SATURDAY, JULY
ALIEN RESTRICTION
SHOULD IT BE PLAYED 1,500 LEAVING ENGLAND
FORTNIGHTLY.
Mr. A. Kalinch writes in the Daily News
comparatively small audience at the Besthoven Festival at Queen's Hall were directly, or indirectly, * result, were it not that the production of Elgar's new works also resulted in many empty seats, and assuredly no one has of late been trying to belittle Elgar in the Press
the draft of an Order in Council,
As he explained on the occasion M Short's view is that it is of the second reading of the Bill, preferable to proceed by Council
MR. ASQUITH'S TRIBUTE STRONG POWERS PROPOSED.
Mr. Asquith, in the presence of
In connection with the new » Nearly 1,500 British girls are
la larga assembly outside Hi Aliens Restriction Bill (continu I have drawn attention to the leaving England for Canada Majesty's Theatre recently, uning the Aliens Restriction Act, very interesting articles and every fortnight as the wives of vailed a memorial tablet to Sir, 14) now awaiting the Standing letters in the Musical Times on Canadian soldiers. They travel Herbert Tree. The ex-Premier Committee stage in the Commons. the question of the permanence free of charge in transports with was accompanied by Mrs as the Home Secretary has issued
About 9,000 quith and Princess Bibesco. of all Besthoven's music. One their husbands. might have thought that the brides, it is estimated, have gone The tablet records that the to Canada this year. The total theatre was founded by Herbert number of girls in Great Britain Tree in 1897 and directed by him married to Capadian soldiers
After the during the war is estimated, at till his death in 1917.
eremony the friends and col- 32,000.
"The girls are a fine type,
leagues of the late actor assem- said an official of the Canadian bled in the theatre to hear mipration Department. They tributes to his life and work paid bail from Sussex to Aberdeen-gir Squire Bancroft, and the by Mr. Asquith, Lord Reading Many are country-bred with a practical knowledge of farming Bishop of London that will be useful in Canada..
"Many girls engaged to men wholesome, but an attempt to ho bave gone back to Canada Mr. Asquith said only those who with the leave of an immigration persuade us that it is patriotic to also apply for passports. These condemn all German music is are granted only if the girls can quite another; and still another,furnish satisfactory evidence that and a much worse thing, in the they have been engaged for two suggestion that the predominance years and that the men intend of German music in this country to marry them." for the last half-century has been the result of super-Machiavellian ~propaganda
A free and frank discussion of Beethoven on purely musical grounds is one thing and very
A considerable
Recalling his many years of friendship with Sir Herbert Trea,
Order for a further period in order to obtain experience instead of act of Parliament The main embodying the proposals in an provisions of the Draft Order are as follows.
1. An alien coming from out side the United Kingdom shall not land in this country except
officer.
2. Such leave shall not be given to an alien to land unless he complies with the following con-
ditions, amongst others:
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THE SUPER-ENGINE.
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Acland.
like himself, were privileged for years to enjoy his friendship could realise what he was like in the more intimate and less public relations of life. There was not
(a) He is in a position to support A one of his friends, and they were number of many, who had not felt and did himself and his dependents;
(b) He is not a lunatic, idiot, or English girls are going to the not feel the poorer for the loss of United States with American that wealth of vitality and that mentally deficient;
(c) He is not the subject of the The ball was set rolling the soldier husbands. Others are
unfailing reservoir of true kind-
certificate by a medical inspector other day by M. Dinghileff, the applying for passports to the US.liness and affection. very able director of the Russian to join men to whom they say few, if any, actors of our time for
There were, said Mr. Asquith that it is undesirable be should
land;
The invention, which Ballet Beethoven, he exclaimed, they became engaged in England. whom the sentiment of admiring
(d). He fulfils such other re- WAS 4 mummy, Brahms The American Consular Service putrefying corpee, and Schumann is taking the most careful pre-
and affectionate
interest had quirements as may be prescribed it is expected will have very far industry, is the result of many (When he said that he must for these girls shall fall a sick dog baying at the moon. cautions to ensure that moner been more widely felt than by any general or special instruc-reaching effects on the future of
Sir Herbert Tree. He
tions of the Home Secretary. was an into
Aliens will have to register years of patient research by the moment have forgotten the wrong hands and they will artist through and through, and themselves in the same manner Mr. William Joseph Still, a Carnival, which has inspired his consent
took his art seriously, and he was applicants artists to some of their most de-passports only after hasing perhaps the least mercenary of as has been necessary during the British engineer, and others asso-
·lightful efforts.) England. ascertained from the immigration
war, and furnish all details he continues, bas only authorities in the U. S. that the
was nothing that he required, and hotel keepers and ciated with him. Captain Acland others must keep registers of said the new Still engine combin- tolerated these things because men to whom the girls wish to
grudged in time, în money, aliens staying at their premises, ed all the advantages of steam German propagandists
in industry, in study. forced go are willing, and able to keep drudgery itself to the profession and a central register is to be and internal combustion with the Gerinan music down their throats. Now a leading article
to which he had given his life. maintained by the Home Secret-
bem.
vise to
A suspicion that an attempt is
men.
