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Rome, Feb. 25. WITH clanging steel,
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violent words, blood and tears, nerves, Asian influenza, and possible lawsuits, Italian opera has this season got off to start more melo- dramatic than even some of its more improbable libretti demand.”
The hectic, but unforeseen, events bulk off and on stage may have broken singers' con- trucka and some zpectators morrlaget, made theatre mana- Kors' ulcers worse and added another touch of silver to the hair of conductors. But Halkans general have loved every
Tontent of it
Full Of
because eight, perhaps
Incidents'
sung at
†
replaced, in by minute Aurora Lintura,
turn, at Another
the last
soprano,
After an uneasy, pro- Milan whore she had performers, love of their" орего astracted wait, It was announced the Scala,
That Lo Callas was unwell and
Bellini also catred headaches national heritage is boundless.
Few of them really believed would not continue, The ot Bori. Caterina Mancini, are warnings last year that the audience filled out, amid shouts
chosen to replace La Callas ai
wwent Lou major
Norma, country's
with Opera of protest and disappointment.
down and The chauffeur of the President influenza
hod to bo House and many other theatres might have to close for lack of of the Republic, it was reported afterwards, had been given Ulme sumelent funds.
The Government had un-off and had gone to see a film. nounced its intention cut The President had to Tetum
It told man bome in a police car, opera subsidies. airors to get more money from their city councils and, above all to pay less to star singers and use less lavish sets Managers Wrung thele in despair.
lo
hande "We shall have to close down," they walled. "The State Treasury, taking a purely financial view, seems to forget For weeks, they
have that it is a question of a public chuckled and laughed aloud over service."
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In the history of opera Italy, where, it was born as H
a
A husband, newspapers cald, returned to dnd his wife with another man.
A Letter
#1
A wife come home approximately the time the full
"Norma" length
woukt have ended and Have a glowing account to her husband of what she had seen and heard. Next morning. It is said, he read the Юрет. She received a letter from his lawyer shortly after- wands,
La Naples, influenza suddenly The attacked Roanada Carteri. San Carlo management had to
Puccini's "Ronding" postpone
dbal "Madame Butterfly" instead.
In Rome.
after a
Butterfly which trad
placid followed
the stormy Norma, a wide-eyed choir of Netherlanders watched Spain cross awords with his con, Don Carlos, King Philip II of in a "duel" nowhere to be found in Verdi's Opera "Don Carlos" which they were rehearsing
The bass singer, Boris Christoff, who was playing the King, relined to his dressing room, nursing a gashed anger and declaring that his "on" had used "unrepeatable words."
Instructions
because Corelli was standing too close to allow him tu foliow state
From H King Wood
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
Sydney (By Airmail).
THE limelight this week has been focussed on the Queen Mother, who seems to be able to go through a programme that would test a commando, yet still keeps cheerful through it all.
Government's
00
Da
La Calla Maria, you cost The man-in-the-street wns proved right in his belief thats a million lire (£575 sterling)
performance," Some newspapers commented such as inglorious end to
gallery gravely
At the time of writing she thoughts about its hasly action, cash-and in three days, left a whims on the
of glorious institution was incou spectator shouted during the first act-offered to sing in
bas
but the account is almost certain to trail of dollars extending to all temperamental prima donnas and | celvable.
seen only Canberra But the But the
The tenor, Franco Coneill, as
has already shaken the hand of go to the Commonwealth Trad-States. averoge
The curtain went up as unal repeat performances.
management refused Milan,
on the the "son," later said: "I suffered everybody who is anybody in «ing Banks--the at the faainus Scala in
on national capital and rdvice of the authorities, "for sevend small sword cuts
where every-bank, at San Carlo in Naples
both hands." elsewhere.
tear of public disturbances." wert In Rome, il
body likes to assume that they dispersed Riot police had
Christoff
ho etruck said week late. for Bellini's
are somebody. crowds of angry opera-goera on | Corelli's sword with hi Uwa "Norma." A glittering audience.cpening night and other crowds headed by the President of the protesting next day in front of Republic, watched Méneghini
the uue the hotel where La Callos was instructions, Callay in
sinying. role.
