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A FEAST OF MELODY AND MOTION.

TUESDAY,

ASSAULT MEANT AS A "JOKE."

SMALL BOY'S CASE AGAINST

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AUGUST 9, 1927.

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Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this morning A departure from practice was Despite counter-attractions, heard an adjourned case, in which seen in a concert, under the there WAS а fair. gather a butcher at the Central Market auspices of the Y.M.C.A. Enter- ing in the Queen's Theatre was charged with assaulting a talriment Sub-Committee, | Inst night, to hear Podol small boy just because the latter Inst evening to members of the sky play and to see Mirova dance, withheld from him his patronage. Royal Air Force, and held at the And the audience went away well The boy stated that he was R.A.F. encampment at Cameron pleased with the treat given them kicked and trampled upon with Road, Kowloon. The idea of a

RAWALPINDI by Leo Podolsky and Vera Mirova. wooden clogs, and he showed an concert to Air Force men originat-

Podolsky is not a newcomer to injured knee-cap to the Magistrate, ed "with certain .A.F. officers MOREA

One of the witnesses in the case, stationed here, and a band of DEVANHA Hongkong, and those who had

a neighbouring willing contributors

soon came KHYBER Histoned to his masterly pianoforte a butcher from playing before, went again, and stall, averred that it was only a forward, an excellent entertain- MALWA he pleased them as much as ever. joke, even though the boy sustainment resulting. Opening with the Bach-Stradaled a black-eye and an injured knee. "Organ Concert," the pianist took The Magistrate: Not so much of his hearers through all the moods a joke about it.

Witness: Well, it started as a and emotions of which the piece consists-dreamy, inspired, and Juke. rising to great classical heights.

His "Romance" of Schumann and Brahms rhapsodie were perhaps

The boy stated that when invit better appreciated. by those

to ed by the defendant to patronise who Would rather listen

connected work, and drew his stall, he walked on, saying, forth much "applause. Podol-"I am going over to the other sky has lost

of the stall" none genius for execution of effective passages that we recall of old, and one recognises in him the master

a

executant.

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He was pushed down and kicked, is that a joke? Yes, that was meant as a joke.

His Worship: Why did you give him such an answer?

The boy replied that he had once been sold state meat at the de-a

fendant's stall.

His two musical poems "of Addressing the defendant, his Scriabine, and the "Moonlight" of Worship, said: "You are fined Debussy, which came in the second $20, and you are to pay $2 com- part of the programme, were penation and also to sign a per- masterpieces played in the way sinal bond of $50 to keep the months. If you that one looks for in the world's penee for six best pianists, and one was loth come up again you will lose $50 to hear the end of them. As ajand perhaps go to gaol also." finale Podolsky gave his audience.

In taste of Chopin, and here again The appreciation was hearty and unstinted. He was encored, but one would fain have had even more.

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CHOPIN RECITAL.

MOISEIWITSCHI ROUSES

ENTHUSIASM.

At the Theatre Royal last night, Benny Moiseiwitsch carned the distinction of attracting one of the gest audiences which ever as sembled in Hongkong to listen to pianist, and his superb playing will long he remembered.

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able of the show. One of the ladies who was to have sung, Mrs. J. Sanderson Smith, was unable to appear, owing to indisposition, and there were one or two other changes in the programme, but no fewer than twenty items were contributed, with a number of encores.

Of the serious vocal items, the songs of Mrs. M. Minney, already favourite with Service audiences, and Sergeant King, R.A.F., were greatly appreciated, and encores were demanded. The humorous Wement was found in the comic songs, equally comic costumes, and mannerisms of Messrs. Gaskin, Millar, Hughes, Hawkins, Beine. Masher, and Hinton. Mr. Millar in "I don't care" made a particu- lar hit.

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TALAMBA

Three dancing numbers similar to those given at the "Better 'Ole". on Thursday, the Japanese Fan Dance. Jazz, and Dancing Dolls, were given in the course of the evening, and Miss Marian Bryson KIDDERPORE also contributed her much-appre- MOREA çinted Irish Jig. The costumes NAGFORE were again effective, and the KHYBER

number ST. ALBANS "house" greeted each with applause. Additional to NYANZA. these were a jazz dance by two MALWA dainty little girls, Dorothy Tollan KASHMIR and Betty Pestonji, who had to re- peat it to prolonged clapping, and' clever Highland dances by Miss Lorna Tollan, whose sword dance was particularly fine..

Equally appreciative was the gathering of Mme. Mirova's dancing. It.

and was superb, finished to a degree. From the moment of her first poses, timed with such magnificent precision, and interpreting all the movements of the musical accompaniment, one was captivated. It was de- lightful fram start to conclusion. In an interpretation of the Sars-

of bande

Rameau-Godowaky,. Mirova made wonderful use of her expressive arms, and the Inter- mezza (Brahms), which followed, was also superbly rendered. The

Flying Officer A. A. Jones, on second half of the programme saw

behalf of the B.A.F.. expressed her reappearance is a charming

So great an artiste as Moisei- their great appreciation, at the piece "Old Vienha" (Godowsky),

He thanked, Miss where the dainty movements in witsch naturally discloses tem- conclusion. Trinoline costume Iminediately peramentality in his art, and it is O'Keefe for arranging the dances, with which as well as all the others who had took the fancy of the house, and the wonderful case

treated contributed towards the evening's it had to be repeated in response decorative passages are to prolonged applause.

that has caused the world's ac-enjoyment. knowledged critics to designate him "The Sensational Pianist."

