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FILM TALES OF THE MOTHERLAND,
British Alma which several of the Dominion Prime Ministers Baw while travelling in a special car of the night express from Glasgow to London were trade-shown at the Now Gallery Kinema, Regent Street, W., In mall week..
Two of the short "Screen Tales of the Motherland" were included. Mr. J. G. Costes, the Prime Minis- ter of New Zealand, when the films were shown in the train, remarked of these that exhibited in New Zea- land, they would certainly send half the population rushing back to England.
Lovely photographs of familiar and unfamiliar spats in Yorkshire and Norfolk are linked together with a slight but sufficient story. These Alms should be of the greatest assistance to the "Come to Britain movement and cannot but enchant British inhabitants too.
Rather more elaborate was the treatment of the songafim of "Land of Hope and Glory." Prefaced by exquisite and impressive pictures of Britain's forces. at sea, in the air, and on land, which evoked in- atant applava, line by line of the song itself then appeared on the serven, each superimposed on a different photograph of a beautiful!
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THE DUTCH MUSICAL?,
"I didn't know the Dutch were musical"
"No" queried. "William J. Henderson says in his History of Music, you know, that they were the founders of the modern, school of music."
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STAGE MAGIC.
MR. C. SIMS RA.
SOME STORIES OF "PETER."
ROYAL ACADEMY KEEPER RESIGNS.
BARRIE'S MASTERPIECE.
The pubiloution of the news that Mr. Charles Sime, R.A., has resign-
I don't think Sir James Barrie ed his position as Kespar of, the had formed any particular idea of Royal Academy Schoola and that hehis place a temporarily filled by, the character of Smes when wrote Peter Pan," writes George Mr. George Clausen, E.A., will not Shelton who has so often played the part of Captain See in Barrie'e play. Smace was simply a pirate. But during the first rehearsal he
janld to me.
"I want you to individualise this part. M. Shelton."
"Very good." I replied. "I'll make him a Se
I was going to say "Scotsman," but remembering in the pick of me that Sir James was of that nationality i substituted the word "Irishman."
"Ah, yes," came the prompt re- ply. He is Irish!"
And so Smee became an Iriab pirate. And some years later the author of his being congratulated me upon having catablished his nationality off my own bat.
come as a surprise to many. In- deed, on the occasion of the prize distribution to the Royal Academy students on December 10, Sir Frank Dicksee. P.R.A.. referred to this change as an accomplished fact and tactfully congratulated the stu- dents on their new mentor.
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No reasons have been given for Mr. Sim's decision apart from the fact that he has been in the United States for some months holding & successful exhibition at the Knoed- or Gallery, New York, and that he is overwhelmed with commissions for portraits.
It may, however, be safely as- sumed that his retirement la not altogether disconnected with the controversy on his portrait of the King which he painted for the Royal But when "Peter Pan" was to be Academy council room but even- played in Dublin a newspaper mantually withdrew owing to the who came to interview some of the diversity of criticism to which this
imme picture gave rise. members of the company
Schumann - Heink Ernestine (left) is shown being congratis- lated by Geraldine Farrar at the commemorating 21 party former's fiftieth anniversary as a concert singer.
"The founders? The Dutch?” "Well, who invented the canon in music, and brought counterpoint to perfection, if it was not Okeghem
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the invented madrigal form' of musics if not the Dutch? You forget that, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was a Netherlands school of music that, for over two hundred years, furnished the world with music and singers and composers. It was two men of this Netherlands school who went to Naples and founded the first musical conserva-diately before production was so in- tory-the first, not only in Italy but dignant about Smee that next morn- in the world,and from that lang he protested in print that there Estitution aprang the Italian school never had been such a thing as an of music. The same was true of Irish pirate, adding, in characteris- Venice, where another member of tic Hibernian fashion, "But if ever the Netherlands school started there was one, he must have been
Then came conservatory."
a Belfast man!" school of Rome, which is acknow- ledged to owe its existence to the Influence of the Netherlands school. The Dutch were in every way fore-couragement, runners of what we to-day call the school of secular music, but which, Tin those days, was confined to rell- gious purpoNER. That would prove, would it not, that the Dutch were musical? And, that they still are musical is shown by the large num her of native Netherlanders in American orchestras, and the fact that nine
of the out of ten great cellista to-day are of Dutch birth-Edward W. Bok, in "Twice Thirty."
A FAVOURITE AMONG ATHLETES.
the
THE golfer, the football player and the all-round athletic know the value of Chamberlain's. Pain Balm.
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Battersea Broguë.
In view of this very doubtful en- 1 WIA naturally astonished to find that my part was quite well received.
Broad Views
There may be other reasons, though these must needs be conjec tura It is generally known that Mr. Sims held very catholic and broad views about modern art- views which cannot have met with the approval of some of the more neactionary members of the Royal Academy.
