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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST. 1, 1958;

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"Spread yourselvos-toach 'om there are other things in life besides Silverstone."

The level of the unburnt oil in the reservoir of this eighteenth century lamp clock marked the hour, (Reproduced, by kind permission of the Science Museum, London).

London Express Service

Measuring

the hours

with an Oil Lamp

B

or scouts, "they say, are taught to find the points of the compass with a pocket watch. but the North Germans of the eighteenth, century went one better. They told time by means of an oil lamp and derived a pleasant form of illumination into the bargain I The reservoir of this pewter lamp was graduated to mark the hours from 8 p.m. to 7 .m., the level of the unburnt oil showing. the time..

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BAYREUTH-TRIBUTE

TO THE FAIRY KING

By GERARD BOURKE

"Lohengrin", the Wag ner opera which King Ludwig I first saw on his 16th birthday, has this summer been added to the repertory of the Bayreuth Festival, which opened a few days ago. It is being produced by Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of the The Kreat composer.

other operas are produced by Wolfgang's brother. Wieland Wagner.

Tis. difficult to visit

the Wagner

Festival

King Ludwig II's castle "No úschwanstein," feft Incomplete when the King died. Now owned by the Bavarian Government.

for the introspective mon- In 1880, three years after

Arch and hia few selected friends. even wrote to

carefully Wagner's death, emissaries came from Munich. declaring their Once he

Cosima y King insane - a decision arbitrarily, it. conveniently, Wagner his confidante, reached after he bed tried to nlthough they met only borrow money secretly from the once - offering to abdicate Roths.ilds to continue . ឯខ· to be closer to her husband, building programme. The King

refused to receive. the King Ludwig inherited the and crossed to his new fairy-tale

Neuschwanstein,

loyally

"eastle of Hohenschwangau, set in castle led by the villagers, Thern

exquisite

corner uf the Bavarian Alps, south of Munich, he

in

near the village of Fuessen and imprisoned the first intruders

entrenched himself and clear Alpsee lake. The the dungeons. Soon, however, region is known

the As

hight he was overpowered. and taken

The

ENIGMA

near

of the swan" fromdway prisoner to Castle Bérg, on, it la sald, Lotiengrin set the Starnberg Lake cut to the Rhtho to save Elsa of Munich. Brabant. The swan motit is in- evidence

throughou!

the Victorian Gothle castle from which the prince. forged his first connection with Wagner. Later during spells of illusion he would even don armour as the knight himself, while strolling in the grounds.

OVERPOWERED

No

в по

which

A SIMPLE wooden cross now

stands in the lake at the spot where his body was found, beside that of his niedical

at Bayreuth, amid the

attendant, a few hours after Borth Barvarian pirc of the young and handsome a few idyllic months spent

their arrival. The King had forests, without feeling monarch, but little knew together and forever

been allowed to walk escorted sympathy and admiration how strangely the event treasured by the King, the

by the lake, where he had affect his own Government forced him to

formerly strolled with Wagner. for King Ludwig of wond

NOWADAYS' the King's It will never be known whether Bavaria,

the fortunes. Yet only a month sever all personal connec who made

strange self-imposed exile the King tried to swim

·across project possible by his later-the-King-sent-a-Lions-with-Wagner, osten--can be felt at Neusch the lake to friends, and was Bancial and aesthetic sup- Minister of State, bearing a sibly on the grounds of the wasteln

he built drowned while struggling with port of Wagner, often in precious gift, to search him lavish expenditure of state looking Hohenschwangaui.

robky prominence over the doclor, or whether they Hefiance of the Government cut at Stuttgart, and sum funds on music,

For both signed

De committed suicide together. In oppressive new- Munich.

mon him to Munich. Wag. King and subject had only remanesque style, it

contains

"Perhaps one day I shall be The Fairy King," as he ner was overjoyed when he vague ideas on economy in Lapestries murals solely at peace with this corth," wrote

representing Incidents Icona became own on account learnt that the King offered art..

King Ludwig, "when all the nuclent German sagus, especial- ideals whose sacred Name. I of his romantic ideals and

ly those chosen by Wagner. The cherish are destroyed. But do his Wagnerian

It was during this en reception castles ing shelter and full artistic

rooms depict the not ever wish this! I want to

sago, isolated support, so that he might forced separation that the Lohengrin

while the remain. perched high in

en eternal enigma-to withdrew further fourth-floor muste rooms, where myself and to others." regions, has rightly been complete plans outlined in King

from his people, and built

Wagner concerts are still held, called "the last artist to sit

show scenes from "Parsifal And the enigma still remains, castles planned ns upon a throne."

the The King's ornate bedroom is even to the gardener, now over architectural counterpart of surrounded by incidents from 00 and still living near the spot Wagner's "Ring"

"Tristan." Yet the castle cycle.

was where he, as a' young boy, found

him great favours, includ-

and

The Art Work of the Future," a pamphlet which the King had avidly read.

