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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1933.

Art and Drama

PARIS ARTISTS WHO

Воп

BARTER WORKS

Scheme Meets With

Great Success.

THE CHINA MAIL.

GERMAN ARTISTS IN

Vienna Real Home NEW YORK

Of Romance

Austrians Stage Holds Supremacy

AN HISTORIC PLAYHOUSE

(By Sydney W. Carroll.)

when we are,

Beer - Garden Ban

In Force.

POLITICAL REASONS

New York.

While Nazis have been carrying. on their anti Jewish campaign in Germany, German entertainers have boèn haying difficulty in finding jobst in New York, report a number of local booking agents.

One of New York's largest book- ing agents said that owners of night| clubs and prospective "beer gar dens" are banning German singers,

move.

OPERATION FOR PAINTING

Paris artists are congratulating! themselves on the success this sea- of their second attempt to organize

a barter fair. Pictures and sculpture exhibited in the Parc des Expositions at the Porte de Versailles are offered in exchange

To return once more to Vienna evening his assumption of timidity dancers and entertainers, and even for whatever services or goods the

after watching in London a tedious with defiance, of shrinking, nervous, German songs, as a pure business buyers may incline to offer.

self-deprecation, with A great many of the exhibitora spate of romantic plays and films hesitant

centring in the vineyards and spasms of assertion and hysteria, "With New York's vast Jewish; declare that they have done well. palaces of that exquisite city has could not have been bettered by population to draw on for trade,” Many of them received meal tickets] proved 蟲 refreshing experience. any comedian of my acquaintance-he said. "The music halls and beer from hotel and restaurant owners For nowhere else in the world has The sincerity of his sufferings, the gardens are not going to risk pro- true sentiment and real romance Its pale wistfulness of his anxiety, were fits by running the chance of offend- who thus acquired paintings to

proper theatrical home. The peo- most moving, yet simultaneously ing them by engaging German decorate their dining rooms.

ple are all so ridiculously polite, irresistibly comic. His was the talent." One artist sold a painting to a the world the Viennese live in so true art of the comedian.

Since the U.S. Congress legalised surgeon who offered to perform an crowded with colour, interest, and Mussolini's Play Again. 3.2 per cent. beer. New York agents operation free of charge at any charm, that even

I am looking forward to seeing said they have been doing a roaring owing to a mistake in the adverti Werner Krauss again. He is here business in booking' minor talent time this year. The painter ac-sing, ushered into a halflit theatre working heroically at the Burg singers, musicians and actors, many cepted the offer on the condition half an hour too soon, and inform Theatre, and will appear in of whom have been out of work that if was to be transferable, and ed for the first time by a printed Mussolini and Forzano's play, "The since vaudeville went into a decline if he or one of his friends falls illelip in the programme that the Hundred Days," adapted by Dr. here several years ago.-

principal actor is away enjoying his Herczeg into German. Shakespeare the surgeon will be called upon.

The agents said at first there had Another painter received for one holiday, we smile amiably and is always a draw in Vienna. "Much been brisk demand for German en-

& belated com- of his finest works a promise from benignly await

Ado About Nothing" is rivalling tertainers from prospective beer Schiller's "Wallentein," and garden and night club owners. |Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" at One agent estimated that upward memories could be written the Burg, with "Florian Geyer" in of 5,000 of the 15,000 unemployed little old Theatre an der between. Historical drama is re-vaudeville performers already had Wien! The records of Viennese presented at the Deutsches Volks (tentative Jobs or had signed con- There have also been some dis-musical comedy, associated as they Theater in "Kaiser Franz Joseph," tracts to appear in such places in appointments. Artists, it appears, are with the names of Johannja plece I have not as yet seen.

New York and other metropolitan are not the most practiced bargalu- Strauss, Oscar Stranas, Franz ers and often accept things of value Lehar, Lee Fall, Emmerich Kalman, playgoer in Veinna are too many takits and play German music to But the temptations offered to a centres, and that most of them were booked to do German songs and inferior to their work. Thus one Robert Stolz, and many other cele-be enumerated. The cinemas in newspaper depicts the rage of an brated composers, are bound up in Austria have evidently been unable "rive the people a beer-garden artist's wife on seeing him come dissolubly with this historic play to destroy the supremacy of that home with a kerosene lamp in ex-house, and the latest famous name Cinderella of the Arts, the theatre. change for a canvas. The studio to be added is that of Fritz Kreisler,)

who, by his score of "Sissy," which

Vienna Memories.

a liquor dealer to deliver him amencement. bottle of Chablis every day for a year. An insurance agent ex- What changed-a policy for an excellent of the piece of sculpture he coveted.

is full of kerosene lamps.

