RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1979 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2801w5938 250 ORDINARY LOCAL MEMBERS PICKFORD, Mr. John B., E/M Department, Public Works Department, Caroline Hill, HONG KONG. PORDES, Mr. Frederick, 47/50 Gloucester Road, Lap Heng Building, 1st Fl., HONG KONG, PRESCOTT, Mr. Jon A., 67B Perkins Road, Jardine's Lookout, HONG KONG. PRYOR, Dr. E. G., Colony Planning Division, Crown Lands & Surveys Office, Murray Building, 18/Fl., HONG KONG. QUESTED, Mrs. Rosemary, Dept. of History, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. RAM, Mrs. Jane, 80 Kennedy Road, Lee Building, HONG KONG. REDDING, Dr. S. G., Extra-Mural Dept., University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. REID, Mr. A. J. H., c/o Kleinwort, Benson (H.K.) Ltd., American International Tower, 33/Fl., 16-18 Queen's Road Central, HONG KONG. REYNOLDS, Mrs. Johanne, 19 Middleton Towers, 140 Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG. REYNOLDS, Prof. W. A., 19 Middleton Towers, 140 Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG. RHODES, Mr. Peter F., School of Law, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG, RIBEIRO, Mrs. Susan, 6M Bowen Road, Flat 7D, HONG KONG. RICHARDS, Mrs. J. K., c/o Dept. of Geography and Geology, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. RICHARDS, Mr. S. F., Dept of Geography and Geology, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. RIGG, Mrs. Jillian R., Riggs Associated Services Ltd., 4th Floor, Dominion Centre, 37-59 Queen's Road East, HONG KONG. ROBERTSON, Mrs. A. G., 5A Hatton House, 15 Kotewall Road, HONG KONG. ROBERTSON, Mrs. W. G., Park Mansions, 1/F, 4 Mile Taipo Road, KOWLOON. ROCHE, Mrs. J. T., 3 Old Peak Road, HONG KONG, RODGERS, Mr. Robert D., B1, Harbour View Mansions, 11 Magazine Gap Road, HONG KONG. ROHRS, Mr. Kenneth R., Flat 11A, 23 South Bay Close, Repulse Bay, HONG KONG. ROPER, Mr. G. W., Caine House, Police Headquarters, Arsenal Street, HONG KONG. ROWARK, Mrs. Sally, Dept of English Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1982 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/mk61z420p 241 # APPENDIX ## THE HONG KONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB AND ITS PREDECESSORS Significant Dates and Performances. (Authors and dates of first publication or production from A. Nicoll, A History of English Drama, "Handlist of Plays".) (Note: only ADC productions are noted here: professional performances, and performances by Garrison groups or other amateur groups not detailed here). ### 1844/45 18 Dec. 1844 proposed to form a dramatic company of amateurs under patronage of H. E. Governor Davis. ### 1845/46 3 Jan. 1846 Tues. last performance given by "Corps Dramatique" at Aqui's Theatre in the Lower Bazaar. 27 Jan. 1846 party of Amateur Performers presented "The Lady and the Devil" followed by "Fortune's Frolic" Aqui's Theatre. 24 Mar. 1846 Amateur Performers Wed. last, "The Midnight Hour" and "The Sleep Walkers" Theatre. 28 Apr. 1846 Amateur performance Mon. evening at Aqui's. 27 June 1846 - Amateur Performers fifth and last performance at Aqui's Theatre. 8 Jan. 1846 at length a fair prospect of a Theatre being erected in Hong Kong. Idea suggested last year. Half of funds needed already subscribed. 9 Feb. 1846 Meeting of shareholders of proposed Theatre at house of Mr. Just, corner Queen's Road and Pottinger Street. ### 1848/49 1 Nov. 1848 first public performance by amateurs in new theatre (the Victoria) erected by Mr. Duddell. "The Weathercock” (J. T. Allingham, 1805) followed by a comic song, concluded with farce "Rival Valets" (J. Ebsworth, 1805). 1 Dec. 1848 - Amateurs second performance. "Fortune's Frolic" farce (J. T. Allingham, 1799) "Bambastes Furioso" burlesque tragic operetta (W. B. Rhodes, 1810) "The Weathered" farce ### 1852/53 8 Nov. 1852 meeting at City Hall of persons interested in the revival of drama in Hong Kong. To take measures for preserving the Victoria Theatre to the community for purpose it was originally erected. Committee of four to organize Theatrical Company. