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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 1952 NEW HUMBER TRAWLER CATCHES mmmmmBM OF DIKES AND DUNES By Michaef Barsley MORE HSH MORE CHEAPLY But: Old Salts Snort at the Coitiforts 1 From Out Special Correspondent Humour to audiences in ten Dutch towns, and the story which went down best (apart from the tale of Old Bill and the shell-hole) was a Dutch story which Td heard a few days) before the lecture-tour, began. A local town epuncil had passed a motion to admit mixed bathing in the municipal pool. A week later on of the councillors came to the burgomaster in great agitation. "I have seen men and rain-drenched deck. Many a fisherman has been pitched into the icy waters and lost his life while crossing a darkened deck at night "Everything under cover is the watchword in the new ships, and that applies even to preparing trawls, splicing wires, and -mending nets.

The guiding principle is to cut deck-running to a minimum. The skipper can talk to any part of his ship by loud-speaker. To reply, a crewman needs only go to a near-by hand-microphone and pick it up like a telephone. In off-hours, and even when the men are working on deck, the radio can be connected to the loud-speaker system and music is piped to all bands aboard. But these luxuries must all be paid for, -and the modern trawler costs 250 a day to operate on its 23-day cruise -to Iceland and back.

The answer is found in operating efficiency which cuts time bv saving manpower. On deck is the new a patent machine invented in Grimsby and just put into service on the trawlers this 'season. It means fish can be cleaned continuously as they are and it eliminates the bruising which comes from the rubber-shod feet of crewmen cleaning by hand. This, in turn, means better quality and better prices. A conspicuous piece of wastefulness for many years has been the dumping of immature -fish which inevitably come up in a trawl, and the offal of those which have been cleaned.

On the Vanessa and her new oil-burning sisters an ingenious system has been worked out to deal with this. The law requires a double bulkhead to be built between the. oil fuel tanks and the hold containing the cod. This bulkhead, or cofferdam, is now divided into modern trawler of the type referred to in our article. MISCELLANY When mv Dutch friends heard that I was travelling through from Holland to Denmark they said at" once, "Oh, you'll like the Danes.

They have a good time." Copenhagen, they. admitted Amsterdam, was a wonderful city, the Paris of the North, and as for the Danish blondes no further comment, only an ecstatic sigh. But when, a few days some Danes me talk of my trip in Holland they laftghed and said, "You can't nave bad a very amusing time there, surely This seems to me to sum up one difference between the two The Danes are than the Dutch, but oot so kindly. The Dutch don't mind being compared with the Danes every Viking avoids the comparison. Both' peoples have a strong sense of history, but the struggle the Netherlands, from the Duke of Alba to Seyss-Inquart (Six-and-ar quarter, as 'they called him during the occupation), has undoubtedly been tougher.

At the moment the main attribute they have in besides a magnificent sense of hospitality towards visitors, is devotion to the' bicycle. Danes will tell you while the population of their capital numbers a the. inhabitants possess half a million bicycles and use them continually. The Dutch are quite prepared to believe this, but they add that their Own streets in Amsterdam are narrower, that it's just as well that Dutch car drivers are real experts and not just reckless amateurs. So the gentle rivalry goes on.

As one brought up in the North of England, I am not surprised to see these swarms of cyclists going to and from work. But the Dutch have the alarming habit of mounting their girls side-saddle on the pillion, and parents often find room for two children on one machine in addition to the rider I've even seen three. A theory of mine is that in Holland the type of bicycle" is somehow a reflection of religion. There's the Calvinist bicycle-a tall, black, upright machine, ridden with implacable fury and the Catholic bicycle coloured and low-slung, and perhaps revealing the muscular, sunburned limbs of ajolly girl' from the Southern Provinces. Denmark, I think, makes bo such distinction.

There the bicycle is known simply as an extra pair of legs; whether' revealed or not. As for scenery, Denmark probably Has more variety to offer. There's even a gentle hill in the centre of Jutland called Heaven." The dunes on the west coast recall that wide, lovely coastline- between Liverpool and Southport, and the "Dutch dikes and polders, if they weren't so mercilessly rectangular, could be placed wholesale in other parts of Lancashire without appearing to be foreign territory. The only difference is that the windmills really work though, as the Danes say, Dutch mills are mainly water-mills but Danish mills erind corn, i tau to see wny this should make a mill more important or more godlike, even if it does crHnd ovflndin0 email The Dutch can always take a Joe against themselves, and many of --the iokes are about politics or religion. I once had the task of lecturing on the tricky subject of the British Sense of Hun, November 2.

