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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2232, 19 August 1914, Page 7

Jolm Power, whose police list consisted of -79 convictions; was charged at the Magistrate's Court yesterday with stealing twenty-four shillings' worth of .tobacco from tbo shop of Hop Fook Chong. Tho Magistrate granted Power's request for a prohibition order and', added a sentence of threemonths' imprisonment. Felix Weipgartner, the eminent composer and conductor, has been appointed general musical director of the Darmstadt Conservatory by the Grand Duke of Hesse. Weingartner has in view a number of very important changes at the Darmstadt Conservatory, including on examining hoard of eminent musicians. The new director will take the composition class Hinder hie personal" Carl Flesch, the violinist will have the violin class; Wilhelm Bachaus, the piano class; and Hugo Becker, the 'collo class. Darmstadt is a city of about the same population as Wellington, but artistically is '. "rent t" ,r i f i"P. Graham Moffat tells many interesting and humorous stories about his play, ''Bunty Pnlls the Strings," which is to bo staged at Melbourne King's Theatre "Here is one," says Mr. Moifat, "which will appeal to people as showing how careful we Scots are. It was in London, and a big Scotchman went up to the booking office and 'asked the price of the seats. "Sevcn-and-sis," said tho clerk. "Jlon, d'ye mean it? Scven-and-six for a Scotch play? Well, whether yo mean it or not I'm poin' to the gallery;" A man from Australia but who had spent his boyhood days in Scotland was on a trip to"his-native heath, ne had seen tho play 31' times, but it was not until his thirty-first visit that he discovered a flaw. He found out that the neck of a decanter used in tho play was too lons. He communicated his discovery to the manager, "and," said Mr. MolYat, "wo altered it—he waa guito right,