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severe attitude of the Magistrate
and his extraordinary increase in
TUESDAY, JANUAR
“PYGMALION "
74
the amount of bail. Worse fol- THE MACDONA PLAYERS ATP'RAPS-PRAPS NOTI
THEATRE ROYAL.
*SHAVIAN” AUDACITIES ...
"Do you know, my dear, I think I played better golf four years ago."
Yea, Clarence, I remember hearing you say so at the time."
lows, as later the Magistrate fined the lad $50 and said something about caning him. Rank dishonesty, as the magis-}. trate evidently thought, probably The audacities of Mr. George was in evidence, but surely "the Bernard Shaw are given full punishment does not fit the scope in his five-act play crime." Schoolboys are the same "Pygmalion," with which the the world over and this lad was no very highly talented Macdona worse than any other lad who has Players began their Hong Kong Cecil: "I love you better than done the same thing whenever he "season" last night. This is the
my life has had an opportunity. And this play, it will be recalled, in which Cecilia: "Well, considering the sort of thing is by no means can- Shaw, with unparalleled audacity, life you lead, that's no surprise." fined to schoolboys. Of course, it vulgarly trounced, the British '(or should be punished when detect-more likely the whole world-for.
She: "He has a most extra- ed, but a $50 fine and a threat of Shaw, as a reformer, has a very ordinary figure, hasn't he?" the cane for the "larceny" of 10 big opinion of himself), on the
He: "That's so. I believe an or 20 cts. by a schoolboy is out-shocking manner in which certain umbrella is the only thing he can rageous, and such a piece of sections outrage "the noble buy ready-made." magisterial stupidity or tyranny language of Shakespeare and
(call it what you will)-should Mlton." Shaw's rough and ready Mrs. Gossyppe: "Mr. Lazy." not go unchallenged. Hnd there remedy is to place the mat-bones left everything to his been evidence that the lad had ter in the hands of ruth-wife, I hear." been guilty of the crime on other less and extremely
Mrs. Skandyll: "He always. badly. occasions, the affair would have mannered enthusiasts of phone did, my dear” bean entirely different. Theretics-and the trick is to be
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downstairs !"
"Ah! They were on the roof of. course?".
as he finished work for the day, Tis a hard world," said Pat and put his tools away,
"Sure, I think that ivery toime I put me pick into it," rejoined Mike.
ל
the pills any better now"
Doctor: "Is the boy swallowing
been practising with orange pipe Mother: "Rather, doctor! 'E's
an' didn't get stuck with one of 'em."
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Lady. (to assistant in large store): "I want a new dial for my clock, please."
Assistant (absent-mindedly): "Beauty parlour, third floor, madam."
They were married at the be- twenty-fifth was approaching. theginning of December, and the
"You know, little wife," he said one evening, "we mustn't have any secrets from each other, must we, sweet one?"
"No, darling," she whispered. "So," he continued, "I want you to tell me how much you in- tend spending on a Christmas pre- sent for me, so that I can calcu late how much money I shall have left to buy one for you."
• Two business men wère discues-
cribing the character.
"Do you believe," asked one, "that the character is clearly in- dicated in handwriting?"
who apparently had received evid
"I do," firmly replied the other, ence on the question. "For in- stance, you can always tell an ab- sconding cashier by his slope"
was no such evidence, and the done "in six months." Pygma~ "Are you sure this is to-day's sentence, we say, is much too lon" makes the wonderful experi- bread,
because. yesterday's severe and should be brought to ment with a Cockney flower girl, wasn't," said a woman in a Lan the attention of the proper True to his theories, Shaw encashire confectionery shop the authorities with a view to it tirely ignores the human element, other day. being altered. If this Kowloon introduces all sorts of verbal magistrate's experience of 'bus nonsensicalities, funny of course, and you should have seen me dash That night I heard burglars, riding had been wider than it ap- but mostly in very bad taste. pears to be he would have known
The Play that very frequently 'bus drivers Excellently played though do not ask everyone for the fare. "Pygmalion" is by the Macdonn This, of course, proves irresisti-Players, the presentation clearly ble to a schoolboy whose sense of proves that Shaw is much better right and wrong is not to read than to see acted-he is, that of the average adult. in the language of another day, It should be corrected but a writer for "the closet" not for certainly not by means of a the stage. To "Shavian" devotees $50 fine. The sentence seems to this, of course, will sound like us, and it will seem so to others, sacrilege, but a little reflection (except perhaps to shareholders will, perhaps, 'convince them that of the bus company!) as al-a reformer need not use the together, too severe, too harsh, methods of something very close unjust, It should be altered ly akin to those of the black without delay.