Opera
managers telephoned Naples where Anita Cerquet
appearing as Norma at the San Carlo Opera House. She replaced Le Callas in the three succeeding per- formances in Rome. To do the she had to shuttle for a week between the two cities.
Newspapere lambasted La Calles and praised, La Cerquetti
forth of art some 350 years eft, figure many incidents on the sluge envy mong artials, fights between factions of supporters
of this or that composer or When the curtain rang down singer, and wild enthusiasm for. on the first act, the ladies had or conilennation of, a singer by ja long interval in which to the audience. For Italians can parade their latest high fashions. be ruthless in their criticism of For it never went up again that
ROYAL JELLY
FROM BEES
BEES IN GREAT DEMAND
By GRAEME BROOKS
Melbourne, Feb. 25.
AUSTRALIAN beekeepers are selling their latest ware, Royal Jelly, to an ever-increasing market in Australia and countries abroad as for apart as Canada, the Philippine Islands, India, and Jamaica.
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The jelly sells for prices up) of benefit from it. Last year, a
woman £40 (£32 sterling) an Tasmanian
suffering
booked not inter than condensed milk.
noon on Wednesdays.
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to have described as an incur- week during the season,
sble disease, was recommended Known variously as bees to try royal jelly. milk, chyle, apiserum and Mr Front posted her salivary honey, the jelly
has sill in the wax cells as taken been described
from the hive. She ate bath
and WOX. Later, ne slightly acid substance with
received a letter from her say. consistency similar to that
Ing that for the first time in It is the
Ave years she felt normally from the brood-food well. glonds of worker bors and is In view of growing demand fed to all eggs laid by the
here, ng in the United States queen.
and South Africa recently, Mr Frost, like many cther Australian beekeepers, la TOW setting aside some of his hives for the collection of royal jelly. Another leading producer, Mr R. A. Peacock, of Kerang, in the warm Murray River valley, atles north-west of Melbourne, markets royal jelly
.
Life Span
When worker and drone eggs hatch, after three days, the Lorvac's dict is changed to honey and pollen, but the queen 178 bee candidates
continue to be
fed on royal jelly, giving them a life span of several years in both as capsules and mixed with
stead of a few weeks.
A large proportion of the Australian production of this Jelly goes to beauty preparation manufacturCIN, It is said to chock sagging contours, dry skin and creply necklines.
honey which, he says, makes it more palatable to take and also acts as a preservative.
Itinerant
Australia's beekeeping
comprising
But many sales are made also dustry.
person.
in-
mainly
move
to people whose main hopes erant aplarists who long life and good health. For their hives on trucks to follow the royal jelly is claimed to the flowering seasons of the stimulate appetite, restore
trees and flowers they need for muscular strength revitalise
their distinctive blends, is poorly Kurves, activate glands and
organised while somo apiarista generally to create a feeling of
are selling on export markets, well-being in a tired and weak others at times buy from over- SCUS, Including the United It is also claimed that royal States. Jelly will cure Buerger's disease So far, the Australian fan inflamatory disease involv-authorities, unlike those in Ing the blood vessels of the South Africa, see no danger to limbs) which 135 formerly the industry through disease belleved to be incurable, as well which might be introdued with
diabetes arthritis, imported royal jelly. neuritis, asthma, falling eyesight, Presont indiections are end alerility. It is also and to sales of royal jelly may become stimulate mothers' milk and
important partner help in childbirth. Some reports Australia's £A2,000,000 a credited the cure of Pope Pius honey Industry-China
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| XII from his last serious illness
to royal jelly.
Vitalising
Just how true these claims Bre is now being probed by research workers
| countries.
several
in
In Australia. beekeepers are conducting their own experi- menia. So far, they have been. cautious in their claim in spite of an advertisement' ruming in metropolitan newspapers here advocating EA5/5/- 0 month courses of this "fabulously rich, vitalising dietary supplement",
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
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Exhaustion
Anita then went to
Palermo
Corelli retorted: "I was stand- ing in exactly the right spot. I had not defended myself, I should have been seriously in jured."
