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TOMORROW
A MAGNIFICENT Letter of
INTRODUCTION
HUMAN ADVENTURE
AT THE QUEEN'S
Jack Oakle
Lucille Ball
with
ADOLPHE MENJOU ANDREA LEEDS EDGAR BERSEN and "CHARLIE McCARTHY''
CEORCE MORPHY
▲ TXM HUIVINSAL PICTURE
A JOHN M. STAHL Production
AFFAIRS OF ANNABEL"
TOMORROW
AT THE ALHAMBRA Humphrey Bogart - Frank McHugh "SWING YOUR LADY”
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FREDRIC MARCH
"THE BUCCANEER
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KING'S:
Hongkong
"Yellow Jack"
QUEEN'S:
"Letter Of Introduction" ORIENTAL:
"The Buccaneer"
Kowloon
ALHAMBRA:
"Letter Of Introduction" STAR:
"Green Light" MAJESTIC
"Start Cheering"
KING'S;
Coming
"Action For Slander" QUEEN'S:
"Affairs of Annabel" URIENTAL:
CINEMA & GENERAL
Life
Hunted Men" " "The
Emile Zola" ALHAMBRA:
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"Swing Your Lady"! STAR:
"She's No Lady" "Gold Diggers In Parts" MAJESTIC:
"Little Miss Roughneck" *Woman Chases Man"
Romance Of The Western Chamber A Critique
SPECIAL TO THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS"
À FAMOUS RUSSIAN THEATRICAL PRODUCER once stated," it Is only in the Chinese Theatre that I have found the fundamenta? laws of the Theatre." His name was Mayerhold whose contribution to the Russian and Western Theatres lles in the blo-mechanical method of training of his actors and the constructivistic elements of bis stage craft,
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This producer told me once, "I see the Chinese drama as a suc- cession of definite pictures, or cadreș such as make up a moving pic- ture on a screen. On the Chinese stare there is no time or space. Now the scene is in the courtyard-ihe actor walks round the stage —and he is inside the audience chamber of the palace.
At another time he is standing "It is the nétor's skill that the on the ground-be makes a pirou-Chinese audience goes to the ette and he is on horseback mov-Classical Theatre to see. They do ing at full gallop, across the plains.not want to be bothered with Or he mounts, a chair-and he is painted. scenery-which Is bad at his headquarters on the top of painting. Nor fake properties. la mountain directing his troops." They can see these things in their And then I listened in on a con- own houses or on the street with- versation which the Mayerhold had [out "going to the Theatre to see with Me! Lan-fang.
ther."
LESS CRITICAL
In looking at the actors
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.. "MEANS OF SYMBOLS" "Do I understand aright" he ask- ed, "when I say that in the Chin: actresses at the Queen's Theatre ese Theatre the audience is attuned The Romance of the Western to the actor on the stage?" "Quite Chamber" I found myself inclined correct," replied Mei Lan-fang. to be less critical than I would be "The actor, by means of symbols, at a Chinese Theatre. Firstly be- gestures,... movements and by the cause of the audience. And sec- use of simple accessories, gives a ondly because I went to "hear" the series of clues to the members of play and not to "see" it. the audience so that they can see at once in their mind's eye the ex- Jact place in which the action is taking place: Thus doing away When Police Reservist Chan with the need for scenery. Tack-chlu was walking in Duke Bringing a horse on the stage is Street on Friday evening, on un-cumbersome, inconvenient, expen- known Chinese threw a box at him sive and to say the least of it. which hit him in the face and highly childish. So the actor in knocked him out.
order to give the audience the clue The box was found to contain 85 that he is mounting a horse wil rounds of ammunition.
take a fringed whip in his hand.
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY
Auctions. Crown Lands Sales, at
P.W.D. Offices, 3. p.m..
TO-MORROW Meetings St. Andrew's Church Mothers' Union. 3. p.m.; Brownle
Cinemas(Bee Column 3 of this Pack, 3.30 p.m.; Urban Council, at
'Page).
Post Office Buildings, 4.15 p.m.
Malis (See Page 18). Meetings.-Couneti, of the Hong- Miscellaneous. His Excellency kong Football Association, in Room The Governor Receives the Com- 55. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank mittee of the Po Leung Kuk, 11 Buliding, 5.30 pm; St. Andrew's a.m.: the Tung Wah Hospital Church Medical Reller Working Directors,, 12 Noon.
Party. 10 am.; Rotary Directors,
in Hongkong Hotel, 5.15 pm..
Miscellaneous ---St... Andrew's Church Teachers' Preparation Class, 1 pan.
Moon.-IX Moon, 17tia, Day. Religious-St Andrew's Churche Boys' Choir Practice, 6.30 p.m.
Rotary Meeting. At Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden, 1 pm. Moon.--IX. Moon, 18th. Day. Religious St. Andrew's Church
Social, Kowloon Chess Club Bible Reading Fellowship and Fel- Annual Dinner, in Peninsula Hotel lowship of Youth, 6 pm,
Rose Room. Police Branch of the Social-St. Andrew's Club "Open Ministering League Bridge and Night 9 pm.; Cheero Club Mah-Mahjong Drive, at Police Recrea- jong Drive, during the Evening.
