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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.

BEETHOVEN.

MUSIC 'CRISIS.

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927.

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BRITISH FILMS.

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AUSTRALIA READY TO

QUEEN'S HALL CONCERTS

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AWAITING A MOVE.

The Commonwealth film censors state in their annual report that im- ported films, which are mainly American, show no general, im- provement. Broudly speaking, the cinema is now less immoral than vulgar.

Mr. Harvey Grace's "Beethoven" ("Musters

of Music" series. Kegan Paul. 78. Gd.) is a capital piece of work, by far the best of its series (some of which have been disappointing and dull), and more A book that counts among the best recent English musical literature,

Australia is awaiting legislation The Life is as unconventional

in Great Britain to ensure a regular and vigorous ins

Mr. Wallace's supply of films from the Mother- "Wagner," without the latter's bit-country and will then make a Gov- terness. And this time there is tions affecting the marketing and ernment investigation of the condi something about the music as well exhibition of pictures here with a view to aiding British Intereats. Meanwhile, it is thought that Bri- tiah companies should combine to open an agency in Australia.

as the Life.

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A catastrophe threatens the Queen's Hall symphony concerts and the "Promenade" season.

Messrs. Chappell and Co., lessees of the famous hall and managers of Sir Henry Wood's orchestra, have informed Sir Henry that they intend discontinuing the New Queen's Hall Orchestra's concerts at the end of the present series. The last symphony concert was on

March 19.

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Sir Henry Wood's Saturday afternoon symphony concerts have Mr. Harvey Grace's common sense stands out sturdily against

for a generation been one of the principal instrumenta of good the idealising and sanctification of

music in London. And Sir Henry's Beethoven. He brushes aside

autumn promenade sentimentality at each step; he in-

"It is uselesa making a half unique in the world. Given an- sists on looking and hearing for hearted effort." says the report. "Ifnually from August to October for they (British producers) continue himself. So we get Beethoven, to Bell their best products to for. the past 32 years, they, probably ·

"warts and all."

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Beethoven was a boor and aeign countries while expecting to ungrateful to get hold of the Australian market benefactors, crooked in financial with what remains, they are mighti- matters. And for all that-what ny mistaken. Moreover, they man! Truth is more interesting ta they could secure if they sup- neglecting the very handsome pro- than any sentimental fancy, and the man as we get him in this very

ply their own products direct to honest attempt to attain the truth this country themselves."

nothing. extenuating

setting nothing down in malice-leavea us more impressed, more uplifted, than by any fanciful demigod.

Musical "Puns." Something in the bluntness of Mr. Harvey Grace's pen just suits his subject. He and Beethoven if they had met would have assuredly

WELLS NOVEL FILMED.

MUCH-ALTERED PLOT OF

"MARRIAGE."

concerta

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more than any other movement, have played a notable part in the cultivation of British musical taste. Private Help.

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of

Mail" understands, to be taken by But measures are, the "Daily

private support to ensure that the 1927 series of promenade concerts shall be given. If a scheme private endowment cannot be ar ranged to ensure a series of con- certs in 1928 an approach will be made to the Government by repre- sentative music-lovers and music- ians for State ald. This appeal will not be on behalf of the Orchestra alone. It Queen's Hall will be made on behalf of all the. great British orchestras which for

Silver and Gold Lace Flouncings quarrelled vigorously, but they novel "Marriage." shown privately years have been living from hand to

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would have understood each other. His biography is, of course, based on Thayer. Part II., "Beethoven's Personality," grapples with the!

The American producers of the film version of Mr. H. G. Wells's at the Capitol, Haymarket, London, have played some strange tricks with the original story, y

the novel, Trafford, the

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Mellie Dunham, who was projected into the limelight when his ability as a fiddler was discovered by Henry Ford, fishing for pickerel through the ice with "Gram" as his companion.

problem of the relation of the man and the artist.

