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e. THEATRE By FOll. AND LIFE BROWN -iZz WILLIAM GLOCK MAviPSC -majorsym- Aphony is to' be broadcast 'again By TOM HARRISSON MB. ERNEST THURTLE. Par.

IS we 'at the winter sbtoelyrpUi lam fr amine rjatterned fields. The Shakespearean scenery, dresses "seem to have beena hotch potch and he acting a riot of ego tism, -in which the leading actor seized all the fat and gorged himself thereon in public. (Mac-ready's stage-greed is described in some detail.) What these vain creatures needed was a producer to bang their silly heads together and tell them to stop pulling their damnable faces and bfSfin. Begin what? To act the reaLfihakespeare as it was set dowjjCBIfto behave as people of integrity belonging to a fellowship of players working for a common artistic effect. Mr.

Agate actually dismisses the remedy for the egotistical and nonsensical theatre of Siddons and Kean by calling the producer a modern nuisance. Yet he dedicates nigbook to Mr. Ciielgud, the most scrupulous of Shakespeareans, himself a busy producer and one willing to be produced (witness his work with Granville Barker), a player always eager to achieve the finest possible casting of the small roles, a point which never occurred to the self-centred Keans and Kembles, and so to bring out every possible dramatic significance instead of dancing a pas de seul. My own theory is that the empurpled actor-managers of that time were taken as vastly impressive because the audience had no The genteel listeners were proud of being sentimental-a lon-pre vailing vogue and were delighted to be struck all of a blubbering heap, while the tough elements were so termagant that they screamed arid stamped and rtoterl for weeks on endbecause they didn't like a Kerhble's prices or a Kean's morals. The theatre of Kean's period was a rough house The famous little debauchee, like staider Kemble before him, spent night after night combating If It was a point of honour for a tragedian to ifiake the stalls faint and the pit forgo its cackle and catcalls, the acting had to be garish, blatant, and wildly rhetorical.

There was, no doubt, a specific culture, a grandeur even, in this rhetorical display, but I suggest that it wholly lacked finSsse. Those audiences would surely have dismissed Mr. Gielgud as nothing, a frail whisperer. Each age to its taste. I merely suggest that our taste is the subtler and more civillsed.

At any rate the hurlers of the old thunderbolts evoked some grand descriptive writing, on which Mr. Agate comments with vivacity. But why we are not to relate Sarah Siddons or Kean to our modern stage I cannot tell. Mv own view is that we should smile instead of shiver if they started to throw that sort of weight about in these days; in turn their audience would have howled our gentler stars off the stage inside of five minutes. From which I derive the confident opinion that our own theatre, so often charged with puerility, is really quite an adult at least when matched with the beargarden of early nineteenth-century histrionics THIS WEEK Today.

Ghingoibe and Misanthrope et L'Auvergkat." Comedy. (Theatre Moltere: matinee.) TN his introduction to "These I Were" Actors (Hutchinson, 12s. Mr. James Agate ob serves of Mrs. Siddons, it is a mark of futility in playgoers to ask what we should think ot the great Sarah's acting if we were- to see it to-day.

The question is improperly put. What we ought to ask, eireept that there is -no need, is: What should we think of a modern actress whose genius in our day was comparable to thatpi the Siddons in hers? I have read this statement dare- fully several times over and stall I remained puzzled by it. Why can- i not we relate the records of past performance to present -valuation? Mr. Agate's most engaging volume has plenty of his own scholarship, high spirits, and gust," as the 18th century called it. It is, in fact, a book of old Press cuttings concerning the theatre at the beginning of the last century, the doonvs-day of British' drama as an appeal to mind, the heyday of histrionic exuberance, and of the criticism that fed on this flamboyance.

It was a period df riots and hysteria in the audience arid of egotism and exhibitionism in the actors such as are now only paralleled in film-studios. Indeed, the chronicle inclines one to consider that the cinema has done a deal of good ir the world, namely, by draining into its own conduit so much of silly excitability and of human idiocy, in general that we are now spared in the theatre the odious scenes which a Hazlitt or a Lamb often had to endure at Covent Garden or Drury Lane. Why should we shrink from any estimation of a resurrected Siddons and Kean? We know from numerous portraits, some of them kindly reproduced by Mr. Agate, that they frequently looked absurd. Tneir costumes were a fantastic medley of styles and periods.

