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FROM MONTEVERDE TO

WEBER

1930.

DAY BY DAY.

THE DEVIL HAS MANY TOOLS, BUT A LIE À HANDLE THAT FITS THEM ALL-Leader.

to create a stable basis and an OPERAS OF 1600 TO 1820. atmosphere of confidence for the concerted action to this end con- templated by the last Assembly. In drafting the convention, the Economic Committee found: "It The foundation of the London

The Government has accepted the necessary, in order, to secure the Opera Festival at the New Scala

following tender:--Messra. Kwong Theatre which commenced.on accession of a large number of December 30, was really laid when Hip Lung, $1,550 for the repair of countries, to allow for the possibili-Mr. Robert Stuart, then an under-motor launch Lila. ty of exceptions and derogations to

"The Empress of Asia loft

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The Very Idea!

the truce, subject to an appeal in ganised the production of Monte Nagasaki on the 30th Jan, is, duo sledge for over half an hour.- "Why"

A little boy and his sister presented with a sledge." they had been playing with it for some time it seemed to their mother that the little girl was doing all the work

"Norman," she said, "You've graduate at Corpus Christi, or

made Joyce pull you about in the verde's "Orpheus" in 1925. The performance took place in the at Shanghai to-day, and leaves don't you get out and haul herr

Shanghai to-morrow at ten a.m. "But, mamins,” Norman or Playhouse' in the vacation. As a

plained, "It's so frosty. I'm afraid result the following year the Ox-

it is notified that the officer if she sat still on the elodge sho ford Opera Club was formed and, hitherto known as the Assistant will catch cold!" üfter being on probation for two Colonial Secretary will in future years, was recognised by the Ual-known and styled tas Principal versity; the productions, like those Assistant Colonial Secretary. of the O.UDS., are now allowed to take place during the term.

During a long talk recently, Mr. Stuart gave me some interesting particulars of his adventurous season at the Scale. His aim is to give an historical survey of opera from 1607 to Weber's "Der Freis chutz," which he describes-as the first great romantle opera."" | Al- though not strictly part of the festival, performances of "Hansel and Gretel, and a short opera by Mr. Gervase Hughes (first played will also be given at

some cases to arbitration, in others to previous agreement among the parties to the convention. The difference between specific and ad valorem duties also necesaltated some compromise, since wherens specific duties would really be stabilised by a tarif truce, ad valdrem duties."automatically in creased in response to changes in the value of the goods concerned, A third problem was that of the denunciation by countries not parties to the truce of tariff treaties concluded with a country which is a party. A fourth, consideration Is the relation of the convention ce-In 1926) tablishing the tariff truce to exist-matinees only from January 20 to

January 25. Ing or future customs treaties. The Committee also considered the date in which the truce should be- como effective and proposed that this should be retroactive, that is, should start in any case before the conclusion of the convention, and if possible he based on the state of tariffs on October 1, 1920.

The draft convention, which comprises 22 articles, in some cases with alternative texts, propounds solutions of all these difficulties. It distin- endeavours so far as the 5guished experts from many coun- trics meeting in the League Econo- mic Committee could secure, to be sufficiently broad and elastic to take account of practical difficulties and of the varying needs of agricultural and industrial states, and yet so stringent as to make the tariff prepare the truce a really and way, as the final article of the con- ==vention declares, for the conclusion

"FRIDAY JANUARY 31, 1910.

THE TARIFF TRUCE.

indicated.

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Beginning at the Beginning.

"We are starting with. Monte- verde, because Orpheus really established opera as an art form," he said. "It was first performed in 1607 or 1608 for the Gonzaga, the reigning family of Mantua,

und it is believed that the libretto was the work of Alessandro Strig- gio. As far as I have been ablo to trace this will be the first com- plete professional performance of| 'Orpheus' since tat-time-Monte. verde not only laid the foundations of modern opern, but he may be aid to have instituted the orches tra.. He chose n collection of thirty instruments to accompany the choruses and play the sinfonia. and ritornelli. Recitative forms the bulk of the music; there are only two songs for Orpheus."

"Are you attempting to repro- duce Monteverde's orchestra?" I asked.

