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THAT INTERVAL.

PITY THE POOR PLAYGOER,

[By Denis Mackall.] What shall defend the interim 7— Timon of Athens, il. 2.

If you have only heard of me as a novelist, or if you have never heard of me at all, then perhaps I should begin by a recital of my qualifications for appearing on this page. Know, then, all men by these presents, that I have in my day been professionally employed as a scene painter, a scene shifter, a stage manager, a business man- ager-I had to count all the coun terfoils of your tickets while I was on that job, and I don't think my right thumb has ever been the same since-a critic, a playwright, a col laborator, and even a lyric writer The musty fastnesses beyond the iron door hold very little mystery

when the curtain rose before I was

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FILMS.

Still less do I go there to listen to LONDON CONCERTS.

frrelevant music being performed

to the accompaniment of a disturb

Or even, strange as it Ing babel. may appear, to read what Miss Asterisk Blank would do it she were Prime Minister for a day, or to solve cross-word puzzles and acrostics.

ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1928.

DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an export but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings; such va harbor, plow, and altho.)

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If one werd asked to namo the I go there for the moments when chief characteristle of the orches the curtain is up, and during every tral playing in Queen's Hall last moment when it is down 1 and the night one night well hesitate bo- people round me are losing the in- fore lighting upon the word or the terest and illusion which it is the phrase that would do justice alike theatre's business to provide. Some lo ita defects and its qualities. The of us are more acutely conscious of occasion was the last concert of this than others, but it is true, in the Philharmonic season, with Sir greater or less degree, for sil. We Hamilton Harty as guest-conduc- should raise no end of a how! if tor. It was not first-class playing, we bought a book-which a few of and the fault was not the us sometimes do and found fifteen ductor's nor to be quite fair blank pages between every chapter. was it the orchestra's. Only Yet, though we could skip these, the wretched conditions of there is no means that I have yet rehearsal ruling to-day can discovered of skipping those in- be blamed if our best orches tolerabic intervals.

tras must perpetually play bałow their own best possible form.

Actually the various perform-

We low-brows have very little re-

to the magnetic gifts of the conduc- tor, who worked exceedingly hard;: all they lacked was what further rehearsal would have brought: the

for me, and my respect for the gret for the old Globe Theatre, ances were immensely vital, thanks |

a number of well-known names which appear in electric where lights and on the sides of omni- plays were first staged more than buses is tempered by a considerable 300 years ago. We certainly don't knowledge of how their owners can want to stand up in the open air; we are greatly attached to many of behave in their more private mo- ments. Apart from an occasion our actresses, and we should be precision of phrasing, the spiritual unanimity, the delicacy of nuance miserable without our lighting

associated only with first-clas expecting it, and forced me to as-effects and our more or leas elab-playing. And the programme was It began with a sume an inconspicuous role in aorate scenery. I don't see, either, well worth it.

that thero is any need for symphonic entr'acte from Berlioz's stage crowd, I have never actually trodden the boards.. But there's us to be ashamed of this attitude, last work, "Les Troyens à Car very little else that I haven't done for all those things represent the

thage", Schubert's epic Symphony kind of progress which it is imin C (sometimes called No. 10); in the theatre. at one time or An-

possible for the human race to other.

and, after the interval, Strauss's avoid. Nothing was ever gained, "Ein Heldonleben." Rhythm was- surely, by raverting to conscious the predominating virtue in the archaism, but at least in those days execution of each. they know better than to keep breaking off for quarter of an hour at a time.

Do you know what a brail line la? Or a tormentor? Or a rostrum, or French flat? in baby spol, or Well, I do. Have you ever heard the true story of the part which was played by four different people Well, I at one performance? have, and a very good story it is. But I'm not going to tell it you now. The Patient Public.

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ten minutes or a

Not once in that long and glori oup work of Schubert was there an authentic planissimo, and there The Ancient Way.

were too many loose ends where They simply had to keep your at- they seemed least excusabie, Curl- tention at the old Globe Theatre, ously enough, the most satisfactory and in their curious and old of the three was the most difficult

the I am going, on the contrary, to fashioned way they did it by go-"Ein Heldenleben." This, en do something much more surprising with the play. It still whole, was a brilliant achievement ing. I'm going to fling all my seems to me, with all my affection in the circumstances. The strepit- technical qualifications to the for tip-up, upholstered seats and ous "battlefield" was full of thrille.

-H. H. winds, and fill the rest of this footlights and grease-paint, that in column simply and solely as a play-one very important respect I should}· goer who, in these days, almost in- have been better off as a playgoer variably pays for his seat. Hence- forward I am a member of the vast and patient public, and it is on their behalf that I want to com- plain about the intervals.

