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WHITE RUSSIANS.
JAPANESE POLICE IN MANCHURIA.
DEPRECIATED CURRENCY.
Mukden, Feb. 22.
CHINESE THEATRE.
THE CONVENTIONS OF A DRAMA.
TEMPLE SITES.
In every Chinese town and vill-
·MDE. LITVINOFF.
BY ONE WHO KNOWS HER WELL
LITTLE IVY LOW.
THE CHINA MAIL,
I have known Mme. Litvinoff all
THE OLD SOLDIER.
STORY OF DAY OUT IN "CIVVIES,"
A WELCOME CHANGE.
The Japanese police in South
"Have you ever thought," asked Manchuria are watching the act age, writes the Peking correspon-my life. As Ivy Low at ten years the Old Soldier, "what you'd feel vities of "White" Russians con-dent of "The Times," plays are old, cycling madly into a heap of like if you stepped out of a bath, nected with the "Russian Fas- acted all the year round. In the stones and breaking what promised and found you hadn't got so much cisti" movement and in districts big cities the theatres are always to be a shapely nose. As Ivy Low as a collar stud to wear? Of course, under Japanese control these Rus- sian "Whites" will not be permit-
full; in the small towns the prise-winner, with a long, heavy you haven't; that sort of thing only ted to engage in political move- and
the plays mane of hair and a red satin ribbon happens in the comic papers. ments. This is in keeping with are generally neted in across her shoulder, going nervously
"We moved off at last, all com- plete. It was a queer feeling, somehow; no belts--no cap pulled down over the eyes-ahoes you, could feel the stones through.. I put my foot in it before I got as far as the barrack gate. Met our Platoon Officer coming in." Away went the old stick under the left
WEDNESDAY, MARCH
"VARSITY MEALS.
ARE THEY CONVENTIONAL AND DEADLY?
FURTHER CRITICISM.
1928.
WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage. of water in Reservoirs on February 1, 1928:-
CITY AND WILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.
Tytam
Tytam Tuk
1024
1027
| arm, and up went the right band! Some of the officials concerned Tytam Byewash,... 26 4" 43' 0"B
16 12.2"B.- till I felt the brim of my trilby. I with the catering at the Univer Tytam Intermediate Leve
2'3"B managed to pretend I was only sities made repiles to my hat instead of saluting. I be- Hecht, hon. secretary of the Joint scratching my ear, and then raised ment made by Mr. Charles E. Poktulum
the state Wong Nel Chung.. 10' 0"B 18' 3"B 23' 1"B 14' 0"B
lieve I saw him doing a polite grin, Schoole
21' 5" 22' 2"B ¡Noto: B. denotes "Below Overflow": though. That may have bean
and Hospital Matrons A denotes "Abave Overflow."] at Committee, Food Education Society, Nobby. He'd knocked his hat off at a conference in London, that
Storage in millions ancimala of gallons. altogether.
the food provided at the older and "Yet that's just about how I was to take a book from u princesa at fixed when I heard they were go-
"The Sergeant on the Gate scem- residential Universities was: the provisions of the Russo- the middle of the road by travel-the Albert Hall at a High Schooling to allow the troops to walk out/ ed kind of lost. You see, for yeara Japanese Treaty signed at Peking ling, companies, who bring their Trust gathering, writes "O. L" in in plain kit. Fifteen years ago that walked out the once over to
"Conventional, deadly dull and ho'd been used to giving everyone by Comrade Karakhan and Mr.
monotonous, il-balanced un- Yoshizawa, whereby each party properties with them.
the "Daily Express."
scientifically cooked, unappetia packed up my 'civvies in a bundle, see if they were properly dressed As Misa Low, the flapper, in aand took 'em home to the Old Lady and clean. He knew exactly what agrees to stop any movement i The site chosen is often in front
ingly served, and indigestible.". a rid Came in handy for young George, to look for-cap on straight, belt criticism that meals were often and Hill District in millions and de- within its jurisdiction directed of a temple, so that the gods can tight navy blue skirt and
Mr. Hecht offered the further
South
villages
#211
very mature woman,
gas-mask-
atie his
game →→→
Coffee, toast.
Tytam Tytam Intermediato Tytam Byewash Tytam Tuk ....... Pokfulam Wong Nei Chung ..
