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CANTONESE THEATRE

[BY GEORGE KIN LEUNG]

In Canton and Hong Kong, centres of the Yuch hal, or southern drama, the mercurial population demands a new play each week; and the wise manager makes every effort to satisfy that demand. This leads to many evils such as ellpahod production, inappropriate costum- ing, etc. The low tone of the theatre, therefore, may in part at least be due to indiscriminating audiences.

Then,

ROUND THE SHOPS

Preparations for Easter

A FINE STOCK

Easter is high, and the thoughts

MONDAY, MARCH

VACCINATION

Ambulance Brigade's Campaign

WEEKLY RETURN

1930

Have You Heard?—

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"How is she is mar

"Yes," said the angler, at the conclusion of his story, it was The number of persons vaccin-rather awkward getting it home. a black satin costume cut somewhat of Billady naturally turn to new ated-free of charge-by members You see, I had to wait for the

corridor train."" like that of a mediaeval page's, but dresses, and in this hot weather of the Ambulance Brigade, up to his headdress is a solid mass of the material for dresses must be and including Thursday, March rhinestones. His beloved appears in light, cool, comfortable, and, above 27, 1930, is:

Sweet Young Thing: male attire, the coat being after the all, chic. What can fill all these Chinese Y.M.C.A. Division....17.291

King's College Division (Old) 4,055 Betty getting on now Ming (1808-1644) mode.

requirements better than volle? King's College Division (New) 1,344 ried?" upon the same moonlit sylvan Volles, one understands, will be Railway Division

8,816 scenes skips a dainty maiden whose worn by the ladies at Easter, and Indian Division amalt figure is tightly buttoned in as usual, Whiteawaye have secured Kowloon Division

Mongkok Division a stock of the very latest in voiles Shaukiwan Division the latest fashion Shanghai can produce.

in good time for the Easter trade. St. Joseph's College Division, 1,307 to be satisfied with pecka." Milady therefore will do well to Motor Drivers' Asso. Division 1,917 For an actor, dressed in foreigInspect this stock before she makes Chinese Athletic Division

Un Long clothes, to appear in a Chinese father choice of fabric for her dress.

Victoria Nursing Division Volles by two well-knowd manu- Y,W.C.A. Nursing Division ting is quite a smart thing. The correctnoes of the style will depend facturers are in stock at White- Ferguson's. on the purse and the taste of the away-Tootal's and

Chinese Drama Gone West

artiste.

There

1,602 Friend: "Oh, she is just like the 21,592 rest. Before she was married she 43,571 had bushels of klases, now she hap

6,796

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0,967 First Golfer: "You know, it was

339 really a toss-up this morning whe- thor I came down here to play golf or went to business."

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UNION

Meeting of Photo Club

Second Golfer: "So it was with me, old man.

In fact, I had to toss up fourteen times before I got a decision."

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Public Craving for New While the publle may crave for the new and strange" and while numerous Imitations of stagecraft of other parts of China may abound,

аге between fifty and yet it is clear that certain estab-

In one very popular play, sungaixty different up-to-date de- UNIVERSITY lished mannerisms, or conventions,

to choose from, and persist; they are the basis of thein modern colloquial language, for-signs

worn throughout. plain ong - colour volles in southern music-drama. Orchestra-eign clothes are

The designs in-

Mrs. Jones decided to buy a new tion, often dominated by gigantic, Although much of a conventional delicate hues.

hat, and visited her favourite that- ear-splitting

accompanies nature persists, the mind through-clude floral, spotted, modernistic,

After she had tried on about shop, song, accentuates posture and leads out the evening has been tuned up futuristic, and others which a mere

At the second annual general thirty, she suddenly spotted one she an cannot find a word to describe, to the realistic. Imagine the mental tonal expression to emotion. But

Meeting of the University Amateur liked. shock received when the youthful unless it be "original" ngain, the realistic and, the conver

Ferguson volles are of the usual Photographic Club, the following "Yes," she said, "thin will do tional frequently become so hope. bride of modern life la asleep and

Will you please send it lessly entangled that it is often im- her truant husband on arriving bright silk finish, whilst the Tootal were elected oficials for the year nicely.

touches her on the head. The two fabrics include "Tootisha," "Robla"

along as soon as possible?" affectionate taps are brought to and "Namrit," all, by now, familiar

"I will if you like, madam," two Rynchronised, names. sound-life by

gongs,

possible to discern just where one cesses and the other begins.

Imitations and adaptations Im prove the box office receipts. Every possible field has been plundered for material, auch as the Peking drama, Shakespeare, European his torians, Ibson, Douglas Fairbanks, the Chinese motion picture, the "talkle," etc.

1930:-

President, Dr. M. B. Osman; Chair-

tary, Mr. P. S. Lee; Hon. Treasurer,

you were wearing when

All are guaranteed to be man, Mr. K. W. Khoo; Hon. Secre-wered the assistant; "but it is resonant "bawk, bawk," sounds. fast dyes which will not fade of Mr. K. D. Ling; Committee Members: the one

The width is 40 inches and Mr. F. Y. Khoo, Mr. G. E. Yeoh, Mr. you came in." which are produced on the wood-"run." block! The dropping of a match is the price, as usual with White-C. Y. Yeap, and Mr. T. K. Lien. described tonally in the orchestra by aways, representa value for money. a brass instrument that creates a clatter equal to the dropping of a kettle in a kitchen sink.

