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APRIL, 1930.

The Monthly Record of

South Place Ethical Society, CONWAY HALL, RED LION,SQUARE, W.C.I.

T .. !e.>ho" .. : CHANCERY 8032.

6BJE<2T 6P THB SfH!IBTV • .. The Obj.ct of the Society is the cultivatioD of. rational religiou8 lleDtiment, the Itudr of ethical principles, and the promotiOD of human welfare, in harmony with advancing kDowledte."

SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES. The following DISCOURSES will be delivered. the Servi~a beainning .t

ELEVEN O·CLOC~.

March 3D.-Mrs. CORBETT ASHBY.-The Influence of Women on Intfrllatina P Won.

ianoforte Solo-

First Movement from Sonata in A ftat, Op. 26. Andante con Variazloni Beethcwefl Mr. WILLI ... '" BUSCH.

Hymns ( No. 67. 0 Earth I thy past is crowned and consecrated. 1 No. 51. Raise your standard, brothers.

April S·-Sir ALBION BANERJI, C.S.I., C.I.E.-Indian Educational ProblelBS. Bass Solo-

Ethiopia Saluting the Colour ChG,ks Wood

Miss HBOB SI"'PSOH. Hoyd.

Soprano Solo-With Verdure Clad

Mr. G. C. DoW"'AN.

Hymns No. 28. Oh dew of life I Oh light of earth I (lIeCond tune). No. 25. 0 brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother.

April 13.-4:. E. M. JOAO, B.A.-Mysticism and Modern ScIence. VOCal Duets--

Constancy S~ Still as the Night ... C. ~u

Miss HBBB SIIdPSOH and Mr. G. C. DoWIdAH. Hymns No. 22. Faith comes in moments of heroic love.

No. 42. All around us, fair with flowerl •.

April 20 (Easter Sanday).-1I0 SERVICE.

April 27.-JOHN A. HOBSOII, M.I.-Sixty Years of Changing England. Pianoforte Solo-

First two movements from Sonata-I. Adag io s06tenut~Il. Allegretto in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 (" Moonlight ") Bed~

Mr. WILLlAM BUSCH.

Hymns No. SO. Do not crouch to-day and worship. No. 281. The presence of perpetual change.

The Committee request the audienoo to refra'n fro .. ~tue. . .'i Hy"," Practice to which all perlonll clenro .. , of 'mpro'lling the Aym" 'trt{1tnq ar, In1>lted, i, held. at tlte' ~., of each SerfJ'cI.

Pinnist: Mr. WILLIAM BUSCH.

A CoUeation ~ moot at eaclt SeNJUJe, to enable thoee pr"ent e, ocneri~, I, IIw e.rpen.", 01 the SociefV.

MEMBERSHIP.

Any person in sympathy with the Object. of the Society i. cordially inyiied to become .. MOBEB. The amount of lubtcription is optional, with a minimum of 28. 6-.. per q,!ar~er, or 10s. per annum. Any penon interested in the Society'. work, but not ""~hlOg to become a member, may join as o.n ASSOClATB:, the minimum subscription belDjr 5 •. per annum. Further particulars may be obtained before and after the Sunday " .rVllleS, or on application to the Hon. Rel!'i,trar, MISS R. H.lJ.L8, Oonw&y Hall, Red LIon Squo.re, W.O.l.

HeNeRllRY eFFH2ERS. T,.easure,. C. E. LISTER, 17, Churston Mansions, W.C.1. Sureta,.y F. M. OVEII.Y, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.l Sunday Luture Su,.e/ary F. W . READ, G5, Harley Road, Harlesden, N.W.IO. Mint/tu Suri!lary Miss E . PALME!!, 74, Falkland Park Avenue, S.E.2S. Regist,.ar 0/ M embus and l . .

Auociatu '" ... ) M,ss R. H ALLS, Conway Hall , Red LIOn Square, W.C.1.

Edito,. 0/ MONTHLY REcoJI.D JOHN MURPHY, 41 , Brookland Rise, N.W.I!.

