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THE CHINA MAIL.
MUSIC DRAMA FILMS
CHINESE MUSIC AND ROUND THE CINEMAS swing long drives and sink putts
'9 CATS IN A BAG.`
Beauties of the Songs
of Cathay.
ROTARY LECTURE.
CHARACTER ACTORS KNOWN
TO FAME.
"HIGH SOCIETY BLUES,”
Character actors and actresses play a prominent part in the cast of "High Society Blues,"
Fox Movietone musical romaance star ring Janet Gaynor and Charles
William Collier, sen., Hedda Hopper, Louise Fazenda, anel Lucien Littlefield have prominent roles in this production which is to be scen and heard in the Queen's Theatre.
A most unusual, but at the same time very interesting, address was given at the Singapore Rotary Club by Dr. T. Z. Koo. of Shanghai, whose subject was "Chinese Music." The president (Mr. Roland Brad- Farrell, Hell) at the outset remarked that Dr. Koo was the most remarkable speaker they had had, because he offered them the choice of two adresnes. either Chinese Problems of To-day or Chinese Music. A show of hands was taken to decide Collier, probably the most on what subject Dr. Ko should famous light comedian the Ameri- address the gathering, and "Chinese can stage ever produced, has been Music" won easily.
identified with theatricals for nearly half a century as an actor, director, and writer.
In his introductory remarks Dr. Koo referred to a meeting with a i man on a boat some two years ago. He (the speaker) asked the other what his impression was of Chin- ese music, and the reply was: "If you put nine cats in a bag and sit on them very hard you get Chinese music.
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Miss Hopper, who comes from socially prominent family, left. finishing school for the New York singe, scoring her greatest success In "Six Cylinder Love."
She has
been in pictures for seven years and has been featured in many prominent productions.
Dr. Koo went on to say that he first intended to explain the folk! Ming Fazenda, starting her music of China. He thought that career with Mack Sennett, has be the music most revealing the heart came one of the most popular and emotion of the people of any character actresses on the screen. country was their folk-music and Littlefield, also former stage folk-lore. Chinese folk songs were actor, has been in Hollywood ten mal written, but were carried by years. Among his prominent pic- ear from person to person. He tures have been "Bachelor had spent some time in gathering Brides," "The Torrent,” “Take It
Me," from the various provinces the folk From
"Twinkle Toes,"
nougs current throughout China, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Cheating and had collected them in a volume | Cheaters," "Seven Keya to Bald- called Songs of Cathay. He intend- | pate," and "My Best Girl."
od to give selections of those songs
on a Chinese flute. This consisted of a perfectly straight tube bamboo which could be purchased for 15 cents in Shanghai.
"FASHIONS IN LOVE.”
for the golf scenes..
music, "Madam Satan," which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will open in the Queen's Theatre for an extend- cd run on Sunday.
motion picture studio should have
It is interesting to note that a
been the one to break the world's chute-buying record, rather than some aviation company.
The chutes were purchased by De Mille to provide the biggest Five thrill of his new picture. hundred passengers escape from a mid-air wreck of a Zeppelin.
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streaming out of the specially de- signed holder.
“Madam Satan" is a' melange of dramatic story, a masked ball on numbers, and three ballets, direct a Zeppelin, eight charming song'
ed by Leroy Prinz of the Earl Carroll "Vanities." It fa Do Mille's arst venture into musica! pictures.
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Invented by a Los Angeles man, the golf robot consists of a series of lovers, gears, motora and "arms" which clutch regulation golf sticks and awings them in perfect form for any kind of golf shol. All you have to do in to adjust the action to "alow" for an eduentional demonstration in Although it has been declared duplicating perfect strokes.
impossible to release a large num- Robert Montgomery is featured ber of passengers from an imperil- in the lending role of the new ed airship. Cecil B. De Mille, musical comedy romanca, which airplane pilot, shows the way in will open on Queen's Theatre, a picturisation known players who took the leap
Thursday in the this production. Among the well-graph Co. Once, Hong Kong:-
of the stage success, Feref."
