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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1928.

THE CHINA MAIL,

BRITAIN & AMERICA. trying to use a lever, whose exist AMATEUR ACTORS.

STRENGTHENING THE TIES OF FRIENDSHIP,

AN IMPORTANT ADDRESS.

once they wish to deny, to per- duade their nation to do something: which it otherwise might not do is; enough to create in them a feel-i ing of realstanco to' what la pro- posed.

MANY PITFALLS THAT ABOUND.

FULL OF HUMOUR.

SEASON'S DANCES.

THE RETURN OF THE "BLUES.”

DANCE PROGRAMMES.

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

· IN THE "MAIL".

To-day-World Theatre; · ́"Vol- cano, 5.15 and 9.15; The True Love," Chinese Drama, 12, 2.30

"Premier Danseur," writes in and 7.15. the "Weekly Scotsman":—

....

To-day-Star Theatre; "Fine

"

"It is necessary to walk warily. It is necessary to remember that At its inaugural luncheon at the understanding is not easily achiev We are entering the season of Midland Hotel on November 15, the ed. It is necessary to assume that amateur theatricals. Within the

A question which dancers are Mannerā." Manchester Branch of the English it does not exist until the contrary

discussing is this: Which dances. To-day-Cheer '0' Y.M.C.A.: Speaking Union entertained Sir la proved. The average American next few months performance will are to hold the floor this season, Whist Drive, 7.30 p.m. Auckland Geddes.

Theatre; Lord Derby point of view is so different from take place in country houses, local and which are to rank among "the To-day Queen's (President of the Branch) took the ours,

"We're In The Navy Now." They are a great population town halls, and village school. old, unhappy, far-off things?" chair, and there were

In a brief survey of the season's January 26-Müsicale at Helena oven 280 of mixed European origin, full of .membere present.

dances, some indication may be May Institute, 5.80 p.m. rooms up and down England. energy; full of vitality, achieving Mr. E. Raymond Streat, the great things in every

January 26-Cheer O' Y.M.C.A.; direction. The cynic who said that only given of the probable trend of the

majority of dance programmes, Impromptu. Dance, 7.30 p.m. honorary secretary,, read letters of For they are a wonderful people. the players enjoy amateur thea-with a short description of the January 26-28 World Theatre; congratulation from Mr. John W. (Hear, hear.)

They differ from tricals was wrong. There is steps which will be most popular. "The Gold Rush,””- Davies, chairman of the English-us in their whole background. humour in such performances what form a dance will "live" dur "The College,"

No one can really tell just In January 26-28-Queon's Theatre; speaking Union In the United There is no deep scar through States; the Marquis of Reading, their minds as there is through always, much of it unconscious ing season. General Indications: January 26-28-Star Theatre; chairman of the Central Commit-ours as the result of the war, and unintentional.

only may be noted, and common-The Wedding Song." sense deductions drawn therefrom. tes of the English-speaking Union; They were in it a much shorter At one country house entertain. This is especially the case in con- and Sir Campbell Stuart.

time; they were farther from it. Iment recently the heroine-it was nection with a new dance, as it in Lord Derby (reported the "Man-Their casualtien, heavy as they melodrama had to rush across constantly altered and moulded, chester Guardian"), in proposing were on the units which fought so the stage, bang wildly with her sometimes almost imperceptibly, to the health of Sir Auckland Geddes, gallantly in France, were, on the fists on a shut door, at the same suit the public fancy. A recent Bald they could already con-nation, slight. They have not got time screaming at the top of her example of this was allorded by the gratulate themselves on the success what we have, a post-war mental voice, "Save me, George--save Charleston, which started with the They ity. Theirs is a pre-peace mental-me! The door is locked! It's most astonishing acrobatic efforts had asked Sir Auckland Geddes to ity, and I often wish ours was a LOCKED.!"" be their guest that day because for Httle more pre-peace and a little many difficult years he was British loss post-war. (Hear, hear.) Ambassador in the United States and because they felt that in him

of the Manchester branch.

they had a man who had carried

A Main Pillar of Peace..........

votera

ever seen on a batiroom floor, and] was gradually taped down to the docile fiat, or Smidth Charleston.

The Waltz and Its Variations. But a nos moutorie, In regard to

January, 27 Cheer, O' Y.M.C.A.; Concert and Dance, 7.80 p.m. ⠀

January 28 Cheer O' Y.M.C.A.; "Impromptu Concert, 7.80 p.m.

