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MUSIC DRAMA ·

LIGHT OPERA.

ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT.

BRITISH FILMS.

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FILMS.

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BRITISH FOOTING IN GERMAN CINEMAS.

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Berlin-The Sud Film Company all but unqualified admiration for has, according to the "Vossiache the "Quota" Bill, about to be intro- Zeltung," passed into the hands of duced into the Legislative Council, British International Pictures. with the object of securing that a This is an important step, for certain proportion of the films ex- the Sud company has an organis- of atlon stretching all over Germany hibited in the Colony shall be British origin. The passing of the for distributing films. The tran Bill into an Enactment, says our saction signifies, says the "Voasis- contemporary, will put into local che Zeitung," that British Inter- recommendations of national Ploturca has now a footing the recent Imperial Conference, in German cinema theatres. practice the

which recognised that it was of the

I think good British pictures will greatest importance that a larger be welcome. In Germany, for there and increasing proportion of the are not enough German flims to films exhibited throughout the supply the needs of the theatres Empire should be of Empire pre- and the German public, is getting duction. "As In motor car pro-weary of films from Hollywood. duction, so in film production, the British International Pictures' is United States reaped a very great the new company which has taken advantage over the British Empire over the recently-built film studios during the war genre. We are in Hertfordshire and has engaged

Miss Evelyn Laye, Mrs. Carl Bris- son, and Mr. Jack Buchanan among Chaplin is to begin work on a

while Mr. other artists,

Sidney

picture in August.-"Daily Mail" correspondent.

INVERTIBLE COUNTERPOINT,

FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928.

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It might seem strange, looking at the enormous field which has been covered by musical historians |past and present, that so Interest Ing and fruitful a subject as that of light opera should have been averlooked.. There are books in existence dealing with one aspect or another of the subject, but it has been left, so far as we are aware, to Mr. Sterling Mackinlay to produce a volume tracing the origin and development of the lighter forms of lyric drama through the ages. Certainly he has gone about his task thorough ly enough. He takes us back to the drama of the ancient Greeks now catching up in the motor trade and the Attic chorus comedy, and, by sheer mechanical ability and while these may claim a certain tion, however, the psychological trading genius....In film produc- antiquarian value, it is only by a element enters. We cannot afford rather wide stretch of imagination the time necessary to counteract by sheer merit of production the that one can be persuaded to sec

disabilities under which we suffered in them the real germs of the art

during the war. For years, the form which he discusses.

American film interests have held When he reaches the era of Ita- the financial dice landed in their lian opera buffa and the Inter-favour. They have made a deter-

Writers of text-books are some- mined effort, and in the minds of mezzi, beloved by Neapolitans in many, not always a too scrupulous times apt to forget that the span the seventeenth century, his sur effort, to get complete control of of human life is a short one and vey becomes a trifle cursory, and every branch of the film industry, the average musician cannot, even the render may find it a little diffi- not only in the British Empire, but if he would, devote every day of cult to trace the development of throughout the world. They have his three-score years and ten to the light opera from one period to an been aided and abetted by financiers study of any one special branch of other. Over a couple of pages it who value control of films as a

his art. A command of counter- seems rather a leap from the elder supreme, Instrument of propaganda point is essential to the instru Scarlatti to Cherubini, and one in politics and trade."

mentalist, the conductor, the com might suggest that of the latter

This, as the "Straits Times" poser.

But it is not an end in composer's works, as also those of points out, has been fully appre- itself. The instrumental player Pergolesi, Faisiello, and Cimarosa, cinted by the Hon'ble Mr. G. G. and the conductor need to know he might have told us more, as Seth, the acting Attorney-General, its laws, for such knowledge alone showing the influence of their S.S., the framer of the new mea-enables them to understand quickly music on some of their successora, sure, who states in unequivocal the mechanism of any piece of So, too, with the enormously pro-terms that "the cinema is to-day music they may wish to interpret. ductive period extending from the most universal means through The composer finds in counterpoint Rossini to the Verdi of "Falstaff," which national ideas and national his most useful tools; yet other which, indead, is disposed of in a atmosphere can be spread, and the studies-orchestration, harmony, chapter that even embraces Wolf-Government of this Colony intends instrumental technique-have equal- Ferrari and Puccini's "Schiccht." to foster the growth of British by pressing claims. It is the With more space at his disposal he ideas and aspirations."