guard. There can be little doubt of it, Shaw has much more auda Mind alone can unlock the city than genius. Of course if thing rash until Shantung is clear
meaning of the world for the Shaw is not taken seriously the to him. And domestic politics foundations of the universe are matter is entirely different; but have been somewhat overshadow-lain in Spirit. If we would be Shaw is very much in earnest. ed by other events. The present free, we must think ourselves He is a
ruthless iconoclast, a free. To, the degree that we are rationalist in whose mind there is condition of affairs, however, will ignorant we are slaves. Francis no room for kindly feeling and not remain, for long, Talk of re- C. Lockwood.
that is where he fails. That is call of the Leftist leaders is too
why "Pygmalion" is, on Lt. Col. F. Eaves returned to whole, a disappointment. When, persistent to be ignored. The
the Colony by the "President in the history of the nation, was day may not be far off when Mr. Taft" yesterday.
the language of the people gen- Wang Ching-wai, Madame Sun
erally that of Shakespeare or Yat-sen and others may be in- learn that Mr. Lloyd Kay, the should be?
The "China Mall" regrets to Milton? Is it desirable that it Shaw evidently vited to rejoin the Government senfor wharfinger in the Hong thinks so. Why then does he not at Nanking. With obstructionists Kong & Kowloon Wharf & set a better example in his play? out of the way, it does seem as Godown Co, Ltd., is seriously ill His phonetics' professor is an
crank, almost if an attempt is being made to in the French Convent Hospital. impossible
4 Frankenstein, and his experiment add to the constitution of the Attention is drawn to the with the flower girl is an outrage. coalition of the talents. Which is opening of the Grill in the Rose: Because of these and other de ail to the good and as it should room of the Peninsula Hotel on fects "Pygmalion" cannot be re-
Saturday, January 12. This will garded as otherwise than a ring the various methods of des- be, provided the country is placed take the form of an Carnival din mediocre play, and last night it before private ambitions,
ner dance. Tables can be booked was tolerable simply because it Until words are converted into at the Hong Kong or Peninsula was wonderfully well acted.
*Hotels. needs, we prefer to defer on-
The Players thusiasm about the Disbandment During the two days of the the flower-girl, was a revelation. Miss Joan Höpegood, as Eliza Conference now being held. New Territories Agricultural She is an extraordinarily able Even if only one
Show, the Kowloon Motor Bus actress-one of the best, we firm of the major Company operated three buses ly believe, on the English stage objectives is reached, that of from surrounding points, and at the present moment. drastic reduction of the armed collected in fares $64.45. This CHINA TO-DAY..
voice is magnificent. She should An old professor at one of the units from over 2,000,000 to, say, sum the Company has donated to be acting in the West End universities was a keen devotee
the funds of the Show.. New relations having been about 500,000, much will have
theatres of London, not risking of the game of billiards. her health in the tropics. Mr. day, while lecturing to a class in established with all the Powers been achieved and great benefit At the Central Magistracy this Stanley Drewitt,
A Colonel mathematica, he said, taking up Willson, Pickering, excepting Japan, a national con- bestowed on the people. Although morning, Major C.
was excellent. His his pointer and chalk, "Now, we vention being due shortly, and a there are many, apparently in-... Imposed a fine of $100, or finished style is quite delightful start with this formula."
