The Daily Telegraph from London, Greater London, England • 11

Shaw with Variations Daily Telegraph and Morning Post Saturday March 11 JJ Gardening Announcements FILM VOTES Urbanity Abounding By PATRICK GIBBS World of Music: By MARTIN COOPER MR WEEKLY GARDEN TALK emancipated pen that no aTt can quite redeem the moral infamy of Manon and Gounod whose gifts and weaknesses he pinpoints once and for all His early almost unique and untiring championship of Mozart gives much of his writing a surprisingly modern note and his penetrating criticism of a Beecham Figaro reveals the quality of his understanding Brahms he seems not only to have underrated but to have a musical sensualist with intellectual affectations who succeeded only as an incoherent voluptuary and his immoderate praise of Elgar was perhaps dictated not only by personal friendship but by a delight in finding at last an English composer worth fighting for The unique feature of Shaw's music criticism apart from its style is its intellectual scope He was able to view the music and the performances that he was asked to judge in the perspective of a wide if rather shallow European culture that no other English critic possessed He was no doubt fortunate in writing during the last decades in which such a culture existed as a recognisable entity and before the days of universal cultural flux but his achievement is none the less unique and this (for many readers perhaps as well as for myself I despite his personal character which strongly colours the style of his writing Conceit and egotism are never endearing characteristics even if exploited with a double bluff amounting to genius and Shaw's condescending facetiousness on the subject of Liszt as a composer for instance can be very hard to bear He himself sas Mozart me to say profound things and at the same time to remain flippant and Yet could anything be more unlike musical character than glittering know-al! superiority? read his music criticism to-day because nine times out of ten he was right but being right makes the conceited man less rather than more tolerable iust as the clever bore is the worst bore of all MOST criticism of the arts is of its nature ephemeral and the chronicling and assessing of performance which play a particularly large part in music and theatre criticism generally lose all interest except for the historian Indeed those who have had some professional reason to wade through the paragraphs of often facetious verbiage written by most 19th-century arts critics may well feel that there is some-! thing to be said for the cherrystone pocket handkerchief criticism imposed on practitioners who have perhaps a tenth of their space and (in the case of music) 10 times as much subject-matter Bernard Shaw's music criticism his own musical criticism suggests that he wrote about musicals has long been proclaimed unique and if anyone doubts the justice of this they have only to glance at the latest glean-j mgs by Dan Laurence How to become a Musical Critic" Rupert Hart-Davis 25s) This is a miscellany ranging in Exploring Ear Some programmes which depart I from the standard repertory To-morrow Conway Hall 610: Shostakovich Sth string quartet Arts Council 8: John White 5th piano sonata Wilfred Josephs 2nd string quartet i Kensington Town Hall 8: Schoenberg Third 8: Schoenberg Suite in and works by Griffes Roussel and Stravinsky Tuesday Morley College 8 Pricker 5rd and Arnold 4th symphonies Copland clarinet concerto Wednesday Wigmore Hall 750: Pijper 2nd piano trio Thursday Wigmore Hall 750 Reizen-stein Fantasia Concertante for violin and pianoforte and Bart6k 1st sonata Friday Arts Council 750 Macnaghten concert includes premiere of Peter Wishart song-cycle Halfway to Festival Hall Recital Room 745 Stravinsky Cantata and Duo Concertant ONLY the other week I was discussing in these columns a propos "The on8 and the Shor: and the Tall the difficulties of turning the well-made play into a film The conclusion was that the best a producer can do is to photograph the play substantially intact though with sufficient ingenuity in the choice of backgrounds to send the three-and-nmepennies home feeling had their worth What can be achieved in this wa is now strikingly illustrated bv Stanley Donen producer and director of The Grass is Greener (Leicester Square A Hardly half-a-dozen lines appear to have been Rained or lost by Hush and Margaret Williams's little comedy surely one of the most polished to come to London since the war On him its merits have been really