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WEDNESDAY,
Art and Drama
DEATH OF NOTED MUSIC STUDENT.
Baron D'Erlanger's Palace Of Dreams.
RESEARCH IN AFRICA.
JANUARY 4, 1933.
A wide circle of friends will re- gret the death of Baron Rodolphe D'Erlanger.
He was the youngest of the four D'Erlanger brothers, a man of great charm and artistic tempera.
which he made his home.
Although only a moderate Arabic scholar, his knowledge of Arab music was profound. At his pal
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THE CHINA MAIL.
A GERMAN TRAGEDY LEASES LONDON.
SECRETS OF ART OF LITERATURE.
“Madchen In Uniform" High-Lights In Modern
Scores Success.
FEMININE PRUSSIANISM.
London, Oct. 18.
Style.
"Some Secrets of Style," by Henry Bett, BL.A. has just been published.
The secrets of literary style into: which Mr. Bett inquires are fairly At last we have been given a play open ones. His examination is of genuine passion and significance, thorough, although his general sym- and it has come to us. from Ger-pathies are somewhat partial. Hie many, heralded by the success of favourite peaks, the Elizabethana Leontine Sagan's film, "Madchen in and the groat Victorians, hardly Uniform," and produced by her on need aggrandisoment at the ex- the stage. The film had its origin pense of "the drearicst period in A loan exhibition to show the Court. Misa Yeatman Biggs's ple- in a German play by Christa Win- English literature," as he surpri ment. He took no part in the fam development of the theatre in this ture of Margaret Hughes, and sloe of which Barbara Burnham has laingly rates the eighteenth century. ous family's hanking business, but
It is Nor. to appreciators of its out- devoted himself to painting. Thirty country from 1500 to 1900 is to portraita of Dryden, Congreve, and made an English adaptation. years ago an interest in Arab art/take place within the present sea-Rochester will help to compose the long since any serious plece, and standing craftsmen, will it perhaps]
son at Dudley House, Park, Lane, Restoration Room, Lord Durham and architecture took him to Tunis which has been lent by Sir John is lending the Zoffany portraits of very long since any tragedy, was seem (us it seems to him) "blus- received in London with so much phemy to call Pope a poot." Tastes and Lady Ward, in aid of the Pad- Garrick and
critics. Although there is no man of approach to literary analysis. Mrs. David Gubbay is lending the enthusiasm by audiences and by differ, of course, and so do methods It is proposed to represent by Zoffany of Samuel Foote upon the in the cast, no love story in the But to dismiss the age that produc- their portraits, costumes, or other stage with Hayes- conversation ordinary sense and not a gleam of ed Swift, Gibbon, Sterne, Gray, and ace in Tunis an Arab orchestra, relics all the famous actors and piece.
happiness in the conclusion, I enn Burke-to mention only obvious "Portraits and jewels of the which he had collected from all actresses who have played during
not but believe that this play will cases--would suggest, a prejudiced,| over North Africa, played the music this period, including foreign ac-Kembles are being lent by be a great commercial, as it is al- rather than an impartial, Inquiry which he had orchestrated.
into the mysteries they practised. tors, singers, and dancers, who Misses Evans Gordon, whe
randy a great artistic, success.
On the other hand, Mr. Bett knows was the only Englishman who was have gained a reputation on the descendants of Mrs. Siddons; Lady
The scene is a German girls' allowed to visit any Arab mosque British stage, but excluding living Furse, another descendant, is pro- he wished to reo.
people.
viding jewels of Mrs. Siddons and school, and, except for the ending, what he likes; and his discussion His house, known to all Tunis as Miss Elmira Wade, who was res-a chain worn by Charles Kemble, the story is that which the film has of the technical sleight and the When common virtues of the writers he who is alee already made well known. the "Talace of Dreams," was one ponsible for organising the suc-while Mr. Beaufoy, of the minor wonders of the world cessful Charles II. exhibition last descended from the actress, is the curtain first rises the bleak admires leads him to produce upt tinent analysis. He writes with . In the central hali was a spring winter, and is now engaged upon lending the silver soup tureen stage is empty. The sound of mar-examples and to submit them to par- fountain, the clear waters of which the Theatrical Loan Exhibition, given her by the lawyers of Edin-ching is head; it grows louder; a evident love for his subject, and
detachment of girla appears, all ran in a series of small canals described the scope of the scheme burgh.
"Drawings and designs for dressed alike, moving in step and in pursues a tricky quarry with all a to a representative of The Obser-
costumes and stage-settings by file, silently. They go, the stage is hobby-rider's provocative zest. There were hanging gardens run ning down to the sex, with a glor
"The exhibition," she said, "will Inigo Jones and Webb are being empty again, and the action begins lent by the Duke of Devonshire, with the arrival of a new girl, Man- ious bathing pool, whil peacocks
fall into five main groups-the
while Coutts's Bank are providing uela. But already that detachment and gazelles roamed about
Elizabethan drama, the Restora-
documentary interest of another of feminine infantry has told us to' grounds.
