"A GENTLEMAN"

Radio Record, 3 June 1938, Page 20

"A GENTLEMAN"

CHANGES DOWN THROUGH THE AGES

EW series of talks in the 2YA "Whirligig of Time" series under the title "Manners Maketh Man" is to begin in weekly causerjes from 2YA on June 6. The series will shay how the popular conception of "a gentleman" has changed through the ages. The general outline of the series will be given by Father Walsh on June G. The following Monday Mr. David Hall will speak on "The Idea of A Gentleman." Contrasting this, Dr. Ernest Benglehole follows with "The Primitive Idea of a Gentleman,’ under which a Polynesian gentleman may have to prostrate himself and hide his face as his mother-in-law passed him by. Dr. Elizabeth Bryson will speak on "The Idea of a Lady." Even to-day quaint conceptions of "a lady’’ persist. Recently a film-saturated child in Auckland wrote that a lady was "n person who lay on a sofa all day and received her men friends and smoked cigarettes," After this Mrs. H. D. Bennett wit] talk about "The Maoris’ Social Code." Speaking on the subject "As Drunk as a Lord." Father Walsh will show the changes in drinking habits since the old days when in Scotland it was good form to drink oneself under the table, and part of the recognised durice of the servants to loosen the neekcloths of the reeumbent guests and carry them up to bed. Yinal talk of the series is "Do You Quarrel, Sir?’ a talk on the past fashion of duelling, by Mr, Gordon Mirams, a modern specialist in this aneient art