RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1982 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/mk61z420p 1892/93 ― 1893/94 247 "Honour Bound" (W. S. Gilbert and Sydney Grundy, 1880) 12, 15 Nov. 1892 "On Bail" a farce (W. S. Gilbert, 1877) 26, 28, 30 Dec. 1893, 3, 6, 9, 16, 24 Jan. 1894 "Princess Toto" (W. S. Gilbert and Clay, 1876) 1894/95 30 Jan. 4, 6, 9, 12, 16, 18, 23 Feb. 1895 "Robinson Crusoe" Pantomime: 17, 20, 24 Apr. 1895 "The Magistrate" (A. W. Pinero, 1885) 1895/96 26, 28 Dec. 1895 "Dandy Dick" (A. W. Pinero, 1887) 8, 10, 20 Feb. 1896 1888) 1896/97 "Trial by Jury” (Gilbert and Sullivan, 1888) 19, 21 Dec. 1896 — “Cups and Saucers" (G. Grossmith, 1878) given in 1886. "Charley's Aunt" (Brandon Thomas, 1892) 25 Feb. 1897 — "Les Cloches de Carneville" (H. B. Farnie and R. Reece, 1878) 1897/98 19 Nov. 1897 1890) F 1898/99 19, 21 Feb. 1898 — "A Pair of Spectacles" (Sidney Grundy, 1890) "The Duchess of Bayswater and Co." comedietta (A. M. Heathcote, 1888) "A Pantomime Rehearsal" (C. Clay, 1891) 17, 19 Nov. 1898 — “Our Bitterest Foe" (G. C. Herbst, 1874) "Sugar and Cream" comedietta (J. P. Hurst, 1883) "The Steeple Chase" (J. M. Morton, 1865) given in 1874. ― 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17, 18 Jan., 1, 3 Feb. 1899 pantomime "The Yellow Dwarf, or Harlequin the Knave of Hearts" 1899/1900 4, 6 Nov. 1899 "The Magistrate" (A. W. Pinero, 1885) given in 1895. 12, 13 Dec. 1899 "The Mother In Law" farcical comedy (G. R. Sims, 1881) JL 12, 15, 17, 24, 26 Feb. 1900 "Yeoman of the Guard" (Gilbert and Sullivan, 1888) 1900/01 24 Nov. 3 Dec. 1900— 1901/02 1902/03 — ― "Our Flat" (Mrs. M. Musgrove, 1889) 15, 19 Nov. 1901 “Trying It On” farce (W. Brough) "Plantation Revels" minstrel variety 13, 14, 15 Nov. 1902 "Liberty Hall" drama (R. C. Carton, 1892) ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/rx919b522 106 BRYCE, Louise W 9.12.1912 BUCHANAN, Charles 11.9.1873 BURDETT, Frederick 24.1.1940 BUCHANAN, Archibald 21.7.1909 BULLEN, Arthur Pearce 23.3.1905 BURDETT, Jane Cerile 31.5.1909 Deane BURNETT, Edward 8.5.1936 BUTTNER, Albert 31.1.1907 CADDEM, Patrick 14.9.1906 CAGLI, Augusto 21.5.1888 Rattway CAMPION, Thomas 20.7.1864 CARTER, Bessie Ann 16.12.1942 CHALMERS, Frank 5.8.1958 CHAMBERS, Elizabeth 27.2.1917 Morton CHAPMAN, Henry 14.3.1883 CHEEL, James 18.3.1923 Grafton CLARKE, Edgar 18.10.1901 CLEAR, Charles Arnold 5.2.1945 Charles CLELAND, William 20.8.1937 COATES, John H 5.5.1902 Alexander COLEMAN, John 30.5.1904 COLLER, 1st infant son 6.11.1872 of Richard Lovett COLLER, 2nd infant 1.4.1874 son of Richard Lovett COLLETT, Henry 18.8.1903 George Outram CONGDON, Jane E 19.2.1898 COOK, CJ 12.9.1946 COOKE, Doris Ann 17.10.1942 COTEZ, Frank 5.8.1918 CRICHTON, Lloyd 18.7.1945 CROCKETT, LS Not known James CUNNEEN, Miss E F 12.5.1950 CURRY, Charles 7.9.1903 DAKIN, George J 2.7.1883 DALE, CE 30.5.1904 DAMASKOS, Nikolas 17.12.1962 DAVIS, Thomas 28.10.1883 DEBLOIS, John Emory 3.8.1874 DEBRUNNER, Alphons 11.2.1952 DECKER, Ernest DENNISON, William 5.10.1882 DE HASS, Theodorus 17.8.1909 Marie 25.7.1904 DEWHURST, Fred 25.12.1915 DICKINSON, John 3.5.1949 DONISCH, Arthur 24.2.1883 Herbert DORRINGTON, Nellie 16.9.1902 DOS REMEDIOS, Mary 10.8.1961 Paz DOS REMEDIOS, Jose 22.8.1962 Florencio DOS REMEDIOS, Pacita Godinez 3.1968 DREYFUS, Ernest 2.9.1906 DUDLEY, Infant 14.2.1880 Gustav DUFF, William Aitken 20.3.1902 DUKE, John 14.4.1939 DUMARES, John 22.7.1922 DUNCAN, William 27.7.1899 Saumarez Cunning DUNN, JC J 10.4.1949 DYKES, Oswald S 19.1.1930 EATON, Red Campbell 21.4.1877 EDWARDS, John E 26.10.1924 EHLERS, J G 1.11.1878 ELERTIS, Nicholas 21.6.1964 ELLAMS, John David 11.5.1946 ELZINGER, Auguste 26.4.1879 ENTICKNAP, G H 27.5.1915 EWART, Henry 9.7.1894 FABIAN, Adolf 29.4.1886 FAIRCLOUGH, Ferdinand J 5.7.1897 FALKNER, Samuel 27.4.1903 FALLOT, Lymae 11.7.1919 William FARREN, John W 23.8.1864 FARNES, Walter S 7.6.1942 FEELDING, Susie 15.1.1939 FERBER, Johann 