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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER King Gustaf Likes Winter Sports took to the road in strolling com- ters. Its tunes, now sad, now gay, but always simple and melodic, found equal favor in the kitchen and in the On the ladies drawing room. boards, many an engaging Polly, or Betty, or Clarinda ogled and sang in her sprightliest vein, hoping no doubt to secure theatrical renown-l- ike Kitty Clive or to be taken into keeping and perhaps eventually to marry a lord like Lavinia Fenton. Plays and themes of the past as well as the song collections were ransacked in order to satisfy the prevailing taste. Even a few Gentlemen of the Universities, with a gesture toward popular frivolity, condescended to dash off ballad operas in their less scholarly moments. Among the many amateurs who entered the operatic lists were an auctioneer, an army officer, an apprentice to a clothier, a law clerk, a former footman, and one or two misguided female authors. The World Looks Down On Discomfited Whiner "Quotations" A panies; and it established itself in the repertory of the provincial thea- Wars are childish things, if they are not more horrible than anything childish can be. They must become G. Wells. horrors of the past Youth should be less concerned with what its going to do, more absorbed in what its doing. Mary Lewis. None of us like to think that we are soft, but if we compare ourselves with what we know of our ancestors, I think we will have to agree that the adjective applies to us. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is foolish to say that today woman is weak because she does not do the things her grandmother did. Leopold Stokowski. I v Die expression yellow streak epitomizes the human characteristic that is found in the person who is unable to accept without sobbing the ordinary misadven tures that are liable to overtake anyone, or the well deserved discomforts that follow conduct. You hear the expression n wasnt my fault, and it may be true. But as a rule it usually is disclosed that poor judgment mismanagement or carelessness is at the bottom of the much bewailed misfortune. In any case weeping or wailing are of no avail The world looks up to the man who can take it without wailing. .H. r r i ed r I t I ? f 5 Fatal Fire Is Means of Saving Life of Another King Gustaf V of Sweden is pictured in the royal box (seated) as New York. While a tenant was burning to deAh in a New York apartment building the other day a he watches the winter sports events at Fiskatorpet near Sweden. The monarch is a hearty devotee of winter events and in earlier years was little togirl was born, apparently Mrs. Naomi Meyers, whose dead, an enthusiastic skater and skier. flat was only two doors away. A police emergency truck stood before Meyers quarters. The young mothers nurse observed it and thought of an oxygen respirator which it contained. She dashed out and found the emergency squad about to remove the burned body of a man from a basement hallway. The policemen deserted that gruesome task heed the nurses plea for a First Star Was Kitty Clive, chatty and personal, with Mrs. more topromising service. Hazard played by the author repwas clapped The mask oxygen resented as writing a play and re- over the face of the English Favorite. dead apparently hearsing it under difficulties. child and the pump started. New York. The first musical Best of all, Mrs. Clive does not The chest of the newborn child comedy star was Kitty Clive, who take herself too seriously. What othwon theatrical fame over 200 years er would have suddenly began to rise and fall in vivacious her ago by shown Witling, one of the spectators, nearly normal respiration. The big performance of English ballad opera, fore- falling asleep at the end of a duet policemen working the apparatus runner of modern revues and mu- in the rehearsal of her supposed grinned. The nurse with hand on the childs pulse suddenly nodded. sical talkies, says a study of play? Despite its slightness, Bays She had detected the faint throb of CoBallad Opera, issued by the in Petticoats supports the contemlife. lumbia University press. porary characterization of the auMrs. Clives acting career cov- thoress as smart Kitty Clive, the WINS PROMOTION merriest mortal ered the entire life span of ballad pleasantest, opera, which extended from 1728 alive. to about 1750. Her final stage apKittys fine singing and pert impuof manner are reported to dence School for in The was pearance Rakes in 1769. Scarcely a ballad have been very effective. Her poropera could appear at Drury Lane trait was painted as Phillida from Love in a Riddle by Colley Cibduring this long and interesting period without the inevitable presence ber, one of her first great sucFrom the date of Cibbers of Kitty acting, dancing, and sing- cesses. ing with her customary elan, de- ballad opera until her retirement the clares Edmond McAdoo Gagey, in- forty years later to Clive-destructor of English in Columbia, small house presented to her by Her original Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill, author of the study. roles in ballad opera amount to al- Kitty Clive was the main actress of most thirty, and of course she comic musical drama in England, played in numerous revivals as Mr. Gagey adds. Ballad opera, which discovered the first of the musical comedy stars GARBO AT HOME in Kitty Clive, started a general tradition of musical comedy which was continued in the comic opera of the second half of the Eighteenth century and which led eventually to Gilbert and Sullivan, to the modern review, and even to the musical talkies of the present day. Took' London by Storm. Elbert K. Burlew, recently appointed by President Roosevelt as but newcomEngaging impudent er in Eighteenth century drama, first assistant secretary of the Deballad opera took London by storm partment of the Interior. He is a during several years when the fash- career man with 27 years civil ion demanded that old plays be re- service standing. He entered govvamped and new ones adorned with ernment service in 1910, serving popular or Gothick tunes. Not with the War department and the meant for permanence but for pass- Post Office department before enballad opera tering the Interior department in ing entertainment, survived beyond 1750, but 1923. rarely during its span of life it received wide applause in the London playWar Steed Defended houses, either as main attraction Montreal. The horse is still the or as afterpiece; it amused the most valuable engine of war, bemore democratic audiences of lieves Lord Mottistone, former BritSouthwark or Bartlmy Fairs; it ish secretary of state for war. f f Musical Comedy Was in Favor Two Centuries Ago $- Virgin-Authore- 1 Curtaining Your Front Door. front door greets your slipcovers and dressing tables; yOUR of for do. friends before you Is it dressed to look its best? Here are some simple rules that will be useful in selecting the material and style for front door curtaining. 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