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THE OBSERVER, SUND ApCOBER THE FILMS en THEATRE By IVOR AND LIFE BROWN By W. E. WILLIAMS AND YOUNG" is an act better known to the Services than to civilians. What's more, it isn't one of those comic-combinations, like Flanagan and By OSBERT LANCASTER JJIGH 'summer in the art-world is a stale unprofitable season. The galleries are filled with odds, and ends however they may be rearranged5 and under whatever novel, and alluring title they may be displayed, have long since become too familiar' to the regular visitor to excite any interest.

The dealers themselves weaf preoccupied and disinterested air as they scurry through the. galleries to their private cubby-holes, sheltered from the public gaze by a screen of the inevitable second-rate Here they- are at once immersed in the final staff-work before the opening- of the autumn campaign. The fifth summer of the war -has, inevitably, seen an intensification of normal lassitude; almost nothing coming in from abroad and-'the majority of the, younger painters far too busily engaged elsewhere to be able to do more than produce an occasional sketch or retrieve, a five-year-old canvas hitherto overlooked at the back of the studio. Two Capitals By way of compensation however, it looks as though the autumn season should prove more exciting than any for some time. Several o'f our native masters will be showing important new works and there is every reason to hope that, before the season ends, London will have a chance of seeing what Paris has been doing during the last four years.

In addition there has just opened, too late un St Arronmraair rm KM. Kmc Gcaua TL Makers of FINE SOAPS for Fifty. Years Che' name which is traditional In the art of soap making friends of the hospital would no doubt wish to know that MOORFIELDS has received a direct hit from a flying bomb, extensive damage being We deeply regret that seven patients lost their lives. Moorflelds Eye Hospital City Road London, E.CI wrifer. would not have been hall so Sydney Greenstreet oozes horrific amiability as only he can, but the.

casting of Peter Lorre as a harmless Professor with a penchant for writing detective stories Is a great error of judgment. "We are; sp accustomed to see Mr. Lorre play a1 suave- villain that anticipation is continually disappointed, and film suffers in con-seguence. And' why, oh why, has Hollywood1 suddenly decided that all 'foreigner's must" speak in throaty accents and in broken EngltshC? The result is not is merely unintelligible. If you "can't hear what people say, why make them speak? The Hitler-Gang (Carlton) is an extraordinary film, even if it is not entertainment.

It is -an, intimate and very largely authentic account of the rise of the Nazi Party to Dower, and shows Hitlefr. Goerine. LGoebbels and the rest not only as tney appeared to the world but also ras they appeared to each other. It is obvious hat enormous care has. been taken to make this film -as realistic as possible, and the.

almost uncanny acting of the cnier cnaracters none ol them well-known stars gives the whole thing a strange, almost newsreel quality. But why was it ever made at all? It tells us nothing we don know. It shows us a lot we would much rather forget, and as it can't, for reasons, be-ended, it all seems very pointless. Greenwich Village (Odeon) is another of those highly coloured romps Carmen Miranda -and Don Ameche. This time Mr.

Ameche is a composer from the backwoods, whose music is used by the proprietor of a Greenwich Village speakeasy, (William Ben-dix) as a rival attraction to the Follies of the Great Ziegfeld. Probably like me you have always thought that Whispering Was just- a tuneful little foxtrot. It seems we were wrong. Whisper ing was apparently the theme of a mighty concerto, composed by Mr. Ameche for orchestra and three oiahos.

The things they do jn Hollywood; Still, Greenwich Village is a prettv slick little musical, and it is pleasant to see that the 'colour experts are beginning to realise that colour can be used intelligently. SUBURBS AND PROVINCES The White Cliffs of Dover. There are Blue Birds, over The White Cliffs of Dover." Handsome, good-hearted gush, with Irene Dunne as the heroine of Alice Duer Miller's narrative poem. The Curse of the Cat. People.