"No; the music has been edited and orchestrated by Mr. Jack Westrup, who is conducting, and, although he is attempting to repre- duce the same sound effects, mo- dern instruments will be used. The recitatives, however, will be

of collective agreements to accompanied on the harpsichord facilitate economic relations by any by Mr. Boris Ord. The transla- Lion has been made by me, and I means which may seem to be pracam producing the opera in modern Licable."

settings. Throughout the season some brilliant artists will sing the chief parts, and I have been for- tunate enough to get Mist Penc lope Spencer to arrange all the ballets. The cast in the Monte verde opera will include Mr. Den is Noble, as Orpheus: Mr. Nor man Allin, 38 Charon; Miss Gwyneth Edwards, as Eurydice; and Miss Denne Parker, as the Messenger.

Governor His Own Spokesman.

Willesden "Wife: My husband has had lots of money in the past. UndgouwKA | 10 years, but it is a puzzle where

| a man's money roos.

THE "TELEGRAPH" ART

SUPPLEMENT.

Varied Pictorial Features

To-morrow,

There will again be a varied selection of topical pictures in to-morrow's lasuo of the Tole- graph Art Supplement,

Amongst others, there will be illustrations of the launch- ing of the s.s. Tsinan at Tai- koo by Madame "Chan Ming- shu a farewell tin party given at the Hon. Dr. Kote- wall's residence to I. E. the -Governor and Lady Clementi, ..at. which many distinguished people were present; pictures of the magnificent Chinese gifts to Sir Cecil Clementi; and portraits of Capt. A. J. L Whyte and Miss Frances Vandyke Tyler, whose engage- ment was recently announced.

Other pictures will include Lady Clementi at the opening of the Kowloon branch of the Helena May Institute, the International Regatta hold last Saturday. In Hongkong, « and a dance given in con- nexion with Lugard Hall, Hongkong University,

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The Empress of Australia, on a round the world cruise, left Fadung on the 28th Jan., was due at

Batavia on the 30th Jan, and is duo at Hongkong on the 14th Fob. (Fri.) at 8 a.m.

The Directors and officials of the Industrial and Commercial Bank, Ltd, are holding an "At Home" on the occasion of the opening of their new building at 12, Queen's Road Central on Monday.

Solicitor at Thames Court: We were selling hundredweights" of " coke, but the London County Coun- cil came down on ùs like a hundred. weight of bricks

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Mr. Pope, the Clerkenwell Mastin trate: I don't understand woman; that is why I am a bachelor, A

Mr. Registrar Friend, at Clerken well County Court: There are thousands of men who are known simply as Mrs. So-and-So's hus band. "Heaven help them,

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Prisoner at Kingston-on-Thames: I did not kick him.' I just shoved him with my toe...

(With acknowledgements to a unce-popular ballad, ä writer having asserted that tsyn are on indication of character.)--

So you're keen upon disarming,.

little man;

And you've got your eye on farm-

ing, little man?

Leaden soldiers you have spurn- ed, and your gaze has fond- ly turned

To those woolly Jumba sa

charming, little man.

Or you may be legal-minded when

you grow to man's estate, For you're browsing on a volume that is priced at ́ alx-and- eight,

But, having stopped a model car and told the crowd to clear,

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It looks as though you'll make a perfect constable, my dear!

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Husband (surveying garage simply cannot afford an old one!", bill): "We must get a new car; wo

That the alloy now used for British, allver coinage consists of 50 per cent, silver, 40 per cent. copper, & per cent. nickle and 5 per cent. zinc is revealed in the annual report of Sir Robert John- son, Deputy Master and Comptroll- er of the Royal Mint. No Imperial An order by the Governor-in-gold was coined during the year, Council provides that the Dan-but silver coins totalled nearly gerous Druga Ordinance, 1923, 72,600,000, while the total number shall benceforth apply to estors of of pieces struck exceeded 228,000,- One of the most notable features

morphine and their respective salta 000, a figure only exceeded between and to any preparation, admixture; 1916, and 1921, when the War and of Sir Cecil Clementi's term of

the extract containing any of the post-War demands for British Governor of Hong-

said esters. It is explained that bronze colns reached unprecedented office

the esters of morphine do not in- figures. kong, unobserved by the general

Earliest English Opent. elude and should not be confused pitblie, tas been

with the ethers of morphine-form SEO ZA SADEURO LUCZO LAKIETARAN ERREPORTÉK "During the first week," Mr.

example, methylmorphine (co- provement in the relations be tween the Press and the Govern- Stuart continued, "we shall also ment, to the mutual benefit of kpth. present a double bill, consisting which the Dangerous Drugs Or-

deine), ethylmorphine (dionin), to WHO WAS..... The old attitude of aloofness has of Cupid and Death," a masque by dinance does not apply.

