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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1939 The Severn Bore (at its maximum of 31 ft. 1 in. on Thursday last) is always T5be Week's theatres I an occasion for sight-seeing, perhaps be- "2Dramatis JJersottae cause a real rush of water is a rattier rare sight in England. Its rivers favour It is en agreeable change to have a the placid and pastoral rather than the Lost Treasure story at home, and not precipitous style and they seldom give in Asia Minor, or Egypt or Carthage, or the musical sound of running water so Peru. One of the odd things about the frequently heard further north.

Southey Sutton Hoo discovery is that it should sallg how the waters come down at not have been made before. The evi- Lodore. but the southern streams tend dence at the inquest seemed to sug- to be deliberate rather than gay. They gest that the burial must have been a obey the law of cavitation as it were. Globe "THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST" By Oscar Wilde Duke of York's COUNTERFEIT By Cyril Butcher and Albert Arlen Mr.

Joss Entwistle, like Mr. Syd1 MONDAY. "The Fanatica." Embassy. Dawn at Sunset." Coliseum. Almost a Honeymoon." WEDNESDAY.

Strand, Spotted Dick." Vt the 13 la? (Bp St. 3obn rvine) THE WORM TURNS ON ADJUDICATORS Reviewing Mr. John Bourne's book, should have thought it was obvious "Drama Festivals and Competitions," even to dull-witted people, that it is i- Thf. Observer of July 2, I remarked not possible to say in three to five 'hp woes of adjudicators, who must word speeches the substance of what s-ipport as patiently as they can the any human being has to say on any of those on whom they sit subject. Our daily conversation is not judgment.

There is. of course, an- so restricted as that, as a verbatim reelect- side to the question, and one of port of the talk in almost any company rty readers, a lady, has invited me to would plainly show. Tell me, if any-ir insider it. The worm, if I may use one can. how to express in three to f.

graceless a simile, has turned on the five words what Edgar says to Walker wanted to know. A murder mysterv was very heaven to him. Con well-known event, in tgypt and other. under protest and never dream of mak-countnes tomb-robbing was for cen-. ing a game of the frig.

tunes a popular and lucrative pursuit. A snort visit, lasting no more than a few hours, was made to London last week by Mr. Hurok, the American-Russian impresario, who is concerned It is not clear whether it was Saxon i i derrvned by fortune to sell sweets in Blackpool, he longed to be the stately Holmes of England. The suspicious honesty or Saxon superstition that kept piated in Ashford (Middlesex) parith the Deben, ship inviolate. In the oarish maeaiime the in bringing one branch of the Russian Ballet (the Massine-Danilova troupe) to Covent Garden early in September.

Unp Pardee Woodman Algernon Moncrleflo Jaclc Hawtcms John Worthing John Gietgud Lady Bracknell Edilh Evans Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax Gwen Plxanncon-Davlps Cecily Oardew Peggy A-shcroH Miss Pnwn Margaret Rutherford Canon Chasubla Georfte Howe Merrlman Kingston Trollope Footman Douglas Malcolm Directed by John Glelgud. Decora! Ion by Motley. vicar makes the announcement Our most cherished Lost Treasure Mr. Hurok went to the United States story is that of King John's jewels rather more than thirtv vears ao -with death ot a mysterious and wealthy cousin, whose house he inherited, took Joss to St.

John's Wood, and his family came too. It was no abode of peace, for a coiner's gang was convinced that the boodle was under the floor-boards. The Entwistles were immediately beset by a hnmis countess, sinister footmen, a three roubles then six shillings sterling. ad indicators, and turned with extra- Gloucester in "King I propose to take a course of sermons on "The Signs of the Times" in the parish church in the coming autumn. I shall refer only to what the Bible has to say, and shall use two or three Bibles the pulpit as occasion demands.

There seems to be no reason why the Vicar should not use as many Bibles as about a dollar and a half, in his pockets. After peddling such things as Men must endure ven as Iheir coming the Wasn. still iouna in sciiooibooks. but quite discredited by the authorities. If," says Mr.

