Rich oil deposits are found at 'Wusukuchi, Urumtehi and Suilai, and also round Kuchar and Akst extending into Russian Turkestan. 'These are worked by Chinese, but the m: thods employed primi. tive, so that much Russian oil is still' being imported. Other mineral Products include jade and copper. Mere ave nor accurate statist of the value of the deposits of the latter, but they are undoubtedly extremely, ich. 'The mines are mere surface scratchings, as the 'Chinese who work them' do not Amow how to carry shafts to any depth, "Even at that, however, the Annual output is 40,000: Ibs.,. most of the natives use copper household utensils rather than earthenware. ihe chief copper area is foothills of the Tienshan to the north and north-west of Kashgar.
The other provinces of this north western area do not seem to be, rich. Kansu "has. a certain amount of iron and coal, and Si yuan is rich in coal, the deposits having been calculated at 75 million tons, Some 41 mines ate bei Worked at present by prim through Kensu to Urumtchi. The contribute to the discussion of the possibility of producing ingly picturesque. In any case, road, ax has been seen is in process an amateur performance of a Shakespearean play, and who whether they are to attract or to of construction, but for the.railw is an ardent theatregoer, presents some interesting reflections repel, one or more of them must
many' long and weary years, Cnina, one feats, will have to wai which may prove stimulating to actors and audiences alike, extremely" interesting. outcomes of the play must by in~ 'Suiyuan, however, development may T have read with much, interest separable from the development of a be quicker, since' there is the Pei-Sui line to act as a starting point, the correspondence regarding the' feature, scorn her own image and situation created by its characters "D.C. which you have lately invited the very ge and body. of the time and not only by story, action or fand the distances are not so great, ind received, his form and pressure." Sir Henry setting. Perhaps I can' make my Adequate transportation facilities "You may think now that enough Teving in his Biographical Tntroduspoint clearer by illustration from.
'2 prerequisite also of commer-has been said and written and that tion fo Collin's alton st plays ex-Plays which have been given here cial development, but afforestation the subject has grown stale but iscassinge his greatness has no need to wait for road and there is one aspect of the question "The variety of his Plays is infinite, rail, [tis to this accordingly that at-which as far as I know has, not the multiplication of human por'rat: tention ix. forthe moment being been, noticed in the correspondenc> {ure fs unparslicled," and again "lo [chiefly paid, At the same time some-which has appeared in your columns twas human life, not a stilted con: thing can. be done in the way of and as this seems to me peculiarly Yentionality, not an. academical colonization, and here a start has pertinent, Tam venturing to Tale, that Shakespeare cared for" definitely been made, the Hotae tempt. an impression of it." The land' "he made natare predominant plain in Suiyuan being the scone of aspect I have in mind is the inevit-over accident." the experiment. able competition nowadays of stage Characterization Mongol Rights and screen, Here we have the opinions of two Here in Shanghai for us This area was formerly entirely of the wreatest masters of stage reasons we are most of us inveterate technique: One. the great author in the hands of Mongols who made flm-goers, The Wins shown are jund the other the great. interpreter. no attempt to cultivate the land, be-both catholic and well-chosen. They The mirror up to. nature, ing content with a pastoral nomadi AE the Lyceum Inatend of Elvesrhere may be seen. in circumstances of portraiture. A more mod existence. The rights of these people considerable comfort, and at times have been respected, and wide ares ted to. each persons. tastes and 7 Drevsion, would be, character recently.
Candlelight, though the essen essentially a int comedy, isan Toft to, them for pasture. At the habits, Furthermore, there is 20 the dish which the can offer. same time large areas have been Tittle competition from the stage.
