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people will eventually triumph and China will yet recover the which her ancient greatness civilisation and her vast resources make her heritage.

THE FIRST.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

A SIMPLE PRAYER

"Christ of the Andes,

Christ of the Evary

where, Great lover of the hilla, The open air One of Mr. Baldwin's strong-And patient lover of impatient man,

Who blindly strive and sin, est opponents in politics has And strive again, given thanks that Mr. Baldwin is Thou Living Word, larger than any

in politica. The compliment is not undeserved.

Cread," The British Thon Love Divine, uttored in

Premier has given evidence of Human deed, honesty of purpose that has caus- Oh, teach the world, warring and ed admiration, and with it a sense Wandering still, of confidence. There must be Thy way of Peace, the

many in America who give thanks for President Coolidge. Honesty of purpose is shown by him, whilst honesty of utterance la a

Footpath of Good Will !''

Adence in financial matters and access to your bank account.

8. That this marriage be run on

a half-and-half basis.

9. That I shall bave your utmost co-operation and thoughtiqinoaa.

10. That we stop all discussions of past unpleasantness.

out a week and I shall have the 11. That you will have one night

BSMO.

12. That you shall not talk of bachelor freedom or of entertaining young ladies.

18. That you will not put obstacles in my path if diveres seems

necessary.

14. That you will stick always to

A woman's "four- the truth and not deny statements you have made.

abusband's bo

Not being asked to do

submits the husband's

feature of his policy. The pro- WIPELY TERMS teen points" for blem before Americans was to make "America First." It is a havior after marriage have been re- problem which should be before vealed in a New York divorce suit. TI REPLY 80, the Shreds mon each country. And it is signi-Mrs. W. Whitney sued har husband ficant that the American Pre-on the ground that he failed to ob-points or replies— sident puts aside those things serve the rules she laid down, which are of material origin or Her fourteen points were :--- lead to a "Bret" in material 1. That you understand this is things. Americans and America | your last chance.

could not be pre-eminent by 3. That the bome will be run on cultivating national bigotry, the principle of love and gentleness. annoyance and selfishness. .3. That there shall be no inter- "Hatreds, jealousies and suspi-ference or quotations from relatives clons will not produce any benefits on aither side.

6. That I shall have help to re- lieve me of household drudgery.

7. That I have your entire con-

in this direction." Simple facta, 4. That running, the house is my simply stated. Thare le a world-business and running your business wide, message. here, which might is yours.. well be taken.to heart. National- 5. That I shall lock to you for iam is great in itself. But beyond funds when I deem it necessary. there is a federation of humanity, Get this vast throng to accept a creed of antagonism to the things mentioned by the President, and the misunderstandings wilfully or carelessly created — disappear as if by magic. If this standard could be borne into the present chaos of unnecessary warring in- sticts, north and south of China, and accepted as the common ban- ner, we should soon see an end to Perhaps in the very near future this clarion call will sound its common-senst message, and be heard and acted on..

troubles.

1. I understand it won't be my Last chance.

3. You've spilled a bibful. 9. Praian the Lord.

4. But yours is not ruining mina.

5. Cut out this last five words.. 6. Reasonable.

7. Cut it out. Access moans CICCBA.

8. Yours, of course will be the better hal

9. and 10. Agreed.

11. But not the same night out! 12. What else is there to talk about?

18. Sure!

14. ?? 11.

HAMLET IN PLUS FOURS.

For many decades during the, the custome of their own time. Victorian era,..whenever a new They dressed as the people in the "Hamlet" was put on the boards audience were dressed. No at- the dramatic critics recalled the tempt was made to reproduce realistically the fashions and fur- fact that Fechter had once played nishing of the Castle of Elsinore. the moody Dane in a yellow wig: But, then, we doubt whether remarks the "Daily Telegraph" Shakespeare gave two thoughts to (London). Whatever else they the particular century in which forgot, they remembered that to the play was cast. In his big them preposterous wig. The,

way, he cared little for anachron

FORGERY CHARGES. audacity of it! Yellow, indeed

DEFENDANT ALLEGES

ADVANCES.