Charles R. Beard. the relics of John's baggage are ever recovered from where they lie under the pleasant fields of Holland between Cross Keys and Long Sutton, they will prove From Elsinore to Worthing is a considerable change of scene, and Mr. M-hcp vet-sat i 1 it is nmv hpvnnH needles and stockings from house to house, he gradually worked up to being henre. In-1' ne- is all.

The hi Hipt ladies' maid who carried thumb-screws concert impresario. In the last he likes, though in the customary pulpit o'-riinary lorce and vigour. All adjudicators are not of the quahtv of understanding of Mr. Bourne. Some of them, to be candid, are asses, and be forbidden lo come within a couple of miles of any drama festival or competition A very hcuty-imty fellow turned up at a West country wears the trappings and-the in her vanity-bag.

corpses in cupboards, that ft consisted wholly of his camp 'ne question oi space might arise, bince utensils, his tents, and munitions of war Cranmer's. the first English text printed twenty years ne has had most of the world-famous concert singers, grand opera singers, violinists, and ballet com Brevity may be the soul of some wit, but it is not the soul of all wit, and an author who takes seriously the in fine a mischief in i ana similar trines. lum smts of woe with as fine a mischief Blackpool blench? Never the one as pathos in the other. Having. I()rsa momerlt Tne tough guys in plays shown us the cracking of a noble heart, tnjs kind are soft enough when it he moves to a wellnigh faultless per-j comes to the point, and Joss, though together with the fat beasts and bulkier by authority, there have been the plunder from the Isle of Axholme and Geneva Bible, the Bishops' Bible, the the Abbev of Crovland.

and the huge present Authorised Version, and the struction that speeches should not panies under his direction. In a spirit of mischief, I asked him which of them all town one year, and advised ihe com- be more than one line long." or eon- snoils from the devastated lands of the Revised Version of 1880-4. The number naa given mm tne most trouble. He would not commit himself definitely, but foimancc in a world where all is head trussed up in ropes, nieiei mimura uic of unauthorised versions must run to Norfolk and Suffolk barons." is sig aiLii-fiiiuiii am ivxi n. T-a rj lioiavt-heat sounds Tl was.

admitted that Miss D.n c.n. had tain more than three to live words tn be the ideal length, will hamper himself to the point of disaster. Even the reeks, who were masters of con no local legend hundreds, from Dr. Moffat's to a surpris nificant that there his heart, was a Bit ot his head, like of lost treasure. strangely enougn, mis veiy quality which he returned.

given him quite an amount of uneasiness. But these things," he said British oak. After ing arrangement in colloquial American. And for the purposes of Ashiord a much- with a well-earned reward, to be the when looked back on were reallv ijemuis, io give naRespeare a miss. Shakespeare, in this person's opinion, was a bore and ought never to be performed.

Another adjudicator in ihe same city, a venerable dodderer who ought to have been preparing to meei his Geid instead of ad ud tea 1 1 ni on the drama, seemed not to have heard ol any of the Shakespearean pieces pleasures." I asked him who else had advcrtised edition published in 1906 should not be overlooked, described as The Brainiest Edition of this Famous Book." cision, upheld no such law. Aeschylus put into the mouth of Clytemnestra speeches almost as long as any Mr. Shaw ever wrote, and Sophocles was no tongue-tied author: he gives contributed to these sorts of To my surprise and admiration he said Confectioner King of Blackpool and build his fortunes en a Rock. It takes the authors twenty scenes in which to whisk us through this somewhat infantile mixture of a film and a charade, whose more suitable address is Society had only one topic a hundred years ago, for it was the eve of the Eglintoun Tournament, devised by the thirteenth earl on the anrient model, from the jousting knights even lo the jester, with his cap and bells. The event, when it came on the 2.4th, was that the great Anna Pavlova was not Oedipus a speech as long as the In among them.

She was a great artist one of the greatest that 1 have ever nn1 penormance ne nact to judge, The new L.C.C. volume of London Statistics mentions that in 1937 thirteen horse cabs were licensed in he called, in faintly bleating ciuisitors. This theory of bat-and-ball brittle, bloodless brilliance which distressed CI. B. S.

when he saw one of the first performances from a Saturday Reviewer's" pew in 1HSI5. "I go to the theatre." he wrote, to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into and proceeded to announce that farcical comedy, being essentially a rib-tickler instead of a cardiac stimulant, left him out of spirits and out of temper. This is a pretty serious confession for a dramatic critic to make, since it is surely bis ousmess to judge all forms of managed and a good character, and tones, for information about conversation is weaker than water. one of the greatest nascoes on record. Iways stuck strictly to business, and London." Surely by now the vehicle surely in the Entwistle country than in St.

