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MUSIC DRAMAT FILMS.
MUSSOLINI WORRIED ABOUT
LATEST DANCES.
Does the Charleston offend reli glous sentiment? Can the "Black Bottom" be allowed at popular coun- try fetes? These are the questions which the Ministry of the Interior, headed by Premier Mussolini, has just been called upon to answer.
About six months ago, an outcry was raised against modern dances and night-clubs, and, an order was passed closing all the cabarets and night-life resorts of Italy.
Instructions were also given to the prefects of the various pro- vinces by the Minister of the In- terior, that a strict supervision was to be maintained on country fetes, where on Sundays and Saints days the villagers gathered together in the evening and danced.
SHAKESPEARE PLAYS
DISPUTED.A
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· ́BRITISH FILMS FOR EMPIRE DAY.
A member in Havana, Cuba, writes to "Oversent":-
"I would be very grateful for any information you could give me, as to the possible hiring of patriotic, Alms for display on Empire Day and where to apply."
The centuries-old dispute aso whether Shakespeare or Fra Lord Bacon wrote the Shakesper an plays is renewed again in te latest book of Lord Bydenham di Combe, famous as the governor if Australia and India, as the fit secretary of the Imperial Defeje Committee, as one of the reorgaus ers of the War Office, and ala public commentator on the lite ture and history of the Brith people. "My Working Life" is the "We are forwarding you a'cata- name of the new volume which slogue of our Aims, suitable for Just been published by on showing to school children on Murray.
Empire Day.
We passed her request on to the British Instructional Films, Ltd., of London, who specialise. In patriotic and Empire films, and they replied as follows:-
Lord Sydenhamn declares that the "We must, however, point out claim purporting that Shakespare that we do not quite see how your wrote Shakespeare in "an intel c-members in Havana propose to get, tually demoralising myth which has the films. We Imagine that these The instructions were. followed been infinitely harmful to the ga- would be out of our hands for at with too great rigour by the pre- tion." In part he writes:
least six weeks, and the hire for so fecta, it is said, who not only ban- "Such totally different persones long a period, together with the ned the Charleston and Black Bot-as Lord Palmerston and Pentate, carriage, would come exceedingly tom, but oven voted the fox trot, John Bright, Bismarck, Emeren, expensive. We point this out be and sometime the waltz.
Whittier and Mark Twain, witkut cause we are frequently getting. knowledge of the huge volume of requests for flims of Empire in- Baconian research, arrived at the terest from various parts of the definite conclusion that plays - Empire, but are unable to supply bodying all the learning of the films because none of these requests Elizabethan era and exhibiting an are in any way co-ordinated. About intimate acquaintance with lawand six months ago we had an enquiry with the life of the courts old from the West Indies. Had they never have been written by anon-and Havana agreed to share a film, educated rustic who became auc- it might have been financially pos- The government leaves it to the tor of small parts, and who dung local authorities to decide what his last years, while still in his "extravagance" may mean, and prime, was engaged in petty tid- the result would seem, to be that ing, in the ruthless collectior of the fox trot is all right for sylvan | small debts, and in trying to de- revellers, but the Charleston and prive the citizens of Stratford of Black Bottom are taboo. Unit.d their common landa. Press.
The Ministry of the Interior, in reconsidering the matter as a con- sequence of numerous protests, has decided that dancing na dancing does not offend religious sentiment, and is a proper diversion for young people on holidays, but it sets its face against extravagances in danc- ing.
SHAKESPEARE WEEK.
Shakespeare plays draw capacity houses even in a mining and indus- trial city like Bochuo, Bochum is a Westphalian town of 160,000 in the heart of the Ruhr conl district. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman learned this to his surprise when he was recently invited to attend the annual Shakespeare week.
efble.
"We write at this length because we know how much educational
needed films are
throughout the Empire, and how much some cen- tral organisation for supplying them is required."
CINEMA. IN SCHOOLS,
One subject at the Imperial RETURN TO THE CHIMPANZI. Education Conference
sidered by every one to be of im- mediate and outstanding Import-
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If people keep on dancingeance-the use of, the cinema in Black Bottom and its derivatii education and its influence general- we'll soon be walking on all foly on the life of the people. A re- like the chimpanzee, according port on this subject had been Professor Haymond, of the Pas opera..
