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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1933.

Art & Drama.

PRICE CUTTING IN

LONDON

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Theatre Charges Should Be Reduced.

Drastic price-cutting has long been a crying need of the London tbentre. Too long has the public)

ridiculous been saddled with the

iron-bound tradition of the twelve-. shilling stall,

That all theatres should charge) the same prices Tor seats is, and

always has been, ridiculous.

A

When there is likely to be a

shop has i sale. The

Schubert's Winter Journey

A Masterpiece And A Mastersinger

MIRACLE OF MUSIC

THE CHINA MAIL.

TRAGEDY OF

MISS DOROTHY

MASSINGHAM

Actress - Author Gassed.

NEARING SUMMIT OF SUCCESS

The theatrical world learned with pained surprise recently that Miss Dorothy Massingham, the clever eks and play- Shakespearean actress ·

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wright, had been found dead in. a)

Schubert was 30, and had only been-never in lyrical music, gas-filled room in a house in Fitz-

to live, when in music, that is-such an obstinate john's-avenue, Hampstead, N. W. theatre is nothing more than an en- another year

its prices 1827-the year

of Beethoven's tackling of the idea of grief, ob- Miss Massingham, who had suf-! tertainment shop, and should be scaled on the same prin-death-he composed his second stinate and desperate, unquit-fered from a nervous breakdown,

song-cycle, "Die Winterreise." ting, haunting. ciple 38 prices in other shops.

Only youth is strong enough was staying in the house as the The work consists of 24 songs, falling-off of buying, an ordinary settings of poems by that same to suffer like this. Towards guest of an old friend, Miss Ho- theatres Wilhelm Muller whose "Schone the end of the "Winterreise" we ward Wilson, and she was found: should follow suit by having "sales" Mullerin" Schubert had set to look back and feel that since lying on the floor of her room with

The the beginning a journey has in- at the less popular performances, music four years before.

deed been accomplished, aa gas ring, which had been turned as is always done in New York-poet died in the year of the com lower prices for matinees, and even position of the "Winterreise," a journey of that sort that leaves fully on, near her face.

ever changed from Dr. Lindsey Batten was imme- half prices for Mondays.

few days before his 33rd birth-a man for

The "Winter-diately summoned, and it is under- Sensible. Similarly a theatre should charge day and a year and two months what he was.

reise" has set down for all time atood that he is of opinion that before Schubert's death. The in accordance with the cost to it of first half of the cycle was com- the fierce sorrow of which youth death was due to gas poisoning.

Bereavement-de- the is capable. that we should have to pay the posed in Ferbuary, 1827,

second half in the following spair-soft tears-furious Schubert lived to see-irony-exhaustion-and part published: the again a fresh gift of suffering. the second he correct-Have we not known the hours author, in collaboration with Mr.

pass, and a new hour bring its) new, atrocious pang?

the goods sold,

How abaurd it is

same price to see a Criterion farce

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autumn. with four characters to see many the first a big musical show!

It is like selling a Morris for the proofs of price of a Rolls-Royce.

In any case the 12 top theatre,

cirele seats as low as 28. 5d. Frank Gregory, who "Children in Uniform" Duchess, says that ever

ed on his death-bed.

tear

Her death has occurred just as yet she appeared to be reaching the height of her ambition. She was

Murray Macdonald, of "The Lake," ja play which has been running at Westminster Theatre, and only

she expressed very recently

Not that it is necessary to re- Recently, at a meeting of the

The

man."

to

an at-

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price scale is too high under pre-call these circumstances to en-London Lieder Club, Gerhard friends her gratification with the| pent conditions for any except bighance the pathetic force of the Husch remarkably performed the success which had attended the "Winterreise"; which, indeed, rare feat of singing the "Winter- play. She was looking forward musical productions.

There is no harder en- with great eagerness to the pro- Gladys Cooper, sensibly realising would be no less what it is-one reise." this, scaled the Playhouse at 10s. of the most intense, most true. terprise in all lyric song. duction in London of another play 6. top including tax, with upper most spontaneous expressions of "Mullerin" is easy by comparison. of hers, "Soldier and Gentlewo- the suffering of which the The charming "Mullerin" is, for taged human heart

is capable-even the first half at least, radiantly

Nervous Breakdown. at the though we were in total ignor-sunny, though the end is pathe- since the ance about its author.

tic. The hero is a simple soul. Unfortunately, however, His Sincerity.

His music is a brook; that of the tack of intueaza early in the year! the prices were slashed in half the

affected her nerves, and she was' There is a lot of confused thought from their product, and prevented its Sincerity has become a wornį"Winterreise" is a river.