{Miss V. A. ALEXANDER., 5, Hopefield Avenue, Brondesbury

Libra,.ians ... Park, N.W.G. F. STUTTIG, 2, Durand Gardens, StockweIl, S.W.9.

T,.easu,.e,., Conway Hall } N. LIDSTONE, 96, Blackstock Road, N .•. Appeal Fund

The GENER.AL COMMITTEE will meet on Wednesday, April 2, at Conway Hall, W.C.1. Correspondence dealing with matters for consideration should be for. warded to F. M. OVER.Y, Hon. Secretary, Con way Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.l, at the earliest possible moment. All matters relating to finance should be address..!d to the Treasurer.

Secretaries of Sub·Committees are requested to not ! that any matter which they wilh to insert in the MONTHLY RECORD should be in the hands of Mr. F. W. READ not later than 15th of the month. All literary matter should be forwarded to the Editor, Mll. JOHN MUIlPHY, .1, Brookland Rise, N .W.lt, as early in the month as possible.

EDITORIAL. STUDY CIRCLES.- Will all interested in the subject of study circles please

attend at Conway Hall at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 8th April to discuss the project. We have received a number of letters from members desirous of taking part, but there is naturally some difference of view as to subjects and methods of study. After full exchange of opininon at the conference on April 8th it may be possible to arrange the next step in the undertaking.

CHRONICLE OF THE MONTH . .. STYLISTIC IDIOSYNCRASIES" OF COMPOSERS.

About ninety members and friends enjoyed a delightful social evening on February 17, the attraction of the evening being a talk by Mr. Richard H. Wait hew on the .. Stylistic Idiosyncrasies" of composers. The talk was divided into two parts by a brief interval for refreshments. Mr. Walthew gave a general survey extending from Bach to Debussy, delighting us particularly with his pianoforte illustrations from both orchestral writings !lnd chamber music. He brought to our notice familiar examples, such as Schubert's fondness of hesitating between major an'd minor keys, and explained in musical terms the more elusive .. tricks" of composers, which one unconsciously recognises, but rarely defines. We realise our good fortune in having such a generous friend as Mr. Walthew, and thank him again most heartily for sparing us some of his valuable time.

H. C.

THE FRONTIERS OF EXPERIENCE IN ART.

What does a work of art do to us? was the question around which Dr. Dellsle Burn. wove his discourse of February 23. How was it that a play of Shakespeare, a sonata of Beethoven, a statue by Michael Angelo sometimes gave relief and consolation t-o a mind confused and oppressed by the insoluble problems of social or personal life?

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In seeking an answer we had to remember a concret~ work of art that had affected Ourselves; it might possibly have been sorr.ething which made no appeal to most other people, or something the greatness of which had impressed every new generation for many centuries. And we had to think of it-Hamlet, or the Birth of Venus, or a Schubert melody-not as a thing that was there complete and perfect, but rather as an attempt at the expression of something which no words or combination of colours or tones could adequately convey. To appreciate a work of art fully was in ~ome measure to share the urge of its creator, as he wrought out of chaos something beautiful and ?ew.. Most of us were better able to follow the musician than the painter or the sculptor 10 hIs task and to share his joy in happy inspiration" because his work was created for us anew each time we heard it performed. As we heard the first notes of a lovely melody \Ye felt something of the stress of the composer as h~ sought to capture a beauty that had never before visited the earth, and shared his happiness as he mounted each inevit-able step to fulfilment. -

In order to appreciate great works we have to approach them with minds purified from the superficiality and triviality of ordinary life: we had to interpose a period of calm between the world of miscellaneous experience and pass through a desert to the portals of that other world, where all human things were seen transmuted into a more

Taplendid state of being and illumined with the light that never was on land or sea. he ~hings transformed must be human things: they must be some part of our own

exp~nence; and the sublimer atmosphere in which we see them must be one in which ordinary mortals, as well as men of genius, can breathe. The man of genius, however ~uperhuman in his creative power, must be in some connection with me and my experience In order to move me. A man of genius who has not enough in common with the rest ~ ?ut;lanity to make his work intelligible, is classed as an eccentric or even as a madman.

