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**ONE MAD KISS."
A colourful story of a Latin coun- try won the hearts of local theatre goors last night when One Mad Kise,! Fox Mavictoue musical romance, had its premier perform. anes at the Queen's Theatre.
Don Jose Mojito, magnetic young Spanish tenor, making his soreen debut, is hailed as one of the great est stars yot seen and heard on the audible screen. He sings gorgeous- ly, varying frequently from roman. die ballada to simple little Spanish folk songs.
Mojico is surrounded by an excal. lent east, including Mona Maris, Tom Patricola and Antonia Moreno, | all of whom gave excellent perfoma ances, Miss Maris was especially personable and charming in her dimeult role of a Spanish danger who intrigued the two most import ant men in the nation.
From the many songs, it is hard, to make an accurate prediction as to their future popularity, although two or three will undoubtedly be
come heat sellers.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,
CENTRAL THEATRE.
.“ DELIGHTFUL ROGUE"
Rod La Rocque, atrumming his guitar with languid fingers, acts the tempo-and the satire of "The Delightful. Rogue," a swashbuckling yarn of a modem pirate in the tropics, which opened yesterday at the Central Theatrei
Radio pictures has turned out n different talkie with, this story by Wallace Smith. It is the first sea plature in sound and it is the first time the sound camera has taken s tongue-in-the' check attitude about drama and had fun with its own thrille.
"Tho'
Lest it be thought that Delightful. Ilogue" is merely full of subtleties, it should be tuentioned
at tba outset, that there is more old-time action and thrills than any- thing seen to date on the sound screen.
But that action is polished with a gay humour rare to the movies,
Rod La Rocque is Lastro, a Latin vagabond. He soizes a million- aire's yacht and turns it into a
The direction by Marcal Silver was flawless, and ably photographed. In fact it is a superlativo produc tion, one that will long be renom- piratcer, to plunder a group of tre- hered by, every one who sees and ¦ pical islands. As a 1020 pirate, henra.it
" ATLANTIC."
This British all-talkie and sound film which will be shown at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow, is a super production and
soreen
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whose pyjamas would be the envy of a Vanity Fair column conductor, with a radio in his cabin and tes every afternoon. La Rocque gives one of the most entertaining per formances of his career.
Rita La Roy, recently recruited from the stage, appears opposite La Rocque as Bydra, the cafe dan- cer, into whose love affairs Lastro
pokes his attractive villain's nose.
Her voice has an unusual appeal,
adaptation of Mr. Ernest Raymond'a play,The Berg." It displays in a remarkable way how the certainty of death reacts upon various people -atheists, people of the world, and upon one magnificent priest, who tella them how men ought to die. And there is also another good' She introduces the romantic theme plucked'un, the wireless operator, '
yong, "Gay Love," by Oscar who, true to his calling's tradition, carries on with the ship sinking, Levant and Sidney Clare. beneath his feet. During the "shooting" of these scenes at Til bury Docks and Elstree, some of the notors had to be in the water for three solid hours.
Charles Byer, Harry Semels, Ed Brady and Bert Moorehouse round out the supporting caal with cap. able performances.
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Orchestral Spring Song
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JANUARY 20, 1931.
BOOKS and READERS QUEEN'S
By
"IN DEFENCE OF SENSUALITY."
John Copper Powys. Gollancz. is, Gel.
Mr. Powys has written a book that much needed to be written Most of us who live in oitier feel that we have been caught in a achine which compels us to do those things which we have ac de sire to do, and, indeed, frequently heartily dislike doing, and continu ally frustrates and hinders aur real
pleasures.
Mr. Powys voices this general dissatisfaction. His book has given Song- O Sole Mic " (My Sun-expression to the discontents that nge in the air, and if not only the shine 1) (Capurro-Di Capua) ideas, but the expression and state Tito Schipa (Tenor).
