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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1936.

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MONDAY, JULY 27, 1986,

SOCIAL JUSTICE

AND PEACE

There is an interesting argu- ment contained in the annual report uf the International Labour Office. In which it is contended that war is not enust Jed wholly or mainly by lust for territory or booty or prestige: but that it is caused also by low standards of living, by the feel. ing of economic insceurity, and by the desire for moral or so- cial

is, emancipation. There without doubt, an indissoluble fconnection between peace and

Covent

Cardon saw the close of the most successful opera season for many years. In this article Spike Hughes discusses the scoson, the singers and- the public.

[OR many opera stason's now Fred has stood'nt the

corner

of Floral-street and James-street, Covent Garden.

This year, after 25 years in the police force, Fred is retiring. Last night was his last time directing limousines along the straight and narrow street that leads to the opera.

And Fred could not have chosen a finer season in which to retire.

Every season" (as the torm in applied generally) has always been The most brilitant since the war."

at the 1936 opera season really has been unusual, and its brilliance something more than a gossip writer's clelié, Even the Covent Garden management is pleased.

The first and most obvious ex- planation of six weeks of packed houses is the paradoxical one of Court mourning. So many social engagements have been cancelled. they say that there was only the tipera left to be seen nt.”

Only" the opera?

The success of the season, i would suggest, is due to one thing. and one thing only. -opera is an attraction again,

Oh, not just for the box-holders and the Wagnerites who would, 1111 the place even If the performance: started at six in the mornlug, bul for the stand-in-finers who climb to the Railery, anel for the great jutje wiruse Ink with Covent Garden is a radio se↑.

T is no long since the opera season was divided Into two parts. Th German perlod opened 1 and pinyed to full houses; the Itaikin operas followed, and though a minority of the crities felt they could sit back and enjoy them-

selves, the public stayed away In

grent numbers.

When first, a year ago, German and Itala operas were mixed up Wagner-Rossini" festivni

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the same lack of support for the Itulah works was less obvious, but still only too real.

those But the enterprise of Rossini operas with their gay Tunes, their speed and the -

social justice, and it is pertin-mented Conchita Supervia singing

what is known as them did "started something.

In their first season they shook The audience out of its Teutonic- fed beredness-put much, but still perceptibly.

ent in this regard to point out that the political crisis pro- voked by the re-entry of Ger- man troops into the Rhineland fat once called forth suggestions"

for-a-world-economie--conferrent as exécutive long "enough"

fence.

The mor-

Geotrey Toye, lately managing director of Covent Garden, did not

to reap his own personal reward for his propaganda in favour of Italian opera-in favour, that is,

GAVE

WORLD £2,000,000,000

Johannesburg, July 21. WHAT was the secret of the man who, by discovering the the world £2,000,000,000—and Witwatersrand goldfield, 'gave

then vanished?

After half a century his name now kinds retéaled for the first time, but that is all...who he really was, his life story, and his fate may for ever he shrouded in mystery,

Mr.

an

Ring Down the CURTAIN

of opera full of tunes that demand good singing and audiences that prefer to listen at a reasonable hour Instead of just after fearly) ten But as a member of the audience he did see how, at last, in the grand opera season of 1936, the public flocked to hear the typo of musle of which he had done a considerable share of boosting.

It has been a gradual, tiring pro- cess, this revival of Italian opera, but it has arrived,

It will stay when people finally are no longer amazed that "even" the Italian performances are sold: ont.

Politics, fortunately, play only a small part in music; in this country none at all. Bo that the altination Es strangely ironical If you consider how welcome this year singers have been whose native country would. rather than use an English phrase, even and another word for "sport," If it could, which it can't.

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IT the public in such a frame of mind, then. that turned out

iti

the same numbers for the second night's "Rigoletto" RA It had done for the opening "Meister-

it singer." only needed ene thing to keep it in this frame ol minc: Good singers of Itn

opera.

And that is just what Covent Garden provided.

In the first scene of "Rigoletto," Glacomo Lauri-Volpl opened his. mouth and sang "Questa o quella" To put it bluntly, It was the right noise.

Covent Garden had found it

SIDE GLANCES

by

Spike

Hughes

first "class" tenor stuce Olgll was last here,

'Opera, prople are apt to forget, Is not a question of production. Singing must come first. When you have a good cast with a homogeneous style then you can

production," start on

'Too olten in these days the eye. is pleased so that the ear is de- celved, and there is the same up- satisfactory feeling in hearing a "produced" opera with a poor cast as there is in riding in a superbly furnished Pullman that runs on cracked wheels.

This season the Covent Garden Pullman has had țin wheels looked after more enrotully than for many years.

The managentent has gone out of its way. what I more, to provide bright shiny new wheels.

It has been a

The curtain falls at Covent Garden.

houses of Italy who, should have bern here (nt a low fee too) sink- log parts given to artists, whose only real qualification for an international season was their in- ternational lack of style.

One point emerges from tlils sea- son's Covent Garden opera: the management must not be afraid to set about buliding repertoire next year that will show off the bril-

anec of its newcomers.

F

LAGSTAD can Oll any fopera house any time she Ikes, Her Wagner aingtag has been jövely, so lovely and unusual indeed that people have forgotten that Leider is a great Wagnerinn, too, which is out of all proportion,

But there is one part simply cry- ing out for Flagstad--Norma in Bellini's opera. I know that she knows the part: she told me her- self.

