1929-03-15 — Page 11

FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929.

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THE CHINA MAIL,

MUSIC DRAMA · FILMS

ON CRITICISM

DEVICE TO MEASURE APPLAUSE

THE PERSONAL FACTOR

sentative from "Cook's" His judg¬' ment, his experience, his culture may be used to ventilate his own opinions. They must not be em- ployed to dictate to others, only to reason with them.

There are three kinds of drama- ti: arftic-the destructive, the cons- |tructive, and those who combine the qualities of both. As there are no

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'SILK LEGS"

HUMOROUS ROMANCE OF BUSINESS

ATTRACTION AT QUEEN'S

[By Sydney W. Carroll)

A humorous story of the trials Axad standards by which we can and tribulations of a modern sales The unhappy variance between judge either plays or acting, and lady will be found in the new Fox authors and critics appears perpe as no laws, regulations, or obser- tual and obstinate. Mr. Pemberton vations registered in any book or film, "Silk Legs," which is promised Billing is the latest playwright furi document exlat which would enable as the chief item in the programme ously to rage against present-day a critic to be infallible, the would- at the Queen's Theatre on Sunday dramatic criticism. Labouring, ap-¡be authority can only be guided by

and Monday. parently, under a feeling of per his own individual experiences, sonal grievance at what he terms coloured as they are by prejudices the "cynicism" displayed by cer- For I defy any man who has spent tala prominent erities in their a reasonable amount of time in the notkes of his recent play, "High theatre watching plays and acting

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Ruth Stevena lá a very successful hoisery sales lady until the advent of Phil Parker, twentieth century edition of the modern traveller, whose business methods play havoc with Ruth's orders. Parker's methods are old but reliable. He believes in playing the female buyers, who fall for his line of talk. As for Ruth, she sells her wares on their merits.

"Can she compete against such odda?"

Miss Fellamy, the clever little comedienne, answers that question In "Silk Legs" in a manner that is Bure to appeal to every one. A particularly well-chosen cast sup- ports Miss Bellamy, including James Hall, Joseph Cawthorn, and Maude Fulton. Arthur Rosson directed the production.

Billy Dean, the popular Lanca- shire Comedian, and Topsy Lee, "London's Miniature Sophie Tucker," will appear during each performance.

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Madge Bellamy and James Hall in "Silk Legs," William Fox attraction at Queen's Theatre, March 17 and 18.

Treason," Mr. Billing has made a to be free from prejudice of some courageous, If violent, attack upon kind or another.

Effect On The Victim..

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the alleged ignorance, incompet- ence, and flippancy of most of the Criticism is simply the reaction well-known dramatic critics of the of one active mind upon the work day. He has, as an alternative and of another. For that reason it corrective, quite seriously proposed should never be anonymous. the installation of an Applauses should be creative in its tendencies graph machine to be fitted up in and merely analytical, condemna every part of the theatre for the tory, or approving. People find purpose of registering accurately fault with some dramatle critics on the approval or disapproval of that the ground that they are ignora- part of the house by a mechanical musee, that they have often little process. As I pointed out to him knowledge of grammar, less know- at the time, this suggestion of his ledge of the theatre, and no know- provided no safeguard against the ledge at all of life. machinations of unscrupulous The theatre-going public, however, theatre managers who might be la a good judge of criticism and tempted, were such a machine Inputs its own proper valuation upon stalled, to arrange for claques or each commentator. It does not, be- gangs of applauders to drown any lieve me, attach importance to disapproval independent people criticism by unimportant writers. might wish to register. Moreover,

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Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sura. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the cumbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both (The solution of the above cross-word puzzle. appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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About 10,000 people Hned the route of the funeral procession at Bournemouth of Fireman Arthur Giles and Dennis Watts, victims of

fire engine accident..

Lady Maybury, wife of Sir Henry Maybury, until recently Director- General of Roads, Ministry of Transport, has died at her home, at Greenhithe, Kent.

Referee Esther Ralston, pretty movie

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life

During the last fortnight I have been distressed to find certain actresses of my acquaintance more or less broken-hearted at what they considered the ruinously unfair criticisms they had received from critics in the London Press. In spends two hours daily in the each case the artiste had been gymnasium learning something about thrown into a state of depression boxing.

and almost despair not because of the considered judgments of critics who mattered but through some hurried scribblings from the pens of casuals engaged on journals more intent upon news-gathering than, upon a serious study of the stage.

I am all for intelligent and sym- pathetic dramatic criticism. I do not think we can have too much of the higher form of comment, but the criticised must never take It too seriously. They must not allow themselves to be unduly exacted or depressed by it. Plays praised be- yond measure by the critics havo failed to last three weeks with the public. Pieces dammed by all critica unanimously have succeeded la run- ning for years, not that this success was a criterion of their true value. No opinion matters unless it is valued by yourself as coming from one who should know.

Following Criticism

career. So in another year or so the When I read a dramatic criticism! will definitely abandon the creeping I need to know who my critic is be pastels in order to devote herself to herfore I can attach importance to his home, her husband and two adopted children. George Webb, ax-newspaper- opinions. When the critic repre- man, is the lucky man.

the enemies of the management might place themselves near the Instrument and boo" so ferocious ly into its interior that that record ing apparatus might get out of gegr. Personal Views

sents our own standpoint, and re- |flects more or less our own akitude jof mind towards the broad facts, of life, he is our man. Only by follow- ing closely the work of a critic and by ascertaining wheth his views are in sympathy with our own can we decide whether to accept those views or not. Where taste is con- cerned, there is so much room for Even in this mechanical and sa- differences, it is vitally important gineer Fidden agé criticism 'cannot that the critics should hava similar be replaced by a machine. Its as ideas if we are to follow hils ver- sential quality is the reverse of dicts.

mechanical. Many people-wrongly The main thing about all dramatic consider that the function of a criticism should be that it shall be dramatic critic is to provide a re- scrupulously and meticulously hon- liable Index to plays, guiding the fest. It must be a disinterested, public as to what ought to be seen fair, frank, and fearless expression and what ought to be neglected. Iof the critic's views.". Jaissent entirely from such a view.

The critic, if he be worth while, is only a register of his own personal. views and feelings; his own likes and dislikes. ARMEN

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