At least two Amateur Dramatic Clubs are making Christmas appropriately a time for entertaining the young ecole. The German ADE. is conspiring 10 present Peter's Trip to the Moon" with all the splendour of the fantasy which the subject demands. That will on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at the Lyceum Theatre. On Saturday afternoon the Shanghai ADE'S wonderful pantomime "Aladdin" will again delight _innumerable children of all ages. Aladdin was first. presented by the ADE. at the old Lyceum Theatre In 1873." This new version by Elizabeth Dooley has won immediate renown. In the scholarly, but simply-phrased account of the' Aladdin legend given in the programme some attempt is made to apologize for the introduction of a camel or dromedary (no prize will be offered for distinguishing between the humps). The apology was quite unnecessary. If future versions of the story do not provide for Nuphsed that will only be because it will be Impossible to obtain such a pair of relented actors es have languished and ogled and threatened to go mad fon the Lyceum stage in the' ex: roles of "Front Legs" and "Back Legs". Then, too, the Dooley version adorned by most and dresses. It brings 'Arabian Nights spirit, especially as Princess who looks' like a dream Princess (and acts -with hereditary SKID, an Aladdin who displays versatility and charm and a Grand Wazler who is just as. timid and Pompous as a camel-shy" Grand Wazler should be, are all chaperoned a Scheherazsde who magically walks out of the cover of a fairy tale book and thrills the audience with her truly delightful way of ex= plaining the intricacies of the plot. No wonder the Sultan could' listen to her for over a thousand nights! That at least was the general impression of the People Who Really Count between the Intervals munching sweets and dancing in the Lyceum gangways, they followed Al-adin's fortunes on Saturday after-oon. This of course does not exhhaust the Uist of clever folk who helped to make Aladdin successful in his tussle with the magician, should therefore be added emphatlcally that all the east were splendid. cinema-going public will be glad to learn thatthe delay in the [presentation of "Midsummer Night's Dream" has now ended. The frst per. formance was given this week" ai the Cathay Theatre. All parties con-Jeerned are to be congratulated on their successful solution of whatever @iieulties had cropped up to cause the postponement,
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