A bizarre and spooky little piece, for lovers of the Algernon Blackwood school. Recommended as a collector's item. With Simone Simon and a clever child actor, Jane Randolph. Mr. Emmanuel.

Felix Aylmer. as Louis Golding's kindly old Lancashire Jew, who goes to pre-war Germany and asks too many questions for his own good. A well-meaning, conscientious film, with about as much art as a postage stamp. Cobra Woman. A Technicolor frenzy of the South Seas, with Sabu, Jon Hall, and Maria Montez as the snake in the grass skirt.

E. R. T. Miss 6. A.

Lejeune will resume her nicies snoruy. I THINK it was Valentine Williams who once remarked that evil makes pvelier reading than good for the simple reason that the blameless life is static while ill-doing implies action. The same' thing might with some justice be said-of the screen. At any rate one. is justified in drawing the corollary that unless the portrayaj evil carries action 'with it there-is something wrbng-31nthe portrayal.

There -is a good', example of i this in VTtfe Mask of Dimftffos, the new film at the Warner Theatre. Adapted from Mr. Eric Ambler's storv'bf that -name, it has- succeeded in-i being nothing more the stuffed dummy of the story that Mr. Ambler wrote. There is good acting, but nothing very much- to act.

There is evil in plenty, but it is only suggested and not per- lormen. And mere is- on top 01 all that worst of all possible methods, the creation mystery for its own which almost always ends in being a bore. i You can, I think, tell a murder story on the screen, in one of three ways; you can deal with it in the form of direct narrative, letting your audience see everything that is going on while your characters remain in This, if competently done, can be very effective, as Double Indemnity recently showed. You can announce beforehand that you are going make your audiences' tiesh creep, and proceed to pile horror on horror in order to do so. But you don't do this if you are.

'wise. for the result is rarely horrific; it is much more likely to. be funny. Lastly, you can let the atmosphere of your mystery create itself, as Cat People did so magnificently, and Journey- into Fear and Ministry- ol Fear did almost as well. But to do this you must have the well- nign perfect script, and neiuier vour dialogue, vour casting, nor vour direction must be allowed to distract from this building up of atmosphere.

"The Mask of Dimitrios fails because it is built on the second of these methods. It creates mystery for the sake of creating mystery. It poses a question, Who is Dimitrios?" and continues to pose it for an hour and a half. Ordinary concentration is not equal to the task. I think Mr.

Ambler, who showed in 1 ne ay Ahead" that he is a born script Bridge By OVR CORRESPONDENT I AST week I set out a hand which exemnliflerl the kind o( disaster which carr befall a light opening1 One No-Trump when the defence counter-attacks with a pi ncer. move ment. The cards- were 10, 9, 8 10 8, 2 8. 7.4 4k 5, 3, 2 6. 4, 0 7, S.

4 4 9, 6, 5 8, 7 5 0 Q.9.& 4b 10, 3, 4 10, 6 K.Q.J East was playing One No-Trump," doubled' by South, the score being: game and 90: game and 40. South led the S.J. The play went as follows; where possible I have set out in parentheses the way in which the players thought out their play. South WeBt North East 1. -T 0 1 (South: ''North wants me to continue Spades, so.

2. ti 8 INorth That seems to mark East with the Ace and South with the K. 10. Well, there's no hurry to clear Spades fqr South, who can do it for himself when he gels in. His double shows a longing for a lead through East; let's try the H.10") 3.

CQ 4. 53 10 (East: "I think little or nothing of this. Where do we eo from here? I suppose I had better lead a Club, and like 2 3 0 io (South North is asking for Diamonds, so 1 11 lead them. 7. 0 3 0 0A 0 8 (North Having the H.8 as well as the H.9 makes it look as though another Heart lead may be a good 8.

2 4 2JL 5 East held up the King in the faint hope that South has the' H.A bare. (North "lam not going to waste the chance of a lead; East may have the D.K, in which case I can't help it. but I think a Diamond lead is clearly 0J 0 0 0 South then made three out of the remaining four tricks with H.A. D.K, and C.K. Eat only made 'his two Aces and was five down vulnerable, doubled: 1.400' If at the eighth trick.

