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Art and Drama
RUSSIAN DRAMA IN
EVOLUTION.
Revolt Has Reached The Stage.
DIRECTORS' NEW "STYLES".
Ire.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The Changing And Lasting In Art
Resources At Beck Of Renaissance
HOW TASTES CHANGE
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BEAUTIFUL MUSIC RECORDED.,
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Particular interest attached to the dozen records going to make up Victor Masterpiece Set No. 188, and on their arrival they were im- A priceless heritage to gullible mediately put to work. For this transatlantic voyagers was left by is the recording of J. S. Bach's the late Edgar Wallace in his expose "Passion According to St. Matthew" of what he calls "The Barons of the made in the late Spring. Nimble Pack."
The release should be especially
has hitherto been but
Concerning card sharps these ly upon the Philadelphia. “Gur-
!, relieder! It should be more
than
All the best card sharps come sufficient. proof to the pesalmista
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In a recent issue of V. O. K. S., the official Soviet publication deal- ing with cultural matters and the cultural relations of the Soviet re. publics to other countries, there ap- pears a survey of music conditions
In building up the right sort of designer from the porcelain fac-. in Russia-as scop through official respect and appreciation for art, it tory at Sovres near Parle. The ough manner with which Wallace which
In the same scholarly and thor- welcome to the dealers, for the work, Byes. The following excerpt deals will be a help to take into account fifteen-year-old girls had brought revealed the methods of every brand sketchlly treated by H.M.V. and with opera:
two things: the side of art that to class sprays of clematis, of "crook," he gives the world the Polydoz, has been the subject of "The most popular among the changes, and the side of art that leaves, single blossoms-familier Moscow thoatres is the Great Thea Insts. As it is the changing side vines and flowers that had been "inside dope" on the card sharp in
It has two of the biggest that may puzzle us, let us take that growing along the road to school. his posthumous book "The Staw- domestic product following ao close- theatre halls, served by a single first and "leave the best part for, With these as models, they were jard."
many an eager inquiry. company, with an increased person- the end." Change comes with de- to make patterns for stenciled bor- nel, including the best vocal and veloping civilization: in simpler ders. They crowded round the old three facts stand out: Instrumental forces of the republic, times, simpler methods are not man: "Is this a good subject?" and we can safely say that no then crude. In the early days, artists "How about this one?" He would from New Yorki tre in the world possesses such # body of singers, choir, ballot and would not occur to us as possible, the window between his delicate who make traveling pay.
were working under limitations that hold, each flower or tendril up to Card sharps are the only people
that local activity is far from dead. artistic personnel. Unfortunately,
The Passion as such has had a the theatre continues to produce tional ways of seeing and doing notice the outline; decide whether tempt to palm a card.
constantly handicapped by conven- fingers and advise:" "Always The real card sharp doesn't at- long and important history. the operas which are most popular such as the Egyptian habit of the flower makes
By with the public and does not
a graceful sil- the whole deck!
He palms obvious stages it developed from the endeavour to progagate the less drawing faces only in profile even houette... That calendula is Listen to the revelations of "The gospel readings, particularly those
If the body were shown front view; too solid... known works of art of the past or the Greeks" apparently compla- houette"
Watch for the sil-Steward, chief character in the of Holy Week, and it may easily be or Soviet operas, the subjects of
As I listened, echoes latest Edgar Wallace thriller: which would more nearly corres like grown-ups on a smaller scale, me far from the classroom, back to cent drawing of children who look stirred in my mind that carried
Been that mystery plays, opera and The Revelations. pond to the demands of the con- writes a contributor in the Chris what I had heard of the days when sharps who work alone, stick to a fortunate accident' by which Martin *pratorio all trace back to the com-. "Most of the gangs and even the mon temporary audience..
stem. Thanks to tho "There are three other theatres tian Science Monitor.
Reims Cathedral was building, and particular route, and work it back Luther was of a musical bent in ad- In Moscow for creating new forms
Until we learn something about its leafy decorations were chiseled.wards and forwards.
dition to being à reformer, it came of operatic art, which belong much these special conditions, and can In that land of vineyards, it has more to the category of modern make allowance for them, they get been said that "all the vine has pack' aboard a liner I worked on, duties and, to quote David Mek. "I knew one "baron of the nimble to Bach in the course of his ordinary theatre. There is first the Stanis in our way whenever we look at done is to climb from its furrow who was chasing a certain passen Williams, the director of this par lavsky Theatre. its main artistic any of the works of these older up or to the capitals." The simple ger; whom he at last persuaded to formance, with the St. Matthew's he principle is the application to op- with the times gives us the key to designs used to pick flowers
nations. But once a familiarity minded artists who carved the play cards with him. eratic art of the Stanislavsky sy-
produced "the full blown flower of stem which underlies the work of these traditions, our feeling of their way through field or wood, when, in spite of his having worked
"But imagine the sharp's surprise Protestant, church music.? the Moscow Art Theatre. In some strangeness disappears.
Instead and keep them within sight as every trick he know, and all the (Continued from previous, column.) performances those principles have we have the satisfaction of moving, models.