hIS IS the only test of sanity we have for him. A great artist obviously has more in common with his own generation and country

than ",:ith distant ages and strange peoples, although there is in the greatest work, Eomethlng that belongs to all time. Shakespeare had something to say to his Elizabethan I ngland that we cannot hear now in his plays. Here is a context of time, place, angu~ge, apart from which Euripides or Goethe or Shakespeare cannot be understood br

enJ?yed. Hence, the mere imitation of a classical example by artists must always t~ f~tl!e except as preparatory training for the expression of something that refers to

e hVlng world. cl • Art does not simply take you away from the corner in which you are ~Ing YOur own work; it sends you back to that work refreshed and consoled by a

~ Impse of the divine comedy of the world; it permits you for an exceptional moment M ~ra~el beyond the frontier of what you have hitherto known and been. edltatlOg on Prospero's vision, you see success and failure in the light of eternity,

~n~ YOurself and the world in a new perspective. Beyond the trivialities of ordinary thIng y?U see the possibilities of significance and of greatness, and are able to regard a e moving moment as leading on to a new day, which will contain something tbat the

eons of being have never yet witnessed.

'" '" * * NEW VIEWS OF PROPERTY.

who New emergencies in social life, said Mr. Hobson, in his discourse on March 2, St Ich had profoundly affected some traditional institutions-the church, the family, the prate-had introduced a conflict into our ideas of property. Since the rise of Capitalism, th Operty had enjoyed a peculiar sanctity-a sanctity greater than human life under ex e laws of a quite recent period-and a prestige which equalled, when it did not a5 c~, the ancient prestige of birth. Such an attitude did not always exist, however. M d ad been so fully demonstrated by Mr. Tawney in his .. Religion and the Rise of apo ern Capitalism." The spiritual authorities of the middle ages condoned rather than poprov~d the possession of great wealth. Thomas Aquinas merely conceded that the be ss~sslon of riches was not unlawful when properly acquired and used justly for the

ne t of one's self and others. him It was natural and just that a man should enjoy the possession of what he had hou self made for his use--a weapon for the chase, a spade to cultivate his field. a the ~e he had built for himself and his family. Likewise, his claim to the fruits of dem a~d he had cultivated seemed to be v:alid and not to conflict with any other ethical p1ic·~n. Under modern conditions, however, with the division of labour and the multi­IIrti~? of the processes through which a product passed before it became the finished Il'lad e of c~mmerce it was hardly ever possible for one individual to claim that he artic~ a particular thing. More important still was the fact that the value of the finished resp e Was a variable qualllity determined ultimately by the market, which was in his ~ft. of many commodities a world market. So that even if a man could prove it as aIm to have made a given article, he could not go on to demand a given sum for

a natural right. Even the value of the sum he eventually happened to get depended

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itself on the prices of the things he might wish to buy for it. In other words, economic values were socially determined.

Now, the share of the market value of a commodity or a service that fell to the different classes of persons engaged in its production was not deliberately settled by any social organ, but was to-day the result of a mere conflict of forces. The possession of capital, which was frequently due to inheritance and not to any social service per­formed by its possessors, gave its holders the power of scooping into their own pockets a vast share of the general wealth as rent, interest and profit, while those in a weak economic position failed to secure even sufficient to maintain their working powers. The divergence between legality and equity was widened by modern financial methods, which enabled idle and absentee shareholders to claim in advance the lion's share of what other people were producing.

There had been setting in for some time past a strong current of feeling against the idle rich and the too rich. The State collected a certain part of their surplus by taxation or more drastically in some countries by inflation of the currency. If the property thus annexed had been really created by its owners, its confiscation would certainly have been unjust. Seeing, however, that the wealth in question had not only been socially created, but distributed, according to legal enactments maintained by the State, there is no doubt of the moral right of governments to claim part of it for social purposes.

