WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1933.
GLIDER PILOT'S DARING TRIP
Flight Over Cauldron
Of Vesuvius.
20 MINUTES ABOVE CRATER
Berlin.
Robert Kronfeld, the famous Austrian glider pilot. has gchieved another success by being the first person to fly for
20 minutes in a glider over the;
active crater of Vesuvius,
In the periodical "Luftreise"
ART & DRAMA
The Modern Trend
Of Art In Paris
Perversity And Brutality
Of Younger School
THE CHINA MAIL,
ENGLISH MUSICAL RENASCENCE
Kussevitsky's Warm Tribute.
COMPOSITION "IN THE GRAND STYLE
Mr. Gerge Kussevitsky, the fam- ous Russian conductor of the "Boa ton Symphony Orchestra, when lo London recently, declared, that the. outstanding feature in the world
(Air Travell Kronfeld describes DECORATIVE ART IN THE THEATRE of music to-day was the renascence
his experiences over the huge cauldron.
of the art now flowering in Eng land.
The two official Paris Salons, Durey, and of a few—but only a few
"My flight lasted four and a half hours. The atmospherical)
"Your English composera," he conditions were very good and writen the well-known art critic.among the many women who have said, are producing works in the enabled me to glide comparative-Philip Carr), with their shows side invaded and almost captured the ex-grand style. No other country has ly low over the crater.
by side in a single building and hibition. These are only exceptions, auch wealth of music, such furnace. can- tinuously varying in colour, covered by a single entrance fee, as however, and what may be called
school"—and he went on to tell me!
"A hellish
June.
and
&
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WIPE COLDS & FLU OFF THE SLATE
sapped vitality lowered powers of resistance -
screened from view at inter-Socicle des Artistes Francais
has become the plació habit of the "artistic Hitlerism" is the rule. in French how Boston audiences Change of seasons vals by heavy smoke clouds,
Art in the Theatre. its former rival, the Societe Na-
appreciate Vaughan Williams, Bax varying weather conditions, all tend to cause ordinary Colds, which generally spat out simmering lava, a
tionale des Beaux-Arts, closed their To many people the most interest-and Walton. few hundred feel below me.
Especially, at the moment, wi-attack people at this time of the year. If neglected, a cold in the head may Suddenly flashes of lightning doors with the end of the month of ing of the loan collections is that
concerned with decorative art in the liam Walton. Just before leaving develop into the dreaded Influenza and, in some instances, into more serious · accompanied by thunder would shattered the rumbling noises The number of the exhibits is as theatre and in music, at the Musee America Mr. Kussevitsky conducted
formidable as ever and their quality Galliera, and especially that part of three performances of "Belahas complaints, such as Bronchitis, Pleurisy and Pneumonia. RESOLVE TO is the greater part-zar's Feast" the first in the a KEEP CLEAR OF THE 'FLU! ‘ASPRO,'TAKEN IN THE EARLY STAGES, as little remarkable as We have-and "It was 1 wonderful and im-grown resigned to expect it to be which is concerned with the deve-ited States. pressive adventure which many since Forain, the president of the lopment of the scenic art Unies surpasse the thrill of Nationale and its greatest surviving theatre of to-day, establishing Reuter.
of Vesuvius and the would burst into flame.
A ZEA record."-
NURSES TO LOOK POOR.
Budapest Institute's Strange Ruling.
Budapest,
#go
and figure, died a few years nearly all its remaining members of oistinction seceded to help form the dissident Salon des Tuileries.
The Salor des Turleries. Although the ideals pursued
fits mem' 178 are sharply
divided,
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orme, formidable," he said. I had WILL DISPEL COLDS AND INFLUENZA IN 24 HOURS !
of the "It had a triumph. un succes en-
To those who know the French been preparing it all the winter. It theatre it has always been a sur-deserved to be a good performance prising thing that although the forty-six chorus, rehearsals with painters, with Maurice Denis at the choirmaster, three more with their head, introduced the symbolic me, and then five with chorus and and decorative idea into the pictures orchestra together, after I had of their time as far back as 1890 held four rehearsals with the or-
to say nothing of the earlier de-chestra alone."
and such notable deserters from thecorative movement associated with Mr. Kussevitsky smiled as he ra- old Nationale as Albert Besnard and Puvia de Chavannes-none of these corded this little labour of prepara Jacques Blanche can certainly but be tendencica
penetrated into the tion for "Belshazzar's Feast.”
