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a a THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8 1952 NORTH FONDER OF METHYLATED SPIRITS THAN SOUTH Drink Offences Highest Since 1938 The annual return of convictions for drunkenness in England and Wales, issued yesterday by the. Home Office, shows more people came before the courts last year for drink offences than at any time since 1938. The number of men convicted in drink cases (excluding the offence of being drunk in charge of a motorvehicle) last year was 48.335, and the number of convicted was 5,341, giving Wooten of 53,676. This compares with 47,717 in 1950 and with 20,545 in 1946. Drunkenness declined throughout the war, and remained relatively low until 1948.

The then began to increase sharply, rising by more than ten thousand between 1947 and 1949, by some twelve thousand between 1949 and 1950, and by another six thousand between 1950 and last year. More men were convicted of drunkenness last year than in 1938, but the number of convictions for women was some two thousand below the 1938 figure. Although it has not yet reached the pre-war level, drunkenness among women has been increasing steadily since 1949. Few Cases in South Methylated spirits drinking shows some interesting variations. It has never been a widespread practice, but once people take to drinking methylated spirits chances of reform are usually considered slender.

Yet there a sharp decline in such drinking during the war. In 1939 some 875 people convicted of drunkenness obtained their drink from methylated spirits, but by 1945 only 273 such cases were recorded. The figures have fluctuated since, reaching nearly six hundred 1948, rising to seven hundred in 1950, and falling to just under six hundred last year. There are 'noticeable regional variations in methylated spirits drinking. It lends to be rare in the South of England, and the whole of the Metropolitan Police district last year recorded only thirteen cases.

But Leeds alone had 61 cases, Hull 25, Bradford 24, Sheffield 13, ManChester 13, Salford 9, Liverpool 14, Bolton 10, Derby 14, Newcastle 10, and Ty nemouth 11. There are pronounced regional differences in drunkenness generally. The City of London heads the list with the huge total of 267 convictions for drunkenness for every 10,000 of population, but this gives a wholly unfair picture of the a drinking habits of those who live in the City of London because of its tiny resident population compared with the huge numbers who go, there daily to work (and sometimes to get drunk). The statistical rate of London drunkenness is, therefore, misleading. Outside the City of London, Middlesbrough showed the highest rate 'of drunkenness, with 83.38 convictions per 10,000 population.

The rate in other towns last year was: Drink offences Drink offences per 10.000 per 10,000 population population 68.07 Waxedeld City 12 Rochdale 13.2' City 63.96 Reading Birmingham City Black Nottingham City pool Leeds Salford Manchester Peterborouth City City Com- 39 41.44 34.66 80 Beth Halifax Lincoln Barrow City in City 10 bined District 29.60 Dewsbury Metropolitan Police Preston District 29 40 Wolverhampton Bunderland 28 16 Rotherhem Bradford Southead-on-Bea Derby 12 City 98 Plymouth City Birkenhead Northampton Doncaster York City Coventry City 04 Wallasey Grimsby Eastbourne Swansea 86 Ipswich Burnier Dudley Worcester City Carlisle Hastings City Newport Norwich Southampton 19. Stockport South Shields Leicester Huddersdeld City Merthyr Portsmouth Tydnl City Stoke-on-Trent City Bolton 17.65 Great Oxford City Yarmouth 16.09 St Helens Cardin City 02 Bournemouth Southport Wigan 15.41 Bristol City Walsall Brighton 13.89 Exeter CIty 2.16 Cambridge City Gases of drunkenness in charge of motor vehicles are recorded separately, but they can properly be included in the general survey of drunkenness. These cases, too, are tending to increase. In 1950 the number of people summarily convicted of having been drunk in charge of cars or other motor vehicles was 2,261 last year. the number increased to 2,652.