His influence upon the students tended in the direction of freedom. His prolonged abgence may be held responsible for this freedom hav- ing degenerated. Ingo licence.
The exhibition of students' works ah Burlington House must have come as a severe shock upon the conservative fiction of the Royal Academy. Hardly any of the works sent for competition showed the slightest trace of academic disel pline, and no one will blame the president for exhorting, the students to try to paint what they see so that' they may learn to paint what they feel..
It is unfortunate that thus the champion of progress and vitality in art has placed a formidable wea- pon in the hands of the die-hards. be However, Mr. Clausen may trusted to steer a middle course, to bring the rebellious students, back to wholesome discipline, And, to restore harmony where there has been dissension.
Mr. James Agate, the dramatic critic, contributing to a symposium in the Christmas Number of T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly, on "If I had one wish," concludes his first wish with "and not go to the thea- tre except when I wanted to," hia second with "and not go to the theatre unless I chose, and his third with "to have money and not go within ten miles of a'theatre."
-M. R.
my. upon which to effect the sartorial fellow-pirates. repairs of Though, of course, the machine is really but a "prop," to excuse the uneient device of rending calico.. which spoils Captain Hook's most dramatic moments with fears for the well-being of his own garments.
"Poter Pan" has been re-drossed mere times than 1 can count and entirely new scenery has been pro vided from time to time; but I have.
"Where did you get that brogue from. man?" someone asked me after the first performance. "It was a perfect Limerick brogue."
"Was it said I innocently, used that self-same sewing machine through all the twenty Christmas thought I brought it from Batter-seasons-and there never has been a neodle in it yet! It is an old, sea!"
But after the Dublin sonson was
cùmbrous affair, demanding all the over, I was seeking my supper one strength of two stage hands to lift Right before going on board the about, but easy enough to pedai boat which was to take us back to --und sufficiently imposing to ren- England, when I was introduced to der natural my occasional tearing another Irishman who was equally of strips of calico when a laugh is anxious to know the source of my due to interrupt the grandilo- brogue. To him I replied, on thequences of the one-armed Captain. арит of the moment: 'King'a In recent years we members of
·County."
the company have seen very little of Sir James, Barrie, except at dress rehearsals and on last nights; but in the old days we saw quite a lot of him. Time was when, in his own quaint fashion, he insisted upon treating Peter and Wendy as children and gravely presented tham with new half-crowns.
The Irishman was delighted he was a King's County man himself. But then, my father also was
La just the thing for a rub down after King's County man
a hard game. All soreness disappears
like magic and, sprains and swellinge
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Secrets of the Play..
Are cured in one-third loss time then It was a whimsical idea on the For sale part of Sir James Barrie to provide by any other treatment
me, as Smee, with a sewing machine uverywhere.
BALL RIGHT-BUT- DON'T HITISM TOO HARD WITH IT JUST SEE THAT NO ONE GITA IN-
WELLIP IT ISN'T TIMMY HUSSEY- HOW DID YOU GIT PASTIME. SECRETARY?
BRINGING UP FATHER
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1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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the same ago. 11~To rotuze to sapept 14-Watery
15-A native of Janan
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New Year
22-A buffoon. (oba.), 25-Garden. Implament 26-To, emli. a. far-
reaching sound.'- 28-Laltor 20-Prong: to whom
money is paid 30-A famous Roman
General: 31-Prefix.
Through
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Inert
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62-A small, round pat
(Anglo-Ind)
[63-Habraw word
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Questioning
13-A sweet preserve 18-The father of David
(Bible). 16-Latin, for "farther" |48-interjection [19-Heavy oord
21-A jagged or stumpy
knot
meaning "pleasure" 30-A, drink 68-Nickel (chem.
sym 36-Pertaining, to
punishment 57-An old form of roads. 68-Artiole
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24-Country of Africa
(abbr.)
25-The state of
complate fullness
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82-A diving water bird 37-To hauli
33-Possessive pronoun: 39-Combining form.
VERTICAL
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Jupiter
S-A hallday 4-Made on New
Year's Day
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B-To irritate
46-Landi surrounded by 9-Near
water
47-To speak
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Pive
40-Models
41-A direction: In
musit, etower (abbr.).
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow'a, issue along with a new croBR-word puzzle.)
A £100,000 CINEMA. Croydon Borough Council ac- provisional offer cepted of £25,000 for a site in High Street. Croydon, upon which the prospec. tive buyers propose to erect within the next five years a cinema with shops and an arcade.
It was stated that the building contemplated would cost between £80,000 and £100,000.
Unless more financial support is forthcoming, the series of musical festivals given by the London Symphony Orchestra at Southwark Cathedral will be discontinued t the end of the present season,
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