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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1929.
"FLOOD, THE LAND WITH BEAUTY."
RUSSIA'S COMMAND: THEATRICAL VENTURES."
DRAMATISTS REVISING STAGE PRODUCTIONS.
RETURN SWING OF PENDULUM.
(United Fress.)
"SLANGUAGE.”
AMERICAN SLANG AS IT IS TO-DAY,
*AN ACCURATE LIST."
Here is a list of current alang phrases in America. It is taken from the pages of Transition, the American magazine published in Paris, and is the only accurate and| comprehensive list of such phrases published for a long time,
Moscow." Flood the land with '
An Opportune Call, beauty!" Such is the command
The call has come at an oppor. The point about American alang issued by
Vsevelod Meierhold, tune time. Russia to-day faces the is that it becomes archaic so quick- generalissimo of the modernistic danger of being transformed into. This is something realised by few British writers who essay to use vanguard in the Russian theatre. a single huge factory. A desper this idiom, and that is why their us the new season gets under way, ate and unpreceated effort is underwork almost never secms_real_to The command is startling, at way to change a backward agricul- Americans. Even the slang in Sin- clair Lewis's early book is now out- least to anyone who has followed tural country in a few short years moded, while the words in Bret art tendencies here since the re-into a highly industrialized coun- Harte and Mark Twain mean no- volution. It truck certain cote-try. The effort entails ruthless thing whatever to the young Ameri- ries, which made a religion of excision of everything that is soft cans of to-day. deabness and severity, with all the and indulgent. For those intent
Slanguage, 1929.
force of a boinb-shell.
upeo; the great industrial pro-I gramme, this is no time for the beauties and amenities of life.
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An Amnesty. It's a reversal of strategy. Until now Meierhold's standing order was: "Down with beauty on the stage "
The Soviet Government is en- The aged in a mammoth war. cacy is in its midst. It is a war Realizing that the old-against backwardnesE, ngsinrt fashioned" theatre sacrificed too economic dependence on the out- much to mere prettiness, he and side world, against elements here which are determined to prevent a his followers went to the other successful fruition of the Com- extreme. They ruled out beauty munist experiment. For those who as a bourgeois prejudice," as a conduct this war, this is no time for fiddling with beauty, That, willy indulgence for the middle they think, will come later when classes. Such things, they shout victory has been achieved. ed, were out of place in the new hard materialist society
And now, guddenly," the outlaw has been amnestied. Beauty is up again on the stage.
Now nothing counts but produc- tion and more production. In a hundred ways the workers is in.. dused to produce more. Sunday or any other universal day of lei surc-is abolished, so that machi- nery may be kept running without Meierhold's commands are obey-interruption. Night shifts are put! ed. Dramatists are revising their to work in factories and offices, stage instructions.
Actors are re Industrial discipline is tightened facial vising their
expresleds, all along the line. Every luxury Critics are revising their adjectives; and a good many necessities are And the repercussion will sooner or encrificed for the sake of buying later be felt in theatre circles new machines and building new
industries.
too.
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The Kulaks,
For some years, the theatre of Meierhold has been a
No Room for Art.
With terrific energy and single. fountain-
the
Bolsheviks are head of inspiration for many of mindedness
movements directing all the nation's energies the little theatre"
There is O Many a into ane channel. throughout the world. garret stage and a rradelled margin left for the decorative side stable in Paris, New York or Little of life. There is no sympathy for Falls will continue to outlaw beauty such words as enjoyment, amuse- ment-even play and entertainment for a season or so, unaware of the change of orders. But eventually must, serve the purpose of raising the new.edict will reach them national efficiency and productive
morale. -
In a kind of manifesto published recently Meierhold admits that the so-called constructivist theatre has become too colourless. Maybe he is a little tired himself of. the bare, rigid stage sets. Maybe he senses the fact that his public is getting restive and reeks to sinke its thirst for pageant and colour clsewhere. He has reached the conclusion, at any rate, that in the Soviet struggle against those it considers its enemics-the Church, the well-to-do peasants, etc., the simple appeal to beauty is too valuable & weapon to be thrown Away.
