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DRAMA FILMS.
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CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS.
Women's work in music, more Reverberation, l.e., the time taken especially in the sphere of com for an ordinary sound to die out in position, formed the theme for an a room, is considered to be the most evening of exceptional Interest at important factor in the acoustics of a meeting of the W.A. Musle Ten- an auditorium. When that time is chers' Association in the Karrakatin too long, the sounds of succeeding Club Hall. A paper on the subject words overlap, and listening be- was read by Miss Gertrude Carey, comes difficult, particularly with L.R.A.M., and a programme of respect to speech; for music, some women's: music was performed, overlapping is not so serious. A ranging from Queen Marle An- concert room, successfully arrang-toinette to that very gifted English- ed for good hearing, may, however, be condemned by the artists as hard to play or to sing in. This apparent contradiction has been the subject of recant investigations by Professor F. R. Watson, of the University of Illinois.
FILM INDUSTRY.
CANBERRA AS A SECOND HOLLYWOOD.
material.
He would also recom-
Captain Frank Hurley, who has produced several motion pictures, gave evidence before the Common- Sydney. wealth Film Commission He said the complaint of film ex- hibitors that Australian productions generally were not up to standard was justified. He suggested that a board should be constituted to Judge the quality of Australian and British films, to determine whether woman of the present day, Dame they were worthy of presentation: Ethel Smyth, the Melbourne.com It should consist of a member of poser, Mona McBurney, and a the trade. the Commonwealth cen- talented Western Australian. Miessors and an independent arbitrator. Gwendolyn Bray.
It was not enough that Australian In the roles of performer of films should be up to a certain music and appreciator of music, standard as entertainment for Aus- Miss Carey and woman had always tralian audiences. The film stories taken an active part, but it was should have a world-wide appeal in only in recent years that her crea-order to secure a world market for tive ability had been fully exer-them. Of suitable stories there cised and recognised. The reasons was at present not a wide range to were not difficult to find. · ́ For a select from, but if a market were considerable time the recording and created many capable writers presentation of music were the would be found to supply the work of the Church. Thus it was men, mainly, who composed and mend establishing a studio at Can- performed, and when music even-berra, where the climatic conditiona tually began to establish itself as were ideal. The studio would be a means of developing the city vory an art it was natural for men to continue as the chief workers in its quickly, making a second Hollywood evolution. The conditions of edu- of Canberra in four or five years. cation gradually allowed the deve. At least £250,000 capital would be lopment of executive skill among necessary to establish the studio. women, but composition was not, as
An ordinary programine picture a general rule, either suggested or suitable for a world market would taught. The universities and other cost from £18,000 to £20,000 and 21 producer's time for institutions in whose hands lay the occupy higher musical education had been several months. To assist the film very slow in admitting women to industry in Australia he advocated their ranks. It was not till 1881 that a tax of 1s, on- that women could take muste shown should be used as a Govern- For speech, a shorter period of examinations at Cambridge, and ment subsidy of the industry and reverberation and more absorbing they were not admitted to degrees that a heavy duty should be im material appear desirable. Knud until 1921. At Oxford women were posed on the "positive," or actual sen tested this by uttering a not granted musical degrees until coptes of films, which were import sequence of meaningless words and 1920, and even now they had no ed, in conjunction with a low duty counting the number of correct in-seat on the governing bodies of the Dn negatives from which the copies terpretations by auditors seated in
were made. This would compel different parts of his room of 4,006
American organisations to send the cub. ft. By adding more and more
negatives to Australia and so pro- material, he deadened the room and
vide work for many persons in reduced the T from 5.01 to 0.6
making the positives from them.
The time of reverberation is de pendent upon the amount of sound- absorbing material in the room, and upon the volume of the room. Shape and other features are of less influence in a first approxima- tion, but the amount of absorbing material in a concert hall changes with the number of people in it. In a room of 1,000,000 cub. ft. capacity, Professor Watson found that the optimum time of reverberations for good audition was about 2 seconds with the maximum audience. 3 seconds with a one-third audience, and 4 seconds for the empty hall. The optimum time T increases with the cube root of the volume, but it does not approach a zero value for amall volumes, for which the esti- mated minimum has been found to be 0.75' second, In a room of 216,000 cub. ft., T would be 2.15 seconds when the room was one third full
seconds,
The correct interpreta- tion then increased from 51 to 92, the improvement being most clearly marked for consonants; vowels were always fairly well understood throughout, the figures ranging
from 94 to 99.
