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SOUTH OF TAHITI
BRIAN DONLEVY
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ANDY DEVINE
HENRY WILCOXON H. B. WARNER ARMIDA
MARIA MONTEZ
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"THEIRS IS THE GLORY"
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The new millions who flock to good music choose-
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Brahms
1947.
The Three Stars
by... STEPHEN WATTS
THE number of people cal Impresario in the country, says
widening its taste,
Mr Harold Holt, the biggest musi in Britain who every that if he wants to play sufe he has week suck and find only to put on solid programme of Beethoven or Tchaikovsky to, fill the pleasure in music is beyond Albert lill, ils constant struggle new publie while calculation. Leaving aside is to hold the the cases in which music is
Of these composers' works, certain not the whole attraction symphonies stand out in appeal, ▾ as in dancing, musical shows in the theatre and radio. programmes in which music is incidental-the audience still runs into millions.
This is the audience for "good" music. Not "good" as opposed to bad, but in the sense. of classical or serious" music.
Reasons for the upsurge of interest in and enthusiasm for serious music are various, but the best is probably the way.
Recently I was profusely and sincerely thanked by a man I took to hear Gigli sing with the San Carlo company at Covent Garden.
well- An intelligent and educated man, he would never have dreamed of going near an
opera house before the war. His conversion happened in
Maly.
thousands There are him, and thousands more who discovered music in the fac- tories.
like
The result is that it is casier to fill a concert hall than einema or theatre.
at the Royal If the Proms Albert Hall, run to form-and it will be a sensation if they once moru the don't then crowds round the great hall will be such that you couldn't tell if it was a championship fight or was a symphony concert that about to take place inside.
EY
count on
5,000 regulars VERY Sunday afternoon when there is an orchestral concert there the promoters can around 5,000 people turning up, pro- vided the programme is right.
Choice of programmes is very im- portant.
Mr Holt estimates that Beethoven's
Fifth-the opening bars of which are fumling to everybody as the war- lime V-signal (pom-pom-pom-POM, pom-pom-pom-POM)---is played in public or over the air 500 times a year.
Tchaikovsky's Fifth and his Sixth (the Puthetique) are not far behind.
The B.B.C. also rate these composer as top of the popularity
two
after Bach, tired and hungry hung trek to listen to a moestro he admired, once stood outside a com- try in sniffing the cooking smells.
Two fish heads were thrown out of a window, and when he seized them eagerly he found a gold coin in the mouth of each.s
That solved his bed and board pro- blem for the moment.
He ruined his eyesight copying music, and quite late in life wrote: "Simple as my household is I can scarcely live."*
But in their day there was no Per- forming Right Society to collect fees and take action against the pirating of their work.
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league. They put Brahms as third. copyright fee should be paid for
An .anaysis of two weeks B.B.C. programmes confirms these estimates. Major works of Beethoven hul thirteen
14 days
and Performances in
11.
In this particular sample, how
Mozart was level with Tchai- ever,
kovsky. Brahms' figure was nine.
Few of the creators of the most
And, ironi- played music are alive. cally, few of them received much in the way of monetary tribute for their work when they were alive.
Beethoven's offer
BEETHOVEN once offered to com- D pose six sonatas for £150.
For the outright sale of the copy- right of a symphony, overture, some concertos for violin and piano, and three string quarters he received £200 and was in high spirits that ho was doing so well.
The same year as he produced the famous "Egmont" he borrowed £25 from a friend. When he died be left ittle more than
£1,000, which included bank shures.
The first time Mozart ever had * settled Income was when he was 32 years old--and it was £80 n year. He died at 35.
When Chopin wanted to go to Ma-
jorea for his health, and had to pay also for George Sand and her chil- dren, he had to borrow the money for their fares.
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The essence of the system is that every public performance of a mem- ber's work.
In most cases a compound fee is agreed, for example, the B.B.C. pays about £250,000 a year for the right lo play music protected by the so- clety.
Each "customer" sends a list of music played, and the society awards points accordingly.
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BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP, homeward bound in the Queen Elizabeth, writes-
GOOD-BYE AMERICA
GOOD-BYE to New York,
with its proud neck reach ing to the stars,
Its luxury restaurants serving food for one that would keep alive a hungry family for a week,
Its courtesy, its tolerance and its elegance,
Its overheated houses and Its beauty when the lights come on,
Its shop windows driving dollar- less Englishwomen to thoughts of crime,
Its bulky newspapers weighing more than truth liself,
Its tabloids shouting murder, and the greyhound legs of the who was Involved,
TS taxi-drivers, wiser than the oricle and twice an eloquent, Its theatres, where shows are guy and audiences · subdued.