Mrs. Siddons, as Lady Macbeth, is hee shown as a Romanesque matron, with the air of some monstrous Games Mistress practising elocution, and suggests only that the Father of the House of Commons has collided with the Mother of the Gracchi. Of the same player's array for Rosalind Mr. Agate gratuitously records an account, Her Hussar boots with a gardener's apron and petticoat behind, gave her a most equivocal appearance, which rendered Orlando's stupidity astonishing, in not making a premature discovery of bis mistress. Strange gear for greatness! The theatre of the time, it is perfectly obvious, had no sense of Unable, to construct plays of its own (Mr.

Agate admits that the Dramatist-in-Chief of the eiarly nineteenth centuxy, Sheridan Knowles, only produced an extraordinary mixture of rodomontade and it repealed botched versions of the classics Shakespeare, abominalry rewritten ever since the days of Tate and Cibber, was never played in anything like the proper text, and even J. P. Kemble, supposed bv his coevals to be almost pedantically a purist, produced The Tempest as a light opera, with additional lyrics in the style of his own period. I have lot of thirigs in li43rnd thern: taentarv of" Desert1 Victory the feefflulne-wfBisney 'Wicfer" Through K.ir PriwMrvf Since -'Bing Crosby smging moments- of. Can 'John: in tvervi 'thlhgislfefdoes, Rochester in The meanest.

Man: in tne world the singers-, "The suent called' -atbe good senseV pr; Britisb- Fleet'r Celta John: in "Dear My horses What else-' bapi happened i ehed in 1843? "'Mir, ntioh -attAAv" Viannamtx MpiMo.therF',lSley;T'i:,' kept on. -Aieaais -spreen vRoberti TJaylo? Brian- Doiflevy.AilanVJones.But!f gess, Meredith; Sanders, and ViWallace Anne- Boxtgr won-' a ppstftufnousr.parasol.";. The great Mnll cveie beasnv J.blew herself 3jp: DomD, eann ijearira Durbiri aiUtt-ughta't? tory wbrlt Dietrich and 'Ann -Sothern. It wasf year of- swing-bands and all-star casts. and revivals; 'It was the year in which we heard lyrit5ygem And whePyou get to.

India; 111 still be blnV, Herbert Marshall, hereinafter never as aetor," spoke seven different parts (one female) in one. Russian' picture. A Justicel Said that films were pagan, ana clergyman aescrioea tnem'as realspiritual experience. TworrJaldenladies in Beaconsfield 'in my coffee. I w-aY'accused of being anti-British and' antiAmerlcan sentimental and jrynicalr All' in all, 1943 seems to have been a normal, healthy year.

THE NEW FILMS ThlSf, Is th Army (Warners) Irving Berlin's all-soldier revue, brought to the screen with George Murphy and other civilian help; big, lusty.jWeHrdnllea and well-meaning. annougn -a urae proux in stating its sfinpleisartlelesjof faith. The num-bers'souhd considerably better than when sung on the air by soprano- and male chorus of two, but is stlU no known way in which' grown men dressed up as women can become a tasty, spectacle. Cry; Hvoo (Empire). An adapted staje-play'.

about the nurses of Bataani and quite -the best shot yet at treating the theme. The scene is a the cast, -headed by Margaret Sullavan, is rigidly all-female; the plot almost leans over backwards in its attempt to exclude men; but the result is a piece with dramatic shape, austere, and often extremely moving. Tfta Nelson- Touch (Leicester Square). A good, honest, semi-documentary with some imaeination and rerparkably little nonsense, about tne voyage or a (anacuan corvette escoMing a convoy to Britain. Randolph Scott, and Barry Fitzgerald are aboard, but not ostentatiously.

