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NEW COMEDY.
ANOTHER BEN TRAVERS' SUCCESS.
MADRIGALS & DANCES DESCRIBED.
Mr. Walia's lary impudence and LONDON CONCERTS., air of 'confidence, Mr. Lynn's nervous irrelevance, In which moments of bravado alternate with spasme of the most appealing loss of head, make an effect of contrasts which never seems to pall or grow stale. Their company make up a team worthy of its leaders. Mas [By Ben Travers.]
Shotter is as pretty a herolue as J. Robertson Hare ever stepped off a chocolate-box to
AT THE ALDWYCH.
Oswald Veal
Prudence Malone
Mrs. Hewlett
Simon Veal
Freddie Malone Mabel
THE COURT PLAYERS.
As a rough description the above
Ena Mason become flesh and blood. Miss Ens may serve for the programme--a Mary Brough Mason is capable, as ever. Mias tride overlong, but well arranged Gordon James Ethel Coleridge, within her too re-in which the Court Players join- Tom Walls stricted limits, is perfect. Mr-ed forces with the Chelsea Singers Ann Farrell Herbert Waring. Mr. Philip Carl- Winifred Shotter ton, and Mr. Arthur Williams main at the Rudolf Steiner Hall. The D'Arcy Tuck
Ralph Lynn tain the dignity of the police in the combination proved a happy one, Sir George Chudleigh Archibald Batty face of gales of laughter. This is in that it ensured a certain unity Lady Chudleigh...... Nancie Nielson)
a better play than "Thark," and Harry Kenward..... John Charlton should have at least as good a run. Ruth Bennett. Enid Maby
Joan Hewlett
William
Buckley
Mrs. Orlook
Chief Constable Grierson
Robert Adam Fred Morgan Ethel Coleridge
Philip Carlton Chief Detective Inspector
Sibley
Herbert Waring Police Constable Darics.
KREISLER'S ADVENT.
:
OPERAS AT COVENT GARDEN.
of design and feeling. Thus the Chelsen Singers-Winifred Wholen, Sybilla Marshall, Viola Dore, Bruce Flegg, and Winter Coppin, attired in 18th-century costumes- gave us old-time glees, madrigals, ballots, traditional airs, and so forth, and, in between the groups Alfred Watson Detective Sergeant Marchant
of songs, dances in the ancient Arthur Williams
By Robin H. Legge.)
style and little plays (spoken and Detective Sergeant Bryant
London, July 19. Fred Cavell
mimed), all of them more or less Producer-Tom Walls.
A great many years have passed' away since I told the story of the "in the picture," were given by The time has gone by when we actual first hearing of Elgar's violin the Court Players. The singing, can think of the magnificent stock concerto in "The Dally Telegraph." though not always perfectly bal- company which has made its per-lt was at Gloucester in the intervalanced, maintained on the whole a manent home at the Aldwych in of a Three, Choirs Festival, when very good level, and the voices terms of characters in a play. We Elgar invited me to a room in the blended well. In point of have too personal an interest in house which he had taken for the rhythmic vitality these singers its members for that, The ques-Festival. Mme. Mary Anderson have little to learn, as they show tion we ask ourselves as we ap- and I formed the audience, Fritz ed very notably, for instance, in a proach the theatre on one of their Kreisler played the violin, and refreshingly-spirited rendering of far too infrequent first nights is Elgar himself sat at the piano, and Morley's "Now is the Month of not, "What will this play be the single-proof sheets of the now Maying." about?" but "What will Ralph well-known concerta were perform- Lynn, Tom Walls, Mary Brough; ed right through for the first time. and the rest of them be up to this Last Sunday Kreisler and I for- time?" writes the Dramatic Critic gathered yet again, when he told me of the London "Daily Telegraph." of his huge recent success in Milan What they are up to this time and Rome, where he had not played | js, generally speaking,
crime since before the war. I asked him to Mary Brough ia discovered as a housekeeper who has just coerced repeat the story of his first playing in England, and he related that he a poor old man into marrying her made his English debut at either and leaving her his money. Winifred Shotter is the old man's Eastbourne or Bournemouth, I for- grand-daughter and original helr- get which. His party consisted of ess, and is engaged to Ralph Lynn Hamilton Harty, now knighted, and (as usual). He is not, of course, Pedro de Zulueta, a Spanish singer, marrying the girl for her money, now a diplomat. The party-that It has been suggested that he but he doesn't see why something, the two shouldn't be done about it. Tom their fee six guineas each: Fritz pedagogue who first decided that Walls turns up as his old school Kreisler a mere five guineas! It examinations should be held in the friend who makes his living by was somewhat later, on Mafeking loveliest months of the year. We stealing and is proud of it. Lynn night, to be exact, that Kreisler incline to take a more favourable joins Walls in a crack-brained made. his first bow to
В 1.021- view, and suggest that the choice scheme to steal the usurping don audience when he appear of time was the outcome of the housekeeper's jewellery and give ed under Hans Richter in study of human nature and mature
Janies's Hall the proceeds back to the fair Miss St.
