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        "content_text": "244\n\n1870/71\n\nP\n\n1871/72\n\n1872/73\n\n1873/74\n\n—\n\n1874/75\n\n—\n\nCARL T. SMITH\n\n25 Nov. 1867 first performance of season at Club Lusitano Theatre:\n\n\"All that Glitters is not Gold\" comedy (J. M. Morton, 1851)\n\n\"Cox and Box, married and settled\" farce (F. C. Burnard and J. M. Morton, 1867)\n\n19 Dec. 1867 Hong Kong Amateur Theatrical Society second performance:\n\n\"Romeo and Juliet\" burlesque\n\n\"Little Toddlekins\" farce (J. Mathews, 1852)\n\n4 Nov. 1870 Amateur Dramatic Club first performance of season at Theatre Royal, City Hall.\n\n\"Diamond Cut Diamond\" farce (W. H. Murray, 1838) \"Orpheus and Eurydice\" burlesque (H. J. Bryon, 1863)\n\n20 Apr. 1871 \"I've Written to Brown\" farce (T. J. Williams, 1859) burlesque by Francis Talfourd.\n\n28 Apr. 1871 \"Ici, en Parlais Francais\" (T. J. Williams, 1859)\n\n\"Shylock, or the Merchant of Venice Preserved\" burlesque (F. Talfourd, 1853) also given in 1867.\n\n-\n\n26 Jan. 1872 - \"The Two Bonnycastles\" farce (J. M. Morton, 1851)\n\n\"Masanielle\" burlesque (R. B. Brough, 1857)\n\n21 Feb. 1872 - \"The Rifle and how to use it\" farce (J. V. Bridgeman, 1859)\n\n11 Apr. 1872 \"Castles in the Air\" comedy (T. W. Robertson, 1854)\n\nInstead of \"Castles\", the production may have been \"Caste\" by T. W. Robertson (1867)\n\n3 Jan. 1873 - \"Locked In\" farce (J. P. Wooler, 1870)\n\n\"The Cricket on the Hearth\"\n\n13 Feb. 1873 \"Kenilworth, or Ye Queen, Ye Earl and Ye Maiden\", burlesque\n\n13 Apr. 1873 \"The Blighted Being\" farce (T. Taylor, 1854)\n\n\"Checkmate\" comedy (Andrew Halliday, 1869)\n\n30 Oct. 1873\n\n1853)\n\n\"Plot and Passion\" (T. Taylor and J. Lang, 1853)\n\n15 Nov. 1873 \"The Spitalfield Hospital\" farcical comedy\n\n\"Not such a Fool as she Looks\" (H. J. Bryon, 1868)\n\n2 Mar. 1874 —— \"A Romantic Idea\" (J. R. Planche, 1849)\n\n\"The Steeple Chase\" (J. M. Morton, 1865)\n\n5 Apr. 1875 - \"Ticket of Leave Man\" (T. Taylor, 1863)",
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        "series_id": 26,
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "page_number": 268,
        "title": "RAS-1982",
        "content_text": "246\n\n1884/85\n\n1885/86\n\nCARL T. SMITH\n\n16 Dec. 1884 \"Still Waters Run Deep\" comedy (T. Taylor, 1855) given in 1862, 1878.\n\n17 Dec. 1885 \"Chiselling\" farce (J. J. Dilley and J. Albery, 1870) \"Nine Points of the Law\" (T. Taylor, 1859) in 1878.\n\n18 Feb. 1886 — \"The Overland Route\" (T. Taylor, 1860) second performance of season.\n\n1886/87\n\n9 Mar. 1886 \"Weak Woman\" (H. J. Byron, 1875) benefit with Canton Amateurs for burned Canton Theatre.\n\n7 Apr. 1886 — \"Heads or Tails\" (J. Palgrave Simpson, 1854) \"Chiselling\" farce (Dilley and Albery, 1870) given in 1885,\n\n18 Nov. 1886\n\n\"A Widow's Hunt, or Everybody's Friend\" comedy (J. Sterling Coyne, 1859)\n\n30 Dec. 1886 — \"Cups and Saucers\" musical sketch (G. Grossmith 1878) \"Our Wife\" comedietta (J. M. Morton, 1850)\n\n13 Apr. 1887 — \"A Comical Countess\" (Wm. Brough, 1854) \"Our Soldiers\" comedy (H. J. Byron, 1873)\n\n1887/88 8 Nov. 1887 \"Withered Leaves\" comedietta (J. W. Broughton, 1875) \"The First Night\" comedy (J. M. Maddox, 1853) \"The Rivals\" (Sheridan, 1775)\n\n17 Jan. 1888\n\n1888/89\n\n1889/90\n\n1890/91 apparently no production this season.