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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 8th, 1927.
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CAUSE OF CHINA'S TROUBLES-" JUST THE
WHITE "MAN.""
SHANGHAI
It is expressed in one word action-a word which is apparently anathema to every Government in Christendom. Why? No one knows. The British blame the Americans; the Americans refer irately to their home politics; the French any the British have acted two years too late; and the Japanese.. say nothing
Chang's
ACTRESSES UPHOLD
THEIR CRAFT.
NOT MERELY "PRETTY WALK ABOUTS AND SIT-ABOUTS."*
IMAGINE JULIET ATTIRED IN A KNEE-LENGTH FROCK.
Mrs.
ia the days when they were on the This turmoil, this tremendous loss verge of being surrounded. of business in China, which, accord-
And just now, while his amazing ing to present indications in the fair keeps him on the alert Chinese Customis returns, will against Moscow and the Com- Amount to 100 millions sterling in munists, and makes him husband 1927, is not proceeding without end-his resources and not throw in his
The young actresses of the Lon less discussion,, writes Mr. Futnam army against Haukow, his mind is don theatre vigorously defended Weak in the Brening Standard. | obsessed" by one thought, which themselves against many of the Daily, almost hourly, men gather pursues him night and day, which criticisms levelled against them in and exchange views. Business men, tempte bim so that at times it is the speech of Mrs. Patrick Camp- writers, masters of merchant craft, unbearable, which seas so easily bell, the veteran actress. soldiers, Admirals (there' are eleven | realisable and yet is so far off, Campbell said :— admirals of various nationalities in something he has always hankered "The plays of to-day fil the Chincac waters), are all united reafter. -
pretty walk-abouts and the pretty Ambition. garding what is wanted.
ait-abouts who people our stage. elf President of China, dictator be passionate when her rock bare
Briefly, he wishes to make him-
"It is very hard for a girl to perhaps even Emperor. At a mo- mens when all the world is buaily ly covers her knees and her hair discussing whether China will is probably Eton cropped." really go Communist, he is work- ing at something quite different, and trying by clover cross-play to tire out all his rivals so as to give himself a clear feld. Hoping that Cantonese Nationalisa will des I am one of those who believe troy itself by a process of internal Plays aro nowadays written to that our national characteristics combustion, his emissaries are in illustrate and indicate problems of must sooner or later, assert them very camp, feeling their way, pre-life. They do a lot of good, even selves, and enforce a reckoning, paring for hia acusational coup.
if they are sometimes not litera- And if my faith in my fellow-coun- And as he sits in his Peking man- ture. As for the young actresses trymen is justified, and action doession, on the Bank of the great yel of to-day, in my opinion they work come, the results will be so swift low-roofed Imperial Palaces and very hard at every opportunity. and amazing, and the relief so uni- the vast vermilion Forbidden City, veraal, that everyone will want to this thought, of
"As for short skirts, apart from know what we were afraid of for rulership, agonising in its endless worn on the stage as they are in a nation-wide their healthiness, they are only so long.
repetition, is being persistently en couraged by the cleverest politi-ordinary life, and the stage is sup-
posed to hold up cian in all China, a Cantonese of sixty, called Liang Shih Yi, who was the great Yoan Shib Kai's Chief Secretary in the early days of the Republic, and who encourag ed him to make the mad attempt self Emperor which kill him. to seize the throne and declare him-
at all.
But is there no alternative policy is it not possible, some may ask, by waiting patiently to find some less positive method than fitting out a river expedition and facing the possibility of river, warfare,”
Greedy Soldiery.
I am of the opinion that there is no such alternative; for although certain people stoutly maintain that the Northern Armies belonging to Chang Tao Lan, if they are given time, will badly whip the Souther ners, and penetrate to Hankow and Nanking, and free the Yangtaze of the Communist-Cantonese manace, am totally unable to concur in thia.
Hard-working Actresses.
most promising actresses of the Miss Gilian Lind, one of the younger school, now appearing in The Constant Nymph,” said:
"Young
mirror to life. actresses Dow never have the same chances as Mrs. Patrick Campbell had when she was young. But they go on tour in the absence of stock companies."
