HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
CABLES
CLASSICAL DRAMA OF CHINA G.P. CAREY WINS SPOON
ROMANCE OF
OF WESTERN CHAMBER AT QUEEN'S
Three-Day Attraction
THE ART OF THE THEATRE IN CHINA has a history of over two thousand years. Its origins were undoubtedly based upon the same motivating forces as later fostered the birth of the drama in countries of the Western hemisphere. These were primarily the love of story-telling, by words and movement (miming), by skili of move- ment, acrobatics, then later skill in the use of the voice, singing.
IN CHINA TO-DAY A GOOD ACTOR must be proficient not only in declamation, movement, and singing. He must also be a
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KANSU OFFICIAL
EXECUTED
Lanchow, Oct. 30.
Li Kuo-an, Chief Inspector of the Kansu Wine and Tobac- Tax Bureau, has beeri executed for accepting bribes approximating $10,000,
Co
Li was accused of corruption by the Supervisory Commis- sioner for Kanku, Ninghsin, and Chinghal. He was found guilty and sentenced to death by order of the National Military Council-Central News.
good acrobat and dancer. For this reason the training of an actor for ORDERS PLACED
the Chinese classical drama is a matter of fifteen years before he is considered proficient. It is interesting that until a decade ago women were never seen on the stage.
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The humour and wit of
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AT RIFLE SHOOT
"Pool Bull" Competition Proves Very Popular
ATTENDANCE OF OVER 130
THE HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION yesterday held its second Sunday shoot this season, The attendance exceeded the pre- vious record by over twenty; in all about 140 took part in the various competitions. We were very pleased to welcome members of the East Surrey Regiment and we hope that in future Wednesdays and Sun- days we may see more of them.
The programme yesterday included the normal spoon shoot and also revolver, Clay Bird, and Pool Bull" competitions. The latter, being a new innovation to the Sunday shoots, proved very popular Indeed, over 80 people taking their chances, but no one. obtaining a "pool bull,"
In conjunction with the spoon published in to-morrow's issue of shoot there were two Aliated the "Daily Press."
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Clubs matches, one, the BR (a) The results of yesterday's com- team was won by the Royal Scots petitions are as follows:- with a total of 399 points. The
S.R. (B) "AFFILIATED CLUB'S other, the S.R. (b) team was won by the 4th Submarine Flotilla with
MATCH a total of 440 points. It was very
Pts. pleasant to see so many of the 14th 8/M. Flotilla Ride Club 440 Royal Navy taking part in the 2-HK.N.V.F. various competitions..
3.-R.N. Range Staff Stonecut-
ters 4.-Middlesex Regiment
Although the Middlesex Regi- numbers as usual owing to the ment did not turn up in such great fact that two of their Companies
All female parts were played by the lack of real theatrical sense in men. These men were not of the the average American theatre-goer type of "female impersonators" They went to "see the play" and seen sometimes on the Western not "to watch the performance." stage. They placed their art on a In Moscow, on the other hand. higher level.
Mel "Lan-fang's performance drew They sought by using the de-cpplause in just the same places licate technique of the classical as would have been the case before Chinese drama to convey the im-a Chinese audience, pressions of womanhood and the
GEM OF DRAMA "emotions which women ex
perienced in particular situations Chamber." translated Into English "The Romance of the Western and circumstances. This is done by Mr. S. I. Hsiung, is serving an
Laws already effective will per by means of a highly developed important cultural purpose
mit Goverment agencies to assist. system of symbols.. patterns with bringing a gem of Chinese drama if necessary, in Anancing the pro-are at present in camp. yesterday the hands, the use of the eyes. this is assisted by the deep under-lovers.
All into the ken of English theatre ramme.
The new facilities will be co-tendance yet witnessed at a spoon was the scene of the largest at- standing both of the play and the the Chinese will be disclosed more ordinated with existing facilities shoot since the inception of the theatre which the average Chinese vividly by the characters
with a
view to making them Association. audience possesses.
of the
quickly available to the Govern- CLASSICAL OPERA
"You egg of a turtle" screams anment in the event of war. Every Chinese theatre-goer en-old man scolding his son.
Initial cost of construction is ters the theatre knowing the English equivalent is definitely not estimated at between US $140, themes, words and music of the so picturesque-although, believe it000,000 and U.S. $185,000,000, while classical opera from early youth. or not, the Chinese is just as ex- some experts consider that the In this the Chinese theatre-goer is pressive.
whole programme will necessitate similar to the Continental theatre- "Pu Yao Ke-chi" (Don't stand on an expenditure of U.S.$2,000,000,000 goer. The habitue of the Comedie ceremony) is frequently heard. As in the course of the next two Francaise knows and never seeing Indeed, it is often used among his Mollere, the frequenter of the Chinese as the equivalent to "make
"It is understood that Milan opera knows every bar and yourself at home."
substantial Government Anances note of "La Traviata" and enjoys The Romance of the Western are involved there will be no the artistry of the singers and the Chamber" will be played by the Government grants-Reuter, skill of the conductor,
play.