I have always, from a mere child, disliked the intervals between the acts of a play, though when I was a mere child I used to think that

Harold Samuel, There was a time when it could three hundred years ago on the be sald with some semblance of banks of the Thames, or. twenty-truth that the musical sympathies five hundred years ago in the great of the average Englishman were theatre of Dionysus. My pro-limited to Handel and Mendels- gramme might not have been so en- sohn. No such charge can be ut tertaining, and the bar-profita-for tered at present, since Bach, other people-might not have been Beethoven, and Wagner enjoy so high; but I should have been vogne at least as great as Handel getting a continuity of illusion and certainly greater than Men-

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cession of blank and boring patches which I should perhaps appreciato as I grew older. But I have grown older now, and they come to me as a worse affliction than ever. By all means, I say, let the scenery be changed if the action requires it, and I will confess frankly that my heart always sinks when I open a programme and discover that it is never to be changed at all. By all means let the actors, and actresses put on different clothes, if it is necessary, and recover their breath If they have been fighting or shout-1 ing or otherwise exhausting them-

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Level and Storage of water in Re- -servoirs on June 1, 1928:-~

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL

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Tytom Byewash

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I'm apeaking, of course, of "The Trial of Mary Dugan," though per- aps even here I am not really get ting more than a compromise. The curtain never falls during this play, but the action is suspended, Their public performances · are of Interest to all and a disturbing element of choco- lessons late and lemonade goes some way musicians, for their excellence HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS. Tytam Tuk towards reminding us where we is really are which, I am utterly con- the vinced, it is the theatre's principal job to make us forget.

to

June 12, 1928. Mr. and Mrs. R. Allix. Messrs. W. W. Bretherton, Max. Brizon.

Tytam Intermediate

Wong Nel Chung Pokfulam

1927 1928 884.80 884.80 18.62 22.37 195.90

195.90 1,419.00 1,171.15 20.24 80.34 68,78 60.00

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May

1927 1028 chael, Neil B. Carson.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Duchateau, Mrs. | Consumption... 295.70 233.30

Estimated population 411.020 422.240 Louri Dodges.

Consumption per hand

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Intermittent supply in all Rider Main Districts during May, · 1928.-

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application of common principles. We left the Eolian Hall yesterday thinking not of the. Nevertheless, I like to think that very considerable merits of the per- detect a ray of hope in this play. former, but of the extraordinary For It is the author's technique that beauty he had revealed in familiar selves for my delight.

has come to our assistance, and it music. Only when we ask why But while all this happens on the is to the technique of other authors Mr. Samuel's readings delight us other side of the curtain, must I that we must look, I feel, for any more than that of others we realise really sit and reflect on my sins for real relief. Believe me that the how great his gifts are and how a period which is humorously des- more difficult a play in to write the solid is his musicianship. The cribed as ten minutes, but extends easier it is to sit through; and the basis of it all is an impeccable far oftener to a quarter of an hour? more a dramatist yields to the stern sense of rhythm; then comes his Have I really come here for no bet conventions of his craft, the more phrasing, which elucidates the ter purpose than to do absolutely freedom shall he ultimately gain meaning and Importance of every sentence. Last is the technical nothing at all? Can these two, for his ideas. three, or four uncomfortable rest- Won't somebody else, please, give ability which enables him to tran- THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. / cures really assist the progress and us a play-it needn't be longer than sinte his conceptions into music. A. R. Johnstone.

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Unanswered Questions.

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us again to the country of which, was equally admirable in the Pre- thanks to those abominable interlude of the Partita in B flat major, I don't answer these questions, ruptions, many of us have only had the germ of which is familiar to all because by this time you either rare glimpses-since that first pan- students of Bach, agree with mo or you don't. But I tomime when the rest of the audi-

F. B. may tell you openly, and I hope ence was still part of the magle?. some of the London managers are

Valentina Aksarova.

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We want, desperately, to believe { Mme. Aksarova, with the puis. listening, that I do not go to In your stories. You have no idea sant aid of M. Boris Popoy, of the | theatre for any of the following how far we will go to meet you, if Opéra Comique, gave a very

reasons. I do not pay to go there only you let us. But don't leave it joyable evening of Russian music so as to drink, to eat sweets, to con- too late, for pity's sake, or one at the 2ollan Hall Inst night. She sume ices, to walk about draughty playgoer, at least, will have given was somewhat handicapped by a corridors, or to talk to my friends. up playgoing for good.

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1927 1028 Kowloon Reservoir, I Q' 1"'B Shek Lai Fui Reser

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L Storage of millions and decimals of galleus.

1927 1928 Kowloon Reservoir... 362.50·961.03 Shek Lai Pul Reservoir 71.50 106.02

88.15 Reception Reservoir ..

Total

424.00 490.80 Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions and decimals of gallons during the month of May.

1927 1928 87.08 Consumption

107.15 Estimated population 160.240 166.280 Consumption per head

per day...

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