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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1977
POP SHOW DELIGHTS PRINCESS
FOLK FESTIVAL UNDER THE LION ROCK
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HRH PRINCESS ALEXANDRA AND HER HUSBAND, THE HON. ANGUS OGILVY + WERE GUESTS OF HONOUR AT A FOLK FESTIVAL PUT ON BY THE URBAN COUNCIL
IN THE PLAYGROUND IN THE MIDST OF THE VAST TSZ WAN SHAN ESTATE IN NORTH KOWLOON THIS (SATURDAY) EVENING.
THE PLAYGROUND ITSELF WAS PACKED WITH AN ESTIMATED 10,000 PEOPLE CROWDING THE CENTRAL STAGE AND OVERFLOWING FROM THE SPECTATOR STANDS ON TO THE GROUND ITSELF. ON THREE SIDES OF THE GROUND STOOD THE MULTI-STOREY BLOCKS OF THE HOUSING ESTATE. THE IR WINDOWS AND BALCONIES WERE ALIVE WITH ESTATE-DWELLERS ENJOYING A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE SHOW.
IN THE BACKGROUND, OUTLINED AGAINST A MOONLIT SKY, WERE THE LION ROCK AND THE LOWER SLOPES OF KOWLOON PEAK,
THE SINGING OF ROBERT LEE WHO SHARED THE STAGE WITH FELLOW TELEVISION ARTISTES SUM SUM AND BAN BAN -- WAS A HIGHLIGHT OF THIS MINI-FESTIVAL ORGANISED BY THE DISTRICT AND ENTERTAINMENT STAFF OF THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
PRELUDE TO THE SHOW WAS THE PRESENTATION TO THE PRINCESS OF COUNCILLOR KENNETH T.C. LO, CHAIRMAN OF THE URBAN COUNCIL'S RECREATION AND AMENITIES SELECT COMMITTEE, AND COUNCILLOR F.K. HU, CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY HALL AND ENTERTAINMENT SELECT COMMITTEE.
THEN CAME A NORTHERN LION DANCE, AFTER PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HAD DOTTED THE EYE OF THE LION. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE COLOURFUL +DANCE OF THE FEATHER FANS+, PERFORMED BY STRIKINGLY DRESSED YOUNG GIRLS OF THE FAR EAST FOLK DANCE TROUPE.
NEXT WERE ROBERT LEE, SUM SUM AND BAN BAN- AND THEN,
TO ROUND OFF THE SHOW, CAME A SCINTILLATING DISPLAY OF ACROBATICS BY WELL KNOWN LOCAL ARTISTES DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE COSTUMES.
THE PRINCESS, WHO SAT ALONGSIDE THE GOVERNOR AND LADY MACLEHOSE ON THE STAND FOR THE CHIEF GUESTS, SHOWED BY HER SMILES AND APPLAUSE HER ENJOYMENT OF THE PROGRAMME.
OTHERS PRESENT INCLUDED THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DENYS ROBERTS- THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, MR. DENIS BRAY, AND THE DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES, MR. BRIAN WILSON.