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A. RECENT facetious comment by the ' Broadcasters ' on the folding of table napkins to. look like water-lilies brought those embarrassed gentlemen scores of letters explaining how the thing was done-and even some water-lily napkins themselves neatly folded in cardboard boxes. The interest in this piece of old table etiquette is therefore obvious. This week, Mrs. Stephonson will explain the diamond fold and the fan fold.

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Recent Discoveries by Sir Flinders Petrie in Palestine'
INTEREST in excavations increases every year. Few events of scholarly import have assumed the degree of topical interest accorded by the general Press to, for instance, the unearthing of the tomb of King Tutankahmen. By the aid of these excavations, not only has our view of history been enlarged, but it has been rendered immensely more real, and wo have learned that ' progress ' after all is a relative term. In Egypt, most profitable field of research for the excavator, the long extension of our view, before written history, has largely been the work of the British School of Arch;rology in Egypt under the direction of Sir Flinders Petrie. Recently, however, Sir Flinders and his party have moved their centre of activities across the Sinai Desert to the southern border of Palestine, where an Old Testament city, called Beth-Poleth, has been unearthed with most interesting results. It is of this ancient city that Lady Flinders Petrie , wife of the excavator, will speak this evening. Lady Petrie has hitherto accompanied her husband, but this year she is remaining behind to interest the public in this important work.

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JOSEPHINE WRAY (Soprano)
WALTER WIDDOP (Tenor)
ARTHUR FEAR (Bass-Baritone)
THE WIRELESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Leader, S. KNEALE KELLEY)
Conducted by CHARLES WEBBER
'Faust' Overture
JOSEPHINE WRAY, ARTHUR FEAR, and Orchestra Duet, Act II, 'The Flying Dutchman'

Before the mysterious Dutchman came on the scene, the Norwegian lass, Serita, had had a youthful sweetheart, Erik the huntsman. But in her heart she has always cherished visions of the mysterious seafarer whose portrait hung in her father's house, and his dread story has always appealed to her. When he actually appears, all thoughts of the boyish Erik are overshadowed by his striking personality; it is as though she had suddenly grown up from her own girlhood.
In this finely melodious duet, with its moments of real dramatic fervour, she promises her hand to the Dutchman, so redeeming him from his dread destiny.

ORCHESTRA
Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine
('The Dusk of the Gods')
JOSEPHINE WRAY , WALTER WIDDOP and Orchestra
Duet, Act I, ' The Valkyrie'

SIEGMUND and Sieglinde, alone in the great hall where they first saw each other, while her lord Hunding sleeps, and while the moonlight streams through the open door, tell each other in words of rapture how they knew that they were destined for one another, when they first looked on each other's faces. As Siegmund sings of his joy, something in his voice recalls her father to Sieglinde, and she asks him if the name ha gave Hunding is really his own. He tells her that whatever name she gives him he will bear, and she calls him Siegmund, as indeed he is. The whole duet is one of those ecstatic pieces of passionate music which cannot possibly be reduced to terms of cold prose ; nor does it need any such translation.

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