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Moscow, Mar. 21.
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The Moscow Operetta Theatre has bitterly attacked for a musical comedy entitled The Violet of Montmartre," which raised lots of laugh but lagged far behind the Communist party line.
In spite of its condemnation, by Soviet Music, the official organ of the Union of Soviet composers, The Violet of Montmartre was an outstanding success. The producer and stars were showered with bouquets on the first night, and the number of curtain calls was a record for this type of performance. The audience loved it.
In the Soviet Union, however, were removed from the comedy, it is not enough to make people which "ted to show that the laugh. There must 1e an lite of aptists in the capitalist idenflogical moral as well.
world is not so difficult."
SOCIAL CONFLICTS
Soviet Music said that the Operetia Theatre had failed "to display and to sharpen the social conflicts"_of_The Violet of Montmartre, rollicking slapstick: farce.
The Violet of Montmartre is a traditional musical comedy with.
The producer depicted "the old sweet Paris' where talented but happy, live artists, poor merrily and carefree. There are no difficulties or hardships."
The authors
of the revised Moscow libretto and the pro- ducer, G. Yan," "did not dis- play real boldness in order to deepen the social conflict which is in the plot
Area) Superoly built and appointed music by the Hungarian con- The comedy scenes, Soviet Residential Property amidal magnposer, Imre Kalman, about the Music concluded recalled the Acent scenery, Grounds with benet) – life of
repertoire ful natural gardens, masses of dat Modija,
bluebells; primroses
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According to Soviet Music, the directors of the Moscow Theatre failed to emphasise
the social inequality of the artists
the
Moreover, it said, changes in libretto by the Moscow Theatre did not alter the fact that the jokes in the comedy were aimed only "at the un- fastidious taste of the fun- loving bourgeoisie,"
The like of these Bohemians in Paris was "depicted falsely And sentimentally." All "elements
of social contier"
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The Soviet Music critic. Yuri Milyulin, a well-known Soviet musical comedy com- poser, described the pro- duction of The Violet of Montmartre as raising the question whether the Moscow Theatre was to switch to "outward ENTET- tainment and the thought- ful praise - of 'beautiful Paris life."
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Rome, Mar. 21. Italy's small but Republican Party threatened the safety of Premier Mario Scelba's coalition today on the eve of Signor Scelba's State visit to the United States.
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Putting Noise
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The Britannia took off at its considerably faster than biston- maximum all-up weight of engined aircraft of otherwise 150,000 lb. piloted by
characteristics Wing similar Commander W. Gibb, assistant chief test
pilot to the Brists! In the scale of Press reports The resulting from the debate in the Aeroplane Company.
on the air House of Commons passengers and crew totalled "42 including representatives of the mates,
all-important
the
Not Forming British Overseas Airways Cor subject of safety was almost
Into Strike ing Nazi leader, tonight
Colombo, Mar. 21.
Munich, Mar. 21. Otto Strasser, former left-
denied that he intended to but form a political party declared he was bringing out a newspaper in the autumn.
A police search was started The Republicans, who have on the outskirts of Colombo to- thrown their Ave voles in day for a gang believed to be Parliament to Premier Scelba's making bombs and hand support so far, in effect voted grenades for terrorism in con- no confidence in his coalition nection with a local bus sirikë, last night at
at a meeting of the Twenty-three home-made fuse-in Canada, Party's National Council.
poration and the Air Registra-overlooked. tlen Board..
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TROPICAL TRIALS
Ward
But Mr George the Under-Secretary of for Air, delighted "MPS when he told them that the fatal accident rate for all types of RAF aircraft is now less than one quarter of the [1921 fgure. "The comparison is all the more striking," he said. "because nowadays our pilots must be prepared to fly and fight in all weathers."
The
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It is worth recalling that the "Tests were then carried out.
RAF was then equipped with Herr Strasser arrived in Ger-
at temperatures In the
biplane bombers arri fighters. nineties, about double those many from Ireland last Friday
The typical fighter of 1931 bad
maximum after an absence of more than prevailing during tests in
speed of 135
mph the U.E.
and weighed 2,800 lb. lly 14 years, spent mostly in exile
loaded. contrast the Gloster The speedy. flight to Johan-Meteor jet agaters of today nesburg gives an indication of The former Nazi who later the performance that Britannias and weigh 15,400
have top speed of 592 mph broke with Hitler refused to go will make possible
1b. fully One former serviceman was into detail
en long loaded. CD his political
tt range scheduled services.
M Ward also told the House but said that any re- demonstrates the ability of the that the fatal aesident rate for nobody in the present Cabinet, arrested on suspicion of partici- views. which includes Christian Depation in a series of recent bomb birth of Germany must be ac- turboprop to carry a large pay-jets is less than one-sixth c mocrats, Social Democrats and attacks on buses. The transport complished by an attempt to load over very long ranges at
the rate when they first came Liberals. But their five votes strike is in its eleventh day with reconcile individual liberty, and high
crising speeds. The into service, and less than half near-decisiva Carry
weight-no prospects in sight for settle- economic security. France- average speed on the Johan-what it was only two years ago.. United Press.
ment-United Fress
nesburg flight was 350 mph. These results stem from a care
ful training.
and programme great improvements in the reliability Of
bombs were stized in Ottawa, The Republicans were mem-10 miles east of Colombo, bers of the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi's coalition but have
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a shipment of rice be bad negotiated with the Por tuguese Government for colony in India, Goa. The rico was not shipped and the defend aut as accused of using forged dowmentsUnited Press,
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