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The Daily record and the Dresden daily : 01.08.1908
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.•• ! T’ *$•■**—I*fi -pfjjCTfuir- •?»* *•--* vij/r^'vr-HB THE DAILY RECORD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1908. JS 755. El BERLIN Universal satisfaction will be felt at the appointment of Sir Rennell Rodd to the British Embassy at Rome. Sir Rennell is the most versatile of men. He has taken the Newdigate, fought with savages, con ciliated Chancellors, visited Menelik, interviewed lions, written ballads for the Fleet, and fenced on equal terms with some of the finest exponents of the small sword. He is devoted to every kind of sport and to nearly every kind of work. The new Minister at the Swedish capital is a son-in-law of Sir Frank Lascelles, who learned the ways of Governments at the War Office and the Foreign Office before he joined the ranks of diplo macy. Like Sir Rennell Rodd, Sir C. Spring-Rice is a Balliol man who distinguished himself at the University. Brussels, Washington, Tokio, Berlin, Cairo, St. Petersburg, and, for the last two years, Teheran, have been included in Sir Cecil’s diplo matic itinerary. * A method of secret writing as practised in the prisons has been brought to notice in Germany by Professor Gross. A well moistened sheet of writing paper is laid on a htfrd, smooth surface under a dry sheet, a hard point being then used to write on the latter, which is at once destroyed. The writing, which disappears from the bottom sheet on gradually drying, reappears distinctly as often as the sheet is moistened. A London telegram informs us that in the preliminary trials of the Olympic Regatta at Henley the German competitor Gaza was beaten by an Englishman, Blackstaffe. * The American Olympic victors, Lightbody and May, have been invited by the union of Berlin athletic clubs to prolong their visit till the middle of August so as to take part in an international competition, specially arranged for them, on August 16th on the occasion of the competitions for the German championship in Berlin. * Professor von Uechtritz-Steinkirch, the famous exponent of plastic art, has died at the age of 52, after a painful illness. * The Gebruder Herrnfeld Theater commences its season today with “Das kommt davon!” by Anton and Donath Herrnfeld, the two authors taking the principal roles. For the other characters the best actors have been engaged. The farce is a sequel to last season’s hit: “Es lebe das Nachtleben!” BRITISH AND AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES. GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND: Ambassador the Rt. Hon. Sir Frank Lascelles G. C. B. Embassy, 70 Wilhelm Strasse. Office hours 11-1—Consul-General Dr. Paul v. Schwabach. Consulate, Behrens Strasse 63. Office hours 10-12 and 4-5. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Ambassador, Dr. David Jayne Hill, Esq. Embassy, Unter den Linden 68. Reception hours 10-1.—Consul-General: Alexander M. Thackara, Esq. Consulate, Friedrich Strasse 59/60, Office hours 10-1. PROJECTED ANGLO-GERMAN THEATRES. Miss Meta Illing, who is probably the only Ger man actress who plays in German and English, ar rived in London last month on a mission, with the best credentials from high circles in Germany, to ascertain whether it was possible to add another link to the lengthened chain of the Anglo-German rapprochement. Burgomasters, editors, pastors, and working-men have interchanged visits, and it oc curred to Miss Illing that nothing would conduce more to the good understanding of the two nations than for the best modern plays to be performed by German actors in London and by English actors in Berlin. Miss Illing came with introductions from some of the German editors who had visited Great Britain. A reception was given to her at De Keyser’s Hotel on Thursday, July 2nd, at which she met many members of the Anglo-German Friendship Committee, representatives of the Press, dramatic authors and actors, to whom she explained her proposal, which was very heartily received. Miss Illing’s idea is that an English company should play in Berlin and the leading German cities from February to May, and thfit in May the German company should per form German dramas in London. So excellent a proposal, which has such an energetic and eloquent advocate in Miss Illing, ought surely to succeed. . In addressing her guests at the reception, Miss Illing said:— “There is a great movement and longing in Germany to bring together the great nations—Eng land, America, and Germany—so that those nations belonging to one race should also become more united in politics, in science and commerce. From this point of view we have conceived