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MUSIC · DRAMA FILMS.
LIGHT COMEDY.
Adventures of A Night.
London, August 27. "Counsel's Opinion," at the Strand, is great fun. The author, Gilbert Wakefield, has got hold of an amusing and unhackneyed cen- tral situation, and has handled it brightly. Without aspiring to wit, he achieves genuine brightness of touch, and with an admirable cast
THE PROMENADE CONCERTS.
A Vaughan Williams
Night.
London, August 20.
A Criterion Theatre Production.
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which makes one ache sten to look and, so we concentrate upon. The tale of illicit passion in oddítios of social history on the leg-of-mutton elcevés Is further account of parlour diversions, the garnished with period songs at the field sports, such as bicycling, and plazio, period firoworks, a view of a the taboos of that England which. "THOSE NAUGHTY NINETIES, Pleasure-steamer on the "Thames, was just about to brace itself for whiskers, beards, roloshes, and athe Boer War. Miss Mary Jerrold vintage motor-car as, explosivá as has a very large part, and plays It daliberate in its mode of progress. admirably. Mias Thea Holme, who Sir Nigel Playfair has produced comes to London from the Oxford the handiwork of P. Savage Graham repertory company, fully justifies and Ronald Simpson, and Sir Nigel that promotion. Miss Pamela Wil- has in the text 'all the toya "which ins once more asserts her nice London, August 27. he knows so well how to man bense of character. Indeed, it is It is diflcult to agree that the "Those Naughty Nineties," pro- palate. The question is whether all, Very prettily dono. The play is one-composer programmes so freduced at the Criterion Theatre to- forty minutes of this charade will not the thing; it is the caverlet quently given at the "Proms" this night, is as the title suggests, more not be, ample. During the second which counts, and this the players foar always justify themselves, but of a playful salute to a period than act we begin to fool that such uphold with a pretty flourlah-I. B. it was gratifying to find to-night a seriously intended drama. There pastiche should be a short-term in- in Manchester Guardian. that Vaughan Williams's music is a little story about the bad girl vestment, but fh the third art when nowadays attracts a sufficiently of the Ealing family who actually the tea party at, Ealing has brought A cuttlefish, 2 ft. in length and large audience to justify a concert entered the Divorce Court, and no all the local dragons on parada" the having 8 tentacles, has been washed of his works. It is also interesting had her parents knocked on the amusement is ropewed, and we up at Blyth.
how the public reacts to genteel invitation list. to book teas would all have,welcomed encores for to see
The 844th anniversary to help him he contrives a first-rate different composers. To-night thero and picnics at Pinner. But the such dittios of the accomplished
was a tempered but obviously sin people are mainly pege for clothes, young as "Will-o'-the-Wis" and "A birth of Virginia Dare, the first evening's entertainment.
cere enthusiasm that characterised and the action is mainly an excuse Little Bit of String."
white child born in America, was Hubert Logan, a rising young the composer as much as his listen- for a nice array of aspidistras and The dresses turn out, of course, observed with a celebration at Old burrister who specialises in divorce ers. It is good to ace a reticent, gas-globes and lace curtains and to be strangely up to date, The Fort Raleigh, in Dare County, cases, returns from a holiday in fastidious, and genuine artist grow-the kind of drawing-room furniture contrast here is a few years too late, North Carolina, Italy to find London -fog-bound. Failing to get home, he takes re- fuge in a big hotel. A fancy-dress dance has been going on in the hotel, and most of the revellers are fog-bound. The hotel management appeals to the chivalry of the male guests.
Logan, however, is tired and cross. He has a bed and intends to sleep in it. Chivalry is in abeyance. Even when a dazzler in Restoration dress makes her way into his room and begins a devastating campaign of femininity, Logan puts up a game fight. But he makes the bad tactical mistake of falling in love with the invader. Alas, poor Logan! The couch in the sitting frame, room receives his while the lady sleeps soundly on his bed and in his dressing gown.
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The programme was admirably devised. The jolly "Wasps" Over-t ture set it going with a swing. to Brahams's "Academia Next Festival" It is the best music ever) written for undergraduates" function. Next came the mystical] "Flos Campi," which the composer Mr. Bernard conducted himself. Shore played the viula solo beauti- fully, and the Wireless Chorus filled in the wordless, almost instrumental voice parts with the most musician- ly discretion. This work will never have a vogue: it is too uniform in in expression, colour, too austere and tooЯuid in form to lay hold of the hearer's mind very closely. But it takes its place in contemporary
something with music fragrance all its own, something no ather musician of Britain could The Indignant Husband.
have given us. A medieval artist" Next day Logan seems likely to would have matched it somehow, reap not the reward of virtue but but there again, though the spirit the whirlwind. There appears at might have been the sume, the his chambers Lord Mere, an indign-technique and idiom would have and husband, seeking counsel's been utterly different. Mr. Keith!
his opinion on case, for divorce. Falkner sang the "Songs of Travel" Lady Mere, it seems, had gone to
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had been fog-bound in un hotel Logan's hotel; and a man had been seen leaving her room iu the morn ing. Alas, poor Logan!
But you need waste no pity on Logan. By the end of the evening the lady is honourably his-though Mr. Wakefield gives him some bad half-hours first..
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Sir Henry Wood's performance of the "London Symphony" was one of Pig's Chitlings the finest ho has achieved this scuson, and the orchestra responded with evident delight to his enthus- iastic but never extravagant, care-
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