18 AUGUST 1928, page 11

Music

THE thirty-fourth season of Promenade Concerts, which opened last week, provides for forty-nine concerts, of which about twenty-five will be broadcast. The changes in the scheme......

Gramophone Notes The Reverse Of The Record Is Devoted To

"Bella figlia " from Rigoletlo, admirably sung by Galli-Curci, Homer, Gigli, and de Luca. The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra can be heard in a transcription of Bach's organ......

The Cinema

" WARNING SHADOWS," AT THE AVENUE PAVILION. IT is comforting that, during this dead season, when cinema programmes are for the most part lamentably dull, there is at least one......

The Younger Son

[This is another of the stories submitted for our recent competi- tion. — En. Spectator.] F RAU SCHULTZ sat in her high-backed chair at the window, knitting. For twenty years......