1930-12-10 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930.

FROM the very first day you

"take PHOSFERINE you will gain new confidence, new life, new endurance. It makes your eat better, and sleep better,

and you will look as fit as you

feel. Phosferine is given with

equally good results to the PHOSTERINE

children.

PHOSFERINE

The Greatest of all Tonics for

Influenza Debility

Neuralgia

Faintness Indigestion Mental Exhaustion Loss of Appedita Brain-fag Sleeplessness Maternity Weakness Lasinude

Exhaustion Weak Digestion

Neuritis

Maturla Headache Neeva Shock Ansemis Rheumatism Sciatica

Diade in Liquid and Tablets, each sold in these eluss, the larger sizes are the more economical. PHOPNITORS: PHOSPERINE (Aanran & Params) LIMITED, Luncare Hill, Loader Exatanpe Acents W. R. Loxay & Co, Hong Kong. Tel-2335.

NO NEED TO BUY A NEW DRESS.

TO GO TO THE SPECIAL

HOTEL DANCES.

JUST SEND US YOUR OLD ONE. WE WILL MAKE IT

LOOK LIKE NEW.

THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO.

19, Wyndham St. Hong Kong.

143, Wong Nel Chung Road,

Happy Valley.

36, Nathan Road, Kowloon.

73, Caine Road,

Uong Kong.

PHOTOGRAPHS

taken at the

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CAMP-

at FANLING

are on view

at the

VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS

Garden Road.

K. FUJIYAMA

PHOTOGRAPHER.

TEMPORARY OFFICE:

214, Johnston Road, Hong Kong.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

MUSIC DRAMA FILMS

ART.

Improved Acting for

Naturalness.

GREATER ABILITY NECESSARY.

Irene Rich, who has gracefully alternated between talking pictures

A

TALKIES AND THEIR sort of Choctaw never heard in aed or struggling musicians.

drawing room of any consequence,great part of the huge fortune be

accumulated

his through She had a way of saying "gyurls" i had that made you want to do violence nimble fingers was poured Into to her. She was a mass of affecta- Poland after the war when he be tions. A series of mannerisms came the Prime Minister and frat which only the pseudo-lady would president of his native country. possibly subject you to. And you During these troubled days of accepted it gaily because it was the 1918-1910 Paderewski's name was "theatre," If you please, and you on the tongue of hundreds of had paid good money to see and thousands of peasants who loved hear it.

him and believed him to be the Irene Rich is particularly inter carrier of the flame of Poland's eating to me for many reasons. To spirit life, passed from the dying begin with, Will Rogers has persist-heart of Kaselusko. ently chosen her for his leading lady, and this alone moans worth and plenty of it. In the Becond pince she is one of the stars of the old silent regime who have made good in talkies. And in the third- and not least place-ake is one of the most beautiful and singularly attractive women the. world of the cinema has offer.

and the stage since the revolution in the cinema centre, puts forth the most interesting theory yet to be formulated about the new art, writes Mollie Merrick.

"Talking pictures" says Ireno Rich, "will undoubtedly remove from the legitimate stage many of the falsities and mannerisms which have been identified with Its per formances and replace them with a standard of naturalness which will be the height of legitimate art."

Now I hadn't exactly thought of things this way, but the more I ponder on it the more I am con- vinced that Irene Rich has express ed a radical and original opinion. And the more I am convinced that this is precisely what the legitimate needs.

Talkie Actors Natural.

Miss Rich Saved Nickels. But in those days Irene Rich, who now commands a salary way in the thousands per week and who is married to one of the wealthiest men hereabouts, walked to the studios to save car fare (she'll tell you so quite frankly) and spent what she had on her two daughters, When talkies came, the minority

The Great Renunciation. For two years during this time Paderewski would not allow a piano placed in hla room and for an additional three years ha did not play a note.