The heroine, who is impersonated The by a man, has muscles which rival cocoanuts and delights in exhibiting them at precurious angles.

SPORTING ARMS.

A suggestion to form a cinema section was adopted.

The mistra of thể nouse entered

This section is open

to asso-her husband's bedroom and noticed ciate members and all the general everything topay-turvy; the chairs on the bed, the washstand pulled public interested.

into the middle of the room and half the carpet up.

STANDARD TIMES

Sunrise And Sunset In Colony

"Bless me, Mary," she exclaimed to the maid standing with spring. "You cleaning things all ready. haven't been long in getting the room prepared?"

Mecca for sporting Types of Current Playa

requisites is a fitting de- Many Cantonese plays consist of

signation for the Hong Kong loud gongs, comedy inclined to the

Sporting. Arms and Ammuni- sinpstick, galaxies of princes and

The play is a brave adventure; tion Store, at Beaconsfield Arcade. princesses, the hero masqueraded but it does not break away from the A visit to the store by a ascoy maiden, etc. All these old method of orchestration and the China Mail representative on Sa- clemonts had a grand assembly in standard tunes are a much interday was an eye-opener, as the The Jade Toad, which a company evidence, not to mention the loud store caters for aportamen in a thought good enough to use as their brass instruments to describe the wider sense than its actual name Kong for April (Standard time "When I brought the master his tea

first presentation after a tour.

heroine's

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong

"No, mum," came the reply,

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They were viewing the land to seek a suitable building alte.

of the 120th Meridian, East of up this morning I pinched his back tempestuous thoughts. suggesta.

collar stud and I reckoned on this Peking and Shakespeare This only leads one to know for Everything is stocked that is like-Greenwich) are as follow:-

Sunrise Sunset happening." There is at present a wholesale certainty that whatever novelty hasly to be required by the lover of the attempt to imitate the Peking been brought in, is merely a thin outdoor and by the athlete. drama and the technique of well-varnish placed over the old body of known northern artistes. The result stage convention. Invariably becomes a travesty, be- cause very few, if any, present day southern actors possess carriage, training and ability of the actors of the north.

Sporting arms include a big range of shot guns, rifles, revolvers, Here a fleeting glimpse only of air guns, air rifles, and ammunition the Cantonese play, as one finds it of British, American, Belglan and also There are the to-day, has been given; but it is German makes.

clear that the theatre in the south hunting knives, and complete out- has not attained the conventional site for hunters, including khaki excellence of that of Peking and is shirts, which will stand wear, already stretching out eager hands knapsacks, etc. for the realistic." The future clone will disclose the results. Meanwhile, let us hope for the best.-N. C.

Daily News.

As for Shakespeare, his work is so completely adapted that one could not recognise it if the English title were not printed alongside tho Chinese. For instance, in a version of "As You Ike It," the hero wears

CATHOLIC CONGRESS To Be Held in Africa in May

Cardinal Hayes has designated the liner Araguaya, of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, as the

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Land Agent: "This is the plot, siri"

Prospective Tenant: "It looks more like a conspiracy!"

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The waiter found the customer very hard to please he did not want this and he did not want that; until finally he thought he would chop, with

mutton

But alas! As soon as he started 0.43 japon it, he angrily called the waiter

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At the back of the store is a well shop, gun-repairing appointed under the charge of an expert gun- smith, which undertakes all sorts of repairs.

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For the lover of water sports Tunis. The remaining events of there is the Lockwood outboard the congress will all be in Carthage motor for which the store are and will culminate on Sunday after-agents and swimming costumes of noon, May 11, in a procession from British and American makes, in the the Primatizl

to the latest styles. basilica amphitheatre and the benediction of the Sacrament.

Picnickers are catered for with a complete picnic outfit, compactly contained in I neat and strong black leather case, easily carried and taking a small space to stow away. Then there is the Bell and Howell Movie Camera, with which picnickers, and, in fact, all sports- men can find pleasure in taking living" picture records of their

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And gave him a piece of his mind.

The waiter loomily sought out the proprietor and said:

"That gentleman says his chop

isn't At for a pig.”

"Take it away then, you fool," roared the proprietor, "and bring 6.46 him one that in!"

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CURES STUTTERING

6.53 6.48 Queer School Opened in

Paris

Henry Comming, special correspon dent, Bangkok Daily Hall and United Press, writes from Paris:A smoothly ripping conversational-ablilty and s foyful heart is the only diploma offered the graduates of Professor Bouffet's school for stutterers in Paris.

New York, Feb. 20. The great ruined amphitheatre of

On Famous Site ancient Carthage, North Africa The congress is being held on the hallowed by the blood of thousands 1,500th anniversary of the death of of Christian martyrs, this May will St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, the be the scene of the International most famous of the fathers of the Eucharistic Congress, which will be early African Church, as well as attended by scores of thousands of foremost among those of the whole Roman Catholic pilgrims from all, Western Church. He was killed lands.