East plays his H.K, South wins and returns a H. to North's set-up 8. 1 VyTALKING by a shaded path that circumvents- a spacious garden in Oxfordshire, I saw on either side an undergrowth of holly seedlings, flourishing in hundreds; thick as a clover crop. The place is peculiarly populous with birds, and even at this advanced date several were in full song. There is, I think, little doubt both, that the dispersal of the seed is due largely to birds and that the devouring ol the berries actually accelerates the germination of Jhe seed.

The birds are better sowers than we are. In some of the innumerable willows that throng about the Cherwell where it passes the Oxford Parks, a number of the older, larger trees were decorated with seedlings of the briar, the thorn, and the blackberrv- all three often on one tree: and other shrubs grew in other trees. They must, an nave oeen planted by birds on these exalted feast tables. If we deliberately sow the seeds of any of these kindly' fruits we shall find them slow and perhaps obstinate. The hollies will rest for eighteen months before germinating, and the thorns, and briars (such as sprang urj too readily in the Gar den ot bden) are apt to disappoint altogether How differently other fruits with softer and more edible pips behave! The garden path so deeply fringed with seedlings, of conifers as well as hollies, en closes a flourishing apple orchard; vast numbers of apples cluttered the ground, attracting a good variety of greedy feeders.

Among them were those evilly coloured insects, the hornets, which ate themselves into torpor on the rotting fruit. It looked fit food for them, but almost painfully unfit for some of their companions, the splendid butterflies of autumn, who should be found delicately sucking honey from flowers that matched them in colour. Apple Problem The apple's pulp is supposed to exist for the sake of the seed, one of the few sorts that becomes barren if not kept moist. Yet the object seems to fail. For myself I cannot remember ever to have come upon an apple seedling.

It is a safe prophecy that none will be found, as none has been round, within the circle of those young self-sown hollies. Yet if wc sow apple pips, a practice that is well worth more observance than it receives, they will sprout in multitude with surprising readiness. What is the reason? Apple pips doubtless are a good and popular food with birds. Many species much prefer the seeds before the succulent pulp. I have seen large numbers of greenfinches (those most persistent of seed-eaters as growers of mangold seed know to their cost) settle on heaps of apple pulp and so indulge in the pips that they were incapable of flight and could be picked up.

Like the sheep treated by Gabriel Oak, they Avere ill. and helpless from over-indulgence In this unnatural, excessive feast. Yet tlje greed of the birds, or of the mice or any other animal rannot very well be the sole reason for the absence of seedlings. Some pips must survive. You may find nut trees and gooseberry bushes to give one particular example growing in the bark of an old acacia, where nuthatches were seen fixing the nuts in a holding crevice, an anvil for the hammer of the beak.

Nature has scores of methods of dispersal; and the prevalence of wild crabs suggests that they succeed even with the apple; but the absence of ocular illustration is at least surprising, and the apple, unlike elm or plum or blackberry, depends solely on its seeds for continuing the race. B. T. Chess By BRIAN HARLEY Problem No 1,381. By T.

and J. arton 'ZOOM A 111 vsss, 'ym Uhite plays and mates In three moves. No 1,360. By Harley 2 moves. Kcv B7.

1 marKS. Threat 2. B--K6 If 3 R. 2 1 R. 2.

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Prize list: add Rev. G. J. Boucher. 250 marks B.

No. 1.339. KIT is defeated by Kt 2. moves. Kt P.

