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OUR BERLIN LETTER.

WINTER SEASON IN THE BERLIN. THEATRES.

KEEPING YOUNG.

You are only young once, but the limit of that "once" may bo prolonged almost indefinitely if you take proper care of the body Berlin, Oct. 1.

with which Nature endowed you. Many Berliners have not yet re- One of the chief factors in the turned home from their holidays in preservation of youth is daily the country, among the mountains regularity. To prevent constipa- and at the seaside, nor have Berton and to keep the system clean lin's autumn visitors begun to better than Pinkettos, the dainty and healthy there is nothing streem in. Nevertheless the theatres have already produced alatora. Men ke them

little laxatives and liver regu- goodly number of first perform

LAZARUS

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ACROSS

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Managers and actors have had a rest and, just at this initial stage of the season, make bold to produce plays which they could not dare to present to the public but for their great confidence in the capacity of the performers. In the 40 big theatres of the German metropolis the season will, in the main, bo do- minated by the productions of German authors and International classical drama. For the present, however, foreign plays are pre- dominant.

One auch play is the

" Red General" which deals with events of the Russian revolution and af- fords the author, Hermann Unger, an interesting opportunity of dis cussing on the stage the conflict between national sentiment and Judaism. Hermann Unger le à Czech playwright who has only just become known; the success of his drama in Berlin is largely due to the excellent acting of Fritz Kortner in the title role.

because

they oo quickly correct billous- dismal feeling. Women like them ness, flatulence, that dull, dark, because they are so dainty, mild and convenient. Of chemists every- where.

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Madrid; in this matter the public has the matter in its own bands.

Unrivalled Radio Exhibition. Special significance was lent to this year's German Radio Exhibi- tion by two interesting facta; one was the Congress of the Inter- Two old-fashioned English plays other was the display of a talking national Radiophonic Union, the are now being performed in Berlin. picture in which the synchroniza- One is the "Beggars Opera" tion of picture and sound was per- written by John Gay 200 years ago fectly achieved, while no disgrée- the other is Sir James Barrie's able noises were heard. The phono- "What Every Woman Knows." In the latter piece Lucic Hoflich plays illustrated fully the manner

film (Deutscher Rundfunk) the part of the woman who knows which numerous senders are work- that all her husband's achievementa

in

are really her win or are, at any ed. The public say and heard an rate, inspired by her. This great shown a train rushing through an opera performance; they wero netress presents the character with

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wonderful delicacy and truthful-industrial district in the west of ness; but for her, the comedy would Germany; they heard the rumbling: scarcely be palatable to the German of the train and of the machinery in the various factories. Again, Then there is a two-part play b

when a moving pleture of Hamburg the young French author, Verneuil.screen and the steamers blew their harbour was thrown on to the It is entitled Monsieur Lomber shrill whistles, it was difficult to thier." One of the characters pro-believe one was not really there on vides an admirable opportunity re the snot itself. The impression strained for Albert Bassermann to made by this new technical wonder employ his cool and prudent vir- was, indeed, so great that, speaking tuosity in connexion with the skil at the banquet given in honour of ful technique of the play.

The last on the list of foreign Bociation, Admiral Carendal

the International Broadcastin As-! playwright is not the least. It is pressly stated that the world was Tolstoy, in commemoration of whose birthday centenary the "Livindebted to the perfecters of this re- ing Corpse" has been produced in be denied that, in the short space Light

volutionary invention. It cannot two different Berlin theatres; in of 5 years, this second phase in the one of them Alexander Motasi, an evolution of broadcasting has made netor of Italian origin, achieved a exceptional progress; striking ex-MILD

grent success in the leading part.

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The light muse found a repre-televisors of Professor Carolus and amples at the exhibition were the. sentative in "Casanova," an operetta cleverly staged and hav-which, though still in their initial

of the Hungarian inventor, Mihaly and ing the features of a reune. It

bubbles over with wit and humour; to come. The exhibition had a stages, give great promise of things the decorations are magnificient special police section with exhibits GOOD. and yet tasteful; the fantastic by 350 firms of international stand- ballets with scenes laid in Venice ing; here the Police gave a display

and Vienna. the Bohemian musicians, the Spanish

of its detective service and showed: ball singers and the charming strains closely woven network of radlo re- how picture telegraphy and the of Johann Strauss's munte render porting stations had made it pos the whole exceeding attractive, able to lay hands upon a goodly particularly as, in the title role, number of criminals. Michael Bohnen gives us an ad- mirable musical and histrionic per- formance.

that the exhibition witnessed to the Altogether, it may safely be said'

progress made by German selenco Safe against Fire,

and technology and demonstrated; the immense value of broadcastingi The news of the terrible catastrophe

us a fuctor in bringing together the in the Novedades Theatre at Madrid evoked deep their peaceful progress.-Gunther, proples of the earth and promoting sympathy in Berlin-a sympathy to Gericke, which official expression was given

by the German Government and the German Foreign Office in their

A big fall of atone at Stoney. Upholland, near

messages sent to the Spanish Gov-Brow Quarry,

John

ernment through its Berlin Ambas- Wigan, caused the deaths of Robert sador. The chief of the Berlin White,

izbourer, and

Fire Brigade proceeded to Madrid Maclaghan, motor driver.

and, under the "uidance of his Spanish colleague, made a minute Investigation of the dobris of the

theatre.

Such fearful calamities act as a warning. Consequently public opinion naturally demanded an en- quiry into the safety of theatres generally. In Berlin security is ensured by a most thorough. organization. 160 members of the special Police Fire Service are in regular duty in the theatres. The fire-alarms are constantly revised.

The fire brigades are responsible for the immediate functioning of every apparatus, With a single movement of the hand, the iron cur- tain in every theatre can be lower- ed and the fire sprinklers set in operation. Regular tests have to be made of the fire-alarms and of the air-traps in the auditorium which serve to carry off the flame at a certain degree of heat. Of course, In the erection of the theatres them.

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