(These figures exclude cases committed for trial to higher courts.) The increase of drunkenness among drivers is keeping with the general increase in drink offences. EXHIBITION OF GRAHAM SUTHERLAND'S WORKS IN From our Paris Correspondent An exhibition of seventy pictures by 1 Graham Sutherland, under the auspices of the British Council, opened on Thursday at the de l'Art Moderne. The pictures include nearly all those shown at the Biennale in Venice and one never shown before-a "Form" which is in fact another of those twisted bamboo roots of which Sutherland is so fond, suggesting in this case a leg which has started an individual life of its own against a pink background. Of the pictures which have not yet been shown in London one of the most striking and most shows an object which suggests totem or a bust in a recent, library, but a bust not of a human being but of some strange cross between human and insect. with an extremely broad head.

a mere thread of a neck, and a lean body looking almost as it it was wearing an eighteenth-century waistcoat. This silvery object stands in front of a black background broken above by a series of vertical lines. The colour scheme, which sounds sumbre, is not SO in fact, but suggests rather Browning's description of Leviathan churning the blackness hoary "-though in this case Leviathan has passed. leaving the hoariness hanging in still dark waters. This is at least the third time since the war that French critics have had a chance 10 see Sutherland's work in Paris, and tney are giving him a cordial welcome on tuis occasion.

Combat' describes the exhibition as a magnificent panorama of the work of one of the most important British painters." painter of forms." this critic on, "but none the less no abstract painter, for though he often LANCASHIRE GROUP OF ARTISTS Tne newly formed Lancashire Group of Artists comes before the public at the Salford City Art Gallery to-day with an exhibition so wildly heterogeneous that about the only thing the visitor is unlikely to And in it is the unifying policy or character which might justify its title. Straining charity as far as it will go, one still fails to see any very compelling reason for the founding of this group. Too many names ale missing from the eighteen painters who comprise it to claim to represent the county on a geographical and numerical basis: their diversity precludes their being regarded as a regional school of painting. Far worse is the absence of any sort of overall standard. What critical rule of thumb will cover a loose- one Had almost said disorderly--assembly in which, on one wall, a number of estimable people are painting views and flower pieces while on the other Theodore Major is releasing his energies: in lumps of paint and gouts of colour and Emmanuel Levy has his intensely moving child portrait and the stained glass colour of his Two Useless to say that John Bold's strong.

sombre landscapes, Terry McGlynn's charmingly vivacious market-place with fountain, John Bowes's nice piece of Southport, and one or two others form a bridge between the sections. The bridge breaks off short and one drops into the water between what are in fact and should be in intention two different exhibitions. There is something to be said for the separation for. exhibitions of artists from people who paint. The present mix-up simply darkens counsel.

N. M. R. NEW EDITOR FOR "CROCKFORD'S" Accountant Appointed Mr Donald Hitch, an accountant, will succeed Major E. W.

P. Newman as editor of Crockford's Clerical Directory." Major Newman, who is a Roman Catholic, is leaving his post at the end of the year. Mr Hitch, an Anglican, is 47 and married, and lives at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. office Already at work in "Crocktord's" at Amen House, Warwick Square, E.C.,' yesterday, Mr Hitch said he was contemplating a few changes for the next edition of the directory, due in 1954. would not be writing the book's preface, which is well known for its outspokenness on Church matters.

I would like to mention what is not generally' known--that the preface is not written by any member of the Oxford University Press staff: it is always written by an anonymous clergyman." FLOOD RELIEF FUND £1,229,000 A sum of £17,295 has been received at Exeter for the North Devon and West Somerset Flood Relief Fund during the past week, bringing the total to £1,229,625. MISCELLANY The "Cure" for Rabies The case of the man for whom the Ministry of Health had to broadcast because a dog now confirmed as rabid had bitten him before he left Africa follows close upon a recent item in the "India News bringing back memories mad dogs in the Indian midday sun--that the Central Research Institute at Kasauli is to give free courses in anti-rabic diagnosis and treatment. After the opening of the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli soldiers bitten by rabid or suspected dogs were sent to the institute for observation and preventive treatment. As Kasauli is a pleasant station over 6,000 feet op in the Simla hills, men who were sent up there for treatment from the plains during the hot season were considered to have fallen on rather a soft spot. and it was optimism rather than morbid fear that would make a man present himself to the M.O.

