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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1933.

ART & DRAMA

ART TREASURES IN LONDON CAFE

Priceless Pictures Of

The Tsars,

Romances of history hide in the most unexpected places in London even in basemont eating-houses in the City.

The underground restaurant of

THE CHINA-MAIL.

NEW DRAMATIST FAMOUS THEATRE MR. FREDERICK

THE WORK OF LIONEL HALE

A CRITICAL

APPRECIATION

When critics disagree, the work) Biance of all conformity..

the Baltic Exchange, for instance, of s commentator such as myself sounds prosate enough. Tet for becomes more difficult than usual,

half

With us

FIGURE DEAD

Mrs. Field Of Drury Lane.

MEMORY OF GAIETY "SHOW-GIRLS"

BEHREN'S

TREASURES KOMOR

· Fine Art Collection

Under Hammer,

When that dapper Victorian

A link with the days of the beau, Mr. Frederick Behrens, died recently, many who knew the taste- "abow-girl," with her studied ele-ful decorations of his home in İgance and her picture hat, and with (Mount-street wondered what would the stage-door "Johnny" of the old be the fate of "Freddy's few things." They were soldat there is really only one form of Gaiety Theatre, has been broken by Christie's on July 6, He chose his theatrical entertainment where the death of Mrs. Florence. Field, delightful furniture as the real such disregard of the aesthetic who had been wardrobe mistress gourmet chooses his wines, and he principle is not only tolerated but at Drury-lane Theatre for the last sought and found perfection. He just. That is in Revue... In this

contrived to buy during the past 60 years "museum" pieces of 6 it is not only useful but highly 15 years,

Mrs. Field-or Mrs. Field-Watt, dalatiness suitable for a house. desirable to secure as much variety of appeal as la possible.

as the was in private life-was 78 Indeed, if the entire collection Difficult Moods.

years of age, and had brought up toria and Albert Museum, it would [could have gone intact to the Vic- There can be no more difficult a family of nine daughters and one have formed a capital oxample of of recent pieces. It is just the task for a playwright than to skip

son, but she died practically. In the home of sort of play that comes justly into successfully from one note to an-

[tury." A

years it has harboured

a writes Sydney Carroll in the dozen paintings of unfold value "Daily Telegraph." and historic significance.

A strange difference of verdict has just been reached about "The Mocking Bird," by Mr. Llonel Hale, Personally, I think it is one of the most challenging and provocative!

In 1553 Sebastian Cabot set off to find a passage to India. In one of his ships was an Englishman. Richard Chancellor.

A trading conrern called the Russia Company was formed.

In

recognition of its achievments the then Tsar presented a painting of himself to London,

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belief upon us.

KOMOR

HONG KONG

York Building Chater Road. ·

ART & CURIO

perts.

New goods arrived. From 50 cta. to $5,000. Every article marked In plain figures.

a man of taste. Eari Poulteit's home at Hinton St. memories were revived at the sight 800 of a merchant

andam, once in on the part of collectors, and many reminiscences among friends.

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POSITIVELY YOUR LAST CHANCE

line with the interesting traditions other, holding the while the specta-harness. Up to a few days before ("Nourishing in the nineteenth cen-George are probably the finest of that superb-end hospitable. of the St. Martin's Theatre, As a tors' sympathy, for we do not easily her death she climbed the 200 step prince of Bradford Sir Jacob available; and each example of Hepplewhite sideboard of warm. comedy it raises once again in make friends with men or women to her office at the top of the Behrens he was a senior school- the craftsmanship of Chippendale, mahogany, with its beautiful fluted scute form the timesanctified query of moods. Plays, like persons, theatre, and through her hands fellow of Delius, the musician, and, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton is "apron," standing, firmly on its

the need for consistency in must have understandable and re- dramatic treatment.

xular characters before they can passed the whole of the dressing of like him, did not long remain in his pleked plece of outstanding merit. tapering lege

father's business. For many years this custom was

The pair of Hepplewhite tripod) A magnificent Queen Anne necă- Each Russan ruler In this piece Mr. Hale starts off be held in esteem. We are only huge spectacles involving the em- Continued.

|. Generally, the furniture is Eng-tables, made about 1785, and the|lework screen, zuitable for a scene rent a portrait, which was preserv with broad farce, proceeds into the human. In dealing with men and ployment of scores of players. lish, typifying the best of ench Chippendale specimen, designed in an early eighteenth contury ed at the Company's headquartera. calm, clear air of comedy, then be- matters we like to know where we

She had been connected with the style. Thus his pair of tall about 1760, caused much eagerness comedy of manners,, also evoked Chameleons excite curiosity. Then came the Great Fire, and the comes emotionally serious aud al-are.

theatre from her earliest years, torcheres by Robert Company and it- Roval paintings most tragic and finishes up the ad- We do not make pets of them.

