FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1: 1912
Intimations.
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
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DOORMATICS.
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Laid puuple, perfectly noted by Mr. Alinal Bishop and Mb Nina Hopeiciuilt,' are Just at first the Doonnut and tho. Eoottypleal of Mr. Daries wehncacgrelcawing lived in a blissful vitare në altruism All at its best, and ha, has put lines their too soon, however, the Bas began ta dix months Byg dif cover the proper tes' of a Doormat, and [9
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A SMART "LITTLE BOOT,
he was, tork it lying down" (as, which seatshow" "have a 'sparkle that few Alina . deod, aDoortnat must), for he was rather but be could give to them. For trivia Bramble proud of this Boor and very fond of her, people, because Doormats will uns Britomart Now, the Bock was
doubtedly appeal to a very large number Cadmus of players who will be dazzled by the Cherub dialogue into believing that Mr. Davies Clic has really dealt successfully with the main issues of the play. And a trivial dramatist, because though Mr. Davies hats
rnther Frunch in style and out, with a taste for adventure, which was developed by the diseavory that there was more than one Dormist in the world. And am day,
Defence Fame
rodeget trifling to a fine art. is in fact Flors the Piper of Dramatic Triflers, and Handy though he can lend a humorous aspect to Janty the absolute gammonplace and give
Kent
Merlin
pre-when they had taken her own particular or Dorit away for a time. sharper mented rather freely with a fine spick waii-spon new Doormat, which lay ready ito let toe. Anch this frisky little Borthamerous twist to the most banal roKinaba took such a laney to her new Dorma mark, though he can draw a duty-minded that she decided to give up the old one woman, a tetely old man, and a puz altogether. Of course the old Doormat nickety old maist to perfection, when he was very ripet.it the idea of losing his attempts to deal with real, people. in, a 1680 ttle Bost, hut characteristically ofered reat crisis of rent life, he is fairly fud
to humiliate himself by a final act of maxed. doormatie devotion, so that she might start her new life without a speck on the polish.
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And then, just in time, the little Bast MASCULINE EVENING DRESS. Ribble
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discovered that her new Doormat wasn's),
■ Doriant at all, but a nasty military Boot, stud with the helinads of selfah
iness and congeit. This would, of course, seem rather extradidinary, but for the well-known mimetic faculty of Boots. » So the disillusioned little Boct crept back to her discarded Doormat, not quite sɔ glossy as before, maul the Doormat, after a. spasmodic effort to turn itself inte » fretit Purcupine." went on being a Doormat for ever after. And the moral of it all. I gathered from Mr. Houry Hubert Davies's comedy
** DOORMATS,"
which Mr. Gerald du Maurier produced "Wyndham's on Thursday, is cuce Doormat always a Doormat, and over Boot, always kicking. I need scarcely supply kuy to any little fable. Mr. Davies wonki divide society, domestically
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Master W. Word
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Hankow
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Chaton
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Hongkong
aloop
1070
F
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Comèr. H. R. Voals
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torpedo boat destroyer,
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29,000
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180
800
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4300
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Rosario Robin
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980
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Hongkong
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85
940
Hongkong
Sandpiper
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85
0
240
West River
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Faku
river gunboa
30
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Yangton.c
torpedo bent destroyer
350
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Hongkong
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Hongkong
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4630
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Commodore H, H. Anstruther, C. M.G. Bongbong
river gunboas
180
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Shanghal
river gunboas
710
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Esk Virago Waterwitch
torpedo-bost destroyer
600
7500
-Ft.-Comdr. Maxwell
Hongkong.
torpedo boat destroyer
S86
8900
Lieut.Com, H. D. Adnir Hall,
Hongkong
surveying ship
820-
400
Et-Comdr. F. A. Reyno
Singapore
torpedo-bost destroyar
580
7500
Comdr. Seymour
Shanghai
torpedo bent destroyer
381
B
5200
Comdr. G. B.. Hartford
Shanghai
river gunboat
190
800
Com. M. H. Wilding
Upper Tangtuse
river gunboat
250
2
600
Lt. Com. M. Blackwood
Yangters
150
500
Lt.-Comdr. G. F. A. Malook
Fangtree
Lt. C. Godfrey Harbert
Hongkong
LL-Comdr. A. A. L. Fenner
Hongkong
Lé. Comdr. J. R. A. Codrington,
Flongrang
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Hongkong
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Hongkong
Lt. Comdr. Nicol
West River
Lt. Comdr. H. W. Seymour
West Rivar
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river gunboat
submarine
submarine
auhmarine
.03%
torpedo boat
.036
torpedo boat"
.007
**As regards knee breeds for evening.038 wear?" That, too, is as far of as ever. About 15 years ago we tried to introduce kace brooches, which, I think, would be a far amarter innovation than colours. But here masculine vanity stood in the way, for aca with bony shanka gwyld not be prevail.
