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would mean, or ought to the freeing gotten relatives and friends till af eleoters from the influence of per- his whereabouts and his welfare. It alive and most anxious to hear of sonality which some candidates do is an excellent sign. Fow there be possess; from local influenoca whero who do not like receiving letters, a candidate's family, or local posi-The sound of the postman is one of the most pleasant that we know of, tion weigh far more than they and the postal organisation one that ghould in deciding the votes of thou-always excites our imagination, sands of electore. Meetings could admiration, and respect. We would be held and even if they would gland's homily. We would commend therefore emphasise Mr. Buther- their attraction to some extent by the Seamen's Institute slogan, and renson of the fact that the identity make the suggestion that in the of the candidato is unimown, the place where we live, there should gain we feel would be all the greater that there are tho to whom we be a reminder hung rominding us If meetings could be dispensed with must and should writo. Ao much the better. Paper "ammunition" could take the place of meetings very well, and the pros and cons of the questions the war-always right. ring parties are concerned with dealt with in cold and unalterable priut.
With Mr. Gershom WIRRAL. Stewart deferted, The average mind is too easily
Hangkang may be said swayed by a rush of eloqueños to be out of Parliament. True we which, whon analysed, if at all, is have Colonel John Ward who sits found to be one rhetoric; which for as an Independent, although his residenca in Hongkong in length of votes promises the halter for the time is not to be compared with! ex-Kaiser, and when it has obtained Mr. Gershom Stewart's, Tho them, calmly allows the Kaiser that Wirral division is a straggling con- was to go lo-the altar. The system stituency in Cheshire and has long been a tory stronghold. It will be interesting to have Mr. Stewart's coonomy which is lacking in elev reasons for his defeat. From our tions. It may not solve the question own exclusive Legislative Council of election rowdyism. Nothing will to the British House of Commons, solve that where hungry bodies go these days nothing is impossible. seems a considorable step, but in unfed; where unemployment is the It would be intersting by the way gaunt spectre before thousands, and to know why the Constitutional where the imagination is fed by Reform Association's petition was grievances, real and imagined, toons by Colonel John Ward instead has been "scotched at birth."
presonted: to the House of Com-
A fresh Royalist plot in Greece which, so it may appear on the sur- of by Mr. Gerabam Stewart. face, little beed is paid. The war Probably Mr. Stewart is not in promise was that Great Britain was favour of Constitutional Reform, to be made a fit place for heroes toeven if he is in favour of Tariff dwell in. That promise has not been kept.
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ROWDYISM.
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acceptance. It may be argued that a class which has nothing to lose and everything to gain, should be careful that its actions are not taken too literally, and that if it desires liberty of motion, and freedom of speech, it should be the first to recognise these
An Aberdoniau, TRUE ECONOMr. walking down Union Street with his little son, usked the boy "Is that your Sunday boots you have on?
"Yes" replied the boy, "Then," said his father, "take longer steps.
Reform
To-day's Poem.
` (Truth.) Truth is the trial of itself,
And needs no other touch; And purer than the purest gold,
Refine it ne'er so much.
It is the life and light of love, The sun that ever shineth, And spirit of that special grace, That faith and love defineth.
BEN JONSON.
The latest report of It is the warrant of the word, SHOUTING. an accident through
That yields a scent so sweet, shooting
mentions Ae gives a power to faith to tread
All falsehood under fect.. that an impression prevailed that the revolver was unloaded. The impression of course was wrong and the result is a hospital case in which the sufferer is entitled to sympathy. It is probably a fact that many a life has been lost through the class of impression indicated, and the mattei cannot be too strongly stressed that extraordinary
sbould care
be 1784. exercised by those possessing fire arns to see that when they are being examined, the greatest possible care should be taken, especially if there 1811. are onlookers. Matters might be helped if holders of firearms were nado personally liable and made amenable to discipline of a drastic | kind for any accident that resulted from their impression" turning out to be false.
.
The result of last week's com- petition will be announced on Wednesday,
IN BRIEF.
MONDAY DECEMBER, 10- 1928
R. TUR.
is best in humanity. It is difficult for us in Hongkong, living on the confines of a great state which. A HIGHLY APPRECIATED suffers from lack of scientifla
SUCCESS.
