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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 128
MODERN CLOTHES.
Muddled Thinking g Se, much for the first reason alleg DRESSING. HAKESPEARE But the sobond is even weaker.
How did the argument against Buschroniach lead to the adoption of present day clothes??-Con it be possible that the producer, arged thue-All- castumer which sug-
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khaki and Bersaglieri suggest the present day therefore the present We know that, at a time when day is no worse than any of the our-theatre counted for more than others. Therefore it is good. It is $250,000 on account of miscel
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afternoon's meeting of the Legisla Govenor were considered at this tive Council
remark that here you have the make such a public-spirited venture obvious remedy for China's disunity. Our Scottish readers will think of since she could traite but not retter Bute, Bydney will those treaty, sollings-down" the
taliate, the, odda being too heavy think of the excursions up and down: Apart however, from the fact that its wonderful harbour, and others nations! pride, like love, la over who come from places where there band, the suggestion is fanciful, Foreign intervention cannot accor plish unity. That is for the Chinese alone. The change frim an ancient monarchy into a republic cannot be nade in a day, in the French,
It does now, notors would play made better by the fact that it Jabnous services, contribution- Europe's most logical people, will
Casor and Brute in wigs of their and you can be regarded as towards expenses of Hongkong tell you. But China cannot be
own time, it-out Ofbelho or Mac- novelty and yet proved to be section of British.
Empire allowed to ruin herself any more According to the returns of both with the smartest ruffles they are because is in accordance Exhibition expected to be incurred than your neighbour can be ollowed notiflable diseases, for the 24 hours could get at the haberdashers. Why with facte hi the story of the io 1923.
but we feel that the producer must Joon-Canton Railway, special ex- to commit suicide. And it is only ending yesterday, two cases of not, then, play Cleopatra new inge. We are shocked to say $12,800, in aid of the vote Kowe
plague were reported in Kowloon jumper of the best and end have argued like that: A good pro-penditure, Bridge No. 7. too painfully clear that China is and one case each of small-pox and Romeo to the Capulet's ball to ducer unight have begun with the 16,200, in aid of the vote. Pablle nuining herself How, then, shall enteric in Victoria district. In each emly evening cost and white, same premise. All costumes which Works, recurrent, Hongkong, com- waistcost? Bo says the Manchester she be saved? Obviously not by her case the patient is Chinese.
Guardian about the Birmingham But he would have shown that telephone including all cables.
suggest a definite period are bad."munications, (8) maintenance of own uruided offorts. That thought- Captain L. Catrony formerly of Repertory Theatre's production of artists are fairly logical by continu- $4,000 in aid of the vote Botanical ful and sincere patriot, Mr. 8, W. the Indian Army, in a public ] "Cymbeline."*- Apparently Inebimo ing thua "Laill design costumes and: Forestry Department, other Tso seen the only alternative address, delivered in Melbourne, appearing in modern evening that belong to no period and perhaps charges, forestry, New Territories.
statel that Australia should be able clothes, the Britons wear khela and dictator. But China's Cromwell to baptife the whole of the markets the Roman legionaries, as equipped they will be not quite so bad."1,550 in aid of the yote Kowloon having hitherto failed to appear, of the East with janus, cheese, but with modern Bersaglieri uniforms. That is bow the Producer at Bir Canton Railway, special expendi wagon expenses; additional there seems little hops that the ter wines; and other products. He The reasons alleged for perpetratingham ought to have argued, and locomotive, carriage and
såld the whenever Australian pro
machines for workshops." crisis will now “produce the man."
vefool he is a bad -Producer, dicts were placed upon the this enormity on the long-suffer couse he did not argne like that Accordingly one must agree with Mr. markets is good condition they ing patrons of repertory production, deficient in logic and deficient in
are two. First; that there was a
imagination. Two, that China's ills now ceqture variably brought top prices me wheit Shakespeare plays were
Hongkong Example. drastic cure-foreign aid, not less The University of Hongkong costume. We seem to bave heard Frankly we believe that a third
always acted in contemporary Assuredly, as we have shown above, Calendar for 1923 is a compact how Kean, for instance, weed for unspoken reason was the real reason many dangers beset the path but little volume giving much useful Famulet on the stage, the same why They are having this non-
Home papers give further details to Faculties, if the Powors can follow Mr. Te'o information as
fees, costume as he wore as a private descript effort in Birmingham-lack about the career of Mr. C H Hostels, examinations,
The of imagination. Imagination has Workman whose death was duly Ltd. advice and refrain from petty scholarships, & The historical personage on the treat
jealousies they will soon have Chinn section gives the facts of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in come to be regarded as an every day reported here when it took place on University's inception, but pinits evidently of the belief that the thing. We all believe that we board ship while he was returning ware possess it in abundance-ince the to Australia from a tour in the Far to state that the idea of a Universi-theatrical practices, whioli
We hold it in East with a Gilbert-Sullivan_reper- ty of Hongkong was first mooted scrapped as inadequale by our great Romantic revival.
