MARIE TEMPEST.
OPENING OF THE SEASON.
NAVAL NOTES.
THE HONGKONG
FRIDAY: MARCH 19: 1920.
TELEGRAPH.
OUR PEKING LETTER.
RUBINI.
LAST NIGHT'S SHOW.
It is pleasing to note that the (From Our Own Correspondent.}| Naval Welfare Committee have The Marie Tempest Company brought their deliberations to a opened its season last night at close. They appear to have las the Theatre Royal with Somerset ed much longer than anticipated, Maugham's sparkling play, as it is three months now since
his best.
Peking, March 3. Startling though it is, it is not altogether unexpected that
KAISER'S VAST RICHES.
HARD BARGAIN WITH POOR PRUSSIA.
William Hohenzollern of Ame-
Those people who for prefer- ace visited the Victoria Theatre at night to witness the remark-rongea has driven a stiff and able experiments of telepathy astounding bargain with the Premier Chin Yung-peng should "Penelope." This comedy is one they commenced their sittings.
sirin by Mr. Eugen de Rubini Prussia which he was instrumen- bave tendered his resignation on of those concerned with "the
Saturday.
Since then the Freere not disappointed in their tal in ruining.
Indeed, it is not too much to eternal triangle." The piece!
expectations. A number of ex- In addition to a general ist of sident has tried hard to induce periments were executed, which. say that the settlement arrived at was written especially for Miès)
proposals brought before the Com-him to reconsider his decision, though diversified in their nature, between him and the Govern Marie Tempest by the playwright, mittee, each class has submitted but so far General Chin has not can be explained, as those of the ment of Prussia makes one of It is clever, witty and epigramama separate list of claims, which withdrawn his resignation. There audience who took upon them-the most amazing documents of tic. Most of the clever lines are fact has undoubtedly prolonged are several good reasons why the selves to test the telepathic the time. apportioned to Professor Golight the deliberations and hindered, if Premier should take this course.
Naturally, the [powers, will agree, in one simple
Prussian ly (Ashton Jarry). It is here tha: not negatived, a satisfactory Though formerly a member of the fact the transmission of mental Assembly will stir up a storm one sees Somerset Maugham at General result. When Class Anfu party, and though elected suggestions. Thus, however, com-about it.
claims are introduced my ex-to bis present office by the votes plicated the experiment may be When Wilhelm ruled, he was The play was admirably pre-periences teaches me that odous of that party General Chin is from the telepathic letter post to unpaid as Kaiser, but he had a sented last night, Miss Marie comparisons and possibly bitter no longer the militarist that he the discovery by the telepathist civil list of nearly a
million Tempest receiving very good sup-feeling precludes the possibility once was. He realises that it is of the weapons and culprits who pounds as King of Prussia; he port from every member in the of that perfect unanimity essential not the function of the military to take part in the commission of bad estates and wealth in various Cast. The Company has attempt to the general welfare of the rule the country as they are an imaginary murder amongst forms which made him one of the ed a novelty at scenery, from whole of the Nayy.
dcing at present. Moreover, he the audience, it is the successive wealthiest of the world's sover- the point of view of trave-
has no sympathy with the mental suggestions conveyed by eigns. ling companies, and we think
Folicies of the militarists who the conductor that guide him When he fled, and when revo- this has nevir been done any!
would negotiate with Japan re the garding the retrocession of Shan intracacies of the
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unravelling of the tion broke out, the Prussian where in
"seance." Government took possession of tung OI who would acce Last night, as is usually the case, all the Royal property in order money from Japan to retain their one or twe conductors threw the to protect it and to settle its armies and their personal telepathist into an undecided ownership. or party in Juence. After a state of mind hy being unable After more than a year of of deliberation and long negotiations would last long. As a matter of) suggestions, where a more con- with William, a decision has now fact, when he took the premier centrated mind could have given been arrived at and embodied in a ship it was estimated that he more promptness to his action's. Bill. would be able to carry on till we notice that in one of these By its terms the ex-Monarch China New Year. He has lasted experiments, a certain young willdrain a hundred million marks nerves were Dot able in normal times £5,000,000) out longer than the period which the fades prophets gave him.
to stand the strain of of a nation already shoulder-deep
close proximity in debt.
the
East
It is with feelings of apprehen. before, sion that I observe the growing Some Shakesporean companies tendency towards Committees. have played Shakespeare in cur. whether it be Welfare. Benevol tains, but seldom, it is safe to say, ence. Death Benefit or any of the has any dramatic or comedy com-many, subjects upon which the panies done so. The scenery of modern individual seizes as the Marie Tempest Company excuse for their formation. which I Shakesperean.j
.
an
created quite A sensation. Committees may be of use The curtains, of course, are hand-when confined to the administra- painted at very great expense. tion and dispensation of Benevol. and it is really wonderful how effective they have been found ce and other items where the subject is treated from a general when used in exterior scenes.
