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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1933.

Art and Drama

RARE TAPESTRIES

SOLD.

Famous U.S. Collections: Under Hammer.

At auction sales held in New) York recently tapestries, Oriental rugs, furniture, Georgian silver. porcelains, objects of art, jewel- ry and books were disposed of by order of various consignors.

of- Various properties were fered from the estates of the late Miriam D. Thropp of Washington!

and the late Willis Vickery of Cleveland, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio, also

Dormeuil, Paris,

Renaissance

Unselfishness Maxim For Actors

Collaboration Is Mark

Of True

True Artist

EXHIBITION OF EGOISM

Actors are

(By SYDNEY D. CARROLL).

1933:

THE CHINA MAIL.

men

Actors of the slightest exper-

AUSTRIAN PLAY NEW

PROTEST

Historical Drama Of

Late Emperor.

INTIMATE FRIEND TAKES PART

Vienna.

A protest against the production

at the Raimund Theatre here of a play dealing with the late Emperor Francis Joseph, has been made by Frau Katharina Schratt, who was for more than a generation the intimate friend and Emperor's

play.

WORKS

BY HAYDN

Four Mss. Found.

Vienna.

Dr. Ernst Fritz Schmid, the young Haydn expert, who is,short- y going to publish a book on the composer's ancestors, has discover- ed several MSS. of unknown works by Haydn described as highly re- markable.

They include a string quartet i E major from his early period, and

and D major, from his later years.

The works will shortly be publish- ed and will later be produced by the Vienna acction of the German Music Society.

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First came the news of the set-

or

21279.

notoriously the, more capable and even brilliant articles owned by Mrs. William most generous folk in the world. the performance of the actor, the confidante. Frau Schratt appears three pianoforte senatas in C, A,

as a character in the play. Roos of Mamaroneck and Emile The quality of great-heartedness more liable he appears to be to of unadulterated is their principal passport in this exhibitions

Offers of up to £50,000 are Pares of Paris, France.

well as to the next. egoism that would shame In the Thropp collection occur world as

in understood to have been made to rare Oriental rugs-silk Persian They give their services gladly with professional instincts

Frau Schratt, who is now 80 years and Kirman palace carpets, Ain ald of every kind of charity. other walks of life.

This is the time of good resolu- of age, for her memoirs, but she rare North Persian flower garden Their attitude towards those who carpet of the eighteenth century have fallen by the way in their tions, and I take the moment, hears a

scarlet field woven in own profession is one of unfail- therefore, as a suitable in which has always refused.

to exhort all my good friends the The Duke of Hohenberg, son of rich, soft colors with a design of ing sympathy and help.

Occasionally one encounters an players whose work I admire and the murdered Archduke Francis cypresses, weeping willow and

# reputation for whose characters I love, to form other trees and blooming flowers. actor with

Unusual tapestries feature the meanness, but he is the prover this best of all resolution for Ferdinand and Count Berchtold "I will remember that have also protested against the Pares group, among which arel bial exception. the Flemish early

Yet by one of those strange the good of the piece as a whole characters representing the Arch- silver-woven example, "Saladin paradoxes that haunt humanity must be every actor's first con- dake and Count Berchtold in

sideration." Burning the Prisoners of the those singular contradictions of Crusades," and another sixteenth which the Bohemian life is full,'

ience know quite well how easily The first production of the play body connected with it the recent century Flemish tapestry depic when the actor and actresses are it is possible for another artist to took place recently at Craz ting an equestrian battle. Both pursuing their livelihood on the

Frau Katharina Schratt, was a formerly were in the Collection stage they are too often capable kill their efforts stone dead by of exhibiting the most outrage disconcerting interjections or in- ous selfishness and lack of con- terpolations of inappropriate bu-famous beauty and seted actress of tlement of the future management siness. They know also how it Vienna last century. She joined of the Deutschen Theatre, scene of Max Reinhardt's greatest triumphs. sideration for other artists in the

is possible to halve the effect of the theatre in Vienno in early Under an agreement which will same company.

It is a sad reflection that the another actor's work by appear-years, and after playing for some hold good till March, 1934, the

ing to pay no attention to him,

time in Berlin and St. Petersburg, business side of the theatre will The Art Of Listening.

the State be run by Dr. Neft, of the Volks- Every actor should listen on became a member of

buhne, in partnership with Karl the stage to others, as he would Burgtheatre in 1883.

Achaz, actor-eon of the chairman be listened to himself. He should

Here she soon made herself

of the great Dye Trust. remember that he is playing a Berlin.

Thus relieved of financial the life of the tion of No. 4, Carlton Gardens! Remains of a golden

ries. Max Reinhardt is free sword part, and a part does not mean personality in have been presented through the studed with gems have been the whole; that co-operation with capital.

of the few again to concentrate his attention The first play to National Art-Collections Fund to found near Aft-Lussheim, in the the other players is of far great- She become

of the tragic Empress on production.

be produced under the the Victoria and Albert Museum, historic soil of the Rhine plat-er importance to the play and its friends

than any me-Elizabeth, and it was through the' in memory of Mrs. Jane Clark-eau between the hills of the complete success

The first of the two man- Odenwald and the Haardt. teoric exhibition of histrionics in Empress that she met Francis management will be either Shake-

Joseph, with whom her friendship speare's "A Winter's Tale" Experts ascribe the sword to his own part.

"King Lear." telpieces, made of griotte marblej

The first thing the novice ac-long survived the Empress's mur-

At the same the livelihood of with ormolu mounts, has just the period of 450 A.D., which.l

many actors and stage hands has been erected and is now on view according to the ancient legend, tor has to learn is how to stand der in Switzerland on September

been imperiled by the bankruptcy. in Room 58. The second and was about the time when Sieg-still on the stage, and to keep still 10, 1898.--Reuter.

of Alfred and Fritz Rotter, who larger mantelpiece, of statuary fried was slaying the dragon, and during other people's words and

own three theatres in Berlin and marble carved with four caryatid making himself invulnerable by actions. The great secret of the greatest dramatic artists has

manage six others. figures and a Classical frieze. is hathing in its blood. not yet ready for exhibition. The sword has been put on ex-been their ability to preserve and These are the first examples hibition in the Electoral Palatin- register absolute stillness

A MANTELPIECE FROM CARLTON GARDENS.

Exhibit at Victoria and Albert Museum.

1,400 YEAR OLD SWORD FOUND.

mantel-

the destruc-

Two of the Regency

pieces salved from

son.

of Regency mantelpieces acquir-lote Museum in Heidelberg. silence. ed by the Museum.

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A beautiful, medieval rarity, a We have fortunately some very fifteenth-century French songbook] fine actors on the English stage in manuscript on vellum, and owned whose work has always been con-by the Marquis de Laborde, recently spicuous for its extreme unsel-found its way into a famous Bond fishness. There are many actors Street salesroom. It found a ready and actresses with considerable purchaser at £500.

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