remarkably preserved even aiiowmg for the inevitable blurring of some essentially theatrical effects If playgoers say perversely that they miss Ceiia Johnson or Joan Greenwood in their original parts I draw their attention to the compensations offered by the elegance of the country house setting which Osteriey and the appositeness of the background tunes and lyrics written by Noel Coward between the two wars Period Script 1 he script itself indeed might seem to belong to that period or even earlier dealing as it does with titled people who might be considered to be dodos in this age of psychological satirical and sociological drama Doubtless they should be dead diamatically speaking these survivors from the days of Lonsdale and Wilde but somehow they refuse to lie down and I for one am not going to call for the tumbrils as long as there remain such engaging specimens as the Earl and Countess of Rhyall Impoverished they may be as befits the death duties' era but they happily retain their ancestral home built by the incomparable Robert Adam to be visited for half a crown their butler albeit an eccentric example: their attitude (one often credited to our aristocracy of unobtrusively owning the and above all their very English sense of humour So when a visitor on a tour of the house who happens to be an American millionaire invades the private apartments and falls in love at ti iht with the surprised Lady Rhyall the development of the situation need not be too desperate The amusement arises from the contrast between English and American upper-class manners in which Lady Rhyail's eiegant rudeness is opposed to the millionaire's impertinent charm Neither is a caricature nor is Lord Rhyall who politely interrupts the love scene with talk about fishing Understatement He is in fact an intelligent and very human person faced it soon appears with the likelihood of his wife leaving him for the more giamorouv man How he deals with this situation which he describes with characteristic understatement as a by asking his rival down for a week-end and challenging him 10 a duel with pistols makes a delightful stratagem Happily only a bust of George IV and the earl himself are damaged in the duel a slight wound in the arm being lust the thing to win sympathy from the wife Why did he do it she asks? 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can offer excellent canee for present philip larkis Immortal Hour JEAS SIMMOSS A leather-brained friend Mitchum as the earl and his rival is to reduce the effect of the contrast and Deborah Kerr although she conveys well enough Lady good sense is hardly convincing in her preference for growing mushrooms to joining the International Set About Jean Simmons's friend of the family with feather-brains and a taste for gin I must also complain that she belongs to the demi rather than the haut monde and it is left to Moray Watson sole remnant of the stage cast to give complete satisfaction as the diffident butler with a science degree who is trying to write a novel He can never succeed as a writer in this angry age he says sadly since he is without resentment or despair This would seem to apply to the authors of this comedy Their touch is of the lightest and good nature absolutely abounds Inscrutable Kast Japanese films which have often been enigmatic would appear to be becoming more so At Cannes last year Japan's entry about the activities of a critic suffering from impotence baffled all comers Nobody knew whether to take it as a tragedy or a farce Now comes The Hidden Fortress (Academy late nights) to present a similar problem It would seem to find the director Akira Kurosawa who made The Seven Samurai and in light-headed mood burlesquing perhaps his usual subjects and stvle Whatever the aim this picaresque romance about a couple of comic peasants who find themselves involved in matters military and political during some civil wars is not unrewarding the background being unusual and the acting as always with this director of a high standard Women liehiiu) Bars Renato Castellani's Caged (Cameo-Poly I saw in Paris some years ago An account of goings-on in an Italian prison for women it hardly seems worth importing then or now Of the dozen prisoners in the cell examined none is defined verv clearly or deeply: and neither Anna Magnani as the evil genius nor GiuMetta Masina the innocent she corrupts has any real opportunities The film's purpose one guesses was to protest against conditions in such prisons prevailing just after the war Certainly