Directed by JOSEPH MUSCANT
From THE COMMODORE THEATRE,
HAMMERSMITH

' Cooking in Casseroles '

RECEPTION TEST

Miss Winifred Knox : Empires, Movements and Nations - Story V, Merchants on the Road'

Mademoiselle CAMILLE VIÈRE : French Readings-
V, Selections from ' An Anthology of French Verse : From Villon to Verlaine.' (This book, edited by Ritchie and Moore, is published by Dent, price 3s. 6d.)

From The Dorchester Hotel

MENDELSSOHN PIANOFORTE MUSIC
Played by KENDALL TAYLOR
Prelude and Fugue in E Minor
Etude in B Flat Minor, Op. 104
Songs without Words:
(a) D Major, No. 40 (b) A Major, No. 24 (c) E Minor, No. 27
Prelude in B Minor, Op. 104

Mr. DESMOND MACCARTHY

Mr. D. H. ROBERTSON : Experiments in Other
Countries '

by EDWIN LEWIS
(From North Regional)
Scene I-At Homo in Owdham
Scene 2—Three months later-The new Home in London
Scene 3-Sir Joseph Crackin 's Office in London Scene 4-The same as Scene 2
Scene 5-Homo again
Herbert Brown
Sarah Brown Bill Brown
Polly Hebblewhite George Arthur
Jenkins Tompkins
Sir Joseph Crackin Lady Crackin Thompson
Mary Entwistle Commentators
The Cast includes:
RHODA FAGAN , LUCIA ROGERS , MARJORIE TAYLOR , EDITH TOMS , HAROLD CLUFF , W. E. DICKMAN , ANGUS GREG , D. W. KING , A. G. MITCRESON , F. A. Nichols , D. E. ORMEROD , WILMOT PAUL , J. EDWARD ROBERTS , MICHAEL
VOISEY

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN

CLAIRE CROIZA (Soprano)
THE GRILLER STRING QUARTET:
TTNLIKE much of Kodaly's buoyantly cheerful music, this, the second of his string quartets, presents the melancholy side of the Hungarian character. The opening of the first movement conjures up sad thoughts, and, as it goes on, a feeling of conflict makes its way into the music. It rises at times to a pitch of tense excitement and falls again into a pensive melancholy. The slow movement, too, is for the most part in sombre tone, though at one point the '.cello leads us to a momentary outburst of mirth : there is a hint, too, like a far-off echo, of the gay dance measure of the third and last movement. It follows the second without a break, entering with a suggestion of hearty laughter. But in it, strife and conflict can still bo imagined, and it comes to an end with furious impetuosity.
The thoughtful listener will notice that the instruments arc often used in groups of two, either the violins set off against the viola and cello, or the inner voices against the outer. And sometimes the first violin and viola join hands, with the second and the 'cello responding. But there are also passages where all four voices take part independently in animated discussion.
SIR JOHN McEWEN , Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, has written fourteen string quartets, of which this, the eighth, is the best known. Written in the South of France— hence the title ' Biscay '-it records such impressions as, in the first movement, the wild, wind-swept shore of the Bay; in the second, the solitude of the Dunes, and in the third, the cheery life of the Biscay oyster-gatherers.

AMBROSE'S BLUE LYRES, from THE DORCHESTER
HOTEL