The section on the music does not pretend to cover the whole ground. There are excellent' pages here on Beethoven's humour, on his char- acteristic enharmonic ambiguities (often the musical equivalent of pun, as Mr. Grace points out), and, best of all, on Beethoven'a fugues, But round about page 217 the author is tempted to fall into the disparagement of the 18th century for Beethoven's greater glory. "Clavichord" on page 223 is a mis- take for harpsichord. And in his acorn for the second symphony he surely overdoes bluntnesa. Even if the charming slow movement leaves him cold (and he is generally left rather cold by Beethoven's slow movements, "all but a few of the finest"), how can he resist the exhilaration of the scherzo and finale? He cannot have been at the Beecham performances laat winter.

£50,000 FOR A RAPHAEL.

It has been disclosed that Mr. Jacob Epstein, who last month aur- prised art circles by his acquisition

idealistic chemist, persuades his wife, Marjorie, to leave their children and civilisation and live for a year in Labrador to "find God." The most thrilling adven- ture of their life there is Trafford's fight with a lynx, in which he is badly mauled by the animal.

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The film producers have boggled at the Wellsian subtleties and ex- cursions into Socialism and have attempted a safer and more ventional plot. Trafford leaves home after a quarrel with his wife about a costly necklace paid for by an admirer. He goes alone, not to the chilly spaciousness of Labrador, but to the heat and the wild beasts the African jungle. His wife follows him and abe-is chased by a lon!

Trafford comes to the rescue just in time and there is a hair- raising encounter with the lion. The scene is ao realistic that the audlence, largely composed of women, shuddered. Another big thrill which occurs in the novel is an aeroplane crash.

of Vandyke's "Rinaldo and in a decayed house in Vienna. It Armida, has, as the result of was taken to Zurich and thence to secret negotiations, purchased for Paris and finally shipped to New £50,000 the portrait of Emilia Pin York. Its authenticity is vouched de Montefeltro, painted by Raphael in the early part of the 18th cen- tury and classed as one of the Flor- entine's finest works.

The picture was discovered last summer by Dr. Gronau, a former director of Cassel Gallery, Germany,

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for not only by Dr. Gronau but also by Mr. Bernard Berenson, the art critic.

Mr. Epstein, who went to New York as a penniless emigrant boy, has placed the picture in his palatial Baltimore home.

DID YOU SEE THE SHEIK ON BOARD-

MARIE?

mouth.

It is estimated that a series of

promenade concerts requires an Annual expenditure of about £22,000, on the basis of a payment of £250 for the services of the or chestra and £50 a performance for hall rent.

Sir Henry. Wood, while admitting only a limited knowledge of Queen's Hall finances, suggested that the Annual average loss, Was about £3,000 for the past 20 years— including the promenade concerts, the Saturday symphony concerts, and the now abandoned Sunday orchestral concerts.

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Four months ago Mr. William Booger, the head of Messrs. Chap- pell, forecast the present crisis and stated that his firm suffered losses on the Queen's Hall ventures. It had, however, been officially nounced that the 1926 Promenade Concerts had done uncommonly well and that a circular in the pro- gramme on the last night said, "We ahould need to look back over several years to find such an ex- cellent record.'

Sir H. Wood's View Sir Henry Wood said to a "Daily Mail" reporter:

"It is utterly unthinkable that the Promenade Concerts should be brought to an end, but I can- ⚫ not complain of the action which has been taken by Messrs. Chap- pell, who, after all, are a business firm, and have acted extremely generously in this matter throughout. But I cannot imaginė the Queen's Hall Orchestra being broken up and its 90 members dispersed.

"If there is one thing to be thankful for, it is that, at least, Messrs. Chappell's decision has brought the position of British orchestral performances to a head, and if we do not act boldly now our Continental and Amer- icun friends will look at us aghast. The situation really 'provides us with a golden oppor- tunity for reform. But I am determined that the reform shall be on a proper artistic basis or I will have nothing more to do with concerts of the kind. It is now up to the public."

Dr. J. B. McEwen, principal of the Royal Academy of Music, said: "The seriousness of the situa- tion cannot be exaggerated, ba- cause the disappearance of the Queen's Hall Orchestra would be a national artistic calamity. By some means the Promenade Con- certs must be continued this year while more definite arrangementa are being made for the future." The Tromenade Concerts were instituted, in 1895 and have been continued yearly. There is hardly composer, conductor, singer, or in- strumental performer of eminence, of any nationality, who has not performed at the Queen's Hall in that time.

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