1 If the British deep-sea trawler of 1952 can be said to be a feminine creature and what self-respecting ship is not? then she is indulging herself in a very lively spree. She has got herself a new profile and a lot of attractive frills and, like a woman, she claims she is doing it just to save the household a bit of money. The profile and frills have been fashioned by marine architects along the Humber. The hew trawler design' pushes the crew's quarters out of the foVsle and away aft, streamlines the bridge and the funnel to blend, with the suDerstructure. clears the.

clutter and uncovers new beauty in. clean nautical lines. Best of all, this revolution has created a new sort of: trawler that uses fewer men to catch more fish for less expenditure in operating costs. Canadian Sales One of the most gratifying features of the new- programme has been the winning of a shipbuilding contract with one of i the largest fishing companies of Canada; which has brought Britain 500,000 in dollar sales. 01dj8alts along the Humber snort when you mention "modernising" to them.

They call it mollycoddling, and look back with genuine nostalgia to the good old days when a man was wet through to his'skin most of the time he was at sea, when a shin steamed faff to Greenland with a bone in her teeth and every man jack was green about the gills as he lurched along the slippery deck with a slopping bucket of cod livers. You "heaved coal till you were black, you cleaned fish till your back ached, and at the end of your trick you groped for'ard on a heaving deck to the glory-hole for forty winks, too tired to peel off your oilskins-. On the British trawler of 1952 every one of these tasks is mechanised, dirt and mess are cut to a minimum, and the members of the crew are quiet-spoken, family men who live in decent quarters aboard ship and step ashore in a business suit to catch the' bus home. This revolution in trawler design is apparent at the big St Andrew's docks in Hull or the fishermen's quays in Grimsby and the other Humber ports. Here and there is a vessel which has a markedly different appearance, a yacht-like grace to the curve of her guiiwales, and a chunkiness to her superstructure astern.

This is largely because the crew's quarters have been moved from one end of the ship, to the other. The traditional North Atlantic trawler had 'the crew squashed into the cramped glory-hole below decks at a point about level with the anchor. In collisions it was the men who got it every time, and the unhealthy quarters were a oreeaing-grouna lor tuDercuiosis. All Under Cover In the new ships, like the Vanessa, now on her maiden voyage, and the Princess Elizabeth, launched recently, the crew are located aft in cabins with plenty of light and air. When a man goes for his trick at the wheel or to the galley or engine-room there is no loneer anv need for him to pull on oilskins and cross a heaving.

TTmlke if SEND THIS COUPON. POST IN Pitas tend me free copy of Icafiu Tali NAME ADDRESS- I Broadcasting SHAKESPEARE IN. ITALY By our Radio Critic women bathing' together in our swimming-pool," he The burgomaster reminded him or tne council's recent decision. "Oh," said the councillor, is that what it meant? I thought it meant Protestants and Catholics bathing together." iiouand is. full ot schism, but no longer so' distressed by heresy, I have mentioned hospitality, and here both countries make you feel that the whole community has been.

as it -were; waiting for the moment of your arrival on the I am not merely referring to hotels (in which) the Dutch wm the prize for punctuality and politeness) but to the private homes in which tourists often find themselves when the town is crowded. One Danish housewife told me that her British guests often began by feeling uneasy in her house, as if they were intruders. I told her about the Englishman's own home being his castle, but added that it was not always as spotlessly clean and tidy as hers. Language presents few difficulties, even in the country districts. But Tve noticed that while a group of Dutchmen nearly always make a point of talking in English if even one Englishman is of the company the Danes slip more quickly into their own language and then you're lost completely.

They chatter among themselves; like woodpeckers. say, "Tak'-tak. Toosen tak. G'morn. G'nat.

The Dutch are about the best linguists in Europe, and they explain this, disarmingly, by saying they know their own language is quite impossible either to grasp or to pronounce. I've been told that, if a man hear you in a Dutch railway carriage seems to be taken with a fit of coughing he's probably only giving his opinion about the situation in Indonesia. On the other hand, if you ask the. average passer-by the way, to the post office, lie is likely to say, with, a deprecatory smile sorry, I don't speak English. You take the first, to the left, the second to the right, go under the railway bridge, and it's the brick building facing you.