(Special Critique.)
when
development; to believe that the progress of science is a peril to the people. But we must "reufember that there is that possible point of view. It is a commonplace that in. The A.D.C are to be congratulated Europe, during the Great War, on their enterprise, in undertaking millions of men and women in this venture. They seem to think their homes and in the battlefields it their duty to select for production felt, time and again, that the war plays that present great difficulty, was not so much a contest between and are an incentive to originality, men, as the sacrifice of man at the on the part of every member of the feet of science. Hundreds of our cost. Their ambition deserves, and leading thinkers have since given their achievement on Saturday some autho:ity to the assumption right amply earned, the hearty that another great war would see support of the delighted crowd science annihilating civilisation that filled the house on their first over. great sections of the night. Karel Capek himself is world. That is what I mean by say credited with the dictum that it is ing that the theme of R.U.R. is a much more difficult to produce a theme in which all are interested a play than to write one. This and pretty well informed. Every statement is particularly true with body of our age accepts the spirit of reference to R. U. R. For his Tennyson's words quoted above. success, as a producer Mr. Lucey We know that our vast modern deserves the highest praise.
achievements in knowledge can be Many of the audience felt that a great curse to humanity, and in there is something of an unusual manifold and slightly puzzling nature in this already proved a great curse to aspects of life have play. Some explained it by saying humanity.
the laws of that the intention of the author had science are made use of with apparently been to fuse the ele-out sufficient reverence for the ments of theme play and melodma spirit of creation. Germany is A clear ided of these two elec- often quoted as a striking example ments is a great aid to the thorough of knowledge insufficiently res appreciation of R.U.R. An author trained by
It is reverence. writes a theme play when he has difficult to
say whether tho some topic which he wishes to exploiters of Rossum's Universal submit for public consideration. Robots, or the Robots themselves, Instead of writing an essay on his are the ideal Huns. One feels that subject, or making it the topic knowledge must grow and grow Another Mexican Revolt has of a lecture, he presents it in a and that, as reverence is not likely broken out.
play. The greatest of our dramas, to keep pace with it, destruction ancient and modern, are theme and misery are inevitable land. plays which take some moral pro- marks in the progress of science. blem as the topic for considera The ransom of progress gets. tion. Thus were our ethical heavier. Butali know that scientific - principles thrashed out for us, by discovery must advance to new our ancestors. At the present day conquests, and all believe that even the theme often deals with some its own great destructive forces are topic in economics, social conven powerless to check it. Such is the tions, politics, or even religion. theme of R.U.R. Shaw's plays and Galsworthy's This lengthy consideration of plays are nearly all theme plays, the play as a work of literature, Instead of lecturing on some pro- as a preliminary to describing its position, they work it into dramatic presentation in Hongkong, has form for the stage. Because they been thought necessary for two know that the theatre appeals to a reasons. Firstly because it is the wider audience than lecturer. proper basis on which to estimate They know that a number of actors the success or failure of the A.D.C's on the stage can present the interpretation. Secondly, becauso many sides of a topic with more a Hongkong audience is not likely. vividness and force, and in a shor to be satisfied with the sheer force ter time, than any lecturer can. of melodrama, but is sure to be in Galsworthy's "The Pigeon" is a terested in the other side also. It more lively and therefore more is impossible to watch the play effective presentation of the ques- without feeling that there is £ tion of philanthrophy, than a dozen theme. And it is likely that dis lectures or articles on Social cussion will centre round the Reform.
NEWS FOR BUSY MEN.
CABLES.
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The Rome Senate has approved
of the Italo-Russian agreement
A train accident in America has accounted for 13 deaths and 15 injured.
"Wild Bill" the basebell player, has been killed in a railway accident on the New York Central, in which nine were killed and five seriously injured.
Chinese students at Home have been urged to study their own language. "They would find it more useful in their future career than any foreign language.”
Mr. David Henderson, former Engineer-in-chief of the Chinese Maritime Customs, who left £22,000 bequeated annuities of £1,000 to his lady secretary and £500 to his wife.
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The Senate has approved the decree already passed by the WEATHER CALENDAR. Chamber, giving full effect to the
preliminary Italo-Russian agree DECEMBER 10.
ment signed on December 26, 1921. Since Boreas and Aeolus, and The full results of the Elections all the demons of the air, are will be found in this issue of the let loose, I shall keep myself China Mail. The position is indeed as warm as I can.-Walpole. { piquant and is engaging the close Alethorpe. We.... have been attention of the Party leaders. Mr. scouring the country. on Baldwin may resign. poney-back. Heaven knows, we looked on our return se if we had literally Scoured it for we brought back 'on our Together with Mr. Mok Hing, petticoats or Troisiemes many the team manager, the South China A pound weight of my own footballers returned from their native soil, well diluted with Australian tour on Saturday after rain, water, alias mud. The noon by the s.s. Arafura" and day was fine, and we brave were welcomed ashore by their ones enjoyed it vastly.-Lady colleagues. Lyttleton.
Some men are HIS APPROVAL. reluctant to ex- press their opin- ion about others, whether they are dead or alive... A company was talk. 1844. ing about a departed acquaintance. One asked another, an American: "Are you going to attend his "No." the American funeral" replied, "but the proceedings have my entire approval !"
Mr. Suther- WATTING HOME. land's speech at the Bt.