1927
260,44
1028
280.32
.50
1.47
195.00
183.455
722,00
10.81 11.20 21.70 20,40
916.42
Total ..... 1,400.71 1,227,84 Consumption of water in the City
January,
1026 1927 Consumption 220.04 230.00 Estimated population 408,480 418,800 Consumption per head
per day
17.0
18.4 Main Districts West of Enstern Streat Intermittent Supply in all Rider from January 1st to 10th inclusive.
Intermittent Supply in all Rider
Sth to 30th inclusive.
1027
WAS
1028
Recention Reservair Shek Lai Pui Reser Kowloon Raser air. 14' 8" 7" 3′′E
voir
.
against the other. There recently get a good view. Any great na.feulous "hamfrill," her heavy hair they did. He was just about leav not right, and all that. This newgobbled and followed by football cimals of gallons during the month of arrived in Dairen M. Ostrachiu, a tional feast day will be the ocean a mass of sausages held by ang nehool then. Fifteen years, idea seemed to have taken former member of the now de-sion of n play; or some local dig-multitude of pins tapped by a solid, have I been wearing uniform thing away loosened the founda-
some- or some other strenuous game. funct Duma, together with M. nitary will hire a company to per-smart plush hat with a wing, going of various sorts-from full dress to tions of his life-sort of. Tachenko, formerly of the Chin-form before him.
Mr. Eyles, manciple of. Trinity [up to the Prudential Assurance goat skin jacket and
College. Oxford, anid: <sc Eastern Railway, M. In the important cities there Society to her first job-to copy then comes this order.
"I can't honestly say Nobby was
"A man Goumeniauk and some others, and are hundreds of theatres, and on names from one lodger to another.
"I don't know that I should have / success. For one thing, he would that does not know what he is who says things like for some days they have been each stage is a great number of She was nineteen then in 1908. been in much of a hurry, only old march in step. I couldn't break talking about. There has been an busily engaged in the organisa- people. In the centre Are the She wrote hard, wore queer clothes, Nobby-I generally walk out with him of it. I tried changing my enormous improvement of recent tion of the "Russian Fascisti" in actors. On one side sit the ut off her heavy hair, and pro-him-rather faneied his chance.
owa pace-stopping to look in it years, both in the quality and Horvath too, has given consider men, on the other are small boys lished by Martin Seeker, which the ly. I thought young George owed every time as if he were prancing which it is cooked. Hall dinner at
Manchuria, General orchestra, perhaps four or five duced the "Questing Beast," pub-
"I tried barrowing first, natural-Shop windows. That only made į range of the food served to under- Main Districts West of Garden Road able impetus to the movement for who chatter and are sent off on libraries banned. The next I heard me a bit, anyway. He's in the about the Square in Barracks. As this entlege costs two shillinga per
things worse. He'd change step graduatea and the
manner in from Japly in all Districts on the consolidation of the "White", massager.
of her was that site lad been stay-Met," now S Division. After I'd I told him, what he wanted to do hend, and. for that sum a man can tricts from 1st to 2nd January except-
Feily Russians in the Far East and in The scene shifters remove ing in Italy with D. H. Lawrence split his second best jacket across
January 31st. Dairen and Mukder the Russian tables and chairs in the middle of and his wife-and the next, that the back tying to get it on, all I they call it. It was partly my
Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis was to try and look nonchalant, as get soup, fah, joint, savoury, and ing the dietric's west of Eastern "Whites" are freely discussing, the most impassioned songs; even she had married Lovinoff. "the coming struggle with the a baby
coult manage WILS of two may sit on the This was
The trouble is that they Street an intermittent analy interesting up Minas'd given him for his birth-rehearsed him a bit up and down meals. Grace is said at half-past Main Districts Reds." The Japanese police in stage all by itself, perfectly happyheaval-he was turned out of his day. Good tie it was, mark you, the barrack-room before I tried him seven, and we have usually clear- January excepting 3 days 21st to 23rd
fault, perhaps. I ought
to have never spend enough time over their given 1st to 2nd January, 1928. South Manchuria are not exactly with no one paying attention to offices; he was imprisoned in Peton- but hardly what you'd see adver- out in public.
Intermittent supply in all Rider in consternation, over these move-it.
from 3rd to 31st ville. She was much photograph-tised in the fas now worn pictures ments, but they wish to be on the
The centre of the stage has ed with her two small children, in the "Tatler. Bit striking-to
Nice to be Out of Uniform
ed the tables by ten minutes to a full supply was operated on account safe side,
generally a big chair (or some-Misha and Tania.
eight. "It was pretty good, tho', to be courses in order to be in time for
They hurry through the of Chinese New Year. In Dairen as in Shanghai some times a throne) and in front of They went away to Reval, and to mer of ours that does comie stunts There's nothing against the put it mildly sold it to a drum-out of uniform, just for critics are slashing at the police's it a small table; behind there is Moscow, and I saw nothing more in
once. theatres or pictures or some other
KOWLOON WATER WORKS uni-form alleged inability to keep crime in an exquisitely embroidered cur-of them until they came for a holi-jit was a sure laugh, on its own.
concert party.
