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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1933.

Art and Drama.

RALPH LYNN AS ACTOR-MANAGER.

Will Not Work All Year Round.

When Mr. Ralph Lynn, the comedian, next appears in a new play he will be an actor-manager, the beginning of a new chapter in his stage career. The present one | ended recently, when, with the withdrawal of "A Bit of a Test" from the Aldwych, the Tom Walls- Ralph Lynn-Ben Travers partner. ship will be no more.

Mr. Lynn said:

"In a sense my partnership with

Tom has already been broken, for

THE CHINA MAIL.

Opera Repertory And The Public

NEW ROTARIAN OFFICIALS

President T. B. Wilson Presides.

Spirited Plea From Famous ADDRESS BY REV. LEWIS

COVENT

Conductor

GARDEN NOVELTIES

(By SIR THOMAS BEECHAM, BT.)

BRYAN

Hong Kong Rotarians thoroughly enjoyed themselves at yesterday's tiffin held at the Gloucester Build- ing, when the Rov. J. N." Lewis Bryan, Chaplain to the Forces, gave a very interesting and witty ad- dress.

The tiffin was the 'first, held un- der the auspices of the new officials London, years ago at Liverpool (with Halle and commenced with greetings This is a plea addressed to the conducting)-not. to speak of more from the President, Mr. T. B. WI- English musical public, and more recent productions abroad.

son who said: Berlioz was essentially a drama- Fellow Rotarians, this being my partiuclarly opera-goers, to extend the range of their interests. tic composer, and if his "Faust" first day as Official Wielder of the It is not true that the whole of was not actually composed for the Cavel, I want to thank Dr. Tso on it is two years since we played music is comprised in the works of stage the explanation probably is behalf of the the newly elected Of together.

and two only, his unpopularity with the opera ficers and Directors, for his high- When he got over his two composers

The ly complimentary remarks passed at riding fall he was disinclined to though such is an illusion widely management of the time,

truth is that his music" was too our last Meeting, and to assure the ome the two and two only were Alma. Moreover, it is by no means Handel and Mendelssohn, after of the day. When dramatic music mittee men and the members gen- easy to get plays with two big wards Bach and Beethoven. The is of a superior quality the usual erally that we will do our utmost only two seriously accepted to-day thing to say-at first, at all events to carry on the Club work in a man- parts.

is that music so good cannot be ner satisfactory to you. "Frankly, I have not greatly en-seem to be Wagner and Brahms.

dramatic,

We hope to continue the good joyed the last couple of years. I The cult of the serious and of

In our times this is said about work that has been sarted and to got tired, and when it came to the enormous should not be allow- falshing one play on a Saturday fed to exclude all else, or we shall the finest, the most poetic, and develop and inaugurate new means and beginning another on the rule out of our musical experience most musica! opera composed in of furthering Community Service.

mean "We hope to strengthen our Club, Monday--well, I found that I was much that might contribute charm he last thirty years; 1

"Village Romeo and not by the indiscriminate bringing not so young as I had been. and delight to life. But the Lon- Delius's

"My agreement came to an end don opera-goer has always been Juliet." Between 1830 and 1850 in of new Members for a large Berlioz was writing the best music Club is not always strong Club- in March, but obviously I could not inclined to narrowness of view. step out until the play had finish- Time was when the Covent Gar-in Europe. The germs of almost but by developing within our Club ed its run. Now I hope to golden. subscribers knew half-a-dozen everything that has been done a stronger feeling of fellowship. operas or so "Carmen," "Hugue- since are to be found in his com- and above all by putting into prac-

positions of that period.

tice the Motto of Rotary "Service "In eleven years I have saved anots," Gounod's "Faust," and bit of money; enough, I hope, to on. "Lohengrin" was acceptable if Berlioz's "Faust" is the most above Self." let me work just when I feel like Albani and Jean de Reszke were in dramatic of all Fausts. Although

work on the stage as well as the cherished in this country. At one good for the Frosch public taste retiring Officers, Directora, Com-

abroad.

DE LASZLO MEDALS AWARDED.

Owner Questioned At Inquiry.

At the continued hearing of the Coroner's inquiry, held before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court

closely

it. Six months work in the year the cast, but the later Wagner was it is not so much like a musical BALCONY COLLAPSES would suit me admirably.

regarded as a strange diet for comedy as some others, it contains "If I find the right play I shall aesthetes and specialists only, a bunch of the loveliest tunes in present myself in it in the autumn. To-day the later Wagner is almost existence. Also it is comparative. ↑ Whether the cast will include mem- the only music to which they short, whereas most operas are hers of the magnificent Aldwych Covent Garden subscribere are too long. In fact, there is nothing team will depend, of course, upon whole-heartedly addicted.

ito prevent its success in the opera

the play."

The basis of the operatic reper- house except the greatness of the tory needs broadening. It is true music, that it is much more difficult to A phenomenon that is not easily yesterday, into the fatal. balcony stage the non-Wagner opera owing explicable, although it is obvious collapse at 15 Yuk Sau Street on to the scarcity of good singers in enough, is the vividness that music June 3, the owner of the building, the world to-day, but the fact re- which was dramatically conceived Mr. Kwok Wai-sam, was mains that every other country in takes on when adequately accom-

questioned. the civilised world has a larger panied by a stage setting. Those operatie repertory than has Eng- who

have

Berlioz's heard "Troyens only as a concert plece that witness had taken a particular Sir Thomas Replies. cannot imagine the full effect and active interest in the construc- The de Laszlo medals of the Not even in Germany is Wagner made by the opera. In the theatre tion work, even in the concreting of

the floors. Royal Society of British Artists regarded as the only composer of the least of the orchestral phrases,

The hearing was adjourned until, at the operas. Far from it. To-day in the least touch of colour is found

this afternoon. Suffolk Germany Wagner is rivalled by to live with unexpected effect. The Verdi, and last year in Vienna the form of the concert cantata is but The silver medal was

by opera that was most frequently a makeshift. The staging of "La Miss Ethel Cabain, and the bronze performed

Verdi's "Don Damnation de Faust" requires no medal by Miss Dorothea Selous. Carlo." It is worth remembering apology. They were awarded for the best that two-thirds of the great opera-) pictures in the society's exhibition, tic repertory is non-German.

