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The final session of the Northern Education Conference at Liverpool was devoted to the subject of "Education and the Arts:""

HEAVY DEMANDS.

A DIFFICULTY IN PLAYING IBSEN.

BRITISH ARTISTS.

SIR JOSEPH DUVEEN'S FINE BENEFACTION.

Of all the parts, in other than

Sir William Orpon has explained quite modern plays, that any actor that the anonymous benefactor who or actress of established position is has undertaken to finance exhib likely at any time to be called upon bona f British artists work at In his paper on "School and the to interpret none, I think, excepting

The exhibitions will be Duveen. Drume," Mr. C. W. Bailey, MA those of Shakespeare, are more home and abroad is Sir Joseph headmaster of the Holt School cuit, or make greater demand upon called "British Artists' Exhibi- Liverpool, said: "No one has taught the player's resources than do those or lived with little children with of Ibaan, writes a London corres- out realising how strong is their pondent of the "Christian Science power of make-belleve. Fairy tales Monitor. The reason being that have no difficulties for them for the Norwegian, In all his mature they are themselves the fairies. To and most typical work, demanda break the iridescent bubble of their two very different and even strong fancy by the intrusion of dull, diely conflicting modes of presenta turbing fact is a sorry sport for tion.

tione," and Sir William Orpen haa accepted the chairmanship of the committee of artists who will seldet Exhibitions will be the picturesa held at different centres in Great Britain and abroad in order to dis- play the work of lesser-known. British artists.:

adults. But if education is for life Ibsen is generally classed as a Sir William said the scheme a fuller. richer, and happier life, reallet "lord of the higher real seemed just what was needed so a severe handicap from let us allow them to embrace the opists" being, if I remember rightly romove portunities the drama gives for the phrase applied to him by Misswhich a great many British artists That is a true suffered. It would bring artists fuller realisation of life. Let them Storm Jamieson. live in imagination, a whole cycle of description, so far as it goes, Aand the public into closer touch, Ilves. The transition into a land realist Ibsen certainly is and when and would give to the individual of make-believe, the erpation of a you see him played, as, "Rosmers-artist a much wider market for his world peopled with noble presences, holm has recently been played in work than he could otherwise ob-

almest each of which exerts its unseon and London at the Kingsway, unconscious influence on the life whelly in the realistic manner, atain, except at a coat greater than

he could generally afford. and character of the children, sup-certain sensible though strictly-

"Tragic Paradox. plies them with ideals, and inspires limited dramatic effect will be pro-

"It is the tragic paradox of the duced, because Ibsen, as a consum- them to right and noble action."

Mr. Bailey appealed for the op-mate master of stugpernit and of artist's life," said Sir William "that portunity of development by enthu-character-drawing, could develop a he cannot live by painting, but only siasts, and quoted from experience plain-sailing comprehensible story by selling what he paints. And the average artist does not possess and from evileagues of the surpria- with exceeding vigour and skill.

But, as those well know who came the haziest notions about salesman- ing success and beneficial results

Away from the revival ship. When he is well-known his that hart followed practical experi-empty

re-pictures sell themselves, but before nents in dramatic art in their mentioned above, realism can schoola. No plan, he claimed, was veal one side only of 1bson's work, he is known he can hardly even more useful in producing the "team a side which almost certainly 18, at afford to bring them to the notice spirit" in education than the school the bottom, the one that interested of possible buyers...

"That Is the problem which play. It unified the resources of him least of all, and that he cares the school provided so many into concern himself with merely be this scheme will attempt to solve. teresting things to do. called for so cause as a practical dramatist,At the first exhibition, which is to many different gifts, and showed working for his livelihood, he felt, be held in the Leeds Municipal how splendidly one art helped an- and felt rightly, that a good human Gallery, pletures will be priced on (Official Photographers of the "China Mail") He who had been an ama-story was the best, and, indeed, the

£ keener only way of appealing to the larger schle likely to attract buyers, and no picture will be marked "higher teur player would be student. It deserved the greatest playgoing public.

than £50.Thia w insure the un- That story. then, he gave them; encouragement.

There was another paper on but always, behind the story, and known artist against the competi- "Education and Artistic Industry," often interwoven with it upon thetion of man who car command high in which Mr. W. Marlborough" stage, are thoughts and purposes prices, and will tend to encourage

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AUSTRALIA'S NEW THEATRE.