With the exception of two items, the recital was entirely devoted to Chopin, and although the in- this favourite terpretation of composer, as conceived by Moisei- a virility not witsch, portrayed usually accorded, the brilliance of execution and technique was deed amazing.

in-

The various musical numbers were accompanied by Mrs. J. R. Suiter, Mrs. R. Pestonji, Miss Bella Pestonji, and Mr. Aylem.

"SNAPPY" STUFF.

But possibly the most delightful dance of all was that of a Nautch girl where the motions were a is listeners last night were joent of romance, reminiscent of kept in-n state of rapture, as he the filu temples and cobras, and demonstrated his ability, and each other glamour of the East. This item rendered met with prolonged

"OUR CABARET" AĠAIN Cunt as was the next danre, was applause. The inclusion of two

PLEASES. encored. The final offering was a numbers by Chasins, "Flirtation Robot performance, proving that, in a Chinese Garden" and "Rush

Merry wit being indispensable in their execution by a consum-Hour in Hongkong,", depicted male danscuse, even mechanical quaintly Eastern atmosphere, requirements these trying times, movements may retain the poetry alhough the contrast with the Our Cabaret" again attracted a

of motion.

HOW EMIGRANTS ARE "HAD."

FIVE INDIGNANT VILLAGERS.

Much shouting coming from, the steerage in the ss. Shiu On while he ship was on her voyage from Macao to the Colony, on Sunday afternoon, greatly perturbed the passengers, most of whom thought that they were about to be attack- ed by pirates. Their anxiety was uventually eased when they learn- ed that it was only the noise of a heated dispute between two parties of Chinese passengers in the steerage.

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main programme was rather too

severe.

large crowd to the Star Theatre last night, when "Snappy" was At the conclusion of the recital, provided as a change from the a vociferous ovation was accord- original programme.

It is impossible to pick out any ed. to which Moiseiwitsch reitem for particular praise, when sponded. with two encores,

all have their individual claims to to be hoped that we shall have

content our- attention, and we

It is

another opportunity of listening to

such a master in the near future.

MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE.

A QUEEN'S REVIVAL.

storm

selves with remarking that for ΟΙ the sheer originality some togas seen last night are the best we have seen here. In "Bottles," for instance, the Company, after chanting a variety of bottles in- cluding "bluebottles," clinked these articles in musical harmony, their clever performance being

with a

of rewarded applause. "Monsieur Beaucaire," the O humour, this commodity was second of the pictures chosen for dispensed in generous measure by revival nights at the Queen's Mr. Charles Chamfer, Mr. Billy Theatre, will he screened to-day Bray, Mr. Charles Mason and Mr. their Fred Collier, while imz speciality dances, Rita and Delia Vivienne did much to contribute to the variety and success of the performance.

and to-morrow.

Five Chinese, apparently

Adapted from the story by Booth villagers, accused two other Chin- Tarkington, Monsieur Beaucaire" ese of trying to entice them to go is a film that is well worth seeing overseas. In the Heung Shan dis again for several reasons, not the triet sometime ago these two men least being the splendid acting of told the five villagers that in Rudolph Valentino in the principal Hongkong they would easily be role. The period of the story is able to get wages of 70 or 80 cents the court of Louis XV of France a day, working

settings are labourers. and the 19 Being poor, and unable to get magnificent scale. employment in the country, these

The chief film at the World five therefore unsuspectingly de- cided to follow the two tempters Theatre to-day and to-morrow is to Hongkong. In the s.s. Shiu "In Hollywood With Potash and

on

On the five men overheard the Perlmutter," which deals with the two others talking to one another adventures of the famous partners about going to a foreign country. in the movie business. These ad- ventures are not a little amusing and hence their suspicions were

and there is more than one big aroused.

thrill. "In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter" is a First Nation- al production with a notable cast headed by Alexander Carr and George Sydney. The sub-titles have been specially written by Montague Glass, the man who created the famous partners.

When the Shiu On arrived in the Colony, all seven men were taken to the Police Station, states the vernacular press,

Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, the Chinese delegate at the Geneva Conference, arrived in the 'Colony on Sunday morning from Italy by a Japanese steamer on his way to Canton. He, stayed in the Great Eastern Hotel for one day and left for Canton,

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in Canton will be a brief one and that he will return to the Colony in three or four days en route to the north;

An enquiry was held by Major C. Willson at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday afternoon into the death of Wong Kau, a convict, who

To-night the same programme will be repeated.

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The defendant in that case was

while serving a term of seven yeara hard labour for-armed rob- acquitted by the Central Magis- bery, died shortly after neon yes-trate, and the prosecution in the terday at the Gaol Hospital. The present case therefore were ap- enquiry was adjourned until this plying for leave to withdraw.

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