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SIXTY-SECOND YEAR.
PERTH, SATURD.VI, DECEMBER 26, 1936.
Pupils of Si. Thomas Sao(); Caremonf 9
A crowd of smiling mothers (and a few fathers, too, in spite of the hour!) assembled in St, Thomas' School, Claremont, on the afternoon of Tues. day. December 15, the occasion being the annual concert by the pupils of the school. Under the direction of the Sisters and Mrs. Sutherland Groom ( the visiting elocution and singing teacher), a most successful programme was carried out, and the Sisters are to he congratulated on the promptitude with which item followed item, with no waiting between the numbers. A very popular item was "Sleigh
HOLY FATHER TO PUT HIS STAMPS ON SHOW. A IICW room IS about to be opened in the Vatican Museum 101- the benefit of philatelists. It %yin be one of the largest and most important collections in the w orld. The collection will be a wide one, but above all it will .. .:now the stamps of the old PonMeal States in chronological order. ending with the latest VatiAmong the can City issues. several be 'antiquities.' will . arg-c collections presented to Leo .X III., Pius X., and Benedict X V. Finally, one department xvill lit' reserved for those collec' ions which arrive frequently as gifts to the Holy Father, and to the Governor of the Vatican City from all parts of the world.
bells,- by the Junior Percussion Band, under the able baton of Barbara Briggs, who shows signs of "following in father's footsteps" in the matter of conducting! Another junior number, this time by the Infant Boys, was a military one, "Ten Tin Soldiers," which was made quite martial with gaily coloured soldier's hats ,and an alarming array of guns and swords! The various songs rendered by the senior girls and boys were a pleasure
to listen to, on account of the clearness of their diction, and the ease of their vocal work. The star performance of the Seniors was an excerpt from the "Trial Scene" from the "Merchant of Venice." This was given by request, and had already been highly commended by the Government Inspector, Mr. Coleman, on his visit to the school a few months ago. The concert closed with a tableau of the Nativity, accompanied by the singing of the "Adeste."
Father Knox made Domestic Prelate Rev, Ronald Knox, convert son of a former Anglican Bishop of Manchester, and well known as a writer and lecturer, has been made a Domestic Prelate by the Pope. Educated at Eton and Oxford. Mgr. Knox was an Anglican minister before his reception into the Catholic Church by Abbot CAbrol in 1917. He was ordained in 1919, after studying at St. Edmund's College. Ware, and for a number of years has served the Oxford Catholic students as chaplain. His written works include a number of detective st,,ries which have had a wide vogue.
MGR. RONALD KNOX.
Bobby: "A little bird told me what kind of a lawyer your father is." Johnny • "What did the bird say?" Bobby: "Cheap, cheap." Johnny: "Well, a duck told me what kind of a doctor your father is!"