MEN WITH GOOD MEMORIES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 393, 30 November 1932, Page 3

MEN WITH GOOD MEMORIES

THE ROYAL FAMILY'S GIFT.| All the Royal Family have a genius for remembering names. The Prince of Wales especially has the gift. Once a man has been presented to him he never forgets his name— or his nickname. Remembering names is only one form of memory. Some people have the knack of retaining words and phrases. Horace Vachell, th'e novelist, once lost the manuscript of a story he had written. Having no carbon copy, his only course was to sit down and write the story again. He found he could remember it word for word. To retain a picture in the mind with every detail clear is the highly-de-veloped gift of some p'ainters. Turner had it to a very high degree. He could examine a ship and then go home and pamt it with every rope and spar in the correct position, though he knew nothmg of ships. Another painter, Galdeson, was/ robbed while travelling Iri Spain., He only caught a glimp-se of the thief, but he drew such a perfect portrait of hina that th'e police were able to trace him by the drawn likeness. Sir Thomas Beecham can conduct a musical work lasting five hours without the( score in front of hina. Ivor Novella left the score of ia just-com-pleted musical woa'k in a taxi. As Horace Vachell remembered his story word for word, so Ivor Novello remembered his musical score note for note and rewrote it in an aanazinglv short time.