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HAMLET IN PLUS FOURS.
DISCUSSING A NEW DRAMATIC IDEA:
The audacita ut it! Yellow, indeed!
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OUTOBEK, 1975, 1925
THE MOTORING WORLD.
NOTES AND COMMENTS ON.
CURRENT TOPICS.
For many decades during the Victorian The Beau Twelve range of curs has eru, whenever a new Hatalet was put always been popular with owner drivers on the boards the dramatic critics reboth at home and overseas. called the art that Fechter had once The Bean Twelve 2-senter and 4-seater played the moody lane in a yellow wis-models, at their new prices, have provel Whatever else they forgot, they remem-more than ever the attraction of these bered that to them-preposterous wig cars. The Twelve is a fully-equipped wher, everybody knew the Lawrence port, with 4 whee! brakes, starter, five trait of Juha Kemble and the funereals, "leather upholstered seating, and, plumes of his sable cap and the tradition in the 3 seater model, four doors, giving It was easy access to all scats. The design is a foreigner, such that for service in any country in they said, that, after all, the Danes the world the Bean Twelve is suitable in every respect. Sturdily built-a cat But to-day it is"
far above the light car class in both Twelve range offers the owner-driver all eapacity and performancethe Bean that he requires at a moderate price The Bean Fourteen range standard model at which recently, twice crossed Australia under most dificult conditions
WEAVING THE MAGIC FILM.
SOME HOLLYWOOD MYSTERIES REVEALED.
EAST OF THE ODER.
POLES "AND" GERMANS AND THEIR QUARRELS.
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To enter one of the big motion picture
[BX B. WILSON, HARRIS, }) udics, bustling with the myriad human and mechanical agencies engageïl in weav
The Foreign Minister of Poland, Count ing the magic film that has made Holly- wood the morie" Mecca and melting Skixynski, recently Inaded from America, of the world, is like gazing through to find relations between his country and the wrong end of a telescope and seeing in little the Golden West, much na ons Germany wen more embittered than surveys that great pageant of Empire in when he left Europe. That is saying a little at Wembley. For here (writes Kathleen Ussher in the Daily News) is good, deal, for the tension prevailing on of California State that has passed. the concentrated esence and atmosphere both sides of the German-Palise from through successiva periods of discovery, tier has long been one of the most dis. all of which screen players have to use in quieting problems in Europe, and in the the making of pictures
In one corner of the lot" is an old course of the present summer the out mission building with crumbling plaster break of a tariff war between the two walls, little bells ringing under it countries introduced yet one more dis Spanish padres, who, following in the turbing element into the situation, not of yellow wigs that the theatrical
sheltered arches, reminiscent of the world is aulking, list of a Hamlet in plus
Junipero Serra, passed this way in the footsteps of their beloved leader, Pray fours" and a rather sloppy dinner jacket, sod shingled heads and the stockinged
late eighteenth century. Near by is a legs of the period. At the Kingsway
covered waggon, such as carried the first end of Juse of this year to admit 300,000 "Hamlet in Theatre WT may see modern dress, and it is clear from the
American settlers across the plains and tons of coal a month from the Polish notices that as soon as the performance joffers the same high standard of work. past the Rocky Mountains. Over there part of Upper Silesia free of duty,
is a ruda log but. speaking eloquently.
af the two Kenus and Garrick. barely excusable, even iä
are a fair haired race.
was well started many of the critics found themselves spas hat in the plight of the wits in Goldsmith's poem, who went to church to seof and remained to pray. So good, living, was the show, that they were carried away in spite of them selves.
Shakespeare got hold of them and overcase then The old emotions welled up invincibly and moved them to weled up havinsin. This is the best tri- bate, perlips, that Shakespeare bas bad anid to his genius for a long time. The ald magic works, and the secret is not tinthes not in the accessories, or in the stage settings and the furnishing, lust in the words. "The play's the We are even asked to believe that the ders" less heightened the reality of the play, which gained," according to one critic, in point, speed, And clarity far more than it lost in romantic de poetic beauty.
thing.
We can imagine with what ferocity some of the older school would fall upon such a judgment. What are point, speed, nud clarity," they would way, in comparison with
muschip and quality as the Twelve. Four wheel brakes are included in the care of this range, and equipment is complete to the last degree. The additions! power of the Fourteen-the extra two horse
is considerable advantage in very rough country.
Dunlop balloon tyres are standard on all Bean cars, and in the Fourteen the purchaser is offered normal-pressure tyres as an alternative if he so requires.
It is small wonder 'Luat these cars arJO
being used in increasing numbers in every part of the world. New agencies are being arranged in many overseas countries, and the Bean owner, therefore, will experience no difficulty in obtaining spares and replacements should they ultimately become necessary.
SOME DIM, SOME DOŠT.