ACR0S8 14 Example of a wnrd pafd extra for over-time Treat the sailor like a much-sung butt, being podgy Unusual minatory weapon used by strange hunters Out of your Immense allowance you should make yourself secure Isle wtth river sound where two seas meet Trouser carried in falanquina by re-ays of bearerB. Tripoli Is one of these Abandoned American policy tn single letters Halt at the source of green and greasy rs er Sort of power one would find In a Colct Antimnemonic for Its 4 3 The aboard and the night is voung A.mishty product of Joachim's dale Rem-s nf the Dorian asion The Music Makers had them The tree in RO0he nti ufh utic a le um-bi-rlla used at St Arm: Is a briom Trial bar-cd fii.d lies in vijcl be.t See i3 mm wm -am. zmztL vma. 'Sszafi IS lH mi I mm OWN 1 Nice his aim his end 2 Deprecated bar by 3 Tricky St. Andrews 4 With kept at arm's 5 Mosul away at 6 early 7 May give present or 3 Animal 9 Sapper's adverb 10 Causes 11 Kind 'of 33 's head 12 ashes 16 Job was effect) if success capacity Itwo words 18 A protest near St.

2u Runs down about the 22 No saint in 24 Slave, who of 39. the ungather'd 25 The 5 10 time and abuse 27 Shrubs a little 28 She most of ready 31 Confused 34 Taste the 36 Trench mobile 3fl Sounds to cue devil I 1 J2 I I 43 stark analysis' of arms and the woman wars and has a brassy cynicism more consoling. War beat Shakespeare, not because he lacked trie-words for it (he lacked woras lor nothing in the world), but because the art of showy let's-pretend a hard term for drama, but accurate is defeated by the slow, tremendous heroisms, amon? the long-drawn mess and muddle of tormenting war. Noblemen dying, in painless and effective postures, to the music of superb blank verse are one thing: the common end of common man-at-arms, the bloody retching of an actual death-rattle another. Nobody wants simulation of the latter.

But without it the war-play is a falsehood unless it keeps to the side-line agonies and the background ironies. Let the theatre be content with what it can. The storv a desperate venture, of siege uiucnaae. endurance, the great erey splendours of indomitable holding-on, transcend all imitation, however- able and sincere. Descriptive words, simple and natural, on paper or spoken as we had them on Wednesdav night, in this more than imitation, even though the highest art attempts the laiter with the humblest reverence.

The naana-tist and the actor are left superfluous here. Thev have plenty else; an Arnhem is not their acre. JANE CLEGG Bad husbands, they say. make good wives; a paradox Mr. St.

John Ervine's Jane Clegg seems endorse. Though 3fl vears old, this little classic of the domestic school is too well built show signs of repertonal wear and tear: and Mr. Lewis Cassort. who has just reproduced it for C.E.M.A. at the Hammersmith Lyric, knows its virtues inside out, and has enlisted a capable company to display them.

Miss Catherine Lacey is a sterling actress, and vindicates poor Jane's faithful if somewhat flinty, fortitude, and Mr. Wyndham Milligan does not palter with the foibles of husband who so severely tests Miss Doris Wellings justifies criticism directed by arrant comedians of the past against that menace, the resident mother-in-law, and Mr. Leon M. Lion has (and gives us) a high old time as bookie who. threatened with bad debts, would rather blackmail than be a welsher H.

H. THEATRf NEWS For the first time plays designed West End production are In open the Continent before coming London Linrnt and Dunfee plan, under E.N.S.A.. to present three new plays at leading theatres in the liberated cities, including Paris, and Antwerp, for the entertainment the troops. The first will be a comedy, by Aimee Stuart and L. A Rose, with Sophie Stewart in the leading part, and before this appears capitals are to see Reginald Beckwith's A Soldier for Christmas Miss Em Church has been ap-poinled full-time Director of the Bradford Civic Playhouse.