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Obtainahle'everywliere-i-l4 26. MINISTRY OF FUEL -POWER. By C. A "ihere we' are the, bepinnlnc of W-J another :7 film A'blank- n- fagement-diary- lies before-jneias ThreeVcrkss-stltch swans 'wim 1 vcrossrstitch.mari regardsftthe. a xi ddaI ioT tri orTX.thlBr.vf flCe5SIXf hew fflm critlcs.

IaMOt'reatturef strangers. Wej neve in; comjpuii qrnuuy. evpnne suuaw, my 1 old were, friends. eacn: other. When I scribbled' aiainst a "film; the-meaning was' cleariand inescapable.

It-'had a consoling the top oteach a bunch "of anemories on the cdver. The week' irsaw-iHello, assured 'imsV Hope Patience are softest cushians' to lean on in iadversity." AndVX swear anemone fromttne to wilt if rom the day of I- have ilist been looking through before' Her'eWdn- re served AteHratie-f Davs: I find a list to me the year's classic only four of them: La Fu du Jour. 4' -The Magnificent Ambersons' Stranqe Incident." Over the page is a -longer list of -T 1:1 KUUU llUllb UA.C "The "fShtidow of a Doubt Kinit's and half brilliance; The comedy, nan inspiration and half imbecility; "Millions-- Like TJs The Gentle delightful "Holy Matrirafony "Colonel Blimp." which-said so' little 'so handsomely; I Married a Witch." In the space allotted to Accounts I have Jotted my choice' of the -year's outstanding performances: Claude Haina In Casablanca." Agnea Moorehead -in The laanm- Paul. Lukas In Tm -Watch on the Katlna Paxlnou ih 7 Fob Whom the BEI.t-..TOfa.. John Milla In WeJPivb at Daww.

Michel Simon In XLa. Frr bu Joor. T.lnvrl.-KolAn In "BataaiT." Roger rLlveaey 1m" Coixinbl Blimp." Martlti Miller in SqUAraum Usabbb On following page, (i'The ni cht i s' darkest before 'the dawn-' ') I find a' list' of- ing performances performances have 'given me 1 the most superb -Dudley Field Malone, as Winston Churchill; in Mission to Moscow," comes "head of the list; Charles Laiighton, with two entries Tales of Manhattan" ahd The from Down: iust wrests second place from Hedy Lamarr in blackface it is a moot point whether Bed Skelton. as Louis XV. in "Du Barry Was a Lady." was more embarrassing than Bette Davis as a torch-singer in Thank Your Lucky Stars." By OUR CORRESPONDENT HOW- oftenrhave you not seen a co'ntract'handed on'a platter to a Declarer who'-was dependent on.

an opponent's mistake to get home? Curiously enough, there is one peculiar little trait which some which is not so apparent as some: that is. a deep, reluctance to play an Ace, second hand, on a King or a King on a Queen for that matter especially in No -Trumps." Look at this: a 10 9 Qf 10, 9, 0 J. 9 x''x 0 Q. J. io, 10, A 9 The contract was inree g-, Trumps by South, ana my iriena who-' was -South, did not fancy his chances.

However, a-Club was opened, EastU- underplayed his and-South, having won with the Queen, led the King of Hearts. And here is where West tripped up. Now the fnnritinn of an Ace is. to kill a King. but 1 West jwas either avaricious, or asleep or- Insane, because even nis partner had nothing at all, nothing useful could be served by holding up his As it was, of course, the King won, and then on the lead of a small Heart by South, West came to, played his Ace too so pre- (West led a Diamond next, and later on South took the double finesse in Spades.) If West does put up his Ace of on the King, East's.

Knave becomes set up, and on being cleared, can 'make- two Hearts three and so break. Uie contract IWest is believed to-have considered playing the Ace on the. principle of covering an honour with an. honour, bub was not sure if the Ace was an honour. He knows how.