To Seat 3,000 Persons: In Comfort.

The largest theatre in Australia- used for the production of musical comedy or drama will be completed

next month.

This is the Empire in Sydney which will accommodate 3,000 per sons in comfort, one-third more than the present biggest theatre in that city.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1927.

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not seem to be the same reverence for classical speech that we once had, but she was proud to think that Mise Thorndike was proving that the power of Shakespeare could still hold the public. Great.

It will embody the latest prin-classics could not be played as one ipoke, In the le colloquial ciples in theatre architecture. The modern plays. New Orpheum Theatre, Los An- Mics Collier said that she ran geles, has been taken as a model for the design. The Empire will be away at 14 to join the stage. Later on she was given n chance by unique in that it will have no up- Sir Herbert Tree to read the scene per circle.

The stage, will be 42ft. widen "Ulysses outside bell," made a enough to accommodate hash of the classic names, but gor chance because, Stophan

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Whitehead, Principal of the Muni- far higher and deeper than any that cipal School of Arts and Crafts, mere realism can convey-thoughts Burnley, Bald that the direction of from the wonderland of the poet, the art in such matters as the textile mystic, the symbolist, the vision-arge and other technical British indus-ary and the spiritual seer-purapectacular ballets, and an enor tries could be made to provide opposes and meanings upon the suc-1mous number of artists, for whom Phillips thought that she had got portunities for careers for young cessful expression of which the real 20 large dressing rooms furnished the right profile. people of suitable aptitude such as success of the best Ibsen plays al with hot and cold showers, will be

provided. would have been ascertained and most wholly depend, and which in formulated previously.

The work on the theatre was he exact proportion to the truth of The place of music in the school their rendering by the players will was described and emphasised by constitute the play's deeper charm gun in June last year, and is ex- before the opening, performance on Mr. Fell, secretary of the Liverpool and provide the whole of its mysti-pected to be completed two weeks

March 1. Centre, British Music Society, who cul thrill and intensity.

The completely convincing pre- claimed that the study of the fine arta led to higher deals, the com-sentation of Ibsen, therefore, is a plese development of the Child, phy-task of extreme difficulty, demand sically, mentally, and spiritually, ing," as Shakespeare also demands, and that music, one of the fine arts, from the interpreters "a certain

"Could the Theatre Bring Back thus became an essential factor in subtlety of understanding, a wide education. He urged the need for range of sympathetic imagination-Its Dead!" was the title Miss Con- co-ordination in cities so that the in the Norwegian's case-end a stance Collier gave to an address development should be on round, restrained yet deep intensity of she delivered to the Gallery First- expression, rarely Nighters at the Duke of Argyll, staple lines, and not confused and physical

She re- found together in the average 4c-Great Windmill Street, W. over-lapping.

With a small class of children tor. Moreover, as Mr. John Shand minded her hearers that she was of a local elementary school has recently pointed out, these diff-the fourth generation of the then- Miss L, Blackburn, of Liverpool, culties are rendered yet greater by tre. for her great grandfather gave a demonstration of the cultiva frequent failures, upon Ibsen's played with the Keeleys.. Her tion of the rhythmic sense in the own part, to blond very happily or mother used to take her to the child by means of the percussion naturally an underlying symbolism, theatre in a blanket and put her on band. for which it is claimed that it and a visionary purpose with the dressing-table among the grease stimulates and trains the "sense of frankly realistic tale,

paints while she acted: In "Rosmeraholm, for example since then," added Miss Collier, rhythm by singing class and rhyth- mic games, and is thus an ideal there fe not, on the face of it, any the smell of the grease paint haa Whenever I musical training for the very young easily-to-be-rendered connection-

even flat discordance of been as magic to me. child and valuable training in the there la art of listening, in accuracy and quality between the contemporary am depressed that drossing-room. political party conflicts, which pro smell makes me a changed being." precision.

There was cordial appreciation of vide much of the story's back She had as a girl known Irving, and the demonstration.

ground. and the emerging, abstract she had the privilege of acting with moral and even spiritual drama on a generation that seemed to be the theme that innocency and useful vanishing, Including: Coquelin, of work are essential to the happy magical voles and speech in the pregress of mankind.

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