated. Genius is often hard to swop memoranda with, anrl Tr TT nnU don now, alas, evacuate'd to the Isle of Man.

He finds an old flame, who, for her husband's sake, is prepared to return him very quickly to his cosy berth in Belgium. He steals an airplane, and streaks out across the Channel, with the R.A.F. on his tail. He runs into a formation 'of Messer-schmitts, who finish off the job with little or no regard for the susceptibilities of British propaganda. There those who will feel baulked by the end.

There are those wh6 will find it Joadistv Platonic, a supreme example of high poetic justice. There are few who will not. get kick of It, terrifyingly, in the pit of the As one who not find violent ijath entertaining, I could not have endured it had not Eric Portman's unselfish performance sounds which most of us ignore. oui i ao urge governors, directors, auci producers wno nave so neg- IpctpH hie vunrlr in Hclan comedy only, is full of earth and timber; magic glimmerings do in-; deed light the sky. but that same sky is also dotted with russet- i pated choughs and bordered by far-off mountains turned into clouds," a perfect image of our misty landscape.

In short, the forest 1 sweet, babbling brook; his dying uumuie Dee; me terriiying Sym- nHfinV rf Cfnal 11 nnr 1 v- "-i, auu ticva the strange chaos of his The Cresta Shops are NEW BOND BROMPTON SLOANE BAKER BRIGHTON, BOURNEMOUTH and BRISTOL. itfeiinciii uriumg, ana oeauuiui dawn chorus of birds. Listening to -tVioca THEATRE NEWS There, pre. no new West End productions this week. Several revivals are promised for the near future among them The Desert Song (which will come shortly to the Prince of Wales's).

"The Vagabond King." The Lette?" (with Rosalinde Fuller) and Vintage Wine 1CLULU3, hears a whole new area of radio 15 anywnere in cngiana. not somewhere in Mendelssohnia, and the fairies are not alien other-worldl creatures, but ourselves in our livelier, more fantastical moments. Shakespeare's fairies are not "fay." not the pixies or the little people of Victorian sentiment, suggested throughout a man who reality. Hncaaquarzers Hints of the 'Week (All Home Servioe.) The Story of the Tolstoys 18.15 n.m V1! mav ccmo as introduction to the forthcoming A SOLIUM OS war and Peace broadcasts. Poetrv readings (9.55 Mon day); Agate on books (4.15 Thursdavl: rphrnaHfact Ch ess Bridge By OUR CORRESPONDENT The following piece of defensive play is not spectacular or essentially brilliant, but it defeated an otherwise unbreakable contract It is just an example of partnership deduction and opportunism.

The bidding' had been North East South West I 4, 1 14 N.B. 3 A 3 CO 4. N.B. Linklater's moving Socrates Asks By BRIAN HARLEY Problem No 1.270. By rfolj'oyd wny p.m., and Peter Watt's reality play of Libyan mm.

war, ine Liionous Hazard" (10.30 p.m., Saturday). Short Wave at War should be interesting (9.20 p.m., Wednesday), and there is a heavy week for Brains Trust fane wifh ic. teners' Trust (7.30 p.m., Monday), THE A ft LE FOR FUEL 4 4 Bllc au Ised This is what West could see when he led the King of Hearts: 4k ana a religious one along lines I advocated some time ago (10 5 p.m., Thursday). Back-nH nf thp fht-ictmnc Q. 4 2 wit wk mi rM WWW, spirit: "Cinderella" (2.30 p.m.

I Monday); and Bud Flanagan with jockey Gordon Richards (7.45 p.m Saturday). 4 1 REMEMBER? 4 0 10. I 7 Sayings of the Week This war will last for a good twenty years.v -Berlin Radio. I am the oldest soldier in the British Army." Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood. "The London stage has reached un all time Mr.

Beverley Baxter, Mi1. In my opinion the critics were too kind to Mr. Beverley Baxter's play." Mr. Sydney Carroll. A tank that has been shot up is drawn away by the Russians from the battlefield, repaired, sent again into battle, snot up.

drawn away, repaired, hurled against the German lines, shot up. and so on." Major Balzer (German military commentator). West's King won the first trick, and before leading again he ruminated thus: "I must be able to take the first or second round of trumps White plays and mates in two moves. (In all diagrams White plays up the board.) 'iilpMilPtI No. 1,270 begins our SEVENTIETH SOLVING TOURNEY.

of original problems, running to the end of next April. No entry form is required, and joint solving is allowed. Keys (White first moves) or claims of no solution should ba sent to me at The Observer, 22. Tudor-street. 4.

on penny cards marked MS. for Press lor posted by the Thursday after puhlit-ation. Extra time is allowed for mem hem of Forces, etc. MurklnR: Each Kry or ccrtect claim of no solution cil Two-Move problem. 10; of a Three-Move piolilrln.

