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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 1928.

'OLD HEIDELBURGH.'

STUDENT PRINCE AT THE QUEEN'S.

RAMON NOVARRO AND NORMA SHEARER IN A TRAGIO LOVE STORY.

(Y OR FILM CRITIC]

The Student Prince in Old Heidelburgh" is the rather clumas title of an exceptionally well made film for which Herr Lubitch is responsible,

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BENNO MOISEI- WITSCH.

BRILLIANCE AND ORIGINALITY.

AN APPRECIATE AUDIENCE.

FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS.

THE TRANSMISSION OF BELIEFS.

SIR R. TEMPLE'S THEORY.

A special congress arranged to Bento Moiseiwitsch, who gave celebrate the jubilee of the Falk- his Erst pianoforte recital of the Lore Society was held in London season in the Theatre Royal last, last month in the rooms of the night, was born in Odessa and Society of Antiquaring at Burling studied in Vienna, under Lascheti ton House, sky, the roaster of Paderewski. That short biographical note gives A key to his technique. Moisei witech has originality; he adds a The interest of the film lies, per personal touch to every compost. haps, more in the picture it gives tion that he plays; now in an of Teuton, mentality than in its impish, now in a serious or plain tragic love story, although, the latter tive mood. Sequences which an

an is treated with singular delicacy and other artist would beat as charm. But as you watched the underlying melody he treats sequences" of the story unrolled on occasions a delicate, refrain: identification with al-Khidr

45 Bethoven is given at times strange gentleness and there is new significance in the bewildering moods of Chopin.

the screen you realise that it is 4 story of Germany and of nowhere else. True princee have loved un- wisely, and still do, in other coun- tries: state marriages are tragically accepted and born with traditional resignation, but the curious mixture

a

The programme which he chose last night would give ample range to any artist, Scarlatti, Beethoven,

Sir Richard Temple, who was president of the congress, delivered his presidential address on." The Mystery of Mental Atmosphere." He said that in 1800, while travel- ling from Calcutta to Rangoon, he found the sailors reverenced a shrine which they passed dedicated to Pir Eadar, a Moslem saint who became a patron of sailors, through-

ог

of sentimentality and pomposity is Chopin, then Rachmaninoff. De-, nankind in emergency. The legends

the ball park of only one country

Khizr. As a vague holy personage, al-Khidr had been identified in the East with practically every great religious hero of the past and many smaller ches locally. He was the bogy par ercellence, and at the same time the general helper of

attached to Ilyas (Elijah, Elias) bussy, Cyril Scett, Palmgren and had become mingled with his own, in the world. You feel that all the finally Liszt. Versatile and accom and St. George of Cappadocia, the director's rare in securing scenery, plished pianist, Moiseiwitsch gave patron saint of England and other associated with both Ilyas and af uniforms, buildings and German to each composer an individual ia lands, had also become so closely properties generally although terest, and erea Cyril Scott's light Khidr that all three had become

did not

looked on as one personage.) The laudable might have been dispensed "Russian Dance"

legend of St. George and the With and the effect almost as well out of place among the fions.

Dragon was that of Perseus and The Scarlatti "Sonata in A Andromeda, mixing up a Greek sustained.

Was delightful lyrical story of probably Eastern origin major

with the other tales. and full of "colour. Then

seem

came

Perhaps in this case the extra ordinarily successful atmosphere may have evershot the mark a Beethoven's "Sonata. in C major." little, since Ramon Nevarro the here The pianist's exquisite muted notes

were a revela cannot accustom himself to it. in the "Allegro"

tion. They WETC clear and From the opening of the picture

lovely as if they had been drawn the Prince is a "stranger in a strange land to a degree not to from the strings of a violin, never be accounted for by his supposed barred, or suggestive of the wires dislike of formality. The mistake and hammers of his instrument. was, perhaps, to give the part to Of Chopin's "Etude in E major

much the same might be said.

so typical a Latin.

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Magic And Revelation.

