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MUSIC DRAMA · FILMS.
MOVIE USHERING.
VOCATION WITH A' FUTURE.
SPECIAL SCHOOLS.
HOW DO WE LISTENT
Place of Emotion in Music.
NICOLAS MEDTNER.
Composer and Planist.
news,
It is now definitely known that When we speak of the place of Nicolas Medtner is to make his emotion in music the matter can be first, appearance in London next taken as having two aspects. The month. This is welcome first, the emotion flowing from the for while he is very little known composer and animating his music; in England, by many, he is con- the second, the emotion felt by the-aldered one of the most interest- Those hearer in listening to that music. Ing of living composers.
the on
it does . not reflection to
Movie theatre ushering has be- come a vocation in these days of "palaces" and "cathedrals" of the silver screen. Attendants are no It may be urged that the second is who are acquainted with his com- first, but positions. like to compare him to longer an inconspicuous, incidental dependent
require much Brahms or Hugo Wolf or other the part of the mechanism of
discover that German composers of the 19th An essential ele-this is not necessarily eo. century, but It would be well to movie house. ment in the decoration are the a-It is not difficult for a musician ac- refrain from all comparisons and well-tried effects try to appreciate his music for its Medtner is first and gures that stand about, statues-quainted with
and cliches of one sort or another own anke.
chamber music com~ quely; primed for service.
to concoct with tongue in cheek a foremost a composition which may have upon poser, since he has written only the musically inexperienced quite a one orchestral work-a plano con- certo as yet not heard in England. He has written many works for strong emotional effect.
However, this is entering upon a side-track. An interesting issue, the plano, eleven sonatas and about and one that has been the subject of thirty shorter pièces, to the maj a more or less systematic investi- ority of which he gives the ro- a great gation in Europe lately, is raised mantic title of "Fairy Tales." In personality. Ho writes on brond indirectly by recent references in these he reveals himself this column to the manner music's appeal to the listener. It lines and always works up to big would appear to be the general be
rhythms intricate, lief that in any good composition standing, clear, and beautiful, his two distinct qualities are present to impress the hearer: emotional modern and complex, and
always emerges with content, and technical skill; and characteristic of Medtner, that he that their appen! is-or should be case from the most extraneous
complicated in that order. The matter is, how- ever, not quite so simple. In the first place the extent of the lis- tener's musical knowledge and per- ception will. have an appreciable bearing upon it. Obviously one man may, thanks to greater musi- cal development, sec Sup-beauties where another would see
tendants, has on
The uniforms. they wear to-day have considerable to do with the new effect, but the uniforms alone Their do not make these men. snap and their air are the result of a required course of training. The material with which the train- ing school works is handpicked for manners and looks and then drilled into the desired shape.
One of Broadway's biggest movie houses, employing hundreds of at- its staff a form er top sergeant of the army, whose duty it is to put the new recruits through their initial paces. Under his instruction, they learn how ushers should hold themselves, how Between lessons they should walk. in military deportment are. lectures on courtesy and service. posedly scientific methods of seat- ing spectators have been devised and with these the embryo ushers These must be made familiar. systems, they find later, do not al- ways work acceptably to the patrons. But when attendants are taught how to handle human beings, they tend; it is held, tu' a more efficient filling of theatres.
scarce one.
of
a score of
climaxca.
keys
and
situations.
out-
His melodies are
his harmonies it is
the utmost
tonal
A Great Song Writer. He has written a few notable works for the violin, of which the most interesting appears to be the work and 2nd Sonata, a recent
heard in London at a recital last November. But Medtner is at But take for inquiry purposes an his best in his songs, of which ha hypothetical music-lover of experi- has written nearly a hundred. Some ence, good taste, and knowledge. of them are set to Russian words, Can it be said that he will react to and others to German (most of certain musica! compositions in them have English translations), variably along the same lines each and his choice of words fa, always time he hears them-that, accord- fastidious. The songs are written ing to his nature, he will either in a great variety of moods. Some thrill to their beauty in the first of them may be extremely gloomy, never dull. Their rich place or be impressed primarily by but are their cleverness? To assert that beauty grows on the listener, and would be fallacious.
if some of them appear difficult to The musical person will react to the average singer and
accom-
any of cachet to n many could not
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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Mustast
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16-Emmet
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house
22-Scraped with the
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24-Came together 25-An aga 27-Meadow 28-Exlatad
29-8tory
31-Lane 89-Musical noto
34-Near
36-Provide for
37-8lmmer
29-Poses
40-Parlod of time.... 42-A color
THE INTERNATIONAL BENDICATE.
VERTICAL (Cont.) 17-Wan
HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
44-Equivalence
48-Ringe loudly
47-Bhort sleep
|49-Rodent
80-Part of the head
B1-Follow 'stosely
69-Preto
56-To the rear
18-Furbearing animal 21-Parcel of ground 23-U.
24-Angry 26-Cognomens
26-A liquid 30-Falsehood
67-Move back and forth 82-A grain
59-Cut off
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14-Scorated
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96-A growth
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filing in the words of which you feci reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other worde crossing them, and they in tim to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(Tre solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new_cross-word puzzle.)
