II, Theaterstücke 21, Komtesse Mizzi oder: Der Familientag, Seite 242

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that she looked too voung. Mr. Robert Horton
had the same fault; but boch performances
TW0 SCHNITZLER PLAYS.
had the requisite grace, the necessary insin¬
cere sinceritv. And in“ The Green Cockatoo
Mr. Leon Quartermaine acted with just the
It COMTESSE MIZZI* AND “THE
right suggestion of fantasy and power as the
GREEN COCKATOO.“
murderer, Henri; while nearlv all the other
characters in both plavs had caught the
The programme of the Stage Society's
atmosphere?' of the piece
It was a
performance at the Aldwych Theatre yes¬
curious, puzzling afternoon; and on the whole
terday afternoon consisted of twostrongly
it left rather a bitter taste behind it. After
contrasted works of the
Viennese
all, is such a niece as“ Comtesse Mizzi?'
dramatist, Arthur Schnitzler. The first
worth writing? Does it make men's hearts
Comtesse Mizzi,?
was the one-act play,“
rejoice?
Be
translated into English by Mr. H. A.
H. M. W. an¬
Hertz, and a masterpiece of delicate in¬
the
delicacy.
At one moment five persons
Ro,
were on the stage: Count Arpad Paz¬
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAl ua¬
mandy,
widower, whose prolonged
The new work by Glazounov, produced bytric
liaison with the actress, Lolo Langhuber,
the London Symphony Orchestra at thelthir
Vales
has just come to an end through that
Qucen’s Hall last night, proved to be of but Mi:
damsel having decided to settle down and
moderate importance. It is called a sym¬
Bls
marry in her own class; Mizzi, the Count's
phonic picture, with the descriptive title
charming unmarried daughter, aged thirty¬
* Spring.' As a matter of fact, it is an
seven, who, unknown to her father, has,
early work, Op. 34, and the music seems to
eighteen vears before, had a liaison with a
ane
ruggest a measure of immaturity. But not
certain Prince Egon von Ravenstein; the
Dir
s0 much in the ideas as in the treatment.
Prince himself, who has come to call on
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The thematic material has great charm; it
his old friend, the Count, and at the same
Iry
mi
is the working-out which lacks interest and
time has brought his natural son, Philip,
traf
grip. The mere suggestion of a springlike
with him, to introduce him to his mother,
ext.
mood in the music will not, of course,
ae
Mizzi; tne boy Philip, who chats charm¬
Per
balance the want of coherence of design;
ingly to his mother without knowing his
bet.
one had in this work beginnings of things,
relationship to her; and Lolo, who has
sell
fresh and pleasing, but too little was made
come to say farewell to her old lover, and
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of them, and the picture, so to speak, was
is welcomed warmly by the daughter, who
rece
not held steadily and persistently cnough be¬
whispers presently in her shell-like ear
fore one’s eyes.
001.
that she, too, Mizzi, has also“ had her
War
The conductor last night was M. Wassili
fling.'
And when four of these have
arden
ther
Safonoff, and although the orchestra’s play¬
gone, and Mizzi is left alone, there creeps
of
ing was rather ragged at times there was no
rather stealthilr, into the garden a certain
tet
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doubting the exhilarating nature of some of
Professor Windhofer for a short talk with
le
the interpretations. It is, perhaps, question¬
part
her; and lo and behold, we soon learn
the.
fable whether, technically, Safonoff gets the
that her# fling“’ has by no means ended
best effects bv dispensing with the bäton;
syn.
with Prince Egon, and that Windhofer is
on the other hand, it is not every conductor
only the latest of the pretty spinster’s
m’s
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who can get such emotional impulse out of
many lovers. All this is set forth with the
the orchestra.
One would not lose that to#tras
Krace and wit of a crowned and completed
gain greater precision. Smetana's “ Ver- begi
kaufter Braut?' Overture was taken at a butt
life. A more repulsive tangle is scarcely
tremendous pace; too quickly, really, for preg
concelvable; and yet nothing jars; there is
Iclearness, but the effect was extremely brac¬
I.),
nougliness.“ Every one is good-hearted,
ing in spirit. The 5-4 movement and thel in
well-bred, and utterly immoral; and every
march in the Tchaikovsky symphony showed Nig
little difficulty seems soluble with a smile.
the conductor at his best (and orchestra, too).
cha
The play is among the most graceful an
In both the rhythms were swayed by an
a
the most corrupt we have ever seen, a
emotional feeling rarely heard. In the first
dras
masterpiece, as we have said, of delicate
indelicacy, a thoroughly dangerous plaz—movement the phrasing of the second sub- aud¬
pera
to those who accept it as a faithful pic-ject was remarkably expressive.
ture of lise.
mance)
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Mat
lace
The Things That Matter ast
The second was the cne-act play of the
Se.
French Revolution,“ Der Grüne Kakadu?'
The agitation to bup the Crystal
(“ The Green Cockatoo'), translated into
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Paluce for 4230,000 still gocs on; and
Englich bv Miss Penelope Wheeler. It is
rati
IN.
meanschile—
the night of July 14, 1789, and the streets
the
of Paris are echoing with the guns that are
Really beautisul and priceless things
tion
ree-act battering down the gates of the Bastille. In
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are either being destroyed or are heing.
the cellar of the Cockatoo tavern, however,
Vice¬
appe
taken out of the country. The cost of
a group of careless, heedless aristocrats have
very
tals.
the ugly Crystal Palace would preser#e
ayne's assembled to sec the dramas which the land¬
finit¬
many of them. Also ##e have no dir¬
vester-] lond produces mightly with the help of the
shipe.
1250
This gum—deseribed as
#terial-tatterdemalion and corrupt crew of male and
hare
female flotsam and jetsam sho haunt ibe
paltry —ould purchase si#r first- ploy¬
place. Presently they find that onc of these
onable
class airships. True, the one thing
bas
dramas is setting forth the munler of a cer¬
nodern
latir.
would be paid for out of rates, und the
tain Duc de Cadignan by one Henri, posing
enness
The
others out of tages; but both rates and
as a wronged and jealous husband; and
#n the
peac
taxes mean the public pocket. We
they find Henri’s performance exceedingly
leasant
horr
convineing. Suddlenly the Duc himself ap¬
have note in France, and zeill probably strir
his in¬
pears, and Henri rushes at himn and stabs
a far
have immediately in Germany, anthe
destive¬
him in the back so that he falls dend. At
erample of gennine seif-sacrisice onthe
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