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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
A STAR. IN EXILE.
LAVALLIERE AND THE KINGS.
ITALIAN DRAMA.
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2,000 YEARS OLD.
PLAYWRIGHT CONFESSES TO ATTEMPTS TO REVIVE SPIRIT
OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY,
HOAX.
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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927,
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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Mlle. Eve Lavalliere, once B During the past two years several What should perhaps prove the variety stor, the idol of kings and plays have been produced in Rome' most memorable of all modern princes, now in retirement at the and in other provincial towns of; attempts to recapture the spirit of foot of the Vosges and living, in Italy, said to have been written by classical antiquity is being made at relative penury on an African one Wersliv Cetoff, a Russian this moment under the auspices of the be the Greek Government and Mission pension, has had her playwright, whose name soon "life" published in Paris.,
came familiar to dragmatic erities direction of the Greek poet, M. "Perenees Independent;" dated u and lovers of modern theatre pr-Skelianos. A classical festival
The plays, From a cutting from The "Pyre- ductions,
rather how being held at Delphi, in nees Independent," dated March bizarre, received generous applause, excavated precinct of Apollo's 7, 1881, it is learned that the previ- than six new productions were suc- which is to consist in a perform
and in the last two seasons no less sacred city, the chief feature ous day Eve's father, Monsieur Fenoglio, shot his wife, tried to Cessfully given at the Teatro degli ance of the "Prometheus Vinctus" kill his daughter (who jumped out Indipendenti, a small underground of Aeschylus, in the original Greek, of the window), and committed theatre, frequented by the intellee in the great theatre just above the tuals of the Italian capital. The ruins of the temple where the fum- suicide. Mme. Fenoglio died in increasing popularity of Cotoff ex- aus Oracle had its home, hospital two months later, and it cited the curiosity of eritics, who Other experiments of the sort is to this dreadful, happening became anxious to learn something have been tried at different clansi- (when she was 17) that Eve re more about the famous Russian enl sites. Not long ago the ferred three decades later when, playwright and his literary activi. "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus was at the zenith, of her career she was ties, since nothing was known about performed with, auccess in the rain- asked at a brilliant reception to him except that his plays had been ed Greek theatre of Syracuse, And epitomise her life in a sentence. translated into Italian-by Luigi|the neat little Roman theatre which She wrote: "Blood, frightful Bonelli, a well-known Florentine stands near the banks of the swirl- drama, hell on earth, a hell more journalist. The Rome critics, how ing Adige in the old city of Verona cruel than death-and at the end | ever, were not a little surprised has also been the scene of a re-
all, Eve Lavalliere fan- when, after a last triumph, they vived classical play. taisiste !"
determined to trace the author and But no experience of the
kind Eve (then Eugenie) became a get a persons' interview with him, is likely to equal the emotions modiste at Nice, and used to wear only to discover that the author of evoked by the reproduction of an auch huge bow ties that they the playa was no other person than ancient Greek drama in the spot Bonelli himself who, to give colour which of all others was the most
of
christened her "Lavalliere," after his productions, posed as a trans-sacred and honoured of the whole |
the famous Louise (who by the way, did what Eve has been unable to do, finished her life in a con- vent).
Seats For 2,000,
lator of the Russian author. Now classical world. that Bonelli has won fame and re- putation, he enjoys the jakė im- mensely.
F
VIOLIN WITH NO STRINGS.
A collection of old musical in- struments is in the possession of Canon F. W. Gaplin, rector of the tiny parish of Faulkbourne, near
Witham.
Quite apart from its unequalled Associations, Delphi is admirably adapted in a material sense for the experiment. Its excavation has been one of the most satisfying pieces of work ever, achieved by scientific archeology. The theatre, excavated by French scholars Jooks, to quote a common expres- aion, practically "as good as new." Its acoustics are excellent. It has about 2,000 seats in a good state of preservation.
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From Nice she went to Paris, where she went on the stage, mak-{ ing her first appearance at the Varieties.
in That was
the "eighties. She was engaged then principally for her ravishing little figure and great dark eyes, and the fact that she was "all nerves." But in 1908 Sarah Bernhardt was saying to her:-"It is not that many have not greater talent than you, but none of us can create like
Its situation, ina fold of the you!" Fittingly enough. Eve, a few moments later, banged and It formerly numbered 600 in broad breast of Parnassus, high Canon Gaplin sacred city, and looking down on among the topmost terraces of the bolted her dressing-room door on struments, but the cream of Paris "first-nighters." sold a number to America during the Temple of the Oracle, is superb. hurst into tears and, by way of the war, and now possesses only And in the matter of accessibility, celebrating her triumph, tried to between seventy and eighty, each in the face of modern communica throw herself into the Seine, being in playing condition. He can play tions and more particularly in view hindered by a wretched vagrant. on them all himself, from the cere of the arrangements which are to There is a chapter devoted to monial horn of the Lamas of be made for the convenience of visi- "Lavalliere and the King's." From Tibet, made from a shinbone, to tors, the choice of the alte presents this it appears that King Edward the South Sea Islander's flute, enough to find himself in Athens.
no difficulties for any tourlst lucky once waited two days in Paris specially to see Lavalliere, who played with the nose.
