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BALINESE DANCERS

DELIGHT

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Gracefulness The Keynote

Dancers have come and dancers have gone, but the display of the Balinese Dancers who made their debut in Hong Kong at the Queen's Theatre last night will indelibly be stamped in our memory as an outstanding success in the nature of its kind.

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Not that the display was in any way spectacular or saksa- tional, but the exquisite dances which were all carried out with the same preskion “and 'verve coupled with it the originality of the steps made it the success it was.

Advance press reports àld not do the troupe justice enough. It carried all that 'was said of them and more.

The display was sponsored by "Mr.-M. J, Quit the popular Consul General for the Netherlands in Hong Kong...

DISTINGUISHED GATHERING

A large and distinguished ga- thering was present to witness the aisplay and among those were:

Encores Demanded

There was a programme of eleven items and each was very warmly applauded. tinually called for and special items

Encores were COX

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935.

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ENTERTAINED

Luncheon At Hong -Kong Hotel

TRAGEDIES OF BLOOD

Some Later Elizabethan Dramatists

The English Association was on; gering" way, as in our modern peep into an novels where the villain gloats Tuesday given a Elizabethan theatre and, under while he sets a time fuse. All Mrs Chancellor's skilful guidance, these extraordinary happenings was shown some

of the later especially the more immoral of, the dramatists actually at work in their goings-on-were impossible in an charming of the people of Eliza-England which prided itself then, beth and the first James with blood he now, on its morality, and con- and thunder tragedy. She dis- sequently the scenes are laid on regarded their purely literary pre- the continent, usually in

which had then a reputation for strange happenings.

In honour of the occasion of the "visit to Hong Kong of the Japan ese Training Quadron, the Consul General of Japan, Mr. Midzusawa, held a luncheon at the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday. There was a large and distinguished gr ing present including His Excel- lency the Governor, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.. accompanied by Captain Walter, ADC., Major-tensions and concentrated on the General O. C. Borrett, Sir Thomas popularity with their audiences of Southern Commodore F. Ellott, Webster. Tourneur, and Ford, who members of the Consular body and were apparently catering for a pub-

He that corresponded with the Bri- tish cinema...public of to-day They were highly successful and popular in these days by the same writers at methods as scenario

the Legislative Council,

Mr. Midzusawa proposed the toast of His Majesty King George, and His Excellency Sir William Peel responded by proposing the toast of His Imperial Majesty Em-present are highly successful with such films as 'Disraeli and "The perer Hirohito.

Count of Monte Christo', that is by giving the public exciting and moving stories with plenty of ac- tion, preferably about the great ones of this earth, since the public was then, as it is now. Intensely snobbish.

of note were "The Worship of LETTERS FROM Doerga. The Wife of Siwa" and the "Gong Dance" which were carried out by Dewi Ratna and Ratu Idja, respectively.

These two dancers showed t

EXILE

their respective dances how well Otto Documents To

The

Major General O. C. Borrett. C.B., C.M.G., CBE, D.S.O., HE The General Officer Commanding The Troops, and his party, the Hon. Sir William T. Southorn, C.M.G, K.B.E. Colonial Secretary and his party, His Honour. Mr. A. "MacGregor and Mrs. MacGregor, Sir H.E. Pollock and Lady Pollock. Sir William Shenton and Lady versed they are in their work and Shenton's party, Sir Shouson each displayed the same rhythmic Chow and Lady Chow, The and characteristic poises. Honourable Mr. T H. King, Coiz-¡ "Fan Dance" by Ratu Idja also modore F. Elliott and Mrs. Elliott, came in for its share of applause. Fay Master Commander Porter.

