Evening Despatch from Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 4

Pag 4 Evening Despatch Monday November 17 1952 TOMORROW'S FASHION CORPORATION STREET BIRMINGHAM 4 Tel: CENtral 8461 Despatch Diary INTERNATIONAL BUGGY RIDE! iier fTHE sash A has entered a new era and in fine jersey it drapes the foot of a jumper blouse of the same material Buttons file down the back to the sash which is looped over the short ends giving a jaunty finish This style can be a good single unit for a separate outfit or can be the top part of a smart two-piece dress With colder days ahead a bronze moleskin cap with wide velvet scarf ends to match tied under the chin can be a comfort to see and would give a lift to an winter coat A second cap curves over the ears tied with cord and bobs another cord drawing the top up in tea- cosy fashion Coarse knitted jumpers are new in the knitwear field and team happily with vivid fully efficient and easy-to-use Ask your Hoover Dealer to show you the full range of latest i models From £14140 (plus £770 tax) to £2250 (plus £1126 tax) Cleaning tools for Agitator models at very little extra cost HP terms always available Betty certainly knows what Mummy wants a Hoover Cleaner a gift she will value for years It must be a because quite different from ordinary vacuum cleaners not only cleaning carpets but making them last longer The cleaning tools as well for all above-floor cleaning are so wonder just perfect The home knitter looks slyly at this fashion as a gift thought up for her PEGGIE FRASER HOOVER mti CLEANER BEATS- cJ it 5swe it OkMti RADIO arid TELEVISION Customers EMERGENCY FTHE news that a Nott-ingham young man named Holmes contrived to get the BBC to broadcast an emergency message on his behalf saying he was dangerously ill when that was not really so in order to bring his fiancee with whom he had quarrelled to his side will be received with mixed feelings Mixed because while it is undeniable that the young man was resourceful and ingenious in what he did it is also true that he should not have done it Not in any circumstances This service of the BBC is one of the most useful that it performs and any act that tends to bringit into disrepute is both selfish and dangerous If it were to come to be thought that the terms of any message of the kind were not exactly what the BBC says they are often they are a summons to a deathbed then they had just as well not be delivered at all Their whole purpose which is one of immediate urgency would be destroyed Conceivably a man listening to his name spoken on the air without previous warning with the instruction that he go at once to a specified town or hospital could say to himself may not be so bad as all that wait a with possibly disastrous result Nor is the BBC to be blamed for what happened this time It takes reasonable precaution to see that such messages as it is asked to deliver are sincere and one supposes that it did so in this case If it were to be more exacting more detailed in its examination of all requests by relatives and doctors for assistance then inevitably many broadcasts when made Vould be too late for them to be of much use No doubt the young man who thought there was no harm in pretending that he was dangerously ill did not consider these things He might however telephone the BBC again to apologise for a foolishness that could come to harm many others who have no part or interest in his private quarrels TF you should see a A veteran car painted a bright blue rattling through the streets of Birmingham you will have seen the International This is how Doug Cunliffe of Melbourne Australia describes the ex-London taxicab he and two other students from abroad studying electrical engineering at GEC Witton use at holidays and week-ends The two other student-owners are Bob Beard (Melbourne Australia) and Lewis Green (Argentine) The taxi is fifth hand All the previous owners were South African The 12 hp cab has travelled from End to John Groats and from Wales to the Wash The old wagon can cruise at 35 mph with eight people on said Doug Cunliffe used an anchor at first to save straining the brakes and a hurricane lamp for a rear lamp but now got to touch her up for a trip round the he added New conductor attract new members to the male voice and choirs at Rubery Owen and Co Ltd Darlaston Mr Howard Benton the Cannock Chase conductor has been appointed the firm's musical director Mr Benton has gained many first awards with and mixed choirs and festivals He has competed in all the principal musical competitions including the National Eisteddfod and has often broadcast with choirs Vicar's vigil HE Rev J- Jackson intends to sit for 121-hours in the main entrance of his church St Spark-hill Birmingham next Tuesday to receive gifts for the church funds He believes there will be a steady stream of visitors to the hut (brazier-heated) in which he will have his Mr Jackson will move into his hut at 830 am to be ready for his first visitors on their way to work and school He expects members of the Sunday school will be among his earliest callers On Thursday he will hold an open-day at St Vicarage