It is right perhaps Shotter.
ed, I thirk, the Mendelssolin that the young should get to know
of them converge
In the
former received
and
The performances of the Court Players varied both in character. and interest. But their incidental dances, given to appropriate music, were never deficient in refinement and grace; and, among other fea- tures they contributed to the pro- a fancifully conceived. gramme, trifle, called "The Leprechaun and the Lady," and very pretty mimed by Miss Melusine Wood and Miss Margaret Rubel, struck me as par- ticularly worthy of mention.
A Pupils' Recital.
as must have been a very chilly old
play-deliberation.
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1928.
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WATER SUPPLY.
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Level and Storage of water in Re servoira on July 1, 1028:- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER
WORKS LEVEL
1927 1928 1′ 10′′# 4' 0" Tytam Byowash... 8" 9"B 6′ 10′′B
L.
L. Tytam Intermediate
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Storage In millions and Decimals of gallons.
Tytara
Tytom Byawash... Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum
1927
1928 309.40 347,32
11.19 18.33 195.00 195.00 1,419.00 1,419.00
21.08
14.84 44.48 34.34
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2,061.05 2,024.78 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of gallons during the month of June.
1927 1028 303.38 310.22
per day
Well, you can see at a glance concerto. When I asked Kreisler pretty soon that the sunshine of that Ralph Lynn is cut out to be if he had heard any of the new June and July does not and can. the world's vaguest and most un-jazz operas in Germany, he said not mean the casting off of ren- handy jewel thief. Somehow or that he was present at rehearsala ponsibilities. Moreover, there is other he is coached and bullied in, I think, Vienna, of "Jonny no other time of the year when through his part in the burglary Spielt auf." Act-1. went so well they can count so surely on the by Walls, the expert: but when at the first rehearsal that the con- sympathy of their examiners. Miss Brough's unpleasant brother, ductor suggested that Act II. For, indeed, they also know that Gordon James, interferes and is should be tackled, when the chief no test that has ever been. Invent- killed by a fall through a conser double-bass jumped up and askeded is infallible. Is the sedate vatory roof, things go definitely which act had been referred to young person who plays Debuggy wrong. Walls.and Lynn are sent When told Act II. would then be with such nicety really as cool and for by Scotland Yard, where Walls taken, the contrabassist said: collected as she looks; is the an- proves the best and Lynn surely, "Why, that is what I have been xious, eager interpreter of a grave The inhabitants of the small the worst witness that ever under- playing for the last two hours!" choral of Bach suffering from
town of Diest, which went cross-examination,
At the moment of writing I am nerves such are questions which Belgian end the two escape, frea for the not quite sure of the particular occur to an examiner as to a lis- figures so prominently in the early moment but under heavy suspicion. operà to be given at Covent Garden tener which can never be satis- annal of the Great War, have liv. Consumption
They then discover, in one of next Thursday night. those scenes such as
The nu-factorily answered.