Two musical selections were ren- The Honourable Mr. E. Taylor and dered by the prehestra, "Bali party, The Honourable Mr. C. G. Fantasy" and "Sumatran Nights" Alabaster and Mrs. Alabaster, The

and both were well selected items. Honourable Mr. J. J. Patterson

Other dancers that took part and Mrs. Paterson. The Honour-were Dewi Warni, Dewi Wara, Mas able Mr. N. L. Smith and Mrs. Tadjab and others. The dazzling Smith, The Honourable Mr. T. N. headgears of the dancers as they Chau and Mrs. Chau and The swayed from side to side made the Hon. Dr. W. B. Moore and Mrs.

scenes look Hively with action.

Moore.

The atmosphere which prevailed at this popular theatre last night The dances were all executed

was something altogether different amidst gorgeous and elaborate set to what' we, b Hong Kong tings. Every dance owed its ort-have been accustomed. Every gin to a Balinese legend or history. į movement of the Balinese dancers

The girls acquitted themselves

was followed with abated breath as it were, and it would be no very well. They carried with them the grace, rhythm and the supple

movements which one saw in them as they danced to the beat of the native instruments, now slow, now fast and gradually worked up to a frenzy and back again to its ori- ginal state.

exaggeration to say that the high standard which was expected of the Dancers was excelled.

One very pleasing feature de- | serving of special mention was the total absence of jazz-a quantity which is monotonously associated with not only other dance dis- plays, but also with the ordinary "events of the day."

The steps were quite different from the Western dances. They

hid all the same nonchalance A pat on the back to the accom- movements which always had with plished artistes and a very “hearty It the same gracefulness and supple vote of thanks" to the manage- factions that are peculiarly allment for securing the services of

Bali's own.

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[Special to the "Hong Kong' Daily Press" (Copyright).]

Italy

But in spite of all these mons- trous actions and supersensational plots, we and many occasions when we can share in a very true and, very real" pathos which is found scattered through the tragedies and we find that the dramatists of that time never descended to the maudlin banalities, to the succu- lent Barriesque sentiment that so often results from any attempt at pathos in our modern stage. As Lamb put it. There is a grandeur of the soul above mountains, seas, and the elements."

Mr. G. P. de Martin raised the question "whether Fletcher wrote part of Shakespear's "Henry the Eighth.”

Mrs. Chancellor illustrated the In this catering for public tastes. different qualities, the poetry, the they had a very different set of sensationalism, the pathos, of difficulties to contend with from Webster, Tourneur, and Ford by those "of the present day. The reading selected passages from theatre then was a rather crude their plays. building open in the middle to the

The Discussion sky into the middle of the audi- Lady Southern, in thanking Mrs. torium jutted the stage around | Chancellor for her brilliant lecture, which, cracking nuts and eating expressed the opinion that the apples, stood the groundlings. The plays of the later Elizabethan Vienna, March 5. aristocracy was housed in boxes or dramatists were "museum pieces" Otto von Hapsburg's letters even on the stage. The result was which it would not be worth while written in the course of the last that the stage had nothing except spending time and money on pro- few years to various Austrian natural illumination so" that. to ducing for the stage to-day. She societies, clubs and associations: night scenes the author had to would far rather bear Mrs. Chan- are to be published in book form create the Ullusion by words alone: cellor lecture, on them, or lady in the next few days by a newly there was no curtain and there-Strachey or a successor give one founded firm of publishers. These fore the scenes could never end in of her readings of the plays. The "letters from exile" are obviously a climax but. had to finish off so more one read these plays the more intended as a sensational docu- as to let passionate lovers walk clearly did the genius of Shake- ment aiming at the determina-jaft the stage or dead bodies be speare shine out: he was able to tion, once for all, of Otto's atticarried off; there was little or no write plays which were just as po- tude towards all great problems of scenery. With the audience sopular now as when they were writ- the present day. Among the near, of course, the actors had the ten. matters of prime importance, as chance to speak directly to them, regards the influence of the letters so we get very long harangues and on public opinion and cause the soliloquies; in Henry V there are claimant to the Austrian throne,

seventeen speeches all longer than ls that whereby Otto declares pro- Hamlet's To be or not to be.........

