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DIARY OF LOCAL LONDON SPIRITUALIST

EVENTS.

To-day.

(May 18.)

Penk Church. Annual meeting, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 8.30 p.In.

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Estrien for Seventh Extra Raco Meeting, Close noon,

Queen's Theatre: "Trader Horn." World Theatre: "Trader, Horn.” Star Theatre: "Trader Born." King's - Thentre: Trail."

"The

Big.

Mei Lan Fong At Ko Shing Theatre.

Dances: Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hon Kong Hotel and. Peninsula Hotel.

Friday.

(May 20.)

Ember Day.

PLAY.

AN UNCANNY SEANCE-AND THE SEQUEL.

ALDOUS HUXLEY'S BRILLIANT. SATIRE

ON THE "WORLD OF LIGHT."

walked into the Royalty friend defending, challenging or Theatre expecting to be regaled in "The World of Light" with a few doanish. quips fróin Mr. Aldous Huxley's extensive repertory, writes Mr.

Cummings in the

Chronicle.

Justead, I found a really, bril- hant and beautifully acted play which will puzzle aiçe old women, give itamenso satisfaction to the

outing the eternal veriti.

Spiritualists Wil Hate the Play. Spiritualists will hate the play because it makes Spiritualism ridiculous and tears the heart out

of guileless old man who had sold

it a guinea enth. 16,000 copies of a look containing all his son's Bessages from the spirit world.

„Union Insurance Society of Can-modernist 'school of know-nothing son Hugo is an inert young

ton, annual meeting, I am.

Chinn Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.,

annual meeting, 11,15 a.m.

annual meeting, 11.20 n.m

Cambridge professor, so incapable "

philosophers, and infuriate every spiritualist in the land, heard of making up his mind intellectual. someone in the audience that nightly upon any subject as to be in- British Traders Insurance. Co., describe it as a well-shaken cocktail ferior in purpose to the common earthworm. (That, I suppose, is dermed to represent the unbearably tedious agnosticism of modern youth.)

China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., (in liquidation) general, meeting, Jardine's boardroom, noin.

Laminert's Auction sale Pamela's," 10.30 a.m.

at

lla escapes to the South Seus from

It seemed to me a very experi- enced" aualjonce. 1 recognised a good many play-tasters, space and several dramatists. Others looked na though they had savoured life and Queen's Theatre: "Trader Horn. had no palate left; hot, like the the clutch of an infatuated young woman (who appears to favour World Theatre: "Trader Horn." author, sure of themselves. Star Theatre: "Trader Horn." Yet these people, slick" and wams) and is reported dead. The father and young woman tonsola King's Theatre: The Big Trail" quick-witted, and well-informed, be- Mei Lan Fong at Ko Shinghaved agreeably liks lowbrows, thrinsalves rapturously with in- Thentre, 8 p.m.

timate messages from the dend at Thoy Littered in the wrong places;

innumerablo pychio Bearers. Dances: Tea Dance, B.K. Hotel; they fidgeted in emotional discom-

So Dinner Dances, Hong Kong and

successful is the medium, a perfect- Peninsula Hotels and Hotel-Cecil. forty they applauded heartily a

ly nauseating mass of ectoplasmic Euronoan Mail: Outward: good curtain"; and they wonder-time, that he manages to seduce the Europe rig Marseilles (Haruna ad uneasily in the intervals how far Maru), 6 .m.

they had taken the author's mean- ing.

Saturday.

(May 20.)

Ember, Day.

Decoration Day (U.S.A.)

t

The World of light."

girl,

A Wonderful Seanco, The stage seance is a theatrical "tour de force." I should like to hear

It is excusable. Mr. Huxley do. a psychicist's expert eriticism opon stroys Spiritualism with mocking that scene, It is not a enricature, regret and a big question mark; but a wizard-like reproduction of Lawn Bowls; First Division: he throws in large doses of senti-the usual psychic manifestations--- Kowloon Docks ". Taikoo, Craigen-ment, and even passion, with the medium going stertoreusly into Hower Civil Service, Kowloon Bowling Green . Pulice, Kowloon cautious amilo of superior detach- his trance, the mics of his familiar C.C. Hernio. Second Division: ment; and preaches senian up-spirit, (a French captain "speak- Recreio r. H.K. Electric, Taikon

ing broken English), subdurd ques- Kowloon C, Civil Service . Kow. to-date almost with a ver. loon Bowling Green, Yacht Club He leads you into his "World oftions and obscure answers, an out- Craigongower.

Light," among the disembodied barst of potulanse from the captain, Racing: Hong Kong Jockey Club spirits, carrying with bin a know- strange dancing gleams in the dark- closing of List of Subscribers to Subscription Griffing and Austra.ing smile and his acetylene lamp of orss, a floating concerting outlined lians, Don

truth which gives off mw and then in a ghostly light that plays tunes Queen's Theatre: "Trader Horn." a faint odour of carbide. In parts close to the ceilings-áll in an aunos- World Theatre: "Trader Horn."the dialogue is dazzlingly sophis-phere Lens with vibrations of the Star Theatre: "Trader Horn. tiented; in others it if cunningly occult. King's Theatre: Trail,"

"The

Big

Mei Lan Fong at Ko Shing Theatre.

Dauces: Tea Dance at H.K. Hotel Dinner Dances at Penin- sula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel. European Mail.-Inward: Europe Suez (Yuen Sang); Outward: Europe in Siberia (Pres, Taft) 5

13.77.

devised to delude you into the be- The audience giggled at first when lief that Mr. Huxley has discovered the lights were put out, but after n the truth about truth, and that a few moments were reduced to im- pressive silence-like the voluble ass thimble will cover it.

of a publisher who had joined the psychic party to see the fun..

It is a play of dramatic eino tions that will move you to anger, to laughter, to tears, to cold dis gust; it will also tempt you to stay up inte the small hours with a

And then the door opens, the lights go up, and in bursts Hugo, "Continued on Page 3.)

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