PLAYERS HARD IT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1998, 4 March 1914, Page 9

PLAYERS HARD IT.

Tlie Johannesburg "Sunday Timeß.'! of January 17, records. that the strike in 'Johannesburg 'hit tho theatres very hard.- ' .That paper Bays:—"At tho Palladium Arnold Boil and his : company made their;' first appearance in 'South Africa on- Monday.-■'• evening • in Steel Mackaye's great Drury Lane-."drama of the French Revolution,- ' 'Paul Kauva.r.' Since Tuesday night they 'also havo -Keen'' idle. ,- • : '

"Henry: Herbert and his clever com-, pany of Stratford-on-Avon players began what promised to bo a unique week on"Monday'with a presentation of tho. 'full text of 'Romeo and Juliet. , - As events transpircd.it was a unique week, but not in .the sense they anticipated, ,for. on Thursday morning they all took train for Mnritzburp;.

.. "At His-'-Majesty's on Monday night J. 0. Williamson's Gilbert and Sullivan Company gavo what was .only ..their third nerformanco of "The Gondoliers'," and there, was every indication that; this, one of the most delightful, of the Savoy operas, was in for an. even' mor" successful run than that which favoured the staging of ' 'The Mikado 1 - during the previous two weoto. Owing to'the unsettled state of affairs, however, the. management on Tuesday morning decidrd to close tiw . theatre until .further notice, thus anticipating by a dav tho proclamation of martial law and tho cloßiinr'of tho other theatres. "The Orphenm is another . theatre which-has suffered. It may not be generally known,, but it is, r.everthfless, a fact, that-none of tho actors and actresses who havo thus'-been thrown out of employment on account of the _str"il?n receive any pay durinn tho period.of their enforced idleness,"