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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 32

COMING TALKS

During the nekt few days there will be three talks with a special bearing on Imperial affairs. When Mr. Lionel Curtis visited New Zealand recently, after the Commonwealth Relations Conference in Australia, he made a recording for the N.B.S. entitled "The Commonwealth ~ Idea," which • embodies his ideals for the development of the Empire. Mr. Curtis is a very distinguished Englishman who has exercised a great deal of influence behind the scenes. He was one of Lord Milner's young men in South Africa and helped to frame the South African Constitution. Later he had a hand in the framing of the Montague-Chelms-ford Reforms, which led up to the present Constitution of India, and he was secretary to the conference which led to the establishment of the Irish. Free State. He was also one of the founders of the "Round Table." This talk will be heard from 4YA on Tuesday next, December 6.

Another delegate to the conference was Mr. Norman McKenzie, Professor of International Law at the University of Toronto, who will talk about Canada and the Commonwealth, and will describe the conditions that explain the Canadian attitude towards the Empire. This talk will be heard from 2YA this evening, Thursday. A companion talk to this will be the repetition of the recorded talk by Mr. Donal O'Sullivan, Clerk to the Senate of the Irish Free State, on Ireland's relations to the Commonwealth. This will be heard from IYA on Monday evening next. Many people who have seen films about historical characters must have commented on the treatment of history by the authors or producers, or both. This subject is to be touched on in a recorded talk tomorrow night (Friday) at 2YA by Dr. Gerda Eichbaum, of the staff of Woodford House, Havelock .North, under the title of '"History, Hero-worship, and the Films." Dr. Eichbaum will discuss a number of these cinema plays and also the treatment of Shakespeare on the screen.

One of the best-known of New Zealand writers will be heard on the air through a recorded talk at 2YA on Tuesday evening next, when Miss Nelle Scanlan, who is now revisiting her native country, will speak on "Shadows Over London: The People and the Crisis." Miss Scanlan will describe the preparations that have been made among the people for the aerial defence of London during the last year or two and reactions to the recent crisis.

Miss Ngaio Marsh, another New Zealand writer who has made a high reputation for herself as a writer of detective stories, is to give two talks from 3YA entitled "Three Months in Europe." The first will be given on Monday evening next.

Still a third local writer, Mrs. Mary Scott, author of "Barbara in the Backblocks" and "Barbara Prospers" will be on the air at 4YA next week. Mrs. Scott has' made a series of six recordings called ''Leaves from a Backblocks Diary," in which she describes various phases of country life, serious and humorous, weighs the advantages and disadvantages, and sums up the qualities necessary for happiness in farm life. The first of these talks will be broadcast, from 4YA on Wednesday next.