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A CANTONESE THEATRE CARNIVAL *

IN NEW YORK

New York, July 31.

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volume-soft notes denota opera-plicable mysteries of the. Enstorņ Beneath the Manhattan Bridge the smooth sailing, clashing cym-Theatre." old Florence Theatre, huge In downtown New York alts the | bols, trouble."

This prop'man plays an import- A singer may regulate tempo ant role for he comes on stage dank showplace which features by a waye of the hand; this signs! | during many accues to rearrangu operas such as "The Rovin

is followed by the drummer, who, furniture to suit ensuing action- Hood of Shangtung." Catering express- 24354

Is the orchestra loader. :*****, as the present action goes on. to the people of the Chinatown,

Applause rationed by the the Canton Theatrical Corpora Chosen In Canton Chinese. He has been educated to tion performs authentic oriental.

give audible vont tà enthusiasm operas 'in the Florence, unaltered William Poye Lee, the "Grover but rarely. And sponsors of the by Western codo, and displaying | Whalen of Chinatown"—so named opera are custom-bound to give. the ancient robes, customs" sind after New York's famed and do- each person on stage twenty-five syncopated rhythm of, China, bonair official-in publicity direc- cents for every round of applause. Dark green walla odgod with tor of this Canton Theatrical Cor-But it is difforent with visiting. cracked yellow and red gilt box poration. Small and dapper, he in Americans. They are not sparso. the interior of the theatro, Hard perfectly at ease conversing m with handelapping. They, applaud woodenbenches slope to the stage, Englan, aren % the point of the hero's bravery, his wedding, which is hung with jowolled and adopting a Southern drawl when his death, his singing, his robes.

And Chinese sponsors are brightly coloured tapestries. To desired.

toɔ the left stands, a Chinesa fing, to

The Canton Theatro was polite to say that these bursts of the right the Stars and Stripes, organised for profit by glvie antiusinam run into extra Encircling the dull green ceiling minded groups in Chinatown,” hu | ponse-United Press, are hundreds of electric light | sald," "In ""general, the older bulha which remain brightly lit through the entire porformuncu.

Chinese who attend the opera

disinterested. In Begun in 1938, the theatre funt- proceedings. A spokesman for tloned solely fur its own profit. them says they attend perform- When war came to China, the ances to see ona particular scone group donated its surplus funds or hour a certain song. Until that to the front. Players were selected time they view the action dis- in Canton in, 1930. The corpora passionately, usually talk to an

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Shanghai, July 31. Bingers' welfare in New York and This issues a bond for each. Due to the linois, just outside St. Louis, a Tom Nowling, of Collinsville, browse through a papar. indifference gives way to intense concentration when the song

war, singers have remained høre Since 1999, but plan to return, former US. Army Air Force cap-i on. A home neon. A lump sum is given tain and now of the China Na. see they like comes wizened, small man sells peanută to the group as wagen, and this ia trúpol Aviation Corporation, in throughout the evening and find atributed proportionately by a frustrated young man. A Chinese

selected lender. Another leader adgeneral, he says, is driving_hls] a multitude of customers,

ministers traditional rites when a jeep and refuses to give it back. theatre is used for the first finia

And Nowling does not seem to be Operas given are those of the able to do anything about it. province of Canton, understood by many Chinese dialects.

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The best time in the general interest for taking the energetic mensures evidently required sooner or later to balance British imports and exports has long been the subject of discussion in informed quarters and of the most careful and anxious examination by the British

Government. During this time rumour has been busy nat only as to the measures to be taken and the time but also as to those who would take them.

The Prime Minister's statement to Labour members last Wednes- I supposedly over a thousand years day, their reception of it, and the old, carries the familiar theme of unrequited love, Everything is put report subsequently issued with to rights at the end of the four hour performance. The prima their approval, have set at rest donna, petite and black-haired

more extravagant sings the role of Jasamint and

most of the

Unrequited Love

#The Robin Hood of Shantung" is a favourite opera. The story,

Chinese have no set form entertainment here, other tha their operan

Hard Road

Frustrated

Young Pilot

COPI, VINT ZYNIA BEZETES, WG 7. M. REG, U. ALL PAY RATE-

By Dick Turner

"Shouldn't we oughta have the lie dotector checked pretty; soon, Lieutenant? How do we know all theso crooks ain't had a bad influenca on it and one of these days it might'

_start; lyin'?"

