SYNOOPATION IS LASTING

Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 18

SYNOOPATION IS LASTING

JOHN FilUEfl'3 VIEW U« VCM 18 THE MUI 3119 W MARKET New York has become the theatrical mart of the world, and the producers and theatre owners throughout the globo search there for new plays and things of amusement, declared Mr John Fuller, of the Fuller Theatres, Ltd,, of Australia, on arrival in Paris after visiting the other capital cities of the world. “ Every year, he said, ‘ I journey to all of the theatre centres, even to the far-off remote places, to find attractions for our fifty theatres which are scattered over New Zealand as well as Australia,” continued Mr Fuller. “ And I attribute the over-increasing popularity of the American plays to Yankee syncopated music. “Strange as it may seem,.l am going to predict that melodies such ns Gershwin’s ‘ Rhapsody in Blue,’ played by such bands ns that of Paul Whiteman, will one day bo more desired than what we term classic music to-day.

“ Wherever you go to-day you hear rhythmic American tunes, even in the traditioii-woni Old World cities where the old masters and composers created their beautiful arias, which have been handed down from generation to generation. “Of course, I am not referring to jazz or , % the common garden variety of syncopated tunes when I speak of American music. Right there is the difference T want to bring out. I think it would boa, good idea, to differentiate the two_ by calling the better melodies American music and the mediocre songs jazz.” STUDY CONSTRUCTIOiN. Mr Fuller also spoke of the silent drama and its immense theatres. “We have sent engineers to the United States in order to study construction,” he asserted, “ and after a careful survey we will build two 4,000-seat theatres in. Melbourne and Sydney. “ The.fc are to include features that were found in all of the biggest New York and Chicago movie palaces. We have taken advantage of every possible detail, and have even gone as far as to order cooling systems such as arc installed in New York theatres.”—Paris edition of tiro ‘ Now York Herald.’