"There you go again," says the has achieved more than 150 perfor

disappointed wife. "The seventh Įmances | under the direction of "JURY" FOR ROYAL

kerosene lamp Bince the barter Hubert Manischka, has proved him-j salon opened!”

RUSSIA'S GYPSY

THEATRE.

Only One In The World.

Moscow.

self a skilful exponent of this parti [cular form of musical entertain-

ment. He has evoked columns of

that formidable kind of ecstatic ap- preciation lavished on the success-i ful by German critics in approba- tory mood.

ACADEMY.

atmosphere."

"For a couple of weeks," said one leading agent, “our offices were flooded with requests for such en- tertainment. It looked as if we

couldn't supply the demand. Ninety

per cent. of the places wanted German talent. But with the Nazi] persecution of Jews the whole pic- Prominent Artists On ture changed overnight. One day

Committee.

London.

we had booked 14 German acts. Now all we get is cancellation or strict instructions that performers must refrain from singing German The 1933 Royal Academy opened songs.

Previous to the open- "German musicians are taboo. of on May 1. Lotte Reiniger in her silhouette ing artists all over Britain had There isn't any high feeling about| films to carry on part of the action. worked hard finishing their pictures It-it's strictly a business proposi-

for the event. "Sissy's" principal attraction

tion."-Reuter.

A novel feature of the evening was the utilisation of the art

to

The only gypsy theatre in theme, however, was not its music, or The members of the Selection

world, the "Romany Theatre" at its films, but its historical interest. Committee-the "Jury" which chose Moscow, is preparing for the pro-To the patriotic Austrian "Sissy" the pictures-included the follow- duction of a new play. Its title is stands for the Empress Elizabeth, ing: "Pharaoh's Tribe."

that wonderful Kaiserin of Franz

Interested in literature.

This theatre, which is now housed Joseph, still held in loving recollec in the building formerly occupied by tion by even the most democratic of the Studio of the Moscow Arts Vienna's citizens. Theatre, has attracted, all gypsies The Singspiel, as it is termed, tells in a quaint and picturesque) Together they have brought out a number of plays portraying gypsy way the early love story of the royal life"Life on Wheels" and "Be. Pair, their first misunderstanding. tween the Fires" have been two of charting romance of a royal family and ultimate marriage. No more! the most successful.

The best of the country's Gypsy has ever been told on the musical

comedy stage. - artists and musicians are taking part in the acting, singing, dancing and music of the theatre.--Reuter,

MUSSOLINI'S "NAPOLEON"

Vienna.

The comic relief is provided by the genial follies and condescensions of the Herzog Max in Bayern. This fdear old fellow, whether he is prank- ing about in song with his children

Sir Herbert Barker, the architect.

BENIAMINO GIGLI IN LONDON,

Mr. Lamorna Birch. the One Of Words Highest

landscape A.RA.

Mr. Spencer Watson, the port- raltist,

and

Mr. F. L. Griggs, the alcher,

Sir William Llewellyn, the President of the Academy.- Beuter.

LOST CITY FOUND IN SPAIN.

Bid Tenors.

London. One of the most highly-paid ten- ors in the world has been recently visiting London.

He is Beniamino Gigli, who was born in an Italian village, the son of a shoemaker, and earned his liv- ing as a young man by being a chemist's assistant, in Rome, while he studied singing. He served in the war and then went to America. Finally he got the post of leading tenor at the Metropolitan Opera

or leading a village choir, cuts such Amateur Archaeologists House in New York, which pald

friendly and lovable capers as to endear him to all hearts. The

Mussolini's drama on Napoleon, theme is, more or less, the ever "the hundred days," will soon be on familiar

оде

Cinderella motive-for

Discovery.

Madrid.

higher salaries than any other opera in the world. They paid his £24,000 a year for 40 performances, which works out at £600 ́s night, and they went on doing that for 12 years.

Then came theworld slump.)

the programme at the Burg Theater, Elizabeth only comes into her own Remains of a Roman City, sup of the two State subaldised after much trouble and travel, posed to be Arbucala, besieged and theatres in the capital. It was per- It gave me great pleasure to see taken by Hannibal after the storm Gigli was asked to accept a salary formed some time ago in London. that always popular player, Maxing of Salamanca in 220 B.C... have cut of 25 per cent, and be says that This is the second time that the Pallenberg, a bigger favourite than been laid bare on the left bank of the standard of production fell off. theatre will have played a plece by ever. His powers of characteriss- the Duero near Zamora.

So he abandoned, America, trans-

a premier in power, the last having tion seem to have improved, if any- Pottery was also found during ferred the 'whole of his fortune to been Clemenceau's "The Vell of thing," with the years.

the excavations which were con- Italy and bought a villa there. Luck in 1905.-Beuter.

In the part he undertook that ducted by the amateur archaeologist He went to London to sing at the

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