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ORIGIN OF THE WAR. KAISER'S MARGINAL NOTES.

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Professor Max Reinhardt's new theatre, After much vacillation and many post- Das Grosse Schauspielhaus" which has ponements the German oficial documents recently been opened in Berlin, is the bearing on the outbreak of the war were theatrical novelty of the moath in Bartin, issued to the Prees in Berlin on December according to the Times correspondent 10th. It should be said at once that they It is not a matter of merely local interest, events and their enuses-All the

add nothing essential to our knowledge for the success of the experiment may outlines of the picture had already been

of- and probably will, have a decided in sketched in

and the

numerous official BEHALL fluence on dramatic art elsewhere than in personal publications of the last twelve Germany. The new playhouse, with more months. Even Karl Kautsky's book, than 3,000 seats, is a product of the which was based on these documents, did altered conditions of the time

One not do more than fill in secondary details | might have supposed that the stage in The present collection was assembled by Germany would have suffered from the him, and he naturally embodied in, his war. I be lost, it is true, some of its own work those documents which illus:

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice. players. On an average four or five in strated his thesis of German guilt.

has been given prior to steamer's arrival. avery large theatre have fallen, but they Everything which might be interpreted

All brakan, chafed, and damaged goods ars exoneration of Germany had, on the were for the most part young and un other hand, already been exploited by be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays to be left in the Godowes, where they will the old Government and its adherents.

between the hours of 1045 am. and Noon In general the managers of theatres The method of publication of the docu-lain the free storage period. received fairly generous treatment from ments is another instance of that devious No claims will be admisted after the Goods the authorities and it was not diffient neas of action by which the German Gov-have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods

raises doubts as

remaining andelivered after Feb. 10th, will be subject to talent or promise. There was probably to its goodwill and

The de- occasions I have urged upon the Foreign more than one reason for this. sire to encourage art may have been documents in such a way as to leave to Uffice here the desirability of issuing the altogether foreign to it, but the expedi- opening or suspicions of double and uncy of keeping the public amused win the end I received what I regarded doubtless cet without its influence. Rein-

♫ binding promise that I should receive hardt himself, who has given me his views n copy simultaneously, with the German of the German stage of to-day, assured me Press, writes the special correspondent that the drama enjoyed great prosperity of the Daily Telegraph from Berlin. during the war. The public, which is This promise was not kept. On the devoted to the theatre, flocked to the play other hand, the German papers re in agch numbers that the managements ceived with. the full collection had no reason at all to complain. In separate series of extracts from it which, deed, he thought there had been an im-it was suggested, would be found suit provement as compared with the pre-war able for publication in their columns. time. This was true of Berlin, but even The Independent Socialist organ Freiheit small provincial towns attend raises charge that these extracts were.

many, and whether or not that is so, they are hereby informed that their goods with the constitute an undoubted attempt to ineption of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed, and stored at their risks, into the bence the Preas in its treatment of the

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All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersmed on or before Feb 14th, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

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ONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEIL-

selected with a view to exeulpating GerCLES in connection, Patr above Blowmer:

It is remarkable that the pieces which enjoyed most popularity were not war plays, nor were they comic productions, but serious pieces such as Bitcher's

FOOL BY THE GRACE OF GOD." Dantons Tod, plays by Strindberg and

The collection contains 1,123 documenta, Wedekind (whose Büchse der Pandora of which 937 are printed in full, includ: was produced after the revolution), and ing, of course, the Kaiser's marginal.com- Huptmann's plays, both his old ones and mentaries. Its claimed that nothing the new play interballade produced at had been omitted from the documents the Deutsches Theater. Faust has been which was in any way pertinent to their played to crowded houses throughout the subject, and nothing whatever added to war, while of the Trench classics Moliere's them. The documents have been divided They were Malade imaginaire and Le bourgeoi into four separate_volumes. Gentilhomme have proved popular in prepared for the Press by Count Mont German translations Quite recently gelas and Professor Walter Schueckling, Schiller's Horia Stuart has been pro- with the asistance of Karl Kautaky, who assembled them from the originally duced at the Luisen Theater.

archives of the Foreign Office.

For the German public the only fresh" Shakespeare in a class by himself. feature about the publication is the The fact of his English nationality was Kaiser's marginal notes, which have not raised at the very beginning of the war; caused so much surprise as they seem to bat Reinhardt assures me there was never have aroused in England. The Germans any question of boycotting Shakespeare's knew the explosive ways of their ruler, plays on this account. They are too at his readiness with evanescent opinions, tractive and absorbing to be dispensed and his difficulty in keeping them to him. self. Forwacrit, which is now the ofi with; and Reinhardt alone has produced cial organ of the principal Government a whole cycle of them, among others party, points out one of the many fat Othello, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth contradictions in these marginal notes

ment the Kaiser was Night, and The Tempest the last named At one moment

quito cer- We are when the war, was at its fain Rumia did not want War, at the next bo ght. Shakespeare is, modends per be a qualy certain that she had and the greatest standby Germag theatre ed it all along. Under a full page managers posseis: Reinhardt himself is ing. The fool by the grace of God, this an enthusiastic admirer of Shakespeare, paper comments as follows on the docu whose dramas he proposes to present under now condition at the Grosses that in it. the formerly leading parson- The sensation of the new publication is Schauspielhaus. Until now Reinhardt'sality of the German Empire again ap Dame had been identified mainly with pears in a dazzling light. Whoever has elaborate degrative stage effects. He tooked through the collection of papers tells me that he has come to the conclusion for the Imperial marginal notes which all that the time has arrived to break new too uberally adorn them, can no longer grounds. or rather, to return to the doubt for a moment that bexore the war earlier and, as he considers, better tradi- the German Empire was ruled by a semi-

lunatic. It will be tions of the stage..

quite clear that with this man at the bead of affairs Germany was bound some day to get into war and The German nation is now to lose it. paying a world historic penalty for its offence, which consister in this, that it allowed him to rule.