Miss Edna Best, of the same com- pany, commented:-
this curious passion is gradually the past. I only know one or two So like a play within the play, "Eton crops are now a thing of assuming more definite shape. Not actresses of standing is Loaden much will be heard of it until the who have Etan crops. summer is over. But if the Har I am inclined to agree with kow Communists collapse, and fee, Mrs. Campbell in regard to theatrs if Nanking is caught again in the diction. You seldom hear besati- vortex and falls into the bands of ful voices nowadays, and, indeed, one of his adherents, a complete the nearest approach we get is with Chang Tao Lin's chief trouble is plan will no doubt be produced by actresses who half sing their words his lack of policy and his lack of Liang Shih Yi, with sheaves of to give them a musical tone." money; no matter how much money with all the provinces urgently de- telegrams from all the leaders and he were given, it would all dis-manding that the Manchurian war
Miss Fay Compton agreed with appear as water disappears in
Miss Best in this last respect. sand, swallowed up by these my riads of soldiery, who, like the daughters of the horse-jeech, and lessly cry "Give, Give." For Ave yeaza the Manchurian war ford has been building up an enormous how will the British
What will our policy be then: Memorandum pation in this endless civil war by
legality by asuming the Pre that there was a dearth of fine: lord brings back. peace and "I Mrs. Campbell had said
hand all who continue to stir the I think she would find many ac sidency and treating with an iron speaking parts in modern plays, embers-of-revolt.
tremes to agree with her.”
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Miss Norah Robinson, the lead-
ing lady of The Silent House" at the Comedy, was emphatic.
"I entirely disagree with Mrs. "One does Campbell," she said. not get much chance to sit about. At least, I have never had much chance. In my present play I am on the move the whole time.
#1
Emotion in Short Skirt. "Miss Uraula Jeans, who seems fated to play parts wearing very short skirts, and who is now in "The Fanatics," at the Queen's, added as her comment:-
outside the theatre, but I do think "I would not wear long skirts that it is very difficult to play emotional parts in short skirts on the stage.
an emission of Manchurian paper rest of the jargon which has been dollars called feng-pizo, or Man used to placate a nation that does churian notes; beyond that, and know what it wants accord the crushing of his enemies he has with such an unexpected, denoue. no policy.
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Manchurian population that it is Nothing at all will have been pror- openly said that be can never re-" ed except that the Chinese are in- turn to Mukden, and must fight corrigible; that it is uselces chang his last fight from Peking.
ing anything at all in our old be That is not a very good angury liefs; and that the only safe thing for national success; that makes is to be like the Japanese-highly his stock look as much of a gamble secretive and silent and endlessly
tin-mine share. Chang Tso patient. But this alternative,
"You would not like to Lia has an admirably equipped sible as it is, will not really ad. Juliet in a knee-length frock, army; an uncanny nose for smell vance the solution of the foreign would you?" ing danger; a proper appreciation problem, which, like the Chinese Finally, Miss Jeanne de Casalis, that the way to govern his country-people, is an incorrigible thing,
дот at the Everyman men is to treat them with the growing in complexity from day to Theatre, but who made her London utmost severity. But beyond that day, entirely too difficult to be réputation in the much-discussed he has not very much in his re properly explained on paper, and Fata Morgana." pertory,
destined-infallibly, inevitably- China for the Chinese is no to grow in bulk and importance affair," she said. "It is now a The stage has become a social the SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY doubt an admirable and fully that a generation from now
justified ery; but the point every Chinese will have much less im-sonality, then the will always be matter of exploitation of per- Chinese seems to miss is that it portance in their own country
cast for such parts. is not the treaties or the privileges than they have to-day.
Managers think in which they confer which make the Yes that is the trust thing that nowadays. A player is not gives terms of personality foreigner what he is in China, but can be written, -and the most en- Western civilisation.
lightening. For if it has been
a chance to show his or her craft.”
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