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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1930.
NEW BUILDING ENTERPRISE IN
HONG KONG
IL-QUICK DEVELOPMENT IN THE EASTERN SECTION;
On the Prays Enst Reclamation building developments have pro- coeded so rapidly that it is difßcult to believe that antil a few years ago, this place was part of Hong Kong's
PRAYA EAST RECLAMATION; Improvements aro also noticeable around Causeway Bay where there has been a clearance of ilum areas, and a ividening of the main rond.
A feature of the district is the big nullah, draining the Happy Valley area, which has replaced the very muddy Howrington Canal. Inci- dentally, this work has resulted in fṛelaiming a very usclul strip of
land.
| beautiful harbour.
Over a thousand Chinese houses have been put up and practically all are occupied as soon as they are ready..
The new houses are more or less
of and pattern. Every house has
a wide verandah of the kind which
WONG NEI CHONG.
.
"YEOMEN OF THE GUARD."
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY'S
EFFORT NEXT: WEEK, ¦-
REHEARSALS, GOING WELL.
men of the Guard" is now open at Booking for the opera "The Yeo- Anderson's, and our readers are advised to book early as the best |sants are repidly going.
The production represents the ninth opera produced since the Philharmonic recommenced par- forming light opera in 1924, and there can be no doubt in the mind
While Chinese style houses are of any one who has seen the re-
is so much liked by the Chinese. going up rapidly on the Reclama-hearsals that the caming production The sizes of these houses is different tion, European or seri-European will maintain the best traditions of on various parts of the reclamation, houses are being built with equal amateur art on the stago.
Gilbert and Sullivan has `nlways rapidity at Wong Nel Chung, once entirely neglected as a possibile re-been regarded as ideal matter for amateur societies, firstly because
and on the whole they are not bigger than Chinese houses in other parts of the city.
sidential district. '
Label KOTCH WHISKY VECENT AGE
r&SODS PERTH
NDERFUL WHISKY-
“White Label".
The housen are quickly snapped
In days gone by, Wong Nei Chong there are no technical difficulties in up because of two reasons. Firstly, was a Chinese village, mainly of the vocal score which put, the load- they are fireproof, the floors and matsheds, where the few residents ing parts beyond the reach of a of Happy Valley could buy. their | good well-trained voice; and second- stairway being of cement concrete, and, secondly, there is a bathroom Bowers and vegetables. To-day it ly because the natural stage sat- and kitchen attached to each of houses many middle class Chinesetings and the quality of tho libretto these new houses, whereas the old families. Big blocks of flats have materially assist comparatively in-
either been erected or are in course experienced players in projecting ALSO THE DE LUXE WHISKY—“VICTORIA, VAT” of construction and the district is the personalities they portray across much favoured, partly owing to the, the footlights. Dramatic critica absence of 'buses and trams, which frequently write of stage produc- for the present only run round tions that the entire burden of Happy Valley. While the absence success has been borne by one man of 'buses and trams is an advantage, who has made a character "live" in one way residents are handicap from his own imagination, who has, red in getting to and from the city. in fact, presented to the audience The flats put up recently have a living porimit of a personality been eagerly taken. One big block never even conceived by the author. of building is now in the course of completion and will probably be available by Chinese new year, This is in Fung Fai Terrace and consists of ten houses of three stories each.
type of Chinese houses had only a kitchen attached. Some of them are also fitted with the flush system.
The frontage of the houses, with its big verandahs give the maximum possible ventilation. Then, being new the floors and walls are clean. This is a great point in their favoar as some of the older types of Chi- nese houses have dirty 'walls with worn out floorings, and the land lords seldom show much willingness to do up their properties.
Yet another advantage is the elimination of noise. Wooden floors and stairs are exceedingly noisy, especially when several families use the same stairway, but when con 'crete is used this annoyance is done away with.
True to Life.
There is no need for this typo of success in "The Yeomen of the. Guard" the story. of "A Merry- man and His Maid." Gilbert has told in this opera a story that
Built entirely on modern lines, these houses should prove attractive as they have each a separate cn- might appear with the necessary trance, with a servant's entrance at allowances for the times we live in the back. The houses are three storied and will ia duo course be as a true record of life to-day.'- rented as flats. Each fat will have
Wilfred Shadbolt, whose "ance-
The roads on the Reclamation being designed on modern lines, thero should be none of the traffic congestion that is so common in other parts of the city. In narrow streets, there is scarcely thirty feet three big rooms, servants' quarters dotes of the torture chamber make between the verandahs of opposite and a bath room. There is a spare the prettiest hearing" is but the honses. In the new Reclamation servants' room to each lat and this, i the main road is 100 feet wide and if not wanted for the servants, can garrulous slow-thinking bum-bailiff there are other ronds 80 feet in be used as a pantry or atore room. of Dickens in a Tudor setting, and width. This at once makes the The installation of flath system in district more desirable to Chiness each of these flats make them ex-| tpants. Moreover, the close proxi-tremely attractive to the better off mity of these houses to the seafront class of flat dwellers. is another reason for their popu larity.