Sir R. Temple said that he had

evolved a theory as to how the idea

of al-Khidr arose and how it came about, that he had been identified in the popular mind with totally different personages. His view was that all philosophic argument-whe ther by a savage or by a highly trained philosopher-ran on to a point which was beyond experience and passed beyond understanding.. The gap in argument which thus occurred was crossed to the unlat- tered by the agency of magic and to the lettered by revelation. or civilized, Philosophy, savage had to face the mystery. Beings Buch 45 al-Khidr .owed their existence to the fact that they were to the populace representatives of the unknown, the mystery. ubiquity and multiple identifica- tion were due to the contact of one philosophy with another.

The

Another characteristic of Moise The story is, shortly, that a little bay is brought up in the palace of witsch technique which was parti Karlsburg to be the future king.ularly remarkable in the Scarlatti His spirit, is crushed from the day and the first composition played of of his entry into the palace and Chopin, the "Etude in G. Sharp only kindly Dr. Juttner, his tutor, Minor is his command of sharp They become under his makes life bearable for the Crown notes. Prince. As a young man he is sent angers quite literally sharp, not Heidelburgh where he lives the shrill, but clear and piercing and

Working on a theory of Andrew extraordinarily beautiful. The

Lang that what the human nind life of an ordinary student, and

Chopin Etude in G Flat Major "had once absorbed it never let go, falls in love with an Innkeeper's pretty niece. The day comes when is of course "fireworks" and the though it might modify it, he argu ed, that each contact served to pro- he is to return to Karlsburgh to Pianist gave it its full bewildering duce an atmosphere in the mind

volume and crash of sound.". which overlapped but never destroy become King and contract a royal

Rachmaninoff's Prelude in Bed those already produced by pre- Alliance.

Flat Major" was played with devious contacts; and in the later part of his address he examined Prince Karl Heinrich is played as hightful insouciance, making of it what he described as three laycıs a child by that very clever child

a"gay and vivid pièce of colour of atmosphere, taking illustrations actor, Philippe de Lacy, who has tonality. Very softly there follow from the mental conditions of people he bad either lived among an aminzing tragic gift for a boy of ed the first exquisite notes of or closely studied Beliefs and You may find as I Debussy's "Clair de Lune" which customs as now observable in the did that the Prince, when Navarro was as perfect a piece of inter-world had, he said, arisen cut of the philosophy of a comparatively plays him, is a little too much con-pretation as could be asked of any few leaders and heen transmitted cerned with looking crushed and artist.

ten years. old.

..

with innumerable modifications by contacts spread over an infinity of time. He suggested that if the examination of folk-lore was to be scientific, it was important in studying any given belief or custon:

to ascertain the mental atmosphere of the people who had absorbed it at the time of absorption.

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ad, but Philippe de Lacy is sad. But one could go right through As his small hands best on the the programme and five again the palace gates you feel his soul is pleasure of the performance in the as vainly beating against the bars task of finding words to express of etiquette and formality. The the impression of each separate intent: loneliness of the child in site, although no words can repro- world of grave and elderly men is duce the curious spell of expect poignant and real.

aney that Moiseiwitsch casts over Jean Hersholt as the tutor gives his audience. As the applause dies perhaps his best performance on the down you wait eagerly as he fin Alms. He is in every action the zers the piano for a moment before an account of traditions of stone, over a branch of flowering broom sentimental Teaton, a kindly foolish slovenly and quite charming old

And then Heidelburgh, in its setting of romantic scenery, with its beer drinking student corps, and the pathetic figure of the young The audience, a very good one prince who believes himself to be for Hong Kong, was deeply appre- ciative, and persuaded the pianist accepted as a boon companion of the students, who never for a minute tverok his rank. Only Kathie,

man.

the innkeeper's niece, does that, and for that reason Kar! Heinrich finds happiness in her society and loves het. Norma Shearer plays her part well. She does not, perhaps, look sufficiently unsophisticated for the role, but she has a very charming, "personality, and a lightness of heart

something of the *Columbine " spirit.