In his investigation of the different Impressions of players and audiences, Watson first deaden- ed a room by increasing the amount of absorbing material. The players declared that they could not play; but as the material was removed. again, they became more satisfied, and the auditors more dissatisfied; the reversed cycle gave the same result. The optimum T for playing was 1.8 second, and that for listen- ing, 1.1 second. In further experi- ments, the absorbing material was removed from the neighbourhood of the players to the other end of the room; both players and listeners were then content. It would thus appear that the space round the
This
Royal Academy of Music or the Royal College of Music, though they had always been on the teaching staff. Scholarships for wood wind Instruments had only been open to women at the R.A.M. since 1901, and were not yet given at the R.C.M. With the exception of the harpist, women had not played in Important orchestras until very re cently. Sir Henry Wood first ap pointed women to the Queen's Hall orchestra in 1916, and five years later commented:"I will never conduct
orchestra without
women in the future."
every reel
Captain Hurley added that he considered the suggested quota of 50 British and 20 Australian Alma annually was too high.
FILIPINO OPERA STAR.
Rome, August 5. Sensational European successes are being scored by Miss Jevita Fuentes, Filipino opera star and sister-in-law of Speaker Roxas of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.
She is the subject of a lengthy and laudatory "write-up" in the Italian theatrical magazine II Tea- tro, which reproduces a lovely por trait of her in colours on its front cover and, in the course of a seven- page article, gives a large number of other pictures of her in half-
tone.
TOWN BAND AN ASSET.
Miss Carey pointed out that there had been handed down to us cradle songs, spinning songs, etc., which women, but, apart from folk tunes, must have been composed by
from the 16th century. we had records of women composers Marie
who taught her how to compose Antoinette was a pupil of Gluck, graceful little songs. Passing to more modern times, Miss Carey cited the names of Clara Schumann, wife of the famous composer, and
The cover portrait shows Miss Fanny Mendelssohn, sister of an-
Fuentes in Japanese costume, hold- other. Some of Clara Schumann'sing a mass of cherry blossoms, and artistes should be kept free of ab- work was published with her hus- the first portrait accompanying the sorbing material, which should be band's. In the songs numbered
article likewise displays her In distributed over the other parts, so
Japanese kimono. opus 37, numbers 2, 4, and 11 were as to leave a reverberant space for written by her.
His piano Im- the production of music. should also apply to broadcasting promptu, Opus 5, was written on a
Madison, Wis., Aug. 30. studios. Good hearing may farther theme from one of his wife's ear- be obtained in s room connected theme which was used for the An- liest publications, and it was her
Wisconsin has joined with more with the hall by a door.
Modern auditoriums being rela-
dante of his Sonata in F. Minor. than a score of other states in re- tively less expensive to build for Fanny Mendelssohn's nest work cognising the value of a town band large than for small audiences, 'cella.
was a trio for piano, violin, and to its community.
Mendelssohn, at first not Any city, town, or village in tha Professor Watson suggests basing liking her to publish her works be. state may levy a one-mill tax to estimates on audiences of two- thirds the room capacity. He reof her "ongs without words"
cause of her sex, had half a dozen organise, maintain, or hire a band, under provisions of a bill passed fers to a case in which the atten- brought out among his own.
by the legislature and signed by dance at a pianoforto. recital did
Even in those times, however, Gov. Fred R. Zimmerman. not come up to the figure for which the absorbing material had been women composers were the excep-
includes Iowa, Illinois, allowed; yet the artist found the tion, Miss Carey said, but now permissive legislation of a similar hall wonderfully responsive, and things were rapidly changing. By nature
Idaho, Kansas, California, Mary- far the greatest modern composer the listeners were plessed with the hearing conditions, probably be among women was Dame Ethel land, Michigan, Montana, South Dakota, New Mexico, Nebraska, cause they were crowded at the end Smyth, whose operas have been far from the stage. It is not usual produced in Germany "Fantasio" North Dakota, Texas, Indiana, Weat to adapt the acoustical arrange at Weimar in 1898: "Der Wald" at Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, ments to the audience expected. Berlin in 1901, and "The Wreckera" Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hamp Nor would it be easy to do so; in at Leipzig (also at Prague) in 1906. shire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah and view of the difficulties of building The first movement and Romance
Vermont.United Press. In accordance with a still imperfect from Dr. Smyth'e violin and piano sonatra, opus 7, were played by Mr. acoustical theory. In fact, acousti- David Powell and Miss Gwendolyn cal considerations, up to the pre-Bray, and proved music of strong sent, have received little attention character and distinctive beauty from architects.-Engineering.
