THE WORLD OF MUSIC

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 166, 15 August 1929, Page 10

THE WORLD OF MUSIC

(By "B Natural.")

Gazed upon hy portraits of Eembrandt, Hals, Sir Thomas Lawrence and Joshua Reynolds, Jolin JMcCormack, the great tenor, sat in the spacious living room of liis apartment ac 270 Park Avenue, New Y'orlc, and told a group of reporters that lie was going to make a production for tlie Fox Film Corporation Slovietono to bo recorded in Ireland, New York and Hollywood. * * Mr McCormaek, witty, genial and sporting tlie tliin red ribbon of the Legion of Honour in liis lapel, answered the queries _ fircd at him by the assembled journalists. * * * No location in Ireland lias been definitely decided upon. 51r McCormaek said, but lie expressed liis preference for County Kerry. •-!: * * "1 can voucli for the scenic grandeur of the picture," lie said, "as nothing in tiie world can compare with tlie beauty of Ireland". * * * Tom Barrv autiior of "Courage," the stage production now at the Ritz Theatre an'd of the dialogue of "In Old Arizona," a talking film, is to write the storj" for Ylr McCormack's sound vehicle. Tlie singer later sailed 011 the Majestic for his Irish liome, Moore Abbey, County Kildare, for a few months' reereation and rest before starting work on the picture. * * * Leighton Lueas, a young English eomposev, still in his twenties, has jumped into prominence as the result of the production of two ballets and one aet of a completed opera, all three being sometliiiig more than promising. * 3k ❖ A Frenc-h musical critic comments upon the "melange of loyalt.v and iiidulgence" which English audiences invariably display towards their favourite artists. "As long," lie says, as they have a shadow of tlie voice tliat you have loved and admired; so long "as they liave tlie strength to stand upon the platform and exhibit the heaux restes of their wonderful combination of voice and aft, so long will you coutinue to listen to and applaud them. I know no otlier nation in the world that is equally persistent in sticking to its vocal vcterans. c-r willing t-o exercise its patience to Lliat end in ihe same sublime dcgrcc."