Theatres "have provided dishes excellent play since it relies entirely an. its" characters; the taken over' for the settlement of On the all too rare occasions when flavoured with comedy oF Style dnd totting "help and are Chinese farmers, who will develop the A.D.C. retakes possession of it= horror, where the story as-charming, bat-neither they nor the the arable possibilities of the sell, almost negligible story matters but pay rent to the original Mongol account than the characters, mich, The point is. that the udi= Jowners in the form of a share of the and very ood entertainment was fence is interested, they are not crops. Two bodies are mainly reprovided; but I submit that now ked to. make great efforts of sponsible for this work—the Shan-the film a far better Imagination or credence but to tung Colonization and Reclamation liam for that sort of thing and sympathize with a few people in Office, which is concerned with seting' civilian Immigrants from that if the stage is to continue to their muddles "and. absurdities. attract, it must use its peculiar Shantung, an3 the Directorate Gen-The appeal is effective, we laugh medium to give us something which feral of Military Reclamation Afairs not atthe players but with then Something Which Cannot he Given Us the film cannot. The answer $8 not When all turns out better than fof Western Sulyoan, at the head of ey the Filens difficult. "The stage can give us which Ix. the so-called "Model Go¥- might have been expected, we find reality. Here we have flesh und General Yen Hsi-shan, This, theatre it enters into this compe are glad, we were not. bored blood, Characterization can be far fax its name implies, aims at ertabli {ion with the screen and that this nor particularly eiritical, we had more' convincing, given a" well hing surplus soldiers on the land, docs not appear to be suflenjoyed ourselves, we. fell we were written and well conceived play, The former body has been lently' taken Into consideration. not alone in thin, the players also work for some years. in the neigh-Tris a question of diet. Some stage personalities. There wi the "actors can develop deft nad 'a good time, we had' crossed anthood of Hsiangtaikwei about 70 member the excellent enjoy doubt about, who and the footlights. rt iment we derived from the stage but what they are. The doreen Mrs. Moonlight canals four normal dish now has become the Jean tell a story as well or better On the other side of the, medal Tu firn, others there are however who than the stage but the screen can: 1 would put "The Bat" and "Sorry {1925 700 families were settled on have never known the stage save as not transport the audience out of you've Been Troubled." "Both these 115,000 mow here, and another 400 an. occasional, exceptional the world in which they are and plays relied too. much on the story. families on 40,006 mow near Ta-ta-Perience. The taste has not been jen gross them in the emotions and The efforts at characterization were Jehi In 1926' another band. was Required, they definitely. prefer the vicissitudes of these they are watch 0 slight and spasmodic that little placed on 108,543 mow near Liuho, films. except perhaps where music with the simplicity or surety pression was conveyed and little And in 1928 200,000 additional mow and colour are concerned.
Jof the older medium, terest created in the players were opened to settlement, while at That Right Plavour Importance of the Scrip themeelver. Not only could the Tang-ching-eht 20,000 show have been made available. The Suisuan We xo to the theatre now witn U characterization is the essential stance have been better told Reclamation Bureau, the Canal some of us hoping to recapture this ingredient nothing can be more the screen Lut im both of them the servancy Bureau and the Shih {ante which we v0 much enjoyed important than the script, In Jong methods of the cinema were resort= shih Chu are bodies with are assisting in this work, Inquiry anxious to share with ina tpi lish there ar? many recipes which fed to. Tt might be argued that the the A.D.C. Committee can examine, thriller is "wrong in form for the The first surveys and stakes fur seniors. their liking for" the They have been advised to go back stage but Ido. not think that is out land for settlement, the Stages In cither case the taste we! to Shakespeare and here they are and T feel that anyone who. re-second is in charge of the irrigation Took for must be distinctive and con-Jon safe ground. They are. dealing Members "Alibi" "On the Spot," or System, and the third acts as the ¥incing. "It must be a strong taste. ith an author who wrote at a "Murder on the Second oer, administrative body, performing the There most be no doubt about it, time when the adjuncts to a shares this opinion. What" was kame duties asa Magistrate's must be something: which cannot Jdramatic representation were wrong with "Mrs, "Moonlight?" is [Yamen, the Mongol princes not be-be given us by the fins. the simplest order and everything. not 80 to define, The play: ing conipetent to govern Chinese net-'The. problem, therefore, resolves depended on the excellence, was good in that it did not rely tiers. Ax the population and the cul-itself into finding a. dish with this fe harm and the dramatic value of the spoken word and above all, on but there was something. defnively unduly: on story or stage effects tivated acreage of any arca reaches unmistakable taste. First, we must certain standard, it is given helen have an idea of the nature of the is itaperishable characterization, at fault with the characterization. status, with a regular hsien organ zation. At the moment there are farce and in t's, connection T have Shakespeare's plays are surely the A play must rapidly create and tivo quotations which appear retain an interest in' at Toast seven such, tovhaly vs in this search. Shakers play re frequently been spoilt very antithesis of the film. His character. At the end of the first peace makes Hamlet say in hie ad-by elaborate modern production. fact the only interest offered was Soldier Farmers at Work drees to the players (Act JID Scene The quality of the dish is typical Sarah Moonlight and her tow The soldier farmers of Hotao are "let your own discretion be yore!
