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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1933.

Art and Drama

AN ANGLO-CHINESE In Defence Of The

COMEDY

Humour Of Life. On

China Station.

"BARQUE AND THE BIGHT"

London.

An Anglo-Chinese satirical play Eas been successiully presented at the Grafton Theatre: London.

It is called the "Barque and the Bight," by Reginald Meredith, and is about meeting between British and a Chinese Admiral.

The British Admiral, Sir Bruce Bustover, cheery but brusque, knows no Chinese and a young

R.A.D.A

High Percentage Of Successes

FALSE INFERENCES MADE

(By Sydney W. Carroll).

admit

2

I read recently in a public journal that each one of these clever young

people would wißingly deep debt to the R.A.D.A.

member of the Consul-General's of some importance an arraign stat acts as interpreter when Adent of the Royal Academy of miral Wei Feng-ling and Sir Bruce Dramatic Act. meet at a ceremonial tea party.

Does this institu tion, questioned the writer, really

Honoured Names.

I have reason to believe that the writer of the attack was a student

Sir Bruce is annoyed with the any good? Are not the students, of the R.A.D.A. at the same time as Chinese Admiral because he had

who usually pay "fees" for a period failed to keep a previous appoint of tour

terms, actually wasting ment-due, Admiral Wel explains,

their time? What proportion of order from Chinose

the students reappear on the pro- fessional stage? Does the RA.D.A. encourage amateurishness? on.

Viceroy.

The interpreter makes all ZO well by telling Admiral Wel the exact opposite of what Sir Bruce: says, though the party ends ab ruptly with Admiral Wei with drawing politely when Admiral Bustover accidentally touches his

Baucer.

were Benita Hume, Gwendoline | Evans, John Gielgud. Pamela Carme, Reginald Gardner, Beatrix Lehmann, Agnes Laughlan, Vera Bryer, Rita Page, Robert Holmes, Anthony Ire- And su land, Ursula Jeans, Heary Cass, Alan Napier, and several other suc- These pertinent queries, put forcessful young actors. The prin- ward as they are by one who is cipal of the Academy could scarcely obviously an ex-student of the Ac be expected to convert into a popu ademy, almost prompt ma to adopt lar matinee idol a young man whose a similar "willing to wound but yet metier was obviously journalism, of afraid to strike" attitude

the ultra modern kind. I could, I believe, easily defend How can detractors of the the Institution by a series of retort-R.A.D.A. explain away the success ing interrogations of devastating for Mr. Robert Atkins, the late Miss significance. I prefer, however, to Meggie Albanesi, Miss Adriane come directly to the mutton and Allen, Miss Joan Barry, Miss Joyce shewer, on behalf of Mr. Kenneth Bland, Miss Laura Cowie, Mr. Colin show

After a while Admiral Wei's Flag Captain comes back and con- gratulates the interpreter. The Flag-Captain, as an old Etonian and a Cambridge graduate, had understood every word that Was said during the party-but does not intend to "give the

away!"-Reuter.

AMERICA EIGHTY YEARS AGO.

Forgotten Painter's Drawings.

Barnes and his admirable training (Clive, Miss Fabia Drake, Miss Adela ground for actors and actresses, the Dixon, Mr. Robert Douglas, Mr. Bundry insinuations and Innuendoes Robert Harris, Mr. Charles Laugh- advanced so courageously by the ex-ton, Miss Iris Roey, Mr. Cedric student in question.

Hardwick, Mr. Miles Malleson, Miss Discouraging Stage-Strucks." Flora Robson, Miss Athahe Seyler, "Fees." that overworked word in Miss Nora Swinburne, Mr. Jon the cynic's vocabulary, are neces Swioley, Miss Viola Tree, Miss Bea-

In sary even

the best-conducted 'trix Thomson, Miss Margaret Vines, schools, and the better and the Mr. Austin Trevor, and hundreds more reliable the school the larger more of now recognised and esta- the fees and the longer the need for blished stage favourites, all and

each trained under B.A.D).A.

mc-

Among the hundreds of forgotten paying them. early Victorian artists L. J. Cran-] More students of the R.A.D.A.thods? atone (who showed five worka belare represented prominently on the

The Newest Batch. tween 1845 and 1867 at the Royal active stage of to-day than come!