I'm sorry I don't speak English." In. the course of a long' journey which took me from the quiet squares of The Hague to the busy, boulevards of Copenhagen I only encountered one discomfort, and that had its amusing side. I found difficulty in getting accustomed to the huge cushion-like eiderdown which is the sole covering on a bed. It is called a Dune, and like the Dutch language it is impossible to understand or master. Hot in the centre, chilly and exposed at the extremities, one just lets it lie there, not' daring to move.

In Holland they would apologise and change it for sheets and blankets. In Denmark they grin at you and say You'll get used to it. You'll soon be sleeping like a real Dane." Each alternative has its points. torical plays make such good broadcasts. In the great tragedies one listens, perhaps, after hearing them so often, for the par ticular interpretation of each different actor or actress in the historical plays it is still rather the play itself which makes the larger impression.

This performance of "Henry arranged by M. R. Ridley and produced by Howard Rose, was straightforward and stern great speeches, spoken by Sebastian Shaw, one of the best voices in radio plays, stood out from a background which was clear and unfussy. The Home Service play on Monday, H. M.

Harwood's "The Grain of Mustard Seed," was one in the English Theatre aeries, chosen to represent the 1920s. "Dating in the theatre is incalculable; this play, which has a. political setting andva good, strong plot; dates far less than plays of the 1930s or even, oddly enough, than "Love in Idleness," which belongs to the lS40s: and yet again not nearly so much as The Whip," which was produced eleven years earlier. 'The Light Programme's plays keep up their efficient course; "Knight Sinister" on Wednesday was well acted. 'in a rather flourishing and over-emphatic style, as if- somebody, in charge bad got tired of quietly realistic detective stories and decided to-make them sound more cloak-and-dagger 1952 style.

Whatever the reason, this stage thriller by Elleston Trevor, capably produced by Donald McWhinnie, had a sort of swagger about it, as though the broadcasters, refusing to be daunted by television's engulfing progress, were putting more colour, and character into their sound drama than' is usual. Concerts SCTKDAT. SOVEHBEB 9. 6 30 PJn. KING'S HALL, BELLE VUE HALLE ORCHESTRA Conductor: SIR JOHN BARBIROLU VIENNESE PROGRAMME Ticket from Salle Bodkins Office and Usual-Asm t.

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A week ago, Miss Neill, who was 65, was found badly burned at her home in Redcliffe Square, South Kensington, having apparently fallen by the fire. She was taken to St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, and later moved to Basingstoke for special treatment. Maire O'Neill was the younger sister of Sara Allgood, who continued to act in that, the family name. These two Dublin girls studied for the stage under J. J.

Fay in the Irish National Theatre Society, whereby they learned the fascinating lilt of speech which characterised the Irish spoken on the stage of the AbBfcv Theatre. With great natural beauty to assist -this charming diction and a rare force of comedv to enrich the beauty, Maire O'Neill was quickly marked for leading roles and her first appearance in London was in her famous- part of Pegeen in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World." Drama of this kind was still remote from the general taste." but it quickly became the delight of those playgoers who had eyes and ears. Maire O'Neill continued, both in Ireland and in England, to combine the heroine's parts, even a symbolic one like Countess Cathleen, with those of the drolls of the Abbey farces. She conquered in both. When she came to serve O'Casey so well, she had already been no less eloquent for Yeats.

While in Manchester she met and married ueorge Mair, then a leader writer and aramaiic critic on the "Manchester Guardian," and as brilliantly promising in his craft as she in hers. She olayed-a season in 1913 with the Liverpool Repertory and appeared in Shakespeare with Tree at His Majesty's. But the native drama was her appropriate medium and. with advancing years, though she could still renew her Pegeen she scored success after success in the racy, raffish humour of Irish kitchen-comedy or the' superb comical-tragical of Sean O'Casey's Dublin dramas. As Mrs Madigan in "Juno and the Pay-cock and as Mrs Gogan in The Plough and the Stars" she seemed to be the perfect spokeswoman for all the exuberance and the mordancy in O'Casey's portraiture of Irish proletarian life.

