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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.
HONEST ENGLISH ́MUSIC.
Musician's Legacy To Aid British Composers.
ARTISTSTM£1,000, A. NIGHT.
Remarkable Salaries Paid in America.
"I hope that it may be thus pos- sible to found a really great Eng-formers in the world? lish school of music, and that a great English composer may be produced through the medium.of this scholarship."
Who are the highest-pald per
This wish is contained in the will of Mr. Richard Harvey Lohr F.R.A.M. of 44, Vale-road, St. Leonards, Sussex. who died last January, leaving £6,730.
Mr. Lohr, a prominent composer, pianist, and conductor, left the bulk of his property to his wife for life, and on her death-subject to a legney of 2500 to those responsible for "her care and comfort"-the residue to the Royal Academy of Music to endow a "Harvey Lohr Fund" for the benefit of male Bri- tish-born subjects being sons of British-born parents. Stipulations mude include:
John McCormack Fritz Kreisler Galli-Curel
MUSIC TO "HANNELE."
Success of an Operatic Setting.
Berlin, Feb. 24, Hauptmann's "Hannole" has been The following are the guarantees produced with music at the State Opera House in Dresden, Paul given to concert artists for
one Graener, a composer who has a cer night appearances in American | tain following in Germany already, cities with a 300,000 population, the has scored an instantaneous auc- guarantees being even higher in cess with his operatic setting of a larger towns:-
very moving theme. His Inspira- tion for "Hannele" is Bach; the whole work does not take more than an hour and a quarter to perform.
Gracner has sublimated. "Han- nele" completely.. His version is a dream play, with a very strong reli- gious blas. The lyrical beauty and tender melody of his music has gained him more praise than the. German critical body is want to give. This "Hannele" was made possible by cutting down the scenes of peasant life pure and simple to the barest minimum necessary for understanding the play.
Paderewaki
Mischa Elman
.21,000 950 860
850
800
Chalinpin
.800
Will Rogers
Mary Garden
700 700
Kubelik
700
Roland Hayes (coloured)
640
600
Serge Rachnianinof Mme. Schumann-Heink
600
600
Benjamin Gigli
600
Martinelli
600
Alfred Spalding
500
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John Charles Thomas
500
Florence Macbeth
500
Geraldine Farrar
400
THE BANNED PLAY.
300
250
A scholarship worth £200 a year] for composers between the ages 14 and 24.
The holder of the echolarship to be "encouraged in forming a taste for traditional honest English musici of the past 3 centuries," and "be discouraged from following the ex- tremists, or what may be described us Communistic music which is so; prevalent at the present time."
Mme. Aldape
Ruth Draper
Paul Robeson (coloured)
Quite recently Mr. Robeson was acting in Lendon in "The Emperor Jones" at a salary of perhaps 2100 a week. He is spirituale.
French Appeal to Lord Crewe.
There is a sequel to the prohibi- tion in London of the production of now singing. Fernand Noziere's play, "La
Ladwig van Beethoven, famous composer, the anniversary of whose death 100 years ago, on March 26, was observed by music lovers throughout the world,
To assist needy students in thei production of their works, and to provide prizes.
"To provide greater encourage- ment to British composers" the tes- tator desires that all lovera of music be invited, from time to time: to subscribe to the fund.
"HINDLEWAKES.”.
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MUSIC OF THE FUTURE,
Sixteen Planos, Buzzers,' And Siren.
Riposte." 31. Firmin Gemier, who besides being the director of the Odeon Theatre Is the president of the Societe Universelle du Theatre, and M. Fortunat Strowski, member of the Academy of Moral and Poli- tical Sciences and president of the critics' section of the Societe Unl- versello du Theatre, have sent | a letter to the Marquis of Crewe, the British Ambasandor, expressing their concern that a piece played in France with so much success should have been prohibited in London. They believe that, while the censor in prohibiting the play acted in all sincerity, he will modify his judg- ment when he is better and more completely informed.
Lord Crewe is invited to submit their views on the play to the cen- sor; if they appear to the Ambas sador to be exact, and to ask him in the name of Franco-British friendship to consent to a new read- ing of the play.
£29,000 OPERA BOXES,
New York Metropolitan To
Be Moved.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1927.
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
FILMING THE FLEET.
Permission has been refused to a
The Metropolitan Opera House, for 43 years the centre of fashion in music for New York, is to be re-number of foreign einematograph placed by a new structure to be firms to use units of the British erected on 67th Street, a mile north of the present building.
The new building will seat 5,000 people, or 1,400 more than can be accommodated now, and will be surmounted by a tower containing. studios.
Navy for films. Among those who applied were two American and one French cinématograph companies who wished to film the fleet in ac- tion.
Though the question of expense influenced the Admiralty's decision, the position of the British film in- dustry was also taken into aideration, and only British firms are likely to get permission.
con-
It will have 32 parterre boxes, cold at £29,000 each to boxholders of the present Opera House, giving each purchaser one thirty-second Interest in the new venture and the
The British naval films' about to right to a box at two performances be produced include one of the bat- weekly.
tle of Falkland Islands and one of Originally costing £280,000, the the epic of Gallipoli. Opera House property has since commanded offers as high £2,100,000 from those who desire to réplace it by a modern office build- ing.
SHORTER FILMS COMING.
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George Antheil, a twenty-four- year-old American "modernist" composer, will make his first con- cert appearance -In America "Many considerations enter into A programme, of his own the problem of the exhibition of pic- Film Fit For World to see. works. The concert, is being or tures nowadays,' says the general ganised as a beneflt for Mr. An-]-manager of First National Filins. The first public presentation at theil, the proceeds to go to the com- "These render it Imperative that the New Gallery C nema, poser to help him to continue his feature productions should be shor- Regent-street, W. of the new work in Europe. He is to return ter than heretofore. In future, British film "Hindle Wakoe" to Paris soon after the concert. most of our pictures will be limited (directed by Mr. Maurice Elvey) The programme will include the to approximately 6,000 feet except confirmed the opinion formed at the "Ballet Mecanique,' which, the in the case of specials. recent trade show that this fe a composer explains, is an attempt to The public has become tired of great picturea triumph for the express America, Africa, and Steel. lengthy pletures; this fact has been British film industry.
It is scored for sixteen mechanical demonstrated again and again. Al- Lancashire at work and play is pianos, played from a single master so with the modern method of here given a reallem and a specta- roll and controlled from a switch- arranging programmes to include cular breadth in the stage presen-board, so that they may be played prologues, vaudeville, and special: tation of the late Mr. Stanley separately or together. The other features, too long a picture cuts Houghton's play.
instruments employed are eight into the exhibitor's profits, The acting of Mr. Norman Me- xylophones, four bass drums, two "This is fast-moving age, and Kinnell as the self-made mill-electric motors with humming and the public wants its cinema enter- owner, Jeffcote, and of Miss Ault buzzing propeller attachments, a tainment to move at a similar speed. as the mother of Fanny Hawthorne, klaxon, siren, two large It has long been my contention that can challenge comparison with any pieces of tin and two large practically any picture can be im- thing yet seen on the screen. There pieces of steel, and two proved from an artistic and drama- is also Mr. Arthur Cheaney's direct octaves of electric bells, played tic standpoint by shortening it.. portrait of the mayor of Hindle. from a keyboard. The programme Our decision to cut our pictures la Here at last is a picture of the also includes an "airplane" sonata not only in 'keeping with the times; réal England which may be shown for plano, and a sonata for violin,' it will, 1 am sure, result in the Im to all the world.
plano and drums,
provement of our product."
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