after being caught by the teeth of a playful pet mongrel. A Popular Jackal During the First World War men who were bitten by jackals in Mesopotamia were packed off to the institute, and this meant even more to the Indian troops than it did to the British, a jackal bite being looked upon by them as something of a Blighty one." There is an authentic account section of the line in Mesopotamia where, there was an abnormal number jackal bites reported among the Indians; no matter what precautions were taken to prevent the men from being exposed to the danger of a bite, every day saw one or more reporting with the marks of vicious jackal teeth. At last a strict investigation and search was carried out. resulting in the mystery being solved with the discovery of the skull and lower jaw of jackal carefully assembled for inflicting the bite. Ownership of the Air If the English police ever adopt the method of penalising motorists guilty of parking offences by the simple expedient of deflating their tyres, which Miscellany recently reported had been suggested in New York, the practice may give rise to interesting discussions of law.

New York is said to be hesitant on the question whether a driver is not in fact legally the owner of the air that he has paid to have pumped into his tyres. But it may be that the title to such ownership may have to be traced farther back than to the temporary possessor of the atmosphere in dispute. English real property law (as a legal correspondent points out) ascribes to the ownership of land a proprietary title to all that exists either above or below the estate. So does not the air used for inflating a tyre really belong to the owner of the land above which its particles originally floated--if he can be traced DARWIN MEDAL FOR PROF. HALDANE Royal Society Awards The following awards of medals have been made by the president and the council of the Royal Society Copley Medal: Professor P.

A. M. Dirac, for remarkable contributions to relativistic dynamics of a particle in quantum mechanics. to for Rumford outstanding Medal: work in Professor the F. development Zernike, phase contrast microscapy.

Davy Medal: Professor Alexander Robertson, for researches into the chemistry of natural products, particularly the wide range of a glycosides, bitter principles, and colouring matters containing heterocyclic oxygen atoms. Haldane. for his initiation of the modern Darwin Medal: Professor. J. B.

S. phase of study of the evolution of living populations. Buchanan Medal: Sir Rickard Christophers, for outstanding research on malaria and on the Anopheles mosquitoes which transmit that disease: Sylvester Medal: Professor A. S. Besicovitch, for outstanding work on almostperiodic functions, the theory of measure and integration, and many other topics of theory of functions.

Hughes Medal: Professor P. I. Dee. for distinguished studies on the disintegration of atomic nuclei, particularly those using the Wilson cloud' chamber technique. FRUIT FOR CHRISTMAS A supply of canned apricots, peaches, pears, pineapples, grapefruit.

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GEORGE ALLEN. Conductor: BROUGH. Booking at the Gaumont (MAT 2685) 45 6d and 2s 6d. On the other hand, does not the wind, which bloweth as it listeth," partake rather of the nature of such wild creatures (ferae naturae) as, being free of human control, are not susceptible of private ownership, except where they are killed, caught, or tamed, or if they are too young to escape capture? It might perhaps be pleaded as an alternative that air pumped into tyres in a wayside garage should be regarded as having been purchased in market overt-which would, generally speaking, protect the title of its possessor and might even' render it a possible subject of larceny by an interfering constable. LIBERALS ASTRAY is undoubtedlu more indebted to the Liberals than the Conservatives.

News Chronicle," November 6. In a very obvious sense the Liberals have the casting vote (at Manchester Guardian," November High Wycombe electors have made their choice Clearing away sand blown by the gale across the promenade at Blackpool. A tree blown down at Hyde Park Corner, London. NEW FILMS IN LONDON From our London Film Critic Jean Cocteau has said- perhaps with a parent's defiance in protecting an unpopular offspring that of all his Alms "Les Enfants Terribles" the Continentale, renamed Strange is his favourite. Whatever his own preferences it is not his best film; it, does not equal On the other hand, it is by no means the weakling in M.