"I cannot play when the heart of my nation is so sad,” he explained. After Poland's recovery, the planiet emerged from his retire- gone, ment, most of his fortune He enjoys telling the story that while he was representing hia country at the Versailles peaca conference, the late M. Clemenceau approached him and said:

Padorewakl WAB married second time in 1899 after he al ready had become famous through- After attending out the world. one of his concerts, a critic wrote "behind his technique was the fire. of a dreamer and the power phantasy of his people."

ot

"Are you the M. Paderewaki who used to play the piano?"

When the planist replied in the affirmative, the "Tiger" said sadly: of the Irene Riches gave over. They "And now you're a promler. A few weeks ago while lunching felt beaten. Such stars as May What à drop." with Director Griffiths, the young McAvoy retired to private life and man who has made "Holidays" apitled those of their group who movie of movies, he put forth very struggled on. But the young wo much the same thing in different man who won out against the most words. We were speaking of a star terrible odds a mother over faced of the legitimate who had not made wasn't going to be done for merely good in the fullest sense of the because the screen started to talk, word in Hollywood. He is too Irene Rich had a twofold struggle: atilited," said Griffiths; "this spac- She had to learn to talk and her ing and timing and rhythm belong wealthy husband seized on the to the legitimate and to the excuse of talkies to importune her legitimate of several years ago. We to abandon her career. want naturalness in the talking plc- It is not the art of the stage. ture. Nor yet the art of the silent pic ture. It is a blending of the two and only those who know where the art of the theatre leaves off and the art of the cinema begins understand how to make talking pictures,"

The planist speaks fluently French, German, Russian, English and Polish; Is ап inveterate cigarette smoker; has the ability to sleep most of the day if he desires to; is an authority on livestock and is intensely patriotic.

He has the artist's sensitive nature of crowd actions and once while giving a concert in Lisbon, thumped angrily on the plano and said:

New Following Acquired, She did neither. She took a vau- deville engagement at Long Beach of all places. I remember going to see her there. She was playing sketch a rather shabby thing compounded of a lot of pathos and sheer sordidness and calculated to But all the while 1 stubbornly bring down the gallery if not the

"When those two ladies quit clung to my idea that the stage front rows. She was completely their conversation, I'll continue." would be the more powerful in dominated by her managers, who. He was knighted by King George fluence. That the legitimate would she felt, knew everything about a in 1925, but has never used the bend talkies in their direction-medium of which she knew nothing. title. He appeared only once be until Irene Rich, who has wisely But underneath the artist in her fore the microphone, in 1925, de- gotten some legitimate experience called out for something mora elining to broadcast again because for herself as a prelude to talking worthy of her talents. She shipped it made him too nervous. Bima, put forth her thoroughly re-the sketch when her brief contract volutionary and interesting theory.

Stage Ladles Different. Then of a sudden there paraded before me a battalion of stage "ladies." Done by our

very best stars, if you please. "Ladies" who were very false and heavy-handed their ladylikeness; ladies as in alion to the real product as "ny- thing in the world you'd ever hope to see. The stage "Lady" spoke a

AVOICE FROM HOME

CANADA AMERICA AUSTRALIA

OFRICA

EUROPE

JAPAN

ETC ETC

PHILIPS 2802

round the world radio

PHILIPS ULTRA SHORT-

TWAVE RECEIVER, MODEL 2802, an entirely new principle in radio, places the thrill of world-wide reception within easy reach.

This unique apparatus, ideal for the colonial stener, brings in your home country's broadcast even if it is thou. sands of miles away, and enables you to pick up all the world's newn at Brat hand.

It's merely a matter of seconds to tune in any station working on a waveband between 10 and 2,400 m at Joodspeaker strength,

This extraordinary achievement has been made possible by equipping the 2802 with PHILIPS PENTHODE, a power valve doing the work of two normal Anal stage valves,

SOME OF THE OUTSTANDING FEATURES OF THE PHILIPS 2802.

Easy tuning

Large output

No body capacity effect;

Record reproducing facilities Trople proof.

