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NOTES OF THE DAY

BE NEIGHBOURLY

China is blamed by Japan for apolling the hope of lasting peaco In the Far East. There can be no peace, anys General Dolhara, inter- viewed in Shanghai, unless China Japan her

WHAT IS THIS ACTORS' EQUITY?

By GODFREY TEARLE

\X7HAT exactly does tho word "closed shop" principle-.., to pro-

"Equity" mon to the aver vent any artist from

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTERS. by Jidiot Lowell

The Call Of The Wild To an Automobile Salos Corpora- tion.

Dears Sira:

I am very interested in your wonderful care, because thore could be no better cars for long

cesses to regard de agitation against Tokyo comes to and end. age playgoer aftting in the stalls the stage in either country who is We suggest that China is not to "MOBILUBRICATION" blame if, indeed, the prospect of watching Miss, the glamorous not a member of one or other

trips and rough roads, and that a peace in Asia is in any way blight young musical comedy star, "put-body. GREASING

ed. We suggest that China has ting over the big song and danco In fact, any American artist who the reason why I would like to good cause for looking upon Japan hit in her latest show? SERVICE

comes to this country and appears would sound exactly like Tarzan's beautify, it more with a horn that 48 A potential enemy and that there MAKES EASIER

A few years ago the mention in a play hero is expected to bo-call to the wild animals, because is good reason why Chinese people should feel resentment against the of "Equity" in connection with come a temporary paying member there are thousands of people that people for whom General Dolhara theatrical matters referred simply of British Equity, and the same would just love to hear that sound. speaks. Had Japan wanted a good neighbour in China she would have to the activities of a powerful stage applies to a British artist acting over and over again, and mostly womon, so you see why I want refrained three years ago from trade union in America. But some in the United States. following to a costly conclusion the time ago "Equity" crossed tho. What, I shall be asked, has Manchuria project, but since she Atlantic, and gradually Its name Equity done for the 4,000 actors norved her own interests there, at has been more and more frequently and actresses who are now enrolled some expense to China, she has only quoted in all places and publications ins Its members? Well, it has herself to blame if rancour remains over the episode. Now, if Japan where news of the London stage is persuaded producing managements desires to regain the trust of China, to be found.

and I am glad to say that most it must surely be her place to show genuine interest in her neighbour's

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February, 10th: ALARAKIA:-On

1035, at 2 p.m. at 8 Calne Road, Sakina, age 29, daughter of Mrs. S. Alurakin. Funeral will pass the Monument at 8 am, on 20th February, 1935.

The term British Equity may of the responsible managements welfare, apart altogether from what have conveyed very little indeed to needed little persuading to give she may get out of it. Un- the average playgoer hitherto; but artists a fair and square deal, both fortunately, whatever Japan docs without dwelling here on any in- as regards salary and rehearsal to win back China's friendship, dividunt controversy in which conditions,

it

is probable she will be suspected of has been or la engaged-It is be furthering some selfish end. She

LINKING THE AMERICA'S

**

Perhaps most important of all,

one.

Vory truly yours,

...........(uigned).

A horn like Tarzan's call to the wild animals.

•

A Friend In Need

has lost the confidence of the Chin-coming clear that the playgoing ene people. Germany might have public na a whole may and its at-It has given actors and actresses asked for a sign of friendship and tention Increasingly directed "be-security of employment by inalat- trust from France while she re-hind the tained Alsace-Lorraine. But she which entertain it.

scenes" of the theatres ing-in enaen where such précau- | could-not honestly have expected

tion seems to be desirable-that no complete forgiveness. Nelther can

management shall undertake a new Japan.

As in the United States, stagepositing or producing evidence of production without first of all de- trade unionism in thla country the existence of a sum of money To a Coract Company. found its beginnings in those bad

sumclent to guaranteo every per- Sir: While we keep our attention old days when the bogua maunger DR. MOON HUNG CHAUN, passed fixed on more spectacular things, was a rampant evil of the theatefeat former at least two weeks' solary.

