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BD5354-Paswonky.
F.T.
BD5353-Always and Always. F.T.
Sweet Someone. F.T.
"Fats Waller Orchestra
BD5358-Tears in My Heart. Slow F.T. Henry Jacques Orch
Why Talk about Love. Quick Step.
BD5356-Have you ever been in Heaven. F.T. Jack Harris Orch
Mama, I wanna make Rhythm. F.T,
88737-Liebestraum (Liszt). F.T. Quintete of Hot Club Orch.
The Sheik of Araby. F.T.
BD541-Every Sunday Afternoon
Um-ta-ra-ra.
88742-Moment Musical (Schubert)
Hedge Roses (Schubart).
C2992-Corahwin Medley
Max Miller
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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1934.
QUESTION OF
INTENT
There is one point in General Francisco Franco's statement to the London Times correspon- dent which seems to offer pos sibility in the direction of pre- venting attacks upon legitimate; merchant vessels, engaged in handling ordinary
cargo and
carrying neutral
observing officers. In the past they have been safe nowhere in Loyalist Spanish ports. Now the Insur-
gent Edwin Fischer with Chamber Orchestra.
.Ernest Lough (Baritone)
Ave Maria (Bach Gounod),
DB3426-The Brook's Lullaby (Schubert). Elisabeth Schumann.
Cradle Song: The Butterfly (Schubert).
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TELEGRAPHS"
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I'm
glad
I don't run
the B.B.C.
HERE are twenty mil- lion listeners in Eng- land.
wonderful
It is thought. Or not. It depends. Sometimes, should you happen to write for the radio, it to com- forting to know that if only 1 per cent. of those people listen to your work, you have an audience twice the alae of the crowd at the Cup Final.
At other times, should you happen to write about the radio, and you want to know what the Ordinary Listener wants, tho thought is appalling.
I won't pretend that twenty million listeners write to me with heir views on broadcasting, though sometimes it seems like it. Bal during the last three months I have come to have an idea of the Istening habits of a large number of people.
Letters come to me froni Aber- deen. from Dublin. from Yor- mouth. from Gateshead and Torquay.
By the same mail the Aber- doulan and the Dubliner state Their point of view. Both are what you might call "average" listeners-working folk with simple
tastes.
They write to dispute some sug- gestion I may have put In my colina. They not only contradict met they contradlet each other. And all the time they feel that the B.B.C. Is neglecting them.
N
OW there is a lot to be saldi against the B.B.C. One of the easiest of British sporta and pastimes is to criticise the B.B.C. I never answers back.
But there is more to be said for
P
--says
Spike Hagles
it than against it, though it is not in the British temperament to admit it often.
Above all things, however, the B.B.C. has my sympathy.
Until just recently I never knew exactly how conflicting radio tastes and ideas could be.
BY
Y starting a little quea- tionnaire of my own, fiz the hope of finding a good, univer- sally accepted listening period, I learned that if there are twenty million ateners there must be nearly as many individual views on broadcasting.
Look at the sort of thing that happens.
I, as a respectable licence holder, think it might be a good idea if our programmes were divided into 15- minute units, an they Are America.
An equally respectable eener holder in Essex immediately writes saying that not only does he dis- agree, but that. what's more, the Saturday night variety should last from 0.30 to D.
It would be beside the point to hint that the B.B.C. already has a weekly headache trying to find enough artists to fill an hour's pro- gramme, let alone half hour bill.
two-and-a
But that is a good instance of conflicting tasten.
There are times, too, when I have been badly shaken to find how far one can innocently mis- Judge public taste.
You and I, urely would have
Covent
EOPLE have been say- recently: ling to me
"Well, you're in for it. Seven weeks at Covent Garden! Don't you get tired of opera?"
Why should I? Apart from the fact that I happen to enjoy istening to Орега, especially when it is as well sung as it is quite often at Covent Garden, I like the place and I like the people,
After all they are only ordinary men and women singing for their supper,
For instance, you don't expect to find a crooner at Covent Onrden, but there 13 one this year. Webater Booth is a young tenor who has never before this week sung in any opera.
But he has crooned in a jazz band,
-To-day's Thought LIFE has its heroes and its
villains, ita soubrettes and Its ingenues, and all rôles may be acted well. --KRUTCH.
expected that even the unmusical British might be able to get along caally enough with “Carmen.”