The story of last night's play Point of view, hut I am not so
sure of their usefulness when
multitudinous difficulties with which our Royal Naval Welfare Committee is burdezed.
it was not exected that his cabinet
Parliament opened
©
fortn to
the
î clear line
STATE PAYS WILLIAM'S TAXES.
That amount will be free from the proposed capital lesy charges. Prussia takes upon herself : par that tax.
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paid at the rate of eighty-three The former Royal Opera Houses, thousand pounds (£83,000) nomin-in Berlin, Hanover, Cassel, and al per month for 17 months after Wiesbaden are handed over to the running away from his job. State with all their debts upon
Yet Prussia, as well as Germ-them. apy, bas had its revolution.
William leaves all his faithful Next Willism kindly consents retainers to be dealt with by the to give up castles and lands Prussian Government, which
while having given poor lackeys which belong to the State."
But he retains as personal pro-and coachmen short notice with perty eight castles, 83 villas, no pension-is still paying any- many bouses in Berlin, Potsdam, thing up to a thousand pounds a Kiel and elsewhere, with forests year" un account of peusion" to here and there, and various kinds Court dames, Court marshals, and of property dotted up and down other such crnamental person-
the map.
He also retains 175 million marks
(cominally £8,640,000) worth of industrial shares, mort- gages, and other descriptions of investments, including (as the "Vorwaerts" snears) "a precious little War Loan."
CROWN JEWELS.
Ages.
And all that more than a year after revolution! Indeed, the Prussian spirit does not die !
WHAT WILL ALLIES DO? It is thought in some quarters bere that the Entente, through the Reparation Commission, may have something to say regarding Prussia's Royal jewels he re-the banding over of such vast tains: though the comparatively amounts of wealth to the ex- valueless Royal Insignia pass Kaiser. into the possession of the State.
Then the ex-Kaiser is gracious- ly pleased to surrender 25 minor estates and grounds, with historic ruins, shooting boxes, &c.
"Over against this mixture of the work of reactionary privy counsellors with the Hohenzol lera business cuteness (declares the "Vorwacrts ") there rises up But, as though he were not the gigantic and hideous need of sufficiently well provided with millions and millions of people.
"And if there be any earthly dwellings in the Fatherland hef deserted, kindly Prussia presents justice, then the private interests him with three mere-and big of the Hohenzollerns are but as a feather in the scale against the For the space of time covered weight of their guilt" by the lifetime cf the ex-Kaiser, the ex-Kaiserin, the ex-Crown Prince, and the ex-Crown Prin-) cess, the ex-Royal house retains the castle and park of Homburg. the Cecilienhof Palace and the Martorpalais rent free.
ones.
It is added, though doubtless in ne ironic spirit, that William retains оде mausoleum At Potsdam.
One reason for this 43- paralleled generosity is stated in one amazing clause:
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of the telepathist and she shriek- This amount-and it is only one is that Penelope (Miss Mariethey are the direct cause of the
2 newed aloud, thereby throwing Mr.item-is (says the Bill) to be given Tempest) is a woman who gives
session on Monday with a sitting Rubini out of the trance he was him in the general, interest," her husband over much affection
of the two Houses. It was alin. It must be admitted that Mr. in return for his making over to Man is by mature a hunter, and
ceremonial affair concluding Rubini looks pecaliar when he is the Prussian State of certain the husband, Dr. O'Farrel, is
with the saluting of the national in one of his trances, with eyes lands, works of arts, possessions attracted to another woman, Mrs.
fag. No business will be at closed and actions that suggest and rights. Wails: they remain in their tempted until there are additional deep mystery. Ferguson. With the rise of the curtain, Penelope is seen with her own little.circle little harm can arrivals from the provinces. father, mother, uncle and solic perhaps be done, but when they present there is not a quorum entertainment was a film which An interesting item of the itor, and she tells them that she is are summoned to meet in Co and the speakers of both Houses was produced in Holland and determined to divorce her hue-ference, and they come fully are absent.
