AUSTRALIAN VAUDEVILLE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN VAUDEVILLE.

SIR. H. D. M'INTOSH LEASES EICIfARD THEATRES. By Teleeranli—Press Association—CoDyrlelit (Rec. August 30, 9.20 p.m.) . Sydney, August 30. Mr. H. D. M'lntosli, the boxing promoter, has secured a thirty years' leaso of the whole of the late Mr. Rickards's theatrical business. Mr. Hugh D.'M'lntosh was a Sydney bnlcor. Some five years ago lie turned his attention to a revival of boxing in that city, built a stadium at Rushcutters' Bay, Sydney, and engineered the big fight for the championship of the world between Johnson and Bums, which is said to have produced the biggest "gate" on record, i Since then all the big boxing matches in Australia have been fought under his auspices at tho Stadium, the latest being the threo meetings _ of Langford and M'Vea. Flushed with his success as an "impressario" in the line, ho went to London two years ago and organised 6ome big fights ther6, but financially thsy wore not nearly so successful as those in Australia. Iho will of the lato Mr. Harry Rickards enjoined .that, tho business' was cither to bo sold or floated into a company., Ho owned three thetitres—the Tivola, in Sydney .the Opera House in Melbourne, and the Tivoli in Adelaide, which were continuously supplied with high-class vaudeville companies. i