The bulletin

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NX 252
Created/Published
Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 75 No. 3889 (25 Aug 1954)
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Contents

The Bulletin 1
Seppelts MANY A GRAND OPERA HAS HAD ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT COVENT GARDEN 1
Advertising 1
The Red Page LIGHTS ON THE HILL 2
Plot and Substance 2
Displaced Persons 2
Russian Ballet 2 , 35
Reviewed Briefly 35
Advertising 3
The Bulletin 4
BUDGETING UNDER DIFFICULTY 4
Not So Block 4
Study in Degeneration 4 , 5
PLAIN ENGLISH A Might-have-been Treasurer 6 , 7
POLITICAL POINTS 7
Society AND IT'S PRINTED WITH WIMBLES INKS 8 , 9
MANY MANSIONS 8
NOT THEIR DISH 9
“FEATHER YOUR NEST” 9
PERSONAL ITEMS 10
No title 11
ABORIGINALITIES 12 , 13
TO THE NEW AUSTRALIAN 12
Bullocks for Boys 12
SUMMER NOON 13
AN UNRAVELLED MYSTERY 13
Business. Rollery. Etc. 14
Advertising 14
London Airmail 15
Advertising 15
The WILD CAT COLUMN 16 , 17
Advertising 16 , 17
Women's Letters 18
SYDNEY 18
SUNDRY SHOWS Stage and Music 19
Artbursts 19
Talkies 19
Advertising 19
Brief Memorial 20 , 22
Advertising 21 , 22
WINDANG ISLAND 22
GOOD MAN with HORSES 23 , 34
TIME LIMIT 23
Advertising 23
SERVICE DEPARTMENT Wants 24
Advertising 24
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 24
Advertising 24
Shackleton at His Greatest Antarctic Epic 25
VARIOUS VERSE REDGUMS AT NIGHTFALL 25
THE WATTLE-TREE 25
BIRD SANCTUARY 25
SPORTING NOTIONS 26
Advertising 26
Queensland Jungle Hike Over the Range 27
Racing Coup of the ’Eighties Redford’s "Brumby” Filly 27 , 34
UNCABLED ADDITIONS NO TAKERS 28
Russian and U.S. Manpower 28 , 29
Advertising 28
"Hot Ashes" 29
Dragnet Digest 29
Advertising 29
THE OTHER FELLOW'S MIND 30 , 31
THE MAN ON THE LAND "DON'T WORRY, I'M SENDING IT TO GRAZCOS." BRISBANE SHOW 32 , 33
Advertising 32 , 33
The Weather 33
Advertising 33 , 34 , 35
“THE BULLETIN” CROSSWORD No. 292 35
M. V. AGRICULTURAL NEW 36
NEW ELECTRONIC ADVANCES EVERY DAY SCIENCE TAKES ANOTHER GIANT STRIDE IN THE ADAPTATION OF ELECTRICITY TO THE NEEDS OF MODERN LIVING AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS... 36
COUNTRY-DWELLERS SHARE IN BENEFITS OF THE LATEST LABOUR-SAVING INVENTIONS 36
EXPERTS TEST LIGHTING-PLANTS 36
Precision Engineering and Scientific Testing Mean Sound, Reliable Plants 36
Advertising 36

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The Bulletin  

ANTARCTIC EPIC-mge 25  

*The Bulletin,” Vol. 75—No. 3889  

Wednesday, August 25, 1954  

Price 9d.  

r. „ mc Australia, for transmission by Post as Newspaper  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W.*  

Seppelts  

MANY GRAND OPERA HAS HAD ITS  

WORLD PREMIERE AT COVENT GARDEN  

NEAR the heart of London’s West End,  

between the Strand and Long Acre, is  

Covent Garden—a Square occupied on one  

side by the largest vegetable, fruit and flower  

market in Britain, and on the other by the  

Royal Opera House, one of the world most  

celebrated opera houses. Both these institutions  

have flourished side by side for centuries on  

site which was originally occupied by the Abbot  

of Westminster’s Convent Garden of which  

the present name is corruption.  

Covent Garden used to be fashionable  

promenade but following the incursion of the  

vegetable and fruit vendors the people ot  

fashion moved to more exclusive surroundings  

further west, but the theatre stood its ground  

and its reputation continued to grow throughout  

the years.  

For generations past the greatest names in  

opera have sung at Covent Garden and the  

Royal Opera House, with its grand staircase  

and its rich red and gold auditorium, remains  

treasured architectural period-piece.  

In 1732 Covent Garden Theatre, as it was  

then known, was opened by celebrated  

harlequin, named John Rich. The first play to  

be staged there was Congreve’s Way of the  

World, and this was followed by Thomas Arne’s  

Artaxerxes. Handel, the great musical com-  

poser, lived in London for nearly fifty years  

and it was at Covent Garden that most of his  

oratorios were produced; his Atlanta was per-  

formed there by Royal command in 1736.  

Fire destroyed Rich’s Covent Garden theatre  

in 1808. The theatre was rebuilt the following  

year and in 1817 Mozart’s Don Giovanni and  

The Marriage of Figaro were produced; in the  

following years many other operas had then  

first performances at Covent Garden. By 1848  

opera had become firmly established. II Trova-  

tore appeared in 1855 and the following year,  

while masked ball was in progress, the theatre  

was again destroyed by fire.  

The present building, with its impressive  

Corinthian colonnade, was designed by E. M.  

Barry and built in 1858, few of the famous  

names associated with Covent Garden were  

Garrick, Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Edmund Kean,  

McCready, Helen Faucet and Melba, who first  

appeared there in 1888.  

Today, Covent Garden is national opera  

house, open all the year round at reasonable  

prices for both opera and ballet. The reputation  

of the latter has risen to unprecedented heights,  

for the resident company is the world-famous  

Sadler’s Wells Ballet. One of the most brilliant  

of the many Coronation festivities during 1953  

was the gala first performance of Benjamin  

Britten’s Gloriana, attended by H.M. the Queen,  

the Duke of Edinburgh and other members ot  

the Royal Family.  

THE HOUSE  

 

OF SEPPELT  

PRODUCERS OF  

EXTRA DRY SOLERO • ROYAL PURPLE PARA  

CHATEAU TANUNDA BRANDY • GREAT WESTERN CHAMPAGNE  

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