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CHINESE THEATRE AND ITS ART

ROSE QUONG IN AN INTERVIEW

INTERESTING IDEAS FROM OLD STYLE DRAMA.

(By Betty Turner)

THE scene: A wisteria-covered; bolical, highly stylised and "can-

ait is its emphasis on I believe you

Tcourtyard in Peiping. En-ventional. But the best part of

Herr von Ribbentrop received the ter a young maiden, chanting

the International

line and.

Inst

take

The ceremony at which Winds) in Jaipur was built 200 Burghley, Lord Portal, Capt. Evan years ago. The building began to Hunter, Sir Noel Curtis-Bennett burst into sweet song at mysteri-and Dr. A. E. Porritt received ous and inexplicable intervals. The from the German Ambassador the natives saw a divine significance ensign of the first class of the in this phenomenon. Experts on German Olympic Order was ex- acoustics found that the material tremely simple: used in the structure was a poroas corkstone of very light weight. The blowing wind acts upon the recipients-wbo, with the excel-poem from the pen of one who has form

ancestors. that stress line and form, com- stone as though tion of Dr. Porritt, who represent-rested long with his openings of the

few artless gestures bine it with Western ideas and they were reeds. The house is thusjed New Zealand, were the British Out of a

dramatic production grows the illusion of Peiping's an-conceive a Hong Kong. Monday, Dec. 14, 1936. one gigantic musical instrument,members of

having as many pipes as there are Olympic Committee in the big cient charm, the sound of temple that will bring the East and the niches. The principle is strongly ground-floor study of his temporbells in the Western hills, moor-West close. reminiscent of the aeolian harpsary offices in No. 17, Carlton light on the marble altar in the

Temple of Heaven. of the ancient Egyptians and House-terrace.

But it isn't Peiping. produced are

The medals were merely handed Greeks. The notes beautiful and eerie at the same over with a few words expressing stage any place in

appreciation of isles or America. time. The building is five stories the Fuehrer's

rich high and the bay windows are of what the recipients had done to who wields the wand is a young

woman who speaks with a Imake the Games a success.

a strange thing about the Chinese red and white stucco.

English accent, saw Peiping for

theatre. The actors begin their The medal is a six-pointed star the first time in her life this past studies when they are six years

Playfulness In Animals

be a One does not need to

be professed animal-lover to charmed by the sight of young animals at play. The sportive kitten goes leaping and waltz- ing and chasing its tail in the

of white examel, with the five

It's 2 the British The magician

Universal Emotions

"After all, love and passion and hate are universal. When I was in Peiping I studied for a few weeks under one of the greatest That's wu-tans-warrior-maidens.

most amazing way, or, stirred injection of one of the numer-Olympic Rings in the middle, the summer and, until three years agold. They train to be a venerable

of the

was most famous for the roles she!

Tybeard or a young maiden, and they always play that kind of role. They are typed' from the age of

"Anyway, this warrior-maiden

mam-whole surmounted by the German had played in "Macbeth" and "The by a moving object, plays at ous hormones

asmalian pituitary gland, rats eagle grasping in its claws the Maid's Tragedy."

The ribbon is black. going-a-hunting: puppies,

First Visit To Chin becomes a more social species, may be induced to go through swastika.

Rose Quang has just stepped of joyfully snap and fight together a complicated series of actions white, and red. good-naturedly and all in sport: appropriate to motherhood -

the boat from the Orient, her first was aghast at the idea of my lambkins skin and run races nest-making, retrieving young

visit to China since her childhood, wanting to learn about warrier- when she visited briefly in Hong maidens in a few weeks when he We are easily beguiled into the ones (or anything slightly re- false generalisation that play is sembling them) and

"And are you to be let with the Kong and Canton. She has come had been studying the technique with all young Weisner and Sheard at Edin- associated things; but so far careful ob-burgh University showed that bouse, my dear?" asked an elderly back with bobbed hair wily for half a century. But even be servation has not noted it ex-even virgin rats could thus be Lothario of the attractive maid who barber managed that the first day said 'Very interesting, very inter to act like mothers. had taken him over the house that she arrived in Shanghai. And the esting when I did some of my cept in mammals and some of made

creatures,

so ад

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"No, sir," was the reply, "I am to skirts of her Chinese dresses are sketches for him. So there is a two inches longer than when she common meeting ground for the

two cultures.” left-she found that the Chinese

Miss Quong had a busy three The Helping Hand

women were wearing their skirts

months in China, learning Man- Frisoner: It was the drink. From right to the ground..

darin well enough to address But the most important Rotary club and spending most of Judge: Better late than never. I'll now on drup won't pass my lips. do what I can to help you. It will quisitions are some very interest- her afternoons and evenings at

a start and help you ining ideas about taking the best is future to know you have three years from the Eastern theatre, allying' it with the best in the Western

"In Peiping I saw Dr. Mei Lan- theatre and creating a work of art whose appeal would be universal, fang give a week of plays. There "The Chinese theatre is not are only four great female imper- realistic." she said. "It is sym-sonators left, in China now, and when they are gone there will be no more, since women have made their own place on the stage.

