BRITAIN'S NEW POOR. WHY MAJOR M. ROGAN WILL NOT PLAY WAGNER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3492, 21 May 1920, Page 3

BRITAIN'S NEW POOR.

WHY MAJOR M. ROGAN WILL NOT PLAY WAGNER.

FREMANTLE. Way 9

According to the Rev. E. S. Keilnl late of Halifax, Yorksliire. who hasi been appcinted pi-iiicipal of the ‘Hark-a in Congl'eg:itio.nal Cihizrcli, Adolai(le,{ and arrived by the Orsova yes’(er(lay,! the industrial position in England is? alarming He said rhai: even more so! than in i\ust.2~:i§in wages werce chasing: prices in :1 vicious circle. ldvenvtliiiigi was chaotic. People were chaotic in‘ their thinking_ Old poltical ])al‘tieS‘ had been broken up. and everybodyq was drifting on a strange sea. The profiteering was abOl11lI1ab1(-3,: and ncthing had yet been done to deal effectively with it, the established tribunals being a laughing stock. But dear as commodities were in Australia they were far dearer in England, One often heard of the new rich, but little was heard about -Ihe new poor. whose lot was becoming increasingly hard. The upper classes were making huge profits. and people- in bet\veell—-par-ticularly those on fixed salax-ies—— were being hard pressed. The tendency in England in indus;trial circles. added Mi-.’Keik, was tofward guild or-ganisation.

__,._..__.-.s;.- .___. “My own pex'.~:o_{l:ll View is tlxat Wagner and all the modern (‘re.l'm:ln composers should be x-igo:'ou.<‘:y bzmnud in. this comlrl')',“ said Z\l:ljm- J. .\l'2lc—‘ kc-nzie Regan, of \the (;‘olflslruunl} Guards Band, to L 1 l‘(.‘pl'(‘.<,Clltuli\'e of! The Weekly Dispznéil. ] “During the war and since my own} bands have never pl:l_vcd 111usic by": Wagner or other modern Germ-. 111 composers, and when I was in Scotland I was asked why we would not include W-.lgncr in the pl'og.r:umne. “My reply is W-.lgnel' had to leave his own coun'!l'y and went To I’:u'iS in the sixties and there ‘through the influence of the Emperor and others En Pzu-is he got his .rml.<i« 11o:11-«.1 in the French czlpitul. ' “When the Fraxmco-I’l-u.<siull war I‘>:'ol<e out \V:lgnr2r left Paris and repaid his frn-Iner }loS!‘.\" kindness by :\\‘l'i:ing :1 bonk of comic 0pe1':1;= heldfing up to ridicule eve.ry‘thing that }\va.< T:‘l‘enCl'. and soekillgg to Ennnxlilat-u Tlll9 Fl'Cl‘.C'.h p<~‘o}fle in (=.\‘el'y ]A\OSSiT)Ie » Way. _ . & “The ch:ll'ucl'el's in the operas \vQ]-(3 pmnlinent Fl'en(:h stzltesxllen, and he ¢_los(*rib(‘d them :13 rats cr-.lwlillQ' out k 01' holes singing the nu-1o<1i(-s of ‘(/)fi’ell- - lfmvlx.”