W.E.A., LEVIN BRANCH.

Shannon News, 22 March 1929, Page 4

W.E.A., LEVIN BRANCH.

PROGRAMME FOR 1929 REASONS.

The local activities o£ thcMV.KA. will comu-er.ee on ApriJ 3th, and w. that even ; :ig it is hoped to have an official vis t f:?m Pro.fcii.or T. A. Hunter, aeadcaic ox the -W.E.A. work. The r,ators for th:- Lrvh* branch are: Miss F. D. Cad. .i; M.A.-Cam-bridge, Trinos inmoc".. n languages; Rev. Win. Beckett; ai I Mr. * C.iwUi Dennis, A.L CM. (Loiji.n ~ ; Commenci :g on Tube : y A pill- ? h, Miss Cadcll will give ;< iiUf-cou:\"-e of twelve lectu:os. The fi:-' tiv of -IVse lectures will be on "V... His>tiry of Painting." The opemn:: lecture 0 f this series w'll be ''JJu 'y J-a Man Painting," anil it will !>,j fu.lcv.vd !>y .lectures on 11 :!ian, Giiluui ."mi F ... mish, English, Spani h ana Frcj.eh painting, the -eries (j:i"\i'Unj; w.ta -a lecture on "A Survey of-Airs :..:d Life in France' - ' as an i ;t:othu'tioi< to the. six lectures on F. e.H'h htsratjre which are to fol nv. 'lhcfe six lectures will be "A Str.dy of the lienaissauce in Ita v :.;i I Kaplan*'.,' 1 "Moliere and the" T..«v.tre of- his Time," "StTlons. ai,d ComiuoMs on ihi 38th Century," "B >mr.ntici<?::i," 'wljt "Notes, on Contemj ora y-Work" j concluding lecture.

. The Rev. W. Beclet'. will also <svA a halfrcourse of hieh-o lectures,- ' hii subject being "liucrnr.tional Re.a] lions,'? .commencing a week later than the date of M'.ai Cadell's coneliMiad lecture. In V.-M itrdy special tilt em tion will be g-.-ci to the following: "International Eelaticns bei'oro* ilu War,": "The f .nflict of ''Reconciliations,'" "The-" League" oi Rations," "Peace Pacts," "Centra Europe and the Near East," "Rus sia and the Far East," "The'Pacific,' " America," "International Relar tions as promoted (a) by sport, (b) bj Christian Missions."

Mr Edwin Dennis will give a cours< of addresses on '' Musical Apprecia tion." This will be a continuatioi of last year's study in "Voice Cul ture and Musical History/' and it ij designed to - enable members to 'us their voices correctly and easily, eithe when speaking or singing.- By mean of demonstrations by the voice, piano forte and grainaphone, the lecturer in tends, to give a fuller insight into th beauties of music and a greater, .reali sation of the power of different type of music. This course will con: mence on Monday, April Bth.