HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1954
dramatic groups broadcast by Radio Hong Kong. 41 schools including eight rural schools took part in the Inter-School Dramatic Competitions. The organizing committee and panels of judges were composed of representatives of the adult dramatic groups in the Colony.
A Shakespeare Society was founded in the year under review and there were also performances of ballet and pantomime.
The British Council maintained an active interest in most local cultural groups and held exhibitions of paint- ings and lithographs and arranged lectures by experts on art, literature and the sciences. The Council main- tains a library and reading room, a film and film strip library, and a library of records, prints and pictures. About forty local clubs and institutions other than schools borrowed from the film and film strip library.
The Hong Kong Art Club held monthly exhibitions and is proposing to extend its activities by arranging classes in modelling and sculpture. The Hong Kong Artists' Group was formed by seven experienced Chinese artists who intend to give exhibitions of their own work or that of other artists, including Chinese traditional painters.
A selection of paintings by children from Hong Kong schools was sent to an international exhibition of children's arts at Bandung, Indonesia.
In one branch of the arts, photography, work by residents of Hong Kong was acclaimed internationally to be of outstanding merit. In the list of top ranking exhibitors given in "Who's Who in Pictorial Photo- graphy 1953" four of the first ten were from Hong
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