LEVEL. He said
of form, don't believe that.
amusement. Under- check. As a matter of fact, police tain, of brilliant green and orange day to England three years ago,
It's a graduates do not bother much efficiency has not decreased, but or red, with a dragon osa pea- when I went and stayed with them Pos: Office book before I'd got my tries to run down the one or the shilling, and give them grapefruit.
good uniform, and a fine "It made a tidy hole in the old and I've no use for the man that it. For breakfast we charge one Army: about food. They haven't time for the activities of criminals have cock as the centre of the design. in Norfolk. increased, the to several reasons, The chair and table probably have
self what you might call equipped other. But all the
1′3′′B 1'10"B She had altered greatly. The to scale. chief of which is the decline of covers
Funny thing: now if you you don't expect an engine driver, and marmalade are extra,
well, bacon and two eggs.
Levol 21 "B of the same colour, but young novelist had grown into a wore to ask me for a list of what for instance, to walk out in a suit fengpiao. The sensational col-other scenery there is none.
-Storage in millions and decimalu lapse of this currency has caused
Whether her I'd have to show up on a kit in- of clean blue dungarees when he's much lunch, because they are in Shek Lai Pui Reservoir 95.71
of gallons. Introduced by Mongols.
"Undergraduates writing talent towered early and spection, I could rattle it off as well finished his day's work, do you?'
do not ent
1027 1029 untold misery to the lower Most Chinese plays are opera-led (or lack of opportunity I do as a quarter-blcke, almost. Yet if
Kowienn Peservoir 217.01 281.19 masses, and it is in just such a tie, with talking anal singing in not know, but she told me she had I went out shopping once. I went the pictures. Did I tell you we nothing but a little salad, and they
83.36 "I got real acid with Nobby in their games.
such a tearing hurry to get off to Reception Reservoir situation 229
33.15 27.45 this that crime them, and the greatest actors are the greatest difficulty in writing, out three or four times before I went to the pictures? Well, we bolt that in order to lose no time in celllory and decimals of guilony dur
Most of them eat abounds. In certain districts it is those who can either sing or dance and found
Total
348.10 402.00 becoming more and more danger-well. The drama, as such, has hypnotised by a Russian doctor be-of plain kit consisted of.",
to be remembered what a complete issue did. Nobby couldn't get over the in getting into their
Consumption of water in Kowlosa ous to go out at night.
been known to the Chinese only fore she could get into the right
football. As far getting dressed-I'd especially as
chap at the door calling him sir, shorts. It is his habit of boltinging the month of January Japan and Chini's. Chaos. since about 1300, when it was in-frame of mind.
he looked as if he their food which causes so many Consumption sooner gel ready for Guard any might have been at least a general ills in after-life." The Japanese in Manchuria are troduced by the Mongols; but the She told me little of Moscow, but day. There was Nobby and naturally interested in the elce-ballet has been known since the that they lived in one great room meaning about like a couple
me at some time. tions at home and all are awaiting time of Confucius. Datices were in a palace, and that she
earned young things in a beauty chorus things sitting next to me.
"There was a couple of young the outcome with excitement, in honour of the gods, songs her living by teaching English in aand there, was only room for one getting on too bad, either.
I wasn't The majority of the Japanese in were sung, and gradually a re-school.
I wis the Three Eastern Provinces,gular, semi-religious performance
of un at a time in front of the just telling 'em how glad I was the Mme.. Litvinoff says nothing. She booking-glass. stand for a "sane, dignified Was evolved. With the play a silent to the verge of rudeness
Christmas rush was over at the policy" vis-a-vis of China, and new era opened.
on Russia and its meaning and its by's fault; but he's got very little sort of stage aside. 'Lend us
Of course, it's not poor old Nob- office when Nobby barked out, in The idea was still that of a faffairs. She has seen much, has idea of what's what, really. He'd pipe of your bacey, Bob. I left my their sympathies lie with the spectacle to delight the gods," experienced much, has been through set his mind on wearing a Tanaka government; however, not a few hold out for the "non-now stories were introduced, a revolution, lost a son in baby-mental tic. for one thing. As I could ha' killed, Nobby would have tible it is their own fault for bolt- Cambridge showed that the atu-
regi- pouch in Barracks. interference" platform of the pre-all with one object to emphasise hood during a famine and married said, it was all very well if we were been playing lead in a military ing it so quickly. Many of them dents have a choice from over 300 vious cabinet. "It is in keeping the greatness of the Chinese a man of personality and effect. with the anomalous conditions people and their gods. prevailing in China, commented In every play there was a wick-write again; she will one day give Beano at Eton, but not for ordin- dance engagement at the Savoy: get four courses in a quarter of of University College. London.
