Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16
Bayreuth Music Festival.

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trials are sure to be the result.
Bayreuth Music Festival.
Down at Bayreuth preparations for an
other festival season are in full swing
This years "Postspiol' will last from
July % to August 20. and. according to
the program now published. will include
two complete productions of the Ring"
the first beginning July p and the second
August IA; seven performances of Par
sival, July % and August !. 4. :, 8, IL
and 20; and five of Die Mestersinger,"
July - and 81 and August o. II and 10.
The last-named work has not been
given at Bayreuth since 1899, and there
fore has the freshness of novelty. Hans
Richter. DR. Muck and Siegfried Wagner
will be the principal conductors, and
nave already begun regular rehearsals
under the viglant eye of Frau Cosima.
Apparently the lapse of years has in no
way lessened the popular interest in Bay
for the season sold. the people of the
little Bavarian city are justified in look
ing for a banner year.
Meantime, in order that Wagnerians
who cannot be accommodated there may
not go entirely unsatisfied. the directors
of the Prince Regent Theater in Munich
are also Offering Wagner cycle which
will last through August and will in
clude the Ring" Die Meistersinger"
and Tristan"
A teacher of Nuremberg CHRISTOPHER
Wirth. has given to the world an inven-
ton which may considerably alter the
aspect OF future warfare by rendering
dreadnaughts obsolete and gunboats use
less.
The new war vessel whether for air or
water, will be crewless-a mere machine
of destruction of life and property-while
the operator is miles away conducting a
battle by. means of buttons and levers
Gives a Demonstration.
The inventor recently gave a practical
demonstration before special commit
tee of the German Navy League (F'lotten-
verein) in secluded part of the Wann-
see, lake near Berlin. The system en-
ployed is very similar to that used in
wireless telegraphy, and is the latest
wonder in teledynamics.
The first experiments took place in a
building where the inventor went into a
room surrounded by thick walls and pass
ed his electric waves through the wall
exploding miniature mines on the other
side in the order selected by his visitors
He also fired off revolver and started
and stopped an electric motor and a
steam engine by the same means.
On the lake he worked a specially made
boat from the land, steering it in all di-
rections without visible, connection, fired
off guns which We're board and ex-
ploded sunken and floating mines in the
water
The unnamed motor boat then was
steered through labyrinth of small
boats, the gear was reversed and she re-
turned to her original position Bengal
lights and fireworks were also ignited by
wireless waves and only in the order de-
sired
The wave currents We're transmitted ard
received through antennae in very
similar manner to that used in connec-
ton with receivers and transmitters in
wireless telegraphy. Each transmitter
must be attuned to the receiver be-
fore the current operates
The inventor also has applied his APP
paratus to balloons and flying machines
An aeroplane with electric meter can be
steered from land in all directions a. d
can be made TO drop bombs when re-
quired.
What Is not explained Is what would
happen if an opposing electric wave could
be got into tune and were directed in
an opposite direction. but probably a pre-
mature explosion would occur