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THE CHINÁ MAIL, MONDAY, ́SEPTEMBER 19, 1955.

Shakespeare In The Contemporary Anti-Parachute

English Theatre

By Ronald Crichton

The main centres `of | Shakespearean play - house. Shakespearean production in and no responsible producer Britain today are the Old would now sacrifico the flow Vic in London, which from of the action to any purely humble beginnings in the scenic consideration. 19th century has become a

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Volkatheater in the fullest The more faithfully the sense of the word, with a text is given, the subsidy administered clearly the all-embracing of Shakespeare through the Arts Council, of genius Great Britain, and the emerges also his unfailing Theatre at the poet's birth- Shakespeare Memorial theatrical craftsmanship.

In the acting of Shake- place, Stratford-upon-Avon, speare in England today a private enterprise which it is possible to detect a cer-

(Right) The “away" Shakespearė Memorial Theatre Company, led by Sir John Gielgud Ant Perry Ashcroft, opened an 8-week London season at the Palace Theatre with "fuch If not prepaid a booking for has become a national in-tain reaction against the in-

Ado About Nothing." This ploture shows Jahn Glolgud as "Benedick" and Perry Ashcroft stitution, and a great magnet fluence of naturalism. The

as "Beatrice." for tourists from abroad.

smooth, unemphatic, but technically extremely

The RC- complished playing of the drawing-room comedies of the commercial theatre is

of 60 cents is charged.

BIRTHS

EVEREST-Tu Lorna and Bob, on September 17, 1968, at Doking Maternity Hospital, U.K.. on, Hubert Alfred." Bolt wei).

DEATHS

Highest Quality

At intervals the commer-

cial Landon theatre offers Shakespearean productions

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the decorative_style of the South Bank Exhibition in! London in 1951, where the Influence of the great

Missile

Tactics

Melbourne, Sept. 18. modern architects of the Australian Air Force pilots Inst fifty years was com- are being trained to fly planes bined with a proliferation of which catch missiles failing on parachutes, according to the Sun colour and detall full of wit Nows Pictorial's Adelaide' cor- .. and fantasy, with many a respondent.

The newspaper said today: tha backward glance, half-mock-

planas, with a paravano tralling Ing, half-affectionate, ab the lightly to one side on a 300- styles of Victorian and foot cable, flow bolow the guided Edwardian epochs and at missile.

paravano traditional English crafts- A grapple on

cable

misdle's engaged the manship.

parachute cords. "The missile is played like a fish and the plane ilias down a gully spanned by cables," the newspaper said.

',

tho

Later Period

The pilob flow so that the missile was transferred from Experiments aro still!

the paravane to the gully cablo made, and will always be where it remained suspended made. Producers still boldly, until collected, the newspape and often successfully, set a The new method was invented

said.

play in a later period; thus

chief superintendent at tho

we have seen since the war by Mr H. G. Pritchard, former an 18th century "Love's weapons research establishment Labour's Lost" and a Vie- at Salisbury, South Australia

China Mall Special torian "Hamlet".

Modern-dress productions

still occur from time to Greek-German

On the left is a scene from one of Shakespeare's little known plays "Tlius Andronious" picture shows: Titus Andro-Jous (Laurence

seem Oilvier) comforts his daughter Lavinia (Vivien Leigh) whom Tamora's sons have ravished before cutting off her hands and cutting out her tongue-Central Press Photo,

Economic Discussions

time. But the bareness and! stylisation of inter-war Shakespearean production to be disappearing from the English stage. One day they may return. At the moment, they appear As far as the actual set out of harmony with the

Duesseldorf, Sept. 18. general sweep of the pro-side-boxes were practically

The Greeks Co-ordination inadequate for Shakespeare duction and are combined abolished. The result was tings are concerned, painted unparalleled richness and Minister, Mr Prumyotis Papall- the Minister of A certain "parache" is re-with the fullest possible that the large expanse of canvas is still

more widely diversity of Shakespeare's Place, M. Lambros Extaxias

gouras, and of the highest quality with turning to Shakespearean text.

flat, dead wall between such used in England than in language.

arrived here by plano today for STEWART......James Liddol, doarly

the status of acting. Speed and clarity in beloved husband of Von King actors of

galleries as remained and German-speaking countries,

a one-week official visit to Ger- and father of Francer and Jesse Gielgud or Olivier who have the speaking of the verse A further compromise the proscenium destroyed but three-dimensional per-

many during which they plan to have economie talks with the Funeral been or are associated with remain the essentials, but appear to have been reached any feeling of contact be manent suts are common,