RUE the Tsars ventures of his characters in the It has been objected to Mr. Hale and as a wardrobe mistress for were destroyed

in which he that he falls in this play to impose (hall a century she had dressed continued to send thei! pictures Bame nots of farce through the centuries that follow started them upon their careers.

But is this really nearly all the stars on the English.

ed.

In the long line of theatrical a fault? Do we ever believe in stage. Finally the Company reased lo compositions which have, in the any of the characters in any of function. Sumtelndy had the iden must. red successful, I doubt if the plays of George Bernard Shaw? af depositing them for sate keep, there are more than fifty in which Do we ever believe in any of the liner, who was employed by sever- ing in the Balti. Exchange There variability of method has been Sharian situations? they remained for years, and the tried and proved to be correct. But certain playwrights who do not ask began her stage work in connee- purpose ob-tion with the first production of odours of chops and steass and sar-art is nothing if not experimental, us for belief, whose rounded by advertisements for this There is no reason whatsoever why viously it is either to entertain "Iolantbe," at the Savoy Theatre

any playwright, providing he has without instruction or to instruct in 1882.

under the guise Recently a former Governor of enough wit and talent at his dis-and move u

Hon. Posal, should not at his own sweet entertainment. first will skip from one stool to another Lord Addington-as the pastures and in the course of one evening And rescued them. I offered occupy three different seats with them to the National Gallery, but 'impudent relielty. accommodation could not be found.

and hat.

the Bank of England. the Evelyn Hubbard-on «! the

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Value of Consistency.

Costumes For Lily Langtry,

Ifer mother was a wholesale mil

There are al London theatres, and Mrs. Field

WELCOME PLAY REVIVAL.

of

Eventually Mr. Hubbard remen- "Consistency alone will not pre- bered that M. Sabline, the Tsar's cent a playgoor from yawning is "The Man With A Load inst Charge d'Affaires belove the lead off." So anys Mr. Agate in Russian revolution, still lived 16, “The Sunday Times." I

London.

agree

Of Mischief."

WES

In the years that followed Mrs. Field Was at the Adelphi, the Galety, and Daly's. She supervis- Jed costumes for Kate Cutler, for Marion Terry, for Marie Stedholme, and for Lily Langtry. She also responsible for the dresses for the first production of the "Merry Widow," with Lily Elele as Sonia. She liked to look back to the days when the of the "show-girl," streets were thronged with han- soms and young men waited at the

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with him, but cannot refrain from The Westminister Theatre, Lon-stage door to take the Galety girls Now the six remaining patures, adding as footnote that consistency don, will reopen about September to supper. are hung in his house. and the may, nevertheless, enable the play-24 with a revival of Ashley Dukes's Baltic Exchange knows

mune

In 1914 Mrs. Field embarked on.

them no, wright to achieve certain and easy beautifully-written comedy. "The a business venture in Canada, but |success when without it he un-Man with a Load of Mischief," lost everything, and had to "sel! doubtedly runs the gravest danger which, following the Stage Society even the treasured diamond brooch of tumbling elegantly or Inele-production, ran for over 250 per-that Mr. George Edwards gays her | gantly between the different stools formiances at the Haymarket sightļas a memento of her long service. Through her nephews she obtained

NEW MUSIC-DRAMA he has elected to sit upon.

years ago.

Mr. Hale is probably the most Fay Compton's original part will the post of wardrobe mistress with MASEFIELD'S "GOOD FRIDAY" promising of our younger play-be taken by Valerie Taylor, who Sir Alfred Butt (then Mr. Butt) WITH ADDED MUSIC rights. He has wit, finish, the has been seting in America for the at the Palace, and from there,

ability to make

year's

to a natural stage last four years. Ion Swinley will fifteen

ago, she went Mr. Masefield's

play in verse sentence. He is instinctively play the Man and A. E. Filmer is Drury Lane.

One of Mrs. Field's nephews is "Good Friday" has been made into amusing, and though a triffe bitter the producer.