Showed Green Lane Without food note about Dr 1TA Barbara Moore-Pata-leewa not having eaten for four years caused a lot of interest She feeds only on fruit juice and has done so for four years and I understand she looks younger than when she last came to Birmingham seven years ago Anyhow the organisers of World Government Week in Birmin a this week have had so many requests for Dr Pata-1 a to explain her remar a 1 expe i me that Mr Wallace Lawler chairman is endeavouring to arrange separate meetings where Dr Pataleewa could give her views on food and health It is expected that these meetings will be held in the Central Hall later this week though they do not strictly come within the object of World Government activities for which Dr Pataleewa and other distinguished people will speak at the Town Hall tomorrow Brigade blooms rTlPTON Fire Brigade A is to hold the first chrysanthemum show in the town for more than 15 years at the station on November 22 The brigade hopes to prove that Tipton is not as many think a black spot for chrysanthemum growers and also to encourage local gardeners Station Officer Goode told me: will be ten classes and the venture is being supported by the local parks You bring up in a safe sweater scarves Their sturdy charm will make one simply live in them on all tweedy occasidns because with tweeds they are wrong GLADYS now television a star of ing they went out into the woods with a keeper Then they tried being the village squire complete with shot gun and one of them Edward Mason went to a village Institute annual meeting The Archers still remembers it has a furrow to plough meantime 'ave a point which I am sure will be more in the Mason-Webb line The Hornblower stories have ever been among my private reading and the disappointment I felt at the unsatisfactory rendering of Episode Two in the Light Programme last week must have been shared by many of you just about to the supposed plague ship when the reproducing gear struck a mine or something At any rate it sank into silence After an apology away we went again this time we'l and truly aboard with the renegade English captain and what proved to be a French prize crew all rounded up The renegade managed to shoot himself but apart from Vive Bonaparte his dying words were reduced to a chattering ship-load of monkeys by the apparatus It was all over and still seven minutes to go Plague on it Another apology and a brief summary of Episode Three left us with an empty feeling which fill-up gramophone music did nothing to appease But wise and loving mothers protect their children from sickness and help them to grow up with sturdy hones and good strong teeth through the natural goodness drawn from sunshine and the richness of the sea in Seven SeaS cod liver oil Sea-fresh vitamin rich daily SevenSeaS golden liquid or handy capsules builds up reserves of health andhenergy Every chemist sells SevenSeaS Cod Liver Pictured in the are: Ben Selliers (South Africa) on roof Doug Cunliffe Australia on running board Bob Fowler Tasmania driver and Bob Beard (Australia) department There will be three prizes for each class and after the show we hope the exhibitors will let us auction off the blooms success of the show will decide whether to make this an annual event As far as I know this is the first time such an exhibition has been held at a Staffordshire fire Proceeds will be given to the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund His new post TYTR GERALD GALE BURKITT whose appointment as Clerk to the Oxfordshire County Council is announced is an old boy of Tamworth Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and the younger son of Mr Frank Burkitt a former headmaster of the school at which his son was a pupil Mr Burkitt who is 40 graduated from Birmingham University and was admitted a solicitor in 1934 He will begin his new job on April 1 High Sheriff TfR JAMES BOS- -pocK whose selection as High Sheriff of Staffordshire is announced is managing director and vice-chairman of Lotus Ltd He is president of the Stafford Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers and has served on the principal committees of the Shoe Manufacturers Federation He is also a director of the Leather Export Corporation Mr Bostock is an enthusiastic farmer and owns two model farms on which he maintains pedigree herds of Jersey and British Friesian cattle Treasure talk Wednesday evening Mr Rupert Bruce-Mitford secretary of the Society of Antiquaries and Assistant Keeper in the Department of Medieval and British Antiquities at the British Musuem will lecture in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on The Sutton Hoo Ship Mr Bruce-Mitford who has made a special study of the material from Sutton Hoo will show with coloured slides details of the treasure from the buriaL He will also piay records of the Sutton Hoo musical instrument which was reconstructed by Arnold Dol-metsch from tiny pieces of wood found in the burial Mr Bruce-Mitford is a fluent and witty speaker and his coloured slides of these treasures are unique and provide an unrivaller opportunity of seeing these objects in their true