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On Monday next, local "listenera One of the compensativas for un- in" to the Government Bread-congenial surroundings is that one casting Station are promised dwell on joyful contrasts.
allow thoughts to, feast and
·It was special attraction in operatic on board à grent Transatlantic liner work. For the first time in that my memory was most grateful Columbia electrical recording, to the garden al Katsura. It crent- whole grand opera has been madeed a perfect contrast to overdress. available for the home.
ed women and overfed men, rouge, lipstick, beary scent, pearls, fura and large cigara
Carmen shares with Faust and Aida the rank of being one of the world's three most popular operns, It is sung in the original janguage and the recording is by the fore most French artists with whom Columbia has exclusive contract.
This realistic drama is so boldly présented and clothed with music of such unfailing beauty and sincerity that it casts a spell of weird fascination on all hearers, Curmien is a rush of colour and action the music altains to
Sometimes I wonder if Katsura
rally existed or whether I passeil into it through no ordinary portal but through the ivory ente
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It was ou a still December" day that we drove through a green ir- regular line of trees and were mitted into fairyland by n, pleasant déck-haired Japanese youth wearing a mourning band still for the En peror. For il Katsura ba, true and not a figment of dreamland, it was
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Our little guide, a mournful person with a face like a depressed hansett The story of the opera is within hound and a personality like a itself enthralling, Carmen, the shadow, slipped in with us gy pay herolne, is hardly more stoel auong fir trees shedding dap- than a splendid animal, irresistible pled shade on emerald green wings. in her passionate beauty, superb Then, having antisfied himself that in her physical courage, knowing | aur credentials were good, the law higher than her W nicek-headed boy led us into the desires. In her, many conquests garden. It was no beautiful that she brooks no barriers or
one could only stand and gaze- traints, A wild amorous empuettes silent. So still lay the lake with madeap flirt, but compellingly trees mirrored in it, so vivid were lovable.
the reflections of the curved stone bridges in the rippleless water that
res.
Raymonde Visennti is a Carmen
„of rare individuality. Few sin-one feared a breath-n word-and gers can thus "act with the voice the vision would fade like a mirage. and few records are so full of
A Perfect Partnership: personality as Miss Visconti's "Habanera" and "Seguidille." ...But the guardian yonth motioned The death scene, tan, is treated | ta us to follow him by stepping with startling realism,
stones along a mony path and silently we obeyed. Nature and the Marthe Nespoulous portrays ardeners had entered into a per very finely the contrasting inno-feet partnership here. So subtly had cence and charm, of Micaela- the gardener gone to work that most distinguished, performancene hardly suspected his handi- Georges Thill, famous French work And yet by degrees one tenor, is ideally cast as Don Jose,ealised that the dusky pine or He gives some fine lyric touches redar stod just where its reflection to the charming #cene with fell from the little promontory into Micaela, but later in the "Flower the clear unrippled water, the Song" and the final duet he rises deliente travery of branches to thrilling heights of emotional expression.
Wove
network between the two bridges, the stone lanterns that stood along the mossy alleys were always in the M. Guenot is appropriately full-fitting spist. voiced and swaggering ax Lifße mysterious green pathways Escamilla; his “Toreador Song" infall set with stepping stonea lod rendered with splendid vigour and away into misty thickats where magnificent power.
lawny leaves burnt liko fame. Delicate pink blossoms of winter ramellins still lingered in the green venne where in bygone days the Emperor and his Samurai practised archery.
The smaller parts are in excep- tionally competent hands, so thất the brilliant Quintette and Sex. fette are done with far more Anish than is usual,
On the whole, Carmen is one of the most stupendous things ever done in the history of record-"]
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Where Fetes Were Held. Up and down and in and out we followed the guardian of the garden til we came to the tow-bouse with it snowy mats on the door, where To-day's Programme,
Be explained that the tea-ceremony Broadenst by Z.B.W, dn 350 metres. took place. Our melancholy little 148 pm. Weather report.
guide interpreted this aid we 6.30.6.30 p.m. Programa of Chi-gathered further that in the unst nese music, (Records supplied through the Emperor hold fetes here-even- the courtesy of Messrs, Sincere Cing fetes. The stone lanterns were
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7.18 p.m. Evening weather repart, 8 pan. Evening programme, (Co. lumbia records supplied through the courtesy of Mosers. Anderson "Music,
Ltd.). "Line Time," (Ross and Schubert).
Voeni Gema, Columbin Light Opera Company
Donce musle.
8.15 p.m. "La Moheme," (Puccini), Selection,
Now Queen's Hall Light Orchestra,
Dance music.
9.30 p.m. The Merchant of Venice,"
(Rosse), Incidental Music,
Organ Solo, Quentin MacLean.
Dance musle.
10.10 p.m. "Jolly Fellows," Waltz, "Hydropaten," Waltz,
Anton Weiss and the New Concert Orchestra.
10.30 p.m. Close dowi
To-morrow's Programme, The following programme will be ment Broadcasting Station 2.B.W, on 30 metres.
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and His Orchestra. "Friend O' "Shipmates O'
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then, illuminated, lining like the
sun and moon or fireflies needing to their design, and the Emperor came across the water in his boat. to the sound of the late.
If anything were needed to mako the garden perfect it in a vision of the men and women of old Japan in their silken garmints wandering along the pathways, standing on the curved bridges and drinking ten in the summer house, with its paper windows Aung back to let in the «rented breezer.
I there he spirit of peace then very gentle and happy sparit inters at Katsura among the ple printel tints of its trees and lake-its fremulous light and shade 11 | silence and its virginal beauty?
BELLA SIDNEY WOOLF.. (Men. W. T., Southorn).
"RED" ARRESTS.
SHANGHAI SENTENCES.
Shanghai, Aug, 2.. Twenty youths received sentences ranging from one month to two years', and several were fined, in the Provisional Court, in conse- 'quence of Thursday's leaser street
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The majority of those arrested were released. Those who were convicted were guilty of more serious disturbances, A known Communist ringleader was sen- tenced to two years-Our Own
Organ Sola, Reginald Foort. "Hark! Hark! the Lark," "Who is Sylvia?"?
Boy Soprano, Master E. Lough, Correspondent, "Mirage," "Zingari,"
Insta Trio:-De Groot
Violin, David Ber-Plane,
H. M. Calve-Cello. "Ave Maria." (Bach-Gounod),
The Rosary,
Organ Solo,
Solo, Charles O'Connell. "L'Arlezienne," (Bizet), Prelude,
Royal Opera Orch., Covent Garden. The Arrow and the Song" (Dalfe), "Flower of the Desert,” (Lslir),
Baritone, Percy Heming,
The Band of HI. M. Coldstream
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Tenor, Walter Glynn. "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,”
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