“No, the man who wants to be dressed
in perfect taste and yet kąs a penchant for colour will do well to confae it to the waistcoat, and to be very careful oren'
torpedo boat torpedo boat
+ Flagship of Admiral Alfred L. Winsics, K.C.B., C.V.O.,C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief.
Name.
Foreign Men-of-war on, the China and Japan Station.
Fag and description. Tonu. Guns. H
of the play for Doormats," withed upon to exhibit them in silk stockings. apologies to Euclid, is not caly a pitve in which the parts are greater thru the | whole, but also a piece_" which the minor characters are more engaging than the major. Noel and Leils were act such charming impersonated by two people as Mr. Gerald du Maurier and Misk Marie Lohr one would find them rather tiresome. Even an it was, though they were naturally very pleasant and in grey, white, and black. The white silk Kleber quite attractive enough to pass in area-waistcoats with a small design in black silk Decidée ing with, it was quite impossible to gut figures are very chic and ought to be ex-
Argu at all excited, or veu interested, about tremely popular. As regards faney vests
"PETY Vigilante their conjugal infelicities, which never for ordinary winter wear, the began to seem real. You simply felt that dear little Miss Lohr was Betaring rather like a cat and that best of good follows du Maurier rather like an abject fool in order that Mr. Davies might
then. We are introducing this season some Kaiser Franz Joseph I Austro-Hungarian cruiser pale heliotrope and straw coloured materials
for evening waistcoats, but the more con. Dupisix † serrative will prefer the fancy ribbed silks
test" is a small curl sap cinth in shades Paiho of brown and grey, while for morning wear plain colours is faced cloths considered the Dondard de Lagree
• Flagship of correct thing.
4000
French armoured craiser 10,014 French armoured cruiser
415 8000
30 20,000
Daplains. Capt. H. Nanta
Last report a
Shanghai
Capt. Vergoe
Shanghai
9700
19 19,600
Capt. Gouts
Fringkong
French gunboat
640
30 1000
Lieut. Vandier
Saigon
French river gunboat
180
6
570.
Lieut. Dordet
Castor
French gunboat
1225
-7
500
Licut. de Jervillier
Capteu
French gunboast
130
Lieut. Collin
Tongku
French gunboat
Lieut. Dupuy Dutenipe
Tehong-F
Rear-Admiral Colloch de Kerillis, Commander-in-Chist, the French China Station,
French sub-marine
Lieut. Bolzix
Saigon
Lynx
Protee
French sub-marine
Saigon
• Styx Fronde
French armoured gunboat
1798 10
1700
Lieut. Guilinomo-Locis
Saigon
French destroyer
560
7
303
Lieut. Aurillac
Saigon
J'Iberville
French destroyer
Capt. de Frigate-Ronisen
Hongkong
French destroyer
130
300
Comdr. de Manju esser
Baigor
French destroyer
307
B
900
Saigon
French surveying shup
1625 10
5000
Comdr. Voisin
Saigon
MIX HOME DHAMA WITH HIS COMEDY.
