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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1933.
HOW RUISER LARSEN ART & DRAMA.
WAS RESCUED.
Expedition Broken Up By Gale.
DRIFTED ON ICE-FLOE
Cape Town.
How Commander Riiser Lar- Ben's Antarctic expedition came to an untimely end and how he was rescued from a terrible fate
from Larsen who was stranded
A REMBRANDT FOR AUSTRALIA
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Life's Tragedy In A Self-Portrait.
DRAMATIC EVIDENCE OF WELBECK FIND
The Rembrandt self-portrait which was discovered some time ago
THE CHINA MAIL.
Community Drama In Britain
Increased Support For National Festival
AMATEUR STAGE DEFEATED
(By Sydney W. Carroll)
Roman Relic
Found Near
Naples
Emperor's Head With
Sardonic Smile.
CURIOUS DRAMA REVEALED
Naples.
The discovery of a life-sized was related by Mr. C. Mar-by Mr. C. K. Adams, of the National
head of a Roman emperor in mar- ble in the course of new excava- tinsen, manager of the Whale, ¡Portrait Gallery, at Welbeck, the Ofl factory ship Lancing, on seat of the Duke of Portland, is to
tions on the site of the ancient city
his
of Paestum, arrival in
Bay. Table
near Naples, has be acquired, through the Felton Be- Mr. Martinsen was leader of
brought to light a curious drama quest, for the National Gallery of the expedition which respond Victorin
The National Festival of Com To-day your amateur takes him-jof many hundreds of years ago.
The head is that of the Emperor ed to the wireless calls for help It was impossible to identify the munity Drama held its finals at the self and his preoccupation with high
picture until it Wis carefully Old Vic recently. This year the en-seriousness. All over the country Tiberius, who was very unpopular on an ice-fice after his expedi-examined and lightly cleaned. After trants numbered 458, an increase in the aim of the amateur dramatic in Paestum because he deprived tion had been broken up, follow-this had been done Sir Charles the English and Welsh areas of 48 society seems chiefly to be in the the city of several ancient privi ing a gale.
Holmes, one-time director of the over the entries in the 1931 festival direction of culture and the intelli-leges, including that of coining
their own currency. Relating his experiences, Mr. National Gallery, unhesitatingly The five plays the judges selected gent grasp of humanity's many pro
But there is no trace of the body Martinsen said that Riiser Lar- corroborated Mr Adams's most im-for the final festival were as follows: [blems, sen landed on Princess Ragnhild portant attribution.
"Murder Trial" by Sydney Box.
to have been carefully buried be Making Playgoers.
of the statue, and the head appears Land which he considered to be In further confirmation of the presented by the Beckenham
was found, Players and Shakespearean Society the hour, the physiological and me-
The gravest social questions of low the level of the old city. a safe place early in February, ascription a signature
It is believed that after Tiberius' Three days after he had taken with a half-discernible date, which (Eastern area); "The Road of
taphysical problems of the age are death the statue was overthrown in his dogs and stores on the ice a resembles 1668, but may be 1660 Poplars" by Vernon Sylvaine, real too unsubstantial and unsatis-a, civic riot and that followers of gale sprang up which caused the Rembrandt died on Tuesday, Oct. 8, sented by the Shrewsbury Amateur
fying for their ambitions. Whether be old emperor picked up. the bead ice to crack and split into many 1669. To me, judging from the Dramatic Society (Western area); this is wholly to the benefit of drama and devotedly buried it in order to foes. The main depot was style of the portrait, it is likelier and the same play again, presented} broken up and within a few hours that it was painted the year before by the Birkenhead Old Boys' as drama or not is a matter for preserve it.
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BEDTIME STORIES IN AMERICA.
Depression In Show Business.
argument. There is much to be said The head is in excellent condi- men, dogs stores and equip- are artist's death, but that problem Dramatic Society (Northern area); ment were drifting seaward on remains to be cleared up by an even "Everybody's Husband," by Gilbert for the less serious and more divert- tion and is of exquisite workman- ing aspects of the amateur theatre. ship. It depicts the Emperor with five separate floes. Urgent wire- closer scientific study.
