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MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Sometimes Spoils DOLMETSCH DIRECTS The Play

Dramatist's Work Unjustly Judged

THE IDEAL PERFORMANCE

Veteran Producer Of

Old Masters.

HISTORIC HASLEMERE.

A small but faithful number of enthusiasts, gathers once every year in Haslemere, a miniature town at the foot of the southern downs, to listen to the music and to the speeches of Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch,

London, (By Mall). ness in the play's structure, because who is nearly 80, bearded and pa- It is a truism that a dramatist's Ì it is un arbitrary cause, not a cause triarchal, a lover of music that is work is entitled to be judged by an jurising naturally from character. beautiful. Unlike the king who ideal performance. When we read a Or much greuter, importance than

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play such a performance may be the terms of the will is the problem never said a foolish thing and never freely accorded to it, by the imagina-of the future of Jessica's child. She did a wise one, Mr. Dolmetsch has said many a foolish thing, while his magination persuades Letty, in return for enotigh and enough knowledge of the money, to recognise the child as deeds have earned for him the grati- stage. But when we see a play in hers and thus give it legitimincy, to tude of all lovers of old music. He' a theatre, the blank canvas on which go away herself and to leave the is a man who, believing in his mis- a render's interpretative imagina-child to be brought up by Jessica, sion, has little patience with those tion may paint reely is occupied. who will never reveal her mother who do not share his views. Direct contact between dramatisthood but behave to the growing girl probably holds that Mozart is the last of the great composers, Cer- and audience is changed into con-{as an elder half-sister. tact of a different kind, and the

Strong Character,

tainly his programmes never reach as far as the nineteenth century.

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He is also a man of immense cour-

these neglected instruments.

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Mrs. H. Mein, an accomplished dancer, who will entertain at the Peninsula Hotel in nid of the New Territories** Medical Benevolent Society, on Saturday. November 12.

former on two or more Instruments. His son Rudolph surpasses him in skill on the harpsichord; his second son, Carl, is the acknowledged mas

ter of the recorder. Mrs. Dol

MUSEUM FOR ROME'S. OPERATIC ART.

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spectator-except when the perform- Years of blackmail by Letty and ance is in fact flawless-is called patient endurance by Jessica follow, upon to exercise penetrative critic until at last the truth is forced out age. The fact that most of the in- ism. He must distinguish between with consequences that depend upon struments used in the time of Hen- the credits and discredits of author, the child's reception of it and differy Lawes are to be found in muse- actor and producer. He must be from Jessica's expectation of them me and are not available for per

formance never discourages him. able to see through the fog that is as der daughter's character and eiused by miscasting. This is an point of view differ from her own and perseverance he set about the With incomparable determination extremely difficult critical exercise | In one aspect this is the story of the

heart-breaking task of making that cannot be performed except by cutting of a traditionalist knot; in

spectator who is at once sensitive another it is the biography of a them, and in the course of a few years he had made any number of land experienced, and, for this reason woman of great integrity and

more than any other the profession strength, the whole course of whose viols, recorders. You can now buy clavichords, harpsichords, lutes, of dramatic critic is a technically life was diverted by the accumulat- from him a sopranino, a descant, a skilled profession.

ing consequences of a single, act. treble or a tenor recorder. You Amateur playgoers, though their which, in itself, was scarcely part may also obtain textbooks dealing taste may be admirable and though of her life at all.- they may be capable of distinguish. The possession of this double with the technique of one or all of

A project contemplating ing with excellent judgment between theme gives to the play an uncom-

metsch and the younger daughter theatrical museum for the Royal the whole impression received from mon richness which ought to have a play on Monday and the whole imbeen increased by a careful building in a world of his own where no echo to a

Mr. Dolmetsch works and dreams will handle anything from a violone Opera House of Rome has been sub- small violin. The eldest mitted by Alberto de Angelis, and pression received from another play up of the background of country is ever heard of the workshop and daughter, Cecilie, takes her share in accepted by this theatre's govern on Tuesday, are seldom able to see life in East Anglia. The difficulty the market-place, where no rumour instrumental performances; more ing committee, which has appoint. through a fog of miscasting. They in performance was that several of reaches of the quests and anxieties often she appears, as the singer of cd the proponent curator. Upon are greater danger than an ex- the lesser parts were played of his fellow-men. He is on inti-the company.