Yet when I Burgest that "Carmen might be more accept- able than some of the obscurer operas now being produced the B.B.C., I am told to bear in mind that some listeners are not so "high-brow" as I am,
By the same post another typical render, n rainer in South Wales. tells me how much he enjoyed u programme of chamber muste.
So there you are, and where are you?
But chamber manic! What magulfkem abuse this inspireal The Allghtest mention of chamber musle and half of twenty million steners fume angrily. "After a hard day's work," writes one of the ten million.
We
don't want chamber music.”
That in opinion A.
OPINION B 19 that cham-
ber music is best heard in the evening after a hard day's
work because it is soothing.
This popular aversion to cham- ber music disturba me. If mankind ever invented a neur-perfect sound It was the string quartet. And it happens also to be a sound which broadcasts very faithfully.
But so many people consider IL a waste of valuable money, especi- ally when it is spent on "new" music,
In so far as only a few peoplo are pleased some of the time,
maybe it is, I would, however, like you to remember one thing: the BBC, is a State servico.
We support it voluntarily, there is no tax to subaldiso the B.B.C. Surely, then. Wo shouldn't grumble if our State broadcasting. service should lend the world in the matter of musical culture. For that's what tho B.B.0. does, Toscanini may have a three-year contract with the privately-run National Broadcasting Corporation of America.
When he comes here it is wo, tho people, who engage him through the B.B.O. And there is no other Institution in the world that can or will do that.
TN its fifteen years of life, tho B.B.C. has given hearings to composers, celebrated, unknown, exited from their coun- tries.
In the B.B.C. we have what no other country has a sort of National Gallery of radio.
Though I might be proud to run the B.B.C. I'm etin glad I don't.
My tastes are directly opposite to my neighbour's. Yet my taste may find
counterpart la a inmily in Middlesbrough,
Leaving my own postbag for a minute, do you know the sort of letters they got at the B.B,C,?
Do you know of the cranks who- protest about this and about that? Of the three or four regular felter- writing lunatics who can so twist meanings around that oven a church service is not free from obscenity in their cars?
Do
O you know that there are people who disap- prove of "In Town To-night" be- enuse, they say, it holds up to ridicule those working-class inter- viewees who have difficulty read- ing their scripts?
Twenty million listeners. Each stener a person with his own: taste, sense of humour, and sensi- tive spots. Each Ilstener so self- centred that he feels the B.B.C. is deliberately displeasing him i there is a programme he doesn't care for.
Ench stener 50 willing to grouse it every moment of the day doesn't at in with his listen- ing mood, so resentful if a pro- gramme he wants to hear is broad- cast while he is playing darts
These are just the human qual!- tles the B3.C. has to contend with-twenty million people and all different. Yes. I'm glad I don't run the B.B.C, all right. I'd make an avful mess of it, if I did,
And so would you come to that.
Garden Close-up
by Stuart Fletcher
and had a fan mail on the strength of . At his flat rehearsal at the Oarden after he had tung his plece, Erich Kleiber, the conductor, laid down his balon. Webster waited for an aval- anche of abuse. Instead, Kleiber jed the applause of everyone in the theatre.
Which reminds me of a story abou Kleiber that proves why opera is s0 expensive to produce. The other Bun- day Kleber auddenly asked in the middle of a rehearsal for the juice of three oranges and one lenion.
England's national opera house la, as you know, set like a slightly over-ripe pomegranate in the heart of Covent Garden fruit and vegetable markel. But a messenger had to go two milles in a taxi before he could get. Herr Kleibers oranges and lemoni
And now to talk about beginnings." Den Williams started like as n Welsh miner, Norman Walker, the baka, na R Lancashire mifl-worker. Oladys Ripley, the contralto,
#waltress, then да hairdresser. Stelin Andreva, [Stella Brown), A pantomime girl, was singing nɔ the Princess in Aladdin " when Str Thomas Beecham looked in at the Hippodrome....
Richard Tauber, of course, you all know about. But you didn't know that someone else in the company also Wears B monocle, Fraulein Maris Louise Schilp.
It only they could be persuaded to appear in the same opera what a pair of spectacles they'd make.
Margarete Kubniski, the new Polish soprano, touches wood every time she goes on to the stage. Lotte Lehmann drinks a glass of sherry. She inds it more supporting.
