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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1932.

BROWSING AMONG

OLD BOOKS.

Some Rare Editions

Of Periodicals.

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£40 FOR DICTIONARY.

Magic Of Lighting At Vienna Opera

Foreigners Always Struck By

Striking Natural Effect

(By G. E. R. Gedye).·

THE CHINA

"However busy I may be, I can always find time to browse over the catalogues of the dealers in second- hand books. There is one before me, in which I observe that eighteen volumes of the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute together with a Foreigners are always struck "The Flying Dutchman," the job lot of Carnegie's Scholarship by the magic of the Vienna Opera "Woman Without a Shadow," Memoirs, can be had for the reason-lighting effects-the natural and Puccini's little opera able price of Afty shillings." writes drawing-on of dusk, the setting"The Cloak." It is very simple. Sisley Huddleston in the Christian of the sun, the rising of the On the transparent backcloth of Science Monitor. Here is Indeed a moon as the stars twinkle the skies are the beams of a cone bargain for those who are inter-through a darkening sky. To of light, finely focussed. Before ested in the proceedings of the Tron see how these miraculous effects the projecting lens a long glass and Steel Institute.

are produced is a privilege which strip coloured from deep orange

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I confess I am not tempted by it is not possible for many "toto white is slowly, drawn. that item, but I should dearly love enjoy. but a brief account. in Suit simpler is the operatic to send my order for the hundred-non-technical language of "how moon, as seen in Verdi's "Mask odd volumes of the Cornhill Old it works" may interest those who ed Ball." A tin box with al periodicals are always fascinating. have seen only the results. bright light inside, in front of it and there is perhaps noue that can Behind the scenes of the a strip of glass or transparent compare with the Cornhill Fancy Vienna Opera the place to make material, is lowered, and drawn, turning over the pages and coming for is the "Commando-Brucke" very slowly to one side. So the upon Thackeray's contributions, or the "Captain's Bridge." as it moon passes across the heavens. the poems of Tennyson, Browning, is called, from which lighting Stars twinkling through the Meredith and Swinburne!

How effects are controlled. The dark-blue night backcloth are

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Meistersingers."""

are

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wonderful to read Matthew Arnold bridge can be raised or lowered, simply cut out of it and illumin- and Leslie Stephen and. Robert or made to travel across the vastated from behind. If night Louis Stevenson as they were stage by merely pressing a draws on during the action, this originally printed. The stories of switch: its usual place is on the is not possible with a light back- Anthony Trollope. George Eliot, right of the stage.

cloth.. Tiny black containers Wilkie Collins, and Charles Reade)

On the bridge stands Civil En-with minute slits in front arc Aumewhere hidden in these) "volumes, and I belieye one

of gineer Albin Rotter, the man who owered on fine wires against the darkening sky and the lights Thomas Hardy's novels first came controls day and night, storm turned on. So the stars shine out in the Cornhill. Yet I will not sunshine and shadow, surveying forth in the second act of the write to the bookseller: first, be the deep alleyways of the eight cause I cannot afford to buy the flies of the front and the two at

Clouds and Skeletons. complete Cornhill, and then, be the back of the stage. In addi-

Clouds sweeping across the cause should not know where to tion to headlights and footlights put the volumes if I could secure he controls six searchlights-sky are actually born in a cylin

der containing a three-kilowatt them. I must content myself with two in each of the prosce-lamp. In this revolves a glass

boxes, and four in having made my literary mouth nium

the highest gallery. Their cylinder painted with the black Dr. Johnson's dictionary-the first beams intersect with the rays of shapes of clouds.

so prevent phenomena, as well as the pre- edition-is, I notice, priced at forty the footlights, and pounds. Far too much for me. On the casting of shadows. Four jection of the phantom Valhalla the other hand, h splendid library movable spotlight machines, be- in "Rheingold" and "Gotterdam- edition of the works, comic and hind the scenes travel around as merung" are controlled from the

"Captain's Bridge." " serious. of Thomas Hood, with all a singer moves, holding him or

In the "Tales of Hoffmann"

water.

'All these

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the original illustrations. in ten her always in their bath of light. Dr. Mirakel causes a skeleton to

stout yolumes is going for a single!