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|LATE MR. CH. WORKMAN.
A BUG CAREER FAMOUS SAVOYARD'S
on her feet. Fully realising what any petty jealousies would mean to China and to themselves, it is per- in these columns. Perhaps the grandfathers are a special treat for so little esteem, are so little aware tory company: Born at Bootle, haps not too much to hope that the omission will be made good in us and a compliment to the memory that it is a rarity, that we are ready Lance, in May, 1873, he was within of Shakespeare. Secondly, it is to credit it to anybody and every a few days of entering apon his Iwers would succeed. Mr. To is future issues of the Calendar.
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stated that "Cymbeline" is so full body. "If imagination is all that is 51st. year. His theatrical career, so convinced that the majority of the As will be seen from an of anachronism (what has the work necessary for an artist, we say long associated with the famous Chinese people in their heart of advertisement in this issue, Mr. got to do with Romantic drama) then we could all be artiste." Bilt series of Savoy pieces, began at hearts would welcome foreign aid, Sydney Ng Quinn has been ap with its mixture of ancient Britons in reality imagination is a very more Stratford-on-Avon In 1884, when: pointed to act as Managing Director and Renaissance Italians, that no quality. Even those who have some he joined the D'Oyly Carto, com- which would allow of the vast of the General Commercial Co to real costume would be historically of this quality soon find if they try any for a tour of Utopia, minoral and other resources of China Des Voeux Road, Central, during accurate. Historical-accuracy as to app's it, say, to the designing Limited. A couple of years later fie being developed. That, we are the temporary absence from the against anachronismo is made the of our mes and setting for a play made his first appearance at the afraid, is a moot point. But one Colony of Mr. Wei Wingssam. reason for rejecting a mixture of that is a quality very easily Savoy in The Grand Duke, the last and only really unsuccessfiil In the event of Mr. Quinn's absence costumes. How can it also be made exhausted. For the first three or four-work in which Gilbert and thing stands clear-whatever couree from office, Messrs. Tsan Pak-won a reason for adopting contemporary days it is easy to go on thinking of Sullivan collaborated. Various the Powers finally adopt, they are and Joseph Charles Tam are costume?
new things; but can you go on doing provincial tours, and one in South entitled, fully entitled, to accept. Bir authorized to sign jointly, per It would be a waste of time to it every day at any odd time? Very Africa, followed, and the long ex- John Jordan's advice and ask China, procuration for the firm, until more than hint to an intelligent few people can. That's why it is so perience he thus gained in the re
render how very bad these reasons dificult to produce striking new quiroments. of Savoy opera paved not merely with regard to opium bint
are. But one may be allowed the settings of Shakespeare's plays. The the way to his successful appear with regard to her whole national,
men with imagination can do it.ance later; in the parts originally space to hint.
The men without imagination can created by George Grossmith, in a system, what she is going to do
Making the Sceneshifters. Laugh. not. At Birmingham they are try-series of revivals at the Savoy it- to put her-bouse in order. And upon
The very hardened theatre-goering to be striking without imagina-self, between the years 1906 and her answer they may shape their
is inculcated with a historical sense, tion. They are being crude. Ws 1909. In the course of them he future policy, China warmest and
very strong if not accurate, which can do better in Hongkong. We was seen as Sir Joseph Porter most indulgent friends would not
www.unknown in the days when wigs have & Producer who has imagina(Pinafore"), Major-General Stap- expect anything lese-after recent
and ruffes would do Compulsory tive. He can cope with Shakes-loy The Pirates), Bunthorhe MrPW. Auchincloss, who died education has made it a sacrilege to peare romantically. The Producer Patience), the Lord Chancellor events.
at the age of 87, a merchant, connive at any suggestion of resem- who deals with a play of Bhakes: Iolanthe"), Koko(The Milkádo”), formerly of Bangkok and Singa-blance between ancient Britons and peare's has a wonderful and delicate and Jack Point ("The Yeomen of pore, left estate of the value of modern Englishmen or Romans and dramatic ilusion to sustain. Bir- the Guard"); the two last mention- E12783.net personalty £11,893,
Italians. Any confusion of their mingham frankly shatters that illud being among the roles in which he won particular distinction carry- Our housing problem, it is glibly
costume is to the average mind, sion; shatters it with the most-ing on faithfully the best Savoy An engagement is announced said, is purely a question of supply
Edward Jago, quite as shocking as the German illusion abstering of all costumes traditions Jack Point was his and demand. When the supply between Mr.