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 160 R.J. MINERS 15 Knutsford to Des Voeux, 12 Dec. 1890 and Des Voeux to Knutsford, 13 April 1891 in Parliamentary Papers 1894 LVII pp. 26-27, nos. 5 and 6. 16 See for example CO129/218 p. 487, letter to the Secretary of State from the National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act, 28 March 1884. 17 Ripon to Robinson, 17 March 1893 in Parliamentary Papers 1894 LVII p. 39, no. 13. 18 Robinson to Ripon, 17 June 1893 with enclosures in Parliamentary Papers 1894 LVII pp. 46-52, no. 17. 19 See the tabulated returns for Straits Settlements and Hong Kong in CO129/286 pp. 86-87. 20 See CO882/6 Confidential Print Eastern no. 69 Correspondence regarding the Measures to be Adopted for Checking the Spread of Venereal Disease 1894-1899; Minute by Sir Edward Wingfield at CO129/276 p. 132. 21 J. Chamberlain to Governor Sir H.A. Blake, 11 May 1899 in CO882/6 p. 117. 22 Minute by J. Chamberlain, 25 Jan. 1898 in CO129/276 p. 132. 23 This possibility had been mentioned earlier in an unpublished letter from the Attorney General; see minute in CO129/286 p. 75 dated 18 March 1899. 24 Memorandum by Secretary for Chinese Affairs, 4 June 1923 in CO129/480 pp. 254-259. 25 The following paragraphs are based on the S.C.A. memorandum; a long description by Dr. Wellington, Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, not dated item 5 in CO129/533/10 of 1931; and note by the Chief Justice, J.H. Kemp dated 16 May 1931, item 3 in CO129/533/10. 26 Macfarlane and Aubrey: Journal of the Hong Kong University Medical Society, Vol. 1 April 1922, quoted in CO129/480 p. 260. 27 In CO129/472 pp. 356-382, April 1921. 28 See CO129/474 pp. 338-358; CO129/484, pp. 257-8; CO129/485 pp. 2-18 and 122-6. 29 See CO129/472 pp. 603-5; CO129/475 pp. 326-331; CO129/483 pp. 66-75 and pp. 156-170. 30 Straits Settlements Legislative Council Sessional Papers 1923: Report of the Venereal Diseases Committee, 17 December 1923, pp. C286-327; CO882/11 Confidential Print Eastern no. 147 Correspondence 1923-1925 Relating to Social Hygiene in Singapore. 31 First Report of the Advisory Committee on Social Hygiene, August 1925 Cmd 2501. See also Report of a Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to examine and report on Straits Settlements Ordinance no. 15 of 1927, March 1929, Cmd 3294. 32 CO129/522/3. 33 Unpublished memoir by Sir William Peel deposited at Rhodes House, Oxford. House of Commons Debates, 27 June 1930 p. 1500, speech by Dr. D. Shiels. 34 Peel to Passfield, 22 August 1930 in CO129/522/3. 35 Peel to Passfield, 9 June 1931 in CO129/533/10. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/rx919b522 304 Steve Yui-sang Tsang, Democracy Shelved, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1988. Though about the 1945-1952 period, Democracy Shelved is important and timely because its publication coincides with another period in which plans for democracy in Hong Kong have been shelved. Steve Yui-sang Tsang, a Research Associate at Wolfson-St. Antony's Chinese Studies Centre and Rhodes House Library, Oxford, has written a blow-by-blow account of the abortive attempt to introduce major constitutional reforms in Hong Kong in the immediate post-war period, when decolonisation was in the air. The book is important for the light it sheds on an important historical period but, even more so, for its illumination of the reasons behind events transpiring today. On one level, it is the role of personalities. Sir Mark Young retired before he could see his reforms, dubbed the Young Plan, implemented. Similarly, Sir Edward Youde died before his proposal "to develop progressively a system of government the authority for which is firmly rooted in Hong Kong, which is able to represent authoritatively the views of the people of Hong Kong, and which is more directly accountable to the people of Hong Kong," could take shape. But Steve Tsang shows that Young was no wild-eyed radical. His reforms were moderate. And he was enough of a realist to know the importance of China's views on the colony. That is why he recommended the appointment of a Political Adviser to the Hong Kong governor who