THE CHINA ?
MAIL,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1952,
THE IMPRESARIO ARGUES:
IF THE ZULUS CAN APPRECIATE BALLET, WHY NOT HONGKONG?
By SUE DAWSON
"If the Zulus can sit in utter silence for 35 minutes and then give applause such as I have never heard in London, Paris, Hollywood any- where after seeing "Swan Lake", I cannot believe that classical ballet would have no effect in Hongkong people everywhere can appreciate beauty."
These are the words, or rather the gist of a torrent of words for he speaks. French, Russian and German better than he does English -- which poured from Alexander Levitoff, the well-known international Impresario, as he described the gloomy forecast that his plans for bringing the whole Winnipeg Ballet Company of 36 strong to dance for a week here next year, had received in the Colony.
project wi
with the Canadian
Government.
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every scrap of music and dancing it can get. When Minnouchien Cortcou went to Tokyo for five concerts, tickets for each night were sold out within the first three hours after selling opened!
Serge Lifar and three
other dancers from the Paris Grande Opera have just spent a few days
HOUSE OF ELEGANCE there, and each night the tickets altogether! were quite sold out-2,800 tickets Watch for the grand opening
Perhaps
it is not so surprising of our main shop at Princess after all, added M. Levitoff, Theatre Building (junction of
concentrating his
America Nathan Road and Kimberley Festival and Europe since the end of the Road, Kowloon.}
war,
presenting artista from
classical seen
who has been
He has been arranging selves now. There is how is the way Japan is lapping up world tour for them, nishing you might say--a ballet epide up in London, and has just been mic through the world. Aus scouting around Japan and tralia has three companies, one Manila, getting things fixed up. of 50, one of 45 and the third Yesterday he spent most of of 20 people continually touring the morning on the phone to the country and New Zenland, Singapore. Tomorrow he files. Some world famous dancers, to Toronto to discuss the whole including Robert Helmann, have come from Australia since Pavlova's visit, South Africa has No such qualms enshroud | two ballet companles, Java hos Monsieur Levitoff's plans for one and so does India and many next. March. He is bringing other countries which 30 years Ana Maria, with a company of ngo had never 20 dancers and the complete ballet danced. orchestra they need two France has five and England attention on Canada, quitarists and two Planists six with the пек from Madrid for
unBallet a company of 60 formed a week's here after their appearance in three years ago,
one continent to the people of India and Singapore.
And what about Russia? "Ah, the other. After all, ballet and Right now the company is Russia. I have seen aim of music are universal languages making its third tour of the ballet સફ it is there now they need no words-all they United States, visiting 65 towns terrifcecl But Russia is the
need and cities. "About Ana Maria I birthplace of ballet-the people appreciation of that which is am not worried" said Monsieur will always have the dance in summed up in the illusive yet Levito!! like
discussing father
their blood. Millions of rubles simple name art his children. "The castanets- every year the government E P. & Through Monsieur the music-the vitality. Hong-spends on ballet und, teaching Levitoft, Hongkong may also kong will love Spanish ballot." hundreds of children both the hear the Spanish Tenor, Tito And the Impresario should classic and modern dance? Schipa, and the great Jacques know. He bas
JAPAN LAPS IT UP
Tibeau within the next 12 times round the
Most unexpected of all though. { months. presenting some of the tury's
greatest artists and Those of us who like to deem ourselves inter-most famous ballets and operats, nationally minded about our golf admit to the and next year his book will tell the story of what "Mine Eyes halls of eternal fame only those who have proved Have Seen" themselves on both sides of the Atlantic.
Coming East for the first time
Ana Maria, whom Alexander Levitoff is bringing here next March with nineteen other dancers from the Spanish Ballet Company of Madrid.
Pakistan In A ALL VERY SIMPLE Sound Position By HENRY LONGHURST
In Second Test
AL
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and
11
been
five
world
cen-
Thus, while we worship at the shrine of Vardon, in 1924 with the Russian Opera Symphony Orchestra, Jones, Hagen and Sarazen, we resolutely decline admission Alexander Levitoff saw the ut even to Hogan until he proves his powers over the small onite possibilities of Introducing ball and the close-cropped, wind-swept links of Britain, the creme of Europeen culture to these people who were so The Americans, not.. as he calls it, to suit the circum-coger for the beauties of a work!
decline naturally,
to accept stances, never minding being of art they would never other-
Lin-
Cotton on, similar grounds. In this country, nevertheless, we shall always regard him as the greatest guif player. of his generation, perhaps the greatcul we ever had.
won.
