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... Dante Sonata Frederick Ashton's New Ballet to Liszt Music, at Sadler's Wells The Bystander, January 31, 1940 129 Liszt's 'D'Apres une Lecture de Dante' is not, like his Dante Symphony, an illustrative work. It was intended to represent in musical form his reactions after reading Dante's 'Inferno' and 'Purgatory. The artists respon sible for the present production have adopted the same ...

... Sidelines of War Art and Entertainment Rally Round Actress Turns Auctioneer for the Finns Gertrude Lawrence, playing the lead-- and leading attraction-- in The Skylark in New York, auctioned twenty-eight paintings by Ben Silbert in aid of the Finnish Relief Fund. The pictures were painted in Finland last year by Silbert, working in temperatures down to 20 zero, and he donated them to the ...

... The Stars Look Down Coalmining in Leicester Square Dr. A. J. Cronin's story of the. mines has been transcribed to the screen by J. B. Williams, directed by Carol Reed. It is the very opposite, in matter and title, of the film illustrated opposite here is no escape to happiness, but a sombre canvas of poverty, heroism, greed and death a worthy film of the book. The Stars Look Down, reviewed ...

... Rumours that it will soon be difficult, if not impos sible, to obtain really good woollen materials are now becoming very definite facts. So the cash mere coat below, from Aquascutum, 100, Regent Street, will soon have a scarcity value, apart from its own obvious merits. It is made in two shades of brown, colours as soft as the fabric itself, cut with a full, deep-pleated skirt and two ...

... . INGRID BERGMAN is the latest screen personality to arrive in Hollywood from Sweden. She made her picture debut there in Sehnick International's romantic drama of the modern concert stage, ESCAPE TO HAPPINESS, recently presented in London at the Gaumont Haymarket. She plays the teacher to the daughter of the threat violinist, Hoi gar (Leslie Howard). F.dna Best plays the part of Holgar's wife. ...

... GRANTING of fishing facilities to members of the Services promises to waken up the angling world from the som nolence in which it has been enveloped since the outbreak of war. Anglers in H.M. Forces on leave will not be slow in availing themselves of a few days' fishing if they are offered the chance. Already a move ment is on foot to encourage those who have fishing rights to make concessions ...

... . Left MRS. RONALD HIB- BERT CROSS is the ivife of the Minister for Economic Warfare. She was Miss Louise Emmott, was mar ried in 1925 and has three daughters, (vandyk.) MISS MARGOT DUKE, daughter of Captain Percy Duke, and half-sister of Sir Charles Mappin, Bt., has just reached the age of twenty-one and celebrated her majority with a success ful narty at the Berkeley, (lenare.) MISS MONICA ...

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. LISTENING the other day to Faure's Requiem, which the Fleet Street Choir sang at a Courtauld-Sargent concert, I caught myself reflecting, not for the first time, on the kind of music which, like certain wines, does not travel well. Fauré is a case in point. That Requiem is over half a century old. It was performed in ling lancl wtien it was ...

... I NEW BALLETS I FOR WARTIME LONDON. MAY COLLIN, a dramatic ballet by Harold Turner to Box s Tintagel is one of the novelties presented by the ARTS THEATRE BALLET, a new company directed by Mr. Keith Lester. Our group shows DIANA GOULD in the name-part, GEORGE GERHARDT as the Father, and JOAN KENT as the Maid. The ballet is based on an Irish version of the ballad of The False Knight. (baron.) ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. SHOP-WINDOWS blazing with electric light; Neon signs flashing overhead; powerful arc-lamps flooding the streets with artificial daylight; cars with their head -lamps full on nosing their way through the cheerful crowds that throng the streets after dark. A vision of the next Armistice Night? No. Merely a description of Dublin at the present time. In Eire, almost alone ...

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