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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1933.
Art and Drama
ACTORS WHO ARE INAUDIBLE
Microphone To The Rescue.
MECHANISING THE THEATRE
"Actors and actresses who can- not speak their lines audibly may cause an invasion of the theatre by the microphone," States a ̧ Daily Telegraph correspondent.
The Famous Old Garrick Club
Centenary Recalls Great Actors And Patrons
A
WONDERFUL GALLERY'
THE CHINA MAIL.
Vienna Treasure Gallery
Historic Bric-a-Brac Of Maria Theresa.
A new gallery In the Art History Museum of Vienna, devoted to mas- terpieces of the arts and crafts from Maria Theresa's time, has re- cently been opened. Director Her- mann, Dr., Kriss and Dr. Planiscig have made a careful selection of works to illustrate that period. In the centre of the Hall
are
The Garrick Club, which recent ginal collection, amongst them be. several glass show-cases containing ly celebrated its centenary, wasing the portrait of Sir Henry Ir-gold-smith works on a silver founda- This was the alarming prospect founded in 1831 for the purpose of Millais; Phelps as Cardinal Wol- longing to the Emperor Frans I, a table service, be- ving, in morning dress, by Sir John Hon. Here is a suggested by Mr. Cedric Hardwicke to me recently when we discussed bringing together the patrons of sey, by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robert. gift from his brother, the Duke of the modern technique of "under-the drama, and also for offering a on; Sir John Hare as Benjamin Lorraine. The cafe service is of speaking" on the stage.
rendezvous for literary men.
Goldfinch in "A Pair of Spects-Chinese porcelain made in Vienna inf Our conversation was interrupted)
The original club-house was at John Patti; and Ellen Terry, Mrs.
cles; Sir Charles Wyndham, by 1760
The room also contains candle- more than once by the little instru-i ments in question. For Mr. Hard-35 King Street, and the then far- Kendal, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm stick and candelabra from Lorraine. wicke is busy with a new film at famed Solomon, of the Piazza Cof-Tree in "The Merry Wives," by the There is a breakfast-set and toilet- the Gaumont studios. Shepherd's fee House, was engaged as chef. Hon. John Collier. Sir Squire and table set which belonged to the Em- Bush, and We talked
between Garrick's candlesticks and Kean's Lady Bancroft are represented by Press herself. "shota."
marble statuettes, by Prince Victor These pieces are in popular "Naturally the prospect is an ring were objects of interest on of Hohenlohe.
Rococo style, designed by the unpleasant one," he said, "but I am the mantelpiece in the coffee-room,
In its early days the Garrick was Maria Theresa's medicine chest, master, Anton Matthias Domanek afraid that during the last fewland's notable picture there was renowned for its late sittings, and with its gold columns and cut-glass years the younger generation has that of Charles Kemble as Charles in the period of Sir Henry Irving flasks, belongs to an earlier period. got definitely worse in the matter
and J. L Toole, supper, especially:
There is a side-board, rather stiff
human voice is capable.
Voice Flung Back
The
iable clubs in London.
of audible speaking in the theatra, the Second, under which the actor, on Saturday nights, was a regulerin design, of North German origin. "It would mean the loss of one in advanced life, pften sat. Thac institution. The times have chang It comes from Schlosshof and was of the most important assets that keray, who joined the club in 1833,jed, but the Garrick remains one of An actor has his voice.
a gift of the young Emperor Fried-i when he was 22, spoke of it as the the most agreeable and most 80rich to the Empress Maria Theresa mlerophone cannot convey anything' like the subtle nuances of which the dearest place in the world.”
The King is the patron of the about the time he ascended the The present club-house in Gar- club, and the recent centenary din- throne and was anxious to curry
Cavour with her. rick Street, designed by Mr. Mar- her was attended by the Prince of "But already, at the Palladium, rabie, was opened in 1862. Both Wales, who la an honorary mem- Italian bust of St. Anthony in gilt The room also contains a fine ber. Lord Buckmaster, the senior 'reaching the back rows will find at the old and the new house, as trustee, has as his colleagues in the
bronze (1699) and a magnifcent his voice suddenly flung back at him Mr. Percy Fitzgerald recalls in his trusteeship Lord Burnham and Sir marble bust of Maria Antoinette by by amplifiers from the back of the history, there were various genera. Arthur Pinero. The secretary is Jean Baptiste Lemoine (1771). nique as a whole improves, it is tions in the course of the club. L-Col. K. A. Plimpton, D. 3. O.
I
am told that a comedian who is not
theatre, and unless speaking tech-1
likely enough that microphones will There was the old school, "the
be installed in all large theatres. pleasant group of true humorists,
"The microphone itself is partly Jerrold, Hook, Barham, Poole, and the cause of actors' inaudibility..
In filming and broadcasting, and Titmarsh, a regular set who kept all even at public dinners we cannot going and gave its tone to the speak without it nowadays, and place," and later came players tend to rely on it more than they realise."
the newer group: Shirley Brooks, Serjeant "Do you find that playing to a 'Ballantine, Montagu Williams, Ser- microphone tends to affect your jeant Murphy, "Johnny Deane," F. stage voice?" I asked.
¡C. Burnand, and many others. Criticism of Thackeray.
But at that moment the bells
WEB
LONDON STAGE ACTIVITIES.
Royal Variety Show At Palladium.
COMEDY AT OLD VIC.
London.
rang. Mr. Hardwicke suddenly be Edmund Yates will always be as-
The Old Vic is apparently finding came an eminent Egyptologist, the,sociated with the Club from the un-
comedy more offending little instrument lucky episode of the offending cri-eighteenth-century lowered to within a few feet of his ticism of Thackeray which led to Popular than Shakespeare this sea- "head," and, pausing at the door of his retirement from it.
son. "She Stoops to Conquer" was Dickens. the set, I heard my answer, not in too, withdrew after this incident, such a big success that Miss Baylis has decided to revive "The School words, but in a clarity and distinct.but rejoined.