A. x. 1,., 1 -1 A. on ursday-evenlngr-'atidaS'-it derision; -a little about: it. that those, who, wm hearing-, it neither; Jot vthi first or secbhd'tlrne someldegree' The flrstfpa'geVdf the' score has the following lnscrintian "niTOpho'ccVmpbie'jsd'Itt de Lneu estaeaiee7au- phony OrchMtro? I'occasfoftdu cinquantenairp- de The last page bears -date: Beverley There are.

four irrOvementSvi'The' Is moderate in' pace, closely argued, full of meat; and almost continuity; the' second Uarene, and decoratiVe; the, third' contains a minuet, passepied and iUfue; and is. a banquet of uneairhyJirjris; the. seems more and lest integrated ithan'the first movement but is related to It; jind-ehds with a very-; StTavlnskyahpTCces-: wwu vi vuuiua. uuHra uu tiny open-. Ing theme the I thiiifc oa of ties both for nlaverit anrl lliiinnr.

is ve minv of th pages look 'snowy-white. A may pbe asked to play -wlterthe vdeUcacy pfcK a mav KnVA" tn -Ritattrin Mho pg age 'in which, every ijninej.otnerJ 'aiiu. (4iiufr. os Kiinnpn -flowering--fas towards the end. of movement, wnere tne wind instruments break out into: a sort of bUssfUl gauHtyso that everyone has be equallycharri-ber musician and virtuoso.

ivShft kind ioft imagination? it that finds in this entirely hazardous use of the orchestra? Obviotislyjitrmust be aiming ai, jio uwu unique -ana proper quality of texture; should say that, the choice of Instruments reconciles-. two distinct things a ana me neea to define 'the'yarious; rhythmic, elements whosi interplay gives the music its immediate surface vitality. The sobrietv flnds out. let in classical procedures; ahd I daresay some of the material invites the favourite criticism levelled at Stravinsky on such Occasions that he. merelv achieves a drv misunderstnrirlinff of the eighteenth century.

Yeti prefer to apply-. Tovey's philosophy: the truth' is that" great artists always' do' invent tevery-thing. and that it not in the matter which ot them in vented anyimng nrst." The- slow movement ot this symphony has. its own authentic quauty, whaU ever comparisons it maysuggest; wmie me nrsi movement seems to me one of the most masterlv things Stravinsky has ever I wish I could describe its character precisely; but perhaps its originality les in the varied constituents which produce a kind 01 multiple activity. Celestial Machine All the same, I would like to suggest one way of approaching this music.

The.F major1 theme, with its staccatissimo horns, its Quietly active first violins and quivering seconds its, pulsiijgandi monotonous oass, lis occasional hod of satisfaction from the oboe, makes one think of a celestial machine; and the whole' movement seems to have something of this quality, with a cumulative effect over and above the unity of every scrap, of material and every turn of events. I have already mentioned the procession of chords with which the symphony closes. In all, there are eleven rhythmic 'variations based on the principal theme of the first movement; they begin witl) isolated, entries of small groups of instruments, and' then usurp the whole thought and texture. It is. an Impressive piece of writing; but, although I do not pretend for- an instant that the symphony Is equal in quality throughout, you will find many such great moments, Few works in recent years have deserved more careful attention.

Continued from preccdfn0 column), solution. Marking 1a 10 for ea.cn or correct claim of no solution, o- a two-move problem: 20 of. a three-move problem. Competitors send only this, posting by the' following! Friday to me at The 32; uaor-sxreet. -J.

fenny postcards, marked MS for Press above the address, jurlll do. There will be at least 20 prizes of chess books for tile highest scores in the four months. No. 1,321. By George Unwiri.

3 moves. Key K3. Threat 2. QBT 3. Bs, with.

other mates following Black firsr moves and Kt Bl If 1. RR OS, 2. Kt Kt 1. KR OS. 2.

R-Oe. etc. These two variations form the Plachutta theme of Interference be tween Black pieces of motion' IR's) the pin-mates after moves are embeMishments. If 1. a.

i 'B3. etc. Triple after l. Kt Qs by 2. Threat or Q6 or dual after 1.

QT or s. by 2. Threat or B3; dual, after 1. B5 -by 2. Threat or dual after, l.

KB by 2. Threat or QR. Masking for Section 45: for Section B. ZO. Fine, Intricate problem.

