Last week no less than three ven Changsha has begun to be ga
ings were taken up with extra—1.€., more than—ordinary pleasure opportunities. Fixgst of all, the Yale Athletic Association managed to get the loan of the elaborate cinema picture "Robin soon ad scoked such lovers fashioned correspondent by a pure English as your old-circular talking about "feature ing" wand "released."—Secratly hoping that, generally speaking, Yale boys were being taught something. better -than such pidgin-English, I set off to see the play. There is no mistake that it is a very fine production. Having with me a lady whose recent reading had, quite accidentally included " Shakespeare's "King John" and "Ivanhoe," I had to sit out the whole of the 11 reels, and so regretted to find the stupid way in which Richard was brought back to England from Palestine. The bit of display between Richard and Friar Yuck in quarter-staff match was not worth such violent treatment of history as that.
The pictures were shown at Yale on Thursday and Friday evenings. The Athletic Association made a little by it, but hardly as much as they deserved.
The next night came a first performance of the Changsha Ama-tour "Dramatic Club. A very full "house" wag greatly delighted with the performance of The Dover Road." The dramatic: per-sone were:
Mr. Latimer "L. Giles Dominic C. F. Gould Josephine Mrs. Vincent Geraldine is Grosvenor and the Guests mard...T. F. R. Waters Anne... -Mrs. Lowndes Nicholas. E. F. Ratti Eustasia. Mrs. Giles Although courtesy to actors who give the whole of their time and attention freely and make no charge for admittance to their performances, may rightly give exoneration from adverse criticism, there would have been no room for any such criticism had the sightseers been well charged. The whole of the acting was first rate. The thanks of the community are due not only to the actors, but also to Mr. and Mrs. Lowndes at whose house the whole was staged.
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