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TIBETAN DRAMA.

PLAYS WHICH LAST FOR

THREE DAYS.

Three Tibian Mystery Plays" is the title of a new book translated from the French hy H. Wolf and published by

CHAMPION BABY OF EMPIRE.

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The champion Empire baby, to which Fa prize of £200 will be given at the Wem- bicyExhibition be the National Baby Week Council, is being keenly sought for in the

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hr South Afrien is qually intered and

and many entries from Thousands of English within that countrys are. expertin

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lieved, the first plays of the kind that bare been fully rendered into English, and it

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monks, laymeu cecasionally helping in the Prizes of £90 will be given, to 18 chil: dren, divided into three classes-namely. female parts, and this give it thow agri 3 to 9 months, months to trafigious and didactic character. There is no set stage and no scenery. The play is sezed, in the open air, in what the tran slator call an enclosure, though is rems that the fence is composed of the cross and of the tents or other shelter for not able It consists of narrator, and dialo

with gue, the narrator opening,

short recital of the previous history, rather after the fa-air of the opiting speech in many of the extant Greek tragetið. But his part does not stop there. At intervals between the dialogues he cons on to carry the action forward, or, inse

Mio Suana Lawrene, Pat a Socia this is dour by the actory theme Theist demonstration in South London said actors frequently read their parts, and the he met the other day a man who knews. play ints for two or three days

all about worden. He was a skilled, en- ginor, and being out of a job he got one] as odd man at an hotel,

ACTORS' LATITUDE.

A WOMAN'S WORK. MAN'S VIEW OF SCRUMBING.

AND SO ON

His dutie, she said.consisted of sweep- ing up, washing up, scrubbing, and so on. But eventually, in his own words, he was fired Sympathising with hun, she asked him if the work were hard

Hard, he answered, it was cruel It was a woman's work," (Laughter.) **

What a comfort that man, must-have. been to his wife, hdded Miss Lawrenes amid laughter

We are, however, not to suppose that the text before, us represents the dra as playel Tac printed book is in fact, little more than a skeleton; for long per- ics are cecupied with the mute, panto ming, while the actors, who specialize in particular parts, are by no means bound by the written word, but, on the contrary. use it with a great deal of freedom, pute ting in me of their own, so that ach actor gives own individuid version. It may he reinarked in parenthe that this redone of treatment sens to pecular " the gizadie gratus for we | hud iono in the highly developed Indian artel muse Europe regards the text na sacred, it is crime to take liberties with The following unclaimed telegrams are bring the

of Hamlet text

of with a

Brethoven in the first Northrru Telegraph Companys symphony Asia prefers to introduce the office at Hongkong personality of the performers regarding

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the performance of the literal text a ten-Yenyalı

2 ding to Ifelessness. This freedom of treat Changloon, met naturally in raises the length of the Sud Floor play, which is further asistul by being Tacsato sung, often to the accompaniment Patterson Whart

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