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  2. MUSIC AND THE THEATRE.

    Most amateur dramatic dubs find their ambitions severely cramped by the prohibitive royalties asked for many of the best modern plays, and, in Perth, which ...

    Article : 1,654 words
  3. A DEPRESSION INTERLUDE.

    Stillness and silence, lassitude and despair, held supreme rule in the wheatbelt township of Wychearamup. There was not even a stray dog to be seen by Cyril ...

    Article : 1,290 words
  4. OLD JOURNALISTIC DAYS.

    On the return journey to Calcutta we branched off to visit the head works of the Lower Ganges Canal at Narora, which were, if anything, on a more ...

    Article : 1,576 words
  5. "IN MY YOUNG DAYS."

    "Lucy," I said to her plainly. 'Lucy, remember, after all, blood is thicker than water an' I'm only talking to yon for your own good as you very well know.' I said. ...

    Article : 884 words
  6. PLAGUES OF AUSTRALIA.

    It is of course, possible for us to become too sentimental over the destruction of emus by machine guns and other agencies. Excepting the wedge-tailed eagle, there ...

    Article : 1,584 words
  7. ON APPEALING.

    I watched a cricket match in the country the other day, and, as I watched, a bowler appealed for leg-before-wicket. The word "appeal," however, does not express ...

    Article : 744 words
  8. POET AND LIBRETTIST.

    When Gay's "Beggar's Opera" appeared for the first time on January 20, 1728, it achieved the greatest success of any play that had till then been produced on the ...

    Article : 1,688 words
  9. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    The news that Unilever Ltd. has purchased the whole of the 1932-33 production of whale oil at an estimated cost of £3,500,000 directs attention to a very ...

    Article : 1,481 words
  10. PRINTERS' ERRORS.

    The proof-reader's job on a daily newspaper is as thankless as it is exacting. He may use profane language on occasions, but he has his merry moments. The ...

    Article : 823 words
  11. ALCOHOLIC MENTAL DISEASE.

    PHILADELPHIA.—Before 1920 deaths from alcoholism and alcoholic mental disease in the general populace were declining. Since 1920 they have begun to ...

    Article : 681 words
  12. FRIENDSHIP GARDEN.

    Most people hang their walls with pictures and photos that they may better remember places and friends. But I have found someone who does better than this ...

    Article : 419 words
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    Mr. J. Lynn's "Non-Britishers in Australia" (Melbourne University Press. Price 7/6) was awarded the Hurbson-Higinbotham Scholarship for 1927 by the ...

    Article : 171 words
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    Messrs. Methuen have included in their series of modern classics, edited by E. V. Rieu. "A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs," by W. H. ...

    Article : 107 words
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    Mrs. A. Thirkell, a granddaughter of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and the, daughter of a cousin both of Mr Rudyard Kipling and Mr. Stanley Baldwin, has written ...

    Article : 106 words
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    Messrs Faber and Faber have published at 12/6 net T. S. Eliot's "Selected Essays." Besides his selection of the best essays from "The Sacred Wood" and "For ...

    Article : 68 words
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