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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAFH WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER
1988.
THE NAUGHTY 'NINETIES THE TOY
THE "naughty. :'ainetics"!
THE
Much
has been written about the
during Moss's management of the Galoty. True to, the polley adopted
nineteenth century, and the foibles Old-Time Edinburgh and at the beginning of his career, my
and frailties of many of the cliizens
of that time, wojenja bal
The capital of Scotland, like other
cities, had its black spots, but, when
Its Amusements
comparison is made, Edinburgh By Councilor: WILSON MTAREN
hus no need to be ashamed of the past she played during the Victorlan
the
Plactà
old friend never wavered, with lite result that anything of a "risky" nature in the songs and patter was strictly forbidden Lough
For fifteen years, from 1877 1411 the opening of the. Empire Theatre, of Varieties in Nicolson Street, on
of the
Those who have made a study of Also realising that bumper houses November 7th, 1802, this great the "characteristics of Auld Reckle could only be brought about by music-hall pioneer carried an at the with a warded by a knighthood by King are alive to the fact that the majority strengthening his programme, Moss Chambers Street house, to be re-
engaged weekly a "star" of the people took their pleasures London reputation. In a short time Edward In 1905, in recognition of sedately
of the music hall entertainment... Night clubs and, dance halls were aportable people forgot their soru the part he played in the elevation
ples and flocked to the. "Varieties. few, and many of the noted howfle Then the young man from Greenock Newspaper "scoopā" - rogarding life in London, or the in the centre of the city were dis began to lay the foundation of the nightclub appearing or boing well kept within fortune that ultimately built Empire matrimonial adventures
of the vigilant eyes of the Theatres throughout the Kingdom. glamorous Galoly Girls, did not not This is not to bo wondered at the heather on fire in the capital of Places of entertainment, such as when such artists as To Maclagat, Scotland. To her credit, she had Theatre-Royal and the Princess's; and Frederick Maccabe, of "Begime, not gone crazy during the "Naughty Nicolson Street, with their powerful Dull Care, renown, were booked to Nineties." supporting
companies in tragodly appear. Others who followed were
Attempts that were made to create and melodrama, were playing to George Leybourne, the Lion Com!-
continental atmosphere. BOON "capacity."
que, of "Champagne. Charlie" fame, a The circus, with its ever-alluring the Great Macdermott, who brought proved, abortive, and the young men sawdust ring, was always a welcome down the house with his patriotic about town, out for a splash visitor; while, at the foot of Black- song, "We Don't Want to Fight, but, colour, friars Wynd, Hickey's and Fergu- by Jingo, it. We Do: Jenny Hill, the "highly realised that their
their Vital, Spark; and Lottie Collins, who lar and paying proposition. son's "penny geggies," with versatile "mummers," never failed to sang into world-wide popularity, draw the denizens of the Royal Mile. "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay." There patrons could get three shows.
tlic
i
a night, from Shakespeare to the Edinburgh's "Sicadiness" blood-curdling drama of "The Dumb Man of Manchester. " Free-and-Easter.
Many "free-and-castes" had es tablished themselves in Edinburgh before the advent of the "naughty 'nineties." What undoubtedly gave thom a new lease of to was the catchy choruses popular songs and then being sung in the London sup. per rooms and variety music-halls.
"The "Naughty Nineties" full swing throughout the
. . .. ..
of
far from a popu- Since those heetle times when frivolity-loving devotees burned the candle at both ends, socially Auld Reckle has remained a steady baro- were in meter, and much improved on "the country guld ould days."
Mysteries of Ancient Angkor
NGKOR is said to be the most proportions. The
entrance
cause-
amazing discovery in the world, way, broken part-way, by the Royal The fame of the artists had spread But even greater than the marvel Portico, has a total length of over to the provinces, and this form of
million is six hundred and fifty-four feet entertainment became very popular. of its inception is the mystery of its two thousand feet, Its famous gallery Almost every tavern that possessed decline. This city of
square, and the central tower is two
a suitable backroom and a tinkling people, deserted by its creators, en hundred and thirteen feet in height. plano nightly drow crowds of young gulfed by tropical jungle and lost As Mouhot says: "At sight of this men anxious to try out" the latest London diilies of Harry Clifton or for four hundred years, was re- temple, the mind feels crihed, the discovered purely by chance. Such Imagination sloggered; one can but ttre Great Vance.
silence, for where indeed are words This was followed by the "naughty la the astounding history of these gaze admiringly and in respectful to be found to praise a marvel of 'ninetles," and increased the attrac-magnificent ruins.
songs, tho most notablo, being Bryce's at 01 Princes Street, with Normon Thompson as chairman.
