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DALLAS COMEDY-CO.

Great Success Scored on

" Opening Night,

fast and furious was the fun. "The

Glad Eye" was the play staged,

and it certainly merited the dea

cription of being the funniest.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1913.

presented. for J. M Barrie's LATEST MAIL NEWS.

"What Every Woman Knows"

is to be staged. This is one of Condensed. Summary of Home Company's strongest, attraction,

and a full house is assured by the extent of the booking. His

YACHTING.

Happenings.

If the size of the audience at

The ohief feature of the Balkan the, Theatre, Royal on Saturday Excellency and Lady May will crisis recorded in Home papers night may be taken as a guide to again be present. There can be for the week ending dannar Blat the extent of future patronage no better way of compensating for was the rupture in the page negó of the Dallas Comedy Company disappointment caused by the tiations precipitated by the action here, then a tremendously auc- postponement of the Races than of the Allies delegates.The cessful season is nsenred. Prac-in seeing this great play as the resolve to break off the negotia tically every sont in the building Dallas Comedy will present it for tions was, we learn, arrived at was occupied, and, what is mnoh the first time in Hongkong after several days of serious con- | more to the point, there was not Mosers. Moutrie's inform us aideration. The question of the a solitary individual present who that during the races their office sacrifices imposed on the Allies did not spend a downright happy will be open each day from 10 by Turkish procrastination had evening of rollicking merriment, a.m. till noon, for the purpose of previously been discussed by the It was a night of uncontrollable booking. In the afternoon plans Allies' delegates in London, and laughter; at times the audience can be seen and seats booked at it was resolved to demand en went well-nigh into hysterics so the Hongkong Hotel.

increased war indemnity on this ground. Apart from the heavy expenses of maintaining the four armies in the fold, the rainous losses which must be incurred. play seen for many a long day. C.Y.C. Seventh Club Champion owing to the withdrawal of all the It has the recommendation of

able-bodied men from agricultural modernity, too, and most of those

Foperations was considered. The ***present saw it for the first The 7th Club Champion race spring ploughing was to begin in time. Among the audience in connection with the CT.O a few weeks, and work of this *tere

-Bis Excellency the was held on Sunday over the kind could not be done by women. Governor and Lady May, together following course: Lyemun Beacon Even the partial loss of the orop with a party from Government (port), Kowloon Rocks (port) would cause enormous suffering House.

Channel Rocks (starboard). Dis in all the States, and especially tance 9 miles. At the beginning in Bulgaria. There is little that is original of the race the wind was very about the theme of the play; it is light and variable but increased bright example of the farcical in force when Kowloon Bay was comedy, proccoding on conven-opened out and continued to tional lines, but teeming with the blow strongly from the north-east funniest and most ladicrous until all ólasses had finished, situations, succeeding one inother. The results were: with astounding "rapidity. The story revolves round a couple of

The Story.

giddy husbands, who, drawn by La Linda

the glad eye" of pretty girls, Rolla contract a little habit of making Lily periodio jaunts into Paris, excus- Dorothea ing their frequent absences from Spoondrift their wives by feigning a passion Violet for ballooning. The good wives Daisy are supposed thoroughly to be- Ayesha lieve in the genuineness of these Corrines aeronautical flights, though as a Eva. matter of fact they succeed in Halcyon learning the truth, and it so bap Allaorah pens that the gay, hubbies roturn Vera home expecting a warm welcome from their spouses, only to learn. that information has reached the

ship Race.

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latter, who at this moment are 1. Haleyon out on a motor trip, that the 2 Rolls balloon is still floating in the 3 Dorothea clouds somewhere over Holland! 4 Violet

Sparkling Comedy.

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Itis too late for the husbands 6 Ayesha to make their escape from the Is Linda house again, and a succession of Daley screamingly funny incidente Corrinee follows, ending in a complete Vers exposure of the unfaithful hubbies,

Hayward Hays

mush to be latter's chagrin. Dawn There is also cleverly worked into Owl the story the doings of an old Liza gentleman with spiritualistic White Rose proclivities, a medium, a French Gwen count, a chic little lady from a Joyce fur establishmont (who happens Sirius to be the peculiar fancy of one of

Lysbeth the erring husbands), a police Bat detective, a butler and several other characters. The brightness

of the dialogue and the sparkling

Position:

nature of the comedy are only 1. Sirius what one exprots from a play of 2. Dawn this type, adapted from the 3. Bat Franeli: The Company roso to the White Rose occasion well, and interpreted the 5. Orl play most happily. With theexcep 6. Lysbeth tion of our old friends Mr and Mrs Dalles, the whole of the members

Gael were new to Hongkong, and it

Asthore may be said that the combination

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rage were inserted, the Bill would in effect become a new measure 12 52 28 which ought to be withdrawn according to the practice of the Blouse.

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Mr. Asquith followed the DNB Speaker and stated emphatically 12 28.38 that this ruling had not been 1 00 07 expected by the Government, and 12-46-29 that the point raised by the

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Judging from Saturday's Beatrica performance, there are no

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Dorothy in this latest Company which Mr. Bandmann. bae seat cut Enst. It would not be an easy matter to single out

1 Thecla for commendation the work of

2 Beatrice any particular artist in the opon 3 Gael ing performance. All excelled Anna in their several parts, thongha

5 Joan word may be penned of the man- ner in which the principals come

6 Asthere through in the presentation of their respective roles: The parts of the two wives were taken by Misson Geraldino Le Sage and May. Hallait, with marked auccess,

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All claims must be filed on or before 4tions of giving facilities next 24th Mar 1913, otherwise they will

session to a private Woman's not by reseguim 2014 Suffrage Bill and, in the debate

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Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the former doing especially well the Police Court, this morning, as the happy-go-lucky wife with two Filipino Sailors from the U n bright philosophical outlook on S, survey ship Rizal, were charged life. Mr. Henry Dallas and Mr. with disorderly conduct at Hang Robert Ashby were the troant Hom. husbands, and both kept the fun

It appeared that the defendants

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