This glorious valce would make a box-office success of "Norma whenever Covent Garden chooses to put on, and the public would be

Just

that

better stason of bril-

much neweenata Kirsten. Flag-

acquainted with Rome of the Thorborg.

loveliest musle ever written, Wettergren Lemnitz. Perras-all women.

Margherita Perras is another anger who made an impressive

· Hant

stad,

Does that mean there isa short-

nge-of-good-men-singers?--It-does--trat-appearance-this-season............ Ase.

not,

We have had Lauri Volp! and Finza, but there are any num- ber of singers in the small opera,

By George Clark

Thus, it will be seen, the remedy for present world un- rest is not to be found wholly in political jacts or frontier recti- [fications, or even by disarma- ment conferences, which do not touch the real source of the trouble. In the view of the Director of the L.L.O.. the only way out of present troubles is by restoring, as far as may be, the free exchange of goods, ser- vices. money and population upon which pre-war prosperity was founded-not simply by an impossible attempt to turn back the hands of the clock, but by ļa readjustment of method with

Search of the archives at Pretoria the same ultimate objective. by Mr. James Gray, a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, has yielded Economic warfare leads to in-the fact that the man who found the jevitable disaster. But as peace rich conglomerates of the main reef

April, 1886, was at Langlante in is impossible without social jus-Australian digger named George tice, so social justice is impos- Harrison. sible without, peace.

a noto Gray has unearthed which the owner of the Langsate ni and military ideals are farm wrote. to President Kruger in totally incompatible. Happily.inder, and an affidavit made by Har-

July

1880, naming Harrison as the there are certain clear economic rison at Pretoria, in which he said ho gains reported from most conn-lieved that payablo gold had been discovered. A petition from people tries during last year, but the on the field also named Harrison, hard core of unemployment re-f maius. Views of economists are gradually changing in re- gard to the real nature of the problem; more and mare is the theory of under-consumption gaining ground, and although this some of the theories of school of thought are somewhat extravagant, it remains true

He may have had private reasons that expansionist policies have for shunning publicity-and it is a that about this proved more successful than curious coincidence

time one of the Australian States was deflation. The real problem so asking for information of the where- far as industrial justice is con-buts of a man named George Har-

Tinon. Teerned is to ensure that the economies in wages effected by mechanical improvements do co-ordination, and until such Inot reduce the volume of the co-ordination is made à reality available consuming power. It we may expect to see continuing is clear that the root cause of friction, with possibilities__ al- the failure of national schemes ways present which might flare | 9 cases, Colombo 2 enses. Cholera-mein & coses, Pnom-Penh 1 case, is the absence of international up into serious trouble.

SOLD HIS CLAIM

It was after inquiries had confirmed Harrison's affidavit that the farm land was proclaimed and the landgold- field came into official existence.

Harrison received a discoverer's, claim which, he promptly sold, Then he vanished from the pages of Hand history. He never clafried credit for the discovery when other names were put forward, and the old pioneers of the Rand,have no knowledge of his fate.

"You never take me any place imtil one of your old col- lege friends comes to town, and then you dry to give the impression we're constantly, or the go."

The Health bulletin of EasternNegapatam 1 ense, Tuticorin 14 cases, ports for the week ended July 18Chittagong 3 eaves, Bangkok 2 cases. shows the following cases of In-Small-pox-Bombay 11 enses, Cal- fcctious disuasor: Plague.-Bassefneutia 11 cases, Karachi 1 case, Moul-

Cnicutin 37 cases, Madras 4 cases,Shanghai 3 cases.

Olida in "Rigoletto" she gave a Jiew, unconventional reading of the part, acted Olida as an in- genuous, bewildered slip of a girl.. instead of a range-conscious prima donna.

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ERTRUD

GREN

WETTER - д mezzo- soprano whose few ap- pearances,as Amueris in "Aida" were exquisite examples of a lovely Volce and a fine stage presence.

At the New York Metropolitan this season she brought the house down with her performance "Carmen."

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There is no reason why she should not do the same here next year.

"Brilliant season or not, at least 1930 will be memorable for having introduced five new singers, cach of whom has not only made good in her own right but has proved the best of her type for many years. For apart from Flag- stad. Wettergren and Percas, Thor- borg in the Ring" and Lemnitz in Rosenkavaller "* have both Kiven performances that set even the staidest

looking for rice critics new adjectives.

Already plans are being nude for next year's repertory. How who decides when and what and the casting of which opera I do, not know, but after the success of this season and the great part played In that success by these five new- comers, it would be only fair to give each of them a "jam"" párt In 1037. as a reward..

HESE are the new stars of operk. The star

system is not really such

a bad thing as is sometimes thought, In opera it has the double advantage of drawing the rabile and providing the best sing- ing. And so everybody is happy.

The public, too, has played its share in the gaiety of the opera season. It wasn't the gallery's fault that Lauri-Volpi didn't re- peat "La Donna & Mobile."

This enthusiasm is an admirable sign, Arias aro meant to applauded.

be

More than this, though. The other night the last bars, of "La Bohème were audible. Not unti the curtain was right down was there any applause. And that really is somethingi