Nurses of the Social Insurance said artistically to see eye to eye theatre until much later.
Institute in Budapest have been requested to look less "prosper.
ous.
This is because the Director feels that sick and poor people
with Othon Friesz or Yves Alix- La nanie only two of its younger lights.It is certainly the most vitali Jof the summer shows.
The Russian Ballet,
-
Hotel Lounge Vision. "Walton's work is decfficult," be added, and with clenched fists re-
The turning point, so far as the called how the voices make their Paris theatre was concerned, came first entry. For a second he was
Its older men have not allowed with the first production of the the dynamic conductor who used to
10 settle diwa
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and Russian ballet in 1910, and their stir London to frontay in the post. First Aid for Mothers What ‘ASPRO' Does:
who subscribe to keep up the themselves Institute may take offence al mediocrity, and its younger have not introduction of painters and very well-dressed staff.
They are asked to wear "sober" clothes and to use no make-up. --Reuter.
COLOURFUL RIOT
IN U.S. GAOL.
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Marshfield, Oregon.
now runs a school and the result is seen in the fact that he has many
not war years, and a chorus filled the Most children are subject to Toola-
lounge of his hotel.
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yet found a groove--though the un-scene-painters into the work of the quiet afternoon expanse of the ache, Earache, Colds and sudden bursta of Temperature, 'ASPRO' can be safe. compromising but always systematic decoration of a play.
It was Diaghilev who, directly The vision passed, and he wently given to children so affected. und always attractive Andre Lhoto
after the war, extended his activities on placidly sipping his lemon and will soothe the pain away and quick-
ly reduce Temperature. by introducing to the theatre French water. Yes; English music was painters of the moro advanced grand stuff. Much of it they play- schools, such as Picasso and Marie led constantly in Boston Bax's Laurencin.
Second Symphony and Vaughan From the beginning and even to-Williams' "Pastoral" And-natur- day it is almost exclusively in ballet ally they enjoyed Lambert's "Rio and in musical plays that this sort Grande."
imitators.
Perversity in Younger Art,
I will not say that there is not something preverse and wilful in Imuch of the younger work. This year the perversity seems to show itself in two ways.
In the sculpture we find it in an
of decorative scenery has been given. But there was a glint in his eye scope in Paris.
as he said that he was glad to To the Frenchman a spoken play know that our English orchestras
There was a colourful riot in rrnating predisposition to repro has hitherto been primarily a thing were now worthy of our composers.
of
Musee
HOW TO GIVE
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TO CHILDREN
a littlo
the city jail here. One of the duce only part, and that not always for the actors, with which scenery "They used not to be," he added. Two simple thethods of giving 'ASPRO
thes more an interference than other-"and that is one reason why I have to the kiddies are: (a) with "guests" offered to decorate the the most important part, interior, drawing upon several human form, as if the masters of wise. The productions of Louis not visited London for sight years." milk or (b) break the tablet up and cans of paint which the jail had antiqulty, of whose works only shat Jouvet, and a few others are, how-
administer in teaspoonful of Jam. on hand.
tered fragments have survived, ori-ever, changing thila conception.
The dosage is: Children & to years, The exhibition at the
4 tablet; 0 to 14 years, 1 tablet; 14 The "bull pen" (general lock-ginally pruduped only those frag-
to 10 years 1 tableta, ‘ASPRO' like any other medicine should not be up) is now finished in pastel mests. pink. Walls of the corridor The fact that a genius like Rodin
given to babies under 8 years' of age without medical advice. leading past the first tier of cells allowed himself to be touched by this Are done in flaming
orange-pergruity does not justify its reap- Reuter.
peyance in numberless efforta which Fannot claim genius as an excuse:
FAKE HOLD UP HOT and it is sad to see the magnificent Venus of Driver aurrounded by arm A SUCCESS.
lesz, legless, headless, and even face less studies, accomplished as many Victim Forgot To Hit Himself On Head.
of these studies are.
