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"HELEN" AND AFTER. the weakest point in the opera." IF WE BUT KNEW."

*

THE REAL VALUE OF TRADITION.

RETURN TO CLASSICISM.

and

The situation is artificial,

· Strauss's music harmonised in sixths has a homely, folk-song cast, which fll-supports the bold asser- tion of the poet that it is right that men should perish for so great

ANDREW SOUTAR · AS PLAYWRIGHT.

MAGAZINE-STORY' METHOD,

[By F. Bonavia.]

11 loveliness. Folk-song and John Corbeen................ Franklin _Dyall In a speech made after the first melodies of a folk-song type are Lady Cynthia Corbeen. Mery Merrall performance, of "Halen in Egypt" nearer to philosophy than to strik- Marquis of Marlington to congratulate Richard Strauss on ing tragedy; they suggest or deal

A. Bromley-Davenport the success of his new opera, the with events with the glamour of Mrs. Greenlarch. Helen Ferrers Dolores Greeniarch. Phyllis Thomas | GeneralIntendant of the Dresden distance and the past; they are Duchess of Hassocks... Tonio Bruce theatre, Dr. Reucker, emphasised less opportune when the call la Aubrey Tamarest. Reginald Gardiner the value and the glory of the for present and urgent decision. Brough Randall ... S. J. Warmington

Harold Pearce musical tradition of the city. He The whole scene in which the poet Mr. Schmidt could easily have gone further and show how the beauty

of Helen Otto claimed that the opera itself was fires the fancy very young men.Maid an outstanding example of the is handled by Strauss with his ac Miss Davis

Footman ... value of tradition, In music, in sat-customed vigour, but also more ting, in stagecraft. After the roughly than any operatic tradition romantle opera of Wagner, Verdi, or convention can justify.

Mr. Andrew Soutar's is a name and Puccini, the neo-classicism of AN ADMIRABLE PERFORMANCE to conjure with among people ad-

Tradition has its weakness and dicted Strauss and Hugo von Hofmanns-

to tho magazine-story

Producer

A. Scott-Gatty Henry Adnes Henry Fielding Margot Barff .... Dorothy Peters Hector MacGregor Reginald Bach,"

thal may appear an Innovation, also its advantages. Undoubtedly habit; and it was interesting at As a matter of fact, It represents the most admirable performance the Comedy Theatre to see how a return to the time when nothing owed much to the tradition that his magazine-story method fitted which was not classical interested holds the conductor responsible (or, at moments, failed to fit) the either composers or librettists, not only for the orchestra, but for Strauss is the fourteenth composer all that has to do with music writer a man needs a strong sense stage. To be a magazine-story who has been attracted by the ad- Herr Fritz Busch's yoke, may be of situation and a certain imper- ventures of the Queen of Sparta, very gentle one--but no one darea viousness to reality. The first is even though he is the first to folto question it.

the accepted custom romantic ora.

Whether he con-

to success.

However, for the sake of plea- take the credit

santness, let me side of the ledger, first. Mr.

low her as far as the Atlas Moun- ducts Strauss or Mozart," "Helena tremendous asset to him when he taina. We know at least by name in Egypt" or "Coɛl Fan Tutte turns to play-writing; the second

is a dangerous quality, more · like-i -Handel's "Tamerlane;" some hia Indications are obeyed Im- twenty other composers set the plicitly. No prima donna dares to ly to betray him than to carry him same story. Of the heroes, of the hold a note a shade longer than Trojan war, Ulysses was chosen as necessary, well knowing that ja subject for opera by twenty-five should she attempt it she will be

composers, Paris by twenty-eight, left all alone to finish her cad-Soutar's feeling for situation has and Achilles by nearly fifty. So once as best she may. that in going to the classics to The most obvious advantages are enabled him to present what is day poet and composer only follow realised when the knowledge that generally known in the trade as a of the pre-a high tradition for excellence and "strong" play. It has given him, enterprise has to be maintained moreover, the ability to write for The phenomenon does not aur- sends those responsible for musi- Mr. Franklin Dyall a "strong" prise us since, however changed cal performances to seek the best part, in which that very fine actor the aspect of the world, however performers of our time and the simply revels throughout three deep the wounds a world war-may best composers of all ages. It was eventful sets. In the first act Mr. as a tremendously inflict, the elemental process of no doubt. this knowledge which Dyall is seen

successful financier, who lends flux and reflux, of action and rese-added to the repertory of the Dree-money to the deserving, refuses it tion, ebb and flow can never be den theatre Verdi's "Macbeth," as