depicted Mr. Rubini in an import- band. Her father. the Professor, charged with practically nought
ent experiment which he per-
If the Kaiser turns this amount Royal House Inat "ex-Royal" Wel.17m advises his daughter to try and else but their own particular
Peking has said a sad farewell Press,
formed for the benefit of the into Dutch money, at the present be it noted that the castles get back his affection and let the class grievance, to be fought for
Medical Faculty and bad rate of exchange. he will which they prefer for the event 18 m & 25 husband sce more of the Mies and carried as courageously asto Sir John Jordan. the Police of the Hague.
obtain enough to give him an in-of a return to Germany be placed F 19 816 Ferguson that he had fallen any Battle Standard, their weak most popular British minister in love with, as he is sure to beness is exposed and the folly of ever in China.
The official fare wonderful man.
No-one should miss seeing this come of about twenty thousand at the disposal for their lifetime.
pounds per annum.
"As the fulfilment of this desire St. 20 m 914 bored and therefore return sooner their narrow policy obvious to the well of the British community
But his civil list as King of is not against any State interests, s. 1 m 943: 61 or later to his wife. In order to most elementary school child. took place on Friday after-
Prussia actually continues till the three castles" (mentioning give a reasonable excuse for his
All Fools' Day of this year, those above referred to are being away from his home, thel
That is to say, William is being placed at their service." husband
fictitious creates a
character.
about
someone
→
noon at а reception given
there were charades in which
every one in the Legation;
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To-day Peking was thrilled by I notice that Mr Lionel Texley, by the British Chamber of Com- who a very ever journalist, has quite when the latter wished him godled by Captain Mackenzie. He
merce and Sir Francis Agles, the sight of aerial stunts perform character. Mrs. Mack,
be under a lot to say on the subject in the speed. His Excellency made a was testing the first of two Arros is supposed to
January Edition of the Flot butį his care. Penelope apparently
touching reply. Next day he which the "Chinese Government makes this Mrs. Mack a real am convinced that the subjee:
was entertained privately by have ordered through the Peking Towards the end of will not benent to any Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, and on Syndicate, the agents for Handley the second act the doctor learns extent by the publication of Sunday he was the guest of the Page, and did a complete somer- that his wife had discovered all criticism especially constructed members of the British Legation) sault siden ise. Other stunts are
either by someone possessed of his affair with Mrs. Ferguson, the fictitious Mrs an extraordinarily sceptical and his own house. After dinner promised in a day or two. Mack, and instead of being narrow mind, or by annoyed with him she treats it particularly desirous of fostering
was exquisitely mimicked. Hist To-day is the fifteenth an- very lightly, and says that she suspicion and distrust towards does not see why it should those who, though they perform departure on Monday morning niversary of Hsuan Tung, the second what they are deputed to do was a brilliant one. The 15th ex-Emperor. Manchus and Mon- act ends with request honestly and fearlessly, are fated Infantry (Indian) furnished thegolians and other officials ten- guard of honour, other detachdered their congratulations to by Mrs. Ferguson to Dr. O'Farrel for more kicks than 'apence.
ments present being Chinese, him at the Palace and many per- to take her to Paris, she having
American, French, Dutch, Italian,} formed the kowtow nine times already provided a reason for H.MS. "Hawkins" returned and Japanese. There were many as in the days of yore. To-day the going there. The third act is from Miss Bay on 16th, having on the platform to see him of city being illuminated led many mainly composed of 8 scene completed her exercises and has British residents, members of the to connect this with the ex-em- between the husband and wife. now left Hongkong for a cruise diplomatic corps, and members of peror's birthday and to attach where it is shown that the in Northern Waters extending the Cabinet. As the train steam considerable significance thereto,, husband had got tired of Mrs. over the summer months.
ed out the President's Band but it was only a coincidence. Ferguson. The scene is inter-
played Auld Lang Syne. His The illuminations are in celebra- rupted by the entry of Mrs.
Excellency was visibly affected. tion of the lantern festival. Ferguson.
It appears practically certain One of the best scenes in the that the Ships at present on the whole play takes place between China Station are commissioned
not go further.