Sport(See Page 10).
p.m.
Sunrise 6.30 at Sunset=5.44
and 19.20. Low at 01.24, and, 13.11...
Tides-High at 66.64 and
tion Club, 3 pm.
Sunrise--8.30 am. Sunset,-5,44
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Tides-High at 07.51 and 19.50. Low at 0205 and 13.45.
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curved line
50 Rejoined
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leaf of a book 57 Macaw
58 Open with
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59 Belonging to
that girl..
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by Haggard 63 Powerful
muscle poison 66 Amount at
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68 Writing Buids
69 Flat bot-
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2 Cotton fabrie
3 To spur
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High priest who trained Samuel
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character of egund
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10 Border 11 Sea
12 Increasing
strength
13 Ingress
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27 Middle points 28 Personality
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one to master as any other. And in watching the move- ments of the actors (in the brief intervals when I was not watching the audience and listening to the words of the play) I remembered the words
· of a very famous Američani ac- for who once watched a Chin- ese player.
He said. "The Chinese actor's use of his hands makes me want to put mine behind my back." In Fother words, the Chinese actor must act not only with his gestures, but with his eyes, his hands, and even his fingers, The rhythm of movement in a Chinese actor must be carried through from his feet to his head and through the whole of his body to the very tips of his fingers.
It takes years of training to achieve perfection of a Mei Lan- fang and a professional knowledge that a slightly bent fore-finger conveys the symbol the "Tady is fagitated or angry."
"TECHNIQUE"
In the course of time English audiences in Hongkong will be more critical of the "technique" of the actors. But this will be after they have learnt the simple lessons of the Chinese Theatre and are able to discern when the actor enters a room by lifting his foot over the threshold. The opening of a door is simpler. Or when an immortal spirit comes on the stage -symbolised by the foying white beard that he must wear,
comic
By watching the audience. I saw the things that interested them." The costumes were beautiful. The lute carrier was excellent. With white painted
Lose this was a natura! character, The grace in the movements vf the Chinese on the stage gave me pause, to remind myself of the spinster in England who once in- sisted that her Chinese ward should "learn deportment."
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THE REAL SUCCESS The language of the play was the real
success of the evening of cultural rapproachment between the predominantly Biglish. and Chinese which made up the au dience. Such a translation of a Chinese 13th century play by a Chinese into English gives a dream
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LITTLE MISS ROUGHNECK”
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poem to men änd women of in by theatrical conventions which TREATIES. TO BE
culture, That Chinese youth could forced him to try to reproduce “na- act the play puts to shame those tural lite" on the stage,
where
of the "English section of the au-scenery, had to be like photograph. dence who do not even know how The artistry of the actor was lost to say "yes" or "no" in, Chinese.
in the distraction of the bad paint- Far less to be able to cry "good" ings that made up the scenery.
at the places where the actor ex- cels himselt, as is the custom in
The seventeenth century found
a Chinese Theatre. To some the the Manchu dynasty in the saddle style of declamation may have in China. Chinese art degenerated seemed stilted and staccato. But and the Drama was kept alive even there the players imparted solely by the devotion of the "lower the rhythm of the theatrical classes.", who in village and in speech, "which is that of the thea-market place thronged the audi- tre and not of natural life."
torium whenever the misnomers ap-
The peared.
cultural standard was low,
Natural Htel And that is the real lesson of the "Romance of the
Western Chamber." It is that the The actors were badly, rewarded
RESCINDED
Japan's Latest In "East Asia
Tokio, November 6. existing International treaties by which the Far East is treated as having the status of a colony are to be subjected to a close scrutiny, it was "stated. In a semi-official Japan-
ese declaration on Saturday. This step is considered here to be
Chinese Theatre la still progressive and the art might have died had equivalent to a Japanese demand in its abhorrence of “naturalism" in it not been for the stern criticism of reorganisation in East Asia." the Theatre. At one time on the of the Chinese theatre-goer who Among those treatles to be ex- French stage people drank real never hesitated to throw a hot mined in this way will be the wine in plays, ate "real apples." towel at the head of a clumsy Nine Power Pact, and it is generally And sometimes even to-day fat actor, or to shout down a bad believed that this Fact, will be Drury Lane) they have real horses | singer whose, voice tied him bet- rescinded in the near future.
ter be a masseur than a singer of and motor cars on the stage.
opera on the Chinese atago..
FRENCH INFLUENCE
In political circles in Tokio, the Japanese state polnit is interpreted to be that a peaceful solution of the The theatre of Shakespeare of the
confict with China will be impos sixteenth century was a theatre of Arrivals from Swatow state that, sible as long as Third States exer- "realism" and was as fresh as the before the inhabitants are sent cise political influence in. Bast Asia. Chinese stage is to day. In to safer regions, they are obliged Solution of the present connict 18=*. nuerices, from France brought the by the Swatow authorities to only possible through the decadence of "naturalism" which imidergo Inoculation to prevent the operation of all states of the found the actors, producers, bound spread of epidemies.
ATransocean.
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