SEEKING X RETURN.

when everybody knew the Lawrence portrait of John Kemble and the funeral plumes of his aable cap and the tradition of the two Keans and Garrick. It barely exeusable,

isms, and would have smailingly pleaded, his poor ignorance to dis-

Nor do of pedantic erudition. arm the foolish frown on the face we object to anachronisme so long, as they do not strike us in the face, or seem to be brought in in a foreigner, they said, pour épater les bourgeois. That

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are

even

Foreign and Chinese traders are alike in despair; for them still the Customs returns carrying| no real message of hope... The advances he had made to though after the Danes castle at Elsinore it must not be & fair-haired race. Windsor Castle, still less Bucking- Even the gigantic agricultural members of deceased's family were But to-day it is not of yellow wigs ham Palace. We want, in fact, wealth of Central China is power-stated in the course of evidence that the theatrical world is talk for Elsinore some "Castle of

yesterday to have been the reason

some castle of" less to render that world service why Wong Mon-wai, a local busi ing, but of a Hamlet in "plus "Otranto," on which the hopes of foreigners ness man and described as a manag. fours" and a rather sloppy dinner dreams, a reminiscence of some are largely based. Her våst, ing partner in the Ka Leung Bank, jacket, and shingled heads as the gifted illustrator's imagination, signed documenta in the name of a stockinged legs of the period. At some castle that might have been, the Kingsway Theatre we may see if there was no Elsinore in his- "Hamlet" in modern dress, and it'toric fact.

deceased relative.

af

mineral resources remain un- developed, her railways are stag-i

The churges against him sre

is clear from the notices that as Yet the Hamlets which are nant, and for any purpose save | forgery.

de. soon as the performance was well best remembered by living play- that of warfare there are

Yesterday morning, the ΤΟ

fendant continued his evidence as started many of the critics found goers were played by actors who funds available either in

the

to the advances ha made on differ- themselves somewhat in the plight set great store by strict historical North or in the South." And the ent occasions over a long period to of the wits in Goldsmith's poem accuracy. When Sir Henry burden of debt grows

ever the son of Wong Chik-cho (de- who went to church to scoff and Irving and Sir Beerbohm Tree seasod), the dead man's widow and remained to pray. So good, so made up as Hamlet they took the greater,

members of the family. Defendant living, was the show, that they greatest pains with every item of These are dismal pictures in-stated that he was given the shares were carried away in spite of their dress-the gold setting of & security and told he could themselves. Shakespeare got the "picture," the shape of the deed, but it must be confessed that to-day, with strikes and boy-mortgage, sell or diapose of them up hold of them and overcome them. dagger, the cut of the shoe and They treated the to the amount of money he had ad The old omotions welled up in the cloak. cotts, they are still worse. The vanced the family, if he wished, or vincibly and moved them to a rare Prince as a real Prince belonging history of the past fourteen if it was necessary for him to do so. enthusiasm. This is the best to the "Almanach de Gotha," not years is a story of strife and ruin. Yesterday afternoon the defend- tribute, perhaps, that Shakes as some imaginary Prince who Still, the outlook is not without ant's evidence in chief was com- peare has had paid to his genius might be of to-day or yesterday. pleted. During the hearing he said for a long time. The old magic And if it was objected that hope. With all her, woes, China that certain documents produced he works, and the secret is not in the Hamlet was of no cognisable cen- has made great material progress, signed in the name of Wong Chik clothes and in the accessories, or tury,, their answer would have though of course, this has only cho ndd another in the name of in the stage settings and the fur been that if not Shakespeare, then Wong Lok Bin Tong. He signed nishing, but in the words. The at any rate the long line of great been a fraction of what it might other documents concerning share play's the thing." We are even actors who had played the Prince have been under a sound govern- transactions in these names. He asked to believe that the modern had fixed, and registered him, as ment, and to-day, too, there are had no intention of defrauding, the dress heightened the reality of the it were, in a certain setting, not members of the family of his friend play, "which gained," according unworthy of the genius of his real prospects of the troubles which followed the May 30 in- known to all the friends and relatives clarity far more than it lost in to cat this all out and to retort

The modern answer is " Wong Chik-cho. These affairs were to one critic, "in point, speed, and creator.

not without some point that the cident in Shanghai being finally of the deceased. Neither had he romantic or poetic beauty."

any intention of defrauding the We can imagine with what Hamlet tradition is a very broken settled with justice and honour Government of any State Duty pay ferocity some of the older school tradition, and that the actors in Again, in the words of one stud-able with regard to the estate of would fall upon such a judgment question desit, ruthlessly and even. ever, an accident forced earlier action.