The workers, too, demanded a larger share of it in the shape of higher wages, more leisure and better conditions of labour. They considered that those who manage and work a factory have a better claim tei it than the mere holders of the share capital who might live, as they are legally entitled to do, in Monte Carlo or Timbuctoo as unemployable parasites. The meeting of this demand in any considerable degree would involve profound changes in law and in the structure of businesses. Labour govern­ments are bound to proceed in this direction, and to ensure that the health, education and recreation of the mass of the people should come before the accumulation of unneces­sary wealth and undesirable economic power in the hands of a few. Ultimately, the only satisf~ctory solution of the conflicting claims of life and propet'ty was in the prin' ciple, spontaneously adopted in the family and in larger groups whenever an emergency compelled common action-" from each according to his powers; to each according to his needs." These needs certainly included the claims of personality to full develop­ment and to individual enterprise, but they had to be adjusted in accordance with the claims of the community as a whole. J. M.

* MAN IN THE MODERN CITY.

On March 9, Dr. Delisle Burns, in speaking of .. Man in the Modern City," said the modern city is not a city at all, only a city area, where masses of people are not acquainted with each other and have no common purpose--a society with a vast body and no soul. "Ve have been accustomed to these huge city areas only during the last 50 to 100 years; the city area habits should be eradicated as easily as they were formed.

The situation was controlable when the population was 10,000 all told, as in Athens, or Florence.

London in 1800 had 800,000 inhabitants, but in 1890 they numbered three millions. New York had two millions in 1890 and more than double that number 20 years later.

Most of our slums were created between 1800 and 1890. Slum crowding had a great effect on human ",itality; mortality increased, both

among adults and children. These conditions led to the flight of the rich, leaving congested areas to sink lower into slumdom.

Then Humanitarianism (or enlightened Socialism) began a common effort to control a situation, which had become a menilce. The later 19th Century gave us drains; the work underground was excellent, above ground conditions were abominable.

It is no longer possible to think merely in terms of sanitation; amenities are wanted, and our town-planning should be in terms of beauty. In 1930 people should have fore­sight: so much has happened during the 20th Century. What will happen in the next 20 years? We need large public buildings, not places where a mayor and councillors can hold meetings, but town halls for the people, in which they can have wireless and cinema shows, also dramatic and musical societies, where they can do things them-selves, so that the new generation can live wider and fuller lives. A. J. L.

* A LEAGUE WAR.

Dr. C. Delisle Burns, in his discourse on March 16, estimated the probable conse­quences of a war conducted by the League of Nations" to prevent war. ,. He maintained that at present the world was heading for a war which, unless the destructed forces were deflected, would occur between 1935 <lnd 1940. Armaments on land and sea and in the

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~ir were being prepared in view of this conflict, and naval armaments were not the most I~portant. While the Conference was talking about these, the more efficient and deadly aIr weapons and poisons were being manufactured apace, but hardly mentioned. . .Could we expect that a war waged by the League would further the cause of JustICe or peace in the world? Justice and peace implied a method of altering the status quo w~enever it was found by some party to be oppressive or intolerable-the mt'thod ~f arbitration, conciliation and compromise. But the people who would really count 10 such a war were those who benefited by the status quo! They wanted to .. respect and preserve" present frontiers, according to Art. 10 of the Covenant. They could not pose, without hypocrisy, as the police of Europe when they were really interested parties 10 whatever case turned up. Each of these .. policemen" regarded the man on the ~ext beat as a potential burglar, unless the latter happened to be a member of the borce with whom he had made a secret arrangement as to how to act when trouble poke out. Belgium was bound by a secret treaty to France. France was providing lioland, Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia with arms: Italy did a similar service for I ung~ry. Britain agreed, in 1921, to vote on the Council of the League in fm'our of taly If the Albanian question came on the board. Obviously, the force that these police­

me? would use in a League war was already tainted by particular interests incom­patl~le with the method of treating every case on its merits from the point of view of JustIce.

During the ten years the League had been in existence it had prevented at last seven wars and solved many dangerous difficulties. Its success, however, was in a I~rge ~~~sure due to the universal disgust and horror with which war had been regarded sInce

. !3ut this disgust will decrease as the memory of the war fades away and a new gener~tton grows up which will have had no experience or recollection of what a war ~as hke. Can we expect similar success from League methods then, especially when Vrger. questions arising, for example, out of revision of the territorial settlement of h er~allles come up for decision? The answer was doubtful, but we might hope that the

ablt of conference and conciliation and the practical value of the results would be a ~ew and powerful influence on the side of peace. In any case, the race of 'armaments Gas a ~adarene descent j and even if the Conference failed, Dr. Burns thought that r:eeat Bntain should still take the real but lesser risk of some limitation of naval arma·

nt for the sake of peace and the restoration of confidence.