If you want to get on well with Mme.. Lehmann you do not say, "How beat- tifully you gang last night, Madamel" but "How much I enjoyed your new short story (or your latest poem)." As a matter of fact I have just read her latest book. "Wings of Soug," in which
But people GRIN AND BEAR IT
lender somewhat be- lately suggests-and it has been suggested before-that a port be designated at which neutral steamers may call and discharge Their freight providing it is not 14 4է է* material. But there such obvious difficulties in the way of the scheme that it is al most useless to expect any- thing will come of it. A simul- faneous statement issued from Burgos at the time the Insur- gent chief was talking to the Times, pointed out: "It must be understood, however, that those objects in enemy harbours which are most important source of military equipment to the Republican Spanish Govern- ment cannot be spared." Prac- tically any sort of freight, from fael to food, can be classified as a necessity to a fighting army; and it is within the power of the
bomb. That is so. Insurgents to decree at any
are fatalistic and stubborn at time just what materials can or times like these in Spain, and cannot be landed in any "pro- it takes more than threats to tected port" and threaten to make a man drag his family out bomb the place if the orders are of their home and, leaving be not obeyed.
hind his assets and his liveli Obviously this
hood, hunt for shelter and food makes it awkward for the
in strange surroundings. But Spanish Government and neu-no matter what warnings he has tral shipping. Moreover, it is given, and no matter how stub- born are the civilians who have stipulated that all "military ob-remained to die in their unpro- jectives" would have to be re-tected houses, he has no excuse moved from the vicinity of the for bombing centres which are from a harbour of any "protested totally unimportant
strategic point of view. Granol | port"; and "since railways and|lers and Alicante, it is held, are factories and power plants and not. military objectives. They all such machinery essential to were bombed simply to terrorise
the inhabitants. trade appear to come under the
As for the bombing of British heading of military objectives, and other neutral shipping, if It is not clear how the protected these vessels are in proximity to port is supposed to operate. military objectives, they must Finally, it will take so long to and that they may be damaged know they are taking chances, reconstruct a port which would unintentionally. No-one will meet the requirements of the complain about such accidents. Insurgents that it is unlikely the It is when the attacks are de object is worth the effort.
liberate that British people com General Franco repeats that mence to feel that the time has come to adopt drastic measures. he has warned Loyalist civilians Such diversions If that is what again and again. to evacuate they are may do much damage areas which he proposed to to General Franco and his allies.
Veloty
By Lichty
"Cope, 1888 by Vaited I'melore Brullens, tra
"I can't see what enjoyment the men get out of golf-the clothes
they wear are so very ordinary!"
she tells the story of her fc. and I enjoyed it very mitch,
Frida Leider has a private golf course on which she plays sometimes with Lauritz Melchior, the Danish sx- foot ve glant tenor,
Melchior's father wanted him to be a schoolmaster, but Melchior protested that he would be a mlaЛt, Well, he still is, as the Covent Garden wardrobe mistress will tell you without waiting. to bo naked.
Eduard Habich, the German bais, intended to be a professional, photo- grapher, but singing one day in the dark-room he suddenly saw the light and promptly started to develop his voice.
Luella Paikin, promoted 'to Covent. Garden from the Carl Rosa, sings soprado in five languages, rides horses and a bicycle, and onco deputised for Tetrazzini at the Albert Hall,
But ono soprano at Covent Garden possesses perhaps the most remarkablo gift of them all. Erna Berger can go to sleep instantaneously whenever sho wishes to Sho is the envy of every. musio crifiat
“UNDESIRABLES” PARDONED
Ankara, June 20. All political offenders, including the famous "150 undesirables" mentioned in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, have been pardoned in on amnesty bill which passed the National Assembly to-day.
The Bill becomes effective in- mediately.
The "150 undesirables" fled the country on the eve of the evacuation of Turkey by the British and their Allics.
Eighty-four are still alive, mostly residing in
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Trans-Jordan France. They have been promised a ante. return to Turkey and the resumption of nationality rights, Reuter.
.and
CABARET IN AID
OF REFUGEES
the Hongkong Chinese
An
of
fresco cabaret will bo
held
by
at
Women's Soldiers' Hellet Association
the Kowloon Tong Club On July 8, from 9 p.m. 10 2 a.m.
The purpose of the function is to raise funds for the care of refugees
Basocl... from war-torn areas. The ntion is co-operating with Mr. Singnam Choy, in the publishing of a booklet to be distributed 桂隊 Bouvenirs to those who attend the function.