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king, and answered in solemu Jantistrophe by his chorus. This consists in syllabeles strung together in such a manner as to convulse the audience.

Panumbretikatakemanuanbre-

tuneni. signs the king.

Panumbretikutatemaniaabre-

tuneni

Professor Hermann Reich, Pro- fessor of Greek Literature and Philosophy at Berlin University, has aroused the greatest interest. both among servants and the- trical managers of the higher unen class iry

the replies the court. Germany, hy announcement of his discovery of the oldest opera libretto in the work So old, ind, is the papyrus from which he has deriphered the enes given to both players and orchestra nearly two thousand years ago, that it is pose sible in suggest that our present day revues and musing comedies tire the direct descendants of dramatic forur lost for centuries and never entirely discovered until early Mozart operas made their appearance,

Panumbretikatalemandanbres

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SENOR IBANEZ.

PROCEEDINGS TO BE"

COMMENCED...

'MADRID.'

The Public Prosecutor has found in certain articles by Senores Blasco Ibanez, Miguel Unamuno, and Ortega Gasset

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PRESS AND SCIENCE

SIR OLIVERLUDGE ON TELEPATHY.

It was "Science Night" at the Trosa Club when Mr. Percival] Marshall presided over n Jurgo atten dance at the monthly house dinner. The guests of the evening wore Six Oliver Lodge, F.R.S., and Sir Ronald Ross, K.Ü.B.

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Sir Oliver, who was enthusias sically 'roceived, responding to the touks of Selence," said that he had no complaint as to what was being dond in the newspapers for scienen, Whenever there was a new dis- covery announced from the further most part of the world, if wind singular that British seichtists grad ring up on the telephone to say (Bughter). what it all meant.

Is was a very good sign that they ahould be on the look-out for any (new.acjentific discoveries, und were ready to broadcast them and make then known to the publik. In thai | respect the scientists would always help the Press,

Without the Press men of science would be taking in each other's washing. How the Press bud marie, known 'Relativity 1 The pub- le perhaps did not know much about it now-(Langhter-but it was a great thing that they alronid want to know more about it...

A WONDERFUL AUE,

SHEER MARTYRDOM,”

-ECHO OF DENNISTOUN CASE.

INDIGNATION OF LADY COWAN,

"

Lido, March 28,

to the

Lady Cowans, wrning Press, protesis against the refer

ences to her dead husband in the Dennistoun caso, and expresses

The late Gen. Sir John Cowans.

"We are having in wonderful times," continued Sir-Oliver, "The gratitude to Lord Birkenhead for have been such that I do not know twenty-four years of this century for his letter. any previous quarter century in the world's history equal to it."

material for charge oflèse-majeste, attempt against the monarchical form of Government and: of incitement to rebellion, and has ordered legal proceedings to be. commenced. The three writers named are ordered. 10 appear inued Sig Oliver. before the examining magistrate to lon myself and others

to find on the facts,

here."

"I have investigated telepathy, and I tell you it is a reality. com

"1 uni not out I want At present We do We

The military judge at Huelva we do not understand it. has ordered the ex Minister, not know how to explain it. Senor Alba, to appear before him have rest a theory, but it will the head of the Directory is a it is a bet that one mind ca acon o answer to charge of libelling Egome in time. At present we know Father by other than the ordinary newspaper article.

{elmutels of, sense.

WAR SPIRIT DEAD,

VIEWS.

The funny man proper is the heroine's servant. who under. stands no Indinn, and who efforts in that direction result in kebck about comedy, pure and simple. His jokes are of the broadest, and quite impossible, but his clowning has survived to the present day. His efforts to understand the language always RETURNING AMBASSADOR'S Feud in blows. It is only after- dining too well that the king re- marks that he knows a little Greek, and he sings an aria to the, moon goddess, with song and

Mr. Alanson Houghton, the re- dare, lofore collapsing in a state turning Ambassador from Berlin, complete intoxication. His has arrived home for a month's chorus, follow his rest previous to going to Londen xampin, and it is over their as Mr. Kellogg's successor. He rod rate bedies that here and heroine make good their escape. one may imagine that the play 4 with their triumphant entry

their own home.

rouri,

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JOYE'S THUNDER ON TLD DRUM.