Martin's-lane. However. mid-August invites to gentler judgments than does the more solemn autumn season, so let us congratulate Mr. Mark Stone and The rain poured intermittently, and all Mr Bourne would probably agree that atld involves those who expound it in never gave me as an kriDresario anv the spiers of YhTday, the goldm has rpached the the danger of tedium if thev attempt trouble at all." tnere are persons claiming to be competent to judge dramatic perform armour, tne magnificent dresses, collapsed p. h.

0 a The opening programme at Covent ances who should be prosecuted by into a sorry show. Among the knights Dnvsics, We rari that Mr (each of whom took a historical charac- LJlIeayc MJ; Miss Laura Smithson on the affably comic personalities with which they invest the Entwistles. Mr. Charles Haw- Garden on Mondav, September 4. con lorl was the py-Fmnpmr of the French a iioei oi e.xiiiuuui oca ter) was tne ex emperor ot the rrencn A Association, while fishing off Charles X.

The Queen of Beauty was --j ift, trev on his neerless peeress, Mr. Oliver drama on liieir merit and not. to rule out 1DIIUCU Willi flllU UllS But let that Johnston on his air of guilt which turns Jauy seymuui. aieciwaiua uuiiitas ui nnrkc 109 certain forms in advance tains the classic, Les Sylphides," Offenbach's Gaiete Parisienne." and a new Massine-Matisse ballet, Rouge et Noir," to music by the most eminent of all modern Soviet composers, Shostakovitch. lb.

and 7 ft. a in. Somerset, who lived till 1884. The fl BT: ii InnF." If. wrill itict oui to oe oniy gune, anu not least ivir.

filtl the Itiri lamp ffan large quest on pass. Mr. Shaw's imme- Peter Dearing. who has hustled the piece weather has seldom plaved a f.1jr between the common salmon and Lhe to put it into practice. It abolishes character, since it is obvious that human beings do not all speak at the same length or at the same pace.

If, lb en. an author restricts his dialogue to short lines of three to five words, he does so the cost of all distinction between one character and another. How can a man in a play be said to be economical in speech when all the people the play speak at the same length'' The measure of a man's words is an important index of his natute Who v. ill deny that Mr. Neville Chamberlain's habit of under diate cump'ainl was that ncje cnarac- aiong with a very proper resolution to trick unless, as some critics suggested.

common tunny. it was to be understood as a token of There have been many inquiries to ters. lacking the stature ana quality ot eive Us no time for thought. Quixote, failed to grip the sympathies, Ivor Brown Divine disfavour. the writer of this column as to why the The N.S.P.C.C..

wnich has during the week taken the 5.000.000th child under because they lacked reality. snort season, announced tor a fortnight, with most of its tickets already sold out is described in Dis- The its protection, has suffered its share of tournament Endvmion several weeks ahead, cannot last longer. raeli's but in that case misunderstanding. It was one of the the sun shone and not one of the Society's own inspectors who told of Prince's. "SITTING PRETTY" By Douglas Furber.

Music by Manning Sherwin breathless multitude was disappointed." One little detail shows how even Dis i am told that tnere are two unanswerable reasons for this. One is that the London Symphony Orchestra, who will provide the music for the season, have Quixote, indeed! Here's queer comparison. Judge every comedy by Cervantes and who shail 'scape extremities of What has svmpalliy lo du with aphoristic fops in black trousers and babies black statement is as significant of his drawing-room meeting in aid of the Society which was attended by a lady with her little daughter. Presently the child grew bored. Mummie." she whispered, "when is the cruelty going to begin? chai acter as Mr Gladstone's volubility was of his'.

And how is an author to ong-arranged previous commitments at raeli could trip on occasion. Mrs. rveu-chatel. we arc told, "sighed when the door opened, and then she flew to her the end of the fortnight. The second distinguish between a man of close-! reason is that the Opera House itself is easel or buried herself in some sublime song, dance, and laugh show clipped convocation and a man bas reality to do with the vast already engaged for other activities.

