Loci theatre-goers will not at first recognize the sgniieance of the statement that Ah Yune, the chiot carpenter of the Lyceum Theatre, [dead, chidly because his work was not brought Uelr notice by reference In the programmes of the Shanghai AD.C. and the many other amateur dramatic organizations, as well as professional, who availed themselves of his services. "Mo-bee." ax he was more tamilly "known, was the second generation of stage carpenters who have served the A.D. so well. His father 'Ah Ping. to whom. a brass' mem: 1 pate erected when it problems Being put to him he would stand listening notting& piece of string. Then when he had the facts he would sit apart and by the time! the had unravelled the tangle of his own making the problem was solved s0 far 35 Ah Ping was concerned. "Mo-bee was of a similar type. He fad learned much of what his father had to {each him, and when he succeeded to the posltion was quite ready to go on rom where his redecemor had lett off. No diMeulty dismayed him, and on many an occasion he would take very amateurish rough drawings from foreign scenic artists and not only reduce them to some semblance of order, but go quietly to work with the joinery upon which so much of the forflgner's success depended. With im the size ofa selling was no object; from a half-sct_ on the stage to the big effects for military tattoos Mo-bee ranged with a quiet eMelency in which those who worked with him had the' completest rust. "He would listen to Instruction with a uraway look in his eye and when he had heard feryihing. and. understood It, a laconic "Can" pledged him to the success(ul carrying out of {the work. The Shanghai A.D.C. has fast in him aman who served them loyally for nearly 2 quarter of a century, and the history of whose tunily's connection "with the club and" the theatre. goes back to the days when Shanghat was very young.
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