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GERMAN COMPOSER

The approaching Salzburg Festival Play season has once more turned the eyes and thoughts of music lovers throughout the world towards the old city and towards that great German com- poser whose name is forever bound up with his birth place.

soon.

Mozart felt that his own

"days" were" numbered, and he said to his wife, in a spirit of deep depression, "I feel that I am writing this requiem for myself, for I shall die soon," The messenger appeared yet a third time, to ask how far the work had advanced. Mozart promised that it would be. ready when he returned from a short journey.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a true son of Salzburg, with ́his mind full of melodies and a song always on his lips.. For in this lovely Alpine town be paid over to him when it was everything seems to sing, from the ready. He hoped this would be bells of the magnificent baroque churches to the fast-dowing river Salzach, from the famous choirs whose voices rise in praise at divine service to the many song clubs of the town, from the gay folksongs that are sung by the people, to the merry drinking songs to be heard at the St. Peter's Wine Cellar. The whole air resounds with music, the atmosphere seema somehow impregnated with song. It was amid this wealth of har- monies that Mozart grew to man hood, and it was what he heard in this city that he absorbed and gave death of Mozart, it turned out that Many years later, long-after-the- again to the world in the form the man who had ordered the re- of compositions that are unsur-quiem was a Count Walseck, who passed in the whole history of wished to dedicate it to the memory of his wife. Mozart was il "Magic Flute" It is 150 years since the young which he had seen approaching. never able to finish it, for death, composer, who 30 early won recog-caused the manuscript to fall from nition as a master of his art, wrote his hand on December 5, 1791. that opera which has become not only the inallenable possession of as a great treasure. The end of His wife, Konstanze, preserved it the German people, but of the Mozart's life was made happier by whole world of music lovers in the triumphal progress of the every nation.

"Magic Flute," with which opera he believed he had at last secured

music,

This was the "Mario Flute,"

of view.

Death Approaches

of which his compatriot, Grill-his future from a financial point parzer, wrote: "This work make him the greatest com- poser of his time, and he de- serves the admiration and love of the world."

"Alas!" he exclaimed, "Now that I see the shadows disap-“- pearing from about my path, 1 must myself depart."

The triumph of the "Magic Flute," which

But now, when his wonderful was performed a melodies are once more heard in hundred times in the year when it Salzburg during the festival, listen- was given to the public, was oneers from all over the world will feel

"SMASHING THE Wch Mozart lived to enjoy, but once more that, death opened for

SPY RING"

he knew unerringly that death was him only the gates of immortality. even then standing at his elbow,TO.) and that he would soon have writ-

Timely screen "expose of haten his last song, when his soul tional

merrace, Columbia's would enter into the kingdom of "Smashing the Spy. Ring" opens eternal harmonies for which he at the Majestic Theatre to-day.had sought during his whole life. The intricate, devious methods of

Curious Happening foreign aples and the intense, re- The feeling obsessing. him that lentless battle made against them he would not live much longer, was by government agenta supply the greatly strengthened by a curious principal motifs of this brilliant happening that moyed him deeply. new adventure film,

One evening a messenger

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quiem, but said that he was ill and Mozart agreed to write the re- had much other work on hand, so

Photograph Five Years Younger

Hollywood's scores of Alm beauties might well afford to chip in a million dollars to the unknown inventor who has just made it possible for them to photofraph five years younger-younger than the most charitable estimates" of their ages.

This unheralded, unsung hero

A superb cast and a fine direc-proached him with a letter that tor vividly bring the nation's

was unsigned and which asked him headlines to Baming fe, Ralph)

to write a requiem, and to tell the -Bellamy and Fay Wray are

messenger what would be his fee featured in "Smashing the Spy

for this work, Ring," as a federal agent and as the sister of a murdered G-man. Both appear to perfection in the type of characterizations which that he could give no guarantee as has just invented a new type of to when he could carry out the in-motion picture film, called "Plus Bellamy, it will be recalled, was ponderit,

structions of the unknown corres, which Bamuel Goldwyn is try- one of Hollywood's finest dramatic ever,

A few days later, how-ing out for the first time in character actors prior to his re-again, handed over to him the tee Heights"the

the messenger appeared his production

of *Wathering cent conversion to comedy roles; he had asked, requesting him in being Merle Oberon, Laurence fist beneficiaries Miss Wray, it will be recalled, is the name of his master, who was one of Hollywood's most attractive determined to keep his Identity Robson and others.

Olivier, David Niven, Flors and most talented young women, secret, to start the composition, well-known to action film fans. saying that an equal sum would

won them fame...

OLIVER AND ZENOBIA THE ELEPHANT

Like a little boy who, at the beginning of the school term. seeks to establish himself in the teacher's good graces by the bestowal of apples, Oliver Hardy sought to make himself popular. with Zenobia, the elephant appearing with him in the Hal Roach production. "Zenobia.” S

Super-speed Film The new super-speed alm,, ac- cording to Gregg Toland, Gold- wyn's ace

cameraman, permits the use of a very mail amount of studio illumination, which Is something highly favourable to screen personalities,

candle light the most chari- table and romantic illumination possible to ladies, can be simula- ted through the use of "Plus X": and the reduction of studio lamps. And so the million dollars would

Prior to the shooting of the Hardy apples in the department of be cheap-but the ladies probably scene in which Zenobia hunts out the interior. '

Hardy in the midst of a formal ballroom, he was frequently absent from the set at the Hal Roach Studios. Soon the secret of his disappearances was solved. Direc for Gordon Dongias caught him. carrying a juicy red apple "down the street to the site where Zeno- bia and her stand-in were tether ed.

won't see it that way,

CROSSWORD

NO. 334

ACROSS

6 Small Cah

(5)

But the plan had deviations. His frequent visits to her led Zenobia to the belief that apples were abundant at the studio. When she was being led to the stage for her Initial appearance she passed Roy. Seawright's office, Seawright, the 10 Assaulted wizard of the process department,

8 Eastern (8)

Bingleness (5)

stood on his doorstep munching a 11 Stable box pear

·(5)

"Ah, another apple polisher" 14 No matter thought Zenobis and her long which (3) trunk reached over to the side, 16 Particular plucked the pear out of Beawright's||((6) grasp and hastily it joined the 17 Continent (8)

18 Allow (3) 20 Imitate (6) 34 Word

Solution No. 333

this puzzle (8) 2. ACROSS: 3, Bnapa. 8, Shawl. 9, 25 Devout (5) | Other 10, Polka. 11, Hearken. 28 Three cor 13, Arid. 16, Freedom 18, Deed, nered fig 21, None. 21, Daggers. 24. Pore, 28, Alone 28, Beveral. 29, Tamed. 27 Wrath (6)

Aure (8) 30. Cries. 31 Death DOWN 1 DOWN Cheer. 2, Bard, 4, Noon. 5, Poke, Faithfu(5) 6) Btation 1, Refr. 10, Peerage, 2 Hary (6) 11, Hardy. 13. Aimed. 18, Learned. 3 Rap (5 17. Motor 18, Revel 20 Daunted Inn 23. Clerk 24, Fecny 26 Razor, 27, Rase, 28, Best

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