Her voice is thin, his initiative an important initial perienced critic of condemning a theatrical types, and I am sure that mate. terms with Purcelli, Bach, awkwardly placed and as "white" nucleus of objects has already been good play because a performance many in the audience were thereby Veracini and other composers of the as that of a very young boy. But gathered, and other donations pro- has given it the superficial appear-prevented from seeing a distinction past; he is familiar with musicians with all its shortcomings, her per-mised. ance of a bad play.

between the shrewd, character-like Diego Pisador, Forqueray, Alformance fits in the scheme some Rather thin a' general theatrical They would, I am sure, have been building inwardness of the play's binoni and Martin Pearson, who how; It is a token of the superiori- museum, as at La Scala, de Angelis seriously misled by a performanco country-wit

and the slapdash are but names to most of us. Hety of the spiritual over the material, proposes a specific collection, limit- given at the Q Theatre of a play comedy. Not to perceive this dia has probably never heard of Ri- of the fact that the music is the led to documents and relics evoking called "The Quince Bush," by Mar- humours of conventional rural chard Strauss or Schonberg. He thing and not the skill (or the the history of the Reale and its ian Bower and Marion Fawcett. Not | comedy. Not to preceive this dis- has also converted to his creed and vanity) of an interpreter; of the predecessor, the Costanzi, together that the spectators. failed to enjoy tinction is not to understand the

play, which, though guilty at present imparted some of his knowledge to great difficulties which had to be with all other lyric stagea and of structural awkwardnesses, which a small number of earnest disciples overcome before this festival of musical institutions of Rome, from and to the members of his family, ancient music could become athe beginning of the nineteenth every one of whom is an expert per- reality,

it; they applauded it with enthus- iasm; but I think that what they were chiefly applauding was the work of Louiac Hampton in the principal part and the incidental humours of the piece. That they perceived, through the fog which lay thickly over many performances, how much substance there is in this piece and how differently it would appear if a little of ita structure and a great part of its presentation were reorganised is extremely doubtful.

Pathetic Story,

themselves betray that the drama was adapted from a novel, has-or- ought to have, if every part were as well performed as Miss Mampton's

an exceptional power to make the spectator feel that the characters are rooted in life and will reveal more and more of themselves as they are studied.

A Stodgy School

Baxton, England.

Its leading character is the daugh- ter, Jessica, of a solidly and proudly traditional yeoman family in East The first International Summer Anglia. Her father takes as hia School of Dance, which will have second wife a young girl, Letty, who come to an end just as these lines accepts the marriage for what she appear, affords an excellent point can get out of it and does not heal- of vantage from which to survey tate to continue to be the mistress of the English dance field. This, to

an actor nared Halliwell who spends be sure, is scarcely what the title much of his time in the neighbour-of the enterprise would imply; as hood. Halliwell is as unscrupulous a matter of fact, it is anything

For as Letty herself, but Jessica loves but an international everit. him, and has long loved and waited all that there are a few foreigners for him, believing that he will marry present in the capacity of teachers het. In desperation she also becomes and pupils, the programme is ar- for a time hia mistress and is with ranged according to the stodgieat child by him when her father dies, type of English formula, and the The causes have been stated; the whole affair is markedly provincial consequences now begin to appear. in its outlook. It's only useful to They are unfortunately complicated provide teacher in various, schools by, the father's will, which, lke of dancing with new "routines" to nearly all wills that have much teach when the Autumn season

influence on the drama, is a weak- begins.

Russia Prepares For Her

Next. Theatrical Season

Preparations for the coming the Theatre of the Revolution, and theatre acason in Russia are being "Who-How?" by P. Markish in the Theatre. Pogodin's Karmerny made in the spirit of the schedul-"now" will cool the spectators in ed nation-wide celebration of the the Trade Union Theatre. fifteenth anniversary, of the birth In the Leningrad Dramatic Thea of the Soviet Republic on Nov. 7, tre the struggle to carry out the 1917, judging by items found in general line of the industrial re- recent issues of Moscow papers: volution is to be shown in "The Re- Incidentally, It is pointed out that volution Continues," by Goref and the new plays and aperettas. will Stein, while the other Leningrad be linked with weighty problema houses will give the now pieces of Socialist.construction, but with scheduled for production in the out too much emphasis upon the capital city.

Among the works to be present- historical motif.

The Little Theatre in Moscowed before the end of the 1932-38 Prize" of 20,000 pesetas, offered for will present a new version; of season are "Moliere," by Bulgakof; lyric music work comprising st Fadeyer's "Destruction. In the "Commandants of the Five-Year Second Art Theatre, the "arge of Plan," by Pogodin, "An Airplane the proletariat after the heights of Over the City" by Levidof, and a science" will be depicted in play about the Red Army by Roma "Heaven and Earth" by Tur, while shof. A new house called the the Vakbtangof Theatre in to show Tragedy Stage" is to be opened "The Foreign Collegium," by L. in Moscow during the coming sea- Slavin. Struggle in the West," son, with several Shakespearean by Vishnevsky will make its bow at works!

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