Included in the cast are Dorothy Davis, Jordan. Benny Rubin. Dorothy Macdonald, McNulty, J. C. Nugent, Tyrrell Davis, Catherine Moylan, Allan Lane, Edwarda Davis, and Roncoe Alex,
“MADAM SATAN.”
"Spring were Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Edwards Tyler Brooke, Wallace Mary McAlister Katherine De Mille, Vera Marsh, Marie Valli, Henry Stockbridge, Julanne Johnston, Roland Young, and Albert Conti.
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Superintendent. Hong Kong, March 12, 1931.
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following unclaimed tele- gram is lying at the office pack" form. Instead they were the Great Northern Telegraph hung in cylindrical tubes, extend- Company (Limited) ing along an exterior deck of the mark
The big order of chutes was not
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Difference in Temperament. There was a great difference in
Victor Schertzinger noted as the temperament of the people of the North and the South of China, technical expert as well as direc- and this difference could be found tcr for Adolphe Menjou's first all- in their folk-songs. The folk-talking picture, "Fashions in songs from the South of China were Love," which will show in the Con- for four days run, light and sprightly, the people be-tral Theatre. ing light of build and quick of starting to-day. Menjou, as the movement, while the people from star, is presented the North were more heavily built, and consequently their folk-songs were more heavy and staid.
He
then went on to play selections from his book which proved his state- ment. The first selection was call- ed Narcissus Flower, a very light air, while the second selection was more dull and heavy.
were
Love, he went on, to say, figured as theme in music in almost every country, but in studying the love songs of China two charcteristics noticed which made them different to the love songs of the West.
Love songa
in the West were generally of love before mar- ringe, but in China they were most- ly about love after marriage, a very Of course, the great difference. social conditions of the East and
The other that the love
that it should be so. characteristic was songs of China were of more earthly thoughts.
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world- famous pianist. Although Menjou can play the piano, he has never played on the concert stage and, in this role. Schertzinger brought Mutton Chop his unique experience to actor's aid.
the
During several years, Schert- zinger was concert soloist with Sousa's band on European tours. His interest in the theatre, always acute, led him to accept the directorship of the orchestra for the Broadway stage offering, "The Following the Wizard of Oz."
of the show, he New York run
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Schertzinger has both: song and picture hits to his credit. Among the former is the famous love song, "Marcheta," and the latter includes "Redskin," "The Wheel of Life," "Forgotten Faces" and others. For "Fashions in Love," his third |
all-talking picture, he wrote two яong hits, "Delphine," which "I Still Believe in You," sung by Barbe! Menjou sings in the picture, and Miss Fay Compton, the well-known British actress.
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For example, he quoted a Bong called Thoughts of Love, the words of which were about a wife thinking of her husband in Winter when he was for away from her. The two lincs in the song which he drew attention to were "In fact, are you cold" and "At night who spreads your mat and folds your quilt," In China love songs expressed more homely thoughts, such as a woman's solicitude when her man was travel-
Now the golf robot! ling afar. He then played a Chin-
The ese love song entitled Seamaiden its debut at the Metro-Goldwyn- mechanical golfer made Longing for the Beautiful One, Mayer studio when Charles F. which, he said, WAR written by (Chuck) Reisner was teaching his ab a very famous poet some 809, or 900 "Love in the Rough" cast how to
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Unexpected Endings, Another peculiar characteristle about Chinese music was the fact that it ended unexpectedly, leaving one suspended, and finished practi- cally always on a high note. An- other kind were the songs which were frequently recurrent in central east China, which had a very sad story for their motive, and were mostly about domestic slaves or wo- men who had been sold. One was called Ten Cups of Wine, in which the woman, at the end of each cup of wine, gave her thoughts about
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