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Encouragement

the birds. Play is confined ap-Zwarenstein and Shapiro at

warmblooded Cape Town University showed be let alone." parently to the animals. Outside the vertebrate equally striking results in al- group, the vast swarming mul-ltering the behaviour of the administra- Ititude of sea

the toad Xenopus by worms. the molluses, the great tion of the suitable chemical group of jointed-limbed animals, substance.

This does not mean that the rive you including the insects, apparent-

of young animals ly take life seriously from the play beginning, Bees indeed dance necessarily the result of the hard labour. after a successful search for action of a particular chemical,

Convicted Man: I know me record nectar, but the dance proves, but it is not improbably a pre- on experiment to be a strictly determined series of events in is bad. But I done 'art me time in I tell your Honour, I utilitarian gesture by the dan- the animal's development, each gol hospital.

a long sent- the result of a definite couldn't live through cer to the rest of the hive in-act dicating the presence of flowers stimulus. It is understandable ence

Judge (giving 10 years); Well, my of 2 particular scent to be that a play period should be a man, do as much of it as you can. !found in the neighbourhood.natural stage in the develop- Even amongst the vertebrates.ment of the young animal

has. firstly. surplus "Willie," said the Sunday School not reptiles nor amphibians nor which fishes show clear evidence of energy to work off, and second-teacher. "You shouldn't talk like that Have you tried heap- play. Porpoises and dolphins ly, the need of some practice into your playmate. It's no use losing

your temper. indeed are proverbial for play-those activities which are pro-ing coals of fire on his head?"

replied "No, miss. I haven't," are-warm-]per to its style of life. A fulness, but they blooded. Young penguins have period when the young tries its Wile; "but it's a jolly good idea." was a stamp.” been observed to play, as also new powers in those directions have some of the flying birds, common to its species has also particularly pigeons.

an obvious utility and an ob- That play is especially the vious survival value. Particu- occupation of the young,.and larly is this applicable to social that the young of mammals animals, who must try not only and birds remain dependent on their own powers but the ex- maternal care for varying tent to which, like the pugna- periods, suggests that play is city of puppies, they must be probably in some degree a pre-restrained.

paration for adult life, and it is Dogs retain their sportive notable that in the pretty impulses long after puppyhood. we Otters are said to play till old antics of young animals may see a hint of the normal age comes, and a few other become com- activities of their elders just as animals do not

the imitative play of the child pletely staid. But the char is so often "Some pageant from pion player is Man. His play serious his dream of human life." But is more varied as his although the kitten quite ob- activities, when childhood is His viously plays at hunting it is past, are more numerous.

their certainly not by imitation that young retain play as he acquires his "newly-learned principal,occupation for a long- art." It would almost appear er portion of their lives than do as if the little creature invent-other young animals, and his led and planned his movements; species as a whole may be said but a little reflection on the to persist in play as one of its Irecorded experiments on an-primary activities for the entire imal behaviour underlines the span of life. This is, at one some other interesting extremely low probability of with

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such a thesis. Even the power aspects of learning by trial and error. which appears to have been, in than inven-part, the retention in late life tion, is severely limited in cats of early characters. It is the of mature age and experience. baby ape that man resembles, It is now known that a quite not the adult. He is in fact, complicated series of actions more comparable in certain such as is sometimes loosely characters to the embryo than termed "instinctive behaviour" to the infant of related species. may be set in train automa- His large head and some of his tically in animals at a certain skeletal characters, are those stage * of development. The which his humbler relatives complete loss of the playful. im-shed with growth but which pulse in the cat after its kitten are preserved in him. It is hood is very striking. Bees be therefore not surprising that gin to work from the moment his childish capacity for play metamorphosis is complete, and, should abide with him through- without teaching, each bee in out life. It has been a power its time plays many parts. ful influence in humamsing First, a cleaner, he tidies the him; for the play impulse is not cells. Then he graduates only the basis of organised through the occupations, suc-sport but dancing and the cessively, of nurse, guard or rhythmic arts born of it, music doorkeeper. and finally food and poetry, and hence the gatherer. What internal or ex drama and literature, and pro- ternal imprises prompt these bably painting and sculpture, changes of habit we do not more remotely, are amongst know. But suggestive results the achievements of pan that have emerged of late years have possibly from the bio-chemists" studies in part, from the childish im

animal behaviour. By the pulse to

Willing Disciple

Mei Lan-fang

Beyond Recall Postmistress (to worried-looking

*So I was glad to see the gentleman): "Is there anything

greatest of them all I would ge the wrong, sir?"

Gentleman: "Yes! You see, it was to the theatre at seven in

morning. The star never came on on the tip of my tongue a moment evening and sit until 230 in the Postmistress: "Well, think hard until 1 o'clock, but when he did ago and now it's gone." and it will come back.'

Gentleman: "Oh, no, it won't it it was worth the long wait. He

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“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L Ripley

HOW MANY YEARS

FROM 5 B.C. .To 5 A.D.

?

Answer

8

SINGER

BUILDING

of JAIPUR, INDIA

A HOCEFALICE ŠULTIKE AMISICAL DIS

HER THE WINO BLOMST CR

AN ALBATROSS

CAH SCRATCH ITS HEAD,

WITH ITS FOOT

WHILE FLYING

DRAGIN IN JAIPUR

MRS SITABIRA JALGAON-India SHEING A SWORD

25 HRS 14 MORITES WETHOUT STOPPING

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