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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1925.

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TO-MORROW AT THE QUEEN'S.

HONGKONG ATHLETES'

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of

A dozen bloody battles could Hongkong représentatives have been fought, in the good old China at the Far Eastern Olympiad days, with the army of extra actors to be held at Manila, left by the and actrosses who appear in Mau. Empress of Canada at 5 p.m. rice Tourneur's magnificent picture yesterday. They included 18 foot- version of the familiar novel, bullers and 10 baseball players. "Lorna Deone", which is coming to-morrow to the Queen's Theatre.

Among those who loft our the

For weeks during the production of following:

this story, tho scones of which are · Football:-Lai Yuk-tat, Chan Inid in rural England and the Lon-So, Lam: Yuk-ying, "Wong Sui dom of the seventeenth century, tho wah, Li Wai tong, Chan Kwong, lot of the Thomas H. Ince studios, Hui Sting-iu, Wong Mes- where the pictura was made, liter-shuo, Lau Hing-cheung, Leung ally bulged with "characters" and Yuk.tong, WODg Pei chung. "types", Had it not boon for the Suen Kam-shun, Pang Kam- fact that the Ince lot covers nearly wing. Pang twenty acres, the producer would (reserves) Chan Woon-in, U Wing- have been hard pressed to find chan,Ng Kam-chuen, Loung spaos for the adequate handling of Wing tal.

his vast array of "talent".

Wa-hing . ad

For years Tourneur hos dreamed Baseballers: K.F. June (captain,); of filming some tremendous spec-8. L. Lee, Chan. Chan, A. Yer, toole which would "enable him to Chu Yat-kwai, Taoi Ping-fan, E. A. experiment to his heart's content Pan, S. S. Iice, and T. Chan. with some original idone as to the The general secretary in Ko proper methods of handling orawds. Sik-wai, and the treasurer and When he undertook the production ohinese secretary, Ling Put Cham. of "Lorna Doone" he decided that' it should be on a scale which would cutstrip in grandeur anything previously attempted, for the story furnished an ideal medium for just the sort of thing he had carried in mind.

More than .eloven hundred men and women were called for to appear in the brilliant court scenes and in the baptism scene in West- minster Abbey, according to the plans which he drew up, while for the thrilling fight scene outside the gute to the stronghold of the Doona fortress he demanded a thousand men and women.

There are four others, Leung Yuk Tong, footballer Richard Shim Shim, T. C. Cheng and A.. 8. Liu (baseballere), who cannot leave until the 13th.

Mr. Shim has been appointed general manager of the whole delegation from Hongkong.

Tennis Player-Ho Kalau and Runner Leung Ying-lun.

Athletes from Canton who pro- ceeded to Shanghai for the trials are also travelling by the Canada. They number nineteen volley-ball The postuming of the "extras" players and track and field candi- was munaged with efficiency. The dates. It is stated that a Bong- resources of all the log) costume kong man, Yik Chan-pong, has been chosen to play with the companies were taxed to the utmost to provide the period Canton volley-ball team.

costumes required for the produc-] · tion, but by having special outfits

made for all the principal charac-

tera of the cast at the lace studios. CHINESE CABARETS," knights, ladies, courtiers, ycornen, peasants, halberdiers and soldiers finally were turned out on a whole- sale scale. Each of them was

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The employment of young girls to enact scenes from well-known theatrical plays, which has been extensively done by Hongkong Chinese tea houses is now tabooed,

It is a four or five years ago since tea house masters first en- livened the dull, it noisy, atmosphere of tea rooms by eő- gaging singing girls at night. The innovation proyed an immenso LAST STAGE REACHED..

success, but about nine months After prolonged negotiations with age the more enterprising tea house one party after another, the much-proprietors decided to go one talked of scheme of building an further and engaged amateur girl industrial home for poor Chinese actresses to amuse customers. children has passed all but the leading establishments ornate stages last, and most important, detail of were set up, brilliantly lit with the preliminary arrangements. The coloured Gulbe. and budding project will be taken in hand as uctresses presented short scenes, in soon as a Director and instructors proper theatrical garments: for the Home have been secured. Efforts are being pushed forth in

In

Recently, due apparently to a'protest by the local theatres, the

this direction, and it will not be Government has prohibited theatri- long before a settlement is reached. cal plays in tes houses.

As will be remembered by many

readers the motive of the promoters The girls were extremely well

ia to build В home where paid, some of them earning several

waifs and street urchins, Buch hundred dollars a month.

those econ surreptitiously

hawking vegetables near the

markets, can receive a vocational

training and an elementary educa.

:

tion. A site has already been. TEETHING WITHOUT TEARS.

obtained from the Government,

and a matter which is engaging

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the attention of the promoters is the advisibility of secur og Silician Father as Director. of the Silician priosts has actually been approached and has already expressed willingness to accept the appointmont, providing his terms and conditions are accepted. The

Rov. gentleman' bas also furaished the promotora, their request, a rough estimate of the number of instructors reqdir.: ed and their salaries. The pro- moters will hold a meeting to-day for the purpose of drafting a reply to the Silicion Father."

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The misery and pain that many

It is the intention of the promo- little ones suffer through teething tors to raise a sum of $500,000 for time is expressed aloquently in the project. The construction of its of pitiful crying, fover, rofural the home will absorb about $200,- of food, and diarrhoea-or per- 000, but the Government will be

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