A PROTEST AGAINST MECHANISED LIFE.
sion occasionally drastic congres- sion--required to get so vast a field into so small a compass but the work is exceedingly well and clearly done and with strict fairness and impartiality. Mr. Mair builds up. his main story round four great themes-Nationalism, the Longue of Nations, the British Empire and Democracy: but there are "trim- mings, such as the chapter on World. He is perhaps most inter Europe and the new European rating on the League and the pre- sent and future of the British Em.. pire; though the best written chap- ter is the first on the forces that led to the war. The book scarcely
Violin Solo-Waltz in G Flatment of them are a trifle windy, pretends to do more than sum
that is perhaps unavoidable. Tomarise the enormous maag of facts [(Chopin).-Efrem Zimbalist.
which form its subject matter: hut have the courage to attempt to Song" Honing" (Salmon-del
overthrow so settled a tyranny as
it contains shrewd and useful judg Riego).-Marguerite ... D'Alvarez
convention of conduct, and thought, (Contralto),
accessitates probably
what the eighteenth century deplored 4.9
enthusiasm,"
· Violia Solo"At Dawning" (Cadman Rissland). Fritz Kreisler.
1.30 to 0.05 p.m.-
Orchestral.
"Waltz-Potpourri" (C. Robrecht),
Mr. Powys' book is a book of wisdom as well as of défance, how- ever, though it is the defiance that is the more immediately perceptible Marek Weber and his Orch.
of the two. It shouts in his, aggres "Peer Gynt Suite-(a) Morning, sive title, which is really a mislead- (b) The Death of Ase."-Victoring one. By sensuality Mr. Powys Symphony Orch, '
means the enjoyment of all the "Blue Danube Waltz" (Straxes).-
scnecs, not only of those usually designated sensual. He will offend some readers by his candour and others by his acceptance of the psycho-analyst's jargon, and others Hudson Waves" (Pignoloni)-by his bombast, and others by his lack of tact: but he is always original and courageous, whether we agree or disagree with him, and he has written an excitingly provo entive book.
International Concert Orch. "Wedding Dance" (Paul Lineke).- International Concert Orch "The Swing."-Victorin Orah.
Victoria Orel,
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Band Music. "Marcia Tarca" (Türkish March) ́(Mozart).—Bauja Creatore. "Boccaccio Tarantella e Valzer"
(Franz volt
Suppe).-Banda Creatore:
ments!
The best way of menarring what has already bcon achieved by the League of Nations is to consider what might or would have hap poned in the war-embitteredl world during this decade. If the League had not existed.
ABOUT CHINA.
MAIDEN VOYAGE. Travel Letters of a Girl who Ran Away, By Doris Estcourt. London: Wil liam Blackwood and Sons. Pp.. vii. 183, 75, 6d, net.
A book about China with warring
generals and more or less ordinary life going on side by side has an interest which is more than usually thrilling. The writer, who is very young, made up her mind that life did not consist of catching trains What Mr. Powys demands for mankind is enjoyment in being them back again.
into busincas and then catching alive.
So, with very He sees this enjoyment little money, she got about China, inchneed in two ways: by the 6.18 to 3 p.m.-"Iolanthe" (Gil-mechanisation of life which tends earning her living on the way. Sho bort and Sullivan), recorded in to rob man of individuality, and set at some Chinese, though not the Europe under the direction of us all labouring like ants in an ant language spoken socially; she givės Rupert D'Osly Carte.
hill; atid by the increase of sensi- with its exquisite politenesses, its a vivid picture of Chinese character tiveness, which compels a man who would otherwise be happy to be unfeigned curiosity, its traditional concerned for the sufferings of art, and its instinct to imitate others. Mr. Powys sees both stap. exactly. In Peiping and by the dardisation and humanitarianism as and.cold clock--war was going on way you call a thermometer & hot. destructive of the contemplative peace which is to him the highest within twelve miles of the gates! state of being. Whenever a girl and the city was fortified to repel or a boy," he says,.." looks in a armies or stragglers; looters were concentrated trance out of some shot out of hand and their heads open window at the roof-tiles or stuck up casually about the place; the tree.tops, forgetting work, re
servants wore charming, oven sponsibilities, problems, worries- though they sent a leathern cont FEW HUNDRED SHARES of stealing a thrilling happiness and a woollen skirt to the laundry;
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merely being alive the whole par Ise of the stupendous panorama of Being is completely attained.'
