—IX Mrs. THIRKELL : 'Australian Favourites '—II

From THE PICCADILLY HOTEL

NANCY PHILLIPS (Violin)
HINDA PHILLIPS (Pianoforte)

Directed by ALFRED VAN DAM
From THE TROCADERO CINEMA, ELEPHANT AND
CASTLE

BACH'S ENGLISH SUITES
Played by VICTOR HELY -HUTCHINSON
Suite, No. 2, in A Minor
(Continued overleaf.)

Monsieur E. M. STÉPHAN

Conductor, B. WALTON O'DONNELL
GRACE REYNOLDS (Soprano)

The Hon. HAROLD NICOLSON ,
C.M.G. : ' Conclusions '
TONIGHT Mr. Harold Nicolson sums up the result of his twelve talks. The series, as he said in his introduction, was designed for those who. although anxious to read and understand, are bewildered by the multiplicity of modern books and do not know where to begin. Mr. Nicolson set out to discuss and investigate the changes that have taken place in tho reading public and in the public taste, and their effort on modern writers ; what, actually, is meant by the new spirit in literature ' and what modem authors are after; whether there is any common aim or purpose in the new school of writing, and if so, what it is ; how ono is to find one's way about modern books, and what lessons the modem man or woman can draw from them ; the relation of modern books to modem politics and ethics and the problem of censorship ; the whole tendency of literature today and the problem of selecting books that will keep one abreast with modem thought. A large subject. Tonight Mr. Nicolson summarizes his own conclusions. On January 5 Sir Barry Jackson gives the first of two talks on modern Drama in this Literature and Art series.

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN

Strauss
Performed by THE COVENT GARDEN OPERA COMPANY
From THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE,
BIRMINGHAM
Act III-A private room in an Inn
Conductor, JOHN BARBIROLLI
RICHARD STRAUSS describes his opera The
Rose Cavalier as a comedy for music. To the ordinary listener it is much the easiest of all his works to understand and enjoy. There is nothing abstruse or unkindly in it, and the waltz tunes in which it abounds make it plain how rich a vein of natural melody is his to draw upon when he chooses. The opera has a special interest in being the first which a composer has arranged also in a film version, modifying the music to suit the film. It was produced in that form in London under Dr. Strauss' own direction in April, 1926.

HENRY HALL'S GLENEAGLES HOTEL
BAND, from THE ADELPHI HOTEL,
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