1930-08-01 — Page 11

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1930.

THE

MUSIC DRAMA · FILMS AMERICANS CHINESE

AN INTERVIEW IN E] CARUSO'S HUGE

FLAT.

Signor Gigli Sings His Replies:

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WIVES. COLLIERY AS TALKIE May Receive Visas for

STUDIO.

Earl of Dudley's Hope.

I interviewed Signor Benlamino

A Inwsuit over Caruso's will re- The Beggeridge Colliory near Gigli in E Flat, writes a Dally Ex-veals that the royalties on his phono Wolverhampton will shortly be vir- About £200,000 in royalties has graph records are tremendous.tualy turned into a talkie studio still to be distributed to the famous

when coal-face and pit-head scenes, ure filmed and recorded for The Stronger Sex," a new Gainsborough talking picture which is to have coalfield backgrounds.

Caruso is said to have made £250,000 from phonograph records. Gloria Caruso, his daughter, aged 10, has abandoned her claim to two-thirds of her father's for-

press representative. This Itallan. singer, who has been hailed as the second Caruso, has arrived in Eng-tenor's heirs. land to sing at Covent Garden. He has brought with him a wife, a re- tinue of thirteen, the most hideous tie in Europe, a superb sense of humour, and a merry, go-as-you- please manner which would give Chaliapine a fit!

tunc.

the U.S.A.

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By an Act of the Congress of the United States, approved June 13, 1930, it is now provided that Chin- ese wives of American citizens who were married prior to the approval of the Immigration Act of 1924 which was approved May 26, 1924,|| may now receive, visas, to proceed to the United States, provided con- elusive preof of the marriage oc-

submitted. surring prior to May 26, 1924 is

indebted to the Earl of Dudley for The Gainsborough Company are affording them the necessary facili- application requires that the hus The procedure connected with the ties at the colliery which, moreover, hand execute a petition in which It is now announced that the de-is usefully adjacent to some pretty the essential facts of his citizenship cision of the Court of Errors and country settings, for the characters and marriage are set forth, and' to Appeals awarding her half the In the ilm are supposed to be living which there estate, in accordance with Italian near some attractive rural scenery.amdavits of two American citizens are attached the by her guardians. law, will not be contested further The Earl has also undertaken to attesting to the truthfulness of the

-secure for Gareth Gundrey, the statements, made

director of the picture, the assists

therein. This ance of his work-people who, with their wives, will appear in the film, particularly in the big scenes that have been scheduled.

A man in the film business **escorted me through the cacophony of Covent Garden in rehearsal On

The remaining half of the estate the-stage-ircrowd of Italians were-with-be divided equally between bellowing manfully and edging me. Caruso, Gloria's mother, the

tenor's two each other way from the front.

sons, Erico

and Rudolph Caruso, and his brother, Suddenly I heard, "Tra la la la. Giovanni Caruso,

boom tra la la.... cheeee!" I dived into a dressing-room.. A little rotund man with jet black hair, jolly round face, and no" con- ceit, was singing his head off..

"Signor Beniamino Giglee?" Tra la la dad di do boom. the name, he is Gueleé!! said the jolly little man,

"The second Caruso ?**

"Do dum di da tra la la wabananas...... yes!" replied the jolly little man,

Igaped at him. This funny little fellow with the gorgeous voice is treated like an emperor on the Con. tinent. He has a castle on the Adriatic he has a chauffeur, a school of secretaries, a pianist, a major- domo, a valet, an adviser, a wife.

His Gay Smile.

"One moment, Signor," I said,

Ta ta ta ta tee TUMmmmm.... what is it?" said Gigli

"want an interview, please

do ray me in so la si do," I replied meekly.

petition-is-then-forwarded-by-the applicant to the Commissioner Gen- phent of Labour, who is empowered eral of Immigration of the Depart

Incidentally, the Gainsborough

to approve or disapprove of such The estate consisted mainly of Company are to promote a whip-It is so endorsed and forwarded to petition. If the petition is approved the interest on the royalties on the pet race among the miners who phonograph records made by the will work in the picture, and are the American Consulate General and

These still have late tenor.

anto, put up a cup-to be called the viss to the wife of the petitioner.

Is the authority for the issuance of enormous sale, and only last week | Gainsborough Trophy. a new record was added to the

citizens attesting to the petition The regulations state that the two catalogue.

must be residents of the United States.

There has been prolonged litiga- tion, the phonograph companies re- Ittaing to accept Italian law as binding.

Pending n settlement, Gloria Caruso was awarded an income of $2,400 out of the proceeds of the royalties.

Gundrey will have further prac tical and useful assistance from the General and Technical Mana. gers of the colliery.

66 HAPPIEST MAN."

DIVORCE.

Gloria Caruso is stated to be giv- ERNEST LUBITSCH SUED FOR in every promise of having in- herited her father's wonderful vocal powers.

diffidence of a schoolboy. I have Interviewed singers of the "don't touch me, I'm brittle" class. but Beniamino Gigli greets you with a gay smile and "Wa wa wa wa What are going to Hasave?"