The score winch

the St. Martin's.

;.

WAS

a must-drama by the addition of and even savage at moments, the Valerie Taylor's husband, Hugh Mr. Nelson Keys. He may be said music written by Mr. Napier Miles. credibility of his characters Sinclair, is also to make a reap-to have started his career in his

I now published seldom at fault. If "The Mocking Pearance in London, for he has an aunt's drawing-room, for it by the Oxford University Press. Bird" should fail to please the Important part in "The Key" at there, at the age of 12. that he be

Igan to give his imitations. shows Mr. Miles's music to be most-pubile tand | sincerely hope it ly in the nature of a dramatic re won't fail), it will surely only be citative, which adds colour to the because of the utter recklessness words without ever interfering with with which Its author turns from their rhythm. But there are also phantasy to reality, from domestic lyrical moments, and the part of the

comedy to Bermonising, from Madman gives the composer the opinoralising to farce, from murder portunity to introduce a simple

to comic drunkenness,

melody of the folk-song type of much beauty.

I cannot remember any other The choral sections are skilfully play in the last decade which has handled. In the conclusion the treated such a diversity of sub- Madman alone le left on the scene jects in so diversified a way.

...

PORTRAIT OF ANNY AHLERS.

Donizetti At Florence

Lucrezia Borgia"

Revived.

Palace. The first work was a trio by F. Alfano, Here one felt that: the composer's lyrical gifts were Florence. being forced to support too heavy at singing his tune, echoed by the There is indeed a great deal tu As the revival of "Nabucco" at structure, and there was a continua! English horn, while an invisible be said for this chameleonic prin- the Florence Festival made, are cracking of the overstrained gir choir sings praising the Creator. ciple. After all even human twins consideration of early Verdi neces-ders,

Casella's six-year-old Sonata for This final

so has that of “Lucrezia scene should be most are of two kinds. A single embrynary effective on the stag

will divide and subdivide into four Borgia" caused any who held Donicellor and piano is certainly one of zetti to be dead and done for to his unst successful works. Its parts, which will develop sever think again.

katonishing technical brilliance is not ally into four different and distinct

merely the decoration of an empty No one who has seen this Flor-ball, for there are momnts of truely offspring, Why cannot a dramatist therefore, always providing that he ence Festival revival will ever again lyrical beauty. If only mader observes the ties or relationshipjaneer at Donizetti. True, Victor composers would cease fighting|| and the obligations of the family, the brettet Roman Bulated by against the romanticism that is deep develop his theme upon four dif the librettist Romani. But the com- down in their bears

poser had a great gift--that of English Choral Works ferent plans, concurrently pur exactly appreciating the nature of The Florence Biogers (I can- Bged?

his musical talent. His limitations tori di Firenze) will be a revelation The Dramatist's Aim. ruled out tragic intensity, but com- even to those accustomed to the A portrait of that tragic beauty, Anny Ahlers, is one

I have seen it stated lately that Ponsation lies in his exquisite vocal guest English choirs. The conduc- of the auc

writing, casses of Mr. de Laszlo's exhibi- the principal object of the play-

tor, Virgilio plitber musiclán tion in Bond-street. At the time wright should be the accurate re- Everything is concentrated in the of rare penetration has of her death it was complete, ex-production of life. I do not agree vocal line. This is consequently finite patience built up cept for a part of the drapery, and with this. It is not sumcient in musle that demands superb sing- can give no com It is a fine, vivid piece of work the theatre to reproduce life. ing. Given this, the opera comen Baxa Thin Worlies

Mr. de Laszlo has long borne the is not sufficient to produce a work to life in an astonishing way. Here pummate phrasing, and labol of fashionable portrált pain of art. The dramatist must take was interpreted by such supreme other ter, and in the sense that he is life, subject it to his Artistic will ly fine singer as Beniamino Gigli gramme prone occasionally to flatter, it la and evolve from it something that and Glannina Lombardi, and one an apt one. But the smooth ac-is a fusion of both art and life, attention was arrested, till the end,

| despite the harmonic: commonpla

Outstanding Picture At Private Exhibition.

complishment of his technique is It must be confessed that of all of the prehestral accompani admirable. His women are better the shortcomings to which our This music will diet yalyvitat than his men and hla men are modern playwrights seem prone, tradition of bel good. Nothing could be more lack of consistency is the noost que, too, to Glan fudicial, for. Instance, then, his prayi and the most

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