* * * * TliE OMAR KHAYYAM FESTIVAL. M There was a long queue before the cioors of Con way Hall on Friday evening, Sc':;Ch 21, and before 7.15, when Mr. Alfred Clements raised his baton to conduct a ub~rt'.s Symphony in B Flat the whole floor and balcony were filled with eager and n~preClatlve listeners. Soon the orange curtains were drawn aside revealing the astro­hi;her poet himself in his robe of contemplation musing with his faithful Alif on the Om themes of astronomy and fate. By a pardonable and indeed happy anachronism and ar prOved to be well acquainted with the history of the South Place Ethical Society of thenthu~i~stic for the success of Conway Hall. The eloquence of the poet, the beauty univ e pav,hon, .the response of the spirit of poetry (Miss Catherine Tressider), enchained ann ersal attentIOn which was particularly arrested at the end of the scene by the wel~uncement that some western visitors had arriv:ed in Persia and were about to be to b Omed by the poet. The pilgrims from the 'VI'est turned out by a pleasant coincidence lieb e ~. quartette of English singers well known and appreciated at Conway Hall-Miss The e ,mpson, Miss Joyce Newton, Mr. Osmond Davis and Mr. George C. Dowman . .. I Y re~on?ed to the poet's welcome by giving a splendid rendering of Liza Lehmann's the~ a erslan Garden," and the audience, forgetful of dramatic propriety, punctuated Fitz~ per!?r"!ance with hearty applause. In the intervals of song the other stanzas of Mr ';/ .5 mcomparable rendering of the Rubaiyat were read, and read admirably, by fri~nd) all~s Ma.nsford (for the poet in robe of contemplation was not other than our old Which' ~e hstened with enhanced pleasure to the familiar verses, every syllable of Poet t c~me clearly and quietly from the stage to the furthest parts of the hall. As the entert ~o leave of his accomplished guests the curtains closed on the first part of the

amment. instr~~t'the Wcond part we returned to the less picturesque but still enntertaining and read 'be. est. The orchestra played Gounod's .. Mirella," after which Mr. J,Iansford epilog: nef ~cco.unt of the life and character of Fitzgerald. Tennyson's prologue and apprec.e /0 Ttres,as--casual verses and playful, but inspired by genuine friendship and remar~ablon-w~re read by Mr. C. J. Pollard, after which ;\[r. lI1ansford brought the express:d ~ festival to a close by a short discourse on Omar and his philosophy as with who ~n the fam?us poem. The profit available for the Building Fund, in connection open unt:~ the Festival was arranged, is not yet known as the account is being kept Commens' Marc~ 31. The profit and pleasure to all who witnessed it is beyond question

urate with the great labour that went to its production. J. ~J.

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SECRETARIAL NOTES. I want to draw ~pecial attention to a lantern lecture on .. New Vienna; The City

of the Child," to be given by Mrs. T. La Chard, J .P., on Tuesday, April 1. Dr. Delisle Burns is to preside, and 100 slides of particular interest, specially lent for a short period by the municipality of Vienna, are to be shown. These slides illustrate the efforts made since the war by the Vienna municipality to build beautiful and practical homes for the working classes and welfare centres, public baths and holiday homes for the people. It i. hoped that there will be a good attendance.

The Annual General Meeting will be held during the last week in May, and nomi.na­tlons for the vacancies on the Committee should be handed to me on or before April 27. On the same date the new trustees will be appointed to make up the legal number, and all full members are entitled to nominate other members for trusteeship.

It is a plea~ure to announce that the Sunday afternoon informal .. At Homes .. still attract numbers of new members. At the last .. At Home" 60 or 70 people attended. The next is to be on Sunday, April 13, when Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Clements will be host and hostess.

