From the Rivoli Theatre

(From Birmingham)
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH Lewis
THlS favourite air for baritone, Hath thy home in fair Provence.' comes from the second act of La Traviata. Alfredo, the love-sick hero, has just found a note loft by the fickle Violetta to say that she is tired of their quiet life together and has left him. At that moment his father appears and in this song reminds him of his own quiet home, begging him to return there and forget his griefs.
NEAR the beginning of the fourth act of Puccini's Opera La Boheme, Rudolph the poet and Marcel the painter bewail the seeming fickleness of Mimi and Musetta. Not for many days have the girls been seen. and the two artists bemoan the inspiration which seems to have fled. In contrast to the tragic end of the act, when Mimi dies, this duet, ' Ah Mimi! false, fickle-hearted,' still has something of the light-hearted Bohemian atmosphere in which the trials and afflictions as well as the merrymakings of the Bohemians go forward.

(From Birmingham)
' The Organ Grinder'—a Play by Florence M.
Austin
Songs by MARJORIE PALMER (Soprano) and HAROLD CASEY (Baritone)

FODEN WILLIAMS (in Some Comedy)
RONALD FRANKAU (Entertainer)

Gabriele d'Annunzio's play, based on the love-story of Paolo and Francesca, will be broadcast from 5GB Tonight at 8.0 and from London and Daventry tomorrow night. Full details of the production will be found on p. 583

The tragic love of Paolo and Francesca has fascinated artists as well as men of letters. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), the most striking figure in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, painted a triptych representing three scenes in their lives, of which the first section, showing the lovers' first embrace as they pause in reading the fatal romance, is reproduced herewith. (Hollyer Photo.) A painting by Ingres (1780-1867) is reproduced on p. 583.

(From Birmingham)
THE BIRMINGHAM STRING ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Joseph LEWIS

THIS Suite, among the brightest and most cheerful music for string orchestra which the present generation has produced, was composed for St. Paul's Girls' School, where Holst himself played it with the school orchestra.
It has since won a very wide popularity as a happy example of the way in which English folk-tunes and rhythms of folk-tunes can be used to advantage.