Its negro porters with soft voices that enchant, the alien car,
Its beautiful hotels where if you put your shoes outside the door they think that you are through with them,
tele-
Its friendly voices on the phone and the wonder of the Instru- ment itself,
Its tongues and dialects that waft you back to other days in Europe,
11s nymphony of traffle scored for horns alone,
ships
Its river carrying English straight to the heart of things,
Its luncheon rush Thaiioning twin gods of Hurry and Dyspepsia, Its policemen, sphinx-like as de- tectives at a rich man's wedding.
in Its crouching
churches the shadow of the lowering temples of materialism,
Its debutantes proclaiming proud
that
they've got their man, Its winter air that falsely makes one young and tireless,
By
Its lights on Broadway telling us that this one in the show of shows,
Ita sad small dogs, sons grass, anns trees, sans everything..
Its stations vaster than the Colos- reum in Rome,
cynies who believe Claus, and wits who friends.
in Santa
keep their
At the end of the year the total amount collected in fees-last year it was £789,543-is divided out ne- cording to the points totals.
Its women, middle-aged, Present-day serious composers do youthful legs and no surrender in not make much money through pur- | their eye, formances.
A Benjamin Britten or William Walton is best paid when he is com- missioned to compose a specific score for opera, ballet or the lighter stage
or flims.
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"Warsaw Concerto”
PROBABLY the most successful piece of non-syncopated music of recent times was Richard Addinsell's in- Warsaw Concerto," written cidental music for the flim "Dan- gerous Moonlight."
make big Theatrical music can money, Franz Lehar is estimated to "The have earned £300,000 from Merry Widow."
One major composér who died in recent years was Sir Edward Elgar,
and he left £13,034.
But that compates poorly with the Jeft (Gilbert £54,000 of Sullivan £111,000). George Gershwin left £10,000.
has been
But when a composer
Tchaikovsky held on to his job as a Government clerk because he could-not-be sure of-n-livelihood as dead 50 years his music passes into
can
with
Its scorn of war and' weariness peace,,
Ita lukewarm celtiolls and its. open grates,
Its breadiens soup, its fish without the lemon, and the ink that we call. coffee,
Ita misls and cold, and frozen
pipes.
Its stately crescenta wilt. thale moonili roofs,
Its queues and queues and queues and queues,
1ts forms and coupons and the rullon books,
Its clubs with walters older than antiqully,
Its river that remembers when the Romans came,
In calm that rests upon it like a cloak.
of
Its painful lack of neon and nylon,
Its Parliament where Churchilli stil is heard,
Its memories, its troubles and its heritage,
I'M GOING HOME.
OOD-BYE
America, I'm going hoine. I'm going home to England with
Its trains as cold as charity. Its bedrooms with the bedfight on the opposite wall.
Its topless busts and perhaps' no -towel,
Its gentle countryside, as though a poet planned it for his own,
Its rustles, knowing all God meant that men need know,
Its village churches where He the who fought with bones of those Drake and Grenville.
Its factories that send their goods. to ulher lands,
Its moors and downs, its meadows. streams and hills,
Its white cliff that proclaim the furthest that the waves can come
Its thirsty fellows waiting for the pubs to open,
Its lochs and lakes, Its shimmering changeless charm,
Its secret of the England that will never die
GOOD-BYE AMERICA, I'M GO ING HOME.
his cocktail bars where words fly To find you cold. up though thoughts remain below,
Its subwaya dwarfing man in body and in spirit,
THEY said in London that
Its gracious parks,
Its Harlem Harlequinade, Its red lights turning swift to green, for in New York tis never amber,
Its strength, its faith, tin noise, its fascination.
GOOD-BYE, NEW YORK, I'M GOING HOME.
I'M going home to London
with-
Its old, unpainted face,
we're Angered perhaps because still in India or because we're com- ing out,
They couldn't say for sure-
this they claimed, that you'd be cold,
Bu
and dams
They sad to wait until the Spring, When apple blossoms, come
behind their Inmbkins run with nourishment in mind,
I found a maticn steeped in liberty, A nation healthy with political dis pute,
A giant with a glant's troubles, A lant with a glant's heart, A giant with a giant's strength. I'm glad I came.
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber published some CCORDING. to a statement tural Relations with the Moon.
moments
When Mimsie's mother was tijd
conferred on her a composer, and when he made the the public doirait and is non ago, the Strabismus expedition-daughter, she said. "In my young bin decision to resign he had to face copy only guess at what Bec- to the moon will include, besides days nobody would have let me go to Professor the moon without a female com- real poverty.
thoven would be making in u Ume the Doctor himself,
concert Gneiss, the eminent lunologist, panlon, not even for cultural rela- Eventually a widow with 11 chi- when a Forces symphony
father sald: changed." The proud dren-she was 10 years older than took more money than the previous Rinanka Bam, a Siamese stu- is, but what I say is times are the composer persuaded him with attraction-which was Gracie Fields, dent, and Mimsic Slopeorner, re- our girl is the first girl to land presenting the Society for Cul- on the moon, I for one won't blame tact and delicacy" to accept an an- nully of about £300.
her. We've always tried to give her the best."
