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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 22, 1938.
PEER AND POET PLAN OPERA
Gertie's Faust
Faust Plays The Devil with Gounod and Goethe
ORD Berners is about to compose a grand opera on the theme of Faust and the bargain he made with the Dovil,
Miss Gertrude Stein ("high priestess of advanced literature"), who is collaborating with him, has just finished the libretto after eight months' work, and with it in his pocket he went down to his country place in Bark- shire recently to study it.
"The libretto is not Goethe's," he said before he went, "and yet, as a French friend said, it is Gertie's."
Gertie's Faust is "modern, fan-
tustic and most amusing." according
to Lord Berners.
A NEW ENDING
"Judge by the ending." he adjured "When Alephistopheles comes
mc.
to claim his part of the bargain- Faust's soul-Faust says he
can't
Confessed to
Murder
have it because he's sold it. So the NOW I CAN
up-to-date devil is foiled.
Then the chorus bursts out in the grand finale with a song so modern that it is topical; where can be Go? It will be fim writing the music for that.
"A Benedicting mont, who is a friend of Miss Stem's declared in all seriousness that she had raised a must provocative theological question.
"Marguerite appears as a com- posite of herself and Helena, and a most unpleasant erenture ste 15,"
"The style is rust Stein at its purest. beenuse all it lacks to make it easily understood is punctuation.
"See for yourself in the following remarks made by Faust when the devil first appears (surrounded by electric light bulbs instead of sul- phurous flames):
The devil what the dev do 1 care if the devil is there how do you know if I have a soul who says so nobody suys so but you the devil and everybody knows the devil is all lies."
TURK'S GENIUS Scenery and costume will be by a Turk who has been painting einema sets in Russin,
said
"I can't recall his name," Lord Berners, but his work is new and strange and remarkable, and he is a genius at fighting
SLEEP"
LILLE,
REMY WILBROUCK, thirty- three-year-old farm worker, after confessing at Llevin, near Lille. to a nine-year-old murder, sald: "At last I shall be able to steep,"
He is alleged to have told the police that he had murdered his neighbour, Emile Lancoine, In 1920.
"For nine years I have hardly slept," he said to the station "When I close my sergeant. nyes i see the face of the mur- dered man grinning at me through the window,"
Wilbrouck told how he bad quarrelled with Lancome after arguing about polilles and had throttled him.
“I hung him up afterwards," he added. "He was believed to have committed suicide."
For possible models, the composer made a study of the Fousts of Berlioz, for Gounod as the best to poke fun Busoni and Gounod, and plumped
!,
The music, in direct contrast to book and production, will be highly Before putting down his first note,j conventionalised with choruses, he must polish"off the orchestra-i duets, quintets and all the cliches of tion of his new ballet "Cupid and to nineteenth-century grand opera. be given in London in the spring.
Treaties Signed
Scene as the reciprocal trade treatles with England and Canada were signed in the White House. Left to right, seated: British Trade Secretary A. E. Overton, Ambassador Sir Ronald Lind- say, President Roosevelt, Canadian Premler Mackenzie King, State Secretary Cordell Hull. Standing, Assistant State Secretary Francis B. Sayre, Canadian Minister Sie Herbert Marler, Canadian Under- secretary Dr. O. D. Skelton and Charles M. Barnes, chief of the Treaty Division of the Amerlean State Department.
NEW WAR ON WHITE TERROR
SLAVE TRAFFIC
AGENTS OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ARE
STILL DEFEATING HOME OFFICE REGULA- TIONS DESIGNED TO PREVENT GIRLS BEING LURED ABROAD.
So said Mr. F. Sempkins, secretary of the National Vigilance Association, discussing recently the new L.C.C. proposal to tighten
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up control of theatrical and other employment agencies so as to TWO great American surgeons, Mr. A. W.
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This recommendation will be put abroad everything is checked very Adson and Mr. G. W. Crile, before the Public Control Committee carefully by Home Office ofeints. No are working on operations un Tuesday.
girl leaves this country unless a job likely to save men and wo-
The committee state that Reences 10 carry on agencies for employing theatrical and other artists should be limited to prevent white slave opera- tion being carried on under the guise
Renuine agency.
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"Inquiries," it continues, “sceni to indicate a need for further con- trul. In this connection we have considered a suggestion that agents should be required to make special application for permission to place female
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Girls are with young men suffering at being shipped to all parts of the world. abnormally early ages."
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although the technique is difficult, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, suing
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To people with abnormal blood pressure these sudden automatic flows create great danger. So the American surgeons operate to re- move part of the system within the undy responsible for creating these emergency flows,
Mr. Justice Hilbery unid that he had never heard of a servant girl being charged £100 for two opera- tions. He regretted having to in- convenience people, but the action would have to be mentioned to him patient is maintained at a lower level later, after the parties had reached all the time, and peak pressure is
Anal minimum figure.
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