'A person will do things when one admirable precepts and show that it Andrew's Ball earns high marks for of a crowd that be or the would not believes in them by its own unques- its note of simplicity and sympathy, dream of doing if alone. Individuality tioned examples. This may be ask- and ita homely urge to write
·
The weather is something too bitter; there is a slight sprinkling of snow this morn ing, but the frost has been to hurl for some days that they; are skating in the green park and the Regent's park Hon. E. Stanley.
THE OAK.
Dramatic Club presents the famous Robot Play the "RU.R." 9.15 p.m.
p.m.
SPORT.
Who never to himself has said
theme.
MELODRAMA.
THE ACTING. Melodrama is a word that requires
The chief burden of the acting, less explanation. Everybody now as of the whole production, falls. adays knows what molodrama is by on Mr. Lucey who plays Domain. seeing it on the films. A melo- It is a very difficult part to play. drama is simply a play which holds Domain finds himself in the happy our interests by sudden, surprising, position of being head of a firm and alarming occurrences. melodrama we are not particularly scientific invention Rossum's In which is exploiting the latest interested by the characters, for Robots. As such, Domain is self- their human qualities, nor in what satisfied, exuberant, and very much they say but simply in what they at his ease., do, and in what happens to them. to play the part of a flippant, de- So that Mr. Lucy has Melodrama holds our attention by bonair, and immaculate young visible action; by events that are thruster. But at the same time he thrilling.
has the unhappy task of getting As is well-known it is usually through a long and difficult. ex- assumed that theme plays appeal position of what Robots are, and to highbrows and melodrama to who are associated with him in his others. But melodrama in fact business.. This a very beary appeals to everybody, who goes to strain imposed by the author of a theatre with, as every theatre the play on the actor of the biggest patron ought to go, a mind part It is not easy for éven susceptible to dramatic effects, an accomplished actor like One is tempted to travesty the Mr. Lacey to display unforced: lines of the poet by saying,
jole-de-vivre in such circum- "Lives there a man with soul so stances. But it is essential
dead
to the dramatic effect of the pleco- that he should do so. In proportion This a thrilling melodrama"
as he is a light-hearted gay frivolous The appeal of melodrama is creature flitting on the surface of universal. Of a theme play on the things, so is his death tragic, when other hand, one must frankly con- the creatures beneath the surface December 10.-Social evening fess that it appeals only to those rise and destroy him. Then again, and entertainment in St. Andrew's who are interested in the theme it is not easy for a man to support Church Hall, Kowloon, 9 p.m. under discussion. Unless a man two acts of a melodrama in which
December 11-Lecture on s
the Interested fri
effects the author has omitted to provide Christian Science, in Chamber of of prison life Galsworthy's the shocks and surprises which are Commerce Room, City Hall, 5.30 "Windows" will leave him the usual material of melodrama. cold. Just as a man who is Mr. Lucey has in a sense, and by December 15-Dance at Peak uninterested and uninformed about his own personality, to make the The cok growa silently, in the Club.
Mathematics will find it difficult to play interesting where the author home.' It must have touched forest, a thousand years; only in the December 18. Hongkong sit out a lecture on Relativity:has failed is lost and the spirit of the mob org too much and the question shifts many a man who heard it, and prob- thousandth year, when the wood- Philharmonic Society, Grand Con- Whereas a man onthusiastic about Lucey's powers crowd rules the whole of its com-itself to the responsibilities of those ably many a woman. Coming out man arrives with his axe, is there cert, Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m. political dreams may even enjoy need no higher tribute than. ponent parts, until either it has who profess to lead and to teach the East is, at first, a glorious adven- heard an echoing through the sali
every word of an endless lecture that he succeeds. Ho gets Our letters and postcards tudes; and the ook sundances itself December 11-Lammert Bros., on the League of Nations, The through this period of oxposition, exhausted itself oc boen disbursed by sections of democracy enumoured of ture. the hand of law, or the swift know different doctrines. That is a ques. from the skip are messages of wild when, with far-sounding crab, it at Sales Roums, handkerchief, first requisite for enjoying a theme rapidly but clearly, and to char- enthusiasm and delight. The inci. Į falls. How silent, too, was the knitting needles, ricksha tyres, and play is to know what the theme is acter. There is no evidence of that ledge of the consequences of its tion we are not prepared to argue, dents of the passage, the sporte, the planting of the acorn; scattered naphtaline balls, II a.m.
and have soma interest in it.
self-restraint which would be quite December 12.-Lammert Bros,, 'a action. Whilst we may regret to but we may venture ano suggestion concerts, the food even, the charm from the lap of some wandering
The bearing of all this on RU.Rout of keeping with Mr. Domain's read the cabled news of the series of arising out of the present, or lusting officers, the eccentricities of wind! Nay, when our ook flowered, large selection of toys, at Sales Is that you can take the play as a character, but is almost inevitable
fellow-passengers, are all set down or put on its leaves (ite glad events), Room, 2.30 p.m.
