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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetis spellings, such as harbor, plow, and althe.).
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HORIZONTAL
1-Enanare
5-Polt 10-Goddess of the son
(Norse Myth)
11-Combining forms.
Alr 12-Idolu 16-Here and there 17-Good (French) 18-Distorts
20-To be droway 21-Any string
23-To turn to the right,
aald of draft. animals
24-Boys name (short)
25-Consume
27-Corrupt
28-Nocialm
30-Girl's nama
$1-End 34-Radioals - 36-Insect 38-The black-thorn
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE
HORIZONTAL (Cont); VERTICAL (Cont.) |40-Period of time 14-To bend in the
41-Currents
middle 18-Monkey 16-To no extent
43-8kill
44-British admiral
45-Capital of Repubits 19-Recoll
of Anhalt, Germany|22–0mins
46-Atom bearing an 24-Capital of France
26-Half a score
electric charge
45-Chlid's hat 50-Famous.composer
$1-Royal residence
VERTICAL
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27-Wager
29-Sook
30-White powder ́umad'
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32-Protoplasm
33-Having a rounded
end with a blight depression
35-Before Organs of hearing 35-Purpose 7-People (abbr.)
37-Boy's name (short), S-Trimmed, as fruit-39-Girl's name
trees
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[43-Turt 18-Extinct bird of "-
New Zealand 147-8alt (Latin)
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES T Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sare These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
appear in
(The solution of the above crass-word puzzle will to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
GIRL'S POSE
A MALE OFFENCE THAT WOMEN ESCAPE
In a case at Middlesex Sessions in mail week, Sir Montagu Sharpe, KC, who presided, commented that it was an offence for a man- to wear a woman's clothes; and the wearing of a man's clothes by a woman should be equally penalis ed
The case was one in which Kathleen Lilian Keeping (18), vor.
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RADIO TOPICS
RADIO & PICTURES
DIVERSE VIEWS OF PROFESSIONALS
THE CASE AGAINST OPERA
"Sooner or later the talking movies are going to finish opera, not only in America but all over the world." Mary Garden thus predicts the end of grand opera. The celebrated prima donna was talking to Miss Marjorie Derman of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle," and her published opinion · has reverberated not only through the press of the United States but Great Britain as well.
Is opera doomed? This ques- tion is being asked and answered by many distinguished authorities in various ways. Dyneley Hussey has contributed to the "To-day and
To-morrow" series (E. P.
Dutton) a volume entitled "Eury dice: or The Future of Opera," in which he holds out some hope for opera-lovers, although he admits that "the case against opera is indeed a strong one.". Few of the professional critics, are as sweep ing as Mary Garden in their pre dictions. The dynamic soprano of the Chicago Opera Company is convinced that the radio has kill- ed the concert in America, and that grand opera will next be sup- planted. Yet the change will bring with it increased popular- ity of good music.
have
Where Pictures Succeed As quoted in "The Eagle", Miss Garden explains the new outlook: "The talkies are in their cradle, but things move fast in this coun- try. It may be five years, it may be ten, but I think the end will come before that. The movies everything Dow except colour and they will get that. Eventually sound pictures will be the one and only form of enter- tainment. I myself
am simply mad about them.
"Sound pictures are going to be a yonderful thing for the Ameri- can composer, who up to this time has had great difficulty in competing with old world com- posers. Now his day has dawn- ed.
"No longer will people be con- tent to sit as formerly for three hours' hearing people sing in a tongue they do not understand. English will be the language used in the operas put on by sound
movies.
"There is a big tenor at the Metropolitan whom I have never liked. I found him wanting in several respects. But I heard him sing 'Cavalleria Rusticana in the talkies and rose to my feet with the audience, applauding and shouting in my enthusiasm.
"What had happened? The in- strument, that marvellous sound instrument, had brought him to me. He had no idea of what was in him the instrument found it. It reveals the subconscious. In days to come only the honest art ist can succeed as a singer. The man or woman who sings for his cheque is finished. This tenor was great in spite of himself. It took the instrument to record the man's real self."
New Musical Mind
"And if, as the younger musi- cians are hoping, the "music" comes into being, will there come with it some new kind of musical mind?"
In Defence of Opera
OWL.
On the other hand, Dyneler Hussey boldly proclaims opera as an independent. art-form with de- finite conventions of its These
should be understood and appreciated. Opera сад not be killed or superseded if it possesses an internal well-being. Now developments in radin and sound pictures may indeed in- crease its longevity and rejuven- ate true opera. The author of "Eurydice" defends opera in these
terms:
"The charge brought against
opera as a form is that it is a
hybrid, a mixture of oil and vine- gar, a spoiling of two good things. We are told that it cannot be a satisfying art-form in the sense that painting or poetry may be, because each of its elements must make concession to the other. The swiftness of the drama is im- peded by the slowness of the music, which takes time to deploy its forces; while music has diffi- culty in carrying forward the dramatic action without itself be- coming dull. There is ¿ con-
PLEASE DON'T WASTE WATER
tinual
the
struggle between. the drama, which requires freedom for its development, and music, which seeks to impose upon its partner the bonds of its own It follows that the formality. composer of opera is peculiarly liable to write music
which is merely illustrative and formless, while the librettist may fall into anare of producing the opposite
a stiffly symmetrical play whose are lifeless abstrac- characters. tions rather than living men and women.