and worked out a plan that not only works for peace, for science, and for commercial relations, but also calls on the great art of acting to help us to bring the glorious idea of peace to a happy and successful issue. There is no art that shows us the characteristics of English or German life so well as that of the stage. Therefore, I wish to submit to you a pro posal to start an English Theatre in Berlin and a German Theatre in London. The idea which has brought me to London is that nothing would so much help to promote good understanding between the two peoples as an Anglo- German Theatre, which would present modern Eng lish plays in Germany and modern German plays in London. Although this was primarily my own idqa, I have submitted it to many distinguished persons in my country, and have found that it has their enthusiastic support. ‘But,’ they said, ‘go to England and see whether there is any disposition there to co-operate with us.’ So I have come, and I want to explain to you in outline what I would like to do. First, I want to form an English company with rights to perform the best modern English plays in Germany, plays which are produced already, and of literary standing worthy to be reproduced. The idea is to begin in Berlin in February for a short sea son of from four to eight weeks. From Berlin we shall visit the other towns which have large Eng lish colonies, such as Hamburg, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, Frankfurt-on-Main, playing in the Court Theatres of each place for three to four nights. This tour would last from February to March. In May I propose to bring a German company to London to perform German plays. As I have heard there are many thousands of Germans in London, and many English people know and are interested in the German language, science, and literature, it is for these that I want to bring the German stage to England— a German company that would worthily represent the best dramatic art of Germany, where the interest and love for England and English litera ture is intense, in spite of all that some papers say. The German and English people will learn to see with their own eyes, they will learn to judge for themselves, and they will learn to know that one or two persons do not justify them in judging or condemning a whole nation. I desire to engage the very best German actors of all leading theatres. I also desire to engage the best English actors to form a first-class company, and I am sure that success must be certain both on the artistic and on the financial side.” fietar.Hienilorf.PiiiiiQ Factory, IMeiwalde Uerlio. Show rooms: Berlin SW., Anhalt Str. 15. ■ ■ BERLIN CURRENT ENTERTAINMENTS. This evening: Royal Opera House . . (closed). Royal Theatre .... (closed). New Royal Opera Theatre Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg (Pennarini) (closed). Kammerspiele (closed). (closed). (closed). Der Zerrissene -Company of the New Operetta Theatre from Hamburg: Die Dollarprinzessin Zweimal zwei ist fiinf .... at 6 Deutsches Theater. . Lessing Theatre . . Berliner Theatre . . New Theatre. . . . New Schauspielhonse. Kleines Theater . . Comic Opera (closed) Residenz Theatre Lustspielhouse . . Trianon Theatre . Theater des Westens Schiller Theatre O. (closed). Die blaue Maus (closed). Ein Walzertraum Company of the Morwitz Opera: Fidelio Charlotten- burg (closed). Frdr. Wilhelmst. Theatre Der Rabenvater Thalia Theatre .... Der Mann mit dem Monocle. . Urania Theatre .... fiber den Brenner nach Venedig Every evening until further notice. Metropol Theatre . . . Das muss man seh’n Bernhard Rose Theatre Das Geheimnis von New York . Gehr. Herrnfeld Theatre Das kommt davon Apollo Theatre .... London Suburbia. Spezialitaten Passage Theatre . . . Berlin i. Stimmung. Spezialitaten Berliner Prater Theater Die Welt ein Paradies .... WalhaUa Theatre . . . Spezialitaten at 8 .. 8 THE WATCHER IN THE SILENCE. APPRECIATION OF THE SPHINX. In the grandeur of the Pyramids, says a writer in The Near East, we find the evidences of a pur pose infinitely great, of the striving and endurance of the human race in the youth of its existence, and we watch, and marvel, and—forget. For the impressions produced by these monuments are due, in their effect upon the mind, to the halo of romance which springs naturally from a backward sweep into the past, rather than to any essential of present and living reality attaching to their existence, and it is left to the Sphinx, and to the Sphinx alone off all the monuments of Egypt, to draw the mind unto itself for what it remains now, as much as for what it must have been in ages past. Year by year the peoples come and go, and year by year some new theory is propounded regarding the riddle of