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WHAT'S GOING ON

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

London June 25. about whom one never hears an ARIS is the gay apot unkind word. One La Bamo

Felleity.

PARIS

this wock-endi. Many She should go down in history people have crossed the as the woman who, moving in Channel to see the Grand the masculine atmosphere ot Prix. one of Europe's most uniform and King's Regulations,

Rucceeded in valuable horse races, run at

being militarily correct yet feminine, efficient yet Longchamp this afternoon. gentle, uniformed yet attractive.

in

And the British are the forefront of the attend- ant celebrations.

The biggest ball of the season held last night at the was Anglo - American Traveller Club.

Sir Duff and Lady Diana Cooper were host and hosiess, And among the guests were the Buke of Argyll and the Earl of Hardwicke.

The Duke and Duchess of

In 1010, when I was stationed

near Venice, she came out for a holiday. Then she was a group officer the equivalent of a full colonel.

My Venetian friends dubbed her, in advance, "La Colonnella," and prepared for the worst.

They expected a "battle axe"; they got Dame Felicity, and "La Colonnella" has become a legend in Venice,

She will not yet talk of her

Windsor Lave a dinner party plans-"because I have a horror

before

The

ball. the

members of the

of counting my chickens before

are hatched." they celua

But she intends, after a long displayed one of their most holiday with friends in the U.S.,

volued possesalong for the

henefit of guests. It is a bath to come back to a job in Britain. tub of solid silver which used to

DOORS MUST ALL BE KEPT WIDE OPEN.PLEASE

WORDS AND MUSIC

... a new column about people and events in the concert world... turning a search. light on London's £3,000,000 Festival Hall

Europe's best? Or

World Copyright. By arrangement with Daily Herald,

the biggest flop?

GOING

belonr to П famous Partslan

Flying party

heauty, Madame Payenu,

time owner of

of the house.

Narmada of little planes wilt

A

next

Cooper

It

Tomorrow night Lady Dluna Cross the Channel

is giving another ball. Saturday morning from Britain coming-out party for to Deauville. Altogether, 350 Bridget (Nini) Guevara, grand-pilots and passengers will set daughter of Benjamin Guinness. off in 110 planes.

At their bend: Britain's first

The house, which Lady Diane

has taken specially for this licensed pilot, Lord Brabazon of

dance, once belonged to Lord Tara. Moynihan, and is being de-

Flying enthusiasts have roped

curated for the occasion by Cenit in every little fiivver they can Braton.

iny their hands on. Their week-end at Deauville, stranged by the Royal Aero Club, will be "on the

Main theme of the decor: cornflowers, poppies, and wheat.

Big cup champion

WHO

HO has not been frustrated by the difficulty of getting

house.

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I have calculated that their hoteller hast, Monsieur Francels Andre, is providing accommoda tion and meals which would have brought him in £2,500

in large cup of coffee after a restaurant meal in Lontion? 1 (minimum) had his guests been raying. And, in addition, he is have seen American tourists, in treating them all to a couple of particular,

driven to distraction gala dinners, by the inadequate capacity of Kin British coffee cups.

There is a hard way round the problem. Become a cham plon heavyweight boxer.

He makes a habit of this kind of thing. Last year he enter- tained British polo players who took part in a series of matches nt Deauville.

The other day I was lunching In A West End club, when a Philanthropy? Not entirely. mo at the What Monsieur Andre loses on waiter went past Despite this, the

BBC have double.

the rings, he regning, Ilferally, refused to allow the London

large cup for Savold." he on the roundabouts. Te is Symphony Orchestra, under contract to them at the time, to cried, as he whizzed through the proprietar of the local gambling establishment, the Casino de It is the natural place play at a Sunday night concert And 30 reconds later he reap Deauville.

on August 17 under Josef Kripa peared, still travelling at speed, with Yehudi Menuhin as coloist outsize cup in hand..

Mr Lee Savold, I would say. current Brilish

LONDON,

course.