"The case against opera is in- deed strong one. Yet it amounts to little more than that has certain limitations opera which both composer and poet must recognise. In this it differs in no way from the other arta. There are certain things you can- not do in painting. You may suc- cessfully represent the recession of a scene away from the specta- show him tor, but you cannot what is on the other side of a hill without doing so much vio lence to natural forma that your representation will fail to vince him."
NEW WAVE LENGTHS
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The B.B.C. announces that new wave lengths as the result of the recent conference at Prague will come into force on June 30, says a mail week paper. The new list also gives the provisional re-al- location of wave lengths on the regional opening of London's transmitter at Brookman's Park for a second programme in a few months' time.
Mr. Gordon Beckles, music London's new wave length will. critic of the "London Daily Ex-he 356 against 358 at present, and from second programme press," has interviewed a number the
of British conductors and com- Brookman's Park will be transmit- posers concerning the future of ted on 261 metres.
opera and the advent' of a type Manchester goes from 878.3 to of motion-picture which be called 479, Glasgow 4011 to 977, and the "music." "What a magnificent Daventry 5GB 482.3 to 399. There writer of talkie operas Richard are other minor changes. Wagner would have made!" ex-. claims Mr. Leslle Howard, former- ly conductor of the Cape Town Symphony. Music, he added, must be prepared for the new day. As quoted in "The Daily Express":
"A whole new technique of musical composition has got to be evolved; it will be twice as hard as writing an opera for the stage. The producer will have to be a man of genius who, like Anthony Asquith, understands music.
"And the most far-reaching effects may lle ahead. An orches tra of fifteen may prove to be better than an orchestra of ninety. Again, the language question should not be such a handicap as it is in the case of the talking. film
"It may be far easier to fake a singing voice than to fake a talking voice you can have i Siegfried with a face and figure like Rudolph Valentino and A voice in the wings like De
To this opinion, Mr. Backles court, also wearing clothing stolen from the house, and was arrested adds his own.
vant, and Edward James (29), James was seen at the back of the Rezske's,"
labourer, were charged with break ing and entering a house at Chis-
wick on March 26. It was stated
A police officer mentioned that The spoken drama and orches
that when arrested on a charge of Keeping had worn 8 Tan's clothestral music are said to be menac
ed by the advent of the sound
drunkenness on April 3 the girl on another occasion. She declined was found to be wearing a man's to sex way she did sorry film
clothing, planche deng
You must stop this nonsense,”
*
But as I have already said
The clothes were subsequently Sir Montagu Sharpe told Keeping. It is a case of the magnetic theory
identified as part of the
etolen from
Keeping appe
Court of the
house.
By He sent the girl to Borstal for
years
of like poles opposing each other: the sound film, being a hybrid wth, will do most damage to its companion hybrid opera
Tames was sentenced to twelve grow charge months imprisonment
The London station for double wave working which it is hoped to open towards the end of the year will start first as a single wave station and later begin twln wave working.
TO-DAY'S RADIO
BROADCAST BY ZR.W.
ON 350 METRES
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Govern- ment Broadcast Station Z.B.W. on 250 metres.
5.80-6.80 p.m. Frogramme of Chinese music, (records supplied through the courtesy of The .Pleasant).
7.48 p.m.Evening weather re- port.
8 p.m. Evening programme, Columbia records supplied through
the courtesy of Anderson Music Co., Ltd.)..
"Pomp and Circumstances-March" "Marche Lorralny" (Ganne),
The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. "Four Indian Love Lyrics" (A. W.
Findem), Organ Solo,
.Pattman. "Mercenary Mary", Selection,
The "1925" Orchestra. "Song of Hybrias the Cretan", "The Midnight Review", Bass,
Robert Easton. "The Five O'Clock Girl", Selection,
"Gee Whizz". "Rippling Streams",
Ray Starita & His Ambassador Band.
Sir Dan Godfrey & the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra.
"Show Boat" (Kero), Selection,
Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra. "Finlandia" (Sibelius). Tone Poem,
Sir Henry Wood & the New Queen's Hall Orchestra.
"Blue Eyes" (Kern), Selection,
Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra. "Do I Do Wrong?" "Blue Eyes", Duet: Evelyn Laye and Geoffrey Gwyther. "Dance of the Tumblers", "Gelliwog's Cake Walk"
B.B.C. Wireless Military Band. "Indian Love Call",
and Edith Day. "Rose Marie", Duet:-Derek Oldham "Everybody's Melodies"
J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. "That's a Good Girl" (Charig &
Meyer), Selection,
Debroy Somers Band.
"The One I'm Looking For" "Fancy Our Meeting", Dueti
Jack Buchanan & Elsie
"Faust-Soldiers' Chandolph.
"Faust-La Kermesso" (Gounod),
Chorus & Orchestra of the Theatrical National De L'Opera, Paris. "No, No Nanette", Vocal Gems,
Columbia Vocal Gems Chorus. "Sanctuary of the Heart",
Albert W. Ketelbey's Concert Orchestra, 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.
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