January 20-Queen's Theatre; "The Irresistible" Lover.”....

January 20-Cheer O' Y.M,C.A.; Musical Evening. 1.30 p.m.

January 29-30 Star Theatre; "The Desert's Toll."

January 29-31-World Theatre; "Way Down East

January 80-February 4—Queen's Theatre: "Ben Hur."

January 91-February 1-Star

February 25— Craigengower

Miscellaneous.

Match:

at

St.

But on the first night it was not locked, and it flew open and Our Preponderance of Women, she foll in. Instantly the house "Another great difference: their was convulsed, while the unfor- the dances of the season now be- population does not fill their coun-tunate girl, strung up to the high-gun, the first to be considered is Theatre; "The Taxi Dancer." n message of goodwill from this

try. Oura more than fills curs. Jest pitch and at a loss what to do the waltz. It will be interesting to country to the United States and In this country we have, as a re-in that moment of crisis, auddenly the older generation to know that Cricket Club's annual Bachelors' who did much in that country tosult of many causes, a great aur-burst into tears and ran off the the three-stop waltz will still be in Dance. make the people and it was some plus of women. America has not; atage.

favour, and that it seems to be

Sports. times rather difficult-realise that and until you have lived, as I have

drawing even nearer to the old To-day-Sim Shield Competi- we were in no way hostile to them. lived in the very heart of the two iar play, the leading lady was to be. Several "variations" and King's Park, 4.30 p.m.

On another occasion, in a simi-conception of what a waltz ought tion: H.K. Hockey Club v. R.A.F., Sir Auckland was in America in peoples-for I knew America well supposed to have been chased hesitating movements. will be intro January 28-American lawn ten- many difficult and dangerous long before I was there in any off-through a dense wood by two duced, and the "risc" on to the ball nis tourney (mixed doubles) for months, and, thanks to his courage cial capacity you do not realise murderous villains; the back of the foot will be more marked members of the Ladles' Recreation and foresight he left America and} what a difference the preponder cloth showed you how thick was than was the case last season. Club at L.R.C. England, when his term of office ance of women in this country he undergrowth, a mass of thorny most popular once will be what are Ladies'

In regard to the variations, "the February 17 — Golf came to an end, better friends than makes to our national outlook.

Bogey Competition bushes and tangled brambles. Yet they had been before his arrival!

known as The influence of that mass of she emerged from it without a that is, the gentleman draws his

"outside variations," Fanling, there.

Hughes & Hough's Auction affects our whole life. hair of her head out of place, partner outatile his line of dance, March 1-At Auction Room, Ice Lord Derby said he was one of There is nothing comparable in while the gossamer frock which usually to his right, and performs House Street, valuable leasehold those who believed in trying to get America, and things that we do she wore, and that would certain- a step or two; there are, however, property altuate in Peak District, the people of different countries to every day, things that our Parlin-ly have been torn to shreds in the innumerable variations possible, al- 3-p.m. understand each other, in the hope ment passes almost as inevitable, first few yards of her frenzied though certain ones may prove

Lammerts' Auction. and belief that if the people un-shock the differently constituted flight, was not even rumpled. more popular than others.

January 80-At 7 Humphreys derstood each other the Govern-American opinion. These differ- In that same play we had aj

Changes In The Fox-Trot, Buildings, Kowloon, valuable ments might do so. (Laughter.)ences make understanding often sporting scene-a big pheasant quick-time foxtrot, a most welcome

Then, in regard to the fact, household. furniture, 2.45 p.m. If they could cultivate good feeling very difficult. 1 do not know how shoot. A smell of fireworks ac- one being the revival of the old

Land Sale. between any two nations-to take often I have heard in the United companied the shots fired up into "slow fox-trot," danced

-January 26-Sale by Public Auc- the com-tion of Crown Land at. New Kow- the two in which he was most in- States of the decadence of England.the air by young men in plus-petition time of 48 hara to theloon, F.W.D. Offees, 8 p.m. terested, France and Ufe United All the unemployment benefit that fours, and presently the beaters minute. The direct cause of this

Meetings. States of America-they might do has been paid has shocked and hor- appeared, all carrying rabbits.. revival was the formation of the To-day- General meeting of for more for the good of peace and rified many of our warmest Ameri-, Said my neighbour in an aside: "Ancient Order of Fox-trotters" Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, consequent prosperity than by con- can friends. They do not under-"I may be mistaken, but I always (known as the A.O.F.T.), of which Cathedral Hall, 6.30 p.m. tinually preaching universal peace. stand our difficulties, nor we the imagined that rabbits ran along more may be said at another time. January 25-Meeting of the By trying to get each nation to un-different point of view which is the ground.”