Cocteau's brood of Alm-children; it is, indeed, a highly typical Alm-perhaps the most Cocteauesque of all he has made--and shares not only the weaknesses which belong to most of his films but also many of the excellent qualities which made so distinguished. M. Cocteau here has adapted (and JeanPierre Melville has directed the Alm adaptation) his extremely fanciful and morbid novel about a sister and brother who live in what amounts to a human vacuum. inattentive to everyone and everything save their own relationship, and who eventually die- the brother by taking poison, the sister by shooting herself as soon aS another human relationship seriously interferes with their own peculiar idyll. people is The to Arst the obvious literary, as objection opposed of some to I cinematic." which this film story is told; and it is certainly very literary-with its interpolated commentary in M.

Cocteau's own voice and with the wordiness of its dialogue. But that, in a Cocteau film, is no serious fault; indeed. it is part of his success in film-making that he can be at on once SO literary and so cinematic" in style. The serious fault, surely, in this as in 50 many of his other films, is that his pretensions so often outran his achievement. Thus he tries or seems to try to endow these quite abominable young people of The Strange with a significance, with an air of poetry, of symbolism and almost of mysticism to which they have remarkably little right: and often, when he is treating their story with the gravest possible intenseness (or is trying to do to), he is.

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A. PUBLIO HEALTH 10s LOVE BY Rosemand HarcourtLewis. 6d PICTURES BY SIX ARTISTS London Exhibitions By Stephen Bone LONDON, FRIDAY, W. B. Henderson, whose pictures fill Room No.

1 at the Redfern Gallery, is a keen sketcher with a good eye for a subject; his paintings in gouache are invariably effective, though there is seldom much ch subtlety in the observation. The oilpaintings suffer from an incomplete understanding of the medium and its possibilities. The two other artists exhibiting in this gallery are Donald Friend, who draws nude boys in ink and wash and sometimes Venetian palazzos in an accomplished, modish manner, and Olive Snell. who can turn an efficient, slightly insensitive, technique to the painting of landscapes, flowers, portraits, still-life pictures, and. the Anish of the Steward's Cup at Goodwood.

She is very dependent on finding an interesting subject; lacking this, she easily slips into the commonplace. At the Irving Gallery in Leicester Square three young artists are exhibiting paintings, Paul d'Aguilar paints Spain' in an agreeable way, but his paintings are not very profound. Once again it is an unusual subject--white dinghies at a jetty--which catches the eye. Eric N. Atkinson is of the school of Sickert (and Ruskin Spear); he is a natural oil-painter.

Roger M. Pring seems a little undecided and shows various infuences, but he can always organise a picture. SCHOOLS TELEVISION "More Important" Uses for Money -Dr Fisher The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Fisher, explained his attitude towards television at the prize distribution at Ashford (Kent) School for Girls yesterday. He said he had been labelled as taking a very poor view of but in fact he was not against" it. I have said I distrust its use.

as an educational medium in schools (he added) seems very odd, at a time when this nation is battling its way out of poverty and bankruptcy to get on a level keel, to spend vast sums of money in making and providing television sets for everyone in school and out of school. I should have thought that in a matter of national housekeeping there are more important things on which to spend MODERN MARRIAGE Too Much Talk About Difficulties Dr Ethel Dukes, a psychiatrist, urged mothercraft conference at the Central Hall, Westminster, yesterday, to stop talking so much about the dreadful difficulties of modern marriages. A hundred years ago, said. couples married when quite young. Wives had no independence had to rely entirely on their husbands for maintenance and for the maintenance of their children.

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(America voted too), Conservative circles to day rejoice, Republicans have won through. But what of Liberals' still small voice? What did Liberals do the Americans helped the Republican swing And High Wycombe Liberals went Right wing. When Wycombe for Tory or Socialist polled A Liberal did not stand, The Liberal vote was uncontrolled By any party command. They were not counted in either fold. An independent band, But in the Conservative-Labour fight The High Wycombe Liberals voted Right.

America to the Republicans gives A mandate clear and plain America's rabid Conservatives Have won the great campaign, There Liberalism on suffrance lives And may not long remain, But American Liberals freely choose The party renowned for illiberal viewe. And now the cries of battle end Both sides the field surveyThey see how the Liberals' Right-wing trend Helped Tories to win the day. They see how America's Liberals tend To go the Republican wayThough Liberal voters were tied to none The Liberals chose and Conservatives won. The Liberals wooed by either side With either may agree, Their influence is not denied Though small their numbers be. The Liberals may turn the tide, Their voters hold the key, And if anti-Liberals happen to winThe Liberals help to put them in.