What a galaxy of "stars" at that period were appearing in the old London music-hails! I have heard most of them, and they have never been surpassed.
Good
1
R
the
Lon of the public-house "alng- Toward the early part of the fif- urchitecture that has perhaps never Yet, oven after seeing it all, the teenth century, the fame of Angkor been equalled in the whole world?" and its treasures had spread far and imagination cannot conjure up wide, to Slam and Java and Annara, vision of what this capital must have and the Khmer kings were being hard pressed on every side. It is been in the sumptuous days of its whelming quiet remains, and a sensh confectured that they believed Ang-glory, Only an intense, an over- kor to be too vulnerable and ovaca of complete severance from modern Occasionally we hear on the radio ated it completely. It is a matter of civilisation.
-Only on the last night of our stay the same old words and the same old history that, by the middle of the Bfteenth century, they had removed tunes, but the vocal efforts of the the capital of their kingdom to did wo experience something which ,"moderna" compared with the old- timers-wall, the feas said the bet- Phnom Penh. But why none of the brought back for us in some degree attacking races ever found Angkor the life of that ancient kingdom. terl
was a performance of the Saturday evening concerta were and plundered it; and, above all, This held in St. Mary Street Hall, the why the culture of the Khmers never "Cambodian Ballet, given on the again expressed itself elsewhere, is causeway of Angkor Wat Itself. This High Buildings, Templar Street; the Goldsmiths' Hall, South an unsolved mystery. Angkor was ballet consists of dancing girls, train- fridge, and Trinity Hall, Kiritgate, overwhelmed by the swiftly ca- ed by a princess of the royal house Leith, the usual charge for admission croaching jungle, and the art which (Cambodia la a Protectorate under had created ita wonders was ap- the French, with its own nominal being threepence.
parently exhausted; for the Khmers king), after the form and manner of The Boy Lauder
sank back to the level of a primi- the dancers of ancient Angkor. Their made. from original carvings, and It was at St. Mary Street Hall that live people and their culture was costumes, are designed from
lovely coloured brocades, overlaid Sir Harry Lauder made his first obliterated.
and shoulder. in Edinburgh, public. appearance
After seeing Angkor oneself, one with stiffened pancis
cncrusted with sparkling when a lad of about eighteen. The "numbers" he sang on that occasion can vividly picture, and in part even picces
Dook Swimming share, the feelings of the French embroideries and sequins, and the were, "The Spor Club The Bleacher Lasales Ballman-Mouhot who in 1861 stum- amazing gilded head-dresses are in and "Which of the Two is the Oldest bled by chance on these ruins. Only the form of cupolas and minarets. three days before, he had written The dancing itself is chiefly beautiful -the Father or the Woan?"
The opening of the Gaiety Musle in his diary: "a superstitious dread movements of arms, hands, and feet; Hall, In Chambers Street, on 8th of the jungle has kept the region in but, combined with this, there is the now travelling free enacting of traditional legends relat- July 1875, Was of more than pass. Which we are Ing interest to the citizens of Edin from natives, and so, under the pro- ing to the Khmer kingdom.
Arriving at Angkor Wat after dark hurgh. This was not the first home tection of a tabu, the wild life pro-
The story of for this ballet, a fantastle scene met of vaudeville in the capital, for there bably has flourished as nowhere else
The great stood at the me a wooden erection, in the world. known as the Alhambra, and owned hidden cities in this part of the our astonished eyes. by Harry West, on the fair ground world becomes more and more ab- causeway was swarming with excited surd as one penetrates the jungle. Cambodian children, rushing wildly at the head of Leith Wynd (now. It is manifest that there has never about with flaring torches made Jeffrey Street)
been any civilisation in this region. from chips of ironword soaked in Other shows that drew the crowd if there are cities in this wilderness sweet oll. With these they guided to this vacant piece of ground at the they must date back to the time us over the causeway to a circle of Royal Notherbowl were Swallow's Circus,
before Adam" Eloquent of the of- acats placed just below the
Its floodlit towers and Pepper's Ghost, the Fat Lady, the Living Skeleton, sword-swallowing feet which his staggering discovery Poruco.