Naturally she was in great demand for Irish comedy parts in English plays, but she was most truly herself in work of the old Abbey idiomj with the grand phrases tossing on her quick, expressive lip. the tricky crescendo in each torrent of vitUDeration. the irrpslstitale upward lilt of the voice on the climax of a sentence, the firm stance of the woman with a mind of her own, and the inimitable use or a roiling eye to signify a moral, half mischief and half menace. To see the later Maire O'Neill going into action in some stage brawl of Dublin viragos was to see the work of a battle-cruiser indeed. Yet, in her Pegeen days, she had been as light and lovely as a ninnace.

In the last few years she had specialised in smaii parts wnicn allowed ner to be a comedienne and a character actress at the same time. After the earlv rlpntv. nf George Mair Maire O'Neill married the great Irish comedian and her constant colleague, Arthur Sinclair. By Mair she had a daughter and a son, John, who was rapidly rising in journalism and authorship when he joined the RA.F. only to be killed on active service in the spring or 1942.

SOME MEMORIES By Lennox Robinson It is autumn, winter's coming; somewhere, obstinately a leaf clings on a branch and won't fall but eventually must. The early miraculous days of the Irish literary renaissance which, on its dramatic side, created the Abbey Theatre are now yellow and sere. The great ones have departed the Fays, Sara Fred OTJosovan, Sydney Morgan et alii. Some few survive, and may they for many. years.

It was a heartbreak a few days ago to learn that Dossie Wright was dead, and now close on his heels follows Maire O'Neill. fin the Elysian fields they must be having a great gossip of long-ago days at the Abbey, she playing "Pegeen Mike" and he "PhiUy Cullen.) Was there ever, will there ever be, such a-Pegeen as Maire O'Neill? Molly had waspishness, she had childishness, she had innocence, she had guile; she had that utter beauty that some Irish girls have the way the eyes are placed, the lift-of the cheeks, the mouth ripe but not 'too ripe everything is sensuous and yet virginal; it is all "yes" and then "no" but generally "no." I saw her first in 1908, the occasion of my first play in the Abbey and my first Synge In the Shadow of the Glen." Her performance in that play and the play itself were unforgettable. In it she is the beautiful young Nora, but she equally excelled as an old woman. I remember sitting in the Court Theatre. London, many years ago.

-She had played Pegeen and followed it with old Mrs Donoghue in The Workhouse' Ward." An elderly lady behind me asked of her' companion: Which do you tMnfe- she's Tikein real life?" fiho iXKte fan aHtmb hop Anmt tint- I do not think she had ever the immaculate timipg" of a Tempest or a Lynn ouianne. 4 urn sure sne oiien went wrong, not from deliberate nauehtinese taa riirt Sarah Bernhardt), but because the Trich in her made it a bore to do everything -even- iu cuier eveumfi ui me same way. in later years she played to admiration on the screen. Long ago. she could be a demon, a vixen, but, even long ago.

she could be the Kindest "person to the beginner, a helper lu uie unuuous Bui. One harks back in marnn fn hw hwantv- to her. charm, She went on a sKnrt-tnur ronce England, and vowed cwne. oacs. wiia-tnree rings and did.

One came from George Mair. of the Manchester' Goat-dlnn." I suppose any morethan-good-looking young woman can three engagement i su easy io interpret a Synge to jtwsr.his Nora, bis Deird his Pegeen Mike, and, in another vein, to play Aunt Till Ml la London for a vearj-anrl then fpr another twelve months in the United states ana Australia. Brijimess falls from the Queens' have died young and fair. Dust hath dosed Helen's Manchester Cathedral UaaiUT. Eoir 'Commuaion.

11 a.m.: Moan. 1 25 p.m.: Intercessions. 50 Eren-son. two narrow tanks. The small fish go into one.

and are sold for flshmeal ashore. The offal, which Koes into the other, has now been found to have high value for medical purposes, and is sold to laboratories. And tne scheme uses space which would otherwise be wasted. Electric Peeler Hand labour is saved in many ways. There is an electric vegetable peeler in the galley.

On deck, a conveyer pipe takes the cod livers astern to the processing vats and does away with the old hand-bucket method. Five electronic devices on the bridge radar, R.D.F., echo-sounder, fischlupe fish locater, and global radio enable the ship to ignore bad weather, to cruise swiftly to the. fish shoals, locate them with underwater eyes," and scoop them up with alarming efficiency. Humber shipbuilders are modest men, but the new British trawlers have brought them international attention. Orders are coming in from European fleet-owners as well as from firms in Hull and Grimsby.