The last dance of the season is fixed for Saturday, April 5. Unfortunately, our ener­getic organiser, Mrs. James, has had an accident and is in hospital. Will members do their best to attend this dance so that Mrs. James may realise that, although she may not be present, the dancers have done their best to make it a huge success.

The third Country Dance Party will take place on Wednesday, April 30. These parties have been more and more successful and the organisers are expecting a crowd for the final party of the season.

A Whist Drive is being held on Wednesday, April 9, in aid of the Building Fund. It il some time since one of these interesting functions has been held, and Mrs. Catherall and Mrs. Overy ask for gifts towards the refreshments and for prizes.

The Play Reading Circle has had several interesting gatherings and, as will be seen from another page, it meets fortnightly on Thursdays. Mrs. HinchlifI is anxious to have the names of further readers. F. M. O.

CONWAY HALL APPEAL FUND. Amount already acknowledged .. . c. E. Hooper, Bassett, Southampton (Srd donation) F. G. Squire, Bloomsbury (2nd donation) A. C. Y. Bell, Keston, Kent (11th donation) South Place Ramblers (2nd donation) Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Ov:ery (2nd donation)

CONW A Y MEMORIAL LECTURES.

£ s. d. 6466 14 la

200 10 0 0 500 S 8 0 S S 0

£5490 0 10

We are glad to be able to announce that Professor Julian Huxley, who has lately returned from a scientific expedition to East Africa, has agreed to give this Lecture on 8 date (to be fixed hereafter) early in October, and has provisionally chosen for it the title: co Science, Religion and Human Nature. " Further particulars will be announced in a later issue. Meantime we congratulate the Society upon securing the services of this brilliant inheritor of a famous name.

MaNTHLY OltNeE. The last dance of the season will be held on Saturday, April 5, from 7.80-11.80 p.m.

Tickets, 8s. 6d. each, including refreshments, may be obtained from Mrs. Watson, .. Cheriton," Aldersbrook Road, E.12, or from the Registrar .

WHIST ORIVE. A Whist Drive in aid of the Building Fund will be held on Wednesday, April t, at

7.15 p.m. Mrs. Catherall and Mrs. Overy will be pleased to receive gifts towards refresh­ments or prizes. Tickets, 2s. 6d. each (including refreshments), can be obtained from Mrs. Overy, Conway Hall.

LaNTERN LEeTURE ~N .. NEW VIENNA." On Tuesday, April I, at 7.80 p.m., Mrs. T. La Chard, J .P., will deliver a Lantern

Lecture on et New Vienna, The City of the Child." The 100 slides to be shown at thl. lecture are unique and have been specially lent for 8 short period only by the Munici­pality of Vienna. Dr. C. DeJisle Burns will preside.

R1IMBLBS. d Saturday, April 5.-Last DANCE of the Season.

ate. Members are asked not to forget the

Thursday, April 17 to Tuesday, 22.-89th CO-OPERATIVE HOLIDAY TO RYDE, ISLE-OF­WIGHT, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Clements , 8, Finchley Way, N.S. No names will be re~eived after March SO, when a meeting will be held a t Conway Hall, 5 o'clock, and deposits of 12s. 6d . . received by Mr. B. O. \Va rwick. House pa rt ies will defray their OWn expenses-estimated total cost, including cheap fare to Ryde E splanade-- £2 15s. Head­qUarters, c/o. Mrs. ColJier, 1, Marine Terrace, Castle Street, Ryde, Isle-of-Wight. b Saturday, April 26.-SHAKESPEARE RAMBLE, from Blackfria rs to Cheapside, conducted

By Mr .. W. Kent, of the " Everyman" R a mblers. Cost 2s., including tea. ?1eet at lackfnars District Station, S o'clock.

S - . { Mrs. G. JAKItS. . ecretones Mr. B. O. WAIIWIClt.

PL1IY-RB1IDING eIReLB. The Play Reading Circle meets for tnightly on Thursdays a t 7 p.m. in the Library.

