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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 10

The Joy of Travelling at Easter. Travelling at Easter-limo is not all joy, and doleful Idles have been told of unjorlunata would-bo travellers who worn left behind, almost inarticulate with rase ana disappointment. Reading and hoarnig of (ho intense discomfort suffered by Sfivera of (hose who did pet away by the Alain irunk express earlier in the week, one can hardly help «mrin B to tho contusion that it was I JV no means tho worse part to have been left behind. At Pnlmersloii ami Haiton the scene was indescribable, travellers nulling from end to end ol (ho station in a frenzied quest for seals or even to board the train, an impossible attempt, as travellers were crowded together upon the platform as well as standing ini-i,!,., Almost equally frenzied was the ecene upon the wharf on Thursday afternoon, about (, o e. ock, when people tried to rc{ on board tho Piclon boat. Of no avail was it that they had, somo of them, taken (he precaution of f«curine their liertlis as early in the wrek as 'iuesiiv. it was a ease of the early bird tho early worm, and of no avail was tho / most impassioned eloquence, the meat imploring gaze with which distracted women sought (o turn aside (ho iron resolution of tho gangway guardian. Any desperate jierFfm who tried (o scramble on board in th? most unostentatious manner possible was promptly sracil and turned back upon the wharf, and how his cWthiiig withstood the frantic clutches of desperately appealing women was most surprising. One girl who was admitted upon the boat turned round thinking her sister was behind her, and with the greatest horror saw her barred, and agitated looking, below on the wharf. Never wan there such pleading, .such eloquence, heard before, but. it was 'an inexorable though visibly disturbed fate that sundered them. And that was only one of several such cases that afternoon. If it . was trying for the wou!d-bo passengers, it was equally trying for (he officers, who were in no way to blame. As it was, a great many of those who were not able

to go bv that boat went by the later one. Probable the wonderful weather tempted a large number of people , to travel who, up lo almost the last moment, were of the opinion that home was the best place. In any ease, the thought of ravclliiiir 'at Easier-time is one that docs not fill one with enthusiasm. With crowded trains and Ira.its, utter discomfort, officials who are boi/enng upon utter distraction of mind, through worry, work, and mismanngenient-not always their own, the pleasure that awaited one at the end of it all would have to bo indeed great. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H^de." (In the opening night of the second , Irving season in Sydney,. Mr. Irving received a tremendous reception. I'or hours people were waiting for the doors to open, and it was evident that the actor's popular, itv and fame have been thoroughly established in Australia. Di-cu-ing his perforinmice in the dual vole of "fir. .Jckyll and Mr. Hvde" (Kobcrt Louis Stevenson s tascinaliuV -story, dramatised by Coumis Can , ) the papers said that had the play been announced.for Unco weeks instead of three nights only, it would still not have been long enough to satisfy theatregoers.' In the transition scene from one character to the dher, he disp ayed even more than in the "Lyons Mail, a technical skill, a rapidity of resource winch nt the hist: left the house breathless, liising to its feet, the huge audience greeted him with immense applause, which at times became quite frenzied. It was with "HamlH" and With "The Bells' that the season concluded, last Thursday being the final night. This week the company sails from Sydney to Louden. ,