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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, Tuesday, DECEMBER 22, 1936.

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C2297 Song Memories of the Past (Organ) C2300 Christmas Memorics

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VERY now and then those who are interest- ed in the theatre ask what is wrong with it.

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TUESDAY, Deceanen 22, 1936.

WORLD TRADE

OUTLOOK

There is evidence on all hands

Richard Crooks. that Britain is definitely emerg- Richard Crooks. Richard Crooks. ..Richard Crooks. depression. It is also shown, by statistics issued by the Inter- national Labour Office, that the current year has almost every- where witnessed improved in-

ing from the long years' of trade

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with 1935, but this has not been somarked as in-the-case....of. Britain. Unemployment is being slowly reducel in most countries,

are crippling it. Somebody will speak of the dearth of amateurs, somebody else of the dearth of good acting.

But nobody ever diagnoses the disease correctly. The theatre has gone lo pieces because audiences have no more vitality than blocks of wood.

effect.

Players

are too

polite, says

THIS WRITER

B

SZERZATA HAJUJE

IGGEST amateur theatrical season for several years is under way in Hongkong.

Philharmonic have just completed "Maid ' of the Mountains” season, may produce again in the Spring. European Y.M.C.A. Pantomime starts to-day, and A.D.C. is casting about for. a new play.

the rapacious faces in the booking offee or hear the sales-talk in the upper offers of the bullding, he would be less inclined to lend the silence of aequiescence to a afth- rate plece of work.

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And mark this. If the audience once began to wake out of its tur- They are afraid to make an uproar

por

critics and nssert itself, the when 'a play displeases them. Dis-

would have to change their tune. It would be no good condoning approval is loft to a few people with

rubbish after what the French call independent minds, who feebly cry Middle And Me Make A Ki Ah Omäki Kiruina dediyin ular de pestauranterat n brouhaha and'a tohubolu in the "ben" In one or two of the newspapers

nuditorium. There would be There is, and a very simple one. -when NC-

bottles, copper coins, fruit and waist- healthier standard of criticism, and realise that they tive criticism

Let the audience merely have the coats.

producers would It was not thus in Barcelona, were no longer dealing with sheep. is too late to courage to express its anger as loud- where a Httle bluck wasp of a gipsy

It is the Arst step that counts. have any ly as it now expresses its pleasure, woman Was hnuloci across the 1

and there will soon come a change. orchestra-plt. and thrown out by the have more than once started a minor who write these winged words

It is the dreadful veneer of lower main exit. It was nal thus

in brawl by ironical laughter or loud the middle-class politeness that has done Bordeaux ten years ago, when the protest. After a prim silence other ocen- the mischief.

audience preferred its own songs to voices have supported mine. Many, those on the stage, and sang them given a lead, have been glad to use SHALL be told in å grent thundering chorus. ३

of their critical faculties Instead I thy fools, it is A very merry time a critle would sitting like aluffed chimpanzees. truc, but I shall be told it) that his dirty talk of courtesy, fair play, heads the iden

have had on those occasions, with vaini

you could once net into prople's that, having paid a violent expression of boredom toleration, and all the rest of it. their money, they are entitled to or disapproval should not be allowed will warrant the poor little beast object to inferior entertainment, the Interfere with the pleasure of would have scuttled off like a rat, theatre would become healthier, those who like the play. To which leaving his stiff shirt behind him. because they would have lo

take I reply that a violent expression of

notice of a dangerously alert nudi- HE average Eng- ence which will no longer be content

llshman, where to give tacit conne

of people

On

rate

to

approval is always allowed to inter- fere with the displeasure of those who detest the play. What of my feelings when that ripple of idiotic pays through the nose for a seat able hysteria of a score

who could, with advantage to ull clapping greets vile chuterie or senti- at a play, has an idea that honest men, be replaced by mechani- mental balderdash? It was not thus he is in some way the guest of the cal figures.

in the old days when they had to management; that he is in a large ring down the curtain to protect the private house, and has been honoured wretched performers from lying by an invitation. Could he but see

J. B. M.

AMATEUR ACTING

brush.

neither yourself nor the character

Season you are trying to act. Every part, no

Words in

to the Beginner.

By GERARD FAY

Final Artiolo

inatter how small, must be studied until the last possible frogment of theatrical meaning has been extracted from it.

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but not to the same extent as sions when an audience has forgotten You

7OU can make your hair grey in several ways. For men, hair the recovery in industrial output.,what the crities impudently call good preying at the temples can be sug- Greater internal industrial pro-

manners, and has expressed its gested by use of No. 20, white.paint duction is, of course, one thing, peared the next day in print some For women, or for men who are to disgust with a play, there has ap-which should be carefully faded out at the edges to give a natural effect.

The relations between the actor- and world trade another. passing reference to the lack of be grey all over, white or aluminium

and spectators is the most fascinat- ing aspect of acting. To feel a power powder well applied gives a very Britain is vitally concerned in decorum of "those in the cheaper

natural effect. Don't try to wash

over the audience, an ability to draw Ha! Pray, powder out of your hair; use

its laughter, its tears or its applause, foreign trade, and it is therefore scats." Cheaper. seats!

the fullest reward to an actor what did the crities or the dyed and Some people use a dry shampoo

for his laboura, In order to under regrettable that world commerce plastered women pay for their seats? for greying purposes, and it has the.

stand the reactions of numbers of advantages of being good for the hair

people, it is essential to understand and brushing out easily. Similar to the aluminium powder mentioned dramatic art, both in writing and the reactions of individuals, and the

Reacting.

actor must try to be broad-minded THE

HE docile public has above is a gold powder which is very Surveying the field of comedy from and sympathetic to all types of men

been told dozens of useful for giving a glitter to dull hair the seventeenth century to the pre- and wornen.

