REVIVAL IN MUSIC

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1934, Page 6

REVIVAL IN MUSIC

INTEREST IN INDIVIDUAL WORK, OPINIONS OF STRATFORD MAN. Definite indications of a recovery in the popularity of music in the home were mentioned by the proprietor of a Stratford music-store in an interview with a Daily News representative on Saturday. There was a better demand for music of all classes, he said. Sales of. "jazz” as well as music of a more serious nature, the latter including graded teaching music, had shown a steady increase since the later months of last year. Even gramophone records were more in demand than before; though the lighter type was by far the most popular. Sales of "high class” recorded music were made only in isolated instances. "There is apparently more singing and instrumental work being done,” he continued. “This shows there is a revival of interest in individual work instead of the mechanical music of the radio and gramophone.” An interesting feature of the revival was the return to popularity of old-time music, the class of music popular before the radio and gramophone craze. He indicated numerous volumes of such compositions, all ’recently published, showing that the wave was not confined to any one country. The sales of this music had been surprising, he said. It was not the best class of music, but was “a straw in the wind” and a stepping-stone to the higher grades of work. The increase in the number of sales of books for teaching purposes showed that the music teaching profession was beginning to emerge from the lean time it had lately experienced and that more and more parents were realising the value of music to their children, PERSONAL ITEMS. The presentation of an electric clock was made to Mr. E. Newland, stock agent at Eltham for the Farmers’ Co-op, by members of the staff on Friday. In making the presentation the manager, Mr. J. H. Barnard, referred to the happy associations -of Mr. Newland with the staff, and said he had been one of the best of men to work with. He was a splendid, servant of the firm and it was pleasing to know that he was not lost to the company but only being transferred to the Inglewood branch. In reply Mr. Newland expressed regret at leaving his business associates and thanked them for their gift. "TUGBOAT ANNIE” AT PLAZA. MARIE DRESSLER AND BEERY. "Tugboat Annie,” starring Marie Dressier and Wallace Beery, was responsible for a capacity house audience at the Plaza Theatre on Saturday. "Tugboat Annie” ’has the beloved Marie as the redoubtable feminine tugboat skipper of Pugent Sound, with Beery as her husband, Terry, and Robert Young as Alec, the son, who grows up, becomes captain of a liner; marries the daughter of the shipping magnate and seeks' to remove his parents from the tug which is their livelihood and home. The father lapses into his old alcoholic ways and the son disowns him—but when, in rescuing the son’s liner, the father makes an astounding sacrifice, their difficulties are smoothed out. Beery plugging leaking boiler tubes in a flaming firebox at sea, is the dramatic highlight of a delightful romance. "Tugboat Annie” will be screened finally to-night. "Going Gay,” a British musical comedy, which stars Magda Schneider, Arthur Riscoe and Naunton Wayne, will be the feature attraction coming to-morrow. THE KIDNEY SUFFERER. Backache from morning till nighttired, miserable, sleepless, nervous, restless, rheumatic, dizzy, weak, no appetite, every little task a burden. Stooping sends sharp pains through your back; you feel drowsy and tired - early in the day! Your nerves seem “on edge”; the least thing irritates you. Your night’s rest is spoiled by the dull ache in your back. No one whose kidneys and blood are clogged with kidney poisons could be different. Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills are for the kidney sufferer. Thousands have been cured of serious kidney disease by this ' medicine. Mrs. J. Land, 470 Devon Street, New Plymouth, says: “A member of my family suffered a good deal from backache and other symptoms of kidney disorder. The pain in the back was very severe at times; in fact, so bad that every movement meant increased suffering. One day a friend asked me had we tried Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills, and as we had not, urged me to get some without delay. I did so, and am delighted to tell you that three bottles' effected a complete and perfect cure. I cannot speak too highly of Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills, and recommend this remedy with every confidence.” Eighteen years later, Mrs. Land says:— “The cure referred to has proved permanent, not a sign of kidney ailment having returned since Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills were used eighteen years ago. We are great believers in this medicine, and always keep a bottle in the house.” Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills are sold by all chemists and storekeepers. FosterMcClellan Co., Proprietors, 15 Hamilton Street, Sydney.