14, was the most ye got behind it this year and reaped golden harvest. For this one night the programme of the Opera was interrupted. After the performance of the 13th, a veritable army of workmen immediately set to work to transform the Opera House into an immense ball room, with seats only in the balconies and loges. All the private rooms, usually jealously guarded from the public, were opened and beautiful paintings displayed. Admission to the ball cost 50 shillings per person, or about Mex. $15.
The popularity of the ball—there were over 4,000 present—had its disadvantages, for it was almost impossible to reach the Opera House from the suburbs, although the traffic in the immediate vicinity was well managed. The floor was as crowded as the smallest and most frequented cabaret in Shanghai on a Saturday night. Some of the old aristocratic families who ure by means reconciled to the new order refused to accept the offer exes from the management, Seeravated the difiealty by being noble names too severe with the rioters,. with included in the amongst-those-pre: whom, indeed, they probably are sent list, but there were plenty of sympathetic. On Fri wy, the 27th, notables on hand.
At 11:30 p.m,, however, some of the antiJonny the President of, the Republic, Dr. crowd of side the Opera House isch, arrived, anounced 'a [and sprinkled sneezing-powder and fanfare of trammels, and Inmediate:|stinkcomba, mach tothe annoyance and of audience, although, a8 the actresses of the Palace Theatre ceiling is so high, few people were wound their way through the spec- seriously affected and the orchestra ators and danced an old-time and caste did not suffer at all. The Polonaise." They were followed by Performance was. carried through croups costumed opera singers of although eight persons Mozart, of creating the nuisance Beethoven, Schubert, Lanner, and Were arrested, Strauss, each with appropriate The management now has receiv-music and dance, ed a threatening letter, saying that the most formal and] gunpowder and. shot will be used elaborate dance of the carnival next. One or two spectators of the Season, though there are others denionstrations, who either entered more exclusive 0 3 The into argument with members of the Bad Boys Ball, instance, on mob, or Were suspected to be Jews, Tanuary 28, was a rollicking affair, have been manhandled, se that what where masks really were de rigueur started out 'a harmless enough for the romping guests. At the Gemonstration is beginning to take one -of the most onan uglier tone, The crowds original affairs of the season, every thus far, however, been smi one must come in costume connect- in number, between. 200 and. 300 fed in some way with Noah's Ark. hot-headed boys, and there is no Our party will content itself with question but thet publi being' rainbows—the men as rain, whether endorsing grey o dark robes representing ly a Jinst such hoodlumism. It is vans of various intensities and] reported that, for the sake of public
umbrellas or the like, nous safety, the Munich Opera House has the cancelled its engagement for this feminine contingent will wear gowns operatic bone of contention.
inow hues. and sun hea: rosses. These guns shining on the Make Me a Child Againt rain will make the rainbows, of 'You can imagine how gay When we are not talking about "Jenny," the brand-new form of rejuvenation holds the floor. Dr. Karl Doppler, a Vienhese surgeon assisting Dr.' Hans Lorenz, who heeds the surgical debi tment of the large City Merchant's Hospital, Todere opera, composed by Ernst sections of the wervus aympathicus has discovered that, by painting Krenek, an Austrian, is said to be playing in 40 houses in Europe. with a7 per cent. phenol solution, Since it began ite run in Vienna, be cam, destroy ite cramping activity hho can destroy its cramping activity some two weeks xgo, it has been the centre of musical and political blood to the inner secretory glands. discussion, It is being performed By affording this additional nourishment to these at the State Opera House with a important east drawn from the usual singers—Oreane, the organs, the whole bodily to fan affront to many lovers of elasaiwhile, is and vigour cal music and a sign of promise to restored in an almost miraculous modernists who feared that Vien- "8% nese opera was depending too much When I went to see this magic upon its traditions. Although worker, 1 found him in his office advertised as an "Ameri Juzz at the top of the tremendous Opera," no good American, will hospital set on the summit of one admit that it Is genuine jazz, There of the Dobling hills, the benches are some. strains reminiscent of outside his door packed with some wane River," but otherwise the 20 waiting men and women, some of themes seem to be entirely Krenek's the former patients, but most of interpretation of the jazz spirit. them those who had come in the Not only are the ust 1 musical hope that this ne healer odeld give Instruments heard inthe archest them back the vanished youth or but also band traps. strength. I ti ced with some of On frat hearings the score dows nat the former pationta and Tew easy sound at all tuneful or particularly to sco that they had the greatest, attractive, although it keeps one possi confidence in their physi-tensely attentive through all the cian. heard of diabetic and other vicissitudes of the American nigger stomach troubles which had been Jazz musician, marvelously helped, of nervous and Opinions differ even amongst the despondent, in lids "who had re-Viennese, the younger-school as a gained Jo li and a useful posi rule being strongly in favour of tion in the world and talked with the opera, and the elders con-one lad who had outgrown his dernning it. Many who are glad to strength but now is "catching up hear the much-her \ded composition with himself," than} to. Dr. deplore its profanation of the Doppler.
"Auto-suggestion?" you lassie stage of the Opera House. may ask, as so many question hero, Tt has remained for the students, Perhaps, but, whatever it is, apegged on, some say, by the die-hards parently it works and Dr, Doppler's amongst musical orities, to demons-jing in the Medical School of 1 the, trate violently against it.
"The piece Vienna University and the resp is played two or three times a sible position he holds forbid one week with works of Italian, German to label him a quack. The reason and French composers Between its for his sudden notoriety is that performances, On the second night local newspaper received a telegram was given, number of Univers- from New York saying that Dr. ity students, who ate members Doppler had been invited by the of the German National Corps Medical Association to lecture be-Societies, collected outside the fore them on his epoch-making Opera "House during methods of rejuvenation, Since then he has been front page copy.
Jenny!" "Pfui Juden!" ("Shame on 1928 Model Ponce de Leon Jenny! Shame on the Jews!"), sang "Deutschland Ueber Alles"
Dr. Doppler is a tall, friendly, and howled: "Wake up, Ger- approachable man of 40, with light many!" brown hair and blue-grey eyes, a These youngsters, for I have genial smile.
1d. boyish. shyness loitered on the fringes of their mobs "But I would rather not be quoted Jong enough to observe that they in the newspapers at "he pro-are for the most part only tested.
"I am not trying to make irresponsi lo lads, claim that the a mystery of my method, T have sacred memory of Wagner and all been using it for more than two other serious composers is being] years and not guarding it as a Geseerated, that if Vienna allows secret, as I have lectured, on it be-this musical outrage it will be im- fore medical societies and shall
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