Cannou, presented by the Swansea less messages were sent out to A Rembrant self-portrait very Stage Society (Welsh area); "The But either way the cause of the a sardonic smile on his face
theatre benefits. The public will Reuter. factory ships, which were work like this one was acquired some Long Christmas Dinner," by
never be persuaded to desert toe ing towards Enderby Land and years ago by the National Gallery Thornton Wilder, presented by Dunskill and experience of the regular three four whale-catchers of Scotland.
or
dee Dramatic It is certainly of 4
Society (Scottish
stage for the spaamodic anties, hot- rushed to the rescue. When very late date and some passages arca). nearing the position of the were left unfinished.
The festivals, held all over the ever brilliant, of its amateur annexe. And meanwhile recruits are being marooned men, Mr. Martinsen In the National Gallery, London, country, provide remarkable evi-made in their hundreds to the ranks sent out a wireless message tell there is another notable Rembrandt dence of the intense interest shown of the regular playgoers. ing Riiser Larsen that he was self-portrait, dated 1640, and a com- by all classes of society in drama nearing their position and that parison of it with the Melbourne and acting. This amateur smoke signals would be shown, and the Edinburgh examples offers ment has grown to such proportions, Although it was blowing hard eloquent and tragic evidence of the it is so diversified in its character and ice navigation was difficult, effects of time and a multitude of and so enthusiastic in its tendencies Mr. Martinsen in the catcher sorrows on the features of the that it makes drama more à part of Globe 5 threaded his way greatest of all portrait painters,
the berga
among
and grow- lers and before long sight-
move-
our national culture than it has ever been in our whole history. Most of the people engaged in the work do.
ed a flac, on which he saw Lar COMMEMORATION OF their work quietly, without ostenta-
sen and his two companions.
The catcher was steered close to
the floc and the three men were
ARIOSTO.
taken on board showing evident Celebration Of Fourth
signs of the great hardships || they had endured.
Centenary.
Fertara.
tion or undue advertisement.
New Type Off Theatre.
I have been very much interested;
THE EDINBURGH BOTTICELLI
Said To Be A Copy.
The depression has produced some' {queer happenings in the show busi- ness, but the height of something or other is the story in this week's "Variety," the American showman's. bible, about a certain super-cinema in New York.
The permanent stock chorus-girls fat this palazzo receive less than the
minimum scale allowed by Chorus) Allegations which seem likely to Equity, althought they often work
Paris.
to hear the opinions of one of the start a lively controversy were fifteen hours a day. adjudicators to the effect that made in the "Journal" recently They also have to conform to al "though performances are fre- about the portrait of a young man number of house rules, of which No.| quently given suffering from in by Botticelli recently acquired by 10 is that they must not inter- After taking in the wireless! outfit and an aluminium boat Ferrara began recently the series and showing a complete lack of
credible inaudibility and feebleness, the National Gallery of Scotland mingle or converse with male men-
It is suggested that the Edin-bers of the show... which the party had clung to as of national celebrations which have understanding either of the play or burgh painting is a copy, made in The other week this notice. was their only chance of safely, abeen organized to mark the fourth of elementary principles of stage- Belgium four years ago, and that pinned up on the board: search was made for the dogs centenary of the death of its craft, performances which are frank- the version of this portrait in the "There will be a cut of 10 percent. and equipment. Fortunately greatest son, Lodovico Ariosto. The ly a misery to sit through; on the Louvre, which in the catalogue is in chorus salaries effective April 6, the visibility was fair and
Prince and Princess of Piedmont, other hand, there are performances simply attributed to "the school of at which time Rule No. 10 will be sharp lookout was kept on every the Air Minister, General Balbo, so full of skill, inspiration and on- Botticelli," is actually the original. suspended." patch of ice.
himself a Ferrarese, the President canny sense of the stage, that one The suggestion is made that four The rhan in the crow's nest at of the Senate, and many high au- feels there might arise from them a years ago a young Brussels, artist last feported that he could see thorities were present. The city new type of theatre, subtier, more copied the portrait in the Louvra something moving on a floe and was freely be flagged.
sensitive, and with a greater ap-on an old panel in which there the course was altered in its! The first ceremony was the open-preciation of the values of playwrit-were slight cracks, and sold his direction.
ing of the exhibition of Ferrarese ing and production,"
work in the provinces. The copy Mr. Martinsen said that out of paintings of the Renaissance, which The selection of the plays in each is said to have been bought in due 51 dogs that had been cast adrift is being held in the Palazzo dei area is astonishingly varied. Every course by a Belgian dealer, who only four were found alive with Diamanti. In the great hall were conceivable kind of entertainment, sold it at a high price in London.
