Snippets From Outstanding Talks of the Week.

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 4, 4 August 1933, Page 43

Snippets From Outstanding Talks of the Week.

MR. H. McD. VINCENT (3YA) ((APACITY for humour is part of the genius of the British people, and no people are less likely to swing to re volution, Nazism or Bolshevism, because the process would mean 4 suStained period of inflamed feeling of which, as a fun-loving race, we seem incapable. GPBAKING generally, the Scots have a dry wit and humour. They have no drollery-the result of standing intellect upon its head, so that it sees things bottom upwards. That is the possession of the Irish, who also pos-

sess wit. Fun is the English idea of humour, and there is no great intellectua] judgment in fun. ATEMAN is oue of the few Mnglish fun-makers who rely on an ecoD~ omy of words; but one of his most famous drawings, "The Guardsman Who Dropped His Rifle," would not need its caption in America, The drawing would stand there without a line of explanation. (THERE are really two uations in Scotland-the Lowland Scot, whose humour is dry and ironic, and the Highland Scot, impulsive and grim. The irony and grimness of Scottish humour is the legacy of the hard struggle the people had to exist. WALES is a religious country, every Welshman is brought up in an atmosphere of religious discussion, and they have no humour. Nor, with about the oldest language in Burope, have the Welsh any real literature. THY droll Irish love to joke in. misfortune and their wit is racy. Pat complained his wife was ungrateful, "For when I married her she hadn’t a rag to her back, and now she’s covered with them."

MR C. O. BARNETT (3YA) Mount KINABULA, which means "home of the departed spirits," is significant in the lives of the headhunters of Northern Borneo. The tribes are most terrified of ghosts and spirits. On a large rock in a river at the base of the mount the spirits rested on their way to the summit. HiBAD hunting, besides being the natural outcome of war, had other aspects as without being able to produce a head or two it was quite useless for a lad of the village to "set his cap" at a dusky maiden. PHL skulls are suspended by their hair from the rafters of the house, over the open fires. During gusts of wind a terrible rattling noise is set up. When one is the guest of honour at one of these villages, it is customary for the host to collect all the heads of the village and suspend them over one’s bed as a sign of respect. MR LESLID GREENER (3YA) At Luxor, 500 miles from the mouth of the Nile, the most numerous remains of the civilisation of Egypt are to be found. In the midst.of the modern town stand the rows of Lotus columns which were once the temple of the ancient capital of the PharaohsThebes. ey OINED to it by an avenue three miles long, bordered by hundreds of stone sphinxes, was the great temple of Ammon at Karnak. Some of the sphinxes are still there. THE various kings added acres of eolonnades and thousands of tons of stone in the shape of pylons.