The
there can be only one view of the question From the motor cyclist's standpoint
of timming or not dimming, and that is:
Di always."
There are many reasons to support that view.
orat
coal. Germany was pledged down to the
That particular trouble arome
Cont
of the guid rash, the forty miners," and and Poland badly needed the market of the reckless Vigilantes who, in that thus provided. In the past, Germany, community of outlaws, established, at for her part, has needed the coal. the point of the pistol if necessary, a
sequently, as the stipulated date ap respect for law.
In a dark, lofty chamber- disused proached, the Poles observed that ná þ stage-tangled cables twist like snakes underfoot, bearing electricity to the donbt the Germans would be glid to con enormous Cooper Hewitt lights, whose tings the arrangement, The Germans re- powerful bluish-green rays have almost plied on the face of it, reasonably en entirely taken the place of the sun's raya. for "shooting" indoor scenes; even ough that since they had already though these studios were originally some 10,000,000 tons of stocks lying shout built with no provision for lighting ex- at various pit-boads, they must seize the cept the sun.
opportunity that now for the first time offered to keep out Polish coal 'alto- gether.
corners
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THE GLASS CATHEDRAL On an adjoining stage, "shooting" is in progress. Just outside the circle of That brought an immediate rejoinder dazzling lights, a dozen or more people from Poland. She was, she pointed are grouped, some sitting on camp stools, out-an the face of it reasonably, enough others standing; and in the midst of already buying much more from for them, Blanked by masses of lights, high-signers than she was selling to them, and it was out of the question to allow, powered Kleigs and Cooper-Hewitts, are two cameras (one for taking still that fatal discrepancy to be further in- Besides these, sested on afcreased. If, therefore, Germany insisted pictures). canvas chair, is the director, clad in the on keeping out Polish coal, Poland, în | invariable soft shirt and “ plus fours."'- the interests of her trade balance, must In the brilliant glare the faces of all keep out German imports, consisting who are not made up with grease-principally of machinery and "manu- pafat and powder look a ghastly greenish factured goods. So, accordingly, it has yellow. All colour values are distorted, happened, and a tariff war is now in and on the set-the interior of a full swing between the two countries. cathedral the robes of the priest are THE "OPTANTS" CONTROVERSY. exposures which are necessary to bring yellow instead of white, for the loog
On the top of the coal controversy has out the detail in the darker
come the controversy about the '' optant,” | render white too glaring.
word which conveys nothing very Suspended in front of the camera is is precise to the average English car. The painting of glass, depicting the missing optants are a section of the Germans part
the pseudo-cathedral-the
still living in Poland sad of the Foles. shadowy tops of the pillars, lost in a still living in Germany. Under the wealth of architectural details, cornice Treaty of Versailles the bulk of these and frescoed ceiling. The wooden frame people simply stay where they are and is placed at such sa angle from the become politically citizens of the State camera as to bring the pillars painted on in which they live. That is natural and the ginss into focus with the decapitated pillars on the "get," and while the reasonable enough, particularly since, as camera is grinding out footage of the regards Germans in Poland (who are action of the players on their three-much more numerous than Poles in Ger dimensional stage, the two-dimensional many), there is a Minority Treaty to give them same sort of protection. Both ceiling of the painting is also being re- gistered on the inch-wide strip of cells Poles in Germany and Germans in loid ribbon' known as motion picture film, Poland, however, had the right to choose, or "opt," within a certain period to remain Poles or Germans, as the case might be, but in that event they had, within a further giyen period, to move off into Poland or Germany respectively, careful provisious being embodied in the treaty to safeguard their rights in any property they might posses ID the country they were leaving.
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charu? Why to overseas conditions, since it has the speak of hurity in connection with, the power and sturdiness of many of the ever debatable and incomprehensible in heavy vehicles with running costs that the largest sense of the term-character the light tonner. It is, of course, infinite will compare favourably with those of of the Prinen ! Does not ach of the
lie in the mystery by more dependable under difficult road power of Hamiler which enwraps it. and were not our with capacity of fully 25 ew, will prove Conditions than the lighter vehicles, and, docessors right when they sought to heighten the mystery
a valuable asset to the overseas concerns and deepen the
landing heavy or bulky goods. gloom--though this im he enrried to excess, and the musing of a disordered manufacturers, Mesars, A. Harper, Sons, brain can easily degenerate into a slow and Bean, Ltd. of Dudley. Worcester shire, England, have a new and enlarged droning. I tradition to count for naught These are difficult questions.. edition of their commercial vehicle That costare makes a profound differentalogue just off the press, and will, of euce is obvious. "Hamlet"
is another courte, be pleased to send a copy to say play in the new dress The poetryer of transport writing to then. In this dwindles out of the lines from the very catalogue is given information concerning way they are spoken. If they become types of commercial vehicles, and also more dramatic and the play more real, the Bean 14-16-seater chur-a-bane and
Bean ambulance. is that again! Does it bring back nearer to the effects which shakespeare got in his own day, for this must be said on behalf of the musleraists that, when "Hamlet" was first played, it was cer tainly played by the actors in the cos tume of their own time. They dressed as the people in the audience were dress- ed. Nu attempt was made to reproduce
In the first place, it is best, perhaps, realistically the fashions and furnishings of the Castle of Elinors. But, then, we to look at the dituities that beset the great concourse of people approaching doubt whether Shakespeare gave two
motor cyclist. His machine has two it.