"As a matter of fact," he sa. "the Charleston, the Black Botte and the Heebie Jeebies and the
This yearly event usually takes of the negro dances are unwort place at Weimar, the idyllic, almost of our civilisation. They ren dreamy Thuringian capital famous give some colour of truth to for its memories of Goethe, Schiller, Darwinian theory. There is a rest and Liszt. To show that an indus- for this. The anatomy of the nest trial community also has an appre- is not the same as ours. The pit clation of such things the Shakes of the knees, the modelling of peare week was successfully trans-hips, the line of the foot make the ferred to Bochum.
dances all right for the negro.
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specially prepared for the Confer ence by the Imperial Studies Com- mitice of the Royal Colonial In- stitute, and the matter was con sidered behind closed doors in order to ensure that there should be no restriction on the freedom of dis- cussion. The preceding Conference in 1928 had already dealt with the matter, and its recommendations jed to some action in many parts of the Empire; more drastic and effective action is now required, and the Conference unanimously passed a "It is a great thing," Ambassa- "But instead of the vertical resolution that is worth quoting: dor Schurman said, "for a commer- which hitherto has been the norm
"That this Conference. cial and industrial city like Bochum one for white, dancers, it is r
the one hand earnestly hopes that to make possible a Shakespeare more and more curved, getti
the competent authorities will take week. Nowhere on earth is there closer to the horizontal. Even whe every step to prevent the display of anything like it. Nowhere else did not dancing the habitues of the demoralistag films, and on the other anybody think of placing the works dances stand and walk that we hand desires to emphasise the im- of the great poet right amidst the They will end up by walking all da pórtance of the production and use" hard labours of everyday life-a feet turned in, their necks in the of wholesome and suitable. Alms symbol, as it were, of the close con- shoulders, arms swinging, They will which will convey an accurate im- nection existing between the prac-finally walk on hands and feet.”pression of the life and condition of tical and, the spiritual life. of
danseuse Mmall parts of the Empire." humanity. That Shakespeare's Monna Faiva, first danseuse of the That this was almost the only works should experience a modern opera Comique, finds the moder resolution of the Conference is in- resurrection in Bochum is a sige dances "absolutely bideous and undicative of the importance of the of the high culture of Germany."
aesthetic." Mme. Monna Paiva re subject and of the realisation of the grets the disappearance of the heat-cardinal fact that education is no tation and the tango.
||mere matter of the schools, but is "The others which have come concorned with all the agencies over the Atlantic," she added, are that guide or influence the spiri fantastic imaginings of delirious tual life. negroes whose principal Inspiration was whisky without soda.”- United Press.
BETTY BALFOUR SURPRISE.
A surprise was sprung on theatre goers by Miss Betty, Balfour's an- nouncement in Glasgow that she intended to withdraw from the cast of "Up with the Lark," the new musical comedy which was tried out in Glasgow in the course of a provincial tour prior to, a London appearancė,
The
famous
SINGING IN ITALY.
Miss Maude Nellson, the clever Scottish singer, whom we knew with the Carl Rosa, has been do fng some very successful work in
D'ANNUNZIO'S: LATEST PLAY. Italy lately. The Italian critics
seem to be delighted with "Matilde;”, As they call her. Mias Neilson Briefly, Miss Balfour thinks that
Gardon, Italy, Sept. 11..
has been singing both in her role of Toto, the. Parisian mid-
Six hundred men and women per-concerta and in opera, and is inetta, is unsuitable, and that in Itsonally selected by Gabriel now about to begin an operatic tour, she cannot fulfil adequately the ex- pectations of her audiences.
Betty has decided to remain with "Up with the Lark" until it has had a week's run both in Edinburgh and Blackpool. But she will not ap- pear in London.
D'Annunzio from 1,000 applicants paid a thousand lire each, about $65, today, to witness a special per formance of the poet's tragedy, |:
Daughter of Norio. The play was presented by a company of Italy's foremost actors in the open A representative of the producers air theatre at the poet's villa. I declared that they had acquiesced was of special significance, as It willingly in her decision, and that celebrated the eighth anniversary of steps would be taken immediately to D'Annunzio's “capture of Flume. have a new play specially written. The proceeds will go to the com- in which she would have wider pletion of the Roglan theatre at the opportunities.
Singelpont's villa--Associated Press.
during which she will appear at Palermo, Naples, and Venice, among other important Italian cities.
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PTEMBER 30, 1927.
DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
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