Misses Bray and Zoe Lenegan and Messrs. Fisher and Dodd sang a EVERYBODY USES FT. :
madrigal from. "Fete Galante" and That's one great thing about Cham- the puppet quartette from the same berlain' Cough Remedy every user work, and Mr. Frank Robertson is a friend and le glad to tell her gave Dr. Smyth's song, "Chrysilla." neighbour all about it. It is certainly The music of another present-day great for coughs and colds, for croup writer, Foldowski (Lady Dean and any kind of cough that hits ofther
The list of other stakes having
Miss Lenegan; three charming Bongs by Miss McBurney, and two by Miss Bray (heard at her plano recital not long ago) were also sung by Miss Lenegan, and Miss Dora Camm, Mus. Dip. (Melb.), played Schumann's Opus 5 and Clara's Scherzo, Opus 14. To Miss Lenegan, also, the audience was in- debted for the opportunity of hearing Marie Antoinette's "Chan-
the young or the elderly people. Sold Paul), was emplified in two de son de Florian.""West Austra
licate and expressive songs sung by " Ifan."--"
and recommended everywh
WHERE IS DINTY?
HE WANDERS AROUND-RUSSIA
LIKE A POLITICIAN OUT OF A JOB:
"THERE HEIS NOW. "SITTIN' DOWN BY
THE RIVER- WHAT IS THE MÅTTER WITH HIM?
BRINGING UP, FATHER.
SAY- WHAT'S THE IDEA? ARE YOU HOME-SICK?
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 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,)
IS
21
35
16
12
4
18
19
20
મ
50
52
37
INL
66
167
22
75
59
HORIZONTAL
1-Owne
4-A brownish color
The whole 10-To open (poet.) 18-Fuss
15-An age
74
WTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 54-A minister |67-A great Habrew
prophet
69-A military title.
(*bbr.) 10-AFTURS
15-To wander dreamlly] 13-Tlürce (abbr.) 18-Restored to upright|64-One who tells tales
position
66-Harmonies 21-Royal Navy (abbr.)|89-A Brazilian coin 22-Having trath 24-Prefix. Form of
"in" 25-Steering device 27-Goss stealthily 29-Even (contr.) 30-Boulder 22-Interjection. -Impatience 23-An extinct bird 18-A burrowing beetle 37-Repos 40-Artiole 41-Entranos
42-A river flowing
through Leningrad,į Russia 45-Exst Indies (abbr) 44-Groek letter "yn 46-A quadruped 43-Local position 50-To prepare for
battle 62-Ta pina
55-Own (Boot.)
[70-Basket of a balloon
72-Mineral apriya 73-A time-perled |74–Postcesiva pronoun
75-To lick up
VERTICAL- 1-Personal pronoun 2-Tried the depth of 3-To fush
4-Bmall mountain take
-Prefix To -Girl's name (frtsh) 7-One who rules.In
place of a sovereign
B-To surfelt
-Amid (post) 11-Promissory nota
(abbr) 14-Right hand (abbr) |t6-lelend group; &. W. of New Guines 17-Ever (contr.) 19-Possessiva pronoun
VERTICAL (Cont.) 20-A large doar 122-Journey-J [26-East-indian sedara
28-Gambined continant
of Europe and Asia 80-Wearind
31-Stretched tight
|33-To strikce softly |34-A number
35-A cork on a fiahing-
line
26-To spak as fax 43-Pixed 33-9und
45-A region of Asle and
E. Europe 47-Exposes to the sir 49-8tanding at the
beginning 51-Being in a diseased
stato
63-To help (55-Everything ¡66-Born (French)
57-Tavern
58-A playing ourd 61-To curva 62-Pozanstva pronoun 6-injurioua 65-To exist 87-Township (abbr) 03-To partake of
supper 71-American institute
(abbr.)
(The solution of the chove cross-word puzzle will appear in' to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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