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Hankow-British Concession. following contributed to the theater 1 experts, M. Barlot's light in his seven horse-pawer aviette frout Frascazal to
CORRESPONDENIS INA I Guantiag
I went, with much of London, to see the Toulouse recently, says the Paris Carres
marks the London, New York. Chicago, San Femadison, Roman marionettes the other day, al left pondent of The Times, the Seala chilled to the bone-that was the beginning of a new chapter in the history Vancouver, B.C., Honolulu, Singapore, Penang. climate-bus mentally it intion. It chimed to
Brat Macao, Canton and all Com hy the conviction that direes otse of the exploits of MM-mercial contres of China and abeul. PROMPT SERVICE. the way of the marionette is the way of sal Man, yrol, Thoret, Boutrot, and Barist vation for the theatre. It may be the
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Inquiries are welcome. is higher than mine, or that his tent of puppet-shows, contined perhaps
Judy is sniller: ret tu wonder that it has never come to him; that there must be an explanation some where of the fact that though you may have great dent, and great neting, cannot get the two combined. The play which should be the thing, is, you may say, almost
always at the thing." Or if it is the thing, you cannot see it for the players. You see Sarah Bernhardt na liamlet, or as Phadra; her voice runs through you like wine, her suddles intuitions as the flash of expectation when she thinks the King is hind the arr-thrill, you with delight. You are often deeply moved--by Sarai, at Othell, greatest, piece of acting this and M.
nobility of eyen ever beheki.
concentration of the opening, the dreulful close were things to brood upon afterwarila Neither Yet they were not the play. Grass nor Salvini could bring you to the pass that you dare not look. Shakespeare can, if you read "Othello." He has done it a The Picoli are not so "piculo ' that comes to, but fully four feet high, and in scale with their scene and setting Symbolically the illusion is complete that develop you are, witnessing the growth.
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ant inent of life-not pur iste; rarar life; life with the accidents rubbed away; alemhitatel lift, which art Lanille. The play was "The Sleeping Beauty,"
"which involved a sometimes croad el stage, and bad moments of quiet heady,
with.
moorland sedne where You begin bewigged Lord Chancellor in black satin
It is still maintained, however, that the aviette will rival the two-water car in of popularity only when the praximum stability and safety has been attained.
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Dewoitine are turning their thoughts. M. Bark, who is in Paris, of The Beretaxi of the expresses the belief that his arise is the
rerumer immediate future. He contemplates the relation of a machine which will cost about five thousand franes (nominally
200), which can rise from almost any where and, furnished with a ten er fiften. horsepower motor, can land slowly within thirty yards of its abjective, and without
and safe, any Fit Such a machine will be almoet
certainly absolutely dangerous than a motor-ear. Moreover, the tourist flying at fifty yards altitude will have a magnificent view of the country, will pass motor-cars on the rund, and can land where he pleases. And the cost will be only that of a gallon of petrol per hundred miles
M. Barbot now contemplates entering
The
and a trumpeter in attendance come to for the Blérios prize ofered througle the
the fairies to the christening
The Lent Chancellati, for the aeroplane which cross the elle Channel and returns with the smatesb is broad comely, in the Polonias vein. consumption of petrol. made up to look like the poet Coventry condition of the competitions that the Patimore, the trampeter
consumption of petrol for the double trated trumpeter. The fairies were a success. They fore, one after the other, Journey shall not exceed three litres from their pools and rocks, and stud about it). M. Barbot believes that he cas accomplish the journey over the hieratical rigid while their queen hamel and back in his seven horsepower Aviette with a consumption of two litres (3 punts), equivalent in evet to 3.50f.
an aria, not without passion. Passion was exhibited by hands pressed to the busi Wis 110 and much shoulder work. There mistaking It is what human mester 18 without appearing excveling foolish. In these "piccoli" it seemel in ply the only thing to The Lord Chancellor was fat and pinkisit: the herald was chubby, the fairies were very pale, very thin, very solemn eyet, distinctly - human, and with nothing of the
court
R. vice-president of Ligue Aéronautique de France, gives the following technical details of M. Barbot's flight to Toulouse. The machine, he says, was an ordinary commermal aeroplane, and nothing had been sacrificed to light ness. In addition to the pilot, who weighs
about them. The neat scene was the nearly 12t, the machine carried all thei accessori, iding petrol weighing 44b, for night six hundred miles. The moter was an ordinary cyclear, sevenl
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and the christening. The royal baby was rocked in a gold cradle by her nurse
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have its full implication-for what virtue horsepower could be substituted, is there in ju dienus if the crowned per.. Rising a reserve of power which would son is divine anyhow This King leant Breath therese the margin of safety. OBTAINABLE
in The machine rose from a flat surface heavily on this jus divimon.
