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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.

TWO YOUNG MEN.

WORLD OF ART.

BUSINESS ROMANCE OF STAGE LIFE.

THE RISE IN PICTURE VALUES.

1877 £262; 1927 £12,600.

"Valuable Pictures," from vari- ous sources formed the subject of the sale at Messrs. Sotheby's In mail week, when a total of £36,- 418 10s. was obtained.

SKI SEARCH FILM.

BLAZING TORCHES AMID THE SNOWS.

Produced in the Swiss Alps, a' Two young men who began a

new German film trade shown at business partnership a year ago in one room and with a joint

the Marble Arch Pavilion, W., under the title of "The Wrath of capital of £100 have just taken

the Goda," contains some remark- over the Savoy Theatre, W.C.

They are Mr. C. Egerton Kil-

able and exciting pictures of ski- lick and Mr. Victor Payne-Jen-

ing contests and some extra- ordinarily beautiful ones of a nings. They began to make

Of this sum $13,000 was given search-party of men on skis cross- money over theatre bars, cloak-

Foxing the snows at night with blaz- rooms, programmes, and so forth. by Messrs. Gooden and Now they have acquired from Mr. (with Mr. Ernest Permain as the ing torches in their hands. The

three effect of this is breath-taking. Robert Courtneidge the remain-under-bidder) for the der of his lease (8 years) of the quarter length portrait of Mr. Savoy Theatre and thus become Thomas Henry Rumbold, as a London's newest theatrical man-young man, by Reynolds, which was painted in 1788 and exhibit- agers.

ed at the Old Masters Exhibition at Burlington House in 1887.

"Mr. Courtneidge still retains an option to produce plays at the theatre from time to time," Mr. Killick told a theatrical cor- for respondent recently, "but the most part, we shall now be in control of it. We shall sub- let it for suitable productions and, we hope, also produce plays

ourselves,'

LONDON'S NEW THEATRE.

London, April 10. London's newest theatre, which will not be open to the general public, is now almost completed. It has been built by the Arts Theatre Club as a place where there may be produced regularly for short runs with professional castes new plays and revivals.

From the architectural point of view the new theatre is of

A exceptional interest.

some what old-fashioned building, with a shop looking out on Great Newport Street, has been cleverly converted by the well-known architect, M. P. Morley Horder, into a theatre with a stage fully equipped with a grid and other accessories, stalls and circle to accommodate about 300 people, and attractively decorated club rooms. Considering the paucity of the space available, only the most skilful planning could have accomplished so much.

Mr.

emblem, designed by MeKnight Kauffer, to symbolise the object of the theatre, the walls are plain. In the auditor- ium the audience will not be dis- tracted in any way, either by the light which comes from a diffused panel in the ceiling, or by any ornamentations.

This is a record price at auction for a male portrait by Reynolds.

In the Raeburn family's sale (May, 7th, 187), the portrait of William Scott-Elliot, of Arkleton (b. 1811, d. 1901) as a child, by Raeburn, fetched £262. Messrs Gooden and Fox had to pay for it £12,600.

"The Wrath of the Gods" uses a slight and rather confused story as the framework for unusual Alpine views. At a health re- sort high up at the foot of snow- covered mountains a famous mountaineer and his young friend both fall in love with a young

dancer.

Caught in a storm at night while they are together climbing a dangerous penk, their rivalry is discovered. But the bond of friendship between them is so strong that the older man makes a heroic effort to save the young- From Mr. Ronald H. Campbell er one from death, and when this came Ben Marshall's "Portrait proves Impossible elects to die of General Sir Henry Frederick | with him. Campbell," which received a final The two men who play bid of £2,400 (Langridge). The chief roles are athletes, not late Hon. Mrs. Harriet Frances actors, but do their work quite Baillie Hamilton sent a portrait well. It is the girl who is less of Lady Almeria Carpenter, convincing, though she is grace- which has traditionaly been at ful and pretty; her motives are tributed to Romney, but is more never clear. probably by Hoppner. This fetched £820 (A. L. Nicholson),

In 1764, Romney painted a three-quarter length portrait of Mr. James Wilson, a councillor of Kendal, Westmorland, for which he received a fee of £8 8s. Mr. R. H. Heaton gave £760 for the canvas, which came from a des- cendant of the original sitter, Brigadier-General W. G. Braith- waite. In the property of Lord Vernon was "Head of a Woman in large white ruff,” attributed to Vandyck, which made £2,100

(Asscher).

£2,625 for Marble Plaque. At Messrs. Christie's

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"The Wrath of the Gods" con- tains a great many scenes that are lovely and some that are posi- tively sensational. It is, too, re- freshingly unlike the average film.

£10,000 FOR ETCHINGS.

