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'Paying the Family Bills on £3 a Week '

From THE HOTEL MAJESTIC, ST. ANNE'S
ON-SEA
(From North Regional)

Conductors, MONTAGUE PHILLIPS and Sir
DAN GODFREY
LESLIE ENGLAND (Pianoforte)
From THE PAVILION, BOURNEMOUTH Allegro risoluto ; Andante sostenuto ; Allegro con brio
(Conducted by THE COMPOSER)
THE name of Montague Phillips as a composer of light music occurs frequently in these programme pages, and more than once a complete hour has been given to the performance of a selection of his compositions. But light music docs not represent the whole of his gifts as a composer. He has written at least one symphony, a symphonic poem, Boadicea, and two pianoforte concertos, of which this is the second. Mr. Phillips was formerly a student at the Royal
Academy of Music, is now a Follow, and has held there a professorship of composition. But the work with which the public mainly associates him is the light opera The Rebel Maid. Ever since its successful production, this opera has been a favourite with amateur operatic societies.

At THE ORGAN of THE BEAUFORT CINEMA From WASHWOOD HEATH, BIRMINGHAM

BEETHOVEN'S PIANOFORTE SONATAS
Played by KATHLEEN LONG
Sonata in A, Op. 101
Allegretto ma non troppo; Vivace alia marcia; Adagio ma non troppo, con affetto, Allegro

Mr. GERALD HEARD

Sir Daniel Hall, K.C.B., F.R.S., Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture

Mr. A. W. STREET : ' Distribution and Marketing '

(Der Fliegende Hollander)
From THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
Overture and Act I
A Fjord on the Norwegian Coast
Conductor, ROBERT HEGER
Cast :
IN 1840 Wagner was in Paris, making both ends just meet by doing odd jobs for publishers, and composing hard in his spare time. Fortunately, he had a friend in Meyerbeer, who gave him an introduction to the Director of the Opera and advised him to submit for consideration his sketches of a libretto of an opera to be called The Flying Dutchman. These sketches were accepted, and arrangements were made to hand them to a professional librettist who should complete tho poem ready for the composer. Worse followed ; the Director decided to offer the libretto to another composer, a friend of his who was on the look-out for a good book. No part cf this plan pleased Wagner at all, and he unsuccessfully demanded his manuscript back. And when later he heard that his sketches were actually being worked upon by a poet named Foucher, he realized that no time was to be lost. Very hard up, and still forced to do a certain amount of hack work, he yet found time to complete his poem of the Dutchman, to compose the music and to score it all, except the overture, for orchestra, in the amazingly short time of seven weeks. By this means he prevented anyone else tampering with his idea, but he was no nearer getting it performed than if it had not been written. The Berlin Opera House agreed to ' accept ' it on the advice of Meyerbeer, but that meant no more than that it had a pigeonhole to itself. Actually, it was first produced in Dresden in 1843. The story of the opera is based on the picturesque legend of a Dutch sea-captain who, encountering a furious gale while ho was trying to round tho Cape of Good Hope, swore that he would achieve his purpose though it took him all eternity. The devil, overhearing, took him at his word and condemned him to sail the seas until the Day of Judgment. Only a woman, whose love would last until death, could release him; so, as the sole concession to the awful severity of his punishment, he is permitted to go ashore once in every seven years in order that he may seek and win such a woman. The opera opens just at the end of one of these seven-year terms.

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
Bulletin

JACK HARRIS 'S BAND, from GROSVENOR HOUSE,
PARK LANE