A mercifully spares us any elaboration of cantata of her favourite master. Beethoven." Did he mean sonata speaks spates of words he is not i ruiisiimption ot greasy muliins on a Diaz- young a musical comedy, plot. The comedians' allowed to give either of them mote-my summer alternoon by the I toe police for obtaining money under false pretences; and I '-hare the opinion of my lady correspondent that about time that certain oigania-tvns which supply adjudicators to festivals should set up some sort of standard of efficiency for them Dud actors, dud dramatists, and dud producers may feel that they must live, the necessity is not strikingly ob- and. any case. v.

hy should the promoters of dramatic festivals have 1. 1 keeo My correspondent's referred to an adjudicator rvm I have some respec', but I an -lii'iod to sav tha'. if ner about him are substantially Vlty-r- hi' behaved very badly on ihis p.ii ticular occasion A report on was piepared for the organisers of the festival and 1 have en a copy of it. I should not care to have such a report made on me. His obsession, according to the reporter, was speed to the exclusion of every other dramatic quality," and his estimate of two productions, she says, was vitiated by this obsession.

in one piece, he demanded speed with complete indifference to characterisation." and in the other, he ignored the nature of the play and its mental and emotional conflicts, which could not be shown in snappy dialogue or a uniform tempo." A very distinguished theatre-manager, who happened to be present at one of his adjudications, is said to have disagreed entirely with his criticisms. When 1 heard" his "dictum." my correspondent writes Two sisters sun-bathing on the lawn at the back of their house at Gowerton. Glamorgan, yesterday found a thick swarm of bees hovering over them. They just succeeded in beating the bees in a race to the house. team, iviiss vera Mr.

tsydney Howard, and Mr. Arthur Riscoe, are than three to live words" in a single bucks of No, here is a perfect lareical pattern, and we do not ask to Mr. Munnings raises a difficult point when he demurs to the exhibition of piece of quite new news, that I can give with my own knowledge, is that Mr. Hurok is meeting Col. de Basil in Paris to-day 1 also propose to be there and may see the beginnings of an arrangement that will make an end to the rivalry of the two ballet companies, and may lead to the reasonable spacing out some ot nis pamungs ai uury si.

hurriedly projected from burning east to tough guys' west, from the Porchester Hotel to the North Pole. Anywhere for Edmunds on the ground that thev alarming episode; but was it not. in be given what Miss Cardew calls vibrations." We surrender gladly to the sheen of phrase and pit-a-pat of the retort preposterous. Whose world is it? A meta- a laugh, and the laugh is duly and abun oi meir seasons among the capitals of Europe. DhVSlCal MaVtair.

a beWltCftetl tielgravia I Hnntlv nhtainsd Then. iro lVlicc not represent his best work. The ques-llts something ot a compliment? tion is asked, If they were good enough i to sell are they not good enough to1 inere is something to be said for a exhibit? And how far has a man a right i correspondent suggestion in last to censor the work of his earlier years? Sunday Observer that we should Mr Ulax Beerbohm. tempted to revise the dot over the it is always "Tho -Hann Hvnnrritp forehnre when resome having to turn back to add the A line irom Mr. Cochran that he is in whose coverts lurk fancies quick Burke and Mr.

Jack Donohue birds and dragons fell as Lady Brack- gracefully to supply the song and dance nell. G. B. when he wrote that notice, I and sentiment and the Rene Hubert cos-must have had his mind disconcertingly umea to give an intermittent flash of preparing' a new revue, with the title London Charivari, to open in the pro he reflected' on what he would have said i P. ashing touch The objection is that Our adjudicators are long-suffering and, I trust, slow to wrath, but they must also be judicious in their observations.

They must not go beyond their functions. It is, I do not doubt, vexing to have to listen to poor performances of poor plays, but the adjudicator is paid to adjudicate: he is not paid to pick and choose what he will adjudicate. It is, I am sure, equally vexing for a High Court Judge to have to listen to long and tedious arguments on technical points, but that is part of his job. and we cannot supply him with an unfailing succession of sensational murders and spicy matrimonial suits to keep him from falling asleep on the bench. the basic form is so inconspicuous and lull ol larger mailers, tne an oi a reny, stvle.