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On the up-and-up: In good faith;
above-board; true.
To lay an egg, also to curdle:
Collapse; flounder: ruined. Kiss-off Dismissal; farewell. "Horse-opera: Western motion pic-
ture.
To click: Impress favourably; up
to the mark.
To lam: Retreat hastily; escape. Puddle-jumper: Automobile. Flesh and blood angel: Damsel who clicks; beauteous maiden of
cbarmi.
Wowser: Blue-nose reformer. To Irigidaire: Trent coldly; snub. To take it on the heel and toc:
Depart Sham, Shamos: Officer of the
low.
To make whoopee: Applied to all "varieties of unbridled revelry, usually containing joyous in- gredients of wine, women, and warbling; vide "Garba-Gilbert ing."
In a spot: Any dangerous or per-
plexing situation. Ticker-and-tape
worm: Wall Street brcker; anyone who plays the market.
Flicker Motion picture. Spanish guitar Cigar." Lallygagger: Swain who lingers
in the vestibule. Bell polisher: Same as lally
gagger
To ankle: Walk; amble, To wham: Strike forcibly; land
knockout blow; smash.
To get the magno: Specifically to receive a custard pie in the face; bad luck.
To tear a herring: To dine. Gabbies, aquawkics: Talking mo-
tion pictures.
YO, HO, HOL AND A BOTTLE OF-BEER.
NAVY AND THREAT TO CUT OUT GROG.
"WHY NOT - SHERNY"?
A mighty bowl on deck thej drew And Alled it to the brink;
Such drank the Burford's gallant
crew
And much the gods shall drink, The anered ribe which Vernon
wore
Was drenched within the same, And hence hit virtues guard on
share.
and Grog derives its name.
The shade of Admiral Vernon must be struggling with a tendeney to recall some nautical adjectives, for the drink which he invented and introduced into the Navy is in danger of being lost for ever.
The anti-grog party in the Navy has been growing for years past. Recently Sir Robert Gower asked: the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he will consider the desir ability of introducing beer, as an alternative.
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What a Fall Was There.
It is a sad come-down in the world for a drink which has been almost a religion in the Navy for 20 years. Yet it is only part of the irony of life, for grog, when it was intro- duced, was a term of reproach used by the old son-dogs who had been used to nent spirits. They had no time for this watered stuff, and they called it after Old Grog," a nick. name the admiral had gained from his habit of wearing a grogram cloak.
Now-a-days only dictionary read ers know what a grogarm is, and it may be that very soon nobody will know what grog is. An ancient mariner, interviewed by a reporter, was very bitter about it," the beer party will permit the word.
The Water Course,
"It's enough to make a man take te water right cut," he said. "Beer is all very well in its way, it's good sociable stuff, and in time you can get förrard on it. But are they going to stop at beer, that's what a man has to ask himself t these line-juicers that are doing it. Why I saw a man of five years' service to-day eating an ice. Ice!"
And the ancient mariner got so hat thinking about it that he was unable to proceed any further in the matter.
On the other hand, the view of the Young Navy was expressed by rating on shore leave who was playing tennis. "It's an uncivilised To bo Chiengo'ã; also to be 'taken drink after all," said he. “An oc- for a ride, and to bump off; casional cocktail now might bỏ ac- Dispatched vid. machine-gun or ceptable, or a good dry sherry, but Automatic: any pie-meditatedrum-well, we have got beyond rum, form of murder.
don't you think? Crude stuff, Welded, sealed: Married.
very." To shelve: Desert; relinquish;
renounce, The Communist- Party here too feels that it is en- gaged in a life-and-death struggle.
The Soviet leaders are not to be blamed in this. One has only to think back to the days of the Great War to recall how the same port: effort the same of concentrated exclusion of amusement and indul. en was being made in France or in Germany. It was fight for life or death.
The whole nation is its battle- ground. Every new factory is battle won. Every communized farm is a military outpost, deeper into the enemy'a "territory."