The Lurline was followed by the US Navy ship, Arneb, Yanks G.P.O. manned by
some 800 A report by Sydney that recent humidity destroyed from the Antarctic. While There has been a nice touch some pounds worth of stamps ono puts US sailors down
1114 of informality about it all, the has strangely interested a city being
top income Governor-General, Sir Willam businessman,
bracket, they aren't paupera Slim as often as not doing his
and most had well filled pouches He received a letter tho other after their stay down south. the Queen own driving with
for Mother in the front seat with day with covering postage
Duo to An unsealed letter,
Each American is estimated him.
humidity, the flap had become to spend $100 in three The management roplacei Oddest touches of the lour: near-sealed. The postman ad- which gives us another $80,000 Christoff, who left the theatre Not one Government in soven mitted he could see what and in the bank. shortly after the incident, has announced a hollday for happened but was sorry, be
the arrival of the Queen Mothor cause the fop was luck he had their territory, and-in to make a 10d surcharge. Sydney at least an almost total absence of window dressing for her arrival on Friday.
owing to non-fulfilment of his contract." He had, he said, in- siructed a lawyer to file a suit against Corelli for "menaces and insults."
Another lawyer said that Corel had told him to file a sult against Christoff for "wounding with a weapon and coercion,"
There was, however, a happy ending..
to open the Sicilian season with unother opera by Bollini, "The Pirate." During rehearsals, three days before the opening A week later, the two singers night, she broke down with made peace with a handshake nervous exhaustion, unable to in the office of the Opera House
superintendent, and remember her role,
Christoff Worried managers hurriedly returned to the stage in one of They his greates: roles, that of Boria Luey Kelston an In Mussorgsky's opera fourched for subtle.
soprano, living in Godunov."-Chino Mail Special. American
"Borks
China Mail Entertainment Guile
WHAT'S ON
ON
TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS: "And God Created Woman." Brigitte Bardot in a French picture of a woman indiscriminately seeking a bod-mate,
STAR & METROPOLE: "Legend Of The Lost." John Wayne, Sophia Loren and Rossano Brazzi search for treasure in the Sahara.
LEE
& ASTOR: "Campbell's. Kingdom." Dirk Bogarde in an outdoor drama set in the Canadian Rockies.
ROXY
& BROADWAY: "The Gift of Love." Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack in a sentimental journey which introduces a new child star, Evelyn Rudic.
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HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Don't Go Near The Water." Glenn Ford and Gia Scala in a hilarious comedy. QUEEN'S: "The Blue Continent." "Sadler Trio." ORIENTAL & MAJESTIC: "The Enemy Below." Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens in a duel to the death at sea.
CAPITOL: "Eagle Squadron."
RITZ: "20 Million Miles to Earth." Some more
science-fiction.
Audio And Visual
Entertai
Margherita Weather Report;
John 1: Griepin
ent
The
Bongs
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With
in
BUST UP
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BOTTLE 12 A drive Inunched
wildest months ago with the enthusiasm is fizzling to standstill.
D
docs
It is the Opera House Appeal Fund, and although this not mean that the £3-million Opera House will not eventual- ly be built, it does mean that
FANTASTIC
days,
Now a fantastic food has been turned on for 380 world-trott- Ing Aspericans on board the Norwegian-American liner, Ber- Fans!jord
Ench hna pald roughly £4,000 for a three months telp
The bust-up between Sydney Stock Exchange and its bank- ers, the Commercial Banking
and to celebrate their arrival in Co. of Sydney has brought such the organisation needs a shot in Hobart, a Melbourne food
all-Australian burbecio,
Lip Cr
a torrent of criticism about the the arm to get up momentum pert flow down to supervise an shoulders of the Exchange com- again. mittee that the gentlemen con- cerned must have been pleasantly surprised and some- what dismayed.
Un
US DOLLARS
This week only 20 of the 100 members of the Fint attended a meeting-the first since last October and speakers admitted that enthusiasm was well
Cause of it all is that the Bank funned a hire purchase company as an offshoot and had the flotation underwritten by a Victorian Arm that is a member of the Melbourne Exchange. the ebb.