would be a specialist on Chinese affairs. Steve Tsang concludes by raising the question whether failure to implement the Young Plan represents a lost chance. His answers it in the affirmative, concluding: “On balance, it would appear that the Young Plan could have worked successfully during the period under study." The reader is free to draw his own conclusions as to what the ramifications would be for today's Hong Kong as it wrestles with the need for political reforms on the eve of its return to Chinese sovereignty. FRANK CHING ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 206 (...) Our first favourite was Captain Copp. This is a glorious character and was performed faultlessly [by Benjamin BLUSTER-JH]. From the first moment we made his acquaintance until we took a reluctant leave of him, our heart was kept in a continuous glow by his honest face, his blunt, sea-faring manner; his rugged but kindly touches of feeling, harmonically blended together as they were by his ceremonial bursts of good humoured jollity. Every time he broke out with his favourite stave 'In the time of the Dump When Old Admiral Trump' we felt a strong inclination to hear more of it and were scarcely pleased with Mary for stopping it so abruptly. (...) Mary's taste in the choice of a lover was unexceptionable - a compliment which cannot be said with truth, of pretty girls generally. The page who was the favoured suitor deserved his good fortune: he played well and sung sweetly. It is some time indeed since we heard on the stage or elsewhere a song given with so much taste and expression (...). No wonder the pretty Mary melted under the influence of the mellow tones of such a music master". And Mary? She was played of course by Mrs NESBIT who "as usual placed before us a lively picture of the piquant and coquettish, but withal modest and pretty niece of the host of the 'Grand Admiral'; and she looked so enticing as to make some of those who were present and near us wish that they too were actors provided there was plenty of kissing in the play and such a delightful subject as herself to practice upon”. (NCH 20.3.1858). Again it should be stressed that all female characters were portrayed by men, which, paradoxically, probably allowed the critic to write in such a vein! 5.5.1858 (Wedn) J. COURTNEY: "Time Tries All" (1848) T: Drama (2 acts) J.S. COYNE: “Urgent Private Affairs" (1856) T: Farce (1 act) W.B. RHODES: "Bombastes Furioso" (1810) T: Burlesque tragic opera (1 act) C: Amateurs F: Music by the band of H.M.S. Highflyer Th: Theatre Royal (C) N: Third and final performance of the season R: For a house that was "crowded to the doors" the curtain rose on a new drop scene **of a light and pretty character". Once more Mrs. NESBIT could be admired, in Time Tries All, as Laura Leeson and "too much credit could not be extended on her for the manner in which she brought before us the wilful, pettish but withal warm-hearted woman". As her husband, Mr. Leeson, "Mr. ROLLER was most successful; he has made for himself a 'spécialité' in this line of characters which it would be difficult to surpass or to replace. Mr. PICKWICK played the role of Matthew Bates and by **his judicious, quiet acting gained considerable and well-merited applause". Mr. TINTINNABULUM (who also sung a "pretty Irish ballad") as the Hon Mr. Yawn "was capital and exercised the propensity with which his cognomen so plainly gifts him with such arts as to make many of the audience strenuously follow his example"; whereas Miss Fact and Mr. Tact found fit representatives in Miss WALTERS and Mr. BRUSWOOD. Some of the actors again appeared in the closing piece; Bombastes Furioso when Mr. Beverley NEWCOME impersonated General Bombastes, “a creditable performance, but the role was evidently not so well suited to the powers of that gentleman as other parts in which we have seen him". King Artaxominous was taken by Mr. PICKWICK, Furbos by Mr. TINTINNABULUM and Destafina by Mrs. NESBIT. Concluding, the reviewer was "especially pleased with the scenery of this and other ================================================================================