What is, without doubt, the largest And in return for their devotion Mr. Davies worked things so that Miss Lohrmotor-driven vessel to be built outside should show us that she is adding to her Europe is now under construction "ab powers without losing her charm and Hongkong for a well-known oil produc. that Mr. du Maurier should prove how tion company. The ship, which will be sincerely he can express emotion with of the twin-screw type, is to be fitted with genuine feeling. As for Captain Harding, two sets of Bolinders direct reversible Pistolet that officer, but no gentlemen, was too crude oil marine engines, each set having Mousquet much for Mr. Dawson Milward, sa he ab.hp. of 240, giving total h.h.p. of Manche was for me. He began as a fairly de- 480, which, together with the usual large cent, rather dense soldier man not averso averload guaranteed with the Bolinders to a brisk firtation with the artist's motors, and shown in i.h.p. figures, re pretty wife. He developed after six presents the respectable power of about Eden wooks' familiarity into her passionate 730. The principal dimensions of the Gneisena lover, and was allowed to kiss her hand, craft are:-Length, 218ft.; breadth, 3215.; This sometimes even when it hadn't a glove and depth, 9ft. 8.
on. Then in the quaint last act, when The speed of the vessel will ba 4 to everybody was everything by starts and 10 knots per hour when the motor is con- nothing long, he displayed an amazing summing Tarakan crude oil. The cost of
+ #lagship of Caph, (Commodora! Boucicaut. Commanding sha Ineal defanoa Indo-China
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chological quick-changes he was a quixo the present market price of Tarakan Ottor the lover, a bumptious bounder, and a crude oil being about 22d. per gallon. Schermberst marting and, and finished up with a These figures clearly, show the advantage 8.90 starling match with the woman he had bo gained by fitting a Bolinders motot Taku promised to elope with in the presence of instead of a steam sot. Another great Tiger the husband he had intended to suppiaat. Į saving is that a considerable amount of
Tsingtau In short, Doormats" may be quite { space is saved by a boller not being at inoffensively described as a trivial comedy ted, and a large amount of extra cargo for trivial people, and by, I was almost can be carried
going to add, a trivial dramatist. Á tri- Electric light will be fitted throughout, vial comedy because the trivialities of the dynamo being connected direct to s Macso the play are its most attractive fenture, Bolinders motor. The vossal's comple and the two unimportant characters of} tiong which is expected in the spring Noel's Uncle Rufus and Aunt Josephine, next year, will be awaited with interest,"
its most interesting people. They are not only on the China coast, hut also by `delightful "couple, and, as a converse to
the other couple, Unda Rufus is the Bot
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A-2 the various oil companies who she readily appreciating the fact that vessels fitted A-4
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700
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Capt Bohncke
Comdr. Bendencana
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3800 Gertuan armoured cruiser 11,000 Garman gunboat
12
22 13,500
Capt. Restoni
Tringtap
900
34 26,000 12"-1300
Captain. Ular
Thingang
Comdr. v. Gohren.
Shanghat
Jaguar
German gunbost
- 900
Comdr. Vanselɔw
Tinta
Leiptip Luchs
Gorman cruiser · ̈
$250
24 11,000
Tringtan
German gunboas
900
10 1350
Taington
3400
23 13,200.
Capt. Morberger
Μπαρτια
Capt. Lieut. Jantzen
Tangtsso Blog
11,600
36 28,000
Capt Rosing
Shanghai
German torpedo-bost
400
8
8800
Capt. Lieut. Berrez borg
Tsingtau
German torpedo-bont
280
6030
Obl. S. Classe
Tangtan
German guubost
900
10
1930
Comdr. Lappe
Tsingtau
German river gunboat"
1800.
Capt. Lieut. Frix. Fireks
Canton
Vaterland
Onlabris
Jerman river gunboat
Italian cruiser
999
600
Oblt. z. 8. Prinz
Shangha
$1.45
Comdr, Bommi Picenardi'
Shanghai
Portuguese gunboat
"Capt. Martina
Portagnose gunboat
“Captain L. Ac de Sagallines Corres Macan
Ensiga: 7. MoC. Martsy
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Carita
Ensigo J. O. Van de Carr
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Albany Bainbridge
V. B. protected cruiser
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7500
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Cruising
U.B.torpedo-boatdestroyer
420
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Carita
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420
B000
Lieut. R. Hill
Carita
213
250
Ensign W. L. Holberg
Canton
Chauncey Cincinnati Dale
U.8. torpedo-bost destroyer
420
8000
Lout J. Fletcher
Carita
D. B. protected cruiser
33.99
10,000
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Crairie
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Decatur
U.S.torpedo-bost destroyer 420
8000
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D. 8. ganbost
600
Helens
U. B. gunboat
1997
Mobican
1. 8. station ship:
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1:00
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U. S. monitor
$900
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404
Pampanga
U. 5. gunbons;
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1800
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