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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20
Intimations.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
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STEAMERS
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FOR.
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WEDNESDAY,
Noop, 26th Feb., 1908.
MANILA, NEWGUINEA, BRIS-
BANE, SYDNEY and MEL BOURNE.
"PRINZ SIGISMUND"
TUESDAY,
No. 1 DOCK. Length inside 514 #44
Width of entrance, tep 95 ft.; bottom/75 it. Water on blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours."'
No. 2 DOCK. Length inside, 875 ft. Width of entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blooks, 26.5 ft. Time to pump out, 2 hours.
~HESE DOCKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers in respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.
The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work soda Large Mock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by Lloyds' surveyors),
Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for, taking Vessels in or out of Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The floating derrick is capable of lifting 35 tonL.
1908.
ANCORE FIENDS..
WHO PAY FOR LITTLE, AND EXPECT MUCH,
At unpleasant feature of the past one or two musical scarons has been the increased activity of the "encore" fiend, who has bean making concart-going exceedingly disagreeable for the genuine music-lover, Glancing through re- cent chronicles' of 'musical events, one sees, fairly frequently, such paragraphs as the following
"After three encores and twenty recalls Mmoj :་ ་ད་
appeared on the platform in her cloaky Two or three years ago, the "encore" nuisance had been checked to some extent, but it has now again attained to such a pitch that many artists are seriously considering what steps to take 10 mitigate—if they cannot do away with the practice. One or two are resolutely declining to give any extra items, and others have been driven to the necessity of giving the public some very broad bịnts, such as the one described, in the paragraph above, as to the unreasonableness of expecting so much.
Not only in the concert-room is the nuisance rampant, but at the optra, where for some time past encores or even applauss during an act had been frowned upon, it has again pre- vailed, during the recent ketumo season,
AN INDEFENSIBLE CUSTOM, There is not much to be said in defence of
species of dishonesty. If you pay five shillings to bear Mr. play on the piano a dozen
Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge the practice of "encoring." It is, of course, a Capt. v. Binzer P.M., 3rd Mar, 1908. Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.
Tenders will be made 'up when Irequired and the workmanship and material will be pieces which he specifies beforehand you have guarantned
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBEĮ " PRINZ LUDWIG
and YOKOHAMA ........
Capt. v. Binzer
KUDAT and SANDÁKAN..
About TUESDAY,
3rd Mar., 1908,
BORNEO " Capt. F. Sembill
Middle of March.
For further Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
Hongkong,, 19th February, ig08.
WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
THE Steamers
COMPANIES.
HONGKONG WUCHOW LINE,
"LINTAN" and "SAN-UI"
BAIL FROM HONGKONG TWICE A WEEK AND COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIP IN 6 Days. These steamers have Excellent Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by Electricity, THE CLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS VERY FINE AND EXHILARATING.
For further information apply to-
Hongkong, tud'November, 1907.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTE, WEST RIVER BRITISH 1.5. COMPANIES,
no more right to ask him to play extra items that you have to steni. Naturally, Mr. ---—————— The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that generally plays encores in order not to offend of any port in the world,
the public, upon whose favour bis living largely depends.
Telephone: Nos, 876, 506, or 881,
Telegrams, Dook, Yokohama," Codes A. B. 0.34th and 5th Edt.
A. 1, and Watkins,
Liebers, Scotts,
Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.
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The excore fiend, too, in often so selfish and inconsiderate; I have seen an artist who wàs obviously so it that his or her performance was only baroly possible, dragged on to the
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JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.
Will leave for
General Agente
pecially at the opera, where during the recent Tetrakzai furore, the action of the stage was repeatedly stopped to allow the prima-donna to repeat auaria. It does not matter so much in the older Italian operas, but one shudders at the thought that the practice may spread into modern works,
The question is naturally a delicate one for the artists. It is, of course, a mark of popular favour to be asked for encores; but I am sure that the great majority of executants would 'bot be sorry for the custom to disappear. The public should ask for an extra concert-and pay for it,” was the opinion given to me by one well-known artist,
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MME, PATTI'S DEVICE,
The first brilliant idea for checking the en core fiend wes that of Mms. Palți, who hit upon the device of appearing on the platform in cloak, and this custom is now being. gradually adopted by artists. It took Mme. Tetrazzini only a very few weeks to learn that this was the best way of telling the London public they would get go more that night, but
For pianists a very good idea was introduced by a well-known player. At the end of the recital two attendants appear upon the plat form and with much pomp and circumstance proceed to close the piano. Speaking of Dinuists and their encores induces ma' to recall
of No. 14. Des Voeux Road Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. Skewap, t'omes & Co.)