Women Win Both Honours.

were awarded recently Society's galleries in Street.

day.

Won

land.

was

New Arrangement.

It was suggested by the counsel for the Contractors, Mr: F.. C. Jenkin,

con-

Th special jury pemanelle sisted of Messrs. R. A. Rodgers (foreman), Colbourne Little and Li Koon-chun.

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Mr. F. C. Jnkin, K. C., instruct~] ed by Messrs. Woo and Nash, `op-

As for "Don Carlo," I would as-peared for the contractors, Messrs. which will open at the galleries to- And yet I am asked, regarding sert that both poem and muste rose Wing Tak & Co., Mr. H. J. Arm- the current season at Covent Gar-to heights not reached before a strong for the architect. Mr. A. J. Miss Gabain is Mrs. John den. "Why 'Don Carlo'? Why the long series of Verdi's earlier Lane, and Mr. M. K. Lo, for the Copley, the artist, and, like her Berlioz's 'Faust'?"--as though the operas. It was not, as first write owner of the house, Mr. Kwok wai- husband, she is a lithographer. selection were some pleasant whim ten, co consummate a

whole 8 sam. Mise Selous (Mrs. Dorothea on my part. I am reminded how, "Aida." In the five-act version it Jamieson) is a portrait painter and during a season of Russian opera is unmanageably long. Yet there artist potter. Both have exhibited a couple of years ngo at the is music here more like "Aida" at the Royal Academy and the Lyceum Theatre, hundreds had to than anything Verdi had written Paris Salon.

be turned away when the familiar before, and much of the beautiful pieces were given, but those hun-work is fully equal to the later dreds would not risk their money opera. In the new arrangement,

CENTENARY TRIBUTE TO EDMUND KEAN

SANITARY BOARD MEETING.

Market Limits.

Reference was made at the meet-

on a new opera. I take this op-in a prologue and three acts, made portunity of making a modest re-for the production at Coven Gar- quest, namely, that it should be den, the aim has been to retain all ing of the Sanitary Board yesterday, believed that when I producs a the admirale lyrical music. What to the proposed market. Imita The centenary of the death of new work it is done out of a con- has been rejected is some of the to Arsenal Street, Lockhart Road Edmund Kean was observed in vietion of its Interest and value, less interesting declamatory pages, and Bowrington Road markets, London recently when Dame Madge and not from a desire to impose Kendal laid a laurel wreath on the upon the public something Inferior atatue of the famous actor in the and boring.

foyer of the Theatre Royal, Drury: Berlioz's Unpopularity. Lane, and Sir Frank Benson, in the Although Berlioz's "Damnation absence through illness of Sir de Faust" was not actually written Johnston Forbes-Robertson, paid for the theatre, the great work is tribute to Kean's memory. Later more at home there than in the Professor Boas addressed a meet-concert-room, as i knaw from my ing of the womer's section of the impressions, as 'a boy, from the London Municipal Society. on Carl Rosa Opera Company's per Kean's work and art.

formances which I saw Bone 40

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JUBILEE OF ROYAL made later.

MUSIC COLLEGE

Mr. T. Megarry, the President was in the chair, and was supported by the Hon. Mr. A. G. W. Tickle, Vice-President and Messrs. Wong

Visit Of The Prince Kwong-tin, F. C. Hall, C. Champkin

Of Wales.

and C. J. Roe, secretary, by

Applications for a trade licence. In his official capacity of Press-for soap boiling at 57, Belcher's [dent of the Royal College of Music Street; and for the registration, of the Prince of Wales recently visit-31-B, Wyndham Street, ground Boor. ed the college and was entertained as a dairy, were refused, but the re- at dinner by the council; the direcmainder of the applications

or, and Fellows, and afterwards granted.

more informally by the students in

la light-hearted programme of song and dance in the Parry, Opera Theatro,

Miss Penelope Spencer, besides dancing herself, was responsible

for the arrangement of the dancés,

were

SALE OF A CHILD.

Woman Heavily Fined.

for which music had been compos- Appearing on a remand charge of ed by various professors and mem-taking part in the sale of a Chinese bera of the college-an overture by boy, aged three, Chan Sze, a widow, Malcolm Sargent, a suite by Her-was foed $1,000, in default, twelve bert Howalls, a Fugal Blues by months' hard labour, by Mr. Wynne- Guy Warrack, and a Choral Waltz Jones at the Central Magistracy yes- by Gordon Jacob. Songs by Arm- terday.

strong Gibbs were sung in a stage Inspector, Elston said that the setting and the operetta Catherine Police were unable to get into com- Parr, by Anthony Collins, was re- munication with anybody at the vlyed." "A new ballet, Poultry er Lim Kwong" village, Kwongchawan, Love In E.C.3, by Arthur Ben- where the defendant said she bought jamin, concluded a cheerful and the child. Her relatives were also well-mounted entertainment. – In, unable to give any assistance to- the absence through Illness of Dr. wards tracing the parents of the Malcolm Sargent, Mr. Constant child, whose identity remained un-} Lambart conducted the orchestra.solvde.

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