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bert's sincerity-it is the word can be said to meet all its de- weeks. Miss Howard Wilson ask- The wonderful therapeutic value of start with a pare drug, and by lack The Last Word.

ane wants-must be put down the mands? It was one of Elena led her to stay at her home in Fitz-"ASPRO" as compared with crude of the fastest knowledge-may turn out He has returned from New Yuk enduring freshness of this "Win. Gerhardt's rare failures, like john's-avenue, and Miss Massing-Aspirin is so pronounced and causes tablets containing free Salicylic Acid, liberated during the processes 'neces- where he also put on "Children in terriese," a freshness undimmed Bernhardt's Hamlet. One would ham's friends thought that she was so much enquiry as to why" ASPRO

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The play years. Á startling freshness, George Henschel's performance, ing the leading role..

Her brother, Dr. Richard Mas-that we propose to put the matter pression. which transport

medical clearly fo this announcement. us back at his prime or John Coates's.singham, who is on the

The following positive claim is made was not a success there.

the

of company He said that in sheer desperation to

the Not to speak of David Bispham staff of the London Fever Hospital,

stated that his sister must have In the first place ordinary Aspirin for "ASPRO" Tablets: many Broadway theatres are giv-youth of the 1820's. with all sur-jor Stockhausen.

THEY ARE OF BRITISH MANU- commence from the Henschel one can recall, and yielded to a sudden impulse as a and "ASPRÓ” ing spate away free at neighbour-face changes of fashion for-

same basic element. In a general sense! FACTURED ACETYL - SALYLIC, If there had been any also Plunket Greene both won-direct result of her Illness. ing drug stores. then collecting gotten.

in Schubert's derful in "Der Leiermann," Miss Massingham was the they finish up in quite a different man | ACID, FREE FROM ANY TRACE small booking or tax fee at the door. thing affected

Gregory, who came back detergloom and loud declaration of a the last song of the twenty-four, daughter of the late Mr. Henry nez-ASPRO" being pure, safe OF FREE SALICYLIC ACID AND mined to get "Green Pastures" on broken heart he would be that almost static, almost tone- William Massingham, and

and effective -- whilst ordinary Aspirin | CONFORKING TO THE TESTS OF ALL KNOWN AUTHORITIES, THE the London boards if he died in"quaint," he would be "period." less song, which demands in a born in London in 1889.

is frequently harmful and ineficient.

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Crude Aspirin contains free Salicylle | CEBSES. WHICH ENSURE THAT shilling stall is the greatest menace so even to this quizzing age of er, and yet, in another way, at the Academy of Dramatic Art. to the London theatre to-day.

We are all as humorous everything, a world of suppress-she made her first, appearance on Aeld, which is expressly forbidden in THEY ARE OF THE SAME STAN- He believes that B8. Gd. should to-day as we know how to be: ed experience and frozen pas- the stage at Liverpool in 1912, and the standards laid down by the British DARD be the top price for all but the but only an imbecile could find sions. The hurdy-gurdy tinkles her debut on the London stage at pharmacopoeia, the guiding authority ORIGINAL DRUG AND CONTAIN the standard laid down by the British

in the wintry air, and the wan-the Vaudeville Theatre in 1913, 23 of the Medical Profession. It is the NO TEAGE OF FREE SALICYLIC | 62 | most spectacular productiona. a smile for the "Winterreise."

Not that sincerity by itself derer ironically asks the old beg-Claire in "Great Catherine." Since The trouble with London thea could manage to engage us with gar-musician to accompany his then she had appeared in leading free Salicylic Acid in Aspirin that tre-gocre, in my view, is that the this simple tale of bereavement songs that is all. But it is Shakespearean parts both in Eng-causes palpitation of the heart, diges.

the and despair. Freshness and one of the miracles of music. land and America. majority of them who have money to pay for stalls have no sincerity are inadequate to ac- Not one of the other great com- intelligence.

count for Schubert's hold. The posers can be imagined as finding That is why so many half-baked "Winterreise" is also profound, such an end to 70 pages of lamen- plays succeed in the West-end, al-it is also powerful. Schubert's tations. though the pit and gallery, where power, his "fundamental brain- the intelligent people sit, are half work" are not recognised by the

casual glance that sees only the 1933 CROMER PRIZE open look of the page, the absencej. of any enigma or complexity in "WHO'S WHO IN THE THEATRE" the style. It is perhaps only after travels in more tangled

empty.

The Pit Knows.

ours.

It is good news that John Parker ways that the native strength of

is issuing through Pitman and Sona Schubert's imagination comes:

AWARDED.

Cambridge Student's Success.

WAS

After

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Mr. W. Reid Dick Chooses Field And Fell At Academy

From Blind Home.

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Landscapes In Old Pethury Road" and those who look

Tradition.

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SPACE AND DIGNITY.

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for romance will find it in Cameron's Among the small boya at the

"The Eagle's Crag" and in "The School for the Blind, Swiss Cot-

Veiled Moon, Irish Coast," by that (Continued at Foot on Next Col) a new edition of his invaluable home to one.

The British Academy announces tage, in London, there is one whose

master mariner of painters, Julius book, "Who's Who in the Theatre," Strength of vitality, depth of that the Cromer Prize for 1933, face will soon be familiar to thou-

Olson. Easily the best interior is which has just celebrated its compassion-that is what makes the founded by the late Lord Cromer sands of people.