\n\n26 Dec. 1889 last performance Mar. 1890 - 1 Christmas Pantomime: \"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves\"\n\nGrand\n\n26 Dec. 1890 --- \"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves\" pantomime 30 Mar. 1891\n\n- \"The Two Roses\" (J. Albery, 1870)\n\n1891/92\n\n24 July 1891\n\n1864) \"David Garrick\" comedy (T. Robertson,\n\n26 Dec. 1891, 23 Jan., 20 Feb. 1892- Christmas Pantomime: \"Beauty and the Beast\"\n\n27 Feb., 1 Mar, 1892\n\n21, 30 Apr. 1892\n\n+ \"Betsy\" (F. C. Burnand, 1879) \"Turned Up\" (or \"Too Much Married\") comedy, (M. Melford, 1886)\n\nPage 268",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1989",
        "page_number": 207,
        "title": "RAS-1989",
        "content_text": "182\n\n500 or 600 p.a.), without any prospect of being able to use it the subsequent season. Apparently it was also the custom to sell all the scenery, etc., at the end of the season and this too could only be done at a heavy loss (for 1865 it had cost Tls. 2,400 and fetched but Tls. 200).109 In order to investigate the feasibility of a permanent, i.e., stone, theatre, a provisional committee was appointed in September 1866.10 The chances of realising the object in view did not seem very rosy though. At a meeting of the committee held on November 10, 1866, it was decided that the \"circulation of a subscription list towards a permanent theatre should be deferred for the present\" and instead guarantors for the construction of a temporary theatre (i.e., one of wood, which was much cheaper) should be sought.11 In this they were successful and on November 16, it was announced at a meeting that Tls. 3,500 had been subscribed. This, however, was not deemed sufficient to cover all the expenses and an amended motion was adopted stating that instead of fitting up a godown, a temporary theatre, on the plans submitted to the meeting, be built and fitted up, provided a sum of Tls. 6,000 be guaranteed within a week\".12 And despite the rather severe limitations under which a number of merchants had to operate due to the collapse of the building boom - an adjourned meeting was informed on November 22 that this sum had indeed been guaranteed.\"\n\nThe new theatre would be built in wood and was designed by a local architect, Mr. William Kidner; originally it would contain 700 seats, but this was considered too much, 500 or 600 being enough. The firm of Dent & Co. showed itself willing to provide a plot of land for the sum of Tls. 250 annually and the cost of the theatre itself was estimated at Tls. 3,900. Some months later, on March 1, 1867, the wooden Lyceum Theatre opened on Yuanmingyuan Road* (later, Museum Road), with Morton's Whitebait at Greenwich and Faust and Marguerite (author not mentioned: F.C. Burnand?, T.W. Robertson?, J. Halford?).\n\nOne may well ask why the foreign residents had not found the courage and the money to erect a really “lasting structure\" for, naturally, wooden buildings were prone to fire and it should come as no surprise that the \"temporary'' theatre proved to be very temporary indeed, for on March 2, 1871, it burned down. Once again a substantial sum of money had been wasted on what turned out to be an ill-advised scheme. Sadder and wiser, it was finally decided in 1872 to construct a brick theatre on an adjacent site on Museum Road, stage entrance on Yuanmingyuan Road. On\n\n*This is the theatre marked \"b\" at Appendix III.",
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