in young parts. Be careful to keep sent day, it is early to see justifica- times that the actors and actresses all powder obed in all over is the action to comedy gives the actor a self audible, and (with the co-opera-

clothes.

tion for this belief. The definite re- to his audience is that of making him- The first courtesy an actor owes Grease rubbed

as a whole has not yet shown a Not a sou. general tendency to recover. да

strong sense of power over his watchers, and induces a feeling of visible to the largest possible number

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In comedy, too, speed

of abuse some shows would take on between the various types of you can generally allow the audience; der too much to the audienc

The

it had dropped about one-third, it has a long climb it ever it is to regain its former position. Without question, the policy of are not to blame for a bad play: only way to remove grease paint. But if the poor actors and On no secount should you attempt national self-sufficiency now en-

to wash it off, though a wash in hot actresses were met with a storm water after removal is useful. forced by so many countries is

Some amateurs seem to have dif- is essential, though the pace can be any sympathy from an audience it one of the biggest factors in pre-1

it cannot hear him and see him. At in catching the essential dis little slower than in farce. In farce, the same time, no actor should pan- venting international trade ex pains not to produce drivel.

acting. Obviously a very different to laugh just as long as it wants to, ector owes bath to himself and tite pansion. The consequence is

To-day, they rely on the abomin-technique is required for farce than but in comedy, where the plot is author un ideal of artistle integrity, that we cannot hope for any abic "refinement" of the audience sees actors playing both with very audience should be kept well under in order to draw the attention of the

more that used for tragedy, but one often often of

Importance, the and he must never let the play suffer to unload rubbish. For the critics,, little contrast. marked growth until there is a

control so that the sequence of the audience. who not only pay nothing, but It is a widespread, and very mis- play will not be spoilt. | generally-adopted revision of actually earn money, can be trusted taken belief among amateurs that There is a big temptation to get Money's Worth

to write so many broad acres of farce is the easiest form of drama, the very last possible laugh out of economic policy. Something is, vague comment that even their Without any doubt, it is the most an audience, but it is one that should however, being done by the con- praise; and the frantic applause of sons of teamwork are required to comedy will never get across if you although the aim of amateur acting No play really exists until it has faint disapproval can be quoted as difficult. Years of practice and sea- be resisted. A

subtle point in been presented to an audience, and clusion of trade agreements D the amateur's friends, is easily give the necessary polish and slick- don't "point" It. Pause, slowing up, is self-amusement, the amusement of occasion arises, in which connec-

twisted Into a triumph.

ness to a company specialising in and alteration of volume can all the audience must be considered as Is there a remedy, you cry,

for farce.

be used (together if necessary) to the first duty of all connected with tion the British plan of entering this state of affairs?"

draw attention to a good point. The Speed of Farce

In a play. In most cases, the audience into new trade relationships with

both farce and comedy all the actors puts up the money to enable actors must be extremely caroful of Inugh- to engage in their favourite pastime. ly dispels the Hlusion. ing at the funny lines, for this entire and the least the actor can do is to see that the audience gets its money's worth.

commerco.

Two points which must be re-

pace.

A

am aware of many omissions in this series, many points dismissed in. pages written about them, but I as a few lines that should have had

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as many countries as possible is signatories, but it might well membered by amateurs in playing undoubtedly proving beneficial. serve as an example to others faree are particularly noticeable in The great need of the times-a and thus.uventually lead to a speed. Nearly every cue must be

the work of experts. The first is As in Everyday Life need which is daily becoming worldwide breaking down of the must be spoken as fast as the sense play in which the main appeal lies taken up without pause, and lines A drama might be defined on A more evident is the removal of barriers. which obstruct the will allow. This is no excuse for in a conflet of human ambitions or sure my readers that this is not a those hampering

gabbling the words, for with practice, reactions. The majority of straight result of carelessness on my part, or restrictions interchange of goods and dis-you can speak at a great speed and plays fall into this category. which stop the normal flow of astrously react

an underestimation of my sublect's both on national yet appear to be using your usual The situations are generally, not importance. It is merely an inevita

far removed from everyday life, and ble result of trying to compress Britain is particu- and international commerce. The second point is that in the the characters are mostly ordinary huge range of matter into a small larly anxious that this question polley of national self-sufficiency at the characters, not with them. Al- stand, and, therefore, more easily re-

majority of farces the audience laughs people whom the actor can under space. shall be tackled, and it is widely, cannot produce the desired

though the nctor may consider his present.

I hope, at any rate, that what I' Sincerity and restraint have written has been of assistance hoped that she will soon be able sults; by its very nature it has impression that he is merely acting choructer to be portrayed are im- that they will not hesitate to ask for part a huge joke, he must give the along with a careful study of the to some amateur actors, and I trust to opposite effect:

in a normal and natural manner. portant lines of approach to the more information on any obscuro or the United States, to the mutual economic conceptions are needed, of funny parts, and is the secret off Never make the mistake of saying at great amateur theatre mavement. Saner This rule applies to a great number creation of part In a straight play. doubtful points. It is my ambition.

to play some small part in the pre- "this character la really myself trans Comedy comes second. to farco in ferred to the stage," and trying to and I am truly anxious to give any difficulty, but for above it in artistle play the part through the medium assistance possible to those who do. content. Many people hold that of your own personality. You will me the compliment of thinking me comedy represents the apex of merely schleve mething which is capable of 16.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. conclude an agreement with the

STORE OPEN FROM 8.30 a.m. TO 6 p.m. XMAS EVE TO 7 p.m.

re-

benefit of both countries. Such and, when they are followed up A move would not only be wel-by action, the outcome must be como from the viewpoint of the of general benefit.

many comedians.

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