There
in
in the Daily Mail repeats the being made to attract English That was equally true of him asty. On the recommendation of elasticity of the former and a
charge, and adds that gloomy
girls to the United States for
the Admiralty ór the my higher fuel economy than the manager and actor. The magni oil any area may be declared latter. Searching tests of the ficence not of vulgar display, but
sentimentalism is the only stock nefarions purposes has caused) arising from infinite painstaking,ja protected ares, from which any engine had been made by various in trade of German music.
the Araerican Consal-General to and from a passion for thorough. aliens may be excluded altogether Governments and by scientists To the scrap heap, then, with circularise American Consular the futile gloom of Le Nozzed off cers in the United Kingdoness with which he put his pieces or permitted to remain under:
restrictions.
and it was proved to use 25
per
Figaro" and the flabby sentiment requesting them to exercise "verypon the stage was characteristic Power is proposed to be given cent, less foel per horse-power
of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.great care." The writer may be pleading a good cause, but he certainly will will not help, it by such arrant
Consense.
unfair competion, and it had to stop.
THE LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE.
It is strange, too, to reflect that ten or fifteen years ago, when some writers were preaching the doctrine of "program" music and trying to convince musicians in this country hat music might have some meaning or content outside itself, they were told that such theories were fetid emana- tions from the faddled brains of German professors. Now anyone who does not protest that every bar of Beethover contains the
of the man. In range and
versatility of parts Sir Harber Tree was, he believed, not sur passed by any actor of our time During the afternoon Madan Clara Batt sang
the Lost Chord," and the orchestra of His Majesty's Theatre played a selec. tion of music from Sir Herters Tree's productions.
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WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTED, It is a curious thing that if English love of Germad music from 1850 onwards is the result
engine was capable of using in its main working of sinister propaganda, nobody
Persons guilty of offences #bould have found it out till 1919. It is surely an insult, both to the
against the Order shall be liable Cylinder any form of liquid or gaseous fuel hitherto employed. on summary conviction to a fine it made use of the recoverable intelligence of and the honesty of
not exceeding £100, or to im heat which passed through the Ce countless British managers
prisonment, with or without hard
surfaces of the combustion; and societies who have produced
labour, for a term not exceeding cylinder, as well as into the ex- German music. They did so, obviously, because they found it
six months, or on a second or any, haust gases, for the evaporation subsequent conviction twelve !
of steam, which steam WEB was what the public wanted. All
months. Any -person acting,
expanded in the combustion through the war, let us not forget, Beethoven and Wagner were the
Basing its judgement on opin suspected of acting, or being cylinder itself on one side of the main piston. the combustion only things that crowded Queen's most virulent bacillus of Junker-ions expressed in the American about to act in contravention of Hail at the Promenade Concerts. dom is told that be is no patriot Navy Department and statements the Order may be taken into stroke acting on the other side. It increased the power of the Of course, everyone who went and is suborned by German gold. attributed to Secretary Daniels, custody without warrant.
the con- The Order imposes no restrict- there, including thousands of They talk a good deal of the Kakumin predicts that the
any duly engine, and reduce
sumption of the fuel soldiers, was either a German in Wagner, too. That is a hig sub- American naval policy of the ion or disability on
developed. horse-power disguise or a very stupid English joct, and a good deal may be said future will be the organisation of accredited head of a foreign victim of German intrigue. And on both sides. But there is not
primary object was not to use the what of Sir Henry Wood! This much militarismia “Parsifal,
waste beat for raising steam, bat is on a par with the argument and as to "The Ring, let us pot paper asserts that this opinion is official staff.
A Lobby Correspondent writes first to use it in improving the that Germany captured
trade forget that Siegfried always used confirmed by Captain Watson, only by dishonest methods as if to be considered the type of the Naval Attache to the American that the Anti-Alien Group in the thermal conditions of the work- House of Commons, with which ing cylinder, and so ensure the maximum efficiency from the no German trader had ever supright of the individual to free self-
The Kokumin published, the Sir J. G. Butcher is associated, or useful or cheap,
grasped at world power by force;
fleet: Order in Council. They complain as a consequence, the beat lost in But it is said, musical enter-Alberich, who stands for the
that operation. One of the disad- prise, and especially the big capitalist's Inst of gold: and battleshipa Nevada, Oklahoma, that under it the Home Secretary vantages of the internal combus
Peonayinin, Arizona, New is not obliged to do anything, musical societies in places like Fafner, who Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, privileges, comes to a bad and Mexico, Mississippi and Idaho while he has the fullest discretion tion engine was that it could not source of power and could not and Bradford,
armoured cruisers Seattle, North as to deportations or prevention of start itself without some external under Wagner, the revolutionary, fled Carolina, Montana, Huntington, immigration. They will press in develop its full power-except at German influences. Perhaps for his life, a price on his head,
Pittsburg, Pueblo, Frederick, Committee on the Bill for more full speed. Mr. Still had solved they did: but why were native in 1848, though he did write the
"Kaisermarsch" in 1871.