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to
was
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Lucknow, Oct. 23. Fine medium pace bowl- ing by Mahmood Hussain and Fazal Mahmood on Jute matting covered pitch today placed Pakistan in a sound position at the end of the first day's play in the second of the live cricket
"outnumbered" with Iron clubs wise know them a right standard into uniform that you discover assured us.
It's when you are finally put it all in their day, too," he Tests against India here.
and happy to go down the To grip" with a No. 4 where others of judgment, he determined to that all these stories about the India, who won the first Test
were bashing with a 6.
bring the best, and in 1928 Mon- inhumanity of NCOs ure not only The whole attitude about this Perhaps the best compliment sieur Levitoff brought Anragments of diseased Imaginn drill that involves the NCO's by an innings, were weakened
to his method was that he was Pavlova and a few other dareers Hons but are, to boot, diseased mouth and our feet is, in its by the absence of V. Hazure, V.
Cutton turns his band to many at his best in a wind-though it to India, Java, Manila, Shanghai, fabrications of mentalities that way, conducive enough 10 Mankad and H.N. Adhikari and things lectures,
music hall hardly fair to use the past Malaya, Australia and New haven't been warped into any endearing them to us. This were dismissed for 100 in three shows, photography, authorship
tense,
since only this
year his Zealand.
shape at all.
aspect alone of the averago Later he sent bls hours 25 minutes, Fazal Mah--with a disturbing faculty of score for the last two rounds of
the own,
NCO would not, however, lend Later
Classical
NCOs are Ballet
reasonable de very mood
and doing all of them, rather better the Open was the lowest in the Levito taking five for 50
us to regarding them as the Now, as than the next man.
field, and many declare that, If
places and to South people. In our unit the other day
subject of the day In our Mahmood Hussain three for 37.
blown his playing career slowly passes the wind had
and the on the Africa
Middle East, they put us on foot and mouth
column. This presented down to other two days, he would have Pavlova he
several drift.
amounts to the The NCO is supposed to look By the close Pakistan had its peak, he settles
times again, and Ereveal his secrets-and rings the
Theodor Army Idea of getting back to after you, but he is also aware made 46 without loss.
boil unerringly again,
His physique, partly natural,
the composer pianist clementals. For months on end of the fact that Choir, partly built-up, had much to do
La Argentinita, you do your best to get lost in misled from his care by other Maqsood Ahrned did the initial
ORTHODOX
with his success. His round the Spanish dancer who
the
throng, watch the man voices of authority... It happened. damage-in-India's-innings-by His book "MySwing"
shoulders,
the talk of the world, the Great ahead of you and follow what some months ago that one of our 05-6%, Kimberley Rd, Tel: 69195. which he calls securing the wickets of D.K. (Country, Life, 188) Is up trade deformation" from Russian Opera from Puris and he is doing. Gaekwad, who upened, and Gul tiled. "I am not setting out to
youth, were on his last trip to the East In
At least that's what you think. play my way," he practising in his Mohammed with the total at 17. tell you
But a lot of Big Brothers are my swing and offset by unusual suppleness and 1937, the Don Cossack Choir. is Sys.
a unique power of relaxing the
BEYOND HIS DREAMS
watching you and they have got all I will say is The Diber opener, Pankaj taught it to
Results beyond his wildest your step sized up. Finally, the many, golfers, Test of his body while he whip-
are through with hopes
manifesting them-Brass holds Roy, played steadily during the champions even....It is sound, shed the club
1 meeting arid While this was going on, the decides that something must be 2 1/C called the whole gang to pre-lunch period but he went and it merits the word orthodox,
done about a certain noticeable order and told us to march off. soon after the resumption when for there are no mannerisms to wickets tumbled to the medium complicate It."
lack of uniformity in step.
Being a thorough type, the 2 1/C pucers. Ray was the top scorer!
emphasised tha order by smartly closing the garage door behind with 30.