The other day the school was

The Royal Academy opened its Elwell's "The Library, Eaton Hall." ing-of-age.

"Winterreise" endure. The for an essay on any subject con- The volume will contain 3,000 bereaved lover is not a Woznected with the language, history, visited by Mr. W. Reid Dick, EA-doors to the public for the 165th Among the figure compositions thè choice will lie between Dame Laurs time recently, blographies of actors and other zeck-is not merely pitiable. He art, literature, or philosophy of the sculptor, whose works are to

Landscapes, since inevitably they Knight's

stated British be found in many parts of the Em-

rather harshly people connected with the theatre is not a weakling; his tale of Ancient Greece, open to

have no direct human appeal, are "Dawn," Spencer Watson's "The in England and America; a synop-suffering is not merely pathetic. subjects of either sex under the pire as well as in Britain. sis of London playbills to the end it is tragic; his anguish is not age of 26, has been awarded to Mr. His purpose was to choose a mo the most likely to be overlooked in Birth of Venus," and Frederick of last year; J. M. Bullock's fas-morbid but noble.

J. Enoch Powell, of Trinity College, del. He saw about fifty boys, and! cinating tables of hereditary Gerhard Husch's Performance Cambridge, for an essay on Thucy finally selected twelve-years-old an exhibition consisting of as many Whitings's happily expressed "Chil- theatrical families, and altogether

landscapes in this year's Academy tor." Such a thing had never been dides, his moral and historical Arthus Wright, who is fair and as 2,000 works of art. But the dren of Mr. and Mrs E. J. Proc The best exhibits in the sculpture 1,900 pages of useful information, done before. Never had there principles, and their influence a very intelligent, and of a bright

later antiquity."

temperament, though his features are both rich and varied. “ The essay of Miss Joan Hussey, already wear the settled gravity of We think of the Academy as an section were the "Lady Dorother institution which encourages only Ashley Cooper," by Frank Dobson- the sightless. St. Hugh's College, Oxford,

Mr. Reid Dick has decided to the most orthodox types of art, but a welcome recruit to the ranks of ex- at Burlington House, "The revival of learning at Con-

execute a head, in marble, which this is not so true as it used to be. hibitors stantinople in the eleventh cen-

will be sold for the benefit of the Otherwise, sa "modernist" a lands-Thought" by Winifred Turner, and tury, with special reference, to the fands of the school. He will call cape as J. Bateman's "The Field "Mother and Child," by Charles Platonist Michael Paellus" receive it "The Blind Child."

Byre" would not have been included, Wheeler. ed honourable mention.

Cricket and Football, for it included, would not have been, Arthur is to be taken to the sculpo well hung

A SOMERSET MAUGHAM ADAPTATION tor's studio twice a week for sit- Another excellent landscape tend- tings. He is loking forward to ing to modernism, with somewhat these with enthusiasm

less assurance, is Harry Bush's "The "You see," he told a reporter, "I Builder," The typographical charac- In America the play is presented do a bit of modelling in clay, Iter and the tender colour of this by the Theatre Guild, which is have modelled little men, and not work will appeal to everyone planning Just now the production' long ago I did a snake. It fa George Henry sends a noble.com- of Somerset Maugham's new adap- great fun

bar position entitled "Chanctonbury tation of "The Mask and the Face," "And so is cricket. Oh, yes, we Ring," which is anything but by Luigi Chiarelli. It will be re- An expert examining the picture play cricket here; the ball is made modernist, It belongs to the same membered that this Amusing for gallery of the castle of Lorainpa. In basket-mark, and is Alled with tradition as does Arnesby Brown's cical comedy of a pompous bus Czechoslovakia, has found thirty, bells or empty tins, "The Fell Side," which, although band who pretends to kill his sup paintings which are claimed to be we play football, too, with perhaps lacking brilliance In any posedly unfaithful wife and stande the work of old masters, including similar but, of course, bigger ball sense, has space, and dignity, trial for murder, was seen in Lon- Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Faul We have formed a league of our "Spey in her Enfolding Hill, don in C. B., Fernald's version in Veronese. Van Dyck, Marillo, own and run four teams. I play by M, Lamorna Birch, ie, on the 1924 Velasquez, Tintoretto, and Holbein centre-forward.

whole, the most impressive lands Somerset Maugham is also re- presented in New York by his grim * David Lang, the Amsterdam Mr Bald Dick har lately finished cape on the walls pert, has examined the pictures a bast of the King in Garter robes. But those in sympathy with a tragedy, "For Bervices

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COMING SHORTLY!

The Fury of the Jungle

was the back. ground to this tender, youth,

ful romance

FOX FILM

14 JESSE L. LASKY Prodestie

ZOO IN BUDAPEST

Loretta YOUNG Gene RAYMOND

O. P. HEGGIETERS

Directed by Rowland

Story by Helvisie Bakar

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