With the Kulak (rich pea Meierhold, with the deep instinct sants) still deeply rooted in the of the artist, has sensed the dan vilage," Meierhold writes, with ger involved in the struggle-in- the evangelists" belahouring our volved, for that matter, in any pro- youth, we must declare that all longed struggle. He has come out cultural workers in the field of the for beauty and lots of it. His new theatre must make even greater command is a sign that the flame efforts so that our land may be of art will be kept alive even in flooded with beauty."
the midst of the economic battle.
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"ACCIDENTAL DEATH" OF times over-depressed, while he may
OPHELIA.
DOCTOR'S VIEW,
Macbeth: "Guilty, but insane." Ophelia: "Accidental drown-
ing.
These are two of the verdicts which Dr. H. Somerville, a famous "mad doctor," returns in a new book on Madness in Shakesperian Tragedy," which was published re- cently (Richards Press, Os.), with a preface by Mr. Wyndham Lewis.
or may not enjoy intervals of re- lative sanity, as "Hamlet, did."
Shakespeare, in Dr. Somerville's view, tried to send most of the chief figures in his tragedies off their heads
"It would seem," he says, "as if Shakespeare, when he seizes on a character to make him the victim. or hero, of one of his great trage- dies, never gives him any peace day or night, but pursues him with re- lentless 'cruelty, with an artistic re- finement of torture."
Dangerous Type."
Macbeth is described as "a para-
Dr. Somerville hold that Ophelianoiac, of the worst and most dan "broke down completely, and pass-
ed into a state of acute manis, from gerous type, a man safering from which it is doubtful if she would delusions of persecution with homi-
icidal tendencies.” have recovered even if the accident of her death had not placed tha matter beyond the region of de- bate."
If Macbeth had been tried at the Old Bailey, what would the verdict. have been i
Dr.
Hamlet Mad at Times,"
Even more interesting would be a trial of Lady Macbeth. Hamlet was, he holds, "lor the Somerville thinks that the only most part, sane"-although he went solution of her problem is that she mad at times, but poor Ophelia "had been becoming insane for passed far over the borderline some time, and that the madness into the territory of the mannise" . ‚" from which she suffered and died Yet it would seem unfair to find had already set in and was showing that Ophelia "committed suicide itself as such early madness fre- while temporarily insane," because quently doce-in exalted ideas, in- although she may have been insane, balanced reasoning powers, exces sive emotional states " and so Dr. Somerville holds that "a çare- ful reading of the manner of her on death does not confirm the view that she committed suicide."
Brutus, after murdering Cæsar, sees a ghost, and, says the doctor, "his general tendency is to drift towards melancholia. He commit ted suicide."
Hamlet's type of " madness". Dr. Somerville puts the word in in- verted commas in regard to Hamlet
"Constance, it is said, "is the was, according to the doctár, nearest to that known as mania-only one of Shakespeare's mad depressive a kind of varying ment- characters who. dies of madness. ality in which a person appears at The sword, the dagger, poison, and times over excited, and at other drowning account for the rest."
Daisy roote, also stems: Feet. To make snooty: Exclusive, snob-
tish whoopee.
Tidy unit, also snaapy piece of work: See "flesh and blood angel."
To angel: To sponsor scaretly
(noun) silent financial backer of an enterprise; often is sugar "daddy'
Too Deer a Tradition. All things considered, it is very unlikely that the Admiralty will yield to this onslaught on an estab- lished institution.
For one thing, if you take grog away Admiral Instructions simply fall to pieces. The Sea, Lords never refer to it as Grug, except in paren- thesis. It is always Spirit, but here are only a few of the indexed re- Shive: Knife, particularly stiletto.gulations about Spirit: Garbo Gilberting: Indulging in amorous pursuits: ardently en- amoured couple minding their own business. Biggie: Bigwig: personage of im- portance and influence; cele- brity.
Clothesline: Local gossip. Hoofer: Professional dancer. To have a pen: To yearn. Hustler: Racketeer; professional
criminal.
Everything is copcselty: O..
settled.
To scram: See "to lam.” Tag: Name. Ironsides: Corseted maiden. Sugar daddy Gentleman liberal
with the shekels. Weeping willow: Pillow. To tail: Watch closely; follow;
spy upon.. Wind-sucker: Braggart. Racket Particular kind of fraud or robbery; any shady pursuit. Night bomber: Individual, parti- cularly aviator, who sleeps in daytime and visits guzzle grot- tos at night.