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LYEMUN FLATS.
the observer of his fellow men may
note wherever he may look to-day that practitioners of the more un- savoury, but none the loss necessary, trados share with this sixteenth cen- While Chinese tenement houses
tury Assistant Tormentor a full are going up on all sides in the
appreciation of feminine beauty Redlamation, theatre owners are not |
and are as keenly alive to nny losing sight of the business Jobk
At a cost of 2000,000, the Spanish"triding with the delicate organisa ibilites of providing this large Dominican Procuration have con- tion of the human heart." population with
entertainmenta. structed two very modern blocks off Shadbolt's aspiration to become Alrendy two sites have been book. fluts in Chatham Road, Kowloon an accepted wit, Fairfax's "bald. ed on the Reclamation for new Named Lyemun Flate, one of the front in the face of impending theatres. The first of these is the blocks faces Lyemus and the other death and his welcome of the sister Oriental Theatre which will stand faces Signal Hill. Each block has secured to him by his temporary on a piece of ground near the pre-sixteen nts and is four storied. adoption in Sergt. Meryll'e house. sent No. 2 Police Station. The Every modern convenience has been hold after his escape, Jack Paint's second is the Wanchai Theatre introduced into the construction, quips and jests and the occasional which will be built opposite the In addition to four rooms, there are glimpses of a passionate heart Seamen's Institute. According to bath rooms and servants, quarters beating beneath the motley, the in- plans a new police station will be attached together with small spare trigue of Phoebe, and Dame Car built on the Reclamation.
rooms which might be used for any rathers, Meryll's attachment to bis required purpose.
old friend and helpless surrender One of the interesting features into the Dane's belonguermont, under this building is the fact that Kal force of circumstances, the dry vinators have been installed for the officiousness of the Lieutenant, the uso of tenants. Wardrobes also are plight of poor Elsie-all these are built into the walls and the upper true to life as we find it, where sterics are served by lifts...
ambition dashes itself against atong While houses have been going up The building is entirely built of walls and scheming not infrequent like mushrooms on the Reclamation, fireproof material and the construely works the downfall of the plot- there is still plenty of vacant space tion has taken over eighteen months. ters and building is likely to continue They were completed in Novomher for at least a couple of years. and were instantly occupied..
The water front space is being used by godown owners. Already Masers. Kwong Sang Hong, the Jocal firm of perfume manufacturers, have erected a modern godown on their site, directly in front of their older godowns.
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.
TO-DAY'S CONCERT,
The programme for to-day's con- cert at the Helena May Institute is as follows: 1-(8) Fair house of joy.......Quilter (b) Now sleeps the crimson
petal Sh
THEFT BY CABINET MINISTER?
FORMER STUDENT
RUSKIN COLLEGE.
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"Tower of London.
And, na background to it all, there is the Tower of London, the "sontine unliving and undyitg which even to-day covers all traco of dabbler, in high traagan and stood feudal England as the monu ment to all ill-timed political vend OFtures, metabo
There is a wonderful exemple of dramatic irony in a short scene in the second act whore Pheobe and Toronto-Mir. James H.Shadbolt simultaneously, though Ballantyne, Deputy Minister of under different stresses, disclos (Mrs. W. F. Wilson, contralto.) Labour in the Ontario Government, their respective secrets, and the
(a) Smta Lucin Luntaua..Marichus been arrested by the police here
Quilter.
**** (Mr. Li Chor Chi, tenor.)' 3-(a) Eusanna's Song "Dah
Vioni"
quicker-witted Phoobe is forced to stave off the disaster of Wilfred in
*** (b) Tonra "a"Borricato on a charge of stealing a woman's
De Curtie dress valued at £s from a shop his jealousy incriminating them while the assistant was not locking both of falsehood, himself of being The entire country is shocked by lying braggart and Phoebe of Mozart, the new. Mr. Ballantyon admite complicity in a condemned sorcer (b) Cherubino's Song Non taking the dress, but pleads, Iter's escape, by offering Wilfred her
so piu "
Mozart, was some kind of temporary mental hand. But dramatic irony of the (From Nozzo di Figaroj) aberration I cannot explain what finest texture is woven throughout (Mrs. O. Womack, soprano.) prompted mo."
the entire libretto,
...
The arrested Minister has been
Gilbert and Sullivan is opera
4(a) A Lover's Garland... Pearrected with the Labour mave justifying itself, not as dramatic
(b) The Pibroch. Standford.
(Mr. M. Barton, baritone.) ment in Great Britin and Canada music for the concert hall, but no 5-(a) A Bird Bies over the Rhine.. for many years was at one musical drama for the stage. The Brahma, time an agent of the Amalgamatid | most alaborate alaging and lighting (b) Do you often call to
Society of Eagings, and it was effects cannot always conceal the mind1.....
.......Brahms, while he was with the union that he extreme poverty of non-musical (c) Love is for ever......Brahms, won a scholarship which enabled matter in so many grand operas. (Mrs. R. Sangor, mezzo soprano.) him to go to Ruskin College: On the other
band Gilbert
and 6-(a) Obatination
Sullivan requires no operatio.
BLATS
and no Reinhardt behind the scenes to unfold itself as opera -(a) At the Ball Tachaikowsky created by artiste fully conscious (b) Triste est la Steppo of the possibilities of exa the
Grotchaninoff.
smallest theatres and lenet experi enced players, and determined not. the Piano:Mr. George Grimble, to ignore the limitations imposed Mr. Dudley Bartlett, Miss by considerations of true dramatis
raze Me F. Masqu
de-Fontena
(b) J'ai Pleuré en Rove......Hud.
(Mr. Li Chor Chi, tonor.) 7a) Mary Stuart's Song... Elgar, (b) Nondol ......... Elger. (Mre: W. F. Wilson, contralto.
(a) An Epitaph Maurice Besley, At (b) At the Wall.. ....Hageman.
(Continued at foot of next column.)
(Mrs. O. Womack, soprano.)
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