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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 622, 27 September 1909, Page 9

__Ir connection .with , the . centenary of Haydn s'death, Miss A. E. Kceton publishes an appreciation of the composer in tho May number of; the "Contemporary Review." Imbued with' a pationt,. persistent, and ni: most dogged'optimism, Haydn, writes Miss Keatou, quietly endured for nearly half a century -the .querulous importunities of 'a shrew of a wife, making the best of her, and wen,absorbing any useful ideas sho niight happen to disseminate. . From his early childhood he was. self-supporting, and until ho yras nearly'thirty he lived from hand to tnouth. i _l'or;the ; next-thirty years ho was almost buried': in a remote corner of Europe in his famous soryico to the house of Esterhazy. "Nevertheless, echoes of his music penetrated throughout Europe, ' Every pertormer working under him grew to love himand it was to them he owed the sobriquet Good Papa" Haydn. In his manner of writing, whether for instruments or voices ho conjures up with matchless skill a change-' ful of strikingly graphic pictures-and scenes. There is no preamblo. He gives but tile, slightest signal, and at once an assembly' of. sufficiently 'well-characterised personages start chatting arid babbling, and right pleasant and lively ara their dialogues and'eon-.vorsatioi-3. He was sisty-fivo when he composed "The Creation." .' J ; A'curious theatrical coincidence: Some years since,- -at..Portsmouth (England), " a manager' man ;was 'producing a play called- •'The:Lost paradise. He had his loading man and leading woman, and he had also engaged a "strong character actor" for-a special part.' At the last.moment the "strong character" man didn't turn up. The manager wired to his partner in London !to send someone in his place. The' new,man arrived, and the.piece was produced with success;' So much by way of preparatory averment. Now for-.tho point of the story. Tapping .(of tho Ncllio Stewart Company) was the manager. Gaston Mervale (Moynell and Gnrin) was the leading man." Marion Grey (of tho Julius Knight Company) was the leading woman. Oscar Asche was the strong character man who didn't turn up.''Charles Cartwright was the London partner of Topping. And Arthur Styan (Bland Holt Company) was the man ongaged to fill the breach. Most'of these navies have a nicho'(small or large) in Australian theatrical history.—"Locust," in "Bulletin." ■-Mr. Charles Warner (member of the Executive 'of tho 'Metropolitan Workmen's Council). —Tho now Budget, if passed into law, would be the means of crippling very many industries, mid mere especially/tho building trade. It is not a'l.ihcral or a Radical, but a-Socialistic Budget. '•■.', ... . Major-Gcncral Arthur Tulloch, iato of the Indian Army, has died at' Jersey in his seventy-seventh year. It is pointed out that M. Bleriot's successfill cross-Channel fight was achieved 1(15 years to a day from the dnte that Stephenson's first locomotive mode its inaugural run. I For Inflnonta take Woods' Great l'eppormlnt Cure, Never fails, la. Gd., 2s. 6d. -■■■"■.•-• Adrt.