Already no fewer than five of the Academy) seeme destined to be from all the other sources of auf-successful students seen at the last brought to notice again by his ply put together. The proportion Haymarket Theatre show of the capable and accurate water-colour of professional actors and actresses R.A.D.A public contest have been drawings of places of interest in drawn from the ranks of the offered and accepted remunerative Canada and America painted' beR.A.D.A. is a very large one.

engagements on either, stage or tween 1850 and 1860.

screen. It definitely discourages incom-

The writer of this onslaught is About eighty of these drawings petent stage-strucks, and the cir- appeared at Sotheby's on March 29.cumstance that no fewer than forty Barnes as an "eminently just" man. equitable enough to describe Mr. Cranstone apparently landed

at eight applicants have been rejectedIt is sincerely to be hoped that the Halifax, Nova Scotia, and his draw-for the last three terms at the en- Ing of the old market-place is trance tests, and that no fewer than quality of justice he so much ad- obviously a true glimpse of busy thirty-three

mires he may find reflected in him- applicants for the

self. life in the seaport which then had Leverhulme Scholarships have also only 25,000 inhabitants.

een rejected during the last two Of course the painter visited terms, must be taken as ample proof Niagara Falls, and one could wish of the severity of the fasts applied that he had done more Canadian by the management. scenes, especially as the Dominion!

art galleries are now wisely collect-

A Fine Record,

If he does he will be forced to concede that his imputations are

unjust as his inferences false.

are

No repertory company and pa'amall-part experience in pro- vincial touring companies can ap- proach in a decade the sum total of Can anyone of reasonable dis-achievement recorded in four to six he apparently was more attracted position justly demand that a train- terms spent at this much-maligned by the Eastern provinces of the ing school for young players must institution, United States, and was very busy in order to justify its existence)

Ing early topographical scones. Bat]

in Virginia at Richmond and convert all its students into first- NAPOLEON'S UNCLE Wheeling, and also at Richmond class performers?

(Indiana). Covington and New- to tura

We have only

to the triumphant and

port (Kentucky), and Bridgeport lengthy list of highly successful Pictures Belonging To

and Cincinnati. (Ohio).

PLAY ABOUT CHRISTIAN. SCIENCE.

artists who owe their early stage education to the R.A.D.A and

Cardinal Fesch,

equally owe their first engagements In history Cardinal Fesch is to the facilities, afforded them by remembered as the young uncle their public appearances as students (by marriage) of the great Na- to realise immediately how grace-poleon. In art he was famous as less and unfair is the imputation of a collector, and when he died in The Shilling Theatre at Fulham uselessness levelled against the 1830 he left many masterpieces is carrying on successfully, and R.A.D.A. and Its directors.

to the city of Lyons, of which he the management is embarking on I have, for example, in my own had been Archbishop. the production of a new play, "The company at the Ambassadors four There was a Fesch sale in Paris Magnet" by Marjorie Newton. people all of whom have received about 1844, and a member of the It deals with Christian Science, the highest commendation from the family of the late Count Fran- and the chief parts are being taken critics. and public for their talents cesco Messina, Chamberlain to the by Ellen Pollock Joy Newton, and capacities-Valentine Booke, Pope, bought, several moderate Robert Newton, Patricia McNabb, Margaretta Scott, Diana Churchill, pictures. These were sent from and Laura Smithson.

land Wallace Douglas. I am sure Malta to Sotheby's recently and their quality may be measured by the fact that 53 realised about £300, the highest price being £25 for an Italian coast scene by Jan Lingelbach, whose "Hay Har vest," 1661, was bought for the National Gallery in 1871, when the Peel collection was acquired Jen bloc.

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