West German Government. arrangements later. Macau papers the Old Vic. and Stratford; such eminent players as between the antagonistic tween the players and the and indeed are sometimes

Professor Ludwig

Erhard, valuable work is done by Gielgud, Olivier, Redgrave, conceptions of the 19th cen- audience, and often ruined designed to serve more than

West German Economics Minis such provincial companies as Guinness, Sybil Thorndike tury picture-frame stage the acoustics as well.

ler, greeted them et Duesseldorf the Birmingham Repertory and Peggy Ashcroft (to and the arena stage of the

airport-Reuter Theatre and the Bristol Old name a few examples) com- hypothetical futuro. Theatre Vic. Nor must one forget bine a psychological pene- building between the wars the important contribution tration which is entirely of was influenced,

at Saint Francis Hospital, on September 20, 1995.

ploasă copy.

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Store

Annual General Meeting

usually of schools and Universities, today with a personal disastrously, by the architec

Is it possible to say that magnetism and an attack ture of the cinema.

largely free of naturalistic England inhibitions.

there exists in

11 contemporary style of Shakespearean production? An exhaustive study would! doubticas reveal

Between Wars

Painted Canvas

ia

Kashmir Convention

Karachi, Sept. 18.

one play; thus, at Stratford a few years ago one setting served for a succession of

A Pakistan all parties con- Shakespeare's Histories. But

vention on Kashmir will be held this basic simplicity in the first or second week of It is significant that both nevertheless combined with October, Informed sources here

cald today.

The conference had originally been proposed for the last week In September.

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Mortar Kills

Manila, Sept. 18, Three persons were killed and two others injured yesterday at the Old Vic and at Strat-a picturesque use of lighting, accessories and

morning when a trench mortar ford apron stages have now costume,

shell exploded at the village of In kn effort to design been added, restoring in-properties.

San Fablan in central Luzon. theatres in which overy timacy (essential for Shake- Sometimes there appears It was niso disclosed here that The police said that the ex- within the playgoer could have an un-speare's sollloquies)

be held plosion, the third and a lurking nostalgia for the the convention will Fro-

village, West Pakistan

Rame month in the interrupted vlew of the assisting the producer to purely visual aspect of the after the

vinces Integration.Bill is passed occurred when one of the vic- stage, the number"

of maintain the flow of the romantic theatre, a nostalgia by the Pakistani Assembly-tims was tapping the shell for The work of modern galleries was reduced and action.

similar to that evident in France-Presso,

gunpowder.--France-Presse. In any country where scholars and commentators Extraordinary General Meet Shakespeare Is regularly on the language and psycho- ing of Voting Members held performed. But a general logy of Shakespeare has on 5th September, 1955, the Annual General Meeting of impression would probably affected

In

accordance with the Resolutions passed at the

the Club will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 29th September, 1955, at 5.45 p.m.

All members are cordially invited to attend and partici-

many

differences of approach, as

.

producers and emerge of a practical com-actors alike, but the ap- promise between old methods proach of grammarians and and new.

Craftsmanship

We can never. return to

psychologists is not every- thing for the contemporary playgder: the fact that Shakespeare was a practical playwright living in and working for the theatre re- mains paramount.

pate in any discussion which the 19th century methods of may ensue. They are invited elaborato scenic presentation

based on laborious hin- In the years between the to forward to the Secretary

so two world wars, when the in writing at least seven days torical accuracy, with before the meeting is due to many pauses for changes of work of Gordon Craig and that the text was Granville Barker, and of take place, any maltors which scene they may wish to bring up for often mutilated to reduce William Poel, the pioneer of the performance to a rea-return to Elizabethan sonable length.

discussion.

By Order of the Stewards,

A. E. ARNOLD,

Secretary. Hongkong, 16th Sept., 1955.

PENINSULÄR

SAILS:

methods, was fresh in young Modern research into the producers' minds, and when -theatre bus stimulating new influences Elizabethan mude

familiar were coming from the con- with the advantages of the tinent, the reaction against

everyone

elaborate spectacle was far- reaching.

Settings and costumes be- camo simple and unadorned;

& ORIENTAL realism gave way to stylisa-

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colourful affair than the drab combination of bare boards and dull hangings so frequently affered by the pioneers of reform.

Important Thing

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