their shortcomings are illustrated but so are some very whimsical romances and really I could not decide who most deserved to be put the men who ran the prison or the one who wrote the script Biju Screen Travelogue Search for Paradise (London Casino is a new Cinerama production in which the beauty of the scenery only just counterbalances the vulgarity of the audible background This is made up mostly by a commentary from Lowell Thomas so banal that it might be a parody only it were funny and some lyrics to match drawing attention to the delights of the territories These include Kashmir Nepal and Hunza on the upper Indus celebrated if I heard aright in the couplet They need pills to cure their ills in For a finer lawn with less mowing! 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Clematis 29 3 Blue Clematis 'ihftiw ai cfioiv of Rod Ntlk hnk Orange Lilmon MORIBUND ROSIS 3 fr CLIMBERS 3 for 4 6 STANDARDS for 15 NlflB Mi 4 XMAS ROSES 2- 6 ROSES 12- 1 2 Jm-ii 3 date from 1876 to 1950 some of it immature and a little of it senile but mostly packed with judgments and reflections which are still interesting and very often strikingly relevant Genteel complacency and a peculiarly insular form of priggishness were the chief targets of wit and as late as 1919 we find him summing up the case against British indifference to the conditions necessary to promoting great art a civilisation built up and maintained by a multitude of citizens mostly amateurs but all accepting fine art as an indispensable element in the greatness of States and believe it or not the glory of God" We have moved some way since 1919 but are still only a very little nearer to Shaw's ideal 4 LIKE all critics he is at his best when his whole-hearted enthusiasm is aroused He could be ridiculously immoderate as when he writes of Strauss's Elektra that such colossal counterpoint is a counterpoint of all the ages not even Beethoven in his last great Mass comprehended so much" but then he was riled by Ernest Newman's incomprehension of what he regarded as a masterpiece Very few of his judgments even reviewed in historical perspective show this lack of a sense of proportion which is the hallmark ot the amateur critic He had in fact an excellent knowledge of the repertory of his day (which of course hardly included any music earlier than that of the 18th century! and brought an open mind as well as very acute ears to the new music which he was asked to judge It is astonishing to find so ardent a Wagnerite writing with such absolute fairness and objectivity of the first performance of new works by Massenet but amusing to read from such an point out faults The two-voice orchestrations staccato brass and silky reeds had an arid texture that wasn't helped by the killer-diller concept of excitement and apart from Stacy and Goodman himself the regular band lacked first-class soloists The Trio and Quartet had too often a helter-skelter approach putting a premium on sheer virtuosity But the combination of musicianliness and feeling the attack of Life Goes to a Party or I Got Rhythm" and individual items such as Goodman's six choruses and the ride-out in One o'clock or introspective meditation at the close of Sing Sing Sing" earn this historic Sunday evening its place among immortal jazz occasions Armstrong Handy In the same gallery are the magnificent Louis Armstrong Plays (BBL7445) a delightful selection of Brubeck intra-murality Jazz Goes To BBL 7447) and a group of 1951 Ellingtons Ellington BBL 7443) including Tone Parallel to stampexHjE MACM INI lo4 recently issued North Borneo series A special souvenir sheet reproduces a number of essays and the accepted design of the 1960 Europa stamp of Finland and will sell for Is 6d Among the rare stamps on show will be the high values of Great Britain belonging to Sir John Dodd of Westmorland the New Zealand I Chalon Heads belonging to Maior Beaumont the Wilkins Cape Triangulars and the early Netherlands belonging to Fwart Gerrish president of the Royal Philatelic Society London Xeu port flowering two to three weeks in advance of normal and many shrubs in premature leaf Pruning must also be considered in relation to the check the trees and shrubs are receiving for although on first thoughts it may seem reasonable to reduce top growth it must also be remembered that roots need food for their development This food is manufactured by the leaves and sent down to them so that unless there is sufficient leaf-producing growth a position of stalemate may quickly arise with dire