So they
him, Pakistan's opening pair, Nazar to have little to go really wrong stretched and the palms of the
Brother in front of you and we marched off with the rest of Mohammed and Haneef Moham- with it. For all that, he was hands together. How near can
another behind you. Patiently, the gang. London, Oct. 23. "grooved" you get your med, displayed a sound defence never one of these
Ireland has selected the same shuffle by shule, they insist on performers, trying always to play position? His are nearly touch- against an accurate Indian af-identical shots with, every club. ing.
team which held England to af your doing an about inen with tack which kept the rate of He has always been a golong
The other, which might well draw earlier this month for their all the established log trick-work durous enough, but it could be
match against Scotland thrown in. scoring down..........Reuter.
artist, rendy to make up a shot, be entitled "My Final Swing," soccer shows
head at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on his
If you are not patient with an operated upon from the Inside more easily than the Immovable November 5.
NCO, he can get very, grotesquely on one side, de-
very showpiece that the dark little The team chosen is
He will go room housed. monstrating how "loose
patient with you. neck
Uprichard (Swindon Town), out of his way to tell you that muscles con permit the head to
The Cumminghorn (St. Mirren), though it's essentially shumo.
top strata NCO rejoined the shoulders." ride free on
McMichael (Newcastle), captain:
neus in the minimum of time. Only the absence of a vertical Blanchflower (Aston Villa), it's not your blithering business He didn't say a word beyond
lo suggest in any way that it giving us a friendly glare. rope
from Dickson -distinguishes this
(Chelica), McCourt
Yours
Is to lift your leg wit
with the latest atrocities (Manchester pictures of
City),
Bingham
Within the hour We were (Brent-all the inertia in your system in Korea.
(Sunderland). D'Arcy
quietly
The following are the tennis contemplating the_pros- players inford), McMorran Nearly all great
thrown in to disprove the (Barnsley),
whole
fixtures of the pect of going home when a hoot tournament lis being a a shume. theory of lis
screeched by our car that sug-
Ladies' Recreation Club for to- NCOs can be the most patient gested all the Hounds of Heaven day, and next werk:
, people in the world. They will in chase. It was our friend the. move you out of, o section and NCO enreening by in his fivver
ARSENAL V.
This
that I have
his hands.
P
NEARLY TOUCHING Two pictures llustrate this Cotton's swing, it is true to and should be imitated strictly it is at the reader's own risk. One though soy, did-and,
shows him with arms out- rather shorter now, does seem sho
WEDNESDAY
him
elbows in this
with
IRISH TEAM
hold an elementals
greatest favourites among them was demonstrating the NCO at- titude on what to do about moving an Immovable object in a garage.
UNCHANGED exercise. You get one Big Being e well-disciplined type,
their books say somewhere that Mellroy (Burnley), Tully (Glas
the hands are, as Vardon put gow Celtic).-Reuter.
站 the "chief I point of concentra-
tion." A non-golfer watching
Cotton for the first time would
probably, I think, remark: "He
with his Cotton confrms this. "The accent must always be on the fact that golf is 85 per cent arma and wrists and 15 per cent body."
seems to do it all hands."
be
you can play all your life," adds, " you play golf with your hands
Anal
One
statistic which amused as well as amazed me. Before reading on, how long do you think it takes to swing a golf club? Colton's answer is "going up, .00 seconds; fecen top to Impact, 36 occonds; impact, to finish, 54 seconds. Total 180 | seconds.”
What a pity nobody ever timed George Duncan!
Rugger Results
London, Oct 23. Resulla ... of ... Rugby
Union matches played today, were;
County Championship; Ox- Club Matches: Cambridge University 14, Bedford · 11; St. Thomas's Hospital (P... Werton- Super-Mare Router,
Roper, the Arsenal outsido-left, and Curtis, Sheffordshire 24, Berkshire. 3.
field Wednesday's left-back photographed in a tusalo for the ball during the match at Highbury which ended
in a two-all draw,
work
can that
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Today
Ladies Doubles Cap Mrs Vaug han & Mr Pearson v Mrs & Miss Skinner.
Men's Singler
IrCap-w/o B.
Monday.
Sgt. Harpham testines to this day that we jumped at least 7 Baul/P. Andresen v. M. Clinton. feet 3 inches high and. 28 feet long. It was n'world record we essentially liked chout the either way.
That is the thing Men's Doublen I'Cap.-8._N. Garrard de Dr Oliver v. D. L. Ire whole business: The NCO is
piet G. Maowhinnie.
the NCOs throws his stentorian voice across and calls a halt to essentially there to prove to you the whole show for five minutes, that you are more alive and agile
than Then
the smaller noises among
you think you are.
the NCOs
CO. open their expensivo
Mixed Doubles frcap.-E. 1. Rawlings & Miss Robinson v. Col.
