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The Season's Figures.

The theatrical season of 1011-12 is ror, aml with the first production of a new play in August the theatrical sosson of 1912-13 will begin. It is a convention

Jelf's, Wyndham's,

At the Karn, Prince of Wales...... The Pink Lady, Globe....... The Odd Man Out. Royalty The Apple of Fion, New Prince's.

Peter, Garrick..

The Double Game, Kingsway......

and What Then ? Playhouse The Fire Frankforters, Lyric. The Jew of

Jew of Prague, Strand.. Princess Caprice; haftesbury

of the theatre to regard July as the end of Peter Trouble. Aldwych

Chance, Royalty

The Spanish Lovers, Little,

Autumn Manoeuvres, Adephi Gipsy Love, Daly'......

the senson, but that convention nover affects the run of any play popular enough 618 to resist the exhausting effects of the

The Women of Fraco, Lyceum holiday season.

Find the Woman, Gazrick......... The season just ended has been an un-Ana, Criterion

Hindle Wakes, Playhome.......

THE EDWARD DISPENSARY, fortunate ane, for within its eleven months The Ideal Wife, Vaud ville

C. KAMMING & Co., Lp. Chemists and Druggists.

there have been more failures than in suy!

| entresponding period for a generation—this, * Plays morked thus are still running.

too, in spite of the willingness of hundreds

of people to give advice to the roanagers GREAT REDUCTIONS IN and the Lord Chamberkin. There have

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been sensons a bun individual management's have lost sum of twenty and even thirty housand pounds in a year. 1911-12 has no such single loss to slide.

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BATTALIONS DE FAILURES,

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the Strings" which are still running, the

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The following were the season's revivals, with number of performancos:

Ma

and Superman, Criterion ......... 191 Lidy What

Ydermere's Fan, St. James's.. 51]

Women Knows, Duke of

Butterfly on the Wheel, Queen's. York'...

A Doll's House, Bagway.

Vica

4 Masage from Mars, Prince of Wales

Verss, Comedy. The Blue Bird. Queen's Peter Pan, Duke of York's.. Charley's Aunt, Strand

Sweet Kall of Old Drury, New

Lile

Wants and Wine, New Prince's The Second in Command, Playhouse.. The Houme,

DLINE, SOVELY....... Triby, His Majesty's......... Dear Old Charlie. Prince of Wales Ben Hut, Drury Lane Mrs Defence, New Oliver Twist, His Majesty's The Amazons, Duke of York's (still

running) and taken usteme Ben My Chrve. New Prince's (still

running)

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COMPANY, LTD.

THE ELEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the Company will be leki

at the Office of the Company, St. George's

Buildings, No. 6, Connaught Road, Vic- toria, on SATURDAY. 28th September. SA Statement of Accounts and the Report of 1912, at Noor, for the purpose of receiving

the General Managers for the year ending

30.

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31st July, 1914, and electing a Consulting

Committeo and Auditors,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com 87pany will be CLOSED from WEDNES

DAY, 25th until SATURDAY. the 28th 21 September, 1912, both days inclusive. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Generd Managern. Hongkong, Sept. 19 1912,

1186

63 HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER

OF COMMERCE,

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Of the year's total of fifty-four play" ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND five were American-namely, "Rip Vo Winkle

**08.0."

"amateur" managers with syndicates be-Billy." Easiest Way.").

hind them.

DEALERS OF HONGKONG.

Find the Woman their NOTICE IS HEREBY G four came off without enriching their pro-N GENERAL MEETING of Dealers ducers. Four of the season's plays were in and Exporters of Chinese and other brought from France-ba Marionettes, Produce will be held in the Old Chamber those of the Shakespeare Festival, for The Uninvited Guest, Dad, and of Commerce Rom. CITY HALL, OF TUES

The productions and revivals, including

1911-12 were a follows:-

Plays of two or more acta d Musical plays...

Une-act plays......

Pantomimes and children's plays ...... Revivals of plays of two or more acts... Shakespeare's plays

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BUSINESS:

The Glad Eye."

