Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-27

sounding word, "Hohenzollernstueek IKE" ="
must ring with patriotism and loyalty,
and be highly edifying in every respect.
The emperor himself "censors" severe
ly all the plays that are to be produced
to this effect, and very frequently
"stage-manages" them, too. IT is q
fact, however, that thus far the kaiser
| has not made much of a success OF his
enterprise The writer's he has gath
cred around him are apparently awed
by the delicate and difficult situation
in which they find themselves,
cramped by their fear of the kaiser
and by their sense that he is not sat
isfied with general broad effects of pa
triotic inspiration, but is jealously at
tentive to every minute detail of plot
and dialogue. The Hohenzollernstueck
so far have been wooden and heavy,
and have fallen fiat as a rule.
But if the kaiser could allow mis-
writer's to think freely and write after
their own minds on the specifically
German subjects he desires to see pre-
sented to the people he would prob
ably succeed very well in his plan.
There is no reason why reasonably
good play should not be produced to
order, as very good pictures constant
" are, and there is no reason on earth
why stirring national history should
not be presented very usefully in good
plays. The German people certainly
like the play that idealizes their own
land. The kaiser, who allows the
classics the liberty that he persistently
refuses to his own pet contemporaries,
organized last year series OF per-
formances for workmen, in which Ger
man historical and legendary plays
made the repertoire. Working people,
fr1fA a
given seats at a very cheap rate, and
none but they were admitted at all.
For the ten performances there were
100000 applications vast percentage, q,
evidently, of the workers Of the CITY
Symphony Describes Flight
A German composer, Herr Auguste
Bungert, has composed a symphony
which is a reply to those who hold that
music cannot describe material things.
The following are the MOTHS OF the
new composition as set out IN the
ANALYTICAL program: "The departure OF
Zeppelin, preparation, the ascent hag-
piness Of the aerOnauts, journey over
the hills. and across cities and valleys,
approach of a tempest, storm sym
phony, the dirigible evolutes' over
Strasbourg, fresh start, a new storm
the dirigible eXplodeS, confidence IA
the future" The symphony is an
nounced to be played at Coblentz this
month and its performance viii be ac-
companied with great ceremony. It's
execution will occupy three-quarters OF
an hour.
Much has been written OF late IN
German newspapers on the subject OF
the improvement in the relations OF
England and Germany as manifested
by the more friendly attitude toward
Germany and things German assumed
by what are described here as 1.-THE En-
giish governmental organs German
enthusiasts in regard to free trade in
England, among whom are practically
all German business men, rejoice at
the prospect, and an Anglo-German
understanding which will prevent the
good-natured and easy-going English
man from inquiring too closely into the
economic relations of the two coun-
tries. The directors of German for
eign politics. however, regard the mat
ter differently, and consider it neces-
sarv TO warn the public not to show
So much eagerness in seeking to grasp
what is evidently only a shadow.
The "Grenzboten" in an article which
there is every reason to believe re-
fleets the views held in official circles
declares that Germans know so little
of the character and nature of the
English that they cannot understand
English politics. It's superior wisdom
enables it to inform the German pub
lie that English foreign policy is eX-
actly the same whichever party is in
power and that the fiction is carefully