One noticeable point is that the a Duse, or a Campbell: or was it a par-; best of the comedy comes from good ticularly uplifting meeting of the Fabian lines rather than from good business if at the time when I wrote it I had vinces November, and to come to London before Christmas. Lots of colour, and 1 hope good tunes and good accommodating tnat one could not hope to distinguish it among the m's and n's found an elderly and pedantic stranger in the act of tampering with my MS." Society that set him waiving Wilde aside songs. A very nne cast 1 promise. iand es and r's. Indeed, the i is an ex for insufficiently appreciating the importance of being heart-felt? covering bad lines.

Mr. Furber's book jests sharply, frequently, pointedly, and makes hay with the figures and follies of our time in the manner of a good The London Mask Theatre oDens its second season at the Westminster cellent symbol of the Ego. in that it These fits of self-criticism are not a thing of so little importance that common, though they seldom go so far' we have to spend a good deal of our as Mr. Munnings does. George Meredith time in emphasising it.

Theatre with Mr. Priestlov's "Music at revised a good deal of his work in later The present revival is a revived and revue. Meanwhile the broader kind of improved version of the production given nonsense is perfectly safe in the hands at charity matinees last winter, of the drolls. While in one scenic Once more" Miss Edith Evans, with the episode the stage management contrives magnificence of a Sargent canvas in her a monsoon worthy of new Drury. Miss Night on Tuesday.

September 5. "Music at Night was one of the most successful of last year's Maivcrn productions, but has not vet been seen in life (seldom, it is agreed, to advantage). And it is not long ago that Mr. C. R.

W. Nevinson asked the Trustees of the Tate Gallery to remove or burn his picture La Mitrailleuse." Another point about the dotted letter: would not a really polite nation spell "I with a small letter and you with a capital? Observator. aspect, makes every line of Lady Brack- Vera Pearce is a perpetual monsoon of London. The entire Mask Theatre season nell's a challenge or a chastisement. De- mirth in her person.

Mr. Kiscoe. affect proposes to. run lor about forty weeks. scendinc like some great fowl from ing a personality at once plaintive and Among the artists of the permanent that speeches should one line long, and ords was the idea', the worFt.

He modern sennn; ot 5nap not be more than na: thrive tn five nttth I anticipated obviously of the comedy, with its I in under- solendid and uncharted skies, she can sly. follows his own nose for mischief company will be Miss Jean Cadell, Mr. Milton Rosmer, and Miss Alison Legatt. cpp no rnnsi without rutins it and hear and agreeably finds it. while Mr no crow without o'ercrowing it.

For Howard continues with admirable and her to sav "A handbag" Is to bring all, fish-like motions to swim in every sea Ftand mettiod 1:1 a play; and of the modern scr-cnV. nf vouns actor Miss Viola Keats, returned after three the heavens of Mavfair crashing in one I of trouble. No one can founder in years in America, will have a leading thunderbolt. With this glorious feat of; comic disaster with a nicer gravity or Hmussoriii hraim mm! ih sti liiilp icome ud for air more blandly. There Excerpts from ttbc Observer or Bufltist is, part in this week's revival of Mr.

Miles Malleson's The Fanatics at the Theatre. spry little Chasuble of Mr. George Howe.l 's nothing better in his part than his tho human a most nn i in sr hom an appea ranee as a new-made policoman Prism of Miss Rutherford, the" rosebud pU.vinfi cards with crooks and staking helmet and truncheon for lack of funds Cecily of Miss Peggy Ashcroft, perfect Ye-terday Roya: Hiiihm'--me completed mormnit was u- i the natal day of her trie Durnf-s of Kent, when fifty-third year. The Jiered in at Kensington- so A play that has had a very long run in America, Shadow and Substance." by the Glasgow-born Irish dramatist, Mr. Paul Vincent Carroll, will be produced in London at the New Theatre on Thurs whose eabble is the of vhv ormr.