Officers fondness for disporting modern English evening dress and favourite character. A very cap become equal to the demand (which Malayan Civil Service, and Miss themselves in stole lingerie during khaki. It is like inviting people to able singer, as well as capital it probably never will in the time Mary Dowden, elder daughter of the violation of France: The Educa- meet a great Basuto chief and then comedian, he made his performan of the present generation at any Dr, R. Dowden, Principal Medical tion Act of eighteen nineteen made producing a negro in a frock cost. ces all the mort effective for his rate) rents, it ia argued, will Officer, E.M.S.
it impossible forevermore to play It is like making Santa Claus arrive consistent avoidance of anything. Shakespeare în contemporary in a taxi or pull the door bell. It is in the nature of exaggeration or Powers' present reluctance to take they?
Mr. S. C. B. Ross, Postmaster It will be instructive to WADE GARDNER-In England drastic action over the Lincheng watch what happens dering the nest General, is sailing for Home by clothes. The vory scene-shifters as laughable, but more cynical, than over-emphasis.
vivals mentioned, Mr. "Workman on 12th June J. P. Wade Gard-outrage more understandable. Any year or so in regard to the correlative the P, & O. s.&. "Delta" on June 27 would be unable to shift the bones Jimmy Welch in When Knights Following shortly upon the re-
problem of office accommodation. Mr. Ross is going Home on private for holding their sides. If the actors Were Bold
And it may have been a at the theatre with which he had Shanghai Banking Corpora-, China did not, as all the world it is estimated that the new build affairs and expects to be back in are not to wear the costumes of The play has by now been pro pluckily entered lato management
the Colony inside four months. Britons and Romane, and 16th cen-duced, knows, invite intervention or any inge planned or in course of erection During Mr. Ross's absence, Mr. tury Italians the present day clothes great success. People are seldom become so prominently Identified, thing even mildly resembling inter now will be just about sufficient to R. E. Lindsell will probably act as are of all substitutes the very worst reliable when they try to judge art and produced there, among other equal the demand for the time boing. Postmaster General, according to a possible. It is a pity that there are on principles rather than by the re-light operas, Reginald Somerville's vention; she fought it very strongly. The prices being asked for accom statement by the Colonial Secretary some quite good drains in which ault. But when one of the roost {* The - Mountaineeri," and W., S... making ber absolute sovereignty the moitation in the new skyscrapere do this morning
modern clothes must be worn. But romantic plays is tackled in a man. Gilbert and Edward German's Fallen Fairies, his performance for decoration's sake, let's do with her so devoid of romantic spirit, the attitude was not merely the that office rents are likely to come General Chan Kwing-kwong, a out this wherever they can possibly result is not likely to be successful as Lutin in the latter being well attitude of ber, officials who are so down with a run. It may be taken brother of General Chatt Kwing be dispensed with: The chief The Manchester Guardian, though remembered. But his spell of
that the corporations sud-syndicates | ming former Governor
of reason for wearing clothes on the simulating a certain dutiful enth successful, and thereafter he was. often entirely out of sympathy with which are putting the building up Canton, is in Hongkong to stage in to try and make the actos siasm towards a Repertory Com-engaged for the part of Bumerii in the people. It was also the attitude have done their own figuring about facilitate medical treat look more beautiful or more ugly pany's effort, sasma to be quite "The Chocolate Soldier, at the of the whole nation. Although the the supply and demand aspect, ment," says the Tai Koong Po. than the andienos. Of all costumes aware of this because it says: One Lyric, making in the melodious knowing full well that if the space He is said to be staying at the that have been fashionable since the may smile at the notion, but nobody, pleca a very decided hit by his Quite apart from increasing the uses seem content to let their war they offer is not wanted to-day it Great Eastern Hotel in Connaught time of Cymbeline nobody is in any we should hope, will be stupid clever acting and singing Under "white man's burdon, which is lords and their politicians plunder certainly will be to-morrow. It be Road Central. On Saturday two doubt, but what the clothes of to day enough to go to the Repertory the same auspices he was seen at already, beavy enough, Heaven the country's wealth, they would comes daily clearer that the hous-of his aides applied at Police if not quite the ugliest are certainly Theatre with a mind, to titter: the end of 1911, as Count Max knows, with Europe's probleme bitterly resent any ontside attempting problem, like the poor, will be Headquarters for licences for two the least adorned by that air of Titterers in theatre to enemies of Cliquot in a new version of Johann always with, us and that permanent firearms and these are reported to romance which is the essence of all the human race. If they keep out Strauss's "Fledermaus entitled. alone, Western nations must con- to establish control, even though legislation will be the only panacea have been issues have admitted in Shakespeare à interpretation of life, of the way this time 16" be quite "Nightbirds in which he also template any intervention in China's control was designed for their likely to prove effective.