-sHot through wTthheage-hiadefl xoads and lanes ana pains, racing UD to' houses 1 ana" nomesteaas SanA ihernselves ffevealed arid tree ana dusb ana genue 'con tour; as we eaten oy tne way glimpses oi caxue inline nasture. hardly less green -for the winter, of folk plckinal Derriea, me wnere ered rooks and Starlings and ureen nlover car eerinn below the' broken clouds, we can scarcely but absorb a portion ot the sort of contentment which is the -gift of all simple; lovely things. Yet landscape 1b to hold a certain supremacy: it lives with us as a-condition of humanity, like the alt breathe. Its mere presence "gentller on the spirit falls than petals from blown roses on the t-nd there is scarcely a country scene through the length and breadth of this island that does not. exercise this quiet influence at least on who dwell in Its midst.

It is not unnatural to desir.to' seek a cause for such" a general; almost: a' universal, feelinff: and.of late quite a number of wrltersiave set ananas xa ine. lanaivsiK after the manner of Mr.i3)Wliifiml oupin a xiampsmre parson, con temporary witn uiiDertiMwnite; who' sought out and pursued what he horribly called the pic turesque 7 throughout England: He. things; anapainiea pleasing he was jnuch laughed.1 at in bis day, an69.wtorthe. WttTof Dr. Syntaxes modernM analysts touch deeper" truths.lt as been' claimed for Or.

Vaughan Cornish that he is the first to have discovered the inwardness of geography; and his latest little book, in true succession to many others on the theme, carries us a little farther into the art Of scenic enjoyment. Lord Avebury made his Scenery of England a handbook of geology, a-singularly partial view of this England, which' has the most human of landscapes because human love of the land made it. In the Beginning The picturesque view is hardlv shallower' than the ceoloei- cal, in spite of Its depth. Mr. Grant Watson, in the midst of a score and more of little and singularly original cameos of England and of Its natural Ulbkury, uica vaiianvij in one chapter to discover the philosophy of our love of land scape.

In a third dook, a most lovely volume, uie pnoiograpuer Just plays the artist to the English fecene and the people who have their being In it, being to quote short passages from the poets arid a line or less of comment. Well, Mr. Grant Watson deserves our thanks for suggesting that landscape is like the Word which was in the beginning. Mr. tlsborn, who, writes a preface to The Beauties of has an idea when he suggests that the ideal is to pe-come a scientific child; but it must be confessed that the pictures of the English scenes suggest a deeper philosophy than any argued theory.

A phrase from the poets, a chance- adjective, ar about the only weapons from the of thought that can aid the eye ahd its emotion. One photograph from This Other Eden of an island patterned by the labour of a hundred generations is more eloquent than the subtlest probings of Mr. Gilpin's modern successors, subtle and suggestive though they are. We do not enjoy scenery: we breathe it. B.

T. Tha Baautlu of Scenery." By Dr. VaiKhan Oornkh. (Mullar. si.) "Walklnc With ranoy." By Grant Wation.

tuouniry una. itra. an.i "Thli Ottiar Man." By Val Doona. John Lane. 21.

Chess By BRIAN HARLKY Problem No White plays and males in Uo moves. rln all diagrams White playa up the board. I no. 1 .392 begins seventy- THIRD SOLVINi TOURNEY, running to the end of April. No entry lorm la required ana oini solving -is auowea.

Owing jto oversight, a problem may occasionally be solved by more than one Key I White first move), when all must be claimed, or it may have no Continued nert column) ACROSS 1 for they are inclin'd to" By damning those they have no mind to (Butler) (8) 5 It might be a good idea to put it back in the middle of the day (6) 9 Some traveller(B) 10 Strike tents? (6) 12 Just one rat in the river (9) 13 No rot in the links 5) 14 Not where Eskimos do business (6) 17 Followed by a stag for diet (5) 20 You can dodge the girl with ease (5) 21 Extract of Sterne (6) 24 Low down in Wales (5) 25 Capitalists? (9) 28 Split in three (6) On Unln fl PH IP um Wm rf if lilii II ft 81 BBS mm. DOWN 1 On the Swan age 2 There's wrong here (6) 3 Vitally fruit 4 Intellectual his nerve (5) 6 Revo (9) 7 Theologically 8 Shut up 11 More of than a (6) 15 Used who sit altogether 16 Lofty, a (6) 18 Where to reels (8) 19 Was his i car? (8) 22 Outhouse liamentary Secretary to. the Ministry of Information, lately won a plate of honour in the Sayings of the Week." He remarked that It was difficult to-get anything political or ceneorable into programmes such' as Desert Island Discs," a comment ceived with kindly laughter. He made his point neatly, namely, that "mere is much in our radio which treads on no toe at all. There Is only one little flaw In his simile.

