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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

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Time Tables cancelled)....

UP TRAINS

STATIONS

No. No. No. No.

20 10:

En. No

Kowloon

Yanmati

..Dep. 640 8.05 8.25 0.15 10.18 TEO

Dep. 8.48!

Shatin.....

Dep. 7,001

Taipe

Dep 7,16

Taipo. Market..

Dap. 7:19

11

Failidg pe

471

at

Dep., 7.35

Shumabas.

* Sheangebni

Canton

a Cantos....

9:34 10:24 12,00

9.37 10.86 12.20

9.82) 10.50) 17,50

0.471084 12.37

10.09 11,04 13,67

9.05 10.19 11.09) 12:32

DIARY OF LOCAL E. A. BAUGHAN says:

EVENTS.

>TODAY:

January 7.)

Annual General Meeting of Hong Kong University Graduates Asso- ciation, p.

Whist Drive at Seamen's In stitute, 9. p.m

47.40 Sir Willium Hornell At Home" to Graduates and Past Students of the University in the Great Hall,

&45 18.00 3.136.081212p.m. 570 6138.17 5.39 6.23 8.27 5.94 6.27 32

Art | 7.41 8,44 9.11 10.30-11.15, 13,68 2.18- 8.20 4.40) 8.40 6.33 25

5.4)

DOWN TRAINS.

7.88

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16 17

A.M. P.M.

No. No. No. No. 19 911328. IX. 7.X. FK. AK

Shumchum...

Shaungelaf Filtr Taipo Market..

Sastio.

Yaumati

Kowlo

Dep

414

7,50)

Dep. 7.17 8.039.55 Dopy 7.24 8.10 10.09

•Dep.7.28.14 0.08 Dap. 7.40 8.48 10.18 Dap 7.43 5.20 10.78 Dep. 7.58 8.43 10.30 „Dop! 8.11|8,66| 10.40 ...A 9.179,01) (0.84) 11.19

Sundays and Public Holidays only

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PRINORS BUILDING, ICE HOUSE STERET

et.

Annual Speech Day 6. Stephen's Girl's College, 3. p.m.

Speech Day at Bolilios Girls' School, 11 a.....

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I Believe In

Flesh and Blood Drama

Which is the most power: Alma ・or playst

To men of middle age that is a very difficult question to answer because when they were young there were no filmas, or none worth spenă. ing of, and plays gave them their Arst impression of dramatic enter..

tainment.

Film producers recognise bate weakness by cutting down the dis.. flogue almost to vanishing point and making the action as varied and a rapid as possible..

Personally but have again it may bo due to my theatrical education- I do not Bellave's drápia can be as impresare on the sorban ad on the

Those first impressions are stamp-" ["stage.

out:

There are a few exceptions,

inite on the screen whose perform- ance would be made lass and nob sproech. Emil Jan more vivid by

Hockey: Sim. Shield Competition,ed on the imaglintion so deeply Hong Kong Hockey Club . Royal that nothing can efface them. They perhaps. George Arliss is one of Navy (Navy ground) R.A.8.C.. are a mould that never quite wears i them. Also now and then you see St. Andrew's Young Men's Club... "Hunting: "Fanling Hounds Meet (Hunters' Arm) 3.15 p.m.

Chinese Chamber of Commerce Monthly Meeting.

Central Theatre: Beyond Vie tory."

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

J

Star Theatre "Ouks Steps Out." Ton Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotal; Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel, Pen- insula Hotel and King's Restaur-

ant.

I well semember, for instance, the Bret time I saw Hamlet. The actor, one of the Traries, was verynings and Charles Chaplin are: m- fat and no doubt his rhetorical stances; the one in tragedy and and, methods would not be lorated the other in fantastic farce. now. But his"Hamlet haunted me for years, although it did not no- cord with the pieture my imagina tion had painted from reading the play. In fact, having studied it for a school examination, I knew

Hamlet" nearly by hourt.

WHAT THE FILM CANNOT

·YET,DO.

Films have not become the force

they are by vividness of emotional appeal. They cannot, from mere

technical reasoha, precent a big NO MORE DRY AS DUST.

scene with sustained effect. In Perhaps the dry-as-dust methodnice is still remain a series |_ European Mail:-Outward: of studying Shakespeare by learn-

Europe via Siberia (Tataate Mara)ing, all kinds of irrelevant, his of photographs of characters

8.30 4.m.

THURSDAY,

(January

Birthday of Celestial Dragon, (Tien-lung-law).

Legislative Council Meeting, 9.30

p.m.

Prize-giving at Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians, 11 an

King's Theatro:" Bel Girl Queen's Theatre: "The Lady Refuses"

Thontre.c Beyond

Central

torical and etymological aptes made the human play come as a great mirprise. At any rate, that fat Hamlet, whose weight made his shom(treak, as he paced the stagna, imagination, was Hamlet for many yetti in my

Remembering that impression any many others later in life, I am doubtful about my own answer to the question at the beginning of this article. Brought up on plays, and knowing hardly anything of except during the last 10 years, it is dimcult for me to appreciate how plays appeal to those who have known zime only.

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THOUSANDS HAVE NEVER SEEN A PLAYT

s

Star Theatre: "Splintera.” World Theatre: Two Stars." Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel; Pen- insula Hotel and King's Restaur-Yet there must be hundreds of young men and women who have seldom or never socii a play.

ant..

European Mail:-Inwird: Europe in Buez (Naldera).

FRIDAY.

(January 29).

Annual Prize giving ceremony at Queen's College, in the Great Hall.

p.m.

Hockey: Radio Sports Club v Central British Association,

Queen's Theatre: "The Lady Re- fuses,"

King's Thontres. "Only Sapa

Work."

Of the thousands who nightly All our sinamas. there, must be a very small proportion who have sean any stage plays except pan tomimes, revues and musical comedies.

It must be so, because the legiti mats theatres could not possibly hold them all.

Would they be more impressed by fesh-and blood play than by the films which are so much part of their lives? In the old days, when pictures were allant, they would be Central Theatre: "Beyond Vio-worried, no doubt, by their frat icry.'

acquaintance with a form of enter. World Theatre: "Two Stars.tainment which insists on listening Star Theatre: "Splinters." to spokan dialogue... It had taken the Tea Dances at King's Restaurant old fim public a long while to grow and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner accustomed to speech. I doubt Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Hong many of them are really quite happy Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant., I even now.

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aparate phases of action. This is hidden by a skill in photographing at different angles and in this vat- ting and matching of the filin se originally shot:" The limit of the fald of focus, becames a dramatic

Presibly in tiez future. (the: fis- vention is... siready perfectedă characters may be projected in three dimensions without being thrown on the siraan. That will bà sa ani in closer competition With the stage. As

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compensation for ita dramatic weakness the film how the advantages of magnification to the eye and the car. This makes it a. better entertainment than the stage can be for those who can only afford seata far from it. As to the rela tive influence of screen and stage there can be no question that films appeal to larger public, mainly because of the, cheapness with which they can be shown. To see several dime each week has become a habit, and their cumulative effect can hardly be exaggerated.

But if stage plays could be pro- duced and run at cinema prices I am sure flesh-and-blood drama would triumph.

Films would then have to deal with material which cannot be pre sented as a stage play.

HOLLYWOOD IS WORRIED.

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