A Hungry World In 50 Years?

guesses and show that the helin. is / scenis unencumbered by her robes aid Mr. Lee, The young angeabouts, Nowling sold, he found cressing, some; food experts pre-and deficiency, discnnes, is rife.

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Minister To Sue For Libel

the wor numerous

The says these goals do not take into

Nowling, as a U.S. veteran, was allowed to buy a jee from the Foreign Liquidation Commission | Hẹ painted . it up, took it, to o garage to have comfortable spring For every ambitious operatle seats installed, placed a fancy in China there lies a long hood-locking device on the prow and hard road ahead before the and was off for a while.

New York, Aug.1. In India and. China with huge door to popular acclaim opens.

Last February 12 or there- If the population krapa én in: populations death' by" starvation of tight-fitting cluth on which are must serve a three year appren the Jeep, missing. lle reported dirt that within 50 years or less Even before well under control. Clearly the Intricately embroidered designs. ticeship under a famous stage. The hero, baritone, swaggers in Government have now taken despite the confinement of his wages and almost totally without the loss to the police and almost many of the world's people will European countries had to Import

wages and doing the most meniai forgot about it. But early in June have to go hungry. **

food. broad decisions on important fost-length; hobble-skirted robe..

of jobs.

he went out to the Lunghwa air. There is widespread hunger, the not-too-large. stage

"He must accept three years of port and spotted his familiar now and there always has been. A world survey by the UNO subjects which they will announce its a six plece band, which Coll punishment and Mt. Lee, bo-vehicic, the special seats and other But at the moment there probably Food and Agricultural Organisa in detail to Parliament this week. alat, of a drummer cymbalist, fore he earns his debut

trimmings unchanged.. Blute-and two Chinese violing

Is enough land, and knowledge to tion shows how much production The assurance that the decisions an oriental guitar. Syncopated begins on the lowest plane, for the vehicle. Nowling, about

Advent to actual stage rolus A Chinese soldier was driving produce enough food-provided of different kinds of food would will be made known so soon was rather than melodic, the

the young hopeful le assigned as take off 15 minutes later on a poverty are somehow solved.

to the problems. of distribution and have to be Increased to supply suits

the mood of action

everyone an adequate diet by énough to ensure the full support

a wayward daughter of Asharmah. If popularity, seoms

Poornight to Peiping, made a hurried What the prediction means in 1900, of the body of Labour members

Imminent, be slowly advances to check. It was his jeep all right. that If the population should.com Some of the figures are 110 per for their leaders. All thought of

mere respectable roles until Box He looked at the engine numbers. tinue growing as fast as it has cent more fruits, vegetables; 00 office appoal warrants playing a

The raised portion of the block there will not be enough land to per cent more milk; 17 per cent a coalition is scouted:

merchant prince.

bearing the ufd numbers was still grow sufficient food or at least do more meat with a 10 per cent re The For months critics have de-

Show Myst Go On" shiny where it was recently filed more than provide a simple diet duction relatively in sugar, traditional. manded of the Government a

the realm of Chinese opera.

axiom, is unknown in off. New numbers were stamped based on cereals, potatoes, and But Professor John D. Black, plan for meeting the adverse

an Insignificant member of the tonged to a Chinese major-general. and eggs.