Shakespeare's A bomb accidentally eat of Chinese politics, the curious Wong Chik-cho, This Estate Duty What are "point, speed, and wantonly with exploded at the headquarters of spectacle has been afforded of should have amounted to only clarity," they would say, in corn- text, and played it so slowly that $2.000 or $8,000 and he could the revolutionary agents in the China going very serenely on its easily have found this sum. He parison with "romantic or poetic they could not play it in its en-

Concession. way, sowing and reaping, marry-usked the Court to believe that he beauty?" If the play loses in the tirety at all. Raiding the place, the authoritiesing and burying, apparently in- was justified in doing what he did. latter respect, then in their view "Hamlet" is really

He produced, fifteen receipts in ra the experiment stands condemned "Hamlet," and supremely good at without more said. Is not the that, surely there is reason for learned the whole plot. Accord-

spect of loans made to the family of amazing subtlety of "Hamlet" gratitude, for it is very certain Wong Chik-cho,

CHINA'S DESTINY.

Fourteen years ago to-day China's revolution began. Origin- ally it had been planned to take place at Canton, but the rising there proved unsuccessful. Plaña were then made for an outbreak at Wuchang in December. How

Hankow Russian

the revolutionists, with white bands around their arms, attack-·

different to the hectic atmos-

few minor storm centres.

a

a

If the new new

ingly, on the night of October 10, pheres of Peking, Canton, and

Cross-examined by Mr. Whyte part of its charm? Why speak of that the doublet-and-hose Hamlet, This very indifference among Smith: Would you accept a trans- clarity in connection with the with the raven feather, and the

for signed by a man whomever debatable and incomprehen- furry cloak, will never be dis ed Wuchang. Thus began the re-tributed to China's chaos. In the of another man ?-Witness: If. I term-character of the Prince? sloppy dinner suit will not satisfy the great masses has largely con- you know to be using the signature sible in the largest sense of the honoured for long, and that a volution which overthraw the

absence of any public opinion, the trusted the men I would accept the Does not much of the power of the aching of the eye for costume. monarchy.

"Hamlet" lie in the mystery which Besides, we have unforgettable militarists and politicians have transfer. The hated Manchu misrule once

been free to fight their little wars

Did it not occur to you that it enwraps it, and were not our pre- memories of Millais's sweet pic- awept away and a republie estab

should be necessary to get the decessors right when they sought ture of Ophelfs in the pool which lished in its stead, great things and scheme their dark intrigues power of attorney from Wong Lam to heighten the mystery and obstinately refuses to be ousted were hoped for China. How have almost without restraint. The She (widow of Wong Chuk-cho)? deepen the gloom-though this by the "demi-" evening frocks of can be carried to excess, did the the new production that would those hopes been fulfilled? The great god Grab har ruled without Witness replied in the negative musing of a disordered brain can scarce hold up a fairy. If the historian answers "During the challenge. Now, however, there Be did not think it was wrong, to

nss another man's name when be easily degenerate into a slow modernist way of playing few years since the disappearance is a growing public opinion, had no intenton to defrand any droning. Is tradition to count "Hamlet" robs it of any of ita of the Empire, Chipa has: sunk Political ideas are slowly gaining one. If he had had any intention for naught? These are difficult poetry, the compensations must deeper into political dissolution ground. Soon they will become a to defrand, he would consider it questions. That costume makes need be great if they are to ba a profound difference is obvious. held adequate. Ferhaps it is that and financial chaos, a prey to the forea, that no fection can ignore His Worship adjourned the case "Hamlet" is another play in the the extreme modernists cannot do new dress. The poetry dwindles with the poetry, while avid for Perpetual conflict of rival am-Then will China's regeneration ba

until next Wednesday morning.

out of the lines from the very the drama of Shakespeare We bitions and the unchecked rapa- | near. Meanwhile, impatión

way they are spoken. If they be will not speak pontifically on so city of local tyrants whose extor must remember

come more dramatic and the play large a theme. But we hold an an more real, is that again? Does it article of faith that Shakespeare's bridg us back nearer to the effects object was to give both walch Shakespeare got in hitlown and drama together, and that the

for this must be said front fashions which he saw of these modernists that and "Ophelia waarin #Elamulet" was first played wa

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