Six talks on recent research
6-The Prospects of Experimental Psychology by R. C. Oldfield
Professor of Psychology
In the University of Reading
The speaker surveys some present features of experimental psychology that may be favourable to its future progress, and reflects upon the kind of contribution it might make to an understanding of human nature.
Unpublished poetry chosen and introduced by W. S. Graham
The Dorian Singers
Conductor, Matyas Seiber
Talk by Charles Smyth
Rector of St. Margaret's and Canon of Westminster
The precise date in 1554 of Richard Hooker's birth is unknown. Canon Smyth speaks in celebration of his memory.
by Georg Büchner
Translated by John Holmstrom
Cast in order of speaking:
(Continued in next column) with Mary Wimbush , Nicolette Bernard Dorothy Holmes-Gore , Diane Watts
Music composed and conducted by Francis Chagrin
The play adapted and produced by R. D. Smith
Time: March and April 1794. Place: The streets, revolutionary courts, and gaols of Paris; also the guillotine.
The Revolution in threatened by foreign armies on all the frontiers and by counter-revolution at home. Robes-pierre and the Committee of Pubic Safety have just executed the ultfa-revolutiionaries (Hébertistes), and in thia play they begin to liquidate the Moderates, whose leader is Danton.
During the interval (8.55-9.6 app.):
Gretry
Sonata in B flat, Op. 1 No. played by Gilbert Jespersen (flute)
Erling Bloch (violin)
Asger Christiansen cello) Lund Christiansen (piano) on gramophone records
Quartet in B flat (K.458) played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
A series of four illustrated talks by Maud Karpeles 2—Some Characteristics of English Folk Music
Illustrations by Isla Cameron 'soprano)
Patrick Shuldham-Shaw (baritone;
Elsie Avril (violin)