MERCUTIO. shows us his bamboo or root in' stage he is none the less passionately preoccupied with Nature and makes her sing with luminous harmonies and an sensibility. Sutherland possesses a vitality that animates all his forms and makes living beings of them that touch and move He typically English painter. a mystic of The critic of the "Monde" writes: Many visitors will have to make several attempts to enter Graham Sutherland's world, a world at once visionary and precise, cruel and ambiguous. He is the most distinguished British painter of a generation that is more interested in Blake than in Turner and in Picasso than in Blake.

The pictures exhibited in the de l'Art Moderne show how obstinately and in how unexpected a way his art is growing in enrichment. finds nature where he can: Sutherland feels it with a mixture of fear and veneration in open palms, cacti, the thorny plants of the moor, in some angular and dry insects, and above all in all sorts of larvae, buds, roots, and suckers which take imagination under the earth and into the obscurities of germination: the artist isolates them and raises them like idols against brilliant backgrounds of red or yellow shot with greens and This critic goes on to discuss the two portraits exhibited, those of Mr Somerset Maugham and of Lord Beaverbrook. While expressing respect for them he makes it quite clear that he prefers Mr Sutherland in his imaginary a world to which humans have not been admitted. 100 YEARS AGO From the Manchester Guardian" of November 6, 1852. Mr.

HENRY RUSSELL'S ENTERTAINMENT.On Thursday, and last evening, Henry Russell gave Free-trade Hall again, his entertainment, "The Far West or the Emigrant's Progress from the Old World to the and Negro Life in Freedom and in Slavery." It seems to us that it would be as useless to attempt to discover any sterling merit in this entertainment, as it would be to deny that by its means Mr Russell attracts larze audiences. The detached scenes in the panoramic part are sometimes pleasant or design, but never excellent in execution; the running commentary, spoken has not the slightest connection with, or reference to the scene before the audience; and the jokes or anecdotes which are dragged in have no other claim to attention, than that which old age may have imparted. The songs are not well sung, their effect being. rather due to the entertainer's skill in the management of the accompaniments upon his compound of a piano and an accordion, than to the quality of his voice or his skill in its management and the spoken parts are too frequently made unpleasant through affectation. But Mr.

Russell goes through his performance with a good deal of tact, he tells some of his anecdotes well, he affects a great depth of feeling upon sundry popular subjects. and--more than all-he invites his auditors join him in the chorus of that horriblyhackneyed Cheer, boys, cheer or a good time coming Thus hearers are tickled, and Mr. Russell is certainly successful. LORD GOSCHEN'S PORTRAIT Gift to Oxford Union The Oxford Union Society has accepted, as a further gift to its portrait portrait of the Arst Lord Goschen, who famous former officers, a was president in 1853. After being First Lord of the Admiralty on two occasions and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1887 to 1892, Lord Goschen became Chancellor of Oxford University from 1903 to 1907.

The portrait, which is being presented by two of his grand-daughters, will, it is Farewell -the term on expected, be formally, presented at the December 4. The president of the society this term is Lord. Goschen's great-grandson, Mr Patrick Mayhew. Manchester Cathedral -8 a.m.: Holy Communion. 11 3 50 Anthem, p.m.: how glorious Walford Is the Davies Kingdom in Sunday (Trenty-second Sunday after Trinity: 1045 Remembrance Service Sunday) of Remembrance: Holy Communion.

a.m.: hymns (see Service paper): Anthem. Love (John Ireland); Preacher. the Right Rer. Frank Woods. A.

Lord Bishop of 11 45 a.m.: Holy Communion (Pain). 380 p.m.: Psalm 132: Walford Davies in Anthem. bow the Kinrdom hymns 229 178). Preacher, the Right Rev. Frank Woods.

