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More than 60 Chinese armoured cars, spotted by the Yamase air unit' yesterday afternoon in south. western Shantung, were destroyed by bombs, Japanese military authorities here claimed to-day.—Domei, The Prince Leopold Princess Eudora to his teachers, Berton and Cherubini and also to the works'of Herald and Weber, and to Meyerbeer's "Robert lo. Diable" Curiously enough Halévy seems in his turn to have reacted upon Meyerbeer, whose opera "Les Huguenots", produced a year later than "La reflects much Of its restrained dignity.—Like Meyerbeer Halevy was an ardent Jew, and the political flavour of "La Juive" obvious. Tt would be quite safe to say that its performance would be forbidden in present-day Germany end Rumania as being the work of a non-Aryan and Zionist propaganda at that, whilst Francist Spain would probably frown upon it as depicting the morals of high dignitaries of the Catholic Church in a somewhat lurid light.
The company rose nobly to (he) obligations created by its exodus to a larger theatre. Both from the Tausica and the dramatic point of) view this was easily the best performance of the season. The orchestra gave the fine showing y which Halévy's rich orchestrafion deserves, and the chorus sang with more vigour than ever. Mr. Shemonsky's interpretation of Eleazar, the old Jew, was as perfect a character study as Ihave seen On the operatic stage anywhere, whilst his powerful voice was heard to its best advantage. His scene was the finest effort of the evening with Mr. Shushlin in the fourth act and both artists thoroughly deserved the thunderous applause which succeeded it. Mr. Shushlin was ideally cast as the Cardinal Francois de Brogni, and his singing was as impressive as his appearance. Mr. Markov has had in the last few months so many operatic "affaires de cow" that he is now a past master in the art of the stage lover, and both his singing and acting in the role of Prince Leopold merit the highest praise. Miss Sitnlkova was a dignified Princess Eudora and sang with the precision and clarity that 1 have learned to expect from her. Miss Zelikovskaya had a very difficult task as Rachel and did it exceedingly well Kuärevatih were good smaller parts of the Major Captain of the Guards.
The production and scenery were satisfactory.
The costumes were right
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