backgrounds O1 BIRTHS MARRIACES DEATHS IN MEMORIAL Etc name and address must accompany all announcements whether by post or hand Prepaid charge is 3d per word BIRTHDAY GREETINGS BOWEN Sandra Wishing you a very happy birthday today Darling All our love Mummy and Daddy FORTHCOMING marriage THORNTON ROSE On November 22 3 pm at Bra-ckenbury Road Church between Ronald (Sgt RA) son of Mr and Mrs Thornton of 52 Easthope Road Yardley and Joan eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Rose of 6 Clapton Grove Kingstanding FORM A VIGILANCE MOVEMENT TO BEAT COSH GANGS By A JEBBETT and For once the BBC which runs so smoothly in these matters had been caught out The wind indeed had been taken from its sails However it did draw my attention to Keith Pyott who while he was being so mercilessly chewed up by the machine for he was the fenegade captain was happily drinking tea in the BBC canteen He was on the air an hour later in The Song of Two I This time he had a slightly different French part He was Voice of Next day he was in Birmingham rehearsing for Kenlis Grapes are in which he played the part of a French priest In all this Gallic preoccupation Mr Pyott is a very busy man He has little chance to get even French leave irFELEVISlON last night A brought us the father and son combination in Shakespeare Robert Atkins actor of skill whose performance for children a few months ago excited comment here is the father of Ian Atkins producer whose mark is already stamped on our screens Of last plays Emlyn The Morning brought us another notable star of the old film days Percy Marmont As the peppery old doctor Mr Marmont showed that his gift for characterisation has mellowed with the years And how beautifully Gladys Young has taken to the cameras! She gave a delightful performance In the Tuesday play If This be I noticed a peculiar slip of the tongue by Valerie White She appeared to pronounce (my dictionary gives it three syllables) as These things happen to the best of us of course If this be all is forgiven PERATION the current Saturday night serial by Francis Durbridge will come to an end a week on Saturday The secret of its success lies in the long association between the author and the producer Martyn Webster which began in Birmingham years ago The film rights of this story have already been sold and it is also likely that the previous Durbridge serial Broken will also be filmed Here is a lesson for all television scriptwriters An eye on the silver screen can turn to gold BIRMINGHAM clubs now have an expert adviser in physical recreation He is Mr Tom Doughty of Aston ex -Army heavyweight boxing champion of Europe an experienced teacher of judo and a qualified masseur He is also an expert on remedial gymnastics The target for the next bo midnight matinee at Birmingham Alexandra Theatre next February is to be no less than £1000 though a proportion of the proceeds is I hear to be used to help other and smaller Birmingham charities Eddie Low aged 16 of Little King Street Birmingham a member of Hockley Stonehouse Gang was on the air on Saturday He Was one of the winners of a Hour competition for the best designs for a Christmas card Eddie who recently left art school is taking up commercial art as his fpHE customer they say is always right The case of The about which some of you have mildly complained lately proves that the customer can be both right and wrong at the same time The gist of the grumbles was summed up by a reader who asked Why has our nightly serial become so novelettish He was referring to the love story episode concerning Jack and Peggy and Philip and Mary Jones most of which is now happily settled Let us give the authors a penny novelette for their thoughts and try to see what they were after It will cost us twopence but then everything has gone up these days Any popular serial has its obstacles Holidays are one instance one or more of the cast off with a cold is another These are the day-to-day worries of the producer There are other hazards even more trying The authors have to write episodes to get round these things but I hear that they are right back on the rails again now Most of you will be glad to hear that the serial is to step up its country content and here is the secret of how it will be done Godfrey Baseley the general editor has a local plan in which he takes the writers into the country at least once' a month to do one or more of the rural rounds Recently they tried clay pigeon shooting in the even- more silly talk about If freedom does not mean the right to object to being converted into cannon fodder then it does not mean anything at all ANTHONY JONES Northfield Lanza continued I ask if 1 A Goer has seen the latest Lanza film Because Mine If so then perhaps just some of the remarks made are excusable PUBLIC OPINION A great Lanza fan myself even I found the film a big disappointment As for stating that people compare Lanza with Caruso how ridiculous! Why always must one compare artists such as these? Caruso had an incomparable voice As for the lot of noise Lanza makes I for one like it His heartfelt rendering of Be My Love and his beautiful Maria