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DIARY OF LOCAL The Soul Of The Circus

EVENTS.

TO-DAY,

(January 28.)

Lai Ching Arta, Collège Exhibi

tion, Sincere's Roof Garden, 9 a:m→

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FOLLY, AND THE SECRET OF THE

UNIVERSE.

1 do, too, with the clowne There What is the soul of chaveircus? Lawn Tennis Association Extra-Is-ib animal, vegetable, or mineral is a tendency fust now to put him ordinary Meeting, Sanitary Board Is it hidden away in the big drum who gets slapped upon a pedestal Room, 5.15 p...

Doss it clash out from the cymbals ||It is true that, sourly every clown Hiking Club, Mecting at Sunday Does it glitter in the spangles off of intelligence-from Deburau to Star offices, 5, 15 p.m: #the "daczling equestrienne 17 Does Charlie Chaplin-has tried to get

Rotary Club Playground at Wan-is roar with the lions or bark with away from clowning to the invit chai, Opening Ceremony at 4:30the limelit miracle-worker of the ing of sympathy. But as soon as

high trapeze?

a circus clown begins to do that. Fencing Hong Kong Fencing. Does is hide in the laughter of the ring in no place for him. The Club Meet, 5:15 pm.

the clowns cr in their foured slightest suggestion of self-con Hockey Radio Sports Club «. faces ? Must it be always on the jealousness, and all the rigmarole of St. Andrew's, Hong Kong Hockey move in the areas, or it just social responsibilities comes in. Club second XI. South Walesstand and wait with the freaks in It is like the sun or moc begin Borderers.

| the "side-shows 1 Is it squally aning to doubt. King's Theatre: “Bad Girl." home under a roof or in a fapping Queen's Theatre "A Fros Boul."tent 1, "And when the big top Central Theatre: Lason of the down, and the Inat pole carried off Rio Grande"

across the trampled grass and the Crazy That vana and lorries have rumbled on under the glazing lights to the Too Late" next pitch-in is there still

Star Theatro

Why."

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World Theatre

| 11,45 242 4.80 [6.17] ... 7.18.

(Chinese Alm).

11,50 2.46) 4.85 | 6,23 **..

Social Evening, St. Andrew's

12.01 2.60 4.455)|[6.32]"...

13.06 8.02) 4,40 | 0,86)

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Harmaton's Circus at Kowloon,

SYMPHONY OF HUMAN ENDEAVOURI

Ton Darioen at King's Restaurant. To me the answer is very simple And Hong Kong Hotel Dinner The saut of the circus is sad does

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TUESDAY.

THE CLOWN.

For myself, I do not believe in having clowns of genius in a ofrous The stage-as rock, Tote and many others have proved is for

the best place for any clown of specialised "talent," or for one who, like Grimaldi, is a master of pathon as well as of huzbour. To my thinking, the clown cứ the circus should seem utterly harden. ed. It is his to take falls with

solent good will, or his whole valua

Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen-all this and more: It robust objective cptimism and in insula Hotel and King's Restaur-phony of human endeavour that

brings sheer folly into sesgrd with is lost. His actual-paine-whether the secret of the unier What of mind or body-are his privats else is the starry sky ofąk niear affair: « (January 28.)

wintor's night but millions of With all these elements there re mighty suns, each blazing away for mains a beauty about the circus as Rotary Club Tifin, Lane, Oraw all it is worth, and lavishing a medley of humour, and 'animal ford's Restaurant, 1 p.

“stupendous.... comic agonies" on life that expising and GLOUSE? Annual Inspéction of St. John their not, task of going round and much of the present-day circus-cult Ambulance Brigade by His Ex-round and round!

In artistio quarters. No menagɛrio collongy the Governor, South China' The most refreshing and essential presents the same spirit of com Athletic Football Ground, Caroline characteristics of a circus to the radeship between mankind and the Hill; at 430 p.m.

of us who spend most of our time animal world in the creation of Prise-giving at Ellis Kadsoria over more sophisticated entertain, beauty as does the circus. Here is, School by Mrs. R. E. O Bird, 11ment are still the wonder and the the physical beauty of horas and folly of it Wcader is the prima tiger, set in action and on the Hockey Radio Sports, Club, ei supeal. "My omal firms kang meme plane with that of human Hong Kong University.

a.mn.

Queen's Theatre; " A Free Soul.") Central Theatre: "Lasca of the Rio Grande."

King's Theatre; Bad Girl." Star Theatre: "Duke Steps Out." World Theatre: "Too Late" (Chinese 61m):

Tea Daneen at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong Hotel sad King's Restaurant,

WEDNESDAY, (January 87.) Annual Speech Day St. Stephen's Girl's Collego, 3 p.

Speech Day at Balilios Girls School, 11 a.m.

was and remains an assembly of not more. "rocklean seraphim."

In Kober's recruit delightful book The circus is still our repository on "Circus Nigiste and Circus of wonder in an age all too prone Days" on reads that the animals to have a miser upon its lips. themselves begin after a while to Hence the zim-boom and fanfaron got the sonse of troupers-D!!" ade and "bally-hoo. These are elephant was once discovered prac not excrescences, but part of thetising his tricks in private! The very soul of the circus. Hence also utter exclusion of any intellectual the massing of small circuses into purpcen and the premium on physi greater and even greater aggre cal atness and activity and pluck gations; till we find all the circuses has, he also tells us, curious.. results of Europe concentrating their best among the circus-folk themselves. nt. Olympia The story of With them physical qualities are Barnum's "Greatest Show on a common that they canse to be Earth retold itself in Bertram regarded as of any importance off Milla's International." The cir the arena. In circus. love affairs, cas must go bigwhether in the avers, good looks count hardly relation to village or empital-or at all. Of sthin he gives it cannot live.

strange but authentic instances.

I cannot help feeling that in NO HORRID UTILITY.

general there is moro "imagination. Hardly less important is the lack, than reality about the emphasis of "reasonable? purpose. One that present-day literature. Inya trace of utility-of any practical "upon the mind behind the mask so reason for doing any of the feats far as the circus is concerned... presonted-and the whole charm is Andreiev's temperamental hero lost. Elephants "aspilling tonk" was, One must remember. soon libcome a wearying sight. But real circus-performer. In general, an. an elephant in a little bat play. I have not found introspection ing a banjo-and all is well. The cultivated among theso. Star Theatre's “Duka Steps Out." circus in a standing disproof of the To Dances at King's Restaurant Ruskinian idea that beauty is an and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner affair of practical serviceableness. Dancer at Repulse Bay Hotel, Pan- The perfection of rhythm and ef insula Hotel and King's Restaur-faiency are true laws of the circus ant.

ring-but use or meaning, never,

Hockey: Sim Shield Competition, Hong Kong Hockey Club. v. Royal Navy (Navy ground); B.A.B.U. w. St. Andrew's, Young Men's Club.

Hunting Faoling Hounds Meet (Hunters' Arms) 3.15 p.

Central Theatre: Beyond Vic- tory,"

King's Theatre: Bad Girl," ".. Queen's Theatre: "A Free Soul, World Theatre; "Too Late" (Chinese (ilm).

acme

not

THOU KNOWEST. But there is, at any rate, one ex- ception. Nopo of the thinking clowns

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