The Greet "mus popular play or Volksstick, which after the classical age formel the enter tainment of the masses, and wi believed to be a sparite of vulgar farce, appears from this to have bum highly Offenbachian in charg acter. Professur Rich is been searching for a Be-time for the missing link in the long chain of evidenc which pointed to tho existence of Curly comic operas. Twenty-five years ago,

in his

"It is apparent from the diver- momental work, "Her Mimus." he quinted out the probability of tions of the papyrus that the such early music than in the drum played a great part in the days of the Green-Roman Empire unsical accompaniment, parti- Not only her he surveeded in gularly when the clown humarons reconstructing from what appear by invokes dove's thunder. and ed to be a completely. obsere more seriously in the Indian Directions here fragment of papyrus, this earliest temple dancea. of all musical plays. It is of are very detailed. Arias and to English Couplets are accompanied, as in peculiar interest scholars that this particular frag Plautter comedies, by the flute. ment forms part of the big find The zither was alsa used. The

big company of performers, and aust have been performed with boisterous verve and gaiety."

of papyri raade by Messrs. Gren-whole performance necessitated a fell and Hunt in the Egyptian village of Bahnasa, better known by a Greek unme of Oxyrbyn chps. in 1904. It dates from the second century A.D.

Professor Reich's confection with modern production, in Ger- many STORY OF THE PLAY,

is as important as his Prof. Reich, who was kind research work. In his endeavour enough to give me personal to reintroduce a little of the details on behalf of the "The Dionysian spirit of revelry which Observer," states that the very was the beginning of all dramatic much abbreviated and interlined performances he has made vala- document is by no means i text-able suggestions to many great boos, but raust have been used by German producers, Reinhardt's

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Plus physical process, when am speaking to you, is coinparative- ly insignificant. The rental pro- is the vital thing. If we find that mental processes can go on between one mind and another without these indirect physicali pro- cesses, 1 shall not be surprised:"

It will show fat mind is not separably associated with mutter, but can exist without matter, 照れる on apart from the brain, and

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to manifest ik, if is not necessary for

as thought and memory to persist.

7 lupe"you will make people-repliso that these things, if true, are really important, and that the evidened, for them is very strong.

ANTI-MALARIA CAMPAIGN,

Sir Ronald Ross, also replying. suid bo wunted to thank the Press of the world for the help rundered in the anti-malariai campaign. To mlarin alone two million lives n year were sacrificed, and a million and a third of these were in Indist alone.he Press had helped them immensely, birt there was still minch to be done. They were improving gradually.

His daughter had just gone to Sierra Leone to teach them how to get rid of mesquitoes there, and she had just written to him to sy thus Eshe had not seen a single mosquito there yet, We were not spending cibagh money on investigation as the germs of disease, and the germ of smallpox but not even yet been discovered.

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She states that, as soon as she saw the newspaper reports she rushed to London and consulted her lawyers, all of whom stated that no one could hold a brief for the dead.. "For me to read the case day after day was as though I was being suffocated, and yet could not put out a hand. It has been sheer martyrdom."

A cable in the "Statesman" dated March 24 stated:

Considering that the reputation

of Sir John Cowans has been besmirched by the evidence given in the Pennistoun case, Lord Birkenhead, in a letter written to The Times declares that those knowing Sir Juhn Cowans best simply could hot believe, that he acted in the way alleged. Sir

Lord Birkenhead..

John Cowans's interests were ab solutely ignored in the case, none of the parties caring, a brass farthing about his reputation. The conversations, depending on the evidence of a single deeply- interested witness, cannot be accepted. "Our duty is to watch the interests and safeguard the reputation of a soldier who greatly loved and greatly served his country."]