are wonderful Please let Lanza be Lanza and do not regard him as a shadow of Great LANZA FAN South Yardley Have not small time people who sneer and shout about Mario Lanza realised that they will never hear another voice as great as his He is not only one of the greatest singers of our time but he also has great acting ability to go with it I have heard of voice but never of his acting FAN West Bromwich un We are not often lucky enough to have a man who can sing our favourite arias expertly and then sing ordinary everyday melodies Is that not why he is rightly famous? latest film was wickedly treated by the critics but I was pleased to read your fair report on Mine" KAVANAGH Handsworth Service TX) those who criticise I A say all hospitals are short of staff I am a part-time nurse Why not join as a nurse yourself? FREDA MYATT (Mrs) Erdington Oil from 16 capsules from 1fl of Phillips preparation of magnesia ctewa coupte of MILKof MA TABLETS By correcting acidity they give prompt relief from heartburn flatulence and all other forms of acid indigestion Milk of Magnesia Tablets are handy to carry in handbag or pocket Handy Pocket Packs 9d 15 Family Sizes 210 411 of Magnesia is the trade mark Spotlight' on Youth by Harry Webb Six National Boys' Club members talk things over THE six Birmingham boys who have been elected life members of the National Club in the past two years met at Stonehouse this week-end to discuss plans for future activity with Mr Neville Goodridge the leader of the National Club decided to try and finish the room in time for the occasion To do so several of the boys last week-end slept on the premises to save valuable time and on a number of other evenings work went on into the early hours of the morning Among the plans discussed at the NBC meeting were those for a reunion at Nash Court the camping and training centre in the Clee Hills Mr Goodridge travelled up from Reading on Friday paid a visit to Norton to see the Birmingham barge at its moorings called in at Bournville Club where final preparations were being made for their annual and then went on to Stonehouse There the National Club members were assembled in a room which has undergone A NOTHER cosh robbery in Birmingham is added to the long list of similar happenings all over the country The time'1 has now arrived for a voluntary vigilance movement to be formed which would be ready with strong and hefty squads at any hour to patrol our thoroughfares and to assist our depleted police force The present system of protection is inadequate with our guardians of the peace so much below reasonable strength JESSE WILLIAMS Great Barr Z-training THE question of Mr A Geoffrey Allen's refusal to attend training raises an important issue as regards the freedom of the individual I should like to know what the War Office hopes to gain by attempting tc force ex-soldiers to do something they regard as wrong Many of us were enlightened by our experiences in the forces in the war against Nazism and when we recall the horrors of war which destroyed the innocent with the guilty we shrink from associating ourselves from such barbarity again At least we can say we know what we are talking about which is considerably more than some of the people who are passing judgment can say It is also no encouragement to those who joined in the struggle against Nazism to watch the resurge of this evil in Germany today and to realise that the British and American Governments are steadily re-arming the Germans and freeing the men who committed every crime possible against humanity JOHN DARRAGH Erdington So much empty nonsense is mouthed and printed on the subject of objection to military service that it is refreshing to hear a Birmingham magistrate say in effect that if moral objection to war becomes widespread then the objectors must be promptly imprisoned Let us hope that those in authority will continue to speak as plainly on the subject for certainly the everlasting claptrap about and right of appeal is most irritating The right of appeal carries less weight than the right of appeal of the lettuce on the approach of a rabbit We all know that the youth of today is bludgeoned into military service and to be fair in- the matter such bludgeoning may well be a good and necessary business but let us have no HODGES ROSA medium Sherry for all occasions Sherries of no pen distinction complete transformation in the past week The Stonehouse Gang has recently been presented by Mr Buckler of Streetly with a radio-amplifier and gramophone in mahogany and the problem arose how adequately to house it in clubrooms made out of erstwhile poultry houses and similar wooden buildings The boys and girls have set to with a will however and turned one of their rooms into a most attractive music-room and library A partition has been padded apd lined to make it more sound-resistant woodwork has been re-painted walls papered floor laid with lino and mats chairs re-covered and attractive pictures hung When Mr Goodridge accepted the invitation to attend the meeting of National Club members it was REDDITCH are agents for HORNBY ECCANO Telephone: Redditch 80 i.