in default, six weeks' hard labour He is a consummate artist, one of conference in session at the superable difficulties to overcome, on a Chinese charged with allow the best actors we have seen on
To his amazement he was in- moment to devise means for a working basis might be arrived ing the third floor of No. 66, Con- the stage out here for a long time ridding the country of one at whereby each super-general, naught-road Central to be used Mr. A. S. Homewood as a Lot of its greatest evils, it will and each general under him in
don dustman proved himself to be something more than a clever be useful at this stage to turn, agrees to cut down his fight- The many friends of Mr. T "character" actor, and we look A stout woman wearing a very take stock, briefly, of the ing strength. On paper at least, Hynes, Superintendent of Mails forward to seeing him in another tight riding habit was taking her in the General Post Office, will be position in China. In the realm of the balance of power provincially pleased to learn that he is short part. In fact, the whole com- morning canter in the park ac- diplomacy it is hardly likely that will not be upset. But to hope ly leaving the Government Civil any are remarkably able and, companied by her husband. Sud- playing Shaw continuously as denly a button, unable to stand Dr. Chengting Wang, the Minis-that, as the result of one confer- Hospital, where he has been for they do, they are practically per the pressure, flew off her coat. ter for Foreign Affairs, will be ence, it will be possible to cen- he was operated upon, was the r. Terence O'Brien did not ap- fretfully, what makes these but- some time. Rupture, for which fect in their respective parts "Dear, dear!" she exclaimed, content to rest on his laurels.tralise the administration of the cause of his illness,
pear to be ideally cast for the part tons come off." Japan's attitude is clear; there Army, can hardly be taken seri-|
Revenue Officer A. W Grim-of the Professor of Phonetics. As will be no change in spite of the ously. At the moment some of mitt, who played in Hong Kong's the poet'in "Candida" he would be band, "force of habit, I suppose!"*. boycott. The other nations have the armies are materially differ-victorious lawn bowls team at much more in his element. He is revised their outlook towards ent from others There is one Shanghai; is recovering from an loud-mouthed enough, as the claimed the chaplain to the ward-
not quite ruthless enough, not, What! Hawkins dead!” 'ex--/ China and generally accorded re-good sign, though. The generals attack of appendicitis, for which eccentric and outrageously bad-er, upon entering the prison and cognition, which has been with- who began their careers as out-Victoria Hospital, the Peak. Pre- Joan Blair as Mrs. Higgins, the pired. "Why did you not ne he underwent an operation in the manner Professor of Phonetics. learning that an inmate had ex- held since Tuan Chi-jul was made laws of one kind or another are sent indications are that he will professor's very sensible mamma, quaint me " Chief Executive. Some of the rapidly disappearing. The num- be able to leave hospital shortly. and Muriel Hutchison, as Mra smaller nations have surrendered ber of "ranker generals can be Two Police brides are coming were among the cast's outstand. I didn't like to disturb you but "Well, sir, it were midnight,” Pearce, his prim housekeeper, stolidly replied the officer, "and extraterritoriality; the bigger counted on the fingers of one out on the P.&O. 8.8. Mace- ing successes, so I managed it all right myself." ones have not and are unlikely to hand. The majority of senior donia,” due in Hong Kong from
A "Shavian" play is, of course, Awkins, says I "you've do so until sustained improve officers are educated men and London on Feb. 1. They are Miss-whether or not one agrees with been a bad un rent is shown. The only cloud have had some kind of training street, Waterford, Ireland, who is
T. Morrissey, No. 14, Parliament-the dramatist's reforming "Yes," says he on the horizon, therefore, is With their former association as to marry Sergt J. O'Donovan of ing, and that, after all, if not the go to heaven.
methods exceedingly entertain- Awkins, you can't expect to Japan, especially as regards her cadets serving as a background of Central Station; and has in supreme merit of a play, certainly No,' says he.
common fellowship, the generals McIntosh, No. 108, Strathmartine what most play-goers want. Then you must go to the continued occupation of parts of in session ought to be able to road, Dundee, Scotland, who is to The Macdona Players are other place Shantung province, coupled with accomplish something advantage marry" Police Constable R. R. the declaration that Tokyo will ous to the people who pay them McEwen, also of Central Station actresses and actors, and we haveAnd, oh, Awkins, says L.
highly accomplished body of Yes, says he hold out for settlement of out-
A Harsh Sentence
Among the passengers aboard the utmost pleasure in recom-How, thankful you ought to be to standing questions.
In yesterday China Mall it the "Pres, Taft which left for mending them to Hong Kong's have anywhere to go at all!”
play-goers.A MA
And he died peacefully, sir. By deciding to retain an expedi- would be noticed that Mr ES W Seattle via ports this morning
Tonight they produceMàn | oonMagle were: Mr. R. O. Bradby pre tionary force in Shantung, Japan Hamilton, is exercising an indirect but reChinese Schoolboy who
trate, had increased the ball of a sentative of the Oxford Univer and Superman.
was sity Printing Press, returning to ** straining influence on Chinese alleged to have evaded payment] London via the United State
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