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Handy time to tell us we've built it upside down.”
London Express Service
The Editor of Musical America was invited to listen to the tosts in the Royal Fastival Hall. Ho makes this disturbing report.
I felt like bolting to Waterloo Station
London, Apr. 27. TEXT week the new
will be opened to the public, A big question mark hangs over it: the question "What aro the acoustics like?"
Now there is only one reason for a concert hall. It exists
by CECIL SMITH'
farthest short of success. People
the stalls heard an utterly different kind of sound from that which reached those up in the balcony.
In the first place, I am con- vinced that the human ear and scientific instruments of measure- properties of musical sound. ment disagree about the artistic
end
In the open space of the average concert hall, the ugly. noise associated with the playing of instruments vanishes, only the beautiful musical tone In the stalls, the music was reaches the cars of the audience.
and crude. The
To my hearing, the Festival Hall of people to hear muale. orchestra seemed
catches and tranami's sound too No matter how comfortable it its hearers. One wished for a tone is still dawed by the noise too close to much as a microphone does, The
simply to enable a large gather- raucous
Ing
may be, no matter how attrac- live in architectural design and decoration, a concert hall is not
a success if the music played and sung in it does not sound natural and beautiful,
In planning the Royal Festival Hall the architects drew upon all available know- ledge of acoustics-the measure-
ment and control of the be- haviour of sound-waves, They studied the construction of acoustically successful audi- toriums on the European con- tinent and in the USA. They sought to tave nothing to chance, Have they succeeded?
.I HAVE been listening
Model of the Royal Festival Hall ... is it the big acoustical flop?
of space between the both the stalls
sense
when it reaches ita destination out in the audience.
This foot was especially
parent when Denis Matthews played the plano at the test con- cert. It was possible to hear the thud of tho hammers as they struck the skings..
place, I wontice if the deced-up arrangement of and the area
In the second
to Sir Adriar. Boult and players and the audience. When occupied by the orchestra le not the London Philharmonie the trumpets and trombones a mistake. The floor is in effect Orchestra play an go to work in Wagner's Pre V-shaped, People who sit on a acoustical test In the lude to Dle Meistersinger the dead level with the brass instru- hall. I have to report cardrums were assaulted, All
satisfying
that sound produced was not sense of musical pleasurements receive their tone in
to the musical cor. vanished.. One felt like rush straight line, but the strings and It was harsh. It was unlovely, ing out of the hall to seek the woodwinds are in a trough lower Brass Instruments roughly relative quiet of Waterloo overpowered strings and wood- Station. Moreover, it seemed a winds, and drums sounded like waste of money to engage connon. High tones were clarinet and oboe players when piercing and squeally, and their parts could not be heard tones in the bass were dim and above the brassy din. muffled.
But It is in the proper con- Itrol of echo that the Hall falls
Sitting on the
brachure on the
beauties of Britain written for
the benent of foreign visitors.
by N Gubbins, Esq.
HOSE visiting Britain
for the first time may
Fence....by
wonder at the enthu- NATHANIEL GUBBINS
siasm displayed by those
already acquainted with her charms.
In this wonderful country know nothing about, and are you will also have the privilege usually women,
After a few days, they will of tasting the world-famous wonder no longer.
English cooking.
But come and see for your Here is a country, not
only self.
It is certain you will with an infinite-variety of never forget us."
but scenery,
bewildering variety of climate.
a
The scenery ranges from the
mountains of Scotland and North Wales, once a training. ground for commandos, where you. can still pick
up a lost
hand grenade and blow your self to bits, to the flat eastern half of the country, where the marshy
and ground searching, moisture-laden winds cripple you. with theu-
will
matism.
*
keen,
☆
*
can
on
a
As for the climate, you start half-naked for a walk
a hot June morning, run into blizzard at midday and be in bed with pneumonia by dinner- time.
You will then have the op- portunity of taking advantage of. the free medical service for all, including foreigners,
Perhaps, more than anything, It is her people who make Bel- fain irresistible to visitor.