The A.O.F.T exists for the preser- Sanitary Board Department. vation of the slow fox-trot and for derstand us and to get our people forced on them by their sturdy in-

February Twenty-third an- On the second night this over-making it better known. Therefore nual meeting of Union Waterboat to understand other nations we dividualism."

sight was rectified. But then this'ccason should witness an. in-‡ Co., Ltd., in the Offices of Messrs. should also make the task of our Continuing, Sir Auckland said even worss happened. The beat-crease of interest in this most Dodwell & Co., Ltd., 11 .m. own Government much easier. The that a trade union leader who had ers appeared carrying each a graceful dance. Before it can be- Engilah-speaking Union was an en- been in the United States to see brace of pheasants, but each brace come really a general favourite, the To-day Hong Kong "tirely non-political body, pledged to members of his union

help any Government in power that migrated to that country, when round its neck.

who had still had the poulterer's labet tied average standard of public dancing Andrew's Society hold annual Burns

must be raised, as its propor, per- Dinner. would help to foster these mutual asked by him how they liked the

formance requires a better balance January 20-Theosophical Society good relations.

conditions under which they were in the orchestra a drummer en- ever, the slow fox-trot will certain ant.

At one amateur show there was than the quick-time fox-trot. How-Lecture, Lane, Crawford's Restaur working there, replied that they Sir Auckland Geddes said there could not feel at home because the aged out of a pantomime orches-ly be featured during the season, I

tra. Every night for weeks he dancers improve. was nothing our nation needed point of view of the people there had hit his big drum when the low Then, in regard to the fast, quick was so different. Here wages were comedian fell on his back-the time fox-trot, I predicted in these

WORLD AND STAR. more at the present time than peace, and not only at the present lower, but if a man fell sick or fall was the drummer's cue. But columns some months ago, that it

Gloria Swanson's comedy of a time, but indefinitely through the got into trouble there were many pure was a serious play, highbrow would be merged and moulded event chorus girl who plunges into the years. Those present, he took it,

to help him, to a degree. A monarch, famous ually, into the Charleston. This realised also that one of the secure while in America there was no-in history, had just read a solemn has, in effect, taken place now, and social swim, "Fine Manners," will pillars of such a long-enduring thing of the sort and they felt as proclamation to his people, and the "quick time fox-trot Charleston" be screened at the Star Theatre if they were in a hostile atmos-was about to descend from his wish to indulge the joie de vivre being screened to-day is "Vol- will still be popular for those who to-day. Another picture also operation between this country and phere. It was not, of course, hos-throne when he accidentally trip- and eclat of fast, "anappy" music. cano" at the World Theatre, the United States of America, and tile to them either as individuala ped over his robes and fell.

Blues' in a New Form.

a atory of the historic Mount La that such co-operation, such friend- or as men from this country; it

was just the social atmosphere that the audience became hysterical.

Bang! went the big drum, and In order to counteract these Pelee erpution, with Bebe Daniels ship could only be based upon a

"speed merchants," we have a re- was different.

"Volcano" is mutual respect and understanding. He knew that many in this country:

Vital Differences.

I once saw an amateur perform turn of the Blues in a new form, the in the leading role.

Yale Blues. Although it is notori- being screened at 5.15 and ··9.20 ance of a Greek comedy in which ously unsafe to prophesy regarding only, the picture at 12, 2.80 and did not understand the United

These things had nearly every the clowns all wore Roman togas. new dances. It is my firm belief that 7.16 being the Chinese drama, States, that many citizens of the thing to

do with international And in America an adaptation of the dancing public will welcome "True Love." We in this country with The Hound of the Baskervilles" this variation, and that the slow, United States did not understand peace. the point of view of this country; our overcrowded population, with with Dartmoor yokels in kilts and rhythmic music will not make. Its and it was necessary that we should our more feminine point of view, sporrans. Our host said he had appeal in vain. In addition, the meet one

another es we passed were dependent on world trade to copied the "Scotch dress" from a Tale Blues is more or less familiar backward and forward across the maintain population. To screen version of the story-Basil to dancers, in that the steps have

