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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1926, 8 December 1913, Page 5

Mr. Charles A. Wettmaii, tho producer of tho forthcoming pantomime "The Forty Tliiovos" for J. C. AYilliamson, Ltd., at Melbourne Her Majesty's, has been complaining that sineo lie cntored upon tho work of trying over songs for tho pantomimo his health has suffered seriously, whilst the. quiet of his sleep lias been disturbed, with a threatened attack of insomnia looming: up ahead. "Just- fancy going through on tho piano about thirty <«• forty songs a day," said Mr. Wcumaii, "sorao of them of tho most excruciating type; others of tho kind that stick to tho memory and absolutely refuse to budge. Tho ragtimes are tlse worst olfenders. Two or three wliich havo been selected for 'Tho Fosty Tkioves' keep in my brain until I feel inclined to wish that, Irving Berlin had never been born, and that a negro had never come out of Africa. Only for them there would havo been no ragtime. When I walk 1 find my steps keeping timo with somo confounded pantomime song. I hum it over at night and keep myself awako until tho early morn. I eat my food to tho time, of sorao crazy rag or rattling patriotic song. Altogether, I'm feeling pretty raggy niyself,_ thank you, but I havo tho satis* faction of knowing that I've got a hi;.; batch of song successes fop tho pantomime."