HOUSE No. 11. Seymour Read, newly painted and colour-washed."
ONE FIVE-ROOMED BUNGALOW, The Neuk No. 84, Mount Gough, Poak. Garden and Tennis. (From 181, April nast).
Apply to-
THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT, Jardige, Matheson & Co, Ltd, Connaught Road Central. Hongkong, 4th February, 1908.
TO LET.
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55, & 8, LEIGHTON HILL
ROAD. Apply to-
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON LAND AND LOAN CO, LDŲ No. 8, Queen's Road Weste Hongkong, 14th January, 1908, 6[126]
"TO LET.--FURNISHED,
SIX-ROOMED HOUSE os Roblason
Apply to-
A Hoad.
"X,"
Clo Hongkong Telegraph.
fly
- Haagkonų. 10:6 February, 1968,
TO LET.
the anecdote of Rubinstein, who; when asked' A HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACAS,
to play at an "At Home" choose Beethoven's rather severe "Thirty-two Variations in C. minor." Asked for an encore he played them through again, and always related with glee bow a lady came up to him afterwards and asked him the name of the encore plece which she liked "so much better than the Grat."
Violinists, as a bint to the audience, might.
KOWLOOK,
Apply to A
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY LO, LD. Hongkong, 1 Fobruary, 1908.
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TO LET
NAUGHT ROAD, facing the Cricke Ground.
publicly unscrew the horsehair of their bows OFFICES on TOP FLOOR, No. 2 CON at the end of the concerts, and a summary way of settling the whole difficulty is that which has been recently adopted at Queen's Hall; namely, of turning out the lights.
THE PROMENADERS' SUMMARY METHODS.
It is amusing to see the encore fiend rigorous. ly routed at concerts such as the "promenades," where the real music lover is in the majority," If the applause persists altér a reasonable time, the applauders are scowled at and lustily hissed by the rest, who want to hear the symphony that comes next, and are not going to wait any longer. The encore" fiend is generally the least musical person in the audience, and de
A WEEK OF SPORTS. mands the repetition of the most triviai music.
There is yet another aspect of the question, that of the indifferent artist who, if the ap. plause continues an instant after his or her disappearance, at once takes an encore which was probably, not asked for in the least. have often seen a singer thus much on with an- other song, "barely reaching the platform be. fore the applause bad subsided. Here the fault Jargel, lies with thoughtloss audiences.
MASKED BÅLLS. who are so generous in their appisuse gen.
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Hongkong, 13th February, 1908.
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Return Trip from Hongkong to Manila
$50.00.
S an inducement to Hongkong residents to patronise this important event, besides enjoy. ing a holiday of reasonable length, Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co. have decided to despatch their steamar ZAFIRO for a special Carnival trip, leaving Hongkong at 4 PM, on the afternoon of SATURDAY, the 22nd FEBRUARY. The ZAFIRO will reach Manila on Tuesday morning, and in order that the full round of festivities may be enjoyed they, shall pot despatch the steamer from Manila "until 2^am on the morning of Tuesday, the 3rd March,
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The Passengers, should they so desire, may make arrangements to regain on board during Catéimera stay la Mas
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I ought not to leave the subject without a reference to that other nuisance of the concerte. room, the friends of a second-rate artist who form an amateur "clique" and force an encore upon the rest of the audience. They ought to be dealt with severely. But how to deal with J them it is difficult to say-Henry J. Coates in Morning Leader,
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ONE FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE, Prava East, néry East Point,
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· Hongkong, 19th October, 1907.
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