The next Arts Theatre production a rei.iv.il of Somerset Maugham's The Breadwinner (October 19, Denvs Blakelocki. Theatre Diary: Column Fire. on BE LIKE war LAN CHESTER iviU give you all Lhis and somcthmg more a quahcy of personal distinction, created from the experienced craltsmanship of indiidual designers and engineers I hi t.h:h 5 LTD LONDON AND COVENTRY ON Wednesday evening I was i pondering an article for this column when my petty thoughts on petty matters were interrupted by the broadcast ac-1 count the withdrawal from Arnhem after all thai had l.een done and suffered there Things this make theatre painted stage a children's! book, its passions pinchbeck, itsl apish ana aosura. Ana ol on) in sound and form can the ardours and endurances of man lie made immortal. The artist and he who tells a story of such doings, whether he was there or not.

is an artist though he would shun the title is a makpr of his- lor But the special kind of artist I called an actor? What has he to do with such high happenings, he 1 v. 'Ah his mimicries, his dressing-up. h. rhetoric? I Well, it is plain that certain ih.ngs he (or she) can notably en- hance, with beauty of voice, fire of spirit, and majesty of person 1 Love, especially. Your Idle of boy be he Romeo or Mickey Rooney i' meets girl (be she Juliet or Miss 1 Grable) is raised to a higher) power by personality.

Indeed. Komeo and Juliet, though early Shakespeare and in some ways inexpert, falling from Us first and middle summits, is, if not botched in performance, better seen than read. The player can add to this flashing stream of phrase, this tidal wave of glorious noise, bv venturing his personal sail upon it. And so with robustious comedy. Rich character lards it, as Fal-staff, scorched and panting, larded the earth with his carnal dissolution.

Wit, too. The speed and flame of it are the more racy and radiant for an eye lit up, a tongue that has the devil of mischief in its composition. These are the actor's province, inviting his aggression But the sublimities of courage, the bearing of bodily outrage, the mud and blood, the cold and dark, the hunger and thirst, the facts of battlefield, can these be playhouse matters? I think not. Patience is the least actable of qualities and patience was ever nine-tenths of war. The soldier's qualities do not mix with greasepaint.

His valour is so often an inconspicuous holding of the gap. Storming the breach is dramatic and invites the actor-ln-arms: holding the fort may be so much more vital, so much less visual. The fighter's endurances are homespun qualities. turning theatre to tinsel: drab battle-dress has none of tiff-taffety's appeal So I do not think Arnhem will beget a play. Simple words (Stanley Maxted's were excellent) have told its' story.

Let memorv hold the door. The warrior routs the dramatist as a rule. The Elizabethans liked to finish their tra gedies with the flourish and 1 alarum of battle, which is nearly always embarrassing or ludicrous i on our All the four great I tragedies of Shakespeare have 1 war in them, but war is not their pith. The two essential war-plays, "Henry and "Troilus and Cressida," prove, I believe, my 1 contention. For the former, with all its splendour of metaphor and rhythm, has a brassy romanticism which will little avail the mother of a missing son: the latter, sometimes too true to be good in ita Please give freely HOSPITALS DAY Tuesday, October 3rd.

WHAT WILL THAT POST-WAR CAR OF I94 Your expectations will run hjgh after tbrse vears of waning Perfection of des-gn and workman ship retiablin comfort speed econorn. these are the chines vou will aaturdllv look for The Dost- A THE LANChtSTER MOTOR CO THIS SPACE HAS BEEN GENEROUSLY DONATED THE DA MLER COMPANY LTD no is of are to to the it. the the for on of the i IT fortunately to be noticed an exhibition of American war art at the National Gallery. Already news of the highest interest has come in from across the. Channel.

Picasso has been seen and has revealed that throughout the long night he has. been constantly at work, although forbidden to exhibit. (For an admirably written account of an interview with him, see Mr. Pudney's charming piece in a recent number of The JVeio Statesman.) It is how reported that he is being asked to exhibit all "his recent w6rk at the forthcoming Salon d'Automne which, should he consent, would do much towards revivifying not the least moribund of the institutions of the Third Republic. Jean Cocteau has also been seen, but his more recent activities remain as yet' a subject for speculation.