But, if I know her, Ivy Low will—or even to, the Old Comrades have to be getting along as we'd become cold, and they expect to
going to Lord's,, or Sandown Park funeral. I told the girls we'd come in late, when the food. has dishes, a Japanese critic, "that the oldeste arbarian, who wore a hide at first hand an account of the ary walking out purposes. There's but I could see they didn't hardly to the food, and they do not ap college, but in
Miss Towle, Assistant Steward country in the world is the least mask, and was eventually out- happenings in Russia which she a very useful hint about men's believe me. efficient, and the oldest civilisa-witted by the hero's scrupulous has witnessed. I know she will; I dress in a paper I take every week.
an hour. They do not do justice said: "We are not a residential tion the least suitable, hence thereiservance of the precepts of the ought to know-she is my sister.
common with all preciate the immense pains which the other colleges of London Uni- is nothing strange in younger na-Chinese sages. This form of play
It's interesting, if you follow it military police. Nobby was more the best he can."
"It was after that we met the the chef has taken to give them versity we do, our own catering. tions giving China the guiding stimulated a widespread hatred of
up. One week you have to wear awkward than ever when he saw hand." Japanese of this dins "barbarians," or foreigners,
spats with four buttons; next week them. Started feeling all round to
Things are better now, but a little
dissertations of armchair critics 3gainst the Mongols and Tartars, pitched voice, though, can be any-well be out of the World as out of sailed along swinging my emphatically state that all the which though originally directed than Mei Lan-fang.
"The remarks of Mr. Hecht as while ago nearly all the meals you're only right if you're wearing see if his buttons were done up, His high-three. As I said to Nobby, As and put both his gloves on.
to the monotony of meals at the were 'made-up'. dishes, and were to the contrary notwithstanding, has now, in the interior, heen thing but beautiful. All Chinese the fashion. So I made him go
older universities can hardly be certainly unappetising. So far as I just what is needed in the relations turned against the modern bar- singing, both of male and female and borrow another tie
stick: said to apply, to Cambridge," re- we are concerned, there is now a between the Powers and China to- barians" from
Europe. and parts, is done not from the chest, officers's servant.
You'd marked a catering official there. restaurant menu, and good meals day is a firm but not unfriendly America,
"The following is a typical menu can be obtained, but if peopla served to undergraduates at one choose things which do not make prominent Cambridge college: a properly balanced meal that is
not the fault of the caterer."
if necessary
but from the throat, so that the
of
of
our
"Nobby's" Head.
I
If looks
proper devil-may-care. hardly believe it, Nobby walked attitude towards the Chinese, butį The old playa, written hundreds sound is apt to be thin and rather
straight by, and yet they stopped in no case should concessions be of years agu, are still the plays of strangled. There are other im-
me and asked me if I'd got a pass. granted to China which she is not to-day. Every one in the audi-portant parts besides those of had. either, to get him to wear quite in order. What I didn't like "You'd never believe the job "It was all right, in a way. I was educatext enough to appreciate.", ence knows the plot and most of female impersonatora.
On the other hand, there are the words of a play before he goes
hair-oil, It didn't matter much, There is the general, or "Man really, because Nobby hasn't got 'You want to try and look a bit was Nobby's sarcasm afterwards. those who affirm that China being to it. Acting in consequence con- of Great Courage." the property of the Chinese, theists in the making of formal ges- de resistance is the sword dance, Thomas had left nearly a full bot- lot more besides.
His piece overmuch to oil; but young Bert more nonchalant,' he said—and ``a latter should be allowed to do with and emotions; there is no attempt spears the fighters whirl round to miss the chance.
tures to represe certain actions or the duel. With long, wooden tle of his bed, and it seemed a pity it just as they wish. This class to make a play realistic.