~~mbe.rs and associa tes who wish to join t he circle should communicate with Mrs. J. R. 1 Inchllff, 23, Russell Ga rdens, N.W.4. The subscription for the rest of the season is AS. The following programme has been a rranged:-

pr. 10," Berkeley Square." " 24," The Roof," by John Galsworthy.

eeUNTRY DllNe B VlIRTY. h 11 ~e Country D ance Group is holding a party on W ednesday, April 30, in the large b a

f, rom 7 p.m. to 10.S0 p.m. Tickets, 2s. each, including supper, may be obtained

e orehand from the Secretaries , Miss R. Bush and Miss P. M. Overy.

eeUNTRY D1INeB eL1ISS • .and This .clasl meets in the Library on Monday evenings. It is only open to members lea associates of the Society. Those who join pay a n entrance fee of 2s. 6d. and Is. per rn son attended. The class has now been divided into two sections. The advanced class 7 ~~ts at 6.15 p.m., and the elementary class <I t 7 p.m. A general practice follows at J~' p.m. Sunday practices at 2.30 p.m. Applications should be made to one of the rn I~t Hon. Secretaries, Miss R. Bush or Miss P . M. Overy. AIJ payments should be

a e to the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs . D . Lindsay.

seUTH VL1IeB S(JND1tY (2t!)N(2BRT St!)(2IBTY. Sunday Vopular eoncerts «2hamber Music).

C The FORTY-FOURTH SEASON will be continued every Sunday until April 18 in on .... ay HaIJ, Red Lion Square, Holborn, W.C. I.

MARCH SO-ORCHESTRAL CONCERT. S I ~O':'T\i PLACE ORCHESTRA. Conductor: RICHARD H. WALTHItW.

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0 ~ V.ohn: DOROTHEA CLAYTON. Vocalist : GWItN CATLItY. nod s S~mphony in E flat i Gluck's Overture" Iphigenia in Aulis" (with Wagner's

ending); Mozart's Concerto in G for Violin and Orchestra i Walthew's Suite" The Masqueraders "; Mendelssohn's Overture •• Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyaie .. ;

April other Orchestral Works, Violin Solos, and Songs. 6. THE ENTI!NTE STRING QUARTET: CECIL BOURALOT, [)OROTHY CIIURTON, JAMES

LOCKYER, EDITH CHURTON. Beethoven's Quartet in C minor. April 18 Vocalist: SUMNER AUSTIN. At th e Piano: DOROTHY STRIBLING. ROWE' LAST CONCERT OF THE SEASON.-

NA FRANKLIN, DOROTHY EVERITT, JEAN LE FEVRE, VIOLET PUSEY, WINIFRED COPPIIR­WHEAT, DOROTlW JONES, EDITH LAKE, NORA PARKER. Vocalists: VICTORIA ANDERSON and

VIOLA MORRIS. At the Piano: EDITH ASHBY. Spohr's Double Quartet in 0 minor; Svendsen's Octet; Vocal Duets.

M Committee Meeting at 5.S0 and after Concert on April 18. from t~mbHS' Tickets Ss. each, admitting to Reserved Seats to April 18, may be had Square e on. Treasurer of the Concerts, ANDREW E. WATSON, Conway Hall , Red Lion .. T W.C.l, by sending remittance and stamped addressed envelope, or at the Concerts. trated ~E STORY OF A THOUSAND CONCERTS," by W. S. },{eadmore, illus­Numbewlt~ Portraits of the Artists and two Drawings, together with a List of Works, from thr OH Performances, Namea of Artists, etc. One Shilling net. Post free lB. 2d.

e on. Treasurer. Zon. TretJsuru: ANDREW E. WATSON, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C .•. H~: ' Sec~etary: ALFIIED J. CUln:NTS, 8, Finchley Way, N.S .

. ASSIstaNt Secretary: MRS . D. M . CUKENTS, 8, Finchley Way , N .S.

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N0MINATI0NS P0R e0MMITTEE AND peR aUDIT4!)RS. The Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 29. Nominations for seven

.,acancies on the Committee and for two auditors must be in the hands of the Secretary (Mr. F. M. O" ery) not later than Sunday, April '1:7. Each candidate must be nominated by two members. Nomination forms can be obtained from Mr. Overy.