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The importance of clothes to the u-her's job is recognized. A tailor
a composition of consequence in panist, they are well worth master- is employed in the locker section different ways at different times. ing. It is remarkable that hardly to keep uniforms merded, cleaned
any of these exquisite songs have to the London and pressed. Each usher receives That is not anying merely that a
almost Nor does it means concert-room, as two suits when he goes on the bad liver may modify his powers of found their way
appreciation, job, one for daytime and one for that at different times he feels dif- them would give a
CINE NOTES. evening wear. Every usher is refereatly about the essential signi- programme, and quired to take a shower bath daily ficance or value of the music. Dif- fail to crente a sensation, Such
"Sunya," the latest Glorin Swan- ferent hearings may not alter his would be "Evocation," op. 29, Noson production, was selected for the before entering upon his duties. His shoes must be kept polished.
conviction that Beethoven's "Eg-7, or "Remembrance," op. 32, No. 2. Initial film presentation at the To many attendants their job mont" Overture is a work of out- or the wonderful "Elegie," op. 45, Roxy in New York. This latest ia of a represents no more than a living standing dramatic fire and passion, No. 1, or the joyful "Muse," op. 29; film of Gloria Swanson Some are college students using their spare time to finance their but it is more than likely that dif- No. 1, and many others, each of higher class and more suitable than! ferent aspects of Beethoven's treat- these a, veritable poem in music.
Mise appeared for some time. courses. Beginners are remind- ed of the possibility that some day ment will pre-occupy him at differ- His "Sonata Vocalise" has attract any in which the American star has ent hearings. It may happen ated the attention of several London Swanson appears younger than ever they may become house managers. The house manager of a leading one time that his excited mood is in comert-givers by its novelty, but it in the role of a wondering girl who
of his other eventually weds for love. But clever excuse in the form of Broadway movie theatre came up such exact accord with Beethoven's has not the interest thus through the ranks, having got music that he will fling himself, as works for the voice.
it were, into the emotional and
Medtner's music is complicated crystal globe gives her, the oppor his first promotion through a film dramatic current and make his way and its meaning not directly obvious tunity to show her wonderful critic's meation of his courtesy.
onward and upward with it, lost, te to all on the first hearing, but those talent as a temperamental opera all else but exultation. Let him who have learnt to appreciate its singer and the neglected wife of a by the Universal Film Company, has hear the work at a time when he is charm never tira of it, for it banker. Besides being an interest been received with keen interest in slightly less "wrought up," when possesses a captivating vitality and ing picture, the lighting and photo-Vienna. Although staged by an he can, so to speak, koep it at arm's great strength. One feels from graphic work are unusually good American company on the other length; and, while he preserves the first that Medtnor has master-and a credit to Albert Parker, who side of the ocean, what one sees on very keen awareness of and warmed his art and knows precisely how directed it. John Boles plays the the screen is truest Vienna. The love for the music's stirring power, to express what he has to say. part of the lover. He is attractive, story has been taken from a book
not entirely he may listen, a little more objec-There is nothing in his music that but
convincing. of Rudolf Hans Bartsch, the fam- tively. His mind might then travel is out of date, yet he stands apart Several amateur players, as Ray- ous Austrian novelist, which is en- Numbers of parents in Hong in some such sequence as the fol- from most contemporary channels mond Hackett, who plays Sunya's titled "IIannerl and her Lovers," Kong think gratefully of Baby's lowing: How well this overture of musical thought and continues brother, and André de Segurola, and Ewald Andrée Dupont gave it Own Tablets, and among them la drives to the heart of Goethe's to work on classical lines. He is the former Metropolitan star, who the genuine Viennese sir. In Aus- Mr. Pang Chi-hung, an employee drama I--Beethoven's characteristic yet more great pillar of is the wicked impresario, have trian film-land the first night, at- in the Arm of Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., who writes:-
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Flobelle Fairbanks, is good in a was an event of the first rank. "My baby daughter suffered what superb effects he can
amall role. This is her first bow "Love Me And The World In from teething paina associated from them-there, at that point, is
Mine" has also been shown in Paris with crying and fretful sleepless-a fine use of the woodwind-who
to the screen,
at the Omnia' Pathé, not a and perhaps hardly a useful one. ness, Her mother and I could not was it said Beethoven was
Sidney Olcott, who have a peaceful rest at night in genius of the orchestra?-weak- In regard to the "Egmont" Over- consequence. But after we ad-
beat accents, how Beethoven loved ture, I have relied upon hypothesis Dempsey, has returned to
only partly, since the reaction to filma. On her marriage to the then Rudolph Valentino's greatest suc- ministered Baby's Own Tablets to
them. the child she immediately became
On yet another occasion one of this work of one obviously some-heavy-weight champion boxer, she cess, "Monsieur Beaucaire," is go- soothed, sleep came to her and she showed no more pain. Since then these considerations, or stiil a fur-thing of a musician were recorded was granted twelve months "mar-ing to England pe chief director of whenever she has been unwoll ther one, might occupy his atten- in the recent inquiry I have men-riage vacation," although she was the new company, the British Lion with stomach ache, vomiting, purg- tion predominantly. But at the tioned. The point calling for re-still held by contract with First Film Corporation. Although con- ing or fever, I have given her same time there will be within him cognition, as I see It, is that such National Company. The Alta which sidered as American director, Mr. Baby's Own Tablets and less than an awareness of, and response to, reactions by musical people are not will herald her return is a sense-Oleqtt is an Irishman. Mr. Edgar one vial has always cured these the power of the whole as well as the simple, hard-and-fast, and tional and original story called Wallace is chairman of the new ailments. She is now plump and the power of the part.
readily definable things sometimes "The Whip Woman." Hollywood company and Mr. S. W. Smith, active and beginning to talk."
To attempt reproduction by supposed, and that Inquiries as to filmdom has given a warm welcome formerly of the Napoleon Films Baby's Own Tablets are sold by 25, Wing Wo St. Tel. C. 1116, all chemists, or post free at 60 medium of the written word of mind how music appeats-or, inversely, not unmixed with amazement at Ltd no longer existing-is man-
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