The
Chinese ladies and gentlemen in
The Chinese theatre-goer will English at the Queen's Theatre to~; have seen "Lady Precious Stream"morrow. Wednesday and Thursday. "The Romance of the Western And a unique opportunity to begin Chamber," and other favourites your education in. Chinese classical dozens of times in his life. But he drama is being offered. will always be ready to go to see
the rendering of the part by some new actor.
"
CORRECTION
In "connection with the article "SEE THE PLAY" Mei Lan-tang, the master of on Wuhan Songsters which
ap Chinese classical drama, falled "to pears on Page 5 and continued on attract real understanding of the Page 11. a, certain portion Americans for Chinese drama dur- appearing
Page 11 on
should ing his tour of the United States. read St. Hilda's Girls' Middle The fault was not his, but lay In School and not St. Hitler.
"Phantom Rebel Army" In Palestine
Jerusalem, October 30," ALTHOUGH MILITARY OPERATIONS will ultimately stem the tide they are necessarily slow. especially in dealing with the "phantom rebel' army" which vanishes only to reappear elsewhere. The British troops have nicknamed this form of warfare "shadow fighting."
The past week has seen a larger number of casualties from out--. rages and accidents to British troops than any similar period.
Incidents to-day include six Arab peasants shot dead while there was a bomb explosion in a gaol.
Armed men raided a railway station at Jaffa and seized £37 and shots were fired at police patrols-Reuter...
| years.
As a result there were five details to fire and this was the case of us not being able to fire at the 700 yards range owing to the limited time. The wind yesterday was almost negligible, but it was much too hot and sticky. At 200 yards a slight haze rising of the ground caused
disconcernment while some
amongst competitors. But in spite of all this G. P. Carey managed to annex the net spoon with a good score of 94 and capped this by getting a possible" at 500 yards, a really magnificent effort.
CHINESE HARASS
It is
JAPANESE
Nanchang, Oct. 29.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938. -PAGE 9
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Kwong Wah Record Fine Win Over Eastern
After being a goal in arrears in the latter stages of the final period, Kwong Wah came back splendidly to match two points from Eastern in a First Division football match, at Kowloon yesterday. winning by the odd goal in Ave.
AIR FORCE WIN
EXCITING MATCH
439
434 425
S.R."(A) AFFILIATED CLUB'S MATCH
399
387
358 313
Assen. Tournament
Winner of Net Spoon 8.R. (b); G.. P. Carey, 94 points.
Winner of Net Spoon SR. (a): Sgt. Steer, 87 points.
1.-Royal Scots 2.-H.K.V.D.C.
3-East Surrey Regiment 4.-Middlesex Regiment
Progresses
Winner of Net Spoon Revolver: RADIO AND RECREIO
Sgt. Tansley.
Winner of Handicap Spoon Rev. Hoo Kam Chiti.
Winner of 200 yds. Handicap Spoon S.R. (a): Sgt. Milne.
Winner of 500 yds. Handicap Spoon 8.R. (a): L/Cpl Bullen.
Winner of 200 yds. Handicap Spoon S.R. (b): L/Cpl. Rawling.
Winner of 500 yds. Handicap Spoon B.R. (b): Mr. Summers.
The results of yesterday's spoon
It is very pleasing to note that shoot are as follows:- since this member joined the Asso- clation he bas shewn a gradual improvement in his shooting, and
S.R. (b)
To harass the Japanese rear considering it is sometimes difficult G. P. Carey Chinese troops are engaging in to get off on mid-week afternoons Lt. Dawson heavy fighting with the Japanese all the more credit is due to him. Insp. Chau at. Wushihmen, seven kilometres north of Tehan on the Nanchang-men of Hongkong gathered to- Klukiang Railway.
Yesterday a few of the sports-PO. SUcock
P.O. Clark gether and took part in Clay Bird B. Lt Mackle reported that successful Competitions run by the HK.R.A. Cd. Morahan Chinese surprise attacks during the under Capt. W. Newton, as Gun A Templeton lag: three
days have exacted a Club Secretary. This sport is be-ER.A. Thorpe heavy toll of lives from the Japan- coming increasingly popular in the ese. A large quantity of Japanese Colony and each month sees more arms and ammunition has been seized by the Chinese-Cen-clay birds. The results of yester-
also members trying their luck at the Mne. Heather tral News.