-gray-green like Zulus, boxing booths, cheap Jacks, had upon him in the entry made after cloisters loomed up out of the dark-
It. "Picture to yourself the finest ness,, a strange and merry-go-rounda.
productions, perhaps, of the archi- stormy seas; and on the central steps Horry West's Alhambra had
tecture of all ages dumped down in were grouped the dancers, their brilliantly coloured costumes in vivid short existento, but it did not deter the depths of these forests in one contrast to the pale stone and the the Hall Commany, Lid, from make of the remotest countries of the deep coppery brown of the half- ing a bold attempt to establisly a world wild, unknown, deserted naked children clamboring up the place of variety at a spot noted tract."...
pillars behind them, having bech Where "the" house once good, at the head of College Wynd,
Musle from strange native instru- Although all the approaches to Where Sir Walter Scott was bemer
Angitor have now been cleared and ments began. Jts throbbing, insistent The comfortable little theater had one can get there easily by car or bent, and one by one this troupe an butplelous opening, but laxity in bus, more than enough of the jungle camo down the steps and circled be- its management forced, the --Magleremains around it for the presente fore us with awaying, graceful move- from the trates to close its doors, after it, had day visitor to understand Mouhot's ments. Torches Bamod Aarried on for almost two years.
on the only stone balustrades at the side, throw-| | amazement. Standing Undeterred by the closing order small hill that there is in Angkoring into high relief a magnificent of the Magistrates a young man Phnom Bakhengat dusk, one Naga head below the steps, and giv-| "from Greenock secured the lessone-evening, beside its tiny, rooftead sem- ing out a delicious heavy fragranes. ship of the Old Caiety. The hall pic, wo looked nerosa a vast expansa Gradually the incredible scene took wis reopened on 24th December of unbroken Jungle.. Faint on the 'on the semblance of fact. One for- 18. With that Indomitable pluck western sky was the line of hills got the incongruousness of Bloodlights art business capacity that never from which the ancient Ichmers in the smoky, Bare of the primitive talled him through, life, he resolved quarried their stone, brought it down torches, which lighted up the long that the Mosn varieties would be run tho Siemreap river on rafts to Ang- dim corridors of time and re-created on clean lines
kor, in all directions save this the for us the vivid life of an ancient **Purijed"" Stage
horizon immed" n'huga plain on Tues. flut and as 'green as the 'sos, whose This for a time, did not appeal forests still kept their mysterious to many at the old patrons, and the secret safe from the world.__ Even performers & sang is to half-empty the great towers of Angkor Wat and benchab. › Noveciheless, Moss was the Bayon can scarcely be discerned | determined that a purified almost amongst thent. phere!abould provoff in the Char bers Streetshottie, in spite of "bis Exploring the various ruins at strugdos and financial difficulties,close quarters, one is amazed at the The task that Use Tekove and his damage wrought by, the nir trees manojer. "Mr. Leonard B. Barewall, (fromages; the French call them) had set themselves, provád no cary, whose giant tootel prize open roofs one. In spite at notices prominently and walls and arches, splitting them displayed in “the dressing-rooma, lasunder and then locking them fast some of the artists took the risk of at all angles in a grotesque strangio- putting across The Rootlights sug- hold. To these relentless wreckers, Kerlive songs of a type quite com- more than to time or climate, host mon in London. This resulted in of the monuments owe their extreme And singer'a engagement being con- decay. Yet Angkor Wal, the most Impressive of all in scarcely dam- celled on the spot. :
At the snack-bar of the Universitynged; for its wide surrounding mont; Hotell? which was-nbeve the en-preserved It from the jungle, and all trance to the Mons Variollo, I havo the eight centuries that have passed. Heard the Brod "pros." bitterly com- sinbe its erection have left it com pinining in lurki language, of the paratively untouched and with an adopted in their ageless grandout that 1: In startling high-handed.