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show that the new house is adapted not only to choruses but to the unfolding of

A Socialist member of the Prussian Assembly said the other day that, while the theatre should serve to improve taste and elevate morals, the Berlin stage had long been tending to become entirely commercialized. He demanded the socia lization of the theatre. Reinhardt does not go as far as that, but he is endeavouring by his new enterprise to reach the theatre-going masses to whom the play in a matter of serious intereat. He has the single intellectual fate of Hamlet therefore, decided to dispense with the without great decorative accessories. The claborate and costly mounting of plays next piece after that will be Hauptmann's which in many countries has been carried dew play. Der weise Heiland (The to extreme lengths, and to make his ap- White Bedeemer), the time of which is peal to the interest and imagination that of the conquest of Mexico and of rather than primarily to the eye of the which Cortes and Montezuma are charac spectator. His new house is a cheap, one ters. Then will come a new play called in comparison with the existing theatres. Danton, by Romain Rolland, which I The average price of seats is marks 3.50 have acquired and which I shall be the (38. 8d.) and, as the house is a subscrip first to produce." tion theatre, the management knows where i standa financially for many months in advance. There are thousands

RISING BALARIES.

The cinema has not proved a dangerous commercial rival to the theatre in Ger of persons in Berlin-intelligent artizans, many, says Reinhardt, though it has incon typists, book-keepers, shop assistants.venienced managers by attracting actors to whom the play makes an irresistible to the cinema stage, thereby diminishing appeal, but who cannot afford present the number available for the regular day prices. It is to these classes that theatre. Managers are, however, con- Reinhardt mainly looks to fill his new fronted by another and very serious houde. The plays are announced in ad problem-the enormously enhanced de vance, and to many family the date on mands made, by actors in the matter of which the periodical visit to the theatre salary. The low purchasing power of the is to take place is looked forward to with and the dificult times make it im eagerness. Fathers and mothers take possible for actors to live on their old their children and the occasion is s rates of pay, and the most Insignificant domestic event.

player now insists on at ležet 700 marks (286) a month a figure from which the salaries of others may be gauged.

Optional Corgo will be forwarded on unlers intination is recived from the Consigness before Noor TO-DAY requesting it to be landed

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All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 13th inst, or they will not be recognised.

All damage packages will be eramfeed on TUDAT, the 13th inst, at 10 AM

No Fire Insurance has bam effected.

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Acting Agent. Hongkong, February 4th, 1920.

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All China must be presented within FIFTEEN DATE of the Steamer's arrival hers, after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Gooda ramalning undelivered after. Feb 10th, 1890, will be mbject to rest.

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iOptional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods, are to be left in the Godowns; where they will be ex

examined on any Tuesday and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 Billy

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All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before Feb. 23rd, or they will not be recognised.

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AS APPEAL TO THE IMAGINATION." By bringing the actors into the middle A sign of the times in Berlin is the of the house Reinhardt believed he will revival of Mr. Bernard Shaw's plays. re-establish that intimate association be- One of them, Arms and the Man, has tween player and audience which has been running for some time in German, been lost in great measure owing to the and has even been given in English by present construction of theatres, and that German ex-prisoners of war, who learned

FROM: ANTWERP, MIDDLESKRO;" the drama will again come into its own the English text during their captivity.

& STRAITS LONDON as an important factor in the social and 'ugmalion was played at the Leasing intellectual life of the nation. In his Theatre in the beginning of December,

(ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby Informed. opinion the plays the thing" the und Beinhardt is shortly producing

a Goode are boug landed at their words of the author are what should tell Antony and Cleopatra and Candida. las into the hasardous and for extan kavarious on the audience, and once this is achieved Another sign of the times is the pro- odowa of the Flongkong and Kowloon Wharf there is no longer any need for minute duction at the Deutsches Theater of

and Godown Cd., Ltd., whence and/or, Ergun, the antiquarian exactness or extravagantly Jaakobs Traum (Jacob's Dream). This harren delivery may be obtained.

Goods lavish pictorial or realistic accessories, is a Jewish play by Richard Beer Hoff. No. Dining ill be admitted they since the imagination of the spectator, mann. It is, and has been for weeks, nave left the Godowns, and all Goods rankining like that of children at play, will supply attracting nightly crowded audiences, delivered after the 9th insty, will be subjec all or almost all, that is neary And largely composed of Jews The play is to runt. in Reinhardt's view this was Shake staged with wonderful effects of light by speare's own attitude towards the stage. Beinhardt, one of whose stars, a Jewish The first piece produced at the Grosses actor, the Berlin favourite Moissi, is seen Schauspielbasis was version of the in the part of the youthful patriarch Dreisteia of Aeschylus. Its choruses Jacob. There is so much anti-Jewish bring upon the stage a rather numerous feeling in Berlin, as well as elsewhere company of actor, but," said Rein-in Germany to-day, that the success of hardt to me, de next piece I shall pro this play deserves to be chronicled as duce will be Hamlet, because I wish to a social and political if not as a drama

(Continued at foot of next column.)tic phenomenon.

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All broked, shafed, and damaged packages ars to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined. Claims against the steamer maat be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognized.

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