THE HONGKONG DAILY
Viyella
THUESDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1920.
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one of its hundred of uses, is in the making of the practical blouse and sports shirt.
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MISS MARIE TEMPEST. WORLD-FAMOUS. ACTRESS ARRIVES IN HONGKONG. AN INTERESTING, CHARACTER SKETCH.
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Misa Marie Tempest, the famous Eng- lish comedy actress, arrived in Hongkong on Tuesday on the s.s. Meator. In nasocia tion' with Mr. Graham Browne' and ä. well-balanced company she is opening & short season at the Theatre Royal to night with the presentation-cat. Penelope," from the polished pan of Mr Somerset Maugham, Miss Tempest is, of course, Penelope, the wife, who stayed at home when her husband went wandering. It is a part which gives Missel fatailable, secured before departure Tempest opportunity to play on almost every emotion-tragedy, comedy and pathos, Wall supported, she displays the Winsomeness and personality which have made her name famous, without making the play
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performance, "has been one of the Com pany's greatest successes on tour, and is is to be hoped that Miss Tempest will receive the reoption she deserves on this, bar first visit to the Far East.
from Hongkong.
and London (under arrangement)
Blik and Valuable Cargo for Italy, Franon conroyed by this Steamer proceeding to Bombay, and there transhipped or the carrying Steamer for Marseilles and London.
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In the course of an appreciation of MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co., Marie Tempest, Mr. Sydney Dark wrote in a Homs paper →→
It is almost sacrilegons (it is certainly super-audacious) for any man to attempt
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Most cares a jot what precise chemical actions Who have produced the pagne?! What Joy of a glass of cham
does it matter exactly makes us lay our homage at the feet of a charming woman as long as she allows us to worship, and occasionally rewards us with a smile. But since Miss Tempest is an actress of outstanding im. portance, it is perhaps interesting to nota that when we think of her charmwa remember her laugh, her supreme dainti. ness, ber anfailing sense of humour, her abounding youth Miss Tempest is alive. all the time. Some people are only alive Occasionally Others are never alive at all. Indeed our streets are choked with peripatetio corpses, but Miss Tempest fives all the time-keen, sager, interested amused. As a matter of fact, the essential characteristic of the living is the capacity to laugh, and men and women are nevar quite human until they have learned to laugh at the world and at themselves.
I have been told by many women (and here I am obliged to rely upon authority) that Miss Tempest is one of the best dressed women in London, and that sho understands to the fullest extent the art of putting her clothes on." course, means that she thoroughly under
This, of stands her own personality, a highly im- portant thing for an actress since, sa I have suggested, she has to use that per sonality on the stage just as s
are has been inevitable that Miss Tell- post's greatest successes should have-boen mando in characters worldly wise, humor- ous and resourceful, but it must not be for a moment assumed that she has gained her great position simply on account of ber delightful individuality.
Art has
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which Miss Ellen Terry and Mr. Kendall LATEST DESIGN AND learned their business, no training ground for the young. The consequence is that young women with beauty and some aptitude for the stage are cast for leading characters which overweight them, nud which from sheer lack of skill they are entirely unable to play. The reason why so many excellent actresses have come to the regular theatre from musical comedy is that the artist in musical comedy is forced to develop his personality and to ind out for himself bow to get across the DAIRY Zootlights school, but it is a good one. When Miao It is a rough-and-ready Tempest left the caste of San Toy, London only knew her as a delightful light, opera prima donna-far and away, be it added. FINNAN HADDOCK... the most delightful opera prima donna of our times. When a few nights afterwards.
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shy, made her first appearance on the SALT SIBERIAN SALMON comedy stage as Nell Gwynne at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, London dis covered that it had been entertaining a consummate.comedienne unawares.
It is no mere smooth exaggeration to say that since Nell Gwynne she has never
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made & personal failure, and that, graat COULOMMIER CHEESE
ing the fact that she has worked almost
WE HAVE Great Varieties of used and unsod
in one genre, that she has always DEVONSHIRE CREAM Cone al that any actress could do, with the parts that she has created. She has been hailed as the obvious successor, to Lady Bancroft and her sense of fun, and
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD bor knowledge of ber craft make the com parison very apt. She has too many of
STORAGE CO., LTD. the qualities of Rejane. It was rather a bold
experiments for her long before she had established the position that she now holds, olyat in which Bojano had appear in The Marriage of made a great and a characteristic success, But Miss Tempest, se pever done anything better than Kitty It was a completely intelligent and & completely comic per. formance (of course, use the word comis in its higher sense), and those of ur who has seen and enjoyed Rejane in the part. rejoiced, after seeing Miss Tempest that we had, at last, in England a comedy actress of the very first order,
One's admiration for Marie Tempest the woman, and Marie Tempest the actress is no one whit more than one's admira tion for Marie. Tempest, the courageous and appreciative manager.
RECONDITIONING THE
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Reconditioning the Leviathan and torn- ing her into an oil burner will cost about 65,000,000, and when the government gets through with its programme, of changing, the German liners into oil burners, the Marine Journal (New York) says, it will very likely have to spend $50,000,000. The Munson Line, operating seven liners on the ran to South America, will German ipend more than $7,000,000 on them before they go into commission.
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