Estimated population 412,780 423,100 ed over again some of the 'tragic Consumption per head we had in thorities in these matters are just] Some misreadings, some wrong
21.4
24.4 "Rookery Nook," in which the two a little backward in coming for- notes must be found when stu- experiences they went through in
Constant Supply in all Rider Mais on poor little ward, with Information on the sub-dents have to interpret an exact- August, 1914. Once more they Districts during June, 1927 and 1928. Robertson Hare and bully him, ject-much less bold than the ing programme which goes from have seen and heard the Uhlans that Mary Brough has added mateorological authorities as
KOWLOON WATER WORKS · to Bach to Ravel. But at the recital clattering over the cobbled streets,
LEVEL. bigamy to her other minde weather reports. Moreover, a lit-given by the pupils of Miss Lily and have had to pinch themselves meanours, and that the money and tle more care might be exercised West at the Wigmore Hall the in order to remember that the unt Kowloon Reservoir. appurtenances have been Miss advantageously as to the announcerrors, well below the average, form that inspired such terror Shek Lai Pal Reser Shotter's all the time. So Miss Ing of changes of cast. On Mon- were completely outweighed by the covers, on this occasion, only in-|| Brough, in order to save herself day "La Boheme" will be repeated many commendable qualities shown offensive actors "doing their stuff" Reception Reservoir
Storage of millions and decimale from prison, has to give a plausible and on Tuesday and Wednesday by the players. How much these for a Alm company. Two women, (though quite untrue) account of the same course will be pursued as owed to natural abilities and how it is said, unaware that the town the jewel robbery to the police, to "Madama Butterfly" and "Alda." much to patient and careful tul- had been temporarily turned over Kowloon Reservoir
a back-Shek Lai Pui Reservoir 90.45 110.10 who retire baffled, leaving Walls In "Butterfly" Mme. Dusolina tion it would be difficult to find to British Filmcraft as
Reception Reservoir
30.78 and Lynn to decide that after all Gainnini will appear as Butterly out. But that the teaching is both ground for the forthcoming pro- honesty is the best policy,
422.95 499.38 for the first time here, and in careful and patient was proved by duction of "The Burgomaster of
Consumption of water in Kowloon Merely on its dramatic merits, "Faust" on Friday Chaliapin will every performance-nothing less Stillemonde," fainted when they
of gallons "Plunder is good enough to stand appear, also for the first time here, could bring about such satisfactory caught sight of the Ublans. They in millions and decimals a good chance as an example of as Mephistopheles. Chaliapín has results.
imagined the war was beginning during the month of June.
-1927 1928 the prevailing fashion for crook made a 'deep impression in many
all over again.
Consumption
97.93 106.12 drama. But its real claim to be a parts of the world by his later-
Sir John Martin Harvey plays Estimated population 100,660 166,700 success lies, as In Mr. Ben pretation of this role, and in any comer In Mile. Beaujon, from the the leading part in the screen ver- Consumption per head
per day....... Travers's other plays at this case he has such original Ideas in Paris Opera. Not by any means afon of Maurice Maeterlinck's war
Fall Sapply in all districts during theatre, in the superb material it these matters that he is assured of the least interesting feature in play, The Belgian Government June 1927 and 1928.
The Government Analyst's reports supplies the Lynn-Walls partner a great reception. Joseph Hislop, connection with this performance gave Captain Banfield, the director ahlp of proving themselves once yet one more of our native singers, of "Faust" is the fact that it will of the film, every possible facility, show that the quality of the water i
satisfactory. again an incomparable pair of will sing Faust, and the Marguerite be conducted by Eugene Goossens including the loan of a large num-
Tetal rainfall to June 30, 1927, 68.46 -funny men.
will be represented by a new-another native musician..
ber of troops.
¡Jane 80, 1928, 49.28.
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Total
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1927 1928
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