ff the best, and the best was very food indeed. It is dim cult to take Shylock out of the full play. neither the teen dealing with the bond reement nor the trial fully convey man Shylock, the man of an outraged family sense bent on secur-me ing some requital for the wrongs which had been done him. Mr. Stranack managed to make much of the points which were to be made, and to say that of an amateur is 10 tive great praise indeed, Very much the same may be rightly said of Miss V. Davis, whose Portia may have Deen 'a litle emphatic, but neverthe-lees saw her put all her points over the footlights, and tittle more than that can be asked of any Portia in the trial scene. The rest of the char acters were most satisfactorily filed.
'The second part of the programme was given by' the British Meturned Students' Union, and not the least interesting of the items present was the song and setting in which Mrs. Dolly Lit appeared to such good effect. The ling, colour and singing were 00d, "The song was translated into English by Mrs. Averil Tong, who added to the very real service which she thus rendered, by appearing in most effective dance in which a gti] very long scarf was manipulated in an extremely graceful and finished manner. The selection of ancient Chinese musie by a mast able quart elle whose names are given above was sum cient to make the audience demand an encore, which unfortunately was not granted much fo the gen-feral disappointment. The programme concluded with a presentation "The Poet and the Mald" which was most effectively rendered by a very able cast, The play a Chinese lay was translated by Miss Grace Liang and directed by Mr, S. ¥. Wong, both of whom are to be praised for the very creditable work they did, as also the able cast, from whom it would be invidious to select any one for special commendation—ar.-c.
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