They reach the gate. thoughts to the particular century in wheels, and therefore the necessity for a It closes on them; That is all. But at
There were some doubts about the in- which the play was cast. In his big way that dings him high out of the saddle, angle, was another scene, painted on set at rest by decisions given as long ago perfect equilibriunf is aligus. A pathole f the same time, within the camera terpretation of the treaty, but these were he eared little for anachronisms, and would have smilingly pleaded his, prior stone that twists his front wheel, a glass, of the Holy City beyond the gate, ignorance to disarm the foolish frown on rut that kicks his back wheel up with and when the picture flickers across the August of last year by an arbitrator the fare of pedastic crudition. Nor do the lash of a Rodeo pony, and, most silver sheet the whole of Jerusalem will decisions which the German and Polish appointed by the League of Nations— we ubject to achronisms to lung as they danceruus of all, sand that produces the be unrolled before our eyes,
Governments fully accepted. Under this In filming the galley scenes, specially ruling, the "Optante. ale not strike as in the face, or seem to matching side--lip-alf are possible causes
in the two coun be brought in pour épater les bourgeois, of crash. Wherefore it is highly designed cameras are used to allow for tries were dividend into three entegories That castle at Elsinore it must not be essential that he should be allowed to the rolling of the vessel or a portion of (according to the property they possess Windsor Castle, still lexs Buckingham retain all his natural faculties to avoid the set is put on rockers and the appa ed), and dates were fixed by which the Palace. We want, in fact, for Elsinore the pitfalls and Lay waintain tis ratas planted firmly on the floor just Home Castle of Otranto,' wine castle equilibrium
beyond the range of the raging tempest's persons in each category were to remove of dreams, a reminiscence of sonte gifted Dazzled and blinded by the beams blast, which is created by the useful themselves to the country whose sover: illustrator's imagination, some castle that from the headlights of an carushing, motor wind machine, and accompanied by ap: eignty they had chosen. If they were night have been, if there was no Elsi. ear he is deprived of the greatest of his propriate sen chanties for the inspirant gone by that date, the State within
disaster-avoiding assets-his sight, and tion of the actors. nore in historic fact.
whose territory they were still living Yet the Hamicts which are best remuem-
the loss of that seems to oring on a When Charles Ray made bis "Court-could expel them. bered by living playgoers were played by numbness of all bis other senses. He is ship of Miles Standish,” a solid concrete A BASELESS COMPLAINT,
GOOD HOPES FROM DANZIG. actors who see great store by strict his courting disaster it be carries on.
well covering an acre in extent, was COT® torical accuracy. When Sir Henry Leving
The argument has been advanced that structed on the lot and flooded to a depth
The date for the transference of the However that may be, there can be zo and Sir Berlin Tree made up as Elan in the sudden change from a brilliant of eight fees. On this minie ocean the first batch of Poles from Germany and doubt that the optants business" has let they took the greatest pains with whiteness to a sickly yellow glare that Mayflower-set on a ball joint hung with Germans from Poland was the first of reasonably or unreasonably, served. every item of their dress the gold setting distorts rather than illuminates the road great precision-creaked and grouped this month. That date, as has been cause of fresh friction between Germany. of the picture. the shape of the dag is disastrous in its effect upon the driver, upon her course with the corkscrew mo- said, was decided on nearly a year ago, and Poland. It is satisfactory, ther ger, the eat of the shoe and the plosk, but the converse of that argument must tion of a ship tossed by storma at sea. and though Germany has been tryingfore, to find one new factor that may They treated the Prince as a real Frizce apply equally to the oncoming, motor Big pictures will always be made into persuade Poland to forego her rights possibly tell the other way. That is the belonging to the "Ahaanich de Gotha, yclist. His path is not illuminated-it Hollywood, not only because of the ideal it is hard to see what just complaint change of Government af Danzig. Dan; not as some imaginary Prince who might is completely washed out by the flood of camera climate of California-where he can make against her if the Poles zig itself, with its population of some be of to-day or yesterday. And if it was white light. He might crash into rain arver falls from February to Jorn choose, as they have chosen, to exercise 220,000, is not a political unit of either objeetel that Hamlet was of no cognia fundred pot holes or stones, or pedes ber-but because of the excellently equip them. After all, it would be a serious primary or secondary importance in able rentury, "their answer would have trians, and not know of their existence industrial organisation, which brings matter for a now Stats like Poland to Europe. But as an outpost of Ger- been that if not Shakespeare, then at until he had his them.