Four were German DAY, OCTOBER 8th, 1912, at 4 o'clock nad The Concert," "The Grent 64 Name

precisely Miracle, The Fire tera We got two from the 13 Russian; one from an Italian author, one * from a Spanish ; and one of the few grant

sizocesses of the season, Milestones,

the result

collaboration

of

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between an Es

sn English Author ind an

American

(1) To approve the Rules, Regulations and By-Laws of the Associatior as drafted by the Provisional Com mittee elected for the purpose at the General Meeting held on 3rd July, 1912.

(2) To alocsa Committee to nct until

the Annual Meeting of the Associa

non.

The list given below includes all the plays of the theatrical year since the sessen

ADAPTATIONS FROM ROVEĽA. began on August 28th, 1911, given in the

Fear plays by British authors wers order in which they were produced. From

"The Three it are excluded all one ast pieces and all adapted from Bell Donny "The Gre

Musketeers

Donna,“

པ་ By age societies or for Gay Road," and "Kippa". If we deduct

performances only: specini

the importations and the book plays Performances.

Applications for Membership may be the total of fity-four new pieces produced, application to the Secretary. 61 va hare thirty-one as the native output sent is before or after the Meeting.

for the year. Of these pot more than ten

Forms can be obtained from the

The Concort, Duke of York's........ 59 The Great Name, Prince of Wales..... The Mouse, Shaftesbury...... The Ogre, St. James'a

The Perplexed Husband, Wyndham's The Hope, Drury Lane Married by Degrees, Court.. Rip Van Winkle, Playhouse

Comedy

The Marionett Bonita, Qason's....... The Spring Maid, Strand.

1173 The Love Milla, Ginber

The Hoogginoon, Royalty ............

from

Draft Rules and By-Laws may be had on

202 helped to swell the managerial bank Secretary.

account. Of the aleren m musical plays pro.

37

Chinese Dealers, Exporters and Mer

134 duced only three were English The chants interested in the Export Trade are

102

"Bonita,"

and The Boniline

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WITH ACCESSORIES. Apply to

JEO. P LAMMEET. Belakone, Jenez, 1910.

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All the Articles in this old; sets bi

Mousme Girl" Of the foir pantomimes and chil⚫pecially invited to attend this Metting shop are being bld for Gash

By Order. dra's plays the only timreigner was. The

E. AM. WILLIAMS,

Berkley 131 Golden Land of Fairy Tales.

Hongkong, September 19, 1912.

40

plays

The number of

63 last season was thirteen, a heavy falling off

as compared with twenty-eight, twenty-six,

LG twenty-three, and thirty-five for the pre-

The Uninvited Guest, Prince of Walesvious four years. However, it may be that

The Great Young Man, Kingsway......

The Glad Eye, Globe.

Dad, Payhonse

The War God, His Majesty'......... The wer Depths, Kingsway

BL

Land of Fairy" the Underground, His

THE TWENTY-SECOND HALF-Bel YEARLY DRAWING of Sixty-Five Thea Delentares (1896 isane) of the Hongkong

Golden Clab. Payable on MONDAY, the 30th Aldwych ..... September, 1012, will be held at the Club Majesty's House at 11 o'clock A. on WEDNES DAY, the 28th September, 1912.

Beaters of Debentures are invited to attend the drawing.

By Order,

J. S. DOBIE

Acting Becretary. Hongkong, September 16, 1912.

MARTIN'S

The Great Gay Road, Court Where the Rainbow Ends, Savoy Dick Whittington, Lecouc........ Hop o Thumb, Drury Lane

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Garden Blindness of Virtue, Tictl

The Pigeon, Royalty The Bear Londres, "The Dusk of J

Курь,

The Fire Screen, Garri

The Easiest Way, Glabe

Tho:** Mind the Paint,” Girl,

*The Sunshine Girl Gaiety

The New Him. Royalty

98.., Criterion

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The Mook and the Wam The Chalk Ling Jusen

Matdo

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24 the mune ball audiences will for time at {

310 least give them a warmer welcome than

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they got from those in the theatres. One 3 day when they have served their and there, 15 they may go to the picture-palañosno 253Sunday evenings.

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