Lord Bishop of Middleton Erening the (Voluntary Choir): Rev. Frank hymns (see Woods. Service paper): Bebop Preacher; of Middiston: Right Dedication of the South Lord shire Girl County Standard. is highly coloured imagination which, whether they are likeable or not, are extraordinarily effective--and are achieved by no one else. He is at least no dull follower convention.

One of his principal characters, that of the sister, does almost succeed in maintaining forcefulness and, in her lurid way, conviction throughout all the film; and this cannot be entirely due to the precocious skill, at once fierce and delicate, of Nicole Stephane's acting. The incidentals of The Marrying Kind" (at the Carlton) are expertly managed. That is to say script, by those masters Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, is a very neat job and the direction, by George Cukor, is tidy, pointed, and unfussy. But the essence of the Alm is much less satisfactory. It tells the story of the break-up of an American marriage and apparently tries to tell it in the terms of tragi-comedy which may often be appropriate to such unhappy events (at least on the stage or in the cinema)! In effect we are asked to accept the young husband (Aldo Ray) and the young wife (Judy Holliday) as people of fairly normal intelligence and behaviour, But Mr Ray--who recently appeared, most impressively, in another film as a bone-headed, punch-drunk boxer--is an actor with a highly stylised, sub-human manner and a voice of remarkable hoarseness.

Judy Holliday, too, 15 no ordinary starlet; she also has a highly personal a voice (as thin and harsh as rusty barbedwire) and she excels at impersonating a dumb blonde. That the marriage of such a pair should collapse is no surprise; what is most surprising is that such expert Almmakers as Mr. Cukor, Mr Kanin, and Miss Gordon should spend ninety minutes or s0 of Alm-time in insisting on the inevitable. Devotion" (at the New Gallery) is a gloomy Italian Alm about love and a murder in Sardinia. It is no great Alm but is redeemed by the beauty of its scenery and by Columba Dominquez, whose good looks belong to a picture by Andrea del Sarto.

Manchester Theatres etc. OPERA HOUSE. Today at 2 and 7 "BRIGADOON" Next Two Weeks 7. Weds and Sate 2. JACK BYLTON presents New York and London Musical Hit "KISS KATE" BOx Omen open for Christmas Attraction: PAINT YOUR WAGON Prices: PALACE THEATRE 615 and 8 30 Incendi-te Blonde BETTY HUTTON Nest Week at 7 15 Wed and sat.

2 15. European Premiere JACK HYLTON presents NAUNTON DIANA DICKIE WAYNE DORS HENDERSON, Jr. and West Find Cast of Nineteen to REMAINS TO BE SEEN Call do biadam and the Life With Father." Comedi by authors Nov 17: Week at 7. 15 Wed and 83t. 2 15 SIGMOND ROMBERG'S THE DESERT SONG BRUCE TRENT EVE EACOTT LESLIE HATTON SIDNEY POINTER Nov 24.

Week 15 Wed and 8 15. LESLIE STUART'8 FLORODORA ALBERT GRANT VALERIE LAWSON HILDA CAMPBELL- RUSSELL MANCHESTER ARDWICK HIPPODROME 6 25 CHEERPOL CHARLIE CHESTER RADIO REVELLERS LIZBETH WEBB Next Week: PETER Stars BROUGH from EDUCATING ARCHIE ARCHIE ANDREWS Ronald Vogel Bein's Two CHESNEY- BEARS PIRATES HULME HIPPODROME MOS 2888 6 30 Trice Nightly -8 40 Variety Bill- starring Candeld 8mith NELT WEEK: GOING GAY." with ARTHUR LUCAN, The Five Marney Bros Boot Now. Great Parily Pantomime. The Old Woman Who Lived ID a Shoe." LIBRARY THEATRE CEN 5972 To-night at 6 0 and 8 15. RONDE PARISIENNE LA Complete Change of Programme.

Commencing TUESDAY. Norember 18. A RESIDENT SEASON OF PLAYS. Season Tickets ROW on sate. NoT.

