some excellent characters, real and recognisable, but It up to the cast to make them alive and acceptable Big names such as Edith Evans and Sybil Thorndike has been called on for the main role In Dublin It Is the turn of Pay Compton to bring to life the

gave the prizes equally between Auden. Lowe]. Muir, Plomer and Dame Edith Sitwell, which was as O.K. a working consensus of opinion as you could get barring the accident of Dame Edith being whipped hack into their faces like a wet towel, The awards this

Waldemar Rosen. Another " premiere " takes place at 9.10. when the Third Programme is to broadcast Humphrey Searle's setting of Edith Sitwell's poem. " The Shadow of Cain."--G.A.O. RADIO EIREANN 53e metres. 24e metres. Parade. 6.ls—Morning Music 9.0 Recital

from St. Peter's Church. Phihsboro , to Glasnevin Cemetery. House strictly private. WAINE—April 25. 1953. at a nursing home., Edith Marc, wife of the tat: Adam John McElwaine, in her sleep. Funeral private. Romans viii. 38. 39. MeGUIRE—April 25. 1953. at

leaving raid ed% at 2 p.m. for aenealy Churchyard. At peace." DEANE—ApriI 9. 1953. at her home. 4 Albany terrace. Drogheda, Edith Florence Deane. Funeral 2 p.m. to-morrow (Saturday) at St. Mary's Church. House private. No letters. please. FARRELL—ApriI

Registration Examination (Chemistry t: Class I---R. 1. Fitt- gerald: C.'l. C. Kean, J. S. Martie, D E. Nethey. R. Nixon. Class 11—Edith S. M. J. 1. &cat. Jill Borland, D. J. Crawford. 1. G. Dickson, T. E. Forson. 1 I. Henry. 1. G. Kerr. W. H. Moore. H. N. Newman

EDITH PARGETFR, although not recognised as being among the top rank of current novelists. has always been a writer of intense conviction. She brings a forceful individuality to a4ihing she does, and. if some may find that her strength

Mayakowsky, Eluard, Ungaretti, Pound. Ihe comparisons. the similarities. collide. "Like Khlebnikov. Edith Sitwell has broken the old moulds. Like Mavakowsky. Edith Sowell had come to think of poetry in terms of recitation." " The construction of 'Le Chanson

come from a playby Cyril Tourneur or Mebster. passage of Donne's is quoted in " A Book of the Winter,' , compiled by Miss. Edith Sitwell. Those who are acquainted with her graceful and fanciful anthology, 'took, the Sun." will find in this new, smaller

Hollybrook road. Clor•tarf, Edith Marion. dearly-loved wife of the late Bringley Sheridan Grant Robertson Funeral arrangements later. " The Lord is my Shepherd." RUSSELL—May 9. 1953. at 51 Serpent Ma avenue, Ballsbridge. Edith Florence, eldest daughter