New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1930, Page 15

“Iron” Opera Startles Berlin Music Lovers With Whir of Machines, (lash of Metal and Queer Theme Max Brand, Viennese Com- poser, Presents Musical Drama of Hurrying In- dustrial Age — Mechan- ical Devices Represented in Music of Piece. Berlin, April 8 (®—An opera, singing the metallic destiny of three humans caught among the cogwheels of modern mechanized life, is startling the music-lovers of Berlin. The name, “Machinist Hopkins" would lead one to expect (or fear) a_musical dramatization of factory life; but few who attended the opening of the Berlin Civic Opera production were prepared for the event to which this idea is carried out. Viennese Composer Its Author Max Brand, the voung Vienness composer of “Machinist Hopkins,” ~—which is his first opera, by th=2 —conceives the towering ma- chinery of present day industry us more. than inanimate metal. ke endows it with a vague but ruth- Jess personality; makes of it a loom- ing, jealous deity of metal which dominates the humans who serve 1t and destroys the man who rcbels against it. The story in which this metal god | concerns | piays the deziding role two machinists and a woman. Ore o the men, cager for escape from the enslaving machine, steals the production secrets of the factory and flees with the woman after killing her husband (a foreman) vhen the latter tries to block the theft, Soul Absorbs Melal The other a man whose soul has absorbel metal from the atmosphere in which he works. He is in tune with the whirring diety of steel and cop- per, and it is he who finally up- ts the plans of the slayer, who for a time seems to have won mastery over the machine and quick riches because of his possecsion of the stolen secrels. The backgrounds against which this drama unfolds are of unusual interest, particularly the cnormous factory interiors of the prologue and second and third acts. When Bill, the machinist, and his woman accomplice, Nell, slin’ into the silent factory at night, the grcat, shadowy machines become vocal. The chanting of offstage choruses, whirring. hissing. mur- muring choruses, throbs with the yhythm and suppressed power of Kreat engines. (Brand even has written solo parts for “first wheel,” “second wheel,” ‘“‘cogwheel.” ‘'pi ton.” and the like.) The result musie, but the sort of music on niight hear from an orchestra of hissing valves, chugging pistons, humming cogwheels anr clinking chains Different Rhythm Used The factory office scene in Act emphasizes different sort of rhythm might be called th chant of the yes-men. Bill, now a big industrialist, listens to the sta cato reports of his bass and bar tene heads of departments, ani gives them his orders in clear tenor. “Ninety days, Continental bank,” sings a secretary, or “Two thousand tons, I. 0. B, Bombay,” and Bl sings back “Check!” or “How much did you say?” More lavish, though not so com- plicated technically as the factory interior scenes, is the roof cabarct cne in whi Bill and Nell ars shiown spending some of the money which now comes to them in such abundance. A complete and very snappy jazz revue in the midst of a gay crowd of moneyed pleasuce seekers provides the extravaganza mosphere in which Nell achieves her great ambition—the signing of a stage contract, A later therefore fakes p hig theater. In other is no lack of scenic var opera Working »n Second Theme Rrand. who is 34. alrcady has be- gun work on a 'second opera. W ing the hook pf “Machinist Hop- kins” took him 14 days, he saya, while the music occupied him seven months. He relates with some sac- isfaction how he tried to pass the entrance examination of a con- servatory of music and faile whereupon he went ahead and wrote songs and orchestral music, sludying meanwhile with Alois Haba and Brwin Steinhoff. During the war, Brand was words. ¢ in this an end to CORNS ‘between toes Those terribly mean corns between the toes that seem to defy alltreatment—they're as easily removable as any other with Freezonel A few drops of Freezone instantly put the corn to sleep. Pain isdeacened at once, and soon the corn becomes so loose that you can actually lift it right out with your fingers. Hard corns or soft corns— all yield to Freezone. Why suffer when your druggist sells Freezone? iron: machinist, Hopkins, is| scenc | > backstage in a | there | officer in the Austrian army; it was not until afterwards that he took up music as a career. SHAW COMMENTS ON CHURCH ROWS Sees Religions “Persecution” Right in Merry England London, April 8 (British United Press)—George Bernard Shaw en- tered the controversy over religious conditions in Soviet Russia by a in- direct route yesterday when he sent a letter to the Daily’ Herald com- plaining of “the religious persecution in England.” The letter. ' Shaw informed Daily Herald, was sent {o him by Russian friend, G. B. Esspioff,” whose name was signed to the com- the plaint. 