to the fatuous and the greedy, and altered. We have to choose be well na Strauss's "Helen in Egypt adores his young wife. The young tween passionate ardour and dig-and to the repertory of the season wife adores him, too, but alas! hity, between romance and law, which is being given in Leipsic

she has a past. Long before she between an exciting and a staid Handel's "Alcina," as well as mode of lying. But in reverting "Fledermaus." It was inspiring to knew John Corbeen she went away with Brough Randall-oh, a dread- to an old theme Strauss and Hof hear the chorus of the Leipsic Stful young man. And so she must

sing Brahms's mannsthal have nevertheless given Thomas Kirche

now take the pearls John has proof of great courage. Strausa la "Fest und Gedenkspruche" in a reported to have said that he look-manner unsurpassed for blend and given her to a money-lender as

a loan security for

to Randall. ed upon the classical world with quality of tone, for it meant that And In the second act we find that

great tradition the eyes of Goethe, and if Strauss another

the maney-lender is John Corbeen said this he was again wall with- worthly upheld. It was also himself, disguised as an elderly in the tradition of the opera com- gratifying to learn that the pre-Jew. You see the terrific situa poser who asks of the poet that he sent Kanter, Dr. Straube, is a should open for him the door lead-great admirer of modern English

Was

tioni.

You see also the imperviousness

FRIDAY, JULY 20, 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,)

13

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26 27 2.8

129

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121. 152.

133

133

38

139

21

42 43

40

144

45

46 147

150

52

51

HORIZONTAL

OTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,

HORIZONTAL (Cont) | · VERTICAL (Cont)

1-What U. 8. generat) 37-Ordinary manner | 18-What is an offering

was killed by

Indians in 18761 B-What Insect was

sacred in ancient Egypt? 10-Combining form.

Опе

11-And yet

12-What is dread

mingled with veneration?

· 13-A wharf loafer

(eland) 14-Harrow

18-A gnome

17-Article (German) 15-A fish

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20-A elit

23-Belf 24-Period of time

(p1-abbr.)

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as A. MEAnn Di learning them 29-To bear the expanse of

of doing or acting 38-Insect

39-Marah

to God, a in fulfilment of n vow?

40-To bring to grief 20-Aggrieved 41-A apigot

{44-What Is a breadth

30-What was the naṁoj of Mohammed's unclat

31-Opened (poet) 5 32-In what country did

tha bolero,

dance, originats?

33-A serpent 35-Wrong

of planking or

plating on a

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46-An Aslatio

ruminant

48-Te urge to motion 49-Sooner than 50-To place out 51-To terminate

82-A torn and hanging

shred

VERTICAL 1-What is a reator's

aselatant?

2-Girl's name

3-To take & Ecat

A settled 'habit

5-in slang, what is

liking or fancy?

6-What is A

sheepfoid?

7-A roe (Best)

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9-in front of 11-Cont skirta

14-Grassy surface-roll 15-To erect

a

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and adjectivam 24-Truly

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27-What, la a service

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bandages

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American RevolutionT

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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issus along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

to reality. In real life people ART AND SCIENCE. don't do these things; in magazine atories-the kind of magazine stories which Mr. Soutar writes so

A NEW THEORIST.

SATIN

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ing to the magic world which is music, some examples of which he to inflame his imagination. But has performed with conspicuous there is a difference between the success at the Gewandhaus, young Goethe at Weimer surround- We may compare "Schon giant ed by all that the intellectual der Saal," In "Helena," with "Hail, successfully-they do nothing else. Mr. John Redfield, Lecturer ti capital of Germany had of most bright abode," in "Tannhauser," In real life Lady Cynthia would the Physics of Music at Columbia | choice and exquisite, herald of a and either rejoice that tradition have recognised, what was plain to University, suggests in a large great new era and the composer should bring forth such flowers or any intelligent member of the au-volume of over three hundred with a long and successful career deprecate its inexorable hold. But dience at

В glance, that John pages that there is a scientific behind him coming after an era of to avoid tradition altogether is to Corbeen was exactly

DEO the kind of aspect to music, and that in ap- great achievements in music. It is plunge into chaos. He is wisest man to whom she could safely tell proaching muste from the scientific the same difference as oxists be- who uses It adroitly, emphasises ail. She would undoubtedly have alde we may find the solution of tween a firat blossoming and its strength, and shuns the traps told him all, and deprived Mr. problems which so far have elud- wherein It catches the casual, the Soutar of his play. As it is, when ed our efforts. Let us say at once weak, and the weary.-"D. Tele--after hours of agony-she does that in the course of his researches graph."

Iate harvest.

WHAT MUSIC CANNOT DO.

SCHUBERT PRIZES.

