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THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY Jan, 1918
THE COMEDY OF THE 'POWERS IN CHINA.
Mm. Archibald Little, writing from Peking to the London Daily Ne142, observes:-
After hearing the exactly opposite opin ions of Shanghai and Hankow, the mind is bewildered, even the facts having become kaleidoscopic. Presently it may be pos sible to form a correct judgment, helped by Chinese rather than European opinion. But why does not launch depict the comedy in Peking? Only a comic paper could. It is not the Chinese who are Iudicrous, howeror, it is the European Powers, with their accredited representa tives. As the gods beside their nectar, so they recline in their lordly Legations. Legates to whom? Accredited to what? To the People of China. Then, indeed, i rust they think China has advanced by! means of its revolution beyond the success attained by any nation yet-government by the people for the people. But even to express it we are obliged to slip in the word "government." To what govern- ment, then, are all this host of diploma tists from all the countries of the world accredited? With whom do they transact business? Why all this difficulty about recognising the Republic-the only form of Government in China for a year past, and which, though it may be modified or altered in various ways, is certainly the only Government in China now, the country to which all these Ministera Plenipotentiary have been sent, and with which, and through which, they all are transacting their countries' business, yet holding their hands before their faces, poeping between their fingers, and, "We don't see parrot-like, repeating:
you. We can't recognise you"!?
There are so many tragedies in life, it is a comfort to came upon something wholly humorous, for it does nobody much harm, and only worries the Chinese. And if the position of the Diplomatic Corps, remaining in their Peking, palaces, up- holding each his own Government's interests in connection with a figment of the brain-a creation that has not been created, a Government that they each maintain is not governing does not even exist if that position is not ludicrous, at least let us bear which position in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas ever rivais it. To put it on the stage just exactly as it is played in Peking would bring down the house. But bere it does not even raise a smile. People are too full of the difficulties. And so the great opportunity of helping China is lost, when help might really be useful.
ABOUT THE DRAMA.
EASTERN AND WESTERN MODES OF THOUGHT.
Under the heading of "The Drama in Japan and in England," Yoshio Marking
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With regard to actors and actresses, ho urges that their triumph ought to be absolutely independent from that of the dramatists-that is to say, the genuine actors can perform their arts successfully in a poor drains and at the same time the genuine dramas cannot give poor actors the reputation. However, if the drama itself is shallow it cannot give mnch variance to the different actors They all come nearly same to each other, and if the drama is great, every actor acts differently. All
the because great dramatists give the chance to the actors to net, and the aetors can show their art freer.
Continuing, he says:-I think Japanese actors are having better time than the English actors. For the playgoers' point of view is different between two countries, I often hear the English people say, 0, I am tired and feel dull. Let's go to the They go to the theatre theatre to-night. for refreshing. The Japanese would say, "O. I don't feel well enough to go to the theatre today." They go to the theatre as their hard work all day, and they have the tendency to prefer seeing
ASTRONOMICAL ERRORS.
It is almost useless to say the English stage sceneries are far progressed in the reality. And above all, you have the advantage of introducing the expert electricians. Such as Prof. Reinhardt's productions are the great triumph of its art. However, I am not always satisfied with the English stage sceneries. Some- times they are vulgar rather than real and sometimes they are hideous beyond words. Here I have no space to give you my criticism on each scenery I have seen. But one thing I must mention, that is the utter ignorance of the about astronomy on the English stage. Some- times I see the curve of the crescent in the opposite way. And O those "stars"! The scenery painters put them profusely and indiscriminately and make them twinkle too much altogether.
You may paint the pebbles on the sea-
shore, in any way as you like. But the stars should be in order according to the Even the sebool children Astronomy.
know where should be the prominent stars such as the Vonus, Mercury, Jupiter, polar star, or the Great Bear. I don't could bear such ridiculous sceneries. myself always get quite sick of them.
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STAGE SCENERIES.
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Sunlight" in the land so widely known ′′ sunny Japan savoure somewhat of People often say the English sceneries the labour-wasting enterprise of carrying are reality while those of Japanese are coals to Newcastle, remarks the Japan conventional. Of course, those scenerica Chronicle, but Messra. Lover Bros.
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On the 2nd at 11.45
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