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THE CHINA : MAIL,⠀⠀ "SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

∙1937.

PHOTO A NEWS AT THE SURGERY OF BRITAIN'S STRANGEST VOICE DOCTOR

HIS is the first picture

THIS

ever published of # song-surgeon at work: and what ho ly doing makes molto fortissimo news not only for Harley Street but for everyone who sings ----- for Maria Callas and Veru the Lynn and the star of local skille group. What IS he doing? Seeing sound: judging a note not, as your music teacher does, by car but by sight. Thus

The (Harley Street) song- surgeon asks his patient (in this

Bettĺna Hayes,

wife of Covent Garden's John Lanigan) to sing - for example ---- Middle Cas he watches her vocal cords.

The flicker

As ordinary doctor would se nothing: for to produce andle Miss Hayes's cords Bicker at 256 times a econd-just the same as a vjolin-string or plano-wire. But the song-surgeon useg i device called a stroboscope, which he adjusts to flicker light down Miss Hayes's throat at the Middle Crate uf 250 times a second.

Strango result: The flicker of cords and flicker of light "cancel each other out," and the song-surgeon cords Miss Hayes's seemingly motionless. But

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If there is slight move. ment then she is not singing

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THE

HE face of Eddie Con- tion of the French lan-

elunting is the texture guage.

of corrugated fron about.

He estimated that Eddie Con- stanline, un the screen, drinks average of two bottles Scotch a day; in real life he

1 pretty H

and

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Neolithic stone-carving.

an

Despite (or.

of

correctly. And by singing with the ever-accurate ma cine accompanlat Miss Hayes and all who sing either for a living or for fan can:~~~~

Find the real reason for "relaxed" and "tired" throats; train themselves Iko athletes always to hit the right note; specialise by following their natural powers (vocal cords, like feet, come in sizes: from Callas-size to Sabrina-size).

Medicine and music har- monise over the strobo- scope.

Says the Express music critic, Noel Goodwin: "Thou. sands of voices are ruined by bad training - anyone can set up o 'singing teacher.""

Says the song-surgeon: "With the mid of a little science and mathematics wo can now put this right." Bravo. Bravissimo.

AND MARIA LOSES

THE TIGRESS HER SNARL

because of) this Eddie, an “if i drank any more," he says,

die, in limita himself to three essays, AFTER my encounter or I should say collision

uf the other

beautiful

girly

Was

h

Callas gels for her roles, what than ever before. By every Callas says. with Madame Maria Meneghini Callas I have come

never bother body—except me. ex-chorus boy, "I would be in co condition to to the conclusion that inside every thin prima donna should have less hysterics about

about my colleagues. American

They

I would have proferred the hus become

of get up to any the rage

thero is a fat prima donna struggling to be let out.

Caline.

fatter, flercer, more fiery prima donna. The one who is reputed Paris carning £65,000 a things I have to get up to,'

Three years ago Madame Callas weighed 15 st.. In

baritone Enzo got picture and rivalling Lello-

"To say that I am tempera- to have On the screen Editie is always other respects, too, she was an outsize character. Today

mental

fired

ho because brigida as a box-office attrac surrounded by

is ridiculous; it is the Sordello tion on the Continent. He and makes more passes than a she is down to 9 st. 4 lb. and when I met her at the others who are temperamental, sustained a high note janter

The real Eddie Savoy Hotel I could not tancously? That she

who make the trouble and the than she did. The prima donna has acquired an enormous rugby forward.

has twu help feeling that her other kager

nasty gossip-not Callas. The of whom it has been wid that female following, and apply married,

throwing her weight publie loves me, so what do I one day she might have to sing children and calls his agent when characteristica were pro arcund; now that she has less even more enormous bank- he finds as he often does--that

what other singers say operas by herself. weight to throw around?

about me. Everybody knows that balunce.

misguided female fans are lying portionately reduced.

that I said to her In wait for him.

had I am a well-educated woman We new heard

she had a magnificent and when others say bad things be done by a fat prima donna, with temperament, a fine fury and about me I just walk away!"

many enemies. Was this true?

I asked her if she felt very Madame Callos opened

Sho cald her happy with herself. eyes as wide as an Ingenue; she did, but she had not always she was all innocence and in- felt very happy. Was this cur- comprehension,

The earlier 15st, Callas was a tigress with a snarl; the "I well some of these girls who Ost. 41b. model is a kitten

a play for me that a minow. At times

This week London sees him for the first time in the Alm Folies Bergere; and now make there is talk of it being shown at 30 Rank cinemas

throughout the country.

Eddic came over with the film.

He talked to me About what his unexpected success has meant to him--and to the French. The characters The portrays are usually tough, violent and hard- drinking.

-LIMELIGHT

THOMAS WISEMAN

she

even

"Temperament?" she salu.

caro

rent happiness because she

was such a big success; because

"I do not have temperament, all the tickets for her Covent Garden recital had been sold As for having rivals how can

others cannot out before she even arrived in how England; because she weighed 9st. 4b, and was married to a multi-millionaire?

few years ago, when I was came dangerously close to purr- this be? The antenown, they wouldn't have Ing: she conceded that Renala sing what I can sing-so looked at the, That's why my Tebaldi was the greatest can. I have rivals?" marriage stays a success; my soprano in the world; she in- "Perhaps," I said, "they think. wife loved' me before I was any stated that the had no rival and Thing-these other girls, they no bad feeling for nny other would throw me over tomorrow prima donna in the business. if I became a flop."

A TAKE-OFF

My price

you are their rival,"

That I do not know. You have to ask them."

"I am happy because the pubile loves me. And my bus- band loves me. And I love him.

Says Eddie: "Since my

Of course, she added sweetly, films caught on the sale of

there were nasty people in the "When I was in London Inst,” whisky has increased 400

This was n very different business who were jealous of she said, "I was not happy, percent in France. It has CONSTANCE BENNETT, who Calles from the one who told her and sald nasty things about because I was not well, Bub

[aflaws rock 'n' roller become the smart thing to

an impresario in 1954: "Let us her,

London gave me honours, gave Tommy Steele into the Cafe de

that I agree

am the world's drink because 011 the

Paris, 3ys that she will do

of screen I am always asking a take-off

roc - 'n' roll

won't seem unreasonable," sho declared, "if other singers that "will make it sound and for a double Scotch."

Could it be that her ego and would not bother so much about Now Madame Callas is thinner, look even more horrid than her waistline bad shrunk simul- what Callas does, how much politer, gentler and more loved actually is that is possible."

It has also become smart for French teenagers to

I wonder if Mr Steele will be imitate his mispronuncia- in the audience?

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Petrai ?"

CANNED GOODS.

*1.jde Mrs, hlutdṣan got zwina, then 17

greatest coprano. Then my pries "I think it would be good," me love, And then I wasn't

oven thin."

4

But that, I think, could only

-(London Express Service).

Khachantin

MADAMI MARIA CALLAS "I do not have lemporan out,"

BUT GIVE ME THE FATTER, FIERCER PRIMA DONNA EVERY TIME

ZANIES

I keep mia là the hogi at the back.”

"Penny for my thoughts, Sir 2”