In 1981 these French carefully prepared packs of cards he' given splendid results, particular- a long step closer to the artist.
girls were looking for beauty had concealed on his person, he kept tim of being a sharp. ly in the production by Stanislavsky Suppose we wish ourselves back ancestors had found it
Thinking Like da Vinci.
ers, and will jokingly accuse the vic- where their thirteenth century himself of Eugene Onegin. Such
on losing work is interesting for the audience into the days of Leonardo da Vinci,
But the echoes did not die away he only understood when a Scotland Spotted by the ship's authorities he "He had soon lost a fortune, but When the card sharp has been in so far as it does not entirely about the year 1500, in the High in Reims. Somewhree I had read Yard offer break with opera traditions and Italian Renaissance, and see what a passage from a book on Marco Southampton.
on board at Aboard one Unter the following is usually requested: not to play. yet endeavours to turn the opera to sort of thinking this involves. Let Polo's, travels in China, in which great stage mastery.
us imagine that he is on the point the great artist. Chao Ming-fu, was rann asked of the sharp's intended you must play cards use your
"Had a good trip, Jos?" the Yard notice was pasted: Musical Play.
of putting in the rugged background mentioned, and his wife, the Lady victim,
own deck. If poker 'Competition must be get "No less interesting is the Nemi- of his "Our Lady of the Rocks," Kuan, She, too, was an artist, of ting a bit fierce with the Pacific favourite game there is one in the rovich-Danchenko Theatre, called now in the Louvre in Paris. What delicate skill, who loved to draw after another director of the Mos resources of tradition has he to call "the graceful bamboo and the crowd coming to work on the North fireplace. Play with that.
On one occasion the well-known cow Art Theatre. This theatre upon? To answer this, we shall peony," and to skatch
[Atlantic." their
Victim Eager.
card sharps aboard a leaves the opera traditions in a have to think away all the modern shadows thrown by the moon across
liner were driven off.. It was later discovered According to "The Steward," it is more decided way and seeks out a landscape paintings that deck our her paper windows. The Lady new form of musical play. It edu exhibits; and with them we shall Kuan would have watched those seldom that a sharp suggests a game that the less well-known sharps had cates its actors to be not acting have to banish our modern eye for French girls understandingly,
jan opportunity to reap a harvest. of cards. The invitation invariably Wallace insists that card man ara singers, as is usual, but singing nature, which produced this crop they gathered round their win-comes from the eager victim! In the only gange that are gangs. They actors who can create a valuable of landscapes.
dows, and held toward the light a fact, the sharp often denies the fact stage figure."
We must remember the blindness stiff calendula or a trailing end of that he enjoys playing with strang-come on board a ship, and as far as "The youngest of the Moscow to the beauty in wid scenery, that vine, to Judge of its "silhouette." State opera theatres is the Radio made it possible, in the seventeenth Opera, created only two years century, to describe the Alps as ago. The company and its direc- "hideous" and "uncouth"; and re- tors consist of highly talented member also that Jean-Jacques young people who are not bound by Rousseau, who lived two hundred the traditions of the old opera. The and fifty years later than Leonardo, theatre's purpose is to create auch was one of the first writers to call a type of opera as would, on the one people's attention "back to nature." hand, be entirely comprehensible Before Leonardo's day human be to the radio hearers, and on the ings were the centre of attention in other hand be interesting to the any work of art, and it took a long spectators in the hall. Up to the time for interest to spread beyond present time the theatre has not man and his immediate surround- achieved the creation of a valuable ings. When we realize how radio opera, but after a series of alight was "the" tradition of failures and after the change of landscape painting behind Leonardo. the former artistic direction it and his contemporaries, we are now approaches a style of its own. not surprised, but understanding, This is seen in the production of if their reproductions of nature Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa,' with do not entirely satisfy our modern
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romounted scene and with the in- eyes. troduced reading of Pushkin's poem "Poltava,
Decisive Victory.
Same Process.
And there is the came process to go through in listening to old mu- The theatre has already won a
sic. In folk songs and early oper decisive victory with the produc- as the harmony sounds thin to us, tion of Mussorgsky's and Ippolitov the melodies over simple. For, al- Ivanov's opera Marriage, with the though our ears are perhaps more unchanged prose text of Gogol old-fashioned than our eyes, har- There certainly is a distinct differ der to win over to the new, they once between the music of the two have been trained by such compos
ers as Wagner, D'Indy, or Dobussy, composers, but the performance an a whole is highly intercating owing to tolerate and even to enjoy com- binations of sound that would have
to Ita fresh style, the excellent been painful not so many years ago, staging by Sudakov and Taldykin and the talented young artists act Again, we must think ourselves ing By the production of Mars back to the simpler days, and recall ringe the theatre, has proved Its the country gatherings where these right to creative work and now gs were sung while dancing or passes to the production of operas work was going on and remember the small side of the theatres and on present-day subjects, having in its portfolio several works, special orchestras for which the lightly ly ordered, on modern themes.
scored operas were arranged, We The sixtli Moscow opera thra must not fudge them by their effect
tre is composed of young people in settings for which they were
who have Onished the Central In-
stitute of Theatrical Art conree.
ever intended.
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