INA MAILESAT
MARCH
1954
WHY THE BRITISH HUSBAND SUFFERS
By
LES ARMOUR
London.
THE Medical Officer for
T Reading has presented 08 with A soul-searing pleture of the British husband.
He reports (with A straight face)': "We are dishing out thousands of tons of phenobarbitone and tonics, and we know what
are really needed are a new house, a new wife, or the absence of a mother-in-law."
There you have it:
Millions of Britons writh- ing in mental anguish, alternately drugged with sleeping pills and shot back to consciousness with stimulating tonics,
How many poor wretches in these islands are in this and state we have no way of knowing. "But thousanda of tons of phenobarb and tonic must go a long, long, way.
Depressing
If this is so-und we have the good doctor's word that it is then it is depressing to note that the twentieth- century can produce only a bottle of sleeping pills as the solution to the problems with us since Eve in the Garden.
arrived
What's gone wrong with ua?
Does no laughter per- meate the gloom of these islands? Have we no gin to put with our tonic?
Or how about a good old- fashioned bawling-out for the wife and marching orders for the offending mother-in-law?
the
Surely, these are traditional solutions to the Men did not problem. always retire from the foray via the doctor's office with a box of pills.
"If you will kindly step into my cabin for a moment, you and I will have a little chat about the First Lord's
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HOLIDAY WITH MUSIC
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AVE you ever thought of combin- ing your leave' with A visit to one of the many music festivals now held annually in Europe?
Not all charge high prices for admission, and in many cases as at the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth students, are given tickets at reduced rates.
pleasures, as Austria's
By Gerard Bourke
Can
humour.
from Munich by passing through Nuremberg, Dachau and then
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of interchangeable. in one direction, Festival cost, from £2 to £4
river. most picturesque the early prince-archbishops of for the steamer. The
Salzburg
gontrols, the visia of goes, through, Bonn, where one. Ca
each, but in return.:-one city. Its annual festival, the curling Salzach river. founded by Richard Strauss Hellbrunnon, on the outskirts of and then past lovely Vineyard Wagner performances of today, "At can visit the Beethoven house, what are undoubtedly the finest and the Austrian poet, Hugo the city, the palace gardens are country and the rather ugly produced by
often Loreley r von Hofmannsthal, shortly allyo with curious and
rock Immortalised in grandsons,
Waland
so, the festival does not GOLDEN EAGLE RESTAURANT after the first World War, embarrassing fountains designed German song. Or if one returns gang offers a perfect musical of a bishop with an odd sense by steamer-it is wine festival
time-there is adequate excuse pay and has to be subsidised holiday.
to dally at the villages.
by the Bavarian Government. Comprehensive tours pick-
FIREWORKS:
It. Ongera some...Bavarians to The Muniéta festival presents During the day, one ing out the chief events at each festival are, of course, explore the lovely city that my pratunayoperas by Mozart see rich, foreigners paying high
Saturdays during
the and Richard Strauss, a native of gidise, and it is probable that combines baroque architec- festival, there are national the city, whose mother was a side festival will be the last for expensive.
art
parades and costume Nevertheless, music ture, religious
through the member of the Pschorr brewers at least two years. "Tornhauser"
Arework and his father first horn player lovers, prepared to travel Alpine scenery. Or one can city, followed by
zach with canoes cheaply, can enjoy unusual visit the nearby warm lakes display and races on the Sal- at the opera. This year there replaces "Tristan" in the re-
festooned will be one cycle of Wagner's pertory this summer. holidays and at the same of the Salzkammergut re- with Chinese lanterns.
"Ring." 49 well as Pfitzner's The musical standard at the "Palestrina," an inspiring opera- No doubt, however, the con-time save money for better gion before returning to.
of the temporary problem is subtler in
seats at the festivals. (One change for the opera or
with performances by the great composer. kind.
student I know hitch-hikes concert.
State Opera and or- The Isar river flows swiftly Scandinavian festivals now run
often conducted by The festival still honours chem Furtwangler or Brung through the highest expital city consecutively,
This year Mozart's in Europe, and its beautiful discomfort bat gladly pay nearly 200 years ago, and non Giovanni," and "Cost Fan valloys can easily be visited. Or Old Royal Danish Ballet will Since the advent of Doctors
two guineas or more smaller festivala have been mittal will be staged. 9 Well one can take a fast train south give a week of, festive per- Freud and Jung our psychol for each opera ticket). held there since 1845, when as new productions of Richard to the Starnberg Lake, a yacht- formances, after which one can
ing centre. where King Ludwig gicni 'troubles have shown a
Weber's TT of Bavaria was found drown-for: their second annual fontiurn tendency to slip away into the love of music within more than fifty "Der Freischutz," and the at the Drottingholm Palace, which is sub-conscious, there
Liebermann's Chiemsee, to the east of Munich, claimed to to fester reasonable bounds, many of husband's
to have the only intact alarmingly. They look distinct-
there is his beautiful Herren- 18th century playhouse still in with its y queer when they get back
chiemsee Palace modelled winding narrow streets becomes Versailles,
on use. Handel's "Orlando" will be to the surface again.
ballet, during the festivaï but,
actually more staged, and there will be crowded
and opera with the Swedish oven so, it is always possible to magnificent and larger. find last.
