THE BIRMINGHAM MILITARY Band
Conducted by W. A. CLARKE
THE legend of the Flying Dutchman tells of a captain who, trying to round the Cape of Good Hope in a storm, swore that he would. do it if he had to sail on for ever. The Devil overheard, took him at his word, and sent him a-sailing for eternity or until he should find a woman who would love him to the death, ' whichever should be the shorter period, as a legal document would put it.
The chance to find the self-renouncing maiden comes once in seven years, when, for the purpose, he is allowed to set foot on shore.
The story has found its way into literature by many routes. Sir Walter Scott , Captain Marryat, Heine, and others have made use of it, and there have been various plays written round it. With this Music Drama, Wagner began his now career. He himself says that it was the first folk-tale that forced an entrance into his head, and called on him as a man and an artist to point its meaning and shape it into a work of art.' Hence-forward, in Tannktiuser, Lohengrin, The Ring, Tristan, The Mastersingers, and Parsifal, he was to give himself entirely to the musical setting of national legend and life.
The Overture is a magnificent piece of sea music. It owes something of its vividness to Wagner's impressions of a stormy voyage that he made from Riga to London the year before he wrote the work. J. H. SCOTLAND (Entertainer)
In Light Songs and Stories J. H. SCOTLAND
Will again entertain

(From Birmingham)
'One Moonlight Night' A Humorous Play by Norman Timmis
Songs by Majorie Lyon (Soprano) Edgar Wheatley (Violin)

by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Persons:
Doctor, Herald, Knights, Courtiers, Messengers,
Soldiers, Attendants
The Scene: Britain

Somers CIRO 'S CLUB BAND, under the direction of RAMON NEWTON , from Ciro's Club