Simply, Desert island Discs to take his own selected example, for almost any other programme would suffice is often censored in the BJ3.C. style. I myself had the pleasure of performing on Roy Plomley's atoll not long ago, and caused some alarm by suggesting that I wanted, as my first record, the "negro folk "Jericho." This, it was thought, had a broadcasting ban on it; It trod on some theological toe. Fortunately, I really warned "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed- nego, and this proved theologically sound, evrn as delivered by jazzs head heathen, Louis Armstrong. Censored A few weeks before I had Riven a brief talk on animal mentality.

In which I mentioned the remarkable experiments in Portugal, U.S.A., and elsewhere which resulted in the new operation called lobectomy. Scientists are far from sure what job the part of the human brain, called the pre-rontal lobe," really does. Some people have even Uvea on quite well after losing a' lot of it. Now surgeons have discovered that by cutting oil these lobe from the rest of through small holes made In front of 'the. ears, they can leave the cut-off portion adrift inside the skull.

This extraordinary operation, the only one Invented In the last six years, and still in an experimental stage, has already produced some remarkable cures of the unhappy insane. That paragraph is an exact copy of what was deleted from my script. I'was told that it would have to -be passed by high medical authority, and there was no time to do this. In another talk, In the same series, I referred to the famous studies made by Doctors Gray and Moshinsky, of London University, on the comparative Intelligence of children enjoying public school education and those who had no opportunity of higher education. This, too, was delicately deleted as unsuitable tor broadcasting.

Don't think I go around earning B.B.C. blue-pencils. In the days before I wrote this column, when I wfe much In London, I even gained some small reputation as a tactful radio commentator. I once gave topical and political talks to Asia for several months without a single question In the House of Commons! Many have been less fortunate, and' lately an M.P. was stopped, at twenty-four hours' notice, from continuing a successful and longstanding series ot talks to Europe, because in one he had spoken sharply of certain Conservatives.

All topical broadcasts are subject to these restrictions. 'Returning to Mr. Thurtle's Desert Island Discs," for instance, I happen to know two other recent cases. In one. the guest had a record struck off the programme by an urgent note handed to him while he was actually broadcasting.

In the other, a (amoui uuouc man wisnea to say, friendly aside, that the B.B.C. was sometimes a bit vague over practical matters these da vs. This mild understatement was not Dassed for public consumption. Almost every week people write to me with examples, irritating to them and amusing to me, of this censorship, wnicn touches every programme from a score of different angles and interests. For examDle.

iokes are banned at present on such subjects as me nome vjuara. w.v Domo- ing, Americans. Latin American ac cents, strong drinks, the Brains irust. and British officers N.C.O.s are still fair game! Sitting on the Fence Now I have often in this column drawn attention to the continued carefulness, the constant sitting on trie fence, which characterises the B.B.C.'s treatment of topical and political Issues, and which has now caused Howard Thomas, the producer of the Brains Trust and Vera Lynn, to leave the Corporation. I have emphasised this because such policy ill serves public In telligence, democratic principles In general, and the long-term goodwill 01 me b.b.u.

in par ticular. There are several oos slble methods for eettini? round the difficulties of controversy, one of the simplest being the regular "Upset Hour for controversial matter. wnicn 1 suggested months a Bo. As we approach nearer and nearer to peace, and the grave, gigantic Issues facing us all then, the polite silence of Broadcasting House becomes a matter of increasing concern. This winter has shown.

I think, a new low ebb of lively talking. By its present policy the B.B.C. is unintentionally encouraging a return to that apathy and political ignorance which brought us so near to ruin In 1940. This Week: All Home Start of promising new series Actors' Progress (To-day, 10 p.m.), and return of entertaining Appointment with Fear" 9.35 p.m.). Concluding third of Bach's Christmas Oratorios, now broadcast in full (Wednesday, 7.155 p.m.).