NORA HELMER? largely been dissipated. His Ex- John Shirley, with music by cellency, as a liberal and instruet-Mathew Locke and Christopher Gibbons, and Pucell's 'Dido and

fict

a marked im-

ed administrator, has fully re- Aeneas. These are being pro-Austin will be Ptolemy, and Miss takes Cornella. duced by Mr. Dennis Arundell. Denne Parker From the musical point of view The dealgaer is Mr. Hedley Brigge, 'Cupid and Death' is the finest who is dancing with Miss Penelope

extant, masque

and that and Spencer in some of the produc-

:; Dido and Aereas are to be given examples of carly English operatic experiments.

AS

tions. An "Unknown" Mozari.

That tariffs are an obstacle to trade, there cannot be any doubt. "That much will be agreed to by all' schools of economic thought, by Free. Traders and Protectionista alike. The League of Nations, redising thie, is now sponsoring scheme for a two years' tariff truce, and it is this proposed truce which wan the subject of a number of questions in the House of Commons a couple of days ago. There are, of course, several nations who do not favour action along these lines, but the matter, is to come up for discussion at a Conference under the League auspices which is to cognised the value of taking the Press and the public into his con- be held at Geneva on February

fidence and in many matters of the 15th. Some of the British Domi-highest importance, has elected to nions are against participation, bo his own spokesman. What Sir hut, notwithstanding this fact, the Cecil has had to say for publica-

It is a strange thing," said Mr. "The masque was first perform- Stuart, "that La Imperial Government intends giv-tion, he has said on his own re

Finta Glardi- At the same time, ed in 1653, and again in 1659, each niera (which may be translated ing its support to the movement, as sponsibility. Mr. William Graham, the President he frequently talked with news-time during the Commonwealth, as the woman who pretends to be one who has read it is that the Mozart at the age of nineteen, is of the Board of Trade, has just paper representatives in an in- and the amusing thought to any indy gardener), composed by formal discoursive manner, giving piece was allowed to be performed quite unknown in England. It them extremely valuable back as a moral entertainment." The was commissioned for the Munich The object

much, of this proposed ground material,

of chief part is that of the Chamber- Carnival in 1775 and was 'a 'very truce, in the view of the Economic course, in strict confidence. The lain of the Inn, at which Cupid great success. The opera, which Committee of the League of Na-information usually, was for gui- and Death are guests. It will be foreshadows 'Cosi fan Tutte,' will tions, in to "Inaugurate an era of dance in analysing and comment. taken by Mr. Sumner Austin. Mr. represent in the festival the Inte conductor, | eighteenth-century. Acts II, and Jack. Westrup is the ing upon local developments, ex- and he has orchestrated the muste III. of his original score exist, but peace and stability during which tending on many occasions to mat- from the manuscript at the Bri- only the aria numbers of Act 1. collective "agreements to facilitate ters of wider Import, having bear-tish Museum. There is no record have been found. The recitatives international economic relations ing, for instance, on the politeal of a performance of Cupid and to the first ect have been composed to words based on an earlier set- could be worked out and negotia situation in China, Often, we Death's since Cromwellian' daysı

A Handel Opera,

ting of the same libretto by An- ted." This is one of the opening have been adaistod to an appre-

fossi, by Mr, Leslie Heward, who Julius Caesar' is the type of is acting as conductor, La Finta remarks in the report prepared by ciable extent in grasping the