results Less Severe My advice therefore is to base the pruning of spring-planted trees and shrubs on the natural habit of growth Hybrid tea and floribunda roses normally produce reasonably 1 vigorous growth wlll furnished with leaves right 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CLIMBING ROSES MIXED COLOURS 4- We guarantee all Rose to grow and flower thi ommer Any failing will be replaced free of charge 3 JAPANESE AZALEAS 5- Orange scarlet red -white pink BUSH FLOWERING ALMOND OR CHERRY 5-NAMED CLEMATIS 76 each 3 for £1 JACKMANNII blue NELLY MOSER pink V1LLE DE LYON rag Under £1 add J- Immediate despatch IDEAL GARDENING LTD (Dpt DT) Rowtown Addleston Surrty The jam session was the gimmick of the 'thirties Nothing's arranged we were told Everyone just plays Well perhaps they did Isolated pockets of them despite time and the Union still do such as Buck Clayton Vic Dickenson Pee Wee Russell and Bud Freeman Newport Jazz Festival All London LTZ-K 15202) And a bouncing lively record it is with a joyous Deed I Do and a longish blues called Pee Wee Russell's Unique Sound" that is very good listening though nowadays Russell rarely emerges from an almost Chinese mood of recession and withdrawal John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet have been busy in the studios with Jimmy Giuffre the Beaux Arts String Quartet and sundry horn-players flautists et al to produce a group of tracks called Third Stream Music (London LTZ-K 15207) This term was coined by Gunther Schuller to mean music that partakes of both jazz and classical techniques and he conducts his own piece in which Lewis and Jackson perform swingily among pluckmgs and whimperings from the Beaux Arts Two tracks with Giuffre Da Capo and Fine have more cohesion and spirit reminiscent of The Train and the and all in all the record has virtues of rather miniature sophistication and polish Illue Note Connection One of the best pieces of news lately is that Blue Note records the oldest independent jazz label are at last being sold in England through Central Record Distributors (10 Rathbone Place Wl) beginning with albums by Freddie Redd The Connection Horace Silver Art Blakey Cannonball Adderley and George Lewis Which reminds me that on Jan 17 1938 (yes the day after) Jes Stacy joined Hackett and Russell and a few others to inaugurate Milt Gabler's Commodore label calling a couple of blues Carnegie and in honour of the previous night's successes Here we are still waiting for them How about it somebody? NATURE NOTES Royal and Ancient IT is felt in some quarters that swans are becoming too numerous Once again therefore a census is to be taken to see how the figures compare with those of 1955-6 There are three species of swan to be seen in the British Isles Bewick's swan is a winter visitor So mainly is the whooper swan although a few pairs breed in Scotland Nobody can be sure whether the mute swan is native to this country It breeds in the wild state across Central Europe and into south-west Asia as well as northwards into Siberia One view is that the Romans introduced it here Another is that Richard 1 brought it back on his return from the Crusades There is no evidence for either of these On the other hand mute swans seem to have been established in East Anglia In Saxon times where they probably formed an outlier from the wild colonies on the Continent What is more certain is that from the end of the 12th century swans were in great demand for annual feasts held by the kings of England The swans were already royal birds the property of the Crown with the king granting the right to landowners to keep them Ownership of a swannery became a coveted privilege a sign of social standing So all swans became semi-domesticated and all traces of wild ancestry became obscured MAURICE BURTON PERHAPS it was the novelty of a swing band concert that sold out the Carnegie Hall on Jan 16 1938 Even so Goodman himself was nervous: he wanted a comedian to come on and tell jokes just in case Watching Toscanini's auditorium fill up Harry James said feel like a waitress on a date with a college They need not have worried As we can tell from the re mastered Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Jazz reissued in Philips's Giant Jazz Gallery (BBL 7441-2) the audience was sold from the start And well it might be for this was the swan-song of one of the key bands in jazz history (shortly after Krupa James Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton all turned leader) There was a trio by