Brutal Coarseness.
Galliera presents a very good his MLLE. CECIL SOREL Lory of this development of slage
RETIRING. decoration up to the point at which
is understood to-day.
There are sketches for scenes and 32 Years At Comedie there are models; and
the
Tatter
show how the ideas of the painters, who sometimes forget that a stage has depth as well
Francaise.
STARS OF THE FILM.
Success.
as height and Оде imagines Parisians w Mr. R. H. Naylor's Great width, have grown under the hands shrug their shoulders disbelieving- of man of the theatre like Baty, ly at the statement that Mile. Copeau, and the aforementioned Cecil has been 32 years at the Jouvet, especially when lack of Comedie Francaise, which she is
London.
In the painting, the perversity is financial resources has obliged these at last leaving. Many have Mr. R. H. Naylor, whose mail fa Ocent City, New York. seen in a certain brutal though quite men to suggest by ingenious uses of solemnly assured me that she hasĵone of the wonders of modern jour-" A beer lorry driver is in jail good-humoured coarseness. Dis light and shade and the grouping been there at least half a century, nalism, has had a splendid tribute because he forgot, to hit himself tinction and refinement are evidently of figures, decorative effects which writes a Home, correspondent. paid to his popularity by Tussaud's on the head. Found bound and not among the studios of to-day, they could afford neither to paint For Paris, disdaining the refer- gagged at a road-side, he told where the desire to avoid above all nor to build-Manchester "Guár-ence books, according to which the Cinema, London, where the pro- police that he had been held up things false sentimentality and false dian." by bandits who had hit him on rhetoric leads the present genera- the head and stole his receipts. tion, in art, as in everyday life, to- But the police found no injury wards a kind of pitiless turbulence, to his head and then he confess- To be sure there are exceptions. ed that he forgot to hit himself. Among them at the Tuileries Salon He said he had faked the hold-up are the pictures of such men an. in order to steal his employer's Rene Seysaand, Roland Oudot, Valdo money-Reuter..
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THE THEATRE ON WHEELS
Aid To Schoolboys For "Exams.”
was born in 1875, has for years Prietors have erected what is ́pos. clung to the somewhat stale jokejsibly the largest sign ever shown for that this actress is incredibly' old. "short" pictures over the vestibule, During the Tut-ankh-Amen boom At night the signs of the Zodiac
that monarch was made, on emerg-are lit up in brilliant colours and ing from his tomb in a revus form a striking spectacle. for the scene, to inquire after the health thousands leaving and arriving at of his old friend Sorel, ⠀⠀
Baker street Station, E But the Parisian revue is quite "What the Stars. Foretel" is on merciless in its lack of good tagte, the screen throughout the country, When poor Sarah Bernhardt had and cinema patrons may obtain free leg amputated she was impersonata horoscope at the box-offices
"A : travelling, theatre to helped by the commere at the Cigale, These films have been produced schoolboys to pass their examina: who, with a wooden stump strap- by Widgey R. Newman for Betta || Lions has left London to tour Eng-ed to her knee, gave the trola Films, Ltd., of NationalTM House,
coups for the rise of the curtain." Wardour-street.
land.
The head of the company, Mr. Gerald Cooper, remembering his {boyhood difficulties in becoming thoroughly acquainted with special | plays for examinations, decided to Help the schoolboy of to-day in thla novel way..
The programme fa drawn up from the examination' syllabus of the two [principal". English colleges the
| College of Preceptora" and the Uni-,
versity of London. Patr
The plays to be presented are Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night,” (ko'first part of. "Heary. IV. and "Heary AKOMAR
The company consists of dators and two atage bands,-)- All; they require at the so
thair
hich to on
Some schools ba
main incom
Municipal's Music Record
Bournemouth Orchestra 40th Anniversary.
Bournemouth recently, calebrated record in municipal musto.
In commemoration:
on May 22, 1898, ware, in
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