A.D. 430 during the siege of Hippo doings. by the vandals. The modern town

Radio Music of Bone in Algeria, 160 miles from

Then, too, sportshen can have! Carthage, is located on the site of | official pilgrimago ship' for the arch eneient Hippe, and a pilgrimage will radio music with them in their out-

diocese of New York, and he nas be held to Bone on May 30, after the ing if they take with them

"Octopus" Melody 5 portable set, appointed the Right Itev. Monsignor "ongress. John P. Chidwick, D.D., pgator wi The International Eucharist Cona development in radio which the St. Agnes' Church, as the spiritual presses are held every two years store is the first to introduce to director of the New York pligrims. under the direction of a permanent Hong Kong. Working without an The Rochambeau, of the Frenca committee of which the chairman is acrial, this set picks up the local Line, has been designated by Arch- the Right Rev. Monsignor Heylen, broadcast programme perfectly, bishop Curley as the pilgrimage Bishop of Namur, Belgium. The and even Canton can be heard on archdiocese of Balti last congresa in 1928 was held in the set. Its range, of course, is alp for the more and as the ship for certain Sydney, Australia; the preceding wider if an aerial is attached. It' would then be possible to pick up other dioceses by their bishops. one was in Chicago In 1926. Both vessels will sail from New An estimate of the number who neighbouring stations York on April 28 and will remain will attend the congress in Carthage Manila.

The store, amongst its big stock! in the port of La Goulette, near is not considered possible. From Carthage, from May 7 to 11, the France alone, however, it is an of athletic goods, seems to special-

nounced there will be 60 bishops and ise in tennis. There is a large Startled By A Shadow, was a special one designed to point out four days of the congress.

the progress made, and the mathod am ployed by Professor Bouffet: "in "tho The pilgrimages on the Aragunya 2.000 priests; besides these from the assortment of tennis requirements

treatment of his dicted pupils. and the Rochambeau are arranged religious orders and many thousand from which the net enthusiast can

Bouffet, himself a former stutterer, re to include the "Passion Play" at lay people. The first congress was

The store also has in stock such Deplorable indeed is your con-gated the audience, in his turn, with sp held at Lille, France, In 1881. The Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany,

as thedition when you become so nery easy and flowing dissertation on his which given every ten years, will be congresses held outside of Europe well-known periodicals

have been in: Jerusalom," In 1893;

Industry, Outdoor Lifeous that you start at the shadow system of instruction Montreal, in 1910, besides in Sydney Sportsman, and other well-known of yourself. and Chicagd. This will be the sporting publications. first congress in Africa.

re-enacted this summer.

Many to Attend

Many Catholic members of the Women's Overseas Service League, which will hold its annual conven- tion in Paris from May 25 to 30,

·BUDDHISM

will first attend the Eucharistic Three Temples in United

Congress.

In Carthage, where once existed ong, of the greatest commercial cities of its age, there now are only the stone and marble, vesilgas which archaeologists have uncovered, to- gether with a small hotel, office, a dozen moder Hou the buildings which haye erect

Catho

the See

Fope

States

San Francisco, Fel. 26, Chinese followers of the Buddbirt faith here are looking, or

choose.

Field

as far as

The Victim of Your Nerves.

At a recent meeting of the "Think and Att" club of statterers, visitors were the only stutterers present Forty-odd persons of both sexes, includ Ing stutterers, former, stutterers, and no-stutterers listened spell-bound' to the glih and polished discourses of 'Profes··

Bouffet's advanced students Ecstatic and unfaltering speeches were heard on the Joy of living, and the goodness of life in general d

30%

Singing Stutterers

The meeting at the stutterers club

Those who remained after the meet

Loat nerve is not easy to regaining witnessed illustrations and heard The digestive system becomes thegrios propounded by Professor

Bouffet Two young children, stutter inert, you become melancholy and ing painfally, were coaxed into song, lack driving power.

OPIUM DEN RAID

Bull-Terriers Attack Police story of police officers bring at All, men and women who suffer his instruction on this principle. But by dogs as they raidedan from weakness, nervous dyspepela he lays greater immediate stress on the

was told at the Thames or nervous exhaustion should, qualicles of pattened and tenacity. H

when Lun Wun, aged without delay, take Dr. Willlare cure requires two years of determined" Beko of Limehouse Causeway Pink Pilis, which, famous through, and unceasing effort. Th rged with being in posses out the world for over Ave and short cuts to achievement

tezer be anys; At the end of two forty years, are no new unproven faithful students, ard remedy, but a Blood and Mery graduates of the school?! Tonic of unrivalled

and the listeners were shown a specifo When your blood has been example of the claim that in singing » made rich and red by a course of stutterer is not hampered by his allic Dr. Williams Pink Pills, your tion,Ng A nerves become strong and steady Course Requires Patient j and life has a new interest.

Professor Bouffet har largely based

Lawrence

orthy of your fullest