Red Army play (To-day, 3.J0 p.m.). TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES HOME 1203.5m.; 391.1m.: 48.54m. i. 7.0, News: 7.15, 7.S0, Greetings: India; S.10, Blind. 8.40.

Organ: 8.0, Xevt; 9.30. Service: 10.lK Piano. 10.30, Light Music: 11.0, Music Talk: 11.20, Welsh Service, 12.5, L.S.O irecorda); 1.0, News: 1.1s, Bisnop of Coventry: 1.20, Country; 1,30, abottlsh Orchestra: 5.1S, Mr. 2.30, Chm-ber Music; 3.30. "The Thirteen iplavi.

4.30, Organ: 4.45, Rev. J. Noble, 5.O. Welsh. 5.20, Children, a.0, News; B.30, Travelers: 7.0, Radio Doctor: 7.5, Talk.

7.15, Syrnphony Orcheatra, a.0, Servlcr, 8.40, Good Cause a. 43. In Memoriam News, Postscript: 0.30. Theatre Qrohestr: 10.0. Actors' Prorreas 10.30, Epilogue: TO.

38. Records; 11.10, Septet; 11.40, Piano; 12.0-12.20. Newt. FORCES (296.1m.; 342.1m.). 0.30, Reoords; 7.0, Newa; T.i Sextet; 7.50 Records; 8,30, Caflro: 0,0, Newa; 0.30, Serenade: 10.15, Service, 10.30, Indian Forces; 11.0, Band: 11.30, Workers' Playtime, 12.0, Light Music: 12.30 Kma 1.0, News: 1.15, Jack Benny; 1.40, Light Music, 2.1 5, Ice Hockeys 2.30, Canadian Revue.

3.0, Light Music: 3.30, Northern Orchestra: 4,15, Brains Trust. 5.0, 5.10, Films; 5.30, Transatlantic Call; 6.0 News: a.30. Sunday H-alt-Hour: 7.0, Canadian News; 7.5, News-Letter; 7.16, Happi-drome; fl.o. Organ. B.15, Grand Hotel; 0.0, News.

Postscript, 9.30, Light Music: 10.0, Epilogue, 10.S, Records; 10.30, Light Music CAN YOU SAY? 1 1. Which was the first London street I to be lighted by gas? -2. What English poets have written aboiit (a) a grocer, (b) a kmte-1 grinder'' Whose advice was it fo "Speak softly and carry a big stick The name of Llewellyn's dog? The honorary member had trifled once too often with his terrors. Who was this? Name three poets who have memorial in Poets Corner (Answers on page 5) no DOUBLE ACROSTIC Solution Proem. Leap Year.

1, Loganberry. I 2, Eyesore 3, Araucaoia (Monkey I Puzrle). 4. Plover. COAL ALLOWANCE JANUARY In ordir to conserve Btocks in readiness for -the crucial inilitary operations that are approaching, it is necessary to reduce tie supplies of coal to domestic consumers, 'and to order that the existing stocks in merchants' yards shall be kept for.

use in ihose periods when supplies from the pit-Head may be interrupted for various reasons. 1 The supply of coal to any household during the month of January will be 4 in of England, and 5 cwt. in the North. These" are the maximum quantities that can be supplied. Irrorder to relieve undue pressure on the many who must rely wholly or mainly on coal for heating and cooking, it is essential' that users ofc gas and electricity should cut their consumption at once.

BEFORE YOU ORDER ANY COAL 'read' these points carefully Persons whose stock amounts to otic ton or more, may hot obtain additional supplies of coaL Coke and large anthracite remaiaftee otrcstriction. Small anthracite and Welsh dry steam coal, or manufactured fuels; may be -obtained up to a maximum of-10cwtV during provided that no person-raises his total stock of these fuels above 30 cwt. CROSSWORD No. 925. By ARGENT road to MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT YOU CAN GET 7 sipek limit wilt be 5 cut.

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