The
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Sir John Jordan's mantle as
An event of more than local
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the two women, Penelope and for two years only: this is un-dean of the diplomatic body has interest was the opening of the Mrs. Ferguson. It is one of the doubtedly welcome news to the fallen upon His Excellency M, new Grand Hotel de Pekin on most brilliant situations in the majority and whilst appreciating Boppe, the French Minister. Saturday night with a brilliant whole play, because Penelope the pleasures and courtesy ex- although he has only been about dinner and dance. Some staggers Mrs. Ferguson by asking tended to them out here. there two years here, for the reason people sat down to dinner and her when she is going to Paris. are but very few who do not look that Don Luis Pastor, the Spanish nearly a 1.000 were present for She feplies that she is forward to the day when the Minister declined the honour as the dance. "It was a remarkable not going but that she is going to white cliffs of old England will he will shortly go home on ex gathering worthy of the remark- see Mrs Mack. Penelope informs once again heave in sight.
tended leave, and the Danishable occasion. Many national- the Minister could not accept theities
represented, position because he
French and British perhaps is being
After supper) transferred, while Prince Kouda- preponderating. chef, the Russian Minister, felt the proceedings zesumed the that he could not undertake the nature of a carnival, and the fun duties owing to the circumstances raged fast and furious till an prevailing in Russia.
advanced hour, so advanced that 200 were present for breakfast.
her that Mrs. "Mack is dead. This is apparently clever. The scene is broken by the entry of the doctor. He has a chat with Mrs. Ferguson and tells her that his moral sense had made him sick of her. The play ends well, the wife and husband being happy ever after.
DAVY JONES.
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A DELIGHTFUL PROGRAMME
"AT THE
VICTORIA
TO-NIGHT & MATINEE TO-MORROW,
at 5.15 p.m.
THE POPULAR BROS GRAYDON
IN THEIR NEW SONGS.
ALSO
GEORGE B. SEITZ
AND
MARGUERITE CURTOT
IN
"BOUND AND GAGGED"
the reputation of being one of the Joseph's College (Re-play of the modation of nine million yen Crane, a close friend of President Episode 5 "Held for Ransom." Episode 6 "Ont Again In Again."
the semi-final, Hongkong Challenge seems to have satisfied the Wilson, has been appointed English stage, and the frocks Shield) on Saturday the 20th inst. Government for the time being Minister to Peking in succession worn by her last night confirmed at 4.30 p.m-G. Rodger, F.At any rate, there is no anxiety to Dr Reinsch. He was in this. Her acting was altogether Black, M. Tonkin, J. Ralston, expressed regarding the
Con- China last year. meking д beyond reproach. She receives ex-M. L. Railton (Actg. Capt.), Jsortium loan. Still, there is personal survey of conditions cellent support from every member W. NcPhail, J. B. Hamilton, T. plenty of discussion of Japan's here on behalf of President Wil- of the company, and we noticed Neal, D. Riechelman, J. Rodger, action in this matter. Enlighten-son. It will be remembered that that even the smallest pari was K. E. Riis. well filled.
Mr. Grahame Browne, in the role of the Doctor, was excellent. He has been a West End London
Another play of Somerset actor for years. His ease in Maugham is included in Marie carrying off strong situations was Tempest's repertoire, Miss Dot," done with all the dramatic art which was also written by the possible.
playwright for Miss Tempest.
ed Chinese believe that it was he was appointed to this post ten. inimical to the best interests of years age but he made speeches the nation. The honey simply when crossing the United States passes into the hands of the which gave such offence to the! military and there is no prospect Japanese that he was recalled. of the troops becoming any less It is not likely that his admira- a burden upon the people.
tion of the Japanese has been heightened since then,
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"Ashton Jerry as the Professor "The Marriage of "Kitty," Officially the post of Minister had a part that fitted him like af which the Comapny will stage of Foreign Affairs has not been Colonel Morgan is in Peking glove. Although this professor to-night, is closely associated made to any one yet. had spent a life in the study of with Miss Tempest, inasmuch as names
The inspecting the troops of the of .Hu mathematics his knowledge of it is one of the greatest comedy former
Wei-teh, British Legation Guard. minister to Paris, practical life was very scanty, successes ever produced by her. and Sun Pas-chi are freely His maxim was that the whole of It gives Miss Tempest, in the mentioned, but all that can be Very great interest is being life was the adding of two and part of Kitty, a wonderful oppor- said is that they have been attached to the visit of Mr. two together. His advice to his tunity. It is a most delightful sounded and neither of them bas Lament, the representative of the daughter not to bore her husband comedy, and she is more than evinced any enthusiasm. Mean-American group of banks, who is with demonstrations of love bore supported by Mr. Graham Browne while Chen Lu, the vice-minister, coming here is connection with wonderful fruit, when adopted. as Sir Reginald Belsize.
is carrying on.
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