Rapidity is of cour-e. esM-ntial in some types of n.tal faree. and promptitude in taking itp rut-s is alwavs obligatory. Rul paist' andante tempo hae their functions in drama in music. A pot-tit- drama cannot be played witn tne Yankee which valued musical crimed or tne exchange of fragmentary-phraes favoured by Mr N'oet Coward.

That argument, and. if I were an adjudicator. I should pay attention to it. in it hoi.nnot nir-plv (ilia) nwpnrin- unwara Desi money is a veil oi in of Mic Kt n.ha ie ivehat a innocence. Superbly he shambles to many vears ine re -idence of her Royal Lady Bracknell in the making), and the to calamity along a pavement Highness, and of august daughter rohosllv vi A 1 av of Mr oi me oest intentions.

day, September 14. The chief Dart. bv a merry1 peai from Ivor Brown Queen iclona the bells of tne responded to by Old C'hurcn. vshich was 'in-i1 of S' Martin-in- Ihe-Fieids and St Margarel's. Westminster Hawkins, who carries his epigrams, cucumber, and muliins with equal assurance.

Mr. Gielgud seemed occasionally to drop a line of Worthingts through under-emphasis: he plays so unselfishly wilh the company which he has directed that he is inclined to let their points accompanied nere a select commemorate In the afternoon the Diu-tir- Hit Majt-ty to Wuiri-or. circle had been mvited to toe dav. CONCERTS OF THE WEEK dominate his. Who shall decry the actor-i managerial system when Mr.

Gielgud1 both acts and directs with such modesty BRITTEN AND BLISS On Tuesday the Dowager Queen 'aide complelf-d her forty--event Her Majesty's t'-iiiporary absence played in America by Sir Cedric Hard-wicke. will be played in London by Mr. Cecil Parker. A recent production, Punch Without Judy." is to go on a short provincial tour before coming into town. The chief parts will be played by Mr.

Henry Kendall. Mr. Peter Murray Hill, and Miss Nova Pilbeam. The Open-Air Theatre has found its reward immediately in good weather conditions. Tobias and the Angel is to be kept in the bill during the present week.

Mr. Clement McCallin will take over the part of the Angel as Mr. Robert Eddison has to leave to go into Mr. Noel Coward's new play. A de-yea r.

from and town prevented the Hoya! Kami and sucn Ivor Brown, I At the Promenade Concert on Thursday evening the music was modern nobnily from oft lions, but otli-r ring the usual congratula-estimonies of respect for My correspondent makes some severe remarks on this ad indicator's manners. He was, she savs. thinking first and foremost of himself, and t. as more concerned to appear Cleveland to raise a laugh in the audience than to help the players This made him on occasion pert and ill-mannered I make no comment on this indeed. I am not competent t- on so.

since I was not present at the adjudicat ion. but I think it is tttie that some adjudicators forget that the peopie thev judging are not that they are. nn the r-'iitiary. often very inexperienced a rn a tours who are attempting to re- the virtues of the illu-lrious lady1 were not two new songs by Benjamin Britten to i poems by Rimbaud. Arthur Bliss's new wanting The rlum mat ions in the even mff were very general.

Piano Concerto, Sibehus's fifth Sym London Casino 'LA REVUE D'ELEGANCE AND FOLIES DE MINUIT i phony, and the second Suite (which the I B.B.C. insists on calling a series) from Havel's "Daphnis et Chloe. Britten We -hire i into a cri ho- yea rs hear thai the Duke of Devon-, determined to convert Chatsworlh striking similitude wiln that unique Vprsai It i onwards of tw-nty since his Grace commenced the works now nearlv completed, and i French texts fftve a French accent to the music, and forbid flippancy. The first, Savings of tt)e gi gnn: a still-life picture already musical with r- ine monotonv ot the winter in it is his full determination not tn again visit words, is given a pomtilliste accompani cm plat es I'r Hnished. The nob'e giving small and ment in the string orchestra and a vocal part that flows with the words though pretentious performances for their ike ha- pureha--eri furniture of the most si and 'ii det-ript i' tn.

of which rottMderatce portion tnt the property of nn i' Clrand it moves somewhat singularly pitch i The second, more of a motion picture, goes on effective rhythm. Both songs (sung by Sophie Wyss) have atmo sphere and point as musical essays: the own amusement and the amusement o' t.nn: ft lends and neighbours. It is very wounding tn a village girl to be needed in publicity a gentleman fiom l.onelnn who is considered to be an authority on the drama, though, in fuct he is more likelv to be nothing of the snrt. and can only keep bndv attd soul together by begging som-- comrxser brings to the ensemble some thing worth knowing from his store of talent and personality. But does he add If Hitler is not willing to take the warnings which have been given again and again lo him and to his people, and to the Italian people as well, the result will be war.

