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MUSIC LOVERS AMUSED

Playful Hoax

Henry Wood

Sir

Landon Jept. 4. Music lovers aremused at Mr. - Joha | Drinkwaten hai. Ij the playful hoax with which the hear, been selected by the director fambos conductor, 87 Henty of the Vienna Burgtheater....as Wood publicly confesses he hood-

the leading representive of Eng-winked them for five years lish literature," writes a corres- In consequence of the pronoun pondent.

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In the aura of this magnificent names. he produced in 1929 Bachs status his "Abraham Lincoln" will argan Toccata and Fugue be produced during the autumn i transcribed for a full orchestra in the series of the "Voices of the by a Russian. Paul Klenovsky, Peoples in the Drama." This "15 ·It was immediately successful to include representative works of and performed at all the best the outstanding playrights of all concerts and was broadcast. the nations.

Mr. Drinkwater, it is hoped, will to Vienna to supervise the production of his play-which

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Bir Henry Wood confesses that he wrote the score himself and in consequence of the publle's demand for information about · Klenovsky, be done in German. Miss Auriols Henry Wood wrote a program Lee has also been asked to pro me note as follows: "Unfortunate duce "The Wind and "Rain." at ly this young man died. the Reinhardt Theatre, where transcription shows the hand of "Men" in White" and "Libel" will master in every bar --- also be played.

Beuter.

The Borgtheater is one of the most famous In the German- speaking countries. It was the Emperor Franz Joseph's private theatre and supported out of his own purse. Now it is the Vienna State theatre.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN REACTS An American friend, who saw -ške" notes "17" - London Day by Day on the reopening of the little “Camera” enema in Berlin, telik me that the report of its being closed by the authorities early this summer has aroused very great interest in the United States. The "Camera" has apparently become almost a point of pilgrim- age for American visitors to Ger many..

My friend also tells me that Charlie Chaplin has been distress ed by the news, and declared that It almost decide him to file a suit ait once against Herr. Hitler for plagarising his moustache.

The founder of the "Camera" was a German-American Jew who Bad served on the Rhineland Com- mission.

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To-day

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5.

King's: "Miss Fane's Baby Is

Stolen" Queen's:-"The Wandering Jew". Central:-"Shadows Of Bing

Sing***

Oriental: "Tiger Shark" World:"Chinese Picture" Alhambra Heads We Go" Majestic:-"Good Dame" Star: Footlight Parade" Star: "Humanity**

Meetings

Creditors, Kam Hing Knitting Co., Ltd., 838-652 Nathan Road, Mongkok, p.m.

General Committee of St. An- drew's Club, 9 p.m.

Kowloon Union. Church Women's Guild, 10

Commerce. Monthly Committee Chinese General Chamber of

Meeting, Chamber's Headquarters His p.m.

Miscellaneous

Whist Drive, Seamen's Institute, 9 p.

Kowloon Union Church resumes Choir Practice, 8.30 pm.

Moon-VII Moon, 27th Day.

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enthusiastle supporter of the old. Galety. The late George Edwardes was one of his closest friends. So was the late, Walter Pallant, aHawalpindi. director of the Galety and a well- known Agure in his day, for whom Sydney Maru, 5 pm I understand, be made a great deki of money through mutual acquaintances in the Bouth African market.

That was a period of Bohemian supper parties, of cheerful nights at the long-vanished Pelican Club. Mr. Neumann was a lavish host. BARRISTER TO ACTOR- KNIGHT

Bir Nigel Playfair, who is rather seriously ill. is a rare example of an actor developing relatively late in life.

| Unlike Sir Gerald du Maurier, whose contemporary he wWAS at Harrow, he did not go straight on the stage, though he was a member of the O..D.8. at Oxford.

Indeed, until he took over the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and drew all the town to that queer little suburban' theatre, he was by no means well known to the London public.

While he was practising as a barrister, the men whom he was to overtake in the theatrical pro- fession were already jeunes pre-

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Thus in emergency over London it could land on any small open space. Even on a wide road, such as the Mail or in Trafalgar Square, it could probably esc pe danige if the traffic, stood still,

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Theosophical Baynton taking his place. ⠀

Society, Bible Sir Nigel's "Old Jenson'am" | Study, 6 p.m. training has stood him in godu stead, both in Shakespeare and in old comedy, the revived interest in which is mainly due to his de- lightful productions at Hammer smith.

→REAWAKENED

The Temple, of whose deserted courts wrote last week, wore yesterday almost a bustling air.

To Courts were sitting. No fewer than four judges had left their golf and their gardening to administer justice.

MR. LUDWIG NEUMANN - Mr. Ludwig Neumann, the Olty financier, who died tragically at Le Touquet, owed his fortune to his Bouth African connections..

He was in Kimberley during the presided over by Mr. Justice Swift A Court of Criminal Appeal, boom days. When he returned to heerd eighteen applications for London he joined the stockbroking leave to appeal against convictions firm of L. Hirsch and Co., in which and sentences including one h's old friend and business asso- against a conviction for murder. ciate, Bir Otto Belt, was also Those who are sentenced in July partner

do not have to languish for two The Arm enjoyed almost un-mouths in prison before their case broken prosperity Mr. Leopold is heart. Hirsch and Sir Otto Bet both left large fortunes. Mr Neumann himself must have been very rich

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Mr. Neumann had at one time many Theatrical as well as interests alta

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