To me, however, the most immediately exciting artistic evidence of the liberation has been to see in such copies of the free Paris Press as have reached us. the greatest of living cartoonists, the incomparable Sennep, once more exercising his astringent art free from the restraint of a censorship as stupid as it was detestable. (If anyone doubts how incapable the Vichy authorities proved themselves even of achieving their immediate object, let him look throueh the file of Sennep's drawings in the bacK numbers ol uandide.) Rocket Warning One word of warning: prices are reported to be even higher at the Hotel Urouot than at botheby It may confidently be anticipated that, so far from droppine when the contents of the Paris studios once more appear in the open market, prices in this country already in many cases ridiculous win rocket further. As soon as works of art have to compete against the charms of Rolls-Royces and week-ends at St. Moritz, the present boom will be followed bv the inevitable slump.

It is bad for art. bad for the public, and, in the long run. as most of them will readily admit, bad for. the artists. THEATRE DIARY To-morrow.

Jenny Jones, by Ronald Gott'; music by Harry Parr Davles. Hippodrome (Carole Lynne, Baliol Holloway. Jimmy James). Tuesday. Happy ant Glorious, revue produced by Robert Nesbitt, Palladium (Tommy Trinder, Elizabeth Welch 1.

The Noble Spaniard, revival of Somerset Maugham's play. (Barry Morse). Wednesday. No MedXls. by Esther McCracken.

Vaudeville (Fay Compton. Frederick Leister). Thursday. Scandal at BahChesteh, adapted by Vera Wheatley from Anthony Trollope's "Last Chronicle of Barset." Lyric (Felix Aylmer, Olga Lindo, Dorothy Hyson, Milton Rosmerl. Friday.

A Soldier for Christmas, by Reginald Beckwith, Playhouse (revival for one month before Conti-' nental presentation, Joyce Barbour. Robert Beatty, CAN YOU SAY 1. How long did the Wars of the Roses last? 2. When is Mothering Sunday 3. What is (1) a calabash: (2) A calaboose? 4.

"And all the trumpets sounded for him onthe other side." For whom? 5. What English word means a diamond and a dispute? 6. For what was Toledo most famous? (Answers on gue e) 1 Allen or Scott and Whaley, but a couple ol men possessed by an evangelical zeal to make people understand music. Last Sunday they began a' fortnightly series in which listeners can overhear them doing their stufT to a naval audience, a series w'hich will make them as powerful an influence as Walford Davief used to be. This phenomenal pair has been wholly engaged during the last four years in talking to soldiers, sailors, and airmen about musical composition and musical taste, and illustrating the arguments by gramophone records Dobson does the talking, in a full-flavoured Manchester accent, while Young, taking his cues (it seems) by telepathy manipulates the quotations with rapt dexterity.

Confidence Trick Dobson and Young are not to be confused with celebrated musical clowns like Crock. They stratagems to make us listen with care and discrimination, but they never rcsorl to red-nosed devices. So confident is their technique' lhat they sometimes practise alarming approaches to their theme. Dobson. for instance, announces that his subject to-night is Opera.

Flanked by a forbidding blackboard he begins to recite the milestones in the history of Opera, jotting down on the blackboard the appropriate dates, composers, and titles. Just as your heart is descending to vour boots he forestalls your disappointment by pausing in full stride and saying: "Isn't this And having achieved that timely relief of tension, having worked an astute confidence trick upon you. he sets to work to analyse and illustrate the purpose of opera in terms which any novice can appreciate Thus, since round about Dunkirk, this well-mated pair has been discovering and fostering in the Forces a readiness to understand every mode of music. If thev had been mere debauchees of music jigglers with the juke-box. acrobatic accordionists or half-a-beat crooners they would have been radio stars long before nqw.

