NOTES AND COMMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18068, 16 March 1923, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Keeping calm : Europe now has its red shirts, its black shirts, and its gray shirts, but what Europe particularly needs is to keep, its shirt on.—Chicago News.

Labour K.C.: The late Mr C. J. Mathew, K.C., as the nominee of Labour, won the Whitechapel seat from Mr J. D. Kiley, who liayl been Liberal member, by a" majority "of 428, The second son of the late Lord Justice Mathew, Mr Mathew entered public life in 1910, when he was returned to the London County Council as Progressive member for St. George’s-in-the-East. For some, years his political views tended more and more in the direction of Labour, and Labour ultimately adopted him as its candidate for Whitechapel, which comprises also St. George’s, and forms a division of Stepney. Mr Mathew took “silk” in 1913. He had a good Chancery practice, often appearing in trade union litigation. ,

London H istory: , The Survey of London, undertaken by the County Council, is now well advanced. Already volumes • have appeared dealing with the parishes of Bromley-by-Bow, Chelsea, St. , Gile’s (including Lincoln’s Inn), and Hammersmith. The eighth voliimo, shortly to he published through the firm of Batsford, of High Hoi born, is concerned with the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch. It will oontain a mass of historical information, fully documented, besides many illustrations of old houses and other buildings worthy of permanent record by reason of their antiquity, associations, or architectural interest.

Sir Frank Benson’s Voice: Sir Frank R. Benson, in an address to the students of Trinity College ot Music, made confessions on the musio of liis own voice. The difficulties in the use of the voice were brought home to him ehrly in life. He was told by a distinguished musician that he would never be any good on the stage, as he had no voice. A celebrated lady pianist said she would tell him which was the best way to set to work to develop tho voice, and sat down at tho piano and struck a note towards the bass. Ho, squeaked out a note higher up, and she turned to him, surprised, after making several other attempts, and said it was absolutely useless to ,proceed further. Sir Frank did not insist, before the students, on the extent of the pianist’s error. His career in tho service of Shakespeare is comment enough.