One of the most hopeful signs is the opening of a brand-new market, or rather one that has not been heard from since the nineteen-thirties. The Selby firm of Cochrane and Sons, has completed delivery of an order for five 137-foot steel trawlers to the National Sea Products Company of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The contract represents dollar earnings of 500,000. and there were further dollar expenditures in Grimsby for nets gear. Some special problems had to be dealt with in the construction involving temperatures in crew quarters and fish compartments, because the ships must operate in continuous ice conditions for at least four months of the year.

First reports are that the masters of the new ships are "exceptionally pleased with their performance. The British trawlers now fishine on the Canadian east coast are, to put it in most mo nest terms, as modern as anytning seen in those waters in the post-war period More than one Canadian skipper has been seen about the Humber waterfront in the last two weeks, and there are reports that more purchases ana Duuaing oraers are in the offing. Modernising mollycoddling regardless of what you call it has made the Humber trawler of 1952 a vessel without peer anywhere. You CAN BECOME A HOUSEHOLDER SAFELY, SIMPLY, ECONOMICALLY BY MEANS OF THE C.I.S. PLAN.

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It dates as such from the early sixteenth century, and its nearest rivals are the Dres den lohanneum, founded in 1586, and the Real Armeria in Madrid, built a few years later. Most other national collections are housed in comparatively modern museums. But it was not until 1827 that Sir Samuel Meyrick, acting on the Duke of Wellington's instructions (the Duke was then Constable of the Tower), rescued the weapons and armour from a wild state of anachronistic confusion." Before Viscount Dillon, the first expert Curator of the Armouries, was appointed in 1895, priceless suits of armour were losing their elaborate gilding and engraving by a barbarous application of bath brick and emery cloth. Shortage of funds restricted purchases during the inter-war years, but many bargains were missed during the affluent 1890s. A complete suit, embossed with figures of solid gold, rin which Sir Philip Sidney was morta'lly wounded at Zutphen, was lost to St Petersburg, yet the Tower bought a new theatrical Viennese helmet for 50.

The Conqueror's Musket Meyrick's biggest task was to give a semblance of historical accuracy to a series of equestrian figures representing the Kings of England. This most wonderful mixture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" was mounted on wooden horses some carved by Grinling Gibbons fitted with Oriental saddles and "Turkey bridles." William I wore a splendid tilting armour of about 1590; the chain mail on a figure labelled Edward I probably came from India. Kings John, Henry II, and VI, were arrayed in seventeenth-century cuivassier armour and sported ftamberge swords of the same period. George II appeared as an early Tudor. James II who once said armour was an excellent invention, for it not only saved the life of the wearer but hindered him from taking it supported a lance measuring 27 inches in circumference at the grip.

Fitting out Queen Elizabeth must have been a difficult problem, for Meyrick discovered that her helmet dated from Edward VI, the pieces protecting her arms from Charles and the breastplate from early in her father's reign. And what BOOKS AND By When I take up a new book I usually glance first at the notice on the dust-cover, to get some idea of what it is about When I did so with The Retreat from Christianity in the Modern World," the Maurice Lectures for 1951, by the Rev. J. V. Langmead Casserley.

Professor of Dogmatic Theology in the General, Theological Seminary, New York (Longmans, 12s 6d), I feared' that his subject, as planned, was too big for a volume many' tunes the size of this one. But the opening sentence of Chapter in which he recognises this truth, restored my confidence. After all, when studying a wide landscape it is not a bad thing to begin with a clear map which helps one to see the general lie of the land. Any student who takes a single chapter of this book and uses it as a guide to fuller and more detailed reading for a university thesis or even a rolume will, I fancy, admire the width of tlse author's knowledge and- the general soundness of his judgments. He is, of course, unfair to Hegel, but that is the fashion A Hegelian can make for religion even, or so he, supposes, for Well, what more do you want One does not want one's philosopher to dictate one's religion.