Elling-! tonians Hodges Cootie and Carney Bobby Hackett did Bix's I'm Coming Virginia" And for good measure there was the shape of things to come Lester Young blowing two choruses in a jam session on Honeysuckle At this distance it is easy to Stamp Collecting A National Show Once More AFTER giving place to the london International Stamp Exhibition last year Stam-pex the National Stamp Exhibi-! tion returns to the Central Hall 1 estmmster next Friday There will be several new i features For the first time the I Post Office is putting up display frames of the full range of stamps available in this country and it will sell the regional stamps those with phosphor lines and the postage dues which are not normally on general sale The Post Office has also provided a special cancellation for letters posted in the Exhibition The Crown Agents will be exhibiting for the first time and will show the drawings and the various stages of production of the mental shrubs a quantity of peat should be available for mixing with the top soil but do make sure that the peat is moist otherwise it may do more harm than good The simplest way to moisten peat is to spread it on a concrete or earth floor in a thin layer then spray with water and scuffle it with a rake alternately until it is uniformly wet but not sodden A generous supply of moist peat will also be useful for mulching the surface soil after planting to prevent drying by wind and sun throughout spring and summer For mulching the peat can be mixed with compost or leaf mould and later supplemented by thin layers of lawn mowings If fruit trees and bushes have still to be planted and if any farmyard manure containing plenty of litter can be obtained this will make the finest of all mulches for them otherwise straw alone can be used to a depth of 6in or so And if any trees are to be planted don't forget to have sufficient stakes available to support them securely there is nothing more likely to harm newly-planted trees than to have their roots loosened by their heads being blown about When the plants arrive they will probably appreciate a good drink in fact even if the packing material is fairly moist it will still do them good to stand them in water overnight and thereafter keep their roots covered until they are actually placed in the planting holes If the soil is at al) dry I always like to make doubly sure of settling the roots well by watering them in ini file I recall tit ms My method of planting under present conditions is to mix moist peat with top soil and pack this round the roots at the same time breaking down the walls of the planting hole and treading as firm as possible When all the roots are covered I fill what is left of the hole with water several times if necessary to soak right dow into the subsoil then finish off the 10b the next day Al very simple precautions you will say but very important ones nevertheless especially in an early season like this with daffodils GARDEN CALENDAR GORDON FORSYTH When Spring Takes Us Unawares 100 Dutch 2 25 LILY OF THE VALLEY 2- I ir I ill 2 100 5a Pm 2 6 Double Begonia 2 6 25 PRIVET HEDGE 5 25 Qeiri THrn Herfgtnc 2 6 MOO den under '2D id 1 hb CLAREMONT NURSERIES 16 FLAME FLOWER (TROPAEOCUM SPtClOSUMi orlit'n llarl 4 Imilir Its vi bcarict flowers dazzle the fv with their bnUijnce and being vclf-chafting it ideal for covering a fence trellis pezola or archway A worderfuiiy Cumber which periectK hjrdv and will produce masses of bloom eev vear 6 root 12 9 1 ij 45 me rage Fa-d One of man Hundred vativftcd kUvinmeri rc butht tmr 1 unt tfu SIARt'N and their are (I brmetiimlh The hare torrd a tre- iivf u4 rrte and mn flower bud are teeming REAMSSOTTOMS nine i vertex ei Ora inn Middlem COMMON OR GARDEN AILMENTS No 2 L4WN OR 4VS SCI 3 It toribunit 11 iIwmii th 41 9 id 12 1l MwcrUv I hryanthaaa 20 25 WILLIAMS IS Douhl matron 2 IS Aatowu 2 SS 11 IN I IS Rax I hwik 2 25 CotLagv Pink 2 15 Red Hpi Poker 2 15 Delphinium 2 BOWERS CIFFORD ESSEX JOHN INNES COMPOSTS SttD or fOTTINC 10- per J-cwt Delivered home Eng And and I net PEAT Bait Sphagnum Mon Heiiun wrapped 25- per Bale Covers 144 sq tt to depth ot 1 inch fVbgrwi home tnglemd and 4 ale A a liable Inc unified despatch Write: Top Carden Dept DT2 Tunbridge Welts Kent Cah with Otdit Knee Malformation of the knee joint common in short-sighted gardeners of all ages who insist on getting down to it' The cure for this and many other Common or Garden Ailments is described in a tree book which tells you at tout the range of Gardenmaster Power Gardeners These