i hentes portes de predicted constant to the conquering marks of an early waali out" for the little ume elsewhere. Its huge size theatre, which didn't come off
balanced by perfectly harmonious
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WIFE
GERTRUDE GELBIN
EFESUMES, O
Guberts and Louie Brigard, who have grown up as school in France, come home to Hes at their father's plantation 416 girdi Civil War Louisiana. Gliborts, called Froufrou by the family. La delightfully naive, wanting only a handsome husband' seño will dance, dust, and buy her jewels. Andre Vallbre, gosing man-about-town and New Or Loana dandy, boities down at his mother's 'plantation, sohich. Don dors that of the Brigards to he can see more of Froufrom, Goorgar Bariorie, young lawyer friend of the pirke father la utagli: Ang with the family while rooup, droking from knife-wound inflicted by'a kriisinal'ko pros ecuted.. Loulée and BuDEKKO,'her korvané, súrse Georges: back to health, Lonikso has loved Georgos, einos childhood; but Georges be comes fascinated by YouTOM
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Chapter Four
GAME OF HEARTS Andra Vallaire whistled gally se he turned from the Brigard plan- tation where be had spent the after noon riding with Froufrou. He bounded down the pally, reached the great white housp Ja: which he lived, and hurried inside.
He entered his mother's studer to And her bonding over accounts at bor desk.
"Hullo,
called. "Bury 7"
be
modo," "Tin always inury," she answered severely. "He who wastes moments, wastes money."
He kissed the top of her boad and put his chook to bern. Some thing in his manner made her give bim her full attention.
"Mamana," he announced-setern-
Something in Froufron's milamanaGeorges know ber answer. He lifted, ber bands to bis lipase
I'm going to reform Iva ilmi, the answered daily.
|
"Toull not be tonight!” laughed Louiset, laat he'll be able to pay strew words to me alone, bo fore he goes Coniorrow"
With a Cappy Migh, Louise Soft the room. She, burried down the ataire;"and renobed, tía ¡Arst {land- ing as Georges Bartoris came out of her father'" study, Visha atoppéd. abort, had hand flying to her beart. "Madamolseite!!!" onlled “ Georges. wwait! I've admiöiking' to' my "to | you before anyone comes." VANDER
Now T
Loulas lifted her radiant face. **** I've just spoken to your Inthekide" fro's told mad I may speak to you???
You've paken to him breath- ed Loulas,
Xe I've upeken to him about. Troufrou."
*Froufrou?" Louiso stopped back as if struck.
"You didn't know it?" he asked in' surprise.
""No, I didn't know It," she said tonelly, ha collected her pride. But why speak to me? Why not to bert
*3scause your father hesitates to give his consent without your up- proval, He seems to think Frou- trou and I are not suited to pae another."
“I understand that," aho anaworad delly."Gliberte so frivolous-and you so serious "order
"Too Berlous," he interrupted. That's my fear. But he says you're to decide this. Bo my fate in in your hands, dear Louizo." Ro leaned toward her pleadingly. "Do say that you approval"
"I approve. I approve." She fatt her voice break and struggled to master herself, "Yos-yes, of course, Why shouldn't 1, approve." You're the very person to cure Gilberte of
U her frivolity."!
"Oh, no," he cried. "I wouldn't want to cure her. I like what you call her frivolity, suits hor.
"Shall I scud her to you?" Louisa -
sakod.
He beckoned. “Louiso-will' you tell hort Tm-well, Bm frightened. How is a man to propose to a rain- bow? She may laugh at the idea.” Laught" Louise, with terrine ar- fort, kept herself in hand, "How
want to got married." She looked at him for a moment. "Gberte?" she naked. He nodded. *Of course," she sighed, "you'd have to choose the ghly one. I wish it were the sensible one. I could have could be?" She thought hard. found no fault with her." "Find nose with. mamma," he begged.
"Very well, Til nik her for you," Froufrou, who shld finally and with a short
nod, she started up the stairs,
She took his face in her hands in her room, Froufrou was ad- and kissed him Tl and none, miring bersalt at her mirror. She If she makes you happy, my son." wayed to her sister. Louise!" he He embraced her. fik ask hor called, "which do you like best with father if I may speak to her at this dress, the rosebuds, or the -the-party tonight.ho. sald, and gardenias."
"Does It matter?” “murmured; with a goodbye ities, made for his
Louise. room to change.
Froufrou faced her anxiously. In the room at the Brigard plan tation, Georgon, his arm in a ing, "You look serious. What's hap was being buttoned into his evo-pened?" ning cloak by a negro servant. The "Let Monsieur Georgas tell you,” door opened suddenly and Froufrou Louizo answered. "He waiting for put in her head,
you-he loves you. He wishes to marry you. He's spoken to papa.