8.1.1890 Bernard ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 161 spare time to the amusement of their fellow residents. Moreover, as has been said before, the community was small, and the critic had after all to live with his actor-neighbours who would no doubt know about his identity. Thus, "A Stranger" wrote, about George Colman's Heir at Law (April 21 1851): “Zekiel Homespun was inimitable; we had no idea there was a Gentleman in Shanghae who could take the difficult part so well.) The simplicity, humour and serious earnestness which it displays in some parts were brought out and sustained in a manner that we have scarcely seen equaled, except by some of the leading actors of our Metropolis". And again: “Constant playgoers as from childhood we have been we have rarely, indeed never, ‘assisted' at a more agreeable evening than that of Wednesday the 16th instant [i.e. February 16 1859]. The performances [of J.M. Morton's Whitebait at Greenwich and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim] passed off with the utmost eclat due to the talent and exertions of the actors". Sometimes the author felt it even necessary to apologize for any criticism he uttered: "We do this, not in the invidious character of critics upon amateur performances or still less as tinctured with the slightest disposition to find fault, but in order that the excellent materials which have been combined in the troupe should be made as much of as possible. Indeed it is the very appreciation of the talents displayed on Thursday [sic; this should be Wednesday January 23 1856– JH] which prompts the expression of these remarks. We are sure that neither the performers nor the audience would thank us for the undiscriminating and therefore worthless praise which usually satirize amateur performances". But even in this case the critic only had made some comments on the costumes that were used in one of the pieces (cf. Calendar, 23.1.1856). Mild remarks were the severest criticism dished out; about one of the actors on June 2 1859, **we may perhaps be permitted to take an exception to his brogue, which, however good as an assumption, scarcely denoted one to the manner born"; and about another on the same evening; "his humour seems better fitted for low than for eccentric comedy". 10 Only when it came to the choice of pieces was the paper not always undividedly positive. Writing about John Maddison Morton's Done on Both Sides (February 10 1858) not much enthusiasm was shown: “We have witnessed, we confess, better farces on the same stage and we are inclined to believe that as actors may sometimes not come up to the play, it occasionally happens that plays are not altogether worthy of the ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 239 MORTON, John Maddison (1811-1891) "Attic Story" (19.5.1842). P: 6.5.1852 "Betsy Baker or too attentive by half" (13.11.1850). P: 23.3.1853 145 "Box and Cox: a Romance of Real Life" (1.11.1847). P: 15.5.1854; 18.2.1857 "A Capital Match" (4.11.1852). P: 23.4.1857; 3.12.1864 "Done on Both Sides" (24.2.1847). P: 10.2.1858 "Fitzsmythe of Fitzsmythe Hall" (26.5.1860). P: 26.3.1863 "Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw" (1.7.1851). P: 2.6.1859 "Lend me Five Shillings" (18.2.1846). P: see p. 15 "A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion" (11.6.1849). P: 22.3.1854; 1.4.1864 "Our Wife or The Rose of Amiens" (18.11.1856). P: 13.12.1863; 17.2.1863 "Poor Pillicuddy" (12.7.1848). P: 15.3.1860; 26.5.1864 "Slasher and Crasher" (13.11.1848). P: 21.2.1856 "To Paris and back for £5" (5.2.1853). P: 10.5.1860; 21.3.1865 "The Two Bonny Castles" (25.11.1851). P: 22.3.1854; 8.5.1865 "Where there's a will there's a way" (6.9.1849). P: 26.3.1863 "Whitebait at Greenwich" (14.11.1853). P: 23.1.1856; 16.2.1859; 26.5.1864 "Woodcock's Little Game" (6.10.1864). P: 14.2.1865 MORTON, Thomas, Sr (1764-1838) "A Roland for an Oliver" (29.4.1819). P: 23.2.1852 MORTON, Thomas, Jr "Sink or Swim" (2.8.1852). P: 16.2.1859 MURRAY, William Henry Wood (1790-1852) 146 "Diamond cut Diamond" (19.6.1843). P: 12.12.1850 ? "No!" (14.11.1826). P: 23.2.1852 ? "Rob Roy" (10.6.1818). P: 28.3.