Capt. Sequeira days clay bird competitions will be Sgt. Roberts
Sgt. Dumville Insp. Hopkins Comdr. Hill Lt. Pullman Mr. Langley C.S.M. Stanford
TRAINING GALLOPS
The following, times were clocked during the morning tallop at the Race Course on Saturday:
Electron Courting Eve Diogenes..... Coronation Day King's Coronation King's Warden Camereritan
Tempest
Araxy and Wadebridge.....1 Centre Court
JAPANESE AGAIN RESORT Plain View and Scenic
TO POISON "GAS
Tehan A Roaring Inferno
Nanchang, October 29:
Returning from a tour of the Chinese kont at Tehan on October 27, a correspondent of the Central News reports that Tehan, impor-. tant rallway town and often described the "gateway of Nan- chang," is a blazing and roaring inferno.
as
Nothing but the name of the once prosperous and peaceful town now remains. Target of numerous combined Japanese attacks by land and air, and blasted by thousands of heavy shells during last week's concentrated bombardment, Tehan has not a single house standing.
With the aid of a pair of power-) gas attack by the "invaders. A ful binoculars, the correspondent sickening vapour of lurid yellow viewed from a vantage point in a and green hung heavily on the nearby height how the Chinese hilltop, while blinding flashes from defenders of the ruined town was the Japanese batteries hurled tö making a stand against the enemy, the Chinese Mines hundreds of tons Japanese forces, in strong numbers, of high explosives to spell"destruc- were attacking the blazing city in tion to the defence posts. three columns from the northwest.
Despite broad daylight, large fires inside the town, Ucking up to the sky, were clearly visible, while the rat-a-tat of a chine-guns, interspersed by the: rumbling of heavy artillery and detonation of bombs became nearer as the Japanese Intensified their assaults,
GAS ATTACK -
The correspondent later learned that during the Japanese, gas attack a whole Chinese company was wiped out and the defence line broken through at a certain point. Later, Chinese reinforcements rushed to the place and drove the invaders back to their original positions.
Up to the afternoon of October 27, all Japanese penetrations into
The correspondent also saw from Tehan city were repulsed by stub-
A distance the Chinese positions born Chinese defence with the
at Yifengshan on the outsants of effective use of machine-guns and Tehan subjected to a terrine poison hand-grenades.
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ALSO SUCCEED
(BY "J.H.F.")
In a fast and exciting hockey match at Kai Tak yesterday, the Royal Air Force beat the Nomads Hockey Club by four.. goals to three after changing over on equal terms, in the Hongkong, Hockey Association Tournament.
From a penalty-bully awarded against Souza, the RAF, took the lead through Dawson. S. A Reed equalised.
In the second half the airmen went ahead through Kennedy and Bartlett, but F. O. Reed reduced the arrears. A few minutes later S.. A. Reed beat the custodian with
a neat fick.'
Is the closing minutes Bartlett
scored the deciding goal.
Dawson and Bartlett shone for, the winners while R. J. Reed and
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Hou Yung-sang was the pick of Kwong Wah's defence and mainly responsible for the victory. For the Eastern side, Hsu Shing- chong was strong in defence, while Suen Kam-shun gave a clever ex- hibition of passing and anticipa- tion.
La Wai-kuen town goal), Cheuk Shek-kam (penalty) and Lau Fook-chren scored for Kwong Wah and Stea Kam-zhuk (penalty) and "Chow Man-ch netted for. Eastern
The score at the interval was
1-1.
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The teams ware. EASTERN:-Lan Hin-hon; BY Lee, Mew Wan-kwok; Soong Lin- sing. Hou Shing-chong, Lo Wal- ruen: Chok Kai-heung Lee Tak-.. kee, Suen Kam-shyn, Chow Man- chi and Hao Oning-to
KWONG WAR:-Lee Kwok-kee; Hou Yunk-sang and Chung Fal- Jam; Cheung Wing, Yeung Tse- song and Henry Young: Wong Wah-gay. Lau Fook-chuen, Chin Chi-fun, Cheur Shek-kam Wong King-cheuk.
and
EASTERN JUNIORS LOSE- Playing with only ten through- out the game, Eastern suffered a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Kwong Wah, in a Second Division football encounter at Kowloon yesterday. Rocha and Chen" "Wal-Kwong netted.