But then, of course, there would be income tax.
Palestine: Twice Promised Land
HE Palestine dispute arises TH
from claims by both the Jews and the Arabs that the Promised Land has been pro- mised to them.
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The Doctor is working out a table of tides and weather, so as to fix a Anal date for the great attempt. The launching of the rocket into space will be broadcast with running commentary, and the machine wili be named "Utopia" by a ilim actress yet to be chosen." The trip is ex- pected to take five days counting the return journey.
Scenes at Waggling Parva
The McMahon letter is not so well ing and attacking the British, and, Nazi posecution and looking for a refuge. I began the present Jewish known as the Balfour Declaration. It incidentally the Arabs.
Of all the commissions which went struggle." till more than was not published
to the bedevilled Holy Land before twenty years after it was written.
the last war-and there were many DECAUSE of the pressure of the Yet parts of both these documents of them the most important was the wealthy and influential Zionists the well-known were embodied in the most solemn Feet Commission. The report of this The Jews have
made. In 1937, recom- in the United States, the Americans international treatles-the Covenant Commission.
have been taking a greater interest AT Waggling Parva scenes of the and the
in Palestine since the war.
utmost activity are taking place, Balfour Declaration, which says, in short, that the British Government of the League of Nations
Last year an Anglo-American Com-in spite of Rinanka Bam, who under- The mandate to be continued and favouex "the establishment in Pales- Mandate for Palestine. The Covenant mended two alternatives: tine of a national home for the Jew- contains guarantees for the indepen-
and keeps peering into the rocket in the former Jewish immigration and land pur- mittes investigated the situation. Its stands nothing of what is going on, dence of the Arabs
report recommended that the mon- Ish people" and will do its best in
Turkish Empire, while the Mandate chose to be restricted: or
date be continued and that the re- and crying "Utopsa chash verang!" uchieve this goal.
the charges the Mandatory Power with
The country to be partitioned into strictions on land sales be abolished a phrase without meaning for the The Arabs, can point to
autonomous Jewish arca, an and 100,000 Jews be allowed to enter workmen. The Doctor sits at his McMahon letter which was issued establishing a National Home for the
immediately..
desk in a small bungalow, calculat- autonomous Arab aren, and a part the so called Morrison plan is in ing the exact point in the strato- even before this declaration, at a time Jews and helping Jewish Immigra
to be administered by the British.
sphere where the pull of the earth during the First World War when tion and settlement.
a way the second alternative of the we desperately needed Arab ald, and Such befuddled diplomacy as that
At first the second alternative was Peel Report-only the Arab and Jew will give place to the pull of the which agrees to "the independence of which could produce two contradic-
and then the ish areas would be provinces, with moon, and testing with a small gilt hammer the welding plates and the Arabs in all the regions within tory documents like the Balfour De- Seriously considered the limits demanded by the Sheriff claration and the McMahon Letter first alternative was accepted in the a good deal of autonomy within a
screw-screens which will protect the federal government. of Mecca." And these, in the view of produced trouble almost immediate. White Paper, of 1930.
This restricted the sale of land to
Conference after conference fulled delicate zine ratchets and lug-drives. the Arabs, include Palestine.
Jews in the plains, and prohibited it to resolve the main contradictions | Marginal note in the hills, It cut Jewish immigra-,
of plans and reports, and the British takes a very, serious vlow of the tion to 75,000 during the next five which support this paper mountain years, after which a democratie Gov Government has at last decided to ernment was to be set up.
The 1039 White Paper satisfied the place the question before UNO, a enting of a driving, licence by a mo
parties does not want.
papers. If,the habit develops Ilcances. Arabs and ended their attacks, but solution which at least one of the torist, reported the other day in the it embittered the Jews, especially os
-PETER STURSBERG. te put on points, and will count.
in restaurants, as fish. it cathe at a time when thousands of their compatriots wore fleeing from
ly.
Later, Sir Henry McMahon, who was the author of the letter, was to deny that he meant that Palestine THE history of Palestine since the First World War can be divided should be part of the area of Aruba Independence. And subsequently, too, roughly into two-that before 1939 all kinds of interpretations were to and the White Paper of the same be read into the Balfour Declaration, year, when the Arabs were rioting so that now, Zionists regard it as a and attacking the British, and, in- promise for the establishment of acidentally, the Jews and that since
1039, when the Jews have been riqt Jewish State.
NANCY Arty, in Fact
"ERNIE BUSHMILLEFU
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The
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