"It is for you. I wear my crown; teil me what your These were not designed for left slightly incomplete. The the drowned King who once will is and I will obey," was lavish entertainment, but King lived there for only six remarked prophetically: "When months, and the sumptuous I can no longer bulid, I can no knowledged gratitude at the the royal offer. But after solely as personal refuges throne-room contains no throne. longer live.

At Bayreuth, homage has been paid to his courage und foresight, ever since Wagner himself first ac-

Festival Theatre's opening in 1876, when "The Ring" was first staged in the King's prosence. Even "Wahnfried," Wagner's home at Bayreuth, was a gift from the King, and out- | '. side stands one of the few royal busts he permitted.

DEVOTION

BLONDE BOBO

WANTS

BIGGEST

EVER ALIMONY FROM WINTHROP

B Rockefeller, 37, started glow, on the ground year.

himself in Arkansas, o State publicity, and Bobo has seen that

It

C

setting of a legend that ori- Sears, and now, it seems, Rockefellated that Winthrop he refuses to join

an income of Last June it was announced the play. "Tobacco Road" when

wild be able to

吧

D

New York Reynolds, ex-wife of Richard J. Winthrop recently established the Rockefellers, he is hurt by

●LONDE Bobo (Barbara) Reynolds the tobacco tycoon.

Winthrop Rockefeller is one of whose laws allow a divorce after he gets publicity regularly every KING Ludwig's devotion to

the American born feller

"I want him to suffer the Junior, whose Wagner dates from his

father of a separation of three years or way he has made me suffer," 16th birthday when he was daughter of a Lithuanian founded the great all fortune. more. Now that his wife and she said three years ago. taken, as prince, to "Lohen- coalminer immigrant, went Winthrop's mother was the sister child are living in his own home, is humiliated me before the

& wealthy Ambassador in London.

of Winthrop Aldrich, American it can be contended that if: there world." grin" at the court opera in on to marry

Bostonian named Dick

is a separation, it is only because

Bobo does not object to divorce Munich.. In the inspired

them. tem,

on principle. She was acting in has

met her first husband, and ginated at his own ancestral wants to extract the big round a million dollars a year that he had bet million-, she

ever sought before taxes are deducted. What dollar trust fund for his wife, she divorced him at Reno after home, the custle of Ho- gest alimony.

In America from her second ver Bobo can get out of that will giving her 20,000 dollars a year six years henschwangau, the prince husband,

of marriago in 1949. bo multi-millionaire practically painless since he tax-free. He said then that he She

She wag deduct the hoped he would be able to have tenement. In a New York : found exact musical ex-

working as a model, Winthrop Rockefeller, amount in totting up his income- the custody of his son of regular when she got a job in the pression for his ideals.. Ho

Her goal is something like tax.

tax. Bobo would have to pay intervals.

Bobo rejected the Socony Vacuum Olf Company's iletermine that one day ho

million with hauteur will office and: there met Winthrop would fulfil Wagner's plea, 4 quarter of a million tax on the award.

But Winthrop obstinately re- not let my son become a dollars (£90,000 in round fuses to play Bobo's game,

the production who was on the wedding, at the So I won't sell.

the child."!! stated in the preface of the

myself or Rockefellers have she said, «

of Winston

Guos estate "The Ring "A light must figures) a year to maintain the warring

al- Winthrop, Paul been a source of entertainment Trust Fund Duchess

tended by the

Duko

and show itself; a human being her son

public over

of

mado a must arise who will give Rockefeller now aged 4, and to the American

since they separated 3 years

great Rockefeller has also set up an after young Winthrop was bord.

hey after their me help then I shail still heraclf.

ngo-ins murringe,

other million-dollar trust fund Boho says she disliked her hus

bonds, night-clubbing hablis head" by seizing her, estranged which she contends might be

Since then she has hammered If she gets it sho will be. the husband! 16-room air minated at

**TC, gives the The opportunity came "alimony champ. The title is conditioned fat on Park Avenue was irrey by time the one away on the one theme,

the until she and settling in child 700 dollars a month

child of divorced parents," now held by Eleanor Halm, who in New York.

said at the start of her cam- dramatically only two years gets 38,400 dollars (about £15 there with her son and her ADC, he is 18, then 200 dollars a palenia #I know what that

Bobo's a woman friend,gelska monis until he is 30. became King. VANNA Rose Bobo La employing AME

Louis. Nizerj Wagner was roaming Eleanor's lawyer,

hex through his lawyers bring him up properly on Lost year he negotiated a Europe and happened to be milion dollariaettlement

<

have the strength to not Eleanor the Champ Bobo hap

ap "established a

a beach for his son. Unlike, Bobo's quite such help, but ..otherwise!!

...

started 2000

Inter when in 1864; Ludwig | 000) a’yeng" from showman' Billy, a Rockefeller has now a commut on that won," "I cant mouns and 1· do not want: Uttle * Themt he, bagi no intention of amalan Gollerkosa trend wife, to suffer through `ony.

sured

in Manich for the accession mother client, Marianne O'Brien may have other

rig beachhead,”

***** Winthrop biur done many sung consequence, conventional things, But, Like all

fault of his parents.”.

-Evelyn Irons

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