Tin Box Is A Moon...

appear mysteriously. This is sovereign; but then I have all of The greatest interest attaches (one of the newest technical mar- to the operatic heavens, where vels. It is painted in radium

Hood that matters in one slim

pro-

volume. To be sure, the sort of the sun slowly rises, the day paint, which is pale yellow like thing I want, and for which I can dawns, the hours pass rapidly to the figures on the illuminated pay, and for which I have house the sinking of the sun again, and dial of a watch in normal light- room, is rare; but I none the less the rising of the moon-where ing, and only flames up when ex- asaidgously peruse these catalogues in the hope of making, acquisitions, threatening clouds gather and posed to ultra-violet rays

lightning rends the clouds. Firstjected from a searchlight. All that will be a joy to me. As often let us watch exactly how. the these phenomena are worked in as not, when I am sufficiently tempted by the cunning title of an sun really rises and sets as we Vienna by a highly complicated old book to order it. I am dig-have seen it do from the front in switchboard with 160 switches, appointed. Sometimes I am dis-

appointed because it is already sold: RECKLESS CLIMB OF

and sometimes I am disappointed because it does not come up to my expectations.

ART EXHIBITS SHOW SEASON WANES. "One Man Shows" Are Finished In London.

London, Sept. 15.

HOSTILE PEAK.

"Kamet Conquered" Is

Attractive Book.

RAHERE PAINTINGS

UNVEILED.

Gatehouse Re-opened By Lord Mayor.

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Sir Francis Younghusband, in a“ The Lord Mayor of London, Sir foreword to this notable new book, Maurice Jenks, attended by the asks what is the secret of man's Sheriff, urge to risk his life climbing re- mote and hostile peaks.

"Quite certainly it is the power

unveiled in. Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, the Ra- here panels of the choir screen,

That the season, as far as art is the mountain has to force the best painted by Mr. Frank Beresford, concerned, has come to an end, a little earlier than usual, is indicat-out of man. Man. ikes to be his and opened the restored gatehouse. The paintings on the panela re- ed by the character of the exhibi-best. But often nothing short of a tions opened in late August. The Himalayan peak can extract it from present Incidents in the life of Ra- one-man shows have given way to him-can compel him to be his fit here, founder of the church and of miscellaneous exhibitions, the ma-

test in body, alertest in mind and St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It was terial for which is mostly drawn firmest in soul. So he is drawn to on the spot where the corpses of thieves and felons rotted on the elm the mountain. And the mountain from stock.

This does not exactly apply to

makes a man of him. And he is trees that Rabere placed the altar

in its present position in 1128. the "New Selection of Small Water: grateful. This is the true secret

of the lure of the mountain.”

In opening the gatehouse, the Colours by Well-Known Artists” at

|Lord Mayor recalled that in July, the Fine Art Society, to which con Sir Francis's insistence. on the 1930, it was condemned as a "dan- tributions have been sent by a num qualities required of the Himala gerous structure." It had now ber of distinguished painters who yan climber-technical skill, en ben conserved, and reconstructed approve of the idea that artists durance, comradely spirit, and at considerable expense. He hop- should adapt their charges to the above all, the moral strength essened that funds might be forthcoming country's economic condition and tial to sustained effort on a plane soon to defray all liabilities of the reduce spending power. The prices so remote and high above the world church owing to the unforeseen ranged from 4 to 10 gns., although that it is like a fourth dimension calls due to the devastating ravages the list of exhibitors included some is more than justified by Mr of the deathwatch beetle, Zeppelin of the leaders among contemporary Smythe's stirring account of one of bombs, and centuries of neglect water-colour painters, such as Sir the greatest feats of its kind in his- George Clausen, Sir

Charles tory! Holmes, John and Paul Nash, Rus- sell Flint, Sir Frank Short, Walter Bayes, and Charles Ginner. -

Peaks like Kamet could never have been conquered without long tralaing.

Before the gatehouse was declar- ed open, Sir William Llewellyn, president of the Royal Academy, unveiled a memorial tablet to Sir Aston Webb'; his brother, Mr. Ed- At the Beaux Arts Gallery was. The climber is ever threatened by ward Alfred Webb, and Mr. Freder to be seen a mixed "Exhibition of ice avalanches which Mr. Smythe fck Lionel Dove, who for many Paintings and Drawings by Emin- describes "cataclysmic in their mag years devoted themselves to ent British Artlats;" and at Mr. nitude;" and the range of tempera- conservation and restoration of St. Wilson's Gallery, in Ryderstreet, ture is fantastic as much as 250 Bartholomew's Church. an "Exhibition of Twelve Paint- deg. in one day.⠀ "At midday the! Ings," the selection of which re- sun's rays at great altitudes are

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flected credit on the taste of the sometimes" almost paralysing in (Continued from previous" column). organiser, although it must be con- their intensity, but when the sun | overcams âil obstacles says fessed that the chief interest was has set a coldness skin to the cold- for the cunning of its centred, not in the work of such ness of space comes to the upper

HOLT

and etd

"living, artists, as Walter Blekart world."

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and

the Screen.

CAST

Johnny Weissmuller.

Neil Hamilton

Maureen O'Sullivan.

Aubrey Smith,

Doris Lloyd