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The good old French-Canadian songs, richly har of the rhyme characterizing the old country songs

monized and interpreted with taste, have always enables him to render them faithfully. met with great success, but one has to hear them resulted in an inspiring emulation among his friends mentioned above, who have entered with enthusiasm rendered by several voices to enjoy their fullness of in interpreting the songs indigent of the Province peotry and music. In order to present such songs of Quebec. in their most artistle, setting the Canadian Pacific

The programms rendered at the Festival by the Railway obtained the services of Charles Marchand Bytown Troubadours, consisted of songs by Amédéa and his famous Bytown Troubadours for the Folk-Tremblay, Oser O'Brien, Paul Larose; Alfred La- song and Hunderaft Festival, held at the Chateau liberté and Maurice Morimot Fierre Gautler has Frontenac this spring.

arranged these songs for several volces, doing so This quartet was founded at Ottawa in 1820 by with such skill that even greater charm has been Mr Marchand and the friends who seconded him drawn from the old harmonizations. Mr. Gautler in bringing these songs before the general public came to Ottawa in 1920, after a brilliant career in are: Fortunst Champagne, second tenor; Emile Bou- France, as professor of piano and harmony. cher, tenor, and Miville Belleau, basso,

The Bytown Troubadours is a unique organization

The leader and founder of the quartet was a la musical circles on the continent. Every member former chorister of the Basilique at Offawa. He is is imbued with the true spirit of French-Canada, en- an ardent interpreter of the old French songs and in ahling a faithful interpretation of the songs of their the very soul of the quartet. His profound knowledge forefathers.

'THE MIRACLE.”

LONDON PRODUCTION NEXT YEAR.

MR. MORRIS GEST'S PLANS. "The Miracle," Professor Max Reinhardt's spectacular play which has been performed with great suc- cuss in Amèrica, is to be seen in London next year.

Mr. Morris Gest, the American producer, who is in London to ar range with Mr. C. B. Cochran, the manager of the Royal Albert Hall. Д "Daily for the production told

greatest Mail reporter that his

build difficulty lay in finding a ing large

enough the cost of staging the play.

Lady Diana Cooper, who has play ed the leading role in thentres all over America, is to do so in the London production.

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"It is the intention of Mr. Cochran and myself to produce the spectacle on the elaborate lines which have made it successful in America. The Royal Albert Hall is the most ideal building I have seen for the purpose, but it Is Impossible -owing to the fact that 1.300 people own seats in the hall-to make it The building has to be con- pay. verted into the interior of a great cathedral, the audience sitting in "cloisters" to watch the perform-

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Olympia in December 1911 Its re- ception was at frat disappointing. The beauty of this wonderful spec- tacle was not: generally realised until articles in "The Daily Mail" drew the attention of the public to one of the most remarkable produc- tions ever seen in Britain.

The result was that the former-

NAVAL FILM.

FALKLAND ISLANDS AND

CORONEL BATTLES.

BRITISH ENTERPRISE.

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SIR PHILLIP GIBBS NOVEL

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land Island battles at Malta (says) Reuter). While certain parts of experience in the life of each the film are being prepared member of the audience, there is tudios in England, the scenes of so much unavoidable sorrow that ships at sea must be filmed afloat. the Stage does well not to add to Consequently, the company's repre- it," writes Mr. Fred Terry, the sentatives proceeded out to sea on board one of His Majesty's ships, famous actor, in the "Humanist." watched gunnery and torpedo prac. tices, and filmed cruisers, carrying out full calibre firing, and other various minor scenes and incidents The story excited much comment

on board British ships, before, dur upon its appearance in book forming, and after battles.. because of its bold theory regarding the high stepping and generally jazz-mad living of modern smart set families. Gibbs contended that youthful fast living does not mean that the younger generation is lost Before the final reckoning comes Gibbs held, youth sobers into nor malcy, and saves not only himself, but the older generation as well.

Dolores del Rio, the fumed Cas tilian beauty, has a striking "vamp" role in this picture.

"In London-in America--in the wife provinces-everywhere-my and I have found that Romantic Drama, such as we present, has a very great appeal. The audiences in different places are of vastly In the course of the Fleet's exer- different types, yet the attendance The superior but in cises, endeavours are being made to is uniformly good. enact various scenes representing critic sometimes sneers,

The London, and, indeed, all over the stages in the two battles. ships of the modern Navy differ world, the great public loves to

appearance from the live in the past for a few hours. widely in older classes which were engaged in the twe actions. Most of the films, however, will be taken from a posi tion ahead of the ships, so that they will appear "end on" to the camera. This manœuvre, combined with the judicious use. of funnel smoke, will go far to cover discrepancies in the historical accuracy of the scenes.

The appenance of ships in action -

by the firing of small will be nowder charges from the muzzles of charges fired in positions on the guns to represent gunfire. Small will represent bursts of enemy shells and outbreaks of fire, while water round about will be pro- the splashes of shells falling in the| duced by throwing overboard small buoyant explosives fired by a time fuse. The work of filming the bat- the scenes la expected to take two days,

deck

MISS DOROTHY GISH.

"It requires a cast of 10 stant Nymph," in the film version of The part of Tessa in "The Con- formers and an orchestra of 100, so that the 2,100 "free" seats would Mias Margaret Kennedy's novel, al- not pay for the orchestra and the ready so successfully dramatised, stage hands. We shall bring over Gish. It had been suggested that will be played by Miss Dorothy our scenery and elaborate eller Elizabeth Bergner, who plays this but the converaton of the building for the play will cost more than role in the dramatised version in £50,000. I hope it will be possible Berlin, would secure the coveted to obtain possession of all the seats Alm part, but negotiations which in the Albert Hall, but I am also have been going on since Miss Glah looking up a number of other pos completed her work on "Madame word clinched by sible buildings.

Pompadour" "The play has been seen by Trans-Atlantic telephone and Miss

THE APPEAL OF DRAMA. 3,600,000 people in America and Gish is expected to return was playing to a nightly "house" of London in June to begin work.

"Of late years people have had 6,800 in Los Angeles.

This will be her fifth British plc-

a lot of tragedy in real life, and ture.

entirely to forget their Nr. Basil Dean will be associat- want. cd with the making of this film, troubles. For this reason, they do sonic of the exterior scenes for not wish to see tragedy behind the which will be taken on the Con- footlights, and though the best "It will be recalled that when tinent, but the bulk will be pro- money-drawing play is generally 'one which recalls some personal "The Miracle" was

presented at duced in London.

"It has been definitely settled that the play shall be produced in Lon- den in a year's time for a three- months run-even if we have to build a tent for it.

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