A. Xavier were the pick of the MIDDLESEX BEAT
The teams:-- RAF. Kennedy: Akrill. Richard-
ST. JOSEPH'S
Gaining two Valuable points
son; Rossiter, Dawson. Hillier: over St Joseph's in a second divi- Kidd, Jenkins, Bartlett, Kennedy sien football encounter at Happy and Eiton,
Valley, on Saturday, in which the NOMADS.—E. A. Alves; H. Soares. Saints were defeated by 3 roals. R. Xavier; A. Xavier, R. J. Reed, to T. Middlesex juniors climbed L Bouza: RM da Silva, F. Oto third place in the league. Reed, S. A Reed, H. Gubbay and
Throughout the game
the A. Eca da Silva,
soldiers held the upper hand, and
CBA LOSE AGAIN The Central British Association suffered another reverse yesterday was not at any time hard pressed. morning when they lost to the though occasionally the Saints Radio and Postal hockey eleven by found the ball in their opponents' the odd goal in three.
half of the field. Sprinkle and
the fine work of the forwards were-
pleasing factor. The defence
There
were several positional Omar served well in the Saint's changes in the C.B.A team and forward line, while Maher was the the absence of George Fowler was pick of the halves. ---
Devenshire and Frost were the CBA. took the lead through the live-wires in the Army attack. Dunn, from a penalty bully, the latter manoeuvred some fine Following midfield play Guest net-movements.
Thomas converted a penalty kick
ted the equaliser,
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King's Privilege
Tribute
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Tiny Star
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Double Finesse
Racing Boy Split Hand
National Dignity.
Dawn Star ........ Stymie and Estover
A Grand Time Royal Highness Final Triumph Valorous
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Bovereign
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Golden Cow. and Wen-
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*-Denotes Nett Spoon.
-Denotes Handicap Spoon. Note: The handicap of each win- ner has been reduced by one as shown. This applies to BR. (b) and SR. (a)^{ winners.
MR. PIROW TO SEE GENERAL FRANCO
Midway through the second half, to open the sente for the Army. G. Singh took a shot at goal and Devenshire consolidated the post- E. Fowler, in attempting to clear, tion. Frost added the third before deflected the ball into his own net. Omar replied with the Saint's
The losers were best served by solitary goal- Dunn, while N. Whitley played his
usual steady game.
M. H. Hassan and Grogan were qutstanding for Radio.
The teams:-
CBA-J. J. King: B. Bickford, D.
KENYA'S
DEFENCE
INCOMPLETE
Fopham, declared in his badget speech yesterday that Kenya's de- fshce organisation was incomplete and required acceleration -
Extra Anance is being provided
Nairobi, Oct. 30. Taylor: J. Kempton, N. Whitley, Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke- The Governor of Kenya, Alr E. Fowler; D. T. Smith, 8. A Fowler, T. Whitley, Dunn and Austin. RADIO-U. B. Souza; Grogan, J. Singh; J. Tavares, M. H. Hassan, Kitchell, D. Leonard, A. EP. Guest, Awtar Singh, G. Bingh] and Janger Singh. "
RECREIO'S SECOND WIN
for 1939.
Plans included the registration of man-power, creation of women's
At King's Park, Club de Recreio olganisations and extension of the obtained their second win in the intelligence systent and organisa Tament when they beat the tion of ARP work Renter
R.A.O.C. by two goals to one. The winners were never extended.........
•Recrelo took the lead through Beltzao, the RAO,C. equalising through Brice.
Lisbon, Oct. 30.7 Mr. Oswald Pirow, Defence Minister of South Africa, who has been discussing the colonial ques- tion with the Portuguese authori ties here, left yesterday for Bala- manca, where he will see General RECRETO V. Ribeiro; Dr. A. M.
Franco and other Spanish Nation- alist leaders before resuming. his Journey to London, where he is expected on Tuesday.
Mr. Pirow will make a study of modern conditions of warfare in Spain, particularly from the point of view of attacks from the air-Reuter.
close.
BA
SOFTBALL RESULTS Results of Boftball League 'mat- ches played yesterday were
Chinese B.C. 6 v. C.B.A. JA PILS pinos 1 v. Recršta 5.
The winning goal was scored by follows Ozorio.
The teams:-
Rodrigues, J. Gonsalves; R. Mar-
LEWIS WINSOL ques, W. A. Reed, A. M. Alves; P. Yvanovich, J′ Oliveira, N. Bel»
Newhaven, De T trao, Dr. H. L^^ Ozorio and "J.}|_ John Henry Lewis, 4 t Soares,
favourito,? raisined: the world's R.A.0.0-Drake; Looke, Gil; lightweight boxing champinnanit
Beudding. Evans, 'Jaak; Ember- in an all-black pontask when Ha? son, Pitt, Brice," Wadler and out-pointed. A) Gainer DVAT 18 Heaton.
rounde hare la Une
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