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SIR ABE BAILEY TO PAY.
In announcing the acquisition of the portrait by the National Gallery of Scotiaña, Edinburgh, and pointing out that another version of the same portrait was in the Louvre, Mr. R. R. Tatlock wrote in The London Daily Tels. graph on May 3:
dead body of another beside hung the celebrated Gobelina, woven the most extraordinary conglomera- It is further maintaised that it them. On a large patch of in France on a design of, the Fezo tion of authors, from the highest to has yet to be proved that the pic- thick ice some of the sledges Dossi for Ercole II. d'Este and sent the lowest, and every vehicle of ex-ure in the Louvre is not an authen. and other gear were found but here for the occasion by the Parle pression finds its supporters. tic Botticelli, almost all the food supplies and Gobelins Museum. Signor Ugo I know that some professional oil were lost.-Reuter.
Ojetti, member of the italian players believe that the amateur Academy, delivered the inaugural habit is detrimental to the legiti speech.
mate stage, but I cannot follow their The bibllographic exhibition in reasoning. It seems to me clear Palazzo del Paradiso, where are col-that the more the members of the lected the oldest editions of Ariosto's general public become interested in "Orlando," the exhibition of bronzes the actual practice of the dramatic land medals in the Palazzo Schi-art, the better and more constant
hibition in the house of - Ariosto
In earlier times the amateur stage himself were also opened.
was given over almost entirely The celebrations to come, lasting to young people, who looked upon juntil October, will include pageants it as a jolly and Ively method of in the costumes of the period (such spending spare time and little more. as the "Palio" of St. George, once The kind of recreation they secured as famous as that of Siena), con- was very well depicted in that ever- resses, concerts, and several other green entertainment, "A Pantomime jexhibitions.
Rehearsal."
Liquidation Dividends fanoia, and the iconographic ex-playgoers they must become.
And Super-Tax.
£300,000 INVOLVED
Bloemfontein.
Sir Abe Bailey unsuccessfully appealed to the Appellate Division against the judgment of the Trans- vaal Provincial Division that he was liable to pay super tax on
liquidation dividends amounting to FAME ASSURED FOR
over £300,000.
Sir Abe, when making his income tax returns, described amounts of £292,720 from Brysanston Pro prietary, Ltd, £7,931 from the Phoenix Gold Mine, £2,950 from H.M. Association and several other amounts as liquidation dividends.
The Commissioner of Inland Revenue held that these liquidation dividenda were subject to tax.
The Appeal Court, in dismissing
DANNY MALONE.
Second McCormack In
New Irish Tenor.
That Ireland can produce famous singers is no idle boast, and recently another Ane Irish tenor has been discovered, to give the Emerald Isla further honours in the musical world.
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Danny Malone is but 22, and a few
the appeal, with costs, came to the weeks ago was unknown and out of conclusion that the transactions work. He has never had a singing were in the nature of a sale consideration of the allotment to with a freedom and natural ease in lesson in his life and yet he sings Sir Abe of all the shares he pre-that shames many a famous singer. viously had, and by means of He is the only singer, who seems to which he hoped to receive profits have to him the making of a John by indirect means and so escape McCormack,
burdensome taxation.Ilot_the_brogus-any Trish The Court therefore held that singer could have that but the the liquidation dividends were graos and fluency of his phrasing, grosi income in terms of the In-his musicianship and his power to
Tax Actand" taxable.
make each song live that proclaims for him a brilliant future.
come Reuter
"Both portraits are, super. ficially regarded, almost identi cal, but the one now published (the Edinburgh version) has qualities absent in the Louvre version.
"The drawing of the features is more delicate, and the colours," including, especially, the lovely blue background of lapis lazuli. are far better harmonised.”
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