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Consultation Froe. Hongkong, 21st September, 1905.
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Įthat, it is far more efficacious; for the veiled woman can and does enjoy astonishing freedom owing to the impenetrable disguise in which she walks abroad: but the Chinese lady who cannot
totter two stops alone is still more safe in the
Oriental view of the sanctity of the house.
IN A CHINESE THEATRE.
[BY "E.C.D." IN THE STAGE"]
During a visit to Hongkong some years ago my host offered an evening's amusement in the
All the action and movement of the thrilling form of a visit to a Chinese theatre. I hesitated crisis before us consisted in the tall form of this about the trouble involved in going down inte horaine swaying backwards and forwards as the the town after dinner on a glorious September old man acreeched his long and moneteneus night. Half-way up to the Posk, amongst the harangue. At intarrals she responded in flower-gardan terraces, the tambling rivalets sharp, high wail, gently moving, by way of and moonlit woods, the night sir was cool and passionate gesturs, a long, thin hand, with exquisite but down there, where thousands of
ads of outstretched forefinger adorned by a mail about lighte twinkled round the wide bsy, one would three inches long, encased in a jewelled sheath.
into a bank of hot air like the broath from
Long and furnace door. In the end, however, curiosity audienos sit this seans smouldered on, the immovable, enchanted, with Ups prevailed over lazy contentment, and our host's
black eyes obliquo
riveted
upon head "boy"a solemn and dignified hinhan the notors. These cabrokers were quite content
forty years of age-took clarge
the with a picture of real life, a real son stretches
à lattice work of precipitous asphalt paths, up and down which the natives of the poorer sort and rare Europeans toil on foot, while anyone who can contrive to own, hire, or borrow a carrying chair goes comfortably swing
coolios, ing from the shoulders of
F
of
sot intently and
From the Peak to the town such as a staghoarde. Thons
So, on lovely night, we strolled out after dinnor, throwing on the lightest of wraps, and stepped into the gorgeously painted palanquine waiting in a row on the terrace. Down the steep slopes we swung till, on the level, in the streets, a stand of rickskan was reached, when the chairs were lowered, sad, alighting from them, we transferred the burden of our several weights to another set of coolies, wie sped with the swiftness of birds down the broad, handsome streets which remind one of nothing so much as the best thoroughfares of the residential parts of Dresden or Berlin. It
is a part of the strangenes of Hongkong that from the fronts of the ultra-modern stone built houses there hang big Chinose gilt sigus and lighted paper lanterns, and that along pared road laid with the lines of an electric tram one skims in a ricksha drawn by a half-naked Chinaman.
dazo
Hotting
manager in to put upoz
in real life upou the people never talk.
"with
the ceaseless Hotti up, orossing the room, moring from chair to chair, to which we are accustomed in one plays, when one is brought up to snok aɔnventions it is very differit to realise the childishness of o great deal of stage "basiness," The Chinese, apparently, have grasped this truth; and the resultent realiam is, to as, incomprehensible and amazing.
mattio
of
After an amplitude of this duologue, the for a few moments to kerall the entrance of n midhite-aged, brown-faced woman, clad in shabby dark garments, who had been standing in the left-hand doorway all alang. This person, taking no police whatever of the other performers, walked up and down before the footlights, walking and granting one of the most namanny songs imaginable. She emiled as the
Woman,
tho not
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walked and sang, winked, wriggled, and stamped LANE, CRAWFORD & CO., her feet. The audience shrieked with delighted laughter, their tone conveying namistakably conviction that the old woman's song reach the perfection of fun without vulgarity.
This
explained our cicerone, samee malliage bloker her long run wo palled up at a big dark said he old not, or perhaps would not, explain. bloker.". What she stone building, in no way distinguished from The marriage-broker finished her song in seme- these Banking and facing it, where a wide thing over twenty minutes, addressed a few doorway flood open, under an immense crimson calm words to the group as she passed across the paper lantern. Passing down a long, wide, whitewashed corridor and throngh re found ourselves suddenly swing doo; performers rose and shuffle Hoor, and all the HING LOONG STREET, (2nd St., west of Central
stage, went out at the other
out after solas staying to
to lounge and talk in the doorways, others preferring to mix with the orchestra.
doors
what seemed the heart of an unknown country, so utterly contrary to drery conception of our own civilisation appeared to be the tastes of the men before us.
Our servant had conducted us to a small pou mated off at one side of the vast anditorium for the wre of foreign devils, from which we survey od & simply-platited parterre and two doen galleries rammed from floor to ceiling. with a solid mase of yellow faces and blue garments confronting a broad stage, which stretched, with est curtains, flies, scenery or wings, right Borges one and of the great bare building. In the centre of this stage the nakedness of bare boards appeared emphasised rather than con cealed by a worn, old piece of carpet spread before a small dais, on which was placed the orchestra. Bat what Can orchestra! It is o tame anki.common.
short, or Chinose short, pause ensued, enlivened by extra be-devilments of the band. There are nu acts in a Chinese play; only gaps. The audience breathed deeply and stirred little, and a few words were exchanged here and there, but the excitement was too tango lot mucha conversation.