Jussi Bjorling. accommodation. minute
They Slip
The man who appears in the doctor's consulting room doubt- less, thinks he is suffering from
those one
queer afflictions which putent medicine makers use to scare the pants off us.
But are there no doctors with sufficient courage to tell us the awful truth? Why not a gentle: "I say, old man, what you need of that to do is to get rid mother-in-law" or a whispered: "Time you brought the wife Into line, old boy.'
Or can it be that the doctor 'themselves have mother-in-law
trouble?
to Continental festivals each
great Mozart, born at Salzburg year, travelling in
ing
A festival is extremely tic version of the life
Walter
For those who keep their Constanze. Mozart died more. Strauss's
the festivals offer additional death.
Bayreuth Bergen Copenhagen Helsinki Holland Munich
Prados
Salzburg Stockholm Venice.
THE CHURCH
EUROPEAN FESTIVALS
“Arladne,”
tragically earlyy the city
July 22 August: 22
June 1-15
May 2581-
June 10-18
June 15-July 15
August 12 Sept. 9
Early July
July 25-August 30
June 1-9 Sept. 11--23
As in German towns, the tourist
oureaux."
and
UNFORGETTABLE
SCANDINAVIA
N early musical holiday can be taken by visiting threo
209-year-
Tho
cross. conveniently.
tenor
to Stockholm
Those who are able to stay long can then go either to the at stations, usually
evenings 4. Greig festival at Bergen, or addresses of hotels or ON Saturday
the Sibelius with suitable private houses
serenado concert is held by beller stiil to accommodation on láca that the light of 4,000 candles in the Festival at Helsinki. All the
endlessly-reflecting could be copied elsewhere.
gallery of
and other important symphonies Munich is also an attractive mirrors, an unforgettable sight, works of the 88-year-old master fnd convenient centre for
remains
be played in the City Hall at will musical holiday. It can
18, where many of them were first. reached by going slowly, along there is the opening ceremony heard. the Rhine from Cologne" to of the hilarious October Mainz on one of the frequent Festival.
If Ont a. Finally,
until be Munich
September
Rhine steamers,, remembering The small north that a rail ticket to Munich is town of Bayreuth
ORGANIST
THE EVER-POPULAR
.
London.
TOEL GAY, the church
NOE
is
The principal European
other festivals will be at Venice, Bavarian, where Benjamin Britten's new reached opera "The Turn of the Screw" and the will be presented, and Annual Holland Festival that the La Scala Orchestra and has invited this
not only BBC Symphony
WHO WROTE
"LAMBETH WALK"
By MARTIN SCOTT SAUNDERS
And later would. uproarious. cockney "OI!".
The Wolle Ballet.
ronko
a ̧ pilgrimage"
on
but the
voluntary
cellista - who want to Holiday something of age may go to Prúdes, the castern French Pyrentes, where a festival · Is - held by Pablo Casals. The great ce
'cellist come that now lives there in
elle from Franco Spain, re- to play in countries olivo, gardein, and the region of the sinaïf/in-
offer possibilities for an expensive and "unusual musical holiday.
Master of Arts and
cerpt of "Me and My Girl" from Bachelor of Musle
of Cambridgeing his restine. The
organist who composed Royal, St James's, and which followed. The Lambeth It was decided to give an ex- Clay,
Then the war turned Noel the song and dance Bensa- director of music at St Walk" tion of the century, "The Lambeth Walk," died this Anne's, Soho.
Gay wrote the tune, Douglas the theatre. And Lupino Lane University, into the troops sing dependent state of Andorra Furber wrote the words in ten, insisted that the broadcast song laureate. month only two and a half
But towards the end of minutes, he said. Lupino Lane should end with "The Lambeth For ho miles. from his beloved the twenties and to the sang and danced the number la Walke," Lambeth.
bewilderment of his brother. "Me and My Girl".
now the vicar of St Bride's, And the song nearly died He had been ill for some Fleet Street Reginald bofore that 1937 show brought weeks at his home in Port Armitage became Noel Gay, Noel Gay £20,000, land Place, after catching a
chill on a visit to Wakefield, And in 1980 he wrote "All Yorkshire
the King's Horses," which prince of popular melodies neldge, became a smash hit, That was where this was sung by Cicely Court was born, 85 years ago, into and earned him $8,000, a family with strong affini- ties to the church:
For the show, after a success ful tour, was doinut badly at the
it was who wrote "Rud, Rabbit, Run" for Flanagan sind Allen, and "Let The People The Victoria Sing" and that rage of the That did it
"You're Palace, box office telephone was garrison theatres, sill ringing after midnight, Done, Somet
to My Heart Queties, formed for seats,
The show ran for 1,646 per formances. King George VI saw › He became more. and more it three times.
'and,
Victoria Palace, which outside And "The Lambeth Walk" London's West End was sung and danced, From then on Nod, Gay's One evening two men from danced and sung in every tunes became algnature the BBC John Walt, then Enallah-ainging a country; and pin
then the frong was "tranalated - beame tunes for errand boya Director of Variety, and Chas
1840, almost every-linguago" "Around the Marble Arth Brewere the show. Reginald There's Something Abou
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