a stoutly indivi-Tozer, Atlantic in order that understand-Americans, with

dualistic population still exploiting ing might grow and deepen. A society such as the English-speak the virgin resources of a continent, Ing Union could do good work overseas trade was something of a And when we talked of in developing, fostering, and luxury. strengthening understanding. · protecting our trade and of doing other thing to "But in all working for peace be this, that, or the tween nations," Sir Auckland con- foster our trade overseas, they tinued, "there are difficulties: Some thought of it as they thought of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hat be performed in exactly the same). individuals becomes so obsessed with their own trade as something of ton, have the time of their lives way as was formerly the case, and their own ideas how best to secure a luxury super-added to their own as the sailor heroes of Paramount's so there is an urge to learn the cor- immediate requirements and there.second comedy showing the sunny rect steps. Thus the Yale Blues and * understanding

co-operation that unless what they think is fore supper-added to our require-side of the war, "We're in the will at first be intriguing to dan- Nayy Now," which will bo screen-cers, and after it has been master- right be done precisely, they are apt to throw up their hands in des- They did not, in the mass, un-ed at the Queen's Theatre to-ed, it will prove exceptionally plea- sant to perform. An added attrac- or our needs day by general request. pair."

tion for the older generation is the at all;

and we, in the Starting in a prize ring, going slow tempo, which naturally not "We have got to recover lost

not really ground. We have got to realise masa, did

under to a naval, training camp, from nearly no fatiguing as the riotously are influences in the stand them or their needs at all. there to the deck of a troop tran-"hot" Charleston music. that there United States which are not desir-He therefore begged the members sport, and in turn, a small rowboat, Eclipse of the One-Step. - ous that lost ground should be re-of the Manchester branch to do all subraarine, French dreadnought,The charms of the once extreme- I know as well as any they could as occasion offered to Franco and then-all the way back. popular one-step will probably body how strong the feeling is get Americans to understand what to where it started from. "We're be limited this season to about one among Americans for friendship our points of view necessarily and in the Navy Now" creates a new dance per evening, and. In some halls it will probably be. "reported and co-operation with the British inevitably were, and at the same laugh record for Wallace Beary and missing" from the programme alto- understand what Raymond Hatton, Empire throughout the world.. time to try to

gether. know that there is another section American points of view necessari-

For the good dancers the Tango will still continue to exert its The master of a fishing Junk, powerful sway. The dance will be for trying to prevent, seizure by son, except that it will be danced overboard, was fined at the Marine on much the same lines as last sea- the police, by throwing his cargo with a trifle more deliberation and Court. He was further remanded fess "glide.". Outside movements on bail at: 850 for not presenting

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I know that there is a large body that understanding which, coupled cades passed it might equally mean of the American people who really with the mutual respect which did a great deal for the American do not think about these things exist, would make co-operation be

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Ho wished, we could show In & will also be used hero himself at the court at the speel- practical form to America the real It will no doubt come as a surfled time. A Language Quibble. thing in the world to-day better desire we had to live in peace and prize to many dancers to learn that “It la so easy to give understand-worth working for than close, will in the closest friendship with her, the Black Bottom not nearly so Ing a setback. The vory name of ing whole-hearted co-operation be The members of the Branch might during the summer that the Black will witness the introduction · of this society, simple, obvious as it fween the people of the United however, in a very humble way Bottom had not caught on with Black Botom movements to several appears to us the English-speak States of America and the poly show that they at least had a feel the dancing public and that it could dances, possibly some new ones, Ing Union-elmple and obvious as glot peoples of the British Empire, ing of sympathy with her safely be dumped on the rubbish In speaking of "Black Bottom" it appeared to those Americans (Applause.)

They had all read in that day's heap.. But I think that this season movements, I do not mean the vul- who were associated with its inau-A Beau Geste.

garly eccentric contortions. guration and foundation, is a cause Lord Derby, responding to the papers of the catastropha that had

Enough was not made of the Buck of offence to certain sections of toast of his health, proposed by Mr. overtakon Pittsburg, and even if it

Bottom when it was first intro the American population. They W. E Thompson, chairman of the could be of no practical help it

duced, perhaps because it camo too beau gests for the will tell you with heat that they Committee of the Branch, sald that would be

soon on the heels of the ; Char- but with the slower tempo troduced by the Yalo Blues, the message of

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do not speak English they speak close relationship between the Branch to send the Mayor of Pitts- United States. (Laughter.) And two countries meant a great deal burg

they do. (Loud laughter.) And to us at the present moment, and (Applause.) the very thought that somebody is his belief was that before many do- agreed that this sho

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