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||TENOR URGES
THE CHINA MAIL.
REVISION OF WAGNER OPERAS
Four-Hour Performance
Too Lengthy.
EXPERTS NEEDED TO MAKE ALTERATIONS .
New York.
Herr Lauritz Melchior, the world- wante famous Wagnerian tenor,
operas revised and shortened to gain the favour of the average music lover.
"Let us make no mistake about. it." he said. "A four-hour opera is too much to expect ELIJ average audience to listen to with interest. and cagerness in one evening. That is all right for the Metropolitan's Wagnerian cycle. That is all right, too, for the Wagner festivals at Bayreuth, To, these performances come chiefly those who have learned: to know and love Wagner,
"But those who have not heard these grent music-dramas before, or know them only slightly, cannot pro- fit from so large a dose. Wagner's libretto and music are not sacred. Shortening will heighten the drama-
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can cut the music without injuring its inherent greatness. I have no. patience with those who shout, 'Let; us not touch a single note', and pre- fer to have the public ignore Wag- ner entirely.
"The operas must be brought within the orbit of the average manj who works all day and seek two or three hours entertainment in the evening. A four or five hours opera is too much for such."
Patching It Up?
Mary Pickford Mary Pickford, shown above at the telephone of a New York hotel, has been talking with Dougins Fair banks, Br, over the trans-Atlantic telephone, say the gossips, with a result that follywood's most fa. mous couple is expected soon to patch up differences and reunite.
SAVING ENGLAND'S
PONIES
War Office Grant Of £5,000 For 1934.
LIGHT HORSE BREEDING
London. The War Office has sanctioned grant of £5,000 for light horse breeding for 1934.
Melchior is concerned about the operas of the "ring"-those music- dramas written around the old Ger-Hunters Improvement and Na- Lord Digby, President of the man mythe of Wetan, Siegfried, tional Light Horse Breeding Brunnhilde and Valhalla.
For years, he has been a leading Society announced that he just re- ceived this information when he interpreter of tenor roles in these spoke at a luncheon given by the works-not only at the Metropolitan Society. and at Bayreuth, but in music houses the world over.
WOMAN OF 74 IN
EXPEDITION
Wife Of Former U.S. Minister.
TO WILDS OF AFRICA
New York.
Mrs. Sarah Lavanburg Strans a distinguished lady, 74 years old, will soon go on an expedition into the wilds of Africa.
⚫ Mrs. Straus is the widow of Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Com merce and Labour under Theodorę Roosevelt and former American Ambassador to Turkey. She is the aunt of Mr. Jense Iaidor Straus, Ambassador to France.
Mrs. Straus organised the expedi- tion to Africa, which is to be known as the Straus West African Expedi- tion of the Field Museum. It is to add to the zoological collection of the Field Museum of Natural His- tory in Chicago.
Mrs. Straus intends to travel with the expedition for six or seven weeks, but the rest of the party will {continue their work for six or seven
monthis..
The party will be headed by Mr.
Rudyard Boulton, assistant curator
of birds at the Field Museum. Mr. Boulton's wife, Mrs. Strays and Mrs. Straus's maid," will be the only women in the party.
After Mrs. Straus arrives at Dakar, the expedition will motor through French Senegal and French West Africa to Timbuctoo and from there will proceed to 'Kana, in Northern
work Nigeria, and through to Lagos.-Reuter.
SPACE STILL THE BIGGEST THING,
Chicago Professor's Calculations.
Chicago.
Of the total grant, £4.500 has So deep in his concern to increase mium stallions and £500 for the na- been allotted to thoroughbred pre- the appreciation of these operas that live pony breeds which had been Space is still the biggest thing Melchior wants to form an Ameri- can Wagner Society with participat-These included the Dales and Fell, Professor William D. MacMillan,
in danger of entire extinction.in the Universe, ing groups in the larger cities. the Welsh Cobs and the Pembroke of the University of Chicago, has
Ite warned of one thing; if any Roadster. revision is done, it should be by a representative group or internation-grant of £2,000 made by the Race-world and even including the Lord Digby also referred to the computed that if all the molecules in the stars, the solar system, the ally-known conductors.
Course Betting Control Board to "We must deplore," he added, "the the Society for the award of pretributed evenly in space, each people, were broken up and dis- liberty accorded each conductor to miums for thoroughbred. stallions molecule would be separated by a
5th June Cut as he sees fit. This practice has for 1934.
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involved the Wagnerian drama hopeless confusion."-Reuter.
HEARD NOISES IN COFFIN.
in
next.
It was, ke believed, the fret distance of seven feet from the grant from totalisator (unde and expressed. the. hope that the borse.
The Professor's calculations, loving public would support the based ch researches into the num totalisator even more readily than ber of astronomical nebulae by Dr. before now that the horse breeding Edwin P. Hubble of Mt., Wilson industry was to benefit from their Observatory, were published in the current issue of the Astrophysi- investments.
Although the War Office grant cal Journal." was only one-sixth of the sum al-He visualizos space as a sphere lotted annually up to 1931, it was with a radius of 300,000,000 light| Visiting the grave of his sister absolutely invaluable in enabling years.
the Society to carry on its vitally
Exhumation Sought After Four Years.
Stockholm.
་ ་
soon after her funeral four years important work. He hoped that 76,000,000 each a star system com- The nebulae in space total about 20th May ago, a Gothenburg man thought he 23rd Apr. heard the sound of scratching in the grant would be the means of parabic to our milky way, Reuter.
producing many young horses suit-
side the coffin.
At the time he dismissed the able for Army requirements.
With the probability that the
matter from his mind-but ever
Reuter.
would be pur-
20th Apr. since he has been haunted by the War Office grant might be renewed 6th May.thought that she might have been annually for the next few years, It was hoped, that several. "good buried alive.
Now he has asked the authorities young stallions to exhume the body-for medical chased before the 1935 secsion com- examination. "I think I shall go menced. Owing to the uncertainty mad," he said, "if this goes on."one had been purchased during
the last two years.
Lord Digby also announced that the Duke of Gloucester had con- sented to become President of the Society for 1935-Reuter. DARING GAOL DASH IN AFRICA.
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