Their light-hearted approach ta life and living brings a reatly response from the stranger in their midst.
He will see them in their or dinary daily life in town and perhaps plying countryside,
ancient craft, such as Alling in football coupons,
samu
Your personality
WHAT kind of a person are
you? What are your faults? What are you fit for?
After no research at all, and giving the matter no more than а moment's consideration, Dr Gubbins, the Fleet Street quack, is able to answer all these intriguing questions,
His brilliant discoveries have led him to believe that most of us can be classified into five personality groups. The Asser- tive, The Stable, The Spont ançous. The Persistent, and The Senslive.
Arst
If you belong to the group, you are the kind of man who is hated in office, fac tory, Parliament, the armed forces, and at home,
The Persistent Group No. 4 are all borea and pests, loathed by everybody, including their mothers.
They pry, peer,
and poke their noses into other people's
business without shame,
and
IN
THE FACT that the Festival Hall is not yet the ideal structure that advance descriptions had let us to expect. Yes, it is comfortable, and it is good-looking But we go
THE balcony lite was pleasanter: I advise to a concert hall to hear music, people planning to at- not to sit in luxury in handsome. tend the Festival con- surroundings.
certs to book their seats
45
high up and as far
When next 1 visit London I
away Di possible. But even hope to and that Mr Shove and bere the tone was thin and his staff have surmounted every lacking in fullness and charm obstacle. Meanwhile, they face though one could, at least, hear a knotty problem and a Brave the contributions of all the in- responsibility. dividual instruments.
do you when we haven't got Possibly there is some In- company?.
You ashamed of my father? I wonder you didn't tell him your mother's stopped taking in washing now I've got a rise,
E
I did when you was out of the room.
voured spot in the hall in which the sound is balanced, sonorous, and gracious to the If there is, I did not stumble on st, Anyway there is such a apot, not every one will be able to sit in it.
ear.
12
Mr John Shove, the director of the Festival Hall, made no
Stalin's Birthday attempt to conceal his puzzle-
"Private soldiers of the Red Army have'a proportion of their pay deducted each year-to-buy- Bilin + birthday
present." Mituary Intelligence report on Russia.
are probably food enforcement WE get no pay today officers.
We get no pay tomorrow As no one gets his pay today
We cannot steal or borrow, underprivileged The sergeant says we get no
Sensitive. Group No. 5. are people who cry themselves to sleep about doggies in Asia and are born to be pushed around by Group 1, shamed by Group 2, talked into silence by Group 3 and pled
upon by Group 4.
They are the World's Mugs Even the underprivileged dog- gles would bite them.
Conversation
"I have got on well in the world, and am now in a position of some standing. My wife has remained backward socially, It makes me bad tempered." You will fight your way to Letter to a woman columnist. the top over the bodies of less
pay
Because it has to go
Το buy a jolly good birthday
gift
For folly old Uncle Joe.
Jolly old Uncle Joe
Oh, we love him 10,
We wish a hundred happy re-
furna.
To jolly old Uncle Joe,
We get no beer today
We get no beer tomorrow
aggressive, but often mero WELL, that's the end of that, As no one gets his beer today talented people,
*
abililles
According to your you may become a dictator, a business executive, or a regi. mental sergeant-major.
You will go to your grave un. mourned and unloved, except by your mother, who may have secret misgivings herself.
If you belong to the Stable selling stolen goods in the black type (Group 2) you can be market,
written down as a dull, hard- working conscientious medio- crity.
at
་
20
More
likely they wit be mooning about in utility clothes, slaring into half-empty shoper
You will never go for for- things they can't afford, ward, never go for back. You forming
muttering are as reliable as a rock, and Queues, about ment and cursing the about as oxelting. You weigh Government.
your werds and count your change/ "If married, you would drive › He will be struck also by any intelligent woman mad in a thele natural beauty and month, dignity; the flashing smile of welcome disclosing the distinc- tive buck teeth of the upper classes and the shihing dentures of the workers.
