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WORTH
EXPERIMENTING
(By C. A. LEJEUNE).
BRITAIN SEEKING LEADERSHIP.
Conference Of Artists In Practical Trade.
DESIRE FOR PRE-EMINENCE.
“DEGRADATION” ON NEW ART PIECES IN
LONDON STAGE. Young Producers' Draw "Cartel"
The Gate Theatre is getting very [solemn.
COLONY.
Komor and Komor Have Fascinating Pieces.
A "cartel" has been form. It is remarkable that sometimes ed of the young producers, who an immense success on one stage turns out to be a failure on the
For the first time in hlatory de- understand the new form which the corators, industrial artists, and de-art-of-the-theatre must take." signers from all over England,
"The theatre still remains at the next. In both theatres an all-star Scotland, and Ireland met in Lon-stage of a Royal Academy picture of cast may be at work and the un- don for a three days' conference the last century the period for the
to discuss the present state of Bri- deepest artistic degradation in the lucky theatre-manager has no other explanation for his fallure than the tiah industrial design and internal whole duration of our era." furnishing and decoration. This And so on, very gravely, for two different taste of the public in the important conference, organised pages.
different towns. He might be right, All the same, the Gate is doing but very often the real reason of by the Incorporated Institute of A fortnight ago: two Germans brown youngsters, fit as athletes, British Decorators, upon the initia-"something of value," and may walked into the offices of the swimming, diving, punching the tive of its president, Mr. Henry G. therefore be excused when it im the lack of success of the play lies British Travel Association in Lon-ball, throwing the ring, squatting Dowling, took place at the Paint agines it has some connection with on the stage itself. «
It is beginning its eighth Nothing is more important in the and talking world-ers Hall, Little Trinity Lane, Sinai.. don. They were officials of the in the sun
season with "Hotel Universe," "by Doring Filmwerke, of Hanover, politics-and slowly growing up to E.CA. and they had come, without any shape the course of the new Ger- other knowledge of England and many.
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During the mornings an inter- Philip Barry, and other plays to be pruduction of a play than the de- esting series of lectures was given produced, are: "London Docka," by coration of the stage. In pre- the English language than a road- I don't know whether this would by different authorities on decern-William Reupke; "Bifur," by Simon Shakespearian times, any decoration map, to make a film of the British make a good film. I only know that tion and industrial design; and Gantillon; "Mind Products Limit was still unknown and the actors Isles. It was August; the hotels it would be an honest picture of a during the afternoons visits were ed," by Charles Duff: "Peter's had to act on a bare plank... What were full, the roads and railways peculiarly interesting phase of
paid to important works and build. Parade," a Christmas Revue; "Peri- at the height of the summer traffic; contemporary life. This interings, such as a visit to the Mau- cles, Prince of Tyre": "I Hate Men, a development since then! A scene half of executive England was protation of the nations to onion House, when the party was by Peter Godfrey "Peer Gynt decorated by Prof. Rheinhardt is in (Ibsen); "Hinkeman (Broken-its every detail a work of art. A away on holiday. But the film had another is one of the few really received by the Lord Mayor and
Ernst Toller: "The little cabinet here, a dainty vase brown)," by to be made; it would be shown serviceable things that the cinema conducted over the building by Birds," by Aristophanes; "Deno there make the whole ensemble at throughout German-speaking Eu can do. If we are ever to have a Mr. Sydney Tatchell, F.R.I.B.A., rope, both in the theatres and non-united Europe, even in name, some the architect responsible for the theatrically, and on the liners of thing of the kind must be attempt-recent renovations. The lectures the Norddeutscher Lloyd; it might ed. And every interchange of good had the merit of being very short, lead to a bigger job next year; and techniciana, every foreign com-for four lectures were given on it was up to the
British Travel ment on a national viewpoint, is a
one morning, including one by Mr. Association to see that it was well definite step towards that end. done. The railways were asked to
co-operate, and a car was provid-
ed; hotel accommodation arranged) for, and routes investigated; 'a working film director was sent out
with the visitors to see that they
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COWARD PLAY GETS RECEPTION.
"Words And Music" Is Due In London.
goo," by Jules Romains; and "Tear tractive and fascinating, may even
Lenin," by Francois Forche.
TOLSTOYAN FIGURE.
help the play to success.
What is true on the stage, con- cerns also your home, A room. overdone with articles, a wrong
C. L. Stocks, on "Practical Steps re- Perhaps Hauptmann is best piece in a wrong place, may spoil Art Pre-eminent." Mr. Stocks is ers," which is, one of the series of sant home. Of course, experience quired to make British Industrial known in England for "The Wear the banauny of an otherwise ples- Assistant Secretary to the Trea- plays he wrote dealing with the life is needed to point out if something -
In Ger- does not harmonise with your home, sury, and was a member of Lord of the working classes. Gorell's Committee upon Art and many his name is generally associatif a piece is too much or on the Industry. The subject of his laced with his play "Before Dawn," contrary, missing in your room. If SA violently you want your home to be pleasing got the best possible facilities, and
ture provided the keynote of this which was attacked a six weeks' tour of London, the
conference, and it is significant there as the first Ibsen productions to everybody's eye, it is only advis South Coast, the West Country,
Mr. Noel Coward's revue "Words that artists and designers are be- were attacked in Engladd, Haupt- able to buy in reputable shops, Norfolk, South Wales, the Lake District, and the industrial North and Music," had a great send-off at coming alive to the fact that what mann has now, of course, become a where every exposed piece in taste- the Opera House, Manchester. One we call art and beauty in the patriarch, and, at the age of sixty-ful and where the experienced sales- was finally drawn up..
feature of the first night was the things of everyday life are in-nine (he will be seventy if Novem: man will help you judiciously in This outside viewpoint on
A walk through Komor & Kemor's Art atore opens to you the gates of country is an extraordinarily value number of distinguished American separable from economic industrial ber), is a fine Tolstoyan figure of a your selection.