Except grief, he never lost his after travelling ninety yards, with the moments of keentest
Queen lille propeller turning at 1.250 revolutiong a monumental rigidity. woman with her hair down her shoulders, minute, equivalent to sever herre-power. had her share of the Royal vacuity, bas! In full flight the machine was maintained tempered it with interest in the miracle hortally in the air and propelled as forty-seven miles an hour with 1,200 which she
been the means of ac- had
revolutions a maute, equivalent to five At the whii ofter: looked
A pretty horsepower. The machine landed on baby. Then there was the space of thirty yards. M. Quinton is touch, thought. Carlins Minister, made up like lielo confident that aviettes with a speed of lieu-very vivacious; and a captain if sixty miles an hour will soon compete the Gearls, like Portus, The fatries ap-economically with the motorcycle and the
complishing Slie stood near the cradle
The small touring car.
pearl and bestowed their blessingmed, i
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King's assembly. The upon the outraged mapsty exhibited itself in rigor
#kh Cardinal the Queen covered her face; exorcised the witch: Porthus twirled his moustache. If this was not how a court would take the cursing of a baby, it was how it ught to toke it." Uf that I am sure. Destiny works itself out the Princess, 2 charming girl, plays at spinning i in a custage nud pricks herself with the spindle The The Cardinal Court sinks into slumber.
Porthos Beck each other's shoulders. The King huddles n
na corner, his one eye. Vast and horribly realistic spiders possess the scene and cover up the sleepers with co-webs. Three hundred yours pass
Those dire events took place in
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In the course of an address to repre sentatives of the Women's Unionist Or garisation from all parts of the United Kingdom, on May 11th, Mr. Stanley
Baldwin said that this little country of ours was the one to which all the world was looking as the rock against which the waves heat in vain-solid, stable, in a world of change. With our stability WAR linked up indissolubly the peace of the
work!
We are now in 1923 or so, and the Prince The plays set the players tasks which they is at hand. He is hunting in the forest, in cannot possibly perform, because the imagina French fashion; his huntsmen have horns tious of poets have, out soared the current se all round their bodies: his ladies are en tions of men. So long as the poet insists with waists and figures, he him- upon a fairy tale pot he will be thwarted the interpretation with as much waist or brought to nought by self is in Melton P breeches, high boots his players give him. Some an exhibit As any lady, demi-
ghost, high fat, and an eye-glass. He learns the a prince under the authority of a secret of the forest froas a peasant; he or a magician using the laws of unture to Leaves his ladies with a whiskered
dirty-clothes basket. These things who is tusked American
They might, but Dickdollar, battles with the chief spider, don't happen to men. rends the cobweb defences, and wins to the they don't: and the men to whom they
his He wook her un Princessss
knees don't happen marely have the wit to re- kiss.
her She lifts, heul, fresent the men to whom they might. his ow nt the
Soine ent do it. Grass can be Othello, she falls into
Ellen Terry of a protracted ami impassionel duet. but Iago will let him down. The Cardinal wakes up and yawns; he can be Imogene-but who can carry off the awakens Forthos, who repairs the ravages of incredible absurdity of Inchines! time on his moustache. The Queen wakes
called his own advantage, or a fnt knight-hiding
with
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don't want
The
up and sers all as it should be The King nas pratige that human Besh and brain wield upon us interferes with the Cut out human flesh, and wakes up and looks dignified in injury, even with a crown over his eye. You see him process of art.
Sir Martin Harvey: you want beginning, I am at a loss, my lords". Ho the illusion of the poet will prevail. You lifts his sceptre as an adonition to his faith- Hamlet. You don't want me. Duse; you
e is still here and ful subjects that he is
want the Locandiera. Their personalities their King
The anzus with attendant are in the way. Cut them all out: give the the Lord Chancellor with ■ new nation, the thin and priest-like fairim i pet a chance.
It is true that men ay turn themselves crowl the stage. The band plays ragtime into puppets. On the Greek stage they
E and everylxxly begint cake walking.
the King and Queen. They are in full wore masks, and stood titled ou cothurn. werenteenth century, and you realise that so on, the French stage they wore perruques it must is if kings are to remain kings. The si red-heeled shoes, which would turn any Cardinal looks about for Forthes in order man into a puppet. Action was reduced to that he may go on explaining. Hat Porthos a symbol, as the actors were themselves It is cake walking with a lady-in-waiting, as is only in such tearing, ramping staff ng Shakespeare and his, fellow-Elizabethans, Porthes would.
agree with the critic, Giovanni who insisted upon aling preposteroas I entirely
fables with all the resources of literature- Papini, little theatro is the only one wit, passion, eloquence, sathos, rhetoric,
according to thes
programme,
That you feel the to which a man of imaginative mind can go
go doggerel, masie poetry-t without four of being disillusione!" If it is gulf which is fixed between reality and ideality. They invite you to see men as Make your sign of an imagmative mind that one had always rather road a good play then fairies walking; well, you can't. see it, then I have it. And I know pappazzi four fest high: scale down pro- why that is a matter of instinct. It is not seenium, scenery, and accessories to fit-and reuse we have no good, players we have you can ren believe in A Winter's Tule," dons. It is that they don't fit each other. The Piccoli have put me wise about Shake.
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