An outlay of about will see
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51-Dox
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24-A seasoning 27-Point of the
compass (abbr) 28-Search 31-Preppaltion 32-Used to propel a
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steadincas 38-A fruit
39-Note of the scale 40-Reasoning power 42-Four (Roman
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67-Ralieva
60-Procura
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VERTICAL 1-Robbery on the
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morreto's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
was ill, net in "Le Rol." The next "I began my collection when, as the visitor through the uecersary week she journeyed to Biarritz and a schoolboy, I bought an old horn expenses of the two days festival. photographed his Majesty on his for two shillings, and put it into This sum will see him to Itea, and planted their ancestor before morning walk. Jeanne Granier playing condition by my own back through the Corinth Canal and sailed for Troy, Introduced Eve to the youthful work," said Canon Galpin.
past the islands of Salamis and And nature at Delphi is on such King Alfonso at the same resort. "I conceived, while at Cam-Aegina, and will convey, him by a tremendous scule the towering To make an impression, Eve on this bridge, the idea of
& collection 2,000ft.
car on two successive days up the mountains enclosing the deep gorge occasion dyed her hair jet-black in illustrating the evolution of musi- shoots upward from the plain of gigantic wall of rock are so huge.
of winding road which which Parnassus closes with order to look Andalusian.
cal instruments through the ages. Amphissa to the rains of Delphi. the eye roves over such a vast ex- In addition to extraordinary Such a collection shows that the He can return to sleep aboard his panse of earth from its airy station stage personality. Eve represented instruments of to-day are far ship in Itea Roads if he so desires. daintiness and gaminerie to the finer in every way."
high up on that shelf of mountain- nth degree: ali
Stupendous Nature. sophisticated
that whether a few tiny columns of Parls worshipped her, and the
marble stand upright or lie in ruin wider, world as well, for she was
on the ground seems to make godmother to more Poflus than any
difference to the scene. other Frenchwoman during the
war.
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Aacient imagination mission.
18 a rule being bent one way and the sharps beauties of natural scenery.
was little apt to descant on the Yet the other.
even in the day of the shrine's The most surprising instrument greatest graffear it was the of all is in appearance a large tura! magnificence of the site family Bible, but it opens to dis- which dominated the impressions; close an organ keyboard, a set of of poets and historians, to the ex- Canon Galpin has used it himself hot small pipes, and a pair of bellows. clusion of the artistic master-
pieces which
adorned the home .of the famous Oracle, for mission services.
Different in this respect from other sites of antiquity, practically all that is memorable of Delphi de-; pends on the stupendity of nature.
THE CINEMA IN SCHOOLS.
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Once known as Chison. Perfect fit guaranteed!
There is every likelihood of the Ceylan Education Department utilising the cinema for educa tional purposes. Negotiations are at present being carried on be tween the Department and firm of cinematographers to secure from England films which have
ments of mas. For the metopes been prepared specially for the
and sculptures, which Euripides) purpose, and make ar angements Mr. Edgar Wallace's play "The described, some can still be seen in for screenink them at the different Terror," which was produced at the small local museum. schools in the Island. The plan Berlin with an excellent cast, had
Parnassus. proposed is to equip a touring van an enthusiastic reception. All the
But it is of the clear gushing with all the necesary cinema ap critics are for once in agreement talia and the "untrodden peaks of waters of the rock apring of Cas- paratus and go from school to with the public. school exhibiting the films. Some "A brilliant play, writes one of Parnassus, as they "catch the rays of the subjects of these film them, and "I would not have miss stories will include, "How to ed it on any account," writes an- Swim," "Travel Pictures" of all other, countries, "Main Streets the World i Over," "How a Volcano Works,"
MR. EDGAR WALLACE'S PLAY. rather than on the fleeting achieve-
etc. At the same time the village
of morning and pass on the torch of day to mortals," that the poeta most fondly sing. Well, as the apectator sils in the theatre, the. "Phaedriados," the "Shining Rocks" of the ancients, will catch the sun's rays at his back; the waters
of
schools are to be benefited by films educational pictures which are ex-Castalia will still flow clear and which the company hope to pected to be proticed soon cool from their native rock below. produce under the supervision of are under the direction of the his left hand and fall with loud the Agricultural Department. Mayor of Colombo. The subjects echoings sheer into the gorge of the These will depict the planting of of these will include Midwifery, Pleistus far beneath, past the still rice and other local products, in- how to run a Dairy, The Traffic flourishing planes growing on the dicating in each instance how to Problem, depicting how to drive a shelf of rock where Agamemnon do it and how not to. Other motor-car, etc,
yas reported by the legend to have
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