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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1932.

KING'S

THEATRE

COMMENCING

SUNDAY,

11th DECEMBER

THE

"FIRST

YEAR"

OF

LAUGHTER

AND

ROMANCE--

QUARRELS

IF

AND

FORGIVE-

NESS

Tender situations and merry complications in the first year) of married life.

Janet GAYNOR

Charles FARRELL

in

First Year

From Frank.

Craven's stage

hit

FOX PICTURE,

CHARLIE AS

A THOUGHTLESS

HUSBAND

JANET

AS

INEXPERIENCED

WIFE

Art and Drama,

Jols From New York

Various persons are claiming to have had a band in touching · up "The Lato Christopher Bean," which has started off pleasantly at the playhouse named for Mr. Miller's father. If all these claims were allowed, the billing probably would read something like this: "The Late Christopher Bean,' a comedy by Sidney Howard, after "Prenez Garde a la Peinture,' by Rene Fauchois, with second act curtain by Clarence Derwent, third act curtain by Walter Connolly, and suggestions by William,Me- Bride. the well-known ticket broker."

THE CHINA MAIL.

Three Choirs Festival

Britain Surfeited With Music

ENORMOUS APPETITE

(By F. BONAVIA).

If

Astounding

One-Armed

Pianist

London.

A musical genius of only one arm achieved a great triumph at Queen's Hall, London, as a pianist. It was at a promenade concert, and the artist was Paul Wittgenstein, | who as an Austrian soldier lo che Great War, received a wound which necessitated the amputation of his right arm. It was the first per- formance in England of a novel work, namely, a pianoforte concer- to, the solo part having been writ- ten for this handicapped pianist.

A writer in The News-Chronicle says of the one-armed planist: admire more the courage or the re- "Once scarcely knows whether to

source of this musician. Finding himself disabled by the loss of an arm, Wittgenstein's first step was to commission the leading German Strauss, to write for his exclusive composer of the day, Richard

use a work for piano and orchestra with the sole part playable with one hand.

Worcester, Sept. 15. - | indubitably foll short of the ideal. Verdi's friend Muzio remarks | Neither chorus ner soloists rose to somewhere that the English have the sublimity of the musical con- an enormous appetite for music. ception. But then Bach is the Hot 'n' Bothered. Mr. Cochran la hot and bothered They will listen, he says, to con-most exacting of composers. about giving London a productioncerts lusting six hours without turn the chorus sang "Et Incarnatus" of "Dinner at Eight" in the nearing a hair. Three Choirs festival and "Cum saneto spiritu" in a way future, and to that end he is send-concerts last longer still. They begin which bore ample evidence of care ing frequent enbles to the Sam H. at 11:30 each morning and proceed, fu land Intelligent preparation, The with an interval for luncheon, un- they lacked steadiness in the open Harris ollica in London. undertaking appears to

hinge til 4. Music making is résumed atjing "Kyrie," they exaggerated the on his ability to secure 7:30 an ends only about 10 expression of the "Crucifixus," and

West End theatre. o'clock. Undoubtedly there

is they began the "et resurrexit" not proper

the play

· done. (armething too muen of this. Four on a musical note but with a shout. be they may be able to talk Mr. Kauf-days of such generous fare are apt These are not heinous errors; | "This single work and the re- man-who doesn't like to travel to give the listener a surfelt and to they spring from a misconception markable story associated with it much, particularly across the test severely the power of endur-of esthetic values of Bach's style, took Paul Wittgenstein round the world and established his reputa- ocean-into going over to stage it. ance in the performer. There are which is pretty general and of £

various teams of solo singers, and piece with the modern mania for tion. He has followed up that com- composera replace the organizer of speed. Bach's style, as Schweitzer mission with others, and the con- the festival at the conductor's deak pointed out long ago, reflects in the certo played recenfly is the result But the masses-chorus and or design of the melody the meaning of a similar deal with Ravel, the chestra-remain, and the strain and significance of the words..

Basque composer. tells against them.

Known In New York.

the Should

TRAGEDY STALKS PLAYWRIGHT.

Blindless Threatens Sean O'Casey.

FINISHES HIS DRAMA.

PART

"It would have been excusable

In the circumstances, anything."Elijah" was notable mainly on and not surprising in the circum- like perfection is out of the ques-account of the first appearance at stances if the music and the per- mere tion. But there are many reasons these festivals of Mme. Florence formance of it had been a

It was, in why we should remember the re- Easton, an artist better known in show of virtuousity. cent Worcester meeting of the New York than in London. Her fact, a brilliant and memorable achievement. Perhaps Ravel says ¡Three Choirs with pleasure. If vast experience, and what I may

little, in this concerto that he has not said before, but he has assem- bled all his beat and brightest tricks and has paid the pianist a compliment--that of giving him a genuine work of art.

