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"GILBERT AND SULLIVAN," THE SECRET OF THEIR GREATNESS.

BIR RICHARD TERRY, MUS, DOG. ]

On this day fifty years ago people began to reap the benefit of the Gilbert sna Sullivan partnership which has exer- cised sa induence over British and foreign audiences little short of pheno- menal. For it was on March 25th, 1878. that Trial by Jury," the first of the operas, was produced at the Royalty Theatre, Dean street, Soho,”

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WOMEN'S MISERY IN SOVIET

... RUSSIA.

The appalling conditions in Soviet Russia, especially from the point of view of women, were described by Mr. Stephen Graham, who well knows Russia past and present, in an address to the Unionist Canvassing Corps ab the Caxton Hall, London. His main points weres

There are no Bolshevist women leaders. The Soviet leaders, who are, now that Trotsky-and-Krassin-have gone, the reddent of the Reils, have alone benefited thefrom the revolution, and they are keeping women it a stats of subjection, together with the bulk of the population.

kept Wives, sisters, and mothers

I say "audiences," and not stage ** British. music,” because the wom

or Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera has had no succeSSOTB.

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It has had many imitators, but their hostages to torce Tsarist officers and consistent record of failures leaves "Gil-men into the Red Army. This system is bert and Sullivan in the unique posi esagree from leaving Russia. They stay still maintained to prevent would-be tion of a thing apart, a copy of nobody abroad at the peril of their womankind a founder of no school, a conception which died with its creators. This is not to say that the operas are dead. On the contrary, they are very much alive and enjoy greater vogue than ever.

left in Russia.

Women are touched in their deepest feelings by the proscription of religion, the systematic teaching of atheism to their children, the

of Christian denia! bariat

In the old Savoy dave one heard many a heated dispute as to whether Gilbert Except in Petrograd, where the popula or Sullivan was the chief factor in their ton is much smaller, the housing cordi- popularity. The usual end of the arations in the cities are the worst in the

world.

There are four times more peo. ment was a compromise on Mantalin:ple in aloscow than can be housed. This lines: You're both of you right and

is largely due to the invasion of out- neither of your wrong. Oh. "demmit,"

siders, including 500,000 Jews. In pre-

it was

was difficult for

Jewish Such conclúsicas were only natural war days then. Gilbert's wit was still topical. It family to be allowed to live in Moscow.

Nearly all the leading representatives is no longer so. A new generation is here to whom the deck of H.3.S. of Russian literature and the arts are Pinafore is as archaic a sight as a Greek either dead of starvation or shooting, or

are exiles.

The brains of the nation trireme, and the problems of Patience as

are gone, and only Communist agitators unfamiliar as those of Chartism. »

Filty years is a long time; quite long enough for such things as are datable to become dated. Much of Gilbert's work is dated. Sullivan's numbers will never be dated so long as rhythm. melody, and choral effect-hold their place in music.

In the old argumentative days it was Frequently urged that Gilbert's librettos were sufficiently complete to be acted as plays without the mudic. I wonder who would be bold enough to try the exper ment now? But Sullivan's music on the concert platform without any dialogue is a quite frequent occurrence and gives an evening of sheer joy.

To say all this is not to belittle Gi¡- The Yeoman of the Guard" and

bert.

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The satirical librettas killed more foolish

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ness than any argument could have done ports) Bill, which was reintroduced by The topsy-turvy situations are as un-Sir Evelyn' Cecil. In 1922 the bill, after

and second dying as Alice in Wonderland,"

reading, was referred to a Select they have, aureover, given a new word Coramittee, and was the subject of a re to the dictionary. But ask any young port, but failed to make further progress persons to-day why they flock to Gilbert it was brought in again last year, and and Sullivan, and they will answer with went through secon reading, but was one consent. For the music." And we "hung up awaiting consideration by a who are old enough to remember the Standing Committee until all chance of original Savoy productions are now getting it through was lost. obliged-however reluctantly to agree

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tions always are right.)

What, then, was the secret of the first success of these uperas! What is it that gives them a vogue now, when only a few of Offenbach and Planquette aur vive? It cannot be their superior stage craft, for Offerbach and Planquette knew quite as well how to "play for a cartain" Las did the two Englishmen. But the fact does remain that both Gilbert and Sullivan were masters of stagecraft. Both had the theatre sense that subtle Calmost indefinable) quality which Italy possesses to the full and Britain does not.

Does anyone doubt this statement He has only to run down the list of Britons who have written operas to find that Dane Ethel Smyth is our only native composer who has ever succeeded in really getting one over the footlights. (That several British bantlings are put-- ting up a good light is neither here nor there at present.)

But however untheatrical" the British temperament, the average Briton does react wore readily to subtleties than is generally "supposed.

For that reason I place rhythm as the first factor in the Gilbert and SullivaJL success. Gilbert was a master of metre; Sullivan was a master of rhythm. Where the rhythms of Offenbach and Planquette are obvious and limited; those of Sullivan

subtle and of infinite

variety. If melody is the soul of music, rhythm is its life. Sullivan's infectious rhythms"give to his music that full and complete lite which defies death.

THE second factor I should define as his skill in choral writing Neither Offen bach nor Planquette could write choral music. Even the choruses of Puccini (that past master in stage effects) lock terribly amateurish on paper. Sullivan was a product of the organ loft. The traditions of the organ loft are deadly weapons in the hands of mediocrities. But for a composer who can rise superior to that environment the knowledge of choral effect which is gained by choir work is an asset that is beyond "value: Puccini's Achoruses get their effect by other than choral means... Sullivan's choruses are pure choral writing. They posses that quality of inevitability to which we all react without knowing why. That is the secret of their greatness. Daily Mail, March, 25th

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