'the world's greenroom to the producer's retain within her borders a mass of many, and to a large measure (perhaps any rate the long line of great actors who Dimming for a motor cyclist is certainly door, Sets may be rented from the ware Germana (this arst batch numbers some naturally) of German nationalism it had played the Prince had fixed and a courtesy that many car drivers do ex houses there, roprescating every civilia 35,000) who have openly declared by keeps Polish-Cierman relations in a con- registered him, as it were, in a certain tend, but it is the few who do not that tion known to man, from Tutankhamen opting for German citizenship, that they stant state of tension is that corner of setting, not unworthy of the genius of present the danger, A single non to the steel age of to-day, 's his crenter. The modern
insist on remaining Germans, and de Europe dimmer"
among the city's motorists is cut this all out and to retort-not with the potential death to every motor cyclist out some point-that the Hamist tradi. he bears down upon tion a very broken tradition, and that
However, the car driver is not the only the actors in question dealt ruthlessly and offender; there are many motor cyrlists even wantonly with Shakespeare's text, whose machines are fitted with a head- and played it so slowly that they could light of a brilliance equal to limt of any not play it in its entirety at all. If the or anything. They should remember that new "Hamlet" is really a new "Ham- while it might be quite sale for them to let," and supremely good at that, surely keep their lights undimmed when passing there is reason for gratitude, for it is very a car, they should certainly reach out for certain that the doublet-and-hose Hamlet, the dim switch when they approach with the raven feather and the furry
fellow-cyclist. clonk, will never be dishonoured for long. and that a sloppy dinner suit will not satisfy the aching of the eye for costume. Perhaps it is that the extreine modern Besides, we have unforgettable memories of Millis tweet picture of Ophelia inat cannot do with the poetry, while avid the pool which obstinately refuses to be for the drama of Shakespeare. We will ousted by the demi-evening, frocks of not speak pontifically on so large a theme, the new production that would scarce
But we hold as an article of faith that Hold un fairy. If the modernist way of Shakespeare's object was to give both playing "Hamlet"
poetry and drama together, and that the poetry, the compensations must need he is wearing were superbly independent of mbs it of any of its fashions, which he saw Hamlet and Ople great if they are to be held accuate.time and fashion and place.
(Continued at foot of next Column.)
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eline to become Poles. They are per That is not for a moment all Danzig'a fectly entitled to do this, but Poland on fault. It would be hard to distribute her part is equally entitled, morally as responsibility precisely between the two SEA SERPENT OF ̈ CANVEY. well as technically, to say: Then, in parties. But there it is, and the salient
that case, you must go back to Ger- fact of the situation at the present roo Consternation was caused at Canvey many":
ment is that the Nationalist Govern- Island recently by the totally unexpected
Germany, on her side, of course, is ment at Danzig, which has carried on arrival on the beach of a snake believed equally entitled to say the same to Poles all negotiations with Poland hitherto, to be a deadly snake from the Indian in. Germany who have opted for Polish has just fallen and is being succeeded the tide and came out of the water near cry of brutality" in the circumstances and Centre, one of the main planks in swamps. It swam up to the beach on nationality. The sudden German out by a coalition of Socialists, Liberal pavilion at Leigh Beck. A number of seems singularly baseless, and it gen whose platform is an effective modus bathers were in the sea at the time, and only be assumed that it represents, in rivendi with Poland, hundreds of people on the bench. They part at any rate, an attempt to divert If the new Government establishes it- scampered in all directions. A boy, how attention from the failure of the Gerself and carries out its programme, and ever, tried to seize the creature, which man Government to make any proper if Poland, on her part-for this is was nearly 4ft. in length, but before any arrangements for the reception of the equally, essential-sumes the new ad- harm befel him the snake was struck from thousands of returning Germans who it ministration's good faith, and is pre- his hand by a man who, having spent was known would be crossing the Iron: pared to go full half-way to meet it, many years in India, realised the danger, tier at the end of July, renntable papers there may result, at any rate, the IIe promptly chopped off the head of the like the Torien Zeitung" having negative advantage of the removal ar snake with a sand spade. It is supposed waxed, eloquent in the denunciation of reduction of one very active friction overboard, from an Indian liner bound man recention station at Schneidemühl such mall mercies in that uneasy re- that the creature escaped, or was thrown what they call the scandals of the Ger- factory in Eastern Europe. For even
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