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HISTRIONIC TRAINING.

1657--1918.

GREAT ADVANCE MADE IN DINNERS TO COMMEMORATE

GERMANY.

Histrionic art has reached to- day in Germany a hitherto un- recorded, level. Never before has the German atage seen such a large number first-class actors upon its boards. Never before has the art of acting been prac tised with such seriousness devotion,

and

GREAT NAVAL BATTLES.

1.

THE HONGKONG TEL APH.

Famous British naval actions from 1657 to the surrender of the German Fleet in 1918 will be com memorated at dinners to be held at the Hotel Victoria this year by the Royal Navy Club of 1705 and 1786,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928.

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

Admiralty Fleet Orders issued The Kid Ensemble.

state that the dinners have been fixed as follows:

Tuesday, March 27-To com-

Moreover, the excellence of the acting is rivalled by the excellence memorate the capture of Fort St. ARTISTIC SHOE ORNAMENTS. of the stage management. Who Louis, Martinique, by II. M. S. han not heard of Max Reinhardt's Zebra (March 20, 1794). revolutionary methods? And have Tuesday, May

but also elsewhere?

The New Coiffure.

Soft Lighting.

to forget" w

TO SHOW THE EARS. CANDLES AS DECORATIONS. The kid ensemble, consisting of The feminino ear is once again Empty candlesticks are no longer I--To com-

hat, bag and shoes to match, is one making its shy appearance, for a considered decorativo, for the not such stage producers as Feh-eniorate Blake's victory at Santa of the most recent innovations, new style of hairdressing is becom- essence of success in furnishing One particularly smart set seen in ing popular, In which the the modern room is to create the ling, Engel, Jessner, Martin and Cruz (April 20, 1667)..

is drawn back Tuesday, June 6-To celebrate the Paris was of black kid and grey hair

belifnd impression of beauty also being a Piscator helped to set a higher standard, not merely In Germany, King's Birthday (June 3, 1865) and snakeskin. The hat was of the the ears, even with the bob or necessity. An empty candlestick, With this new hair howover charming, is not useful, that of the Prince of Wales (June small brimless type, with a soft shingle.. The training of the actor and 23, 1891), and to commemorate the crushed crown, flattering to almost mode the car is not show blantant-and should be filled with an exam- the art of staging are linked in-action between the Chesapeake and any type of face, because the soft ly, as in the Eton crop, but rather ple of candle art, for the wax kid drapes in folds like a piece of I peeps froni'a delicate, background columns are now made to fit in timately together. One deler-Shannon (June 1, 1813).

Friday, July 20-To entertain lusinous sikk.

of hair. At any theatre or dance with the general scheme and colour mincs the other. The existence

A single band of enakeskin en-already there will be at least 3 or of any room.

There are some rooms which enll of a large number of talented ac- the First Lord of the Admiralty tors and actresses calls for first-il to commemorate the Battle of circled it, and a similar piece strap-4 girls who have adopted this new

pod the bag, which was of the flat fashion, and, according to ono of for candle-light alone, especially class producers; while the modern the Nile (August 1, 1798).

Tuesday, October 23-To com- enveloped pattern, but the shoes the leading West End hairdressers, for intimate little dinner parties, producer can only work with

were the really distinctive item of new recruits are joining every day. when conversation flourishes in- talented actors who have received memorate the Battle of Trafalgar.

Tuesday, November 20.-To-com- this ensemble-black snakeskin Recently a Daily Mail reporter was stend of Bridge, the time of easy the finest teelinfent and artistie

Imoments in which women like the emorate the work of the Fleet shoes with low heels and straps, told:

all theatres of the Great War |(1914-1918),, culminating in the surrender of the German Fleet on November, 21, 1918.

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training. The days have long since passed when, in Germany, young genius got his schooling the boards of some third-rate pro- vincial stage and thence worked his way up into prominence, Numerous private and public schools of acting now give the disciples of histrionicism thorough training, and some

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these institutcs have done such fine work that they have been necorded academic rank.

The Training.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

TALENTED CHINESE LADY VOCALIST.

A distinctly novel and pleasing feature of the current programme In these institutes, the pupil at the Queen's Theatre is the ap actor receives his entire technical pearance of Miss Chee Toy in a equipment. Voice-production and number of vocal items. Coming gymnastles are the principal sub-here with an excellent reputation, jects, but tuition is also given in she well upheld it yesterday and fencing, dramatic history, costume was given a very warm welcome lere, Iterature and languages, by all who heard her. She ren- Indeed, since there is no sphere of dered a Chinese song, an English; life or knowledge upon which the ballad and a "jazz" number, and actor may not have occasion to was thoroughly at home in them draw, the view is held that heal. Miss Chee Toy has a very should take as one of his motors pleasant voice, and she enters well Young's famous saying:-

"Wer mun to live coeval with

the sun,

The patriarch-pupil would

be learning still."

into the spirit of her songs,

The main film on show is "The Side Show of Life," which

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based on W. J. Locke's "The Mountebank." This is the story The stage manager, himself of an English clown in a French must be a past master in the art of eireus who joins up in the War acting, for he has to led the others and becomes a Brigadier General and to control the whole pro- the British Army. Itomantic duction. Hin authority must be developments ensue, touched with beyond question, inasmuch as the an element of tragedy, and in- actors and actresses whom he is terest is maintained to the happy called upon to direct will only climax. Ernest Torrence and subordinate themselves willingly Ann Q. Nilsson take the leads, to his instructions if they feel ab- and they are both responsible for solute confidence in his capacity. It is his task to co-ordinate suit-some fine acting. It is an in-

teresting film, admirably, pro ably the artistic and technical duced.

staff at his command and thus make them serve to give perfect expression to his conception of the

draulic work which he is produe-influence of the literary laste of ing. He is the medium lietween the day, the presentation of many the completed Herary effort of thefa drama has been given a garb in- author who has embodied his congruous with its own nature and thoughts in the printed word and content; nothing could be more the actors who give to that word a living and visible form.

