SCIENCE AND THE ELECTIONS.

Northern Advocate, 13 October 1928, Page 15

SCIENCE AND THE ELECTIONS.

When the next general election arrives, somewhere about next May I am told, the new talking film will figure largely in the battle. In fapt, this remarkable composite of the gramophone and the cinema is destined to play a big part in our public as well as our business life. Local members or candidates will make their own speeches to attentive constituents, ami then the meeting will be given an opportunity to see and hear their respective party leaders holding forth. • This should liven up things immensely, and also relieve the strain on the big platform assets. But film-talking is a distinct art. The Prince of Wales shapes only moderately at it. Air T. P. O’Connor and Mayor Walker of New York are excellent. Mr Baldwin, Air MacDonald, and Air .1. H. Thomas have each been “done,” but with varying success. Air Henry Ford, the motor multimillionaire, is an utter fiasco at it. Air H. G-. Wells and Professor Julian Huxley, in a duet advertising their joint authorship of a new r book, are good. But the master actor-talker remains Mr 6. B. Shaw. FAMOUS JOCKEY’S SECRET, Gordon Richards, in the news lately with a secret marriage and his hundredth winner of the season, is indisputably the leading jockey of tfye day. Alany people have speculated as to the secret of hjs success, and some, haye marvelled at it.. For there are riders, more technically perfect, with a much smaller tally of winners. It is true, of course, that success breeds success, and that a fashionable jockey gets plenty of good: mounts, but I rather think the pre-eminence of Rich-i ards among the knights of the pigskin is due to some indefinable sympathy which exists between him and Jiis racers. It is extraordinary how horses take likes and dislikes •to people. One well-known jockey at the moment is in despair, because nine ogt! of ten horses ho rides are resentful 1 and mulish in his hands. Richards, on the other hand, seems to be able to get the very best out of all his mounts, though in the obvious arts of horsemanship he is no more accomplished than the other.