He has brought the breath of good human fellowship into that mauso He is charming! He has the roleum of temperaments-Covent 'putation of a monarch and the Garden.

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Ernst Lubitsch, the Alm direc- tor-they call him the Happiest Man in all Hollywood because of his perpetual genial smile-is in the divorce news*

His wife is suing for a decree on the grounds of "mental cruelty" which in America may mean a whole lot or nothing.

The petition must be executed before an American Comaul if the husband is abroad and must then be, forwarded by the petitioner to t United States for completion.

LAMERICANS FEAR THE “DOLE.”

British Deputation's Conclusions.

Impressions

Some remarkable Once upon a time Ernst Lubitsch formed by a deputation sent recent- was a comedian touring small Ger-ly to the United States of America man towns-he is a German. Then and Canada by the Industrial Wel- he turned film comedian, and then fare Society to study industrial con- film director.

ditions were given at a luncheon at the Hotel Victoria in London over which invernairn prealded..

Now he is one of the "biggest" producers in the world...

Mr. G. F. Holden, secretary of

Two of his most famous films in the days when Alms were silent the service department of the were "The Marriage Circle" and society, gave the following Impres- "Lady. Windermere's Fan." Hissions of the deputation:-- best-known talking film is "The Americanis misunderstood

and Love Parade."

feared the word "dole" and all that He is a great believer in attend- it implied, as they misunderstood ing to detail and in brevity. He our other institutions and social will sometimes do a scene a dozen movements, but the more intelligent times over because he considers realised that sooner or later various some detail falls short of perfec-forms of social insurance must find tion, and he says---

a place in legislation.

"Brevity is everything in a film. It was generally imagined that director. If I can't tell a story all American enterprise WAB, CON- In five minutes that it would take ducted on a large scale, and it was someone else ten to tell then I surprise to the deputation to learn am not interesting as a director." that, of 300,000 firma, only one per Ernst Lubitsch has two, hobbies cent. had not sufficient capital to in -work and listening to jazz music.troduce what we in Britain would

He considers jazz music the most regard as a comprehensive, welfare soothing sort.

scheme..

OLD MUSIC ON NEW INSTRUMENTS:

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The high labour turnover. staggering. The general explana-] tion was that the young employees wished to travel distance and "sce So much old music, chlefly British

iffe." In some firms the labour and French, has been brought out turnover was as high-as 150 per of hiding, printed and performed in cent, representing an appalling the past thirty or forty years that waste of time, energy, and material. most people know how good much Some claimed that it was not al of it ia. But It is heard played on together an evil, and that by con modern Instruments, which are stant change of jobs a man, by a quite unlike those for which it was hit-and-mias" method. found written, and the older instruments where he was best fitted; but the färe needed to bring out its beauties seriouanesa of the problem was re- properly. The power of a modern cognised, and many plans were, bo- plano kills some of the music that ing devised to stop the leakage. was written to be played by the There was some indifference to much more delicate harpsichord and pensions. Very few firms had even the violin changes the effect of them, and they paid them out of cur- music that was meant for viols, rent income. The contributory Moreover the tone of these old In-scheme was almost unknown. struments, lighter than of their. ...Working at Ninety. successors, is something too good to Some firms found it better to em- be lost altogether..

2ploy old men at some simple task More than forty years ago Arnold instead of sending them Into idle- Dolmetsch who, though he worked nesa 'and, as often happened, to an and still works in Britain, was early death. The National Cash French by birth, revived the play Register boasted of a workman aged ing of old instruments and not only ninety engaged in dismantling old found the instruments on which to machinery.

play, but set himself to make new The deputation also found that copies of the old ones-vipis, lutes, the general policy of firm's was to harpsichords and wind instruments, promote from the ranks About thirty years ago Henri Casadesus, of Paris, began to do

the same kind of thing and founded

the Society of Ancient Instruments have six strings; their tone has He collected old instruments and the much less power than that of a music which was written, for them violin but a wonderful sweetness, and, like Mr. Dolmetsch, got a group and, in spite of the stronger and of people to learn to play them, some more varied tones of the violins, and of them raambers of his own family, of the fact that many things can be and, as they are to play in Canada ddro on a Violin that are impossiblo soon, it will be possible to learn how one viol, the viole remained in use charming this rausleta in Its long after the violin had been In- original form vented and after many of the best The viols, which are the principal violins in existence had been made. fastrumants used. In this music, In the earlier days of the violin It have shape different from that of was rather looked down upon the the violin, with flat backs and slop-viol was considered the proper in- ing shoulders. The shape is that of strument for gentlemen to play, and the orchestral double bass, which is apparently most of them did so, the only viol still in general use. while the violin was thought it only They are of several sizes and usually for "common Addlers."

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