melodrama and find it, except for in the acting of so difficult a part. acts of rowdyiam which have election, which, if adopted might faithfully as we seo and know them, what shout of proclamation could
December 21-Lammert Bros., alittle. slowness in the opening Mr. Lacey lets himself go. As he characterised the General Election lead to a reduction of scenes of and friends at home are of course there be? Hardly from the most property, machinery plant and stages, capable of administering lets himself go he scores. After at Home in various parts of the unnecessary rowdyism and make angled to get our screeds and perhaps observing a word of recognition. tanning chemicals of the Hong the requisite thrills of sufficient succeeding in investing the open
But you ing exposition with humour and Arrived at Those things befel not, they were kong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd, strength and number. envy us not a little. country, it is probably just as well eloction maro representative"-e
Hongkong and
will not get the whole effect charm, Mr. Lucey flade the third settling in are slowly done.
COMPANY MEETINGS, not to take the matter too seriously. popular feeling than it seema to buy themes that occupy us, and when
of the play, unless you have some scene, which the author had amply December 12-Hongkong notion of the subject matter as a invested with excitement, a com- We may well regret that attacks at present. Our anggestion is that the beauties of the place unfold
Jockey Club, half-yearly_general theme. have been made on women, but no candidate should be adopted for shoulders with the natives, and our
paratively easy triumph. He thus themselves to us, and we ruh
meeting, in the Board Room of
THE THEME
adds a third and very novel success being charitable, and knowing from any constituency before an election servants appear so quaint cur letters
Messrs Jardine, Matheson and Co, The theme of this play is one to his already registered achieve Ltd., 5 p.m. ¡extraordinary general | that is active in the minds of ments in such different parts as experience the bitter passions which taken place. It will be for the simply brim over with interest.
meeting, 5.15 p.m. can be mused no certain classes of different political partica in a divi- Other things begin to interfere.
December 18 and January 4 theme neither of religion nor sex
every observer of our era. It is a Bobby and Prospero.
Helena Glory is played by Mrs. people, and certain types of intellect, ainn, to indicate that they wish their time, and the round of social and Our new found friends accupy our
Extraordinary general meeting of nor politics nor eugenics, but of a Lucey Helens is a terrifying we may well say ...for they viowe to be taken into account in a sporte engagements make us a little ENTERTAINMENTS. the Kowloon Land and Building perfectly general nature. It might young thing at the beglaning of the Company,* Limited, at 5, Queen's be summed up as" acfence is a good play. In this connection we think know not what they do." o
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servant but a bad master", or in the that there is something out of keep- misttex cannot stop at that, of election, and ballot papers will be tired physically. Letters in num- ber become less and fesd This
"Way Down East."
December 20-Fifth ordinary words of Tennyson.
ing about a feminist social agitator....... marked Conservative," "Liberal, malversary, is forgotten that birth courao. If people cannot be removed
December 10-S
Thenugri-meeting of the China-Light Power + ** Locknowledge grow from more wearing a rekli Bat-thot ka kary)- "Labour," should there be three day ignored, and our friends and Itailan Grand Opera Co., in Co. (1918) Ltd, at St. George's to more.
Capok's conception, and is perhaps who are unable to control thom selves, no matter what the occasion aspiranta for parliamentary profit in and out of our memories at December 8-World Theatre;
relatives became faint ghosts which "Tosca" at 9.15 p.m.
Building, Chater Road, 11 am, ***. But picre of reverence in us in accordance with tradition in his part of the world. Helena Glory may be, it is for those concerned to sentation. It will be for the success odd momenta. The Seamen'e In-Bosale Barriscate in The Lick December 10-Queen's College Those who have read that daljgħ. begins by wishing to agitate on he- Lee what can be done to remove the ful party to nominate its member stitute on the Praya, Boat, had, it of Geraldine Baird."
"Old Boys' Ausen, meeting in the ful satiro Brewhon will remember half of Robots rights. But later on, December 8.--Tha Grand College Hall, 5:30 pm." the that it was found advisable) at 48 Hèlent Domain, she is converted. causes which lead to these scenes of after the election has taken place. probably still has a sign which reads dinckler and damage, and do ao This probably sounde utopian. If something to the affect "Don't for Theatre Gladys Walton in The December 10-Hongkong Foot certain stage the history of that to in enjoyment of pro
get tą write bome. It is hung Love Letterman den ball Interport Rugby meeting at to make the cause of might perlians rub an election of prominently and most have remind December 10-12-15-fheatre Mesra Jardine Matheron Board country to destroy al marhines the fruits of hat abe
Hongkong Amateur room 5.30 p.mic democracy wither, and difficult of some of its personal interest, but it ed many a nailor-man of long-far | Royal,
much
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