A Brussels tapestry bears the name of its maker, Pieter van der Borght (1750), and depicts the dis- coverer of America by Columbus,
In a further section of this gal-i Hery there is a bust of St. Cassianus, one of the masterpieces of Austrian ecclesiastical art and among the proudest possessions of the Albert Figdor Collection. Dating from the 14th Century, it is of South Tyro- lese make, in gilt copper.
DR. MAX REINHARDT
To Take No Fee-From The O.U.D.S
Oxford. Professor Max Reinhardt, the ness of tone which would have car-i All through the century most of for Scandal" with Peggy Ashcroft ried as well in Drury Lane as at the famous actors and literary men as Lady Tenzle, Mr. Malcolm Keen world-famous theatrical producer, when be comes to Oxford to produce Shepherd's Bush,
of the day have been members of as Sir Peter, Veronica Hurleigh as the Clubs. Its portrait gallery, Mrs. Candour, Roger Livesey as
Lady Sneerwell, Clare Harris, as "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the Oxford University Dramatic ALEXANDER'S TOMB formed originaly by Charles Ma-.
thews the elder, is the most famous Joseph Curface, Charles Hickman as Society, will not take a fee. This is Surface, and Morland remarkable, in view of his refusal in its own special line of any club Charles
of several large fees offered to him
THEORY,
Archaeologist On Track Of Discovery.
Alexandria.
in the world. When, inded, we,
Graham as Sir Oliver.
think of the Club, writes Fitzgerald, The students of the Vic-Wells to come to England.
"it is not of an assemblage of the gay and witty beings who have been its members, but of the won- derful gallery of dramatic pictures,
per
company repeated their formance of four short plays at the Old Vic recently.
Shakespeare is, however, to be
P
Performances will be given: on each week-day from June 15 to June
21.
Dr. Reinhardt is bringing the
Mr. Howard Carter, who dis-each showing the player in his ha represented in Landon, for "Henry costumes used in his production at covered the tomb of Tut-ankh-amen, bit as he loved' and also in the ha- Part I" is to be played at the the Deutches Theater, Berlin, which has informed Reuter's correspon- bit in which he displayed all his Theatre, with Douglas Ross as he left owing to the Nazi antí dent here that he is convinced that talent: the face which he wore In Victor Lewisoha as the King, and
Falstaff, Duncan Yarrow as Hotspur, Semitic campaign, Alexander the Great is buried in common life and that which he Alexandria. He hopes to
search donned to give expression to his Renee de Vaux as Mistress Quickly. for the tomb when he secures the part."
The presentation of H. A. necessary funds of £60,000.
Besides the hundred of indivual Vachell's play, "She Had to Come
covery.
ANCIENT CEILING
REVEALED.
Old Paintings Under New Paint,
Berlin.
Should Alexander's tomb be dis-portraits which cover the walls and| Back," at the Garrick recently covered, he said, it would be the take us back from the present age in aid of the Bath Eospital most important archaeological find to a wonderful past, there are many
was in a literal sense a flying ever made in Egypt even more im- striking scenes from dramas, such matinee, for an aeroplane was en- portant than the Tut-ankh-amen dis as these by Zoffany of Garrick and aged to take the company back to Mrs. Pitchard in "Macbeth" and the Bristol Repertory Theatre in The contents of Alexander the Garrick and Mrs. Cibber in Venice time for the evening performance. Great's tomb, he believes, would Preserved," which are of the high-
The play dealt with Spiritualiam, During renovation work in the consist chiefly of metal, whose in- est importance in the history of and it is the most sensational thing Church of St. Catherine of Ham- trinsic value would not be as great acting; of Mathews himself there the stage. There is more than a from the middle of the 17th century that Mr. Vachell has written for burg, two celling paintings dating as the Tut-ankh-amen relics. are many good portraits, one by
There is the possibility, be said, Harlowe depicting him in four dif prospect that it will be presented have been discovered. They had that Alexander's tomb has been ferent characters.
later on in London with a West End been covered by four couts of covered by the sea. The system he
ordinary paint. For the fourth year in succession One of the paintings illustrates tomb he described as "sondage," or tions have been made to the orlaid of the Variety Artists. Bene- while the other represents the the Royal variety performance In the Peace of Westphalia (1648),| -sinking of pipes.-Reuter.
would use, in searching for the
Irving's Portrait. From time to time 'notable addí-
cast,
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work of a great master-Renter.
Disdained Canvases Now Valuable
Pictures Presented To
Boy As Gift.
Charles D. Houston, Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, recently visited the Smithsonian Institution, point ed to some paintings of Indians on
[the walls," "and asked:
"Are they worth anything?" Yes, he was told, those paintings alded by George Catlin were wor money. Ostsidethe collection, the least pri cantase
WAS $500,
Houston sighed
which became known
Fifty years ago Catlin, a poor) sick and discouraged man, lived and painted in the old brick tower gle the Smithsonian
Joseph Henry, secretary of the institution, harboured Him there while trying to persuade Congress to buy those pictures, Th
A little boy carried Catlin's meals
up the winding stair. Decasionally penniless, Catlin sometimes ed a picture to the boy
The boy had no use for ings, so he stu corner under the stair.
bog
from under
the Smithsonian')
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ON THE STAGE for a
Oldest French Actress To Retire.
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on the
of her, you land. But when
ca
liday, an event she had no difficulty in occurred which
ther engagements, at determined her
bpar ville," the Porte S. Mart
Odeon. Perhaps the Just as she made up her mind, to triumph waS
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and sought an opportunity to
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