And Hegel makes more room for Christianity, as I understand it than either Plato or Plotinus. He is unfair to Bergson. But man who had 'groaned under the arrogant dogmatism of the Huxley period, and refused to regard himself as a mechanical automaton cursed with' a consciousness that reflected without influencing his actions, might be forgiven forwelcomlng any word of freedom. I once described Bergson as being to us younger men like the cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, but with the promise of abundance rain. I have criticised two of the author's judgments, but have no room for the many I And the style-, makes the book easy pleasant to When' the post brought me "Hymns and Human Lifes." by Eric Routler (John 16s neO.

had.a busy day before nu. -But I thought I would glance at the book. And when I looked at my watch more than. two hours had oassed. I -read first chapter, the 5 but for most Of the time was sampling the For such, treatment -it Is well suited." for it has a well-arranged table of contents really impressive, index.

As it is-a subject in. which I have, always been inte rested there were plenty of points to upland; whether-1 read half a page or half a doren pages I found nothing that did not enjoy. Lovers 'of hamuli or of hymn-writers or of the mstbry of -either not' miss this book cheap for its size; good print, and. good appearance. I have been reading the October number was worse, most of her armour was put on upside down While many were deceived by these romantic frauds," it is difficult to believe that even the most gullible seventeenth- century tourist was taken in when shown the "great musket" which William the Conqueror carried at Hastings Shropshires from Bucks was tactfully and successfully con cealea from the American press (as described here the other day) that the 2nd King's Shropshire Light Infantry, who were welcomed at New' Orleans in 192 were "the same battalion" that had once set Washington on fire, it need not have been hard to conceal it For these were no "Shropshires" engaged in that incursion on Washington.

The 85th Foot." which were really responsible for the "fire-raising," were otherwise known as the Bucks Volunteers, and no American could be expected to recognise the as their legitimate heirs. British regimental traditions go back far beyond present-day titles. Though the 63rd and 96th regiments of foot had little to do with Manchester, the traditions of the Manchester Regiment are rooted in them, as are those of the K.S.L.I. in the Bucks Volunteers. The 85th Foot had their first subtitle from the fact that they were first enrolled from the employees on the Duke of Buckingham's estates.

In 1815 they became the Duke of York's Own Light Infantry and in 1821 the King's L.I. But it was not until 1881, on amalgamation with the 53rd Foot Regiment), that they got their present name. A Puzzling Reply? Although the American press was kept in the dark about that earlier visit to Washington, at least one Washington citizen heard of it (writes "2nd Lieut in 1942 The 2nd Battalion passed through Washington in the dark hours of an early morning An American remarked to some of its officers it was a pity that the first time an English regiment had been there they could not see it in daylight He received the reply Oh, the regiment has been here before, but we didn't like it, so we burnt it" The1 train was neboarded before any more could be said. What the American thought was never known. As between troops there seems to have been frank enough discussion of the history of the British and United States regiments that met each other and the generous welcome the K.SX,.I.

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mM rrtUit. cSft, cad gnirt OVER 7,000,000 WAS ADVANCED TO HOME BUYERS IN 1951 Henry Reed's play called "The Great Desire I Had was the Third Programme's most interesting broadcast last -week. It was based upon the idea that Shakespeare might have- paid visit to Italy, an idea which Mr Reed treated not as' a matter of tiresome academic controversy but as an engaging possibility. From the Italian visit he bad built a plav which was fight and' clever, and in which Marius Goring made a more than' credible Shakespeare, made, in fact, a living and, lively poet Through Ferrara, Verona, Padua, Venice, and Mantua Shakespeare and his friend Thomas Shewin made their way the play was not only full of bright ideas but of quick A and arresting dialogue which, making no attempt to be of the period, yet did give an impression of energy and richness. Flora Robson, as the actress, Isabella, gave an excellent performance.

This sort of excursion into the realms of the possible can be "dangerous when one comes to clothe the idea in flesh and blood and conversation the pitfalls are Mr Reed succeeded beyond expectations, because bis work avoided all solemnity and had free and fluent play ot fancy. "King Henry The Third Programme this month Is doing a series of Shakespeare's histories, under the title The Wars of the Roses the second and third parts of "Henry VI and Richard HI." Perhaps, it was, lust' as a curtain-raiser to wis inai mey ma King Henry- in October. It, is always ournrisine. but it is true, that, these his ENTERTAINMENTS etc. Manchester Cinemas A Jl Fl T2 25.

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