"Marty mo?" aried Froufrou. "Monsieur Georges? O, Bainte Cath- erine has done this, I prayed for husband and now she, sands.) Monsieur Georga!"
"Gliberta!" Louise cried out in angula
Atone, Monsieur Georges?" she asked, and seeing blm nione, on- tered gally "Do you, or do you not like this dress?" who cried and pirouetted about for his inspection. "Of course. I like it," he replied "Lan't. It with an amused smile. perfect 7"
DIG
"It's ad funny," giggled Froufrou. "Do you think so, really? he asked breathlowly. "Do you think "Monelour Georges. who hasn't n I'll have success in It-I've a pink fault to his name, wants to marry me-me-Froufroat. It would be one that might be better
"Keep that on," he answered with different, if it were Monsieur Andro
I could understand that!”. utmost Boriousness.
"What a I will!" she beamed.
"Perhaps," Louise (said curtly. comfort it is to have a gentleman "But between the two, surely you decide important matters for one. can't hostate! Even if you don't Thank you, Monsieur." She turned fova Monsieur Georges now, you will to go Oh there was something learn to when he is your fustand." lso abo frowned. In thought Froufrou stared at her with naive "Yes, I admit that "ok yen--this bracelet; I can't fasten sorioteness.
ought to be tary she paused, Louiso aren't you in love with him, yourselfer
it and Pick couldn't. Cến you?”
She belt up her arm "I can ity", he smiled and, do spite his lame arms, managed to fastan the lock. He raised his face)
*whare,
"Do you think a woman in love with a man would nak another to to hora so close to him; for a me- marry him?" ment the impulse to kiss ber all "I wouldn't," Froufrou answered,
ho "but you might." buc, mastered him.. wald controlling himself, and smil "It happens, bowwvir, that "he'!
(love you and I love some one else Ta sure I shall have sucess in The Count de la Rohelle whom ', this "areer" "tonight!" she laughed, wo that in Parl.***
od off-handedly.
and with a rustle of silk, whDIVIN might bar Tes--he would be jut
"Yes," "amiled Froufrouw -- "that gone, cop
Georges turned to his servant your sort." She put her hander to "Elas Monaleur Brigard come down her hand. "Oh!" she laughed, "my bend's in a wžizi, I don't know #tairs yet?" he asked. Buddenly.
de ergan,m'sieur”: Tha-* servant what to say, I should like to be wrinned knowingly) MIO yoviall wan; married and Ute in New Orleans, to talk to him about somethin, he's caruialyve Monsieur Georges live in his study, 12 New bilsans- but so does Mon-
"Thank You" George smiled and visur Andre
walked out with the purposeful step
-prst
Troufrout" implored. Loubeo, of man who, bal srrived at analeur Georges is walling for deditos, 35
Up in Mer room, Joe was you outside near the balcony Uing the finishing teaches to bero to him and with a quicks
she turned and sedi^. iolletts. Bhs hummed gully, sml)- Froufio ran down the stairs to ing happily at Buzanns, who was the balcony where Georges awaite busy fastening ber gown, ya taaber, Something, in her armije "All yo' dresses hkir got too big and minnar masenaid Kaos bár from running yo' latas off for det anewer te üried, har hand to his Monafauri. Göörgsa,”- grumbled 30 upe, than with al quick movo" ment le draw":her"into""Ele Britis and kloped bar month
Kanne."
Louise hugged her out of shear happiness.
"Hah racions?! protested: Bu wanne Ah hadn't kyard obory word dark passed between you two „Ah's think he'd sirsady popped da question
gravhezh he would have." Louise reptokoked, "If you'd not been all
·wars and byan övery moment.”.
Buzanne looked at her adoringly. "Well, Ab'm goin' to keap un boin": all ears and ayoll "Ut3 yoa two jumpe de broomstick, Chile."
As she lifted her arms to answer te ambrace the door opened and Andre Vallsing entered,defor an instant, he stared at the tableau bezori "bikf, then, turning swiftly. he ran out of the hones and throw- ing himself upon his horse, guf. Toped out into the night.
Froufrou de picans her word to Georges) what will become of Louto! Will Andre try to pload his auast – De sure to rend tomorrowfe chapter.
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