A feature of an A.D.C, variety performance was to be a "take-off" of a well-known illusionist who had recently been in Shanghai with a very large troupe and un enormous tiger, the sudden disappearance the latter from the centre of the stage being the principal turn, A noted amateur humourist was to be the tiger ard all went well until the dress rehearsal, when he chose to add to his stock-in-trade what he called a "roar", So he roared it was so excruciatingly funny the rest of the company collapsed. He insisted that all tigers always roared and he was not going to sacrifice his roar, and the only way out of it was hastily to recast the turn so that he would not have a chance to roar.
It is not known which Governor of Hongkong it was, but it was not tone of the last several, 80 none of them need rise up in wrath. Anyhow, a of Hongkong came up to Shanghai at a time when the A. D. C. were busy, and it was proposed to take him to the Lyceum, wherefore somebody of ance wrote to the Committee.
ow, the stout burghers who comprised the Committee doubtless were vastly impressed on formal ace: sions, but evidently they considered men were equal after 9 p.m. and in the theatre, One responded that he knew no reason why the Governor should not be allowed in the theatre, as a variety of people went. there. Another trusted that either the Governor or his swior would, bbe directly responsible for the pri of the tickets, and a third said that all the.best seats were booked already.
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That was cribbed from the famous Committee book, So was the next, The club once had an official named Mace and, although the records do rot give details, it is evident from certain entries that there was a little feud on between Mr. Mace and the stage carpenter. Now, Ah Ping ever was amongst the traly well-beloved and in himself was an autocrat. To quarrel with Ah Ping meant that either he or someone else would crush the offender. This quarrel came the Conimittee and their of as well summed up in a clever pun entered over those famous intials "J.0.P.B.." that he "would mute than Ah Ping's from the great The A. D. C. wished to put on "You Never Can Tell," they wrote to Mr. Shaw to ask it they "could act" his play, receiving the following reply: "Amateurs cannot act my plays. Professionals can only do 80 when Tam there to help them.
By all means play it if you like, but God help the audience!
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