SUNDay aPTERN0eN Se<!IALS. The next informal .. At Home" will be held in the Library, on SundRY, April IS,

from 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., when Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Clements will act as host and hostess. A nominal charge of ad. will be made to meet the cost of light refreshments. Will members :lnd associates who wish to attend kindly write to the hostess at Con way Hall, or leave their names with the Regi trar not later than Thursday, April 10, so that adequate arrangements may be made.

LEaGUE 0P NaTI0NS UNI4!)N BRIlN<!n. The next meeting will be held in the Small Hall on Tuesday, April 15, at 7 p.m .•

when Mr. Leslie R. Aldous will speak on the" International Traffic in Noxious Drugs." Particulars as to Membership may be had of the Hon. Secretary, HELKN M. FAIRHALL, 8. Scarborough Road, N.4.

et')~'MITTEE. F. JAMItS. .. F. A. RICRARDS. MRS. D. M. CL1!:Mf!MTS.

*A. J. CLEMf!NTS . ):. LmSTONE. MISS E. SIMONS. * E. CUNNINGHAlI MRS. A. J. LISTE:V..

JOHN MURPHY. *MIss F. J. SIMONS.

* E. F. EIlI.INGTON. E. J . FAIRHALL.

* J. A. GRAHAl(. MR~. G. JAMES.

V. L. NASH. C. J. POLLARD.

* MRS. E. RICHARD5.

R. E. SNELLlNG. B. O. WARWICK. MRS. A. WATSON'. A. E. WATSON.

Building Concert Con way Memorial ~Iuslc Publications

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*Rd ire at thl! .\Illlual Meeting il l i\lay.

Secretaries 01' Sub-eommittees. R. E. SNELl.ING, 51, Church l?nad, Hendol1. ALFRED J. CLEMENTS, 8, Finchley Way, Finchley, N.3. E. CARI/., 6, Essendon Road, Sanderstead, Surrey. Miss F. J. SIMONS, 5, Ferme Park Road, N.4. E. SNELLING, 8, Amberley Road , Leyton, E.I0.

f MR~ . J MES, 302, Dalston Lane, E.8. ... B. 0 WARWICK, 93. Fall110uth A "CIlU l!. E 4.

Social Mrs. A. E. WATSON, Cberiton, Aldersbrook Road, E.1!.

New Membersl Mr. L. C. ALDRlDGIl, 152, King Henry's Road, Soutb HampstMd, N .W.S . Mr. C. S. PuRNELL, 95, Brownhill Road, Catford, S.E.6. Miss G. TAYLOR, .. South Stoke," Abbottswood, Guildford .

New Associates l Mr. and Mrs. T. E. BARRALI!T, .. Minstead," Shirlcy Drive, Worthing. Miss M. IDIENS, 85, Windsor Road, Forest Gate. E.7.

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Mr. and Mrs. A. M. S. FERNANDKZ ... Ringwood. " Farm Way, Cheam, Surrey. Miss ROSE HALLS, 121, Studdridge Street. Parsons Green, S.W.6. Miss M. S. PVKE, 9, Dennin{!ton Park Man~ions, West Hampstead, N.W.6. Miss E. JOSEPHS, 48, Leweston Place, Stamford Hill, N.t6. Mr. ROBERT SNELLING, 51, Church Road, Hendon, N.W.4. Miss E. V. KOCH, 4, Bulstrodc Street, Welbcck Street, W.1.

DlaRV F0R APRIL. Lantern Lecture 7.30 p.J1l. 13 Conc.:rt ... 6.30 p.m General Committee ... 6.30 p.nl . 14 Count ry Dances ... 6.15 p.m. Dance ... 7.30 p.1ll 17- 22 Cn-opcrativc Holiday. Ryde Service 11 ;UIl . 24- Play Readi ng Circle 7 p.m. Concert 6.30 p.l11 . 26 Ramble: Blackfriars to Cheapside Country Dances 6.15 p.m. (sce page 7) Whist Drive ... 7.15 r ·m. 27 Service U '-a.m. Play Heading Circle 7 p.m . 28 Country Dances 6.15 p.m. Service 11 a.l11. 30 Country Dance Party 7'p.m. At Home 3.30 p.m .

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