A Running Commentary by Capt. H.B.T. Wakelam on the International Rugby Match
Relayed from Twickenham
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France, the latest addition to the countries playing in the International Championship, is still the dark horse of the competition. Club Rugby in France is far higher in standard than might be imagined from the average showing made by French international teams, but it is particularly difficult to combine players from all over so large a country into an effective whole. Still, French Rugby is always full of dash and fire, and a French team is always capable of springing a surprise, such, for instance, as the defeat of England last year. This season France has given very stiff matches to Ireland and Wales, so the chances of victory at Twickenham this afternoon are not all on the one side.

4.40 The Victor Olof Sextet
Russell Owen (Tenor)
In 1907 Debussy wrote six of the most delicious little musical trifles that exist. The whole collection of these six he called Children's Corner, and each of them has an English title. They were written for the Piano, and have since been orchestrated. At the beginning of the book we find two little fat elephants, and between them the inscription: 'To my dear little Chouchou, with her Father's tender excuses for that which follows.'

M. Cortot, the famous French pianist, suggests that the choice of English names was intended as a gentle, good-humoured, ironic hint at the 'traditional English Miss.'