2u. Six copies of forthcoming book on thp Tin ec-Mnve problem. Mntr In Three Moves." will be awarded for the best scoi es Section A. Solvers who atlirln 15 per of Ihe maximum marking in Section will be awarded copies of Mule Two Moves No. 1,269.

By A. H. Qoulty Three moves. Kev Q5 Threat 2 R. rc07if(rtied in next column vpiouaoiy risi nas a voun and South must clear trumps out of the way for her Clubs.

If South has two Hearts. I think we can break this contract provided East follows my scheme, which is to ruff a Club." So at trick two West led his singleton 7 of Clubs, won by the Ace in Dummy. North led a Spade upon which East discarded a small Heart, and South finessed the Queen, taken by West with the Kins. Now West led another Heart, which Bust won with the Ace. She (hen pandered iiwhlle (somewhat to West's discomfiture), but finally led a Club accord inK to plan: South was understood to say something Tike: If you trump this.

West. I shall scream." but West took the risk and ruffed, thus taking his side's fourth trick and breaking the contract. Simple, but effective. Continued rom preceding etc. Vaiialions: 1.

BP 2. K--K1 IR -K0 5. K14I: 1. ft B8-1 2. etc 1.

BP. R--U4 or 0, 2 P--K14I. clc. Diml afier hy 2. H2 or Short mules follow QH else or QP P.

MurkiiiK ant lfi 2 oB lor Section Key 2iLfor Section The Key. cliang-llic lliuhls, removes the Iiom capture, but it initiates a magnificent series of etoss-rhecKS. There Is much sub-vin iet in particular, the White QKtP mates on 3 squares. No. 1,388.

Correction- The quintuple fully contains the quadruple after 1. Kt BP. and other choices. If 1. Kt.

Kt B4 I The chief musical event of the week is a performance of Berlioz's "Childhood of Christ" (Wednesday, 7.5 p.m.). There is a full-length contemporary work on Thursday at 10.35 p.m. Grace Williams's Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra. Percy Whitlock plays a programme of Bach's organ music, including the wonderful Prelude and Fugxie in minor (Friday, 11 p.m.); Dvorak's Te Deum will be hard from Glasgow Cathedral (Saturday, 2.30 p.m". I atso recommend Schumann's minor symphony (tn-morrow, 3 45 p.m.);' and, of i-nursic, the great Bcelhovcn piano tno.

op. 117 (to-dav, 12.10 p.m.). W. G. TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES HOME in in 44 lm V'A-m 7 NtftS 7-15- uht MUElc.

1 Clydebank Burgti Band: 8,15 Organ: 8.45. Brcords, 0,0, News; 9.30. lip. Music Talk: 11,20, Spi ce; trSO, Organ 12. 10 Uep-Jiovcn's.

ui Flat, Op 97 (The 12.45, Mostly for fVotnen i.o. News, 1,15, Rachmaninoff's Ptano Concerto No i in sharp minor. 1.45, For Home C.uards Only, 1.55, the Hymns of Charles Wese-y; Mr. Mlddleton; 2.30, the Scottish Orciiesira. i 3.30, The harden of Paradise" fHans Aitdeirs5n adapted aJid produced by Huffh Stewart, 4,5, Orchtsire Raymonde, 4 45, Ohrisflan News Bulletin.

5.0, Welsh News. 5.20. Children. 6.0. News.

6,30, Norwegian Nt'5. 6.45, Kseryman's War; 6.55 The Solar System. 7.0. Spanish Theatje Music. 7.4 5.

Workers oi ir- Wei-k 8.0, Serv.cc 8.40. Oood Came, 8 45, Salute to the Urrtfd Nfi'onv -9 0. News, Postscript bv V.olet Marnbani 9.30, Eric Lunklatrr Socrai es Aks Wnv 1 0.30, Epilosue 10 38. For Uie Armchair De'ectHe. 10.50 Padcrr ski.

11.3O Orchestra 1 2-d-1 2 20. FORCES U1 lm 48 78m 1 7.0. News. 7.15 HrfTCs 7 3a. 8 0 1 B.30 Song-; and Piano, 9.0.

rs. 9 30, Sjndav S-irenade, 10 15, erice 10 30. Feu Indian Forces, 11.0, Pand, 30. "Wnrleers Playtime; 12.0. h.Eh".

MU51C, 11.35 Boh Hope Programme 1 0. Nws 1.15, lima 1.45, L-Lght 2 15, Canadian Hockry; 2.50 Mjsic 3 0, While Ynu Work 4 15. Brains Tr'jst 5.0, March of the Muurv 5 30 Rivtlim ETilfrtaitt 0. New 6.30 1 Brbr. Vic and Ben 7.0 'S fiporls Rullr 7,10.