L

by MARIUS POPE

for music in London,”

UP with speed that outstripes

even the building of is a risk that few promoters wil

Government offices is take.

the new Festival Con-

cert Hall on the South lovers, Mr Hochhauser laments,

Echoing thousands

"Why

of music

couldn't they have re-

service doors

EVA TURNER, English prima donna, now here on a visi from United States, due to play in the Promenade must hold the

The BBC say the orchestra,

"La Colonnella"

Claret goes up WINE lovers are mourning the

Water a the Bordeaux country,

where, ten days ago, votent hall forms wrecked a bumper crop. I hear that in the Phuillae and St Jullen districts

T the end of this week Air at least one-third of the crop

Commandant Dame Felicity is a total loss.

tells me she may give one Concerts the following day, recard for getting a large cup of or two concerts in London could be exhausted by the per-after-lunch coffee in a hurry, before she leaves in Au- faiter. But the orchestra stuct. Lust time she was say "We would be invigorated." Odd thing is that if that con- heard here was in 1048.

this cert were given outside the

London area-say in Watford- the BBC could not protest be- Banbury, D. D. E..

their cause

The promise of an excellent only retires from her post at the head monopoly

of the Women's Royal Air Force. vintage has been swept away, covers London,

Many will regret her departure. And more than that the French (World Copyright Reserved- There are few people in high have already increased the price

places, particularly women, of previous vintages.

Surprising thing about Oldham-born singer who has spent so many years out of Britain-she still speaks with a Lancashire accent.

By the end of this year built the Queen's Hall instead the mammoth building, for at a quarter of the cost?" which the foundation stone A rebuilt Queen's Hall would was Inid last October, will have been a far greater attrac- be complete, and London on for overseas visitors than an untried, hurriedly-built piece will have the finest concert ir super-planning-even though singing in Oklahoma-the state. Londen Express Service). hall in Europe or a £2,000,- the Festival Hall has strategies not the musical play, 000 white elephant.

Is the LCC making the costliest mistake in its his tory?

It will be impossible to give a final answer until a after the Festival, but, already the signs are ominous.

year

or

HO

Hall

ally-placed bars

Now she Is teaching and

and foyers large enough to stage a roller-

The magic of skating match. the Queen's Hull tradition itself bri still inter-though the

hall

itself has been nearly ten years.

in ruins for

And for the last ten years the Albert Hall, imperfect acoustic- ally, has built up a tradition and

the

the

FAMILY PRIVATE- ENTERPRISE musical Krason that starts next month is the Festival of early chaniber music at IIaslemere, Surrey. It was founded 25 years ago by

A. D. G..

SPRAYING THE

BEHIND the blue hills of

Arnold Dolmetsch, virtuoso on the Esterel, the boys recorder. an instrument and girls of the little white- beloved by Bacon, Milton and Pepyn

of dawn

of

lavender

WITH

Despite new tricks in the laboratory, Nature remains the supremo perfumer, says RONALD GARTH-DAVIES

WORLD SCENT

fume. In the

ощия

way

walled town of Grusse have

container, my guido asked me tomiff. The odour must "rank Now Arnold Dolmetsch's sons begun their annual floral

among the most unpleasant in Even if all the acoustical a musical following of its own re largely responsible for holiday, the hard-working

the world. Yet civet imparts carrying on the festival year days and weeks of thu planning and super gadgets that will be hard to wipe out.

the lingering quality that the flower-picking season, for which help to send the costs Acoustics alone do not make a after year.

salesgirls of expensive perfume from the pressure of Away concert hall a success.

like to talk about. to astronomical heights

20th century civilisation, many he perfume harvest

this year Southern France is at its are coming

Lack of rivet work

in the recipe perfectly-the

Why has the Queen's Hall not people

from France.