Is I mot you at the Stevens one of the greatest public works profession. Case after case wna peacefully at his residence away Belfron Road, on projects ever devised by human be coming to light of touring com- previously of companies rehearsing you was you remember the fine There were far too many cases Hatal, Chicago back in 19007 You were there, airn't you? Well, if Monday, 18th February, 1936, atings is slowly coming nearer to

This la the great panies which had been stranded in without any payment for several impression 2.60 p.m. after a brief illness.completion.

I make on you and The funeral will take place on motor highway which will, some out-of-the-way places without any weeks for plays which ran for a cause I ain't got a job and you a Wednesday morning, the cortege day, link Alaska with Argentina means; of artists who had re- few nights only--and for which big sales manager, how about leaving the residence at 10a.m... and provide a smooth, up-to-date hearsed without pay for a month therefore the performers received giving me Chicago? arriving at about 11 a.m., at the roadway for tourists all the way up Vehicular Ferry Wharf, Hong-

or more finding themselves in re- less than a week's salary for, say,

Your friend I think, kong side, and a service will be and down the two American con held at the Church at the Chinese tinents. It will be 15,000 miles mole provincial lodgings salaryless, five weeks' hard work.

Herbert E......(signed).. Of this without even the money to рау Christian Cemetery at Pokfulumong, when completed.

length, some 8,500 miles will be their landladies and their fares achieved, the problem has been how These badly needed reforms north of the Panama Caual; and it home. These and other evils-to ensure their maintenance. We that women are daily exposed to "We should like also to point out is note-worthy that all but about such as 1,800 miles of this North American ment of the rank and file of the established and reputable manage-sion of undesirable personal

the serious underpay-are not suggesting that the firmly annoyances of this kind [the intru section is now passable for auto- mobiles. Nearly half of the route profession and the tendency to usements will go back on their word. many post offices in Great Britain.”. from Fairbanks, Alaska, to the the stage as n dumping ground for

-Memorandum of the National United States is in service. Mean-e rely unqualified amateurs with But unfortunately there are Association of Women Civil Ser- while, to the south, natos can pro-a axed conviction that they could other managementa--some of them vants. ceod from Texas to Mexico City act-the early formed stage asso- emphemeral whose records have without difficulty, and more than

at 12 noon.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

roléc the

Love's Labour Lost

Even when poets and worship-

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Ugg Elected

Kr. Okeh Sexyu (Japan)

106 votes

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TUESDAY, FEB. 19, 1936.

NOT SO SIMPLE As in England, so in the third of the route from Texas to ciations feared themselves (so not inspired auch confidence, and pers of beauty enter on tiptoe in

Pasama is open. United States, there is consider steadily, this tremendous highway of abolishing,

So, slowly but many of us considered) incapablely by insisting upon a "elased Spring, pelt them gracefully with

wild roses

and dewy woodland shop"that is to say, employment flowers, and invite them to the able diversity of opinion as to takes shape; and not the lenst

of 100 per cent. Equity companies dance, It is

rare to 500 the the best methods of dealing with striking thing about it is the fact

for future West End stage pro-austerity of those sweet, cold faces unemployment relief. It is not that it is coming into being for a

To prevent the exploitation of ductions can we be in a position relax, or a warmer beam dart from a difficult tank to devise means different set of reasons than any the British stage by unprincipled to challenge any management which those virginal spectacles that are which would provide work for

of the famous highways of the old theatrical managers at the expense attempts to revert to the conditions the despair of so many. days. the jobless, but many of the

of its workers, an extremely strong of the bad old days. Directly non- solutions along these lines are OLD ROADS OF ROME organisation VARA needed which Equity membera begin to creep found to have reactions which

would unite all actors and actresses Into West End shows disintegration would be undesirable from the.