The Lord Chancellor. The spectacle of force trampling on the liberty of man and the danger of any single Power dominating Europe have caused an intense hardening among the British peopie. Lord Baldwin. Hiller makes it clear in Mein Kampf" that for him neither honesty nor pity matters one straw compared with the domination of Europe by the Reich. lifr.

F. L. Lttcs. Goebbels should be answered in full, authoritatively not alone for the benefit Lord in moving in the Jlouse of f.ords tin Tour-day the second reading the Slave Trade Suppression Rill authorising Her Majesty to issue orders to her i to rapture Portuguese vessels i-rigaged the slave trade, forcibly urged t-u-ir to give it their T-ie -et-ond reading was carried bv a it. a oritv of to ItB colour and illumination to the poet images? What Bliss riano oncerto oooy lot- won saKe to give him a J' is like remains half-told.

A work that or two of ad indication M- so hurtles across the page calls for more urease management than could be en- icueorod under Promenade conditions howevi-r. tar.not be th.s adjudicator's manners. Ootid niunneis ami bad manners an- a mutter, often, ol opinion, and what appeals to be gloss behuvioitt to some Many a flight of notes began and ended rti-e-d Masquerade canle off ruriit at Vaux-ha! Clardetus -Vf bri' lantly i' mated. ilarlirgj.il 'ol unibine. and on The At fA in ensemble, but was intermediately ot the German peoples, but to help or: -atb.

e-. till -1 a ion imur i-d and in a e. dot lumble. Mr. Solomon himself, though inousanas or suii-uenigntea Mritons who mistakenly believe we acquired and still a brilliant exuotient ot the piano par 1 1 tl i It is guod news that the London Casino, an excellent and enterprising luxury-cabaret, made out of the Prince Edward Theatre, that never had much luck as a theatre, has re-opened.

The enlerta.nment is diverse. One can go and dine there at eight o'clock, be served wilii a quite exceptionally-good live-course dinner, dance on a good ballroom floor lo a good band, and see a spectacular revue that lasts about an hour and a half. Or one can go to the London Casino after the "legitimate" theatre has lowered its curtains. One gets a supper, cooked with discrimination and genuine care; one can again dance, and one can bee a midnight cabaret shuw that lasts about three-quarters of mi hour long enough to be and not long enough to be boring. Tiie prices fur tin- combined enterl a might, at first sight, seem high The dinner-show (with dinner! costs (ii tor guinea on Salurclavs) and the supper-show -s fid.

But wbat can gilded vouth reckon that :1 gets return l' gets lor itself and lor ns blonde a rural land a d-st mgu ished nn-ali, the chance to dance, and a revue lhat is at least as good as most spectacular revues If gilded youth tried taking its blonde to all these three separately, a dinner, a revue, and a tlance--and paving the taxi-cab fares between--it would find that its hank-baianee would he sot back vorv mui 'i more heavily. We take leave to recommend the London Casino with its varied diversions, as being one of ihe more civilising influences of the melrono'is. and to oongratu-ito on its -i looossfii! re-opening II. C. (Continued from next column.) pie.

seems to be it-ttt if lo othi-ts But if I i maintain our Empire by the employment caught the infection of loose rhythm toft'iei a of l.in-.o -sew 'n-iv a gianl jjoised in a mil tiy-cuVmn-rl device -k- Scol-. farmers, pt-asanl-, ln'-lar- and Dallad nararter to the grotips who c.i in When calmly-disposed lyrical outlines or an me crimes in ine calendar. jWr. ti. Joint Jarvis.

1 1 ii intervened in the rush-minutes of the mvsel! i s. I ia 1.1V. first and third movements he was tin can-t i on-tilti: 's v. rh ho ms, plan's i When we next have a test" let us have instruct ion.s to the public, not mere suggestions." so that everyone will know ts to have hud di r.i-d the the the rds of bands what he is expected to do. not what he may or may not do according as he feels et.