18 for TWO weeks THE IMPORTANCE OF EMING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde. Dec. 2 for TWO THE FIRSTBORN. by christopber PIT. Dec.

16. for FOUR THE by PRINCESS Nicholas AND Stuart THE SWINEHERD WEEK-END ICE SKATING To 10-12 Sessions 2-5 7-10 Boots and Skates on Hire Restaurant, public Cate, with and excellent Snack Bar, service also and opens to the manus for Lunch, Tea, or Dinner. Private Car Park. Tel. BLA 9698.

ICE PALACE, Derby' Street, Cheetham LORD REITH'S ADVICE TO GIRLS "Look a Man in the Eye" Having noticed that about six of the girls to whom he presented prizes at the speech day had not looked him in the face, Lord Reith said at Perse School, Cambridge, yesterday "Try to look a man in the face, straight in the eye, whether he is a convict or a king. You should have two objects when you look a man in the eye: to make an impression on him, and to get an impression of him." He also told the girls: "I will not say what I do not feel, and I suggest that you should remember that in your lives I am not suggesting you should always say what you feel, it would be highly untactful I do suggest that you feel." should not say what you do not, MODERN PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS From our London Staff FLEET STREET, FRIDAY. In two London art sales this week of modern paintings and drawings, 342 items altogether, only five pictures sold for over £100. At Christie's to-day a painting of a group of Welsh peasants by W. Shayer Senior.

which was exhibited at the British Institute in 1859, fetched 185 guineas, a view of Windsor Castle from Fellow's Eyot by A. Vickers fetched 105 guineas, and the same amount was paid for J. Carolus's The Music Party." Total for the sale was £3,721. which Sotheby's fetched sale £3,046 on Wednesday. altogether, interior of a peasant's house, signed by Allesandro Sani, sold £180, and a picture of some soldiers outside a cottage initialed by Wouverman, sold for £110.

etc. Concerts HOULDSWORTH HALL. DEANSGATE. Friday Next st 7 D.m, BEBTHOVEN RECITAL ISO ELINSON FIVE SONATAS including Appassionats op. op.

111. 31 24 OD. 78. Tiekets: 78 6d 6d 6d. Forsyth Ltd 126 Deanstate.

Marchester. VICTOR HOCHHAUSER. announces JUSSI BJORLING (by arrangement with Barolo Holt, Ltd ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY, SUNDAY EVENING, NOV. 16, at 7 30 KING'S HALL, BELLE VUE GARDENS. JUSSI 3 BJORLING POPULAR PRICES: Bor (BLA Belle (EASt 1331).

Forsyth's 3281), and Ticket Agents. RITZ CINENA. STOCKPORT. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7. at 2 0.

STOCKPORT CHORAL SOCIETY. Handel's "MESSIAH" ADA ALSOP RICHARD LEWIS GLADYS RIPLEY DENNIS NOBLE Ritz. 8TO 4281: Nield and Hardy. 8TO 2888: Fursstn's. Special pictorial display: THE LIFE OP OUR QUEEN in stant photographs.

magnincent series of Intimate Pictures Taken from Childhood to the Present Day Cookery Bend- made Pottery display, and Purnishines: Television And Radio: devices. Railway Working Model Admission all day REGIONAL COLLEGE OF ART, All Manchester 15. MANCHESTER ART GUILD MANCHESTER ARTS CLUB JOINT EXHIBITION OF MEMBERS WORKS November 10 to 22. 1952. Weekdays: Saturdays: 10 a.m.

to 8 p.m. 10 a.m. to 12 poon. ADMISSION FREE. OLD SHIPPING -Frank T.

Sabip, PARE HOUSE, RUTLAND GATE. KNIGHTSBRIDGE LONDON 8.W.: Monday-Fridar. 10- 5 request. 30 Saturday. 10-18 30 ga Exhibitions LAST DAY TODAY, SATURDAY 11 a.m.

to 930 p.m. EVENING CHRONICLI WOMAN AND HOME EXHIBITION CITY HALL, MANCHESTER PAGEANT OF PASHIONS (Displaying times latest Daily crestions by London Mannequins. sad Parts).