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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 22, 1938.

PEER AND POET PLAN OPERA

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Gertie's Faust Plays The Devil with Gounod and Goethe

ORD Borners is about to compose a grand opera on the theme of Faust and the bargain he made with the Devil.

Miss Gertrude Stein ("high priestess of advanced literature"), who is collaborating with him, has just finished the libretto after eight months' work, and with it in his pocket he went down to his country place in Bork- shire recently to study it.

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"The libretto is not Goethe's," he said before he went, "and yet, as a French friend said, it is Gertie's."

Gertie's Faust Is "modern, fan-1 tastic and most amusing." necording

to Lord Berners,

A NEW ENDING

"hidge by the ending." he adjured;

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"When Mephistopheles comes

to claim his part of the bargain- Faust's soul-Faust says he

Confessed Murder

to

have it because he's sold it. So the 'NOW I CAN

up-to-date devil is fulled.

Then the chocus bursts out in the Brand had with a sou so modern i that it is topical: where can be Go? I will be fun writing the music for

"A Bencdictile monk, who is a friend of Miss Sen's declared in all seriousness that she had raised a most provocative theological question.

"Marguerite appears

posite of herself and Belona, and att ind unleasant creature she is."

"The style is not Steln at is purest, because all it lacks to make it easily understood is punctuation,

"See for yourself in the following remarks made by Faust when th devil frst appears (surrounded by electric light inlbs instead of sul- phurous dames):

The devil what the devil der I care if the devil is there how do you know if I have a soul who saya so nobody says to but you the devil and everybody knows the devil is all lies."

TURK'S GENIUS Scenery and costume will be by Turk wha has been painting cinema sela in Russia.

"I can't recall his name," Malet Lord Berners, "but his work is new and strange and remarkable, and he is a genlus at lighting."

SLEEP'

LILLE.

REMY WILBROUCK, thirty- three-year-old farm worker. after confessing at Lirvin, near Lille. to

nine-year-old murder, said: "At last I almal be able to sleep,”.

He is alleged to have told the police that he had murdered his neighbour. Emille Laucolne, in 1929.

"For nine years I have hardly stept," he said to the stallon sergeant. "When I clase my

I see the face of the mar dered mat grinning at me Through the window.”

eyes

Wilbrouck told how he had quarrelled with Lancoine after arguing about politics and had throttled him.

"huur hlin up afterwards." he added. "He was believed to have cummitted sulelife,"

Fer possible models, the composer tande a study of the Fausts of Berlioz, Busoni and Gounod, and plumped for Gaund as the best tu poke fun at.

The muste, in direct contrast to book and production, will be highly Before putting down his ärst note, conventionalised -- with choruses, he must polish off the orchestra- ducts, quintets and all the ellehes oftion of his new ballet "Cupid and to nineteenth-century grund opera, be given in London in the spring.

Treaties Signed

Scene as the reciprocal trade treaties with England and Canada were signed in the White House. Left to right, sented: British Trade Secretary A. E. Overton, Ambassador Sir Ronald Lind- say, President Roosevelt, Canadian Premier Mackenzie King, State Secretary Cordell Hull. Standing. Assistant State Secretary Francis B. Sayre, Canadian Minister Sir Herbert Marler, Canadian Under- secretary Dr. O. D. Skelton and Charles M. Barnes, chief of the Treaty Division of the American State Department.

NEW WAR ON WHITE TERROR

SLAVE TRAFFIC

OF BLOOD

AGENTS OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ARE PRESSURE

STILL DEFEATING HOME OFFICE REGULA- TIONS DESIGNED TO PREVENT GIRLS BEING LURED ABROAD.

MAY END

So said Mr. F. Sempkins, secretary of the National Vigilance| Association, discussing recently the new L.C.C. proposal to tighten TWO great American up control of theatrical and other employment agencies so as to prevent premises being used for the traffic,

surgeons, Mr. A. W. Adson and Mr. G. W. Crile,

This recommendation will be put, abroad everything is checked very before the Public Control Committee carefully by Home Offee officials. No are working on operations on Tuesday.

girl leaves this country unless a job likely to save men and wo-

"But some agents employ differ- men

afflicted with high

ent tactics. They get girls to go. blood pressure from early

say, to Paris, with aflers of good

Jobs. making sure that the con- death and premature retire- tracts expire while they are still ment.

abroad.

The committee state that Heentes is assured. to carry on agencies for employing) theatrient and other artists should be limited to prevent white slave opera- tion being carried an under the guise of a genuine agency.

"Inquiries," it continues, "seem need for further con- to indicate frol. In this connection we travel considered a suggestion that agents should be required to make speelal, application for permission to place frmale persous

employment abroad.

HOME OFfice defeated Mr. Sempkins said: "Before a girl Eis aflowed to take an engagement

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A London surgeon said; "Some of the American results have been especially dramatically successful,

young Girls are with

suffering abnormally early ages."

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country, our Home Office can do! Ile fo help. "There is still a lot of white slaving going on in this country. being shipped to all parts of the world. "At the moment I am particularly perturbed about the position in Maita. Investigations are being made there.

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Rosa Brereton, an orphan, of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, suing although the technique is difficult.

Every one in normal health has through her sister, sought damages automatic machinery within the body for personal injury received in mcident. Defendants were W. for creating rushes of blokl needed Irla, Etd., of Gorton, Manchester, emergencies. If a man in danger in great Mr. Trevor Hunter, K.C., for the has to flee, blood nows

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Mr. Nowland Thomas, K.C.. for of extra blood to the brain, Messrs. Irlam, said that they ques- tioned some of the expenses, part- cularly specialista foes of ice and doctors' fees of £53.

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