PHILIPS

ULTRA SHORTWAVE RECEIVER.

2802

THE BIY WITH CONDLERY WONDER VALVES Es

SOLE AGENTS FOR SOUTH CHINA:

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.

ALEO OBTAINAB

ANDERSO MUSIO CO. LTD.

was over and, under now manage ment and with a better vehicle, she toured the country, building up a tremendous following. And now stardom in the Talkies. "Ore- gonian."

PRINCE OF THE PIANO.

Paderewski Trying to Repair Fortune.

London, October 12.

Ignaz Jan Paderewski, prince of the piano and one-time ruler of 30,000,000 people, is trying to re- plenish fortune dissipated

through his own generosity.

The most famous planist of the 19th century arrived in New York to begin his United States tour, on October 7. He had planned to give 70 concerts, unicas a recurrent attack of phlebitis, from which he has suffered for years, makes this. impossible.

Born in Podolia, Russian-Poland November 6, 1860, Paderewski be- gan playing the piano at the age of three. When he was 12 years” old has was sent to Warpaw to study even though bis first teachers hold little hope that he would ever be a great planlat owing to his small handk

Even the great planist admits his early education was difficult, adding that when he found he could not play the difficult. pas- sages he "merely improvised.". From: Ruguskf and later, from Frederick Hle in Berlin, Paderewski acquired a knowledge of harmony and counterpoint that have played such an important part in his success."

Triumphal Tour.

At the age of 18, ha made a triumphal tour of Russia, Siberia and Roumania, Twelve years later, niter giving up a life of drudgery while teaching in the Warsaw Con- servatoire, he came to London and was coldly received. Years after ward no hall was large enough to accommodate the great crowds that Bought to hear him.

Baddened by the death of his first wife whom he had married. when he was only 20 years old, Paderewski at the age of 26 went to Vienna, Paris and after his Lon- don appearance to America which gave him fimediave. acclaim. Newspaper dispatches, revealed that hundreds of persons gathered. at railway stations to glimpse him as his train passed and in Texas crowds walked miles from small

towns to hear him.

His is chla to have made as much 6-G3800,000 on one American much of which was spent in

falans, and aidfire impoveri

Paderewski's patriotic spirit often has been commented on but was acutely revealed once when he appeared before the Tear in St. Petersburg and was praised by the ruler as a great planist of which "Russia is proud to number you among her subjects"

The planiat quickly replied: "Pardon Sire. 1 am a Pole-not a Russian."

The next day he was escorted by police to the border. United Prees.

FOR

!

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL: HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL

PEAK HOTEL

AND SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL.

HOTELS.

- LIMITED

11

To association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peklog.

THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL.

9-12, Chatham Road, Kowloon. Finest Bituation on the Peninsula. Large Alry Rooms with Full Benefit of the Cool Ben Breezes. Unequalled Cuisine..

Phone Tel. 65734.

Proprietress--Mra, Gardiner.

Cable Add

Harriow."

SAVARIN HOUSE

Telephone

68730

PRIVATE HOTEL.

81-84, Wing Lok Building. 1st floor. ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES UNPARALLELED CUISINE.

The finest of foods and wines served in the brightest and most attractive surroundings. doss orchestra,

luxurious lounges,

First- Specious and

Tiffin $1.10.

Tel. Add

"Savarin” 'H.K.

Hotel Cecil

Renowned for its High-Class Cuisine and Service combined wih a Moderate Tarif. Near shops and theatres. Yet in a pleasing neighbourhood.

Dinner $1.30.

AIRLIE HOTEL 3.25, NATHAN ROAD,

Under European Management

KOWLOON. Three Minutes From Ferry.

EXCELLENT CUISINE MODERN APARTMENTS.

TERMS MODERATE.

Tel. 57257.

CA

XMAS

BUY

Cable Address: “AIRLIE"

CAPSTAN

CIGARETTES