We hesitate to be positive about either the purpose or the panorams of Being; but we have no doubt an to the importance of happy idle.
Пека.
week-ends were spent in temples The writer visited the Valley of the Lost Tribe, stayed at a Trappist monastery, slept on the gate of the "Maiden Great Wall of China.
is written lightly and Voyage" sometimes self-consciously, but it gives a definite picture of a life very remote from our own nad it communicates some of the romance which the writer clearly felt during her two years among the Chinese.
Hatred of the crowd is a recur ront motif of the book. Mr. Powys loathes "mob" charity and "mob" pleasure, and "mob" humour, He likes direct giving to someone you are personally sorry for; he likes solitude; and he likes solemnity. "We never laugh at anything that AN we would not like hurt," says Mr. Powys, forgetting that civilised people chiefly laugh at themselves.
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#ROM THE FAMOUS FRACK PLAY ERMIST RAYMOND
WAR POEMS,
DUPONTS ANTHOLOGY OF WAR POEMS. MASTERPIECE Compiled by Frederick Brere- ton, with an Introduction hy. Edmund Blunden. London: W. Collins, Sons and Co. Pp. 192, 6s. aet.
The publishers of this anthology tell us that it has been compiled because the prose-writers seemed "THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF at the moment to be having all THE GREAT Wan." By Ramsay their own way about the war, pour- Muir, Home University Library. Thornton Butterworth, 2s. 6d.
ing out their retrospective emotions
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in grimly realistio novels, while the TO-DAY TO THURSDAY The economic consequences of the many excellent poems which drew war were so great, so enduring and their immediate inspiration. from so engrossing in their effect on the the years 1914-1918 tended to be lives of millions that they have tend forgotten by old readers and over. ed to obscure in people's minds the looked by new.. political results. Yet these are in Mr. Blunden, himself a War. reality probaby quite as important worker in both the fields of poetry and will be more lasting. The chief and prose, has provided an admir economic consequences, gigantic as able introductory essay, In this they have been, spring from causes day of disillusion, he is unpre in their nature temporary: they judiced enough to do justice to the will pass.
The political cause-war sonnets of Rupert Brocke and quences may continue to operate | the mood in which they were writ- indefinitely.
ton, and one entirely agrees with
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Mr. Ramsay Muir has done a him that Wilfred Owen was the TO-DAY & TOMORROW very useful service in summarising greatest of all the war poets, not them in this little book: The stud-only potentially but ing, netul ent who wishes to get a bird's-eyo | achievement. It is too tragie to view of the political changer which reflect that had the Armistice come the war has brought in its "train only a day or two sooner the poetry could not do better than get it. of today would have been incal- Inevitably there is some compres culably enriched!
LESSON SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG..
"Life" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Janu- ary 18.
good days, let bian refrain his tongue from eyil, and his lips that they speak no.guile: And who is ho that will harm you, if ya ba followers of that which is good ??? (1 Petor; 3; 5, 10, 13.)
The Leason Sermon also includ. ed the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, The Golden Text was:- If thou
"Solence and Health, with Key to
wilt enter into life kaan the own
the Scriptures," by Mary Baker | mandments. (Matthew 10; 17.)|
Eddy: In Science, all being is Among the citations which comous in every nation, Let the per- eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmoni. prised, the Lesson-Sermon was the feot model be present in your following from the Biblo:-" Fical | thoughts ins end of its demoralized ly, be yefall of one mind, having opposite. This spiritualization of compassion one of another; love as thought lets in the light, and brings brethren; be.pitiful, be courteous: | the divine Mind, Life not death, lato For he that will love life, and see" your consciousness,” (p. 407.)
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