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struments of percussion-not (By H. E. Wortham.]

mere Russian or Chinese exotle- London, July 2. by giving, us, under the hands and

Time was when Mr. Edward Next Thursday marks an event feet of a practised performer, its

Michael, the "Scamp" whose without precedent in the close re- own version of the great masters. lations of many centuries which And when one listens to a player tramps are duly recorded In the volume now lying before me Britain with the like Denyn, who has developed the Tramps of a Scamp," T. Werner have Netherlands and Flanders. On genius of the carillon to a degree Laurie Ltd., 218.), was as familiar July 4 the carillon for the tower nover before attained, one realises of the new University Library that -an-instrument which unites a figure during the "grand" seasons of opera at Covent Garden as any- building at Louvain is to be de- such splendour of sound and sup body. We all knew him well. But dicated, and thenceforth, for the pleness of utterance can say things I take leave to doubt if any of us first time in history. English bells that have hitherto lain outside our who in those far-away days formed will, hour by hour and day by musical experience.

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day, shed their beauty over These are the high points of a little club of tittle-tattlers, as it Belgian town. This recognition of bell music. But not its least were, in the hall or foyer of the the excellence of English bells in charm and influence lies in its be-Royal Opera, ever realised the ex- tent of the travels of Mr. Michael. what is the home of the carillon ing able, through purely mechani. He seems to have travelled royally, has been generous and frank.cul means, to mark the flight of as indeed he should have travelled, The Chevaller Jef Denyn, to whom the hours with chimes wherein for was he not the next best thing renascence of the carilloneur's art simplicity and elaborateness have to the King in Patagonia, of all in our own time has been chiefly been indissolubly united. How places! But I have no intention of due, and whose Monday evening much of the unique fascination of writing here about Mr. Michael's concerts at Malines have constitut-Bruges, resides in its

lives.

Belfry

adventures the wide world over.

ed a precious musical experience chimes, which in their repetition For this turn Covent Garden is for many thousands of English hour after hour create an atmos- aufficient, though the Patagonian and American visitors every sum phere that every leisurely visitor experiences of this theatrical mer, will give the first recital upon to that city remembers as long as manager, company, promoter, im- this latest addition to the great he

presario of opera, would make and famous carillons of Belgium. IMPROVEMENTS IN TUNING. material for the libretto for a It could not have a more distin-

True, some of the amall bella first-class comic opera. It le with guished sponsor. M. Denyn has

are out of tune. Those in the his musical experiences in London, long shown his appreciation of Bruges carilion date, I believe, and especially in Covent Garden, the work of our English bell-found-

the eighteenth cen-that I would deal. mainly from ers, and the fact that he will intury, when the secret the Hemony Browsing through these pages is augurate the new carillon is only brothers possessed had been lost. a little like meandering through one more proof of the esteem in It is the improvements in tuning, the churchyard of one's memory. which he holds their skill. He which have been carried out by Many, many are the reminiscences has, indeed, already given the im- one or two of our leading bell brought to mind. Patti, in the tiny primatur of his approval by com- founders in the last thirty years, bonnet once so familiar. Minnie. ing over to Croydon and playing that have given them the practical Hauk as Carmen, Sir Augustus upon the instrument last May, monopoly they enjoy to-day. The Harris, Nell Forsyth, the friend of when it was inspected by the Bel- harmonica of a bell are particular- us all, Calve-all and many more. gian and American Ambassadors. ly uncompromising, and unless the Many, too, are the incidents record- So this gift of English bella to the partials are accurately in tuneed, most of which accounts will be Belgian people from the engineers with the strike-note the effect pro-new to the present generation, of America should cement those duced can be to put it mildly-though they are familiar enough to feelings of international good will most depressing. The pioneer in my own. which music, of all the arts, is this matter best able to express.

BELL CRAFT.

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was Canon Simpson, Here is a "criticism" new to me. who in, the ninetics first drew at It is descriptive of a singer once tention to the acoustic reasons why a very familiar figure at Covent It is, of course, gratifying to us some bells were more agreeable Garden. (This, let me observe, is that the craftsmanship of our bell than others to the ear, and his a guess, on my part, for no name founders should receive interna-name deserves to be held in is mentioned, but the shoe fits.), tional recognition. No suck belle honour. As the result of his re "Last night Madame -made her as our two or three leading bell searches our beli-founders set to debut as Aida. There were icicles founders can now cast have been work, and now no bell leaves on the pyramida and skating on made since the Hemony brothers either of our two great foundries, the Nile!" That surely in the flourished at Zutphen in the middle one of which is at Croydon 'and bluntest recorded notice of A of the seventeenth century. But the other at Loughborough, with singer's début (and what a picture those Englishmen who have learnt out the hum note being a perfect it leaves), save only that which re- to love the music, of the carillon, octave below and the nominal acorded the bare fact of "Hugenots ns it could once only be loved, perfect octave above the strike again" in 1 season at Covent through prolonged residence in note, whilst the tierce (a minor Garden- many years ago, when even Bome Dutch ar Flemish city, will third) and the quint (a perfect Meyerbeer's admirers became rest- welcome the generosity of the fifth) above the strike, note are less at the constant iteration of Americans in giving, and the mag-also in tune with the strike note the opera.

In describing "the meeting of cepting, an English carillon, rather There is one other point about an informal opera club" at Covent for the additional Incentive It the New Louvain carillon, the Garden, where Neil Forsyth, the should give to the establishment largest incidentally this side of the general manager of the house, was of carillons.