Meanwhile, thousands of fighting men have found in Dobson and Young" an approach to music for which they have long been groping, and from now on we shall be able, thanks to the BBC. to share in the experience. In this mission Dobson and Young wTll doubtless be assailed hv the purists and the pedagogues. The Old Guard of Adult Education, for example, will decry them, as they have so persistently decried the Brains Trust and every other formula of learning-without-tears. One of the paradoxes of Adult Education in this country is lhat its devotees and administrators have, so often, approached it the gloornv way.

Hence, no doubt, the paucity of the audiences they attract. "Dobson and Young" are portents, democratic portents, of the resolve to make adult education as palatable to the Man in the Street as an evening spent at the Odeon and far more fruitful. Joust ins I It looks as if we have several more exhilarating broadcast series to come this autumn. Thus the hlark-out on political controversy is to be modified into a dim-out. As victory draws near we are to be permitted to relax from that wooden-faced political unity in which we have persevered for five years.

Ancunn Bevan is to be allowed to loust with Quintin Hogg on the topic of the political truce (October 6). Lord Vansitlart is to be allowed to break lances with Kingslev Martin on What to do with the Germans" (October 13). Even the small trader is to be allowed to take up the cudgels against the Multiple Bros. (Novem ber 10). We ve earned this liberty of argument.

Heaven knows, and after all these years of smooth unanimitv it will he a blessing to 1 get back" to the British habit of controversy, ret mere a ny in the ointment, for nothing in the autumn or winter programmes of the B.B.C. suggests that we are to have on the air that other democratic liberty perhaps the fundamental one of debating religion from premises which are not necessarily those of the Christian 1 doctrine. This week: Home To-mohrow. Talk by J. B.

Priesl-lev (7.30 p.m.). Friday. Argument between Aneurin Bevan. M.P.. and Quintin Hogg.

M.P. 17.30 pm. Saturday Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqi eray p.m.i TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES HOME 2ns 91 1 449 in i4 T.O, Nros 7.30, Records. I. 45, Band; B.1S, Records: 9.0, News: 9.30, Ser ire 'Olln and Orean 10.3O, t.mht Music, 11.0, Music- Talk II.

30, Hanfl. 11.45. Gaelic Sviicp 12.16, String Orcheslra; 12.00. Kilins. 1.0, News, 1.1S.

Russia: 1.30, Record. 2 15, Garden, 2.30, Onhestia. 3.30, Dr MH'klrm; 3.45, Orchestra (Part 2l; 4.30, Band 5.0, VNh: S.20, Children. e.O. News, 6.30, Brass Band.

7.10, Spelling Bee: 7.40. Talk. 7.MJ. Field-la re: 7.55, Service: 8.20, Good Cause. 8 30, Dr Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde 0.0, Nevis: 9.30, Music for All, 10.30, Epilogue, 10.3B. Septet and Quartet. 11.15. Stnry: 11.30, Records. 13.0-12.20, News GENERAL FORCE8 (296 1 "42.1 m.l.

8.30, Records; 7.0, News; 7.15, Setenade. 8.0, Headlines. News; a. 20. Overseas; 9.45, Records: 10,0, Headlines, Piano Music.

10.15, Service: 10.30, Canadians: 11.0,. Headlines: New slellei 11.15, Football. 11.30, Sri-vicc. 12. Nes.

12.15, Kay Cavendish: 12.30, LiEht Music: 1.0, Headlines, ScottiBh Orchestra. 1.30, Brains Trust, 2.0, News: 2.10, Spotlight: 2.25. Anne Shellon 2.55, Marjnrie Antier-son. 3.0. Headlines; NeV'reel.

3.15, CarnkRl Concert, 4,0, News. 4.15, Theatre Talk- 4.30. Records. 6.0, Variety: 6.0, News: 6.15, Records: 7.O. Sport, 7.30, Variety: a.o, Woild News.

B.10, Canada. 8.15. ltma: 8.45, Records: 9.5. Parliament, 9.15, Grand Hotel: 9.58, Headlines; 10.0, Community Hvmns' Epilogue: 10.30, Light Music. 10.58, Headlines.

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