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which was baked into a cake, and A Vote of thanks to Sir R. Temple then they ate the cake together." In was passed on the motion of Dr. Wales there was preserved until Gaiter, seconded by Sir James recently a marriage ritual of which Frazer.

the central feature was the jump Mrs. Banks, in the first of a numing of the bride and bridegroom ber of papers which were read, gave

or over a besoch, made of broom. There was a farge and appre- She said the he begins" again, experience having carrying women..

tradition of women who carried In discussion Mr. A. R. Wright clative audience at the Cheero taught you that however well you tranes and dropped them from mentioned the fact that it his own Y.M.C.A. yesterday evening when. may know the music, which he is creels on their shoulders or from wedding he lifted his bride over i going to play, Moiseiwitsch will their aprons persisted in various the threshold. He did so under the the first "Wednesday" concert was have something new

to tell you farins in Western Europe. What impression that he was complying held for the entertainment of the their status might have been in the with a Yorkshire custoru. Whether Service. Applause and shouts of or not it was merely a family cus- about it.

first place was a matter of surmise

"encore " tom he could not say.

re-echoed being heard When we came to know them they

Papers were also read which had from the cricket ground at the con- were deities, giantesses, fairies, saints--even the Virgin Mary found been written by Professor Frederick clusion of each item.

Of Filipino Folklore

Last night's concert was arranged to give two encares. There is little a place among them-or, at the last, doubt that most of them will be witches. In this tradition they had and by Professor A. H. Sayce on

Egyptian Folklore." At the Im- by Mrs. E. D. C. Wolfe and those present at the second recital on to do with powers controlling perial Institute, South Kensington, who assisted were:-Miss P. Brown Saturday.

nature and with woman as an in Professor Pospisil, of Brno, gave The programme was as follows:-strument of culture, might they in the evening a lecture on the folk (elocutionist).

say an agriculturist, as many no dances and customs of Central and Morgan Richards (duets and solos), Sonata A Major ............ Scarlatti,believed her to have been? The Sonata C Major, Op. 53 (Wald- first thing people did to day when Eastern Europe.

Stein)

Beethoven. they began to make a garden in

In connection with the Congress Mrs. C. P. Marcel (Soprano), Mr. an interesting exhibition of objects W. A. Hannibal (Humourist), and Allegro con brio,

untilled land was to throw away illustrating British folk-lore has Mrs. Hargreaves Brown (accom Rondo (Alegretto moderato- loose stones.

been placed on view in the lecture Prentissimo):

hanist). room of the Society of Antiquarica. Etude G Sharp Minor (la thirds)

Op. 25 No 6

A was box is shown which was

Mr.

and Mrs.

The programme was a varied one,

Gipsy Eltes. Chopin Mr. T. W. Thompson, in a paper which imbues the tragic theme with Etude E Major, Op. 10 No. a... on "British Gipsy Marriage and carried about from door to door at and the audience greatly appre

Chapin. Divorce Rites," said that English Christinas time as late as from 1881 Etude G Flat Major, Op. 10 No. 5 gipsies so far back as knowledge to 1906. It contains two little dolls, (ciated the wit. of Mr. Hannibal

(Black Keys)....

Chopin. extended had become husband and along with artificial flowers and which gave much to chuckle over. Waltz A Flat Major, Op. 42 wife without the performance of fruit. There are charms of various Those who admired a fret rate

Chopin. any special rites or by following a kinds against sickness and other.| Prelude D Flat Major Rain- very brief and matter-of-fact ritual. ills. A dried frog in a bag was soprano had what they wanted in as the tutor, and loveable Otis

drop)

Chopin. But with the Welsh and Scottish used to prevent it. Several large Mrs. Marcel, Miss Brown also held Harlan as the innkeeper, provide a Fantasie F Minor,

Op. 48...Chopin. gipsies it used to be different, glass balls which are shown were her audience with her clocution,

Joining hands in the presence of hung up in houses as a protection number of amusing scenes which Prelude B Flat Major.............

Rachmaninofl. witnesses was commonly spoken of against witches. Other exhibits re while Mr. and Mrs. Richards de- serve to keep the picture on a less Chair de Lune

Debussy by English gipsies as the one mar: late to mummers' plays. There is lighted the audience with many Russian Dance

Cyril Scott.riage rite in vogue among them manuscript copy of a play of this songe

It is hoped that more, of these tragic plane.

Rococo

Palmgren. He mentioned & case in which it kind dated 1770, and a crown is The Student Prince" is a quite The Sea.....

Palmgren. was stated that the bride and bride shown which was used in a per-concerts will be arranged for they exceptional film and one which you Players

Granados. groom mingled their blood in four formance of the Pace Egg play, in are greatly appreciated by Service

Yorkshire in 1913. Liszt. (Continued on next Colupin). should not miss.

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