As we predicted exclusively in S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. purely economic point of view. utilitarian, with a strong military ly beneficial result,

The old ronds were strictly within its Tanks;" and, "as a direct becomes a real danger.

this column a few weeks ago, Mina. Ugg, the Eskimo novelist, hus, The subsistence-homestead plantinge. Those far-flung ronds that

the entertainment

amid great literary excitement, is a case in point. Its aim is tied the Roman empire together andard of to get more people back on the were laid out, first and foremost, being put before the public which We are now therefore claiming been elected International Organi-

that in every to provide easy passage for the keeps the theatre alive. And so,

sing Secretary of the P.E.N. Club. contract given to Final poll: land, in which respect it bears Roman legions. Their secondary in May 1930, the British Actors' actors and actresses for a West Egg (Greenland), some resemblance to one of the features of Mr. Lloyd George's purpose was to promote the flow of Equity Association came into being inserted giving him or her the

End production, a clause should be "aby Potter's War) No one travelled along commerce.

Skallaballa (Terra del Fuego) suggested New Deal. Washing-them for pleasure; any Roman who It was modelled on a similar but right to refuse to act with non Percy Bysshe Shelley ton despatches indicate that the had suggested that a road be built earlier association formed in the Equity members. We do not want Mr. P. B. Shelley, a wild-looking There is a mystery about this Government may develop this through forest, mountain, and United States and known as the the playgoing public to think that plan on an elaborate scale dur desert simply to enable idle folk to Actors Equity Association of We are threatening them. We old gentleman who apparently ing the present year, and it is travel to places where necessity did America, which has been working think that we have done good work rushed in at the last moment with suggested that nearly a billion ed upon as inaane. So it has been Association for the mutual benefit the profession as a whole and there- Mannfn, claiming to be one of the not call them would have been look-in conjunction with the Managers' so far, which will be a benefit to an introduction from Miss Ethel dollars may be used to put some with nearly all the international of employer and employed. The fora to audiences themselves; we greatest lyrical English porta. He thing like a million families on highways since. But this Pan-British body has, in fact, entered are now simply asking the right to gained one vote, his own, and has ten-acre plots of land. The American highway is something into an agreement with the Ameri- ensure that that good work should since disappeared. A P.EN. Club central point of the scheme is different. It is not to be a military can association to enforce the go on. that each family would be in- road, in any sense of the word. stalled in a comfortable house of the demands of commerce, Use- It is not coming into being becauso and equipped with a horse or a ful as the motor truck cow and enough seed for a year's to imagine it supplanting the is, it là hard planting. Figuring four persons steamship on the long haul from to a family, Government experts South America to New York. It point out that in this way they is being built, in other words, as a would take 4,000,000 people off luxury a tribute to the leisure and the relief rolls and make them mobility which enable modern man to wander to far places for his self-supporting, The money private edification. In that sense spent, furthermore, would not be it is a symbol of a new order of a dead loss, since much of it human existence. The greatest would be laid out in the form road ever built, it will exist simply

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STORANT

ISTOR

"Now, you're going to have to spend about a half hour washing the spinach, ma'am.'

official sald coldly yesterday:

"We had never heard of this Mr. Kelly, or Shelley, until he suddenly appeared, claiming to have written a poem called 'Adonate!'. ‚Enquiries ahow that this poem is unknown. He became very abusive, and hit | Mrs. Struggles and Miss Boddily

with an inkstand.”

Miss Mannin confessed shyly: I did not know Mr. Shelley, or Kelly, or his work, but he had such nice cues."

Miss Ugg merely took another enormous mouthful of "The Life of Joseph Chamberlain" (Vol. III.), choked alightly, grinnod, and went on bually chewing,

Who is Shelley?

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The great thing is not to bó scared. As the poot William Ernest Henley so finely said.

"And yet the menace of the ears Finds, and shall find, mo un2-

Afraid

Henley was not speaking lightly. People with large or cauliflower ears, were constantly menacing him by waggling or flapping them, For this reason he grow a largo black board, in no spirit of licence or frivolity, but in what Carlyle called "grim fire-eyed Defiance," It was, so to speak, Henley's "challenge" to Life. He "played the game." In a world full of ears of every shapo and

size Henley's example should Inspire us all as we trudge, or bleycle, along Life's pathway towards our goal, or gadf,

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