Professor RKM, Simpson com- grammatically that he wants to soliloquy. Behind the main stage plimented Mrs. Chaficellor on the bulld up à Catholic and social there was a back stage and be-way she had handled a difčuli monarchy of the future on the hind that again, an alcove with subject, first sketching in the back- fundamental principles proclaimed above It a balcony; this alcove was ground with an account of the by the great social Popes whose used as a cave (as in the Tempest) Mizabethan stage and then reading alins were not based on material

as a study, a tomb, or a bedroom. so admirably selections from the and worldly conceptions but on

2.5 occasion served; while the plays. As for the value of these the eternal truths of Christiani- gallery above was used as the walls dramatists in comparison with ty." Again Otto writes "not of a town, Juliet's balcony, the other great authors of English class warfare but class reconellia-walls of a castle, as the fit took literature, that question had been tion, and social justice, must be ther. But one was never quite a matter of dispute for the last our slogan." This passage is re-stre. to begin with, exactly what hundred years and was never like- this very talented troupe. (O.M.O.)garded as a direct attempt to in-

terest the workers of Austria in advantage of all this

it was supposed to represent. One to be settled. Over-praise by was that Lamb and Swinburne had brought the plans of the monarchists.--

there was no limit to the number about a re-action of opinion as Franaceon Rua Min.

of scenes possible on such a stage expressed by William Archer and and the dramatists of the time Bernard Shaw. Apart from the took full advantage of this; in An-

fact that few people read these tony and Cleopatra, for example old plays,, an appraisal of them there are as many as forty two,

was difficult because there was no scenes. The actors were well-background of biography to sup- dressed, but there were no ae-port them. Professor Simpson tresses-all the female parts, even commended to those who wished to such parts as the Duchess of Malf study the subject F. L. Lucas's ad Vittoria Corombona had to be edition of Webster in four volumes, The recent announcement of, look forward to seeing dotted over

played by bays; this rendered dis- and said he differed from Lady of the Prince of Wales' plan for England new playing-fields, new-

The creation of a high commisguising easy and the device of dis Southorn's remarks that it would a national danka-offering in hon-clubs, new holiday camps, and with

sionerships for the Italian possesguising a female character as a

be a waste of time and money to our of the King's Jubilee cannot them arising new courage, new alons of Erytria and Somaliland is boy in a play was a favourite one; put on the plays. He had seen fail to delight all whe appreciate enthusiasm and new energy to provided for by the bill just sent shakespeare uses it in As You Like them successfully produced, to the the value of Social Service, The build up a brighter future for the the Italian Chamber which IT.

entertainment of the audienès. establishment of a “King George's | nation. «

Blood and Sudden Death

Mr. R. R. Campbell made "the Jubilee Trust," which will be used And what of the outposts of the political and military manage-time of the Revenger's Tragedy tists were able to draw audiences The most popular plays from the point that the Elizabethan drama- to extend the work of the yolun | King's dominions? Already in

ment. or these two territories were full of blood and massacre against the competion of the bear tary societies taking part in the Hong Kong preparations are од Youth Movement, will be a land- foot for the celebration of the Ju- given all authority and powers of hands, poisoned skulls, bloody HE the Governor expressed the

The high commissioner is to be and sudden death. Dead men's pit and public executions. mark in the history of Social Wel-bilee, and the same papers that the former governor of Erytria corpses, madmer, graves were the thanks of the audience to Mrs. Tare organisation and it will cer- announced the formation of the while for Somaliland he receives tainly fulfil the purpose desired | "Jubilee Trust" staled "also the

commonplaces of Elizabethan Chancellor and announced that the plenary powers for the supervision

cestors of the diabolical crimes re- Chief Justice. tailed in Edgar Wallace and the Bull Dog Drummond stories. The only difference is that the Eliza- bethans were much more tree and easy in their use of unpleasant words and gruesome similes, as Londoner Who Took Displays when of a Cardinal it is said that the spring in his face is like the engendering of toads." Acted on

SOCIAL WELFARE

King George's Jubilee Trust

(BY REV. T. F. RYAN; S.J.)