1 think, the i --'a 1 or to tell I vt-ia!) produce is i f' their perfni-munc inclined. Mr. It. K. Pritrtmrrl.

ttlad- The majority of our electorate have learned no history and can exercise no intelligent control over public affairs. MP tr.p plavs i lo el do produce If 1 Charley's ilf- Aur 1he Continent, on Wednesday. tor 'Mr Henry boon e- J. A. HoOson.

I shall nol rest content until I get vindication of the late Dr. Frederick Axham Hamlet." tha' and all he has 'bother or not th re'e; Th-Bet: hih'-i: a my colleague, who was struck oft the 'he K-ehmond 1 The Aunt her affair, to tell ac'ed Nor is tn IriV hich ther n.anees register lor aoministcring anaesthetics some of my patients. Sir Herbert Barker. The presence at Westminster of even of wilh -ad Hi' few black west Indians and Africans would at once, as nothing else could, give Spy On Castrol fine they led the line Ywa With other cars following after. jik aciuaniy to ine discussion ol colonial Mi Professor W.

M. Mactnillan. The 'isms of our time are really substitute religions. margarine beliefs. Mr B.

Pnextlt-u. Hoi nglt able lo see crotchets and quavers as they were, like a man still out of breath in moments of repose. The orchestra panted beside him, loyal and adroit in adversity. Shortcomings in the performance emphasised shortcomings in the music. In other works of strongly characterised style Bliss has started at the root of the mailer: how can his faculty of creation adapt itself to speciality of style choral, string-orchestra, clarinet quintet, viola and flourish'' In the Piano Concerto he has grasped the problem too high.

He has started from the solo instrument's technique of rtour and vol obi I and Iried to make it his root which it refuses to be. A it Inn- Bliss's thinking and piann-cum-orehestya elaboration gel at cross-purposes, and it Is the former that loo often gets thrust out of the conversation. tins impediment the work has competence, drive, and nerve, and is immensely alive as an action-piece, BEETHOVEN There was a large and attentive audience tor the lust Beethoven programme a tbe st one miubt have imagined that after placing alt the symphonies under Tosciitiiiii the orchestra would give us performances of real distinction. The Eroica was accurate, beautifully balanced, but unexciting. It is said that the new luxurious seats have rohhed performances of their brightness and intensity, yet a passionate reading is (Continued In preceding column.) our.

i Ml'SIC IN TIN-. PARKS itoa-pareni-s. in ine proper sense, are an when it iheie. and on tut- inosii along wilh just ut impulse tin Brahms Maurice plu.i-cd very in the i p.anotorte concetto One missed 1. extinct race.

lite tier. A. Leonard Poole mop p- th idti lhe young Democrats see only two ways- -the Roosevelt way or the way of reaction. Tiie Masor of Chicago. rTom othce boy to manager, and even on the r.thiiess anil expansion which belong to early Beethoven, but not to Seatluttl Mr Cole pL.yed Beet hovel is citii'tijs The tirst is prodigiously lung-a icview rather tnan a radena, riis- i-vory that gmie managing director, has been achieved by ls.

blf rr manv: from ploughbov to farmer how --Mr; U. E. Salslmru. lo-e i el lion lot ifsh nc not to have Net hi esh ng For every man. woman, or child who passes through lhe turnstiles of one of our most popular London museums there is an lhat wot hi taken -I I OT.

i Id suiol Ireland's pi i expenditure of about 6. Kobb loilowcd strings Mnrallv we can claim Shakespeare on iltor -ne "hamcs II has three move- hc Ki oica the side of the angels. The Bishop of -himld -i i Brigade hmn-id ill plav bo rr.o: three -pooches shrmld rol ie long and that Yt a iments. Eclogue. Threnody, and Toccata Park The first two are as adventurous in from I thou ght as in terhmqnp: thev cnnld be placd very well bv school -ro Worcester.

I am a Spiritualist, but I have heard nothing from the owner of this treasure. Mrs Pretty. a--d in Band Wakefield House CheapUde. rds is I C. C.

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