To the Editor of the {sNosru-Cixa Dany News."
Sir—In almost every factor my] qualifications to speak of, for oF Jagainst certain unfortunate atti-[tudes in foreigners towards Chinese, as defined in the "Shanghai Mind; ise superior to those of Mr. Arthur ide C. Sowerby. And since he asks the questions 1 beg leave to answer} have been executed and all we have} eft is wake of innocuous anti reign and anti-capitalist handbills, andthe same old-fashioned, thoroughly Westera, one might say, typically English, direct action, and collective bargaining by which the suffering Chinese labourers "are endeavouring to. lift themselves dove the animal. status. in' which they have lived: for hundreds of nese culture, ete, They have not the tim Te seems that the types. "O.D.R-nad in his mind's eye when evolving the definition of "the "Shanghat Mind" were probably some blast young men of his own acquaintance, hot exactly junior clerks, whose lei-cure hours are divided " between, azz and cabarets" and_ sporting around in motorcars which they have not paid for.
is an imprudent definition, and indicates superficial judgment, and T'do not think "O.D.R." has made Jout a good ease at all, Our German amateurs have ever set themselves so high a standard, and have ever coma near to achiev. ing it, that they may be pardoned for having shot wide of the mark their "presentation of Geore Kaiser's "Dio Papiermuchle." For this" must be the unbiassed. verdict upon their performance of Wednes-aa It is not that they relaxed in any} wise their customary study and meticulous rehearsal of what they undertake. It is simply that Kaiser's iiaint conceit, the idea of a poet Tevenging himself upon a critic by having a clandestine affair with the} rifle's wife, is quite beyond thy scope of amateurs.
As is the case with stagecraft in almost every land since the war, Kaiser has thrown the conventions of technique to the four winds, and jus seized upon a medium so novel that it calls for the most consum-offers of the Shanghai Defence Force, whose spontaneity in "jazz" songs received much applause.
The final number of the programme was a one-act play, entitle) "Me and My Diary," an amusing all thir friends into print with a view to making the intimate sketches readable.
Clever in. itself, the lowing Lady Adela Boxgrore PARA acc Re a walt Me 3.5. Newbery
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