Directed by JOSEPH MUSCANT
From THE COMMODORE THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH

Mrs. ARTHUR WEBB :
' Batters'

RECEPTION TEST

Miss RHODA Power : ' Empires, Movements and Nations — Interlude V, Shipmen at Southampton'

Mademoiselle CAMILLE VIERE and Monsieur E. M. STEPHAN : French Dialogues—V, ' Marie et Louis assistent a un Mariage '

From The Dorchester Hotel

SONGS OF HAYDN sung by JOHN ARMSTRONG and JOAN COXON
JOHN ARMSTRONG
From the Canzonets :
Piercing Eyes Tho Wanderer Sympathy Content
Pleasing Pains
She never told her Love Sailor's Song
HAYDN wrote a hundred symphonies and only fifty original songs. It is reasonable to conclude he had no such great urge to write songs as, for example, Schubert had. Ho was fifty years old before he wrote any at all, and then only because his publishers, Artaria, of Vienna, asked for them. Those Artaria published are mostly set to trivial words, but words probably meant little or nothing to Haydn once he had a tune in his head. Like Swift, of whom it was said he could write beautifully about a broomstick, these older composers could mould doggerel to any happy shape they pleased. The songs sung tonight are, however, altogether in a different class. The two books of Canzonets Haydn published in London are among the most pleasing of all his songs.

Miss V. SACKVILLE-WEST

Mr. D. H. ROBERTSON : 'Conclusions'

Conductor, B. WALTON O'DONNELL
TOM KINXIBURGH (Bass)
EDWARD NAPRAVNIK was born in Bohemia, lived most of his life in Russia, rose to be chief conductor of the Imperial Opera, and died in 1915, aged seventy-six. He composed a number of works which are masterly in technique, but reminiscent in subject matter—conductors are always at the disadvantage of becoming saturated with what they hear and of finding it impossible to wring their minds dry of it.
Don Juan , of which this is the overture, is a concert vocal setting of a poem by Count Alexei Tolstoy , a poet and dramatist and distantly related to Leo, the Tolstoy.

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL
NEWS BULLETIN

A Story of the Passing Years by PHILIP WADE
Produced by HOWARD ROSE

AMBROSE'S BLUE LYRES, from THE DORCHESTER HOTEL