Ncws-Letter. 7 20, WEW-k F-Mms (Moorr Ri 7 30. Sundae Ha.f-Hoar 8.0, Records 30. erybod.y Scrap Boo5t, fl.O News and PosLMrnp-t. 9.30 1 L'on't Like RJiyihm 10.

Epilottua. 10.8, T.is'cn at Ease 10.30,- 11 0, Music Wn.ie You Work CROSSWORD No. 873 By i pn pn qp stant image of the creature That is belov'd (8) 27 Negligent about the object of his affections (6) DOWN 1 The Levite t'as one (8) 2 Traps lurk in the grass; turn it over to find them (7) 3 The lowest of the low 5 Lo! dust a hen's egg addled in a 1 London bus (B, 5) 6 What a crab did (5) 7 Alonso's wise old counsellor (7) Don't be caught napping Really bad weather is due any tithe riow don't let it find you without reserves of fuiL Remember that coal and coke deliveries may be held up fordays and saws enough out of your currentsuppltes to tide you over any suoh periods of shortage. PRIORITY PLEDGE With; the object of safeguarding the small consumer who has little or no room for -storing fuel, Major Lloyd George has promised -that deliveries to such households jshall have priority this winter. Arrangements) have oeen made with retailers all over the country to carry this pledge into effect, Sav up for a stormy day ic By -taking unburnt coal off the' fire last thing at night and sieving the cinders in the morning.

ic By banking every open fire thoroughly and using the poker as. little ns By sharingsybnrnesfile'With your neighbour and helping each other to keep up your reserves of fuel, ic By guarding against draughts; so that you. can keep warmer by a smaller fire. ACROSS 1 Shows pride with-a contemptuous barkward glance (6) 4 Both starting-point and destination of the progressive (8) JO Makes an unbroken record 7 11 This cannot be denied (7) 12 Bird of regretful-ness 15) 13 They dared to prepare iron rations (9) 14 Streets where lively and succulent food was on sale 5, 3, 6 17 The stars in her hair were seven (7, 7) 21 Weed that provides torture for the gardener and the Frenchman (9) 23 Worn by a girl who met a weterv end (5) A pet name affords an ex- On the Russian battlefields Red Army men lie wounded and in pain. The nurses who creep forward to tend them need drugs, bandages and other emergency equipment.

Later all the resources of medical science will be required if these wounded men are to be restored to life. Please help us to send further consignments of medical and surgical supplies to Russia. A generous donation is a tribute you lju payto our indomitable allies. MRS. CHURCHILL'S RED CROSS AID TO RUSSIA FUND I To Mrs Churchill's Red Cross "Aid to Russia" Fund I St.

James's Palace. London. SW.l Kijj' I iim I 8 Her name should have been Tom (6) Dark paving material (4, 10) Affects the society 15 of 19 (Borrow) (8, 3) 16 Skin trouble due to the surgeon being in liquor (8) 18 CAN YOU SAY? 1, Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore 11 What is the next line' 2 Into what fuur cl.tsses did Carlyle that sucietv r.iilura llv divides jtelf1 i What 1 4 Ho many nierbu ry Pilgrmis there'1 5 Which is the oldest English Golf Club? fj What was the peculiarity of the Dong (Aniwen on p. 8.) I Addrc-- Is her song heard again on the Rhine' 7 1 lead a club (7) Ensigns of autho 19 20 LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION AND NOTES ACROSS. 1.

Hodmandod 9. Obs; 12, Orris; 13. Million; 15. end 16. H.M.V.; 18.

Addle rev 19, Ma; 20. Arne; 21. Ino; Zo, Inlsh); 24. Emma; 25. Lid; 26.

Dual; 27, Negro; 50. Ming 32. GG? (Richard HI); 34, Manx rev 35. Saw. 3t.

LL: 38, Eu(xme); 59. Item lEmit); 41, Litotes; 43, Alan IBreck. R.L.S.) Regal; 47. Elliptically (anae DOWN. 1.

Dodman; 2. Ornamental (anafi. 3, Dream; 4. Nitre (anag.l; 5, Ash: 6. Dlvldlend); 8.

Olent; 9. Oidium; 10. Bodrages (a raid) 11, Snail; IT-. Melosls; 22, Lido 25, Lollop; 28, Gael; 29, R.M.: 50. Gath; 31.

Crown 53 Gurly; 34, (Eu)xine; 37, E-leg-y; 40, Mai; 42, Tea; 46, Al-rna. ample (7) 1 Joseph and 1 Charles were OI. er's sons (7 I 26 in all mo-I tions else, 1 Save in the con rity but not bodies of officers (6) 22 Opposite of 27 (5) 1 uutO fr dniul, r0 l.r jl 5(. John J.MuaiuB. RiSnurtd uadtr th War Cjuui iy4..