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A PENNY PER HEAD, were spending £180,000 year on medical research, but wint did that amount to per head of the? the stage manager for giving revivals of Offenbach's operas ridiculed the idea that Germany 1pulation of the United Kingdom directions to both players and have been mounted in accordance was arming for another, war, and miserable penny per head. UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS orchestra. It has taken years to with many of his suggestions; his described the statements that a They were going to start work at decipher. At the beginning of insistence on the fact that Mozart military alliance exists between the Ross, Inktillite, which his the war the Danish scholar. Dr. and Shakespeare are the most Germany and Russia as equally friends had founded.

The inen who investigated suc- Egil Rostrup, pointed out the typically direct descendants of false. The war spirit, he con- technical character of certain the old Mimus dramatists has led siders, is dead, and the German cessfully in this world were

He few, and Sir Oliver Lodge was one Republic has come to stay, terms in the papyrus pertaining to the invariable accompaniment avoided questions seeking his of them. Disense in the first place to the theatre. Prof. Reich of Mozart's music to Shaltes-

views on Germany's present must be dominated, and let people pursued his researches further, pearian comedy on the Berlin attitude towards France, but great live, if possible, to the age of 150, and has no hesitation in 'declaring stage.

ly praised the work of the Dawes, noi as very old, but ne normal men. that the oldest opera in the world

plan. In Mr. Houghton's opinion, Science must enlarge the man is now lying before us.

As a matter of fact," said Prof. Germany is going earnestly to understanding, and the dress could "The heroine of this opera," Reich, "the trouble with the work to carry out its obligations help scientists in that immensely. said Prof. Reich, "is a beautiful drama of to-day and its limited under that plan. young lady, named Charition, appeal only arises from the fact who appears, with her servant, to that contact with the masses has have fallen into the hands of an been lost by the literary play-

Young Lady (on first visit to Indian king after a shipwreck.wright. Back to the old rollick-

Western ranch): "For what pur- She lives a prisoner in a temple ing spectacles of song and dance,

pose, do you use that coil of line on the shores of the Indian or to the clowning sandwiched

on your saddle?" Ocean. One day a ship appears, between the tragedy, as in

Cowpuncher: "That line as you bringing her brother to rescue Shakespeare! When jesting was

The vast office building known' call it, lady, we use for catching her. This brother, after a very under a cloud in the early Miracle as the Equitable Building, situated, cattle and horses." lively banquet in honour of the Plays of medieval Europe, people in Broadway, has heen sold after Young Lady: "Oh, indead. gods; succeeds in making the had forgotten that the earliest protracted negotiations to the Em- Now, may I ask, what do you use Indian king and his following so Passion Plays were burlesques.pire Trust Company for $40,000,000, for bait?" drunk that he can escape with his Good-humoured fun. had been The Equitable is the biggest sister. It is a kind of parody on made of the old gods and god-office building in New York, and Iphigenia in Tauris,' with desses so long that it was perfect the third largest in the world, the dramatic and comic scenes alter- ly natural to laugh at the new two largest being in Cleveland and nating, musical intermezzi, and religion of Christianity from the Detroit. It was begun on the site buffoonery much after the fashion stage. There is surely no more of the old Equitable structure, of Mozart's "Magic Flute. potent example of the power of which was burnt down the year Charition is a sentimental heroine, the early Church than the detailed before the war, and was completed ehaste, filial, and lovable. Her accounts in the Acta Sanctorum in 1915. - brother is the exact counterpart of two actors who were suddenly of the operatic hero.,

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while experiencing The girl seemed deaf to the mock martyrdom. The proclama pleadings of her lover, The Indian king belongs to tion from the stage that they You are deaf to my “Burlesque pare and simple. When believe in very truth the words trentiea, he said,

be comes with much absurd they were speaking belong to the tones. pomp to the temple of the moon-most dramatic moments ever I am, she returned. goddess there are interludes experienced on any stage In Bu

ballet, choruses, both male, and

any case their story in the history diamo ring for you.

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