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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933
THE CHINESE DRAMA
INFLUENCE OF WESTERN PLAYS AND MANNERS
MR. BUSH'S TRIBUTE TO TWO GREAT ACTORS"
We give below the second part of Mr. J. D. Bush's interest- ing review of Chinese draum, given at the Ratury "Club meeting on Tuesday,·
Continuing his address Mr. Bush, tions, that we miss today are:- said:-
Obviously, the old custom of inen and women being separated from each other has been done away PLAYS FROM NOVELS
with some years ago.. To-day the After the midle of the Manchu two sexes intermingle in the thea period, the popular Chinese Gil-tre. The orchestra no longer de bert and Sullivan opera K'un Ch'u cupies a space at the buck of the fell into decay and gave way tatage in full view of the audience. another new type of dramas. Instend it has been shifted to the These dramas were especially free loft side of the stage within an en- from embellishment and composed closure. Just below the Chinese of materials taken from the liter orchestra is a bit of compromise nry plays or popular novels, Jam with western influence, namely, linr legende, native tales and the
there are few men playing the ac like. This school of musical drama companiment with the violin, the first gained popularity in Arhu cornet saxophone and other pieces Province known as the Pi Ruang. of jazz fame. Another feature on Its popularity with the Chinese the Cantonese stage that has been playgoers has been maintained up eliminated is the clever acrobatic to the present day. Pi Huong now feat that used to be displayed in easily obtainable in
gramophone the battle scenes of the historical records was made popular largely, plays. Still another notable break by the famous Empress. Dowager from the past is that there is ris- of the last dynasty. It has woning and dropping of curtain for Song "Vale" (d'Arey Russell)-such wide appeal also by virtue of change of scenery. Again, this 18 the ease with which the lines ars comparatively recent innovation learned, and the melodies sung to adapt itself to the signs of the
Moreover its stries are familiar time. to all," cultured and uncultured,
In the days when Cantonese then- says a Chinese writer-"Its words
tro was less sophisticated then it are.
to be articulated" continues the same writer, "according to the at present, there was such an manner of the middle Yangtze ter disregard of realism as to see д dead man getting up and Valfey, dialect which may easily acquired. Its stage conven-walking off the stage. Sometimes tions and technique of acting are the dead men would act the part of bearer themselves-as much as well-known to the audiences.
drama, it to say, "Dog gone it! This is a Chinese Sha-rending the
should be borne in mind the difpretty wicked world we are living. ference between classical edition, in, but why take it so seriously library edition and the edition as Take it easy even in face of death.
not read of similar interpreted by the actor himself. But do we They are often very different one erudities in the Elizabethan stage from the other. The same may be of letting imagination claborate said of the Western plays. Think suggested stage properties? of the hectic versions we see some- tines in cinema of the plays and dramatised novels.
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IN NORTH CHINA •
A theatre-goer in North China would go to hear a play and in IBSEN AND SHAW
the South one speaks of going to According to Western standard, see the play. A Chinese proverb the existing Chinese plays in the has it that "actors are lunatics, North or South may be classified the spectators are idiots," but it Johnstone-as musical
historical known in history that Chinese comedies, peras, musical farces, burlesque playgoers would be carried away and operettas. Prose or non-mual- by their emotion. Dr. Giles writes cal dramas were not known to that in 1878, at a certain market- China until comparatively recent town, there was a play which re date. When the literary movement presented the execution of the pat- was set afoot in 110 by my friend riot, General Yo Fei (A.D. 1141) and former colleague in the Pe- who was brought to ruin by the rival. The actor king National University, Dr. Hu treachery of a Shih, serious attempts were made playing the part of the traitor to introduce Western drama into produced such a profound sensa- China. Problem plays of Ibsenite tion that one of the groundlings and Shavian fame were then dili-lost his head, leapt uxon the stage the time, I had a hand in teaching theatre of today, we see the realis- gently translated into Chinese. At and stabbed the unfortunate man to death. So in the Cantonese such problein plays as Widower's Houses, Mrs. Warren Profession tie and conventional devices and and discussed with the students the contrivances check by jowl. Like subject matter of Ibsen's Ghost. everywhere else in the present day In those days of literary renais- world, the educated class and the sance, I noticed that there was & general populace find that their taste for dramn, is moving with the rapt body of enthusiasts when times and has to adjust itself to couraged the writing and acting of the altered social conditions. Even new dramas in Institutes
in England to-day, actors find Tsing Hun College in Peiping,
Shakespeare
"The spells ruin. Nao-kai in Tientsin, St. John's
management of the theatre in före- University in Shanghai and manged "to appreciate the nice adjust- others.
ment between artistic, ethical and Since the Republic, it may be box-office principles." There pointed out that there has been you find the why and wherefore of abundant evidence of experimental, the old traditions of the Cantonese 1.-An Eyewitness Account of the activity in modernizing the Chin- theatre passing completely into ob
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THE IDOL OF SOUTH CHINA
Let us now turn our thought for
J
ese plays on Western models. This prices of modernization is carried on within and without the acade- mie circles. Critical study of the || Chinese drama and dramatic pro-
a moment to Na Si Tsang, the idol blem is still engaging the, attention
modern Chinese scholars to-day, and pride of the stage of South more especially those who have re- China, Ma can make himself. turned from Europe and Japan. very versatile actor and comedian I suppose the persistent inquiry in both the old and new sense of into what's wrong will the theatre the word. His wardrobe may in- will go on for some years to come. clude anything from the cloak of Publications of books and periodi- mediavel page, the costume of a cais are ever on the increase from Spanish grandes to a dinner jac day to day. During the last ten ket. In order to gratify the hoten- year many of the masterpieces potch taste of the average theatre from the West have been translat-goers in Hong Kong and in order ed. Many have gone abroad to in- to make the show a pronounced vestigate into the various theatri- success from a pecuniary stand. cal arts and crafts. Impreceptibly paint-he would stoop to conquer the tendency is no doubt toward by rehashing the lurid melodrama the reorganization of the theatre tie plays of the cinema like the to a nearer alignment to the social "Thief of Bagdad" and "Lov tern of the age..
Parade." This is certainly the dismal picture of the Cantonese stage.
THE THEATRES CHARGE
But Ma Si Tsang, being educat In the meantime the struggle be-ed man and an actor of some rare tween the old and new forces is
the
going on apace. The physical con- talents, could get back into the dition of the theatres in theatrical stride of the old days and swell centres like Peiping and Shanghai our bosom with the old dramas by as well as Hong Kong and Canton playing the role of Chao Tay Lung, have been altered considerably. Ita famous general of the period of
tho "Three Kingdom" in would be difficult to say. for example, that there are no radical episode called "Rescuing the In- changes in the Ro Shing theatre laat prince.” The wonderfully of Hong Kong. Any one not hav. dramatic scene was about the wife ing seen £ Cantonese play for of Lau Pei, the founder of Shu- „twenty ́years, walks into the Kohan, modern Sze-Chucn, in the third Shing theatre. to-day would feel century AD. The Empress was car- almost like a Rip Van Winkleed in the leg so that she could not rying a child in her arme wound- Some of the chief elements of the former Cantonese theatrical tradi
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