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MUSIC DRAMA
ELLEN TERRY.
CELEBRATES-HER 80TH BIRTHDAY.
MEMORIES.
*
FILMS.
JOACHIM DAYS.
RECOLLECTIONS OF HIS QUARTET.
SOME MEMORIES,
acter. Also, she is gifted with a voice of silvery and sympathetic tone. It follows that the scenes' between Portia and Bassanio be- comes of more importance than those in which Shylock appears." Shakespeare's Heroines.
the This, obviously, a hardly
By Hugh Butler in the London To-day England's greatest ac-moment to catalogue the many not. tress, Dame Ellen Terry, celebrates able successes achieved by Dame "Daily Telegraph."
It is a chastening thought to one her eightieth birthday amid the Ellen Terry during her long career,
Are they not to be found, modest, whose greatest musical delight in heartfelt congratulations of her ly and wittily set forth, in her de- his early days was to listen to the many friends and countless ad-lightful, volume of reminiscences? Joachim Quartet that only a small a book warmly to be commend proportion of present-day concert- mirers.
ed to the notice of all who may goers can have, shared that enjoy- Recall the fact that she was not yet have studied its pages ment in its fullness. For during barely eight years old when she, You shall read therein her advice, the last eight or ten years of made her first appearance in pan-particularly applicable at the pre-Joachim's life (he died in 1907) his tomime as the "Spirit of the Mus- tardpot," and that only a few years have elapsed since her retirement from the stage, and it will be un- derstood how many "crowded hours! of glorious life" have fallen to her: lot. Like Beatrice, Shakespeare's fascinating heroine, she is able to bonst: "There was a' star danced and under that I was born," and, if yet another apt quotation may be permitted, that she was "Nurs- ed on rasepink and cradled in pro- parties." Little wonder that her: services were in constant demand even while yet she was still in the stage of "teen"-hood.
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ISN'T IT TOO BAD DADDY DIDN'T GO TO THE PARTY & WITH US TO-
NIGHT?
Meeting With Irving.
as
Beauties-All Three
Just Another Winsome Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Player
THIS gorilla is not the missing link even
though he does serve to link Edward Sedgwick, director and Harry Rapf,M-G-M supervisor. The man in the middle is young artist, with his skin off, but cind as
a denizen of the African Jungle. The actor get the work'e uglincas prize-ward the gorilla will not be any picanter, when seen at the cinema with Kari Date and George K. Artisan
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It was in December, 1867, she first played with Henry Irving-an event which, although wholly un- foreseen, was destined to have mo- mentous results for both. "Unt!! I joined him at the Lyceum," she frankly confessed years later, "he was nothing to me and I nothing to him... I never consciously thought that he would become a great actor." Afterwards, everybody knows, her views were sent moment, to young actresses: playing censed to be a source of to undergo a radical change for the "All the ideal young heroines in unmingled pleasure, and became of its better. "I have no doubt in the Shakespeare ought to be thin. Fat, but a pathetic afterglow
Or, again, earlier splendour. His tone had world of his genlus," she then de-is fatal to ideality." clared, "no doubt that he is with take. this description of Sarah become weak and unsteady, and his intonation, mainly owing to gout- David Garrick and Edmund Kean." Bernhardt in her early days:
"She was as transparent as an distorted fingers, was often at A few years afterwards she was
the pleasure of azalea, only more so; like a cloud, fault, especially in high passages. herself to enjoy listening to her own praises sung only not so thick. Smoke from a There were still moments of great of his old by Dutton Cook. The occasion was burning paper describes her more beauty and flashes when at the old Prince of Wales', nearly! Hen body was not the pri-genius, and he could still do-or at least indicate-things that no in the spring of 1875, the Bancrofts son of her soul, but its shadow."
Finally, listen to her on the sub-other violinist would have ravived "The Merchant of Venice," with Ellen Terry as Portia. The jeet of her own art: "Imagination! conceived, but most of the time acting, for the greater part, Imagination! I put it first years one was conscious of failing power There awakened, no great enthusiasm.jago, and I am still of the same and unfulfilled intention. But "fortunately," wrote Mr. Cook, opinion. Imagination, industry and was the sad feeling, too, that those "the cast includes a young actress, intelligence-the three I's-are all who heard him then for the first a wholly false Miss Ellen Terry, who brings to indispensable to the actress. But time would form her impersonation of Portin, all the the greatest of these is, without idea of his greatness.
Altered Days. charms of aspect and graces of doubt, Imagination."M. W. ir manner indispensable to the char-London "Daily Telegraph."
