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#TUHANDOT,"
UY KA VOLLMOELLER. ENGLISH VERSION
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MUSIO BY FERRUCOIO BUSONE:
Pantalone
Tartaglia
Brighella
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· Calaf
Barak
J. H. Barnes.
Edward Sass. B. Vivian Reynolds.
Fred Lewisha Norman Forbes.
Godfrey Tearle,
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Turandot
Adelma Zetima
Skirina
Alfred Harris.
Evelyn D'Altay.
Vilda Moore.
Maire O'Neill. Margaret Yardo.
It is all very well for the St. James's programme to call Turandot a Chinoiserie; but it is Chinese only to the eye, says The Times critic. Even so, not authentically Chinese, but imaginatively Chinese; pieces of old china ingeniously, as the dealers would say, faked" to make a Western fantasy. This point, however, seeing that you may scratch most playgoers without finding a siriologist, is of no consequence. Nor does it matter that the root idea of the play-the story of the Princess and her three riddles is Persian. What it is of real importance to have in mind while looking at the play is that it is an eighteenth-century Italian play. The booklet issued by the theatre is fairly but not completely expli- rit on this head. Its references to Caric Gozzi's play are not quite accurate.. Turandot was not the fourth of Gozzi's" *** Flabe ***・・ That was H He Cervo, as Gozzi himself says in his proface, Che fu la quarta mia Fola, e che successe alla Turandot." Nor was it produced in the eighteenth century, but, according to the author, on January 22, 1761. Further, it
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is said that Dr. Volimociler "resolved to of love, but Mandarinesses must never use (Gozzi's) plot as the foundation" for his comedy. The fact is that Dr. Voll-descend to the indignity of a pas seul.
Her two attendant slaves, whose respec moeller's play follows the text of Gozzi not only in the minutest details of the tive characters might bear the Miltonic
REW MODERN SROOMED FLATS, plot, but in the sentiments, and even in labola of L'Allegro and 11 Penseroso, are the very language. The solo differences charmingly played by Miss Maire O'Neill we have noted are that the new play shows and Miss Hilda Moore, particularly in with Two Bathrooms, Pantry, Kitchen Kitchen bas English Cooking the Prince of Samarkand on his way to the the second new, when they talto in turn and Servants' Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with
to wheedling that, most handsome of English Baths, headsman and Gozzi does not; omits one Princes, Mr. Godfrey Tearle. Any other Range and Hot Water Boiler. Elcatrie Light Prince than this, you feel, would End throughout Ready for occupation aboat them irresistible. But this one is a little Middlo March, cold. Even his protestations of passion for the Princess lack complete fervour. Perhaps he is just a little too superb creature himself, a little too handsome, to be the abject slave of other people's beauty,
of Gozzi's episodic personages, Prince Calaf's father, Timour; and gives the Princess a different set of riddles from Gozzi's. For the last change the reason is obvious. Gozzi made the answer to the third riddle the local winged lion-- dell' Adria il Leon feroce topical allusion which no doubt brought down the Venetian house. Whether Dr. Vollmooller got his riddles from the Porsian or from Schiller or one of the many other versions, or out of his own bend, we know not
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So much for what one may call the Cuzzi sido of Turandot, There remain what will be for the general playgoer by far the most important elements of the It has a grave play, its appeal to the eye and its appeal esthetic seriousness. You will miss the to the musical car. The decoration" is true favour of Turandot if you do not by Herr Ernst Stern and can best be The "Corverall" Invisible Fringe Nets.
remember that you are looking at what in described as Reinhardtian. Finest Quality Real Human Hair India-essentials is an old Italian play, To Sumurun, you have endless processions pousable to the Present Style of Hair Dressing. appreciate a work of art you must be passing by night in single fic before a aware of the circumstances in which it flat background. The supers" waddle Light Brown, Mid Brown and Dark Brown.
was conceived. And only, thus will you and sway their heads from side to side see why the play fails where to-day it just in the old familiar way. The sudden does. This strange quartet from the old prostrations of all and sundry in the and Court scenes give a new effect. As for the commedia dell' arte-Pantalone Tartaglia, Brighella and Truffaldino Chinese costumes (worn by all save the Prince and the Tartar slave, as by the way, Gozzi himself directed), they are. splendidly grotesque Chamberlains look like tropical dies, and warriors like gorgeous beetles. All the women have tight black locks, and even their lips and eye brows are made up à la chinone. There are bowls of gold-fish, quaint lanterns, drop curtains blazoned with
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