Aladdin's cave of treasures. You able one. Quite apart from the theatre people who, on hearing of production: further, that the de- man. question of foreign distribution, the occasion, immediately went to signing and planning qualities of
In the authe artist are essential to econo(Continued from previous column) see there not only Chinese Works of there is a great deal to be learnt Manchester to be there.
upon the notable recommendations art, but the wonderful Japanese by putting ourselves into the other, dience were Lord and Lady Charles mic recovery.
It may seem almost revolution-made in the recent Gorell Com-masterpieces, which you missed for Cavendish (Miss Adele Astaire), fellow's hands... He is apt to see Miss Edna Ferber, the authoress of ary to suggest that the artist mittee on Art and Industry, it is some time, are there again And It is only by what an agreeable surprise, when so much that we miss.
"Show Boat" Miss Lynn Fontanne should have the organising mind; most opportune. cases out of ten, he sees clear through to essentials. A film made and Mr. Alfred Lunt, the leading but this precisely is what he has, planning, or, in other words, de- looking at some beautiful piece of England by Germany, may not players for the Theatre Guild, who if he will only use it, for by his signing and ordering every depart which especially attracts your eyes, be the England that we know, but so delighted London some years gifts of visual intuition he is able ment of social life that we can you discover that it costs but $1 or to apprehend a residual efficiency hope to win through to prosperity. so. If you really enjoy art and it can be another England just as ago in "Caprice.?
It is with Miss Fontanne' and Mr.or inefficiency in an object. This And in this the decorations of the beauty, do not miss a vizli to Ko- real. A good photograph of one-
Lunt that Mr. Coward will be actis given in the watchword of this home, our furniture, our fabrics, mor's, who always extend a hearty self is always apt to be a shock..
ing next. as he is due to appear with conference, which is "Art for In-and everything we use, should pro- welcome to all who appreciate bean- False Deductions. I spent my own holidays in Ger- them in a commedy of his own writ-dustry's Sake" and, following vide the atmosphere for the alert tiful collections, whether buyers or
of a topical ing, in New York, after Christmas (Continued at foot of next column), and ordered mind. many in the wake camera-man, and heard all his This will certainly be one of the hosts' perplexities about the com-chief features of the coming Ameri- monplace things that he would and can season.
In nine,
the beautiful things that he posi- Meanwhile, Mr. Cochran is, think- tively declined to shoot. Since Iing out his cast for "A Winter's came back to London I have seen Tale," due in Manchester at Christ- his "rushes," and nearly every mas, and in London shortly there- Mr. Coward will stay on in time he was dead right. Not quite after. every time. Shortage of film and Manchester, to put in another fort- shortage of time, forced him into night's work in perfecting the per- occasional false deductions. Heformance of his revue, although Was there days when he should, there did not seem on the first night| have been weeks. He had not time to be much need of tightening up.
One feature of the cast is the to get into the everyday life of the people. But he was right to shoot number of young players who are since they the restaurant and not the denk- already old-stagers, mal; to hurry past the beauty-spot have been in the business since where Goethe meditated and focus childhood, like Mr. Coward himself, on the feet of a bunch of dancers; Miss Doris Hare, who scored a big to represent the Brocken not by success, is one of these, Mr. Romney its stunted trees and its witches Brent is an American player who and Mr. Harry Price's, magic circle, will certainly delight London when but in the smoke and wheels and "Words and Music" comes to the
Adelphi. bustle of its heroic little train."
He has done a number of things on the New York stage, and
Making A Nation.
The Germany that I, 28 afone of his principal feats was in the foreigner, know and love has never part of Young Gobbo, in the "Mer- Nobody would yet found its way on to the screen. chant of Venice."
It would be a film of the school-suppose that the player of that part children growing up under the could be the hero of the evening, traditions of a thousand-year-old but, according to Mr. Lunt, that provincial town, and gradually was what occurred. A glimpse of breaking away from them; ao Mr. Brent's work will confirm the lenger quite hemmed in by the opinion. little streets where the cow-bélis Jangle of an evening, the nursery. gardens with their heat beds of annuals, the kitchen gardens fall of the hot scent of red currants; the tiny children still with their precise. greeting,, the elder ones a
Low-Price
Theatres
There is no doubt that theatre
little sheepish as for the sixth time prices are beginning to come in the day they bow and shake your down. Mr. Leon M. Lion showed hand. And it would show the the way by boldly cutting prices young brown-shirts in the market square selling their papers; they half for the matinees, and the crowded swimming pool in the success of this experiment, ha
evidently persuaded, other manag- afternoons when school is over:
ers to put a timid foot into the
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Mr. Novello, for instance, has decided to reduce the prices of the stalls, from 12s. 6d, to 8,9d. The Gaiety is only charging 74. 6d. and for stalls (there are 500 6x;
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