Talent of Intuition. Even more than the actor, the modern producer must possess the

out of place than such a proceed- ing as this, for every genuine work of fiction has its own innate and ypical character, and demands, with almost the force of natural law, its own proper and charne- teristic form of presentation.

talent of intuition, since he is Changes in Expression, called upon to give purpose and Had our managers kept this monning to the fundamental fea-truth clearly before their minds, tures of each actor's interpretar they would not have been misled, tion of his part and to co-ordinate

by the rapidly developing technical

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Shoe Buckles.

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OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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At

9 Slant.

Across.

2 Stato of being sheltered.

11 Long-handled dish,

13 Paltry toy.

14 Firmly Axed.

15 Short treatise.

31 Act of dressing..

38 Diminished,

10 Verbally.

4.

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-OR VERY GENITIFUL “

16 Symbola.

18 Noise made in lungs,

10 Brush.

21 Uncommon.

23 Steer wild.

25 Small ornamental mat.

Sour.

28 Last dinner course

20 Mark almed at

33 Tap.

35 Famous cricket ground."

89 Small bird.

41 Scent.

43 Framework of regiment.

44 Term" adopted to indicate, various

forms of the verb.

45 Ono who secures.

40. Flying animals.

47 Marino animal resembling a globo

of jelly.

48 Precititousness.

1. Exceedingly.

2 Tlavouring,

Act of leaving.

4 Dismal.

5 of little breadth.

@ Bolt.

7 Greek sylvan deity,

8 Plant of genus Ainus.

12 Leave.

15 Legend,

17 Substitute for glue.

23 One who rows..

22 Yielded.

24 Performer,

26 Further.

27 Skill.

30 Poruser.

32 Pantry.

33 Interweave.

134 Bodily form..

[38 Watch.

87 Noblemen,

39 Woals.

40 Mistaka

42 Corrode.

43 Public vehicles.

Yesterday's Solution.

ARCHES

JATRIM L NWARMUPO

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FOR BOTH

VICE VERSA

Women seem to be pleased at this Battery of soft, romantic light. chance to show their cars, again; Set the candles upon the mantel- them with the piece as .whole.possiblities of the stage inte ex- Almost every style of shoe other and why not, for, after all, many piece, two on the bureau, one tall Hence the production should beating the form above the content than sports shoes and Oxfords is ears are very beautiful? The hair one on a little table holding. dominated from the outset by some and making it a purpose in itself. trimmed with a buckle, and the can be dressed in this style, whether cigarettes and ash-trays, and per coneretely creative den.

Nor is this in any way, excus- This supreme law of stage proble, for the atmest Ealefiiscopic latest assortment shown in the ac-it is long, bobbed, or shingled; and haps two more to make a pool of duction is truly often sinnedres in the farm of dramatic cessary shops, contains many new who are just beginning to let their

it is especially popular among girls light in a distant end of the room.

Manufacturers have designed against. Like all present-day art,

years and attractffe buckled novelties.

hair grow again. It is quite sim-1 some very charming candles for modern staging suffers from expression during recent

have provided the manager with

mest 1928. There are Eastern dragons supervaluation of the abstract, ich opportunities of using his

Steel is by far the most popular Ele and very becoming to

people.

and scenes in tones that remind Whereas, formerly, staging as intensity in the matter of staging. buckle for ordinary wear, for any-

one of old carved ivory, and there factor in theatrical production was Moreover, the secule effects ren- thing, in fact, other than evening

are plain, brillantly-coloured wax underrated, it is now generally dered possible-particularly as dress. The latest in these are of

candles to carry out one's pot overrated; and the theatrical pro-regards illumination by modern inely cut steel. Steel beads are The rather theatrical fancy colour scheme: The very modern ducer, desirous of outdoing his competitors, is tempted to snatch stage engineering-give him ample used a lot to make solid, square, jewelled heels, thought to belong room, full of gay cushions, bril- scope for developing his ideas. oblong, or oyal shoe ornaments only to stage dress, are quite usual, liant, daring paintwork, should at new notions merely for them, all the more, should he be and now beads of all sorts and and it is considered quite smart to have jazz candles, which will echo sake of their novelty, without con-reful to make these opportuni-colours are the very nowest. With have the heels of one's evening the spirit of the furnishing. sidering whether the new is better ties subservient, not to any bythese, the most artistic bits of shoes studded with etones to match Cottage rooms full of blue china than the old or worse. Partly as a consequence of this hankering calon of his own, but wholly tapestry, or embroidery, is worked the buckle These are flashy, but should allow the old oak table to subservient to the underlying idea out, the tinted beads copying not so flashy when in Rhinestones reflect the gleam of willow-pattern after originality, partly under the of the play itself.

exactly the beaded bags.

CHOCOLATES GOING

CHEAP

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY

14, Queen's Road, O.

Tel. 0. 1877;

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

POP WHATS IN A HORN TO MAKE

SUCH NICE MUSIC?

WHY, THERE'S A REED IN THE MOUTA-PIECE VAND WHEN YOU BLOW AGAINST IT IT CAUSES A NOTE OF MUSIC, TO BE

PLAYED!

emeralds or sapphires.

THATS RIGHT, TAG. WHEN YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT

TAINGS JUST ASK POD-s

AE'LL TELL YOU

ANYTHING!

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IT'S BEEN PLAYED

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