conspicuous merit of Professor would, no doubt, have found it The most important clauses are: C. H. Kitson's new treatise on in worth while to dwell a little on (a) a clause which defines what vertible counterpoint and canon the development of Puccini's style constitutes a British film and (b) that it extenuates nothing that is as exemplified in that score. a clause setting out as to how the essential nor sets down anything But it must not be thought that "quota" shall be effected, The lat- that students might attribute to a Mr. Mackinlay has scamped hister enacts that during the year teacher's pedantry, if not malice. "Miss Myra Hess played (Schu- work; indeed the whole volume ending December 81, 1928, after Professor Kitson's wisdom is not mann's pianoforte concerto) bears witness to thorough research, deduction of the footage of topical less apparent in the lucid exposition though inspired, with such technical and such curseriness in places as or educational or scientific films at of the laws governing invertible ease, beauty of tone, and emotional we have hinted at may be attribut-least 7% per cent. of the films ex. counterpoint than in his deter warmth as to lend the effect of ed to his desire to make his his-hibited in cinemas must be British. minution not to go further back recreation rather

than interpreta- tory as comprehensive as possible. The "quota" is increased to 10 per than J. S. Bach or in his refusal to tion to this ever-lovely work."' In the fulfilment of that aim he cent. during 1929, and thereafter include the "various curious kinds Thus apake the critic of the takes in such subjects as Russian increases by 5 per cent. until the

of canon that cannot be made "Musical Courier" in his account folk-opera, Swedish Sangspel, maximum "quota" of 30 per cent. musical by the average student." of the appearance of Miss Hess at Danish Syngespil-the German is reached. It is calculated

This is a sort of text-book which a Boston Symphony Orchestra con- Singspiel, of course, having a merely on total of film, but on total aught to be introduced specially in cert conducted, recently by Kous- chapter to itself-masques and feet multiplied by the number of those foreign schools where Cheru-

sevitzky. At the minstrelsy, ballad opera, and vari- times exhibited during the normal

bini reigns unchallenged. Cheru Arnold Bax's Symphony in A flat ous types of entertainment denot- hours' in the ordinary programme,

bini's style is as pure in music as was played, "a masterfully written" ed by the term burlesque, The As our contemporary points out. Addison's in prose. But the work,. "reminiscent of Sibelius in pages that deal with Offenbach are it seems possible that the ways and modern student cannot be restrict-its bleak mood and freedom from among the best in the book.

meuns adopted by exhibitors to ed by his dictionary. He

should sentimentality," Mr. Mackinlay disclaims any at- fulfil the law according to their be studied, not initated, and there Journal, tempt to make his list of compos- peculiar tastes may be in accordare teachers who expect students ers in the field he has explored arce with the letter rather than to imitate rather than to under- complete. Nevertheless, in a the spirit of the Enactment, but stand. One can give no higher volume which assigns a page and such idiosyncrasies pre, we suppose, praise to Professor Kitson than to a half to Sigmund Romberg it is susceptible to correction, and, pro- say that his volume will induce a little surprising to find no men- vided that the law la wisely and study and not imitation. tion even of Emmerich Kalman, tactfully administered, there should Kunneke, Louls Ganne, Sousa, or be no difficulty in achieving the Gershwin. (Apart from numerous goal at which it aims-but whether operettas, Ganne will be remember- any permanent good can be accom- ed as the composer of two of the plished by compulsion in a matter most popular marches of modern of this nature is indeed open to times.) And, as the book is sure disputé.-"Malay Mail."

to be widely read, the author may be recommended in any future Frequenters of the

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THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. edition to correct some errors. operatic performances will be glad | provinces in foreshadowed in a

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Oscar Straus-whose name, by the to hear that the authorities have letter from the chairman of the way, is twice misspelt-was. the decided to augment their usual New Century Pictures, Ltd., to composer of "The Chocolate Sol- orchestra by the addition of seven shareholders reporting an offer to dier not Leo Fall. Nor was the extra "strings," and if the audiences purchase the New Century Pictures latter the composer of the play are of sufficient strength during shares for £337,500, according to. called in the English version "The the first weeks of the season, and the Press Association, or £2 5s. Girl in the Taxi.". Rudolf Friml's provide the necessary wherewithal, per, share. first name is wrongly given as the orchestra for the production It is stated that the directors Charles. Further, a mistake oc- of "Lohengrin" at the end of of New Century Pictures, which curs twice in Hahn's first name, February will be increased to controls a chain of cinemas in Streatfeild is misspelt, and the thirty-six players, Incidentally, Yorkshire' and Lancashire, and has title of one of Offenbach's most na Miss Astra Desmond is about an issued capital of £150,000, re- famous operas given as "Orphee en to return to her studies in Italy, commend acceptance of the offer. ShirEnfers."

There are any number the role of Marguerite in "Faust," For each of the past three years of interesting portraits and illus-referred to recently will be the company has paid a dividend trations,

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