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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1959,

LOCAL SLANT

FATHER SHERIDAN TALKS ABOUT HIS CHINESE OPERA

A

MAN' with a well deserved rest these days is Father Sheridan of Wah Yan College who has royally entertained us with his recent production The Fighting Bride'.

However, few of us realise how much time and effort go into producing a Chinese Opera parti- cularly when it is presented in English. And this has become an annual event with Father Sheridan.

In the first place a number of existing Chinese plays have to be examined and rewritten around à central plot. Then by carefully chiselling away the unnecessary párts,

Costumes worth hundreds of dollars are a feature of Father Sheridan's Chineas opera. Here is a scene from his fateri telumph "The Fighting Bride",

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"The object being," he says. "to try and show foreign audiences the beauty and art of Chinese Opera."

Training

Months of traling go into teaching new members of the cast how to walk, to speak, to make the correct hand gestures and to 1190 a costume. For instance, for a man wearing a wide sleeved Chinese costume known as 'running water' sleeves, there are a possible 150 hand gestures! And woo be to the man who hasn't learned them properly for the slightest

Will be

Sketching In to the audiencef

Shanghai St

CHANGHAI Street may

soon see a tall, attrac- tive South Vietnamese girl with notebook in hand happily sketching local activity.

Mrs Jacqueline Ha Van Lamontagne, who has re- cently had a most successful exhibition of her paintings at St John's Cathedral'Hall, Bays that she will spend as much time as possible ex- ploring Hongkong in search of material.

Modern

Interested only in painting people, Mrs Lamontagne says she spends hours in the poorer section of the city capturing the feeling and movement of the people as they Fo about their dolly taske. Her art. which is modern without being abstract, gives lasting Impres- sions rather than detalls of human netlvlly,

Her work is all absorbing and leaves Iltilo time for

obvious

The gathering of costumes is a serious part of the business and involves telling the plot of

FATHER SHERIDAN

hobbles or outside interests, the opera to the castume tailor

HEN I called on Mr deduced the points of appeal,

so that he will be sure to pro- John Luff, I found him and the greatest number of

"Without ort," she says wist-duce a garment suitable to the busily typing out his article points produces the winner".

fully, "I don't know what rank of the character. Not all for this week's China Mail.

of the costumes Mr Luft fald that Chinese I'd do."

are specially made for the lms had made immense strides

performance, However, up till now. (and however, some I had come to ask him a few during the last few years and she's been

are hired from painting srce sho professional actors. questions about

forth that if they could find subjects was his coming trip to Kuala Lumpur of International interest, they on portraying Asians.

10) she has concentrated as a juror to the th Asian could compete in the Inxhough

"FUM ̈FENTIVAN

I asked Mr Luff if he had

any idea he would be selected

He had..no

knowledge

selected was

Weaknesses

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Asked what weaknesses he had he

been saw in Asiatic Alms, Mr. Luff

that conveyed to him sald

folklore, ne

over the telephone a day be- teresting as it is, is not a good foro the Committee for the medium for an international Aslan Festival met to elect Its Alm. jurors,

He added that he considered Han honour that the Chinese Film Executives placed SO much confidence in his judg- ment.

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Mr Luft wuld he had seen quite number of Chinese films and had reviewed 狙 few of the outstanding ones,

Pretty Stiff

Ile understood the Kuala Lumpur assignment prelly stiff one.

Was

at

Screening would start about eight in thọ morning, and last right through to the even- ing of every doy, beginning Aprli 26 and roting until May 3 when the Festival pro- per would commence with the announcement of awards Ahma and Individuals.

to

What standards would he Judge the films by Mr Luft said, "By the standards I would judzo any Alm. The einem es an art form, is international, and although different

coutt tring bring their cultural trúdl- thing to the cinema, the medium is the same. Therefore, in film should, bo judgod on the follow- ing pobate Production; Diree- Bon; Script; Acting," Photon graphy; from these should b

is

to

market: The human race primarily Interested in human beings, and films abou! people and their Ilves should be rande without reference the staged productions of their countries. Too many Asian films had failed to break away from their theatre conventions, so that we got a photographed play rather than an original Alm

Mr Luff sold langunge always was a barrier, especially when a Gikm relles upon dialogue to a great extent. On the other hand, he would be under no greater disadvantage then any of the other jurers who could speak only the language of their own country.-A.F.

POP --Steel nerves

plant ber Interests to the United States

and when sho her husband leave the Colony

JACQUELINE

His Costumes-

After having staged 15 operus, Talgor, Sheridan reckons that he now has some $0,000 worth of costumes. Once he paid $500 for a single outfit but as a rule they average between $100 and $200.

J

It is interesting to note tha! the striking looking actor who wore the headdress of two 5- foot feathers, wore them at an expense of $80 each!

Father Sheridan feris that the Chinese have about 20 per cent mote acting ability than Euro- peans. They learn their lines quickly, absorb technical know- ledge and have tremendous powers of expression,

All the players, except for the girls of cource, are ex-Wah Yan College students and all aro pomicurs. And all are so keen that approximately 70 per cent of the cast have boen with Father Sheridan since the ärst productiont

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