Jbles but for this the audience had English in that it hag more in the divided into three corps—an Officer tutor; suit the action to the. wor.
Jexcellence of its ingredients than in to feel in no doubt that the young Corps composed of 500 discharged the word to the action, with this the imagination or virtuosity would, being what. she was officers, the Experimental Corps con-special observance that you. o'er the cooks. Over-flavouring ix to land in those strange circumstances, jing' of three companies drafted step not the modesty of nature, Zor avoided and the methods of the have noted ay she did T do. not from the 70th, 72nd and 73rd sions, and the Reclamation Corps the purpose of flaying, whose end, anything 30 gverdnne ie far front think the author" had succeeded film, which add superfluous action and' effect at the expense of the representing a woman in consisting of a battalion from the both at the first and now, was and a frame of mind. which would script, must inevitably ruin Shakes 72nd division and a brigade from fin, to hold, an it were the mirror induce her to desert her " adored the 70th ai The Officer to nature, to show virtue her ow peare's plays, fand adoring husband, her child and Young and inexperienced play-Corps is divided again into three her home," Mer reasons and groups, which hold between them fers have frequently charmed their the Kang Chi Irrigation canal _fears were too fantastic. She seem audiences, but surely no one who tog much of a fool or too much some' 715,000 mow. in Linko, ~of Tien Shen Hao, a distance of 27 has seen film adaptations of Shakes. fehich about a seventh part" has of a funk and the thread of reality, miles, end watering 60,000 mow. care can look back on them with been developed. "This body does no had' been snapped. The interest in Enough has been said to indicate Janything but regret. "However, de-the play whisky la spite of remarkfeetual reclamation work itself, but the possibilities of the North West. lightful and satisfying as able" acting, could at this point nob ets out its land. to Shantang: im-'These, even if not as great as they great English dish, Shanghai might} migrants, who pay' Yent in kind Jare sometimes Fepresented to be, teasily have a surfeit of it. "To avo then great was, in dares of disappearing altogether, Nothing Jot from 40 per cent. to 50 per cent. fare stil consid: rable. An account show the very age and body of, in the second and mest of the third fof their crops, the corps paying the has been given, too, of the efforts the time his form and pressure" facts did much to rekindle our in~ fand tax. The Corps. also. extends fered it facilities tothe. tenants so far made to take advantage of we are naturally more interested in terest in the heroine and the other them. Perhaps. the strongest " imour own time than in the somewhat characters were clearly. not intend= the form of loans of seeds. which pression that will remain will be indefinite time fed-o given the chance to, provide has to be repaid in Kind at the rate tone of the magnitude of the task peace wrote." We would Substitute." At the end Sarah was lof 1) piculs for each" picul lent that confronts China and her ralers A.D.C. to stick to the allowed a' scene and with the assis~ 'The Experimental: Corps has 56,000 mow also in Liuho helen, and' the in this region, yet is it $0 much lents Tut to let us have {tance of some stage devices such as greater than that which the middle in form and style, the dress and the piano, she succeed [Reclamation Corps has 250,000 mow fed in reawakening. the interest and far west presented to the divided between" Neilinpao. and Finding the Recipe tier dotard husband but it was. too people of the United States at the Watanao. "While. these. two. bodies Now where are other recipes to] Iate'to do more for the audience also Tet out @ portion of their land beginning of the nineteenth century, be found? How is a Shanghai audi-or that" which the people (Continued on page 443) fo tenants on similar Urms Canada Bad to face" at. the: here granted by. the Oficer same time? What Corps, they also ave doing a considerable amount. of work them: terprise as" dstingslahed the hard sive of distingst
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