Talkative, TOW
Also by the blistered backs
of trousered women on holiday,
excitable, and over-cheerful people belong to
End of that, dear?
We're sad and full sorrow
My chances of promotion. I The sergeant says suppose you knew it was the manager who came to tea?
tell
we get no
beer
Because they take our dough
ment when we talked the mal- ter over after the dest concert He promised that the manage- ment would keep on trying to achieve perfect tonal result, He was far from certain that the Ideal would be reached by the time Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Malcolm Sargent conduct the dedicatory programme, be- fore the King and the Queen, on May 3. But he undertook to continue
the struggle "for several years," if it proves to be necessary,
This is disappointing. I may be wrong but I would like to advance two suggestions,
(World Copyright Reserved,
London-Express Service)
ROYAL COMMISSION, ON GAMBLING
Anne Edwards
THE "DRILL" FOR A DATE WITH THE GIRL
WHOSE FACE IS HERE
told me of course, dear. You To buy a jolly good birthday As the list of young men to the theatre there are always
me,
For Jolly old Uncle Joe.
Then why did you have to.
him how you wash the curtains?
Jolly old Uncle Joe You are to make conversa. Oh, we love him 10: tion don't you, dear?
.
who have escorted Prin. a few policemen round
door even when the Princess cess Margaret becomes is officially "not expected," and longer, the pattern sets. It the manager comes up bowing. goes as follows:--
You sit through the interval- First news is a telephone call no drinks, no changing plades, We have no wealth to drink from Jennifer Bevan, her lady- no ices. And afterwards your
the health
in-waiting. "Princess Margaret party leaves first, while the is having a small party to go, thanks the
audience, waits, and the Princess to the theatre, and would very Tho, cars ore
theatro, manager. roody and you mach:ke you to come. Please alido off to the night club. come to Buckingham Palace at 7.30,"
Is it making conversation to tell him I wear holes in my Of jolly old Uncle Joe, socks in a week? ·
thing,
Somebody's got to say some- We get some drill today
We get some drill tomorrow Or that you can't sleep be To get no pay for drill all day cause of my snoring?
It fills us full of sorrow
Nor can I.
Or that you don't believe in married couples sleeping apart because It's the beginning of the end?
·So it is.
If you must have shrimps for the Spontaneous Group and are tea, is I necessary to tell him
·¤· great; nuisance.
You eat the whole · shrimps, They always look on the yea and all?
| sucking synthetle, ict cream
and- their fall, escorla in open- bright, side,” are credulous to. -necked, abiria and aborta, dia- the; point of":"stupidity, novac, playing narrow, hairy chests Haten and therefore never learn, | and long, hairy, legs,
So I do..
that your father drinks "offer opinions on matters they, his fea out of a skucer? And no.
Or.
The sergeant says we should be
glad
Our wages to forgo
To buy a jolly good birthday
cake
For folly old Uncle Joe,
Jolly old Uncle Jos Oh, we love him so.
Once again
the mariager is
"there, 'Bowers ara 'on a tublo
The young blood lakes a taxi reserved in la secluded place, or his car, drives straight in to Champagne appears, but the the Privy Purse door (main bill never docs (that is settled entrance on the right)," The the next day), and no one tipe polles"-arts' warned - and no 'one the walters." stops him. At the door there is an attendant in the Royal
It is the Princess, who says: Household uniform of dark
"I think we must be going" blue. Next he goes up in the Princess in the
and Jennifer Bevan tips for lift to the Princess's private room. You say gootinight • in powder sitting-room-a
the foyer of the restaurant, and There he gets" a drink and one of the royal cars takes you sandwiches / Furually, chicken - home, We wish a hundred years of life and ham, and "folly good."
And; whatever happens, you To folly old, Uncle Jor,
Then they go down, andret bever tip the chauffeur? {-{London. Kapres Service) - into the royal car and - drive.
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