London. Baron Rodolphe spent ncerly all tion, the eighteenth century, and his time at the palace, where he was the earlier and later nineteenth kind in the form of cheques drawn what kind of school Manuela is While stage designs and by Sheridan, Irving, and other ac-come. It is dedicated to the Prus-
Several American plays are to be 料 bond sian military ideal. The "revolu
tion has not touched it" The produced in London this Winter. sluge properties, models and stage tors, various letters, and
is that the The Arst of them already has ar: thought inspiring it form an important signed by Mrs. Jordan,
Costumes of Irving. For one month in every year he settings will
"Early plays are coming from time will come when Germany will rived. This is Elmer Rice's "The used to come to England to see hle part of the exhibition, emphasis friends, and especially his brother, will be laid on the personal rather Worcester College, and the Bath need soldiers again and the mothers Left Bank," at the Ambassador's, The girls must be in which Marry Grew, Martin Walk- Baron Frederick, the composer and than the professiooni life of the
Mrs. trained to be "women of iron." mezzotints. letters, and conductor, to whom he was deeply celebrities of the theatre., Pic-Museum are providing playbills, of soldiors.
drawing tures, prints, drawings, sculpture, Gabrielle Enthoven is
Profoundly Moving. devoted.
costumes, jewela, fans, furniture, and objets d'art are being lent by upon her great collection of prints. many owners, and books and decu- and has also promised us ments will also play a prominent
through the house.
the
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a delightful host to many Englishcentury. yachting partice.
PLAY READING CLUB,
LONDON TO SEE PLAYS IMPORTED.
er and Sunday Wilshin play leading parts. London is also to have (An- other Language," by Rose Franken, plaque To understand why this play is which Gilbert Miller will produce, of Henry Irving by Onslow Ford. as profoundly moving as it is, it is with Herbert Marshall and Edna The magnificent bronze hand of necessary frat to realize that it is Best in the chief parts. This has In connection with the Cosmopoli-part.
Irving and an aluminium bust by not a story of deliberate and sense- been slightly altered for English Nor-presentation by John Van. Druten. tan Theatre, J. T. Grein is establish-
Raven Snuff-Boxes.
Onslow Forde are coming as loans less cruelty. Fraulein von ing a Play Reading Club, wheru,
"We have been promised a num- from Mrs. Bram Stoker, the widow deck, the headmistress, is not an Members of the New Independent Club also are awaiting under
Mr. Tom evil tyrant but an obsessed repre- Theatre the direction of Michael
ber of the early nineteenth- of Irving's secretary. Orme, plays in French and German will be rehearsed and publicly read century snuff-boxes painted by Healewood, who has joint charge sentative of a point of view. It is eagerly "Green Pastures, which The Raven, which portray, for instance, with Miss Edith Craig of the seca point of view which does not dif-possibly will be given early in the during the winter months.
Among English attractions this first meeting will take place short- James Quin in the part of Falstaff, tion devoted to costume and pro-fer in essentials from that of the new year. ly, and in honour of Gerhart Haupt- and reproduce a number of other portion, is himself lending costumes naval colleges in which I myself
Mr. William of Irving, Phelps, and Macready, was trained as a boy, except that season will be new plays by Sem- mann's 70th birthday "Collego famous pictures:
King, of the British Museum, is while Miss Craig is also lending in the English naval colleges an en-erset Maugham, Frederick Lonsdale Crampton will be read.
engaged in collecting from various costumes and jewels belonging to couragement was given to profes-and J. B. Priestley.
sional initiative of which there la loan collections of Mrs. Siddons.
Apart "These are only. a few of the no evidence in the school. eighteenth-century Chelsea, Bow,. and Derby porcelain figures of promised loans. Sir Nigel Play from this, the principles dominating fair is lending us a fan depicting Manuela's school run very close to "The lenders of pictures include The Beggar's Opera': Sir Barry those of which I have had exper- the King, who has promised to Jackson and the British Drama ience. All individualism is subor lend the picture of John Lacy, the League are both lending us models.dinated to the service. Restoration actor, from Hampton (Continued at foot of next Column.)
COMEDY RETURNS.
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The revival of "Potash and Perl-stage interest, mutter," which is now on a short preliminary tour, will be presented it the Prince of Wales Theatre shortly.
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When an assistant mistress, Frau- lein von Bernburg, a woman divided within herself between loyalty to the system and a humane mistrust of ita extreme rigours, saya good- night to the girla in her dormitory curbs whatever desire she may have to distinguish between them and kisses each in turn with rigid im- partiality.
Emotion Frozen.
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This impartiality is more an absence of favouritism; it is a deliberate freezing of personal emo- tion; and it is the merit of Joyce Bland's beautifully judged perfor mance that Fraulein von Bernburg's emotion may be perceived through the frost. When Manuela, kneeling on her bed, finga her arms round the mistress's shoulders in passion- ate demand for affection Fraulein yon Bornburg repels her with gen- tle firmness.
The developing love between girl and mistress is, as the play pre- sents it, almost a love between mother and child, though it is open to us to assume, if we will, that sub- consciously it is inflamed in some degree by passion different in ori- gin. One evening, after a thoatri cal performance, Manuela, excited by praise, is further excited by a mild drink that is provided at sup per, and suddenly declares that she and Fraulein von Bernburg love each other. The confession is overheard by the headmistress and Manuela is disgraced. No one is to speak to her; she is not to see Fraulein von Bernburg again:
THE PERFECT LIGHTER Manuela kills herself.
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