蟲

By A. John Kobler, Jr. Central Press Canadian Correspondent, the compositions selected for call her artistic savoir faire, stood Chelford, England. first performance were few in num-her in good stead, and her leading After three years of hopeless ber, they were, on the whole, un-in the concerted numbers was in lighting against his failing eye- usually attractive. Sir Ivor Atkins telligent and musicianly. Her solo aight, Sean O'Casey, great Irish (organist of Worcester Cathedral numbers, however, were as unequal dramatist, is bringing forth a new and organizer of the festival) de-In the oratorio as her singing of

"As for Paul Wittgenstein, we play.

parted somewhat from tradition in Isoldo's "Liebested" was the follow- It was in October of 1929 that C. engaging some singers who had not ing evening at the secular concert, can pay him no greater compliment are than to say that nobody who heard B. Cochran presented "The Silver been heard at a Three Choirs meet- Mme. Easton's natural gifts Trasie," that embittered and mov-jing before, whose debuts naturally obvious; in the great Wagnerian him anything merely sensational- ing study of the war, which was aroused interest and expectation. climaxes she can match powerful anything less; indeed, than a genu-

orchestral tone with vocal tone of ing. work of art." subsequently quietly produced in

Special Interest New York. Since then O'Casay has

equal penetrating power. But she Edward Elgar contributed two cannot find so easily the more in- lived in comparative seclusion.

items of special interest in his timate and more subtle notes in Seven years ago he beheld, amid cantata "The Music Makers" (which the gamut of expression. Isolde's wild acclamations of critics and had not heard for a number of opening Bontences, after the pre- public, his first play, "Juno and the years) and the "Seven Suite," lude, drove home with unnecessary Paycok," the most popular and oft- which, written originally for brass force the conviction that Wagner played of his works. At that time bands, he has now adapted for writes much better for instruments he had just recently. graduated orchestra.

Halled By Public.

than for the human voice-yet the from the ranks of the had-carriers. Perhaps the most creditable cho- prelude had not been particularly

His new play is set in London's ral achievement of the festival was well played." Hyde Park. The characters include the reading given of Bach'a B This was only the beginning of a bishop, an atheist, human dere-minor Mass. In some respects it an immense programme. |licts, a poet, an old woman, who has

lost her son, a soldier and his girl,; and a chorus in the modern man- ner. He claims that he has set. himself the hardest task of bisj

career.

Asked why he had written noth- ing new since "The Silver Tassle," ho said:

"Poker Flat" In Opera

German Libretto On California.

"I have had the idea for this play simmering around in my head since 1926. It gradually began to take shape, and I found that it ap- pealed to me so much that I could Dudelsackfelfer," Jaromir Wein do nothing else until I had finish-.

The composer of "Schwanda, der

"

U.S. AND BRITAIN IN FILM WAR?

London. There is much talk: and counter-talk in Wardour Street over an impending battlo- royal between American and Bri tiab interests competing for!

supremacy In the cinema markets of this United Kingdom. Report

ed it. I have been writing it now berger, has just completed a new has it, that various rival organisa-

for twelve months, and I hope to opora,, the libretto for which was tions are grinding knives where- I get it finished in another four. written by Milos Kares, who based with to cut each other's throats,

"I can't sit down and type with a│it on a acory by. Bret Harte. Tho as well as fashioning bludgeons in manuscript ct ordinary distance in front of me. I've got to peer into opera, the scene of which is laid preparation for "big-stick" it before I can see a word. Then, in the California gold fields at the methods, kas pa

Now Wardour Street fathe centre of the district in which

when I have been working for a time of the great gold rush, is call? long time by eyes get so sore thated "Die Leute von Poker Flat meat of the renting and distribut-

I can scarcely are at all.”

Like his distinguished compa- ("The People of Poker Flat").

triot, James Joyce, O'Casey is aha-

ing agencies of the film business

In reply to an inquiry concern-are congregated. It la rather a

dowed by this tragic threat of blinding this.opera, Herr Weinberger squalid-looking bit of London, and

ness. For eight years he has had.

Written Four Times

said:

until it achieved the distinction of becoming associated with the

the nabobs of the screen determine such problems as entertainment values and lay down laws as to what the public wants. There are dingy,ticles and corners, whence aro

to fight against poverty before he realized his dormant genius. He

"It is an experiment in a new cinema trade was chiefly noted for navvled, carried bricks, and educat- opera style and quite different Its costumers and second-hand- ed himself for fifteen years. After from anything else I have com- clothes shops. In these later years a life-time of struggle he has now posed. It is my opinion that there some of the bigger buildings have been transformed Into the the pence to think and create, a peace marred by the necessity to is a certain pronounced lack of headquarters of organisations struggle against blindness.

contact between opera stage and which, as seems to be customary in opera public, due to the fact that the film world, are usually design- His new plays is called "Within as a rule the latter hears only the ad by a series of initial letters. the Gates." He has rewritten it music and the singing without Scene of Battle, four times already, and each time catching the actual words, and There are regal suites in which has typed it out himself. His eyes to the further for a chat the drama are strained and red-rimmed be- tie singing of banal sentences-p. cause he is ignoring their organle ducen an unreal and absurd effect weakness Of his new play he To hear the heroine aing in im says: a patient tones Please give me a

lies in I first got the Idea from watch glass of water can hardly fail to issued glamourous rha Ing the stump orators In Hyde tickle the risible faculties superlative language anent forth- Park. You can call it a strong play "In this opera I have eliminated coming productions; and there are with some dramatic situations, but dramatic passages from the music, also clubs and guilds where men It also has a lot of music and sing treated them as melodrama and let and women wait wearily for a ing, and, I hope, will have a lot of then be spoken instead of Wang, Chance engagement which will in- humor.*

painting in the musical accompani- sure their earning enough money to When O'Casey is being interview-ment only In the ed, his pretty wife the young ac Only emotional pres tress who appeared in his The sung and concrete-e Plough and the Stars," will: some the action spoken. times come in and gay

Herr Wal

Tell him to hurry up and get bis Rhapsody

new play finished."-

Brian, too, their baby boy

quires his father's attentio

first time in

Ormundy,

atlon koop body and soul together. War- will be dour Street in a mean street to look anations ofat, but there are lots and

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the battle royal be tala Britten and American

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