G-, grand: Thousand, usually ap
plied to "sugar.”
Merry magdalen: Lady of the
chorus or whoopes parlour, To gag: To achieve a bon mot; (noun) witticiam; afectation; anything humorous ar fictitious unusual situation in a flicker. Bennie Overcoat. Jackie Homer: Corner, Pan: Physiognomy. Handcuff: Engagement ring, To flop: Sit; lie down; sleep.. Tard: Dollar.. Air-bisectors: High-kicking, hoo
Icrs.
Big yes-and-no man: "Executive;
head of firm
To be washed up with: Severe Ro-
Intions.
Heap: Any machine; sus "paddle.
jumpers?
Palooka Fourth-rate pugilist;
one of low repute Rock: Diamond. Platter: Gramophone record. Chunk of kad: Laas, usually with
nut-cracker face, who disap proves of Garbo-Gilberting. (Continued on next Column)...
Bunga of casks; method of ex
tracting; Deficiencies by evaporation ¡ Gangway book for; Issue and measuring off; Officers' Mesick: Captain's super-
vision of consumption. There are stores more. In fact, one might almont say Greg keeps the Admiralty afloat. What the Navy will do on the specific gravity of beer or lime juice, no landsman dare predict.
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1,000 TAHILS OF CHANDU IN CAR.
Singapore, October 30.--Fine work by officers of the Preventive Service in Singapore rested in the capture of two smugziers and. a large quantity of opium in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Supervisor Elkins and a Chineso revenue officer were on rounds. Et 4.45 am in the latter's car when, particular-near the junction of Victoria Street and Radhore Road, a yellow car pass, going at high speed in the direction of Geylang.
Scanties: Underwear,
ly feminine, Annie Oakley See "copenetty." Tilted: Drastically changed; up.
set.
Moped: Vanished. Rats and mica: Dice. Sonk: Collapse heavily. Biscuit Flapper who pets. Shellacked: Intoxicated coodi.
tion.
Canned heat: That which pro-
duces the shellacked " anooted" also known giggle water." Shoke cater: Lady who takes to
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The offers recognised the car as car which had previously been sue ported, and they followed. Luck was with dem, for the fugitives had a punaste in Kallang Road, meur Kompong Secpoo..
Supervisor Elkins drew alongside. and saw that there were three per- " or cons the car. One fled into Kam- 25 png Soopoo pursued by the re- venue offer, Supervisor Elkins. Elches seized pongher, and the third man escaped.
To gat-up: To hold up a person
or place with gun.
To reef: Steal; pick a pocket. Twist: Girl.
Fakealoo: Fictitious story; yarn
intended to deceive.. False alarm Divorced woman. Juicer: Electrician. Wire: Pickpocket. Hypos: Drug addicts. Cellar-smeller: Free drinker; also
́a Prohibition officer. To tin-ear; To listen; pay atten
tion.
Dukes: Hands."
After a forec'struggle Supervisor Elkies overpowered his man and got a hired car driver to bring a police constable from Rochore to..
ist.
Meanwhile the revenue officer beme hack with his prisoner. They were both soaking wet.. The prison. ter bath taken to the water but End
been overhauled and brought back by his purser, who showed very pommandable determination.
The car contained 1,000 tahi's of chandu valued at $3 a tabil, and 1,200 tabs of non-Government" in-chandu, valued at $7 a tail.
Nifties: Witticiste. Ran: Any sort of betrayal or
discretions mod; greet, To bach: Live in bachelor quar.
ter."
Wally Well-dress man.". Finish ace-deuce: To fall: defeat:
ed; arrive last.
To go into the "gauze: Rendered unconscious via receipt of a whain (knickout blow).
As a result of the capture further inquiries were made in the Tanglin district and résulted in the seizure hot 1,000. tatrils of opium and 1,950 | tahils of non-Government chandu,
Tino accused men Bas Teapotārely n Hodachia, and a Hekien. They have been changed, and the game will. be tried later.--Straits Time
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