Mr Vaughan.
3.
Men's Doubles If Cap,--W [*] Skinner &, G. P... Horlon v. Cmdr.
cigareite-enses and offer yout NCOA are essentially very Laing & J. Wallis,
that
pecule that is
able
ipped
human. other
Tuesday
Orders lasurd by the ffon, C. E. Terry, Comunimioner, Civil Aid Ser- Vie, of October 24, 1952.
Chief Warden-Lt. Col. H.' Owen Hughes, OBE, ED. Chlot War. den, resumed duty on October 14, 1952, and Mr E, Manning ceased to tas Chief Warden as from that dtác.
Command Post Training-Com- mand Post Training, Hongkong and Kowloon, as per training programme. The Wardens Service Orders rued by Lt. Col. 11. Owen Hughes, OBE. ED, Chief Warden, of October 24, 1963.
Training, Wardens ServiceTrain- ing Wardens Service, as per training programme.
Appointments, Wardens Service The Chief Warden has made the following appointments;
4310 Mr Eric Tang, 5120 Me" Tale quewah, 0117 ME NE YUK-key, MISE Mr Wong Ken-ho, to bo Post War- denis w... 10.8.53.
003.
Me Ho Mon-wa00T Erle. Fung San-lam, 615 Me Cheng Chik-un, 514 Me Wong Moon : 019 Air Wong Sung-lal, dza Br Yu. Ping- to a Mr NE Chi-ta), 030 Mr Wor Hok-shun, 061 Mr Ma Hal-ham, 005 Mr David G, Woo... 054 Mr. Work Kwuk.on_001 Mr Wang Doslut, s16 Mr Loule Bik-cheung, 600 Mr. Kwang Yuot-kwong, 127 Mir Tong Tung-hol 3032 Mr. Li Sing-yan, 2003 Me Ma Bingkwan, 3008 Mar Lee Hee-mang. 50 An Toan Dubotal, 200 LINH & ying-lut to not we Fost
we. 104.02.
There was one the type of butt-
his day who surveyed fashion-
gang and put a very human among them in our unit.
inter-long (to be completed). Never Inhuman
one of them. He' E. H. Rawlings K. M. Wong up to this question to stage, the NCOs really begin to
asked his charge when it was
(Tramwayu) v. D. L. Prophet & Y. reck with humanity once every-him to fall out and he didn't that he had last eaten. He told
Chung (Peat, Marwick). body is inhaling. Our particular
Mixed Doubles H.M. off one-In charge
f he had bought ord & Mrs Carter v. 5. Saul of four-was
duty:
Mit Skinner. human enough to insist that we
a meal, would lear in time and that He later came through with
Wednesday. a.177.
6323 Mr Mak Kun-yce, 4315 Mr Chao Ching-lo, 4325 "Me -Loung there w
was a suggestion of pro-an idea that could be put on
Ngok wall, 4300 *Final Mixed Doubles Handicap.
Me >Nau ・WAL- gress In between
we most records, including this one.. w/o Mrs Carter & B. M. Garrards min 431 Mr Kong Tung-chuen. where we He said there started and the current stage of people, in the Force who would Rawlings Miss: Robinson/Col. 0167 Mr. Chung, The-ful fotel De would be few Saul & Mies Skindoor v w/o E. 1630 de Frank Las, D139 Me o blu
him
the lesson,
He told 18 that
all
he was rudge putting aside à dollar as Vaughan. doing was concentrating on our one of their fellows-in-arms month to meet the possibility of nwn ego, boing well aware
ware of
falling upon hard times. the fact we didn't appreciate
·
Thursday.. Final' Men's Singles Handicap.J.
being laughed at just because we NCOS, we repout, are very: | Wallis v. w/o Baul/Andrupen/Clin«
weren't sa smart as some of the old soldiers, "They had to lear
[ressonable people.
RECORDER"!!
too.
Final Enter
Final Ladies Doubles TI'Cap
Wardesü
Hung 3200 Mr Yam Ming-kwong.
puty Port Werden w... 109,02,
bi an chung iCom chuên, 0100 Me Cheng Choung-chung 0100 35 Trun Kai-chen to act as Deputy Post Wardɔow. w.e.f, 18.8.82.
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