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GREAT NEW OPERA PLAN.
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The new Beecham Opera Scheme which, it is hoped, will not only establish opera in England in a more artistic way and on a sounder footing than ever before, but also rulee the standard of orchestral playing and eventually of English singing, will be launched in the early autumn.
TUESDAY, AUGUST
1927.
SPIDERS GOOD AND BAD.
HUSBANDS DEVOURED BY WIVES.
"The life of the spider," by J. Henri Fabre, (translated by A. T. De Mattos) is an excellent account by the famous French naturalist of the manners and customs of the various tribes of spider, which proy mainly upon inssets, but are not, strictly speaking, themselves Inseets. Their world is, however, quite as hellish as the Insect world; they love murder and can- nibalism, and introduce n refine- of whimsicalness and enthusinsismment into their cruelty by eating
their victims alivo.
In a conversation with..a nows- paper man recently, Sir
Thomas Beecham, speaking with a' mixture
said:
The whole thing may be in work- ing order within nine months To-day I am only foreshadowing the scheme. The details when they come out will be clear and precise. They will represent the fruit of my more than 20 years of experience in music-making in England.
or an-
I address myself not to the Go- vernment and not to the general public. Neither will ever have the least idea of my motives bition. I address musical Eng- land in particular the section that finds pleasure In symphony con- cert and opera.
The response will indicate the amount of life there is in that body, and whether there is any general will to achieve. better things or whether we are content with the present ignominy.
We have forgotten what good orchestral playing is. Our play- ers, who might in proper circums tances be first-class, coarsen and detoriorato through performing
in cinemas.
largo French outdoor spider that Thus M. Fabre states of the
she
does not incontinently kill her pray with her delicate bite; she poisons it 80-as to produce gradual weakness, which gives the blood-sucker ample time to drain her victim, without the least the flow of moisture. The meal risk, before the rigor mortis stopa
lasta quito 24 hours if the joint be large; and to the very end the butchered insect retains a rem- nant of life
In the light of the author's re- searches, the tarantula appears to be not quite so terrible as its re- putation represents it to be. Yot its bite
•
is fatal to the sparrow; it is fatal to the mole. Judging from the little I saw it appears to me that the bite of this spider is not. no accident which man can afford to treat lightly. That is all I have to say to the doctors.
Spiders Can Be Tamed.
In Corsica, however, there is a orig spider.
A principal feature of the forth- Sept. &P'aib C'brg Sept. 12 Sept. 47 Chrg- hmpts Sep 23 coming scheme will be the es- Sept. 21 beg Shmpts Sept. 27 tablishment of "a permanent
Chrg-Shimpin De ehestra who will play together Oct. C'brg S'haiptn 14
11} throughout the year-will play real 15 C'org-Shopte Oct. 1 music wil play it in the curdi-
C'brg Shmpta Del 20 O'beg Shampts Nev. tions for which it was meant C'beg-S'hmpto See and will not have to pick up any Nov 12 Cure Sumpta Nos. 16 degrading job that offers itself in Nov. 16 Oleg Shot Nov 22 order to make a living. Nov. 26 Chep-SPmpty Dec, 2
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The scheme, then, embraces opera, and symphony and promen- ade concerts, London will have more opera in the course of the year than ever before, and fur- thermore certain of the provincial cities will get a share.
The scheme will" retrieve the fortunes of the British National Opera Company and will also fa- vourably affect the Old Vic.
It will be an imperial schöme. I maintain that the musical re- Sources of the Empire are able to create an Opera second to in the world to-day. Not that it is to be any means exclusively Bri- tish. A great many operas can perfectly well be sung in English. | Some are most decidedly better left in the original language.
the Maimignatta, the terror of the peasantry:
I have admired her garb of black velvet speckled with carmine red. Around Ajne-
and Bonifacio her bite is re- puted very dungerans, sometimes mortul.
One of the many disagreeable tricks of the spider, large and mall, is that the female devours her husband, provided she can get hold of him. Love-making in the spider world is thus a most dan- gerous adventure.
every
some
To the house spider M. Fabre does not devote muck space, which is a pity, because the creature de- real serves attention. It is a friend of man, since it deals with flies and the house moth, two of the warst nuisances in none
climate. The old housewife's say ing that it is unlucky to k spiders" hag thus justification in fact; and as spiders, according to M. Fabre, can be tamed and The question is, are we content' domestiented; the time may come with musicnt, mess and sloven when there will be a great demand ness? Are we content to go back- in the British home for reliable wards while Berlia and Paris, and respectable spiders, warrant Vienna and Milan are forginged to deal with insects and not whood?
disfigure ceilings and rooms with intidy webs.
I am going to put the question. If the answer is "Yes," I am the servart of the new movement for five years.
COUNSEL'S SIX-DAY
SPEECH.
CASE IN WHICH COSTS
EXCEED CLAIM.. -
surance
DIVORCED WIFE'S DRESSES.
FORMER HUSBAND MUST PAY.
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Vienna, June 30. Sued by the dressmakers of the wife from whom he was divorced The hearing of the case just a year ago (Fraulein Elsle Mathews v. Lek, arising out of a Altmann, a leading light opern dispute in connexion with the in-actress) for nearly £200 for of a lost collection of clothes supplied to orders given postage stamps, which began on
while she was still his wife, Herr Monday morning, was still in
Adolf Lons, a leading Vienna progress in the House of Lords the architect, has resisted in three following afternoon when Lord courts, but has now been finally. Summer asked Sir Leslie Scott, ordered to pay. K.C., who was "still engaged in opening for Mr. Mathews, one of the wife of a dental surgeon, Dr. She has in the meantime become the underwriters, if he could give Paal, Berger, who refused to pay. Home indication of when he was because he did not occupy the likely to finish. Sir Leslie replied, that he hoped to conclude on the position of her husband at the Thuesday.
time the order was given, in January, 1926,
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your own course.
The advocate of Herr Loos, Dr. Gustav Schou, Appeal Court that Frau Altmann- pleaded in the
Loos-Berger had spent in two Lord Phillimore indicated that years more than 400 in hats and he had other engagements and Sir frocks, and that her husband, Leslie replied that he had been owing to the cessation of building doing his best, and would continue in Vienna, had scarcely earned so to do so. He felt as ashamed that much in the period, and had gone a case in the House of Lords to Paris to live, in the hope of should take so long, as their lord-making profit from his reputation. ships seemed to think he should as an expert on costames. feel, but he had condensed it ag much as he could.'
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