Atlantic, which deserves mention.wont to preside, Mr. Michael talks

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the whole play. is rich not only in drama but in knowledge; and if Myra scems a sorry heroine, well, apparently the "culture" of New England small-town life has some- thing to do with It.

Mr. John Gielgud played the part of Jacob quite beautifully, and Miss Ffrangcon-Davies did her best for this American "child of Nature." A number of local male types were presented with art and humour; and Miss Lila Maravan, as a Jewish servant, acted a little scene with Jacob at the end of the first act quite exquisitely. The parts of Myra's mother, and of a quite horrible little sister called

There can be no more humanistherto the physical strength re- of "one of the most amusing types ing influence over a neighbourhood|quired of the carilloneur to de-among the critics" (and there than the music of bells. We have press the keys has always been were some curiosities in the days long led the way in the practice considerable. Now for the first of which he speaks) "was a sar- of change-ringing. Only in Eng-time electro-pneumatic action has donle individual who called himself land can

Не one hear the splendid been brought to the player's aid, the Comte de Nevers. peals which are the pride of so and the force required to strike was, of course, no more a Comte many of our towns, and even vil the larger of the Louvain bells is than I was." Was he not? I re- Inges, is well to know that the provided by mechanical means. member the sardonic individual Jacob Slovak, a Polish Jew, and Lola, were also played with notable prejudice which the carillon used Those who have ever tried to play well. He wrote, if memory serves, Young Myra Flint, a small Ameri-effect by Miss Muriel Aked and

He has Miss Ursula Hirst. to excite amongst bell-ringers has a carillon will realise what an im- for the "Saturday Review" for a con farmer's daughter.

The reception was enthusiastic, now largely died away. As the portant Innovation this is.-"Daily goodly length of time, and I do not genius, she none; he has seen "the carillon becomes a more familiar | Telegraph!"

remember that his title of nobility world," she has never been beyond but though the author was "called"

her town, her father's fields, and she did not appear. The in- instrument up and down, England

was ever questioned. there must be already about a

formal club was something of an the chapel. And their story ends

10,000 MILE RACE. dozen 'in the British Isles, and

institution, and crities and officials in a vast futility, for he is a Jew London, which already has one In

were much more free with their and she-a Gentile.

The two motorists who pro- Bond-street, is shortly to have an- Members of the Gray's. Inn Denews then than they are now.

She longs for him, gives herself other and larger installed at the bating Society sat in judgment in These "Tramps of a Scamp" pro- to him, and refuses to marry him. Pose driving a light English car new Regal Cinema, opposite the the Gobelins Restaurant on a re-vide vastly interesting and amus. When she finds she is going to be from Singapore to London have been challenged to make a race Marble Arch that prejudice cently-produced British film, "The ing reading, and if some of the a mother she gives herself to a should disappear entirely.

Ware Case," the greater part of memories revived are a little pain- local suitor of her own race, Bo of the adventure by two local re- which is taken up with depleting a ful to us of older growth, they may that he may marry her and be sidents who are arranging to use

a Continental car of similar pow There is no real antagonism be- coroner's inquest and a trial for well prove very attractive to alleve the Jew's child his own. er. There is also a possibility of tween the two. Change-ringing murder at the Central Criminal newer generation who knew the She explains all this to her mother a third car being entered.

truly great. artists only from the with a frankness as pronounced as route chosen entails a journey of will always remain a characteris- Court. tically English way of emphasis. After an animated discussion the historic standpoint.-R H. L. in her moral erudity. The illiterate, 10,000 miles under extremely ing joyous and important occafilm was pronounced by all the ex-" Daily Telegraph." aions by finely-balanced team-perta present to be without re-

FOLK-TUNES.

"TRYING" A FILM.

"PREJUDICE.”.

THE JEW IN USA.

The play "Prejudice," by Miss Mercedes de Acosta, presented at the Arts Theatre Club, recalls a

The

unimaginative ignoramus of a girl difficult conditions, and will con- has, Indeed, a cunning of her own.stitute a world's record in long She thinks herself a child of Na- distance racing.--"Straits Times.” ture. At any rate, she has not the courage to face the prejudice against the Chosen.

THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. work, a way that of its kind is proach from a legal point of view. The carillon, unique.

on the 'Phone 2232.

Mr. E. L. E Rawlins, vice- other hand, is definitely the mak-president, said that the counsel

Lord Somora, Governor of Vic- ing of music for music's sake shown really looked like counsel.

toria, recently opened the State Sir music, too, which in the truest Their little mannerisms, as well as

So the play ends with their part-Parliament at Melbourne. senav is democratic; It stands at those of the judge and the court

"Your child will be of my race!" elected Speaker. once as the expression and the officials, had all been studied from

ing, and with the Jew's last threat A. J. Peacock was unanimously

mouthpiece of the sturdy

This is a fine scene--and the une loyalty of the people of the Low Mr. Christopher Shawcross, hon. familiar complet by Mr. Kipling immediately before It, in which Countries. An Instrument benuti secretary, added his tribute of ad- on the East and West, "they never the girl's cunning mother had of New South Wales, will leave for fully adapted for playing the miration for the demeanour of the shall meet." The scene is a small people's songs and hymns, it has prisoner, Impersonated by Mr. township in New England, and its saved Jacob from the fury of the England this kept alive amongst the Dutch and Stewart Rome.

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