Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1929, Page 16

16 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1929, DLIND CAN TEACH WITH NEW STAFF Sight'ess Teacher Perfects Method to Instruct Music to Sighted Pupil. Iy the Associated Press. AKE CITY, August 1.—Blind achers are enabled to instruct s of sighted pupils through use of method that has been perfected by m Nichol, a blind teacher of this The system, in use at the McCune School of Music and Art for a year and a half, is declared to be the first suc- cesstul plan for class teaching by blind instructors, and is hailed as opening a new field of endeavor for the blind. “Tangible” Staff and Notes. Nichol, a graduate of the State £chool for the Blind at Ogden, Utah, nd a teacher for many years, col- 1 ated with C. W. Reid. a piano instructor in the McCune School, in the development of his system of teaching by the blind. It incorporates i i { i b a “tangible” staff and notes, by which the blind teacher can indicate to the sighted pupils, and himself can sense through touch, the position of various | notes on the staff. The staff has lines of wires to which are affixed movable notes made from saxophone pads painted black. Mr. | Nichol is developing an improved | mechanism on which the notes appear |on a similar staff when the teacher depresses the corresponding note on a, keyboard. Correspond to Position. Letter and syllable names for the notes are not employed, but instead they are described by terms and group- ings that corespond to their position both on the staff and the piano key- board. * It is described- as analogous to the phonetic method of teaching reading, |and because of its simplicity is de- | clared to be particularly well adapted to class Instruction, and especially so for the use of blind teachers. The device is considered a great aid | to the development of “staff conscioms- | ness” in the mind of 'blind musicians, heretofore a difficult tter and at- tainable only through Braille or sim- lar raised staffs. Under the direction of Miss Tessie | Newton, also a graduate of the Utah | School for the Blind, classes of half |a dozen or more sighted pupils have | been given music instruction for the | last year and aehalf through an ar- rangement financed by a group of local sponsors, headed by John D. Spencer. Seeing London Premier MacDonald to Use Hampstead Home for Much of Work. BY JOAN LITTLEFIELD. Special Dispatch to The Star. LONDON, August 1 (N.ANA)— Ramsay MacDonald, though he has moved in at No. 10 Downing street, has no. intention of giving ee\ap ‘his lovely Hampstead home. Indeed, he intends to do a good deal of his work there, He has a favorite study at Frognal Lodge, which he keeps .in' the most orderly way. It is small but very com- fortable, and is decorated in blue and gold. The room looks out on to ‘the garden, and when the premier wishes to meditate some knotty problem he opens the French windows and sists half in and half out of doors. One of the walls is lined completely with books. Some of these are notable first editions and others the odds and ends of . literature Mr. MacDonald bought when he was a student. It was in this small den that the new cabinet was planned. Remembering Sir Thomas More. It is four centuries since Sir Thomas More became lord chancellor of Eng- land, and to celebarte this event a loan exhibition of More relics is being held in #n underground room of a Chelsea convent. ” This place was chosen because it stands on the actual site of Thomas More’s home in Chelsea. In the nuns’ garden are part of a Tudor hall, and a mulberry tree which was young when Sir Thomas gathered fruit from it. The King has lent two Holbein sketches. One is of More and the other of his favorite daughter, Margaret Roper. John Burns has sent four editions of the “Utopla” and a large selection of MSS. and other relics. On= of the chief exhibits is the hair shirt worn by Sir Thomas while he was imprisoned in the tower. It now is the treasured possession of a priory in Devon. ‘There is a statue of Sir Thomas More in Carey street, near the Law Courts, which records that he was “martyred” in 1535. The great judge was convicted of high treason, and so coolly did he meet his fate that he removed his beard from the block, saying that that, at any rate, had done no harm. Dress Reform for Men. ‘The recently established men’s dress reforgy party showed a great diversity of costu at its first rally. Ernest ‘Thesiger, being in the vanguard of the movement, stuck up boldly for his cause by wearing corduroy shorts, & low neck and pullover. however, are still a little shy of car- rying out their ideas. Dr. Leonard Williams wore a costume rather remi- niscent of Mr. Pickwick and then ex- cused his conventionality by saying he first | ‘The other members of the brigade, | that he could”put both his knuckles inside his neckband, which was im- | portant, and that anyway braces were better than belts. y Dr. Percy Drearmer urged that the “timid, blushful man” must not be | frightened away by shorts or sandals, but must be wooed by hats. “We must | all wear soft hats” said Dr. Dearmer. | “Often we should carry them and some- | times even go without them.” These revolutionary words were re- celved with applause and the one young man who had been brave enough to turn up in running shorts pulled his mackintosh more closely round him, though the day was hot and sultry. The Russian Ballet. M. Diaghilefl’s Russign ballet has re~ placed grand opera at Covent Garden and with the change in entertainment has come a great change in the type of audience. Sateliness and a certain flavor of Edwardian grace always apparent on opera nights; in spite of the absence of tiaras and long white gloves, have given way to the more sprightly if less elegant posturings of the youth- ful intelligentsia. Long-haired young men in blue flan- nel shirts express their rapturous de- light in a new ballet by extravagant gestures worthy of Serge Lifar himself. One young man, resplendent in a long opera cloak fastened at the neck with a silver chain, gave vent to his enjoy- ment with a high-pitched giggle. Besides these phenomena, however, & number of smart people make a point of attending the ballet. Lady Oxford PACKARD STANDARD EIGHT PRICES REDUCED 290 HE Packard Motor Car Company has just advised us by telegram that effective August 1, prices of all models of the Standard Eight have been reduced $290. 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And also, immediate use of the - largest selling and most popular car in the fine car field. up other v 14 ; , Two-thirds of those who buy the Packard Standard Eight give of cars. Thousands prefer to buy out of in- 14 come. Yourused car will be accepted as cash and if of average value will more than make the down payment on a new car. ‘T H E M A N . W H O O and her son are frequently in the au dience and Lady Cunard, Baroness D'Erlanger, Mrs. Peter Thursby, Prince George of Russia and Sir Philip Sas- soon are constant visitors. Mrs. Maynard Keynes, who is better known as Lydia Lopokova, almost lives in the gtalls and takes the keenest in- terest In everything appertaining to the sphere of her former triumphs. The Poet M. P. Among interesting young men In the new House of Commons is E. Marjori- banks, the member for Eastbourne, who is Lord Hailsham's stepson. Majoribanks was a great friend of th late Sir Edward Marshall-Hall, shar- ing with him an intense love of the theater and now he is writing a life of the distinguished lawyer, which is to_be published, in the Autumn. - Mr, Majoribanks also is a poet, and it was a poem of his about Sir Edward which led Lady Marshall-Hall to in- trust the young man with the task of writing her husband's life story. 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