famous machines make for easier quicker digging hoeing weeding Inexpensive attachments cover all garden care lawns shrubs vegetables hedges flowers Semi for your copy nou 27- 3-ea each 7-ea each 26 26 Dtuiaa Mock Orange or Flow'ng urraat 3 GREEN BOX BUSHES 26 5 Hazel Nui Tree high S6 21b DUTCH SHALLOTS 36 certified rfru free 100 Onion Sou SI- 12 RASPBERRY CANES 3- 5 Mt Everest Climbing Straabemaa S6 BLACKBERRY BUSHES 6 ach please add II poll and packing OR MONEY REFUNDED IN FULL (Dept V) SPALDING LINCS BUSH ROSES 30- 12 HARDY CARNATIONS 3 '6 Grand outdoor twcerly teemed with large frilled bloom in glonou mixed colour 6 Strong 67ft TREES 486 Will give a good show of bloom th vear PRL'NUS PISSARDII NIGRA deep pink flrs MALL'S HOPA Cnmton flr bright red rooe OKBL'S AL'C LPARIA white flr red Bernes MALLS I Fll crimson flr red leaves PALL'S SCARLLI double red May PROFLSION bright red flr 6 24 year AZALEAS 256 Rudded bushes to give a fine thow thi spring FAVOLRITt red I 1 DORA pink I SMI RAI DA roe PALLS1K1NA h'tc PONTIC A scented ycllo MOLLIS red 8 FLOWERING TREES 29 6 F-Xkcptionally wcll-rtxxed 45 ft tree JAPANESE PINK CHI WHITE CHERRY MOUNTAIN ASH LABURNUM DOUBLE RED MAY RED CRAB PINK CRAB RID PYRL'S Ait good are carefully packed and despatched carriage paid CLEMATIS 2-3ft flowering size plants with excellent roots DU( HFSS OF EDINBURGH double purr whrte MONTANA white MONTANA RUBFNS deep pink JAC KMANII violet MLI MOSIR rk VII LE DE LYON carmine red (Thre plant 256 at plant 596 12 HARDY HEATHER 32- Large lump to give colour throughout the year 9 FLOWERING SHRUBS 276 Large and huahy 34 year choice anete will Noom thi year and give colour throughout ifie yea' Philadelphui Kevna be Aureum Kihea Airopuperea Potetviiia Prunus Pumula Spiraea I am aria Africans Viburnum Opulu Sterile ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTIONS SUPPLIED MIDDLETON NURSERIES Dibden Purlieu Southampton 1 A LTHOUGH all kinds of evergreen shrubs and those grown in pots can safely be planted for another six weeks or so set with the season so much in advance of normal conditions we must push on as quickly as possible with the planting of all kinds of deciduous trees and shrubs and at the same time take special precautions for their safety Realising how impatient their customers must be the nurserymen are working at full pressure to get orders despatched and there is no sense in badgering them if yours hasn't arrived yet Their staffs are stretched to the limit and answering such inquiries merely adds to their troubles The sensible thing is to have everything in readiness so that the plants can be put in directly they arrive For bedding the roots comfortably especially of roses and orna- iiiiiimiit elk-end Task uumuiiii Cuttings riHt simplest way to increase herbaceous plants like the hardy Korean and rubellum chrysanthemums Michaelmas daisies shasta daisies Helemums and other subiects whose new basal growths produce roots freely by the time they are only a few inches high is to remove these shoots and replant them Each of these Irishmen's cuttings as gardeners call them will develop into a strong flowering stem and by autumn will have become a sizeable plant There is no need to lift the parent plant as a few can be removed quite easily by loosening the soil with a hand fork then pulling them off and they con be planted straight away in groups in the border Beanng in mind that the glorious blue Anchusa azurea italicai is often shurt-lned I always make a point of putting in a batch of root cutttngs of the choicer kinds like gmtian-blue loddon Royalist every year at this time 12 ENGLISH Finevt collection of GOLD MEDAL varieties for colourful ihow each verarateiy labelled CRIMSON GLORY deep cnmion SL'LTAM red and yellow OPf RA carrrm EN A HARKM IS nch tcariet HAPPINVss glovung red Pi Cf gold rink HFCTOR DEANE umon pnk LADY SYLVIA pink SPl YEl I OW PR1STDENT HOOVI rich pink THE DX TOR vilvcry pink VlROO whit or 3 for 9- 6 tor 16- your selection ALL GL'ARANTFED OR REPLACED FREE 12 POLYANTHA BUSH ROSES 30- Srlendid cluatcr-flowermg vanetlea on of tnh labelled ALAIN bright red ELSE POULSFN pink FASHION ilmon: DAINTY MAID pink FRFNSHAM crimon' ORANGE TRIUMPH orange shaded red OLFFN ELIZABETH armrne roe DONALD PRIOR scarlet GOLDILOCKS rich yellow MASOLIKADt tncolour J1MINY CRICKET tangerine MOULIN ROUGE arlef ot I for 9 6 foe 16-! 100 SUPER SHOW GLADIOLI 12- Vpeciei exhibition collection of DUTCH GROWN large flowering 8-10 cm rorm Inct 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