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ITALIAN COLONIAL

APPOINTMENT

Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).)

Rome, March 5.

declared that. It was essential ́because of the necessity of uniform

in Hong Kong than the memory of the four leaders in the. "March on illuminated structures of bam Rome.",

a modern stage these rather form

''FIREWORK KING" DEAD

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Landon, Feb, 16. Mr. Henry James Pain, formerly one of the "firework "kings" of America, has died at his Kensing- tom home aged 77, G

for the Jubilee thanks-offering-belief that all the local scaffoid- of initiative in military and poll. tragedy and are the lineal lan-speaker next month will be the "to bestow hope and happiness ining firms will be fully occupied tical directions. perpetuity."

in erecting 'pat lou for the It is the intention of the royal occasion. Let us hope that there expected to be

The first high commissioner is the ex-Colonial organiser of the Trust that it will be something more remaining Minister, General de Bono, one of should provide increased facilities for physical recreation, gamis and hobbies, for the pursuit of inter- boo when the days of celebrations Transocean Kuo Min. ests and the cultivation of abili- are past. It is the proud boast of ties, and for the extension of Englishmen that all the benefits camps and other forms of healthy of British civilization and British holidays. These things are not citizenship, are found wherever But there are organizations and luxuries, they are real necessities the British" Lag files, and institutions already in existence less plays with their involved plots for youth if the young are to de- | it is but fitting that the hope and which could be helped, and there and sub-plots and their sensation- velop into men and women sound happiness which will be brought are others which are badly need-al action and accoutrements and in mind and body, and they were to British youth by voluntary ed. The first message of hope to stage properties might be difficult never so necessary as at present effort on this occasion should also, the young might be provided by to produce but they would make when unemployment and unwel- by voluntary effort of a similar an extension of Infant Aid and good talkies and one of them has come idleness are the lot of a kind, be brought to the Chinese Child Welfare centres, by helping actually been screened as a talkie. great proportion of the young and youth who live under British rule hospitals for sick children, doing Variety was then esteemed a great the ruin of many...

In this Colony, w

something more for the destitute virtue and the variety was obtain It goes without saying that a Here too, then, there might well young, and giving additional afd | ed in a number of ways by mas- 'rund inaugurated on such an oc- be Inaugurated a "King George's to the youthful blind. If a fund ques and dances, by plays or inter- cazion, under such auspices, and Jubilee Trust, with something for this purpose, for the help of Indes in the course of the main for such a purpose, will reach the same objects as that announ- the young Chinese of the Colony, play, and by songs sad or humor- great proportions, and it win euced by the Prince of Wales. It be opened without delay, It will our Some of these are very able societies to extend their ac- would probably be necessary to provide the opportunity that so beautiful, but the humorous. ones tivities very widely, while at the provide the young poor of Hong many seek for taking part in the which appealed doubtless to the during the same time the Trust is likely to Kong with more elementary needs. Jubilee celebrations, and it will do more masculina palates of that age of the Ame develop, into a central organisa- | It is perhaps too, soon to think of more than any external pomp ur seem to us rather too coarse, superm the manufacture tion which every with no other the cultivation of abilities and the pageantry to promote peace and Fights there are too, -and - stab-| star

than that of financial | provision of holiday camps when friendship between the two great | blnys, though usually a simpla power strength will prevens overlapping there are not enough schools for peoples that are brought together | stab was not enough-it had and misdirected effort. One can all or playgrounds for one-tenth. In close contact in Hong Korg to be done in some peculiar in- Kin

He was the eldest son "of the late Mr. James Pain, the founder. of the famous London firm, and, beginning at the Mitcham factory as a boy of 15, he was 30- witen he was sent to New York to found a branch.

He began the famous displays on Manhattan Beach, and also gave the firework shows at the World's Fair in Chicago,

He went back to the states at "the invitation

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