In The Jeep, he learned, ba- vegetables with little meat, milk Harvard University economist. balance of payments. Now one

Prague, Aug. 2.

coat is l and по опе

of like

When he returned to Shanghal

account the annual population of them the Financial Times The Minister of Information, station available, Lo, substitute, she fooked up the general. The Varlous things could happen to growth of one per cent of the

singer of greater roñown, will re- under the bending "Birth of AM. Vaclav Kopecky, is to sue fuse to lower himself or herself general explained he bought the prevent this or long delay present rate. Plan?" welcomes the latest de- the organ of the National to the role of stavo girl or pan- jeop two years ago. Nowling ex. Whatever happens it would be a velopment while remaining scenti Sociallat Party, Svobdne Noviny, niless labourer. The show stops plained it was impossible because long, tremendous job before every- cal' until more is known. The for libel in stating that he was until the ill performer recovers the war was on then. The general one was assured a health main- policy likely

Custom is evident with

Dr. R.M. Slater of the Depaft. each said well, he had it for at least a emerge, the best man at the wedding of his

ment of Agriculture says if the Financial Times presumes, will Baarova, former film star and the troupe is the prop man. dis sald he was going to keep ft., nephew Jan Kopecky" with Lida performance. Regular member of year. What is more, the general

population continues to Increase not involve direction of labour alleged friends of Goebbels, tinguished by his neat blue serro Nowling went to the Foreign |

ane per cont annually thepa nor a ceiling on, wages nor

a Ministry of Information state. suit, in contrast to the gllt of tho | Affairs division of the Munfelpal pr. Charles King, sciéntine direc) 2000, or, earlier to feed all

It has never been done before, would rat be enough land by definite wages policy nor very ment announced today.

singers robes. He must be en police and reported the situation.tor of the Nutrition Foundation, people hand drastic reductions in the armed

throughout 10 The report is a complete a respect to anclent

provido They were polite, friendly, in-

Ilttle' more forces, but will doubtless include Minister Kopecky' did not know tocol.

oriental pro- terexied and helpful, But they ex. New York, points out. Even Incorrals, roots und tubers,

the United States, he··· cald, | manpower_econcny_in_the_forces anything about Lida Baarova's

plained after investigation that

Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks' of ' without prejudice tu mafor wedding and was never best! Paying For Applause

if the deep was in the hands of probably only one-fourth of the New Zealand catimates that by existing commitments. There man", the statement added.

an army general, as indeed it ap- people have a good diet at any 1040 the United States, will have

Ume. "Jan Kopecky Is neither, a

reached the maximum population will, it assumes, be a lengthening

It's a shack to a western visitor peared to be, thoir hands were nephew nor relative of the effective working week.

If the at the theatre to ace him

it can support about 100,000,000- Minister**.

chalently walk incentives to

Nowling went back to the gen. come back to talls business. By on the present methods of``` upon the stage ny enter basic and

the heroine emotes hravaly, her oral and conducted a campaign of mid-July, Nowling, decided it agriculture an inder-manned industries and firm

Before the war, Lida Baarova lever having just died down-stage, hit and run fashion because of fre. would be good business to buy opposition to wage increases un Aim actresses and Inter played pron man Indifferently lifts

was one of the leading Czech loft. Carrying a blue pillow, the quent flights out of town. The the jeep back-he could not hope boosted by farm mechanisation, Experts, say production could be accompanied by greater output.

the general asked for proof, so Now-to buy another for less leading parts in German films., head of the prostrate hero, settles fing took him to the garage which US$2,000.

than irrigation, new varieties of plants On the negative side, the It was alleged that she was a the inert cranium and shuffles off identified its own handwriting.

that give higher yields. Tho newspaper calls for sharp reduc friend of Goebbels. She was to await his next summans.

The general thought that over science of nutrition will find some tions in expenditure of hard arrested in April, 1946, and, re-

The general offered to sell Now- and refused a cash offer of answers, Synthetic foods may "In Chinese drama," related ling back his jeep at US$600. US$500. What he would do,, he take up some of the slacks. currencies: "Imports of food, leased in January this year honourable death must lie with his

Mr. Les "a person dying an Nowling refused. rave materials, manufactures and pendlag trial, on suspicion of head on a pillow, An oriental just longer. Nowling would by off to US$500. Nowling refused. Unit of nutrition, agriculture and solls. indicated, would be to sell the Obe expert says much can be Negotiations, dragged out a Uttle Jeep himself and give Nowling done by an alliance of the selences" thachinery must be cut to the having aided the Gestapo-dacsn't notice the prop man's en- lowest limits compatible with teuter.

trance. That's one of the ex- some remote part of China, thened Press,"

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