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JAPANESE STAGE.

NON UNLIKE OR OWN.

drossod marionetios act their

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925.

CINEMA LAWS IN HOLLAND.

DOCTORS BAFFLED.

MUNICIPAL CENSORSHIP

APPLIED.

SNAKEBITE.

AFTERWARDS IN FLANDERS.

GIRL WHO WASTED AWAY. SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT. Out of their mingled earth tall

treas are sprouting, Wilhorod their laurale now,.,

their names unguessed;

anti-Hore,

There appears to be throe sorts of theatres in Japan, the classic

A mysterious caso of a girl who, soon after her 16th birthday, bite, succossfuly treated with The story of a case of cobra drama of the No, on which thore

After long discussions

started to waste away until, when Fitzsimons are several fascinating books in;

polyvalent English; the Ningyo-shibai, or Second Chamber has accepted the 3st. 13b, was the subject of an A. C. Bharadwaja, of Benaras, in the 19 years of ago, she weighed only vernom sorum is narrated by Dr. Doll-theatre, whore marvellously Cinomu Bill,

says a Hague inquest on a Shepherd's Bush the current number of the Indian manipulated and Korgeously correspondent

girl at Hammersmith,

Medical Gazette. Sarupir, a fomale Under this novel inw great The mother said the girl had patient, ngoil 20 years, was bitten pretty stories to the life; and the restrictions are placed on the tean detained in several 22lod by a cubra in the wotwork Kabuki, or popular stage, upon increase of vinpmas, and which there has just been publish nature of the films to be shown at her complaint. It was only at 12 noon on August 5, 1925. the pitals. Specialists wore puzzled the loft index finger and thumb ed a notable book by Zoo Kincaid will bo subject το Macmillan. It appears further sovere censorship. Every mun-he induced to take foud, and she plately cured on August 7, 1925. vory with difficulty that she could The patient was discharged com- that the Japanese havo developed foipal couneft will bo authorised never wanted to go to sleep. AnThe polyvalent serum was in- a wonderful tradition of acting to forbid the creation of new X-ray examination failed and play production, which is picture-houses, whilst they can show any signs of organic dis- the poison had totally pormented tejected as late as six hours aftor carried on from father to son by reject any fiu as unsuitable, Sage. a sort of casto or guild of theatric notwithstanding the fact that the

the system. Although in this al peoplo. Their theatre is open State censor has approved it.

Dr. Brunte. pathologist, said case the snake had been caught from sunrise to sunset; on-They may also consur announco-

his post-morton examination and was known to be a cobra, it thusiastic playgoers like our mente on placards,

bills own) often set out the night boforo, hoardings, or the wording of atrophy from

showed that death was due to is claimed by the manufacturers and put up at special inns to be advertisements.

inanition' cut that the serum being polyvalenti in tirne: they kneel on cushions

sequent on starvation through is equally effective against any in their little boxes of the pit and

In case of a second offence, the inability to assimilate food, He variety of enako venom. In view the gallories, and have to be- Councils will have the right to had only heard of one similar of the fact that over 20,000 peo- tween the plays or the nefs, and close the cinema in question for applaud their favourite actors, not longer than half a year.

Acase, and most exhaustive ple die of snake bite in India just as we do; thoir stage, unlike third offence may close the microsenpic examination failed every year, this treatmont, says. murs, is not Hot in a frame, but cinema altogether. A special open; it revolves, so that the censorship will be organised for

to throw any light on the matter. Dr. Bharadwaja, should prove Acenery of the second act may be films for young people under Kot ready while the first is in pro-eighteen, |gress, says a writer in the Lon-

don Morning Post.

There are also actors, whose [photographs suggest acting in the grand manner, whose faces, gestures, and postures are expres- sivo of ovory motion, who study tho significance of overy move- ment, who are indeed truo masters of their art, born and bred to the theatru.

The first Danjuro and the first Tojuro appeared in the seventeenth century, and their descendants, the sixth or seventhi Tojuro or Danjuro, appear to be going still.. There is also a specialised class of actors who act women's parts, for, as in our Elizabethan stage, man mon-

oplisos the Japanese theatre. And lastly and incidentally-there is the sakusha, the to-make-man or playwright, who is a mere drudge of the altors, a menial to Carry out their commands." There are secondary sakusha to write the preliminary acts, for the early morning when it does aot really matter so much, and a chief sakusha to write the chief) act which gives the great actor his great role. The chief wakusha first comes to his world-deci- sion" that is, he chooses from? the world at large the subject of his play, he submits it to the ap

5000000000000000000004 Iproval of actor and manager, sol.|

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of A losser quality, writing brushes, and five tablets of ink. writes his play, submits it, sends a copy to the police, and gets puidi two or three hundred yen, and sometimes a royalty: Altogether, with some points of difference, the Jupanose stage is very like our own, and what, we chiefly learn from this delightful book is that human nature rules to theatre in the East as in the West.

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A verdict of "Death from very useful if it gives such good

results as in this caso.

| natural casse" was recorded.

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where they died to save us, nothing doubting,

Sholtored from our forgetfu!- Falls once again the twilight of

noss they rest.

November:

Those gave their lives when

life was at the Muy.

Have 1 the right to whisper, “I

remember "?

I was not with them when they

marched away.

All that they never had was mino,,

full measure, Dying, they passed to me thoir

heritago

Love. friendship, toil, achieve.

ment, learning, leisure," Voices of children, golden mid-

dle age.

And, with it all, the knowledge.

never stoeping.

Though nono reproached, that

I was not as they,

That Life is won by losing, lost

by keeping-

I was not with them when they

marched away.

"An Unknown Civilian,"

the Observer,

in

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