A hill in the music, which clearly indicated a change of scene, was followed by the re appearance of the young heroine who, supported by her attendant, tottered from her place in the door way and sunk into a chair by the table. The rest of the company, watching her from the doorways, were
"off," and perhaps to the Chiness The little thin face had been repainted a still really invisible. mora glastly greeny-white, and upon each
that dadighe Plava mord by which to designate temple a scarlet epium water now indicated tho
gloomy company of half-a-dozen
interesting fact that the heroine was suffer. or so of semi-naiced Mongole, arouched their heels on the little platform, each of whom ng. She was dying of love. But before she had apparently fashioned for himself the expired this Chinese prima-doans intended. ment on which he found he could make the most cruciating type, the one phrase
in indulge in a swan song of peculiarly ex
of which took hideous noises whereby to
to drown his fellow-
and sustained, to European 'oare, something conspirators. What
the Chinese ear gratifies the we cannot know, for invariably all travellers approaching one of the most painful notes of the orobestza, by which manovre the chant could native to lands of rhythmic harmonies have
be heard above the deafening accom made loud complaint of the deformities of Chinese mp
Intsie;
and it is true that to Euro Langakdly the gandy little bead
Jeaned
upon one dellosis hand, the spidery fore- Сівашей воед
Bearert pear convictions those
finger of the other tapping upon the table with be enjoying the sound of steam-rollers,
of pigs, no rhyme or reason.
combined fantastically with four
to
Eventually all things must come to an end, minor even this song of Chinese Mimi, which suddenly
motor-horns, and the mangail, ceased as purposelessly as it had began. Quite
notes and one (sustained and Withal, the
musi
from its very strang
for fashion,
1-888, was, in an irritating
entirely unpler ng, and it was eren on catly purposeles pauso,
without warning the horsine stopped on a high note
in the middle of the soate, clutched the table, swayed, and then, as representing real
a
to detect in the next bout of noises a fresh dis pick-a-back upon her nurso's shoulders, and was position of those four chief notes and that borne from the stage to the sound of load up.
it all unearthly scream. Through
a tom-tom, as custom, kept parfect time on its owa No doubt this had been s soene of the
OWA owa sweetest and most captivating maidenly delicacy account and with no reference to anyone or anythe personification the ideal woman for thing else. It is said that in one thiu note, or whom the Chinaman sighs in vain.
For my part I felt inclined to sit at the
of
what to our ears is one thin note, the Chips Chinese play as long as any native meraber of
can detect cadences of sound; and
On
this being so,
it is better to own at once that we do not under the audience, for the spectacle fascinated me stand than to turn from this curious orchestra beyond expression. The charge of monotony. with ridicule or contempt.
is absurd in a performance which furnishes The stage of ancient Greece was not more every few moments fresh and amazing Views daroid of scenic device, than this Chinese of human life and thought. No European proscenium.
side of the quaint play I have over slain as much 1719 fist in the bare wall-imply and naively R. and the Chinese play had ozbausted my companiopa Orchestral platform opened a plain doorway set But it seemed that two or three hours of Land over each bang & long, monster banner patience, for to my dismay I heard thens begin. of scarlet cloth inscribed in large, handsome ning to ask whom the show". would be over. Chinese letters of gold. Further scenery there
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However, the joy www prolonged by a of ald carpet, the whole being ill-lit by a cow of visit behind the scenes, and if the front" perilous oll-lampe which served as footlights, had been extraordinary, the bank of the stage Buch simplicity savours at once of the bluse and was eten mors wonderful, resembling as it dida the barbario; and it difficult to determine cross between an
an old clothes shop and the whether the utter absome of illusion may not Demon's Cave of pastemima. Piles of gandy argue an audience
more imaginative than clothing, processional standards, lanterns of does our elaborate deception of the senses.
size and colour, artificial flowers; green The hand, I remember, was in full blast when and gilt and scarlet and
dirt seemed to we entered our pen; and no notice was taken atretch in endless
the whole place of us by the vast audience all reenwhich sat rocking of paraffin, arrest, heavy perfumes, and rapt, spell-bound, contemplation of a scace of the sil-pervading opium. Half-olad Chinamen breathless interest. Crowded together in the swarmed and jabbered everywhere `or stood at middle of the great, empty stage were they little lacquer tables messing about with small tagoniste of
& moving story, the chief figura
pots of grease and fica paints; and here and among them apparently being sa oid man, there the notors might be seen
A Terzing dressed in arizason and green sills, with a long about in the crash or sitting upon up-turned white board visibly and insecaroly affixed to
to his packing cases Chairs w0:0 presently abavan face, who sat rigidly at the deal table oat from what looked like pilos of talking in high shrill monotoue regardless of
wreckage and
placed upon the stage where
the din of the orchestra immediately behind we sat, Elizabethan fashion, in the vary him. By his chair stood two or three women heart of things, without any detriment to the in rich and brilliant costumes, their splendid reality or truthfulness of the scene. Hore we clothes affording a striking contrast to the waited a little while the play trailed on--noisy, general dinginess. Before the grey-beard a uneventful, long-winded, *Yet, to the most
diminu young and slender girl tottered on
nappreciative, the performance was fascinating tive. maimed feet, supporting herself upon in a strange, repellent,
antalising
way, like the the arm of a female attendant, whose solid first dose of sono ovil drug, and it WAS with a and natural hold upon the earth afforded the curious mingling of relief and regret that we fually tore ourselves from the theatre and osme out again upon the still dark streets of beautiful Hougtong
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