the Sphinx as its charm works upon the minds of men. There is something so infinitely fascinating, something so supernatural in the calm which shrouds this great monument, that, slowly or suddenly, but always certainly, the spell is worked upon the hearts of those who watch her face, and a soul is added to those who are ever swelling the numbers of an unacknowledged religion, the religion of the Sphinx. Alone in the shadow of the Pyramids the Silent One continues her ceaseless watch through the ages; triumphant, sad, or weary as the fleeting shadows chase across her brow, she stands to guard the secret of days long dead, of endeavours long since accomplished or abandoned, and of hopes still hidden in the laden womb of time. But of all her attri butes, the greatest is perhaps that of an abiding sympathy which enwraps the soul arid may not be shaken off, which works through our imaginings even in our dreams. It is more than the sentiment emanating from age and immensity; it is more than the acknowledgment of inexplicable mystery; it is the gift of an animate Deity, the assurance of a Divine companionship. There are, in the writings which men term Holy, the reproductions of words inscribed nearly two thousand years ago by men who were in possession of the thoughts and desires of our Creator, and as these works are more than the work of man, so is the Sphinx something in finitely more than an image cunningly wrought; it is the impersonation of Eternity, the vital inter pretation of the ages. To each and every beholder who has sought out the Sphinx with the intention of probing, if possible, the secret of her existence, is her sympathy ex tended, though the reason of her being remain concealed. The all comprehending eyes are instinct with a softer light as the weary ones of the world, their souls troubled in love, or pain, or strife, seek the solace of her companionship, and raise their minds to the contemplation of her features of immutable calm. Those eyes of superhuman under standing, which reflect the knowledge gained by a ceaseless study of the open book of time, are as ever ready to assimilate the thoughts of the pre sent day as they have beeri to absorb the thoughts and feelings of bygone generations. As night falls the tourists, with their dragomen, appear over the crest of the hill beneath which the Sphinx has lain through the solitude of the centuries, and is it fancy, or is it really true, that a shadow of patient pain crosses the worn brow of the Watcher as she realises that her vigil of the night is to be in vaded once again by people who do not, will not understand; by people who will cause harsh glares of artificial light to be burnt at her base, who will pay their dragomen to scale her heights, using her very features as foot-holds by which to mount to the desired eminence? In the drowsy days of summer the Sphinx is left in her silence for many months, and it is then that she turns the problems of the world over in her mind, and lives again in the days of bygone civilisations, extending a new bond of love and sympathy to the disturbed phases of the Twentieth Century; but in the winter it is only possible to commune with her when the crowds of I people who have come to “do” the sights havel departed, and she is left alone in the deep silence I of the night, with perhaps only a passing Arab to| disturb the stillness of her rest. LADY BULL-FIGHTERS. The Spanish Minister of the Interior is not likely I to be popular with Spanish ladies just now, for ill seems that a quartette of enterprising damselsl joined the ranks of bull-fighters, and one, “I'M Reverta,” who was victor, has since enjoyed a most! enviable reputation. The Minister recently caused! some dissatisfaction by prohibiting a bull fig^l near the capital, and he has now formulated h lS | prohibition, in which he points out that the p 1 ’ 0 ! fession of bull-fighter among women, although no I strictly forbidden by law, is one opposed to all ideas of culture and maidenly modesty, so the local authorities must not licence in future any ring lD | which women are allowed to appear. * A NON-MOTORING MONARCH. Almost alone among the sovereigns of Europl the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungry! we learn, makes no use of automobiles. The hetfj apparent, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, is a m° s T enthusiastic motorist, and so are several otb 0 l members of the Imperial family. But so far tJJ Emperor has kept to his horses and carriages carry him between Schonbrunn and the HofbwJ However he may yet yield to the motor, for Austrian Automobile Club has presented to hi Majesty two automobiles as a jubilee gift. is
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