Cossack Styles Are the Rage in Hollywood
ERNEST TORRENCE and React Aderenaredoing their best with a gypsy serenade for the benefit of the cast working on John Gilbert's Couack-life picture. Torrence is troubador of great renown, but it ia doubtful If Renee has had much experience with a guitar, especially one large enough for her to hide behind.
IT IS NOT- I'M GLAD HE WASN'T THERE-
A
They have borrowed the “Belalaikes” (Ruzalna for guitar) from the Casuck musicians who are participating in the Tolatoy picture being fined by M-G-M under the direction of George Hill In this w plceuse Miss Adoret and Gilbert are given their first co-starring opportunity since "The Big Paredz.“
BUT, MOTHER- HE WOULD HAVE HAD SUCH A JOLLY TIME
be
even
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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phosphorescent light of rotten . wood1
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compound given off by petroleum 11-What is the pressed
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Cheap 18-Small (Scot.) - 21-Combining form.
Noadic
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out of the regular course of events?
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millions?
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the Samoan Islands 53-Who was the mura
of epic poetry? 64-Pertaining to tone 55-Dispatches
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that a true artist always recognises the limitations of his medium. But is it so certain that he does? Mozart did, Beethoven did not; Racine did, Shakespeare did not; Raphael did, Michael Angelo did not. But if it is an artistic crime to overstep the boundaries, it is sure- ly equally blameworthy to refrain from utilising the whole space be- tween, and always to keep safely to the middle of the path, never daring even to approach its peril ous edges. Yet some of even the. best modern quartets are guilty of this timidity, thereby seriously narrowing their emotional range. In their terror of perpetrating a scratch or a scrape they will main-
to
be
It is unlikely that there will ever another quartet quite like Joachim's,
because not merely leaders of his supreme ability and authority are not to be had for the wishing, but because the modern attitude towards quartet-playing has largely altered. Now-a-days it is a matter of intensive specialisa- tion such as was never dreamed of in Joachim's day. He and his col- leagues were all exceptionally busy men, their time fully occupied with official work, administrative, and professorial, not to mention solo. engagements. Quartet-playing with works of their own countrymen,tain throughout an evening a sauve them was a relaxation-something Smetana and Dvorak, and may per-smoothness of tone and exhibit so as to make of a "side-show," or (if I may peep haps be regarded as the earlier re-jgenteel a refinement for a moment into a lexicon) a presentatives of the modern type one wonder whether they consider,
and They played,
vulgarity of of quartet-playing. "parergon."
I have often virility the Joachim synonymous terms. After listen- course, constantly together, and wondered whether knew each other and the whole Quartet would have gained more ing for some time to quartets like range of chamber-music inside out, than they would have lost if their these, one begins to long for a good, but long and laborious rehearsals methods and Ideals had been the honest rattle of the G and C strings as the were the rarest of events with modern ones. The modern ideal on the fingerboard, such them. They were all admirable seems to be the fusion of four per-Joachim Quartet did not hesitate players and musicians, and in com-sonalities into a single composite, to produce on suitable occasions. plete personal and musical sym-one, whose task it is to perform on Several instances occur to me, but pathy, and this was sufficient ton similarly fused and composite perhaps the most striking was in give them a
the last stormy fine measure of en-single instrument. The earlier their playing of semble, but of a "rough and ready" ideal seemed to comprise the re-variation in the second movement major quartet. nature in comparison with that cognition of the quartet as four of Schumann's A reached by some of the best modern distinct personalities working to-Here their metal strings were made quartets. But there was a fire. gether in close sympathy for alto rattle like hajistones on a glass freshness, and spontaneity in their common purpose, but without loss roof. Beauty of tone was cheer- performancesa confidence in the of independence and of reasonable fully sacrificed to character and But the effect inspiration of the moment, and a freedom. The modern method has emotional needs. touch almost of improvisation-certainly led to an amazing preci-was overwhelming, and the violence
with sion of ensemble, but that are scarcely possible
so much of the atorm gave peculiar value to modern methods.
stress has been laid on this and the beautiful succeeding calm of The reluctance of on the cultivation of pure tone and the coda. Early. in the nineties the high polish that the deeper uro- modern players to sacrifice beauty Bohemian Quartet came into be- blems of interpretation sometimes to character is somewhat curious, brother artists, the been relatively for their ing, not indeed as a rival to appear to have Joachim's, but as a delightfully neglected.
modern painters; place the doctrine contrasting supplement. They Virility Versus Refinement. of ita necessity, in the forefront of epecially excelled in playing the It is often stated as an axiom their art.
Modern Ideals.
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