The auction of 50,000 engrav- ings, woodcuts, and etchings, in- cluding the work of Albert Dürer and Rembrandt, has attracted a cosmopolitan crowd of experts and dealers to Leipzig. Mr. Campbell Dodgson, from the Bri- tish Museum, and his colleagues New York, are among those who from the Metropolitan Museum,

have been following the sale.

There was a great fight for a splendid. example "Adam and Eve," which was of Dürer's finally knocked down to Mr. Wunderlich, of New York, for

£2,500.

Another interesting feature of Fifteenth Century Italian the building is the simplicity of white marble plaque, scalp the decorations. With the ex-tured in low relief with ception of a quaint symbolical the Madonna and Child, ascribed to Desiderio da Setting nano, fetched £2,625 (Huggins) It belonged to Viscount Ednam, and was originally purchased in Italy by his grandfather, Wil- liam, first Earl of Dudley.

Mr. C. Leicester-Warren's pro- brandt etchings was £10,000.

The price paid for 30 Rem- perty included a set of five Two magnificent examples of Faenza bottles, which The London County Council has originally in the first Lord fixion" and "Christ on the Mount were Lucas Cramach's art, "The Cruci- not given a licence to the theatre, de Tabley's collection. The of Olives," will be brought to admission to which will be avail- set

made £1,680 (Bacri). London by Mr. Colnaghi, who able only to members of the Club From an anonymous source bought them for £1,350 apiece. and their guests. Among the came a Herat carpet, with a vice-presidents of the Club are: bold design of coloured panels, Dame Madge Kendal, Sir Gerald du Maurier, Lady Wyndham, Mr. Henry Ainley, Mr, Arnold Ben- nett, Sir Barry Jackson, and Miss Sybil Thorndike.-Observer,

ALBERT HALL ECHO,

foliage, and trelliswork on dark blue ground, which realised £1,575 (Watson).

MISSING RUBENS FOUND.

An interesting announcement is made in the "World of Art" page of A cabinet of Louis XVI. de- the "Daily Telegraph." "Christ as sign, belonging to the Earl of the King of Martyrs," by Peter Bessborough, and originally in Paul Rubens, the missing picture the collection of Lady Charlotte Twelve Apostles in the Prado Gal- Schreiber, made £504 (Andrade). lery, Madrid, has been discovered in Catalogued as the "property of the possession of Mr. Henry S.

from the famous series of the

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

CROW STAB. PLANE

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The Royal Choral Society sang Haydn's "Creation" at the Albert a lady" were many fine examples | Roche, who acquired it abroad Hall under Dr. Malcolm Sargent. of Dresden porcelain. These in- about a quarter of a century ago. Anyone who is curious about cluded a set of six saucer-dishes, Mr. Roche, who is a very old reader the celebrated Albert Hall echo painted with Chinese figures in of the "Daily Telegraph, invited. should choose a seat in the fourth colours, on a gilt scroll pedestal, that paper's Art Critic, Mr. R. R. Tatlock, to inspect the picture, row of the "K" stalls, where introducing small panels of land- which was at once identified as the the whole thing was heard scapes, which fetched £1,165 10s. missing Rubens, twice over.-Mr. Joseph Farring- (Vollmann). The day's total ton's bass solos particularly was £16,058 8s. 6d. clearly.

Art Gifts to the Nation.. The effect lent weight to the The dispersal to national muse- ingenious suggestion that medie-ums of the collection formed val polyphony had its origin in by Mr. F. Leverton Harris marks the echoes of the great Gothic an event in the art world. Mem- cathedrala. The Albert Hall arch-bers of the National Art Collec- as fond of tion Fund and of the Contem-- itect was evidently canonic device as César Franck porary Art Society are being in- himself.

vited to inspect the collection. "The Creation" is charming | Mr., Leverton Harris' majolica music, and no wonder the choir forms the richest private collec- enjoyed singing it. Miss Noel tion, and this is being presented Museum, Eadie was the soprano--a pless-to the Fitzwilliam ing, fresh volce but wanting a Cambridge.

other little in solidity. Mr. Walter articles are several XIV, to XVI. Widdop and Mr. Farrington (who Century Gothic statues left to the came out with a surprisingly fine Victoria and Albert Museum; and low D in the famous phrase the Fanny Burney books are left about the sinuous worm)did well, to the British Museum.

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War thoughts have been centred on Hankow during the past week. General Chiang Kai-shek was reported to have captured the city some days ago, but although it seems fairly certain that he intends to move against the Communists at some time or other, no confirmation of the fall of Hankow is forthcoming. Latest reports, in fact, have it that the Hankow-ites are coming out to fight the Chiang Kai-shek faction. Developments leading to the present curious posi- tion in China's military and political fortunes--or misfortunes -are fully described in this week's "Overland Mail." ready to-day.

Chang Tso-lin, too, is strangely situated. As usual, he is saying little, but it seems that some of his military forces have suffered reverses, and that the Nationalists are moving, albeit slowly, in a northerly direction towards Tientsin and the capital.

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