South Dakota. The paper positive enactment and a declara- music lovers so apathetic as to
nal combustion engine a
"self- permit it? It was, presumably To consider the question in the have thirty destroyers and about aliens, as distinct from govern- starter" The possibility of com believes that the fleet will also tion of Government policy on the problem of making his inter- always open to them to devote as abstract, let us ask what would forty submarines.
ment by Order in Council.
bining.in one engine the superior mach energy (and money) to be the logical consequence of the
thermal cycle at the high tem music as the foreigners did, had boycott of German music because
peratures and pressures of the they wished.
combustion engine with the low thermal cycle of steam to deal with its rejected heat, and, in the same engine, add the superior working advantages of the steam engine, was the basis of his work. Sir Charles A. Parsons, who pre-
Embassy in Tokyo.
plied anybody with anything good determination”; that Woran, who following as the probable make-fare dissatisfied with the Draft, fuel burnt within it, diminishing,
came
sleeps
on his
of the Pacific
AMERICAN TROOPS IN
" SIBERIA.
VOLUNTEERS TO REPLACE CONSCRIPTS.
The ships chosen are of the cil burning type which represent the of Germany's action in 1914. latest designs in the navy and It is a still more curious Should we not have to say that are especially useful for the discovery that the British musical Raphael had no sense of beauty Pacific Coast on account of the public is accessible to propa- and Michael Angelo's outlines fact that the fuel is ready to ganda. For the last 50 years all lack majesty because we do hand in California. serious writers, on music have not share Signor Orlando's views The Kokumin predicts that the tried to kill the Royalty Ballad on the question of Fiume? Should extent to which the fleet of its sales go up by leaps and we not have to condemn the America will be augmented in On the 6th ultimo, says a Tokyo. sided, said all noticed the loss of bounds. For the last 20 years Russian Ballet and all its works the Far East will be a surprise to message to the Asahi, the steam from the radiators of e have all been protesting because of Lenin and Trotzky? the entire Orient, although, there American military authorities motor-cars and bases. Engineers against the deterioration of our Mr. Jones, who is a lifelong is no reason to suppose that South issued instructions to the recruit, had been forced to think about Egbter dramatic music, and the Liberal, would have to refuse to American and Australasian ing officials, to enlist as quickly the serious waste of energy, and dividenda of the companies listen to a bar of music of Mr waters are not to be equally as possible 7,000 infantry with Mr. Sall had succeeded in providing it soar to heights Smith, because he (Smith) once visited by the Pacific fleet. andreamed of. For many years addressed a meeting in favour of
military experience, 600 men for atilieing a greater part of the The Kokamin points out that the medical corps and 400 for the steam which came from, the the Saturday and Monday Robinson, the Coupon candidate in the Extreme Orient there ara; communications corps, for service radiator, and had also tackled an- Pops. became more or less It is perhape Bot wholly already stationed three squadrons in Siberia. The troops raised in other drawback, namely its want Brahms propaganda in one relevant, but still worth regem composed of gun-boats, which this way will be collected at of elasticity, especially in la year, I remember, he mono- bering, that men like Sullivan, which will be a great addition. Camp Plymond in California, and comotives. In utilising the steam polised about 70 per cent. of Parry, Stanford, Cowen, and
Furthermore it is rumoured, then be dispatched to Siberia he had secured a reserve of power the season's programme, and the Elgar owed their first hearing to says the paper, that the construc in lots of 500. It is ex- which was able to sustain a ver concerts died of inanition. Every Manna, Halle, and Richter when tion of battle-cruisers to be displained that this step does not large overload for a short time writer in the Press pleads the native musicians were deaf to patched to Asiatic waters in case imply any increase in the and which rendered the internal the cause of British composer, and their claims.
of emergency is being advocat American troops in Biberia. What combustion engine much m
Now that the German is intended is simply to replace suitable for use in the
the more British music is played "Teutonic music is too domin-ed.
the more the public stays away. ant," said Sir Frederic Cowen navy has been wiped out of troops raised in accordance with of ships. A number of
Then we are asked to consider, wittily long before the war, and ammo: mazal kimers is a facit the war-time conscrip Jaw by cluding Sir Don the analogy of the musical pro- truly enough. But the question
paganda umreind why Germany in will have toecided ultimately
neutral mauzirian during the war, on purely musical grounds. To
but those who use that argument, suggest, belily, that musiciens it is most likely, com
forget, if they ever should do without Bach, Besth
was the end of that oven, and Wagner has as much
In at least two of sense as to say that students of countries where it English must dispense with the tactive the native pro authorised version of Shakespeare music protested against or Shelley.
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