"I wonder how they knew I was of thinkers are sincerely wishing|
a soldier?"-"Morning Post." jand round, jump, and perform in- for the collapse of the Tanaka. All gestures have become cry-lcredible acrobatic feats - all to cabinet, conidering its "positive stallised to such an extent that the beat of the drums. policy" to be the source of dan-there is a definite gesture for ger to the peace of the Far East. interest of the play lies in the pre-than half an hour. But in one every emotion. Thus the whole most of them do not last more Chinese plays are very short; More Desertions of Heilungklang sentation of what is really a very evening there will be perhaps 12
Soldiers,
slow and stately ballet, designed plays, and the theatres will not Cases of further desertions by rather to delight the eyes than to close till 1 or 2 in the morning. Heilungkung soldiers au as fexcite the emotions. join' the bantic gangs are again;
Here it is that the orchestra their characters are well known All plays being written long ago, reported. The other day 60 sol-comes in. Besides accompanying and each has his own recognised diers belonging to General Wu's the singers, it has to beat time for costume, which, with the gestures, army and who, with others, were almost every movement of the make up for lack of stage proper engaged in the suppression of the actors. A man raises his hand, ties.
Big Sword" movement, escaped the cymbals clash together; he
to
* •
their
from their barracks, fully equip- takes a step forward, the gong is walks on the stage with what is To give an example: A man ped, after binding, up several rung; he finishes a phrase, a drum known as a whip in his hand,it officers, The spokesman told the is beaten. officers that "you are all wrong! While not every movement and but is the whip used when these is nothing like an ordinary whip, the "Big Swords" are no bandits phrase are thus punctuated, all plays were written and the audi- at all, and you have all misrepre- Chinese love a noise, and they will ence at once know that the man is sented the real facts of the case." sit for hours with gongs and riding. Then there are the War He proceeded to add that the men drums going incessantly. The Lords, who always have half a were all quite sick of posing au violin and the castanets or the dozen flags attached to altruists when they are not, hence flute accompany the singers, shoulders, and the "funny man," It would be "more satisfactory to though occasionally the drums who has a piece of plaster across shed all hypocrisy and convert join in, and the cymbals, drums, his nose. ourselves into bandits, the risks and gong mark the movements of being much the same but the fin- the actors. Thus, at almost every such as when an actor steps high There are other conventions, ancial aspect being much the moment some instrument is at up to show that he is climbing better." These soldier-baadits work.
some steps or suddenly stoopa are terrorising the countryside. Glides About the Stage. down to go through an imaginary Meanwhile, the authorities at A Chinese actor moves as no door. The Chinese, though they Mukden continue to grapple in the European or American. He glides can get all the stage properties dark with fengplac problem, about the stage. The most they want nowadays, keep up the Warnings have again, been sent famous actor of the present time, old customs. Metallkan bag to the traders to stop doing busi Mel Lan-fang, seems to float on Attempts to produce plays in ness in Yuan Shih-kai dollars but air. Every one of his movements, European style progress slowly. to resume trading. in fengpino however insignificant, is perfect. The Merchant of Venice, for in which is the official currency of Mei Lan-fang always takes female stance, though it has been well Fengtien" and this despite the parts, like nearly all the most done by students, all men, is so fact that "the official currency is famous Chinese actora. They different from anything: Chinese hardly worth the paper it Is are indistinguishable from women that it is difficult for Chinese printed on How many times when they are on the stage. actors to enter into the spirit of must it be reiterated; that the Faces, figures, gestures, and even it. And not only the actors; the only way to stabilise the fengpino voices are those of woment. Chinese people love their plays currency is to withdraw the sur- There are few women in the more than almost anything else plus notes from circulation? whole of China llamars beautiful end willent dasartiíkem,
PROHIBITE
Four Courses in 15 Minutes. An official at Christ Church, Church, which is the largest col lege in the university, said: "We charge 2s. 6d. for dinner, and we give them four courses.
the undergraduates find it Indiges the food as varied and appetising as we can for the money, and if
Clear Vermicelli.
We make
Fried Allets of whiting, an-
chovy sauce.
1A24
1027
76.02. 83.53 Estimated population .158,500 103,000, Consumption per head per day.
16.4 17.4 Full Supply in all histricts during
January 1927 and 1928.
show that the quality of the water is The Governmunt Analyst's reporta satisfactory.
Total rainfall to January 31, 1927, 0.31, January 31, 1928. 1.83.
Roast chicken and sausages.
In the first round of the British Plain pudding, Camperdown Sam Cohen, London, the English draughts championship in Glasgow sauce; plum pudding.
champion, quickly won three games Reference made to the kitchen against M. W. Hamsuy, of Ar- tariff at another large college at broath.
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