-5.4.1865 OXENFORD, John (1813-1877) "I couldn't help it" (19.4.1862). P: 13.4.1865 "Retained for the Defence" (23.5.1859). P: 25.4.1864 PAYNE, John Howard (1790-1852) "Charles the Second or the Merry Monarch" (27.6.1824). P: 16.3.1858 "'Twas I" (3.12.1825). P: 27.4.1865 PEAKE, Richard Brinsley (1797-1880) "The Haunted Inn" (31.1.1828). P: 6.5.1852 PLANCHE, James Robinson (1796-1880) "Faint Heart never won Fair Lady" (28.2.1839). P: 8.10.-14.10.1864; 14.2.1865 "The Invisible Prince or the Island of Tranquil Delights" (26.12.1846). P: 23.3.1865 "The Knights of the Round Table" (20.5.1854). P: 24.5.1865 REYNOLDS, Francis (1764-1841) ? "No!" (16.5.1828). P: 23.3.1852 RHODES, William Barnes (1772-1826) "Bombastes Furioso" (7.8.1810). P: 28.1.1851; 5.5.1858 ROBERTS, George ? "Lady Audley's Secret" (28.2.1863). P: 28.12.1864 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 240 RODWELL, James Thomas Gooderham (d. 1825) "A Race for Dinner" (15.4.1828). P: Announced in March 1854 but not performed. "The Young Widow or A Lesson for Lovers" (1.11.1824), P: 27.4.1865 SELBY, Charles (1802?-1863) "The Boots at the Swan" (5.4.1843). P: 14.12.1865 **A Fearful Tragedy in the Seven Dials". P: 15.2.1860 **A Lady and a Gentleman in a Peculiarly Perplexing Predicament" (9.8.1841), P: 13.2.1864 **The Unfinished Gentleman'' (1.12.1834). P: 17.6.1865 SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) "King John" (1594–1596). P: 12.11.-18.11.1864 (Prison scene, Act IV.1 only) **Richard III" (1592-1593). P: 26.4.1865 (Act V only) SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (1751 1816) **The Rivals" (17.1.1775). P: 28.9.1858; 23.11.1864 SUTER, William E. (1812-1882) ? "Lady Audley's Secret" (22.2.1863). P: 28.12.1864 TALFOURD, Francis (1827-1862) "A Household Fairy" (24.12.1859), P: 26.11.1864 TAYLOR, Tom (1817-1880) ? "Cinderella" (12.5.1845). P: 12.11.-18.11.1864; 28.4.1865 "Still Waters Run Deep" (3.3.1856). P: 23.4.1857; 15.3.1860 TOBIN, John (1770-1804) ? "The Honeymoon" (31.1.1805). P: 19.4.1865 TOWNLEY, Rev. James (1714-1778) "High Life below Stairs" (31.10.1759), P: 21.4.1851 WEBSTER, Benjamin Nottingham (1797-1882) ? "Aurora Floyd' (11.3.1863). P: 26.11.1864; 17.4.1865 ? "The Golden Farmer or the Last Crime" (26.12.1832). P: 8.10.1857 WILLIAMS, Thomas John (1824-1874) "Nursery Chickweed" (12.11.1859), P: 28.3-5.4.1865 "On and Off" (6.6.1861). P: 25.4.1864 APPENDIX II An alphabetical list of plays staged in Shanghai 1850-1865 The Adventures of Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Rising of 1745: N.N.; 13.6.1864. Aladdin or the Wonderful Scamp: H.J. Byron; 2.9.1864, 19.11.1864, 29.4.1865, Anything for a Change: C.W. Brooks; 15.5.1854. Apartments: W. Brough; 23.3.1853. The Area Belle: W. Brough & A. Halliday; 30.9.1865. Attic Story: J.M. Morton; 6.5.1852. Aurora Floyd: C.S. Cheltnam? C.H. Hazlewood? J.B. Johnstone? B. Webster? 26.11.1864, 17.4.1865. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1994 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zk522640g 213 Thomson, David Patrick, Eric Liddell, The Making of An Athelete and the Training of a Missionary, 1971 Thomson, James Claude Jr. While China Faced West: American Reformers in Nationalist China 1928-1937, Cambridge (Mass). 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Edhiel, Hua Nan College: the Women's College of South China, New York: United Board for Christian Colleges in China, 1956 Walmsley, Lewis C, West China Union University, New York: United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, 1974 Watson, Andrew, Living in China, New York: Littlefield, 1977 Page 225 Page 226 ================================================================================