In retaliation, Sydney decided
an
onc
They had oysters and prawns from NSW: crayfish and seal- lops from Thsanania; steaks from King Island steers-esch
ani not covering a big plate
der an inch thick-and Aus-
main- tralian wines from the land.
Add to this a beauty queen also flown from Melbouras; Jen-aborigine Bill On who dli some mighty fancy tricks with ¤ boomerang; dancing on specially erected open-air dance floor and you have A mixture that stops millionaires from being bored.
en-
a
The Lord Mayor, Ald. to withdraw its offcial accounts sen, is to be asked to amalgam-
and with the Banic and several into two committees dividual members decided to do deavour to give the business likewise or childishly, "If you kick along. won't play in my backyard won't play in yours"
Soveral brokers,
n
All this must have cost some-
lo bo turned loose on the main- thing, but the visitors are still land.
Footnote: So for people have donated £180,000 to the Fund, to be received is however, but still have expressed strong disap- £135,091, promised in the flush proval of the action and with-of excitement when the appeal out exception Sydney news was launched nearly 12 months
Note: US dollars are finding papers have said harsh things ago.
outlook
their way here in other fields, about the small town
Our dollar stocks must have
The world famous Chicago de- of the committee,
received a sharp uplift in the partmental store, Sears Roe.. became last month, Firstly, the Matson buck.
pouring another of luxury liner Laurline arrived £1,500,000 in the Wallon-Scars started here with 537 near-millionaires offshoot in Sydney..
the
decision When the known, top management every bank in Sydney jostling for positions to get this aboard--although it was dif
would Juicy
but customer,
unless cult to find one who committco has stcond admit to having
surplus
any
Atomic 'Danger'
Missile
For
Supersonic Jet?
By STEVENSON PUCH
London.
BRITAIN'S supersonic P.1 jet fighter may soon be carrying a new atomic missile over this country--and crash hazards are likely to be much greater than with the present nuclear weapons carried by US and British bombers.
The new weapon, known as chemical explosive, which could the Gente, carries a small atom, blow the atomie warhead apart bomb designed blaw enemy possibly causing an atomic ex- aircraft from the sky, even ifļ plosion.
it explodes some distance off target.
The risk of crashes with
This will give the American company a 33 per cent control of the Australian set-up.
UPLIFT
There docm't seem to be any uplift in the Australian umbrella industry:
an
Last year sales totalled only averago 178,000 against 800,000 in a' non-drought year.
Because of this the industry applied for protection against Imports from Japan-and had the application rejected.
This industry is the third to be refused tariff protection fol- lowing
the signing of the Trade Agreement. Others are kniffed outerwear
Japanese
and the printed textile industry.
Three other industries-toy making, porcelain insulators and
canned fish have also applied
for protection.
A trade union deputation next month will ask the Government to review the agreement.
PEP TALK
the twin-engined P.1 is The Gente has been offered to greater than with the bigger and Wallace, one of the high pres.. Britain by the UG, If the Government approves. nights on RAF prototype will begin this year.
Danger factors
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Mr Wallace addressed a most ately available to Britain for Dreamland;
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For 20 Dang: 2 daght God Save major political row.
Whishe The Queen. Close Dawn,
From the few scraps of in minutes before someone For there are three danger formation available I can build in his car.
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up the picture of the
mid-air and gathering up blo potos. Geale is lung externally missile. under the carrier plane, it; It looks like a atrencalined He had barged into a mont is therefore fully exposed to the bomb with a slightly swollen ing of the Maron's social com- impact of a crash landing, and nose containing the atomic wir mitice, the AZP mecùng WAJ relatively cally dropped off in hand REDIFFUSION E
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Japan, gm.
One prominent bee expert, Mrming. ilòthow, 930 a.m.
Alan Frost, of Euros in north-
east Victoria, has eaten the jelly Zealand Cerion, Pakistan, Atries. himself. Bui he has not noidend Grows Britain de Europe. Neon.
any
definite
Wednesday Concert
Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New
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Jouaite tenor, Alexie
Lat: "A Faust Biyer
change in his "Philippines, Noon.
U.S.A., p..
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