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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1975

NEW H.K. EXHIBITION OPENS IN LONDON

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PRIMA BALLERINA DAME MARGOT FONTEYN, OPENED THE NEW HONG KONG EXHIBITION AT THE COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE, LONDON, LAST EVENING (FRIDAY)..

THREE HUNDRED GUESTS, INCLUDING A NUMBER OF COMMONWEALTH HIGH COMMISSIONERS, SENIOR BRITISH CIVIL SERVANTS, LEADING BUSINESSMEN, MEMBERS OF THE HONG KONG CHINESE COMMUNITY IN BRITAIN, DAME MARGOT'S FAMILY AND HER FRIENDS FROM THE WORLD OF BALLET, SAW HER ''DOT THE EYES'' OF A SOUTHERN LION BEFORE IT DANCED IN CELEBRATION OF THE EVENT.

TWO TEAMS OF DANCERS - THE LUK CHI FU LION DANCING TEAM AND THE TUNG WAH COLLEGE DANCING TROUPE - HAD FLOWN IN EXPECIALLY TO ENTERTAIN THE GUESTS AT THE OPENING.

THE ENTERTAINMENT INCLUDED THREE CHINESE CLASSICAL DANCES BY THE TUNG WAH GIRLS, AND A NORTHERN LION DANCE.

BEFORE INVITING DAME MARGOT TO OPEN THE EXHIBITION, THE HONG KONG COMMISSIONER, MR. S.T. KIDD, SAID THAT ITS THEME WAS TAKEN FROM A SI EECH BY SIR MURRAY MACLÉHOSE ON HIS ARRIVAL IN THE TERRITORY IN 1971-'OUR OBJECT IS PROSPERITY WITH SOCIAL PROGRESS''.

THE EXHIBITION WAS DESIGNED. TO ILLUSTRATE THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY WHICH GENERATED THE MEANS TO PROVIDE AND IMPROVE UPON THE STANDARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES, SAID MR. KIDD.

AFTER OPENING THE EXHIBITION, DAME MARGOT FONTEYN WAS PRESENTED WITH A POSY OF FLOWERS BY ONE OF THE TUNG WAH DANCERS, MISS MAN YUK CHING, AND INTRODUCED TO THE DANCERS.

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SHE WAS THEN INVITED BY MR. LUK CHI FU TO DOT THE EYES'' OF THE SOUTHERN LION. MR. KIDD ''DOTTED THE EYES** OF THE NORTHERN LION.

AFTER THE ENTERTAINMENT, MR. KIDD PRESENTED COMMEMORATIVE BANNERS TO THE LEADERS OF THE TUO DANCE TEAMS, MR. LUK CHI FU AND MR. LEE SUI MING.

THE DANCERS WILL PERFORM PUBLICLY AT THE COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE FROM TODAY (SATURDAY) UNTIL OCTOBER 1. THEY ARE ALSO DANCING AT THE BRITISH COUNCIL STUDENTS CENTRE IN LONDON, ON SUNDAY NIGHT, AND WILL APPEAR IN THE POPULAR BBC-TV PROGRAMME, "BLUE PETER' NEXT WEEK.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

COPIES OF A PHOTOGRAPH TOGETHER WITH MR. KIDD'S SPEECH WILL C: AVAILABLE IN THE GIS PRESS BOXES THIS AFTERNOON.

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