conversation that the General is word drawings and challenges and possible the experiment may be a played afterwards in New York. chaotic affair with the very greatest own benefit nat less than for the
here for reasons of health but such other aplodes as form the great success. Imaging Shakes. One of his last appearances jo
London reluctance-indeed, with the very foreign Powers whose trade mean-
refuse to state whether he is ill or story of Cymbeline went all right Peare saying to producing a greatest trepidation. Unable to while suffers. Silence meaning Sunday Suggestion.
suffering from wounds received in with wigs and ruffles, but are utter play which may be a greto, sucre The Girl in the Taxi, at the Lyric the campaign.
absurdities with modern clothes. Provided nobody tries to make fun (1912) Twa years later he wont to solve their own troubles either pro-asent, the Powers are presumably
Imagine, Jachume in bis evening of it." If you are one of those people Australia, under a contract, with
· A simple suggestion has come our
cost and while waistcoat: Saying perly or expeditiously, they must agreed that Japan's further lease of
ybe become readily and forcibly C Walliamson, for a tour conscious of absurdities and are
Savoy and other operán en shrink from attempting to solve Liao Tung against China's very commande our respect, and we
way from a source which alwaya PREMATURE.
of Imogen those of a great alien race still firmly strong antagonism is for Liso-Tung's hasten to give publicity to it in the
pasily made to laugh at them, please Jumping at conclusions some
keep away. I am quite up to enter one of imbued with national ideas ages old. own good. (The Powers, aurely, hope that it will be adopted without times lands one in a hole. A farmer
faining dalf and docile people i hus lively critical people that keep sway They must shrink from this huge could not have had any other delay. It is this. Why not make out West," was sitting on his back some use of the shipping lying idle. porch on a late afternoon trying Lask the more because, even if they motive!) The Chinese, however, each Sunday in our harbour? In out a finger exercise which he had had not pledged China a sovereignty not only will bot accept tua view, other words, organise pleasure been told it would drive of the at the recont Washington confer but retaliate with a boycott. In this cruises say for the afternoons, rheumatism from his ancient dights. ance, history has shown, times with they are not sny more lustile than around the Island, and in the oven A University professor, driving
ing short trips to some selected spot. past and seeing the farmer, stopped. If that oat number, that joint intervention most other nations. Was it not a little music, the store in their and alighting from his car, went of note almost inevitably breada dissension, until several months ago Britain's courses," moonlight the myriad toward the patient rheumatic, it la woong the Powers intervening bitter complains that a vastly lights of the Harbour front and the Noticing the old man's gesticufa, 16th especially if the country placed smaller people, the Irish, would in Peak the gentle breezes, refresh tions with his fingers, the professor must be under foreign control is a rich one sist upon ruining themselves in their ments, and all this should be jumped to the hasty conclusion period decidedly And Oldna is a very rich one indeed own way? Was if not ako another want long unrealised until now It 21-envelope from his i
paradies snow. It should supply that here was a deaf mute, Drawing perhaps the richest in the world: tiny nation's perfervid nationalem seems to us to answer the inevit Tata principle --- for repeated which (nominally) caused the last able question will it pay ? IL MIASTO examples have now made it that great war? Foreign intervention certainly would if organized in the this principle holds good whether how many times has history shown the country concerned, invites the it--afmoet invariably unites control or strongly resents it. The warring cyncial will say that this prinsiple, sider just
The China Mail,
Boxokong, Tauzoday, June 14, 1983,
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