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SATURDAY, December 17, 1981. commencing at 11 am.
at their Sales Rooms, Duddoll Street,
A Quantity of Vainable Household Furniture,
Comprising:
Teak hatutand with bevelled mirror Midcbourd with bevelled mirror, Dining blos und chairs, Corpot, Silk @rabroidered screens, tea tablos, music
abinet, etc., etc.
Double and Single Wardrobes, Dress- ing table with hevelled mirror, Cheat- of drawers, Washstand, etc.
A 130
A Faw Picees, of Black-Wood Ware
(Wardrobe, Silver cabinet, Chairs etc,)
And
Ona Victroia,
On view from Friday the 16th, inst. Catalogues will be issued.
Terms :-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers,
on
MONDAY, December 19, 1921.
commencing as 10.30 a.m.
at No. 18 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.
Kowloon,
A Quantity of Round, Square, and Flat Iron. Angle Iron, Plate Cuttings, Iron Platea, Pig Iron, etc, etc.
4190
A Line of Miscellaneous Goods. Terms -Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
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Auctioneers.
TUESDAY, December 20, · 1991,
commencing at 11 a.m.
thoir Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, A Selection of High Grade
Cashmore and Tweed Suit
Lengths, Superior Overcoating, etc.
Terme :
Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
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MR. SHAW'S VIEWS.
AN AMUSING INTERVIEW,
A representative of the Observer tried to make Mr. Bernard Shaw talk about Heartbreak House," which was down for production on a Tuesday, simultaneously with the opening of Parliament. The attempt was only partially successful. Mr. Shaw had much to say about the Washington Conference, the command of the sea, Trotsky's new book (which he greatly admires), the solation of the Irish question, and the affairs of the universe in general; but on the subject of the theatre he was comparatively raticent. Only a few scraps of his conversation were relevant to it; and they must be given as scraps without
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MOTHER BEAR THAT ALMOST. CRIED WHILE DYING.
On a hunt one day Mrs. Baillie, accompanied only by natives, found herself in an open piece of jungle and with the knowledge that somewhere very near a tiger was lurking.
The pentance and good works. Morning Past marsliked the first act; it must be very bad. It
Was the second that unhinged him.
"The London production will be the fourth. The first was New York and the second Vienna. New York got in first by sheer artistic gumption, In "Days and Nights of Shikar," Vienna probably because it knew no just published at 12s. 6d. by John better. But for a long time past the Lane, The Bodly Head, Vigo street, Continent bas demanded the first bite, because London correspondents who W., Mrs. W. W. Baillie, the daughter ought never to have been sent to my of a big game hunter, tells of thrilling plays suffered so horribly at my Lon-encounters with all kinds of wild announcements of hideons failure. don first nights that they telegraphed boasts in the jungles of India. The reports handicapped the for- eign managers, who demanded that they should have the play before the London managers; and so that routine got established. And there are other reasons, 'Heartbreak House' is not a potboiler; it requires certain ifficult conditions; for inst- ance, an artist-manager with a very definitely specialized artistic theatre, any pretence of coherent arrangement. not only the requisite charm (every- and a cast of performers Fossessing
"I fired, and he rolled over, but "Why do you keep bothering about body is charming on the stage nowa came back to his first position, when my playa? Is it intellectual affecta-days) but a degree of solid skill I shot again. He tried to get up, and tion, or are you really one of the few and accomplishment amounting to I saw a big head raised, with the very special people who care for them? virtuosity. Such a management and month-a great red mouth-very such a cast cannot be picked up at a wide open. I managed to get a bullet If you want to meet the master moment's notice. Mr. Fagan has had into his head, which rolled him over spirits of the age you will find them to wait for his opportunity; and so in the gallery and pit when my plays have I. are being performed. You will even find them in the stalls.
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"Suddenly," she says, "Mahomed (one of the beaters) turned tail and ran back to me with a broad grin on his faco, saying, There's the bagh and he pointed out a striped back... He (the tiger) was lying down eighty. or a hundred yards distant.
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"He" turned out to be a tigress "with a very short tail, and measured Sft. 8in. and was enormously fat."
One of them, she asserts, almost cried She has "bagged" many bears. just before it died.
THE HOUSE OF REPUTATIONS. "Yes; it is pleasant to be in the "The latest news about Heart Court Theatre again. It is odd break House? Well, the latest is how Sloane squar, a neighbourhood that its third production has just so untheatrical that I suspect the old taken place in Stockholni. No: I original Court Theatre over the way around her. The young ones ran It was a she-bear, with her cubs can't tell you whether it has been a in which I first saw Ellen Terry, was round her," Mrs. Baillic relates, success or not; there has not been built by an absent-minded architect in growled for a short time, and then time to decide that yet. The Swedish mistake for a church, should crop up so raced off into the rhododendron papers say it has; but it had a dis- persistently in the making of theatric bushes I went up close to finish her astrous effect on the coire pondent of al epochs. Pinuro made his re (the mother) off, and just before she the Morning Post. I always bave a putation there; Granville Barker died ale turned her head and looked disastrous effect on that paper; its made his reputation there; Masefield round for her cubs, her face puckered constitution is not strong enough to made his reputation there; Galswor up and her mouth twitching in an stand up to the game as I play it. thy made his reputation there; I absolutely human way, as if she was - APPLAUSE IN THE THEATRE. made one of my half-dozen reputa-just going to cry I have never seen Yes; it is a long play, a fright tions there and think of all the anything so sad and pitilul," adds fully long play. If the spectators actors and actresses who helped to the huntress, and I did feel a bruto. interrupt and delay the proceedings make these reputations, and made I settled to leave a mother with cubs by guffawing in the usual manner, their own in doing so! It is classic nie in future. they will spoil the performance; and theatre; and I wish somebody would they will not but of the theatre rebuild it for, in spite of until thre in the morning. We shall the ingenuity with which Mr. got through in time for the last train Tagan obtains scenie changes if they will let us; if not, let them pay that suggest a revolving stage, for taxis or walk home; and serve there is no modern machinery in it, in Balys Owi Tablots will be found i them right. People who make audible and not enough stage foom. Talk of perfect substitute for the nauseating noises in the theatre should be killed. relief work for the unmployed, if the meduine and one which the little dnes Yes, of course I do it myself when I Government would put them on to Baby' Own Tablets are absolutely
Jikes den atnused, because I was badly the theatres and Bin the stages up cafe anlaulab a for strats and child. brought up in tlint respects but why to date there would be no mistakoron of all ages, and are an agreeable won't they turn me out about the felle do people reedy for Infantile rigest
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