This underlying issues as stake in the opera that Gay parodied,

Giandiniera' is an opera for seven the Committee at the end of Octo-trend of events. On the eve of partiular one was written before characters, and there is no chorus. ber on the proposal for his departure for Singapore, and The Beggar's Opora.'. It is a good Mr. Nugent Monck is producing, years' truce. The report ox the severance of his official con- example of the kind of opera that and the parts are being taken by was sung during the early eigh Mr, Henry Wendon, Miss Winifred plains the provisions of a draft nexion with the Colony to the teenth century, and is full of Comstock, Miss Noc! Eadie, Miss convention framed by the Com- general regret, it is fitting that we minuets and gavottes and little Doria, Lemon, Miss Marjorie: mittee whereby the countries which should pay tribute to His Excel tunes of the time. Handel wrote Parry, Mr. Edward Leer, and Mr. become parties to the truce would lency's contribution to the cordial- it for his Royal Academy of William Michael,

"Gluck's 'Alcestis' and Weber's bind themselves to maintain

ity existing between the Press and Music; it was first played on Feb un-

the Executive, and to express theruary 20, 1724, and contains 18 Der Freischutz' are, of course, boat operatic music. Mr. Gervase better known, and need little in altered in principle the treatment hope that his successor, the Hon. Hughes, who is conducting, has the way of comment. Mr. Aylmer which they at present concede, by Mr. W.. T. Southor for the time edited the musle, which is based Bueast will conduct Alcestis, consolidating their customs duties being, will continue this sound on the full score published by the which is being produced by Mr. and exchanging effective guaran. policy. Background information Handelgesellschaft. It has been Dennis Arundell, with Misa May tees in regard to internal taxes, will be received and respected as considerably cut, for the first per Blythe, Mr. Charles d'If, Mr. prohibitions and all impediments to it has been under Sir. Ceell formance probably lasted well over Frank Sale, and Mr. Sumner Aus- five hours. Julius Caesar has in in the chief parts. Sir Thomas trade. They are to do this, accord. Clement!. It should not be peces: not been done in England since Beecham is conducting. Der Freis- ing to the preamble of the draft sary to suggest the absence of any Handel's time, although, curiously, chatz, with Mr. Humphrey Proc

occasion for the use of vicarious it has been produced in Germany ter-Gregg as producer, convention, in order, more rapidly instrumentality in glying express in recent years Mr, Norman At the end of the festival,”! Mr.' and effectively to apply the resolu- fon to official views. No one, we Marshall will act as producer, and Stuart said as we parted, "I think tion of the World Economic Con- feel sure, understands that better the pompous manner of the period it will be evident that there has forence of 1927 (declaring that than the Hon. Mr. Southorn, who will be adopted. Mr. Arthur Fear, been no great improvement on as Julius Caesar, will wear the Monteverde's Orpheus, which I existing tariffs were too high and has been in contact with local chasafcal dress and a Handellan wig. regard as the perfect opera." should be lowered), and in order Journalists for nearly four years. Miss Gwyneth Edwards has the

GW. B. in the Observer” - part of Cleopatra, Mr. Sumner

a two

In these days of emancipat-

ed womanhood it is difficult to imagine what a profound shock Henrik Ibsen ad- ministered to European thought in his play "The Doll's House," of which Nora Helmer Is the chief figure,

The popular conception of the ideal woman which pre- valled in the late eighteenth century was of an Innocent, helpless, clinging creature childishly ignorant of tlb world and its ways, and mors like a doll than a huniani boing" In her placid submission to

It is.. malo overlordship. against this ideal that Norz "révolta,

From a mere desire to help her husband out of financial. trouble, Nora forges hut.QWA: father's signature, never; realising the seriousness of the deed. How should shet She has never been taught.ora told anything about the law.

When the forgery is dis covered, the husband, though he manages to protect his wife from prosecution, la furious with her for her blunder,d driving, her into auch an agony: of remorse and despair that she' even thinks of committing suicide. Realising, however; that the blame for her own" well-meaning folly, no less than. for her husband's unreasoning anger, must be laid at the door of the social system which first. proclaims ignorance and help lessness to be virtues in women: but would turn and rond them when those supposed virtuos show their less pleasant: x- pect, Nora resolves to defy the system In its entirely. "Henceforth, she will no longer live a protected life in her home-her Doll's house!? Instead, she will go out into the world, to fight her own battles, akne and unaided, no longer a doll but a human übe ing with a will and soul of her own