Every year Grasse normally Germany,

the height.

short-lived per- will still have

of means only a to draw yet been rebuilt? The answer United States, Sweden, Italy and

absorbs 2,000,000 pounds At the break

the 18 bound up in a tangle of red Switzerland to listen to the lute. Jasmine pickers commence work rotes, come

the Jasmine and 1,000,000 pounds of audiences before it can

tape. Chappell, lesates of recorder, viola da gamba, clavi-

prevalent shortage of musk, the from a far fald led gland of the Himalayan succeed.

hall, wanted to rebuild it exactly

musk-deer. In the long, sweepng delds, for as Bulgaria and North Africa. chord and pardessus de viole.

has given the Youngest London impre- as it was. The Government sald

jasmine Jasmin luses its precious There are lemons from Sicily, Grasse perfume roanufacturers sario, Victor Ilochhauser, that would be too small. The At previous concerts, exotically- [quality if touched by the sun geraniums that the new hall named instruments such as the stipulated

aline.

from Madagascar, an acute mid-century problem. Then tire sums up the case against

India, tonka rebec, Celtic harp, erwth and must hold # 4,000 audience.

quads emerge with their port-andalwood from

Improvements the Festival Hall when he Chappells agreed, and there the vihuela have been used.

able tills,

beans from Venezuela, Alcohol processing flowers "London's musical matter has stood for many

Mrs Carl Dolmetsch, who und stema on the spot,

for is shipped in by the thousand

Anticipating a new boom in loses Ita plays the recorder and viola da lavender public just won't go there months of negotiation,

their business, however, the intrinsic Entions, ramba, tells me of the increased essence it moved.

Many flowers are persuaded to Gasse perfumers have been Oddly enough, It was the ropularity of music played on

vild the utmost perfume after buliding laboratories four times Government who asked the LCC ancient instruments. For the

Family secrets if they could build a concert hall festival all the performers will

distillation by leaming,

targer than the old ones, with stills thre on the South Bank in time for he professionals, although 25++++ A few hours later the earna- There are only four fundn-

rse times as large, the Festival-to hold just over years ago Arnold Dulmetsch handtion therers are at work, for mental odour-weet,

An Improved ether vonour enables per- 3,000.

Karoline process dieulty in finding even ama-ramations are at their scented burnt and conrylle. Yet the

best after precisely three hours Grasse feur performers.

ekill rests

fume to be distilled on Infinite minutes instead of hours.

twenty of sunshine.

gradation. With more than Chemists

usts are ARE THE BEC afraid of

blending new Some of these pectume ex- 2,000 ingredients, perfume isn't

conl derivatives. from compelltion during their perts of Grasse have inherited all attar or roses. mammoth

strange bed-fellows TUB of the family

through ton Pecreta

In a scent factory established Henry Wood Promenade enerations. One of

disused Provencal monus met in neme of the new arti- the sur. In a

and vinegar

turpentine have Concerts? This year the prises is that France Imports tery I was shown « buffalo- ficial pertumes. Proms will be on every flowers for Grasse-including hom of civet scent cent from But the redolent fact remains night from July 22 to English Invender--as well us Abyssinia.

that the exact September 16 except for Sun- drawing heavily on the Rivier

odour of the. Romming a neelle through Jasmine and the rose has never. days.

production.

the fat that scaled this unusual yet been imitated.

Bays.

after the novelty dies away. It is too far out."

Economically, he says, the hall is a bad proposition for a con- Chappells, who estimate the errl promoter. The cost of cost of rebuilding the Queen's hiring (200 cuineas), plus the Hall at between £050,000 and fces for orchestru, conductor and £750,000, cannot say when this roloist will force the price of wDI be achieved. But they gave tickets to prohibitive levels be- Hic one answer very positively. cause of the limited audience "Will the Queen's Hall be able capacity. To make a tremendous to stand up to the competition outlay on a hall that has still of the Festival Itali?" I asked. to nehlovo musical "goodwill," The answer was direct: "Of

Bour,

aromas Such

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