by WALTER VALE Relayed from ALL SAINTS', MARGARET STREET

By CHRISTOPHER STONE

THE SCOTTISH STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Directed by GUY DAINES
(From Edinburgh)

BEETHOVEN'S PIANOFORTE SONATAS
Played by KATHLEEN LONG
Sonata in A Flat, Op. 110
Moderate cantabile, molto espressivo ; Allegro molto ; Adagio ma non troppo, Fuga; Allegro ma non troppo

Capt. GEOFFREY CRAWSHAW : Dahlias '

Mr. ERNEST NEWMAN

Professor JAMES RITCHIE , D.So. (Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen) : ' Whither are we Travelling and what are we to do about it ? " (From Aberdeen)
PREVIOUS talks in this series have told the story of man's age-long struggle against the forces of Nature-particularly the changes which have come over our own countryside through man's intervention since the days when elk, reindeer, wolf, and bear roamed the vast forests of Britain. But the story is not yet finished. In this final talk, Professor Ritchie looks forward as well ns backward in discussing the lessons man has learned from the struggle and their probable effect on future changes.

(Sixth Season, 1931-32)
'A Village Romeo and Juliet'
(Delius)
MANZ and Marti are rich farmers whose estates are only separated by a strip of wild land to which the Dark Fiddler, the rightful heir, cannot establish his claim. Their two children, Sali and Vreli, play together in this hinterland and learn to love each other. The land is eventually put up for auction, and Manz and Marti, who both wish to acquire it, quarrel violently. They separate, forbidding their children to see each other again.
Six years elapse, and the two farmers are still implacable enemies, though their children long for one another. Their fortunes have fallen with their friendship, and both are now in poverty. One day, Sali, unable to bear the separation, comes to Marti's house, sees Vreli, and begs her to come that evening to the place where they used to play. They meet, but while they are exchanging their vows of love, Marti comes upon them. As Marti is furiously dragging Vreli away, Sali rushes up and strikes him. The blow affects Marti's reason and ho is taken to the madhouse.
Vreli is now compelled to sell her home.
Sati, penitent, visits her; worn out with grief they fall asleep in each others arms and together dream that they are married. When they awake, resolving to have at least one day of pleaure, they go hand in hand to a nearby fair, and from there to the Paradise Garden. Here they meet the Dark Fiddler who invites them to share his vagabond life. Sali and Vreli both realize that they are too gently nurtured for this rough existence, and despair of over finding joy, when a barge floats down the river close by. In a flash the lovers realize that in this gentle drifting down the river of life to death must lie their only happiness. Another barge is moored to the bank; they leap into it, and Sali, after casting off, removes the floor-plug from the keel. They float down the stream together, gradually sinking, until at last they disappear from sight opposite the wild land where they had played as children.

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL
NEWS BULLETIN

EUGENE PINI and his TANGO ORCHESTRA

THE SAVOY HOTEL ORPHEANS, from THE
SAVOY HOTEL