1t was pointed out, however, | that the style. of Shaw's “Russian friend” was sirangely similar to that of the famous Irish author. “Returned” Aftcr Absence Shaw’'s “Ruesian friend” said:he returned to England after absence and went to a church in Great Portland strect to worship, jonly to find that it had been turned into a moving picture theater.. He then went to another church in Low- er Regent strect place a row of shops, while a third| church he visited had become a ga- | rage. He said he called upon the ecclési- astical commissioners who, misun- derstanding him, thought he wanted to buy the churches and offered to s¢ll them because “the poorer clergy necded the money badly.” Praises Russia's System The letter ended with the declara- tion that “Russia ‘is setting an ex- ample:in intellectual and moral in- tegrity for the whole world, while Engiand is filling its temples with traders, persecuting its clergy, and bringing up its children to be scof- fers, to whom religion means nothing but hypocrisy and humbug.” The reference to persecution was obviously inspired by the position of Dr. Barneg, the bishop of Birming- ham, who has been threatened with court proceedings for failure to in- duct a certain clergyman who, under the rights of the state, has been ap- pointed to a position in the state church. CROWN PRINCESS SAILS Hamburg, Germany, April § (P)— The former Crown Princess Cecilic, accompanied by her youngest son 15-ycar-old Frederick, sailed aboard the Caparcona today for Buen Aires where they will visit her s ond son, Louis Ferdinand, who 1s in business there. The former crown princess intends o return to Germany in time to celebrate her silver wedding anniversary, dune 6. vears| and. found in its| 15 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 8 1930. POLITICAL STRIFE THREATENS SPAIN Anti-monarchial Movement May { Lead to Strict Rules Madrid, April 8 (P)—Anti-mon- archial movements in Spain today threatened to develop additional re- pressive measures by the govern ment of Premier General Damaso Berenguer. The political within the past tw days has become |more turbulent than at any time in the last few weeks. The present situation had its be- ginning Sunday with a meeting of socialists and laborers to honor Pablo Tglesias, pioneer Spanish revolutionary, It culminated last night with arrest for the second time within two days for anti-mon- archial speeches of Jose Ortega Y Gasset, republican who recently re- turned from exile. Cafes and meeting places buzzed | with comment today at the extremecs |ot speech to which cnemies of the monarchy have gone. There was much speculation whether the gov- ernment would not clamp down the {1id on free speech as it did several | weeks ago after the anti-monarch- |ial speech of former Premier Jose Antonio Snachez Guerra. e e “l Flashes of Life ] | — e/ By the Associated Prese. London - <. Henry L. Stim- |son is a cross-word puzzle fan. { When she and the American secre- tary of state make week-end visits to their country home their baggage contains data about the naval con- ference, a volume of puzzles and a dictionary. New York — Mrs. Pauline Good- | man, cook, who set forth that in- |juries in a motor .accident caused | her to lose her sense of taste and | smell, has won a jury verdict for | 00 against the owner of the | automobile. London — Twenty-five fliers, including _Gordon Jr, and Lady Bailey, are to start Good Friday on a ten-day holiday flight over Europe. Each owner will fiy his or her own plane. | New York — William B. Leeds is | ovganizing a company to sell planes. }1" its quarters at Roosevelt field will be a tea-room and a barber shop. | Tondon — George Bernard Shaw lis withholding permission for pub- | lication of letters he wrote to Ellem | Terry. An offer for them has been made to her daughter, Edith Craig. | o St | New York Chief Chauncey Kills in the. Bush Yellow Robe, | tribal brother of Calvin Coolidge, is | Gead at 63. 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