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MUSIC DRAMA · FILMS.

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1927.

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of Quebec was held at the Chateau Frontenac, from May 20 to 22. The Festival, which combined folk- songs and handicraft indigenous to the Province of Quebec, was unique in character, since it was the first time a folksong festival had been staged anywhere in America in its natural setting with handicraft. The National Museum of Canada, in co-operation with the Canadian Pacific Railway, organ- ised this festival on a very com prehensive scale.

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the native folksongs were given by the Chanteurs of Saint Dominique of Quebec, one of the most famous choire in French Canada. Basilica choir aang a fully choral High Gregorian Maas on the morn- ing of May 21.

Outstanding among the women artista taking part were Madame The first white men to penetrate

Jeanne Dusseau and Mademoiselle Juliette Gaultier de la Verendrye, Canade from the east into the

Madame Dusseau, who is an ardent middle west came as canoemen,

lover of folksong and an inter- under the leadership of such men

preter of the same in many lan- as La Salle, Radisson and Father Among the artists who interpret guages, is a soprano of the Chicago Hennepin. They traversed the ed the folksongs were J. Campbell Opera Association. Mile. Gaultier great inland waterways the St. McInnes, of Toronto, who has been de la Verendrye, a descendant of Lawrence, the Ottawa, Lake Nipis- principal sololat with the Philadel the explorer, Pierre Gaultier de la ing and the Great Lakes, singing phia, Chicago and Cleveland Or-Verendrye. sang in the Boston as they went the songs of Old chestras, and Charles Marchand, Opera before devoting herself France. The sonya of these well-known "chansonn'er" of Mont-

the study of folksong. She has French-Canadian Voyageurs have real, who has toured both Canada

learned the Eskimo language in or- been preserved and are a popular and the United States; also Dr.

der to sing Eskitmo folksongs, and factor in the lives of the French- Ernest MacMillan, director of the Canadians in Quebec. Their popu- Toronto Conservatory of Music; also familiar with many Indian larity is fast spreading throughout Dr. Healey Wilan. Canadian com the country and of late radio pro-poser, and Oscar O'Brien of Man- grammes featuring these songHtreal, who have composed harmonians, folklore and handicraft en- have been exceedingly well celved.

reixations of melodies and arrange

menta for strings. especially for the Festival, Choral renderings by various composers of some of

A musical sensation on a scale never before attempted in the city

BIG CINEMA DEAL.

KOMANTIC STORY OF WOMAN'S BUSINESS CAREER.

Production of British Films. Discussing the deal, Captain Davis said:"The film distribut- ing companies which had been acquired are the leaders in this £2,500,000 BRITISH COMBINE. country, and under the new re-

magnates."

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thusiasts from all parts of Canada and the United States attended the Festival, which is regarded as the musical sensation of the year.

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MEMORIES OF HIS DAUGHTER.

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Robert and Clara Schumann had

eight children. The youngest of the four girls, Eugenie, born 1851, has just ing music lessons from her published her "Memoirs." mother and from Brahms:- (Heinemann. 10s. 6d.)

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"Although none of us daugh-

we would choose music as a pro-

gime the object will be the pro- The greatest deal in the his- duction of British films, It is tory of the British cinema has the most constructive effort that recently been concluded, and a

has yet been made to put the British film industry on its feet. company with a capital The combine has been formed be £2,500,000, is to be floated. cause it is believed to be the only Behind the deal lies a romantic | real hope for the industry in this story of a woman's business country,"

All the world knows the love ters had eminent musical gifts career, which has ended in her romantic story of his family's as-story of Robert and Clara in the it was taken for granted that being one of Britain's "film sociation with the cinema world. 1880's--the story of an ardent fession. So far as I was con- Mrs. Israel Davis has been the and inspired young composer, a cerned my own musical achieve. leading spirit in their enterprise, Some details of the new con- while her husband and four sons wondrous girl pianist and her ments have satisfied me so little All the that to me they have been a life- cern were given to a Press Asso- have been concerned in its man-curmudgeonly father. ciation representative by Captain agement. Mrs. Davis's business world knows the lovely music long martyrdom.

"I can truthfully say that I have Alfred Davis, who has been close-career started in 1910, when her into which Schumann poured his

never, positively never, husband Mr. Israel Davis then a romantic feelings. ly connected, with the negotia- builder, saw the possibilities of

rather played a single piece to my own Eugenie Schumann's

I could not play tions. The new company is to the cinema, and built a theatre naive book gives us the sequel of satisfaction.. be called the Gaumont British at Highgate. After it was finish the romance. Poor Clara! She like my mother, and yet I could

not play differently." Schumann Picture Corporation (Ltd.), and ed he gave it to Mra. Davis to run paid dearly for it.

died insane at 46. The first son, as a hobby. it has acquired four of the best "She made such a success of Emil, was lost in infancy. known London cinemas-the it," said Captain Davis, "that he Ludwig, the second, grew up in Marble Arch Pavilion, the Shepwent on building, and put up nine body, but not in mind. herd's Bush Pavilion, the Laven-cinemas in different parts of Lon-young man he had to be interned, don,. including the Marble Arch Pavilion, erected three months before the war. During the war, when the four sons were in the In addition to these, 18 other Army, five of the theatres were theatres, in various parts of the sold. Afterwards the Shepherd's country have been taken over, and Bush Pavilion was built and she the new combine has also achieved even greater success, acquired the interests of the W. being entirely responsible for the and F. Film Service, film dis-i control of the theatres and book tributors, the Ideal Co., film dis-ing the films. Each son looked tributors, the Gaumont Film Co., after a different department, un makers and distributors of films,der her supervision." and the C. and M. Co., acquirers The International Merchant of films. Each will operate in- Bankers, Ostrer Brothers, direc- dependently, continuing under the tors of the Gaumont Company, The sisters were not quite so same management.

are behind the deal.

luckless. Marie was the domestic The managing directors of each Mr. and Mrs. Davis intend to one. Elise was independent, and concern will be on the Board of retire shortly to the country. Be-made her way as a piano-teacher.

She Directors of the parent corpora-fore they leave business, how. Julie was the beauty. tion, Col. A. C. "Bromhead and ever, they will have the honour of married an Italian nobleman and Mr. Reginald C. Bromhead, both receiving the King and Queen at died in childbirth. AR of the Gaumont Company, being the Marble Arch Pavillon when the chairman and managing directhey go to see the new British tor. respectively.

film, The Flag Lieutenant."

der Hill Pavilion, Clapham Junc- tion, and the Avenue Pavilion, Shaftesbury Avenue.

and he spent his last 25 years "buried alive," as his poor mother said, in an asylum.

be- Ferdinand, the next son, came a banker. He died after years of morphinomania. The youngest, Felix, was the only one of the eight who showed signs of a heritage of genius. The letters quoted by his sister remind us of Robert Schumann's letters in hist student daya, He was gay and dashing, poetic and musical, and his mother's darling. He became tuberculous at 19 and died at 24.

Eugenie, as her book shows her, was amiable, but not brilliant. Now and then she

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