SAILOR TAINT

THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

forgotten. If Mr. believes be

can beat only to do 80

There is, moreover, the new

tell him, he merely makes quite Mr. Redfield has made some not- knowledge, the wider culture of the

aure that the affair was over before able discoveries. But a certain public to be reckoned with, for

his marriage, and has not been re-scepticism is inevitable in the case inevitably opera cannot exist without the exp-

newed since, and then remarks of a subject as wide as harmony, Redfield port of the mass, and the cultur-

"What of it?" or words to that Not long ago Signor Gentil's Stradivari, he has ed masses are apt to look with

ENGLISH AWARDS.

effect. This is no doubt very sen- "Nuova teorica dell'armonia" pur-and gain a fortune. In the same critical eyes on the marriage of

sible and understanding of him, ported to treat harmony also from way his theory on the construction music and a classical theme. The judges in the Schubert con- but it reduces Lady Cynthia to an entirely new, logical, scientific of trumpets and tubar should be There are things music cannot do, test have lost no time in coming to little better than an idiot. How standpoint.

Yet it did not affect put immediately to the test of ac- artifices which are the special pro- a decision.

The same applies to over, It seems they like them silly in the least the course of music, tual practice, and we feel sure that vince of the poet thoughts which the American judges, who have in the magazines.

Mr. Redfield holds out a fine pros- no prejudics will be allowed to fit the rhythm of words so perfect awarded the American prizes to Miss Mary Merrall plays Lady pect of finer instruments, of such stand in the way of the musicians".

gratitude. Mr. ly that they become gaudy, if not Charles Haubiel, an assistant pro- Cynthia as if she believed in her, violins as Stradivarius dreamt of whole-hearted ridiculous, when they are forced on fessor at New York University; to which proves that she really is an all his life but never succeeded in Redfield is obviously not the art. to the rhythm of music. The sub-Loulé Gruenberg,

He pleada prominent! actress. I

Mr. A. Bromley-Daven- building, of pianos perfectly tun-jist, but the scientist. ject of Helen, for instance, has ap-modernist, and to Frederick port, as Lady Cynthia's quite deed, of orchestras and bands where mostly for bigger tone, more per- pealed something which in a brief Stahlberg, long associated with finitely imbecile parent, wanders the balance of tone will be ab-cussion; he longs for jazz. Instru- line says more than any musician Victor Herbert: In the case of in and out, and is always welcome solutely even. But it would not ments to be employed in the sym- can say in one whole act. Leaving Great Britain, the judges, Sir Hugh and always amusing. Mr.. 8..J. surprise us if, in spite of all these phony orchestra, for the Homer and Goethe aside, one need Allan, Sir A. C. Mackenzie, Sir Warmington, who specialises now allurements, the world went on in phone, which, attached to the or-

Thomas Beecham, Sir Walford a-daya in gentlemen who love and the old bad ways,

chestral bells, "furnishes music of only recall Marlowe's line:

Was this the face that launch'd Davies, and Professor Donald ride away, is calmly unpleasant as There are certainly assumptions a tone quality so ethereally sweet

a thousand ships,

Tovey, selected works by Frank, Randall Miss Phylla Thomas in Mr. Redfield's volume which do as to quite equal our dreams of Merrick, of the R.C.M., Manchester, struggles gamely as a "modern" not inspire confidence. Is it real. what angel voices might sound and once familler as pianist in our girl, but Mr. Soutar does not un- ly true that the defects of the vic Bike" All this may come to paes concert rooms (who completed the derstand the type, and gives her lin are due to the vested interests in time, but somehow we do not And Paris slept on by Seaman-"Unfinished" Symphony); 1. St. A. no chance. Mr. Reginald Gardiner of dealers, and that civil on-feel attracted by the new instru- Johnson, and Havergal Brian for a plays a small part excellently, and ginéer capable of designing a sus-ment, consisting of eighty-eight metal tubes, "with to see how impossible it is for a Gothic Symphony. Sixty-six worke Miss Tonio Bruce, Miss Helen pension bridge could construct a generating musician to suggest in a flash what were submitted. It will be of Ferres, Mr. Henry Adnes, and Mr. violin better than Stradivari's? corresponding resonator tubes, and the poet suggests the stern hor great interest to learn how these Henry Fielding deserve mention. We have not heard of civil en aach resonator with a revolving ror of the Trojan war, the tragedy works are placed in the ultimate The play, was well received; and it gineers attempting it; but surely vibrate disk"-at least not "for of dead Paris, who so much had list, which will be promulgated will be interesting to see how long 3r. Redfield is not ignorant of the household purposes."-F. B. dared and lost.

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